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The Archive of Stanley MessengerThe IntraterrestrialsA Foretaste of the New World |
L Whatever’s the matter, Mel? You’re as white as a sheet.
M Sit down a minute, Lu. Where have you been?
L Only up to the shops. What’s happened?
M Fiona. She’s had another heart-attack. The doctor’s with her now.
L Is it serious?
M Worse than last time I’m sure. The boys are out too. I was on my own.
L Oh Mel! I’m so sorry. Did you phone emergency? I’d have thought they’d send an ambulance.
M It seems they send a local G.P. to see how serious it is. I heard him pick up the phone, so I presume... here he comes. How is she, doctor?
Dr She’s stable, but she’s not conscious... I’ve sent for the ambulance. Are you her daughters?
M No, we’re a sort of community here. As far as I know there are no relatives, certainly no close ones.
Dr I think you should be prepared for a serious outcome. So there’s no next-of-kin?
L You’ll really have to ask Richard. This is a charitable trust. We’re all trustees, but Richard has handled the business side. I’m afraid he’s out at the moment.
Dr One of you should really go with the ambulance.
M It’ll be Hereford will it?
Dr Certainly at first. You never really know these days.
M I’ll go, shan’t I, Lu? I hope Richard and Joe come back before the ambulance comes.
L I’ll go with you if they don’t. Can two people go, doctor?
Dr It’s sometimes all right. I’ll go back to her. I’ll wait till the ambulance gets here if you like. They aren’t usually very long. Sometimes if they’re carrying an extra attendant there’s only room for one. Could you not go in your own car, then you could all go. I can tell you how to get there.
M Thanks very much. You’re being very helpful. Can we see her?
Dr By all means. She may recover consciousness fairly soon, but it may be much longer. As I say, she’s stable at the moment.
M What sort of attack is it?
Dr It’s a heart infarct. Has she had any trouble before?
M She’s had a mild seizure a few weeks ago. But she recovered very quickly, almost at once really.
Dr Yes, I thought that might have been how it was. Here comes the ambulance now. That’s quick, even for them. They must have been fairly nearby. You two need to relax! Put the kettle on, I should.
L (crying) I’ve got an awful feeling this may be it, Mel. I knew Plymouth was too much for her. We ought not to have let her go.
M Cheer up, darling. There’s no stopping Fiona if she’s set her heart on something.
L And it’s just her heart that’s let her down. Come in, it’s through here. The doctor’s with her.
M I wish Richard would come.
L Come on, sweetheart. We can’t both be helpless females.
M The back door will be easier for the stretcher, officer. I’ll move these chairs. Is she still unconscious?
Dr Yes, but she’s breathing quite steadily now. No more snoring. I’ve steadied her down with an injection. She’ll be all right till she gets to hospital.
M Can you tell us how to get to the hospital?
Dr You know the way into Hereford? The hospital’s well sign-posted as you get into town from this end.
M I think we’ll wait for the others and all go in together.
Dr I’ll be going now. Here’s my card if you need me for anything.
L Thanks very much doctor. You’re very calming. Is she going to be all right?
Dr This isn’t a massive attack. I doubt if she’ll go this time. By ‘serious outcome’ I mean there’s a good chance of a massive attack later on. It could be tomorrow, or in six months or a few years. We can never tell. But she won’t be as active as before.
M Thank you doctor. We’ll look after her.
Dr I’m sure you will. Bye now.
L What a very nice doctor. Dishy too.
M Lu, you’re incorrigible. I don’t know how Joe puts up with you.
L I adore Joe. Joe is a perfect angel. I never make Joe jealous. Joe is exactly what girls like me need. But nobody could call him dishy. I like dishy men.
M So it seems.
L Oh don’t be like that Mel. There’s a certain sort of man who instils confidence at moments of crisis, and it is very often the ones with sex-appeal that have that gift. They may be absolute swine at the same time, though I don’t think that doctor is. Mel, don’t misjudge me. I’m O.K. honestly I am. It’s just that I know my way about in a way that you probably never had the opportunity or inclination for. You can knock spots off me in all sorts of other ways.
M I’m sorry Lu, it’s just that I’m still in a bit of shock over Fiona. I’m beginning to realise how much I’ve been depending on her. In spite of what you say I feel a bit guilty that I didn’t make more effort to stop her overdoing it.
L I think she might well have been heading for this attack in any case. It isn’t only physical strain that brings these things on. I’m quite sure she keeps a hell of a lot under her hat. She carries quite a lot more responsibility for the way things are developing in I.T. than the rest of us. She must often be tempted to control things in a way I’m quite sure she would be well able to. And she doesn’t. She gives us our heads in a way very many older people wouldn’t dare to. Here come the lads I think. They seem to be deep in conversation about something and they’re hurrying.
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R We’ve just seen the ambulance up in the village, coming from this direction. Is anything the matter?
M Fiona’s had another heart attack, a serious one this time. She’s all right for now, but the doctor seems to feel she’s far from out of danger.
R You know, we were sure there was something of that sort as soon as we saw the ambulance. She was very quiet all the way back from Plymouth, but I knew there was a lot going on. I was expecting her to come out with a lot of stuff about the meeting when we got back, but she went straight to her room.
J I went in to see her late. We talked from a long time.
L Why didn’t you let on?
J She asked me not to. Is she going to live, Lu?
L I don’t know. I have a feeling she may not. She didn’t recover consciousness.
J It’s amazing, this attack, in the light of what she said to me. I think we should go to the hospital. When she comes round from this I’m sure she will be very anxious to tell you what she told me. She needed to speak to us all herself, or I would try to share it now.
R What if she doesn’t survive?
J I think she will. I think she’ll do her utmost to share with us all. If not I’ll obviously tell you all I can. But I know there was a whole lot more to come.
M The beings will surely do their best through the rest of us. But she has a capacity to plumb far greater depths with them than the rest of us achieved, at any rate until now. I think we’d better go.
R Do you know the way? We can all pile into my car. Come on.
*****
F I’m so glad you’ve come. I seem to have been away for ages. Are you all here?
M Yes, but the sister will only allow us in two at a time.
F Pity. It means I’ll have to repeat a lot of what I need to say, because you all need to hear it. Lean closer. I can’t speak louder than this.
L Darling, how are you really? I’m so very sorry we all happened to be out but Mel when you had the attack. We all feel we should have done more to look after you. It was obvious Plymouth had tired you out.
F You aren’t to blame yourselves. It al had to happen the way it did. Plymouth was very, very important, and I had to be there. There was no other way.
