Church of Divine Man

Lewis S. Bostwick (1918-1995), Founder of BPI:

Over twenty years ago, we started the process of teaching people how to find an altered state of consciousness where there was an opening into a group of new worlds that very few people ever enter.

Part of all the problem with psychic phenomenon and spiritual phenomenon is that the body does not know how to handle psychic energy, unless you change the communication or the vibrations between you the spirit and you the body. So I decided to teach people how to find this space. At the time, it was illegal for someone to use this psychic space professionally without being a minister—or a recognized authority, and there were not recognized authorities out there. The only recognized authority was the scientific world of the psychiatrists and medical doctors. The world of spirit was either in the Pentecostal Church or the Spiritualist Churches.

But all of these churches had opened up the New Testament into a space of love, love, love. And when you put any kind of energy between body and spirit, the spiritual communication with the god of one’s heart does not work. This communication will not work until the body has the right impetus to receive the right type of communication on the right wavelength. Now very amusingly, in the legal world it is perfectly all right for a minister to be a psychic and to communicate with the spirit of Jesus and God. Otherwise you could be put in jail.

Because we are able to say hello to spirit in another human being, we must have a church and be responsible to the god of our hearts. This is what the sanctuary of the Church of Divine Man is all about. It is necessary to be well-grounded and versed in the laws that govern healing, spiritual communication, and to operate a church within a society. Our church was also held open to those professional psychics who had no one to protect them.

We do not communicate with dead bodies. They waste away and back into dust. But we do communicate with spirit from the very beginning as it enters into agreement with the pregnant mother, until we bury him or her. What a great space. What a great day!

Amazing how many people out there are frightened of this space. And if you resist becoming spirit, you are going to be a good one. For what you resist you become.

(Originally printed in Psychic Reader, September 2001, Vol. 26, No. 9)