Have I mentioned my mother?
There’s this bit of infrequent shtick here at our house. I’ll be expressing some curiosity or testing a perception on something, and the Greek will stop cold what he is doing, point at me with a straight-out arm and announce loudly, “Not normal!”
As in “That’s not how people think”, though I prefer to cling to Deepak’s Chopra’s definition of health: “What we call normal is merely the psychopathology of the average.”
Well, I have to say, if I am not “normal”, this is in large part due to my mother, who is less “normal” than I. I offer as Exhibit A, the following report she filed some years ago:
One day, my two grown children were discussing the Transcendental Meditation Siddha Program, and one asked the other to define Siddha abilities. As the other began to list them, the ability that captured my imagination was “Omniscience.”- “Now, that would be wonderful!” I thought to myself.
Many years later, in May 2002, I was teaching a Reiki II class. The students were especially intuitive and insightful, and at the end of the class, when I turned it over to Q&A, they began asking me questions I had never been asked before, had never even heard asked, and didn’t know the answers to. And yet, lo and behold, I was answering them, and as I answered, I knew the answers were right.
The light/energy in that room was unlike anything I’d ever experienced with a class. I knew something special was happening, but what? And just as I was thinking this, I saw that the question being asked was coming toward me as though on a ribbon. As the ribbon approached me, another ribbon with the answer was rising from a deep well within me, and the ribbons passed each other in front of me. As this continued, I realized that for any question posed, the answer would rise. Amazing.
And then it was time to end the class and the students moved out the door, me still floating in this light-filled state. The very last one was standing beside me and she said, “I just read a book about General George Armstrong Custer and, believe me, he was not a nice man!” I had turned toward her and saw that this statement was coming toward me on a ribbon, and a ribbon was arising within me and as it emerged, I saw a name written on it… George W. Bush.”
My students were barely out of my driveway before I was on the phone to my daughter in California, telling her about this experience. “George Bush, the reincarnation of George Custer – that was the feeling of the ribbon.” She suggested I read everything I could about Custer to see if there were similarities. Over the next couple of months I followed her advice, read numerous books, noted similarities ~ and there are many, many…
Several weeks later, as I poured over my stack of books, it occurred to me to ask which book my student had read, in case it was one I had not discovered. I called her and said, “What was the name of the book you read on Custer?”
“I didn’t read a book on Custer.”
“Wait a minute. Didn’t you say as you left, 'I just read a book on George Armstrong Custer…?'”
“I didn’t say that.”
So what happened? Who did say that? I was looking right at her, her lips formed the words, and there came a ribbon, and it was her voice that said it.
I now think that my teachers on inner planes wanted me to have that information as part of the lessons they are teaching me on how a soul grows (or doesn't) through lifetimes, and are able to teach this not only through those I am in contact with in person, but also use people on the national stage as examples.
With teachers like that it’s hard to miss the message!
I believe now that, for that very brief period of time, I had the experience of Omniscience. I believe Omniscience must be on a fine level of the relative, probably very close to where you find the Akashic Records. I’m sure there’s someone out there who can explain it accurately, even draw diagrams of it, and maybe even access it at will, but I have not found them yet.
My mother.
Who, as I write this, is – at age 77 – on a road trip with her spectacular friend to master Dr. Eric Pearl’s ReConnection healing technique.
On another day, I can tell you about some maddening challenges that come with this terrain. But, overall, there’s no question - I’ll take this over “normal” any time.
And with this I formally note for the record one of the profound and awesome gratitudes of my life.
