A Lucid Mind

    And while I'm a on a roll... I had ten hours on the train from Geneva to Berlin today. I went through some truly beautiful countryside, especially in Switzerland and southern Germany. The train was very cozy, and I managed to squeeze out this little tale. It's not so much about the future, but touches upon some of the themes I regularly write about.  There's a little bit of the paranormal, an invitation to step into the unknown, and even a little sexual tension. And no, this blog is not going to become a short story blog. I will simply post fiction, and maybe even poetry, here from time to time. 

A Lucid Mind 

By Marcus T. Anthony

“Relax Miss Lee, this won’t hurt a bit”, smiled Martin Ku as he ushered the pretty young woman to her seat.

    “I certainly hope not”, she smiled back. “They aren’t paying me enough for that.”

    “Hmm, we have something else in common then, besides, our distant ancestors in the Far East”. Dr Ku sat down at his desk, some distance from the woman. “So how long has it been since you were in Shanghai?”

    “Haven’t been back since we left when I was six years old. I can barely remember anything,” Veronica Lee confessed. “What about you?”

    “I hate to say, but I have never been to China. I’m third generation Chinese American. In fact my mother was only half Chinese.”

    “Oh, I thought there was something a little mixed up about you the first time I saw you.” Veronica giggled.

    “Too right, Miss Lee. I can’t speak a word of Chinese either. I’m as American as a hot dog at Yankee Stadium.” Dr Ku shuffled his papers. “I’d love to chat some more, but I am on a tight schedule today. I assume you are aware of the procedure?”

    “I believe I’ve been told just about everything.”

    Dr Ku picked up a large, thick envelope. He removed the string around it, and pulled out what looked like an oversized deck of cards. “It’s quite simple really. On the back of these cards there is a single number between one and ten. I’m going to pull one card out at a time. Your job is to guess the number on the card I am holding. Got it?”

The Sins of the Father

For the last two decades or so, I have used dreams and visions as a guide to understanding the soul. This can be a great way to develop insight into your soul issues, and even those of others whom you are in relationship with. All minds are connected, so sometimes what you see in dreams and visions represents the energies within other people’s minds. Others’ psychological projections can also affect your own mind, and often this will come through in your dreams. When creating our personal futures, our dreams can be a powerful guide.

A vision is a short dream or image which reveals some information to you. They can occur during deep sleep, but they most commonly happen when you are in the drowsy state between sleep and wakefulness, such as just after you awaken, or when you are drifting off to sleep.

Last night I had an interesting vision regarding my wife, when I was not quite asleep. I saw an image of her, and there was an insect on her lower back, just at the base of the spine. She was asking me to help her get it off. I knew immediately that this dream related to an energy which was affecting the base chakra (the energy centre at the base of the spine which deals with sexual issues and empowerment, amongst others).

I then actively participated in the dream, and connected with the energy of that part of my wife’s consciousness system. I saw that i]there was an issue to do with her father. There then began a mini-dream, where I saw her father in a room. He was agitated, and wanted to sit down on a chair. “I want to be the king”. I could sense that he viewed the chair was a kind of throne, when in fact it was just a humble chair. Unfortunately there was a black woman’s handbag on that piece of furniture, so he was unable to sit on it. This caused him great frustration.

Next I channeled the energy of my wife’s father to my wife as a child. I saw that his soul issues were very much about being controlled by women. He has never fully come into his power as a man – or to put it another way, his tendency is to give his power away to women completely (he is still alive). As an adult he has never transcended this issue. When he first had children he related to them more as a child than as an adult. In fact he tried to make them responsible for his own inner child. That means that he dumped his stuff on them. “Here, I don’t want to deal with this. Please save me”, is what he said to his kids metaphysically.

The truth is that all adults have unresolved soul issues, and they project them onto their children. What is disowned forms the shadow of the mind. This is true not merely at a behavioral level (acknowledged by modern psychology), but this also occurs at an energetic level. The energy passes to the child while it is in the womb, at birth, during childhood, and typically right through the lifespan, even after the parent has passed away (there is no such thing as “death”, in the sense of the end of consciousness).

When we take the time to deal with our own issues, it is thus a gift for all those around us, and particularly our children. What you do not heal, you pass on your stuff down the line, not only to your future selves, but to your descendants.

When life seems difficult and we are required to look within and see and feel our own pain and darkness, it helps to remember that our healing work is a gift to ourselves, and to all of humanity. Healing oneself is truly an act of love.

Marcus

Entanglement: The Next Big Thing?

Just a few months ago on his blog, parapsychologist Dean Radin boldly claimed that the idea of entanglement will soon become taken for granted in biology. Entanglement is the idea that all things are connected at a deep level, and that this connectivity transcends the currently understood limits of space and time, as held in mainstream science. In the post, titled “Quantum biology now. Quantum psychology next?”, Radin suggests that psychology will quickly follow suit, taking on entanglement as a founding principle of mind.

 Dean Radin

Radin has long held the belief that entanglement will eventually be embraced in science, but his confidence received a boost at the beginning of the year because of a paper published in the prestigious science journal, Nature by Elisabetta Collini and colleagues.