Dear Jasjit,

Wonderful experience :)

In a way this is what i experienced in the Gardens of Life and you will find it expressed in my accompanying text with the two cd´s i´ve sent to you.

This experience was one of the beautiful ones i received after discovering the labyrinth a few years ago, that really was another beginning or a ´new life´ for me.

Love, Mieke

Dear Jasjit,
A very honest post!!
It takes a lot of courage to reach a stage where the individual ventures into the quest of the unknown.Most of these trips are shrouded by a layer of fear.To combat the fear most of us use various kinds of religious paths .The insecurity never vanishes as religion/any spiritual path is just a map not even a destination.These inner journeys give our soul the necessary courage to look at our lives and our relationships.The manipulations ,selfishness and other negative aspects which have entered your life through bad relationships become clear.If only we could kill the inner critic and start loving ourself.These fleeting moments define and reshape our thinking to a whole new level..

Dear Jasjit,

I hope you do not mind my sharing another view on the above, cause after translating Harb´s book, which in a way i have ´become´ during translation i was able to make things a little bit clearer to myself.

This is my way of looking at these kind of experiences:

Becoming one with the experience is our next evolutionary stage. It brings out the creativity in a person.
It means living in the now, being one with the moment, albeit beingness in everything :).

Harb calls this the weak forces cause they give us the feeling of lightness, still they contain a bit of all of them. You land on the ground again lol (gravity), you only know afterwards what it was you experienced and that it can hardly be expressed into words. You want to attract it again, but have to let go of it (electromagnetic forces) in order to let it happen again, indeed :)

But it will happen again because this is our evolutionary stage.
Slowly but surely the strong forces will vanish the more you are able to be in the now.

You can influence these forces with your intention but then you will have to let it go in order for your intention to become a reality in your life.

And in the end it is deep gratitude that brings the ultimate fulfillment.

Anyway these are my ramblings about it all.

Much love,
Mieke

mieke, it is true that ultimately all song is in the being (and i prefer to identify it with oneness rather than with aloneness, for ever since my first experience of it i have never felt alone but rather encompassing all entities in the universe - as we really do at a very very deeper level with all entities of our dream).

in the flight we get rid of (the sense of) our physical/senses body (gravity); we get rid of our emotional/feelings body - we have left our relationships of love and hate far below(electromgnetic forces); we get rid of our mental/intellectual body - afraid, our mind/ego is unable to hold on to itself and hence to its first, 'i thought' and thence to all subsequent thoughts based on it(strong forces or interactions) and so is finally left to our intuitive or intelligence or wisdom body, which being the product of weak forces and thanks to their mechanism of interaction with the surrounding world joins us to all. and then a bird may sing but we will indeed just be, for being is rather the soong itself. indeed, again the same difference of whether to taste sugar or be sugar...

anyway, now it may really be the time to enjoy song with jasjit rather than dissect it...jasjit, you owe us a bottle of champaigne lol for having such a beautiful experience...

You are right Harb, in the end there is nothing to dissect :)
Jasjit, am having a glass of wine in my hand, toasting on your beautiful experience :)

Cheers, Mieke

Dear Jasjit,

As I read your post I told myself 'Yes I was waiting for this post.'

There is something that I want to share.

There are times when the feeling of wanting to be alone (alone as in within myself)and as I move towards this suddenly a sort of fear grips me which tells me that if I venture on this path then I will end up being alone, removed from all those who I love.

Though many changes have come in me which have helped me to be more aware and conscious of my self, this particular feeling does not seem to go. And probably because now I am more aware and able to identify my fears and their causes this experience, the anxiousness over this 'fear' has been bothering me even more.

I don't know whether to call this a question or a sharing of thoughts and experience but I would like to hear from others on this.

Dear Diya

Your insights are rich and poignant. For the longest time courage to battle with our own 'limitations' is an uphill task. However the rainbow is very much there at the end of the clouds as is the pot of gold. :)

love

Dear Meike & Harb

Thank God for the virtual world of cyberland so why stop at a bottle, I am sending you both a whole case of champagne. Bottoms up and cheers :)

Meike I look forward to walking through your garden!

love to you both

Dear Chaitali

For the looooongest time the mind blocks the road with this central 'fear'-lonliness. Will all that I know and love disappear and this 'void' thing that they keep throwing at me, be an endless vacum of nobody and nothing. THIS is the celebrated mind we all carry which functions and revels in its fears of losing all that is 'known/mine/dear/irreplacable'.

