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Clairvoyance Cleveland

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Nothing to post for this area as yet.  In the meantime here is an extract from one of my favorite books "The Power of Now".

satori to describe a flash of insight a moment of no-mind and total presence. Although satori is not a lasting transformation be grateful when it comes for it gives you a taste of enlightenment. You may indeed have experienced it many times without knowing what. it is and realizing its importance. Presence is needed to become aware of the beauty the majesty the sacredness of nature. Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night Yes but only as seen from the limited perspective of the manifested universe. In the Bible God declares: "I am the Alpha and the Omega and I am the living One." In the timeless realm where God dwells which is also your home the beginning and the end the Alpha and the Omega are one and the essence of everything that ever has been and ever will be is eternally present in an unmanifested state of oneness and perfection - totally beyond anything the human mind can ever imagine or comprehend. In our world of seemingly separate forms however timeless perfection is an inconceivable concept. Here even consciousness which is the light emanating from the eternal Source seems to be subject to a process of development but this is due to our limited perception. It is not so in absolute terms. Nevertheless let me continue to speak for a moment about the evolution of consciousness in this world. Everything that exists has Being has God-essence has some degree of consciousness. Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise it would not be and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The sun the earth plants animals humans - all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees consciousness manifesting as form. The world arises when consciousness takes on shapes and forms thought forms and material forms. Look at the millions of life forms on this planet alone. In the sea on land in the air - and then each life form is replicated millions of times. To what end? Is someone or something playing a game a game with form? This is what the ancient seers of India asked themselves. They saw the world as lila a kind of divine game that God is playing. The individual life forms are obviously not very important in this game. In the sea most life forms don't survive for more than a few minutes after being born. The human form turns to dust pretty quickly too and when it is gone it is as if it had never been. Is that tragic or cruel? Only if you create a separate identity for each form if you forget that its consciousness is God-essence expressing itself in form. But you don't truly know that until you realize your own God-essence as pure consciousness. Awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of' it? Have you listened truly listened to the sound of a mountain stream in the forest? Or to the song of a blackbird at dusk on a quiet summer evening? To become aware of such things the mind needs to be still. You have to put down for a moment your personal baggage of problems of past and future as well as all your knowledge; otherwise you will see but not see hear but not hear. Your total presence is required. Beyond the beauty of the external forms there is more here: something that cannot be named something ineffable some deep inner holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are one and the same? Would it be there without your presence? Go deeply into it. Find out for yourself. When you experienced those moments of presence you likely didn't realize that you were briefly in a state of no-mind. This is because the gap between that state and the influx of thought was too narrow. Your satori may only have lasted for a few seconds before the mind came in but it was there; otherwise you would not have experienced the beauty. Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds while you were completely present was that beauty or that sacredness there. Because of the narrowness of that gap and a lack of vigilance and alertness on your part you were probably unable to see the fundamental difference between the perception the thought-less awareness of beauty and the naming and interpreting of it as thought: The time gap was so small that it seemed to be a single process. The truth is however that the moment thought came in all you had was a memory of it. The wider the time gap between perception and thought the more depth there is to you as a human being which is to say the more conscious you are. Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say What a pretty flower but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still not present they don't truly see the flower don't feel its essence its holiness - just as they don't know themselves don't feel their own essence their own holiness. Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture most modern art architecture music and literature are devoid of beauty of inner essence with very few exceptions. The reason is that the people who create those things cannot - even for a moment - free themselves from their mind. So they are never in touch with that place within where true creativity and beauty arise. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Realizing Pure Consciousness

Is presence the same as Being?

When you become conscious of Being what is really happening is that Being becomes conscious of itself. When Being becomes conscious of itself - that's presence. Since Being consciousness and life are synonymous we could say that presence means consciousness becoming conscious of itself or life attaining self-consciousness. But don't get attached to the words and don't make an effort to understand this. There is nothing that you need to understand before you can become present.

