10-03-2018, 04:17 PM
To whomever may be interested: there was one section I had excluded from this account of Austin's and my experience at the Space Between Stories workshop at the Omega Institute.
300 and 600 Years From Now
In the penultimate day, Charles had said that he would like to share a technology through which we could connect with people on Earth in what we would consider to be our future. He said you could call it channeling or improvisational theater, it didn’t matter. To Austin’s and my eyes it was a form of channeling, to others it was a fun game. Either way, he encouraged getting into it, and reminded us of how kids playing pirates all know that it is make believe but nevertheless bring it to life because they really invest themselves. The kid who says, “That’s not an alligator, that’s a stuffed toy!” or “That’s not a pirate hat, that’s a newspaper!” is the party pooper. (The latter term not Charles’s words.)
He explained that half of us would stay in the room, the other half would step outside. The fifty percent who went outside linked hands in a circle as Charles performed an induction of sorts. In the induction procedure we saw a similar group of people with hands linked but 300 years from now. We were encouraged to make a connection with one of their circle and merge into that person. After this was accomplished (in a procedure that largely escapes my memory), we returned inside where every person had one empty seat in front of them. We each chose a seat. And while connected with our counterpart in 300 years, we, or the 300-year-hence person, replied to questions about the future from the person sitting in front of us. And when time was up the two groups switched.
Before this whole exercise began, Charles acknowledged the probabilistic nature of the future. Thus in order to tune into the most positive of the future outcomes, he had us recall a moment from our lives when we knew that the more beautiful world was possible, and asked that we hold onto that.
What was so fun about it was how into it everyone got. People who, so far as we knew, had no interest or belief in channeling, and no interest in performing, were really inhabiting their roles. It unleashed a lot of positive energy in the room, with the insight gained ranging from none (Austin’s partner-questioner literally fell asleep) to what might be genuine windows into a positive future. But it was the next day that it got really interesting for Austin and me.
On the final day, Charles said that he had a connection with an individual named Nomo who is alive 600 years forward from our time and asked if we would like to hear from this person. We affirmed. Charles then stepped outside by himself to, as we understand it, tune and establish this contact. When he returned to the room his demeanor and bodily disposition were markedly different. As Nomo, he walked around the circle spending a moment looking to the eyes of each person. He then greeted the group and made himself available for questions.
In reply to the questions he described the “legacy of pain” that those in the future are still working to heal. The residual pain in the Earth, Nomo reported, was of a scale and nature beyond our understanding. Austin then asked how we in the present might help heal this pain. Nomo answered a couple of ways. He said that if we are giving out less pain than we have received in life, we are doing our parts. He said also that if we know our gift, and honor our gift, and be our gift, we are doing our part. (Beautiful metaphysical principles and assumptions packed into that idea.)
I then asked two questions: One, when would we as a planet turn the corner such that the positive trajectory was apparent to everyone; and two, what was the planetary population in 600 years. Nomo replied to the first saying that things will become materially worse, but we will turn a corner in my lifetime—the healing would be underway and it would be perceptible. As to the population, he reported that counting wasn't terribly important to them, but he estimated about three billion.
The information to the other questions was altogether fascinating. It had correlation to what the Law of One says about this great transition.
300 and 600 Years From Now
In the penultimate day, Charles had said that he would like to share a technology through which we could connect with people on Earth in what we would consider to be our future. He said you could call it channeling or improvisational theater, it didn’t matter. To Austin’s and my eyes it was a form of channeling, to others it was a fun game. Either way, he encouraged getting into it, and reminded us of how kids playing pirates all know that it is make believe but nevertheless bring it to life because they really invest themselves. The kid who says, “That’s not an alligator, that’s a stuffed toy!” or “That’s not a pirate hat, that’s a newspaper!” is the party pooper. (The latter term not Charles’s words.)
He explained that half of us would stay in the room, the other half would step outside. The fifty percent who went outside linked hands in a circle as Charles performed an induction of sorts. In the induction procedure we saw a similar group of people with hands linked but 300 years from now. We were encouraged to make a connection with one of their circle and merge into that person. After this was accomplished (in a procedure that largely escapes my memory), we returned inside where every person had one empty seat in front of them. We each chose a seat. And while connected with our counterpart in 300 years, we, or the 300-year-hence person, replied to questions about the future from the person sitting in front of us. And when time was up the two groups switched.
Before this whole exercise began, Charles acknowledged the probabilistic nature of the future. Thus in order to tune into the most positive of the future outcomes, he had us recall a moment from our lives when we knew that the more beautiful world was possible, and asked that we hold onto that.
What was so fun about it was how into it everyone got. People who, so far as we knew, had no interest or belief in channeling, and no interest in performing, were really inhabiting their roles. It unleashed a lot of positive energy in the room, with the insight gained ranging from none (Austin’s partner-questioner literally fell asleep) to what might be genuine windows into a positive future. But it was the next day that it got really interesting for Austin and me.
On the final day, Charles said that he had a connection with an individual named Nomo who is alive 600 years forward from our time and asked if we would like to hear from this person. We affirmed. Charles then stepped outside by himself to, as we understand it, tune and establish this contact. When he returned to the room his demeanor and bodily disposition were markedly different. As Nomo, he walked around the circle spending a moment looking to the eyes of each person. He then greeted the group and made himself available for questions.
In reply to the questions he described the “legacy of pain” that those in the future are still working to heal. The residual pain in the Earth, Nomo reported, was of a scale and nature beyond our understanding. Austin then asked how we in the present might help heal this pain. Nomo answered a couple of ways. He said that if we are giving out less pain than we have received in life, we are doing our parts. He said also that if we know our gift, and honor our gift, and be our gift, we are doing our part. (Beautiful metaphysical principles and assumptions packed into that idea.)
I then asked two questions: One, when would we as a planet turn the corner such that the positive trajectory was apparent to everyone; and two, what was the planetary population in 600 years. Nomo replied to the first saying that things will become materially worse, but we will turn a corner in my lifetime—the healing would be underway and it would be perceptible. As to the population, he reported that counting wasn't terribly important to them, but he estimated about three billion.
The information to the other questions was altogether fascinating. It had correlation to what the Law of One says about this great transition.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi