Meg, Millie And Sadie

Meg and my brother Peter were married and produced two wonderful daughters. They haven't been together for many years but Meg has always been our sister just the same. Meg invited me for dinner so my older brother Scott was kind enough to drive me to the Sea Bus, which took me across the Bay to Meg's place.

Meg met me at the main terminal on the other side. I haven't seen her in 5 years but she and I have been corresponding through my Blog. It turned out that the reason the man in the background was looking into the bank machine was that it was busy eating his card. Meg was going to take some money out but we agreed this was a sign to wait.

She walked me back to her apartment where her daughter Millie was cooking us vegetables and cheese on french bread.

Millie's 19 and has already travelled to Africa. She loves that culture and is about to take some anthropology courses. I told her I would put her in touch with my friend Ted, who lived in Africa for many years and can give her some great tips.

This is Sadie. She's 17 and an incredible runner. It is difficult to show you a picture of just one sister alone because they stick together like glue.

Sadie has won many track meets. She says she has always loved running. Many times she will get up very early in the morning just so she can run around the block a couple of times before school.

While Meg helped with the salad and Millie finished cooking the dinner, Sadie found some music for us to listen to. We have the same spiritual roots through a path called 'Eckankar' so it was incredible to share experiences with a common point of reference.

Meg works as an administrative assistant to pay the bills but her real love is her music. She is a professional musician and has recorded a CD called 'Driving With You'. I have no trouble giving her a shameless plug to say: 'Buy her album'. Her music is great. I'm listening to it as I write this Blog. Click here for her Website.

Meg has a deep grasp of Spirit and she has performed in many cities on the continent.
When I got back to Scott's place after sharing an evening with these three vibrant Souls, I wrote Meg to thank her for dinner. As I said in your email Meg; I knew I would have a good time. I just didn't realize I would have a GOOOOOD TIME! It is such a blessing to reconnect with you Sadie, and Millie and Meg. I love you. Baraka Bashad.

What The Bleep Time

Okay Vivyan and Somsoc, I finally saw the movie: ‘What the Bleep Do We Know’ and it was really fun.

The strongest theme in the movie that hits home with me is the theory of time travel. Quantum physics has found that particles of matter seem to exist in two or more places at the same time and that when we put our attention on them they seem to be in only one place again.

I developed my model of the Universe thirty years ago when I began studying ‘Eckankar’ which was described as the ‘ancient science of Soul Travel’ by it’s founder, Paul Twitchell. Twitchell based his cosmology on the premise that in our true state we are omnipotent beings and so we never travel anywhere. We simply put our attention somewhere and are here now. Twitchell took this idea further. He said that we all have the natural ability to be in any place in any Plane of existence at any ‘time’ just by focusing our attention on where we want to be. The reason this is possible is that we are already in all places and times right now. The Soul travel theory states that all eventualities of all time tracks have already happened. Anything that you can imagine or dream or experience with your senses, has already taken place. Twitchell says that we simply put our attention on those events the same way a flashlight illuminates the darkness. What we see is what we tend to accept as Reality.

There is a movie that demonstrates this theory. ‘Back to the Future’ is a movie in which a boy (Marty) travels from 1985 to 1955. But he returns ten minutes before the time he left and so is able to watch himself leave. When he goes home, at the end of his adventure, his whole life is totally changed. The movie explains this by showing that he has altered events of the future by past actions. That is sort of true. In ‘reality’ what Marty has done is leave one time track and enter another. The explanation in Quantum Physics and according to Twitchell is that the time track Marty arrives in is a parallel universe. He never actually does go home. He arrives somewhere he has never been and both world exist at once.

So if all this is correct then we are actually omnipotent beings trapped in our own hypnosis. I don't think we can wake up from this hypnosis, as humans, but we can change our lives in the blink of an eye, when we learn to consciously alter our hypnosis. And I think the first step to accomplishing this goal is to learn to become the observer beyond the physical body. I have experienced this state through lucid dreaming and Soul Travel.

Weight*Wait*Weight

My weight has fluctuated a lot since I arrived in Thailand. I've been trying to get to the bottom of it but I just can't make sense of it.

I was startled to find that my weight had gone up significantly while I was travelling.

Dennis told me it's because I'm carrying a lot of baggage but I have tried to explain to him that my psychological state has nothing to do with my physical weight. He just doesn't seem to get it.

Here's what it is now. It seems to have stabilized now that I'm resting in Bangkok for a few days. I'll keep you posted as I search for clues to this strange phenomenon.

And speaking of clues, here's something I found the other day on a weigh scale that I thought Meg and Diana might find interesting.

The inscription reads "For Weight C (See)Eck"; 'Eck' being a name for the cosmic life force. Maybe my fluctuations are spiritually based after all.

The Voice Of The Silence

Twenty years ago, When I lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, I was eating escargot at a restaurant, when I suddenly started looking at one of the shells and I had a powerful sense of Deja Vu. I knew the shell was important but I didn’t know why. I only knew that I was supposed to find something and that the shell was the key. After several days of carrying the shell in my pocket, I decided to visit a dear friend of mine, Averil. She and I both studied a Spiritual path at that time, called Eckankar. Averil had a great library of esoteric books so she let me look around to see if one would solve the mystery for me. I found a couple of books that I was interested in reading, but none seemed to be what I was after. Then just as I was leaving I happened to peer into her bedroom, and there on her bedside table was a little red book called 'The Voice Of The Silence'. I walked right in and placed my escargot shell over the sketch on the cover. It fit perfectly. Averil said it was her favorite book and that she always kept it there, in her room. It was a book so familiar to her that it never occurred to her to mention it.
The Voice Of The Silence is a book that was translated by Madame Blavatsky a hundred years ago. She translated it from stone tablets at a remote Buddhist Monastery in Tibet. The book explains the mechanics of Soul as it travels through the different Planes of existence. I found that the secret to the book was to read it aloud. When I did, it took me into a very deep contemplative state.

But there’s another part to this story.
Five years ago, I stumbled upon a woman on the Internet named Vivyan. She and I began a very unusual dialogue right out of the blue. We got talking about synchronicity and the strange things that Spirit does to lead us in new directions. I was just beginning to tell her this story of the Voice Of The Silence when she stopped me and said: “Wait. Let me send you something. Vivyan is a Fractal artist. She sent me this fractal without knowing anything about my vision of the escargot shell. I was wowed when I saw her fractal. Just as I'm writing this article Vivyan has phoned me. I'm telling her about the article. Just as I'm speaking to her, I'm looking at the website for the movie, 'What The Bleep Do We Know' , and I'm seeing the picture of William Tiller (Uncle Bill to her) who is the renowned physicist featured in the film. And while I look at his picture, She says: “What’s so great about the Internet is that we send something out there, into the unknown, and it sends us back exactly what we need.” And that day, five years ago, when she sent that fractal to me, she was proving exactly what she’s talking about now.” My trip to Thailand is tied into this as well. It’s a land of Buddhist Monasteries that somehow hold the next key to the spiral of the Snail shell. As I talk to Vivyan we are getting ready to meet for the first time. She and her partner, Dorian have invited me to visit them in Etobicoke for the weekend. I look forward to seeing what piece of the puzzle I will find when I meet them.