​          Spiritually, I have not courted favor from any being. I do feel I have a right to know anything I wish to know, and have often pushed very hard on that assumption. As I practiced meditation in my twenties and thirties, I thought that visual spiritual experience was an indicator of accomplishment and progress. I pushed very hard on that door into the future. It did not open until one day I thought, “Perhaps this door opens towards me.” Indeed, it did. This started a glorious time for me, as I finally found my way into the inner realms of life and was able to do a great deal of exploring. I found that I am an explorer, a wanderer, an adventurer. My home is where I am, and my strength is who I am. In time I realized the wisdom of alignment with Deity’s plan for life and the momentum of creation.

​          Then … one morning as I started to meditate, I had a little difficulty going in. As my vision cleared, I found I was standing in a large hallway. In front of me were double doors with the right-hand door open. I could see into a room that looked like a huge library, for I could see stacks of books in the background and several long tables with people sitting here and there, as one would see in a library. Just inside the door, sitting directly in front of me and looking directly at me, was an old man. At least he appeared old, as he had a silver beard and very light pink skin.  Meeting his gaze, I entered the room and walked up to him, but I was still across the table, which came from my left and the man was seated at the right end of it. I met his intense gaze and said to him, “What wisdom do you have for me?”

​          He leaned towards me, and I heard his words, “Now listen very carefully.” Then he very abruptly stood up, turned, walked away, and was gone. I was able to hold on to the scene for a moment or two, but I soon lost my composure and was abruptly back in my body.

​          My immediate thoughts were that the old man had played a trick on me by setting me up to expect some great pearl of WISDOM, only to leave me standing there and not able to hold on to the frequency of that region. Perhaps he was showing me I was not as well focused as I thought I was. After all, it was I who had lost the focus. So I vowed to pay more attention to my focus in the future, and went on and finished my meditation time for that day.

​          Time and days and weeks and months went by, and I did not forget the old man in the library. I came to realize he had indeed given me a truly great PEARL of WISDOM that day. For as my life progressed from that time, I worked far better at learning how to LISTEN.

​          In meditation I had searched the inner realms for the lessons I needed to learn. Indeed, there are many things one can learn in the inner realms. The value of focus. The value of relaxation. The value of being still and listening. The great value of the most magic words in all creation, WHAT WISDOM DO YOU HAVE FOR ME? For truly, WISDOM is the true coin of the realm in all the regions of creation. But I also learned if I take time to be alone and quiet and relaxed in the outer, every day physical world, the outer physical world is anxious to teach me as much wisdom as I wish to learn. So it is not only important to ask inside, “What wisdom do you have for me?” but also outside. At every turn of the moment, life has something to show you, tell you or give you, if you only learn how to listen …