L You were absolutely incredible. I mean, you have been wonderfully clear all along, both on your own and with the beings. But this time you excelled yourself.
F Have you been discussing what happened at all?
M We’ve hardly said a word about it since we came back, and we were all pretty tired on the journey home. In a state of euphoria really.
F Well it was pretty wonderful, wasn’t it? Even dear Paul. The poor boy was simply taken by storm.
L The actual content of what you and Meruel put over was so overwhelming that nobody really had a chance to question the authenticity of the communications. And as for Ophromine! (laughter)
M Well, of course, he was absolutely hilarious. The look on that woman’s face when he told her through Joe that he’d been expecting her at the meeting and had a message for her husband about his drinking!
L She’d been looking for trouble all evening hadn’t she? I think she thought she’d strayed into a spiritualist séance.
F She as good as told Joe he was a phoney medium.
L Poor Joe! I don’t think he’s got over it yet.
M I saw them in conversation after the meeting and I think they’d sorted it out a bit by then.
F Well, it was all pretty amazing. But it isn’t at all what I need to talk to you about. The trouble is I already feel pretty weak and tired after just these few sentences. I think what I’m going to have to do is write a lot of it down. Then you can read it to each other at home. Then when you come to see me, as I hope you will, you can do most of the talking, ask questions and make comments, and perhaps we can have a series of sessions like that.
L I’ll tell you what, darling. We’ll ask sister if we can go off for half an hour now. We’ll all go off and have a meal in Hereford, and then the boys can come back and have a short session with you later. We’ll buy you a big pad of paper and some ball points. You go and arrange that with sister, Mel, and I’ll stay and make a list of things Fiona wants.
F I really don’t know how long I’ve been in here. What day is it?
L Friday.
F Good lord! I must have been in here three days. I thought it was only Wednesday.
L You’ve had quite a bad do. But you’re pretty tough though aren’t you? I’m sure you’ll be able to tell us all you need to.
M Bye for now, darling. See you very soon (kisses her)
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R Can we come in?
F Yes, do come in. I’ve been having a snooze. I was very pleased and relieved to see the girls, but I feel very weak and I needed a lot more sleep. Thanks so much for dropping in and the pad and pens. I’ve been writing and writing ever since I woke.
J I managed to restrain myself completely when I got back. I felt it was really important everybody should hear what you told me directly from you. It’s not only that it was so incredible, but even more that we should otherwise all have had the feeling we might have got some of it wrong.
F Now at least two of you will be here at a time, so one can confirm or modify what the other thinks I said.
R Shouldn’t we be writing down what you say now, just in case you aren’t so well next time someone visits?
F What you really mean is, suppose I pop off during the night before you’ve heard it all, which I may well do. I find now I’ve got to this point that I have a pretty good general idea what’s happening to me.
J What are you saying, sweetheart? Are you saying you think you’re not going to make it this time?
F Joe, there isn’t such a thing as not making it when we are engaged in the sort of thing we’ve been doing. The process is going at an incredible rate for all seven of us. We have no idea at our stage whether the particular communications we are responsible for are better made from this side or from over, where Meruel and Ophromine and countless billions of other beings are. Several times recently I’ve begun to have a feeling of limitation, as if I was losing the capacity to put things into words. I think it is probably true it’s time I "shuffled off this mortal coil" as Shakespeare so graphically put it. I think it would considerably enhance the process for the rest of you if I did. I could make a much stronger bridge for you between the two conditions from over there. Besides, I need to get to Michael and a whole lot of other beings, on their own terms, as it were. Oh I know what you’re going to say... you’ll miss having me about and all that. I love you too! But you won’t have got rid of me, not by a long chalk. Having me interrupting your conversations along with the others will enhance your confidence no end. It’ll be very good for you.
R All the same, short of exhausting you more than necessary, I’d love it if you were able to say some of the things you told Joe while you’re still on this side, as I’m sure you will be for some time.
F The thing is I’m already a little bit over the threshold now. I’ve begun to get a general idea of what is lining up for the group along several fronts. For instance, if you decide you really want to meet Jesus and some of the others from 2000 years ago you probably can. It’s a question of whether it’s ‘on your path’, as they say, or on his for that matter.
J He is about, then? I mean, is he in a physical body again, aware of who he is and all that?
F Oh yes, indeed. I’ve become very much aware of that in the last two or three days. I don’t seem to see that I shall be meeting him in a physical sense though. That’s one of the reasons I have this idea that I’ll be going over soon. But I’ve been having some quite distinct pictures of what Jesus and his associatesthis time round are up to.
J That’s what I found so extraordinary and important in what you said yesterday.
F Well a great deal of that is what I’ve been writing down. I hope you can start having sessions back at Garway and read some of it to each other. I’ve been slipping over into a realm where he and I have been having some long conversations with each other. Here comes Sister I think to turn you out. I’ll give you this wodge of papers. See if you can go through them tonight, and I’ll try and have a lot more for you if the girls can come tomorrow. Have you let Andrew and Maggie know?
R Not yet. We’re ringing them tonight. They’ll be up again on Saturday in any case.
F Well off you go. I can hardly speak at the moment.
J You’re wonderful, and we all love you lots.
F See you! One way or the other!
*****
L How was she?
J Amazing! She talked at great length, but very slowly and quietly.
R We had to sit quite close to the bed and bend over to hear her.
J She handed us a bundle of papers as we left. She’s written screeds of stuff. She wants us to have a session this evening and read some of it aloud.
M I want to hear it all.
R Oh my god! Look at this. She’s written her will. She’s quite sure she’s on her way over, you know.
L Oh bless her, the darling.
R She’s made me her executor. Obviously this is one of the things she wants read out this evening.
M Don’t let that overlap with the other stuff. Surely as executor you’re not supposed to read it, or share it before she dies.
R No, that’s perfectly true. I wasn’t thinking straight.
L Let’s have supper, and then have a session about eight.
R It looks as if there’s enough here for several sessions.
M We could start as soon as we finish eating; leave the washing up till the morning.
J M+ "Don’t forget Ophromine and me. We may well both have something to contribute. We were in touch while she was writing. I don’t know if you realised it, but she and I were the only ones in your group who could communicate non-verbally. The rest of you are still dependant on actual conversation to know what we are communicating".
L Can the rest of us reach that point as well?
