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Wanted —Reformers
    Not of others
    but of themselves,
    Who have won
    Not university distinctions,
    But victory over the local self.

Age —The youth of Divine joy.

Salary —Godhead.

Apply Sharp—With no begging solicitation but commanding decision to the Director of the Universe, Your own Self.

- Swami Rama Tirtha

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The other day, just before noon, I went outside barefoot. It was sunny and beautiful, the air was completely still. I walked on the grass and made my way down the path toward the woods and brook just beyond the hill. That was when I noticed something quite interesting: About thirty feet ahead of me were six or seven butterflies (an estimate). They were flying around each other, dancing and playing in the air, some of them landing momentarily, then taking off and flying around while the others rested. It looked like they were playing a game of tag, all generally moving in the same direction.

I thought something like “wow, this is really amazing and beautiful to watch,” then shortly after that, realized that they were in fact not butterflies but actually dried up leaves which were caught in some sporadic, isolated, vortex wind current, which caused them to move in an orderly, graceful fashion – a collectively intelligent, life-like manner.  This, along with the shape, size and color of the leaves, it all added up to a perfect visual deception. Nonetheless it was still amazing and beautiful, perhaps even more so!

I watched as they moved together and crossed the path in front of me. They went down the small hill a few feet beyond, and into the woods, until the last leaf vanished behind some trees!

Never have I seen anything quite like it.

The best synchronicity I have experienced came as a series of interconnected events. Without going into prior details: It was during a meditation sitting with a spiritual master of Surat Shabd Yoga (inner light and sound meditation) from India, who was up the road from where I live. At the time I did not have initiation into the practice, but gained tremendously from the positive energy and just enjoyed sitting quietly in good company. Being inexperienced with meditation, my mind wandered, and my imagination brought me to a very strong image of a wolf, with bright, clear, blue eyes. It was just my mind, but still, a clear, powerful image, yet, generally insignificant at the time.

Around then I was looking for some work and my mother had a friend who needed some painting done on her house in the next town over. I went there to paint, and to my surprise that woman had a husky dog with bright, clear, blue eyes.

That was interesting, but still, I was skeptical that it had any great significance. Around that time I was also getting into digital art, composing images on the computer using my paintings, drawings, and photographs. One day I had an image printed at a Kinko’s, and the girl who was working there commented on the image saying “This would be really nice if it had a wolf in it!” I was completely shocked. What was going on!?

Well, some time had passed, and that same Guru from India was back in the US, down in Massachusetts for another retreat. Of course it was nice. My mother, brother and I stayed over night in a hotel room, I slept on the floor. I had a very vivid dream. (Here I must mention that not too long before all of this, my brother Idris committed suicide, which happened to be on my 21st birthday, he was 31). Well, in that dream I was in a building that had stairs leading up, and windows. I looked outside and saw soccer fields, and people playing. I kept walking up the stairs and eventually got to the top. There was a closed door. I somehow knew, or it was conveyed to me in some way, that if I were to open that door, I would know the secrets of my brothers suicide, and MUCH, MUCH more; secrets of the universe (Pandora’s box?). But if I chose that, some great shift would occur as a result (perhaps I’d leave my body), so instead I decided to figure it all out on my own in a more subtle, successive way. At some point during that dream these words were revealed (?) “Idris is with the wolves.” This was once again a confusing thing, because as far as I knew Idris did not have any particularly strong connection to wolves.. Anyway, when I awoke from that dream, I looked over and there was someone sitting on the floor in a state of deep meditation, so much so it was difficult to recognize who it was. It was my mother.  She is an art teacher for younger kids and not long after this,  she was working on a project and made what you see below. She needed my help scanning it into the computer.

Well…. Jumping forward a bit, I was at a book store and decided that it was important to find some books about wolves. I began reading through one, and the part that really stood out to me was about wolves unique communication, totally interesting stuff. That was it, COMMUNICATION was the key! Shortly after that I resumed taking classes at a local community technical college, and decided to take an honors communication class that semester. To my surprise the entire class was oriented around mindful meditation, and our individual Myers Briggs personality types. It was such a good class and teacher especially; very transformative and certainly led to many other things. The class was in a building, in a room upstairs with soccer fields close by. And the story gets more interesting.

To be continued…

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