Curious Ideas..... that can help you get ahead!

In this posting, I want to introduce you to the invisible or psychic world that is all about us. Throughout history, people have known about this world but most people like to pretend it is not there, because they can’t see it.

For example…. Even today, in this enlightened age, our scientists, look up into the night sky, and tell us that our planet is in a universe full of stars. Any competent Astronomer knows that the Stars and Star-Systems make up a mere 5% of the Cosmos. The rest of the so-called Empty Space in the Universe, is 25% Dark Matter and 70% Dark Energy. But only the Stars are visible, so the rest is ignored and not spoken about.

There is great tendency for educators to be economical with the truth, and save themselves the problems of talking about invisible things. Just ignore it and it will go away. If you can’t prove it, it can’t be there.

With my students, I try to teach them in the way my Elfin Grandfather taught me.

This video will give you an idea….

The situation in the video, is often summed up as your higher-self and your lower-self; your physical body and your psychic body; or your body and soul. There are many ways, depending on which Religious, Psychic or New Age group you belong to.

Our Elfin metaphor, that has stood the test of time, goes like this…

Being simple country people, we didn’t know all the special words that everybody uses nowadays to talk about these things…. So we had to talk in terms that were familiar to us…

So first I want you to think of yourself as a Horse… a beautiful one, of course.

Now, as you know, a horse has eyes that enable it to look forwards, or sideways; but not backwards. So no matter how it turns its head it can’t see the Invisible Rider on its back. Because the rider is invisible, no other horse can see it either; but it is still there.

Sometimes the horse is trotting down the road, and it feels a need for cup of tea… And it gets a sudden urge to look around the corner and there is a café. This is when the rider uses the reins to steer the horse in the right direction. In English, we would say we were reacting to a ‘hunch’.

Sometimes, when the horse has been good, the rider will lean forward and pat the horse on the neck, saying something nice. The horse will sometimes react by jumping about, telling everybody they’ve heard the Word of God! The they rush out and start a new religion, or something.

It is this sort of experience, that turns a sensitive into a shaman, or a believer into a saint.

However, there is a problem… Both the Horse and the Rider speak different languages, and don’t understand what the other is saying. Most horses can’t be bothered to work at it, and so, they end up ignoring the rider and pretending that the rider doesn’t exist.

Some unfortunates, hear too many rider words, mis-interpret them and end up schizophrenic.

So basically we humans are a dual entity. The two partners of which, work together with varying amounts of success.

Over the years, we Elves have found many ways of solving lots of the day-to-day problems of this partnership. I’ll tell you more about that, in future posts.

I’ll also be coming back and explaining more and more of this complex, Horse & Rider situation in future posts… So keep a look-out for further parts in the Secret Life of Trees.