A Bashful Country Boy Goes on Walkabout

By Gary Wonning

At this period of time in the history of man, there is probably more individual searching being done into the theories behind the origin of the human race,what happens after death,the possibility of life on other planets, and what our relationship is to these life forms, if they do exist.

There are millions of people who are questioning the existence of God, who he really is, and what is my relationship with him? Is he someone who mysteriously floats around on a cloud watching and judging us from above like some bigger than life Santa Claus, or is he, like many of the esoteric sciences claim, a part of our inner Self, whom we have constant contact with, someone whom we and everything in the universe are connected and are thus one? Each of us in our own way is experiencing what God is, and thus we are each a part of God, thus we are God!

This book is a brief account of my search for my own truth as I know it today, although , many times the people with me seemed to experience nothing or a totally different reality, everything stated actually happened, according to my own perception.

It has been an exciting search,at times very frustrating, very rewarding, and above all, fulfilling.

My main purpose in writing this book is to show that anyone, even a bashful unfamous country boy can have these awakenings, you don’t have to be wealthy or well-known to find your connection to Divine Source.

I began taking notes for this book over thirty years ago, at the time, writing a book was the farthest thing from my mind. My only thought was to have a journal to read when I got older.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Florida Hoosier
• Release date: Feb 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311148780

Gary Wonning

  Growing up on a dairy farm  in rural  southeastern Indiana ,Gary was  raised in a conservative Christian environment and looked forward to a life much like his ancestors had lived.  The two car garage, white picket fence and 2.5 kids was his life’s dream. Due to some twists of fate his life changed suddenly and a different path was taken.   At this time,he began to question everything he was brought up to believe, his political views, his religious and spiritual beliefs and every value society places on us as members of the human race. During his Vision Quest, which lead him to Egypt, Australia, the Canary Islands, Belize and most of the United States, he reevaluated and examined everything he believed in.   Having always had an interest in things of a spiritual and esoteric nature this was without question  a predetermined path. Through and because of his interest in photography he was able to study and document many ancient cultures throughout the world, in particular the Australian Aborigine, the Maya, and the Ancient Egyptians.   Although his travels have changed his perception of life and many of the spiritual values he once held, one belief remains unchanged.   His belief in the basic conservative core values of life that have been carried down through the ages from time immemorial. Those same core values that led to the founding of our great country and are instilled in our sacred documents, The Bill of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution.   His belief in a Supreme Being or God have not faltered. In spite of this, he has found there is much more to life than conventional wisdom leads us to believe.   Time and time again history has shown that when a people or civilization fall from a belief in their God and basic common sense values, their way of life ceases to be. Let’s not let that happen to us. To contact Gary: www.journeysthrulife.com. Email: [e-mail].

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The Bashful Country Boy Goes on Walkabout

Gary Wonning

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Forward

Preface

Chapter 1: In the Beginning

Chapter 2: Finding a Spiritual Base

Chapter 3: The Past Comes to Life

Chapter 4: Vietnam Comes into the Mix

Chapter 5: Everchanging Life

Chapter 6: The Plot Thickens

Chapter 7: The Visionquest Begins

Chapter 8: Awakening to Other Dimensions

Chapter 9: Looking Back

Chapter 10: Exploring the Possibilities

Chapter 11: Time to Go

Chapter 12: Calling in the Experts

Chapter 13: Moving On

Chapter 14: Another Past Life Recall

Chapter 15: Charleston South Carolina

Chapter 16: Fredericksburg Virginia

Chapter 17: More Syncronicity

Chapter 18: Off to the Land of the Pharaoh

Chapter 19: What's With Sedona?

Chapter 20: Discovering New Dimensions

Chapter 21: What the Heck?

Chapter 22: The Passing of Kenny

Chapter 23: Next Up; The Land Down Under and the Ring

Chapter 24: A Motorcycle, the Pavement, and the ER

Chapter 25: Off to the Land of Oz

Chapter 26: Laura River and the Corroboree

Chapter 27: Cairns

Chapter 28: Alice Springs

Chapter 29: Uluru, (Ayres Rock)

Chapter 30: The Olgas and Wallara Ranch

Chapter 31: On to the Top End

Chapter 32: Daly Waters

Chapter 33: Cooinda

Chapter 34: This is What I Came For!

