On the Cusp of a New Spiritual Awakening
“For the times they are a-changin’…”
—Bob Dylan
This is a
spiritual musing that I look forward to writing. The idea came to me this
morning as I was reading my own newly minted memoir My Writing Life, the sequel to The
Lion that Swallowed Hemingway, while drinking my first cup of coffee.
Just as I finished
reading Chapter 29, “Hemingway’s Brain,” which I concluded with stinging irony that
suicide might be genetically encoded (this was a satirical put-down of
psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Farah’s theory that Hemingway’s suicide was induced by
chronic traumatic encephalopathy from the nine blows to Hemingway’s head over
his life-packed life), because Dr. Farah’s theory rested upon the unproven scientific
premise that our personality is a by-product of our brain and can be affected
by repeated blows to the head, which certainly can happen as extensive studies
of football player head injuries have proven, but our personality is an aspect
of the individuating consciousness of our essential self, which is not an
epiphenomenon of the brain; it is our true and immortal self, independent of
our biology, and although our personality may certainly be affected by our
brain chemistry, our essential self imbues our brain with our evolving identity
but is independent of our brain, and no sooner did I read the last line of
Chapter 29, “Hemingway’s Brain,” and the title of today’s spiritual musing
popped into my mind— “On the Cusp of a New Spiritual Awakening.”
As I said, I look forward
to writing today’s spiritual musing; but before I do, I have to watch a YouTube
video again where the exceptionally gifted Australian psychic Alison Allan
channels the higher self of living people—Oprah, Shirley MacLaine, Hillary
Clinton, Donald Trump, Jim Carrey, George Clooney, Bill Murray and others, which
proved to be not only shockingly mischievous and pruriently fascinating to
watch, but absolutely visionary in its serendipitous discovery because it
opened the psychic door to the higher self of every living person, which was
totally new to the mysterious phenomenon of spirit channeling.
Here’s how it
happened. Alison had written down a list of names of departed souls for her to
channel on the Afterlife Interview
segment of the Alison and Keri’s Shiny
Show (as advertised on YouTube: “Kari Mena, Energy Healer and Alison Allan,
Medium, are two like-minded people who want to share the experience of the
spirit world”), and by mistake Alison
wrote down Shirley MacLaine’s name, but as she went over her list she realized
that she wasn’t dead yet; and when she discussed this with her co-host Keri,
they were given the inspiration to try channeling the higher self of famous living
people, and that’s how they “chanced” upon what will undoubtedly be a new frontier
of the spiritual awakening that’s taking place in the world today, and which they
even became aware of as Alison channeled the higher self of those famous people
still living, because they both recognized that what they were doing was not
unlike what the old pioneers did as they explored their new country (in Keri’s
case, America, and in Alison’s case, Australia)—only they were exploring the undiscovered far country of the soul!
Of course, the
materialistic scientific community pooh-poos this field of inquiry, but the
social paradigm of personal meaning is shifting so quickly today—what with all
the mind-expanding shows in the movie industry, television, Netflix and other social
media networks with themes dealing with reincarnation (Cloud Atlas, starring Tom Hanks), recurring parallel lives (Before I Fall, modelled on Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray),
and numerous SF movies that extend human life beyond our five senses—that the
recalcitrant spirit-denying scientific community is beginning to cave, which
books like Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander, M. D. and Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian L.
Weiss, M.D., written by established medical doctors who once held onto the
theory that we do not have an autonomous self that exists independent of our physical
body are proving, with more personal stories of OBEs (out of body experiences),
NDEs (near-death experiences), and after-death memoirs like My Life After Death: A Memoir From Heaven,
by Eric Mendhus, coming out every day; and, at the risk of sounding immodest, I
can even cite my own parallel life story in my memoir The Summoning of Noman and my autobiographical novel Healing with Padre Pio, which was inspired
by the spiritual healing experience I had with the gifted spiritual intuitive
who channeled the departed spirit of St. Padre Pio. The times are changing so
rapidly that I can almost hear Bob Dylan’s squeaky voice singing in my ear: —
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’…
But
old dogs die hard, and it will take time for the higher frequency energy of this
new spiritual awakening to break up the stifling consciousness of fossilized
belief systems that keep souls trapped in the seductive matrix of the mind, and
there’s really nothing anyone can do about this because life is an individual
journey of self-discovery and not everyone can make the shift in their personal
paradigm to this new awakening; but it’s happening all the same, as adventurous
souls like Alison Allan and Keri Mena are proving.
