About the Founder | About u2U | About u2U-niverse
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
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About the Founder: Joy Ridgway
So began my first prayer.
I was a terrified five year old who knew she'd get sent to the principal's office if she was missing any part of her Roman Catholic uniform. School policy.
Eyes clenched shut. Hands fervently begged. Would God's Mom take notice?
Eyes slowly opened...there was the tie...laid neatly across my toes. Whoa. Where'd it come from?
I was in tears. Tremendous sorrow. Pain.
I sat outside, looking over the valley...purple, pink and gold light streaming across the valley floor...Catskill mountains rising beyond the horizon...
"Why? Why? Why all this pain?" I sobbed over and over.
Mind flashed back to a NYTimes article I remembered reading at age six. Something called meditation...being in a space of no thought.
"Try that," something within suggested.
Eyes closed. Total surrender. Transformation.
Sorrow gone...total blissfulness and expansiveness...where'd Joy go? "I" was the sunset and this body and the mountains and valley..."I" filled up all of space.
Whoa. What happened?
Walked quietly into my parents' room, heart-pounding.
"Mom...mom?"
She stirred awake, wondering why I was standing there.
"Mom, I feel scared. God asked me to do something really big."
Silence.
"What's God asking you to do?"
"I don't know yet...but I feel scared."
More silence.
My mom then gave the perfect answer for me at the time. "Well, if God's asking you to do something big, He surely wouldn't ask you to do it alone. He'll be there to help you."
That made total sense to me. I went back to sleep, satisfied.
The stark clarity and intense memory of that moment stayed etched inside of me. It would be a vibrational resonance that would animate my heart time and time again.
High school was an intense time spent engrossed in calculus, fractal theory, chaos theory...biology, then genetics, then chemistry, then physics...ever deeper and deeper into the 'heart of matter,' on the notion that I'd finally 'pop out the other side' and achieve an understanding that would put an end to this mad seeking. I continued the search in college, diving into quantum mechanical theory and doing research in a laser lab. Playing with the elusive and mind-boggling properties of Light. I was restless, yet intensely buoyant and joyful as I followed Heart through one discipline after another.
I finally abandoned the holy grail of scientific knowledge when it became apparent to me one day that Science could not give me the kinds of answers I sought.
I sought one and one thing only- to have the closest possible relationship with God that a human being could have.
I became involved with an esoteric Christian spiritual group who pointed me to Love, time and time again. I began to expand into incredible experiences without seeking the experiences themselves. They just occurred naturally as a result of aligning with Love. I began to 'know' things simply by touching objects, I started to be able to 'travel' the circulatory/skeletal/muscular systems of people's bodies, people began coming to me asking questions about life...it all seemed strange and wonderful and quite amazing.
Graduation.
I woke up one day knowing who my future husband would be. A man I had never even met in person.
We met face to face at a business conference. He proposed to me within 45 minutes. I said yes. And so began the journey down the rabbithole...
My whole world as I knew it, began to turn upside down.
"Umm...Joy."
"Sister Joy...please come to the front of the church."
I walked up, wondering what was going on.
The preacher continued, "My wife's going to put her hands on your stomach, and I'm going to ask God to bless your womb. God blesses us in many different ways, and one of those ways is with children. Children can come unexpectedly."
Three days later, we discovered I was pregnant with our first child.
Shortly before the birth, three different people came to me and said, 'You know, if the baby is a boy, you should really consider naming him Nathan.'
Nathan was born shortly after.
An 'intuitive' walked up to me. "You know why he's hugging her, don't you?"
"Huh?"
"Your daughter...your know why your son's hugging his baby sister, right?"
"I don't the gender...we're keeping it a surprise."
"Whoops! Didn't mean to spoil the fun! Anyway, the three of you have travelled together lifetime after lifetime. Your very close to each other, closer than you know."
"Oh...thank you. Ok...."
A couple months later, my daughter was born. We named her 'Sukhavati,' 'Sukhi' for short. 'Pure land of bliss.'
About u2U
About u2U-niverse
u2U was birthed out of the asking of millions.
One night, my husband and I were watching a DVD performance of his favorite band, ‘Rush.’
All of a sudden, ‘Whiz BANG!’
I felt an electric lightning bolt strike the top of my head and electrify my body all the way down to the soles of my feet.
Instant download of vision and inspiration.
What began to unfold from that moment was a dynamic vision coupled with a deeeeeep inner Knowing...
A powerful blue-light River of Energy flowed in one side of the body, and out the other.
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...Human consciousness is shifting on a mass level. The move from dualistic/judgmental perception is shifting to a joyful embracing of the infinite.
We’re giving ourselves permission to fully embrace and celebrate this Life experience.
Instead of trying to control everything and burning ourselves out in the process, we’re feeling this massive tidal wave of expanded consciousness and awareness- unstoppably magnificent! And with this shift comes the call for teachers- you and I- who can assist people’s minds in understanding the expansion that they have already embraced spiritually.
“Come on in, the water’s fine! Life is actually totally fun and joyful if you give yourself permission to live that way. Go with the flow and stop worrying! The universe won’t stop running itself…”
We teach the lesson that we most benefit from learning, right? Lol…
Right now, I am led to create an online spiritual portal. A website. The focus? To create a community centered on each individual embracing their entire divinity, and to allow the torrential rush of joy that accompanies the full embrace of Life.
Let’s Celebrate, You and I. Nothing’s broken. All is well.
Won’t you join your voice with ours…and let’s rediscover our lives all over again…from the eyes of the Divine.
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