I joined the "Unified Family" in November 1968. Like many early members I had been strongly prepared. I came from a secular Jewish family but began searching for God when I moved from Los Angeles to Berkeley to attend the University of California in 1967. I was a musician as well as a student. I first experienced God directly while listening to George Harrison's "Within You, Without You" from the Sergeant Pepper album. A few months later, on my 19th birthday, I had a powerful experience with Jesus, sharing his Passion. I studied the works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and listened to the recorded sermons of the great preacher, C.L. Franklin, Aretha Franklin's father. On New Year's Day, 1968, the first God's Day, I was meditating in my room and had a vision in which key parts of the Divine Principle were revealed to me. The spirit world introduced me to my Spiritual Master, whom I sensed was the Messiah of this Age. I knew I was destined to meet this man in the flesh, but it would take nine months of desperate searching until my spiritual mother finally met me one evening on the Berkeley campus. I heard the Principle over the next few days and moved in at the end of the week.
From Tribute, 101.