The true key to enlightenment is meditation. Back in late 1971 I heard Betty Bethards on KGO talk radio in the San Francisco Bay area. She was an astounding clairvoyant who said that the way to meditate was to silence the mind. When you achieve absolute stillness the spiritual world opens up to you.
It is difficult to do at first. The Bible say, I believe in Pslams "...Be still and know that I am God."
I became so advanced in this that I had spiritual time travel, being able to see the colors of peoples thoughts (the aura), visions, and partial telepathy. I pretty much know what people are going to say at times. I got so high at one time that I connected with the universe. When I began to meditate I vowed to
read the Bible cover to cover to see if God was real. This was because by piano teacher, a former concert pianist, told me when she and her mother invited me out to a concert that I could become a concert pianist because of my great ability of playing ragtime piano. I was an abused child and my mother told me I would never amount to anything. So that night I began reading the Bible to see if God was real for I knew I could never be a concert pianist unless I believed in God.
Halfway through the old testament I read a story about a prophet that had been imprisoned by a king. God miraculously freed him. At that point a began praying twice a day for God to reveal himself to me. I was listening to religious
radio at the time and had head stories about people having this experience. After two months I had a very terrifying vision that made me believe in God. I began to read the Bible a 100 pages a day at that point. I was working on very advanced piano music at the time by Franz Liszt. His concert etude number 3 and Liebestraume number 3. They each have two presto runs at 10 notes a second. I mastered each of them doing 6 hours of virtuoso piano excises a day.
I have a lot more to this story and how I discovered God's latest revelation to man in the nineteenth century. The return of Christ and the coming of the Father. The Lord' prayer has been answered.
"This is the day whereon the Rock (Peter) crieth out and shouteth, and celebratedth the praise of its Lord, the All-Possessing, the Most High, saying: 'Lo! The Father is come, and that which ye were promised in the Kingdom is fulfilled!..." Epistle to Pope Pius IX. The next year he declared infalibility.
I became an expert in Bible prophesy and appeared on cable TV 6 times presenting prophecies concerning the return of Christ. The date 1844 appears in the Bible 16 times in seven different ways. Daniel has is five times, Revelation seven times. And in Matthew 24 the exact date is given when Christ names an event that occurs on the date the new revelation began. Even Joseph Smith foretells his own death in 1844 as the year of the advent in Doctrines and Covenants. In that same book he foretells the start of the civil war in South Carolina and that he would see the face of the son of man if he lived to be 85 years old in 1890. I am a Baha'i, a follower of Baha'u'llah, the Glory of God, the Father as apostle Paul said.