Hello,
My name is Olatunde Aroloye. Born in England, 1960, I am a West Nigerian of the Yoruba Tribe. I currently reside in Ile-Ife, Osun State, where I work at the Obafemi Awolowo University as a Medical Laboratory Assistant.
I am a Born Again, Full Gospel Pentecostal Christian, since 1979. I quit Organized Christianity in 1985, when I started to get into deep Spiritual Experiences I could not reconcile with the available Teachings by even the most advanced Churches.
I did not ever want to have anything to do with any sort of sorcery, but when my life was threatened by my own family in 1992 apparently connected to sorcery, I began to try to research anything I could find out about it, to try to understand my family's behavior.
The only writer on Sorcery available was Carlos Castaneda. For some reason, there was a glut of JOURNEY TO IXTLAN and THE FIRE FROM WITHIN on our supermarkets and street markets.
I read those books, and understood everything he said, and found little or no conflict between his Don Juan teachings, and my Biblical beliefs. Actually, I felt they rather explained The Bible.
Our University library has THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN and A SEPARATE REALITY, but it took eleven years before I could get my hands on all the rest, but THE WHEEL OF TIME.
By 1994, a student friend introduced me to SCIENTOLOGY, and I got all its basic books.
About 1999, another friend lent me THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, and that equally made sense to me.
I put out bulletin board messages inviting Free-Thinking Christians to connect with me, but got no results.
I had more than enough Knowledge to have started some sort of commercial movement, but it seemed to me, based on Christian Experience, that money kills Spirituality.
I recently began to try to use this New Age Sprirituality to debug Christianity, when a Shill told a Forum I was in that Carlos Castaneda had been debunked. I searched and found the site he had plagiarized, but also turned up a post on this site too.
So I joined up.
