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John Beaudin – President and Program Director of What’s Invisible

The conscious journey, for me, started by reading “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale. I was only twelve then. Considered an easy read with a hard execution, the book changed the way I looked at life. I found myself literally looking at the center of the pie from a different angle. Growing up in the seventies when belts were used for more than positioning pants I had my fair share of tough sojourns as a kid. I was sensitive, extremely afraid of the dark and had an insanely wild imagination. I saw things that were not there and felt too much but used books to self medicate. Coming from a long line of alcoholics I thought it best to draw a line in the sand on what should make me high. I chose knowledge.

As a teenager my inspiration continued with Viktor Frankl, the Holocaust survivor who would not let the enemy control his mind or soul. His books served as an anthem for a kid who didn’t know how to believe in something.

Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing was also a big early influence. His book The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, written in 1960, the year I was born, was up to that point in my life the best thing I’d ever read. It was not until a bunch of bad break-ups though that I actually got serious about spirituality. Sure, I was into religion, even bible prophecy for a few years but I only came alive when true spiritual practice came into my life in the mid-eighties. It was around the same time that I started a 42 hour-a-week New Age radio show in 1986 and that, along with the lessons, lead me to this website. I’ve been a broadcaster for 30 years but this is the stuff that makes me feel alive. I’m very proud to be able to combine both of my loves with our new Spiritual/New-Age music radio station, ‘What’s Invisible.’ I hope you enjoy it and thanks for taking the time to read my story. – by John Beaudin