Continuation of the Soul

Palden

Jun 5

For those of you who are interested in the kinds of things I gibber on about, you might find this video really interesting. It's down below.

Jeffrey Mishlove comes at matters of the soul and psyche from a completely different angle from me, yet I completely agree with what he says. He's a psychologist with a really open mind, while my qualifications in this subject are zilch, haha, yet I draw on my own experiences. Which, over the years, have become a bit of a list...

These have included a near-death experience, talking to a soul (my son) before he was born, talking to souls after they're gone and even handholding them over the threshold, re-experiencing a good number of 'past' lives and a couple of 'future' ones, and all sorts of other out-of-time experiences of many kinds. These qualify me as a madman or rather sane, depending on your viewpoint. (Actually, for all of us it's somewhere in between - Gurdjieff used to call people of the muggle variety 'mad machines'.)

I don't actually consider myself very good at this stuff. Believe me, when meditating, I get booming brains and endless diversions at least as much as anyone reading this. But the issue here is giving it attention and going into it, giving it time and space and doing it over a period of time - such as the rest of your life. Simply do this, and you do pick up experience. Keep doing it. Occasionally, you're lit up with grace, wonder, healing, resolution and light.

So, I am not a good meditator. I've been with people who go far deeper than I do. But the issue here is to sit with it and do it - at your own pace, with no shoulds or oughts, as a part of your life like breakfast and lunch. Give space for the world within to speak.

I've been doing a weekly meditation without fail on Sundays at 7pm GMT (8pm BST) for half an hour, since 1994. This is the Nine slot when the channels are open, run by Altea. If you wish to join, just do it - though pls take your boots off before entering and spend the first few sessions just listening and, if necessary, waiting. It works like that.

Otherwise I meditate randomly when it's right to do so. Sometimes I'm just sitting there churning over my stuff and nothing much seems to be happening - as far as what a meditative state ought to be (ahem). But then I draw out, up and back from myself and see it differently. 'Removing self from self'. I see myself churning around and it looks very different. It changes instantaneously.

One day I had a breakthrough. It was when I was with the Nine in the early 1990s. I found myself letting my watchers upstairs enter right into my psyche, allowing them to see parts of me I didn't want them to see. I didn't want to see them either, and I'm still discovering new hidden shadows down there in the depths. It goes on and on - there's no retirement in this game.

Letting them in was like an enormous burst of self-forgiveness. They didn't do anything except take a look inside an interestingly fucked-up humanoid on Earth, but for me it was a release and relief, an opening up and a step forward. I saw myself as I was, not as I told myself I wanted to be, or feared I was, or believed others saw me to be.

My birth chart. Jupiter, down the bottom (like a 4), holds the key to my chart - it's called a bucket-handle. My chart is a bit like a foolproof instruction manual on how not to be a billionaire.

For a Jupiter in Pisces type like me, this kind of thing is an undoubted peak experience.

Whenever I am troubled, I open myself up for them to take a look. After a while it becomes more of a habit. That opens out a load of things. It shifts the context, I see things more as they are, and this helps me do an update on myself. It's not as easy as it sounds, because guilt, shame and fear are so deeply embedded and sometimes demand some wrestling, but it helps me move forward.

It's like mindfulness practice: whether it's you or your 'inner guides' being aware of what's happening in your psyche, it's essentially the same awareness being aware of it.

We are not the separate individuals we believe ourselves to be. Here on Earth we're swimming in an enormous and rather busy psychic collectivity, and it's like a swirling, whirling, jangly cacophony. We're all members of tribes and groups that go way beyond this life.

At this time of history we're being asked to recognise something further: that we're all of the same tribe, the same people. We're all so different yet we're part of one planetary tapestry, one species. We all breathe the same air and see the same Moon in the sky.

Without recognising this in our hearts and in our bones, we will give ourselves a very hard time in coming times, and we're already well advanced in this. It's that simple.

Tibetans have a philosophy of doing good and of practicing loving kindness not only because they're good things to do, but also because they set up conditions for our forthcoming incarnations. It means that, in future, there will be less of a pile of difficult issues to deal with if we make progress on them now. It helps us stop causing problems we don't really need. Perfection isn't required: all we need is forward motion. Whether or not you subscribe to such a perspective, it's worth contemplating. It's ecological, sustainable and just. It involves what Buddhists call non-duality...

...recognising that the inner and the outer worlds are two sides of the same coin, of equal reality, and they're thoroughly interactive and mutually-responsive in detail and down to the subtlest of nuances. The toxicity, injustice and tragedy out there in our world are totally connected with those that lurk within our own psyches. Oh shit.

If humanity gets this equation, sometime, somehow, we will make it through the crisis we have here in our world - and we'll make good use of it. Miracles will happen because we will be creating reality differently. For some (not all) of us here, this concerns our future lives as well as those of our grandchildren, who could become our parents. What we're doing now creates conditions in which, in coming times, we and everyone may thrive and fulfil our purpose.

Everyone has specific instructions programmed into our psyches and genes, but the two main purposes we all share are... to learn and to make a contribution. No one is here by accident.

This video is by an old friend, Tim Walter, a film-maker and dowser who's interesting in his own right - check out his videos on YouTube, such as this...