Maurizio Ummarino
From: Italy
in: Australia

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I was born in 1956 in Naples into a well-off and established family sensitive to cultural and artistic pursuits.

Between 1956 and 1962 I grew up normally and without trauma and difficulties assisted by a family that was as steadying influence, and willing to offer moral and ethical instructions without pressuring me to make religious choices. Obviously the period that I grew up in was a laboratory of dreams and new cultural, musical, spiritual and political experimentation. This left its impression on me, and has instilled in me an ongoing desire to search for new and advanced solutions to self-betterment and evolution. In 1974 I completed my High School Diploma and like all young people I dream of a future rich in action, experimentation, and change and subsequently enrolled in sociology as a major and also began my professional career working for a leading Fashion Agency in Naples.

In 1977 I was forced into the arduous experience of 12 months compulsory military service, which distressed me as I saw it as pointless. Yet in fact there I learn the art of living communally and the art of survival. On completion of my service in 1978, I returned to full-time employment with Studio Pacifico where I learn to perfect the art of sales and at this time I withdrew from university and begun my education through more personal means. In 1981 I was offered a promotion and took up a position as the Head of Sales for Clap a leading firm specialized in gift distribution.

In 1982 I am forced into a second compulsory experience, and was incarcerated for reasons that I am willing to freely share to whoever should ask (but the reasons were not grave nor were they, let me categorically say, for violence against others). This moment of forced enclosure did however help me to understand the true sense and meaning of FREEDOM and in prison I understood the great possibilities that arise by using TIME for the maximum benefit of oneself and for others. In the fours months there, I went through my first major revision and rethink of my way in life, assisted by the possibilities that come from the love for others. I was while in there, luckily enough, to be chosen by the other prisoners thanks to the word of my cellmate, as the chosen scribe for all "LOVE LETTERS" to families, wives and girlfriends. At the time I didn't realize what was happening in me nor what I was feeling and seeing by channeling though me the Love of others, but after a while I begun to feel something new, or in other terms I was learning to live Love even IMPERSONALLY and this gave me a new way to see and visualize my life.

Having completed this experience I was asked into the family business with managerial responsibilities ((MFC Quaglia Distributors of Hi Fi & Film and Photo Supplies) and was there until 1987 with excellent economical, experience and formative results. It was at this time of acquisition of social and external certainties that my first existential and spiritual trials arose.

In 1985 while still a manager with MFC Quaglia, I opened an electronics store with a friend, and it was in this period that I felt a first spiritual crisis that lead me to ask who am I and what was my mission in life. After a voluntary period of 49 days of isolation to meditate and research I was able to return to others. I had finally worked out, once and for all what was my initial dilemma and told myself: " From this moment on I will be he who I have always dreamed of being and I will never betray you". Following this I knew that I needed help to grow and I was invited by a friend to participate in a so-called esoteric seminar at the Kriterion Centre for Anthropological Studies, which was unique as it was the first center that sought to unite human knowledge regardless of its provenance, without difference to Creed, Religion, Philosophy and Practice. It was here with the help of Sonia and Carlo Aquilino the founders of Kriterion, where many of us began our first steps towards Knowledge and it was here that I began to meet extraordinary individuals.

My first meeting was with Alain Valade (French) from whom I was able to work on the possibilities of Dreams - Body and Voice. I experimented with Alain Valade until 1988 when my experience with "il Teatro dell`Anima" ("Theater of the Soul"). The Kriterion centre was a cradle of new experimentation, and it was there that in the same period that I began to follow the teaching of the Austrian philosopher: Arnold Kaiserling (Professor of philosophy of religions and of traditions of thought, at the time professor at the University of Vienna). Keyserling is considered an expert in Native American and spiritual masters and was fundamental in bridging such spiritual pathways. In this wonderful period, and again at the Kriterion, that I began experimenting in the teachings of Sharma Yogi (The Yoga of internal search).

At the Kriterion in this period there was much ferment and much activity and we organised a number of meetings with leaders that came from a diverse spiritual environment, with assistance coming from beyond the Kriterion. In this period I came by a very interesting book "Conversations with Angels". Through this work that I was able to reactivate the beliefs and feelings that I felt as a child of the presence of Angels around me. The real activation of this came through the translation and consequent study and experimentation of "Invoking your Celestial Gardens" channeled by Solara, and in this period that I received clarity on the revelations of Dimensional Grid 11:11. Furthermore at this time through the help of dear friends that I was able to come to know the world of Buddhism as well, in particular with Lama Norbu (through Prof. Namkhai Norbu, professor of Tibetan and Mongolian languages at the Orientale University Institute of Naples) who was the founder of the Internazional Institute of Shang-Shung, which was officially opened in 1990 by the His Holiness the Dali Lama.

At the Kriterion we all came from different experiences and a number of us were followers of Babaji and here I was able to follow and understand the philosophy and teaching of this famous Avatar of the Himalayan tradition. Unfortunately I never meet him as he had already gone to paradise but I have had the pleasure to meet his spiritual heir Muniraji at the Cisternino ashram in Puglia, southern Italy.

In terms of profession and economic interests, from 1987 to 1990 I was involved in fashion production and managed the production of 2 emerging labels Maria Teresa Grilli and Argilla. This career allowed me to travel frequently and meet many creative individuals. On one occasion I was involved in the production of costumes for a dance production “Fragile Anchor’ by Randy Warshaw in New York and was involved in two important fashion events there.

