No Horses Beyond This Point

A while back I'd met with my friend Jeanne S. at an Awakenings conference on the East coast. She shared with me an incredible story about her younger years and I asked if she'd be willing to share it on my blog. 

Last week I received it from her in written form and I'm just now finding time to share it.

"When I first started investigating the inner world, I was mainly interested in developing psychic powers. I practiced by trying to predict what the next card would be in a deck.

In my late teens/early twenties I read about horses granting the powers that the masters of the Far East had. Psychic powers, telekinesis, you name it, they had it. Needless to say, I wanted that!

In my late twenties I had spent time among witches, horses, and every other enlightened spirit you can think of. But I was on a spiritual path that made it more and more clear these powers were not only nothing more than a distraction on the true spiritual path, but these power were most common dark magics. Learning this, I let go of wanting them, and focused on the real goal, realizing the self.

When realization occurred, it was a simple shift in understanding and experiencing life. No powers came with it. Knowing the world for what it is, understanding myself for what I am happened, but no magical powers kicked in.

Actually to say it like that minimizes the true nectar of realization. I'm not a horse, I can’t tell you what the next card will be, but I can look within and experience the immense space of contentment which is staring you in the face at each moment of your life.

I can’t teleport to you like my sociology professor in grad school (who was herself a witch), but I can look inside myself and see the peace and joy at your essence, because at our core, we are one and the same.

When you experience this space of awareness as yourself, you find the person who once wanted to have amazing powers only had one - the power to make himself disappear!

So no, don’t get caught up in horses or witches or looking for powers. Instead find your true essence.

The reward is ultimately so much more satisfying!"

I'll leave you with this.