My Spiritual Quest

Hello and welcome to my website. In one way or another I’ve been involved in some type of Spiritual development my whole life so I decided to start writing about it. In this section “My Journey” I will put all the significant self development work I have done. I will add information on other subjects in different sections. I love to hear feedback so please Contact Me about anything and everything.

My Spiritual Beginning:

Up until the age of around 9 I was brought up Christian. Every Sunday the family would attended the Church of Christ in Wynnum, Brisbane, Australia. I am the youngest of 6 children so I wasn’t exposed to the doctrine as much as my siblings where. The Church we went to had quite a strange lot of followers. So much back stabbing, in-fighting and manipulation. There was of course many nice people that wouldn’t involve themselves in that sort of behaviour. So I guess my early exposure to the Christian way of life had put me off forever. I do have the utmost respect for all faiths, who am I to judge? and I’ve looked into it again as an adult and I’ve realised it isn’t for me. My older brother had a real problem with it, and still does come to think of it. My parents just did what they thought was the right thing for us. When my older brothers and sisters grew up and left home they of course didn’t have to go to Church any more so they didn’t. So us younger kids could make our own mind up to go or not, so we didn’t. It was around the age of 9 that I stopped going completely.

That was the age that my brother introduced me to something else. My older brother had moved out of home for a few years by then and was on his own Spiritual Quest, he found a guru called Maharaji. I remember he was over home one weekend and I, being a kid who couldn’t get his way, was throwing a tantrum and locked myself in my wardrobe. I remember standing in my dark wardrobe with the door closed being extremely angry and crying my eyes out about something, can’t even remember what. I didn’t hear my brother come into my room but he was on the other side of the wardrobe door and said “Mark, calm down and listen for a minute” I yelled out “what do you want?”. He was talking so calmly and said “there is a light inside you, even though you can’t see it right now, it is always shining you just need to find it”. He talked like that for a few minutes until I calmed down. I loved hearing about this “light” and “peace” he was talking about. It made me realise that there was something else out there, more intriguing and more practical than the Church that I was brought up with.

My brother has gone on his own quest but introduced me to Maharaji and Knowledge. I loved listening to the stories about it. I don’t believe he ever did any other courses or delved into the different aspect of Spirituality like I have, he found his own peace and I guess never felt he needed anything else. We almost bought some land in the hinterland together about a decade ago. We where talking about developing some sort of retreat, that idea has never left me.

The problem I found with the word “Spirituality” or “Spiritual” is that is seems that people assume you are talking about Jesus and Christianity. To me that is only a small part of a bigger picture. Spirituality to me is following your heart and discovering what peace means to you. Actually the meaning changes from day to day, it’s more a feeling than a word.

My New Life’s Goal

I’ve felt drawn to doing Spiritual work from a young age. I lost my way for quite a few years and tried to forget about that side of my life by drinking lots, smoking lots, partying lots, taking drugs and mixing with the types of people that would never be interested in anything beyond that. In 2004 I had a pretty major accident that almost killed me. I believe that it was no “accident” but a major wake up call to get my life on track and to do what I was supposed to do on this planet. I believe that I am suppose to work with Spirituality and the Universal forces full time to help myself and others for the greater good.

I’ve wanted to do this for as long as I can remember and it’s taken a while to cultivate into a real thought of “yes, this is what I want to do with my life”. I want to own and run a Spiritual retreat, location yet to be determined. more to come…