"The Woman on the Stairway: A Spring Encounter with Soul"
The rites of Spring and time of Soul and renewal.
It may explain for you that for some life is not a simple collection of random events one after another, but a 'magical' experience that happens to us when we open our understanding to it.
Yesterday, (thoughts on life experience and differing perspectives) I climbed the slope leading from the centre of Trencin square to the Kostol on the hill above the town, but below the castle. I was surprised that I reached the kostol without breaking a sweat nor running out of breath, as I normally would. I put this down to my new regime of supplement intake in the form of Creatine and a fresh lemon water in the morning including skin and pith that I seep the night before.
As I descended the stairway on my way back down to the square. I passed a young family - parents and two children climbing up. The mother was slightly behind the others, and as I got there to her she looked at me and spoke in Slovak (I am far from fluent) to me. It was obviously a question, but I was unclear on what subject. I surprised her by saying she must speak English to me, as I am an Englishman (for better or worse). She hesitated, so I hypnotized that she might want to know about the church above us. I mentioned the word church, which she recognised. I told her that she was close and to continue upward. Now the question remains - why did she stop and ask me just at that place and time? Was there anything more to the engagement or was it just a random occurrence? That got me thinking about how we perceive the world. If we purely consider it as a random experience just as we might with all other experiences, then for us it is that as we describe it, a simple random experience. But what if we look for a deeper sense of meaning or dare I suggest magic.
The woman stopped me and asked me about the church. Let us analyse the main points. There was I feeling quite comfortable even though I had climbed a steep incline beforehand. I had stood by the wall overlooking the scene below where the festivities surrounding May 1st were taking place. The sun was shining brightly and the fields surrounding the town in the distance were green and healthy looking. And as I stood there I heard the sound of young voices singing a traditional Slovak song, that reached my ears from the performance stage below in the square. These young people were part of a traditional group and were singing and dancing for their audience. All very nice I hear you say, but there's a deeper message here if we care to hear it - to understand it. This wasn’t some random experience for me. No, it was a message from nature and Gaia, our world. It was a message that said, now we celebrate the beginning of Spring as we have done for millennium, the magical season of renewal where life returns in abundance and you are its witness. Can you not see it? There’s singing and a Maypole, and the sun shines brightly. Can you not feel it? Does your body not feel strengthened?
Yet, what of the woman on the stairway. What magic might she personify? The mystery of the Anima comes to mind, did she, the woman, represent at that time and place a personification of my anima, my soul? She spoke a different language than I, understandably, because she is my soul and knows the mystery of eternity. I guessed that she was speaking of the church, I could have been wrong but she acknowledged enthusiastically that the church was exactly what she wanted to know the whereabouts of. But what's that to me? Without too much of a stretch of imagination my soul spoke to me through her about her search for a spiritual centre, a church and included me in the conversation (if you want to know more about your soul, what it comprises of, and its relationship to the spiritual, then ask it).
So, there we have it one brief 'random' encounter turns into a real meaningful event of deep understanding. How many of these experiences do we have in our lifetime, moments of synchronicity that we miss or dismiss as just simple random acts? If you are anything like me, too many. But I am now developing a 'sixth sense' and that sense is revealing a whole new depth to my experience of life. Perhaps you have felt the same?
