Watching the Signs Along the Way

I watched a video of Bernie Sanders this morning and he was talking about how so many people feel that we are doomed and we have no hope of coming out of the peril that we find ourselves in right now.  Fortunately, Bernie was kind in responding to the fear that people are experiencing but he explained that we must not give up the hope of coming out of this.  I left a comment on a Democracy At Work video a few weeks ago expressing the dire situation that we find ourselves in and I was treated to a snotty reply from a fellow who said that I was someone who would never stop feeling sorry for herself.  Counting up the ways in which we might need to have a look at things to assess where we really stand now will always be misunderstood by people who refuse to count them. And they must be counted or they continue to grow and expand.  Where we are in the US right now is not being seen by many people because in their mind we have come to the place where they hoped we would be. We are at each other’s throats and picking off the people trying to tell us that we have let this dissent go on too long.  There are so many people in this country now who cannot and will not pay attention to the “death bells” that are ringing to warn us of what we are facing. What are “death bells”? I will explain.

When I was about 11 years old, I had a friend named Donna, who told me that in her family when someone was about to die, one or more of the family members would hear “death bells” which was the person hearing bells ringing mentally.  Any time one of them heard these it was always proven to be an accurate prophecy. I had never heard of such a thing, but even as a child I always paid attention to things like this.  I wasn’t sure why back then, but by the time I hit my 20’s it became apparent to me. As it turned out, I actually heard the bells the night before my husband died, and his father, my father-in-law, heard them the next morning. It was the soft sound of bells ringing in a way that you knew was not a joyous sound but it wasn’t exactly frightening, It was more like a mental hand placed on your shoulder that was saying to you, the time has come to understand that something is passing away.  My father-in-law did not have a clue as to why he was hearing the bells but I knew for sure what it was and I remembered immediately what Donna had told me.

How do we know when the Universe is speaking to us? We can’t always.  It is a leap of faith that we take because something or someone has gotten our attention in a way that seems out of the ordinary. It is often very subtle what we sense but sometimes it hits us like a ton of bricks, like the intense dream that wakes us up in the night or a name we keep seeing or a song that we get stuck in our head. These clues have been around for awhile regarding what has been happening in the world but they are incredibly easy to ignore sometimes.  We are distracted by work or relationships or egotistical pursuits.  The egotistical ones are an enormous block to understanding the larger pictures in life and they are much too prevalent now because for every person who has the capability of hearing a Universal call there are millions who never can hear because they don’t have to when they are much too preoccupied with how wonderful they are.

I began seeing and hearing the calls to pay attention to what was about to hit our world decades ago. Many of them had to do with politics and world events, which was not something that I paid much attention to before because I was so distracted by my own personal mountains that I was climbing.  They began with information - that I had to interpret by the way - regarding presidential election candidates, Middle Eastern situations that were about to affect this country in very unexpected ways, European conflicts, women’s rights issues, and racism.  It was a lot to hit me with at a time when I really didn’t want to give a crap about anything except how to manage my own troubles, but nonetheless, I was being hit with them and I knew that I had to start paying more attention if I was going to handle even my own issues.  How did I know that they were critical things for me to know? I didn’t, except that I could perceive that I couldn’t ignore them in that they kept coming.  This is the one thing that you need to recognize above all else when you begin to notice differences in the kinds of things that begin to get your attention. They are never there for no reason.  Fear of something new tends to prevent us from taking a step forward to take a closer look at what we are seeing or feeling, but while you may be thinking that this new road will take you in a direction that you don’t feel like traveling on, it is nearly always a road that will benefit you or give you some knowledge that you are very unlikely to gain if you dismiss it. We are so tired of everything that has changed our lives or hurt us in the past few years that we just want to crawl in a corner and hope that the thing goes away so we don’t have to deal with anything else, but ignoring the downward spiral in the human experience has put us in more peril that we ever could have imagined before. Just as the “death bells” give us the warning that we are about to lose a loved one, the signs that we are being given from the Universe in regard to where we must go or who we must make contact with or what we must stop doing are coming in hard and heavy, and while they may not be a portent of death right now, they are a hand on the shoulder to tell us that the Universe is here and speaking to you with information that you need to pay attention to.  If you do not pay attention, you may lose the only opportunity that you will have to set yourself upon the path that will help you get through these troubling times and dangerous situations.  There are many who will not make it through all the challenges that we are facing but I can assure you that there are just as many who will get through it if we are fluid enough to allow the changes that we are being told are important for us.  The higher intelligence speaks to us as individuals not as groups.  This is why our leaders are so impotent at making things any better.  They operate as a collective, divided as they are, and they are covered in their own special interest issues which will almost always color their decisions which should be for the betterment of the citizens of the country but it cannot happen when those who are supposed to represent us care more about their own betterment when it comes down to it.  So change has to come from each individual person making the effort to acknowledge that they have an individual part to play in a much larger picture.  What we have now is a portrait being painted in black and white when it takes many colors to paint a landscape that is realistic and true to the overall picture of what we must paint in the world in order to survive. It is easy to think that you are not very important in the overall scheme of things but it is completely untrue.  You may need others to travel with you toward your goal that you don’t even know at this moment.  Paying attention to the signs that you are being given can ensure that you take the necessary steps to guide you and hold your hand through what may come and what will come if you can learn to let go and believe.