At the age of 10 during a game of secret agents, my friend and I discovered that (in a fashion) we could actually communicate over our pretend radios and as young children thought nothing of this as we continued to play these games.  As I got older, this talent developed and I found it quite profitable to use these psychic abilities to win bets from my school friends.  Being of a scientific nature, I believed that psychic abilities were the next evolutionary development and I was just gifted in that way and certainly had no understanding or belief in anything spiritual.

 

During my mid-teens these abilities faded, but then re-appeared in my early twenties at about the same time I had seen some Tarot cards advertised.  I didn’t believe that Tarot or anything similar had any mystical powers, but assumed they concentrated ones thoughts to help produce a ‘psychic, but scientific ability - So, I bought some!  These worked very well and I soon built up a client base of people seeking regular readings and it was during one of these readings that the name of a company and a town kept coming to me, which was clearly nothing to do with the reading in hand. So when the reading was over, I called Directory Enquiries to see if there was a number for this company - and yes there was - so I called it to find a messaging service with which I left my details.

 

A few days later a package arrived from the company with dozens of leaflets selling occult paraphernalia. (I was soon to discover that the company was the largest mail order occult suppliers in Europe).  I found the contents very amusing and certainly didn’t believe in that sort of thing, but curiosity got the better of me and I ordered a beginners guide and starter pack to certain areas of magic  Again, I found that this worked for me too, so I studied intensely accepted there was a spiritual dimension to life and built up quite a library of occult books and much ceremonial equipment etc.

 

After a number of years of developing my mystical skills, I found myself, for want of a better description, addicted to the processes and realised that I was longer practicing for my own benefit, but for reasons beyond my understanding, so I decided to give it up.  At that time I owned a successful recording studio that produced advertising music for which I was a composer (but not a lyricist).

 

Soon after I gave up the magic, I started to have quite threatening nightmares suggesting I should return to my occult practices.  I declined to do this and the nightmares got worse, then unexplainable problems began to affect the business and we started losing money. Then the family started to suffer with the nightmares, accidents began to happen and things physically moved within the house. I didn’t know what to do about this, but I certainly didn’t want to go back to it and the only thing that was keeping me alive was the thought that if I could be affected this badly now, what would it be like on the other side!

 

I was then asked if my wife and I would be God Parents to a friend’s new baby that they were about to have Christened and accepted the invitation. I had never been Christened and apart from weddings had never even been to church.

 

The ceremony took place in a High Anglican church and incorporated bells, incense and an alter layout that I was familiar with.  It suddenly dawned on me that spiritual activities took place in churches very similar to what I had been taking part in with the occult.  I also recognised the water and cross on the forehead to be a type of protection ritual. So immediately following this we contacted our local church to see about getting our children Christened, so they at least would be protected.

 

Our local Vicar wouldn’t just book a Christening without the parents taking part in a course so that they would understand what it was all about.  It was during this course that I talked about my occult involvement and was surprised when the vicar started showing me biblical references to it, and in particular scripture that says it shouldn’t be done.  After finding out how heavily involved I had been and how our family was being affected, he brought another Vicar along to meet me who was more experienced in the subject matter.  They arranged to meet with me to help overcome the problems I was suffering, but each time they came to our house, unpleasant spiritual activity followed, so I asked for the next meeting to take place at the church.

 

The next meeting was different and very serious praying and reading of scripture took place, which caused me to have very unpleasant reactions and visions.  Then at one point I saw the hundreds of black images coming towards me and grabbing at me, then for an instant I saw this person point at me in a commanding sort of way. I just went flying backwards as I saw the black shapes pull something from me before they disappeared. I immediately knew I was cured and I asked to be baptised right away.

 

Over the next three days music, words and scriptural quotes just came to me continuously.  I had never read the bible or written lyrics before, but at the end of the three days the ’Into The Light’ musical was complete as you can now hear recorded on this CD.