Leslie

“…While painting in my art studio one morning in 1971, I went into an altered state. It seemed to have been brought on by my extreme response to an argument with some friends at dinner the night before. We had just finished eating and had stumbled into a thorny discussion about art and science. The two men at the table, one of them my husband, considered themselves scientists; my girlfriend and I were artists. At the time, it seemed like a stupid argument about the merits of ...art versus science, yet it had struck a chord deep inside me. I had unusual clarity that night, and I could see there was no intrinsic difference between the two. They sprang from the same source, expressed the same essence. At the core they were the same…

The next morning in my studio, after having been awake most of the night grappling with what I had seen, my mental state suddenly shifted. My mind broke open and became crystalline and vast. Time seemed to stand still. Understandings about the previous night’s discussion flooded my awareness. I had the clear realization that my knowings of the evening were the truth. This sensing of truth was so profound, it made my heart race, and I experienced emotions I had never before felt. I was in what I now know to be a state of unity consciousness, a state for which I had no reference point at the time….

I knew that I needed to write. I was seeing the resolutions to all my frustrations from the night before, gaining a very clear mental understanding of them, which allowed me to verbalize them in my journal. As the pages accumulated, the innate unity which underlies all of the dualities that we know in this world became clearer and clearer. This initiated in my mind the understanding of the fundamental concepts behind the Marriage of Spirit teachings… Hesitant at first, scared of what people would think and facing possible alienation from my family because of the voice I began to hear in my head—I finally decided to devote my life to using the knowledge it imparted to assist people in their own enlightenment…

The heart is where heaven and earth meet—it is the place where our human-ness meets and integrates with our divinity. The journey to discover the heart is the journey to find our true humanity—the perfected human being—that which we really are.”

~ Leslie Temple-Thurston is a teacher of enlightenment, who has wholeheartedly dedicated her life to inspiring and guiding people towards reaching their spiritual awakening at this most important and pivotal moment in humanity’s evolution.