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do. Lhave often thought of this knowledge as institutional like a secret torch handed down from the keepers of ancient legend. It would explain our legacy of Masonic secrecy. If this is a part of a hidden institution secretly passed down to “me” then the question is surely why? Where exactly do I fit in? I am not a part of any cult and possess nothing unusual in mind or body so the question screams, “why me?” David Ike, the much-ridiculed sports commentator turned prophet and author of many spiritual- themed books was once posed exactly the same question on a television interview. Why had this mediocre sports presenter with little influence on the spiritual been chosen as a type of messianic prophet only to be the subject of endless jibes? His answer was a simple question. “Why was Jesus, a humble, unknown carpenter from Nazareth turned out to be mankind’s saviour and the founder of the Christian religion?” In other words, why do bizarre and groundbreaking phenomena take place with the most unassuming people? lam not claiming to be a messiah of any kind, but I will not be the first unknown to have had something strange happen to them. If there really were such privileges, then why not grant them to the Pope? I don’t think it works that way. I believe that a higher civilisation or race of beings have some kind of selection criteria but it isn’t based on intelligence or spiritual development as some will have you believe. I do not want to mislead anyone into the condescension of New Age belief where only the highly developed achieve enlightenment. I for one have never meditated and probably have more materialist beliefs than most but what happened during my secret life is another matter. It isn’t that I have met with interplanetary beings or can prove there is an afterlife but my experiences have provided me with a strong suspicion that religion, New Age and science are not necessarily set in opposing quarters. Somewhere along the line they link hands quite naturally but the authority of each quarter will never let us see where. The beauty of not being from any of these backgrounds helps me see the whole phenomenon without bias. I can see why we thought of otherworldly beings as demons or angels hundreds of years ago and I can also see why we think of them coming from other planets today. what the significance of the magician’s box is? I suspect there are those that an