Jan 21
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TWENTY
Dinner was a huge success. The owner happened to be there and took us personally to our table on the deck overlooking the little inlet (and yes, later we did see a huge manta ray, very gentle and no stinger the owner had assured us earlier) and Walt graciously did the introductions.
The owner insisted upon bringing out the chef who told us about the fresh catch of ahi (a Hawaiian word for yellow-fin tuna) which to my surprise tasted more like steak than fish …he told us how it should be prepared “sst on one side and flip it over and sst on the other …must be very rare, or please …order something else” …we ended up with a specially prepared feast, over which the chef personally presided. Walt told us he was from the small kingdom of Monaco, of Princess Grace Kelly fame, and had been head chef of two of the most famous hotels there.
More than anything else, however, what compelled us was the continuation of the conversation that had been started shortly after we sat down to share the wine earlier. I had asked Brad if he had ever heard Jack Adams talk about Chaos Theory or the Uncertainty Principle he said that Jack and Colin had quite a theory about both.
“As you probably remember in the first novel,” he told everyone around the table, “Colin has an almost encyclopedic knowledge about a variety of scientific topics.”
“May I interrupt for a second, Brad?” Jeff asked. What about that stuff that Colin talked about related to thought travel; and did Vic Schneider really have that teleporting experience of going to that place out in St. Louis?”
“Oh yes, it was just in the Baltimore area and of course the names of the people were all changed …I didn’t remember their real names anyway. I’m glad you interrupted because that reminds me of how Jack Adams explained it from a scientific view …he has a real knack for explaining some 4th dimensional stuff in layman’s terms …Elizabeth Patrick, Emannuel’s wife, for all her faith and rather extraordinary spiritual experiences, sometimes she can be a bit disbelieving …Vic’s experience, of course, predated their arrival on the scene, and she was very skeptical and one evening, during our time of sharing, expressed that she had a hard time believing it. Jack came up with an amazing explanation that made it quite simple.
Jack asked her if she believed in faxes and fax machines; he did it in a way that she wasn’t offended. When he asked if she understood the principle of how a fax works? She, of course, had to admit that she did not.
“Well none of us do either, but we’ve all used them,” Jack had explained to her, “We have two fax machines here in the house. Now then, all of us know and believe in teleporting both ‘in the body and out of the body,’ because to one degree or another we’ve all experienced the phenomena. When you feed a document into a fax machine, a copy of that document is teleported to another fax machine across the world if that’s where it was sent. It’s the same thing, Elizabeth, nothing to fear or resist believing …if you want to do it you can and will.”
Jan had sat there at the table in our bungalow and put her hand over her mouth in amazement, and then she had said something to the effect that she had always wondered about it, but had never talked about it even with Walt.
About that time, enter SPIRIT through Walt. His patented holding his hand aloft to signal he was getting something:
“You soon will all be fluent in the theories of Chaos and Uncertainty; just as you all speak in languages you haven’t learned by way of any natural means, you will know Chaos and Uncertainty and shall begin sharing with many people around the world that they need to stop trying to understand things by having their minds educated by teachers of science, because teachers of science are years away from true understanding. You will demonstrate my presence with signs and wonders never before seen. You will be criticized by the religious, yes those who profess to know Jesus, but know him not – you will know that you need not be concerned even though you are called by these: ‘The foretaste of the ‘Anti-Christ.’ Just as they know nothing about the predictions I AM has given, but think they know and understand; you will teach millions about Chaos and Uncertainty as I AM teaches these things to you and you will realize that you cannot predict with certainty and neither can they.
“Be prepared for these things sooner than you know and do so by being focused upon ME. As to your ritual with the wine; yes it is a good thing to celebrate the victory which your elder brother won on your behalf, the wine being a symbol of his blood; not because of MY demands, but because of the demands of humans for a sacrifice. You will leave this table now, released to be in physical togetherness to symbolize the divine marriage with I AM. You will be best served not to worship the act …nor be in guilt from it, you are free and you are loved; express it.”
