Many years ago, after a long series of personal struggles and horrendous heartache, I began to experience God's presence in my life and my life improved dramatically. I believe God wants us to have our own personal tie to Him, to benefit from His direct guidance and love. For the last sixteen years, as founder and director of the Sedona Intensive, I have dedicated myself to helping people achieve this goal. Now, in this book, I offer my thoughts and ideas to you.

The centerpiece of my recent work is a concept I call the new language. The new language is God's mother tongue, the way God speaks to us in a nonverbal way through coincidences, synchronicities, angel murmurs, thought impressions, telepathy, signs and wonders, and other manifestations. God has been speaking to us in this symbolic language since the time of Abraham and Moses, but in the march of progress and the rise of science, technology, and institutional religion, we have lost our sense of the profound mystery of divine intervention.

In the work I do with clients who come to see me in the spectacular Red Rocks, I have been trying to resurrect the new language. My hunch is that the new language is the way we can deal with the dissonance we feel as we seek true spirituality. While mainstream religion most assuredly has its place, among my clients I find a surge of longing to reclaim personal power and remove the intermediaries who have stood between God and us as gatekeepers of our spirituality. My motto is "Let the power pass from the few to the many." The key to having direct access to God is improving our communication skills. If prayer is about talking to God, the new language is a divine answering system.

The new language is by no means all I teach in Sedona in my one-on-one personal-growth program. I focus on helping individuals clear away the static of negative emotions and difficult childhoods that keep us from hearing God's voice. I hope to take you by the hand and walk you though a process of clearing that I use in my work with the exercises, anecdotes, and practical instruction I provide in these pages. Clearing helps to heighten our reception of the new language by releasing us from the past, and centering us in the present, with increased awareness.

In this book, which is more than an exercise and instruction manual, I have tried to offer what has worked for me and hundreds of men and women whose lives have been transformed at the Sedona Intensive. James Redfield, a graduate of the Sedona Intensive, stimulated the imagination of millions of readers worldwide in his bestseller, The Celestine Prophecy, which he wrote after his trip to Sedona. How was he moved to write such a book? I will share this and more with you.

As you strive to break free of the limits you've set for yourself, and embrace what God has in mind for your life, remember that He is all around you with road signs of encouragement when you lose your way. What is most reassuring to me is that there are no calendars and clocks for enlightenment. The lightbulb goes on when you are ready to see what God is trying to show you and to hear His voice in the new language.

Copyright © 2003 by Albert Clayton Gaulden