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Coincidence or Co-ordination?

As you develop spiritually, you will become more aware of 'coincidences', and the increasing frequency with
which they occur

'Coincidence' - 'happening together' - what does that mean? We are taught to disregard such phenomena; 'Oh,
it was just a coincidence!', but in fact they are signposts - little markers we have placed along our path through
the world of matter, to remind ourselves, at crucial points, of the reasons we came here this time around.

It sounds silly until you start to do it, but, once you begin noticing, and
noting them, you will be amazed at the
way in which important and significant things in your life are highlighted by and reflected in the world around
you.

You will realize the importance of relating spiritual lessons to the mundane - and applying them. It is not a
selfish indulgence to take time to look inwards - it is a responsibility we all have. We can change the world by
changing our minds
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Invisible Friends

This photograph by Dick Arentz - a tribute to Frederick Evans who took an
earlier picture of the staircase in Wells cathedral - was taken, amazingly, when
the steps were crowded with people, over a long period. Because of the long
exposure, the people are invisible. Since they are going too fast for the
camera's eye, like our friends in spirit, who are all around us, all the time,
vibrating too fast for our eyes to catch them

Knowledge is power

Not everyone likes churches, especially those who have inspected and rejected religions as being at best
anachronistic and irrelevant, but more likely positively harmful. The trouble is that, starting from a point where
someone has had some spiritual insight and passed it on so that others may benefit, things tend to
degenerate and slow down, vibrationally, so that, what started out as a version of Cosmic Law as intuited by
one person whilst in a state of quantum receptivity, or heightened awareness, ends up as a set of disconnected
rules for living which make little sense, viewed from lower down the vibrational scale - and no-one following the
leaders in religions is encouraged to get themselves up to the level where the rules do make sense.

Consequently, we end up, more often than not, with various groups of bewildered - sometimes terrified - people
following random rules that only their religious leaders understand, and asking those leaders to intervene on
their behalf, to beg forgiveness of whichever extraterrestrial presence - or 'deity' - they feel themselves to be
under the influence of.

From there, it is easy to see how these same people can be manipulated by similarly structured, possibly
related power groups for reasons which are often far removed from anything the followers can comprehend, let
alone agree with.

From a very early age, children are told stories which, though they may originally have been intended to pass on
truths, have been diluted and distorted so that their original message is lost or even reversed. They are told that
wishes must be granted by external entities and are limited. Mysterious beings come to their aid following the
death of their mother. It is constantly reiterated that there are no fairies/witches/ghosts
really, not nowadays,
and that magic is all an illusion, or something deeply complex, involving complex rules and incantations, to be
learned at wizards' college accompanied by much green smoke; and then only if you are of wizardly descent.

On the 'sacred' nature of geometry

The underlying nature of everything is geometrical. We can talk about it as 'energy grids' or the
'architecture of the universe', as practised by the 'great architect' in the sky, but what it is, is the way big
stuff is when we look at it from a distance, and the way small stuff is when we look at it from a distance -
beyond the levels of the instruments currently available - and it makes patterns.

So, of course, does everything on the smaller, physical scale, but we tend not to notice these, since  they
are overlaid with concepts which do not obviously match up with the underlying structures, in the same
way that our surface utterances seem to differ from the underlying sentence structure of our language(s).

If we compare all these energy systems, though, we see that they follow the same splitting, branching
pattern (trees, rivers, veins, nerves, lightning, sentences), which, if we take it back, goes to the One
which is the All
Ascension

LEVELS/PLANES OF EXISTENCE

We exist on many levels or planes; in many dimensions, though it requires application and mind training to
access higher, faster, lighter, more connected levels safely and consistently.

Often we have flashes of perceptions and insights - either in dream state or waking state - which may seem
random and confusing - where do we put them? How do we fit them into experience? The answer is to expand
our experience, through contemplation, meditation, and stillness.

OUR MULTIDIMENSIONAL SELVES

We exist in twelve dimensions NOW, although, in a terrestrial incarnational - T.I. - state, we commonly
experience only the first three - the slower-moving material levels. In the course of our journey back to Source,
we incarnate as many times as necessary - not necessarily terrestrially - in order to fulfil our potential and carry
out the mission we set ourselves. Realizing this, taking responsibility for ourselves and then acting accordingly
is a major step towards the achievement of our cosmic goals.

2012 - THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT?

With the approach of 2012, the end of that Mayan Long Count, it occurs to more and more people that there may
be something going on beyond the artificially limited field of vision we are encouraged to use. Perhaps things
beyond the clouds may have an amount of influence on what goes on down here...
A different point of view is required - just taking off the blinkers will be of some help. Even if we consider the
planet only in its material manifestation, it is still a large lump of spinning rock whizzing through 'space', along
with many other large lumps of rock and other stuff.

We - the pesky fleas causing an itch on its surface - crawling around under a very thin blanket of cloud, trying
like anything to pretend there is no bedroom outside our covers - or outdoors beyond our sleeping bag - but it
doesn't work. We
are part of the universe, whether we like it or not, and, if we adopt for a moment a point of view
beyond the limits of the (physical) universe, we see only the patterns the various lumps of energy stuff make
all
at once
- like a Spirograph picture. It's like looking at photographs of traffic at night, where we just see the lines
the lights make, only more beautiful; crystalline and opalescent and like the fibre-optic star on the top of the
cosmic Christmas tree.


Erm - that's the kind of thing you can expect, having embarked on the process. Yes, it looked crazy to me, and,
given the choice, I would probably have left it to others whilst remaining secretly a bit fascinated by it all; but the
World of Spirit - not an ideal expression, but it works as shorthand - had other ideas. Deeply loved family
members who have taken up residence on higher levels required the services of those of us still remaining
sluggishly on the material plane.
Once you take off on a path of ascension, you are transmuted, and there is no going back...

You can't go back to where you were - it's not there any more.