Walt shook his head back and forth in amazement, “What a day, just one of the things that amazes me are those wonderful words SPIRIT just spoke through me. As you know I am a bit tipsy, I have never had that much wine before (which was still much less than the rest of us had consumed) and I am supposed to confess that one of the things that I have been healed of today is some judgments about alcohol. I still won’t drink all that much and I will still be the designated driver tonight, but I never would have believed that such words could have come through someone who had had too much to drink.”
“Come darling,” Jan grabbed him by the elbow; “we must be obedient to the love part of that prophecy.”
Walt went obediently, bending his head way back with a giggle and his free hand flipped back in a silly wave, “Toodle-loo, I’m being led away against my will as you are my witnesses.”
…and with that our “first communion” was concluded.
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As Brad and I lay there in an “afterglow,” our thoughts went to what was to come next. He made an interesting comment that was to prove to be true. “It is coming to me that we may be doing some of that research travel that Sid apparently is willing to pay for …maybe it won’t be very expensive because I’m also getting a sense that we will tap into whatever magic carpet SPIRIT has provided and share chaos and uncertainty. Lady Love, it looks like we’ve got a lot to write and it will take revelation rather than trying to learn and understand – hmmm, maybe both, eh?”
I told him that word “both” had come to me at the time he said it. “My-oh-my, lover, we’re in for a time of new paradigms and learning. Are you excited?”
“Excited, yet with a total peace and appreciation of the place SPIRIT has brought us in togetherness.”
We sealed that thought with a tender kiss and caress.
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Jan 21
11
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NINETEEN
We agreed that our “communion” shouldn’t be any more elaborate than what been started several years ago at what had, then, been just Brad’s place, a little south of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, which Brad had also used as a model in that first novel Leapfrog.
“We started that,” Brad explained, “shortly after Bob and Colin moved in with me. Bob had sold his tour bus business down in St. Augustine and Colin had sold his shop out of which he operated a kind of general mechanical repair business for large generators, and air conditioning equipment and had been pretty much in demand to do consulting and repair stuff for the resorts and larger homes in the area.
“We had all been married, but were now single. I met Bob first and he introduced me to Colin. We shared roughly the same religious beliefs, although Bob had a Baptist background from which he had escaped; Colin was still a practicing Catholic; and I had been a business consultant during which I sort of drifted into being a self-supporting missionary and wound up being ordained as a pastor and for a time and was even the co-pastor of a Pentecostal church.
“The three of us were equally disaffected from any part of organized Christianity. How we became close friends is that Colin had chronic back and feet problems and was completely healed and thought I was some kind of a saint as a result; it took me several weeks to convince him otherwise. Bob had been healed of asthma and afterwards was just plain interested in whatever I had to say, until he realized also that I was no saint and he could do the very same things if he followed Jesus’ instructions …and did.
“When I told them I was thinking of selling my house on the beach, one thing led to another; they both were fairly well off and I don’t even remember how we made the decision to pool our funds and live in that house instead of my selling it, but we just gravitated to it; Bob, who’d been a CPA prior to becoming a partner with a client in the tour business and then buying him out; took over the management of our money and my business; while I maintained some of my clients who were now located literally all over the world and which kept us supplied with an income stream; and Colin took over the maintenance of the property.
“We started hiring people to work at the place who worked either under Bob’s or Colin’s supervision depending on their individual roles; and we were always inviting people to come to visit and the stuff that was in the first novel all began developing, slowly but surely, into a healing center of sorts and, well you’ve all read about that and grew into the ‘group of twelve plus one’ and now thirteen,” he said this as he reached his arm around my shoulders and kissed me warmly on the cheek, and I leaned into him in total response.
“Spirit just led us a step at a time, Brad continued, “just as you guys started as three, with Jeff, Rob and my love, here,” he squeezed me and I wanted him so badly right then, I almost burst; “then grew quickly to the group of five with the addition of Walt and Jan and now we are the group of six with the addition of yours truly.
