Mysticism in Newburyport: Soul Quest

By Peter James Ford

MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT is a seven-book series revealing ancient secrets from masters of all cultures along with modern-day breakthroughs by scientists and quantum physicists of our times. These tales began flowing after Peter’s powerful spiritual awakening in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Newburyport is a quaint little, historic seaport on the coast of Massachusetts heading towards New Hampshire. Peter had been sober in the 12-step recovery program for many years and had recovered from his alcoholism. Peter’s love of Nature had brought him to the Newburyport area. This area is rich with Nature’s treasures, Native American Heritage and many tales from the tall cargo ships of olden days. High street was lined with homes of these Sea Captains. Peter’s awakening had given him new eyes and new highly evolved senses. Peter was to have powerful past lives experience with his Mystery Woman guide named Layne. Layne was a mystic that would tell people things about themselves that there was no way she could know. She would look you in the eyes and tell you your deepest secrets. She also knew about the Earth’s electromagnetic grids and helped Peter understand what he was experiencing in Newburyport. Peter’s new heightened senses could feel the electromagnet flow of energy and the convergence right below Market Square in Newburyport. Market Square was one of the crossroads for these powerful electromagnet energies that gives life to our planet. Peter was to share the secrets that were revealed to him in his writings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Mar 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798765240489

Peter James Ford

Peter James Ford, The Unlikely Messenger, is a unique individual with a broad understanding of life from having lived life from many lifestyles. Peter experienced the good, the bad, the ugly, and then an awakening and redemption. His younger years found him struggling with alcoholism and the drugs of the sixties, with having learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, and growing up in a violent environment. Peter turned to physical training and motorcycles and found much satisfaction in both. At an early age Peter crawled into the 12-step recovery program a broken man. This was the beginning of Peter’s spiritual journey. Over the years, Peter attained the promises of the program and began living a great life. Many years later, Peter was initiated into a yogic path that had begun thousands of years ago by an ancient lineage of Masters. Peter did not realize that his profound spiritual experience at that time was actually a powerful “Kundalini Awakening” within him. Shortly after his awakening, these mystic tales of past lives and powerful wisdom truths began flowing. Peter has just completed his seventh book about his life adventures and spiritual journey. Peter hopes people find something useful in his writings, or at least that they will bring a smile to your face when thinking about Peter, this “Unlikely Messenger.”

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MYSTICISM

IN

NEWBURYPORT

PART VI

SOUL QUEST

BY

PETER JAMES FORD

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Contents

Dedication

Sincere Thanks

Forward

Preface

Introduction

1      The Irish Storyteller Of Miami Beach

2      The Return Of The Mystic

3      Conveniently Forgotten History

4      Power Of Beliefs

5      The Three Amigos

6      Wisdom Quotes

7      PJF (Peter’s Jewels Forever)

8      Mystic Voice

9      My Endless Sevens’ Tale

10    The Following Are Seven Bonus Tales From Book Iv

11    The Seeker’s Journey

12    Riding Into The Mystic

13    Losing Yourself In Nature

14    Safe Passage

15    Mystic Voice

16    In The Wind

17    Soul Whispers

18    Wee Hour Wisdom

19    An Unlikely Messenger

Conclusion

About The Author

IN MEMORY

In my past books I have written about family and friends and thanked them for sharing this lifetime with me on the path. In this book my ‘In Memory’ will be of a very special place that has a piece of my heart forever.

The White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States.

I have had people write me and ask about the White Mountains that I have written about and I realized that my books are being read around the world. Maybe not every country in the world but eight or nine countries that I know of. The United States, Canada, Mexico, England, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and France are some of the homes of my readers. So, that is why I mention that the White Mountains are in the United States.

I grew up in a blue collar town where everyone either worked at the General Electric Company, or worked construction in Boston, or was a Teamster, like me. I grew up never feeling like I fit in anywhere, not even in my family. I was consumed with numerous issues like learning disabilities, attention problems, social dysfunction, and I never could get along with others. I was a very intense individual right from the get-go. If we were playing a kids game in the street I was always playing for keeps. I lived in the survival mode 24/7 365 days a year, until I had my first drink of alcohol. Alcohol, the magic elixir, would ‘temporarily’ take away my pain but it would create even more. I began the game of chasing the next drink like the donkey chasing the carrot. My Father was a very kind man and along with my mother they did what they could for my brothers and I. My father would take us camping in the White Mountains and it saved my sanity. It gave me my first taste of PEACE.

I can remember it like it was yesterday (and not sixty years ago) of standing in the Spring sun feeling the sun’s warmth on my face as I listened to the wind blow through the tall pine trees and savoring the stillness and silence. The mountains were magical for me and I never forgot what Nature could do for me. We would swim in the freezing cold rivers and just felt so alive and free. Food tasted so good and I was relaxed enough to enjoy it. That is all I ever wanted was to be free and to feel good. In the mountains was the first and only time that I felt a feeling of well-being. I felt safe, carefree and like I had returned home.

We would leave the mountains and head back to Lynn, Massachusetts. As we would come back into town a dark cloud of depression would consume me. I was back in the badlands. Life for me at that time was pain and struggle and at a young age I turned to alcohol and sixties drugs to survive. I never did forget the peace that I experienced in the mountains.

