Writing my recent Facebook post about the book Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch took me back to around this date in 2012 when I hosted my last guided meditation evening as the former Dragon Fly Transitions at Smithfield. It was a challenging time in my life and I was feeling a little lost and wondering about where my journey would take me next.
What happened during that evening was deeply profound for the group, me included. I had an inkling it was going to be a ‘big night’ so to speak because prior to each meditation I would check in to see who I’d be channeling for the night.
Well, that night I got more than I bargained for when my question was answered by a deep booming voice that came from so deep inside of me it resonated in every fibre of my being. The answer was “The One”.
Our journey that night was huge. We were taken back to the moment prior to our birth in this life and asked what it was we came here to do – our mission, our life purpose. Then the journey took us to particular transitional points throughout our lives, various stages and choices we’d made right up to the present day. Then we were asked to answer the question “Have I fulfilled my mission? If not, why not? What am I going to do about it?” Then we were taken to the future to see what was possible for us and if that was how we wanted it to be.
We were then brought back to the present moment and some of us took a while coming back because it had been a long and deeply moving journey.
So, as I ponder the possibilities of 2017 and beyond, it brings me great joy to revisit that night and know what whatever I dream of is possible, in fact is not only possible, but already is – if I keep the faith.
To quote the words of ‘The One’ from Conversations with God, “No prayer – and a prayer is nothing more than a fervent statement of what is so – goes unanswered. Every prayer – every thought, every statement, every feeling – is creative. To the degree that it is fervently held as truth, to that degree it will be made manifest in your experience.
‘When it is said that a prayer has not been answered, what has in actuality happened is that the most fervently held thought, word or feeling has become operative. Yet what you must know – and here is the secret – is that always it is the thought behind the thought – what might be called the Sponsoring Thought – that is the controlling thought.
‘If, therefore, you beg and supplicate, there seems a much smaller chance that you will experience what you think you are choosing, because the Sponsoring Thought behind every supplication is that you do not have now what you wish. That Sponsoring Thought becomes your reality.
‘The only Sponsoring Thought which could override this thought is the thought that God will grant whatever is asked, without fail.
‘The process of prayer becomes much easier when, rather than having to believe God will always say ‘yes’ to every request, one understands intuitively that the request itself is not necessary. Then the prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving. It is not a request at all, but a statement of gratitude for what is so.”