"What a difference that could make! You mean literally to ‘write’ directly into the system?"
"Yes, exactly!"
The two men were huddled over a diagram in the sand they had drawn together. That had drawn them closer together. The three of them, the two men and the diagram, were inexoribly linked. While they drew inspiration from each other, the men drew into the diagram between them, and rather than come between them, it connected them.
This diagram had ‘linked’ them directly into the system. Everything they did to the diagram together, they did to the entire universe at once. It was pretty impressive!
"Make a curve over here to clean up the air over the north and south poles."
"Ok. There, how’s that."
"Perfect! It is working!"
"How do you know?"
"By not no-ing."
"Ah! Yes, of course!"
"Yes. Of course!"
Miles away, the atmosphere suddenly changed over the north and south poles, and that, of course, affected everything else.
"This is incredible! By simply drawing lines in the dirt here, we are making huge changes in the rest of the world!"
"Yes, it is always interesting to me how immediately this works. But of course, we could not make any changes that would be manipulative of other’s, for that would be violating their free will."
"Though I understand why we should not on a purely ethical basis, I do not understand how it hurts things in the grand scheme of things, especially if most people have no concept of exactly how ‘free’ they really are, or aren’t for that matter."
"When we try to do things that manipulate others, we are going against the futures that they have already projected into being reality for them. When they project such realities, they become everybody else’s realities as well. This keeps our realities free of their control. So it is a practical thing to our benefit not to get other people involved, so to speak."
"Ah, OK. I see. We are keeping the focus our own. But why does this work?"
"Because we are beings who have the control - we have domain over all things, both living and dead. The sky, insects, animals, birds, plants, winds, the earth itself. They all respond to our requests, or to our commands, if we command. I prefer to ask. It is only polite and respectful to act that way towards those things of natural energy stuff whom we interact with here."
"But aren’t we of natural energy stuff ourselves?"
"We are made of the same stuff, but are not that stuff, if you get what I mean. We are the ones in control of it all."
"How did you ever discover this? Nobody else seems to know it. It is like it has been obscured from human knowledge the very truth about ourselves that makes the statement by Jesus Christ, ‘Ask and Ye shall receive’ more of a reminder of what and who we are than a mere statement of an idea!"
"Do you want to hear another story?"
"Sounds like a good place for one!"
"Well, I was in my early-thirties, just getting a handle on some of the more profound parts of the art of making choices. I had chosen pretty broadly to be free, to be true to myself, and to be healthy. That part about being true to myself seemed to get something started. At that time, I was conversing rather freely with an entity I had come to refer to as ‘God’, though I have no idea who or what this entity was in reality. Possibly an alien life form, possibly an aspect of my highest self—who knows? But one day, I asked to be in closer touch with the natural spirits of the planet, and the next day I suddenly found myself entering the driveway of my home and I experienced a simple vine growing on a tree actually calling out to me. ‘Hey there!‘ it said. ‘Hello?‘ I responded. ‘What do you want?‘ ‘I was told to get your attention. From now on all plants will talk to you, and will talk with you! Isn’t that great?!"
"Well, that must have been a shock! You mean it just addressed you out of the blue and started carrying on a conversation with you just like that?"
"Yes, that is exactly how it was. So, to test what it was saying, I turned to another plant growing by the side of the driveway, and asked it, ‘Is what he says true? You all will talk to me?‘ ‘Yes, absolutely,‘ was the response! I was quite surprised! And I didn’t know what to do about it, either!"
"I guess neither would I know what to do!"
"Well, so I asked it what was up, and what was going to happen next. It said that all the nature spirits would be making contact with me over the next few days. That was very interesting! I asked how it was, and it told me it was actually doing very well, thank you! It was pretty cool!"
"That is an understatement!"
"Well, OK, it was VERY cool!! But now I was wondering what would happen next. I’d experienced very slight telepathy a year previously with a wasp whom I sensed was telling me he was dying from thirst, and so I got him water, which he drank for a while till he’d slaked his thirst, they flew up in the air, happily thanking me for saving its life, and then flew away. But this had a very different quality. It was just like talking to you now, only it was with a plant!"
"Seems like you were connecting on a very complete level with them. I mean, no baby talk nonsense - instead an intelligent conversation? Incredible!"