It was about four hours to ride from Lynn to the White Mountains but I went every chance that I could get. As my life progressed I began living in New Hampshire and Maine. I am really a country boy at heart and I will settle back in the mountains one day. Then I will live out my life in peace and loving Nature.

Barbara, the love of my life, who I spent ten years with, would leave our Maine home with me and ride in the mountains all the time. I had a special Harley Davidson tricked out especially for Barbara and I had my monster show and go choppers to ride. Our favorite ride was the one around the White Mountains up through Crawford Notch and circling around back down to the Mount Washington Visitors Center. It was pure magic to ride this loop. A few years ago one of the worst tragedies happened with seven of the Jar Heads (U.S. Marines) riding club losing their live after being rundown on the backside of this loop. One of the saddest events ever…

My life has taken a simple twist of fate and I ended up in the perfect place to write. Of all places, it is in Miami, but provides me with the silence and space to write unfettered. My first book from start to finish took about ten years. I have written four books in the last two years and I have put together the sixth book in this seven-book series in just a few weeks. Not sure what has happened with me but I seem to have a constant flow of words filling the pages of my books.

Well, my heart is still in the White Mountains and I can feel the gentle, warm breeze softly grazing my face as I listen to the wind blow through the trees. If you listen with the right ears you will hear God’s voice in the wind gently speaking to you. At night if you look up into the sky you will see God’s eyes appearing as the stars.

This is my memory for my sixth book of The White Mountains.

Dedication

This sixth book is dedicated to:

NATURE

Our nature, Nature’s nature, God’s nature are all one and the same Nature.

The intelligence behind Nature is God and it is in every one of our fifty trillion cells.

The reason we feel so good when we take a walk in the woods, or along the seashore is that we are returning home to our true self. We are Nature. When you lose yourself all it takes to return yourself to your true nature is time in the woods, the mountains and the beaches.

When I was very young we lived in East Lynn, Massachusetts right near the beach. We were down the beach all the time and it was a Godsend for me. Later we moved to West Lynn and near the Lynn Woods Reservation. The reservation is 2,200 acre area with reservoirs, trails and fire towers. As a kid we would swim and fish and hike all over the area. There was a legend that the pirates had buried treasure at dungeon rock. Dungeon rock was like an old mine with a winding path into the Earth. It was a magical place. There were two fire towers, one was steel and one was stone. I had included in Book V a picture of the stone fire tower. Nature is everyone’s go-to-place but for someone like me it was really a life saver. Nature has saved me so many times whether being in the woods, the mountains, or along the ocean.

Years later when I was driving eighteen wheelers for the Teamsters Union I had taken a bunch of pills and got deathly sick. I left the job and I did not go to the hospital but I went to Lynn Beach and sat and reflected on my life. I knew I was not long for this world with the way I was living. The cop that I had gotten in a fight with and he had kicked out my front teeth when I was fifteen years old had said, I would never live long enough to drink legal. I think he would have been right if I had not gotten sober. I had numerous bad car and motorcycle crashes and I had been hit by cars three times. Two of the times I was run down were intentional. One night I had ran a roadblock in my muscle car and the cops from two towns emptied their guns at my car. I luckily turned off onto the back roads as down the road were the State Police waiting for me and they were loaded for bear. I had told this story elsewhere in my books and how the back roads were not used very much. The reason people were not out on these back roads was that a police informant had been found with his head cut off. Well, the stories of my younger years are in my other books and I would prefer to forget about that part of my life. Not long after getting very sick from taking a bunch of pills (that I did not even know what they were) I ended up in the 12-step recovery program and my life opened up to a whole new world. I owe my life and everything to the simple twelve step program of recovery for alcoholics.

Nature continued to be my go-to-place right up until today. When a girlfriend at the time got pregnant I had to decide what part I was going to play. I had a very wise sponsor, named Tim, in the program and he explained how to answer any question. Tim said, Go sit quietly down by the beach and ask yourself, ‘What do I want to do in regards to this situation’ and let it come from deep inside. Tim said, Don’t answer it quickly with your head (my conscious mind) but let it come from inside of me. Well, I sat the first day and nothing came. I sat the next day and nothing came. I sat on the third day and asked myself, What do I want to do in regards to this situation? From deep inside of me, separate from my mind, came the words, I want to have this baby more than anything in the world. I know now that I answered this question with my heart instead of my head. I was shocked and this decision changed my life. Nine months later my son, Benjamin James, was born. I also had learned a powerful tool for answering any question. I had learned how to get out of the way and let the answer come from a higher intellect, my intuition, my subconscious mind and direct, infallible guidance from the ONE."

Nature still does and always will be my home. I will live in Nature and Solitude soon.

My nature and Nature’s nature and God’s nature are one and the same…

Sincere Thanks

In the first five books in this seven-book series I have an extensive listing of all the great people that have played their parts for me on this journey. I am sincerely grateful to every one of them. There have been so many individuals that God has worked through to help me, guide me, and uplift me in times of trouble. I have been blessed with a great family and true friends in my life. I thank all of the gang from Hard Nocks Gym. I had great parents that put up with such a troubled soul as myself with kindness and consideration. I have great brothers and a wonderful son and daughter, now a granddaughter. We all have our own lives to live, and I wish everyone the best. The words of Kahlil Gibran: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you." We are but the Caretakers of God’s children. I have always felt like the caretaker of God’s stuff, that it was not mine. I am sincerely grateful to God for a lifetime of safe motorcycle riding, 1965 to present day. I have been In the Wind for over fifty years. I am so grateful for the ten years I spent with Barbara and our ten years of riding in the White Mountains. We shared ten years of safe, problem-free riding on the best custom motorcycles all over New England, especially the White Mountains.

