| Ordinarily our spirituality is concealed behind a thought | | | | relinquish control of the outcome. It may be that |
| storm that keeps us in a state of overwhelm all day | | | | spirit has a far bigger plan for us than we could |
| long. During meditation this thought storm falls away | | | | possibly imagine. Our only role now, as we go about |
| and we may now reach deeply into the expansive | | | | our everyday lives, is to adopt what Emerson calls an |
| silence that lies behind it. | | | | "attitude of receptivity". |
| Eventually, however, we find we have gone as far | | | | If, whilst in the furthest reaches of our meditation, |
| as we can go. | | | | we message our higher self in this way that message |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks of this moment in this | | | | will at some point be answered in the language of |
| way: ".. we give this generalization the name of Being, | | | | the spirit; a single word emblazoned in our mind, a |
| and thereby confess that we have arrived as far as | | | | book placed in our hands for no apparent reason, a |
| we can go. Suffice it for the joy of the universe that | | | | quotation that catches our eye, an unexpected |
| we have arrived not at a wall, but at interminable | | | | phone call, a shift in circumstances, a freeing up of |
| oceans" | | | | blocked energy. |
| When we reach this point we have arrived at what I | | | | When this happens, in the words of Ralph Waldo |
| call the gap, the narrow band that separates our | | | | Emerson "We stand before the secret of the world, |
| conscious mind from the expansive realms of our | | | | there where Being passes into appearance". In other |
| spirituality - our "interminable oceans". | | | | words we have been messaged by spirit. We have |
| We cannot move beyond this point but, whilst in a | | | | been handed a call to action. A cosmic whispering has |
| meditative state, we may send our questions, | | | | begun on the subject of our unique purpose and |
| longings, prayers or evocations across the gap. If we | | | | potentiality. When we read that book, ponder the |
| have nothing but uncertainty we may send our | | | | meaning of that word or quotation, respond to the |
| uncertainty. This is where we may ask about the | | | | contents of that phone call, move forward where |
| meaning of life - our life! | | | | movement was previously blocked or do whatever |
| It does not matter what form these communications | | | | else is asked of us we enter into dialogue with our |
| with our higher self take - whether words or images | | | | higher self and so the cosmic whispering will continue. |
| or feelings. What matters is that we send them | | | | Eventually, by this way, we will come to know the |
| without expectation and that our conscious mind | | | | true meaning of this life of ours! |