Guest Speaker: THOMAS GATES

Thomas Gates was born in Texas in 1950 and grew up in the rural countryside not far from Dallas. He spent much of his childhood playing in the woods, observing the stars, the sky, the trees, the animals, the changing of seasons, and the effortless flow of nature. As a result he quietly sensed that there must be one simple and powerful essence sustaining all this incredibly diverse creation.

At the age of twenty-two, Thomas learned a unique and simple meditation technique that quickly confirmed his sense of what had been occurring in nature all along.  This peace and happiness lasted about one week until Thomas suddenly found himself being rushed to the hospital with an acute appendicitis. The doctors told him not to worry. He needed a  routine surgical procedure and he would be home in three days.

A few days after his emergency surgery, major infection took over his whole…