CHAPTER 1

The Opening

In 1971 two softly glowing spheres of light, one a bright green and the other anultraviolet color, entered into the room where I was meditating and identifiedthemselves by saying, "We are not separate from you. We are you."

From that moment on, my heart opened to new possibilities of life and hascontinued to open wider each day. Sure, I have the same everyday problems aseveryone else. I have a wife and kids. I have to pay the bills and give much ofmy energy to my responsibilities as a father, but these beings that callthemselves angels and appear as beautiful spheres of light have kept meconnected to the inner Light within my heart, and that Light has always led methrough the outer circumstances in ways that are hard to believe from theviewpoint of a spectator observing by the sidelines.

And know for certain, this same inner Light is within your heart also. No one isspecial in the eyes of God. We are all exactly the same, for there is only OneSpirit that moves through absolutely everything and everyone.

It is the simple Truth of reality as spoken by St. Thomas in his Gospel of theChrist, "God is all around you and within you." It is easy in this modern world,with the images of television and the Internet flooding the mind, to forget theTruth of our reality. Just look at the moon—I mean really look at the moon—andit is easy to sense the incredibleness of our existence. So the Truth is stillthe Truth no matter how much man distorts it.

From 1972 until 1994 I studied with these spheres of light a subject that theworld has named sacred geometry, which showed me, for certain, that all ofcreation was created by a single pattern, the Flower of Life. This gave me theproof that my mind needed to understand that there is only One Consciousness inthis One Universe, and this undeniable proof let my mind surrender to my heart.Finally, life begins in a simple way, in what could be called the original way.

To let you know a little bit more about myself, I offer the following. Igraduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in finearts, and a minor in physics and mathematics. I have studied human consciousnesswith over seventy spiritual teachers from all over the world and from almostevery religion and discipline. My first book, The Ancient Secret of the Flowerof Life: Volume I, was published in 1998, and Volume II in 2000. Within a fewshort years these books were in many languages all over the world and on everycontinent, reaching out to over 100 countries.

A school on teaching the Mer-Ka-Ba meditation, the human light body, coming fromthe instructions of the second volume, emerged in 1994 (before the books wereprinted) and soon led to the creation of schools in over sixty countries, withover 150 trained teachers.

By 2004 a new book, Living in the Heart, was published. This work opened up newinformation about human consciousness that was, and still is, hardly known bythe world's population, as it has been kept secret by almost all of the world'sspiritual and religious teachings. This book also has spread worldwide.

Slowly, I have been responding to requests and invitations to teach thisknowledge in seminars and workshops, lectures, magazine articles, Web sites, andon radio and television, and I have, at present, visited and taught in overfifty-some countries.

The knowing of this story about the Serpent of Light has come to me slowly—inpieces at the beginning, but more quickly in the last five years. At first Ididn't understand the full significance of what was being presented to me. Notuntil just after the turn of the millennium did I begin to truly understand allthat was happening to me and to this energy now called the Serpent of Light, asit was named hundreds of thousands of years ago. (In the Orient it wassimultaneously called, "The Great White Snake.")

When you read these stories, stay within your heart, not your mind, for yourmind will never understand how people can coordinate themselves over thousandsof years and how complex human events can realize themselves without any humanplanning. But your heart will know. Within your heart is all knowledge and allwisdom.

For sure your heart will know the Truth and hopefully will respond.

I am using my life stories to give you inspiration to help you find the sameplace that is in both of our hearts. When you are in your heart, nothing needsto be done to bring change; it will happen automatically and with grace. But toreach your heart, as every indigenous tribe I know has told me, you must firstremember your Divine Mother. If you remember this first great understanding ofall indigenous people on Earth, then the inner meaning of what is given withinwill appear. Your Mother is alive and very much conscious—extremely conscious,beyond what twenty-first-century industrialized man understands.

Earth is not a rock; she has a name and a personality in the cosmos. And believeme, she knows your name. And it is her spirit, the spirit of Mother Earth, thatis behind each one of these stories. It is She who created these stories that,woven with thousands of other stories from other men and women worldwide, willsurely lead to an entire transformation of humanity. When you finish thesestories, how could you not know how much your Mother loves...