To Be Aware of Intelligence

As a child begins to think, certain observations stand alone. I recall making a commitment as a 6-year old: I would never treat a child the way adults did me. That is, instead of telling a child what to do or to shuffle them off to be seen but not heard, I’d engage with them in a peaceful, compassionate comprehension of the sensitivity and brilliance I know is within all.

Somewhere around the age of 45 I met a woman through my work. We became friends quickly, and a few months later she called to reveal that she met, in meditation, a spiritual master whom she would channel. She invited me to her house along with several other close friends for an intimate interaction. That evening she stepped aside and allowed this master to speak through her for the first time.

As this unfolded, I perceived a great wisdom being spoken, beyond that from what I knew as my friend. At one point I ventured to ask a question, as I thought of something I wanted to know, but only by someone as wise and percipient as this one clearly seemed to be.

“I’m now a single dad, not something I planned, and I hope I’m doing an adequate job raising my son.”

I asked the question with a kind of faith. It was an assumption based on the evening’s presentation that this master had access to all information and could help me understand. Through my friend’s large blue eyes, now reflecting a deeper peace and calm within, the answer rang out of an ocean all knowledge: “You are the Father you promised yourself you’d be when you were a child.”

I’d never told a soul about this childhood vow. No one. Never uttered a word about it in my life, yet here, now, this master in spirit knew it in no uncertain terms.

All I could do was peer back into those eyes riveted in wonder. I knew then what I’d learned as a child in the Catholic schools; it was confirmed in that moment: There is an omniscient, omnipresent Intelligence, and it’s at play in each moment of life. There is no separation from it, but that thought builds into a belief it is far away, only to be realized some far off day.

That day is here, now. As this master once said, “You have nothing to gain, only to realize.” ∆