This website has been created by
Tom Plumb over a period of some years, sometimes
using the pen name "Earnest Seeker". I use
this pen name because this material is not mine, but
was written by illustrious, but mostly forgotten
authors of the past. I did endless reading to select
the most helpful material, translated it into
understandable English, formatted it and uploaded it
on to my own website. I then created an accurate (I
hope) non-denominational context for it..
How did this all come
about? Well, there I was in 1969, a newly
minted high school teacher of Geography, but I had
not been outside of North America. I
listened to friends describe their travels in
Europe, but their accounts left me intensely
frustrated. I did not want to find mere
landscapes and museums -I wanted to find the LIFE
and its meaning -if there was any.......
Spiritually, I hurt because I was so full of
vaccuum.
So, I resigned my position
and caught a ship one-way for Japan, simply
because it was the opposite direction from
Europe. My various travels and adventures
ended up taking seven years in
Asia and the South Pacific.
I found that the world was far larger and replete
with possibility than I had ever imagined!!!
While living and surfing on
the island of Bali (well before the tourist
onslaught), I met an English-speaking Indonesian
Yogic guru. Now this guy really had
something! So, after some time he brought me
through a specail spiritual initiation ceremony.
After this, I advanced intuitively in the
disciplines at warp speed, so that within a couple
of years I was an adept but junior guru
myself. I meditated for hours every day and
enjoyed a wonderfully enhanced state of
conciousness. I even healed people with
"pranic healing".
Everything was going well,
until I found myself in a situation not conducive
to meditation. Then everything fell apart to
reveal that my former spiritual vaccuum had
expanded underground and become even more painful.
One evening in 1971, the Lord
came to me and spoke in a gentle but
overwhelmingly powerful audible voice and said:
-"MY NAME IS JESUS". With this I was
completely undone and was not able to speak for
the next three weeks.
And so I set out to serve the
Lord with my customary zeal. And my
expectation was to surpass my former "enhanced
conciousness" since this was the real thing with
the real God.
Well, that was a great
motivator, but little did I know how complicated
that simple expectation would be to bring into
fruition over the years. For the first
months, I walked in a rosy honeymoon cloud of
anointing. Then it became more
complicated. And over the years, I gradually
came to the terrible realization that nobody in
the church world had the answers I was
after. How could I maintain that close and
intimate relationship with Him that I had started
with and expand it into a solid reality? Nobody
knew. Nobody had it. All that was placed
before me was "more of the same" sometimes clouded
Christianity.
Over the years, I saw
cutting-edge churches fall away under my
feet. I saw many friends backslide. I
saw many Godly marriages dissolve. I saw
astonishing sin within church walls. Eastern
mystical beliefs flourished there too! There
was no end to the deceptions. "Self help". The
prosperity gospel. A revered and married elderly
Anglican priest was revealed to be a
homosexual!!! A wonderful gospel singing
group had its lead singer arrested for armed bank
robbery!!! I looked everywhere to find a
church that had substance more solid than all
this. I failed.
I had the power of the
Spirit within. I saw glimpses of it in
others too, but this was hardly the gospell I was
reading about in the scripture!!!! Where was
it????
And I kept failing to find it
until the Lord met me again in 1988. (See my
testimonial on the Testimonies page.) Even
though I attended quite a variety of churches in
my long career, the substantive holiness described
on this website was never mentioned.
Staying out of trouble or having a good devotional
life was about as far as you could go with it....
The exceptional church might talk about
"dedication", but as the opening page describes,
that is not at all the same thing.
This website was created upon
the direct leading of the Lord in 2000 for two
reasons:
1. So that I could learn
through protracted independant study the "better
gospel" which had purity of heart in His Rest as
its earthly goal.
2. So that I could
share my findings online with fellow seekers of
this better way.
With this leading I undertook
a long web search in those days before Google and
found reference to a CD that sounded like a
possible source, and gambled the hefty price to
see. I obtained permission to share excerpts
with you. And the rest of the story is in front of
you.
My email address is not online since the spammers
have it in memory. But I do answer if you write to
...... tplumb at
telusplanet dot net.
My snail mail address is :
Tom Plumb
PO Box 5016
Edson, Alberta
Canada T7E 1T3
Yours in His Service;
Tom Plumb
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