That is why it is only the heart which is the final realm of expansion. For only the heart knows how to 'experience' as opposed to 'dissecting and intellectualizing' truth. And truth can only be 'experienced', the flight had to be known by my heart to understand what soaring, lightness, expanse and infinity truly meant. The mind was only raisng a thousand reasons to flee from the mountain top.

In the cognitive pond of the mind's definitions, these experiences do not exist and hence cannot be 'understood'. It is only in the absence of the other that the presence of the Self is known and it is only in the presence of that Self that the other is finally understood. Songs of the heart my friend. Trust and journey on and soon you too will hear them, strummed to a music never heard but always known. :)

Much love

jasjit, but what is this 'bottoms up' thing? may be having never travelled to english countries and never having had the opportunity of speaking with english people my english has after all remained that of the village pond (khooh de dadoo wali )lol. do you think without champaigne our bottoms were lamaking to the ground looooooool??? ya dhoti vangu dhilli hoi havegi??

so you have skirted the issue of real champaigne...but may be real champaigne will also make us sing like birds...anybody having had this experience...eh anushehia??

Hi Chaitali and Harb,

This bottom up thing according to me is that after letting go of all the fear there is a whole new world of creativity waiting inside :) And yes, letting go and arriving there is a whole road on itself and it is probably more about walking this road then arriving somewhere? But i heard the song of my heart and try to listen to it.

And yes Harb a bottle of champaign can make you sing like a bird too lol

Jasjit, thanks for the champaign. Did you know you have made the dream of Leonardo da Vinci come true?

Love, Mieke

Harb Ji

Ey angrezan di zubaan vich jo thaley hai oh tey uttey tey jo uttey hai hun oh thaley. Lamkana band after a glass of champagne and charon pasey fit( yaan chith) lol !

Meiki

Which dream of Da Vinci???

chaitali, if one is to realise one's identity of the sea then one has to overcome the fear of losing one's identity of the drop of water in it. as it is written in gurbani (lol)'aap guaie tan shao paie aur kesi chatrai...(what other wisdom except to lose oneself to gain the lord...

and jasjit, your bottoms up reminds of an actual episode in my life. once when i was in about 12th standrad, i alongwith my brother used to go to our farm to sleep there at night. there used to be our siris (workers) also there. in fact we would take their night meals. one day we got installed the new tubewell and in the evening we began celebrating it with desi liquor. one of our workers put a few drops of it in the mouth of our dog as well. after some time we saw that he was sleeping with all his legs perfectly vertical upwards. we laughed and laughed on seeing this lol. our dog was lying there as you said 'charon khaane chit' to translate it for mieke.

Dear Jasjit,

Leonardo da Vinci dreamt about "hanggliding" during his life and in fact designed such a glider on paper. I saw a documentary on television where people put his design into a real glider and actually flew with it. He is in fact the father of paragliding and many more of his dreams have come true during the past century.

He was the Homo Universalis of the Renaissane and indeed very multitalented.

It took 500 years before his dreams came true but what is 500 years in the universe :)

Imagine the dreams we are dreaming now...
Slowly but surely they may all come true.

It really is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius,
The Sound of the Running Water!

Love, Mieke

Mieke (sorry for all the times I have misspelt it. Just realized it!)

Of course that's true. Da Vinci was quite taken with the idea of flying and truly a homo universalis he was. Actually he was my role model in teenage. Since I loved sketching, had read up everything about him I used to think he was a kind of God and spent a lot of time in teenage trying to copy his sketches, spending most of my pocket money on buying books on him and wondering how one could be so brilliant. I did so want to grow up to be him then. :)

Harb Ji

the dog got it right instinctively I guess.lol
No wonder Bullah Shad had a poem called 'Kuttey tainto uttey'. :)

Jasjit, Mieke, Harb thanks. I know it's going to be a long path but I'm determined to paraglide through it :)

Hi Jasjit, what´s in a name, i read somewhere that someone called me Meiki Reiki lol.
Leonardo is a wonderful role model, look how you have grown!

