Wanderers are people born on Earth of other-dimensional origin. We may or may not remember this fully, though we may experience a range of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual hints.

Allergies often arise due to the drastic difference between inner and outer realities. Vague homesickness, feelings of alienation and of 'not belonging to this insanity' are common. Wanderers (of positive polarity, rather than negative) do not easily perceive the deviousness of others, tending toward gullibility and guilelessness, though we also may have a finely developed sense of when someone or something is 'off.'

Innate intuitive ('paranormal') abilities may be taken for granted, showing up in unobtrusive ways, which the unawakened Wanderer may assume are normal and common. Others may find their abilities surfacing in more dramatic fashion, which Earth natives are likely to be fearful of. I have had many precognitive experiences, including knowing a month beforehand that I would find a bag of money in the street, needed by my family to fly to see our terminally ill grandmother. I have seen several earth upheavals, some of which have come to pass, others not yet.

Awakening may occur gradually or suddenly, easily or more traumatically. Spontaneous out-of-body, meditative, intuitive, breakthrough and remembering experiences are common. As a child, I consciously left my body at bedtime to be with others, thinking this was normal. In waking state I was also in telepathic communication with others, who were of course interpreted as 'imaginary friends.' I was fascinated with space, space travel, stars and the concept of infinity. I drew spaceships in art class until told by the teacher to draw something else. In an elementary school reader I saw a drawing of a graceful, futuristic, crystal city and felt a pang of recognition and homesickness. This homesickness was somewhat assuaged by reading a great deal of visionary fiction (as well as a great deal of 3rd dimension science 'fact' and a great variety of more 'earthly' literature!).

In adolescence I had an experience of near-death by drowning, held under water until I lost consciousness after a surfing wipeout. I stopped struggling to reach the surface and lost the sense of having a body, finding myself become a blissful, radiant ball of golden light, able to see in all directions of time and space. I knew this was my natural state, and learned to utilize psychoactive substances and meditation to facilitate interdimensional, unlimited states of consciousness. During periods of acute alienation from 3rd dimensional society I wanted only to leave Earth, seeing everywhere callous, inharmonious, transient, trivial activities, the naturally resulting inevitablility of global catastrophe, and realizing my limited ability to help Earth assuage its birth pains.

I continued to develop the natural, blissful, interdimensional, 'clairsentient' ('clear knowing') state of awareness in meditation, and gradually developed this state more fully in my 'normal' waking consciousness. Once while again feeling the anguish of alienation I asked with great intensity, "How can I contact other life?" I then felt the center of my being resonate like a bell. I heard, felt, saw, and knew to be true the words, "We are gathering," spoken as if by every voice in Creation including mine, as One. I then found myself out of my body, above the Earth, in the company of a multitude of beings, in ships and free, as I was. I knew that we were all Wanderers, gathering to witness and be of assistance to the Earth in a difficult yet wonderful time.

So my own awakening has been from the beginning, both gradual and sudden. In a sense, I knew my true nature and origin in childhood, though I only gradually come to more fully know and integrate this with my outer Earth identity. I have enjoyed this identity in very many 'down to Earth' ways! I do not see a necessary conflict between dimensions, but rather the lesson of graceful integration and relationship.

Speaking of an Indian saint I revere, a devotee said that the highest state is to be on all levels at once. I understand this to be the lesson and message of Wanderers. If our brothers and sisters of Earth allow themselves to open to this interdimensional way of being, the solutions to current conflicts and problems will become evident and manifest.

While I have sought to be helpful through a variety of professions, from baking to counseling, library reference work to teaching, I know that one's occupational title is hardly important. Neither is institutional organization and membership. The threads and currents of relation and care are what we weave, a seamless garment for a birthing world.