{"id":110086,"date":"2020-08-21T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110086"},"modified":"2020-08-21T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:30:18","slug":"glowing-times-with-j-r-an-interview-with-linda-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110086-glowing-times-with-j-r-an-interview-with-linda-boston","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Times with J-R: An Interview with Linda Boston"},"content":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \n

Linda Boston working the video camera for NOW Productions at a J-R Seminar at Prana in August of 1980 <\/em> <\/p>\n

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Long-time MSIA minister and initiate, Linda Boston, was introduced to John-Roger in the early days of the Movement. MSIA minister, Lori Matson, interviewed Linda in 2016 as part of a project to compile stories from elders in MSIA. This article is excerpted from that interview.<\/em><\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> It all started for me in late 1975, maybe November. I was living in San Francisco. I was kind of a \u201cseeker,\u201d but I wasn\u2019t involved with any particular discipline. I was just checking out a lot of things.<\/p>\n

I had gone to Boston for a wheatgrass juice fast and that\u2019s where I met Michael Bookbinder. Michael was offering readings at the time. I didn\u2019t normally get \u201creadings\u201d but I chose to get one with him. He talked to me about so many things. Everything he said was so accurate. He just read me perfectly and I kept saying, \u201cWhere are you getting your information? I mean, do you study with someone? Where is all this coming from?\u201d I could not get it out of him. He was just very coy about it.<\/p>\n

Finally Michael told me that there\u2019s this man named John-Roger. He said, \u201cTo my sight he has more keys than any master on the planet.\u201d He told me John-Roger was a sound current master. Those were the words he used. And he told me about Discourses that come out once a month. He said, \u201cIf you sign up for them, you can get initiated into the sound current.\u201d I\u2019d never heard of a sound current master or the sound current, but I just knew that it was it for me, that it was exactly what I had been looking for all this time.<\/p>\n

I went back to San Francisco. My friends were into astrology, with all kinds of different metaphysical interests, but I didn\u2019t share with anyone about the Discourses or about John-Roger. I was very private. I also ordered two cassette tapes: One was called \u201cPracticing the Sound Current\u201d and the other was \u201cChanting the Sacred Tones.\u201d So there I was, holed up in my room, listening to these tapes and reading the Discourses and having all these experiences! And that went on for like a year. I was not in touch with anyone in MSIA. I had never met J-R. But I was definitely working it. My experience was all inner.<\/p>\n

And then about a year later, which would be…let\u2019s see\u2026that would be early 1977, I picked up a New Day Herald and there was a list of MSIA seminars. There was one in San Anselmo, so I went. I met Denise Fertman and some other people. They played a black and white video of J-R. When I heard his voice, I just went, \u201cOh my God!\u201d The minute I heard his voice, it was like home. I knew this was the guy that I\u2019ve always known! And I just\u2026oh my God.<\/p>\n

Soon after that, I decided to go down to L.A. and check out Prana and check out MSIA and all that. I knocked on the door at Prana and Kay Turbak answered the door. She showed me around and introduced me to a few people. I remember Bryan McMullen was one of them. I asked if J-R was there, or if there was any way I could meet him. They told me, \u201cWell, if you stay here a few days, you can go to this retreat in Lake Arrowhead and he\u2019s going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

So I went to the retreat in Lake Arrowhead and that\u2019s how I first met J-R. I mean\u2026it just\u2026I\u2019ll never forget that moment. The first night, when we circled up for the Light, there was this gnome of a guy standing in the circle directly across from me. And his eyes had a twinkle that was just totally my Daddy! It was just love at first sight. The twinkle in J-R\u2019s eyes was something Spirit did to kind of give me a little nudge, a sign, a \u201ctell\u201d\u2026 that J-R\u2019s eyes would remind me of my Daddy\u2019s eyes. My Daddy, whom I adored, had passed away in 1971.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s really it. From then on, I drove down to L.A. every week. I went to Conference. Eventually moved to L.A. That was the beginning and it just\u2026from then on we all lived happily ever after. It\u2019s never changed, but it was definitely all about the sound current, the inner experience of that. It was all about SE\u2019s. And the validation of who J-R really was, a sound current master – the sound current master Spirit chose for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lori: <\/strong>Do you want to share the experience of reading the Discourses and listening to the tape, what that was like?<\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> The terminology was all new to me at that time – for example, the words \u201cMystical Traveler\u201d in the Discourses. I would have an experience and think, oh that\u2019s what he means by \u201cMystical Traveler.\u201d I would play the tapes, and then I would inwardly hear something more. I would think, okay, this isn\u2019t on the tape, but I am experiencing something that is beyond this world, beyond the tape, but the tape is helping key me in to that level.<\/p>\n

