Interesting Articles and videos 1st June
Interesting Articles and videos 1st June
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“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ~Paulo Coehlo
When I was born, the nurse lifted me from the bed, placed me on a cold metal operating table, and prepped my umbilical cord to be severed. As my parents put it, I “screamed bloody murder” when she attended to me, then grabbed ahold of the index finger of her latex glove and pulled it clean off.
“You just wouldn’t let go,” my dad recalls, chuckling.
That often-told family tale has risen to consciousness many times during the last few months, especially when I’ve found myself overwhelmed, fearful, and grief-stricken at the task of saying goodbye.
Goodbye to my first love, each of my beloved college friends, my wonderful university and creative writing program, to the Pacific Northwest, and more importantly to a time of my life that had a big role in bearing me into the woman I am today.
Goodbye, because I picked up and moved to Berkeley, CA to explore, to live, to find new joy. As the move became more real, every “so long” brought with it the coldness of surgical steel at my back, a wet cry, an unwavering grip on those places and people I love.
The thing about letting go is that it’s unnatural to most and must be learned with great patience and persistence.
Perhaps it’s difficult because we need attachment to survive—babies need their mothers and the rest of the “village” to thrive physically and emotionally, to adjust to life beyond the womb.
But letting go is worth learning, because it means risk, and with risk comes growth.
I crave growth. I crave new experience. I crave adventure. And as much as I loved Bellingham, it wasn’t supplying me with the tools to be happy.
I want to be a well-known writer, I want to see the world, I want to learn new stories and sing songs with strangers. I just couldn’t do that in a small, bayside city of people I know well. But, the inevitability (even predictability) of this goodbye couldn’t make it any easier.
Intentionally letting go is not any less excruciating than doing so subconsciously, and I would be remiss if I told you so. It requires we savor not only sweet beginnings, but also bitter endings. It requires we face fear and grief in the face, rather than burying them deep.
The day I left Bellingham, I sat in the middle of the floor of my empty apartment bawling. Whereas we are taught to stay strong, to hold tears in, to look forward with no impulse to go back, I allowed myself a moment to be achingly present in the memories and attachment I have to that place.
I remembered drinking wine on floor with my roommates until the wee hours; writing story after story on my bedroom carpet; lying in bed and talking most the night with the first boy I’ve ever really loved.
Okay, so maybe I’m a sap. Or perhaps even a masochist. But I’ve found that if you give fear and grief the time of day, gratefulness and joy greet you on the other side.
Endings just want to be acknowledged, just want you to pause and remember how beautiful life can be. In that way, how you deal with endings can become a litmus test for how mindfully you are living.
So, I challenge you to see change not with dread, but as a chance to remember how beautiful your life has been, is, and will continue to be. And whenever you say “so long” keep an eye out for that new hello. It will come.
I know it’s true as I sit in a sunny Berkeley coffee shop writing, musing on the courage it took to get me here and watching a little boy in denim overalls holding tight to the hand of his “Papa!” To all this new adventure, joy and love, I say hello, hello, hello.
Justice from Beyond the Grave
At the beginning of this century in the Golan Heights of Syria, a 3-year
old boy clearly remembered where he'd been murdered in his previous
life, just 4 years before.
He correctly identified the spot his body had been buried, the previous
village where he was from, and even the identity of his murderer. Is this
proof that reincarnation is real?
At first, no one in his small Druze village believed him - that is, until he
led village elders to the spot where he remembers being buried. The villagers
dug up the spot where the boy says his former corpse was hidden and a skeleton
was exactly where he said it would be.
The small boy said he was murdered with an axe in his previous life.
Mysteriously, a large axe mark on the skeleton corresponds to a birth mark on
the boy's head. He also showed the elders where the murder weapon was hidden,
and upon digging, they found an axe, right where he said.
Mixed in with the group of Druze village elders was an Israeli doctor, Eli Lasch.
Dr. Lasch recounted these astounding events to German therapist, Trutz Hardo
for his book, 'Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today,' in which
this boy's story is re-told, along with other stories of children who seem to remember
their past lives with verified accuracy.
The boy was of the Druze ethnic group, and in his culture the existence of
reincarnation is accepted as fact. His story still surprised his community, due to the
clarity of his recollection of the events of his previous life and death and the proof he was
able to produce.
Druze beliefs incorporate elements from Abrahamic religions, Gnosticism,
Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, and other philosophies creating a distinct theology
known to highlight the role of the mind and truthfulness. The Druze call themselves Ahl
al-Tawhid "the People of Monotheism" or "the People of Unity" or al-Muwahhidun, "the
Unitarians".
The Druze believe, as some other cultures do, that birthmarks are related to past-life
deaths.
This boy was born with a long, red birthmark on his head and as soon as he was old enough
to talk, he told his family he had been killed by a blow to the head with an axe.
The boy also remembered the full name of his killer. When he confronted this man, the
alleged killer's face turned white, according to Dr. Lasch, in his account to author, Trutz Hardo,
but the assailant did not immediately admit to the murder.
However, faced with all of the evidence provided by the boy, the murderer was eventually
compelled to admit to the crime and he was then legally charged.
(Video: 2 and half minutes):
Justice from Beyond the Grave
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