My Story
One summer at the age of eight I became aware of a wonderful world beyond our own and how I found out is part of the excitement.
Back in 1974 my family decided to make a summer trip from Ft. Myers, Florida, where I'm originally from, to Concord, New Hampshire to visit relatives and enjoy the New England scenery. We packed our motor home and off we went. Now this trip was not unusual at the beginning, we made the typical stops at various tourist locations and I remember playing and laughing with my three older brothers.
We finally made it to Aunt Mildred's house in Concord. Now this house was somewhat large compared to our home in Florida. For someone at my age this house was a mansion. It was two stories, and had a very large living room down stairs. The outside was white with green shutters, and adjacent was this magnificent white barn.
Now the Barn, as I call it, holds many memories for me and is somewhat my first real experience with spirit. One day as I was playing I remember seeing a young girl dressed in a blue skirt and white-buttoned top. This was not odd, but she would only come when I was alone in the barn. She told me her name was Suzy and that she lived down the street. The funny thing is, she had two dogs with her, one was a black lab and the other was a golden retriever.
Now I knew the neighbors had two dogs but they never mentioned having a little girl. So not really thinking much of it, Suzy and I would play in the barn. She would point out certain items in the barn and would say that they belonged to her and that she wished she could take them with her. I asked her why she couldn't take them? She stated that where she lived now they would not allow her to take them back.
Curious, I asked if her Mommy and Daddy were the ones that would not let her take her things. Suzy then stated that "No, it's my friends far away from here."
It was around ten o'clock that night and the family was all down stairs in the kitchen laughing and telling stories of when my mom was younger and growing up in Concord. I was upstairs in the guest bedroom where my mom and dad normally sleep. I remembered being tired but very restless too. Then I felt the room become very cold, now remember this is July and it was hot and muggy even for New England, I did not understand at the time why it became so cold so quickly. I pulled the covers over me and layed there for a moment. Then I heard a noise, it was footsteps coming towards the bedroom door. Then to my amazement this figure actually walked through the door. My jaw dropped and I didn't know what to do, but the strange thing is I wasn't afraid; I was completely at peace and at ease with what had just happened.
The figure was that of an older gentleman about in his early seventies and he wore a wool suit. His face was a little worn as if he'd seen many years of hard work and stressful days. His hair and beard was silver and he carried a timepiece in his right hand as to be checking to make sure it was correct or he was on time.
For a few moments he didn't say a word but looked around to as if he'd been here before. I slowly sat up in my bed wondering to myself who this possibly could be. Then finally he looked at me and smiled. " Young man." he said with a very soft voice "You have a mission and spirit has entrusted you with this mission." Now remember I'm eight years old, why would someone entrust me with a mission? Then as to have read my mind the man said " Because you are special and you have been blessed with the vision and we trust you will help others with your gift."
After a brief moment the gentleman turned and made his way through the door and I heard his steps go down the hall towards my brothers room. I bolted from my bed and opened the door. I ran down the hall to their bedroom. They were still down stairs but I noticed the window was opened and I could see the image of the gentlemen in the field next to the house. As he walked his figure faded away.
I felt a powerful surge of energy threw my body and my hair stand on ends. This powerful feeling gave me calmness and peace. I knew all would be all right and I thought at that moment about Suzy. I then understood that she too was spirit and that she was my brief and innocent introduction to what lay ahead. My journey with spirit.
The young man said, “Okay Todd, I want you to look at the figures on these cards.” He pulled out five cards with various shapes on each. “Okay, did you get a good look at them?” “Yes.” I said with a smile thinking that this was pretty cool. “Okay Todd.” The man pulled out a divider and set it on the table,” I want you to think really hard for me. I’m going to pull each card out and I want you to guess what shape I’m holding up?” So I proceeded to name each image in my mind and proceeded to name the shapes. I noticed the man smiling at the woman as she stood behind me.
After several more rounds of image guessing and drawing certain objects from buildings, airplanes and cars I was done.Now as a young child we have many thoughts, wild imaginations, a creative innocence we crave when we get older, very right brain oriented. It would take years until I told my mom about that night at Mildred's home. Come to find out the description I would give would be that of Mildred's Great Grandfather. A wise and very humble man who was very religious and worked very hard to keep the family happy.
Time passed and I began to see things that people around me could not. Most of the time I would just keep quite and not utter a word to anyone. I knew what they did to people when they start hearing or seeing things so I really didn't want to put myself in that position. I just said my prayers and ask God to protect me from people who didn't understand, which was allot of people at that time.
At around nine spirit introduced me to my spirit guide Lucaivious, a former Roman Centurion, Lucaivious was also a family man who loved animals and was well respected amongst his fellow soldiers. Remember, we have many spirit guides and not just one. Sometimes, as we grow spiritually, certain guides will leave and new ones will appear as we progress in stages of development. I've had several different guides with me but Lucaivious has pretty much been there since the beginning.
As time passed, I would soon graduate to many levels of understanding others and myself.I would become a vessel for spirit and would share my knowledge with many seekers.I have studied metaphysics for over twenty five years quite extensively and have been involved with areas of paranormal activity, energy attunement; past life research and helping others open to their intuitive side.