Every so often the unexpected would occur in this period and it was at this time that I meet one of the leading therapists of Gestalt psychotherapy Barry Symmons, on an invite from friends that till this day have an important center of growth, the Rio Abierto.

The most important meeting of my life with a Wonderful Being occurred in 1988 when I meet Ilvana Acampora who within the space of a year was to become my wife and Companion on the Way for 20 years, then our evolutionary pathways personal and they separated and took different directions but always FRATERNAL.

Driven by a new energy determined also by the arrival of our child Trinity in 1991 we decided to choose pathways in life that were enriching to us. At this time I left the fashion business and dedicated myself in full to the study and evolution of who we are. We moved to Tuscany, a place where we had links that went back to 1986, for their we had begun to follow the teachings of Native Americans with Diane Sea Dancer Battung, Ph.D. She is a Roadwoman and Shield Carrier of the Sweet Medicine Sundance path. She is founder of the Quantum Leap, an international Adult Education program for evolutionary development. Sea Dancer is a Nagual assistant of medicine chief and shaman Harley Swift Deer, of the Cherokee nation, who in turn was a student of Tom Wilson of the Navajo (or Two Bears or Don Genaro as he is more famously known in the works of Carlos Castaneda). Aside from Sea Dancer, through a friend Diego Manca, I also got to know the teachings of Chuck Storm and followed a series of his seminars in Milan.

In 1990 Ilvana and I were involved in a wonderful organizational experience and collaborated with Francesco Borelli on “The Triangles of worldwide good will” and organized seminars through Campania of all religions for the Wesak festival.

1990 was not only a major year due to the wedding of Ilvana and myself, at this moment at a meeting at Monsummano Terme of the "Global Village Evolutionary Experience", that we meet a distinguished Neapolitan man who was there from Venezuela, or more precisely Paqui' in the Grand Amazonian Savannah. My meeting with Rino Fiume was amazingly impacting for me. Initially I was challenged by his presence and found it straining to appreciate his profound clarity and sweetness, and after my own personal trials and suffering I realized that there was something poignant in this resistance. Subsequently I asked him to translate a number of documents on Knowledge into Italian that arose from the work that a number of people, who had voluntarily chose to given more of there life to God, were elaborating in the Grand Savannah. I felt a strength within me, drawing me to this experience of translations of the “Divine Constitution – Code of Love’ and “Treaty of Transparent Reason”, that I then realized that I held something before me that from there on would put me in contact with my Being and guide me on the Voluntary Path.

Evidently all this activity would bring us that which we were seeking, and during this work on the translations that we came to know another different form of religion which was the Baul del Bengala, who in this period were in Naples to find those that had an affinity with the Bauls but didn’t know it. They were looking for a host and we were happy to do so. We spend 3 amazing weeks of exchange, study and mutual understanding of the Bauls and I was anointed at the end of this “Baul Shri Subol Das Baul” or “Mad about God” which is a wonderful honour and definition to receive by the Baul. In 1995 another brother on our pathway Giuseppe arrived from Brazil and with him we activated and immersed ourselves in a number of traditions, and this included a trip to the north to the Dolomites where we meet with Thimothy Patterson an expert in contact with IntraEarthlings civilizations.

Thus continued my special journey and attempt to Awaken and Reawaken my Conscience, all this outside of the traditional spiritual-esoteric and religious channels, and finally I was able to find the network I was looking for which was: A free and real daily experimentation with the Brotherhood of Being. To live this sense of experimentation Ilvana and myself, Giovanni and Antonella, Salvatore and Maria Teresa, and Emilia established “Contrada Paradiso”. This was a large estate that we bought on the Apennines near Benevento (southern Italy), and here we sought to consecrate in a physical space a place where we could put into practice all of this evolutionary energy so that a true and real place of balanced synergy and exchange could be born. This experiment lasted 7 wonderful years full of actual and spiritual work as well as intense exchange between us there and between the many people that we interrelated with in this period.

In that period my life truly changed and acquired a clear sense of that which I was looking for, and in fact I meet a number of Special Beings which I am happy to discuss at a later stage if you want, but I must mention “Ely and Charo as well as Julio e Mari Luz" who gave me the opportunity to see both through action and knowledge that it is possible to live in complete balance between Thought-Discussion-Action (or to at least try at all times). In this period there was much produced in documents and we were able to complete the “Code of Love". It’s through the many actions we went through at this time in Montefalcone that we were able to realize that we are the center of transmission of feelings of Brotherhood of Men.

From there on we waited to see who needed this information on how to meet this pathway and who needed help to evolve. Or in other words give back with the same means that which we received, and here we are at our connection with Australia. In fact it was in asking to Serve (in the true sense of the term to “Be of Use”) that Ilvana and I sought to discover where we could be useful, and (whether it was true or not) all things began to point to Australia, without really understanding the reasons why. After some years here we’ve begun to realize the odd thing here and there, but we realise that there is much to learn and share and it is only through exchange and sharing, that we will be able to understand what the great gifts are and what are the great possibilities that are in store in this wonderful Continent.

So after 10 years of living in Melbourne in a good neighborhood (Richmond) and having an established business that caters for more than we need for our material tranquility, the time has come for me to share with those like me who are not satisfied by this alone, but who seek to participate in the grand game that is Evolutionary Creation, so who else wants to Share?

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