 Dear Friends,
There I was at an old friend’s house sitting at a dining table with other guests and suddenly I was tongue-tied. Next to me was a distinguished looking man, suit and tie, in his sixties, who wanted to know who I was and what I was up to. He himself had spent forty years working in an international aid agency.
I don't know who he reminded me of, but some subconscious button was pressed and I found myself feeling anxious. My power drained away and I spluttered an incoherent answer. Within a few seconds he looked away and began talking to someone else as if I were not there.
As soon as I started to slide into that black hole of gobbledygook, another part of my psyche immediately woke and smiled compassionately at my predicament. I had felt this way many times before and knew how to handle it. First, I stopped talking. (This is an important strategy, my friends, lest you dig an even deeper hole . . .) Then I brought my attention back to my body, calmed my breath and relaxed my chest and stomach.
Next I had a little inner dialogue. ‘Well, there he is – the man who makes me anxious.’ ‘Why?’ ‘He might kill or burn me.’ ‘Hm. OK. First, I’ll love him and then I’ll assess how best to chat with him.’ So I calmed, opened my heart and began again. I sought his attention, began another conversation, pitched appropriately and redeemed the situation.
Don’t all the readers of this magazine know what I’m talking about?
Time after time – in this life and probably others – we do not know when it is okay to talk about what we really know or believe. This is not a casual experience because the sarcasm, the venom and the put-downs can be vicious – even within our own families.
There is also the energy field of religious persecution that we may connect with, which may create extra feelings of panic or even terror for some people.
In my own life I have become so accustomed to these situations that I now welcome them as an opportunity to assert my freedom and also to transmute them, using the classic meditation exercise of breathing in negativity, breathing out blessing.
Often this dichotomy between what we can and cannot talk about is really absurd. Thirty years ago, following an inner decision, I retreated for two years to the Atlas Mountains of southern Morocco and performed a long ceremony of the western mystery tradition in order to communicate with angels. It was a wonderful, powerful, life-changing experience.
A few years later, again following an inner prodding, I enrolled at the London School of Economics as a mature student to do a first degree and get a more grounded and general education. This then developed into doctoral research into how group dynamics affect international politics, which was ultimately published by Cambridge University Press. It was a completely mainstream academic book and obviously I could not write anything in it about my clairvoyant or mystical background.
Nevertheless I dedicated the book – it’s there on the title pages – to the Master Ragoczy, also known as the Comte de Saint Germain, the ascended Master with whom I have been in telepathic contact since my early twenties. (Or perhaps I was inspirationally deluded and talking to some other aspect of psyche and brain cells.)
Now! If you read that last paragraph again you will spot two contradictions. The first is a polarity between me, the secular academic who wrote the thesis, and me the telepathic mystic. The second is between me the mystic, confident of my relationship with my master, and me the psychologist who is open to the idea that it may all be delusion.
It is probably the same for many of you readers. Aren’t we all playing with similar challenges and progressions? What is real, not real, delusion, projection, flaky or ultimate, profound truth?
A lot of my life’s learning has been about finding a comfortable space in the midst of these polarities and I have learnt how to come home to a centre where I can be comfortable with the tides and paradoxes of incarnation, and embrace the contradictions with compassion.
The polarities and contradictions are, I believe, particularly intense during these times of enormous change in which the whole culture of our planet and our species is being transformed. We are all strung out – often at distressing points of tension – between different realities and between the old and the emerging new.
At a material level we are possibly passing through one of the greatest changes that humanity has ever seen, as we become a truly global society informed and driven by free flowing information and communications. The global village. Old restrictions are collapsing.
Emotionally and culturally, we are dismantling the six thousand year old structures of male-dominated societies. Women and a female understanding of spirit are taking the lead and beginning to balance the macho with some tenderness and emotional literacy. We are also precariously recovering our harmony nature and our relationship with the angelic realms and nature spirits.
Astrologically the whole planet is moving out of Pisces and into a two thousand year cycle influenced by Aquarius. At the same time, the cosmic Ray of Devotion is giving way to the Ray of Rhythm and Relationship. That is a huge change that many people do not appreciate: from Piscean Devotion to Aquarian Harmonics. It creates cultural frictions, especially between the controlling and the more flexible.
Other prophecies and visions – historical and contemporary – say that the whole planet is also going through a major initiation of energy and consciousness. We are going through a mass opening, a mass melting into more love and a mass harmonisation of our vibrations. This is a new chapter in our cosmic story.
My friend, the Slovenian sculptor and mystic, Marko Pogacnik, said recently in a talk at Findhorn, ‘Look how beautifully millions of years ago Gaia, the Earth spirit, prepared herself to receive our incarnating human souls. She is so wise and caring’ I loved that insight.
In the same way, we might understand that Gaia in her wisdom has produced all the challenges of contemporary global society in order to quicken our wits and attune our hearts to receive the cosmic blessing that is being bestowed on us all right now every second everywhere.
So, my dear sisters and brothers, don’t be concerned if we lose the plot every now and again. That is absolutely to be expected as we pass through these times of accelerated, profound and blessed transformation.
I wish you all great love, courage and grace.
William – Glastonbury, October 2004
www.williambloom.com
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 15-Nov-2004
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