Those who hurt us and cause us the most emotional pain should be given humble thanks, for they are our greatest teachers.A strange statement you may say, and it is,but I believe that it is true.
Douglass Harding in his highly original classic'On Having No Head', wrote the following truthful words:
'There is no route from the Paradise of childhood to the Heaven of the blessed that doesn't lie through the far country,through some kind of Hell or Purgatory'.
He is right, I'd say in nearly every case. The good news is, it doesn't have to be this way; you can avoid the suffering. More on that later.
Look at your own life. You have suffered.It can come in many forms, shapes and sizes, but it always feels the same.You know that feeling so well.
Have you lost your home, or think you are about to?
Have you been given the boot from your job?
Are you scared that you won't be able to pay your bills, your mortgage, your rent?
All these situations cause you to suffer., and I bet you don't feel like thanking your bank or landlord for this.
Well I' m not talking about thanking your bank or mortgage provider, you will ,no doubt, be pleased to know.!We haven't reached sainthood yet!
What I'm on about is the emotional suffering that makes your heart into a spin dryer.It makes it churn and turn and weep.Your personal issues with your nearest and dearest.
Has someone who you trusted and thought was a loyal friend, turned out to be the one who really hurt you?
This happens to a lot of people; you are not alone, but your suffering is a very lonely feeling.
Has someone broken your heart ? That's a heavy one, isn't it; that can, if you're not careful make you act and behave like the whole World is ending.
Has someone made you jealous so much that it does feel like an arrow in your heart?
The Bible says, that jealousy can turn you mad.
Has someone close to you really let you down?
Has a loved one made you feel a fool in front of other people?
Has a loved one criticized you until you feel like a complete and utter failure in everything you do?
And the beat goes on.
All the above cause that strange throbbing hurt that seems to vibrate through your whole being.
Right now, most of the World is going through a time of suffering. In the third World, the suffering is so intense, it is causing mass starvation , disease and death.In our World it seems to be about loss, whether it's money, goods or property or all three.But this post is not about the mass changes that are taking place.This is about your private suffering that someone in your life has caused to come about.You blame the other person,but in 'reality' as you create everything- well, think about that.
The reasons you have these nasty incidents in your life, is, I believe, because the real hidden you , has decided that you need to change, you need to grow and to mature; you need a shake up.
If you do change, grow and mature all well and good.If you don't, you will. most likely, get a repeat dose later, maybe with exactly the same theme.
Haven't you noticed how the same themes that distress you so much keep repeating?
This is the reason.
What is very hard to grasp though, is that these unpleasant episodes that bring you tears and anguish are really the best things that can happen in your life, but you certainly can't see that at the time.Haven't you ever looked back on a time when you were upset,thinking then that it was the worst thing that has happened to you, only to later realize, that it was really the best thing that ever happened to you?
These times of sorrow are given to you as presents if you like; gifts from the Gods to help you get closer to where you really are, but don't know it.So don't harbour thoughts of ill-will to those who have hurt you.Thank them in your heart for helping you on your way.
You must have hurt others too.That R.E.M. song 'Everybody Hurts' is so true.You could say everybody hurts each other.
We have such fragile egos.
It's only the ego, that doesn't exist, that hurts. Your real self, your oversoul if you wish, is not stirred or shaken one bit by all that frantic, fevered emotion.
Can you avoid being cut by these scissors of suffering?
Yes you can.Dump you ego(yer, I know it's easier said than done, but the point is it Can be done!),and really start living in the now in all of your precious nows.If you are sincere and really want to avoid suffering, it has to be total immersion.You have to life like this all, and I mean all the time, from the moment you get up in the morning to the time you go to bed.
All true religious Teachers were trying to tell us how to be happy and not to suffer, though you wouldn't know this from the organized religions in the World.
Ekhart Tolle who was enlightened at a very young age in his twenties, I believe,has not, I am sure suffered at all in any way since that time.But, if he hadn't jumped out of this illusion then, one wonders, how much suffering would he have had to endure?
