The Twelfth Insight - James Redfield [84]
“I need to talk to you,” he said. “It’s important.”
“About the Universal Consciousness?” I asked.
“Yes, I want to tell you something. My tribe believes it will get much stronger, and sooner than most people think.”
“But when is it going to happen?” I asked.
“Most think the Calendar’s end date is December 21, 2012, but other scholars are saying the beginning of the last phase of creation will start much earlier, in the spring of 2011.”
“What? That’s now!”
“Yes. And we aren’t going to understand this coming force of creation until we can figure out what the point of Connection we felt on Secret Mountain really is, and how to relate to it. We have to get through the remaining Integrations!”
Suddenly, Coleman was pushing his way through us to see down toward the guardhouse again.
“Look at that,” he said with alarm.
Fifty or more troops were deploying all around the area of the guardhouse.
“They don’t want any of those new people to come up the trails,” Joseph said, “and I also think they know the extremists are around, and they want to stop them.”
“The Apocalyptics are already past them,” I stressed. “They’re holed up near a mound of rock over the next ridge.”
“How do you know that?” Coleman asked.
“I saw them when I was up there earlier with Rachel.”
They all looked at me in amazement, and then Coleman said, “It’s going to be difficult to sneak past all these troops.”
“It’s okay,” I replied. “Rachel showed me another way past. It’s almost dark. I think we should go now.”
In a matter of minutes we were moving off the overhang and down the slope. I remembered the route clearly. It would take us down the ridge to a point about a hundred yards to the right of the guardhouse. There, the trail ended at a steep drop-off into a wide gorge that seemed clearly impassable. What no one seemed to know, besides Rachel, was that a ledge wide enough for a person to walk on existed just over the edge of the gorge.
It ran a hundred feet north to a point where there was a small gap in the cliff wall that was scalable. Once through the gap we would be hidden from anyone looking from the guardhouse, and we could then advance directly up the tiers of rock overlooking the Apocalyptics to where Rachel and I had been earlier. The only place that was particularly close to the guardhouse was the point where we dropped down onto the ledge.
As we walked, I could see that Joseph had integrated the Ninth and Tenth steps, and now he, Coleman, and the others were reading the Eleventh. I thought of the old Prophecy and the Eleventh Insight that had grown out of it. It predicted the actualization of the use of intention and prayer, and learning the secrets of using this power.
“Do you believe what this Document is saying?” I suddenly heard Coleman shout.
I turned to see him talking to one of the scientists. Coleman shook has head in amazement and walked up to me, pointing at the Document.
“Listen how specific it is about the Influence,” he said. “‘Because of the Law of Connection, the whole of what we believe and stand for—the quality of our character—sends out a field of Influence that impacts everyone with whom we interact. It acts to draw them into our level of consciousness and behavior, for good or ill, and either makes it easier or harder for them to stay in Alignment. And, at the same time, our individual Influence also co-mingles with everyone else’s Influence globally, and at any one time helps to collectively set an energetic level of consciousness for all of humanity.’”
He was trying to stay beside me as we moved down the rugged terrain.
“Do you believe it?” he went on. “It’s like there is a huge balance scale in the sky, weighing the relative strength of two opposing fields of Influence. One side represents those opening to a higher personal spirituality, and thus acting to lift others into that consciousness. The other side of the scale represents those