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Bettye Johnson has been a Federal Women's Program Coordinator for a government district office and has conducted workshops on women's issues. In addition she is a retired ordained minister having been trained in the ministry of Divine Science. She was an assistant minister to the late Dr. William R "Cherry" Parker, author of "Prayer Can Change Your Life," and was also the program director for the Parker Holistic Center in Costa Mesa, California. For the past eighteen years Bettye has been a student at the Ramtha School of Enlightenment, an academy of mind and Gnostic teachings. Some people want to know about me. For starters, I was born at home in Dallas, Texas. I didn't have a name for three days. Then my paternal grandmother became weary of me having no name and named me 'Bettye Ann'.
A new adventure - After three months training in the Communications Center code room in Washington D.C., I was assigned to the Embassy in Paris, France where I decoded and encoded classified messages ranging up to Top Secret. During the three years I spent there, I traveled extensively throughout France and Europe. When the tour of duty in Paris ended, I was transferred to the Embassy in Tokyo, Japan where another adventure awaited me. While in Japan I married a career military man and I continued my travels from coast to coast in the U.S. and Hawaii. Raising three sons gave me the opportunity to experience mothering in addition to logistics management for our various moves. These next years were family oriented because my sons’ father was away quite often including two tours in Vietnam. During these years I experienced being a volunteer, Cub Scout den mother, room mother, bake sales, club work etc. After seventeen years I returned to the work force and again for the government. This next phase bought forth a new awakening within me. Working for a government agency, I was given the opportunity to attend a self-improvement workshop and this was a life-changing event because I realized I had subverted myself into being a wife and mother with very little time for me. Thus another new adventure began to unfold. After a few years I was appointed the Federal Women's Program Coordinator for the district of the government agency I was working for. I was able to experience that most women had little self-worth. I put together a self-worth workshop for the district. During this period I took writing classes at the U. of California Irvine and began writing mostly for myself. I was beginning my spiritual quest.
My marriage came to an end and I was on to another adventure – my quest. I went from one workshop to another and soaked everything up like a sponge. After a year I was invited to attend a class at a Divine Science ministerial school, which I accepted. There I met my second husband and within months we were married. In the beginning it was magic and he was the love I had been searching for all my life it seemed. However, when one partner is moving to another level and the other is caught up in guilt from the past, the magic wanes.
My quest led me to be ordained as a minister in Divine Science and from this springboard I resigned from my government job and thought I would write. I had the time but no inspiration and an opportunity came for me to become a program director of a holistic health center, which gave me the opportunity to explore and experience different modalities of healing and self-help. Eventually I became a minister of my own small church, which enhanced my life experiences. I came to the realization that if I was going to talk the talk that I had to walk the walk and as the saying goes, "When the student is ready, the Teacher appears."
It was during this period I reconnected with my spiritual teacher. I say reconnected because it was recognition within my soul. I knew I knew him but not in this lifetime. A few years later my husband retired and we moved to the Pacific Northwest where I began my studies with my spiritual teacher, Ramtha.
I have now been his student at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment in Yelm, Washington for the past seventeen years. It is said that a person uses only 10 percent of the brain. I am being taught to use the other 90 percent and to expand my mind. It has been a wild chaotic journey and I love it.
I have come to know that a life is very much like that of a caterpillar. We go through life eating the leaves of sorrow, hate, anger, jealousy, prejudice, rebellion, pity, victim, tyrant and for some there comes a moment of a spiritual awakening and that is when the cocoon is woven. The caterpillar stops eating the leaves and releases all the painful emotions and memories through forgiveness and looks at the world with its people from a new point of view. At the point of completion, the butterfly emerges. And the caterpillars that continue to eat the old leaves? Through various ways, they will die only to be born again and repeat the same lessons not learned.
Mr. Magic of my life passed on and I cherish the experience I had with him. I have had that grand magic moment. Presently I live in the country with my son and his daughter. I love being a grandmother and would like to be closer to all of my grandchildren and great-grandchildren.. I garden and have an orchard and grape vines. In the harvest season I can. We also have chickens, rabbits, two dogs and a once in awhile cat.
Between school events, family and taking care of the land and animals, I write. I love the winter when I light my woodstove and stare into the fire. It becomes magic and I dream a dream. ~ |
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Along with my family, I moved around a lot within the borders of Texas.
Thus I learned to adapt to new communities and schools. My first earnings
as a little girl came from picking cotton near Winters, Texas. My
childhood was one of ups and downs. As a child I remember one of my most
treasured Christmas gifts – a toy typewriter. Perhaps I knew then that I
would eventually become a writer. Also as a child I had a dream of
traveling all over the world and would pour over travel brochures. After
leaving college, and while I was living in Houston, an opportunity came
which I seized. A small article appeared in one of the newspapers stating
that representatives of the U.S. State Department were recruiting for
overseas jobs. And of course I applied and was accepted. It was a dream
realized.