IAAP Newsletter:The Unified Field
2008 Second Issue
Joe Antell, Sr.
A Profile of Attunement - The Life of Joe Antell, Sr.
Joe was born in Lynn, MA on August 26, 1923 and will be celebrating his 85th birthday this year. He experienced a number of adventures in his early years including the depression of the 1920s, and the separation of his parents resulting in a sobering time in a Catholic orphanage with his older brother, Jim. Joe recalls one day going to confession and temerariously telling the priest that he didn't commit any sins that week. The priest did not believe him and gave him punishment and repentance anyway. This experience changed Joe's view of spirituality forever.
Joe fought in World War II, serving in the Army Air Force in Australia and the Philippines on the island of Leyte. He drove heavy equipment including cranes and trucks and loaded bombs onto airplanes. He experienced some harrowing times when Japanese airplanes strafed and bombed his airbase. It brought him closer to his "Maker" and to the realization to not take life so seriously.
After the war Joe became a tool and dye maker, working many years as a foreman in a shoe machinery manufacturing plant in Lynn, MA. He married Ruth in 1947 and fathered three children-Donna, Joseph and Bob. He heard about Attunement in 1965 and following his first Attunement experience, knew that this was something he would share for the rest of his life. Over the next 36 years Joe lived at Green Pastures, a New England intentional community, where he gladly handled many jobs from planting and maintaining a two hundred fruit-tree orchard to coordinating the building of a new kitchen and dining room facility. Through it all he shared Attunement with any and all who were interested. People from near and far came to Green Pastures to share Attunement and spend time with him.
I first met Joe when I married his daughter, Donna, in February 1977. I recall him as being quiet with a steady, powerful presence and a light-hearted man with considerable depth to him. It was my great fortune, but as yet unknown to me, that I had married into Attunement via the Antell family. As my experience and understanding in Attunement grew, so did the stories that I heard about Joe and his Attunement work. My Attunement mentor, Roger de Winton, often mentioned his appreciation for Joe's steady, faithful Attunement service.
Joe moved from New England to his own home in Gladstone, MO in August, 2003 to live near Donna and me. Joe hit the ground running, enthusiastically participating in various Attunement activities from Attunement classes and groups to being an anchor for the local radiation team that shares long-distance Attunement with all who request assistance. His steady presence and years of wisdom are obvious to everyone when he speaks. He continues to share Attunement in his home where he has a room set aside for sharing Energy work (Attunement and Reiki). He also participates in an Energy Healing group at the local Unity Church.
For me Joe has been an outstanding example of how a man might grow older with grace and understanding while at the same time continuing to serve, by first serving Being and then serving the larger world. I think of him as one of my spiritual and Attunement mentors as well as my father-in-law. I know that I am the lucky one to have such a fine example of real manhood in my life. His radiation is gentle and strong, extra fine like a vintage wine, always available, safe, caring and true to Being and the spirit of Love. I look forward to sharing many more Attunements with Joe in the days ahead.
Thank you, Joe.
— CJ
Deah Robinson
With or Without Glasses
When I was 13 years old and a freshman in high school, I was the only popular kid who wore glasses. It turned out to be such a terrible insecurity for me that, between classes, I would take them off and walk through the halls without them. The only problem with this is that I am almost legally blind, and in my attempts to look cool, I often ran into people and lockers. Four months later, I got contacts and I still didn't feel like I fit in. I have spent most of my adult life looking for "the answer," "the secret," that "thing" that would "fix" it all, something that would make me feel like my abnormalities were, in fact, normal, valued and special.
I took the five-month Attunement Practitioner course with hopes that I would gain amazing perception and see auras. To my surprise, during the first weekend, I realized that gaining perception was only a small piece of Attunement. I came to understand that Attunement was not only a spiritual practice, but a journey of self discovery. While learning Attunement techniques, I noticed that I was becoming frustrated with myself because I wasn't feeling anything. I kind of gave up on myself being a "real" Attunement practitioner and just started enjoying the class and the process. I became close to several classmates and watched Attunement in their everyday lives. I watched a classmate raise her son with the utmost patience and love, and witnessed other classmates work with other people in their lives the same way. As I saw this happening in my fellow classmates, I began seeing change happening in myself as well. I started looking at flowers in a different way, being in awe of their individual beauty. I became more aware of times when I was out of the Attunement flow. People started commenting about there being something "different" about me. During the course, I even got my dream job. This is something that I had been pursuing for two years. Right before the last weekend of the five-month course, a breakthrough came when I released a compulsive habit that haunted me for over 22 years. It was nothing short of a miracle.
During our closing ceremony, every single classmate spoke about the tremendous effect that Attunement had on their lives. In that moment of reflection, I thought to myself, "So what? I am not going to open an Attunement practice or practice full time. So what? I can't see auras. So what?" Instead, I got "the secret," that "thing" for which I had been searching for so long: Self-love and connectedness with Being. Attunement had a transformational effect on my life.
— DR
Judy Ann Greene
A Day of Joining: A Response to the AnnualIAAP Attunement Event
Attunement has become a natural way of uncovering how I am at one with what is real. This is not something I constantly feel throughout the day, though. There is often the need for connection with others and for validation. In my experience, validation often comes with synchronicity - hearing and/or seeing the needed thing at the right time. The Attunement Event brought a great deal of this. Throughout the entire day, I found connection, received validation, and also found answers for certain observations and questions that run very deep inside me.
A little over a month ago, my birthmother passed away. The unexpected responsibility of handling physical business (her funeral arrangements, personal belongings, etc.) and finding myself on a pathless journey through grief brought me to a greater awareness of both form and Being. There was an instinctive opening to Love and to its clarifying radiation; a natural "drawing down" of its energy into form, and a "drawing up" of my Being's radiance into boundless oneness. At the Attunement Event, I heard Chris Jorgensen say that Being is undimensional. This fit exactly with my sense of the reality of Attunement.
Since connecting with my birthmother when I was 50, I found many similarities in the patterns of our lives, such as, life situations, attitudes, and health. Most people would say this is silly or uncanny. While there is certainly a "wow factor," I felt a strong sense of it being a very natural thing. However, I was having difficulty connecting some dots. How could her patterns show up in me from early childhood into middle age? Some of the patterns I welcome; some I hope to change. Since my birthmother's passing, these questions and issues have become urgent. I have no personal friends who share my circumstances, and so I often feel adrift, wondering if my perceptions are sound and where they might lead. At the Attunement Event, there was a session about bloodlines and life patterns carried through DNA. We were shown a way to clear patterns and emotional blocks in our fields. I have long known that the only way to be free of something is to meet it and go through it. This is easier said than done, so I look for all the support I can get. At the end of the session, Gary Ragan said, "Our issues are our cures." As we took our break, I sat there taking in the connection, validation, and, most "wonder-full" of all, the experience of knowing I was where I was supposed to be to hear the needed thing at the right time.
— JG