Chapter 35: Darwin is in Sight

Chapter 36: Sydney: The Final Stop

Chapter 37: Back Home Again

Chapter 38: The Crystal Skull

Chapter 39: The Land of the Maya

Chapter 40: Tikal

Chapter 41: Belize

Chapter 42: Ix Chel Medicine Farm

Chapter 43: Xunantunich

Chapter 44: Dangriga

Chapter 45: The Cockscomb Jaguar Preserve

Chapter 46: Punta Gorda

Chapter 47: Lubaantun and the Crystal Skull

Chapter 48: Corozol

Chapter 49: The End of the Journey

About The Author

Gary's Other Books

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank everyone who participated in this play of life, the times,places and names of the characters in my life haven't been changed. It was all positive and each person played a very important part, I wanted each and everyone to have full credit for what they gave me.

My sincere thanks to family, my friends, associates, and especially my wife Jeanne. Each of you played a very important part, I hope you learned as much as I did.

Forward

A Towards Enlightenment

A Walkabout refers to a rite of passage during which male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the outback for a period as long as six months.

In this practice they would trace the paths, or song paths, that their ancestors took, and imitate, in a fashion, their heroic deeds.

Merriam-Webster, however, identifies the noun as a 1908 coinage referring to a short period of wandering bush life engaged in by an Australian Aborigine as an occasional interruption of regular work, with the only mention of spiritual journey coming in a usage example from a latter-day travel writer.

To white employers, this urge to depart without notice (and reappear just as suddenly) was seen as something inherent in the Aboriginal nature, but the reasons may be more mundane: workers who wanted or needed to attend a ceremony or visit relatives did not accept employers' control over such matters (especially since permission was generally hard to get).

They must have had an extreme desire for freedom, going on walkabout surpassed everything else in importance.

In the modern day, many people are going on their own walkabout, discovering why they exist and in the process, finding their true relationship to their God and it’s creation.

Preface

At this period of time in the history of man, there is probably more individual searching being done into the theories behind the origin of the human race,what happens after death,the possibility of life on other planets, and what our relationship is to these life forms, if they do exist.

There are millions of people who are questioning the existence of God, who he really is, and what is my relationship with him? Is he someone who mysteriously floats around on a cloud watching and judging us from above like some bigger than life Santa Claus, or is he, like many of the esoteric sciences claim, a part of our inner Self, whom we have constant contact with, someone whom we and everything in the universe are connected and are thus one? Each of us in our own way is experiencing what God is, and thus we are each a part of God, thus we are God!

This book is a brief account of my search for my own truth as I know it today, although , many times the people with me seemed to experience nothing or a totally different reality, everything stated actually happened, according to my own perception.

It has been an exciting search,at times very frustrating, very rewarding, and above all, fulfilling.

My main purpose in writing this book is to show that anyone, even a bashful unfamous country boy can have these awakenings, you don’t have to be wealthy or well-known to find your connection to Divine Source.

I began taking notes for this book over thirty years ago, at the time, writing a book was the farthest thing from my mind. My only thought was to have a journal to read when I got older.

As a result, I didn’t record any of my references. Many of the references were from Aboriginal and Mayan elders themselves, many of whom have been a victim of the ravages of time. Hence my book is short on references, but long on experience, I hope you understand.

Chapter 1:In the Beginning

Any story should start at the beginning, but since there really is no beginning to life, just a continuum of experiences or lives,I will begin in the year 1982. It was a period in time in which I was mildly dissatisfied with life.

Life had been good, I had all the material things we needed or wanted,a house that was paid for, three lovely daughters, a swimming pool,two car garage, everything but a white picket fence. I had a marriage that wasn't very happy or fulfilling for either of us, but we stayed together,always hoping it would get better.

Only 38 years old, I had accomplished quite a lot, but I began to wonder what life was really all about. I knew it had to be about more than a two car garage and a picket fence, (which I didn't have). I also began to sense I should be spending more time reading and enjoying life, which for me was extremely hard to do. I always had to be doing something, to be physically active, reading seemed like a total waste of time.

I soon discovered one should never ignore the urgings of the soul, if ignored, they will manifest in some way that is not as pleasant as if one had paid heed and been more attentive.

At the time I was employed as an United Parcel Service delivery driver, a position that I eventually held for 27 years. One afternoon, as I delivered a parcel of garden seeds, I stumbled and began to fall off a back door patio.

My right foot had slipped off the side the patio slab, I could feel the ligaments in my right leg start to tear. Immediately I tried to stop the fall by bringing my left foot around and down on the cement slab,as a result my foot was propelled into the corner of the cement slab causing great pain and agony. Not thinking it was serious,I slowly limped back to the package car waiting in the driveway,and resumed my day.

