I remember the day as if it were yesterday that I met spiritual guidance. I was five years old and I was given a message by a female Being. She brought her face over my right shoulder and it left an impression that came from another world almost as if one would press their face against silk or fabric. I actually saw her, felt her, and heard her voice.

     I went and did exactly what she said and that was the first time that I had a conscious memory of receiving messages from another plane. Following the advice of this being was what I needed to do, because it helped someone. This, of course, changed and colored my life. Even though I was young, I was now touched. Later on when my life developed I never forgot these special moments and by now many more had taken place. I always knew and felt these spiritual beings were around me. I became fascinated with the other side, past lives, and the universe.

     Life as a teenager brought swarms of creative expression and my desire to bring forth these feelings into the art that I was making. During this time I was taking a psycometry class and my teacher stated one evening during class, "Sharyl, I'd like to talk with your spirit guides." I replied with an "okay," and then she guided me to a trance space. I saw two beings male and female enter my energetic field, come through me and speak. The feeling was of complete peace and love that was beyond words. Another seed had been planted. It was not until many years later that I began studying with Torah--channeled by Shawn Randall--at the Center for Personal Transformation. I stayed in that loving cocoon of energy and friendship with both physicals and spirit for 10 years. I was a commercial photographer living in Los Angeles at the time and was studying channeling, metaphysics, and healing.

     And so it is to this very day that I am still fascinated by the unseen, the mystical other, and the creative. The visible and invisible, and how they continuously play and love together, is my chosen path of life. It is the path that I have walked from the day of being five when the seed was planted. My life's work has been to reprogram myself, to embrace myself as a channel, to heal myself, and extend that through artistic beauty for others to respond to.