I do understand what you just said but it seems to imply that Being the ultimate transcendental reality is not yet complete that it is undergoing a process of development. Does God need time for personal growth?

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call it John write out a birth certificate tell him about his family history and two minutes later he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of a dynamic process a molecular dance and made a separate entity out of it.

Clairvoyance Cleveland

"On Midsummer Eve 1735 a farm servant of Mr.Lancaster half a mile from the mountain saw the eastern side of its summit covered with troops which pursued their onward march for an hour. They came indistinct bodies from an eminence on the north and disappeared in a niche in the summit. When the poor fellow told his tale he was insulted on all hands as original observers usually are when they see anything wonderful. Two years after also on a Midsummer Eve Mr. Lancaster saw some men there apparently following their horses as if they had returned from hunting. He thought nothing of this; but he happened to look up again ten minutes after and saw the figures now mounted and followed by an interminable array of troops five abreast marching from the eminence and over the cleft as before. All the family saw this and the manoeuvres of the force as each company was kept in order by a mounted officer who galloped this way and that. As the shades of twilight came on the disciple appeared to relax and the troops intermingled and rode at unequal paces till all was lost in darkness. Now of course all the Lancasters were insulted as their servant had been; but their justification was not long delayed.

"On the Midsummer Eve of the fearful 1745 twenty-six persons expressly summoned by the family saw all [Page 143] that had been seen before and more. Carriages were now interspersed with the troops; and everybody knew that no carriages had been or could be on the summit of Souter Fell. The multitude was beyond imagination; for the troops filled a space of half a mile and marched quickly till night hid them - still marching. There was nothing vaporous or indistinct about the appearance of the spectres. So real did they seem that some of the people went up the next morning to look for the hoof-marks of the horses; and awful it was to them to find not one footprint on heather or grass. The witnesses attested the whole story on oath before a magistrate; and fearful were the expectations held by the whole countryside about the coming events of the Scotch rebellion.

"It now comes out that two other persons had seen something of the sort in the interval - viz. in 1743 - but had concealed it to escape the insults to which their neighbours were subjected. Mr. Wren of Wilton Hall and his farm servant saw one summer evening a man and a dog on the mountain pursuing some horses along a place so steep that a horse could hardly by any possibility keep a footing on it. Their speed was prodigious and their disappearance at the south end of the fell so rapid that Mr. Wren and the servant went up the next morning to find the body of the man who must have been killed. Of man horse or dog they found not a trace; and they came down and held their tongues. When they did speak they fared not much better for having twenty-six sworn comrades in their disgrace. [Page 144]

"As for the explanation the editor of the Lonsdale Magazine declared (volume II page 313) that it was discovered that on the Midsummer Eve of 1745 the rebels were 'exercising on the western cost of Scotland whose movements had been reflected by some transparent vapour similar to the Fata Morgana'. This is not much in the way of explanation; but it is as far as we know all that can be had at present. These facts however brought out a good many more; as the spectral march of the same kind seen in Leicestershire in 1707 and the tradition of the tramp of armies over Helvellyn on the eve of the battle of Marston Moor".

Other cases are cited in which flocks of spectral sheep have been seen on certain roads and there are of course various German stories of phantom cavalcades of hunters and robbers.

Now in these cases as so often happens in the investigation of occult phenomena there are several possible causes any one of which would be quite adequate to the production of the observed occurrences but in the absence of fuller information it is hardly feasible to do more than guess as to which of these possible causes were in operation in any particular instance.

The explanation usually suggested (whenever the whole story is not ridiculed as a falsehood) is that what is seen is a reflection by mirage of the movements of a real body and troops taking place at a considerable distance. I have myself seen the ordinary mirage on several occasions and know something therefore of its wonderful powers of deception; but it seems to me that [Page 145] we should need some entirely new variety of mirage quite different form that at present known to science to account for these tales of phantom armies some of which pass the spectator within a few years.

Clairvoyance Cleveland

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