Gray Mist at Dawn

The experience of telling a special, but personal, story and then seeing the confused or blank look on the other person’s face is, I believe, quite common. What is usually said is: "I guess you had to have been there". This is my challenge: "To somehow bring you there." Every writer is confronted with trying to recreate an experience real or imagined. In this situation the descriptions are complicated by the fact that we have multi-dimensional presentations that comprise a collation of thoughts, feelings and symbols happening in the present, past and future!

With that being said, the experiences contained in these pages encompass a rare variety of transcendental messages. Being oral teachings, these utterances will of course suffer the limitations of language; yet I feel they will retain their transformational tone. They are only words if you choose to look at them in such a way. Yet from time immemorial, mystical teachers have attempted to convey a deeper and hidden meaning that always seems to remain within the symbols and between the lines.

I have striven to bring forth these teachings in their unadulterated and original format. However, certain poetic license and grammatical alterations were necessary. For example, certain sections of information needed to be put into a more understandable chronological order. I have endeavored to keep all alterations to a minimum.

I had the extreme good karma to be able to visit with Shelly twenty-two times over a period of twenty-seven and a half years, (from 1969 to 1996). My visits were as short as one hour and as long as nine days. About 60% of my time with him was recorded. These recordings comprise well over 150 hours of audio archives. About 100 of those most important hours have been transcribed for these volumes. The very best of these conversations are contained within this volume.

Shelly had a unique and unconventional form of communication. He often said his manner of speaking was a form that was mathematical in its expression. I can concur, and add that his mind was filled with the most abstract concepts imaginable. As best as we can figure, he often thought in German, while using internal symbols from Hebrew, Chinese, Sanskrit and a few angelic/magical/mathematical languages. Given his propensity for seemingly unrelated abstract statements, it all had to come out as conversational English at some point!

Toward the end of his earthly stay he called himself the "Answer Guru." He would say; "Remember, it’s the type of question and the way you phrase it. That’s the secret in getting the desired answer. I have more answers then I realize. I also need to know these answers." I can only hope that I asked as many of the important questions as possible. I do know one thing, I never ran out of questions, nor did he ever tire in answering them.

Mystery after mystery unfolded before me in an endless panorama of directions, possibilities, and discoveries. It wasn’t possible or necessary for him to explain them all in detail, but with most of the greater teachings many excellent clues were given. They have served as needed advice when dealing with subtle strategies of the path.

I recall him saying that information was one of freest things in this world, but that the type of information that he was really interested in did not always come from this earth.

So dear reader, if, it happens that you are interested in a fancy new "marketing technique" for spiritual growth, or maybe a "franchise Guru" near you, or possibly a "we got all the answers, nobody in heaven but us" kind of attitude, then you should continue your search because that stuff is NOT here in this book. Shelly and the lineage of Kriya Yogis have always been, and will continue to be interested only in the quality element within teachers and students. In the final analysis quantity has very little meaning.

That being said, this is the information he gave me while on earth. It is for you to pick and choose in the harvest of ideas and simple truths herein presented. Some information you may find digestible, while certain concepts may go to seed, only to sprout within your future memories. It is my sincere wish that this book will cause you to reflect on the concepts outlined in the following pages, and that your spirit will profit immensely from doing so.