“Here’s what I’m sensing; and you guys, please, tune in and give me confirmation or correction, as you already know and we agree, we have ONE Leader and Teacher, period. You already know the crazy ritual we got into there on the beach in Florida. Let’s not start a ritual, but let’s go in our place and dig out the jug and whatever we decide to eat and, as Walt said, ‘let’s meet with Jesus’ and see what’s next.”
“Please tell us that we don’t have to sing hymns or anything,” Rob said drily.
Jan added: “You just did the invocation, Rob …and Brad went over the announcements; Walt already told you we’re going to spend my grocery money on dinner so we don’t need to take an offering …let’s go do whatever and see if we get the go-ahead to take a nap and also do …you know, ‘whatever.’”
We had a great laugh and then a great time “meeting with Jesus,” during which there were two interesting surprises: One was that Walt drank a little too much Chianti, which loosened him in considerable enough fashion to display humor, over which Jan exclaimed, in between bursts of laughter, that she had never witnessed before in all of their years together. We were to see this side of him many times in the future. She told him that he had not only been healed of eyesight problems, but “over-soberness.” She then added, quite suggestively, that she anticipated other signs of new vigor and vitality. This brought us, as a group, to that same therapeutic, but convulsive laughter that Brad and I had experienced on our first night together.
The second surprise was the introduction from SPIRIT to an understanding that none of us had ever even dreamed before. It would command our attention for almost three hours during our dinner later that evening.
First, however, came the nap for which we agreed to allow two hours and we all went to our separate quarters – and as Jeff later quipped, “Well, Brad, I knew you were going to be a welcome addition, but from the look of satisfaction on everyone’s face I had no idea just how welcome!”
Jan added, “Yeah, man, what a beginning! You created a good humor man with vitality,” and more laughter.
I thought, “It can’t always be this much fun can it?” …and received a stern, but gentle and loving reminder what our Friend already had taught me about being careful how I worded questions even in my thoughts …the lesson ending with, “Bring every thought captive, Jeanne.”
To which I voiced a loud and heartfelt, enthusiastic, “Thank you” and “yes!”
Rob, said, “wow, you too, eh Jeanne?” …which created another swell of laughter.
I didn’t bother to explain, after all, that was true as well.
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Jan 21
5
In The Beginning (28)
EIGHTEEN
“So, what’s your question, hon?” Jan asked her husband; when all of us had finished reading.
“Well, Brad, the first time I read this was a couple of years ago when you offered one of your books free as an aid to healing on the website and the original of this article was inserted into it …I think the title of the book was “Living Excited” or something like that. Recently you posted this new version on your website and after I read it I thought I might write you to talk about these,” at that he took off his glasses and held them between his thumb and forefinger by one side of the nose grip.
“So this morning I felt like I was supposed to read it again and I asked and heard the words, ‘it is time,’ and I felt like Spirit meant that I should get this thing of my eyesight out on the table with all of you …I know we’re moving into something big, way beyond my current ability to see or believe, yet I know it is coming, without being able to believe it or see it. I want to be able to share the miracle of a healing of my eyesight as the confidence that I’ve seen in you, Brad, what can you tell me about these eyes that seem to be on a level with yours before whatever happened to you?”
Spirit told me to answer him. “Walt, I know you directed your question to Brad, but I was just instructed to answer.” I looked over at Brad, and he just nodded knowingly. “What I’ve just been instructed to say is that you already have perfect eyesight and what our SPIRIT-PARENT and Close Friend said to you this morning, that is, ‘it is time,’ is your sign to reach out and receive the gift that has been waiting for you since the first time you believed it was possible …I’m seeing that was when you were about ten or eleven, is that about right?”
Brad interrupted, “How do you go about getting clarity for things you know, Walt, things that you are not yet able to believe or see, as you put it a few moments ago?”
“I go off by myself just as I did this morning, I walked down to the beach and a couple hundred yards to the right of our home there is this very private little place that has an old rusty metal chair …I sat there and tapped on my knees with the palms of my hands, just like this;” Walt demonstrated.
