Beyond Our Understanding

Blurring the lines between the personal and story 🔥📚

Good morning! Or afternoon or evening depending on when you are reading this. There is a topic I want to tackle in this issue and I’m unsure how to begin likely because it is more personal than the topics I usual discuss here. However, it is also directly connected to my ongoing research, so here goes.

As you know, if you have been following along with this newsletter, my research for the current book has taken me down some interesting paths including meditation, quantum reality and brain implants among others. What I hadn’t expected when I first began this journey was the (dare I say) profound effect these activities would have on my life.

Around the time I had fully committed to the idea of this book, my chiropractor asked me what I was working on and when I told her the premise, she immediately put me in contact with a friend who was a psychic and who “I had to meet.” We met for three hours in a coffee shop and she guided me through what it was like to have abilities that no one else understood and how incredibly lonely she was as a child. She also spoke to me about energy, spirit guides, and healing. I was impressed by her warmth, intelligence and how articulate she was about her experiences.

To fully understand what she was talking about, I signed on for a remote energy healing session. I didn’t have to do anything particular during the session other than relax and be open to whatever came. And boy did it come. There was a moment when I had the visceral experience of healing energy travelling through space towards me. Afterwards I felt lighter, calmer and felt better for days afterwards.

This was then followed by months immersing myself in the work of Joe Dispenza who is a frontrunner on creating the life you want through meditation and the quantum field, and has thousands of followers. I spent hours meditating and learned more about his work and how to interact with the quantum field. Soon I could calm my physical distractions during meditations, started noticing synchronicities, and when I asked for love and connection had a full weekend of friends and relatives dropping by unexpectedly. And through all this my health got better and better.

But the reason that I felt compelled to write about this here, was the most recent experience in this journey of connectivity that seems to have a life of its own. A close friend has cancer and has had a long journey through chemo. He has reached a challenging stage in the diagnosis and last night I had a conversation with he and his wife that felt like it was pre-ordained. I shared my experiences, pointed him towards Joe Dispenza’s work, and I hope offered him at least a little bit of hope and support through his ongoing challenges. We had always had a good relationship but this connection felt new.

Much of this could be put down to coincidences and timing and just the growing awareness of the potential of meditation in the world. Which of course could be true. But there is no way to predict where our life’s path will take us. Or how the topic we choose to write a book about will blur the lines between what is personal and what is story - as any great book should. I can only hope to do justice to this story that has taken on a life of its own. Or perhaps the life of the universe. Cheers.

Book Talk

When I was at an event at my local library recently, I was standing across the aisle from a whole wall of shelves. This book by Matt Haig caught my attention and I brought it home. When I started reading, it felt like the book had been calling to me, since many of the themes are similar to my current work-in-progress and it was fascinating to see how a brilliant author navigated the topic and wrapped the story around it.

The Life Impossible centres around a retired math teacher Grace Winters who is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. What follows is a magical and spiritual journey of embracing her gifts and dealing with her own grief in order to save her friends, herself and the island. It is a wonderful book and highly recommended for anyone interested in spiritual journeys, the point of being on the planet, and the importance of friends.

Geek Corner

I have not had my tour of the tunnels in my city (yet) so I can’t report on how that went as promised last issue, but I do still have fascinating research to report on.

This month’s rabbit hole involves psychedelics and how they changed the world’s perception on how the brain works and fueled a counter culture movement that was different than those that preceded it. Many of the texts I’ve been reading referenced the common timing of both the development of LSD/psychedelics and the invention of the atomic bomb. As if two bombs had gone off at the same time, in different spheres.

I’m not sure whether I’ll dive fully into the psychedelic experience in the name of research, but I am learning so much about how it changed the world, what it meant to the people who experienced it, and how they are using psychedelics today to help people with depression, terminal illnesses and PTSD.