Hi Daniel,
Many thanks for your latest
newsletter, 'Running the New Energy', along
with the 'comforting' confirmations that others 'out there'
are also experiencing what you term 'Symptoms of
Spiritual Flu' or the 'Labour Pains of the
New Humanity'. Other channels refer to these
symptoms in other terms and this, of course, only tends to
add to the current confusion and uncertainty.
I was drawn to your statement:
'For some, the energies are wreaking total
havoc. For others, they manifest as a realisation of dreams
that are long past-due.' In your article
'Labour Pains and the New Humanity' (March
2004), which I have read many times and keep returning to,
you say something similar: 'Losing your ground:
You become ill, lose your family, lose your job, or get a
good deal of your possessions wiped out. This isn't meant
to be punitive at all. It's just being part of the process
of being opened up. It brings you forward to live life on
the edge! What seems like disaster actually ends up
working in your favour.'
Going from the general to the
specific, it may be encouraging/comforting for others to
learn of examples of this as they materialise for the rest
of us. My own experience of this was of going through the
'disaster' of being suspended from my teaching post back in
1989 for trying out a new, student-centred approach to
teaching math. This programme had been developed by
researchers at Nottingham University. The hassle that
followed my 6-month suspension brought to an end, in
1996, my 30-year old marriage. I relocated to Scotland in
1997. At times, I still feel sad about the way it all
happened but, at least my ex-wife and I are now good pals
again!
But as the door shut on a 30-year
career in secondary education, another opened at Lancaster
University where I was welcomed onto their master's degree
course in educational research. This I completed in 1998.
I had first applied for a place on their MA in Education
back in 1980 after completing an advanced diploma in Outdoor
Education in 1977. At that time I was turned down, as the
powers-that-be deemed that the diploma was not sufficiently
academic to warrant admission to the MA.
Strangely - and this I still find
hard to believe - when I returned to the university in 1993
and told them of my enforced redundancy and how it had all
come about, they accepted my student-centred explorations as
bona fide action research. In other words, the fact that
I'd been suspended and forced into taking early retirement
provided me with the academic qualifications that I needed
to realise my long-term dream of one day earning a master's
degree in education. In total, it had taken 23 years to
achieve (1976-1998).
Spirit certainly has a strange way
of working things out in your favour, doesn't it? There's
lots more I could tell you about the long chain of
mysterious coincidences (synchronicities) that led from one
door shutting and to the other one opening, but I'll leave
it there for the moment.
Many thanks, once again, Daniel,
for keeping us so well informed of the often mysterious
workings of 'the upstairs team'.
Cheers for now,
John T.
