A Place to Call Home

Sunday April 6, 2014

I was talking to a friend once about writing my book and I said to him but how can I prove it’s true? He said well it’s your reality so it may well not be true to some people. Deep. Very deep but a darned good point! So when I write I write about my own spiritual experiences, meditations and communications. The reason I am saying that is because I don’t profess to know everything I just write about what I do know and most of that comes from Arty and Co. Anyone who can communicate with spirit knows that sometimes it flows and sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes we have to translate ‘a feeling” to get the message.

Well that’s the preamble here’s the amble! It’s about spook space and what it is and why I believe we all have one and should find it, it is a place of peace and spiritual connection and unique to each of us.  I preface this with the knowledge that anything spiritual is not about a physical place, it’s about being. We can “be” happy but we can’t go to happy. We can “be” emotional but we can’t go to emotional. That I believe is the spiritual part of us; the intangible side that we and we alone can experience; our minds, our thoughts and our feelings. So when I talk about finding our spiritual space, I’m not talking about a place at all. I am talking about a reference point for us to start learning the ways of spook! This is actually an excellent meditation exercise and can be very revealing about who we really are.

As human beings it has become apparent through the ages that we need to relate all things spiritual back to the physical. God may be an energy that we can’t actually see, but we still have to create a vision of a middle aged man in a white robe. Angels may be a slightly different energy but we create white robed beings with wings and golden halos. Once we have created our physical reference point, that is exactly what we see when we see God or angels when we are within our spiritual self. It is what we NEED to see so we know what it is – if that makes sense. It’s the same principal when we see loved ones who have passed over. They have no body and no physical appearance but they create one that is familiar to us, so we know that particular energy is them.

So, what is our spook space? When I meditate I always “go into my room”. It is a place in my mind and my spiritual heart that I found by following my inner self. I wanted somewhere to be, a state of mind, where I could “sit” with Arty and talk with P. Meditating and being out there in the ether in a dimension I don’t understand was not a place I envisaged meeting with the spirits of those I love so much.

During my meditation one day I asked my spooks to show me “my” spook space. We all have a human space and we all have a spiritual space. I knew they would have to give it some kind of reference point so I could relate in the human. We mortals have to give everything spiritual a human reference point or a label to understand and connect with it. So off I drifted into a meditation asking Arty to take me where we would meet in future. I went through a small gate, up a stone pathway guarded by lawn and through some white gloss painted French doors. Inside was a room with an alcove to the left, where Mr Trumble my gatekeeper sat! As I was floating with the vision I was quite surprised (although now it seems totally logical) to see my gatekeeper there.  Of course, he was manning the door to my spook space! There was a fireplace but the fire wasn’t lit, a white couch that was fabric, a side table and another alcove the other side of the fireplace.

So this vision was created by me? By Arty and P? Who knows but what it did was give me “somewhere to go” when I need to be with Arty and P. Sometimes I have meditated into that room and seen others on the couch and sure enough there has been a message for me or for someone else.  I remember once I went into “my room” and saw a woman who had been murdered and it was all over the news. She told me what happened and sure enough it eventually came out that what she had told me was indeed the story of her death.

I have found it is my anchor and my link to the spiritual. We all have a spiritual self and I guess this kind of delineates the two beings that are me. I didn’t create the vision I waited to see what was given to me. I don’t have a favourite style of house or décor so it wasn’t something that I “imagined.” I taught one of my students to find their space and he said it was like a late 1800’s library and he would go there and speak to his Grandfather. He would say “I saw Grandad the other day in my room.”

So many of us try and see our loved ones in the physical world, in the human world. Trust me it is far easier the other way around. This is a meditation exercise so go on the journey and see where you live in spirit! I can't help thinking it is no accident that mine has space and land around it, my beloved dogs are usually there and it is light and airy. It is no secret that I prefer to read outside in natural light or darkness. I love the space, the trees, nature and animals and this is reflected in my room. What does your room say about you?