The Internet is
here to stay, and however it evolves in this rapidly changing world it will
continue to expand the horizons of man like nothing before. When Johannes
Gutenberg invented the printing press in the mid 15th Century, it
ushered in the modern period of human history, playing a key role in the
development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the
scientific revolution; and it laid the material basis for the modern
knowledge-based economy and spread learning to the masses. But the Internet, a highly
evolved technological version of the Gutenberg press, opens us up to a whole universe
of learning, giving us instant information as it springs forth from the deep founts
of human consciousness, like the serendipitous discovery that Alison and Keri
made less than two years ago in 2016 by daring to channel the higher spiritual
self of famous people still living; and as surprised as I was in their
discovery, so were the spirits that they channeled…
For the record,
the Alison and Keri YouTube video that inspired the idea for today’s spiritual
musing is titled: Shiny Show E6:
Contacting Higher Selves of Famous People; and just to show how surprised
these people were when the gifted Alison intruded into their spiritual space by
calling upon their higher self, let me quote their exact words:
The comedian and actor
Jim Carrey’s higher self was called first, and Jim Carrey, one of the fractals
(personalities) of his higher self’s multiple fractals, responded to what
Alison and Keri were doing: “How naughty this is,” he said, somewhat amused; and
Alison got the distinct impression that Jim compared it to making love with the
neighbor’s wife…
When Alison called
Oprah Winfrey’s higher self, Keri being the annoying spiritual brat that she is,
asked Oprah if she would plug her Shiny
Show, and Oprah replied: “Baby steps, baby steps.” And just as she was
leaving, because she didn’t want to reveal any more than she had to and only
appeared out of courtesy, she said to the girls that she was going to be one
hell of an interview when she crossed over, if the Shiny Show was still around…
And then Alison
called Shirley MacLaine’s higher self (whose books I had read and loved, my
favourite being Sage-ing While Age-ing with The Camino a close second), and Shirley
MacLaine, being her characteristic feisty self, said: “What the hell do you
think you’re doing? This is ridiculous. Good fun, but ridiculous. You’re
busting the chops of all the rules by doing this; and it’s fun, but—it’s funny,
but it’s naughty.” And when Keri asked her how she felt about how the world had
finally embraced her spiritual views (on reincarnation and UFOs), Shirley MacLaine
replied: “It’s about bloody time…”
And then Keri
asked Alison to call the heartthrob actor George Clooney’s higher self, and he
simply said, “Seriously girls? Come on? Moving on, girls,” and he left…
Steven King’s
higher self was called next, and the famous author crossed his arms and furrowed
his brow and gave the girls a studied look, and said: “There’s a book in this…”
And then the celebrated
scientist Stephen Hawking’s higher self was called, who didn’t mind appearing,
and Alison asked him a question that had been on her mind ever since she read his
book A Brief History of Time. Stephen
Hawkins was born 300 years to the day that the famous Galileo Galilei died, and
Alison felt that Stephen was the reincarnation of Galileo, which he confirmed; then
Keri asked him about his theory that there was no God, and he replied, “It’s
just a game…just because you say there is no God does not change the fact that
there is a God,” and he told the girls that he would be back in the not too
distant future…
After Stephen
Hawking, the actor William Shatner’s higher self was called, and the first
thing Captain Kirk said to the girls was, “To boldly go where no-one has gone
before, ladies,” a reference to that famous line from his Star Trek show. And
then he added, “Wait till you get over
here. This is the real Star Trek…”
And then Keri
asked Alison to call up the actor of the SF
Matrix series, Samuel L. Jackson’s higher self, and he said to them:
“Whatcha you girls doing now? What the hell you doing? Just because you can do
it doesn’t mean you should.” And Keri asked if they were breaking some
spiritual law with their playful foray into the far country of the soul, and Jackson
replied: “You’re breaking some big spiritual butt. You’re opening doors that
are never going to close, girls. Once the word is out there, every f—r is going
to be doing it…”
And then, to my absolute
delight, Alison called up the three candidates that were running for the
American presidency, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders, and
they all confirmed what Stephen Hawking said, that it was all just a game; but
Donald Trump said something that puzzled the girls but spoke to me: “All is not what it seems, ladies. Don’t be
fooled by what’s in the brochures…”
Donald Trump won
the presidency and has been stirring the pot ever since, shaking up the
American political system like no other president before him which, for my
money, is the best thing that could have happened to the befouled American democracy;
but that could be a whole musing in itself, if I’m ever called to write it.
Suffice to say, there’s an electrifying spiritual awakening taking place today,
and I’m happy to be part of it…
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