Thank you God for keeping Barbara and myself safe out on the roads for all those years. I have priceless memories of riding with Barbara in the White Mountains…

I am sincerely grateful for having experienced everything that I ever wanted. The best gift of experiencing living I LOVE THE LIFE I LIVE, and I LIVE THE LIFE I LOVE. I am sincerely grateful for the teachings about our mind and the power of thoughts and feelings. The wisdom of the proper way to breathe and the knowledge of our true self. I am grateful for all the wisdom from the ancient masters to the present-day teachers like Gregg Braden, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Dr. Bruce Lipton. My great friend Kay that has always encouraged me to write and who believed in my writing process. I thank D.R. (Ram) Butler for sharing his endless wisdom and his life of selfless service.

I can’t forget my great friend, Bob Hawes, who has done so much, in so many ways to help me create these books. Big thanks to the great team at Balboa Press. Via, Tara, Ann, and the Design team have been so understanding and helpful and have done such a great job setting up and designing my books. Big thanks to Louise Hay, owner of Hay House International, for providing this vehicle for indie authors like myself to be published all over the world. Big thanks to the Yogic Path I follow and to all the monks and my friends. Big thanks to all the sweet women that have filled my books. A big thanks to Michele and Karen for bringing their beauty that filled my writings. Michele and Karen are two very special and exceptional individuals that have been such great friends.

From the time I started my first book until it was published was ten years. In the last two years, I have published five more books. My sixth book is now next to my first five books on Amazon, Kindle and Barnes and Noble. That will make five books published in two years compared to one book published in ten years. I would call that a miracle and another gift to be grateful for. It is funny how hard it was for me to write in the beginning and now I have found I have a gift for storytelling and the books are just flowing. I jokingly have called myself; THE IRISH STORYTELLER OF MIAMI BEACH.

So, a very big thanks to all that have enriched my life and also a big thanks to The One.

Forward

This is the sixth book in the seven-book series under the

title MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT.

This new book follows the continuing story of the unfolding of the spiritual journey of Peter James Ford. The books tell of Peter’s earlier wild years and then his entry into the spiritual realms. After his powerful spiritual awakening in the historic seaport town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, these tales in Peter’s books began to flow. Many years later, these tales of insights and wisdom kept flowing from this unseen source. Peter lightheartedly calls this voice The Mystery Writer. Many channels or mystics will put names on the voices that flow through them. It is all really just The One Voice behind the curtain that runs the Universe. The following books are Peter’s books of lighthearted tales, so far… These six books are a huge completion of Peter’s life works and his writings were the vehicle to clear all past baggage. One of the greatest gifts from Peter’s writing for him was seeing just how taken care of by a loving God he has been. Another gift was seeing that nothing ever went wrong in his life. His destiny unfolded perfectly for the purpose of this incarnation. There is a saying that Peter uses often, THERE IS SOMETHING MAGICAL ABOUT WRITING OUT YOUR ISSUES. Peter was to find that he could have direct conscious communication with God through his willingness to write out his experiences with rigorous honesty.

Writing is a power tool for self-healing.

In the writings of the founders of the original 12-step recovery program, the writers had some words about direct communion with God. They said that you can go directly to God for answers, but it was suggested that until you are firmly established in the principles of the program, it is better left unused. Along the way in the program of recovery you will be established in a way of life that gives you complete freedom. Your physical sobriety will be based in a faith as strong as concrete. Your emotional sobriety will give you the ability to go directly to God for direction and guidance. This God and direct conscious communion with it, has always been there, but you will become aware of it, when you are established in emotional sobriety. The Twelve steps will make you complete. They are divinely inspired teachings.

There are two parts to the recovery program. One is getting physically sober and free of alcohol, and then being sober becomes a normal state of being from then on. Physical sobriety is the miracle. The frosting on the cake is the second part of this God given program. This second part of the program is called emotional sobriety. It is a state of equanimity and mastery of your mind. Physical sobriety and Emotional sobriety are what gives you freedom, happiness, peace, and right understanding. As with the two wings of the dove, Grace and Self-effort work perfectly together. So too, Physical and Emotional Sobriety go hand in hand on our path. Once established in this state of mind and emotions you are now qualified to go directly to God for any answers or direction you need. No one knows more about you than your own heart. This is true freedom as you are not dependent on any individual or group and you do not get your power from anyone else anymore. You realize you are the power. You are now home. Your own heart was the goal all the time.

The writing of these books with complete openness and rigorous honesty has cleaned out lifetimes of baggage, issues (karma). There has been a transformation in the man known as Peter. Thankfully, it was a transition for the better. I have come full circle back to my simple and uninvolved life, living in peace and harmony in nature. What more could I ask for to finish out my time in this world…

Peter hopes that there will be something in his books that uplifts you, challenges your beliefs, makes you reflect on your life, or just brings a smile to your face.

