Having been brought up in a fairly strict Christian church I left in my teens and ended up practising Paganism and some Occultism.
Here I discovered the practice of connecting with the spirit world. During one particularly deep connection I encountered Jesus. As I had rejected the Christian God as false this caused me some confusion.
However, being open minded and with an open heart I began to come to realise the reality of Christ outside of main stream church.
Although I began to engage again with churches, and even work within them, I still struggled with matching up what I experienced within them with my encounter with Christ. Until I became aware of the Celtic church of the 2nd - 8th centuries in Britain and northern Europe. Here I found an affinity with a Christ centred spirituality.
I began to learn and gradually to teach Celtic Christian spirituality. I joined a Celtic Christian Community (dispersed - www.aidanandhilda.org).
Later I discovered the Christian mystics spread throughout the ages, but particularly in the 12th - 14th centuries. This too flowed easily with me.
My Christ centred faith has 3 main influences, the Celtic, the mystic, and the Hebraic, as I also teach how to view the Christian faith from a Jewish perspective rather than a western Christian perspective.

Within all of this, both before and after I encountered Christ, I began to practice both spiritual and non spiritual meditation. Gradually I also began teaching this, and finally put much of what I was teaching into the book 'The Mystic Path of Meditation'.

I still struggle with much of the mainstream church and so run a ministry, Waymark Ministries, whose purpose is to 'create opportunities for people to engage with the message of the Judaic/Christian faith outside of mainstream church', for example we have a monthly discussion group in our local Costa Coffee shop, and I facilitate our local branch of 'Forest Church', an international venture (www.forestchurch.co.uk)