One day we will all lose our egos.Then we become the real man or the real woman.At the moment we are still babies sucking at our Mother's breast, the Earth.
The next stage is coming through fast.We will still be with our beautiful magical Mother, the Earth, but we have to be what we really are.
Be in the now. See through the illusion.Be who you really are.Without an ego you cannot suffer.
That is the end of this chapter. The next chapter will follow shortly.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Justin Bieber And His Viva Fever!
Someone told me the following two stories the other day. I hasten to add , I am sure they are not true.
This guy said that Justin Bieber is going to launch a perfume in the fall,and it's going to be called'Viva Fever'.
Justin is alleged to have said,"It's different because it will contain my very own sweat which will be taken off me after I come off stage."He suddenly added,"Whatever you do don't touch my hair!"
He continued,"It will also have my own saliva in the mix.I'm doing this for my fans, as I know they want to be in my arms and kiss me.By using my 'Viva Fever' perfume they can feel real close to me all day."He added with his cute smile,"It's the least I can do for my fans."
And, I was also told this story about Madonna, as she obviously doesn't want to be outdone.He perfume is meant to be called'Diva Belladonna '.
She is alleged to have said,"It contains extracts from my toe-nail clippings, and the poisonous plant,belladonna.I know a lot of my fans would love to be me, and by using my 'Diva Belladonna' perfume they can, if you know what I mean, sort of get into my shoes."
She gave a naughty giggle and added,"The belladonna plant is poisonous, so I'm going to put a health warning on the bottle.That should really make the sales shoot up.I admit it is a marketing ploy, but after I noticed that the sales of ciggies shot up, after Governments put on those health warnings on the packets, I thought, why not do the same? ".
Her eyes lit up as she said."You know, it's amazing how clever those marketing guys are. I mean, even God didn't realize that if you tell us not to do something, we kinder really want to do it, just because we are not meant to.Remember Eve in the garden of Eden?" She concluded triumphantly.
"It will only have tiny bits of belladonna, as I'm not a fool; I really don't want to kill my fans off. But I think they will love the sort of imagined danger involved when they put it on their skin; they might even think it's a bit like playing Russian Roulette." She said with another little giggle.
Actually all of the above is completely not true. It is pure fiction.I mean no offence to these two artists; it is simply an attempt at satire. Maybe the fact that I'm writing this in temperatures hovering around 40 degrees has something to do with it.
But the following, which is far more shocking, according to the sites mentioned at the bottom of the page,is true.The comments about Lucifer though were put in by me.
According to the Natural News site, Lady Gaga is bringing out a perfume in the fall known as 'Fame'.It is going to contain her own blood as well as semen(Lucifer's?) and a highly toxic plant that is known to kill humans.
Even the packaging is unique, in that the perfume will be in an alien like, egg shaped bottle that is being grasped by what looks like claws(Lucifer's?).
The remarkable Lady said,"It's like having me on your skin.I wanted to extract sort of the feeling of blood and semen.The perfume smells like an expensive hooker," she said in 2011.
The perfume contains ' tears of belladonna( deadly nightshade), crushed heart of tiger orchidea with a black veil of incense, pulverized apricot and saffron and honey drops'.
By the way, one leaf of deadly nightshade is all it takes to kill a man.
I keep thinking that nothing would be able to shock me anymore, but, hey, wow, yes I am shocked.
Will her fans be though? Will they be a tiny bit taken aback by the blood and semen bit? A bit surprised to find the perfume contains deadly poison? You know I don't believe they will.
See
This guy said that Justin Bieber is going to launch a perfume in the fall,and it's going to be called'Viva Fever'.
Justin is alleged to have said,"It's different because it will contain my very own sweat which will be taken off me after I come off stage."He suddenly added,"Whatever you do don't touch my hair!"