"Well, it was to become progressively more incredible over the next few days. The next day, I was sitting on the porch having had several conversations with the grass and flowers in the yard already (I included everyone that I could), and then suddenly a bird flew down and landed on the low chain-link fence separating my tiny yard from the city sidewalk beyond it. It chirped at me a very nice hello. Then another bird landed of a different species, followed by another of still another species - till I was very soon surrounded by several sparrows, cardinals, blue-jays, robins, tit-mice, two pigeons, and a starling all crowding onto the grass right in front of me, strutting about shoulder to shoulder, not fighting over territory or anything I’d expect, but instead they were all trying to get my attention at once! It was very difficult to keep them all feeling included in my thoughts, as they all were wanting to carry on conversations with me!"
"My goodness! Weren’t you a little afraid?"
"Well, yes, I was a little nervous feeling at first, there were so many of them! But after a while I relaxed about it - they were clearly there for socializing - to visit with me and to assure me that this was part of some ‘experiment’ as they called it, to interact with humans."
"I see. An ‘experiment’ they called it!"
"Oh, yes, this was definitely that! In one of my conversations with the one I called ‘God’ I was later informed as much. After the birds incident, dogs and cats would simply approach me to be pet, even animals whose owners told me had never liked other people before. And then wild squirrels approached me and would sniff at my pants and such. Then, suddenly babies in strollers and in stores where I’d go would look up at me and just stare and smile… it was getting more and more incredible!"
"That sounds sweet, though. I would have felt quite flattered by all this attention!"
"I was, believe me. It felt like such an honor to be held in esteem by all of these spirits treating me with such high regard. But then things came to a head over the next several days. We were experiencing a serious drought, and the plants were all asking me to ask ‘Sky’ as they called him for some rain. I asked ‘God’ about this, and He told me that Sky and Earth were open to communicating with me, but that they were quite angry with mankind at this point in history, and so even though they had to obey my requests because I was human and humans had domain over all things, that they would do so begrudgingly. So, after finishing that little conversation, I looked up at the sky and said, ‘Sky? I’d like to have some rain, please. I need it right away, as soon as you can muster some up.‘ Sky was indeed rather grumpy, but agreed to do as I asked. To my surprise, in only twenty minutes, suddenly the sky went dark with clouds that appeared out of nowhere, and a torrent of rain dropped down upon us as if the heavens had opened and all the water was being dumped upon us right there! There were hailstones the size of radishes! There was so much water, so fast, that it flooded the parking-lot behind my building with almost a foot of water!! This was crazy!! It was too much water, way too fast!!! It was washing things away and simply all running off into the rivers, none of it soaking into the dry ground. I was horrified! ‘What are you doing??!!!‘ I asked the one called ‘Sky’, and it replied somewhat rudely that I had asked for rain, and so rain is what I got—that if I wanted it to rain a certain way to please me, that I had to be more ‘specific’. More ‘specific’!!! Well, I was pretty mad, actually, by now, but I calmed down and got ‘specific’ with my request for rain, and asked for at least a day or two of light rain, to moisturize the ground and dampen it enough to act like a sponge that would draw the water deeper into the ground, followed by about a week of steady rain, at just the right pace to saturate the ground and replenish the groundwater and aquifers. That seemed pretty completely ‘specific’ to me! ‘Sky’ acted disgruntled and rude still, but agreed to give me rain according to my specifications, though it would take a few days to set things up for such a complex request, and much to my surprise, a few days later, just like ‘Sky’ had said he would, the entire cycle began just as I’d requested it! The drought had been beaten, and both the shallow-rooted and deep-rooted trees and plants were thriving again! It was completely amazing!"
"Incredible!!!"
"I’ll say!!! But now that this had gotten started, I was told next by ‘God’ that ‘Earth’ had agreed to talk with me, but to be forewarned that ‘Earth’ and ‘Rock’ was very, very grumpy and angry with all of humanity for what damage it was doing to all living things. So, I cautiously addressed ‘Earth’, and it was indeed extremely grumpy and harsh with me. Mind you, this was the spirit of the entire planet I was addressing. I was very nervous, as this is the very spirit in charge of tectonic shifts, earthquakes, volcanoes - very destructive stuff!! I was so afraid of pissing ‘him’ off and making ‘him’ angry!!! Gads, that was just such a scary thing!"
"I should imagine that is was, considering the mishap that your asking for mere rain had brought upon you!"
"I was very, very nervous! But after the preamble of how bad humans were, and how they deserved to all be destroyed and talk like that, I was mortified! I reminded ‘Earth’ that humans had domain over ‘him’, and that ‘he’ should respect that fact and not speak so harshly and dangerously about humans! I also reminded ‘Earth’ about all the finer traits humans had, of love and compassion and higher spiritual potentials and all that. But then I apologized for the damage we’d done, and asked that ‘Earth’ simply be a little compassionate and not simply angry with the humans. ‘Earth’ replied that humans had completely forgotten themselves, and had no idea of who or what they were, had no idea that they were in ‘control’ and so took no responsibility for how things went for all the rest of nature. ‘Earth’ and ‘Sky’ were both very, very angry with us, and felt that we got what we deserved, allowing things to be left up to random chance, when we could have asked for anything from them for thousands of years and gotten what we’d asked for."