“It took me a half hour and I finally just knew that I was to go back to the house and print the copies of your articles. I knew it was okay to ask when we got together, thankfully, when I asked all of you if you had any objections. My wife and Jeff were given the word ‘protocol’ and we had a truly divine interruption of the presence and power of SPIRIT like something I’ve never seen before …I’m sorry, I’m rambling what is next?”
“Well, I never would have thought this would have come to me to do,” Jan spoke somberly, “but I’m supposed to give you the words that you will be speaking to hundreds of individuals all over the world, Walt, one person at a time …looks like we’re going to be doing some traveling with these folks. Say these words and you will see perfectly, without your glasses, ‘I can see.”
“I can see,” Walt intoned almost in a flat monotone. Then he literally jumped to his feet and almost danced as he said, “Oh my word, I really can! I can see, I can see, I can see! Oh, my darling wife I am so grateful that these words came through you. What a beautiful group of wonderful people you are, we are; I see clearer than I’ve ever seen in my entire life.”
“Well now, I’ve just been given the green light to say something,” Brad began, “this is leapfrog all over again. Here you were, Walt, directing a question to me and I’m sitting over here smugly knowing that I was going to be the vessel through whom your perfect sight would be given, then my darling wife …wow, I’ll have more to say about that in just a second,” grabbing my wrist affectionately, “was given the insight to speak SPIRIT’S words to you that your eyesight has been waiting for you since you were ten or eleven and some memory clicked in you and then Jan was given the words not just for you, but for hundreds of other people who similarly have been prepared for years.
“My hesitation a moment ago was when I mimicked Walt saying, ‘my darling wife,’ I had a twinge because it isn’t technically true in the worldly sense of a legal marriage. Spirit gave somebody a word years ago, that I thought was stunning at the time and I’d forgotten all about it until just now.
“Spirit assures me that it is to be applied to Jeanne and me …many people apply some words that came through the mouth of Jesus as meaning a prohibition against divorce …and the word was related to a couple who had been together for many years and some church folks were urging them to get married by a preacher and make it ‘legal.’ The preacher received the word that what God has joined together, let man not put asunder …and that if he married them so that their union would be recognized by the State of Alabama, that he would be putting their union, which God had brought about, asunder the laws of man and that it would be totally inappropriate.
“The six of us are to have a celebration sometime this weekend to commemorate our SPIRIT-PARENT’s joining together of Jeanne and me.”
“Yes!” I almost screamed the word in joy as Spirit gave it to me. The other four nodded their agreement.
The same purple and gold flame reappeared that was just above Walt’s head when Spirit came upon him for the words he was given that first night for the five of us. It was about the wall that was constructed by every religion; these “walls” were keeping the adherents of each of those religions from entering the garden of LIFE where they could reunite with SOURCE:
“All these things I have given you this day, the two of you will be able to write and share as part of the Leapfrog message, for which I have ordained you; yes I AM about to open doors nobody has been able to walk through before. You are all to remember the word ‘cells’ that you are receiving from I AM.
“This is amazing,” Walt said to everyone, “I wasn’t given those words as a thought and given permission to speak them, which happens to me quite often; those were the words of our SPIRIT-PARENT flowing right through me. Did any of you detect a difference of any kind?”
“These are the signs of your unity and oneness of and with I AM. You have experienced MY presence and power and now you are living stones of a singular tabernacle that I AM has constructed. You need no other preparation; you ARE THE I AM presence working and going where I lead you to work and go; pointing directly to I AM as the only SOURCE.
“I AM available to all who come as Walt came to me this morning – and you may break your fast and enjoy your time together. I will lead in this as well.”
Jeff stopped …looking stunned, but comfortable at the same time, the seeming dichotomy that each of us were beginning to experience repeatedly. “Well, Walt, I see what you mean now …that just flowed through me without any conscious thought whatever.”
