It is often when people go through the dark challenges of life when an awakening occurs. Definitely started my path going through a very difficult time in my teenage years with my mom who was an addict and just plain mean. We were Christians in my family and I remember learning some things that I just didn't relate to at all. Once, I asked my mom if there were children in the furthest corners of the world who never learned about Jesus and would they go to Hell? She said YES!!! That moment changed my life. It's when I began listening to my heart where God places the truth. Then in college, I had a terrible breakup with my boyfriend that I had been with from the age of 14 to 21... he went through a literal mental melt-down, moved in with a new woman and broke off all contact. It was like he died. Part of me felt like I died. I had to face being alone. I had to face the fact that nearly my entire personality was based on my relationship with him. I didn't even know who I was. That time in my life started an intense spiritual journey outside of Christianity (which I began distrusting more and more throughout my teen years... not distrusting God, but distrusting the hypocritical Christians that surrounded my youth). There was a time when I was alone, walking around the city I lived in. I sat on the steps of this church and looked up to the moon in the sky. All of a sudden, this intense "knowing" filled my body and I got this sense of seeing the Universe for what it was and I remember thinking, "Oh my God!~ It is SO simple!" And I laughed and felt so restored. But then, that Knowing just closed its door....and I went on a hunt trying to figure out what "IT" was (that is what I called the experience or the knowing or ??). That lead me to years of searching through alternative bookstores, looking into Wicca (which I did not connect with after all due to the dogma attached to it... it felt contrived).. I started studying Tarot, out of body experiences and other "occult" information. But anytime I would come across something dark (and there is a lot out there) I immediately would put that in the "NO" category. I moved from PA to San Diego when I was 23 on a train! I fell into an awesome group of hippies..... and those people led me to a whole other path of Loving Vibes, Chakras, Energy, Spirit World and Native American teachings. A whole new world of information was available to me and I have been piecing things together for years. I'm 42 now. I have finally moved into a Spiritual path that is connected to the amazing Love Energy that connects us all and that Christ Consciousness is the highest level of Energy that we can aspire to return to. I also began delving into conspiracy theories about 15 years ago but much stronger over the last couple of years. I see the deep dark Shadow world that is part of the Earth.... and it is our job as Love Warriors/Awakened Beings to plant the seeds of Awakening and Living on a path of Righteous Love (not so that others look to us as being righteous.... but that we feel that we are Living according to the Highest Good). We don't have to necessarily preach to others but to live our lives with Love being consulted on all of the choices we make in life. Which choice is the path of higher good/love? And when you start walking this path, love starts pouring into your own life... though the challenges never stop. Those challenges are the hardest times when we have to surrender to allowing for the pain to come in and through and to grow with those lessons. Also, I feel that we must not give into the great Fear mongering that is placed on us constantly by the news media, government, and even our fellow "theorists". I certainly don't have the answers to what is going on on our planet right now but it feels HUGE.... and Good/Evil is gearing up for a war. I don't like what I am seeing in the technological advances that are breaking down all of our privacy, and putting it as something positive like increasing our power as human by adding robotic pieces into our bodies... or the story about Facebook today about merely "thinking" and then the words are written for you?!?! I see a lot of this agenda (and many others that are disturbing)... the same ways that the Illuminati symbols, etc are used...in videos, music, celebrity BS. I don't know what to do with all of this "dark" knowledge.... I don't want to live in Fear. So, right now I am just living my life in the best way possible, raising my kids to be loving, solid human beings; loving my husband and continuing to create and maintain my sacred marriage to him; being kind and loving to my fellow humans when I am out in public.