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.  

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​My awakening began one morning in 1993. On that morning, just like all my other mornings of the previous two years, I was burdened with the effects of an anxiety disorder. A condition that had dominated and ruled me for way too long. And then on that morning, and in an instant, an unexpected and life-changing "shift" happened. A new strength, a new desire, a new insight, a new brightness washed over and through me. And all this was started by just one thing; the desire to banish and rid myself of my anxiety. 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 and motivation came from deep 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 then). 

Suffice it to say a profound shift had occurred and a new me had been "born".

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 Since that day in 1993, my new amazing life has unfolded. I have been traveling on a path of introspection, understanding, clarity, and growth. I continue to discover and gather new amazing knowledge and wisdom.

My true life's purpose is to share this knowledge and wisdom with as many people as possible.

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~ New Found Wisdom and Knowledge ~

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Because of my awakening, I have been honored and gifted with a steady flow of new insight and wisdom. I also have an unyielding and undeniable desire and thirst for new knowledge and wisdom.

I have no doubt that the reason for my awakening, and what has turned out to be my life's purpose, is to share all this newfound knowledge and wisdom with as many people as possible.

However, my newfound knowledge and wisdom are not for the purpose of educating per se. It's to simply share, enlighten, and bring awareness to those who need it. People can apply what they need when they need it.

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

The remainder I gained while experiencing my awakening journey.

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~ Educational, Personal, and Professional Background ~

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My inner qualities of being an INFJ personality type, Old Soul, and an Intuitive 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/Heyoka Empath ~

The nature of whom I am eventually revealed itself thanks to my awakening. I am an INFJ Myers-Briggs personality type, an Old Soul, and an Heyoka Empath. I had finally recognized 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 was absolutely oblivious to their presence. It wasn't until my awakening that these, along with an endless universe of information 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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