Chaitali don´t worry be happy :)and glide along with us....

Much love,

and then there was an uncle of mine who after a few pegs would go on repeating "hoie kute te rahie sute...'

soor, birds, kute...yet all said i think i prefer myself, the human beings, bulle shah or no bulle shah...

Hi Harb, and our little dog lies with four legs upards without any liquor lol

sorry i mean upwards. Too many glasses of wine? :)

Dear Jasjit

Thank You for a wonderful post both inspiring and touching. You made something adventuorous like paragliding so exciting but also gave it such depth. I REALLY enjoyed your post.

Thanx

Dear Jasjit,

By sharing your beautiful and deep experience you have indeed inspired me to share my first and most important experience in my life with you and all who are interested in it here on this blog.

When I had my "awakening" in 1979 (I still have not forgotten it :)) I had just followed a course for women who wanted to orientate themselves on society and the possibilities that it could offer. We had a group of women of all ages. I was 34 at that moment, there were a few younger women and the rest was older till about the age of 60. It was a wonderful diverse group.

We talked about all kinds of subjects and then there was this moment that we became very close and talked about experiences we had in the past and a lot of sorrow and suffering came about. We all were given the time to tell our story and at the end we were offered the chance to tell each other what we liked and loved about the other. We were placed in two circles, two women at the same time facing each other, telling each other positive things, then changing place and facing another woman and doing the same. This had made quite an impact on me, as I was very unsure of myself in that period.
It was during that same period, that I was following Yoga lessons for almost a year then. This was also very new in that time, but from the beginning I knew this was my way of "sporting".

Enfin, I never knew what made the most impact on me but I had a wonderful dream one night in that same period. I was floating in space and saw some coloured light balls. Then suddenly, out of nowhere there was a small dot that bursted all at once out in the most beautiful colours that I have ever seen and radiating from those colours was such an unconditional love that I felt accepted and protected in such a way that I do not have words for to describe. From that moment on my life changed.

At first I had to overcome many fears. Could I really love myself in such an unconditional way as I experienced?

We had another course, with the same women because our vibration with each other was so wonderful. This one was about exploring our own creativity and also how we were all free to do whatever we wanted. I remember we were given a booklet in which we could read about the many, many things we could choose from in life, amongst others having a job, but not necessarily having to choose for that. I soon found out that there were a lot of dreams I forgot that I wanted to realize.

I was in the lucky circumstance that I did not have to go looking for a job and my husband was not so keen on me doing so either. I had a lot of hobbies and one of them made it possible to become my dream hobby and that was making games on the computer while at the same time playing and assisting my children with the computer. This went on and on till the children went to live on their own. I had so many nice experiences with people from around the world and at the same time practising my English and the introduction of the Internet was also really great. I have been online ever since it was available. At the same time I have read many, many esoteric books, because there I would always find something back from that what I had experienced, because it was very difficult to really talk with someone about this. You cannot talk about something that cannot be expressed in words.
Luckily the book of Marilyn Ferguson (Aquarian Conspiracy) came out around that same period. We moved to another town a few years later and I lost contact with almost every women that was in my group. So that book was a compass and even now is still relevant to me. When I look back on my life I see a red thread that has brought me where I am now and you can also call this the thread of Ariadne as I have experienced when someone introduced the labyrinth to me a little while ago. I still follow yoga lessons, I am still creative on my computer, everytime something new happens in my life, and I am enjoying it and thanking the universe for everything I have received. "
So, from the moment I had this wonderful vision, things have drastically changed in my life and in 2002, I purchased a very good 3D Game maker program: 3D Game Studio. I made one game in it and afterwards i know why I made it (and that is that red thread i see now). It is called Jail Escape (it has an English title but for the rest it is in the Dutch language) in which I am on an Island in jail and have to fight robots and find seven keys to free myself from this jail. When i finally do, i have to walk my way through a mountainlike maze to find a boat with which a can sail to the civilized world again. Made this in November 2002. After 24 years of making mazes in 3D I now was about to discover something that really would lead me "Home". And hereunder the rest of the story:

My husband had retired from work in the beginning of 2003 and we were offered a week of reflection with other people in a nice environment, here in the Netherlands, a kind of course on how to go further from this new situation. This had a great impact on me. Our course leader told me about the labyrinth and when back home I went looking for more information on the Internet.

