In this episode of “Healing From Within”, your host Sheryl Glick (http://sherylglick.com) author
of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love, which shares
stories of spiritual awakening to intuition and to inner wisdom or truth
which sets up possibilities for creating a life of personal growth
prosperity and love. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Katherine Jegede
author of Infinite Possibility: How To Use The ideas of Neville Goddard
to Create The Life You Want. Katherine Jegede (http://katherinejegede.com) has searched for and found
ways to rethink and change old beliefs and offered her opportunities to
develop strength and fortitude, important qualities for being resilient
and for understanding life in its multidimensional aspects.
Katherine shares with us her unique and interesting background as a
British television presenter and author with a background in science.
She was first introduced to metaphysics as a teenager by her mother, a
former yoga teacher and educational specialist. Katherine developed a
penetrating and enduring fondness for the self-empowering teachings of
Neville Goddard, a philosopher and metaphysician, and she remains just
as steadfastly devoted to spreading his message today. Katherine moved
to Switzerland where she developed educational resources for rural
communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Another important influence in Katherine’s spiritual development was her
relationship with her father. Her father was and still is a Freemason
and a deeply religious man who was brought up in the Jewish faith.
Katherine’s appetite for mysticism was encouraged by her father and she
was also fascinated by the menorah, the Hebrew language, the robes,
rituals of the temple, bags for the tallit, the tefillin and the books
covered in gold lettering.
Imagination had always played a role in Katherine’s life. Somehow as a
child her instinct was: if you wanted something you had to focus on it
already being yours. Sheryl says that she has this feeling that wishing
and believing with your imagination is an important prerequisite for
manifesting what you desire into the physical world but it is not only
the focus of your thinking and desires but the persistence to be
consistent and work towards the goal, not just being but doing in equal
measure.
Katherine’s mother, in pursuit of her own spiritual growth and hoping to
make sense of her husband’s great love of God, joined a church in order
to integrate and merge with community life but by the time Katherine
reached her teens she had decided that church was not for her. She found
it horribly restrictive. Endless rules and double standards were the
norm. Katherine was in search of a true connection to the universal laws
of creation.
Sheryl says that most people, with an open heart and evolved soul life,
discover that religions while they mean to bring us closer to the divine
wisdom of the universe or God actually cause more separation because of
the many man- made interpretations of what they believe to be God’s
will. Katherine says, in response to her trying to understand her way or
path to God, the ideas her mother shared with her about Neville Goddard,
James Allen, Erich von Daniken, Norman Vincent Peale, Florence Scovel
Shinn, and other advocates of positive thinking and New Thought, were
wildly at odds with the traditional approach to religions that many
people practice. There were never answers that completely satisfied
Katherine. Sheryl, in a way similar to Katherine, also felt guided to
study philosophy, religion, mysticism, spiritualism, psychology in the
hopes of understanding who and what we are, and why we are alive in this
physical world that offers so many challenges.
Sheryl tells Katherine that a few years ago she was scheduled to
interview an author on the teachings of Neville Goddard but it didn’t
happen. As Sheryl knows all is going according to a Divine Unfolding of
