How did you start on your spiritual path?

SPIRITUAL: while in first year high school i picked up a copy of a Hindu booklet entitled Easy Journey to other Planets; the book contained mantras and meditations which can guide an individual to consciously travel to other planets and dimensions--sort of like your own personal "stargate". practiced the mantras for a while, got bored, and the only planet i found myself in was the reality of high school and my need to get a College education.

during my early working life i found another booklet my father took home one evening. it was entitled The Key of Immediate Enlightenment. i flew to a nearby island and received a "so-called" initiation. practiced a little, got bored, slid back;

while in Chicago, i got a "long distance video initiation" in Dzogchen tradition from Namkhai Norbu; practiced a little, got bored, slid back again; the most important stuff i got out these experiences was a familiarization with the Buddhist Philosophy which had been my guiding principles ever since; studied Tibetan Book for the Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche; and experimented with mind-machines;

INTEGRAL: in 1996 i saw A Brief History of Everything in a local bookstore with a big bald-headed guy with eye glasses on the cover. "you arrogant fool! how dare you claim to know 'everything'". after reading the book from cover to cover, i ate up my words. been reading his works ever since...

i cried like a sissy in Grace and Grit; i was amazed by The Spectrum of Consciousness Transformations of Consciousness and ; i marveled and got inspired with integral practice in One Taste; i slept while reading Quantum Questions; took the Theory of Everything with me on a Caribbean cruise; identified with the criticisms of Boomeritis; got overwhelmed by Integral Psychology and Eye of Spirit; skipped the 800-monster SES because i've already read A Brief History of Everything twice;

read all the stuff posted on Wilber.Shambhala and Frank Visser's website (okay not all, but certainly most); i also own those 8-volume dumbbells, also known as The Collected Works.

GOALS: to awaken in the waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states while partying in the relative realm.

P.S. I consider blogging as part of my spiritual practice.