I can remember a moment being in my room and listening and I had this sense of something so ancient. Like maybe Tibet or \u2026 maybe another dimension, another planet. Something that was a kind of monk setting or a place where people gather to chant. But it was\u2026it just felt very ancient and it felt very sacred. I was tuning in to the Sound and the Light. I was becoming aware that the Sound and the Light are the essence of who God is and who we all are.<\/p>\n

I had had a connection to the color purple for years. Before I moved to San Francisco I had an experience: I was wearing a purple ribbon when someone broke into my house. I was living in Austin at that time. I was completely protected through that whole incident, and I always connected the protection to the purple. That happened shortly before I moved to San Francisco. In San Francisco, I learned about Saint Germaine. I thought maybe that was what the purple was for me, but once I found J-R I realized the purple was another sign that had led me to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lori: <\/strong>J-R said on the other side you see the Traveler as a purple light.<\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> Yeah. I also remember having an experience in and around that time of a blue light. This was before I had gone down to L.A. to meet J-R. I wrote to MSIA and asked about the blue light, and they answered back that J-R said not to worry, that it was all part of the spiritual thing.<\/p>\n

Another thing is that I was meeting people who felt like family. At that first retreat, which would have been May 1977, I met Pauli, Leigh Taylor-Young, Paul Kaye. I think I rode from Prana to the retreat with Paul Kaye and Glen Barnett and umm\u2026oh, I can\u2019t think of the older man\u2019s name – Ruben Paris. And I met Genie Ford. And of course the staff, Edgar and Michael Sun. Yeah, it was just really special.<\/p>\n

I remember during sharing J-R was talking about doing your tone. And he was talking about being connected to your tone at the moment of death. And so when it was my turn to share, I said, \u201cWell, what about since I don\u2019t have a tone?\u201d And I remember he said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, sweetheart\u2026the HU will take you right into the heart of God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lori: <\/strong>Do you have any other stories about your experiences with J-R? Anything he\u2019s told you over the years that just really impressed you deeply or was transformative?<\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> I remember some things he told me. Like he once told me I was magic. I had a lot of wonderful moments with him physically. When I got my first initiation in January, 1978, J-R was was still doing the initiations. I remember asking him, \u201cDo you just chant all the time?\u201d And he said, \u201cYeah.\u201d And I said, \u201cReally?\u201d And he said, \u201cWell, right now I\u2019m talking. So I\u2019m not chanting, I\u2019m talking.\u201d But I\u2019m gonna stop and let you talk, and then I\u2019ll be chanting.\u201d And I remember thinking, wow, that\u2019s amazing. I mean this is just gonna be my whole life. I\u2019m going to be chanting.<\/p>\n

After that, we headed to Prana for a seminar. I was sitting right in the front row. Someone sang, then J-R looked right at me and said, \u201cNow that\u2019s what I call chanting to rock and roll.\u201d And I thought, oh my God, he\u2019s knows I\u2019m chanting, or at least trying to keep my tone going through it all.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much. J-R has been central to my life. I was never on staff. I never had that kind of physical closeness with him that you would on staff, but I felt immensely close to him on all levels including physically. I\u2019ve felt for a long time that connecting to him was the reason I chose to come here this life-time.<\/p>\n