J M+ "Well it’s not the sort of thing you can bring about directly by conscious effort. It grows in its own time as a capacity resulting from the general growth of your insights, and particularly from the heart connections you are making. What I can say is that you are all on the way to it. I would have suggestions as to how you might strengthen your direct control over the times when you are in touch with us. Some groups form which start in quite a different way, by creating a set of circumstances in which they listen to what they feel we want to say, and then write down what they think we are saying. This works well when the initiators of the process are already strongly in touch with us on an intuitive level. A great proportion of what they write down then really emanates from us. But in most cases there is an element of contrivance about it, and it easily slips over into partly mediumistic channelling. It can sometimes be quite difficult then for people to free themselves from that, and reach genuine dialogue with us, in which the process of mutual creation such as we are engaged in has a chance to grow."
L What are you suggesting we do, then?
J M+ "I have to make clear to start with that there is quite a number of groups now working who are achieving something that has never before actually taken place in human spiritual development. Moreover none of these groups is exactly like any of the others. Each has to invent its own path as it goes along just as you have been doing. You have not yet met any other grouping of this kind, so you have nothing to compare yourselves with, no mirror as it were in which you are reflected. If you had you would be able to get an inkling of a spiritual outsider’s view of what it is that is unique about your group."
M I can see that it would be very difficult for you to substitute for that possibility in our karma, because you are at least in part our invention, just as we are yours.
J M+ "Yes. And that is where the matter would rest but for the fact that your stimulation of my self-awareness has opened other paths for me in my natural archangelic sphere which would otherwise remain closed. I have become aware in quite a new way of what is going on among other archangels. I recognise when some of them are having similar experiences to my own, and this enables me to sense something about the particular way in which our group is unique."
M Can you describe that?
J I can try!
M+ "In trying to pick up the mood of what I take to be the effect of parallel groups on what I will refer to as my colleagues….(you understand, don’t you, that I feel slightly ridiculous talking like this, because I can’t really yet describe in your terms how we as archangels relate to each other at this level)... . However, what I was about to say was that I have not yet sensed that any other group has started with your quite unusual facility for talking to each other straight out of our non-verbal level, and into your fully verbal one, without any intermediate stage of struggle to express us. Of course I can only speak for myself, for Ophromine to some extent, and to a much less extent for Michael, who is in some ways as much of a mystery to me as he is to you".
R Why do you think this is, Meruel? I mean this particular facility of ours?
J M+ "Let me talk through you, Richard, for a bit. Joe’s getting tired again. You often overdo it a bit, don’t you Joe?
R Are you all right, Joe?
J Yes, fine. Too much makes me feel a bit drunk.
R M+ "Well you get near to a sort of channelling if you stretch yourselves too far. We all need to pay constant attention to this.
M Meruel, what do you think has given our group this special facility?
R M+ "I think we’ve already touched on this. It’s certainly a matter of something you’ve done together in a past life or lives. I’ve already hinted that you were together at the time of the consciousness-soul revolution. You took part at some level in the process which resulted in the Shakespeare plays. As I see it, you developed something then which has resulted in this extraordinary facility with words now. You all have it, whatever your educational backgrounds have been this time. You call it the gift of the gab. It enables you in the first place to communicate with each other with the absolute minimum of misunderstanding. It’s extraordinary! I’ve said before that what you call ‘Shakespeare’ was in some sense a corporate effort. Something of that reappears now in your virtual interchangeability when I or Ophromine convert our meaning into speech through you. Other groups have much more difficulty in doing this, and one such group is the one through which Jesus and his associates operate. The present day people who embody that group from 2000 years ago are a far more diverse group of seven than yours. They have a far wider scope of talents than yours. It is mainly the unique one-pointedness of Jesus himself, his total devotion to Love, and his virtual continuity of consciousness along the path of development in Love, which holds the group together. Each member of the group is strongly identified with the personalities in which they related to each other, both in Palestine, and also in Egypt and in Atlantis. This is irrespective of how much they consciously remember of these lives. It is Love which holds the group together, rather than the intelligent understanding in which you seven operate. This has meant that their relationship to the divine beings who guide them is also more diverse than yours, and more based in the heart."
L Are you picking all this up through a fellow archangel, then, Meruel?
R M+ "No. It’s not quite that simple. Their relationships in Palestine 2000 years ago were linked by the Archangel Michael. At that time, five of them were in physical embodiment and two were not. Those relationships I can perceive through Michael as he was then. Now, however, Michael is at a higher level of embodiment than the archangelic, as I told you. It is Michael’s deed in altering the nature of time that enables me now to perceive that the Jesus group of souls is indeed physically embodied. It is also through Michael that you have a link with them".
L Does it seem to you, then, that this link will bring us together with them in this lifetime? Fiona said yesterday she thought it might well be possible for us to meet them if it was on our path, and also on theirs.
R M+ "My feeling is that your link with them is operating on a rather different level from that. If Fiona decides now to come over onto our side I think she will see that, and will certainly wish to facilitate it. It is through Michael that your two groups and many others are linked, and as you know he sees such groups as single points of awareness. You already connect to the Jesus group on that level."
L All this is quite wonderful. Come on now, let’s eat as soon as possible. I feel Meruel needed to say all that prepare us for what Fiona has been writing for us. The potatoes were on ages ago, Mel, they’ll be charcoal by now.
M No, I’ve just looked, they’re about ready. Come on, you two. Dinner up.
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M Who’ll read?
R It should be Joe I think. He reads very clearly, and it was he who heard the first draft, as it were, of what she had to say.
M O.K. Joe?
J Yes, all right. She’s dated it Friday. She was already quite able to sit up a bit and write within forty-eight hours. Shall I start to read?
"In hospital. Friday 19th. For Richard, Joe, Melanie, and Lucia, and for Andrew and Maggie when they come.
I’ve been a long way away. Yet I feel I haven’t left the Earth. It’s simply that the inner space of the Earth is enormously greater that we think. I feel I’ve become a denizen of the true Earth for the first time. I still don’t know whether I’ve finished yet with this physical body. I think I have, but at the same time I don’t think it will let me go until I’ve shared something more with you all. The most important thing, the only thing really, is that I’ve met the CHRIST. Even that doesn’t really express it, because in one sense I’ve actually become the CHRIST. I’ve begun to know from the inside what the CHRIST really is. That’s how I know that I’ve not left the Earth, and shant leave it, because the CHRIST has actually become the Earth, and this makes it possible for us to become the CHRIST and remain in the Earth with the CHRIST and as the CHRIST. For the first time also I’ve experienced from inside what an Intraterrestrial being really is, and what a wonderful piece of insight we were given when this word appeared in our midst.
