If you choose to engage professional, metaphysical consultative time, talking with me.... whatever your reason(s) may be for doing so.... and given that you are genuine, earnest and courageous within the discourse of our conversation.... and should honestly ascertain at our time's conclusion; that your time with me was not well accomplished....
Then no $pending will be required.

    Additionally.... I think a brief dissertation / personal bio would be in order; if I may please....
    On occasion I am asked, have been accused / admonished.... given that I am technically, ministerial clergy who is also incorporated.... and who does accomplish, just to remark.... my fair share of pro bono ministerial application. I also incur considerable personal expense and investment of time within my street ministries' various applications.
" How is it that I charge money for my time “ ?
“ Is not spiritual rendering of any sort from any type of clergy supposed to be free “ ?

    Indeed, a minister I am.
Fathomed deeply within my being, my sensitivities and responsiveness and my philosophy and creed.... this avocation has always resided and I keep tremendous love for it.... though I will also say that I have never felt entirely comfortable with the entitlement of, " Reverend " preceding my name.
    So many people have interpreted this entitlement incorrectly as it applies to me.... and assume or surmise erroneously in my regard.
Most certainly.... I am not what would be considered a traditional ministerial entity. I am not at all religious in spiritual orientation, mindset, affiliation or practice. There are those that would more readily refer to me as, Renegade > rather than > Minister.
Perhaps I am both. << Right On.
I myself would sooner self define metaphysically as, " Ronin “ which in today's culture denotes a " free thinker “.
Within a Bushido Warrior's Code and within both Samurai and Shogun history and lore, wherein the term, " Ronin " originates.... " Ronin " is an entitlement of both >> Personage & Path.... which is defined to mean....
" A warrior or priest without confederation or master “.

    Most certainly.... I have not led a saintly life. Not by any stretch of the most outlandish imagination would the phrase, “ saintly life “ be applicable to this life which has been and is my own.... this incarnation around.
The truth to tell is that there was a time long past in my life when, I was quite a forlorned individual.
Difficult Karma, poorly navigated and subsequently....
Dharma that was disadvantageously established.

    Time furthermore.... within which I subsisted in eyeball deep, danker than dank / ranker than rank.... berserk murk & dire mire.
Some of my own making.... most of it not.... though here again the Karma / Dharma / Karma rhythmic factors of Spirit and Life must be considered.
Years of hardship.... vile hardships. Injustice, malevolence, void and humiliation had befallen upon me. Everything I lost.
Narely able to draw breath....
So nearly not to give a damn if I did draw breath again ever.... was I.

    My point in all of this telling is that.... I have been deep in.

For the vast most part.... I have lived what I teach.

    Were it not for my love of Spirit and Metaphysics and Magick and Sword....
and the Artfulness of Empathy and the Artfulness of Stalwartness....
who knows what eldritch horror might have devoured and issued epitaph for,
Jordan Xavier Rand????

PLEASE NOTE: With regard to me being a person of empathic ability....
meaning that I am “ sensitive and responsive “ to “ VIBE “.... prominently so in fact.
Subsequently>> I am able to align myself spiritually / emotionally / and mentally with a given person or persons and within their related life scenarios..... thusly becoming able to feel, to assess, to respond.... to “ SEE “ in a fashion within personality, persuasion and locale.

    Being as predisposed empathically as I am has been both Blessing and Curse in my life. Angst, anguish, sorrow, futility.... bizarre torments, humiliations >>>>
Attention / Intention / Enlightenment / Attunement / Attainment / Joy.... etc.... etc... etc.... All of these matrixes of assemblage , I know so very well, .... and it is true to say that this “ sensitive / responsive “ empathic ability within me.... thrives more vibrantly than ever.... and actually is one of the primary factors that had propelled me toward this ministerial / metaphysical avocation some seventeen years ago.... though little did I realize at that time..... that I had actually been construed and guided upon this ministerial / metaphysical path since incarnation into this particular life.... much less.... the arduousness or ferociousness of the path I was about to undertake.... and the many times I would have to fight for my life and and my soul upon it.... nor the brilliance or the significance "Shining"....
did I see then.... of the education I was about to receive.

    It is also most appropriate to explain I muse.... as I consider the conclusion of this telling....
Ultimately, I have been richly and extraordinarily Blessed.... as to have been so deathly hallow challenged & opportuned by Spirit.... and so proclaimed by my own Higher Self so to speak.... to have been gifted with no choice.... but to sojourn upon the personal thoroughfare just aforementioned.
A chance to have a chance I did procure....
As I contemplate what few words I might underwrite to tell of the enigmatic awareness, metaphysical adventures and knowledge that have been undertaken and ascertained therein and thereabout these times in my life's history.... within this treatise,
I can affirm no words, other than to say....
that my relationship with Spirit is vivid and that it thrives.

    Tis true that for one's deepest truth.... there will never be words to adequately tell.
Truth is.... that there is no path I would not negotiate.... to hold SoulBound.... what I keep within my own Soul and my own Awareness and Intelligence and Might.... this evening as I write these words.... and forever more.
So intrinsic it all is, is it not.... how things can evolve into flux?

    A lifetime ago all of this was.... ( fifty-seven years of age I am at the time of this, 12/3/2011, covenant re-writing / finesse ) though it does remain true to this night.... that there hover still.... ghostly reverberations and painful recapitulations that call upon my Attention and my Intention and my Application.
Still there remain imbalances to align.
Code & Honor & Personal Empowerment do not allow for circumvention.

    Here and Now and in Fact.... Ministerial work is an agenda that I endeavor within and it is a professional and inter-social function I perform.
I do so uniquely and poignantly.
The entitlements of, " Minister " and " Reverend " and “ Pastoral Counselor “ are the professional and legal entitlements that my educational institution and its certifying ministerial guild have bestowed upon me ( I am so honored by this.... it is rather like the bestowment of knighthood ) and still more so to the point.... " REVERENTLY " is how I hold.... the spiritual pilgrimage we call "Life" to be.
Without a single doubt about it, I assure you.

    So as the facts of this matter stipulate....
I am an independent, eclectic thinking / proactive.... non-denominational, inter-faith, metaphysical minister. I have been legally ordained and chartered since 1995 as such by the; International Metaphysical Ministry™, which is provided for within the U.S. Constitution's first amendment assurance and safeguard of spiritual liberty.

    The International Metaphysical Ministry™ has been established as a legal, metaphysical / spiritual / educational / ministerial entity for over fifty years. Fountainheaded in Sedona, Arizona; USA.... the International Metaphysical Ministry™, in alliance with the University of Metaphysics and the University of Sedona.... nobly embodies a worldwide association of independent metaphysical students, teachers and clergy that are dedicated to the practice of fundamental metaphysical principals, the teaching of them....
and to the magnificent exploration of the Divine Metaphysical Extravaganza that is unique to each and every human being!

    In the regard of my own ministerial gainfulness, so to speak.... there is no specific church or religion or parent body / entity that issues spiritual creed / philosophy or mandate to me. Subsequently, there is no institution that presents / provides financial sustenance / compensation. Therefore; I like any other human being.... like any other person of ingenuity, endeavor, enterprise or profession; not unlike any religious institution on this planet for that matter.... am infrastructured and underwritten by fiscal matrix.
SPIRIT/ MIND / BODY / ECONOMICS >>>>

                   Thank you for your kind Attention.
                   Many Blessings & Good Fortunes to all....

Rev. Jordan Xavier Rand