He continued,"It will also have my own saliva in the mix.I'm doing this for my fans, as I know they want to be in my arms and kiss me.By using my 'Viva Fever' perfume they can feel real close to me all day."He added with his cute smile,"It's the least I can do for my fans."
And, I was also told this story about Madonna, as she obviously doesn't want to be outdone.He perfume is meant to be called'Diva Belladonna '.
She is alleged to have said,"It contains extracts from my toe-nail clippings, and the poisonous plant,belladonna.I know a lot of my fans would love to be me, and by using my 'Diva Belladonna' perfume they can, if you know what I mean, sort of get into my shoes."
She gave a naughty giggle and added,"The belladonna plant is poisonous, so I'm going to put a health warning on the bottle.That should really make the sales shoot up.I admit it is a marketing ploy, but after I noticed that the sales of ciggies shot up, after Governments put on those health warnings on the packets, I thought, why not do the same? ".
Her eyes lit up as she said."You know, it's amazing how clever those marketing guys are. I mean, even God didn't realize that if you tell us not to do something, we kinder really want to do it, just because we are not meant to.Remember Eve in the garden of Eden?" She concluded triumphantly.
"It will only have tiny bits of belladonna, as I'm not a fool; I really don't want to kill my fans off. But I think they will love the sort of imagined danger involved when they put it on their skin; they might even think it's a bit like playing Russian Roulette." She said with another little giggle.
Actually all of the above is completely not true. It is pure fiction.I mean no offence to these two artists; it is simply an attempt at satire. Maybe the fact that I'm writing this in temperatures hovering around 40 degrees has something to do with it.
But the following, which is far more shocking, according to the sites mentioned at the bottom of the page,is true.The comments about Lucifer though were put in by me.
According to the Natural News site, Lady Gaga is bringing out a perfume in the fall known as 'Fame'.It is going to contain her own blood as well as semen(Lucifer's?) and a highly toxic plant that is known to kill humans.
Even the packaging is unique, in that the perfume will be in an alien like, egg shaped bottle that is being grasped by what looks like claws(Lucifer's?).
The remarkable Lady said,"It's like having me on your skin.I wanted to extract sort of the feeling of blood and semen.The perfume smells like an expensive hooker," she said in 2011.
The perfume contains ' tears of belladonna( deadly nightshade), crushed heart of tiger orchidea with a black veil of incense, pulverized apricot and saffron and honey drops'.
By the way, one leaf of deadly nightshade is all it takes to kill a man.
I keep thinking that nothing would be able to shock me anymore, but, hey, wow, yes I am shocked.
Will her fans be though? Will they be a tiny bit taken aback by the blood and semen bit? A bit surprised to find the perfume contains deadly poison? You know I don't believe they will.
See
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Adventure With Amaveed (3)
Amaveed looked around him. He was in a beautiful place. There was lush green grass, shapely leafy trees of all shapes and sizes, a calm, deep blue coloured lake with swans white and black, and ducks gliding serenely on it.
He dismissed from his mind the shocking memory of what had happened earlier, when the whole place had shaken so violently that he had been unable to stand up. He had even wondered if he might be thrown up into space. This had never happened before.But now everything was peaceful.
The two gentle, yet pleasantly warm suns were shining in a completely cloudless sky. Brightly coloured large butterflies could be seen as they flitted from bright red, blue, purple, crimson, indigo and yellow flowers that adorned the banks of the magnificent lake. The light chat and twitter of birds could be heard coming from a small wood that was near the lake.
Amaveed was happy as he sat on the grass by the lake. He was blissfully happy. Life was a feast to his senses, and he felt , not as an onlooker, but as part of the wonderful surroundings.Amaveed and this beauty were one.
This was his home. He had no notion of time, only of being. No night ever came. Only a twilight of such beauty came every day for a short time. It was then that everything fell silent; the birds stopped their singing and the butterflies stopped their flirting.