Because , you see, it is we humans who are the most characteristic Intaterrestrials. It is we who carry the principal responsibility for the evolution of the planet into its full consciousness. And that full consciousness is the CHRIST’s self-awareness, of which we humans and no other beings are the active instruments. The CHRIST can only become fully self-aware in us. As we awaken so the CRHIST awakens in us.
What about Meruel and Ophromine then, and all the others? What about Michael? Aren’t they also intraterrestrial beings? They certainly are so, in the fullest sense. Meruel and Ophromine, as representatives of their two hierarchies of being, born here out of totally Earthly activities of consciousness, in common with more and more of their two kinds, are pioneers of a process by which human beings are becoming Earth citizens in a sense that never happened in the human history before. Until now humankind has never experienced Earth as other than the temporary place of sojourn for itself while inhabiting a physical body. Indeed in recent centuries people have regarded themselves as simply passing from non-existence before birth to non-existence after death. In earlier centuries, when forms of clairvoyance were widespread, and hierarchical and elemental beings were apparent in the environment, they were still often seen as alien, satanic even, or in any case more or less inaccessible. Humankind experienced itself as belonging to the heavens, the transcendent, unembodied world, making a brief incursion into Earth almost as a punishment, or at the least as a hard, necessary, and often unwelcome lesson. Earth was seen as a vale of tears, and the joy of heaven as something only attainable by leaving Earth, ascending from it into a transcendent sphere of being. Many Christians and other religionists still see it like this, which is why the notion of reincarnation is often so repugnant to them.
What then has changed, and in so fundamental a way? What has this change to do with the growth of communication between people and other Earthly inhabitants, and the new experience of a common destiny with them which our intraterrestrial movement has begun to open up, (I am sure as only one thread, one instance, of a widespread awakening to new realities)?
In simple language what has changed is the second coming of the CHRIST, as it has been called for the greater part of the last 2000 years. The whole evolution of humankind on the planet has been nothing but a preparation for the awakening of the planet itself as a unified conscious entity. In cosmic terms this is no less than saying that this planet Earth is on its way to becoming a Star. In this light the statement that when we die we don’t ‘go to heaven’, we go to Earth sounds a little different! It is an Earth with a cosmic destiny. Going to Earth is not a descent into a lower region. It is an ascent into a New World. This New World is itself the CHRIST, as we are. In an analogous way to that in which the vast expanded awareness of each reincarnating human being disappears at each new embodiment into a fertilised ovum, sacrificing its consciousness totally to the complex processes of embodiment and growth, so does the CHRIST. As the ultimate role-model of the human condition the CHRIST plunged 2000 years ago, through the agency of Jesus at the crucifixion, into the planetary ovum, and there lost the consciousness of the whole of unified humanity in utter commitment to planetary embodiment and growth. Now, 2000 years later this planetary incarnating entity wakes to its first stage of conscious life, just as a foetus-baby-toddler wakes at its change of teeth to the awareness of a little six-year old child. We can put it like this. The CHRIST as a planetary infant has just reached its change of teeth!
How does Steiner’s ‘anthroposophy’ describe this event when it takes place in an ordinary human infant? It refers to the fact that the life form surrounds the adult human being as a kind of sheath, whose first layer, as it were, is called the ether-body. Some clairvoyants see it as a cloud-like nimbus round the physical form, extending beyond it for a variable distance, from a few inches to several feet, depending on the energy level obtaining at the time. Some clairvoyants describe this as a misty colourless cloud, hardly to be distinguished from a physical, perhaps electro-magnetic, energy field, corresponding perhaps to what Rupert Sheldrake calls a morphogenetic field. This is clearly not what Rudolf Steiner referred to in his anthroposophical descriptions, which was something not to be described in three-dimensional terms at all.
It has more of a two-dimensional character, and was to be perceived as a moving area of vivid colours which varied according to the life-processes, nutritive, eliminatory, tropic or whatever and to changes in the other bodily systems, taking place in the organism. The ether body occurs in its simplest form in connection with living plants, both as they develop and as they die away. This true etheric ‘body’ blends in its finest essence with further so-called sheaths beyond it with which it resonates. The next level is known as the astral which connects with the animal level of activity. This is even less spatial, one-dimensional, perceived more in terms of sound than of vision. And there are still more refined structures beyond that again.
When anthroposophy describes the incarnation of a human infant, it sees the mother when she becomes pregnant as becoming much more active in all these auric levels, from the simple morphogenetic energy field through to the astral and beyond. Separation and individualisation of the child’s auric fields is not completed until the change of teeth in the sixth or seventh year. In recent times this natural succession has been ever more distorted by the wresting of human life out of its natural relationships in every sphere of life. More and more children are forced too early out of their etheric and astral nurturing within the mother’s field of auric protection.
For the CHRIST in its process of becoming a planetary self it is the Earth itself which is the Mother. The CHRIST has been developing over the last 2000 years as the evolving foetal offspring in the womb of the planet, reaching its birth at the time of the consciousness soul with the European renaissance, and now during the early part of this 20th century emerging into independent etheric identity. We can perceive the CHRIST as an actual budding of the Earth’s own etheric aura into an independent offshoot in the atmosphere of the Earth. It is precisely this which was expressed at the time of the so-called ascension of the CHRIST when he prophesied:- "I will come again in the clouds". This is like a second birth of the CHRIST in the Earth, but this time on the etheric level. The small human being goes through the same rebirth at the time of the change of teeth when it acquires a measure of separate etheric identity from its earthly mother.
What we are describing here is an actual self-discovery of the CHRIST at the level of a small planetary child. This has made possible for us human-beings a quality of self-discovery never before possible for us in our lives on Earth. This child-like self-discovery of the CHRIST in the ‘encircling round’ of the Earth awakens in us at the same time. More and more human beings are making this discovery at this time. We are realising that this is our only true identity as human beings. We can call it a higher self if we like, but this is still rather a separative term, carrying the old notion of ascending out of the Earth into a separate heaven. It is better to feel it as our real self, in contrast to the dying husk of personality which is still tied to the processes of death and reincarnation.
The discovery I have been making is simply this. The Earth is where the action is. Here and now is where the deed of CHRIST is going on. And this scenario is largely independent of whether we are in a physical body or not. This is not to say that being in a physical body is losing its importance. But the nature of the physical body is changing as the CHRIST emerges day by day further into self-realisation in us. So death is changing too. We will move towards a time when the discarding of certain elements of our embodiment will change its nature. I am beginning to experience a foretaste of this time.
