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The Start of the Yellow Brick Road
Everyone has a miracle waiting to happen
Thank you, Kira Dawn, for engaging so meaningfully — truly — I do not want anyone to mistake that for sarcasm — I feel you:
So this is not advice for everybody…just want to make that clear. I have been to about 8 rehabs. … Been clean now 8+ years and so you know what actually did it for me. Not meetings. … There was also advice from my mom whom I didn’t listen to until much later…she would say, “Kira, why are you calling yourself a drug addict. You know naming something gives it a lot of power over you.” I used to fight with her about that until I listened and she is 100% correct. … See when you are called a drug addict you are expected to relapse. It’s okay they tell you. Bitch, please…
I do not regret going to rehab in 2012, though I started to see years ago why a girlfriend of mine (it takes a damaged person to spot damage sometimes) said that rehab ruined me--it's along the lines of what you said--but in fact, it put me on the path to who I have discovered that I am because my first breadcrumb on the path to achieving true spirituality was set as a paving stone by Spiritdecoder, who synchronously is a mystical cleric, yet on staff at a quite traditional 12-step-based facility.
I had arrived in PA hoping to find an understanding of God that meshed with my conception. I sought out counseling from a member of the spiritual staff whom I call Mystical Meredith. I explained to her that I had bounced around between agnosticism and the belief that God was akin to the Force from Star Wars — the psychic energy emitted by all living things — and that I believed that some people had the ability to tap into this energy, psychics, and to a lesser extent, me and others who experience the phenomenon of de ja vu. I told Meredith that I believed in the existence of souls because I had spoken to the souls of dearly departed through a psychic, and I asked her how God fits into this — asking her if there was a hierarchy of souls with God at the top?
Before answering me, Meredith asked me why I thought I used substances abusively. I answered that I thought there was an irreconcilable conflict between my conscious and subconscious minds over things I had done, or not done, over the past few years, and I drank and drugged to run away from rather than resolve this conflict.
Meredith explained that the conflict was not between my conscious and subconscious, but between my mind and my soul. Meredith’s conception of God, or the Great All, and how we and our souls fit in, is that when our souls leave the Great All to take human form we contract with the universe to experience certain painful things on Earth that are not spiritual so we can learn what is spiritual (love, kindness, compassion, charity, etc.)
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At the close of the meeting, I asked Meredith to recommend readings to me. She responded with Conversations with God — Book One, and Comprehending Coincidence, Synchronicity and Personal Transformation. I highly recommend both books — they opened up my mind and prepared me to accept the revelations of my soul awakening, summarized here:
The Amazon page linked above for Comprehending Coincidence describes the book thusly:
In our daily lives, coincidences occur that grip us or catch us off-guard; and if we are open to their messages, we can use them to direct us on our path in life. Craig Bell provides unique and practical ways to use coincidence for personal transformation. His anecdotes reveal the profound lessons he has learned in his innovative search for meaning in everyday events.
Coincidences and dreams bear marked similarities, the most important of which is that the content of both may be symbolic. Bells offers a few reliable rules that bring symbol analysis within the reach of almost everyone. Incorporating elements of psychology, spirituality, and metaphysics, the author synthesizes Western quantum physics and Eastern metaphysics to explain how our psychological world may structure itself to provide meaningful coincidences.
The concepts discussed in Bell’s book form the foundation for my and my co-editors’ (𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊. and Anthi Psomiadou — Diana and Anthi are fabulous poets and as “tuned-in” as they come) co-creation:
described in detail here:
I venture that every reader on Medium has stories of coincidences. One does not have to decode the coincidence to write about and have it published therein. For example, this story hit my Newsbreak notifications about ten days ago:
A couple, who ‘met’ on a blind date, discovered they had actually first crossed paths as pre-schoolers — and, as they prepared to wed, found a photo to prove it!
The video is heartwarming.
Even if you are only on Medium to read, please submit stories of real-life coincidences to our publication. Email them to me in any format at [email protected]. If you do not want to write the story yourself, just describe it and I or Anthi or Diana will write it up and publish it.
Thank you.
In Rama I create,
Marcus
