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Rhea A.
White, Ph.D. (Hon.)*
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An Under-Known Genius and Human Extraordinaire
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PART
4: A Recapitulation from Higher Ground
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Think of the old
adage, the sum is worth more than its parts. It's one special thing to
remember a few personal, meaningful exceptional or exceptional human
experiences. It's quite another to stick with this process so that as we
continue to dig in the gold mines of our lives for more such experiences
and their ever-fructifying individual significance to us, they
collectively begin to have a life, a presence of their own, a singular
impact as a whole!
This is further enriched, by the way, as we share our stories among
those we know well and trust absolutely. Just short of your
personal experiences, hearing similar accounts from your own family and
close friends and beloveds adds so much more to your shared potential
for transformation. The effect of this kind of corroboration and
validation can be electric and multidimensional in its impact on you and
other members of your relational web. Never underestimate the
power potential of disclosures like this. They leave a mark on
even the most intractable skeptic that may take the remainder of hir
lifetime to bear fruit, but bear fruit they will! All I can really
say here is, that is my sincere belief.
As we become more and more at home in this transcendent way of being and
knowing and sharing and living out of our experiences and those of our
loved ones, and others beyond, we begin to glimpse added dimensions of
the unimaginable magnificence of Life. We are literally awakened
to the meaning-rich, purpose-suffused, living, conscious, spiritual
wholeness of which we, each and every one of us, in a most intimate way,
are a precious part and at-one within this Living- Life Web that is
living us!
For starters we could call the very act of this being-present-to or
continuing to revisit these precious moments -- such as when we write
them down or tell them to others and continue to process their
deliciously reverberating meaning for us -- a potential EHE in its own
right, something along the lines of an "EHE autobiography
experience." The possible impact of the very processing itself, the
act of recall, always has the potential to be no less profound,
evocative, shattering, enlightening! This capacity to
transform continues through one's life and into and through the
lives of others, if we choose it. And don’t forget the other
side of the echo here: we can derive this benefit from others’
as well as our own experiences, which can itself induce similar effects
in still others, and is why it is so vital that we continue to dwell on
them, let them nurture us, as well as come together to share them and
let them nurture the world.
Allow me to summarize these in a simple way. Here is an example of
how a natural development might occur along these lines, beginning with
someone's personal experience / EHE, and culminating in or contributing
to the outcome of a
similarly awakened global humanity:
A
person has an exceptional experience that is profoundly meaningful
or acquires such meaning that changes this person for the better
[see Aftereffects
of EHEs article].
Eventually,
heshe shares hir story with someone with whom there is a mutual
trust and regard, such as someone in hir family. The one who
is privileged to listen and who is empathetic is reminded of stories
heshe learned of ancestors and close relatives, as well as hir own
experience/s of this nature and relates them to the first
person.
This
whole process dramatically validates the first person's experience.
But
it also clearly impacts on the second person, who may have all but
forgotten these experiences and never would have thought to share
them if the first person had not confided hir
experience.
There
is forged between them a new bond of understanding based on
spiritual experiences that is an enormous and powerful tie to share.
These
two people, separately and/or together, in turn feel a tremendous
boost of self confidence and self validation to then extend this
kind of sharing to others. In the meantime, each one begins to
keep a journal in which they chronicle all such experiences they can
remember in their lives. In White's terms, they begin
recording their EHE
autobiographies.
As their further bonding based on this new way of looking at life
continues to mature and as they continue to collect and meditate on
more of their own and their loved ones' EEs and EHEs, their personal
lives begin to change to reflect ever more fully the
classic aftereffects. Sometimes this is gradual,
sometimes dramatic.
Whether
others are aware of the cause of this or not, and whether others who
know believe them or not, their families and other close ties are
also influenced by these changes.
Like
a stone thrown into a pond, there is a
ripple effect that is soon felt across the entire community of
relationships and eventually well beyond their familiars altogether.
Over
time,
with the continued reverberations and repetitions of these actions,
this becomes a substantial network forged on the basis of profound,
realer-than-real, spiritual experiences that can touch and transform
the life of every person on the planet.
An experience of this nature is the ultimate Wake-Up
Call, the touch of the magic wand that transforms the ancient stone
figure into the living eternal youth! Imagine, as this
understanding begins to have a global impact -- and even now
this IS happening! [oh,
sooo quietly!] -- what it will be like as
this world comes alive in a way that is totally NEW, with a population
of people [our children? our grandchildren? us??] with this
experiential Awareness guiding us into much less perilous circumstances
than we are currently entangled in!! You may be familiar
with the line spoken by the Christed Jesus concerning the meek who shall
inherit the Earth. This takes on a whole new thrill of meaning
here, doesn't it? Think about it.
... Ahh, but listen! Rustling hints abound, and look! There in the
ancient mausoleum by the great, sheltering tree – a slight shifting of
the head, and a living light catches the Sun in once stone-dull eyes – the stone
god/dess
stirs into Wakefulness!!
And in a nearby stand of grandfather trees is a much visited monument
cast in something as eternal as stone, yet with a quality that attracts
to it so much LIGHT! The writing on it says,
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