There is a very strange way of expressing this which will sound to people very eccentric even slightly mad. Of course, Christians have always spoken of eternal life, of overcoming death and so on. But this has been a very one-sided doctrinal matter. The assumption has been that Christians will die as usual, but that after death they will ‘go to heaven’, however they have understood this. What I am beginning to experience is altogether different in tone from this. I begin to feel that the re-appearance of the CHRIST in the life-energies of the Earth is effecting changes in how I undergo my own feeling of being alive. Not only that, I feel what I can only call a kind of selectivity in the way in which my tired old physical frame moves towards "death".
How this will appear to you as further changes happen in me, I don’t know. A number of times in my life I have been with people who have died, and though I have been aware of some of them to some extent after death, this has not lasted very long. I have not had the feeling that their death was very different than it would have been had I not been aware of them afterwards. Maybe my own so-called death will not be all that different. Yet somehow I feel it will. I feel I will, so to speak, ‘die’. At the same time I think it will be a very partial death. This is what I mean by eccentric or a little mad. Put it this way. I am quite sure you will be aware of a lot more embodied existence left behind of me, as it were. Perhaps it will be in a few days’ time, certainly not very far in the future. The way in which we experience each other will be different, but I think a lot less different than we would have expected. I think to some extent I shall ‘die’. But only to some extent. We shall see. I can already see a lot about the Earth changes that are already starting to happen and will happen a lot more".
L Joe, will you stop a minute?
J What’s the matter, love?
L This is all having a very powerful effect on me. I don’t know quite what’s going on. It makes me feel I want to die too. At the same time it’s making me realise that actually none of us needs to die. You know how quite often I used to… what I called going out of my body?
J You don’t do that any more, do you?
L No, the communications have made all that more stable. But I think I’m beginning to understand why I used to do that. In my case it had something to do with the drugs I used to take. Instead of being able to rise to a higher level of perception from time to time, using finer aspects of my body to accompany the shifting aura, and to record what was happening... instead of doing that I used to shoot out, and then when I got back, not really know what I had experienced.
M What effect did the drugs have then?
L I think they had the effect of condensing the sheaths into a sort of hard lump, where I experienced intensely vivid extensions of physical perception. This meant loosening the attachment of the higher and lower levels to each other.
M What I think Fiona is saying is that the so-called ‘new death’ process enables the auric sheaths to appropriate rather more of the finer bodily elements to themselves at the time of release of the heavier exhausted parts of the body.
R Yes, and this is due to the alteration of the auric nature of the Earth itself since the CRHIST woke up in it.
M Not only the aura of the Earth. Don’t you remember them saying that the CHRIST was now entering the Heart of the material world?
L No wonder she feels so odd about the prospect of dying. If we hadn’t had all these experiences in the last months, I think we really would think she was going a bit crazy. It made me feel, as I said, that I wanted to die myself. But what I really meant was, I wanted to get rid of all the heavy worn out parts of my body and take the light-filled living parts with me.
M I think we all need to go on the path towards the CHRIST that Fiona went along before we are really ready to do that. It would be like going into quite a New World.
L I think we shall all do that. Can you go on reading Joe? Is there a lot more?
J Pages and pages. I’ve been glancing at it. It seems to go into something quite different about how it will be after the Earth changes.
L Perhaps we should leave that till another session. Let’s ring up and see how she is.
(Melanie goes off and phones)
*****
M The sister says she’s asleep. She’s done a lot more writing. Sister will phone if there’s any change.
R Whatever happens I think the work is going to be very different.
L This writing of hers is changing it already.
J While you were talking, Lu, a very curious thought struck me. You may think it as mad as Fiona thought she was being. It was when Melanie said that about the separating self drawing more of the lighter elements of the body and sheaths into itself at the time of separation than happens with the kind of death we are used to. I wonder if that will happen more and more as the CHRIST takes an ever deeper hold on the matter of the Earth. Perhaps it will reach a point of balance when very little residue from the ageing process needs to separate.
M So death then becomes more like a critical elimination process of worn out elements of the physical body.
R Plus purged aspects of the sheaths, negative feelings, toxicity of all sorts at an astral level.
L Leaving behind a sort of purified physical-etheric-astral self which is more or less immortal, a sort of resurrection body, increasingly immortal as time goes on, if that doesn’t sound too Irish. I had a feeling of this when I said I wanted to die, but really didn’t see why we ultimately needed to.
J Jesus said "I am the way". I wonder if these pictures are some sort of clue to what really went on after the crucifixion. Did Joseph of Arimathea and Magdalene manage, with enormous difficulty, to rescue an element in Jesus which survived death altogether? Jesus may really have been the forerunner of something we can all attain to now that the CHRIST has come again in the clouds. He said that would be so, didn’t he?
M Christianity has always been confused about the resurrection and the ascension. The resurrection of Jesus and the ascension of CHRIST to the right hand of God are two quite different things. But one couldn’t have happened without the other.
L What does the right hand of God mean, then?
R Clearly it means the Earth. This is where it’s all happening.
*****
L Let’s go on reading. Do you want to go on, Joe?
J Who else wants to? I’d like to listen a bit.
M I’ll have a go.
R ¤ "I want to listen in, and perhaps chip in a bit too. I was with her when she was writing this bit. It’s all about how to transform the most materialistic bits of the Earth into something the CHRIST can live with. I know all this from both sides on, as it were."
M Oh, It’s Ophromine.
R ¤ "Of course it’s me. Who did you think it was? Who else would be interested when Fiona began to look at Earth details from half way across the bridge? I’m involved, both when people rape and exploit the Earth and subjugate everything with money, and also when they start redeeming, alchemising and transforming it with Love through the CHRIST. I know it all from both sides, so of course it’s me! I wish you didn’t find Meruel so much easier to recognise."
M Do you know why that is, Ophromine? There, I didn’t ask you what you think this time.
R ¤ "You’re learning! Yes I do know why it is. So do you. You’re on the way to the CHRIST. This fact about you is crucial to me as well as to you. I’m extremely intelligent, but it is not a thinking intelligence like yours, it’s built into the actual created substance of the Earth. Earth is in thrall to Ahriman, unless you reach the CHRIST, and allow the CHRIST to wake, which means waking in you. Unless this happens, I too am in thrall to Ahriman. It’s up to you whether I remain an Ahrimanic spirit or not. I’ve told you before, I and my fellows have waited thousands of years millions of years, for this. Of course, there are no years in this sense, but you know what I mean. We have been desperate for what seems like eternity. What makes you ignore me in a way you don’t ignore Meruel is that you are scared of me. This will go on until you commit yourselves to the CHRIST, then everything you fear in me you would love to the same degree. Love and fear are the same."