"My, my! That was a huge load to place on your shoulders, I should say! And a huge load to place upon humanity’s shoulders - to take responsibility for how things occured, even as to planetary tectonic shifts, rain and weather patterns, and we haven’t even discussed the ocean yet, which humans treat as if it barely even exists below the surface!"
"True. I didn’t get a chance to talk to the watery side of ‘Earth’. In fact, as it turned out, all of this ended quite abruptly. I happened to be driving home with a car full of heavy plaster green-ware molds that I was moving for a friend whose house I was staying at in exchange for helping her out, and while driving with this heavy load in her too-small car, and I was feeling rather overwhelmed by all of this that had happened over the last few days. I addressed the one I talked to whom I had called ‘God.‘ I told Him, ‘Now, look, this is all way too much power to give to just me - it is too much responsibility - what if I screw up and do something that hurts people, or even hurts plants or animals?‘ I was still feeling guilty for the plants and bugs and things that had gotten washed away by that first ‘rain’ attempt. Then I attempted to strike a deal. I told ‘God’ that I would do this thing, this ‘experiment’, but that I would not agree to do anything that might be harmful to anything or anybody - not that anybody had asked me to do anything at all besides the plants asking me to make it rain, but I was feeling like I had to be cautious, in case this was some kind of a set-up or something - I wasn’t feeling very trusting of what was going on by then. This seemed, at the time, to be a logical requirement to put into place, but I think I voiced it too much like it was a command, or being a wise-ass, perhaps. Or a chicken-shit! I knew I was being obstinate, but felt that - for the good of all - that I’d perhaps better take the chance and challenge this ‘God’ figure and state what I felt were, like, contractual terms or something! Anyway, almost as soon as those words left my mind, suddenly it was as if the sky had opened up, and a yellow-white lightening bolt emerged from above and struck me, striking me through my very soul! I was driving with this dangerous load in this little car, but my body was shaking out of control, like an epeleptic fit or something! I could barely drive! I cried out in my mind, ‘What do You think You are doing?! I can’t drive!! Are you trying to cause an accident??!! Go ahead and kill me, but we’re not going to kill anybody else in the process!!‘ I struggled with the wheel to pull the car over to the side of the road and not veer across the yellow line as I had been heading and run headlong into the oncoming traffic. It was all I could do to pull over and stop the car - my body was shaking so tremendously from the lightening bolt of energy that had hit me!!! I was so furious and upset with what had happened! I couldn’t believe that my ‘God’ had had the nerve to have done this to me! I was so upset that I never communicated with that one I had previously referred to as ‘God’ again. I surmised that I had been communicating with an alien lifeform or something, or that it had all just been in my imagination, which it might have been, except for the miracles that had already happened."
"Oh, my. This incident made you lose your faith entirely?"
"Yes. I had felt that I had been entirely duped, no matter how I tried to sort it out, and continued to be puzzled by all of this for years and years afterwards. I felt on one hand that perhaps I had duped myself into believing these things, by my wanting to be in rapport with nature and with the one I had called ‘God’ so much. I questioned how much of this I had simply fantasized. But then, in more clear moments, I knew that this had been no fantasy - the plants had even led me to finding a book on Findhorn Gardens right after we’d begun talking, which I had never heard of before. The animals and babies attentions were certainly real. The rain had come from my discussion with the sky. And I had felt the planet Earth’s anger as a real and ominous thing. So, I was forced to believe that perhaps I was being setup to cause something destructive for an unfriendly alien being, perhaps. That sounded so crazy, but my trust in whatever I had been referring to as ‘God’ had been so shattered, that I was prone to consider it may have been a higher force, alright, but a malicious one attempting to use me as a patsy. None of these answers could be resolved, and I remained upset for many years afterwards. Needless to say, all ‘miracles’ stopped, and I experienced no more after that incident with the lightening bolt."
"How terribly tragic! But you are performing miracles again now, aren’t you? Haven’t you reconciled your connection with your higher self again?"
"I am in the process of doing that right now, just as we speak about it right here in the present. My healing is not completed, by any stretch. But, I have done the first step - I have made the choice to have that wound healed. I have chosen to be complete and true to my highest self. That has rekindled the process of healing, and has already led to my meeting with you. And already, new insights I hadn’t been able to see before considering this incident have come to light for me, even just in the last few days."
