Early steps on the Path

How my journey started  . . .

Through university courses I studied the major religions, the nature of religion, as well as psychology, parapsychology and pseudoscience as well as the philosophy of science.  I loved the first few courses of philosophy in which I read the works of the Greeks through to Descartes, Kant, Hume, Leibniz and Locke.

This lead me to the the fifth floor of the U of C library where I found extra reading not only in pscychology, philosophy and religion, but in alternatives like Theosophy, Maharaja Mahesh Yogi, Eckankar, and the Rosicrucian Fellowship and AMORC.

Meanwhile I was reading Seth books, learning about walk-ins from Ruth Montgomery, checking out the local I AM group, Spiritualist churches and joining Edgar Cayce's ARE and AMORC.  Shortly after joining AMORC I discovered there was a local group.  I really enjoyed the ritual work, but the Monographs did not in any way satisfy my hunger.

I went to summer school at Rosicrucian Park in San Jose and took a course on Kabbalah.  Funny, that turned out to be the only Kabbalah I would get from AMORC.  While in the area I went to the East-West bookshop when it was located in Menlo Park in that quaint old house.  I found the TIRO (True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order by Paul Foster Case), and since I was in a Rosicrucian Order, thought I better buy the book and find out if it was the 'true' one or not.  Ended up leaving the book on my shelf for about a year.

Then one day at a Theosophy meeting, I met Darcy Kuntz, whom some may recognize as an editor of GD materials.  After learning I was in AMORC he said I should join B.O.T.A. as they 'tell you what you need to know' or something to that effect.  I went back home and looked at my copy of TIRO and wrote to B.O.T.A. for the Open Door.  From the moment I saw the front cover of the Open Door, I knew it was the next step for me.  I then realized what an amazing book the TIRO was, and looked forward to the lessons.