The Space Between Stories: Charles Eisenstein
a comparison between Charles, a Course in Miracles and Clif High
In a recent talk in Black Mountain, NC, Charles described how we're in the space when the story shifts, the glitch in the matrix between two tracks. I compare his ideas to A Course in Miracles, with which they have great consistency even though he’s never read it, as he once told me.
Where Charles says we’re presented with the choice to say yes or no to the new story, the Course would say yes or not yet—but the choice will keep coming back around. Where Charles talks about the synchronicity that lets us step out of the story for a moment, the Course talks about the miracle that lets us step out of the dream—and they’re both about the timing.
I explain why time and space can’t coexist with eternity and infinity, and why I think time is a hamster wheel. And I give some thoughts on Clif High’s podcast, Time is on my Side, and how the Yugas fit into either.
Here are the quotes from Charles’ talk in my episode:
There’s an intelligence that orchestrates and organizes all things and places us in the conditions where we have the opportunity to say yes or no to the next story that our soul has been offered. There is a plan.
Synchronicity is being taken out of the story for a moment, the time when the story shifts.
Here’s my prediction: we’ll start experiencing more synchronicities because the shift will only happen with your consent.
We’re here for two things: to behold the magnificence and receive the gift, and to give the gift forward.
You can’t speak something into existence if it’s not already true.
I apologize in advance that my understanding of Clif High skims the surface. Hopefully my thoughts in the video will be enough to get the conversation going so I can better understand what I’m missing from the four readers who listen to Clif!
For more, here’s What Is the Matter? on Iain McGilchrist:
Responding to Russell Brand's interview of Iain McGilchrist, I discuss time & space, brain hemispheres, love & hate, knowing & not knowing, New Age annoyance, and child prophets. I use a Crow Tarot deck to illustrate infinity and make my pitch for why the crow should represent the Wholly Spirit. Why should doves have all the fun?
and for some reason, it seems like a good time for The Four Agreements:
In the week of my daughter's wedding, I re-read The Four Agreements as if my life depended on it. I look at A Course in Miracles having the same content in different language--and 1000+ more pages. I tell the story of conflict and crisis, and finally realizing I was the problem. I end with John O' Donahue's poem 'For Marriage'.
It sounds like the Bubble of calibrations you speak of is an escape room. My daughter has done a few escape room experiences. I also want to mention that people who made the self employment choice know, embrace and use their empowerment and responsibility everyday in their business. They never feel like a victim. Every challenge that comes their way they want to solve. I think that's why Small businesses and the middle class citizenry it creates are always under attack by the oligarchical class. They Fear the fearless most!
There is something to be said for interacting with sacred literature or text. Like the bible or CIM. What makes these different from, say a novel or the phonebook, is that they are organized by a larger intelligence. When you contemplate a question for the text, it frequently responds with an answer. This can be as an insight, a dream, or synchronicity.
Happens all the time with me. The only requirement is that you approached the text with some reverence. But sometimes not even that is required. It is one way that a new story line enters your life.