One gloriously sunny, spring afternoon in the Gregorian year known as AD 2001, there was an unexpected ring on my doorbell. Since I wasn’t expecting anybody and my partner had just left our flat on a lengthy shopping expedition, I assumed that the bell had been pressed by a Jehova’s Witness, a dishcloth salesman, a mischievous child or by mistake, so I ignored it. Then it rang again, but this time with an energy that was more insistent.
I opened the door to reveal an elderly Indian gentleman with long white beard and hair and a saffron turban. He also had blue, sparkling eyes and wasn’t wearing anything on his feet. “I have travelled many miles from India to see you…” he said, with disarming sincerity.
Having initially allowed my pre-programmed cynicism to stifle my intuition by refusing to believe that my visitor was not attempting to procure money that I didn’t have in either my wallet or a bank account for an as yet undisclosed purpose, I boldly pronounced that he should just cut to the chase and tell me what he was selling. Then he told me three things about my life that only those closest to me had prior knowledge of, so I invited him inside for a cup of tea.
“I am here to lift the curse of a woman who wishes to prevent the fulfillment of divine prophesy.” My atheist default setting kicked in and I wondered if I had made the right decision inviting him into my home. “Listen mate, I don’t even believe in God. What could that possibly have to do with me?” I asked, genuinely considering whether or not I was experiencing an acid flashback. “You ask too many questions. You should have faith in God…” he replied with an unblinking smile, before removing something from his pocket. I looked down and saw a huge, orange stone set atop a thick gold ring. It became clear from his benevolent facial expression that this was something he really wanted me have.
Needless to say I refused to accept the ring under any circumstances, since I felt entirely disinclined to wear it and I didn’t have any money to offer him in payment. I even refused to accept it in return for the shoddy cup of supermaket tea he politely drank. “If you do not accept the ring your progress will be very difficult. The ring would protect you from the woman who cursed you. Without it, you will continue to be attacked by demons. But even if you do not accept it in return for this cup of tea, many people will be praying for your success. “
The femme fatale in question is not known to me, although at the time I believed it was an ex who claimed to be a witch, which span my formerly confident, pseudo-rational mind into a blind panic, such was the power of the truth resonating in my visitor’s words and the inadequacy of my flimsy universal perspective. Moments later, he left me with the promise that he and many other souls would be praying for my success, in which endeavours I had absolutely no idea, but my entire philosophical position experienced an immediate pole shift, as I watched him disappear into the ether.
Two weeks later to the day, my Indian friend returned to ascertain the effects of his first visit. We sat and talked for about thirty minutes, but this time without the interruptions of my temporarily slumbering atheism. “Are you going to ask me to take the ring again?” I asked, half expecting an affirmative response. “No…” he replied, smiling, “I do not have it with me this time. I have already fulfilled my role in this ancient prophesy.”
I have since perceived that the ring was offered to me as symbol of the path of least resistence, which the prophesy correctly predicted I would not accept on account of a lifetime largely spent swimming against the tide of established norms and presumed authority. Upon further reflective study and meditative contemplation, I also began to comprehend the complexity of the divine energies that reawakened my physical being to the soul purpose of this incarnation: to found and dedicate the Universal Community Trust to the emanicipation, upliftment and self-realisation of Mankind.
Every moment of experience which brought me to this point in the elliptical solar arc of time was a necessary part of the process of purifying my consciousness, energising my heart and enabling my mind to remember the very essence of my immortal being. Suffice to say, the tranformation from a life lived under the shadow of egotistical concerns in a world that I perceived as unjust and godless, to one lived in the knowledge that every man and woman is a fragment of divine consciousness with the ability to imagine into being their their very existence, was so intensely cathartic that my dark night of the soul seemed to last for three years.
Nevertheless, having stumbled through the barren spiritual wilderness that I created for myself by living an ego-driven and passionately hedonistic life of sensory excess, during which time I perceived my existence as bereft of unconditional love, compassion and forgiveness, a deep cleansing then took place in my heart. The result was that I finally stopped yearning for the trinkets of rank materialism that Mankind has been programmed to regard as evidence of a sucessful life. Just like the rational mind is disabled by mistaking the ego for the inner voice, the human heart is burdened by eight potential bondages:
1. Grief 2. Shame 3. Familial pride 4. Tribal pride 5. Fear
6. Smugness 7. Condemnation 8. Hatred
In helping to replace these bondages with magnaminity of heart, the miraculous benefits of Kundalini Yoga, the mastert of the breath through prananyana and disciplined, deep meditation should never be underestimated, nor should the power of altruistically conceived positive energies, directed without any expectation of reward for the maximum benefit of all other souls.
Through persistent contemplation of the nature of being, I have perceived my self in everything and everything in my self; I have been able to comprehend that everything created under Divine Law has evolved for the highest benefit of all consciousness, existence and bliss and it continues to evolve. I do not ask others to do as I have done or to believe what I believe, but I do grant to every Man, Woman and Child on Earth, that they will be protected under the Superior Jurisdiction of Natural Law as beneficiaries of the Universal Community Trust.