J Why have you suddenly become so interested now Fiona is at her crisis point?
R ¤ "You’ll find that out if you take in properly what she’s written next".
L Go on, Mel. We really need to hear this now. Ophromine, thank you. We treat you abominably.
R ¤ "You can’t help it. I hope it will change."
M Here goes then. Where did you get to, Joe?
J Let’s look. Here it is. She was saying Earth changes would happen a lot more.
M I’ll go on from there. She goes on:-
"In one way we can say quite blatantly that the Earth is rapidly becoming uninhabitable. But this is only one half of the picture. The other is that humankind is changing equally rapidly in, as it were, the opposite direction. By this I mean that the Earth is only becoming uninhabitable to that element in humanity which it needs to discard in parallel to what the Earth is discarding. Humanity needs to discard everything which will weigh down intolerably that in it which is becoming CHRIST-compatible. Exactly, in fact, as the Earth is doing. From the point of view of a pure destruction scenario both humanity and the Earth are dying, just as I am. You already know how I am experiencing this in myself. This enables me to see that I am one of those who are becoming conscious in myself of what is happening to the whole of humanity and the planet. In other words, the Earth is becoming uninhabitable, and so are our human bodies, to that which is not becoming the CHRIST, and only to that.
Am I making a general statement here about the whole of humanity? Is literally everybody, whether consciously or not, on the way to the CHRIST? Is Hitler on the way to the CHRIST? One thing is certain, that nobody, nobody at all, lies outside the definition of a human being as understood and created by the CHRIST. No human being exists in substantial form apart from substance as it itself is. And substance is Love. There is no other. All that is possible is God. Any human being who is on the way to anywhere is on the way to the CHRIST, even if it appears to be going in the opposite direction, because there is only one way, which is the Way, the Tao. It is possible even probable, that there are human beings whose substantial existence is diminishing. But so long as any substantial reality exists in them, that substance is Love, and to this they have access, if only by the bare fact of their existence. No other being has the right, or indeed the ability, to judge the extent of any other human being’s substantial existence. No doubt the parable of the prodigal son indicates that the journey to the CHRIST may for some people be indefinitely long. But no other human being has the right, or the ability, to deny or abort the journey of another.
Having said this, it also has to be said that there are particular projects. The path of humanity is one of Becoming, and the CHRIST is our name for that which humanity is becoming. But this vast drama of becoming is not by that token a seamless whole. This is both free and inevitable, because the mysterious fabric of humanity is woven both of inevitability and of freedom. The human path is seeded along the way with free choices, and these choices are influenced by what each individual becomes aware of. People who become aware of the awakening CHRIST will probably make different choices from those who stay asleep. The most fundamental rift in the seamless garment of humanity is that of consciousness. There are multiple streams of awareness of all complexions and qualities. These choices and alternatives, as Ophromine points out, vitally affect other spiritual beings which have an interest in the evolution of the planet. Some plans and scenarios for the development of the planet are made impossible by the limits imposed on them by the fact that much of humanity has not woken to the waking planetary entity itself. Other miraculous and unforeseen plants become possible because some of humanity has woken, woken at a rate and to a degree that the gods did not foresee, perhaps could not have foreseen.
Once people start waking to the new presence of the CHRIST, and more and more such people are waking, the majority then become ‘Earth Choosers’! They become aware that the CHRIST energies are awake here, and they ‘want in’. Their choice to be involved plays an increasing part in heightening Earth energies. The process of discarding unwanted elements of the burnt out Earth and their own burnt out bodies accelerates. But what is releasing and heightening for them appears in a very different light to those who have made different choices or no choice at all. We start to enter a period of what appear as disasters for those who have acquired no wish for things to change. What has been called "The Year of the Storm" approaches. What has been held together in the Earth under increasing tension through the pressure of one-sided, unawakened human aims reaches critical instability. For increasing numbers of people who have, to different degrees, passed successive thresholds of transformation, and who are now partly released from the pressure of their own dying organisms, these changes in the Earth are experienced as confirming and supporting the changes going on in themselves. But for the rest, The Year of the Storm is an experience of holocaust and apocalypse. Millions will die. When they come to seek reincarnation, they will find an Earth transformed beyond the stage where it can fulfil their further needs.
But they are still human. Love is still the substance of their Being, and Love is infinitely creative. Their own need will itself bring into existence the venues they need for further evolution. "In my Fathers house are many mansions" was how Jesus put it."
L What does she really mean there, do you think? That people who can’t cope with Earth changes...
M ...Not only Earth changes; can’t cope with changes in themselves.
L ...Yes of course. Those are part of changes in the Earth, aren’t they? Does she simply mean they’ll go off to other planets, or somewhere where conditions are more familiar and less demanding?
M Or do you think they’ll continue to work things out on the Earth, but at a diminished level of consciousness?
J Surely that’s what’s happening now. That’s why we have the feeling that scientific materialism, though enormously intelligent, actually operates in people at a lower level of consciousness than even fairly unintelligent spirituality.
M Spirituality doesn’t have to be unintelligent.
J No. That’s what Steiner’s ‘heart thinking’ is in aid of. Thinking, but not the constipated entropic thinking of the brain.
L I feel she really does mean that huge numbers of people who are not able to rise to these levels, and who have threatened the Earth’s and their own survival on that account, will necessarily be hived off elsewhere. By their own choice also, of course, when they perceive things after death.
R I’m sure she must be working up to something. It’s not like Fiona to go on with generalities for page after page unless she had some sort of bombshell up her sleeve.
M Oh Richard, for God’s sake! What a metaphor. You’re as bad as Joe and Lucia with their fairy-cake carousels.
L Worse! At least ours are picturesque.
R Well, a bombshell anyway. Will under our feet do?
L That’s better.
J She has.
L Has what?
J Got a bombshell up her jumper.
L Don’t you start, Joe.
J The thing she asked me to keep quiet about hasn’t even appeared in what she’s written so far. She’s simply laying the groundwork for it. Reading ahead while you’ve been nattering I think she’s coming to it now.
M Richard, you read for a bit.
