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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Annie Walsh has been for over twenty five years a counsellor, a Drug and Alcohol counsellor, a Health Education Officer and Relaxation Group Facilitator with NSW Dept of Health, and a meditation facilitator. She was and still is, though rather quietly now, a spiritual healer. In order to study her spiritual experiences she gained a BA majoring in Psychology including Parapsychology, and Archaeology including Prehistoric Anthropology, a Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy, training in crisis counselling and spiritual healing and distance healing, and visualization techniques. She still investigates the phenomena experienced in meditation and spiritual healing as a way to mental and soul health and a just society. She believes in love and joy and that we are born to dance with the angels. CHAPTER
ONE
The Journey Begins Our world is a place of great beauty which seems forever beset by war or famine, earthquake or fire or flood, sickness and certain death. If there is not earthquake, then we bring about destruction out of our old griefs and angers. Few lead lives of comfort; even crowned heads are subject to fear and death. Yet life is good, and love is real. Most
of us drift, borne along on life’s currents and tides, and life just happens
to us. So it was with my life too. Surely there is a better way, a compass and
map in these restless waters? It was not until I was middle-aged that I finally
sat down and examined my life, and acknowledged I had reached at least some
degree of bedrock in my personal relationships. Till
then I had skated from one near disaster to another, buoyed up always by the
awful and heady intoxications of my near-misses and improbable escapes from
catastrophe. And much joy. I was an intelligent innocent, in a world made for
drastic experiences, and the survival of the wary and quick-witted. After two
marriages and four children, it was time I started to assess my life, and to ask
someone for help. Where
could I go to ask for help? I had no extra resources, no spare money, no car, no
energy left. With my last energy and hope I begged: “If
there’s anyone up there who is good, and can help me, please help. And if
there’s anything negative, thanks but no thanks.”
A series of events and choices occurred which were clearly beyond
coincidence. I began not only to ask for help, but to take positive steps even
if small ones towards that desire that good might come about. The turning point
was when I agreed to help a friend in spiritual trouble. It was a small step,
just offering to help with transport, but it was the key and turning point which
opened my soul to a new life. Help came to the degree I offered help gently and
unobtrusively. So
began the conscious and deliberate commitment to my spiritual journey of
exploration. It became a pathway to joy and healing of mind, body, and soul. The
world of unseen angels and mentors opened with each lesson learned.
This
book is a travel book and journal of my voyages through those visible and
invisible worlds of matter, mind, and soul. The journey is joyous, but like all
adventures, not always easy. Everyone’s journey is different, but each follows
fairly similar paths and dangers. It’s good to learn some of the dangers and
pleasures and their road signs, in order to travel more safely. A bit like:
‘Here be dragons, and here be friends’, where we find, if we dare to set out
and ask for help, that we are loved and taught to love. Along
the way I tried to examine my life experiences from childhood on, to see my
life’s patterns, and interpret them as truthfully as possible in order to
spread the joy and hope I had found. I tried to find the lessons in these
experiences, and where my strengths and weaknesses lay. I
had experienced unusual events, so I studied in order to assess impartially
their true message, and in order to get the credentials to be believed, for that
was the purpose of the lessons: to learn, and to pass it on.
I learned I was certainly a born survivor, and that life is miraculous. I
learned that life’s purpose is good. So
I studied, and gained an Arts’ degree majoring in Psychology including
Parapsychology and Prehistoric Anthropology, a Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy,
training in Drug and Alcohol Counselling and Crisis Counselling, and a whole new
set of challenges and joys. Most
of the spiritual experiences which changed my life came first, before the
academic training, and before I read any books on spiritual development, other
than basic Scripture lessons as a school child. What I learned seemed to be a
guided course, where I listened with my inner ear to see if some situation was a
lesson I was being given, or was one beyond my ability at that time. With this
book I hope to reproduce those lessons for you. Rather
like those jumbled prints which suddenly come into focus when looked at with new
eyes, my life began to show its patterns and purpose, present from the earliest
days of my life if only I had known then what I was gradually guided to
understand later. Life became what I had always sensed it was: a training ground
for the spirit, a master class where we are tested in order for us to grow, and
to help others to grow, through to our personal best, and into joy. This
book is a handbook of mental and spiritual development. The chapters follow the
order in which I was taught lessons, first the necessary spadework of learning
earthly behaviour, then the glimpses of heavenly realms. Both worlds are
inextricably linked as the visible and invisible worlds of matter and spirit.
