Comments on: ‘Into His Countenance’

By: Phillip Wilcher

Phillip Wilcher — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:04:25 +0000

Dear Wendy: More than the Blake quote above, do I love the T. S Eliot. I’ll keep Alex in my thoughts and prayers. Love to you!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:54:39 +0000

Wonderful perspective Phillip. I do hope Alex reads your reply and draws strength for whatever it is that is troubling him – I can sense that this person is being drawn towards a turning point in his life and how amazing that he found his way to this particular article? incredible, and I hope he returns and shares a little more how his experience has brought him here and where he is going.
I too feel the forces which drive us through this life are immortal and carry us into another ‘dimension’ of being, I am fascinated to know if awareness is part of it in a form unknown to us here in this life. I think it has to be!

By: Phillip Wilcher

Phillip Wilcher — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:12:56 +0000

Love to you too Wendy. Perhaps every stage of whatever life we are is an “awareness”. I love that thought of being aware. Trust me though, I still have my frail days but in that frailty there is a strength to be found like in the subtle turns of phrase in a Chopin mazurka. I suppose we each have our own belief systems and that a feeling can only be truly measured by the belief in which it is held. My personal belief is that there can be no ceasing to be. My creativity has strengthened that notion because my creativity reacquaints me with the child I was once was. That child is still here. I think our respective stages of evolution are different. I certainly do believe there is some greater force or energy at work in the world and when our days are done and it comes our time to leave, we simply become a part of that energy. We go to the place from where all ideas come. Perhaps even we become the idea for another person’s creative endeavour. Way leads on to way…….it is what led Alex here and it is what will lead him further. Perhaps even the only answer is that there is no real answer.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:58:54 +0000

So glad I caught your reply in good time Phillip – thanks. I can certainly see where you get your strength from
If only you could bottle it and sell it eh…?
I wonder what the next stage of evolution actually is – I call this earthly one the ‘awareness’ stage. Maybe in the next stage we gain a sensory perception that is beyond our comprehension in this life…?
Something to look forward to anyway
Love to you as always and take care.

By: Phillip Wilcher

Phillip Wilcher — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:44:53 +0000

Dear Alex : I have come to believe that our destiny finds us. Perhaps it is that your destiny has brought you here. I don’t personally believe we are sent anything we can’t deal with. My mother’s life taught me that. Any one of her illnesses would have been enough. If I could have taken her every illness into my own body just to give her but one day of freedom from it I would have. She once asked me : “Why me?” and the only answer I could give her that made any sense of it all was that she chose the life she was to live for herself before coming into it as a part of her own evolution as a spirit. I know that sounds almost harsh and even overly philosophical but some time later I read the book “Conversations With God” and it hinted at much the same thing. It explains that feeling of deja vu we all sometimes experience as us in part remembering the blue print of the life we mapped for ourselves to live before we came into this world to live it. I found great comfort in that thought. In 1997 I suffered a shattering break down. It took me almost two years to find my centre again. The strength I had to muster to overcome its challenge ( I viewed it as a challenge) took such a measure from me as to almost cause another breakdown. Faith saw me through. The faith that “this too shall pass”. Years later I was assaulted by three youths to within 30 seconds of my life. I was beaten about my head with a plank of wood which had rusty nails in it and I suffered an arterial bleed along with a dislocated shoulder and other injuries. It took me three months and the music of Bach to heal my physical wounds. I would not let what those youths did to me – and they knew not what they were doing because they were high on drugs – touch my spirit. On waking in hospital my greater concern was for the three youths and for them to know that I had survived and that I forgave them. My forgiveness was on waking. There was no question about it. For myself, the feeling with each adversity I have suffered in my life and through being by my quietly courageous mother’s side through everything she suffered, is that we come full circle. I have learned not to be afraid. To answer your question from my own perspective I would say you do neither. You don’t open the palm of your hand to dare to look into the future and infinity nor do you keep it closed and try to protect yourself from moment to moment. You simply live your life moment to moment, you live IN the moment. I have an inkling when we leave this time we call Life for whatever the next stage of our evolution as a Spirit will be, that greater force we all come to place our Faith in will be there to smile and simply say : “You see, it wasn’t all that bad!” If you live a life without hardship and heartache, you live an unbeautiful life. Nature alone teaches us this. I don’t know if any of this helps but blessings ever to you Alex!