Excerpts from an interview with Keith Sherwood in Frankfurter-Ring magazine-November 2000

Q. Would you please tell our readers more about your personal background, the education and training you received?

A. My early education was traditional. I went to grade school and studied European history in college. Even as a child, I could see subtle energy fields and could distinguish between the different qualities of subtle energy projected by people. My ability to see into the higher and lower dimensions made it clear to me that we lived in a multi-dimensional universe.
And as I got older, it became important for me to learn whether I was alone or whether others had had the same experiences as I had. I soon learned that there were ancient traditions where masters and adepts had had the same experiences. And I began to study them particularly Yoga and Vedanta to verify my observations. I was fortunate to be so sensitive. So it wasn't necessary to spend much time doing exercises and practices to increase my abilities. I just used them to study various phenomena, first on the lower dimensions then on the higher ones.

 

  

Q. Describe your work as a minister in the Dominican republic, and as the director of the American Psychic Association. You also studied with a Gurdieff Master. Can you tell us how these experiences influenced you?

A. When I was young like most of my contemporaries, I was interested in finding out how the macrocosm and microcosm interacted and what my place was within them. So I searched for answers or at least what other people had to say about these issues. In my twenties I met several teachers, but was most impressed by a young Gurdieff master. It was clear to me

  

that I should associate with him although I knew from the start that he wasn't going to teach me anything new, only to "forget what I thoughtI knew.' I traveled with him for three years through the Sonoron desert in Mexico and later to Guatemala where we spent six months camped in the mountains in 1976. It was a marvelous experience. But in the end I wasn't satisfied because the central question about the Self hadn't been answered. For the next three years I traveled alone. Finally I became a minister and traveled to the Dominican Republic. The period I spent in the church was particularly important because while I was in the church I began manifest my innate healing ability. It was important for another reason as well; it showed me the limitations of organized religion, particularly dualistic religion which continues to see man as separate from God. I had never experienced that separation and the limitations imposed on me by the church made it clear that I had to abandon religion for the truth that was self-evident within my 'Self'.

After I left the church, I continued my study by observing the interaction of energy fields. When I began to work with people again, it