In her 1987 memoir of her inner journey from abusive childhood, through refuge in the Catholic church, mediated by a favourite priest, and then a revelation through discovering the The Findhorn Garden book and becoming inspired to repeat their deva/human gardening experiment in the Virginia woods only 10 miles from suburban Washington, her project named Pelerandra, she touched on several aspects of her journey, one of which was being encouraged to project by her guides during meditation.
In rereading this text some weeks ago, thinking to be further inspired in my own interactions with nature spirits in my garden I was surprised to see I’d forgotten a short but remarkable retrieval experience she mentioned.
“I had the most fun during my astral travel lessons. I learned one could request to be of service to others while on that level by giving quick assistance to people in distress. On one occasion I found myself on a train in Yugoslavia. Of course, no one could see me. There was an Eastern Orthodox priest on the train. I was to feed into his mind the meditative experience I’d had when I “went home”. I found him, transferred the energy from my mind to his, then left. I was told he has been in despair over his life, that the train would crash and that he would die. Had he died in that state his soul would have had great difficulty crossing over into the afterlife. When I placed my experience of “going home” in his mind, he experienced it and was able to release himself from despair before death. The next day I was leafing through the newspaper and saw a tiny filler article in the back pages about a train crash in Yugoslavia that had killed over a hundred people.
“I found this type of ‘work’ rewarding and exciting, and for a number of months I requested to be of service every time I went into meditation. Each time was different and I learnt something new about the amazing, unseen complex activity that goes on all around us all the time. Then, I decided to stop. I felt deeply that although this work was certainly valid, it was not my true work, and I needed to stop it in order to move on. For me to continue, it would be in effect, avoiding my real work – whatever that was. I haven’t done any astral travel work since.”
Several points stand out for me in this. As one consciously expands one’s grasp on the unseen, situations emerge that can amaze your discovering self, and more or less destroy your rational assessment of the world and your place in it. You are no longer just sleeping, eating, studying, playing, working. You can multi-task in many directions, you can push your way out of any envelope society, and indeed personality, insists on.
You can see how guides can know a future as well as a past, and you come to know how you can assist in their operations. You can know without doubt the illusory nature of time and space. Of the several daring adventures you might be exposed to, you can pick and choose the one that seems to stand out as just for you. You can see that ‘life’ and ‘death’ are interchangeable, and are often played in the card game of existence by the gamblers that really are us in costume. That we are puppet masters as well as puppets.
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