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I’ve
loved watching Oprah’s web broadcast featuring Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New
Earth. This web cast is being seen by millions and because of her reputation
this message is reaching people who would never have considered reading Eckhart.
A world awakening is an exciting notion and with our technology this message of
freedom from our ego and softening the rigidity of our collective ego is a
possibility.
Another incredible story is that of Dr. Jill Bolte
Taylor, Ph.D. who in her book, My Stroke of Insight, watched the left hemisphere
of her brain deteriorate and was aware enough to get herself rescued. She
details how she was living in two worlds; how when her linear, analytical
chatter of her left hemisphere silenced she entered the world of her right
hemisphere and she realized the interconnection of life and the pervading
peacefulness that supports and embraces the comings and going of all things in
the world.
Both of these people have touched the Divine and both are taking their message
to the world, so the world can begin to understand how human beings can get lost
in their own mind - never realizing they are the ones who have imprisoned
themselves.
In the Bible this story is found in Jacob and Essau.
Jacob, with the help of his mother tricked his father into giving him the
birthright and this meant that Essau having been the first born was now second
to Jacob and was to serve him. Jacob fled the wrath of Essau and went into a far
country where he married Leah and Rebecca becoming rich. Upon returning to his
homeland, he was to meet Essau, who had also done well for himself. That night
Jacob slept fitfully dreaming of a ladder with angles ascending and descending
and in another vision he fought with a man who he would not let go until he
received a blessing from him. Well, he did. The blessing came in the form of a
new understanding or perhaps one could say: “ A New Earth,” for he was not the
same man. He was reunited with his brother, Essau, who welcomed him home with
love.
When we wake up from our ego dream we recognize the
voices of the right and left hemispheres. Our left hemisphere is great when it
comes to executing details, analyzing, verbalizing but when it completely
dominates the right hemisphere it cannot see the big picture - the love of
beauty, the feeling of connectedness with another; the slow rhythmic breathing
of the universe as the flowers open their petals and the heartfelt thrill of
hearing a cry of a new born beginning her journey under the sun and her reach
for the stars. When your mind (Jacob) and body (Essau) are connected again the
angels rejoice in song.
Blessings, Rev Janice
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