The Twelfth Insight - James Redfield [82]
“Just do what we do, and raise your Influence,” she seemed to be communicating. “You’ll understand fully when you grasp the Eleventh Integration and find the Twelfth.”
I tried to ask another question, but my eyes would no longer focus. I was spinning away, falling backward into a blinding flash of light.
THE RISE TO INFLUENCE
Hours seemed to pass before I began to hear talking around me. I struggled to open my eyes.
“He’s waking up,” I heard Coleman yell.
I felt, before I could see, the others gathered around me. I was now at the rock overhang again, overlooking the guardhouse on the southeastern approach to Sinai. I saw my pack lying beside me. The flap had been opened and the copies of the Tenth Integration had been taken out and were lying around. But no sign of Rachel.
I looked down at the feather still in my hand, and in that moment I knew.
“We found you here,” Coleman was saying. “You must have hit your head. You’ve been unconscious.”
“Where is Rachel?” I asked.
He reached over and touched my shoulder. The others looked devastated.
“She didn’t make it,” he whispered. “She was killed at the Circle of Rocks.”
I nodded slowly. I knew I should have known the whole time, but I was still thrown into total shock. I was just with her.
I pleaded with him. “Are you sure? She pulled me out of the Circle during the gunfire. I was with her for a long time. We were able to observe the Afterlife together. We saw the Plan.”
“I checked her myself,” Coleman said. “And right after, a group of Egyptian soldiers came to investigate the explosions. The Apocalyptics had to back off. So all of us except Rachel were able to get away. You were missing. I saw the soldiers carry her body away. I texted Wil and the others and told them. I’m so sorry.”
At this point, I was emotionally swept into one of the most profound feelings of loss I had ever experienced. Rachel’s energy had been a part of this entire journey, beginning with our first Connection at the Pub. She was a partner in my clearing to Agape, and now she was gone. My head told me she was still alive in the Afterlife, but I missed her radiant eyes, and the thoughtfulness that had kept me so grounded. Amid tears, I blurted all this out to the others.
Then, right at my darkest moment, I suddenly felt her hug from a distance that I had felt on the other side, and smelled the familiar rose perfume she had always worn.
I knew, then, that she was not only still alive. She was right here with us!
“She helped me through so many things on this trip,” Coleman said. “And now she’s dead.”
“She’s not dead!” I protested.
“I know. I know,” Coleman said. “I get the Tenth Integration. We were all tuning in to the Plan. But knowing that she still lives isn’t the same as having her right here to talk with, or to get one of those famous hugs from.”
“No, you don’t understand,” I shouted confidently. “She’s right here with us. Now. She was touching me from a distance in the Afterlife so I would know it was possible here. Tune in! You can still get that hug!”
The others were gathering around closer, listening intently, and they began to sense Rachel as well. For several hours, I carefully relayed to them everything that had occurred in the Afterlife, especially the Plan and goal of history, bringing to Earth the knowledge and consciousness known in Heaven, and Rachel’s statements about the coming Universal Consciousness. Tommy smiled at me.
Everyone told me about what had happened here when they had read the Tenth part of the Document they’d found in my bag. As we talked, our energy elevated us together into the Tenth Integration.
“It’s about realizing that the Afterlife is right here,” Coleman offered. “We can resolve everything with our loved ones and receive what they know. The key is to do what they do: use their Influence and the Law of Connection to uplift everyone into a Connected consciousness. It’s another level of Alignment.”
“Native peoples,” Love of Mountain said, “have never lost this ability to communicate with the other world. Developed