Emptying the Refrigerator

“You bring in six full grocery bags, open your refrigerator and find it full.” This is what I’d say to my clients. What was in the sub-conscious needed to be brought into view, but those words were intellectual, so I began with the refrigerator and an image of throwing out the limp celery—years of accumulated false beliefs.

My spiritual training began in a new way with a teacher in 1997 who knew my past, my present, and my future. He told me that 98% of my life was going to change; and I asked only to keep my daughters. Three months earlier my husband had passed away, my home of eighteen years a thousand miles away had been rented, and I’d ended my four-year writing community. My refrigerator was empty.

Through years of training with that teacher, in hundreds of situations, I had to change thoughts I had believed to new ones, then practice as a beginner: learning the difference between worldly views and spiritual ones.

My conclusion was it was Meher Baba* behind this spiritual teacher who had to find and prepare me to move. Once I was living at Meher Baba’s home in India, he had completed his assignment and left my life. For two years I was on my own when a second teacher appeared, continuing to give me guidance as needed, and following each step, I’ve found my inner peace increasing—that peace I had not had

My realization is, “We change not from listening or reading but from practicing on a journey about spirituality.

* The Avatar of the Age, www.ambppct.org