Who inspired YOU to get on the spiritual path?

[Liet]

I've always ben a pacifist who didnt give in to social pressure (i'm the only one i know who never started smoking) and a Non-extremist (middle path). But the spiritual didnt get through to me untill i experienced it myself (basicaly didnt look beneath the surface, i saw crazy and turned away).

I found spirituality (~27 months ago) through accidentaly meditating.. while high.. got the reaction "wtf was that?" when the energy surged up my spine for the first time. Tried to recreate the effect by mimicing everything i previously did and after a few minutes i had determined that...
#1: it wasnt just a chill buzz
#2: it was thought/emotion controlled

I had always shunned upon the tibetan yogis and monks, thinking "What an utter waste of time, sitting down, doing exactly nothing, all day"

Took me about 2 months after first finding meditation before i was doing it 5-15 hours a day ^^
Never bothered to look far into meditation techniques of others.. they never seemd to yield as good results as what felt natural for the given moment.



.....I still consider the majority of new-age'ers to be crazy ^^ due to their inability to NOT, seem that way. (gotta meet them half way, guys! c'mon)