My first experience of begin a mystic? Oi vey, that’s a hard one. I guess that would have to be when we were camping at Wallowa Lake. I don’t remember how old I was, between four and seven I’d have to say. I know at five we camped in Montana, so that leaves either four, six, or seven.

We were shopping at the campground lodge, and I got separated from my mother. I don’t think I even made an attempt to find her, I just decided to walk back to our camp site.

I remember just as I started down the road I got this urge to talk to this tree. Ya, a bloody tree. I just asked it, “am I going the right way?” It didn’t answer me back by talking, but still I understood that it was saying, “yes” to me. I can’t explain it, the tree just told me I going the right way. So I just kept walking in the same direction.

Next I came across a squirrel. It was sitting on a stump eating a peanut. I don’t know why, but I decided to ask it, “am I going the right way?” Again without talking the squirrel said to me, “yes.”

I knew a squirrel couldn’t talk, but being a little kid I just accepted the answer and kept on going.

The next thing that happened is I came to a bridge over a very full, fast moving creek. Just to myself I thought, “that river is safe for me to wade across.” At that same moment I noticed a crow sitting on a branch that hung over the creek. It looked like it was looking directly at me. Then all of a sudden I heard it saying, “No,” and I knew it was in relation to me wadding across the creek. Without really thinking about it I continued across the bridge. Turned out a child not that much younger than me drowned in the creek at that same spot in a few weeks. Damn good think the crow had set me straight

Once across the bridge I ran into a couple of girls who knew which camp site I belonged to. They had some balloons and they took me back to our tent to await the return of my mother. This is how my adventure ended.

But those moments with the tree, squirrel and crow are the first I remember of experiencing Truthing, as it was described to me at the time.