Hi! My name is Don Deaner. Welcome to my website Purpose Speaker.

I created this website to casually document and share some of the finer points and highlights of my spiritual awakening journey or awareness shift.  

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​My awakening/shift began one morning in 1993. On that morning, just like all my other mornings of the previous two years, I was heavily burdened with the effects of an anxiety disorder called Generalized Anxiety Disorder. A condition that had dominated and ruled me for way too long. However, on this particular morning, an unexpected and life-changing "shift" or awakening happened. In an instant, a new strength, a new desire, a new insight, a new brightness washed over and through me. And it was all started by just one thing: a true and innate desire to banish and rid myself of my anxiety. I was simply done with the anxiety, and I felt that in my heart and soul. I just knew I was done with it! It's hard to describe in words, but when I suddenly declared to myself that I was done with the anxiety. It was like an epiphany. This desire, strength, and motivation came from within the deepest recesses of my being. The feeling was true, overwhelmingly real, and indescribable. From that moment on, a completely new and unknown dimension or phase of my existence began. As it would turn out, I was not only done with my anxiety, but I was done with my old, lost, dysfunctional, non-living self. An existence I hadn't realized I was living up until that point. 

Suffice it to say my awakening/shift had begun, and a new me had been "born".

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I now travel on a path of introspection, understanding, clarity, and growth. I continue to discover and gather new and amazing knowledge and wisdom, and I've realized that my true life's purpose now is to share this new and amazing knowledge and wisdom with the world.

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~ New Found Wisdom and Knowledge ~

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Since my awakening/shift, I have been honored and gifted with a steady flow of new insights and information. I also have a steady, unyielding, and undeniable desire and thirst for new knowledge and wisdom.

I also do not doubt that part of the reason for my awakening or shift was to share all my newfound knowledge and wisdom with the world. It is now my true life's purpose.

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However, I'm not supposed to educate or teach per se what I've learned. I'm simply here to share, enlighten, and bring awareness to those who may need it. People can then do with the knowledge and wisdom what they want.

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Below are some of the core discoveries I made from my awakening/shift. Interestingly, some of the wisdom and knowledge I already had prior to my awakening, but didn't realize it.

The remainder I gained from experiencing my awakening/shift journey.

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~ Educational, Personal, and Professional Background ~

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My inner qualities of being an INFJ personality type, an Old Soul, a HSP, and a Heyoka Empath are primary tools and attributes that I unconsciously/automatically use every day. I had these qualities prior to my awakening but only became aware of them after my awakening. They are the essence of who I am and how I function. I draw on them in all that I do.

Most of my educational and professional background is listed below as well. The ones with the asterisks are what I gained after my awakening.

 

~ INFJ/Old Soul/HSP/Heyoka Empath ~

By being an INFJ Myers-Briggs personality type, an Old Soul, and a Heyoka Empath. I had finally realized that this was the very essence of who and what I was. I had been functioning with these abilities and functions my whole life, but I was absolutely oblivious to their presence. It wasn't until my awakening that these, along with an endless array of other wisdom and knowledge, was revealed to me. The descriptions of these types below I will keep brief because they can be so extensive.

 

~ INFJ ~

INFJ, also known as an advocate or counselor, is one of sixteen Myer-Briggs personality types. Myers-Briggs personality typing is very popular because of its accuracy, depth, and completeness. The INFJ type of personality is signified by being gentle, caring, very complex, and highly intuitive. We make up only about 1%-2% of the population so this type is very rare and unique. The wealth and complexity of information on this type would astound you if you were to look it up. To try to explain it all here would simply be too much. However, this type does lend itself to being compassionate and intuitive.

 

~ Old Soul ~

The Old Soul basically falls on the spiritual principle that someone has lived many lifetimes and his or her soul has traveled and has been reincarnated many different times. The more times the soul travels the older and more experienced the soul gets. Along with this experience comes more knowledge from their past lives. Old Souls, because of all their past life experience and accumulation of knowledge, are wiser beyond their years, more relaxed, more mature, enjoy solitude, and seem to have an interest in different time periods just to name a few characteristics. I have been an Old Soul my whole life but only discovered this fact after my awakening. Incidentally, there are Infant Souls, Baby Souls, Young Souls, Mature Souls, and Transcendental Souls.

 

~ Intuitive Empath/HSP ~

I have been "reading" people and situations my whole life. I always thought this was normal behavior and that everybody could do this. I didn't think otherwise because I had nothing to compare it to. I did eventually come to understand that not everybody has this ability. As I continue to get older, and thanks to my awakening, my abilities are evolving, expanding, and sharpening. I am also allowing them to do so. All my readings are automatic and done in less than an instant. I can typically read a person's thoughts and feelings even before they utter a word and even before they themselves know what they thinking or feeling. I can assess any person or situation with usually the highest degree of accuracy. More recently, some new abilities more closely related to the clairvoyance/psychic realm have been coming through, or it could be I'm just becoming more aware of them. 

 

~ Notable Education and Professional Background ~

• Psychology Degree-Stony Brook University*

• Health Counselor Certification-Columbia University*

• Holistic Health Counselor-Institute for Integrative Nutrition*

• Reiki Certified Practitioner*

• Master Life Coach Certification-American University of NLP*

• Member of American Association of Drugless Practitioners*

• Suicide/Crisis Counselor-Response of Suffolk County*

• Published author of a book on anxiety (see below)*

• US Army Soldier

• Volunteer board member at Veteran Affairs*

• Inventor*

• School District Facility Manager of 24 years

 

~ Published Author ~

Anxiety/depression (mainly anxiety) can often be the first sign of an awakening. Trauma/crisis, in general, may also begin an awakening. My experience of anxiety being the catalyst for my awakening was no different. It was the very first sign of my awakening and was the trauma that led to and signified my awakening. I consider my anxiety one of the best things that ever happened to me. Because anxiety played such an important role in my awakening, I wanted to give it the attention it deserved. So I wrote an amazing e-book based on my experience of how I overcame my anxiety condition. It's called "What If You Can't Scare Me Anymore?", and can be found on Amazon.com. Click the book title above to be taken there.

 

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