So here are the covers and back covers of Peter’s first four books.

Book I

Mystic Rider

Shadow Riders

The Reclusive Mystic

A Seeker’s Journey

AS THE WRITERS POUR THEIR HEARTS OUT INTO THE WORDS OF THEIR TALES, THE READER GETS TO SEE INTO HIS OR HER VERY SOUL. A GIFTED WRITER WILL REACH IN AND TOUCH YOU DEEP INSIDE THAT SECRET PLACE IN YOUR HEART. WE HAVE NO DEFENSE AGAINST THE TRUTH.

YOU WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER….

Peter wishes the best for you and yours…

Preface

As I have mentioned in other stories, writing has become my way to continue my personal development and to increase my understanding and knowledge of life and myself. Well, it continues to go to a higher level of putting the pieces of my life together and even bringing past lives into a clearer perspective of my journey over many lifetimes. I had always had a fascination with the number seven and was to write a number of stories about this number. As I was completing my last book I came across THE KYBALION with its THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES. It seemed like all the work writing these first six books was to bring me to this place to discover these writings of Hermes Trismegistus. My writings began with the thought I am going to write about all the seven sequences in my life, but it turned into a lot more. When I was asked when I began writing what my books would be about, I thought for a moment and replied Mysticism. It is interesting how much I have identified and how strong a connection I have with the teachings in the Kybalion which was from the writings of "The Great Lodge of Lodges of the MYSTICS."

MYSTICISM IS SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT THE DOGMA OF RELIGIONS.

I feel I have found the source of my obsession for the number seven, and it is contained in these seven hermetic principles. These seven hermetic principles are the source of all spiritual paths all over the world. You will find the core teachings in every true spiritual path has these ancient principles from Hermes. Even Abraham traveled to study with Hermes. Many yogis from the East traveled to Egypt to study with Hermes. He was credited with being The Father of Philosophy. I believe that there were many masters at that time, but Hermes was one that stands out as the great one. His path was one of MYSTICISM.

I feel a strong connection with him and his simple but extremely powerful teachings in the collection of his writings called THE KYBALION. The point of these words about Hermes is that most, if not all, the wisdom that I have learned from countless teachers and masters appears to go back to him and The Great Lodge of Lodges of the Mystics. I have written about the Seven Hermetic Principles, as they are such powerful teachings, in my tale called PJF, later on in this book.

The other amazing writings were called SACRED GEOMETRY. The writers of these teachings were so brilliant as they linked everything together so well and made them so easily understood. A video that I had seen had a hatha yoga instructor going through his movement as they included geometrical lines corresponding to his body configurations. Amazingly, it looked just like when they align the stars with lines in their astrological constellations. Think about how ancient cultures from all over the world had created their own forms of astronomy that all had the same designs. I think one reason that these cultures were so creative is that they did not have all the distractions of the modern world. Also, there were no lights from manmade structures to block the night sky. The only light at night was the stars and planets in the sky. It was the primetime show for the night, not something on Netflix. And these ancient cultures (with no contact) used the same advanced engineering to build structures (mainly pyramids) all over the world. South America, Egypt, China, and even Russia have ancient pyramids, along with the tallest pyramid in the ocean off South America. It reminded me of how there is only One Story and how everything goes back to a handful of simple principles and laws in the entire Universe. So, those are two of the most influential writings I have come across. There is so much that I am looking forward to learning about and then writing about.

Symbols and their significance are subjects that I plan on exploring more in future stories. They use a symbol of three consecutive triangles to represent Past, Present and Future – Magic, Dreams, and Terrenal Body, Soul and Spirit – Change, Energy and Equilibrium. It reminds me of how in Consciousness the Past, the Present and the Future are all available to the sincere seeker in this moment. This means you can take any knowledge ever known from the past. You can also see into the future and know things long before they ever happen. But the Present Moment is the place to be. Fully present in this moment is the key to a great life. Choices and Decisions made in the present moment with our best intuition will create the dream of our life. The Present Moment rules and that is why it is the conclusion of this book.

The process of writing stuff out is how I process and learn in the easiest and best way for me. Writing is truly a magical experience. My conception about the purpose of a Preface is to tell the reader why I wrote the book, why it is important and hopefully what they will take away from it. My writings are a humble attempt to add my five cents to the great awakening going on in the world. It does not matter how many people read my writings. It is only important that I write them and share my truth. The rest is The Play of Consciousness.

