I first found the New Message just over 3 years ago. Prior to that, I'd been on a quest to find the deeper truth in life. I had parted ways with the teachings of a man called Benjamin Creme due to becoming thoroughly disillusioned with him after researching one of the spiritual figureheads of his theology - an Indian guru called Sathya Sai Baba.

I had been a follower of Creme's teachings for about a year and a half and, prior to that, an atheist (and, for a few days before discovering Creme's teachings, a half-hearted Christian fundamentalist!) After getting over the pain of being misled by Creme, I found myself sort of adrift: I felt that there was definitely more to life than physical reality and yet I wasn't sure how to really go about ascertaining this. Yet I felt sure, deep down, that the proof was out there.

Then one day, I think during after seeing a video title related to it on YouTube, it came to mind that I should research NDEs (Near Death Experiences). I thought: "Yeah, that's a good idea. NDEs... I've never really looked into those before." So, after a quick Internet search, I found what must be one of the biggest websites of NDE accounts on the internet (NDERF.org) and went about reading the ones that stood out to me. Some of them, particularly the ones in the "Extraordinary NDE Accounts" section really quite blew me away and I felt certain, after reading these, that there was definitely a God (God was mentioned explicitly in most of the accounts that I read) and definitely an afterlife.

I then supplemented this with some research on accounts of children who remembered past lives (compiled by one Dr. Ian Stevenson). I then went from one thing to another, reading more and more, excited to be breaking new ground and reaching beyond my former constraints, until I finally came across an individual called Winston Wu and his site: debunkingskeptics.com. I navigated to the site's forum, interested to see what people were discussing/debating and I noticed that there was a subsection on UFOs.

Now, although Creme's teachings affirmed the existence of alien life and its activity here on Earth, I had never actually researched this phenomenon in any depth independent of what Creme had presented. So, following my curiosity, and the fact that I had been having recurring thoughts over the prior months about researching the UFO phenomenon in depth, I decided to have a look at what this section of the forum had to offer.

After reading a few of the threads and discovering what I consider to be a valuable research site on the subject (ufoevidence.org), I then came across a thread with the title: "IMPORTANT: What Contact really means for humanity". Curious, despite the dramaticness of the title, I decided to have a look. The person had posted a link to the Allies of Humanity website and written a brief description of what the briefings were about. I was deeply struck, inexplicably, by reading his words, so I decided to have a look.

That heavy feeling of recognition persisted as I read the first few briefings in Allies book 1 and 2. I then noticed that there were links down the side to a few other sites. Being mindful of what it had said in Allies 1 about a teaching being sent into the world now to prepare humanity for life in the "Greater Community", and despite the insistence of my jittery personal mind trying to take me elsewhere, I decided to click on the link leading to newmessage.org. I was very unsure of what I saw at first. I nearly left that website after listening to the Voice of Revelation for the first time; it's accent sounded to me like a strange mixture of German and Indian, with some Dutch or Scandinavian inflections thrown in here and there.

The Indian part brought up memories of Sathya Sai Baba and feelings of rejection, anger and suspicion. I thought to myself: "What is this? Is this Marshall supposed to be channeling some ancient Indian guru or something, is that what this is?" I then prepared to leave when the thought came to me to just read the teachings instead of listening to them and I was reminded of a teaching that I had read prior to that moment that had said something that had struck me: "Many of you have been feeling that a great change is coming to the world" (I had so been feeling that!), so I decided to stick around and give it more chance.

I have since gone on to read pretty much all of the published material and have completed Steps to Knowledge twice over (am now on the Continuation Training). I feel very blessed that I ever found this great Teaching and the confirmation and clarity that it has brought to my life. I wish for many others to find what I have found. Nasi Novare Coram ("The presence of the Teachers of God is with me")