How I Discovered a New World Within

For over three decades I had been in the advertising and commercial film industry working with the talented, rich and famous. At the end of this, I thought I could disappear into quiet. I began my Madison Avenue advertising career in the heyday of advertising in the mid-60's, last century, at the top of the ad game, Young & Rubicam. Y&R had the top accounts, creativity and billing. It was a great place to work; if your family could initially afford to send you there (their starting salaries reflected their entry value). After a few restless years of changing departments four times we both (Y&R and I) finally realized corporate America was not the right fit for me and I went back to NYU film school and jumped to the other side: commercial film production. I was destined to keep working with the talented, rich and famous. Fate continued to linked me with some of the most talented commercial and feature film directors in the world; the likes of Ridley and Tony Scott and George Lucas. The Scott brothers and I, along with many multi-talented people, founded Fairbanks Films and that company took over the commercial film production advertising world in short order producing such famous TV commercials as the "1984 Apple Computer" spot that launched cyber technology into the world. Then the Lucas films people decided they wanted to get into the advertising game. And why not? After the motion film industry, the advertising business was making as much money as anybody. So over to Lucas I went with all the inventive, digital technology at hand. It's fair to say, we taught the advertising world digital wizardry, even though others jumped on quickly. It was great fun being the director of marketing of the commercial division teaching the ad world how they could bring any image to the screen, if only they had enough money and time. We changed the look and abilities of commercial film forever producing thousands of spots worldwide. Many of these spots became household icons. During my three decades, I got to know the planet up close and personal and it was more than anyone could ask out of career! So I thought when it came time to retire I surely would be ready for peace and quiet. Wrong...

If you are in the film business, you get to know California really well. Or at least I thought I did. The weather, locations, studios and crews made California an almost MUST on any production schedule. Only strikes and cheap clients would prevent you from shooting in California. Fairbanks Films was my finishing school in southern California and the Lucas organization completed northern California. George Lucas preferred the north over the south (for reasons we won't get into).

While commuting to northern California from New York City my entire time with Industrial Light & Magic Commercials/Lucasfilms, I often took advantage of the natural wonders this part of the world has to offer. One of my most memorable trips was driving to the top of Mount Shasta, just south of the Oregon border. Mount Shasta is part of a dramatic volcano mountain range that snakes its way north. The size and grandeur of this mother of mountains was amazing; you could see it from 100 miles away. We had nothing like it on the East coast. And I thought enjoying its wondrous size and beauty was enough at the time. I would later learn otherwise... Ten years later I would return 'retired' for another purpose entirely...

Some say as we grow older and get closer to leaving, some become more spiritual, women become more masculine and men more feminine, or something like that. Well, anyway after some medical mishaps and 'enough is enough' syndrome, I did leave film and advertising. I mean what else was I going to do, produce another commercial? The last spot we did was the biggest commercial ever created for Ford motor company (90 days of shooting all over the world, the largest budget ever, aired all over the world; this was the perfect swan song. Did I need another cue? No! And there was this curious notion that something inside of me was awakening... Something else was next...

My mother was American Indian descended and my father Irish. My father's Celtic grandmother, my great grandmother, was a back woods Alabama healer. I call it my "I" and "I" links (Irish & Indian, both known for native healing). I remember sitting by great grandmother's bedside as a young child listening to her stories of her healing potions and how people would walk for days to get to her for "a healing."

She knew how to pick herbs from the forest floor and turn pine tree sap into a soothing medicine. So I imagined this ability was also in my DNA. And it was.

Filmmakers are often multi-faceted people and while I was working with one of my film directors on a project I developed a cold and shared my family's healing background. My director-friend immediately suggested that I see his alternative medical doctor named Dr. Herbert Fill. This filmmaker knew I was at the end of my film career and there was more to cure than a cold. Dr. Fill was a rare mix of psychiatry, acupuncture and homeopathic remedies, and commissioner of mental health in the city administration; all this in a Park Avenue office. It was not long before the patient became the student of alternative medicine under Dr. Fill. This was my transition from advertising into the "healing arts."

Once my transition, or should I say, my transformation began it went fairly quickly. After a couple of years of studying under Dr. Fill, I easily moved into energy therapy training called Reiki and Light Ascension; and became certified in these. These new alternative medical worlds introduced me to an entirely new community of people not associated with advertising or film. I began to know this was not going to be the beginning of a quiet retirement but a reinvention of self.

Fasten your seat belts and your belief systems, the next segment of my life takes me and you into other dimensions, not unlike the worlds George Lucas brought to the silver screen... Maybe that's the reason my career included that... To better prepare me for what was about to come... Anyhow it felt extraordinary and natural what was about to come next...

Some of the next stops on my transformation train (away from retirement) took me to a sacred journey to Egypt connecting with higher beings in the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid; considering working with New York Times bestselling author Neale Donald Walsh of the "Conversations with God" books, and beginning to connect with higher beings myself. If George Lucas could imagine others worlds that gave us hope and people like Neale Donald Walsh could connect with God, why wasn't it possible for me or you to be/do something similar?

Even if I could not always accept the messenger, could I listen to the message and see it could improve my life or the lives of others. Obviously, there are the millions of people worldwide who read the above books and experience messages from other dimensions through films and are gaining something. Their numbers seem to be increasing daily. Something was shifting not only within me, but others, and the world. Were we beginning to realize, we are not the only ones here? That our planet, our galaxy and universe are more diverse than we ever imagined.

Through several years of personal processing work, and working with others who were already connecting, I began to trust and know this was not the only frequency/dimension of existence (Einstein and string theory physicist had already proven this). Now I would begin to connect with these higher frequencies myself, along with many others. Ok, I want to be the first to acknowledge this is the tricky part for most of us. I, too, come from a world that says, "If you cannot show me, it does not exist." Some people's minds simply will not be able to accept or believe this story from this point on. For those who know that's cool. But let's accept those you cannot.For those who cannot accept what is being said, simply see it as fiction (the mind believes, the heart knows) and see if fiction can bring you a helpful message (much good fiction is based upon fact). Now having said this, let's continue...

Ten years after my first journey to Mount Shasta, I return this transformed, not truly retired person, with a lot of hard core business experience behind me. I have not been a monk living in cave, for sure. I'd joined with other like-minded people on a sacred journey to Mt. Shasta (which is now considered one of the most powerful spiritual spots on Earth). We were there to serve as proxies for humanity to perform specific rituals on the mountain to assist the planet and all us to move into higher levels of awareness. We would heal some wounded aspects within ourselves that allowed us to connect with a higher dimensional civilization inside our planet that co-exist with us and wishes to join together in the future. Where was George Lucas now?

So when you get ready to retire, watch out! You never know what fate has in store for you. It may not be a job at Burger King.



Phillip Elton Collins is an ex-journalist, ad man and author and cofounder of The Angel News Network, New York & Los Angeles; and The Modern Day Mystery School, Ft. Lauderdale. His book "Coming Home to Lemuria, An Ascension Adventure Story," continues this story. PhillipECollins@aol.com; cell phone: 917-863-9184. Visit his site at http://theangelnewsnetwork.com.




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