My time with J-R physically\u2026my glowing times\u2026were all around Windermere. That\u2019s when I got to have a lot of one-on-one with him. We would all just hang out with the horses\u2026hours and hours just standing by the corral. And he would share about what he saw going on with the animals – the karma they were helping us clear, the experiences that we were all having in another dimension. It was just an amazing time. Those were the years I\u2019ll treasure forever.<\/p>\n

I have always loved horses and the country, all of that. I felt like J-R bought me a ranch with all these horses. But I knew other people who felt like J-R bought the ranch for them! Of course he did it for everyone, but I just felt it personally. Those were the best years. He was a crazy cowboy. He was so wild. He had no fear, and he would just do amazingly crazy things. He had some wrecks, a few wrecks. But I mean he was just really a dream cowboy. It was pretty wonderful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lori: <\/strong>What were some of the things he would do?<\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> I wasn\u2019t on this particular ride, but he rode Sonlight down this canyon one time that was just like this (hand pointing about 75 degrees downward) and they tumbled. J-R was all banged up. At a seminar, he mooned the whole group with his bruises. But he just knew that level of the horse\/human connection. There\u2019s something about horses. There is a magic there in what they have to share with us and to teach us. He knew that level so well and he shared it and brought it to us. We were all horse-crazy!<\/p>\n

I remember he got to a point where it was over for him. One day it was like, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m done with that. I\u2019m probably not going to be riding anymore\u201d. And that was the end of that. That in and of itself taught me something, that\u2026you know\u2026you do move on in your life. You get through certain things, and then they\u2019re always a part of you, so there\u2019s no need to do them physically anymore. I don\u2019t have the physical experience of horses right now, but I have a lot of peace with that because I know that it had its time and place and now it always lives inside me. It\u2019s given to you and then you\u2019ve got it inside.<\/p>\n

After we moved up here, which was after J-R was not riding anymore, I got to ride J-R\u2019s horse, Sonlight, for a number of years. And that was very special to me, to get to ride Sonlight. I loved that horse. Really loved him.<\/p>\n

I always enjoyed being on the NOW video crew, and that was another way that I got to interact with J-R, personally. I remember one time we were doing this upstairs\/downstairs Insight training at 2101. Everything was connected by video. It was a really big deal and I was very involved with the video set-up. I had been working really hard on it. I was tired and probably hadn\u2019t had enough to eat and I passed out while on the camera. J-R called me in his office. I thought he was gonna give me a lot of, \u201cOh are you okay? You probably need to take some of this, let me check you out.\u201d Instead, he lectured me. He said \u201cYou are not taking care of yourself.\u201d It was very interesting because he just brought me right back to that accountability. And I needed to hear that.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, we had so much fun with him. He was a lot of fun. It was great being on the crew. I loved it. I just loved it. For years I was going up to Mandeville once a week to edit J-R tapes. You know, Phil Danza has the best job in the world. He plays J-R tapes all day long. For me, to do that once a week was really cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lori: <\/strong>Anything you\u2019re experiencing about J-R now or anything that was something that just really resonated through your life? Some experience you had or something he said?<\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> Well one thing he said\u2026I don\u2019t know if he said this physically or if he just said it inwardly to me, but while he was still here\u2026not too many years before he left\u2026he said that once he goes, we would have the power of the initiation and the ministry amplified ten-fold. It would be so much greater than it had ever been when he was here. And I came back to that after he left. I tapped into that and started to see what he was saying, what he meant by that. It was apparent to me that it was so perfect – the time we got with him here physically, and then once he left, the accountability for the connection. And it evolves. Just amazing. I\u2019m grateful for every second in my life that I\u2019ve had with J-R and he will always be part of my life, always. He\u2019ll just always be right in my heart, every day, right up to the very end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lori: <\/strong>Anything else?<\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> I just can\u2019t think of anything else to share.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lori: <\/strong>Okay, that\u2019s great. Alright. Anything you want to say if J-R was here?<\/p>\n

Linda:<\/strong> Oh, if J-R were here, I would just say, \u201cJ-R do you want to stay for dinner, please? I love you J-R.\u201d I just loved him so much. Inside me, he is love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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