R If you say so. Where are we? Oh yes. ‘Many mansions’, said Jesus. She goes on:-
"All this is by way of preparing you to take a further step in your own self-realisation as a group. You have to start to accept that the work we have done together has brought us to the point where we are capable of certain responsibilities we would never have dreamed of before we started on this I.T. work. We have put ourselves in such a position that we need to make a conscious choice whether to stay with the Earth in the Sense I have been describing. What I am seeing is that we are actually being given that choice. We have been chosen to take such a responsibility. But of course we are still free beings. We are perfectly free to say no, and just go off with millions of others through the holocaust, detach ourselves from the destiny of CHRIST and of the Earth, and continue as karmic pedestrians elsewhere, in much the same way as we have for several millennia already.
It may look an obvious, even an easy choice to make. Apart from false humility, who in their senses would turn down such an offer? But of course it’s not quite that easy. That degree of waking is like emerging from an anaesthetic… Wonderful to be awake and alive, but there will be no more suppression of pain. We will be waking into freedom, and you know what the price of that is. Yes, eternal vigilance! Not necessarily a very comfortable option. Meruel steps in here.
M M+ "That’s why I’ve been giving you hints that you will not be entering such a New World naked, in a state of amnesia, not having the faintest idea why you were chosen, as chosen you were. You have to come to terms with memory, and memory starts with understanding. It’s much better to come to an understanding of who you have been in past existences than to have some of these past-life regressions, where somebody unfolds the tally of your past lives like a story that happened to someone else. That may even start by blocking your memories through shock. I’ve given you an indication already that you were involved at the time of Shakespeare. The whole awakening at that time was linked with what we call the Rosicrucian impulse. The Renaissance was to a large extent under the supervision of a being called Christian Rosenkreutz. What started to emerge was a series of soul archetypes.
New kinds of human beings started to emerge, which set the parameters within which arose the new soul level called consciousness soul, of which Rudolf Steiner elaborated the most vivid descriptions. One set of such archetypes, clearly, are the leading characters in Shakespeare’s plays. But these are only the best known of them.
The human types which emerged in you through Joe’s imagination came straight out of that same treasure chest. They constitute, if you like, the best evidence that the I.T. impulse has that same impeccable ancestry. You are a like a suit of seven cards, each one superbly and artistically fashioned for the playing of a particular game. They can be relied upon to hold each its identifiable and dependable character in all manner of combinations and situations. This is what is so unique and wonderful too about Shakespeare’s principal characters. Each one is an artistic whole. You can’t analyse them into psychological types, and classify them, and compare them by some common yardstick. Each is whole, unique, and unrepeatable.
But there is a big difference. The birth of the consciousness soul was four hundred years ago. The multitudinous archetypes which humanity gave birth to then have multiplied, and diversified, and formed themselves into the whole western culture as we know it. Humanity is ripe for a new development as fundamental as that of the Renaissance. As we have seen, this maturity of soul potential is inseparable from the rebirth of CHRIST in the etheric sphere. The two events could not have happened except in context with each other. Only opened souls could have faced the challenge of CHRIST’s reappearance. Only ripened souls could have found their way into each other’s lives and formed groups which could be recognised by Michael as having a common identity and consciousness.
You have experienced the awakening of that identity in your own group. I have every reason to believe that it will happen to many other groups".
This intervention by Meruel, and all these other thoughts and new awakenings have come to me since my attack. But I have only been able to glimpse them from half way across the bridge, as it were. The conviction is growing in me that I am being offered a new role, or perhaps a further stage of my present role with you. I think I need to join Meruel and Ophromine on a non-physical plane. Neither of them have a direct experience of what humanity is now going through. Both have shared their own experiences with us. But I feel one of us now needs to enter their perspectives as one who has immediate experience of the human condition. I believe we can continue our communications largely as before, but with the possibility of tremendous new horizons, the best of both worlds, you might say.
I am going to bring this to a close now. I have rather exhausted my physical powers in writing so long. If possible I will write more later. Meanwhile, my dears, keep in touch, one way or another! That seems to be becoming my new catch-phrase! I love you all very much.
FIONA.
*****
L There’s something I absolutely have to ask about all this. I should think we are all bursting with it.
J Go on.
L Well, obviously, why on earth us? Why on earth us? What on Earth makes us so special? I should have thought we were a pretty average bunch of mortals. How on earth do spiritual beings with their immense perspectives come to light on a particular combination of human beings and put a crucial responsibility like this on their shoulders? Meruel, come on! What are you seeing in all this?
M M+ "It’s a question of what yardstick you judge yourselves by. The first thing I would say is you aren’t being judged by any sort of comparative standard. People fit spiritual roles by absolute qualities, not relative ones. It’s virtually impossible for a unique human being to see him or herself straight if this is being done by trying to compare with others. Suppose someone is painting a picture, a great genius, Raphael, say. Could you say, could anyone say, that a blue garment would be more artistic than a green one? What makes his Madonna a work of genius is precisely that it can’t be compared with anything. It achieves an absolute, not a standard. All I can say about you seven is that you fit the particular case the gods had in mind. I could of course say things about particular qualities you display. You are perceptive, you are loving, you jump into situations rather than act cautious, you share common intuitions and so on. So do lots of other people. None of these qualities is unique, though the particular combination of them you embody may be. But it is certainly not a matter of having these or other qualities in conspicuous excess, is it? Maybe you also needed to be sufficiently ordinary, or you would alienate people. My dear idiots, you fitted the bill. We all noticed it."
L My god!
M M+ "I couldn’t have put it better!"
J F+ "Nor could I".
M Who’s that?
J It seems to be Fiona.
F+ "Yes it is me. I agree entirely with what Meruel says. From over here the group glows like a kind of gentle beacon, a pulsing glow, rather like a heart beating."
L Darling, are you all right? You haven’t gone over have you?
J F+ "I don’t know. I think I may have. Why don’t you ring the hospital and find out?"
M I’ll ring.
J F+ "You must really try and help me. It doesn’t help at all if you’re tense and nervous. I know it’s a unique situation. Quite extraordinary really. It’s all very well talking about Earth changes, about the human condition fundamentally changing and so on. It’s somewhat different when it comes down to Earth in your own life".
R And in your own death.
J F+ "And in your own death, especially in going through death together, straddling the abyss together. I’m going through the most wonderful experiences. I can’t really describe them. All I can say is that everything is turning into Light. It isn’t like ordinary daylight, it’s in constant movement, and it’s alive. The Light itself is alive. It responds to one’s attention in the most extraordinary way with Love. Because of the work we’ve done together I’m going to be able to share all this with you. I’m able to open window after window on it for you. And not just for you, for everyone who has the insight to approach you, to approach the I.T. school and ask the real questions. This is what we’ve been chosen to do. To open endless windows upon love."
