Love Story: In The Web of Life (21 page)

Then, I said to Tom, "Candice says you do
counseling involving space-time perceptions. People's space-time
perceptions will fit right into the puzzle I am working
on."

Candice excused herself and said, "I'll leave
you guys to talk about this."

Tom looked pleased and started, "People have
been doing counseling involving space-time perceptions for a long
time. For example, I read about a famous faith healer in the 1980s,
who would have a person identify some problem, such as
being mad at mother,
and then ask
for them to visualize the last time they were
mad at mother
. Then, they would tell the person
to visualize Jesus coming into their visualization, taking them by
the hand, and then walking backward in time to the previous time
they were
mad at mother.
They
repeated the walk backward to the earlier time they were
mad at mother
, which might be some
time when they were a toddler and got spanked. Then, they would
deal with the emotion in that time frame and the feelings of
being
mad at mother
would be
gone. I have left out some of the details of the
procedure."

"There have been hundreds of kinds of this
general class of therapy, that I call 'sequential recall,' used by
various people over the years. Some interventions, particularly
those that were highly structured, could be very effective. Some
people make significant changes in their emotional life in short
times with this kind of therapy. For some, it can be the result of
a weekend or weeklong workshop, for others it can be a matter of
months of one-to-one counseling. Usually, tremendous change can
happen by getting rid of a few really big issues."

"Keep going!' I said, “I’m very interested in
how this all relates to space-time."

Tom thought for a minute and then said. "I
think I know of a good metaphor. Lets take a little walk in the
back yard."

We got up, and Tom led the way to a clump of
avocado trees in the back of his yard. He led the way through
leaves and branches to a wooden fence.

"Here, meet Mr. Spider, as Candice calls him.
He is hiding up in that corner of the web, under that
leaf."

Tom pointed to a large, very elaborate spider
web woven between branches of a tree and the fence.

"His web is beautiful when it is covered with
morning dew. After we first discovered him, or her, we don't know,
we would swat flies and them bring them out here and throw them in
the web. Mr. S would scrabble out from his hiding place and jump on
the fly. Mr. S monitored the threads coming from his corner and
when one
vibrated
he seemed
to know exactly what part of the web to scramble to. He has
information connections to the entire web. His attention is
consumed in being aware of all parts of his web."

"My metaphor is that
we live in a web of space-time, a web of life
.
We have threads from where we are now to many places in our life.
We normally call those places memories or subconscious memories,
childhood memories for example. Our information threads are tied to
emotional incidents that were of significance to us. Those threads
are interconnected to other similar emotional incidents, similar to
the cross–ties Mr. S has in his web. For many people, all their
attention is tied up in a web with these information ties. When you
talk to them, you have the feeling they are not really there.
Sometimes, people are living their lives consumed with one idea
that their web is tied to, like a spider with a one strand
web."

"I think I get the idea," I replied, "would you
give me some more examples?"

"Suppose your mother shouted at you that you
were
not good enough
while
spanking you when you were six years old. The idea might not be in
your conscious mind, but still be connected to hundreds of later
times when someone told you, implied, or made you believe you
were
not good enough
. Your
whole life might be organized around making up for being
not good enough
.

"In space-time therapy, we would have you clear
out the information web tied to the present and all the times when
being not good enough came up. Sometimes it is very simple, and
sometimes hard, to take the web of associations apart. Sometimes,
simply recognizing the script, being not good enough, is the
hardest part."

"I get that" I replied. "More
examples?"

"Here is a real example of how an incident can
dominate a person's life, which I surmised from reading the
newspapers about a billionaire who recently died. This man, John,
and his younger brother, Paul, and their father were all working
together in a family business, which, as I recall, was a retail
furniture store. His father announced he would retire and said he
would pass the business on to Paul. When confronted by John, the
father says, 'I am giving the business to Paul because I don't
think you will be responsible enough to make money and keep the
business going. You will never amount to anything.'

"John left the business and struck out on his
own, seriously dedicated to proving his father wrong. Although his
father died a few years after John left, John worked ruthlessly,
never achieving any real relationship with his many wives and
assorted children, until he became one of the richest people in the
world. He died a bitter, lonely man, but he did make his father
wrong.

"Let's go back into my office and talk some
more. I don't want to disturb Mr. Spider."

We walked back into the living room where
Candice was reading or working on her iPad. Tom told Candice that
we had visited Mr. Spider and were now going to his
office.

Candice asked, "Is Mr. Spider OK?"

Tom nodded yes as we walk down the
hall.

Tom's office was decorated in the Craftsman
Style, with dark blue walls, and dark wood wainscoting and trim.
His desk, facing the wall, had three large, now dark, computer
screens, a keyboard, a MIDI piano keyboard, and a couple of
devices, possibly miniature drums, set to the side. As I looked
around, I saw that there were some black speakers concealed in the
decor.

"This is where I do my composing and my
counseling,"

"It looks very tidy," I replied. "I would
expect all kinds of mixing boards and instruments, piles of music
scores, microphones, music stands."

"They are all in the computer these days. I
find that I work best when there is not paraphernalia around for me
to attach my web of attention. Have a seat.