Well, let’s start with why I began writing these books. After a profound spiritual awakening in the form of a powerful Kundalini Awakening I was to have stories flow out of me about meditation, yoga, past lives, Native Americans, Nature, and the Merrimac River. These stories began to flow out of me, and I began writing down these amazing tales of self-discovery. I was having vivid visions of past-life experiences of being with the Native Americans from the Newburyport area. I would literally feel like I was standing in front of a blazing fire at a drumming circle with these Indians from hundreds of years ago. I could see it so clearly, and I could even feel the heat from standing to close to the fire. In one of my visions, I was to see a dark-haired beauty smiling at me as she looked through the fire. I was to meet this woman from my past very soon on the boardwalk in Newburyport that ran alongside the powerful Merrimac River. I named her The Mystery Woman of Newburyport. She was an elusive mystic that was to play for me the same part the boatman played for Siddhartha in Herman Hesse’s Classic Novel called SIDDHARTHA. In Herman’s book, the boatman was named Vasudev. This simple boatman that lived his life in communion with the river told Siddhartha to stay by the river. That the river will reveal all its secrets. The river will tell you everything that you seek to know. I was to have this experience along the Merrimac River during long nights in meditation. My mystery woman was to guide me as Vasudev had guided Siddhartha. The mystery woman was truly a gift…

It was a magical and mystical time in my life. It was a surreal time in my life. It was hard for me to tell what was real or what was just a fleeting experience of consciousness. I know today that those experiences were more real than what we call everyday life in this mundane world. The inner worlds are the real world. The inner world is the real story of life and of human existence. Endless experiences of a mystical and spiritual nature were bombarding me, every day and night. So, I began to try and write out my experiences. They were to become MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT my first novel in this seven-book series.

As I had said elsewhere, I had the actual, real-time experiences that Herman’s fictional character only talked about. It was all from my reading the words of one of the most powerful Kundalini Masters ever. His energy was so powerful that it awakened my dormant spiritual energy. This Master imbued His Own Highly Evolved Spiritual State into me. I was to walk into the Atlantic Ocean, and I swam right through the winter. I was never cold. There is no way, at that time that I could have done even one of the miracles that were happening for me. Since that time (for forty years) I have been devoted to studying, practicing, and living every moment in the pursuit of mastering these incredible feats with my own abilities. It is quite possible that I could do them with my own energy now. We all possess all these powers, and it just takes devotion, time, and practice to develop them. What happens is you know that you are manifesting as God in this present moment, so what need do you have to be someone special with powerful gifts? Your need to be recognized in the world of people falls away.

As I wrote my first book, I realized it was not my book. It was the Master’s energy flowing through me creating these tales to share with people. I felt that God, through this Master, was using me to write and share the ancient wisdoms. I thought it was kind of humorous as I had a seventh-grade formal education. I had not opened a book since the seventh grade. I was now in my forties. I had a very limited vocabulary, and I needed a dictionary to understand every other word I wrote. I had almost completed the book three times and I freaked out over sharing so much of my personal struggles and I tore it up and threw it away. Within a few days, I would have such pain in my heart that I could not breathe. The pain would not go away until I began to write again. I finally surrendered and accepted that this was my fate. I thought, I will get over being embarrassed, as I will use a fictional name for the author.

When I shared this with the mystery woman she almost bit my head off. She said: "Look at your name, Peter James Ford. Peter is a very powerful name, the rock of the Church. James believed to be Christ’s brother. Ford is another very powerful name. PETER JAMES FORD is your name and use it to tell who wrote this book. I felt that this was my guidance, and I used my own name. I laughed later on at some of my fears, that some of the wise guys from my past might read the book. That was not very likely as only someone really looking for more than this mundane world would be attracted to my books. I don’t think my past associates are members of Oprah’s Book Club of the Month. They are not much on reading, much like I was not a reader either. They are not readers or writers. They express their creative side through violence.

One of the hardest lessons for me to accept is that the energy that flows through my hands to write spiritual books is the same, exact energy that could flow through my hands to pull the trigger of a gun. There is one life force, and it all depends on our choices of how we direct it. I realized the same energy that Hitler used to kill so many people is the same energy (life force) that Mother Theresa used to help the poor and sick of Calcutta, India. Was one a sick, demented man and the other a saint? Yes, and they both used the same life force to do their acts. We want to think that the power of God only does good, but there is only one power that energizes the good and the bad. There is not a second (like the devil) that is doing the bad stuff. There can be no second to the all-powerful God that rules the Universe. All that devil stuff was man-made nonsense coming from their ignorance of the truth of God. I loved the phrase, God made man in God’s image, then man made God in man’s image. Man assigned all the petty flaws of man onto God, in the form of power, control, and revenge. Much of what is called the word of God is really the word of man. Man corrupted the pure experience of God for their own need for power and control. Throw in a little sex and you then have the formal religious experience.

I wrote these books as a way to continue my own personal development. Writing has become my way of continuing my spiritual evolution. It is like I am communicating directly with God. I can write out any question and it will be answered for me in a few moments. Nowhere to look anymore, other than my own self. Nowhere to have to travel to seek enlightenment, as my enlightenment is wherever I am. The God that I sought is alive and well in my own inner awareness. My own heart is God’s abode. Nowhere else to look other than my own heart. In the 12-step program we try to give back all that we have received freely from the ones on the path ahead of us. I did not have a lot of luck giving back to people and maybe it was my personality. I have been accused of having a strong personality. I don’t see it, but maybe it is true. So, we share our experience, strength, and hope with others in whatever way we can. I put everything that I have ever learned from my life experiences on the streets, in the Riding world, to the recovery program, to the yogic path, the Native American wisdom, the ancient teachings from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels, and the wisdom from Eastern Philosophy. I have made everything available (I held nothing back) that I have found that increased and expanded my consciousness and has helped me on my path. I have made everything available to anyone who would like it. So that is the reason I write for my growth and to share what I have found. Writing has been a magical process opening up countless doors…

