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TWENTY-THREE

            “Which, hopefully, also brings us to the point of making sure we all witnessed the same thing yesterday, or am I jumping the gun?” Brad was directing his question to all of us.

            “For me, you are jumping the gun a bit,” Rob responded immediately, “but maybe I’m missing something. What is so all fired important about whether we all experienced the same thing yesterday? I’m really interested in continuing to pursue how everyone sees the traditional interpretation of the attachment of Christ to Jesus as a name being bullshit. I mean, that insight, to me, is almost as shocking as I AM providing us with our own burning bush experience …complete with instructions. It seems to me that the name thing is equally important as we move forward” …Rob was obviously a bit flustered by the fact that she was in territory she had never before considered, at least consciously.

            “Come to think of it, maybe it is even more important to explore how a deliberate cover-up took place and who is the perpetrator so that we can begin understanding how religious tradition keeps us from experiencing any number of direct visitations from I AM.” Brad said this with a mused look on his face that clearly showed he had been touched by what Rob had just said.

            “Man oh man” …Jeff added, “What next? What is getting to me is how much we are trapped by the words we are in the habit of speaking without thinking – this whole thing about Jesus Christ and I AM and ‘bringing every thought captive’ has me spinning!”

            “Keep on going with the thought Jeff, you’re on to something” Walt urged.

            “Okay, look, I think it was something you emphasized, Brad, Jesus saying that none of the words he spoke were his, rather that SPIRIT was speaking through him and the fact that any individual who believed enough could and would do the very same things. We’ve been seeing that stuff on a small scale, but we’re being shown that we will be traveling all over the world and being instruments of I AM in us. I don’t know if you guys are carrying the purposeful obfuscation, or deliberate bullshit my beautiful wife so eloquently paraphrased it, I’m seeing that we must not carry our old Evangelical and Pentecostal Christian baggage with us …we are not going to sell Jesus Christ to Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and other religious people. They will resist what I AM is instructing us to do …which is to be containers of our SPIRIT-PARENT – I just know I’m right on the money with that” …Jeff concluded his little speech.

            Brad said, “Here here, you are right on the money Jeff, I’m a bit overwhelmed only because I’ve known this as truth, but it has never been this clear to me until you just said it.”

            Over the pool, the same miniature sun-like ball of light, too bright to look at and accompanied by that same sizzling sound as before, then a loud pop:

“This is your preparation …remember what I said to you: “I AM YOUR PROTOCOL. DO NOT BE TRAPPED INTO PREDICTABILITY. THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC OR RELIGIOUS EXPLANATION FOR I AM. IF YOU ATTEMPT TO MAKE A PRINCIPLE OUT OF WHAT YOU ARE SEEING AND HEARING YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO HEAR ME OR SEE ME.”

TWENTY-TWO

            We agreed to meet at 8:30 in the bungalow Jeff and Rob were occupying for a leisurely breakfast over which Jeff had volunteered to preside and prepare. The floor plan was identical to ours …sliding glass door off the patio into a large family room; the second bedroom off to the left; straight ahead into the master bedroom and just before running into the king sized bed an arched doorway leading to the right into the large eating area in which the kitchen was also situated and a back door into the garden area with a pathway that connected to ours which led out to the garages.

            Breakfast dishes cleared away, we drifted out to the patio area surrounding the pool. One thing of seeming deep interest to the men was the water treatment system which used no chlorine or other chemicals; all three of them seemed to be somewhat mechanically inclined. Jeff said they had switched their swimming pool over to a similar system five years previously and one of the advantages was that the pool did not have to be resurfaced or painted for many years and that the savings in chemicals and pool maintenance more than paid for the cost of the installation.

            It was amazing to me how we could talk about the mundane things of the physical realm when just beneath the surface we all shared such a powerful connection with SPIRIT.

“You chose to enter this realm so that it could be experienced,” SPIRIT’s voice penetrated my reverie.

“Okay, so what should that mean to me, how do I respond when mundane thoughts dominate my consciousness,” I asked.

“By turning your thoughts to me, which you just did …now you understand the ancient term, ‘bringing every thought captive to I AM.”

I was overwhelmed …I had just received instruction that was rather amazing and I knew I needed to follow up on it and discuss it with Brad later to be inserted in the book …or perhaps to be put into question form for the interview or discussion or whatever form we were shown that our writing of part two of the manuscript was to take. It was very clear to me that I wasn’t to say anything about it at the moment.

