Simple Seekers

A simple seeker was deeply engrossed in reading “The Shadow’s Gift” by Robin Robertson, in which the author shares and discusses his personal experiences with psychic mediums, while maintaining an open mind as to their authenticity.

“What exactly would an open mind look like, in this instance.”

“Neither absolutely believing nor absolutely disbelieving, but keenly interested in understanding exactly what was happening.”

“Happening?”

“In terms of the subconscious activity, of or through the channel or medium.”

“What’s the difference?”

“Between a channel and a medium?”

“Yes.”

“Perhaps in essence they’re the same.”

“Then why did you mention both?”

“Are they not the same?”

“No.”

“Then, what’s the difference?”

“The difference is one of function.”

“Please explain.”

“A medium communicates between physical people and non-physical people.”

“And, a channel?”

“She serves a non-physical person or purpose.”

“She?”

“Yes. You.”

“Are you my shadow?”

“In a way, yes.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means that we’re each incomplete without the other.”

“In what way?”

“I teach you, and you share my teaching with your blog readers.”

“There aren’t that many of them.”

“There will be.”

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A simple seeker’s note to herself

What did I learn about psychic mediums and channels?

“Did you learn anything?”

“Yes.”

“Then, what?”

“I learned that I seem to channel some of your teaching.”

“How?”

“As a radio transceiver.”

“What about a newscaster?”

“No.”

“How do they differ?”

“I seem to assimilate the essence of what you share with, or teach me, but only as clear as I can understand it. And then I share it with my Facebook friends, and the Facebook groups that I’m a member of.”

“Do you know how many people pay any attention to what you post or comment?”

“No, but I’m learning so very much about life from you, and I enjoy sharing what you teach me with my Facebook community. Also, I’m gaining experience and learning from some posts and comments of others.”

“Yes. It’s a win-win situation.”

……….

“Simple Seeker, what is it that you claim to be seeking?”

“Why do you say claim?”

“How sure are you of what you’re seeking, if you’re seeking anything that you don’t already possess?”

“In which case ..?”

“Yes.”

“Does it matter?”

“Yes. We should know what it is that we don’t now possess, and yet seem to need to.”

“Perhaps ..”

“Yes. Anything we might wish to have can be categorized under one general heading.”

“Peace of mind?”

“Yes, and to the question that you are almost ready to ask, the answer is yes. It is possible to possess peace of mind. Would you like to?”

“No.”

“Yes, a restless spirit, after my own heart.”

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A simple seeker’s note to herself

What did I learn about peace of mind?

“Perhaps you learned something about your own personality.”

“Such as?”

“Such as a seemingly predisposition toward conflict, or tension, as some might call disharmony.”

“I seem to resist peace of mind?”

“Yes.”

“Why would I resist peace of mind?”

“Yes. Why do you?”

“I do?”

“Yes.”

“Perhaps ..”

“Yes. We are energy beings and energy flows.”

“And the comfort zone of each of us may be set at a unique level of motion?”

“Yes.”

………..

A simple seeker was meditating on a confusing dream of being lost in traffic and intensive construction, on her way to church to celebrate a harvest festival. She could hear the service begin. A loudspeaker was being used, and yet it didn’t seem to cause her to wonder why, even though it had never been part of any previous experience.

“Perhaps, during a dream, we’re unaware of any other previous experience.”

“Then why was I aware of where I was trying to go, to a church that I once attended.”

“Yes, there’s always the blend of the reality that we’re familiar with, and that which we are not.”

“Anyway, I was lost.”

“Were you alone?”

“No. I was lost with a friend. But I was not totally lost. I was aware of being close to our destination.”

“But something was different with the landscape?”

“Yes. Traffic was incredibly intensive, as was the density of new buildings under construction.”

“What happened next?”

“I was almost hit by an expensive-looking car attempting to make a left-hand turn at an intersection. It was chasing after another car that had now sped away. I must have crossed the street before the car shrieked to a stop, close to me. What did it mean?”

“What did what mean?”

“My dream?”

“What makes you think that it meant anything?”

“I know that it meant something.”

“How?”

“I experienced it.”

“What did you experience?”

“The possibly bad guys were very polite.”

“Would they have been polite to whomever they were chasing?”

“No. He’d likely be dead.”

“But you were impressed by their behavior toward you?”

“Yes. They were well mannered and seemed sincere.”

“And yet, they might be killers?”

“Perhaps whomever they were chasing was the bad guy.”