They say to talk about why your book would be important. There are some of my own insights in this book, but the core teachings in this book are from Masters from numerous cultures going all the way back to the beginning of time. They say there have always been enlightened ones as far back as the beginning of time. These Universal principles and teachings are believed to have been first written down about seven thousand years ago, possibly in the Vedas of India. India is a whole story in itself. Some of the greatest masters were born in India. Some of the nastiest human behaviors also existed in India and still are practiced today. Some really nasty stuff. It is a good example of the extremes in the evolution of a human soul. In past lives, the Masters of today may have been the sick abusers of people. The evolution of a soul is a messy business and at the same time nothing has gone wrong. This is the land of karma where souls come to experience their past actions. I laugh to myself when I think I had seven broken noses in my teenage years in fights and car crashes. I must have broken a few noses in past lives. So for the sincere seeker this book is important as it is filled with as much wisdom as I could possibly include. Every treasure that has helped me and given me Peace, Contentment, Wealth in all areas of life, and Happiness are included in my silly, lighthearted books.

I have to say that the key of willingness opened the inner doors on the spiritual path, but it was right understanding that gave me my freedom and independence. The greatest gift for some troubled soul, like myself, with a mind that never stopped causing him anguish and pain is the gift of PEACE OF MIND. All the gifts on the path are so great, but for me peace of mind is the sweetest of all. If you search for peace, you can find the way to your own peace from the words of the masters included in this book. I sincerely hope you find what you long for. There is always hope. Never give up seeking and one day your prayers will be answered. There really is a way to complete understanding of yourself and a way to peace.

Then they say to talk about what you might take away from the book. That will vary with whoever reads it. It will depend on where you are with yourself, what you are looking for. Everything in this world acts as a mirror for our own inner beliefs. THIS BOOK WILL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT YOURSELF THAN IT DOES ABOUT ME.

I have had people tell me how touched they were. I had people tell me what a great story of redemption and reawakening to divinity that I wrote about. I had a number of people call me the devil. I have a few people that disowned me. I have had many reactions, some great and some not so great. Everyone will see you through their eyes, through their concepts.

You will act as a mirror and reflect back to them their own beliefs about you. Some see me as a miracle that has transcended many, many human flaws. Others see me as the devil capable of the worst deeds. There is some truth in both of their perspectives. Usually, people’s opinions have very little to do with the truth of who you are, but that, how the game of life is played. Everyone’s perspective is equal to everyone else’s perspective, so who is to say who is right or wrong? My new phrase is that there is some truth in there somewhere. And, that both perspectives are equally true and equally false. That is why we don’t take other’s opinions too seriously. Opinions can change like the wind. Please take anything that might be one of my opinions with a grain of salt. Take what resonates with your own heart from this book and just ignore the rest. It is always your choice what you accept into your consciousness.

I know in my heart of hearts that these first six books about my life were my destiny to write, to create, and to share with the rare individuals that it was meant for.

So, what you are meant to take away from this book is still a mystery. You will be the only one who knows the answer to that question. One thing that everyone that read my books have said is, you will be deeply affected or touched by Peter’s writings. For some it will be in a good way and for others in a not so good way." There are no mistakes. If you read this book or one of my other books and find yourself outraged and upset, this will tell you more about yourself than it does about me. Do you really think I chose this life that I have lived? It has not been an easy one.

So, what you take away from this book is another Mystery right now…

Introduction

Book six is basically the continuing story that has unfolded and evolved for me after a profound spiritual experience in the little, historic seaport of Newburyport, Massachusetts. It started along the Merrimac River with insights about this unique little town and the awakening of my spirit which led me to a personal redemption. My books tell the story of my personal evolution on the spiritual path and I have filled them with every bit of wisdom that I have found. Hopefully, there will be something in my words that triggers a memory of your own spiritual journey and reignite the longing for freedom in this lifetime.

I do not write in the conventional sense of authors and I just let the words and insights come from a higher source. I have been told that I write in a very ‘Joycean’ style (James Joyce) which is a flow of consciousness. I felt that was pretty accurate for my style.

I have also been told that the ‘Voice’ that spoke through many yogic teachings is now speaking through my books. And that anyone that reads my books will receive the grace of the master from the ancient lineage that I follow.

Hopefully, you will find some amusement and maybe some insights to uplift your day.

So, like the conclusion to my first book, it is always about love, so too, has been my journey back to my heart. My journey is a work in progress, as you will see from my writings. Like that sweetheart of a woman, Marianne Williamson, her book called A RETURN TO LOVE, explains it so well. Marianne told of our personal journey back to our hearts. The heart is the source of all love. I don’t claim to be anything. I am not a teacher. I am not a great person or a real humanitarian. I still feel we should drag those lying politicians out behind the building and teach them a lesson about life they won’t forget. Thanks to my believing the teachings of cause and effect I don’t have the choice about stuff like that anymore. I already have enough baggage, past actions (karma) to burn off. So, I am forced to go back to the teaching that is: If I accept and respect the world as it is, the world will accept and respect me as I am. I am not someone that claims to have any answers for anyone else. I am just a seeker and someone desiring peace in this life and the next. So, maybe this will help you understand where I am coming from a little more. I hope you find something useful in these writings and maybe spark an interest in looking into the inner realms.