“I’m wondering if the thought I just had would work for us,” Brad said, barely above a whisper, “We do something back in Florida, each evening before we meet for a time of wild happenings, not unlike what have taken place here just now… always different. It is somewhat of a ritual, but it seems to be honored by SPIRIT and has continued to bring the twelve of us closer together…”
“This is amazing, I interrupted, I’m supposed to share this with you and I feel no embarrassment whatever, we are so close. Anyway I know exactly what Brad is about to introduce and I was just nudged to interrupt, if that’s okay with you, my love” …he waved his right hand low and out to the other four in a silent gesture of agreement.
I shared the story of our immediate attraction and the freedom in it that started when Brad’s flight arrived and we began to understand that we were meant to be together; then how we both got an overdose of sun and decided to run up to Captain Cook to get some munchies and some sunburn ointment.
“Both of us have been not only celibate for over twenty years, but we both have not had any physical contact in any romantic way for all that time. Therefore we’d had felt some inhibitions which we kind of nervously, and laughing at ourselves talked our way through. Brad, suggested we get this four liter jug of the cheapest Chianti you can imagine that is the same brand of wine they use for a ‘communion’ of sorts back at their …oops, our home base a little ways south of Jacksonville on the beach.
“Well, between applying the sunburn lotion to each other’s burned places and drinking enough of the communal stuff, we were able to get past whatever inhibitions were keeping us from getting it on” …I said this with a giggle, that got everyone laughing. “Brad and I both relived the moment, from just holding hands as I spoke.
“Anyway,” I continued, I have never participated in the communion that he wrote about in the first novel, but I would like to break our oh so brief fast by breaking out the jug and some cheddar with saltine crackers and see where it goes. You guys, up for it?”
This time Roberta said something that brought us to an awareness level about some differences that we carried around in our minds which really doesn’t matter even though some people have a hard time letting them go. She spoke eloquently that she was seeing clearly that THE I AM presence was to be introduced to small groups that represented the word “cells” that had come through Walt earlier.
“This ritual,” Rob continued, “that you mention in the first Leapfrog novel was very meaningful to me and helped me truly see Jesus as my elder brother and one of the passages in the New Testament you refer to every now and then, Brad, has the same kind of effect on me. ‘Jesus Christ …who is the same yesterday, today and forever!’ All the religious stuff about Jesus and the arguments about who he is and was are dissolved for me with that passage and along with the ‘communion’ ritual you guys go through of celebrating his presence in the NOW …well, what I guess I’m saying that I would enjoy sharing his presence; I’m seeing some of us being in India with a cell of people who refer to Jesus as an ‘ascended master’ or being with some Middle East country with those who are more comfortable with Jesus being a great prophet. To me he is all those things and the same yesterday, today and forever, for me, removes the need to differentiate.
Rob continued, beginning with her patented and marvelous giggle, “Besides I’d like to see if that stuff can produce the same result in Jeff and maybe I can start glowing like Jeanne, you guys think that’s a good idea?”
“My midget Sister,” I tried to say sternly, “you are outrageous …and wonderful,” I added lovingly …after what I hoped was a dramatic enough pause. “Are we all in accord?”
Walt said, “With these private quarters you’ve been able to provide and this nice setting here by the pool, sounds like everything has been prepared perfectly. I’m ready to relax for the next two days …and I just bet SPIRIT will bring things to our minds to share with each other; bring on the wine, cheese and crackers is my vote. Let’s meet with Jesus.
“If one of us can keep properly alert,” Walt continued, “as the designated driver, I know a fabulous restaurant down on Alii Drive; it’s right on the water and I would love to buy everyone dinner with Jan’s grocery money – it’s open ‘til around midnight and they have a lighted area underwater that attracts the giant manta rays as well as all kinds of other tropical fish, some of which you won’t see anywhere else in the world and we can see right from our table. Let’s call for reservations. I know the owner and he’ll fix us up with a great table.”
We opted for communion and then a nap and would let Walt do the honors of making dinner reservations for later and since he drank almost nothing anyway; as Jan put it, “let’s leave the driving to Walt!”
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