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Voyager - February
2008 My Journey
Paul Weeden I grew up mainly in the south of England, and went to Catholic Primary School from the age of four till eleven. I struggled to fit in, in this environment, and found the Nun’s to be rather angry and upset most of the time. I soon started to feel contempt for Catholicism and it’s fear based teaching, something just didn’t added up, and by the age of ten, I had many questions and doubts about religion in general. After school I gradually came to the conclusion that God probably didn’t exist and even with the small chance he did, I failed to see the point in an active interest in religion or God. After moving to Brighton in my early twenties, Life was about making my own music, hedonism, and tasting as much as I could find that life had to offer. I spent my time in as many bars, clubs and studios as possible, I felt strangely drawn to the Zen like experience of being on stage or dancing for ten hours at a rave, though I must stress I didn’t even know what Zen was. I craved recognition as an artist and performer and focused as much of my energy into it as possible as well as working full time as a hairdresser to fund my life style. And though I swore blind that this was what my life was about, I couldn’t escape the feeling that there was more to me than this, and my life was going to be about more than just this. After struggling for some time as a Musician and failing to draw into my experience the necessary ingredients for a successful music career, I became jaded by Brighton and my dreams of stardom and decided to go travelling. After living in the French Alps for six months playing in a band and learning to Snowboard, I met a girl from Australia and decided to accompany her back to Sydney via South America. Travelling got me thinking again about life’s great questions, watching the sun rise over Machu Picchu, and staring out at bottomless oceans, got me thinking about God and the Universe once again just like I had so much when I was at school. “was it all a fluke or was there real meaning in life ?” Through meeting many great Guru’s and guides from all over the world I became aware that I was part of something far more special than I could have possibly imagined ever before. Many great books found their way into my hands, books that blew me away with possibilities, and ideology, but at the same time made me feel very different and distant from people in my immediate world. Nonetheless I felt so passionate about this learning process and the change I was seeing in myself and the way I saw the world, slowly but surely I continued the process of remembering what I believe I am and what than means to me in the Universe I live in. After working for fifteen years as a some what frustrated hairdresser, I believe I have found my calling, and I am now studying to become a Counsellor. I feel that I have found my true reason for coming to this world in my present incarnation, to empower others to feel and see the value and potential in life. Increased awareness on an individual level to me is helping to increase the process of remembering what we all are, and what that means. As we increase the energy vibration on this planet to create a big enough shift in consciousness so that more people than even before in the history of planet Earth know “WE ARE ALL ONE” © Paul Weeden 2008
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Paul has a unique approach to spirituality. After experiencing life from an atheist perspective, Paul found himself increasingly drawn to life's mysteries. Through world travelling, meeting others and reading a plethora of spiritual books, Paul allowed himself to have a beautiful spiritual awakening. He now uses his unique experience of 'both' worlds to help bridge the gap.