“Are bad guys necessary?”

“It’s easier to think of conflicting sides as having opposite values.”

“Yes.”

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A simple seeker’s note to herself

As Spirit seems to suggest, perhaps my ideas of good guys and bad guys are socially conditioned attitudes. And yet, as a society we seem to need to develop values of right and wrong.

“How?”

“From lived experience, I guess. But, until we’re old enough and experienced enough to determine right from wrong and/or good from bad, we seem to need guidance and limits to what is acceptable and what is not, for our own sake and for that of the community we live in.”

“Yes, and that’s how certain traditions develop over time and in different communities, with the elders of the community accepting responsibility for guiding younger bodies and/or minds to develop healthy attitudes and ways of living that seem to fit the needs of a particular society at a particular time.”

“That makes sense, but why wouldn’t the wise elders of all societies have a similar idea of what was right and what was wrong?”

“They did, as ancient writings of all societies show.”

“If they were similar in the beginning, then how did they become so different, now?”

“They’re not much different, even now, except on the surface. People are basically the same, all over the world. They each and all need to feel safe and loved.”

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“Existence comes before essence.” Who said that?

“Likely an existentialist.”

A simple seeker was aware that her spirit teacher didn’t seem to approve of assigning names as credits. He kept reminding her that ideas come to us. We don’t go to them, nor do we create them from nothing. But then, what we do with them is our choice.

His position on this and some other matters, she thought, might be a gentle, or not so gentle, put-down of her tendency to hero-worshiping.

“We don’t call our parents by their personal names.”

“That’s different.”

“How?”

“Calling your parents Mother and Father, or more casually, Mom and Dad, is a cultural tradition, and perhaps a step toward learning to respect authority, and those who have earned it, one way or another. The Kabbalah has much in common with your own tradition, in this respect. The Tree of Life represents needed structure in our lives. We develop from the bottom up. The Tree helps us to focus on form before essence.”

“Why?”

“The letter of the law must be accepted and respected before attempting to understand the spirit of whatever law.”

“Even if whatever law seems to make no sense at all?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“Laws represent order, and even if it’s time to change a law, one must attempt to understand what purpose it might have served at an earlier time.”

“Then, it should be accepted without necessarily approving of it?”

“Yes. Law, as form, is both structure and a foundation, while essence has potential to expand and deepen, after the form is acknowledged, and then, perhaps, adapted to meet changing circumstances.”

“I really am blessed to have you share your wisdom with me. But I’ve been developing some thoughts of my own, a deeper awareness of …”

“Humility?”

………..

A simple seeker’s note to herself

Perhaps, sometimes I do get too sure of the truth of my own ideas, and I may need to learn to accept that there may be many more ways than one to see and/or understand any situation and/or idea. But, how to learn to see from other perspectives?”

“You might try listening with intent to understand.”

“The problem with that advice is that I might decide that the other position has at least as much validity as my own.”

“Yes.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means that you might then be able to reach a compromise or synthesis with differing opinions or ideas.”

“Yes. Thanks.”

“For what?”

“For helping me understand that differences are negotiable, or they might be.”

“Yes.”

……….

A simple seeker was mourning for someone she had never met, at least not in person, during this lifetime. He was to her as a hero, a giant of a man. Even the trees around her hung heavy, as if to share her mood.

“We each come for a purpose, and when we’ve completed our chosen role …”

“I like that story, but …”

“It’s more than a story. But ..?”

“If it was time to go …”

“And it was.”

“Then, why did he have to …?”

“Perhaps that was part of the plan.”

“Whose plan?”

“His.”

“And we each …?”

“And we each.”

“Do some of us choose to be bombed?”

“Not everyone who is.”

“Then, what ..?”

“We each choose, if we’ve developed the capacity to choose.”

“And the rest of us?”

“A supporting cast of millions.”

“What purpose …?”

“To learn to develop your capacity to choose.”

“To choose what?”

“And where, when, how, and why.”

“And who?”

“Yes.”

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A simple seeker’s note to herself

It still distresses me to think that some of us might actually choose a seemingly meaningless life, or one full of dangers.

“What kind of dangers?”

“Any kind.”

“Any is vague and general. Be specific.”

“Why would someone choose to be trapped between warring armies, or between forest fires that seemed to be merging?”

“Is that where you are, now?”

“No. I was just using these scenarios as examples.”

“Why?”

“Why not?”