There were no threats, no danger, no animals killing one another.Every creature,including Amaveed ,ate fruit and vegetables. There was no need to kill. It was a harmony of perfection. And there was no moon..
How long this beautiful existence was, he did not know; it just was.
Then one dreadful day, a huge object appeared in the sky. He had never seen anything like it, but he wasn't frightened because he had no concept of fear. There were no fears in his World.
Amazingly, the massive object appeared to come down somewhere behind the wood.He heard the sound of a hundred waterfalls, a wooshing sound that he had never heard before.Scores of birds flew violently and desperately out of the trees and away from the wood.
Amaveed also felt something inside him that was a new sensation for him He didn't know what the feeling was. Suddenly though, he knew that he must run and hide.
He quickly got up and made a dash to the trees behind him. Twilight was coming and this pleased him.
Where could he hide? Then he remembered a cave the other side of the lake. He turned, and decided to walk across the lake in an attempt to get away from what?
He was about to step onto the water when suddenly he found , he couldn't move. He had never experienced this before. Surrounding him , he saw a blue light. It was like he was trapped in this tiny prison of light.
He tried to move his legs, his arms and his mouth, but was unable to move anything. He felt a wetness coming in his eyes, and what felt like water gently sliding down his face.This was new to him; he did not know what it was. He made him feel a feeling he did not like.He had never felt this way before.
Then he looked around him to see that he was surrounded by beings who looked like him, but they were covered in a strange material, and were holding what looked like bright white sticks that were pointing at him
Amaveed cried his eyes out. He felt terribly confused. He had no idea what was happening.
One of them spoke.He said:" Perfect. We will re-arrange the D.N.A., shut down most of the brain. We have got slaves. We will create reproducing biological robots.Then we can be like Gods in this place and they will serve us , and be our slaves.And we will get them to worship us, and even adore us.We can programme them to do this.".
The one who spoke laughed ; he looked at Amaveed and said: "We are known as the red dragon. We are escaped convicts who have, through our genius, escaped from the highest security asylum in the cosmos, and we are on the run, but with your help, by the time the cosmic overlords find us here, your future generations will, with our guidance have built such a war machine that we will be able to stop them. Yes, you are in for a real bloody future, as you will keep having wars, so you lot can invent more and more fiendish weapons to match the overlords frightening arsenal.".
The second sun suddenly exploded ; a blinding flash almost blinded Amaveed.
That day, for the first time ever, after twilight, a rich dense blackness fell, hiding all the splendour and beauty of that wonderful land.
Night had arrived on planet Earth.A small yellow orb appeared for the first time , in the sky; this had been the aliens mother ship, called by red dragon 'lunar', for obvious reasons.It had many other evil functions that would be put to use by the most highly dangerous insane criminal lunatics ever known in the cosmos.
He dismissed from his mind the shocking memory of what had happened earlier, when the whole place had shaken so violently that he had been unable to stand up. He had even wondered if he might be thrown up into space. This had never happened before.But now everything was peaceful.
The two gentle, yet pleasantly warm suns were shining in a completely cloudless sky. Brightly coloured large butterflies could be seen as they flitted from bright red, blue, purple, crimson, indigo and yellow flowers that adorned the banks of the magnificent lake. The light chat and twitter of birds could be heard coming from a small wood that was near the lake.
Amaveed was happy as he sat on the grass by the lake. He was blissfully happy. Life was a feast to his senses, and he felt , not as an onlooker, but as part of the wonderful surroundings.Amaveed and this beauty were one.
This was his home. He had no notion of time, only of being. No night ever came. Only a twilight of such beauty came every day for a short time. It was then that everything fell silent; the birds stopped their singing and the butterflies stopped their flirting.
There were no threats, no danger, no animals killing one another.Every creature,including Amaveed ,ate fruit and vegetables. There was no need to kill. It was a harmony of perfection. And there was no moon..
