The Twelfth Insight - James Redfield [44]
As I watched Rachel, some of our experiences on the mountain forced their way back into my consciousness, at least intellectually. I knew I’d experienced what could only be called a Divine Connection, and real Protection, along with a deep interaction with Rachel and the others. But I knew, as well, that much more had occurred that I couldn’t recall.
I remembered Wil saying it was a glimpse into what could be, one that we would have to work to regain. I still didn’t know what that meant. After a moment, I let go of all the thoughts, suddenly feeling vulnerable, and began to consider leaving. My logic told me enough was enough. A group of extremists had just tried to kill us, and even though we had escaped, why tempt fate any longer?
Suddenly, Rachel slid her cushion closer to me and said, “All that occurred back there was important.”
“Really,” I replied, not sure I wanted to hear it.
She gave me an upbeat look. “The Document says that the opening to the God Connection happens much more frequently than most people think. It’s also structured into the nature of the Universe and into how our minds work.”
Her smile was beguiling, so I flowed with her train of thought and considered the work of Jung again, wishing Coleman were here. The Swiss psychiatrist, I knew, had discovered more than the phenomenon of Synchronicity. He was also famous for his notion that our brains and minds were structured by archetypes.
He thought humans, for instance, were able to learn to walk without thinking about every individual muscle involved because the pattern of muscle coordination necessary for this activity was already built into the structure of our brains—contained in what he called preestablished archetypal pathways that were genetically passed down.
To walk, we had only to see others walking and try it ourselves, which fired up the pattern of neural pathways that help us learn the activity quickly. Because these pathways are basically the same in everyone’s brain, learning to walk feels exactly the same to all human beings.
Jung argued that spiritual development was structured in the same manner, in a latent pathway that was waiting for us to fire it up. And again, this experience feels identical for all of us.
“So much happened yesterday,” I said finally. “It’s hard to get a handle on it. And I can’t seem to get back that feeling we had on the mountain.”
She looked at me with excitement. “Yes, but the Fifth Integration says we don’t have to remember it. We just have to keep on integrating the remaining steps and we’ll rise back into it—you know, the Rise to Influence the Document talks about. The only part of the experience that we can keep now, as part of the Fifth Integration, is the sense of love and protection.”
“That’s what Wil said,” I remarked, nodding for her to tell me more.
“The Fifth Integration is completing what the Fourth set up,” she continued. “If we intend to hold the truth and stay in alignment in the face of the most dangerous ideological untruth, something opens in our brains to honor that. We know we can’t face this kind of danger by ourselves merely with our own strength of ego. No one can. Yet that recognition fires up a pathway that’s already there, and we experience a Breakthrough—one that gives us a Divine Connection, and the premonitions and Synchronicity necessary to be protected.”
I nodded. The feeling of Protection was coming back to me. Until now, horrible things happened to people at random because we didn’t have the consciousness necessary to hear the warnings that could steer us clear of such danger.
If the Document was correct, Protection seemed to be a natural part of our innate spiritual ability, growing, I supposed, out of the Law of Connection. With this thought, an image came to me of the future. Would humanity someday be so aware of our premonitions that we would all know, for instance, to leave a city for higher ground just before a tsunami or earthquake arrived, just as the animals do?
Rachel was staring at me.
“Next for us,” she said, “is to begin to systematically recapture