"Let's see, we covered the general idea of the
web. There is another aspect of that idea that many people have
trouble with. From your description of your recent studies, it
feels safe to expose you to these ideas. Sometimes, with some
people, as you work back to the original emotional incident in
their childhood, they find there is a connection to an earlier
time. For instance, a person going back to a root incident of being
spanked might find there is a connection to an earlier place in
space-time, where they find a person being flogged while tied up in
some colonial setting.

"Here we run up against four-dimensional
space-time limitation of many people's thinking. Some people who
are not trained in logic and science have no trouble with the idea
of what most call 'past lives.' A very large number of people in
other cultures believe in that sort of thing. Scientists would be
more apt to explain such perceptions as 'hallucinations.' A logical
friend explained to me that past lives or transmigration of souls,
as believed in some cultures, is impossible because the world
population has grown. There would not be enough lives in some year
such as 1000 BCE for everyone in 2000 CE to have a past life. There
are also questions of the physics of how information or souls get
moved from one life to another. Candice's eight-dimensional work
provides
wormholes
for
information transfer between space-time points."

I interrupted and said, "I will call
them
shortcuts
in the trial.
A jury of country people might think
wormholes
are something to be avoided since they
don't like to find
wormholes
in fruit, corn, or in places where termites have
been."

Tom continued, nodding acknowledgement to my
choice of words "Instead of your soul being attached to that
previous–life person
, and somehow
migrating through time into your body of today, it is more as
though you are
channeling
ideas from that
prior–life
person
. Their soul is their’s and your’s is your’s:
there is only a channeling connection.

"By the way, I have had clients, whose whole
nonprofessional lives had been tied up in some hobby, such as
owning a sailboat, who found ties to lives in earlier times, such
as the great age of sail in the eighteenth century. Typically, they
might spend enormous time and money maintaining a sailboat without
ever taking it away from the expensive slip it occupies. Once they
deal with these perceptions, they no longer need to own a
sailboat.

"I remember one client who had a web connection
to someone who was swept off the deck of a sailing ship by a wave
coming around Cape Horn during the Gold Rush in 1849. He perceived
the wave,
fate
had prevented
him from striking–it–rich in the gold fields. The client had
difficulty in this lifetime establishing or realizing goals because
he believed
fate
would stop
him from achieving those goals. He lived on a sailboat in a marina.
He did move on with his life after he dealt with the connection to
the 1849'er. He even sold his sailboat and bought a
house."

I added, "I love hearing about all this. It
fits so well with what I have recently learned. Tell me more about
your process of having people 'crawl' through the information of
their web."

Tom smiled and said, "The best way to
demonstrate the process is to do it with you. Want to
try?"

"I'm game."

"Then, close your eyes and
relax...."

****

The next evening, I called when I was a few
blocks from Tina's apartment building so she could meet me
downstairs. As I turned onto her street I saw her crouched down
petting a dog on a leash, apparently being walked by a neighbor. As
I drove up she patted the dog on the head, gave it a small kiss on
the forehead, smiled at the owner, and turned toward me with a big
grin.

I reached across the seat and opened the
door.

As she slid in she said, "Oh, I love Goldens.
They are such loving dogs."

"You look beautiful,' I said. "that shade of
purple is perfect for you."

She looked at me questionably for a second and
then brightened into a smile and said, "You surely are in a good
mood tonight. Full of Sierra sunshine...or moonshine. You must have
had a really good week."

"I did, indeed. Rocky Butte was an interesting
place. I really met some interesting people.

"I have to go up there next Wednesday for the
trial. I want to be there, acting like a local for a while before
the trial starts. The trial shouldn't last more than a
week."

As we drove, I told her about Rocky Butte, the
Judge, Agnes, and the gold pans. She listened with great interest.
I was about to tell her about Steve and Georgia when we got to
Hernando's.

After we were seated and had ordered margaritas
and food, I started to tell her about Steve and Georgia. "Steve is
my main witness in the trial, the remote sensor that tried to help
find the lost girl. He and his wife live in a mountain cabin,
almost off the grid, at the end of unnamed dirt roads above Rocky
Butte. They have a fantastic site with a view of the mountains.
They are a wonderful, loving couple; amazingly comfortable and
affectionate with each other. They are quite a contrast to the
uptight lawyers and trophy wives I meet here in LA. Georgia seems
to have unusual psychic powers. When I was talking about my mobile
home in the desert, she seemed to pick up pictures of you being
there."

Tina smiled in a kind of surprised way. "They
sound great. You now seem to be quite comfortable with these ideas
about psychic powers. That is a big switch. We couldn't have even
broached the subject without you being uncomfortable a few weeks
ago."

"Since my first contact with Uriel, I have
acquired an immense amount of information that has altered my
viewpoint. The physics, the logic, the people, and my personal
experiences have all come together. I have no trouble with the
subject. I used to think all this stuff was outside the realm of
science and was simply delusional. Now, I think all of this stuff
is within an expanded realm of science. People in the scientific
world are delusional if they hold onto the conventional
four-dimensional view of reality and say psychic phenomena is
nonsense!"

Tina replied delightedly, "Although I don't
understand all this mathematical stuff, I think it is wonderful
that you are having all these new understandings. Who would have
believed.... Wow! The energy level coming off your body is
amazing."