The Hand on the Mirror by Janis Heaphy Durham

Author:Janis Heaphy Durham [DURHAM, JANIS HEAPHY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body, Mind & Spirit / Afterlife & Reincarnation, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Magic Carpets

In the late fall of 2008 I had another encounter with the golden threads. It took place in the living room of our Sun Valley home. I was talking on the phone with Tanner when I noticed over in the far corner three or four horizontal golden threads about eighteen inches long. They were floating just above the large globe I had given Jim for his birthday. Just as in the two previous cases, they looked like corn silk or a web, golden in color and not connected to anything.

But this time when I touched one, it didn’t disappear. Instead, a small rectangle formed behind my finger, like a jewel on a necklace. The threads lasted about five minutes and then disappeared. I don’t know why it took me so long to think of researching these phenomena of golden threads. What I learned from my reading was fascinating.

I believe I was seeing examples of Indra’s Net, also called Indra’s Jewels or Indra’s Pearls, named after a story from ancient Vedic texts about a net that the god Indra cast over his palace. It’s a metaphor used to illustrate the Buddhist concept of interpenetration, which means everything in the universe is related to everything else. Each “jewel” in the net reflects into infinity all the other mutual relationships, much as two facing mirrors will reflect an image into infinity. A change in one jewel means a change, however small, in every other jewel in the net.

None of the pictures I found on the Internet or in books looked exactly like what I had seen, but there was a strong resemblance. I also learned that quantum physics has a concept that very nearly matches the ancient net metaphor. This quantum concept, called Bell’s Theorem, is complicated. But in simple terms, Bell’s Theorem says that our world is nonlocal, meaning things can be connected across time and space. And it’s not just that they are connected. They can act as one. I wonder, does this include people?

In early November Jim and I drove from Sun Valley to our Yountville home. We had plans to visit friends and spend Thanksgiving with Tanner, who would be on break from UCLA. On Wednesday afternoon, November 5, we arrived, unpacked, and settled in for a monthlong stay in our cozy retreat among the redwoods and vineyards. We took a long walk in the neighborhood and then enjoyed a fabulous meal at Bouchon, our favorite local restaurant.

On Thursday morning we awoke to a surprise. As we walked around the corner hallway leading from our bedroom to the kitchen, we noticed that the Karastan rug, a five-by-eight-foot rug that I had brought from our kitchen in Sacramento and was usually centered evenly in the middle of the kitchen floor, had moved off center by about six inches.

By now we were veterans of the moving-rug phenomenon, but we were still skeptical. Maybe we had misjudged where the rug was the day before. So this time we used a little more discipline.

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