After writing five previous introductions I realized that all my writings are basically the same in every book. They are all about the unfolding path and the reawakening to my divinity. So, I thought I would update the following paragraphs which were promotional material for my fifth book called A SEEKER’S JOURNEY.

About The Author

Peter James Ford, The Unlikely Messenger, is a unique individual with a broad understanding of life from having lived life from many lifestyles. Peter experienced the good, the bad, the ugly, and then an awakening and redemption. His younger years found him struggling with alcoholism and the drugs of the sixties, with having learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, and growing up in a violent environment. Peter turned to physical training and motorcycles and found much satisfaction in both. At an early age Peter crawled into the 12-step recovery program a broken man. This was the beginning of Peter’s spiritual journey. Over the years, Peter attained the promises of the program and began living a great life. Many years later, Peter was initiated into a yogic path that had begun thousands of years ago by an ancient lineage of masters. Peter did not realize that his profound spiritual experience at that time was actually a powerful Kundalini Awakening within him. Shortly after his awakening, these mystic tales of past lives and powerful wisdom truths began flowing. Peter has just completed his fifth book about his life adventures and spiritual journey. Peter hopes people find something useful for them in his writings or at least they bring a smile to your face when thinking about Peter, this Unlikely Messenger.

ABOUT THE BOOK

MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT is a seven-book series revealing ancient secrets from masters of all cultures along with modern-day breakthroughs by scientists and quantum physicists of our times. These tales began flowing after Peter’s powerful spiritual awakening in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Newburyport is a quaint little, historic seaport on the coast of Massachusetts heading towards New Hampshire. Peter had been sober in the 12-step recovery program for many years and had recovered from his alcoholism. Peter’s love of Nature had brought him to the Newburyport area. This area is rich with Nature’s treasures, Native American Heritage and many tales from the tall cargo ships of olden days. High street was lined with homes of these Sea Captains. Peter’s awakening had given him new eyes and new highly evolved senses. Peter was to have powerful past lives experience with his Mystery Woman guide named Layne. Layne was a mystic that would tell people things about themselves that there was no way she could know. She would look you in the eyes and tell you your deepest secrets. She also knew about the Earth’s electromagnetic grids and helped Peter understand what he was experiencing in Newburyport. Peter’s new heightened senses could feel the electromagnet flow of energy and the convergence right below Market Square in Newburyport. Market Square was one of the crossroads for these powerful electromagnet energies that gives life to our planet. Peter was to share the secrets that were revealed to him in his writings.

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This seven-book series under the title MYSTICISM IN NEWBURYPORT could be called a book about human behavior or a book about human nature. This book shows how all human actions have always gone on and always will go on. Our basic instincts are of sex, power and control. They come from our lower energy centers (called chakras) and they are all about our appetites and the more, more mental illness syndrome. The big mistake we make is always thinking about the next toy or thing to acquire and not being grateful for what we already have. Being grateful for what you have will draw more things to you to be grateful for. They say that the Universe (God) loves gratitude. I have filled my books with everything I have learned since my beginning days on a spiritual path (12-step recovery program) in March of 1970.

I have read hundreds, maybe a thousand books about truth, spirituality, recovery, redemption, mysticism, philosophy and whatever I could find. I have filled my books with the truth from endless sources and numerous cultures. One of my stories is over 280 pages of Wisdom Quotes and that is just one of the many stories. I am eternally grateful for all the masters and teachers that have shared their wisdom in their writings. I have had some profound experiences myself that I have included but the majority is from the true masters. I was to have a powerful Kundalini Awakening through the grace of a rare and true master from an ancient lineage. I realized later that he imbued his own highly evolved state into me. That winter I was to swim through the winter in the New England Atlantic Ocean and never be cold. That was just one of the seven psychic powers I had received at that time.

I was to see and find so many of the hidden treasures in this unique, historic seaport town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. I had powerful past life experiences during this time with memories of being with the Native Americans in drumming circles. I also experienced the knowing of the crossroads of the electromagnetic grids running right under Newburyport. In the world there are a number of crossroads for these powerful Earthly girds and Market Square in Newburyport is dead center for one of the most powerful ones in the New England area. These books are overflowing with wisdom, knowledge and teachings from countless masters and lighthearted tales about my misadventures in this life. There is something for everyone in these books that cover all aspects of human nature. In these books, I have accessed all aspects of human nature and show people’s overall personalities. If you don’t want to know more about yourself then you probably should not read my writings, as these writings will tell more about you than it does about this silly writer known as The Irish Storyteller of Miami Beach. I hope you find something in my writings to uplift your spirit and make you smile. The unfoldment of my personal journey on the path continues…

If my tales do not resonate with you, just let them go, but hopefully, there will be something that is useful for you.

Best Wishes on your Personal Journey.

The Irish Storyteller Of Miami Beach

Y ou will see that I have a human side as I often get caught up and write about the stupidity of human nature. Sometimes I am not sure it is such a good thing to have my eyes open to see what is really behind people’s actions in this world. It is hard to believe human nature. Putin is destroying countless lives right now and could care less how much pain he causes. I have to remind myself that this is the land of karma and not heaven on Earth. We come here to burn off our own bad past karma. We even come to experience any good karma we created. Eventually, we want to stop creating karma and we do that my not identifying as the doer. We do what we have to do to live but we don’t think of ourselves as the one doing the actions and we don’t let our egos grab on to false images of ourselves. This way we can burn off past karma. When we have burnt off all our karma and then leave our bodies our consciousness will merge back with universal consciousness and there we will dwell for eternity. We actually are already merged with the One but our individual baggage needs to be cleaned out and then our time in human bodies is over.

