Weston’s Story
This week I wanted to talk to you about a very special encounter I had with a bishop in the Orthodox Catholic Church. Dr. Jolly works at the Whitaker Wellness Institute in Newport Beach, California and is the head of the hyperbaric oxygen (HBOT) department. I met him because a person on his staff, Bryan Ausburn who is also a priest in the Orthodox Catholic Church, performed my father’s funeral. I became friendly with Bryan as I very much wanted to talk to a priest about Weston and to gain the church’s understanding of what was happening. This was not a conversation I could start up casually after mass or in a confessional. Until Bryan I had never met a priest that I felt comfortable enough with to talk to about Weston. I think I mentioned before that I am Catholic and my children are also raised Catholic. When my oldest, Randal, graduates he will have gone through 14 years of Catholic schooling. There was a time in which Weston attended Catholic school and did receive his First Holy Communion and Reconciliation. Seeking the Church’s interpretation of what I was seeing and experiencing with Weston was very important to me.
Bryan was wonderful and very open. I know my dad sent him to us. How my oldest sister, Pilar, found Bryan was amazing; something we all, including Bryan, took as a sign that our paths were meant to cross.
Bryan suggested that I meet with his boss, who also happened to be a bishop in the Orthodox Church, and talk to him about Weston. He said that Dr. Jolly often saw people at the clinic for spiritual counseling. I had written Dr. Jolly and Bryan a letter detailing all the things that had been happening with Weston and poured my heart out. I asked him how this could be possible, and I was seeking assurance that it was truly something spiritual. Well, Dr. Jolly allayed all my fears and told me some incredible stories about the Vatican. I had no idea at the time but he was very good friends with Pope John Paul II. Seems Dr. Jolly had spent a lot of time at the Vatican and knew many of the professors, who also happened to be high-ranking priests in the church, at the university at the Vatican. We saw him a few times at his office and he always gave Weston these wonderful blessings for which I was very grateful. I felt like I was in accordance with my faith and what I was comfortable with having grown up in a typical (i.e., mass every Sunday and 12 years of Catholic education) Latin-American Catholic household. Before meeting Dr. Jolly I felt like I was living out on the fringes of my faith and what I had been taught growing up. It was this wonderful man who taught me the depth of God’s love and how little we understood as humans what God is capable of doing through us when we are willing to trust in Him.
After one visit, Dr. Jolly told me he was soon going to the Vatican to meet with his old friend, Pope John Paul II, as he was getting very sick and he wanted to see him one last time. He asked if he could bring Weston back anything and we made a date to see each other again when he returned. Upon his return I was very touched when he presented Weston with a beautiful glossy book about the Vatican and a medal of the Holy Family. This paled in comparison to my utter surprise when he told me he had spoken to Pope John Paul II about Weston! I couldn’t believe my ears! In all my life I would never have thought that my son’s story would be shared with the Pope, but yes it was true! Dr. Jolly said that the Pope sent Weston his blessings and they discussed him in detail. Unbelievable!
Sadly, Pope John Paul II died about six months after that visit. Weston has always had a very strong love for Pope John Paul II. He has a picture of him in his room. When he first got it he would often stare at it so lovingly and sometimes would hug it. Amazing…
Messages from Weston
Weston’s Words February 20, 2009
Voiced by Meg Lupin
It gets harder every week because my awareness becomes greater and there are so many things I need to tell you. I am feeling compelled to talk a little about passing judgments. The reason this seems so important is that there are so many children like me that are trying to come out. Their doctors and parents have labeled them as ADHD, autistic, explosive disorders, hyperactive, etc. When you live a linear world these things might be true. But the world is changing. It is changing very rapidly! When people see children or people misbehaving in public they should not be thinking that they are not raised well or there is something wrong with them. The only thing wrong is the energy in the situation is not compatible with the person. A trigger has happened for that person that has made them revert back to a situation that needs to be healed or they are being a mirror for someone else to experience healing.
Children with so called “special needs” are really here to get us to think outside of the box. They are perfect just the way they are! This doesn’t mean that we don’t try to help them, but with acceptance and not desperation a true healing can take place. Things are not always as they appear. Children that cannot speak are really speaking very loudly with their hearts. I hear them all of the time. We are trying to help everyone realize that we are one! We are trying to get people to operate from their hearts. This is essential! There would be true contentment if we all did this. I told Meg, “I don’t want to speak with my mouth because you can tell lies. Why doesn’t everyone else learn to speak like me?” I was not kidding. Take deep breaths before you speak and enter into your heart. Then everything you say will be with love and there will be no judgments! Remember we are one!
May Peace Rest in Your Heart,
Weston
Divine Providence
I wanted to welcome Srimati Shanti Mataji of the Divine Life Church in Baltimore, Maryland. She recently contacted me as she had read one of Meg Blackburn’s book in which Weston was featured. She requested permission to include some of Weston’s quotes. She writes, “I have been deeply touched by Weston's wisdom and the way he expresses himself. The church on whose behalf I want to use Weston's words is universal in its outlook and very much at home with the truths expressed by Weston.”