Eddy Ankrett - Founder of The Good Spirit Foundation
Eddy’s Story
At the age of 48 I thought life was good, Married, Managing Director of a successful Estate Agency Business, and a wonderful son aged 26.
Suddenly life spun out of my control when one of my staff (Stephine Slater ) was kidnapped and as Managing Director I felt I had this lovely girls life in my hands. It took 8 days of massive stress and amazingly with the help of the police, she came back alive, BUT psychologically the damage was done to me, worrying about the poor girl not coming back alive. Real stress, where on 3 occasions I could not speak due to the emotion of it all. It then took time to catch Michael Sam’s who also had murdered another girl in Leeds. So of course, I felt I could not carry on with Estate Agency which I loved, and left. Now after all I had been through NO JOB.
Then 6 months later my son, Mark, who had a lifetime struggle with Spina Bifida, suddenly developed a high brain hernia and after a brave fight, died. Wow !!! and now this, how do I cope and how do you deal with losing your 26-year-old love of your life?
And then if this was not enough, When I opened up all my inner insecurities and exposed the inner me, I then went through a divorce, now finding myself truly alone.
To say the least I went down a real personal black hole and found it so hard to be positive (I had lived my life by the motto “If you believe you can, you can, if you believe you can’t, you can’t“) and I was in a real dark place.
Time went on and I tried psychoanalysis, counselling, hypnotherapists, etc etc and nothing seemed to help, until one day I met a lady who I think was a Clairvoyant, and she said to me, I can see this good aura all around your head, and I can see there are 2 spirits with you, I of course said don’t be daft, but she said I was a good spirit and they were with me, I assumed it was my son and my mother. I got home and thought…. “Do you know???, it does not matter if I am the only person in the world who believes it and it makes me feel better, then I am going to believe it. And suddenly I found a way of dealing with my dark past, My poor son, and life. From that moment, I felt good to believe that my mom and my son are with me all the time in Spirit and are living life with me.
Then the epiphany happened …….. One night, never remembering any of my dreams. In the middle of the night, I had this white flash and a voice saying “Go tell people, go tell people” I woke up in the morning told my wife, and said “Tell people what???” And then I found my life’s answer to my religious journey.
I wrote the words below, which is my heart on a piece of paper, and in it I found, It is not religion that is the core of life it is being a Good Spirit, and I now completely believe that the spirit that connects us all, and is with us 24 X 7, is if you want to use the word GOD!!!. I now believe it is just a word, and the true meaning is, each and every persons a “Good Spirit” and that is GOD.
And that is why I have started the Good Spirit Foundation to connect us all, and it is my belief that if we all believed in the Good Spirit, then that is the best foundation to life and would help everyone, be better, act better and just be good.
Every time you connect with anyone, you will find a spirit connecting you, and that spirit, to use the word everybody uses is GOD.
It is so simple, so pure, and has given a foundation to my life that has given me the biggest answer to the “belief” question of my life. If anyone asks me who is, what is and where is god?? I know, and hopefully this might help you to.
Eddy Ankrett
73 years of a spiritual journey.