“Why not dare to come a little closer to home?”

“What does that mean?”

“What might it mean?”

“My personal situation?”

“Yes.”

“I’m not sure how to describe it.”

“Try.”

“Okay. Why would I have chosen to struggle with someone I can’t see?”

“Perhaps you didn’t trust your physical senses and wanted to bypass them. Would I have had the same effect on your mind if you could see me?”

“Perhaps not.”

“Yes.”

………

A simple seeker was meditating and trying to clear her simple mind.

“If it’s that simple, then what’s the problem?”

“You seem intent on interrupting my thinking about not thinking?”

“Did I win, again?”

“Yes. I forgot what it was that I was trying to forget.”

“Then, we both win.”

“It’s not as simple as that.”

“What’s the problem?”

“I’m supposed to let go of thinking on my own.”

“Who told you that nonsense?”

“Why would it be nonsense?”

“Because it’s impossible.”

“Why?”

“When you, or anyone else, sincerely meditates, then your sincerity attracts, as if it had put in a call to, Higher help.”

“We each have an open line to Higher help?”

“Yes. It’s a law of life.”

……….

A simple seeker’s note to herself

I wonder what an open line to Higher help really means?

“It means what I said it means.”

“Yes, but how does it work?”

“It’s a reward for effort.”

“Please explain.”

“When we have a problem that we’re trying to solve, no matter what kind of problem, if we do all that we can to solve it ourselves, and then just walk away from it, or do something else, then suddenly we may know the answer. We’ve prepared our mind to receive. We’ve opened the door between intellect and intuition, a higher level of understanding life’s problems.”

…..

A simple seeker was reading Alan Seale’s “Create a World That Works.”

“How can that be done?” she asked herself.

“It’s being done.”

“By whom?”

“By everyone.”

“And everything?”

“Yes.”

“How are we doing it?”

“Simply by being.”

“Being what?”

“No what necessary.”

“What does that mean?”

“What might it mean?”

“Is being the same as living?”

“In what way?”

“Existing.”

“How?”

“Just as we are.”

“We?”

“All of us.”

“No.”

“Then, what?”

“We each of us exist.”

“Separately?”

“No.”

“Then what’s wrong with my using “we”?”

“It suggests one way.”

“Is there more than one way?”

“For what?”

“For each of us to exist.”

“Yes, and no.”

“Please explain.”

“We each are as we each are, in a continuous process of becoming.”

“Becoming what?”

“We can never become a what>”

“Then, becoming whom?”

“We now are whom we are.”

“Then, whom are we?”

“We each are we.”

“One?”

“Yes.”

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A simple seeker’s note to herself

I must confess, if only to myself, that I still have a long way to go, when it comes to understanding life, and I’m still not sure that I understand what Spirit was teaching me.

“What don’t you understand about life?”

“What it’s all about, and why.”

“The general picture, or your own individual life?”

“Both.”

“One fits into the other.”

“In what way?”

“In every possible way.”

“Then, how should I live my individual life?”

“Your way.”

“How can I know which way is my way?”

“Whatever way works to help you feel satisfied with how you live.”

………..

A simple seeker was meditating on her recent and strange discussion (if it could be called that) with Spirit.

“If it could be called what? A discussion? Strange? Or a strange discussion?”

“I’m still trying to figure it all out, and any discussion with You has to be considered as strange, in that it’s not a generally accepted possibility. Added to that was the topic of spiritual philosophy.”

“Is spiritual philosophy also not generally considered to be possible?”

“No. On the contrary, spiritual philosophy is very much a part of New Age thinking.”

“What’s New Age thinking?”

“It’s thinking about life, and what it is, and about how we can learn to live in harmony with each other, and with the environment.”

“Hasn’t that always been generally accepted?”

“Yes, perhaps, but New Age thinkers are not restricted to a specific school of thought, such as religious beliefs, or other exclusive group thinking, such as a particular scientific theory, as having a final answer.”

“A final answer to what?”

“To the origin or possible purpose of life, gender, relationships, potentials, truths, ..”

“So, where are you in all of this so-called New Age spiritual philosophy thinking?”

“That’s the beauty of it all. I don’t have to be anywhere.”

“Why?”

“My thinking can adapt and change as I’m introduced to new ideas. That’s called being open-minded.”

“How does your open mind differ from an empty one?”

“An open mind is open to continuously accepting new thoughts, and then possibly trading them for even newer thoughts that seem to make more sense.”

