by Alan Jacques
Picture: Keith Wiseman
FORMER Limerick footballer Anthony Moran showed his prowess at the art of high fielding this week as he pondered the meaning of life and how it is possible to acquire a permanent peace of mind.
The 57-year-old Ballysteen/Askeaton man was hugely animated when the Limerick Post caught up with him at the Woodlands House Hotel in Adare this Monday night for the official launch of his new “groundbreaking psychology”.
Dressed in trademark sports tracksuit and baseball cap, the spiritual guru was in fine fettle as he prepared to take to the podium to talk about his latest research, which he claims “leads to a unique way of being in the world”.
He speaks about energy and the universe with all the gusto of a rural Jedi Master.
Validated as “original, unique and universal” by no less an authority than University College Cork, his methodology has already received positive feedback in America with television networks such as Fox, CNN and ABC picking up on his story last December.
In between TV interviews and posing for photographs in Adare this week, County Limerick’s answer to Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle was only too eager to share his knowledge to help others.
Hailed as a leader with natural ability, his ethos is based on empowering and supporting those who are seeking the required knowledge in these very challenging times.
Anthony insists he can provide simple and clear solutions to problems that seem to baffle so many.
He spoke openly about his own ‘dark night of the soul’ and the feelings of emptiness he first experienced at the age of five. His early adult years, he admits, were also marked with “a terrible uneasiness within me”.
“I crashed all the cars. I drank all the alcohol. I danced with all the girls. Nothing worked,” he says.
At 32-years-of-age, finding himself at a crossroads, Anthony started to feel an awakening through nature and went back to full-time education, completing a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree in UCC, which eventually put him on the path to self-fulfilment.
He strongly believes that the answers people seek are within themselves and sees a sense of community, union with nature and serious soul-searching as the keys to finding these answers.
“Regardless of where you are now on life’s journey, you can change provided you have the necessary knowledge,” he explained.
After Anthony’s talk in the Woodlands Hotel, I overheard one man say, “The Americans would lap him up, especially the fact that he’s a Paddy”.
This has already proven to be the case.
His talk in Adare was streamed live all over the world via the Internet, a tool, which has helped the County Limerick man make a huge impact Stateside.
Fianna Fail councillor and former Limerick Mayor Kevin Sheahan, who was also in attendance at Monday nigh’t event, described Anthony as a “natural researcher”.
“He’s an extraordinary man. He’s lived many lives. As he moves with purpose from one to the next he gets more and more interesting,” said Cllr Sheahan.
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