R Here comes Melanie.
M Sister says she’s in coma, and not expected to come out of it.
J F+ "I thought there’d been a change. You can be of tremendous help to me now. We must help each other to keep an even keel, to maintain our complete presence of mind."
L Someone’s coming up the drive. Oh it’s Andrew and Maggie. I’d almost forgotten they were coming. I’ll let them in.
R Presence of mind. We’ll need it all the time.
MG Are we in time? How is she?
M She’s fine, Maggie. But if you mean is she getting better in the ordinary sense, no she isn’t She’s pretty well over the threshold now.
MG Yes I knew that. I’ve been seeing it. All I meant was, were we in time to help her over?
J F+ "Yes, you’re certainly in time for that, bless you. And I do need help. It’s not easy to keep one’s presence of mind in two worlds, difficult enough in one. Also this is to a great extent a first time for humanity as well as for us as individuals. You know what would help a great deal. Settle into the aunts’ room round Joe’s menhir and light the seven candles".
R ¤ "I was waiting for someone to suggest that. I hope I don’t have to remind you again I’m here".
L No, Ophromine, you don’t. We need the balance, and we need you. Fiona has to find her new relationship to the elementary world. It may be the first time any human being has consciously died into the new BLUE reality and kept in mental contact with her group all the way through. This is the beginning of the role you’ve been waiting for all along.
R ¤ "If you can keep yourselves wide awake I shall be able to make it possible for you to see Fiona as well as hear her. And then maybe you will see me, just as Maggie does."
MG We can work together on that, Ophromine.
A How on earth am I going to be able to explain all this back in Plymouth?
J F+ "Don’t forget I made a lot of friends in Plymouth myself. We shall have plenty of support. It was a very good thing I managed to get down there and back before this happened. Don’t cry, Maggie darling, it upsets the vibes. Everything is going to be wonderful."
M I’ve lit the candles and the room’s nice and warm. We need that, even if you don’t, Fiona.
R F+ "Of course I need it, silly. Warmth’s indivisible, like Light."
*****
L The CHRIST lives in the Light. CHRIST has entered the Heart of the material world, and everything there begins to glow inwardly with BLUE, Fiona stands by the pillar, and her eyes are closed. Between the flickering gold of the candles and the BLUE radiance of the pillar, her form comes and goes as she strives to accustom herself to her new situation. The BLUE and gold interweave like the fingers of a sculptor, and the moving modeller is Ophromine. Fiona submits herself to his skill and gradually she begins to shine. She opens her eyes, and beckons to Richard to let her speak.
R F+ "Dears, I can hardly speak for joy. I had no idea. I had no idea what it would be like. I know now what Jesus meant by the kingdom. The whole situation is indescribably beautiful. The wonderful thing is that you are all in it too, and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that you can’t see it too. But you will. I can really see the changes now. Of course, I knew about them before, but that is a very different matter from seeing them. Now I can actually see the substantial changes of Earth approaching. I can see how fast they are coming, and I can see how near you all are to being overtaken by them.
Let me tell you a bit about it. It is as if you are all standing out on a sort of promontory or headland which protrudes into the New World and is already illuminated by it. There are other headlands and other groupings further off, some even nearer than you to the Light, others further back. But all the groups are bathed by the Light, and there is a kind of half waking expectancy behind their closed eyes. You have it too, very strongly.
I can also see shadows and pain. Many of the groups, close as they are to the New World, are still powerfully addicted to the old situation which they have striven so hard to transcend and leave behind. I can see elements of it in you too, and in myself, and I am overwhelmed with gratitude that we have been privileged to stay together as a group so that I can guide and console you when the painful aspects of separation from the old increasingly overtake us.
I can see Meruel here too. I can see how much of Meruel’s form and style has been brought into existence by us, by our creativity and imagination. And I can see balancing this how it is Meruel, out of his Archangelic power and nature, who has brought into existence the reality and working of our group, its quality of communication, its flavour and its style.
But what is most wonderful of all, my dearest family, is that I can see something of the nature and direction of our path as a group. And towering above that path I can sense an enormous presence. I cannot see it for it extends into a region more rarefied than I can yet penetrate, but I am aware that it is Michael, and I can feel an overwhelming thrust of direction in his presence. I am aware for the first time what they must mean by the expression ‘the Sword of Michael’, and it is quite overwhelming. It is the most powerful indication of direction and purpose I have ever experienced. I hope I shall be able to communicate more and more to you as time goes on what a reality it is that we are part of the School of Michael. It is Michael who leads and guides the paths of all who have recognised and committed themselves to the destiny of the planet Earth on its journey toward the Stars. It is Michael who responds first to the awakening of Earth to its own true conscious being, the CHRIST."
*****
L Richard, does it feel the same to you when Fiona is talking as when it is Meruel or Ophromine?
R If you mean, can I tell who it is, I can certainly tell, can’t you?
L Yes, indeed I can, but I sensed there was an added difference.
R I know what you mean. When you described what was happening, could you actually see her?
L I could see her very distinctly when my eyes were closed. When I opened them I tried to focus and I lost her.
MG Try and keep your eyes unfocussed. It makes it easier to bring the two levels together. I simply do what I’m used to doing, turn my attention towards her. When I do that I feel I come nearer to hearing what shy says. I once or twice anticipated what Richard was going to say.
L I’m sure with practice there will be a lot of further growth now. It’s almost like learning a new language.
M I have a feeling we shall also need to be more aware of discipline. I don’t mean anything rigid. But we need to be aware when she is near and when her attention is on other new experiences.
J She needs to be equally aware of how she is affecting our lives. I feel that a kind of rhythm will develop. Perhaps we should ask her if she would like to be with us at certain times of day.
M It’s my ‘style’ thing again, which has everything to do with rhythm. It will grow naturally, but it does need form.
J I think the form will grow from within, out of what actually takes place. We know each other pretty well. That won’t alter.
M It’ll make us much more aware of what actually does rule our lives. It was don Juan, wasn’t it, who teased Castaneda about how dependant people are on meal-times, rhythms dependant on bodily habits.
R F+ "I have to get used to having no body, or at least a much less rigid body than I had before."
M We shall learn a tremendous lot from you all the time. Sharing in your crossing will enable all of us to take part in CHRIST’s overcoming of death in quite a new way. Darling Fiona, we’re still together!
*****
L Was that a car turning in?
END OF BOOK SIX
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