Out on a Limb by Shirley MacLaine

Author:Shirley MacLaine [Maclaine, Shirley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76504-8
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Every new-born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but … its fresh existence is paid for by … a worn-out existence which had perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which this new existence has arisen: they are one being. To show the bridge between the two would certainly be the solution of a great riddle.”

—ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

The World as Will and Idea

I lowered the lights in my living room. The ocean tumbled gently outside. I put the tape recorder on, and asked Kevin if he needed anything.

“No,” he answered, “I think I’ll be going out now.”

“Okay,” I said, “I’ll be here.”

“Right,” said Kevin. “See you in a while then.”

He leaned back, placed his hands over his chest and crossed them. He closed his eyes. I moved the tape recorder closer to him. Slowly he began to breathe deeply. I waited. He sat still for about three minutes and breathed even more deeply. Then very gently his head toppled forward onto his chest and a catch spluttered slightly in his throat. His head straightened up and cocked to one side. About thirty more seconds elapsed. Then he opened his mouth and his body shuddered. His breathing changed rhythm. Slowly his mouth transposed into a smooth smile. His eyebrows lifted, giving his facial expression one of momentary surprise. His hands moved to the arm rests. In a raspy whisper which didn’t sound in Kevin’s vocal range, I heard,

“Hail. I’m John. Greetings. Please identify yourself and state purpose of gathering.”

I cleared my throat and shifted onto the floor next to Kevin’s chair.

“Yes,” I began, “my name is Shirley MacLaine. I am from Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, but I am speaking to you from Malibu, California. I am a performer who also writes, and I can’t really say why I’m here.”

“As such,” said the Voice.

As such … I guessed that meant okay. I remembered Kevin had said one of the spiritual entities spoke in a biblical lingo.

“We are taken to find ye have investigations. We sense your vibrational condition as such and have familiarity with it.”

There was a pause as though he was waiting for me to ask a question or say something. I didn’t know where to begin.

“Yes,” I said, “well, could you tell me please who ‘we’ might be?”

“As such,” he said, “we are those who have known ye in lives past.”

He startled me.

“You people have known me in past lives?”

“As such.”

“Are you my spiritual guides then? Is that why I am here?”

“As such.”

“Oh, I see,” I said inaccurately. He went on.

“To understand yourself now you must understand that you are more than what you seem now. The sum of your talents, the sum of your feelings, are those which ye have experienced before … and all that ye are is part of the oneness of all. Is that to your understanding?”

I squirmed around on my carpet. Didn’t everyone have certain talents, feelings, and thoughts which

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