08-25-2006, 12:00 AM
Ok. Here is a story I had "prepared earlier" ... meant to write on Silhouette's thread on doubles ... but didn't ..
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One day, (this is quite a while ago now) ... my attention got caught in observing an older Aboriginal lady (from behind) as she was walking in the park at the centre of town. Then I must have blinked or something, because all of a sudden she was no longer there .... she had simply vanished.
I couldn't tell anybody about this experience for I couldn't believe it myself, but when my parents came over I told mum, saying that she'll probably think I'm totally nuts .... but this thing happened .....
To this mum told me that she had had a similar experience one day when skiing; the lady who had skied in front of her had simply vanished like that also. And when mum had come to the place where the lady had vanished, there were no other ski tracks away from the main track.
So we just stared at each other blankly, not knowing what to think, as we couldn't accuse each other for being delusional either.
Sometime after that, when I went into this big resort type ballroom Aboriginal bar, near my place ..... I got talking to young Kenny there. We talked about all sorts, and at one point Kenny started to tell me about this older Aboriginal lady in the centre of town, who appears to people and then vanishes into thin air.
Well ..... now I had to tell my story ! .... and I described her and my experience of her disappearance to Kenny.
I mean I had held this experience secret, in fear of people thinking I was nuts, when all along most people knew about her !!!!
Kenny even told me her name, which I couldn't pronounce let alone remember ..... it being one of those long Aboriginal names.
Then one day, as I was sitting on a bus stop, my attention got caught on an older Aboriginal lady coming towards us on the street ...
And all of a sudden it was like time had stopped to a slow motion (like in the movies) .... and as if the whole world around me had turned gray .... for all I saw was her !!!!
As she walked past the bus stop I had already shifted into such a deep "witness state" .... like an "out-of-the-body-state" .... where I witnessed myself and her from a common/collective AP....and because of this "energy exchange" I came to understand something of her "Dreaming" ... (i.e. the underlying silent intent or principle energy or "the tune" activating her actions or ....her "dance") .... as to why and how she is the way she is ..... and why she seems to appear at the most sychronistic of moments ...
When she had walked past and round the corner, I mentioned something about her striking appearance to others on the bus stop, but nobody had even noticed or seen her ! Talking about being highly visible and totally invisible at the same time ! The barriers of perception are amazing !
It just had to have been her, the lady who vanishes, as she couldn't have been anybody else !
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Here in Central Australia women teach women and men teach men.
I love the way Aboriginal people teach.
Nobody can change another person. Any change that happens must come from within. But others can be inspired to change ... by showing example. Verbal teaching is minimal, but when it happens, it happens on the spot when something is immediately relevant to it because of the phenomenal-situation-play and there is a need to clarify or verify something with words.
This is the best kind of "changing others" ... teaching that I know.
Silent teaching .... through example ... is a way of teaching that because it doesn't demand change from others, therefore the change that happens comes from one's own free will ... plus also it enables the teacher remain detached.
It is a win-win situation.
Among Aboriginal people you always silently know who your teacher is ... and visa verse ... the teachers recognize to whom they have got a teaching connection. When people are taught through these silent examples .... and shown "multidimensional" stuff through awareness shifts .... sometimes these teachers, these Spiritual Elders become absolutely awesome in their abilities .... in the service of Spirit and people in the community.
Artnwere
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One day, (this is quite a while ago now) ... my attention got caught in observing an older Aboriginal lady (from behind) as she was walking in the park at the centre of town. Then I must have blinked or something, because all of a sudden she was no longer there .... she had simply vanished.
I couldn't tell anybody about this experience for I couldn't believe it myself, but when my parents came over I told mum, saying that she'll probably think I'm totally nuts .... but this thing happened .....
To this mum told me that she had had a similar experience one day when skiing; the lady who had skied in front of her had simply vanished like that also. And when mum had come to the place where the lady had vanished, there were no other ski tracks away from the main track.
So we just stared at each other blankly, not knowing what to think, as we couldn't accuse each other for being delusional either.
Sometime after that, when I went into this big resort type ballroom Aboriginal bar, near my place ..... I got talking to young Kenny there. We talked about all sorts, and at one point Kenny started to tell me about this older Aboriginal lady in the centre of town, who appears to people and then vanishes into thin air.
Well ..... now I had to tell my story ! .... and I described her and my experience of her disappearance to Kenny.
I mean I had held this experience secret, in fear of people thinking I was nuts, when all along most people knew about her !!!!
Kenny even told me her name, which I couldn't pronounce let alone remember ..... it being one of those long Aboriginal names.
Then one day, as I was sitting on a bus stop, my attention got caught on an older Aboriginal lady coming towards us on the street ...
And all of a sudden it was like time had stopped to a slow motion (like in the movies) .... and as if the whole world around me had turned gray .... for all I saw was her !!!!
As she walked past the bus stop I had already shifted into such a deep "witness state" .... like an "out-of-the-body-state" .... where I witnessed myself and her from a common/collective AP....and because of this "energy exchange" I came to understand something of her "Dreaming" ... (i.e. the underlying silent intent or principle energy or "the tune" activating her actions or ....her "dance") .... as to why and how she is the way she is ..... and why she seems to appear at the most sychronistic of moments ...
When she had walked past and round the corner, I mentioned something about her striking appearance to others on the bus stop, but nobody had even noticed or seen her ! Talking about being highly visible and totally invisible at the same time ! The barriers of perception are amazing !
It just had to have been her, the lady who vanishes, as she couldn't have been anybody else !
****
Here in Central Australia women teach women and men teach men.
I love the way Aboriginal people teach.
Nobody can change another person. Any change that happens must come from within. But others can be inspired to change ... by showing example. Verbal teaching is minimal, but when it happens, it happens on the spot when something is immediately relevant to it because of the phenomenal-situation-play and there is a need to clarify or verify something with words.
This is the best kind of "changing others" ... teaching that I know.
Silent teaching .... through example ... is a way of teaching that because it doesn't demand change from others, therefore the change that happens comes from one's own free will ... plus also it enables the teacher remain detached.
It is a win-win situation.
Among Aboriginal people you always silently know who your teacher is ... and visa verse ... the teachers recognize to whom they have got a teaching connection. When people are taught through these silent examples .... and shown "multidimensional" stuff through awareness shifts .... sometimes these teachers, these Spiritual Elders become absolutely awesome in their abilities .... in the service of Spirit and people in the community.
Artnwere