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Also by David Spangler

Revelation: Birth of a New Age
The Laws of Manifestation
Towards a Planetary Vision
Relationship and Identity
Reflections on the Christ
Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred
Reimagination of the World (with William Irwin Thompson)
Everyday Miracles
The Call
A Pilgrim in Aquarius
Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent
Blessing: The Art and the Practice
The Story Tree
The Manifestation Kit
The Incarnational Card Deck
Incarnational Spirituality
The Flame of Incarnation
Subtle Worlds
Facing the Future

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Copyright 2011 by David Spangler

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spangler, David, date.
Apprenticed to spirit : the education of a soul / David Spangler.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN : 978-1-101-54867-7

1. Spangler, David, date. 2. New Age personsUnited StatesBiography.
3. John (Spirit). I. Title.
BP605.N48S
299.93dc22

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Prologue

A Partnership with Spirit

When I was twenty years old, in the summer of 1965, I made a choice to follow an inner calling. At the time, my actions were seen as either a bold leap of faith or a foolish misstep in what might be a very short life. My friends and family were about evenly divided as to which it was. Frankly, I wasnt entirely sure which it was, either.

I had been enrolled at Arizona State University, pursuing a bachelor of science in biochemistry. Since entering college in 1962, I had planned on a career in molecular biology, perhaps doing genetic research. I had a straight-A grade average, two scholarships, a student draft deferment, and a part-time job working for one of my professors in a laboratory, taking photographs of cell structure with an electron microscope. As a college student, I was a success.

But there was another side to my life. For as long as I can remember, I have been aware of invisible, non-physical beings and the dimensions from which they come. These dimensions have been given many names in many traditions: the Other Worlds, the Inner Worlds, the Higher Realms, the Spiritual Realms. As a child, I never thought to call them anything. The fact that at times I could see and talk with beings who were not part of the physical world did not seem strange. They were just part of the diverse, rich, and wondrous world that I experienced growing up.

These non-physical dimensions are vast, much vaster than the physical territory of the earth. I usually call them inner worlds, not because they are inside anythingand certainly not simply inside me in some psychological sensebut because I reach inside myself for the senses and capacities to see and engage with them.

In my junior year at college, these two worlds collided. Although I lost none of my love for science, a series of experiences led me to recognize that my hearts calling was not for the laboratory but to share with others the reality of the spiritual realms.

I had no idea how to go about that. However, I had friends who did. Two in particular were Wayne Guthrie and Bella Karish, who ran a spiritual center in Los Angeles called the Fellowship of Universal Guidance. The summer of the previous year, I had given a talk on spirituality and the inner worlds at a conference in Phoenix. This conference was on Youth and the New Age and was organized by a woman, Neva Dell Hunter, who was at the time one of Americas leading psychics. Each year she picked an American city in which to hold an annual conference for her followers, and in 1964, she chose Phoenix. She did this, I learned much later, because her spirit contact had advised her to and had asked her to invite me as the keynote speaker. Even then, it seems, there were those in the inner worlds who were setting things up for me to enter a new career.

After hearing my talk, Wayne and Bella invited me to come and lecture at their center in Los Angeles. At the time, I had declined. But as I debated what to do that spring of 1965, I called them and told them what I was feeling. They suggested I come to their center and give a series of talks based on my inner experiences. That would give me an opportunity to see just what I had to say, if anything, and in which direction my new sense of calling might take me.

I could have come to their center anytime, but being young and impetuous, I couldnt wait. Having decided on exploring a new course in my life, I felt an urgency to take action. So I withdrew from school, losing both my scholarships and my student draft deferment, and headed to Los Angeles. Many of my friends, not understanding why I was making what they considered a lunatic choice, predicted I would be drafted almost immediately, as so many young men were in those days. My father in particular had visions of me lying dead in a rice paddy somewhere in Vietnam. I understood their point of view, but I still had to go. The call to some form of spiritual work had become too strong to resist.

I had done public speaking before and enjoyed it. Once in Los Angeles, I encountered a warm welcome from the audiences to whom I lectured, though that was probably due as much to the novelty of my age as to anything I had to say. I felt encouraged by this. But the lecture series was only scheduled to run a month. I had no idea what I would do next when it ended. What I did know was that the conflict in Vietnam was heating up and that 3,500 Marines had just been sent over, with more troops to follow. I knew that without my student deferment, as my father and friends feared, the Selective Service might well soon take the question of my future out of my hands.

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