Before I move on to the Shadows, I want to post this one, partially as an experiment to see how well it weathers. Lately I’ve been experiencing a lot of what I call “feeling good for no earthly reason” because my physical circumstances are not changing, aside from getting older as time goes on. I’ve been trying to interpret karma along the same lines as described by Garry Zukav, that karma is not exactly time-bound. My good or bad deeds and thoughts do not necessarily boomerang very quickly, maybe not even in this life-time but the next one(s). In that same book, The Seat of the Soul, I’m now getting to intuition and guidance. These topics may have direct relevance to the remainder of this post.
Supposedly, there are no coincidences. By my logic, or lack thereof, that means every event and everything I sense is a sign. And, again, using my (lack of) logic makes it hard for me to believe this. I’ve become aware that signs are signs until they’re not. What do I even mean by that? I guess it’s short story time.
I used to see these these little black starling-type birds on my way home from the bus stop. It seemed as if one (or more) would follow me for a while by flying ahead of me to land in a tree and repeating that cycle for a little while. If there are no coincidences, than that was as sign of something. And I sort of low-level thought that to be true. But then early summer comes along and those birds were not there anymore until next year when the routine picked up again. Does this little story mean that I needed the same signs during the same seasons of the year? Or did it just mean some birds are migratory and curious and nothing else? Circumstances change. I don’t walk that way anymore so I don’t see the birds anymore. Does that mean the sign is no longer necessary or that those birds never were a sign?
So, maybe some signs are just there telling me I’m on the right track and nothing more momentous than that. Time again for a quick story. Part of my morning routine is to read briefly on my iPad. My current read is Gabby Bernstein’s “The Universe Has Your Back” – this time not racing through it just to notch another completion. The section I was reading contained this quote from “A Course in Miracles“:
There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
Later that same morning I had the same quote from the same author waiting for me in an e-mail. Is that a sign of something, or was it just coincidence? Could it be both a sign and coincidence? I don’t know. Sometimes I think I ask too many questions. For now, I’ll take this book quote coincidence as I sign I’m doing my necessary spiritual evolution. I’ll elaborate on that in the future. My teaser is that I’m working on “the shadow” and trying not to simply push it away, ignore it or label it as bad.