Sacred Heart prayer: 3rd iteration and a bit about Seth

Sunday 23 January on a whim I began another cycle, so today's the 4th day.

Monday afternoon something unusual happened that wasn't unexpected.

Behind me and to my left loomed what I sensed to be a cone of energy with a rounded top. Shortly after, I felt within my everyday body another personality that spoke in accented English. 'He' offered personal information and suggested an intriguing new direction for self-development.

At no time did I feel possessed. In fact I realized that I had been introduced to an enhanced version of myself.

I was conscious through the few minutes of the trance, walking around and holding my arms in a different way than the usual. I've had similar experiences before but this one was particularly meaningful.

Now I understand what Jane Roberts meant when she reported at one of her trance sessions that she "felt Seth around". On occasion, Willy, one of the Butts' 2 cats would react to Seth's presence.

In recent weeks I had been reciting other Catholic prayers. At Siok's suggestion that the Memorare was especially efficacious, I had voiced several petitions ranging from the sacred, matters mundane, through the profane, with no expectation that such protestations would be heard let alone get answered.

OTOH church member John claimed that 95% of his prayers were answered.

His prayers ranged from expressions of gratitude; requests on behalf of people he knew; and to a specific request that his son should pass a certain examination paper. Else he would have to repeat a whole year's worth of expensive university studies.

After John said the appropriate prayer, and after his son also prayed and requested a re-assessment of the failed paper, the examiner awarded him a passing mark. What do you say to that?

Now then: are my 'spiritual' experiences expressions of wish fulfillment that dreams are said to be?

We'll just have to wait and see what happens upon completion of the current cycle.

References: 

Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

The nature of animal consciousness in itself is a highly interesting subject, and one that we will later consider. The cat is aware of my presence, and has on several occasions reacted rather noticeably to it. In this book I hope to show the constant interactions that occur between all units of consciousness, the communication that leaps beyond the barriers of species; and in some of these discussions, we will use Willy as a case in point.

http://www.theshiftofconsciousness.info/seth.html


DREAMS, "EVOLUTION", AND VALUE FULFILLMENT. VOLUME I

I finished typing last Monday night's session a few minutes before we sat for this one, and Jane just had time to read it before she felt Seth around: "Okay, I'm ready. . . .")

 http://www.theshiftofconsciousness.info/janeroberts3.html

Curious results of Catholic prayer

Despite my early education at ACS Ipoh in the 50s and 60s I never had any interest in prayer despite exposure to Christian beliefs and practices including first 'subject' Friday chapel service.. Not even after I joined the local Catholic church in 2005.

Here's what I wrote about the first occasion that I tried doing so.

Siok, septuagenarian retired teacher of English admonished, "You ought to be practising your adopted faith now that you're a Catholic:: go to Mass regularly. After all it's one of the Sacraments."

She's right of course, having spent her formative years in Main Convent, Ipoh though she says she's now Buddhist in outlook while keeping a photo of Satya Sai Baba perched on a sideboard in her kitchen. Talk about having an eclectic faith, perhaps she's hedging her bets? :-)

Be that as it may, she also drew my attention to the Memorare (with the accented last syllable), claiming in the Cantonese vernacular that it's "ho lang", meaning that it's most efficacious. And just the other day she told me of a prayer to St Anthony that could help one locate lost things.

And so, out of a need for a change perhaps, I went on a prayer junket. Wow! The results were quite unexpected.

I found myself giggling and laughing out loud every now and then for no apparent reason: it was as if someone had just told a terrifically funny joke that I'd never heard before. Can you beat that?

When I thought about it, I think I was responding to the language employed ty the authors, especially the beautifully crafted Memorare, with a great 'story arc' as Alex might put it:

Remember, Most Gracious Virgin Mary,

that never was it known that anyone who fled to Your protection,

implored Your help or sought Your intercession,

was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence,

I fly to You, Virgin of Virgins, my Mother;

to You I come, before You I stand, sinful and sorrowful.

Mother of the Word Incarnate,

despise not my petitions,

but in Your mercy, hear and answer me.

Amen.

Perhaps my otherworldly outlook on life may have something to do with it? Shall I then make specific requests as any other Christian might and wait for their materialization?

Seth as channeled by writer and trance medium Jane Roberts in the 60s through 80s suggested that "Prayer is its own answer". What do you think?

Sacred Heart prayer aftermath

The 2nd iteration 15 thro 23 December 2010 did not deliver results perhaps quite as emotionally dramatic as the 1st one. But there were a few events that stood out because they were clustered together.

Sunday 19 found me walking into the Catholic church compound via the south gate right opposite the priests' quarters. It was just another Sunday morning with BEC members busily preparing breakfast packets of nasi lemak, sandwiches and beehoon for sale. Women members were busy sorting out their wares on the counters, while Julie prepared Milo, milk tea and Nescafe in several large aluminium kettles.

Even before I stepped into the canteen, I could sense a large magnetic cloud of invisible energy enveloping the single storey brick and concrete structure.

Now I had on 3 separate occasion come upon such bubbles before.

Once around a Malay woman walking confidently in Ipoh Garden South and on another occasion a small sphere about 3 m / 10 ft diameter in a small Kuan Yin temple tucked between some shophouses just off Jalan Kuala Kangsar. There may also be found another one at the Kuan Yin temple right at the end of Taman Cempaka, the one with the curious rock formations. That last one was a whopper that seemed reluctant to let me go!

Xmas afternoon found me negotiating a busy crossroad against a breeze in Ipoh Garden South, when THAT Oil of Wintergreen struck again. This time around it seemed finer and cleaner in tone, all the more remarkable as it seemed to be blowing from the direction I was heading towards.

2 days later Monday 27 came 3 offers within the space of just 1 hour after late breakfast.

My old landlord offered a gift of health drink of soya bean plus wheatgrass, with a retail value of perhaps RM50. I took delivery of the 2 boxes consisting of a total of 32 packets powdered preparation just an hour ago.

A widow of less than a year yelled "Peter, if you want a kitchen job with my sister at the Jalan Datoh wantan mee shop, just go and see her." Apparently they were short handed for the new year but I did not pursue the matter. As I told Siok, a 75-year old retired teacher of Enlish, I wouldn't have lasted a day.

The last one was a real plum, something right up my street!

An old office colleague (and ACS schoolmate) called out of the blue and gave me a RM500 cheque being a "Chinese New Year present" as he put it. But of course I had to earn it. What he wanted of me were some preliminary pencil sketches for extensions to a terrace house he was eying.

So were these a bunch of gifts from Heaven? I can't tell, since they would have turned up in any case. The jury's out as they say in the US.