A Personal Testimony
by Maggie Dudley

After a July day in the garden I hear by chance that awesome piece of music from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. The soul of Gerontius leaves this world and begins its journey. I am transfixed. I am everywhere and nowhere. I am connected to something deeply tangible and at the same time almost ethereal.

MY journey to a "life of the spirit" really began 8 years ago at
The Lakeland College of Homeopathy. I guess I had been on the road for some time, arriving at the right place at the right time. Classes at the college with Ian Watson were extremely challenging to say the least…but as I like a challenge I jumped in with both feet. I can only describe these sessions with Ian as electric. I was literally being rewired!

The fact is that before all this I just didn't feel quite right. Like most people I was carrying an awful lot of junk around. It didn't seem to help me much but it was familiar and there was a weird comfort in that. One day at college Ian explained to me that I did in fact have a choice about how I lived my life. What, me? A choice, no, no surely not? I was a victim in this world and would be so till my dying day….

Ian presented me with an option: a suggestion that things could be different. Then the resistance kicks in, so Ian works with that… and then the grief about so much wasted time, and Ian works with that. But a seed had been sown and nurtured. What was originally just an idea, a concept, became a possibility. So I went out and practised behaving differently. Ian suggested setting an intention that I would let go of all that stuff. That gentle intention became a very powerful force for change in my life.

To cut a long story short my rewiring is ongoing and incredibly exciting.…..Ian has helped me find my sense of who I really am. I have a place in the world now, which feels right. I can experience my deep connection to the beauty of nature. Best of all I have come to know what love is all about, for myself, my life, my friends, the world.

This journey of seminars and residential workshops has been one of my life's greatest adventures. The outer world of my experiences is more the richer for the time I have committed with Ian to an exploration of my inner world….
Gerontius continues "I feel in me an inexpressive lightness, and a sense of freedom, as if I were at length myself, and ne're had been before."


But what is even more wonderful…. You don't have to wait until another life. YOU can do it RIGHT HERE and RIGHT NOW.

Maggie Dudley, Cumbria, U.K.