How long this beautiful existence was, he did not know; it just was.
Then one dreadful day, a huge object appeared in the sky. He had never seen anything like it, but he wasn't frightened because he had no concept of fear. There were no fears in his World.
Amazingly, the massive object appeared to come down somewhere behind the wood.He heard the sound of a hundred waterfalls, a wooshing sound that he had never heard before.Scores of birds flew violently and desperately out of the trees and away from the wood.
Amaveed also felt something inside him that was a new sensation for him He didn't know what the feeling was. Suddenly though, he knew that he must run and hide.
He quickly got up and made a dash to the trees behind him. Twilight was coming and this pleased him.
Where could he hide? Then he remembered a cave the other side of the lake. He turned, and decided to walk across the lake in an attempt to get away from what?
He was about to step onto the water when suddenly he found , he couldn't move. He had never experienced this before. Surrounding him , he saw a blue light. It was like he was trapped in this tiny prison of light.
He tried to move his legs, his arms and his mouth, but was unable to move anything. He felt a wetness coming in his eyes, and what felt like water gently sliding down his face.This was new to him; he did not know what it was. He made him feel a feeling he did not like.He had never felt this way before.
Then he looked around him to see that he was surrounded by beings who looked like him, but they were covered in a strange material, and were holding what looked like bright white sticks that were pointing at him
Amaveed cried his eyes out. He felt terribly confused. He had no idea what was happening.
One of them spoke.He said:" Perfect. We will re-arrange the D.N.A., shut down most of the brain. We have got slaves. We will create reproducing biological robots.Then we can be like Gods in this place and they will serve us , and be our slaves.And we will get them to worship us, and even adore us.We can programme them to do this.".
The one who spoke laughed ; he looked at Amaveed and said: "We are known as the red dragon. We are escaped convicts who have, through our genius, escaped from the highest security asylum in the cosmos, and we are on the run, but with your help, by the time the cosmic overlords find us here, your future generations will, with our guidance have built such a war machine that we will be able to stop them. Yes, you are in for a real bloody future, as you will keep having wars, so you lot can invent more and more fiendish weapons to match the overlords frightening arsenal.".
The second sun suddenly exploded ; a blinding flash almost blinded Amaveed.
That day, for the first time ever, after twilight, a rich dense blackness fell, hiding all the splendour and beauty of that wonderful land.
Night had arrived on planet Earth.A small yellow orb appeared for the first time , in the sky; this had been the aliens mother ship, called by red dragon 'lunar', for obvious reasons.It had many other evil functions that would be put to use by the most highly dangerous insane criminal lunatics ever known in the cosmos.
How To Wake Up From Your Fevered Dream Chapter21
If you accept as true, that your everyday life is just as much a dream as the ones you have when you are asleep, this should open the door to an interesting experiment.
I have stated in an earlier chapter of this book that according to Jung, dreams are seen as projections of parts of the self that have been ignored,rejected or suppressed.He thought every person in the dream represented an aspect of the dreamer.
Fritz Perls went further to say that even inanimate objects in the dreams may represent aspects of the dreamer.The dreamer may be asked to imagine being an object in the dream to describe it, in order to bring into awareness the characteristics of the object that correspond with the dreams personality.
What insights would come to light if in your everyday eyes open dream you saw everything around you, including inanimate objects as projections of parts of you ?
Your eyes shut dreams are full of symbols.Seeing a snake in a dream could mean wisdom.On the other hand ,it could mean danger or deceit, or temptation.Those into Freud would see it as a male sexual organ.
As you can see it can be difficult to interpret the symbols.
It's quite amazing when you think about it that you are making up these images, yet you don't know what they mean.The reason you don't know what they mean is because they are made up(by you) in your subconscious, and you don't have access to this part of your mind.
Back to the experiment where you view everything around you in your everyday dream as projections of you or symbols that are trying to tell you something.I have to warn you that this is not easy. It's just as hard as trying to read what your night dreams are telling you, if not, for some reason, harder.
