How did I first get into spiritual development?  I guess it started when I was a teenager and first became disenchanted with the traditional churches, feeling there had to be more to it.  Like those churches were grade school and I was ready for high school.  I read a little about other religions, mysticism and Gnostics.  
    I didn't really get involved in any active way until I was in college.  At that time Transcendental Meditation was becoming very popular and I took the basic class.  I then joined the meditation club on campus.  Through the club, I learned about psychic and prophet Edgar Cayce.  I joined the Association for Research and Enlightenment and read many of the books about Cayce and others.  
    After some months of practicing Transcendental meditation, I started having visions while meditating. One of those visions frightened me, not because of what I saw, but because I felt that what I saw was not what was really there.  That what was really there was something less than benevolent.  I stopped practicing meditation and any active involvement in spiritual development other than reading books for nearly twenty years.
     In 1991, something told me it was time to return to spiritual development and I started looking for a school to join.  I read adds in Fate magazine and something about the add for Project X, which is part of the International Community of Christ appealed to me and I answered the add. I liked the books and information that I received, so
I joined.  A few months later, I attended my first Convocation in Reno.  At first, I had some doubts but in the next
few weeks I had several dreams in which I was working with other members of the community.  Building a brick building together.  Climbing a mountain together.  Those dreams, along with a deep feeling of rightness convinced me that I was in the right place and I have been a member since.  Well, I think that is enough for one article.
I'll save some of my other personal experiences within the community for a later one.