Meet Your Spiritual Geek

[00:00:09.310] - Sheila

Welcome to the spiritual geek podcast, Wisdom for Modern Times, where we focus on living with intention to consciously create a life you love and celebrate. I'm your host, Sheila Franzen, and I'm so excited to share this first episode with you. Today, I thought I would take a moment to introduce myself in a short episode before launching into conversations with others. Where to begin, I wonder. I'm a seeker of knowledge about all things. I have been this way for as long as I can remember. I loved school, I loved fixing things, and I wanted to know how the world worked at a very young age. I remember taking apart an electrical weed whip when I was 11 or 12 and putting it back together. My dad walking in on me and I'm using a power saw at age 10. I wanted to create and I wanted to understand how things worked. I was always helping family and neighbors put things together. I just had a brain that could see how things fit together. The directions made sense to me at a very young age. And oh, if they had only had more Lego sets when I was young.

[00:01:11.210] - Sheila

I still love Legos and putting the complex sets together. Academically as a high school student, math was comforting to me because it filled the inner need within me to solve problems. I would spend hours just doing math for fun. I know, weird, but a geek was born. That love of math led me down a path of taking a computer science class in college. I was forever in love. The geek now had room to expand. I loved programming and working with different computer languages. It was such joy to write code. The amazing moments when lines of code drew things on the screen or process thousands of lines of accounting transactions just to get a number at the end. I loved thinking about how to make things work. That love of problem solving continued with a desire to understand how the world worked, how life worked. Who was God? What was the universe? Where did we come from? The questions were and still are endless for me. My spiritual journey was never a single path. It's always been how they all work together. I grew up in a conservative Christian faith that taught about a very judgmental God and a very loving Jesus.

[00:02:24.420] - Sheila

It didn't always make sense to me. In my 20s, I began exploring alternative New Age spirituality in every form I could get my hands on. I loved reading and learning and practicing the techniques among all of the religious philosophies that I was looking at. Eventually, I discovered the Ascended Masters through the books from Barrett's balling called The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East. While I don't remember those books specifically, it was the next set of books that hooked me in for my journey. I read the I Am Discourses by Godfrey King that were his experiences in physical life with Ascended Master Saint Jermaine. The first book Unveiled Mysteries, I still remember reading on an international flight that I was on traveling for work. I read the last page of that book and I started the book over again. Immediately, I needed to fully understand what was being shared and taught. The depth of knowledge and truth and wisdom was incredible. This was probably my first true introduction to the concept of higher self and of course, the violet flame. I couldn't get enough. My focus and life's passion then became learning more about Ascension with an active desire to ascend.

[00:03:33.080] - Sheila

I spent more hours and money in New Age bookstores than I care to remember, and the same amount on self help and spiritual experiences. Last night, I pulled an old notebook from the bookshelf to take notes in while helping my daughter. Add that I picked the one that I did. There doesn't seem to be many accidents in life anymore. And it was a set of papers that were my daily morning, during the day, and evening spiritual rituals. It was the perfect reminder as I wrote about what I wanted to share with you today. I smile deeply in appreciation of the commitment to my spiritual path. It has been a rather serious part of my life, probably left over from lifetimes and monasteries and nunneries where God and the goddess had to be so serious. Yet that's just it. Spirituality and a spiritual path does not need to be so serious. It's about presence and joy in every moment, and I think that is the origin of this podcast. I am truly a spiritual geek and a technical geek and a seeker of knowledge. I have been studying the world of spirit and how things work for 30 years now.

[00:04:36.510] - Sheila

I love talking about spirit and the divine. I love teaching it. I want to share it. This podcast is an inspiration from the Ascended Masters guiding me to have conversations with others and bring some of these esoteric terms down to earthly terms that are easily understood. I'm honored that you have listened so far and I hope that you enjoy the conversations as they unfold. Living consciously is a daily task for me. May you find inspiration to live with more intention and more consciousness and create a life you love and enjoy. Thank you for listening. I appreciate you.