Another thought struck me and I wasted no time trying to reason it out. “Okay,” I said silently to SPIRIT, “the term, as I learned it was, ‘bringing every thought captive unto Christ,’ how is that different than to I AM?” I was startled by the term I was hearing, that is:

“Purposeful obfuscation” 

“…so, what are you telling me?”

What I was shown was so profound that I could hardly sit still …and in fact I got up and started pacing.

“Oh, oh, Jeanne,” Rob called out, “what has gotten in to you” …and I asked SPIRIT if I was supposed to share it with everyone and got a definitive “yes.”

“Something that is so simple and yet so startling,” I answered, then paused, “whenever everybody is ready, I feel led to share it and get SPIRIT’s input through everyone.”

“Hey guys,” Jan called out, “it is time to get down to business with the Water of Life rather than the water in the pool, Jeanne has something to share.”

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            “I was just given something that I think Brad and I are supposed to write about, as a beginning to part two of the Leapfrog manuscript,” I said when we were all seated.

            “Who wants to give me their definition of the term, ‘purposeful obfuscation,’” I asked.

“How about deliberately providing false information in order to hide the truth?” Walt said, without any seeming thought.

“How about plain ordinary bullshit,” Rob chipped in without her usual smile.

“Are you as serious about that as you look, sweetie,” Jeff asked his wife.

“Well, what I was seeing was one of those big coal shovels full of cow manure covering over truth etched in stone at the very moment Walt was giving a more politically correct definition of the term Jeanne was given.”

“What I’d like to know, Hon,” Brad asked, “what was going through your mind in the first place that precipitated the term, ‘purposeful obfuscation?’”

“You, Jeff and Walt were all talking about the purification system for the swimming pool and Jan and Rob were talking about business. I was musing how we could all be talking about mundane things of the physical realm, when just below the surface we all share such a close and powerful connection with SPIRIT; the words that came to me are still very clear in my mind, ‘You chose to enter this realm so that it could be experienced.’”

“Oh wow,” Walt exclaimed, “no wonder that got your attention. That is very, very heavy.”

“Yes, but what came next was right after I asked SPIRIT the question, what I was supposed to do with the thought …and I heard SPIRIT say, clearly, ‘bring it to ME, which you did, and now you understand the ancient term ‘bringing every thought captive to I AM.’”

“Hmmm, bringing every thought captive to Christ,” Jeff intoned.

“That’s exactly what startled me, Jeff,” I said, “that is how I remember first hearing the term as well and I asked about it …and that’s when I heard, ‘purposeful obfuscation.’

“I knew, immediately, that I was being given instruction for something Brad and I are to write and what exactly the indelicate definition Rob so eloquently laid on us …bullshit.

“Here’s the thing and it is something I learned through Brad back in 2000 …and the very first time I had heard that Jesus said everything he spoke were not his words, but SPIRIT speaking through him …and what I got the go ahead, just now, to share with all of you, is that the bullshit is that bringing every thought captive is a ‘Christian term’ because the word ‘Christ’ has been attached to Jesus, when it is actually a reference to I AM. This all came to me in such a rush.

“Moses, the Israelite, being spoken to by the voice in the burning bush which was the same voice speaking through Jesus and to really get down to it, like yesterday when SPIRIT was talking through Walt and then we all saw that sphere about six feet away from Brad and the same voice, I AM, was emanating directly from it. Am I making any sense at all?” I finished with a gasp as the import of the words hit me, that SPIRIT had just been speaking through me as well.

“You’re saying that SPIRIT gave you the term ‘purposeful obfuscation’ in the middle of all that?” Brad asked very gently.

“Yes,” I responded, now feeling more overwhelmed than when it had first taken place.

“This seems more like a confirmation to me of things I began to see as a result of reading the first Leapfrog manuscript,” Jan said, then asked: “Is this a new thought for you, Jeanne?”

“Not at all, but it does clear away so much peripheral and unneeded junk …yet junk that I need to get rid of if I’m going to move on.”

“Bullshit,” Rob interjected and this time we all laughed at the truth we were seeing, feeling and hearing and the comic relief provided by her remark and its timing.

