I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us. – Russell Simmons
Welcome to day 13 of the 29 Days to Reviving Your All Natural Super Human.
I believe Russell Simmons is spot on. The Divine, however you choose to define it, drinks tea and loves popcorn. You can read the leaves or follow the trail when you slow down and open up long enough for the whisper to state its case and show you the way.
I love the Biblical line, “but The Divine was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but The Divine was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but The Divine was not in the fire: and after the fire “a still small voice.”
Ariadne’s Thread is there to guide us through the Labyrinth if we will crouch and gently pick it up. For those that have forgotten—that’s all it truly is, a forgetting—we can reclaim our “tracking abilities” with a bit of focused practice.
So how can we start? Author Shannon Adler offers this thought. “We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul” which always reminds me of Arthur C. Clark’s “secret compass of the soul.”
Even so, if we get out of our own way, what is “magnetic north” for our compass?
Finding your bearings begins with sharpening your senses, contemplating the sense of your authentic Destiny and stubbornly refusing to aid and abet the “static quo” in your life. It is your fine-tuned personal acuity that forms your path in the moment.
In the Labyrinth our needle is a good bit more mercurial, pointing to the very next “adjacent possible” in the moment at hand. The Fingerprints of Providence as I like to call them are those impromptu visions, intuitive inklings or mysterious whispers that attract our attention and grab our spine. It’s when a sneaking suspicion presents itself in the foggiest or faintest of ideas.
Triggered by something in our environment, a sight, a word, a chance occurrence that can’t be rationalized away, these are the synchronicities, epiphanies, serendipities, and coincidences that are our telltales. Once we begin to recognize the revelatory nature of these clues, our eyes and ears grow more akin to their presence and their message.
Left over from why criminal investigator days are my beliefs that bad guys (and girls) leave clues at the scene of their crimes and that when your hone your detective skills you greatly enhance your success of solving any case.
I was very fortunate to have as a Sergeant and teacher one of the sharpest, criminally inquisitive minds I’ve ever met. He taught me very early on to pay scalpel-like attention to the details at hand. “Clues are left everywhere. If the suspect(s) were here, they left something behind. If you’re not smart enough to find the evidence of their encounter with this particular environment don’t blame the scene’s fault, it’s your senses that are out of whack.”
Over the next few hours, give your self permission to invest just 1/72 of your day to investigate the signals sent to you. No preconceived notions of a destination, no hopes, dreams or desires. Suspend your belief in control and let be. Surrender and follow their lead, hopscotch as they come, unnerving as it may seem, one tangent after the next. If you need to, set your phone or watch to let you know when the 20 minutes is up, no worries. Just let the search take you where it will, and wait for your intuition to chime in.
I always remember Oscar Wilde’s thought, “It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”
For the next 20 minutes abandon your need for a destination, let your Destiny drive you, let your adventure in the Labyrinth begin and never forget that when you bring your unique brand of bold, Providence pulls for you!