The longer the day wore on, the more painful my foot became and I began to wonder if I could finish my route. Not one to succumb to pain,the day wore on and I finally arrived back at my delivery center.

Changing into civilian clothes, my foot had swollen so badly I couldn't get my shoe on. By the time I arrived home it was swollen and hurt so badly, I had to crawl in the front door of the house.

The next day, a doctor’s xray showed the foot wasn’t broken, just badly bruised, a little rest,possibly over the weekend, and I would be fine.

So, after calling into work and getting the next few days off, I settled in for a short vacation. Early the next morning the phone ran. It was my driver supervisor, they were short of help, and since managers can’t deliver unless there is a driver on the clock, he practically begged me to come in and just drive, he would do all the work. Despite the fact I would have to use the clutch with my sore foot, I decided I could always use a few brownie points and drove to work.

About midday, I noticed my doctor’s car following me,I pulled over and he explained that the swelling in my foot had hidden a break in the bone behind my second toe from the left on my left foot, my foot was broken. This healing was going to take a while.

I, or something had caused that foot to strike the cement with such force as to cause a fracture in the bone. I might add that at the time I was wearing shoes with a sole approximately 1/2 inch thick. After the bones healed, I tried to simulate the experience and it was not possible to exert enough force to even cause the slightest amount of pain.

As a result,I was forced to sit down and read, and thus began an adventure that would certainly change my life,the lives of those around me, and which would certainly change the way I viewed life and my role in it.

Although the time off was restful and relaxing, I began to wonder what this was all about, and also about what was to take place during this time. Life soon became boring with nothing to do but sit around waiting for my foot to heal, my life consisted of swimming, eating, and mowing grass.

I didn't have long to wait. My three young daughters were regular visitors to the local library and often checked out books to read. They normally rode their bikes the two miles to the library, but it was a hot day,and needing something to do to get out of the house,much to their delight, I offered to drive them.

At first I decided to sit in the van and listen to the radio while they went inside. Changing my mind at the last minute I decided to go in also. The library was on my delivery area, I knew everyone who was working there. Maybe I could find someone to talk to, maybe I would even find an interesting book to read.

I thought all of this was rather silly, I wasn’t old enough to sit down and read,that was something really old people did. As I walked into the library, something in my gut guided me to a bookshelf in the very back of the room. I looked upward to the top shelf, a book suddenly fell from it right into my waiting hands.

Startled, I looked at the title, a book written by Ruth Montgomery The World Before, was staring innocently back at me.

Leafing through the book I hadn't noticed who the author was, but from some of the terminology in the book, I first thought it must have been written by a mason. After realizing the author was a woman, I concluded that couldn't be so. The book, for anyone who hasn't read it contains a lot of information on the Lost Civilizationsof Atlantis and Lemuria, including a lot of esoteric knowledge. Checking the book out of the library I took it home and literally tore the covers off reading it.

My interest had been sparked, I read every book I could find on everything from reincarnation to UFO's. I just knew instinctively that everything I was reading was true or had some piece of truth in it. It was the only thing I had ever read that made sense, I had been trying ,with little success, to make sense of what had been taught in Sunday School.

It wasn’t that the church leaders were lying to us, they were just repeating what they had been taught and believed.

But It didn’t matter how I rationalized it or tried to make it fit in, it just didn't make sense, there had to be more to the story. I had tried many times to just go along, to go with the program and think that these people, because they were supposedly more educated than I, knew more about religion and God than I did.

I was to find over time that education,and, or our station in life really had no bearing on how intelligent we are, each and everyone of us has the same opportunity to gain knowledge and some times when we become educated by others, we only learn what they teach us and we forget to think for ourselves.

I have found that I, and I feel most people knew more about God when we were five years old, than we do now after years of false indoctrination. It seems really crazy, but when I need to know what is really the truth, I go inside myself back to that five year old child, and ask him what is really true. He tells me because he hasn't yet been fed all of the dogma that the churches have been feeding us for the last two thousand years.

I'm not saying that everything the world's religions teach is unfounded and untrue, they do teach a lot of valid truth,most of which teaches us good practical information on how to live a happy and successful life.

But a lot of times it gets twisted and shaped to fit a particular dogma or need and a lot of times the powers in control are serving their own agendas rather than the needs of their congregations.

Each and every one of us, before accepting any belief, or spiritual or moral value, should use our own good judgment and common sense and not go blindly by what someone else has determined to be the truth.

We are not lost sheep,destined to follow whoever or whatever belief comes along, rather we are thinking, reasoning light beings capable of making our