Practicing Responsibility
I enjoyed listening to Ana Isabel’s discussion with Cheryl Page a little while ago. Cheryl describes herself as ‘a scientist, researcher, cross-veil communicator, and mystic’.
I’d had one of those runs of days where I find information coming from various sources, building to what feels like a significant realisation, or development in my thinking/awareness. A culmination perhaps. And lots and lots of repeating numbers (11:11, 17;17, 18;18); to me that’s a sign to pay attention.
I went on to listen to Cheryl on the Next Level Soul Podcast where she describes having an amazing session with a renowned psychic. She asked how she could develop the skills to contact her beloved deceased partner herself, and the psychic told her the best way was through meditation. Deep sigh, it sounded so difficult. But the psychic suggested she reframe meditation as ‘listening practice’, which sounds much more accessible and achievable! Cheryl talked about how over time you can learn to distinguish between your own thoughts and those that are given to you.
Listening to Cheryl’s experiences built on other things I’ve read or heard about this, and also some of my own experiences, receiving thoughts/words/images, when the mind was quiet. So it feels like one of those tipping points and I decided I’m going to give this a try. I’ve known for a long time that I need to practice listening in meditation. Its hard to keep the monkey mind from taking over, so I find it’s easier to keep talking! For me, that is running through the words I use in my own familiar visualisation and affirmation process, my personal mantra.
But if its my own voice I hear in my head, how do I know I am not making it all up?
Well, perhaps that comes with practice, and trust. Do I require some proof, something I couldn’t know? I’m not sure I do. Rather, I want to judge whether what comes to mind is useful, and not a product of my own conscious thinking. If any thoughts/words/images that arise are from my own subconscious, my ‘higher self’ or from other beings doesn’t matter so much for me at this point. I’m just going to try and quiet my mind, and listen.
Not too long ago, I had a wonderful conversation with Ba Miller. Ba is a dowser, wife of the late Hamish Miller, who was one of the authors of the seminal work ‘The Sun and the Serpent’. Together they explored and mapped earth energy lines across Europe (‘The Dance of the Dragon’) and in New Zealand (‘In Search of the Southern Serpent’, with Barry Brailsford).
We began by talking about Ba’s Pilates practice, which she said was important because being in her 90s she felt it was her responsibility to maintain her core strength and balance. Later our discussion moved on to the idea of responsibility for our thoughts, and how the practice of dowsing, where you hold an image or phrase or an intention in your mind (for example, ‘show me the line’) in order to receive information, can help develop this mastery of the mind. It is by entering a state of ‘relaxed concentration’, as Ba described it, which enables the ‘sixth sense’ of dowsing to be accessed.
We went on to talk about the Telepathy Tapes. Ba said that her husband Hamish had felt that telepathy was the communication of the future, that the development of communication, from writing letters, to phone calls, the introduction of mobile phones, video calls and so on, was preparing us for telepathy by getting us used to the increased speed of communication, to having a quicker response, preparing us to be able to cope with that, so that eventually we will no longer need a device to communicate over distances. He felt that telepathy was another ability we have, like dowsing, that is laying dormant in so many of us.
And we reflected that if we are going to use telepathy, we will need to learn greater responsibility for our thoughts. Further mastery of mind. And to really consider what thought forms we are putting out there.
And if we are going to communicate telepathically, in addition to considering our own thoughts, we need to be able to receive, to be aware of, to listen to what is coming in.
For me, that will take practice. And I am responsible for that.