The Twelfth Insight - James Redfield [67]
I began, then, to notice people walking around the house looking at the paintings and plants in a particular way. Some of them went out to the sunroom and stared at the hazy sunset through the glass. After a while, I realized they were trying to see more beauty. This made perfect sense. The group here seemed to have completed the Eighth Integration and was moving on to the Ninth.
The observation brought back the memories of the search for the Ninth Insight of the old Prophecy. Back then, the old Prophecy found in Peru had predicted that one day we would begin to see the world as immensely beautiful and even light-filled.
I was now sitting on the arm of a chair in the great room, and Coleman came in and sat on the sofa across from me, as if he had something to say.
“Some of the people in this group,” he said, “have already begun to integrate the Ninth. They’re pretty far along.”
He looked at me as though he expected I would pick up on his next statement.
I nodded. “And the Document is talking about a practical way to sustain the experience.”
“That’s right! And some of them are scientists! They think that opening to perception is built into the structure of our brains, just like the rest of the jumps in consciousness we’ve experienced. They now believe every step is archetypal and, in a sense, a higher kind of Alignment that we’re called to maintain.”
That jolted me. A group of scientists were asserting this, based on the similarity of spiritual experience for all of us! I wondered suddenly just how widespread this perception was becoming.
“That’s why,” Coleman continued, “groups are the best way to proceed now, because as one person in the group gets it, others see the new consciousness and feel it, and pretty soon everyone has fired up that part of his or her brain. This way, it all gets proven to oneself very quickly. It’s the process behind the idea of a positive contagion of consciousness.
“The Document,” he continued, “says that to see more beauty is to get closer to the consciousness that exists in Heaven. There, people know how to use the power of Agape with everyone, especially those locked in ideologies. The Document says to reach those in fear and anger we have to do what they do in the Afterlife.
“It says the Ninth Integration is an important step toward doing that. It gets us closer to a heavenly level of consciousness. This is the secret of reaching those in fear and anger. We have to be able to lift them toward this state.”
“How do we do that?” I asked.
He shrugged.
I noticed then that he had a folder with him. “You have the Document?”
“Part of it,” he said. “Want to read it?”
As I read, the Document spoke exactly to Coleman’s point. Agape, it stated, was easy to accomplish with people who loved you back. It was more difficult with those who were more ideologically opposed. The only way to reach everyone, as Coleman had mentioned, was from an elevated position of consciousness closer to the Afterlife.
Suddenly, we began hearing more noise and movement behind us. All the others were no longer just talking and working. They were moving heavy packs and foodstuff out the door toward the vehicles.
Coleman and I looked at each other, and I was about to go back to reading when the thought came to me to check the phone for texts. I found a message from Adjar. A former insider with the Apocalyptics had told him the extremists knew we were in St. Katherine. They were planning to stop us from getting to the mountain.
“I guess that’s why,” Coleman said, “the people here are hurrying so. They must have already sensed danger. I’ll go tell them what we found out.”
Wanting to think about the situation, I nodded and watched him walk off. Neither Coleman nor I had experienced a premonition