In Freedom,

Brad

TWENTY-ONE

            We didn’t really need a designated driver to get us home, but since Walt now had the best eyesight of all of us, he asked if we minded if he drove. He and Jan were considering buying the Lexus owned by one of their store managers and it was the same year and model, and this would give him a good opportunity to see if he really wanted it. All of us agreed happily to leave the driving to Walt!

            To say that we’d had an eventful day and evening was an understatement – there were several things we wanted to discuss …questions raised during our time at dinner, mostly centered on what SPIRIT either said directly in that appearance by the pool, but also spoken through several of us.

            Rob gave voice to something I was beginning to sense – just as we were deciding to leave the restaurant: “Jeanne, I’m really getting the sense that you two need to get prepared for your writing assignment that SPIRIT has outlined, are you feeling that as well?”

            “Yes,” I said without any hesitation whatever.

            “How about you, darling,” I looked across the table at Brad, feeling so comfortable using another brand new word for me, “darling,” and knowing it was perfect and not out of place at all.

            “The thought just crossed my mind,” he replied, thoughtfully, “just at the time you brought it up, Rob, and now that Jeanne has put the question to me – I’d have to say an enthusiastic ‘yes’ as well. But, I also feel that all of us together have some unfinished business together that we need to process – one thing that comes immediately to mind, I’d like to see if we all witnessed the same phenomena of the appearance of SPIRIT. I feel like part of the learning process and preparation for whatever is next, for the six of us as a group, needs to be processed together right away.

            “I know we all agreed to just relax until you guys left on Monday, but I’m sensing an urgency, to get started, not just on our writing project, but some of the preparation for it. The six of us have unfinished business. I have no doubt whatever we, as a group, are ordained to be core in the next big move of SPIRIT; core is the operative word.

            “I’d like some confirmation for this, but I am sensing that we really need to spend the time around the pool starting tomorrow morning in letting SPIRIT lead us in discussion.”

            Right then we all looked at our watches and Jan and I gasped at the same time in shock that it was after 11:00 PM. We agreed that we should go to bed and Jeff offered to whip up some pancakes as he’d caught a glimpse of a large tub of his favorite pancake topping, blackberry preserves.

            I quickly agreed and added that there was already a supply of pancake mix in the pantry …do we need anything else?

            Walt mentioned that there was a 24-hour convenience store about five miles south on Alii Drive.  Walt kept proving his claim that he really knew his way around on the Big Island, “let’s pop in there just to see if we need anything else for morning, he said, “and let’s all get a good night sleep.

            Jan kept proving to be less and less what I considered to be a typically reserved Japanese woman, quipped: “Certainly you are not warning me that you are going to get back into your semi-celibate shell, are you, husband dear?”   

            “I’m sure they sell that same wine, I probably won’t have to drink as much to lose my inhibitions again.  Quite frankly, my dear, I kind of find the idea of another tryst quite appealing …he looked around at the rest of us, with an absolute comical look on his face, practically leering at his wife who was sitting between Rob and me. Walt had really come out of whatever shell he had been in and was a natural clown. I adored the man. I adored our entire group and said a silent thanks to SPIRIT while joining in the new wave of convulsive laugh-therapy.

            “See Brad, I told you that you were a great addition to the group” Rob quipped, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve never had so much fun in my entire life – we all agreed.

            Brad capped it off perfectly. “Not only fun, but relaxed fun; this is ordained as well. I really expected it would take us some time to get to know one another, I can’t say that I’ve been uncomfortable about sexual innuendo or the relaxed attitude of others related to alcohol. Our resident psychiatrist, back in Florida, is constantly making the same kind of innuendo and none of them have any hang-ups related to the wine or even harder stuff …so I’m used to it, but I just always thought it was all for somebody else.

“I’m totally comfortable that everything we are doing together is ordained and perfect. I have a brand new wife and a brand new set of friends and I just want to say thanks to you all. I do want you to explain sometime, Walt, your remarks about judging alcohol, but right now I just want to go home and get to bed …you guys can take that any way you want; my sweetie and I will work it out perfectly. Oh yeah, Jeff, I can’t wait for those pancakes in the morning.

We got up to leave and somebody asked about the check; Walt explained that he had already worked out everything with the owner. We headed out the door and I just had that serene sense, again, that no matter what Brad and I faced and no matter what the six of us faced SPIRIT was with us and would work out each step of the way perfectly. We drove home after the quick stop at the store …each with our own thoughts; the three men sitting up front, with Walt at the wheel and we three women companionably sharing the back seat.