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The beginning to an adventure
that took over my life and my understanding of the world.
During 1992, when I was 42 years old I realized that the recession that had
started the end of the 80s was about to take my landscaping business under
like it had so many others.
The beginning of August 92 was the end of all the effort of
9 years, I stopped trading sold most of my equipment and tools a sad time
for me. Unemployed like 9 years before after my wife had left me with 3 boys
aged nearly 4, 5 and 11 years of age. Able to hold on to my job for a year
after she had gone, doing shift work at the airport with lots of help from
family and some very good friends, but with new shift changes it became to
much, so children first, job went. So after a couple of months I started a
landscaping business to have control of my time, enabling me to work around
my boys.This time, children were older and an understanding partner, also
the money from the equipment gave me a breathing space. What to do? Unemployment
office told me that after 3 months of being unemployed I could go for retraining,
for what, where and most of all was I to old or set in my ways to retrain.In
92 and 93 life had changed, very difficult times, stressful, why and what’s
happening was always on mind. Now no fault of my own, life was turning upside
down yet again. With the same spirit as then,. I knew I would survive, it
was just the question of how.During the first week I came across the information
pack that the colleges give out for its evening classes, great let’s
see if I pick one of these and this could let me know how I might get on with
a government retraining course. Well after picking out three on my short list,
Shiatsu, Massage and a third one that I don’t remember, academic, so
being a hands on person maybe the reason I forgot, although these course’s
were chosen because they were alien to me, if I could manage one of these
then I would hopefully be comfortable with what ever the government threw
at me. The question now was which one, the answer was why not two, got plenty
of time until Christmas a full term at college. Massage would finish Christmas,
Shiatsu at Easter no problem. Last minute sign up very nervous about signing
up and turning up on the courses. The next week I turn up at the massage course
with a towel, bathed and very, very nervous, the teacher ended up being a
male near retirement age which made things feel a little easier. Introductory
talk was interesting but the shock came when he told us that this 30 maybe
year old was going to be the model for the first demonstration, beautiful,
confident and stunning. Being a strong and hot blooded male my thoughts were
this could be embarrassing for me, this is not going to work better make excuses
and leave.John, the teacher asked her to take off her top and lay down on
the couch, after lying down she reached behind and undid her bra, John placed
a towel over her back placed his hands on her lower and upper back for a few
moments then slid the towel down to below her waist tucking it into her skirt
and revealing all her lower back. What happened next was the most amazing
experience, until then I had seen, he never spoke just massaged her whole
back as if he was an artist.I watched her body blend into his hands and the
couch, or the couch and hands dissolve into her body, whatever happened was
like magic she just looked so peaceful, relaxed her whole being just transformed.
When he finished I knew I had to learn this, the embarrassing thoughts had
long gone, I wanted to know how to do this magic. Two nights later I went
along to the Shiatsu class, several of us turned up, mostly female different
age groups, this time clothes on and going to work on the floor. The teacher
was named Sue, she started to explain about Shiatsu and after a while Yin
and Yang, energy, ki or chi, acupressure points, mind, body and spirit connections
and some more, I realized I had read about all these terms over the years
and thought nothing of it. But now they were coming together and wham I felt
like I did two nights before, books I had found just interesting in the past
had been preparing me for this time.
The story goes on but during that time many things had to change in me sometimes
like being hit by a bus sometimes so subtle it took time to realize the changes
in my body, mind, beliefs and spirit. To work with a persons body and mind
so intimately. To touch so lightly and yet so deeply to build a trust between
two people is Magic it only happens when the soul is allowed to connect. Touch
and sex, that first night when working became and still is separate; working
with a male, female, young or old is the same. We are all brothers and sisters,
mothers and fathers of the human race; we are one when we go to that place.
Treatments or massage of any kind can take you to that place, we can not or
should not abuse it or we lose it, the magic will be gone. My journey only
just began at this time, now 15 years later with so many experiences and Stories
to tell how my Son and Brother intertwined over these years, the friends we
have made the friends we have lost.
Where to go?
The Stories will follow, not as a look at what I have done, but look at what
you can achieve. Where I have been anyone can go, the opportunities are more
available to the human race now than anytime its history.
May you always walk with the energy, let it protect you, challenge you, then
you can let yourself grow. As humans it is only how we use our thoughts that
hold us back, I’m not good enough, I don’t deserve it, its to
hard, haven’t got time, I wont like it, they wont let me, you have got
to be special or gifted, that’s an ego problem for the special or gifted.
We can all do it, but we all find some things easier than others we all have
what’s termed a gift; we have just got to step out side sometimes to
find it. Life is for the living lets live it. I now want to share, create,
indulge and teach some of my experiences and knowledge with those who want
to make that step out side. I only ask that it’s the heart not the head
that wants to make that journey, the books and stories, you might remember
some of, but experiences cannot be forgotten because you have been there and
your soul knows the way back.
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Mum and Dad Who’s Weird?
The day Mum and Dad realized ‘if we were weird so were they!’
Mum and I were talking one day several years ago, about my brother Andy, son
Shane and myself and ‘the things’ that we were getting into; Mediumship,
Channelling, Healing and many other forms of energy work.
Mum wasn’t sure about it and ‘where did we get it from?’.
Then sitting with a cup of tea, I asked her questions about the times she
had asked us about ‘what’s wrong?’ and we would say ‘nothing’
so as not to worry her; she would get cross and demand that we talk to her
because her instincts told her different. Sometimes she would give reference
to what it was about, without anyone telling her; she dreamt it or just knew
it would be the answer. Then I asked my mum about my aunty and grandad’s
dreams and visions at night that were similar; the time they saw children,
blackness, screams and horror. A few days later the mountain of coal slag
buried the school and the plane that crashed while landing at Gatwick and
many more incidents. These dreams/visions would be spoken about after the
dream, before the event; this mum accepted as normal as it was part of her
life that she had grown up with. Dad came in during this conversation, so
I turned to him and asked him what time of the year he liked, he said he liked
the spring just before the leaves come out on the trees and bushes. ‘Why
do you like that time dad?’,He answered ‘early in the morning
when biking to work or walking to school as a child and looking up at the
trees, weeks or days before the leaves come out, the heat haze and tinges
of colours fascinate me’.
‘But Dad, trees give off a heat haze at night as the air cools, not
in the morning after a frosty night.’ I explained to him that as the
energy goes up the tree from the roots for the buds to open and sprout leaves,
it gives off an aura; which probably, is the most visible at that time of
year. Dad then said ‘everyone sees it!’.No dad lots of people
work hard to see auras, He had seen it all his life and didn’t know
any different.
Be weird, be different, seek the truth, we are one and most of all - be alive.
William Gadd.
