It was because of my good friend Jimmie that I participated in Insight in 2002. I never told him, but during the first couple of processes, I cursed him under my breath wondering why I had allowed him to talk me into it! But just as he predicted would happen, my heart opened and I fell in love with everyone there. I also started to open up to loving myself which was a first.

Being the always supportive friend, Jimmie came to my graduation. When he handed me a gift, he whispered, “J-R is here.” I said, “Introduce me.” He said something like, “I don’t know him personally.” I thought that was a strange thing to say since all he had done was talk about the guy ever since I had met him, but before I could question him, my basic self skipped over to J-R and leapt into his arms. J-R laughed and we hugged just like friends do when they haven’t seen each other for a few hundred lifetimes. I introduced myself and we stood and held hands. Thanks Goodness I did not know the no touch the Traveler rule, and J-R didn’t seem to mind for in that embrace parts of me started to come alive. I started to understand that all the bumps and bruises of life I had endured had occurred just so I could come to Insight to awaken. The wounds that I had allowed to define who I was, and wore like a decorated war hero started to fall away. Through J-R’s reflection I started to see my own magnificence.

That experience was life altering. I was overcome with joy having been reunited with my spiritual teacher. J-R had been my teacher in other lives, but he always left the planet before I could master the lesson. I have always found it fascinating that I was born in 1963; the same year J-R became the Traveler. My restless personality and my inquisitive mind were ecstatic to take on the new adventure of exploring the inner worlds with the Traveler. Our work together has been both mystical and magical. The more I connected with my own divinity the more others around me started to do the same. My father, who had been an alcoholic for over fifty years, quit drinking. My marriage became a partnership of tenderness and respect. My children soaked up the Traveler’s teachings applying them and excelling beyond my wildest imagination.

I do not have a personal relationship with J-R; however, I have a rich and rewarding inner one.