I'll give you an example from my own life.I have for some reason got eight cats.They just wandered into my life and home over the last few years.They are adorable creatures; great company and highly entertaining.They are also very intelligent, as they all try and open doors by jumping up to the door handles and hitting them with their paws!
Now if ,in my eyes shut dream I had eight cats, it would certainly mean something.So, in this eyes open dream, it must mean something too.But what?
If you consulted a dream dictionary, you would find many different interpretations.For example, one claims that it means creativity and an independent spirit, whereas another one says they mean bad luck, and yet another says it means someone is telling you lies!
So let's try and make this easier.I believe that in your daily life all the time signs and symbols are shown to you for your benefit, but we hardly ever notice them.We don't notice them because we are so wrapped up in our thoughts of the past or of the future.That is why it is important to live in the now.By living in the now you are aware.Being aware you should notice the signs and symbols around you.
I'll give you an example.Someone I know, who is a qualified chef,hadn't got a job, and was thinking about not going back to the restaurant business.One day after getting up she turned the T.V on.She would normally watch the news, but for some reason, probably because the news had been full of depressing stuff recently, she decided not to watch the news, so she flipped channels .
She found herself watching a programme on cooking, and this made her realize how much she enjoyed cooking.Later in the day she happened to meet someone she knew .They started talking, and her friend told her, in no uncertain manner, that her future should be as a chef., and that she was foolish to consider other options. Suddenly she realized, without a doubt that this was what she really wanted to do.
I should mention that the girl in question , on that particular day, was strongly living in the now.
Now we come to the interesting, amazing part of this true story.
It was a hot day, and about five minutes later she popped into a restaurant to buy an ice cream to take outside.Not all restaurants allow you to do this, but this one did, She got talking about this and that to the restaurant owner,not once mentioning that she was a chef, when the owner suddenly said that she was desperate for a chef, as the last one had walked out yesterday.
My friend obviously got the job! If she hadn't seen the T.V programme earlier in the day and had ignored what the lady on the street had said, I am sure that none of what followed would have happened.
Another example: Early in the morning one day, I opened my front door, to be greeted by a huge dead rat right outside the door!It was a present from one of my cats for me.How on earth there are any rats near here is a mystery to me, as I would imagine eight cats would scare them away. None the less there was this mighty looking rat lying there at my feet.
What happened that day? I won't go into details, but I can tell you It was truly a lousy day;
everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
The rat was obviously a warning to me that nasty things were going to hit the fan.
I'm not saying that if you found a rat outside your door the same would happen to you,as a rat to you might mean something else.
Here is another more pleasant example. One day, my next door neighbour gave me a bag absolutely full of oranges and lemons, completely out of the blue. I thought it was very sweet of her. I laid the fruit out in a bowl and placed the bowl on my kitchen table. I remember thinking how great it looked.
About an hour later I got an e mail telling me that someone was sending me a nice sum of money, and this also was totally out of the blue!
Do you get my drift. The fruit was a sign, a symbol of good fortune, whereas the rat was a sign of bad fortune. I suspect that we are given signs such as these all the time, but ignore them.
If you stay living in the now though, you should become aware of them
Try and see if you can find signs in your own life.It really can be quite fun.
That is the end of chapter 21. The next chapter will follow shortly..
I have stated in an earlier chapter of this book that according to Jung, dreams are seen as projections of parts of the self that have been ignored,rejected or suppressed.He thought every person in the dream represented an aspect of the dreamer.
Fritz Perls went further to say that even inanimate objects in the dreams may represent aspects of the dreamer.The dreamer may be asked to imagine being an object in the dream to describe it, in order to bring into awareness the characteristics of the object that correspond with the dreams personality.
What insights would come to light if in your everyday eyes open dream you saw everything around you, including inanimate objects as projections of parts of you ?
