Michael Beckwith

That number of years later, I eventually started Agape International Spiritual Center in November of 1986.

So we're in our 38th year right now.

And that came with a lot of resistance.

I didn't want to do that.

At the time, I was a spiritual counselor.

I saw six to eight people every single day.

I did my own private seminars.

I was a director of training of a prayer ministry.

I liked my life.

But there was an inner compulsion to start a community.

And I was told that the work I was doing, at that time, I was only doing my work halfway.

And that I had made a promise before I came here to do this.

And that if I didn't do it, they would have no more reason for me to be on the planet.

These are the ancestors talking to me.

And so my life shrunk, forced me into some deep introspection.

I had a vision about agape, and I started a vision group and began our vision group in late 1985, beginning of 1986.

We met every Thursday for months to become the vibrational frequency of the vision of agape.

That's the story in brief.

There's a lot of stuff in between there.

So most of what I do is basically direct from source, you know.