Cosmic Postcards
    As a writer, I always love the way the Universe comes in near the end of a project and sometimes sooner. It feels as though something I can't see or touch is being playful with me. At the same time these synchronicities or meaningful coincidences enhance what is being written. This is delightful and sometimes can remove the often tedious nature of how we compose the details, not to mention the validation from something we can't put a name to.

    Here's an example from the chapter on Cosmic Postcards that's in my new book The Natural Soul:




    "Not too long ago, I was up early, around 7 am and went to my computer to check my email. I had two new messages. I skipped the first (from a researcher at the University of Texas) and opened the one from my friend, Robynne. She wrote that she read my first draft of the chapter on Soul Parenting from this book and loved it but was bothered by one sentence. As she spelled out her objection and used her 17-year-old daughter Frankie as an example, I copied the few paragraphs she wrote and pasted them into the text.

    "Next, I opened the letter from the researcher at the University of Texas. She gave me several codes for several steps to be able to access the research over the net, and my final step with my personal password that was only mine was Frankie17.

    "My heart jumped. My Soul sang. It didn't change my world. It didn't change anything. It just tugged at me in a way that little miracles do. There's no logical explanation. The odds of this happening may be a billion to one. But these little miracles only qualify as miracles because they can't be explained. There has to be something higher going on."

    My manuscript was being copy-edited as I wrote this. A few weeks ago, I got a profoundly beautiful poem from Chris Norman. He wrote me because he had read my book Final Passage: Sharing the Journey as this Life Ends. (Health Communications Inc, 1998). Chris was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) the day before his 50th birthday about six months ago. The name of his poem is What I Have Learned. I started scanning my manuscript and within moments found a place where I had written, "I have learned much from my dying patients." And then I dropped that idea and went on to something else about being with people that are dying. Had the Muse perhaps decided that I needed to back up that statement?

    Maybe, so I cut and pasted Chris Norman's poem and a little introduction explaining how his process has become a spiritual journey into the manuscript. Here a just a few lines from his writing:

      • I have learned that the most important things in life are the ones done with love.
      • I have learned that playing and laughing are some of the healthiest things we can do.
      • I have learned that we live in a world full of miracles: The love we have for our mates and friends, the birth of our children, and the sounds of laughter are all miracles.
      • I have learned that it is impossible to be grateful and not be happy.
      • I have learned that an individual who has cultivated forgiveness has a sense of peace.
      • I have learned that we have the support of the Universe, whether we acknowledge it or not.
      • I have learned that our minds are part of the mind of God. Our hearts are part of the Heart of God. We eventually return to God and our thoughts will share the thoughts of all creation and our heart will beat with the heart of God.
      • I have learned that we are God's agent with our hearts faintly echoing His song.
      • We are to make ourselves a part of that song, so those who have lost the tune may remember it again.

    All I could mutter as I reread my chapter was, "Thank you for all the other postcards that come to me in the way of little miracles." They are my Soul confidence because over and over they validate that our lives are woven…guided from something higher. This "something higher" may be a Divine Mystery, but It shows Itself in these cosmic postcards. And, even though I still have the final say on my decisions, it's so great and Soul energizing to realize that we are not alone.

This and other articles by Barbara Harris Whitfield may also be found at writersnewsweekly.com
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    About Barbara Harris Whitfield
    Barbara H. Whitfield, R.T., C.M.T., is the author of many published articles and five books:
    She is past president and a member of the board of the Kundalini Research Network and has sat on the executive board of the I.A.N.D.S. She is a consulting editor and contributor for the Journal of Near-Death Studies. She is on the faculty of The Center for Sacred Studies where she teaches a course with Charles Whitfield called Unity in Practice. Barbara was a key subject in Kenneth Ring's groundbreaking book on the Near-Death Experience, Heading Toward Omega. He writes about her again in his latest book Lessons From the Light.

    Barbara has been a guest on major television talk shows, including Larry King Live, The Today Show, Man Alive, Donahue, Unsolved Mysteries, PM Magazine, Good Morning America, Oprah, Joan Rivers, Sonya Freeman, and CNN Medical News. Her story and her research have appeared in documentaries in the US, Canada, Japan, France, Belgium and Italy and in magazines such as Redbook, McCalls, Woman's World, McClean's, Utne Reader, Common Boundary, Psychology Today and many others. She presented talks on the Near-Death Experience to a group in the Capital in Washington, D.C. and also the United Nations in New York.

    Barbara lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, author and physician Charles Whitfield, MD. They share a private practice, helping adults that were repeatedly abused and traumatized as children.
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Visit my website at www.barbarawhitfield.com

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Last Modified: 01.21.2010