After attending a hugely successful Long Beach CA, October event, it was only natural to expect that the April 24th seminar in Cottonwood AZ will again exceed expectations. Entitled “Handling Spiritual Challenges” it promised to answer questions that spiritual seekers, new and the seasoned ones, face daily in their quest to enlightenment. After paying for the ticket early in January, booking the flights and accommodation, all that was left to do was to wait till April…

During the time between January and the day the seminar was held, my expectations underwent significant changes. It has dawned on me that Dr Hawkins is a man of advanced age, and to expect him to perform on stage for five hours is unrealistic. Also, the idea of hearing him answering the many questions about spirituality and modern man, and expecting to be given radical solutions to our individual problems, became to look silly.

I credit my, hopefully, growing spiritual maturity for realizing that:

• There’s very little that can be added to one’s spiritual education, once all Dr Hawkins’ eight books have been read and their message absorbed.
• Dr David R Hawkins is probably the only living enlightened being who teaches publicly; and just being able to be near his aura, provides a unique spiritual benefit.
• Being in the same room, with one thousand of students of spirituality from all over the world, provides invaluable encouragement and an influx of enthusiasm that is impossible to get in any other way.
• To see Dr Hawkins giving himself to the world, despite all the frailty of his advanced age, is to see his teachings in action. It’s not his body, or his mind with its moments of forgetfulness, but his spirit that radiates the light of enlightenment.

Dr David R Hawkins Seminar - Cottonwood AZ, April 24, 2010

There’s one more aspect that I subjectively credit with profoundly advancing me on my spiritual path. You see, to spend a few hours in the same room as the father of my spirituality is only one part of the process which begun when one decides to go. Mustering the necessary resources: money and time, is the first part. During the weeks and months leading to the seminar, one gets ready; unconscious changes take place and a new space opens for the expected spiritual expansion. Then there is the arduous travel and the hardship of living away from home. Hours at the seminar come and go fast, and before one knows, one returns home and the final stage begins.

All the prior feelings and emotions, thoughts, inspirations and reflections begin to solidify. The perspiration of the effort made and the tears of the emotions lived through, combine into a rock-solid milestone on my spiritual path. Was it worth it to travel from Australia to Cottonwood AZ, for 33 hours one way, to spend just four hours with an old man and one thousand of strangers? Yes, it was. For this man put me on the path to God, and on a journey that truly is out of this world!