"Oh? How do you mean?"
"Well, for one thing, when I made my little ‘bargain’ (or more like a ‘demand’) with the one I’d referred to as ‘God’, it was exactly the kind of irresponsibility that ‘Earth’ and ‘Sky’ had talked about earlier—I was pawning off my own personal responsibility on ‘God’, telling ‘Him’ that I wouldn’t do anything that harmed anything or anybody, but it was basically putting the responsibility on the one I called ‘God’ rather than taking such responsibility myself. That is, I was in essence saying, ‘Look, I’ll do whatever you ask me to do, as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody.‘ What I didn’t face up to was that ‘God’ wasn’t asking me to do anything! ‘He’ was merely reminding me of the power I already had as a human being! So, there was no manipulation taking place, no control, no using me as a ‘tool’. I was simply being told, ‘Here is what humans have always been able to do, but they, like you, have always evaded the responsibility, and so they buried thier power and ability to choose and never allowed themselves to feel empowered again, like ‘Earth’ and ‘Sky’ had been talking about, allowing chance events to control everything, when we could have taken control to have things be as we wanted them to be."
"That is profound!!! But what a huge load of responsibility! Can humans even bear such feelings of ultimate responsibility for their actions?"
"Apparently, they have been unable to accept such a load for thousands of years. That is the major problem we have here."
"But what of bad people? I mean, there really are very bad people in this world. If the ‘sociopaths’ of this world have such power, they could, and would, be terrifying menaces to the rest of us!"
"Apparently, ‘sociopaths’, or people without a conscience, only have connection with the mundane world of rules and regulations, human laws, and the mediocre aspects of life. They are pitifully out of touch with their higher states, and it is the higher states of humankind which have the connection with and domain over natural forces and can communicate with plants and animals and such things as nature spirits. They can manipulate us only on the grossest levels of existence. They have no real power where it could count. And that leads to another point, concerning ‘responsibility’. Humans are required to have trust in their higher selves’ connection with all that is as a harmonious existence from the get-go. If we are making choices from our higher selves, we are making them in a way that ‘fits’ with everybody else’s choices. That is a very magical state of existence! It is the insurance we seem to need to hold on to in order to allow ourselves to trust that no harm comes about from our desires being fulfilled. Our desires on this higher level of things aren’t really ‘ours’ at all, but are the ‘one’ that we are a part of expressing communicating its needs via our desires!"
"You mean, as if when we tap into that higher part of ourselves that we are tapping into that common root which all beings share?"
"Not just all beings, but all things, all universes, all times, past, present, future, all that is! Calling it the ‘common root’ that we all share is a very accurate description of it. It is a single moment, all places in one place, always right there in right now. I get glimpses of that aspect of our existence every so often. It is the only ‘real’ reality. Everything else is a projection, a fantasy, a confabulation. But we need to trust that from our higher selves, if we have made the conscious choice to be true to that higher self, that the projections and fantasies which our brain delivers to us hold more insight into the real truth of things than we could ever have hoped for, not having made such a committed choice. The choice to be true to one’s highest self is a key choice to make. From it, all other actions and thoughts turn to ‘God-stuff’—compassionate acts and energies in accordance with the harmony that is behind all of existence where spiritual order resides. However, to not make that choice, to act in ignorance or willfully against such higher being, is to introduce chaos into the universe. Chaos is our teacher. We experience chaos as long as we are not organic, as long as we are not whole, as long as we do not move in harmony with our highest self, which is our being connected with all other beings, animate or inamimate. From this place, all of creation is sentient in some fashion - be they rocks or moons or space dust. But on the larger scope of things, anything which contains life is itself living. Thus our Earth is sentient, as are its components of ‘Sky’, ‘Water’, ‘Rock’ and ‘Movement’."
"You didn’t mention ‘Movement’ before. What do you mean?"
"‘Movement’ is the motion of all energies - be they mechanical, electrical, light, magnetic, radio frequencies, gamma rays, or any other energies, including some which we have in less abundance in this fabric of space than we used to have, and many which we have no idea even exist. The healing energies emitted by healers are one such energy, like my late friend Karmu the healer had. ‘Movement’ can be asked to do things. That is how I made the light bulb turn on and off in my bathroom years earlier. We have domain over those energy-realms as well."
"Why have humans given up their control? I mean, if the world could be made a better place by mere prayer—or as you say, through ‘requests’—why haven’t people taken that to heart and used it all these years? How on earth could they have all forgotten a thing like that? Why do they instead act as if they are powerless to do anything about anything?"
"That, my friend, is a very good question!"
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