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The Oscar for Life
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Chapter 1 The Journey Begins “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The journey to that statue by the side of the road in Thailand had been a long and difficult one. Two years previously, Ethan’s life had been transformed during a trip to Spain. One night, in the family’s new villa in Southern Europe, Ethan lay in bed, wide awake. It was his family’s first night in the holiday house of their dreams and he should have felt euphoric but, instead, he was unsettled, miserable and close to tears.
He looked around again for the source of the answer but there was no one there. Was he talking to himself? Was he losing his mind?
“I can’t be walking around the town at this hour in the morning,” Ethan replied. “What will Natalie think? What will her parents think? If I get up, I’ll probably wake the kids.”
Tears welled up in Ethan’s eyes as he felt the power of the universe flowing through him. The connection he was experiencing was to everything around him. He felt as if the trees and the birds spoke to him. He drew closer to the sea. He could hear the waves softly crashing against the rocks on the beach, their watery reach caressing each stone as the wind ushered them gently towards the shore. The moon’s reflection rippled on the surface of the water, its white shadow waving majestically on the surface of the sea, wrapping itself around the twisting of the gentle waves, which ebbed to and fro. Although the night air was warm, the breeze from the sea was refreshing; it hung in the air, and was like the breath of a kiss touching your lips before the kiss itself.
He thought of a quote by the internationally renowned author, Dr Wayne Dyer: “Prayer is when you talk to God; inspiration is when God talks to you.”
The same power that he had used to focus his mind on achieving all those goals was beginning to communicate with him. He was having a conversation with his inner voice, the ‘I’.
“Who are you?”
“Am I imagining this?”
“What do you mean? Who are you?”
“I can’t do that: I can’t walk away from €250,000 a year income.”
In that moment, Ethan made the decision to trust his inner voice. On his return to Ireland, he exchanged his job for an entirely new path in life. Gone was the annual financial package worth €250,000, replaced by an expectation that he would receive wondrous new gifts and, most importantly, fulfilment in life.
“What do you want me to do?” Ethan asked.
Ethan was dumbfounded but the voice came back with a vengeance. It told him that he shouldn’t have been surprised, because he had asked and any time he asked a question he always got the answer.
Chapter 2 Levels of Consciousness “Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As Ethan meditated, he began to relax very deeply. He stopped thinking and felt the fog beginning to lift from his mind. He could see clearly and feel deeply. When Ethan relaxed this deeply he always came upon his real deep, inner self. He found it hard to describe what happened as he meditated so deeply but he sensed a powerful force behind the feeling. The sense was of an inner knowingness that there was something keeping him alive, something which brought him into the world.
Suddenly, his voice was back, speaking to him. He had reached a bus station and now sat down on a chair and listened to his inner voice.
A film came to Ethan’s mind, ‘Bruce Almighty’ starring Jim Carey. In the movie, Carey’s character, Bruce, becomes God for a short while. During that period, he can hear all the voices of his people, and listens to everyone’s prayers.
Ethan thought about how much more aware he was becoming and how he was experiencing different levels of consciousness. Again the voice spoke to him.
The comment reminded Ethan of how he’d felt so lost in Bangkok and realised that, when he reached Hin Hua, he had reached a new level of consciousness.
As he talked with his voice, Ethan became more conscious of being in this life and living in this life.
Ethan thought about what the voice had told him and recognised its truth. On this island of Koh Samui, he saw how the commercial side of life co-existed with this deeper sense of self. The wealth and abundance on this island was pure bliss. When you looked into the crystal-clear waters that surrounded the island, you could see straight to the seabed. Ethan realised that, when he looked deep into these waters, he was looking into himself with more clarity than ever before. His time in Bangkok had been very different. There the water of the river which dissected the great city was dirty and polluted. It seemed to reflect the dirt and clutter of his mind so much that he couldn’t see who he really was.
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