As I already was creative on the computer by making 3D virtual maze games and worlds, I naturally wanted to make labyrinths in Virtual Reality too. I succeeded successfully and did send a whole CD with seven labyrinths and what they meant to me to my course leader. He then came to visit me and we drove to the sea and he draw me a real labyrinth on the shore in the sand and we walked this together. This made quite an impact on me too. In the middle of it i got a reflection on the 24 years of my life spent after my vision. I got the feeling everything was allright and i could leave it all behind to start a fresh life. (naturally during those 24 years i encountered problems and negative things to overcome, together with my family). It got me thinking that everything i had experienced was exactly meant to be and had brought me where i was now. And now freedom was in sight..........

Together with a girlfriend of mine we made a labyrinth in her backgarden (actually in a small forest with many trees, belonging to her land) a truly natural one, made of stones and rocks, big and small and surrounded by trees. She had put a mirror in the middle and when i stood there and looked into it I remembered a fairytale that exactly matched my experience at that moment. So another conscious experience that had me thinking. I had earned something........

This labyrinth has become one that will be there for eternity and I can go and visit it whenever I like. Still have the labyrinths on my computer to virtually walk when I feel like it.

Then i visited these wonderful Gardens of Life in a beautiful part of the Netherlands which gave me yet another deep insight in what life is all about. I made a four-quadrant labyrinth of this with in the middle my vision and gratitude.

This is the one i have sent to Ifsha.

Moreover, in 2004 I got the opportunity to go to Chartres, to visit the famous Cathedral that has a 11-path labyrinth in it, 800 years old. I went there with my course leader, a friend of him and a girlfriend of mine (the same i made the labyrinth with in her backgarden). I "danced" this labyrinth and it gave me so much joy doing this that it inspired me to make it in 3D as an everlasting memory.

This Chartres labyrinth really made me aware of my freedom and my total confidence in what the Universe has in store for me. This all happened in 2004.

Then it happened that I found myself suddenly translating a website for a friend of mine who I had met through my course leader. She is also creatively busy with establishing a spiritual community on a piece of land she owns in Portugal. Her beliefs are based on the insights of Leonardo da Vinci, the Homo Universalis from the Renaissance. It goes too far to explain all this, but I translated her Website into the English language and helped her in a few ways to make her dream come true. Because that is what I also found out: I have been able to make some of my dreams come true and now i am still busy making some others of mine true at the same time trying to make the dreams of others come true. She inspired me with her saying on her Website: "Forgotten dreams are missed chances".

Then another website came along where translators were asked for the site and Dutch books into the English language. As i just finished a translation in a successful way, i felt this was the way for me to go. I have already translated one book and a lot of articles of this site.

In the meantime I was blogging on Intentblog when a certain guy named Harb told something about his book Self-Designed Universe. As I had the feeling for myself of self-designing mine for quite some time, naturally had to go and take a look at his website and got hooked.

So now you know a bit how my life has been one big chain of learning experiences when you are willing to open yourself up to YOURSELF :)

And thusfar the red thread that leads me from one experience to the other in a playful way and i am soo grateful for this.

Love, Mieke

Dear Mieke,

Thank you for sharing your experience and truly just like Jasjit's even yours has been very inspiring for me.

"... willing to open yourself to yourself." wonderfully put!

You are most welcome Chaitali. Lots of inspiration :)

mieke, how interesting the coincidences! in my book, in the couple of paragraphs copied here by jasjit a few days ago, i have described the third phase, the phase of mind/intellect as full of actual and virtual mazes, going beyond which you encounter again your basic oneness/freedom. and you have been actually going through and beyond those mazes to your freedom all these last years, just as i am sure, i must have been going beyond them but in my mind.

in fact, as i see it, men encounter these same mazes in the same way in their minds as women encounter them outside or the computer virtual world which to me is just the mind a bit still on the manifest side. in other words, the latter encounter them in the 'observable world' as jasjit put it somewhere else and the former in the unobservable world of the mind.

beginning to understand and perhaps join...into one - beyond both observable and unobservable....seems mieke, i will have to one day walk those labyrinths of yours as well, the last manifested vestiges of my internal labyrinths...

