I had a friend staying with me this week, and while driving home one afternoon I was telling her about the awful abuse I suffered at the hands of my step-family during my Mum’s paralysis and ultimate death. It’s been 4 years now since she died and it’s not something I usually talk about. As I was explaining the situation we crested the brow of a hill in the car and I almost ran straight into a cyclist on the single track country lane. In shock I realised it was my step-brother, who I’d been talking about for the past five minutes and hadn’t seen since my Mum’s funeral. Is it mere coincidence that I happened to be giving him my attention for the first time in years and suddenly there he is, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, 7 miles from his home on a bike when he’s never been into cycling in his life? I don’t think so.

I wrote in this post that out of the blue this week I have had persistent thoughts of my ex boyfriend, then realised that he would either be physically in Cumbria this weekend, or at the very least his energy and consciousness would be centred here. Is it a coincidence that I had a lucid dream of him the night before he would probably be at his former home, without even realising at the time that he would be there? I don’t think so.

We are more, so much more, than our physical bodies. Our energy and consciousness work in ways we don’t understand, but are not confined by time or space. The law of attraction is genuinely a thing, although it doesn’t work in the way most people think it does.

I attended the opening of the Centre of Liminal Studies on Saturday at Broughton Sanctuary. CLS is is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the rigorous study of consciousness and liminal experience – those transitional spaces, times, practices, and states of consciousness where meaning emerges, boundaries shift and dissolve, and new forms of sensing, experiencing and understanding become possible. The Centre was officially opened by Allyn Evans, CEO of the Monroe Institute, a leading Centre for exploring and experiencing expanded states of consciousness and Jill Russell, former member of the board of advisors. Jill’s son gave the opening address, from a book written by his step-Father who was also on the advisory board of Monroe:

“The transcendent experience remind us of our immortality. At such moment we do not need to be told that we are immortal – we know that we are. I do not think that this perception has anything to do with past life or re-incarnation theories, with transmigration of souls or with ideas of heaven and hell. “I am part of all that I have met” said Tennyson’s Ulysses, but I think it goes further than that. I am part of all that ever was, created from the dust of which the first stars took shape. My consciousness is part of the universal consciousness which began to emerge when life itself began to emerge and it developed as life itself developed. That is how my consciousness is able to communicate with the consciousness of others, wherever they may be. Whatever happens to my physical body when it ceases to function, whether it is burned or buried or blasted away in some explosion, the ash or dust which remains is ultimately indestructible. My immortality is in that element of my consciousness that endures in the consciousness of others – those I love, those I have in some way affected – and has its permanence in the Universal consciousness that enfolds us all. The Soul both encompasses and encapsulates all that I am and all that each and every individual is. Hence, as the poet Traherne says “it is vast”. It endures no limits. It wants to know all, even eternity. It is, indeed, the vast inquiring Soul.”
Excerpt from The Vast Enquiring Soul by Ronald Russell

I explained in yesterday’s post that meeting my Twin Flame has had a profound effect on me, despite the fact he was abusive and we are no longer together. The reason I was so affected is that I experienced expanded states of connection and consciousness throughout our relationship. I’d always been intuitive, not that I knew what name to put to the feelings I had until recently, but meeting him opened a door to a whole new state of thinking and being for which I will always be grateful.

I’ve now met people who can stick objects to walls and bend metal with their minds – no trickery involved. I’ve met people who can guess what’s written on a piece of paper from thousands of miles away. I’ve met people who have no psychic ability but who have beautiful open hearts, inquisitive minds and warm loving energy. That CLS is being run by researchers, scientists, parapsychologists and University academics, not really known for dabbling in psychic woo woo, helps me feel more relaxed and trusting about the process.

I’m tentatively taking baby steps in learning to work with my energy and intuition and to expand my consciousness. Some things I’m discovering a natural gift for while others, like remote viewing, I’m absolutely useless at but I’m going to try everything and see where I most naturally land. It’s stimulating and interesting and I’m excited to see where the energy flow takes me.