All of this is dedicated to my beloved parents Pearlean Bell Brown and Andrew L. Brown, Sr.
I will forever know them as love personified.
My Road Less Traveled is an About Me Page celebrating my life journey.
It begins now; it begins here, and as always, to your highest success!
It is my sincere desire that you be inspired to live your life’s passions now because I have learned how to enjoy life again and I truly wish that you would too!
I am Andrew L. Brown, Jr. affectionately known as Andy. 2639.
Master of many things, trainer of trainers and lover of life.
I am the founder of Andrew L. Brown Jr. Metaphysician LLC.
I am a Life and Business Visionary.
Graduate of Fisk University, Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy, 1985.
Alumni Leadership Award Recipient, 1985 General Alumni Association of Fisk University.
Studied at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL 1986.
My journey began as many do when I was a child. I was very active in church and felt I was “called” into the ministry around the age of 9 years.
The path I traveled early on is one that I call traditional.
However, I truly never “fit in”.
Truth be told I have always desired a closer relationship with God.
At that time, it made you not the one most desired to sit next to at the school lunch table. But, I managed.
I am extremely fortunate and I am very thankful that I was a part of a very supportive and extremely loving community growing up.
I attended school in the Longmeadow, MA Public School System and I participated heavily in church growing up in connection with the United Methodist Church.
Upon graduation from Longmeadow High School in 1981, I continued on to college in Nashville, TN at Fisk University.
Everything in my life up until that time I considered normal for me.
After studying toward my Master of Arts Degree, I left after my first year and things were now different.
I left school and alienated my candidacy for the ordained ministry.
I had really never experienced that level of what I called failure because up until that time, I had always completed everything I started.
I met the expectations of doing what I thought I was supposed to do according to the societal standards of the time.
My road less traveled had begun or at least the one that I realized.
I did not know this when I was going through it, but I was in a state of “burn out” and depression. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I overdid things in undergraduate school.
It changed the course I was taking.
Oddly enough, in hindsight, I am grateful for the experience because it caused me to turn ever more inward and grasp on to my source ever more strongly.
It also caused me to alienate myself basically from the world as I previously knew it.
I wasn’t on what I would call a traditional pathway anymore.
Typical career ambitions, although well qualified for any position I desired, were not of interest to me.
I worked a plethora of jobs in various fields for a while and because of a special request to “get a job and keep it”, I did settle down in a job working in the nonprofit sector for some time.
Throughout all of the ups and downs of those times, I was able to continue my inward and outward search of life and my relationship with my spiritual source.
The “spiritual calling” was still there and very real to me although I had no outward earthly distinction of such.
That time continued to be very humbling for me because I had none of the outward societal designations and therefore acceptance that said I was a success.
It helped me to understand that none of that (although very nice) is as important as it is made to seem and my soul search continued.
Consequently, spiritual understanding became my friend and for no more reason than to be closer to Source, period.
I have grown exponentially as a result and a life of alignment is now most important to me.
I have found that the things that are most important in life are often unseen.
Outer expression, of course, is wonderful and I request it at its finest because it does have a role.
I am happy to say that even though my path was very different from what I expected, I am glad for the journey.
I have found something great and the road I took in hindsight enlightened me to where I am today.
I am grateful.
Now for your call to action.
If you believe there may be more to the life you are living, then let’s continue this journey growing together.
Let me know how I can contact you with additional information because it is my heartfelt desire that you be in peace and most importantly be in alignment with what is most important to you which I believe is God Love.
I love you and I hope that you are able to join in with this community.
As always, to your highest success.
I remain humbly yours,
Andrew L. Brown, Jr., Life and Business Visionary