Dear Harb, thanks. I learnt so much while translating your book that it certainly helped me to open myself to myself even more :)

Sharing experiences can sometimes be so useful and fulfilling.

I wish for you to be able to completely walk your internal labyrinths to your full satisfaction.

And Jasjit, thanks again for telling about your great experience :)

Much love,
Mieke

Dear Mieke

Well I'm glad that my sharing led you to share your amazing life. I wonder if as you wrote it a whole new sense of wonder must have befallen you all over agin. The inimitable red thread! wonder if you are aware why you have used the colour red to describe it for in itself that is so very significant!

Blessings abound, has been the indefatigable lesson of the Path for me. As the folds of truth wrap themselves up in crystal clarity now, Grace surfaces as the haunting reflection in all I see, hear and chance upon. Your story is a lovely rendition of how Grace visits unerringly the moments when we experience myriad awakenings. I have always felt that Grace visits all equally, but when I read your story I am also struck by the truth that I guess the difference really is that some of us are more aware at that moment and in the bowing/surrender, as what you refer to gratitude, we receive all its promise and the mystery begins to unfold.

Frankly what we often refer to as SOT goes by the name of ifinitely munficient Grace IMO.

I am also struck by the unique and creative way in which our Higher Self/purpose begins to knock at our doors. Yours is a poignant tale of creative centering and the powerful messengers which awaited you at the very corners that you needed them, customized if you will for us to receive in exactly the way we are meant to.

There are many many things I want to comment on in your post, but reading it has also made me silent and wonderous at many levels. So I am going to bid you good night for now and return in the morning to your amazing story. Thank you for enriching this space and my understanding.
Much Love

Thank you Jasjit. And yes, before the Grace, you go :) gently pushed lol

Surrender in gratitude and life unfolds by itself..

Blessings to all

Mieke thank you for sharing that wonderful experience. I can only imagine how it must have filled your being with wonder and lightness.

Jasjit some times a piece of writing because of its sheer honesty, simplicity and its ability to capture truth has the power of taking you to that special place of silence and wonder within. Yours is one of those pieces. Thank you.

jasjit, sot refers to the evolution of things towards a certain destination because of certain laws and grace refers to the (unified)force from within which all these (sot, things, laws) ensue forth and hence as a result which pushes the sot. hope i have added something new...

hi mieke, anushehia!

Hello Harbji:-)

Hi Anusheh, happy to have been able to share it here, thank you :)

Hi Harb, in my view you have added something new (it rhymes lol), but that force can hardly be described.

Have been in the Gardens of Life today. Everytime i am there, it afterwards always amazes me how time seems to stand still there and how you completely immerse in the environment.

Someone once wrote in the book of response, present in a little chapel there: It seems like i am walking in the hereafter.
I wonder if the hereafter is the same as the here and now what would unite them? To me only one word arises: Peace :)

The roses were blossoming abundantly..

Harb Ji

Within /without where's the difference. What are these laws if not Grace, what is Grace if not the unerringly laws which aid and create the play. 'Sagal banaspat mein baisantar jaise dudh mein gheea'. :)

jasjit, indeed there is no difference if nobody asks, but verily there is one if sombody asks...jadon koi dudh te gheea da difference puchhega tan te dasna hi paega na lol.

btw, mom di galan batan sunke bara hi maja aia.. and you appeared for the first time in flesh and blood...

Dear Jasjit,

enjoying the infinite is an indescribable experience.

through ages man has compared the same to a bird flying tirelessly in infinite sky or a fish swimming in ecstasy in the eternal ocean as if released from a pot of water.

both creatures are the happiest species on Earth.

i feel whichever experience makes us forget our bodily limitations touches the core of our hearts and we exclaim in wonder and awe at the beauty inside and around us.

just like a limiting pot of water when broken in an ocean makes the fish happy or a cage when opened thrills the bird with infite possibilities...

identification with our body is one of the sole causes for our fears and unhappiness. the day we go beyond it ...our capacity to perceive beauty increases magnificently.

a lovely post.

Dear girl friends so far am come accros with, please remember me at least because i could not fulfil yr picture of love that you all wanted me in a way to do so.

hv an inside journey underneath u ,everything is inside.

Mohan