Part 5 continues with real-life stories about the segue I made from the Personal Growth stage to the Self-Discovery stage and now Enlightenment. As you may recall, I had two key intentions for this quest that were phrased as questions: 1) Why Did I Experience So Much Pain & Suffering?, and 2) What is The Meaning of Life? Synchronistic events and people continued to come into my life that were preparing me for the next adventure of my Modern Day Vision Quest.
I had returned from Europe and became an active volunteer domestically. Many of these activities had death as a common denominator. These experiences we forcing me deeper and I was confronting mortality. I began to contemplate what death was all about? My mother's own death when I was 14 years old, left me with a fear of death and the realization that dealing with these situations left me alone since others did not want to talk about it. 
My experience talking with the monks while visiting the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, provided me with the first understanding of the word "spirituality" as an option to religion. I wanted to learn more about this, but had no idea how. Well, be careful of what you wish for, since this would all soon evolve into an amazing new segment of my journey and into the topic of enlightenment. 
This segment of my jouney would begin with a random event where a "Pennysaver", a publication that features classified adds for local goods and services, somehow dropped on the floor across the room, and amazingly opened to a page that would open another amazing door to my Modern Day Vision Quest.
 

 Discovering Michael: An Inspirational Guide to Personal Growth and Self-Discovery, Balboa Press
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