Bridgewalker Part II

It was the year 2000, when my phone rang, metaphorically, and I responded.

That was when Gary Zukav was featured as a regular guest on the Oprah Show. Oprah was drawn to what Gary spoke about, due to the frequency he was on her show, and I was as well. I really didn’t understand on any level of depth what it all meant but there was enough of what Gary said that inspired me to attend a retreat he was teaching in September of 2000.

Although that was when I “officially” began my journey across the Bridge my preparation for it started many years earlier.

My first indication of the extraordinary was when I was 7 years old. I was walking down a remote country lane flanked by trees and fields. The day was warm and I became curious as I looked upward because there were no clouds in the sky. As I continued to walk along staring up at this clear blue canvass a vision of Jesus appeared. It was as if he was reaching out of a portal and was totally visible from the waist up with arm out-stretched and his palm downward.

To say I went into shock was putting it mildly. After standing there momentarily frozen I turned on my heels and ran home as fast as I could. I never told anyone, including my mother who could see I was visibly shaken, until I was in my 20’s. And although the image was crystal clear I never could say it was a cloud because that was the very reason I was mesmerized with the sky, it was cloudless.

And while I have thought about this many times, I continued to live a rather ordinary life and maintained my search for a career that would “speak” to me. And while I have had many wonderful opportunities there was nothing that ever really said, “this it it! I’m why you are here!”

I recall Gary always saying we live in Earth School. And I do believe that 100%. Aside from seeing Jesus I have had many different out of the ordinary experiences but don’t feel I am special or alone in this.

There are many different circumstances and events that happen in our lives that call us to connect with ourselves beyond the ordinary and mundane. For everyone they are uniquely designed and are part of our Soul Contract.

As I mentioned in my last blog numerous people live through these experiences and call them part of life, or the human condition, or maybe even special or out of the ordinary and never care to ask what the deeper meaning may mean, but rather act as if there is no answer or meaning to it, or they define it as simply a coincidence or something peculiar.

That is why the population on one side of the river is so much larger than the other.

In the work I do with clients I use Soul Contract Archetypes, stories from your life and also dreams, symbols and images to unravel different points of contact where situations, events, or occurrences happened. This is vital because often this is when you are being told to pay attention.

The reason.... something of a greater nature is calling to you!!

I was born into an era and time when “church and traditional religion” was common place in most communities. Mostly everyone I knew went to some sort of church and while my parents were not consistent church goers it became a place of comfort and community for me. I belonged to all the church organizations throughout my growing up years and into early adult life. In my early to middle ages I went back and forth between going and not going to church but in the end church didn’t provide for me "the what" my friend Cate Congos, (www.soulseekersjourney.com) calls “Soul Actualization”, although at the time I had no idea what that meant.

We are told there are 4 aspects to our nature...The physical, the metal, the emotional and the soul. However, as anyone reading this blog is probably aware so many of us are living with just a mind body focus and a few more more may pay some attention to the emotional aspect of their lives but the “Soul” has become somewhat of a relic belonging to another era or associated only within traditional religion.

Yet, as I can attest, as can many others, church or no church, traditions or no traditions, you can still reach a point in life where you find yourself on that fateful day thinking, “is this all there is?”

The underlying question, while it may not surface as such, is actually, why was I born? Why am I here at this time in this place? If there is a reason, then what is my Soul Destiny?

I want to make clear these questions are often questions of privilege. If we are struggling to survive to acquire food or a place to live or attempting to sustain that we are not waking up in the morning with the question, what is my Soul Destiny? Although don’t get me wrong, it can also happen in those circumstances but often can occur in other mysterious ways.

Caroline Myss writes in one of her books about the street woman who felt compassion for another person who was looking for food although she had similar struggles and received a message to go to the local church and ask the priest to begin a food program. She understandably was very afraid to do this but went to the priest and repeated what she was told. In the end a program was started and she eventually went to work for the priest and was able to earn an income.

How many times are we told things that we dismiss because we think it is our mind making up foolish ideas? How many times do we have out of the ordinary experiences and we think, “oh that is weird”, and go on with our lives.

Whether we believe we are connected to something outside ourselves or not makes no difference.

We have a Soul and it is connected to the Cosmic World and you are in it and it is in you. Denial will not make it otherwise.

In fact, all denial does is limit your scope, shorten your lens, and diminish your vision. Also it is less likely you will hear your metaphorical phone when it rings.

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