February 2010 / March 2010

Here we are venturing into our new decade, the feelings are reflected in the artwork for our cover this issue, from visionary artist, Jeff Haworth. This work reminds me of what it might look like inside of my physical vessel. At "Command Central" there I sit with my higher self both of us looking forward into the future of this journey navigating what lies ahead. I do not think that I could have found a more profound piece of art to express tending to my physical vessel.

Jeff Haworth is a 34 year-old visionary artists in every sense of the word. He was born in California's central valley, in a city called Visalia. Jeff, as he was growing up in the 80's, was a big fan of Star Wars and other themes that lead him to envision life other than what we know it to be in this physical plane. His knowing was, in the natural order of things we were not the only intelligent beings in the universe and that other civilizations existed throughout the far-flung cosmos. This belief lead Jeff to Ufology.

Can you imagine what it is like to awaken to the fact that something so real and natural could not be shared with many people as he was growing up? Jeff's journey in caring for himself became quite the challenge. He turned to drugs and alcohol to control the way he felt manifesting the problems that would eventually lead him to start his spiritual journey at age 17.

This journey started for Jeff, in a familiar way, through a sacred book called, The Urantia Book. "Finally my questions were answered and the beings of the universe began to reveal themselves, as well as the structure and administration of the universe." Slowly the seeds necessary for his later artwork, were being planted, as Jeff expressed it, "for later harvest."

After graduating high school and working odd jobs, Jeff was involved in an alcohol-related motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed from his waist down. Getting used to a life in a wheelchair was difficult at the age of twenty. Jeff often says that this incident "is the closest experience a human can have to dying and getting a new body." This was a profound experience for Jeff and would further shape and mold his consciousness to see less in the physical world and more in the spiritual.

As he prayed whole-heartedly he gave his life to God and was led to the desert in Arizona—to Sedona. Jeff sees Sedona like many who have visited and live there as a magical and mystical land with towering red rocks and strikingly beautiful views. He found himself part of a spiritual group called the Aquarian Concepts Community, now known as Global Community Communications Alliance. It was through his relationship with this peaceful spiritual family that his talents were brought forth.

Through digitally enhancing and manipulating images and photographs, beings began to appear on his computer screen. Using the information he connected with through The Urantia Book, Jeff instinctively knew he was unfolding something very special in his life while expanding and further refining and developing his digital artistry.

After spending six years in Arizona, Jeff decided to move back to California and experience his life and his digital art form anew. He now lives in Porterville, CA and volunteers as a drug and alcohol counselor while working with his art as a hobby.

Jeff has plans to attend college art classes to learn how to market, display and enhance his already wonderfully exciting artistic ideas.

I saw Jeff's creation Birth of Majeston and was interested for the cover of a previous issue. When I went to his website it was not operational, so I took a chance and emailed him to see if he would be willing to share his work with our readers. Happily, now Jeff's website www.reality-ize.com is home for over 300 images. Reality-ize is Jeff's vision in physical form "to awaken people."

Thank you, Jeff, for choosing in your life that which has supported you, no matter what this physical plane may believe, and thank you for your sharing of self.