I can only speak from my own experience. I was not raised in a church because my father is an atheist and my stepmother just didn't care either way. I have always had a few paranormal gifts that would come and go without warning. In my studies and research to figure out scientific understanding of paranormal, I found my own connection with spirit world. I did not go out searching for guardian angels. They found me. They helped me with my studies and as a very skeptical person they've had to work very hard to prove to me that they were real and that they had my best interests in mind.

They have never left me. I have come to find signs over years that long before they ever made their presence known to me, they were there looking over me. I had a rather wild and rebellious time during my late teens and early twenties. I absolutely did not believe in any kind of a god and I did not believe that Bible was anything more than a bunch of greedy power-hungry men's rules for keeping rest of humanity under wraps. Nevertheless, for all my negative beliefs, angels watched over me. There are too many really stupid dangerous things that I did that should have killed me, too many times there is no other answer other than someone was looking over me and saving me from my own youthful choices. It wasn't until long after I'd calmed down and was behaving myself that they made themselves known.

A member of our discussion group recently asked this question of other members:

“Have any of you ever tried to go direct to Joseph or any other advanced spirit personally, without (an) intermediary . . . like John who has learned how to listen? 'Tis a fine line, but one that takes a lot of courage to cross, IMO. I sometimes think I am channeling but at other times I just decide I am really in groove, creatively.”

It’s an excellent question, and one Joseph and I thought we should address in newsletter.

Chief Joseph

None of you are ever disconnected from world of Spirit. We know you sometimes, or perhaps often, feel disconnected. But you never are.

You’ve heard us and others use term “All That Is” to mean God, Goddess, Great Spirit, Universe, etc. The term “All That Is” is one of our favorites because it clearly conveys our view of that divine, all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful energy that rules all of creation.

All of creation is All That Is, God. Every being, human or non-human, physical or nonphysical, big or small, animate or inanimate, is part of All That Is, God. And it logically follows that all of you are also part of God. You are not only part of God. You are God.

So it’s impossible to ever be disconnected from who you are, which is God, Spirit.