Both worlds are extraordinary and beautiful, and at times dangerous and
confronting. Yet in both we may dance with angels. I
don’t know if the spiritual experiences I will be describing are proof of life
after death, or of the presence of angels or discarnate beings good or
otherwise. Perhaps they are figments of imagination, symbols of thought, though
I personally believe as most of the world does, that the spiritual world is
real. At
the very least, the weight of my own experiences and those of a huge number of
people of all ages and societies, has been that we seem to be able to
communicate with beings, God and angels and souls, from a world beyond this. There
is a large body of rigorous experiment now available which supports the validity
of many paranormal experiences. There are so many books on this research that we
can be confused, and fail to realise that they are not necessary to lead the
fully spiritual life. It was not by accident that Jesus wrote nothing down, but
said he left us a Holy Spirit to guide us if we asked wisely. Yet it is wise to
discuss, ask advice, and compare experiences so that we may discern truth in our
experiences and our life’s lessons. I
found one book of scientific research into the spiritual experience just as I
finished this book, so believe it is meant to be cited. All the spiritual
experiences and extrasensory powers of the mind discussed in this book are
lucidly researched and discussed in that one book, which I highly recommend: Dr
John F Ashton’s ‘The Seventh Millennium: The evidence that we can know the
future’, New Holland Publishers, French’s Forest, NSW. He
examines such research as experiments in telepathy and precognition (JB Rhine
and ors, ‘Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Tears’, Bruce Humphreys’
Publishers); and the theoretical presence of a ‘biological field produced by
an external intelligence’ (Rupert Sheldrake in ‘A New Science of Life’,
Paladin Books). He discusses D Bohm’s book ‘Wholeness and the Implicate
Order’, and Bohm’s belief that the whole of creation is part of one field or
‘super quantum potential’ which is instantaneously aware of itself and
co-ordinates itself accordingly. He
then discusses his own holographic model for interpreting events as part of
‘destiny fields’ towards which an intelligence ‘seems to direct the
overall course of history’, and do so from beyond time and space. A
description of God? His
theory postulates that the Universe has ‘destiny fields’ or a kind of
‘holistic order in the universe which is outside the limits of time and space
as we know it’, (p124). He puts forward a holographic model for explaining the
awareness that seems to operate through all levels of creation. He compares it
to Dr Carl Jung’s ‘synchronicity’. I find that such research, based on the
new findings and implications of quantum theory and physics, is supportive of
the practical and spiritual experiences many thousands have attested to in the
course of human history, and in our own spiritual development. This
is totally compatible with the paranormal experiences I and other mystics and
psychics have had. Without going into the enormous question of past life recall
and belief in reincarnation, one vision I had of life and history was that
creation is a great stage, where many acts and roles are being performed in one
arena which encompasses Time in that area, yet is overall beyond time, though
actions are sequential. Order comes from beyond, with a fair input of
improvisation and free will providing diversity. He speaks of a similar analogy. I
found his fascinating book by a strange coincidence the day after I finished
this book. It is such a good book that I felt I had to go back and insert this
information, in spite of my desire not to alter the simplicity of the personal
data by which I hope to encourage others to develop spiritually in a safe way,
under good guidance. We
all seem to be gifted, I believe by God, with powers of the mind which are
mostly untapped, needlessly rejected and feared and so not monitored and
discerned. These powers of intuition and telepathy can serve us well if we use
them to reach out to all that is good. Modern research attests to their
validity; religion tries to restrain it from misuse, yet can itself be led
astray for a while, as we all can. Many
think telepathy is frightening; without its right use how can we pray and expect
our prayers to be heard, and guidance given to us from a heavenly realm? From
before the first breath we draw to our last, everything that happens to us is a
spiritual lesson for each of us individually and as a society and a world. I
believe each experience shapes us, and no matter how insignificant, shapes all
creation. I believe we are monitored from above, by angelic messengers and
mentors.
As
you read this book, assess everything from the wisest part of yourself. Ask for
the spirit of Truth to guide you. If you don’t believe in anything, believe in
love. Ask for your Higher Guidance, and look back on your life with kindness.
Start to see the patterns of your life from babyhood onwards, and the lessons to
be learned as well as all those you have learned. If you can’t see any
pattern, let alone any lessons or any sign of guidance, then you are normal.
Start life anew now. Drink
the Cup of Life with joy, and step out on the rest of your journey, all of us
helping one another. Bon
Voyage! God bless… Come dance with us...
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