I have always called these lighthearted tales but many felt they were very intense stories of the good, the bad and the ugly side of life. Well, none-the-less my intention is to share everything I have learned in my life that has helped me with anyone that is interested. I never have written thinking about success or monetary gain, as I just write. Surprisingly, my books are being read in eight or nine countries around the world. I have met (mostly sweet women) some wonderful people who have loved my tales. As, I said I don’t consider myself a writer but being a storyteller fits me. I jokingly laughed one day when I was on South Beach in Miami that I was the Irish storyteller of Miami Beach. That thought makes me smile thinking of an Irishman on Miami Beach telling stories to the bikini clad sweethearts from all over the world. I was going to name my last book MIAMI TAILS in honor of all these sweethearts in thongs and high heels strutting down the walkway.

My writing range from my younger years of violence, motorcycle riding, physical training, drug use and lots of trouble running with the bad guys to my current spiritual journey. My awakening or my spiritual journey really began when I entered the 12-step program of recovery. Along the way I was to meet many great teachers and I was to have amazing experiences on my journey. Insights and wisdom way above my pay grade began flowing out of me and I have filled six books now. My first book was a relatively small book of 150 pages. My next two books were 500 page books. My fourth and fifth books were 800 page books. Now my six book is almost 900 pages. These books are filled with wisdom from every culture and authentic spiritual path. Something opened up inside of me and I seemed to understand so much of life and I could not write it down fast enough. I will let others be the judge about my writings as they have been a complete success for me. I am not the same person that began writing these books. I love to say, THERE IS SOMETHING MAGICAL ABOUT HONEST WRITING.

Let me begin with acknowledging that I don’t consider myself a writer or any type of teacher. I write for my personal development and to expand my understanding and knowledge. I have filled my books with all the information I want to return to for the rest of my life. They are the ETERNAL TRUTHS that will free you. When I think of a writer it is someone who is polished and knows where to dot every I and cross every T. I have been a Trucker, Biker, Fighter and Free Spirit all my life with hardly any formal education. When I left Catholic schools in the seventh grade I never opened another book for forty years. I had always wondered how I graduated high school and one day on a PBS show they told how back in the late sixties they began a program called ‘Social Promoting’. It meant that if you showed up for school a certain number of days they would pass you on to the next grade. So, I basically had a seventh grade education. Thirty years ago my oldest brother, Skip had sent me a book on meditation and I was to have a powerful awakening through the words of the master that wrote the book. I began reading everything I could on meditation, yoga, consciousness, and the universal truths. I read hundreds of books in a very short time. I was devouring the wisdom like a starving man. In a sense, I was starving for the truth. We need food for our physical body but even more important is to feed our spirits, hearts and minds.

I was to learn about how powerful our beliefs are. We can believe something about ourselves and it will be true for us even if it is a lie. I had always believed I had weak legs until I began training them at Hard Nocks Gym and in a few years I was doing squats with 400 pounds and I was doing the leg press with 1,350 pounds. I had been living a lie because I choose to believe it. I also thought I was not very smart. I was to find out that was not true either but because I believed it I was to end up living with that belief and it was my reality. The Teamsters had sent me to school and my first day they told me I would have to take a reading test. I thought I can’t be bothered with this nonsense and I blaster through the test. A few days later I got a call from the school. The woman said, I have some bad news and some good news for you. The bad news is that we were going to test you at the lower reading level as you had no formal education, we made a mistake and tested you at the advanced reading level. The good news is that you got a perfect score. This was one of the best examples from my life how what I thought would become my reality. I began thinking great things about myself and great things began happening for me. The power of our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and our attitudes dictate our lives.

This book will consist of new writings and some older writings from my previous books so it might seem to jump around a little but all my writings always come back to the basic universal truths. I hope you enjoy.

In the remake of the Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot she has a conversation with Chris Pine about marriage. She is so funny and there is so much truth in her words. Yes, I think everything she does is wonderful and I am still emotionally a fifteen year old but none-the-less it is really a great exchange. Gal does not know what marriage is and Chris explains that it is in the name of God to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until death do them part. So, Gal says, Do they love and respect each other to death? Chris says, Not usually. Gal says, So why do they do it? Think about the wisdom in her words, So why do they do it? It is because we all have blinders on about life. Life is always changing and often people change too.

Also, I believe as the ancient ones have said that we choose a certain amount of karma to experience with someone and when it is completed we part ways. It might be for a week and it might be for a lifetime but when the purpose (which is always about our personal growth) is completed then we will head onto our new path. I had ten wonderful years (the best years of my life) with a sweetest, wisest, prettiest woman who was my best friend, my lover, my companion and my riding buddy. At the very end of those ten years it changed and our time was over. We both had grown immensely in our personal development and also we got to share the best that a man and a woman can have in this lifetime. Barbara (the love of my life) went to L.A. as