Lynn Newman – My name is Lynn and I admit it — I’m a recovering spiritual self-help junkie!
I fell onto the spiritual path accidentally in my twenties when I moved to Santa Fe to leave a dysfunctional relationship. I found myself meeting all sorts of healers and spiritual teachers in the new-age town.
I started with walking meditation as my ‘gateway drug’ and before I knew it I was into the hard stuff: Rebirthing, quantum dynamics, psychic surgeries, parapsychology, Rolfing, past-life regression…
I spent weeks meditating in silent retreats, became a Reiki Master, a certified yoga teacher, collected a library of self-help books, went on Shamanistic power journeys to the top of Machu Picchu, the Egyptian pyramids and Teotihuacan.
I learned lucid dreaming, drummed in circles, went to ecstatic dance parties, had aura cleansings with didgeridoos, singing bowls and power rods.
I ‘put the needle in my arm’ as I called world-renown psychics, intuits, numerologists, astrologists, astrocartologists – all with the hope that they would tell me that my life was going to end up fabulous or at the very least, I would know soon some happiness.
Why did I do all this?
I did it because I inherently felt that there was something I needed to fix in me. There was a wrong that needed to be righted; A “not enough” that needed enoughness; An unloveability that needed loving; A problem that needed to be solved. I was taught that we are all spiritual beings having a human experience. For decades, I focused on the spiritual part.