Your eyes shut dreams are full of symbols.Seeing a snake in a dream could mean wisdom.On the other hand ,it could mean danger or deceit, or temptation.Those into Freud would see it as a male sexual organ.
As you can see it can be difficult to interpret the symbols.
It's quite amazing when you think about it that you are making up these images, yet you don't know what they mean.The reason you don't know what they mean is because they are made up(by you) in your subconscious, and you don't have access to this part of your mind.
Back to the experiment where you view everything around you in your everyday dream as projections of you or symbols that are trying to tell you something.I have to warn you that this is not easy. It's just as hard as trying to read what your night dreams are telling you, if not, for some reason, harder.
I'll give you an example from my own life.I have for some reason got eight cats.They just wandered into my life and home over the last few years.They are adorable creatures; great company and highly entertaining.They are also very intelligent, as they all try and open doors by jumping up to the door handles and hitting them with their paws!
Now if ,in my eyes shut dream I had eight cats, it would certainly mean something.So, in this eyes open dream, it must mean something too.But what?
If you consulted a dream dictionary, you would find many different interpretations.For example, one claims that it means creativity and an independent spirit, whereas another one says they mean bad luck, and yet another says it means someone is telling you lies!
So let's try and make this easier.I believe that in your daily life all the time signs and symbols are shown to you for your benefit, but we hardly ever notice them.We don't notice them because we are so wrapped up in our thoughts of the past or of the future.That is why it is important to live in the now.By living in the now you are aware.Being aware you should notice the signs and symbols around you.
I'll give you an example.Someone I know, who is a qualified chef,hadn't got a job, and was thinking about not going back to the restaurant business.One day after getting up she turned the T.V on.She would normally watch the news, but for some reason, probably because the news had been full of depressing stuff recently, she decided not to watch the news, so she flipped channels .
She found herself watching a programme on cooking, and this made her realize how much she enjoyed cooking.Later in the day she happened to meet someone she knew .They started talking, and her friend told her, in no uncertain manner, that her future should be as a chef., and that she was foolish to consider other options. Suddenly she realized, without a doubt that this was what she really wanted to do.
I should mention that the girl in question , on that particular day, was strongly living in the now.
Now we come to the interesting, amazing part of this true story.
It was a hot day, and about five minutes later she popped into a restaurant to buy an ice cream to take outside.Not all restaurants allow you to do this, but this one did, She got talking about this and that to the restaurant owner,not once mentioning that she was a chef, when the owner suddenly said that she was desperate for a chef, as the last one had walked out yesterday.
My friend obviously got the job! If she hadn't seen the T.V programme earlier in the day and had ignored what the lady on the street had said, I am sure that none of what followed would have happened.
Another example: Early in the morning one day, I opened my front door, to be greeted by a huge dead rat right outside the door!It was a present from one of my cats for me.How on earth there are any rats near here is a mystery to me, as I would imagine eight cats would scare them away. None the less there was this mighty looking rat lying there at my feet.
What happened that day? I won't go into details, but I can tell you It was truly a lousy day;
everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
The rat was obviously a warning to me that nasty things were going to hit the fan.
I'm not saying that if you found a rat outside your door the same would happen to you,as a rat to you might mean something else.
Here is another more pleasant example. One day, my next door neighbour gave me a bag absolutely full of oranges and lemons, completely out of the blue. I thought it was very sweet of her. I laid the fruit out in a bowl and placed the bowl on my kitchen table. I remember thinking how great it looked.
About an hour later I got an e mail telling me that someone was sending me a nice sum of money, and this also was totally out of the blue!
Do you get my drift. The fruit was a sign, a symbol of good fortune, whereas the rat was a sign of bad fortune. I suspect that we are given signs such as these all the time, but ignore them.
If you stay living in the now though, you should become aware of them
Try and see if you can find signs in your own life.It really can be quite fun.
That is the end of chapter 21. The next chapter will follow shortly..
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