Paws for Thought by Jane Wheeler

Author:Jane Wheeler [Wheeler, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-25T09:54:54+00:00

I once phoned a well-known Buddhist author, a man currently living in Australia who had been one of the first Americans to receive the venerable designation of rishi. For me, the phone call constituted an impressive act of courage, made possible partly through a roundabout work connection, and partly by the fact that I was not doing this entirely on my own behalf. At the time, and to understate the situation, my son was struggling through adolescence – this was my legitimating context for talking to someone with Wisdom. And as a sidebar, I could use some insights into how to approach my own future, too.

In full disclosure, I had already consulted a soul reader in Portland, a woman named Marianne, who informed me that I possess strong intuitive gifts hidden, primarily, by self-doubt. Her message was emphatic, more like an admonishment than a neutral observation: I needed to access, release, and harness these inner capacities. Now, I’ve long been fascinated by the metaphysical, and I’ve wished that I, like the world’s intuitives, could travel in the spiritual realms. But I couldn’t. I viewed myself as a person fully stuck in the here and now, without a clue as to how to “read” more subtle realities, as one for whom the windows into psychic guidance and intuition remained firmly shuttered. Marianne’s assessment therefore caught me off guard; I listened with hopeful interest, but reflexive skepticism. This did not jibe with the me I know. But then again, I am not one to ignore what I’m told to do; when someone says jump, I jump. What was my next step? Seek more evidence.

Two other psychics concurred with Marianne, to an eerie extent, duplicating not only her sizing up of my capacities, but her strong suggestions for how, in what areas, to work on myself. One of these readers urged me to go ahead, dispense with the extraneous things I was involved in (my job, for example), and begin my real life’s work, that is, develop my psychic skills. “You should be doing what I am,” he said. (“Hah!” responded my rational mind, aware of its own brick wall-like density.) I was at a loss. It was at this confused juncture that I called the Buddhist teacher, a person who had written prolifically on how to shine light into the deep interstices of the soul. After apologizing for the intrusion and requesting permission, I described my situation, and asked for his advice on how I could open myself to the unseen, the other side, when my starting point was a position of complete and total opacity. His words, spoken across continents, over thousands of miles including the entirety of the Pacific Ocean, emblazoned themselves in my mind as if delivered from three feet away. “The real issue is,” he said, pausing briefly but meaningfully, “how comfortable can you be with the not knowing?”

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