[amazon_enhanced asin="1897455666" container="div" container_class="bookbox" price="All" background_color="d4d4d4" link_color="000000" text_color="00F" /]So you want to know who I am? Well, I’m honored.
My name is Dr. Michael Sharp and I’m an an academic with a PhD in sociology and undergraduate degrees in both psychology and sociology. I am the husband of Gina, parent of Stephen, Niko, Vayda, and Tristan, and the caretaker of two cats and two dogs. I teach at a university and at one time did research in scholarly journals and scholarly communication. I even started the world’s first electronic sociology journal all those years ago. Now, however, my interests have changed. These days my research and writing is based in a cross between psychology, sociology, and dyed in the wool mysticism.
“What’s that,” you say.
“Mysticism.”
Yup!
About ten years ago I had a series of powerful mystical experiences that led me to question both my childhood religious training (I was born and raised Catholic) and also my adopted scientific atheism. The experiences were nothing short of profound and shortly after having these experiences, actually shortly after clearing some rather deeply buried and profound fears that I had struggled with my entire adult life (fears partly the result of my Catholic indoctrination, and partly the result of past life experiences), I began writing spiritual books, just like that, snap. One moment, I’m a naive scientific atheist, locked in the shackles of my narrow materialist view, and the next I’m writing cosmology, theology, and philosophy (for a run down of my books, visit this link). It was like a light switch had been flicked in my brain. One minute I was walking around with eyes wide shut, and the next minute I could see. “The shift” was as dramatic and profound as it was rapid and irreversible.
When I started to write, or rather a few months after I started, I thought that I would write two or three books on chakras, ascension, and cosmology. Unfortunately, my unambitious aspirations soon disintegrated because the more I explored the mystical hallways of creation, the more I learned. The more I learned, the more I wrote about what I was learning. The more I wrote, the more dissatisfied I became with current (and past) spiritual offerings. In fact, as time passed it quickly became clear to me that our collective understanding of all things spiritual was incomplete and corrupted. The glorious truths of spirituality, God, and our place and purpose in creation that previous world teachers had brought to this world had been twisted, corrupted, turned upside down, and used against us. Truths that should have empowered and freed were now factors in our energetic and spiritual oppression and what was worse, the corruptions and inaccuracy were ubiquitous. From the big religions of this world right down to our modern “new age” alternatives, all we were hearing was lie.
We heard lies about how imperfect and flawed we were.
We heard lies about how our “loving” father God would burn us in hell for eternity if we didn’t do what we were told.
We heard lies about how this world was a “school house.”
We heard lies about karma.
We heard lies about Allah.
We’ve even heard lies about Darwin and survival of the fittest and how we are nothing more than evolved apes.
I swear to God, non stop bullshit.
Spiritual truth corrupted into the service of greed, power, and ego.
What a fracking mess.
So where did that leave me?
Well, I basically had a choice to make. I could either write my two or three books and walk away from what I knew to be true, or I could buckle down and confront, remove, and replace the old world systems of spirituality with something knew and better. This second choice wouldn’t make for an easy road of course. If I wanted to do a good job at replacing the old world systems not only would I have to unpack all those places where the old systems had been corrupted and debased, root the cancer out, and expose it to the healing light of day (a significant task all by itself) but I’d also have to provide a suitable alternative. And what’s more, since I wouldn’t want this alternative to be weak and susceptible to the same corruption and/or misinterpretation I had noted in all the others system, I’d have to be very careful. I wouldn’t be able to rely on two books or three books or even a dozen. If I wanted my system to be strong, if I wanted foundations that would last for generations and that would not be turned against us , I’d have to be extremely thorough. I’d have to take time to check and recheck, define, specify, and make absolutely clear what I was talking about at each and every step of the way. I’d have to link it all together and I’d have to build it into a spiritual edifice unlike anything the world has ever seen. My intent would be to build an emancipatory spiritual system that freed us from the limitations of The System and put us back in touch with our true power and divinity and I would not make the same mistakes that had been made in the past. It would be a gargantuan task, and one that had never been undertaken before by any single world teacher (primarily, I think, because the technology simply didn’t exist before), but if I wanted to take the second road, it would have to be done.
So what path did I choose?
Well, since I’m now into my ninth or so book, with plans to write another half dozen (most of which are already in draft form), with an evolving SpiritWiki where I carefully specify every idea and term I use, and with a series of Lightning Path websites that pull it all together into the world’s first “open” system of mysticism and spirituality, broader in scope and more clearly specified than any of the old world systems you might care to mention, I guess you could say I chose the later path. I’ve been at it about ten years now and I have to say it has been a significant amount of work and unfortunately, I’m still not done. As of this writing (June 24, 2011) I figure I’m about 70% of the way finished.If you are interested in finding out more you can either click back to my home page, or visit http://www.thelightningpath.com.
And why am I telling you all this?
Well you wanted to know more about me and there you have it. My name is Michael Sharp and I am a world teacher. I am building a new spiritual system that is psychologically and spiritually sophisticated (I hope), totally self-contained, contains none of the justifications, hierarchies, exclusions, and disempowering archetypes of the old world, is politically, psychologically, economically, and spiritually sophisticated, and that puts you (gradually and by safe degrees) in touch with the awesome light, power, and glory of your true inner divinity.
My Mystical Big Toe by Michael Sharp