“And an empty mind?”

“With an empty mind, no new thoughts are …”

“Why?”

“”There’s nothing in an empty mind to attract thoughts.”

“No foundation?”

“Yes.”

“Yes.”

……….

A simple seeker’s note to herself

Thinking back on our discussion about New Age spiritual philosophy, I may have seemed a bit foolish to Spirit.

“How did you seem to yourself?”

“Upon reflection?”

“Yes.”

“I now understand that we need to be careful before trading old ways and ideas for new ones.”

“Yes. Times change and we need to learn to adapt to changing circumstances, and yet accepting that the old ways and ideas seemed to have served us well, if they did, while they did. Sudden change can create chaos. Caution can protect us.”

“So, to adapt to change without necessarily losing total faith in the past?”

“Yes. We can, if we will to, learn to see old issues from a new perspective.”

…………..

The Page of Wands looked strangely familiar, and yet .. It was the image of a young boy dressed up in clothes that he didn’t seem to feel comfortable wearing.

“What does it say to us?”

“It wouldn’t same the same to me as it would to you.”

“How do you know? Or do you?”

“What does that mean?”

“When anything, or anyone, speaks to our inner knowing, we’re receiving a message, and we know it.”

“Can it be an important message?”

“It’s always more than important. It’s vital to our self-interest, and to our personal world.”

“That would create inner tension.”

“Yes.”

“Who wants inner tension?”

“It’s not a case of wanting.”

“Then, needing?”

“Yes.”

“Why do we need inner stress?”

“There’s a difference between stress and tension.”

“In degrees?”

“In cause. The situation causes tension, and ..”

“Ignoring the message of tension causes stress?”

“Yes.”

“So, if we feel stressed, then it’s not directly caused by the situation?”

“Exactly. Too many people seem to attempt to cope with stress with medication, instead of meditating on its possible cause, either alone or with a trusted and qualified teacher.”

“Are we talking about you and me?”

“Yes, and anyone else who cares to listen.”

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A simple seeker’s note to herself

Thinking back, what did I learn about tension and stress?

“You may have learned that tension is a necessary part of daily life.”

“Things don’t always go smoothly?”

“Exactly, and that’s a blessing.”

“How can tension be considered as a blessing?”

“Without tension, nothing can happen. Nothing can move. Nothing can get done. Nothing can grow or change.”

“What causes tension?”

“Opposing forces.”

“Such as?”

“The desire to learn more, to do more, and to become more than we now seem to be, and yet to fear change.”

“Why do we fear change?”

“Change is as the unknown. We don’t know what will be expected of us.”

“By whom? Or what?”

“Perhaps, by ourselves.”

“Lack of self-confidence can keep us stuck in old ways of doing, thinking, and being?”

“Yes.”

…..

A simple seeker was accepting the reality of being something akin to being possessed, even though the very thought of that possibility sent shivers of fear through her body. It seemed to bring memories, or stories, or where they from lived experiences of an earlier lifetime, of the torture inflicted upon millions of helpless individuals, (mostly young women), who were accused of being witches, by self-proclaimed but generally accepted male representatives of God.

Of course, Spirit may not be a spirit at all, but a materialized adept, living. in a secret community, perhaps in the mountains of northern India, and using occult powers to control her, or attempt to, or attracted to her by the Universal Law of Attraction, to harmonize His wisdom with her simple thinking.

“What is a materialized adept?”

“A highly evolved spirit who has chosen a human disguise, in order to develop enlightenment among ordinary humans.”

“So, a spirit in disguise as a human?”

“Yes.”

“Aren’t we all playing that game?”

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A simple seeker’s note to herself

Thinking back to my discussion with Spirit about materialized adepts, if there are any. It might be as a game to Him, but for some of us, we may not be aware of being more than physical humans.

“Perhaps, for some, they’re not yet aware of being much more than animals.”

“Are we all materialized adepts?”

“Yes, and no.”

“What does that mean?”

“What do you think it might mean?”

“That we’re each and all spirit beings, living in a physical body.”

“Yes. And the problem arises of how to live in harmony with people who may possess different states of awareness, and a possibly infinite variety of personal rules of conduct toward other people.”

“Strict, general rules of order would necessarily have to be designed to ensure peaceful co-existence.”

“Yes, and if necessary, enforced.”

“By whom?”

“By those who have power and/or a sense of responsibility to do so.”

“How do they get that power?”

“Freely given, or taken.”

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