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I arrived in Lebanon on vacation just before Christmas. I had left San Francisco
with a sense of spiritual well-being and felt a high around certain friends and
family in Lebanon who were spiritually oriented, so communication on the
subjects I cared about was possible. Sharing my knowledge had a beneficial
effect on those who listened, and as a result, I felt deeply polarized in the
positive direction in that my will to help others through the sharing of wisdom
had reached a purified configuration.
But several days after my arrival, I fell sick
with the flu. I spent nearly a week in bed without feeling better, and it
dawned on me that I was following an archetypal track of experience as opposed
to a purely personal one. New Year’s Eve arrived, and somewhat driven by my
frustration over my condition, I decided to forget my sickness and go out
drinking without care or worry.
To my surprise, the next morning I felt
completely healed and remained that way. The coincidence that it happened
during the start of the New Year suggested a foretelling of the year’s events,
that because I had been ill, it would be filled with experiential catalyst of a
physical nature. The idea opened into a series of clear and prominent visions
that unfolded through the rest of the day. My sickness had prepared me mentally
for the visions and functioned as a form of synchronistic conditioning.
On New Year’s Day, I walked through the streets
of Beirut with a friend of mine. The idea that the year was to bring much
physical catalyst translated into the notion that 2006 was the Year of the Red because
the color red represented the physical domain to me. I was telling my friend
about my thoughts, and just then, we saw a bright red car coming toward us. We
looked at each other and said, “Ha ha! Synchronicity!” But it wasn’t until the car passed us that
we saw “2006” written on the driver’s door in big, black letters.
This confirmation energized me and facilitated many more visions to unfold about what the year would bring. They warned of
danger but reiterated in a positive fashion that there were lessons to be
learned on a collective level that were foundational in nature. In the summer
of that year, a war broke out between Israel and Hezbollah, highlighting the
precarious nature of the political ground underlying the region.
In recounting this story, I am not trying to wave
my hands and claim I have the ability to predict the future, but to show how
paying attention to the archetypal patterns in activation leads to a deeper
understanding of contemporary events and possibly a foretelling of the future.
By intending to aid the collective (or by simply focusing on the plight of the
collective), one’s own existential matrix can be warped in a manner that is
close to the warpage experienced by the collective by
falling under the influence of the same archetypes.
With respect to precognition, experiencing equivalent archetypal
patterns on the personal level influences the personal matrix at a rate that
varies from that of the collective. If and when the set of activated archetypes
sends one down a track of personal experience at a speed that exceeds what a
large group of people experiences, one can catch a glimpse of the future to
come.
Copyright ã 2012 by Makram Abu-Shakra
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