Shifting Stories with Beca Lewis

A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

It was as terrifying as standing at the open door of an airplane getting ready to jump. Or at least I imagined it would feel the same way even though I had never experienced that myself. Leaning forward and seeing the ground thousands of feet away, not knowing where the wind would blow you. Not knowing what you will find when you land.

At least people jumping out of planes got to practice, and they could see the ground. Besides they have parachutes for heaven’s sake.

What I was doing was completely different. No practice. No parachute. Can’t see where I’m going. Just step into a void. Leaping into the unknown. No visual clues. Nothing to stop me from smashing myself to bits somewhere.

Suzanne’s voice was whispering in my ear telling me to go, go, go. She was getting annoyed. She hissed at me which she had never done before. She said I was being melodramatic and it didn’t suit me at all. Just go!

I understood that she was rushing me for a reason. The portal was designed to stay open only for a few brief moments. The short time frame was necessary.

It was to keep the monsters that lived in each dimension from leaping into another one.

Yes, there are monsters. Aren’t there always monsters? Sometimes they look like people, and sometimes they don’t. But letting a monster travel to a new dimension would introduce a danger to the inhabitants of that dimension, and there was a strong chance that they wouldn’t be able to defend themselves against it. It could mean the end of that world somehow.

It was like all the trees that were dying in my world. Dying because a bug, or parasite, traveled from one country to the next where there were no natural predators to stop them. One species after another of our beloved trees were leaving our earth. It was heartbreaking, but at the moment I couldn’t do anything about that problem.

There were too many present ones to deal with, like leaping into a portal to someplace else.

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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.—Rabindranath Tagore

She was always-on-call. I wanted to be like her, but I had no idea how I could handle what she did with such apparent ease. Any time of the day or night, any time of the year, she was always on call for those that needed comfort, or understanding, and yes, healing.

I remember the time that I called her in the middle of the night because my baby was having convulsions, and I knew I could turn to her. I was hysterical. She answered the phone with no tiredness in her voice, present and available. She told me the Truth about my child.

She reminded me that my little girl was in Reality the child of God, was Light itself, and that there was no room for anything else.

I calmed down, and within minutes so did my child, the child of Light. It was over and never returned.

Always-on-call, how did she do it? Thinking I was not capable of this feat of love, I chose other ways to live.

I thought about “disappearing” where no one could find me or need me. I tried not to influence people in case I did something wrong that hurt them forever.

I disappeared into my busy work, my business, and sometimes my sorrow.

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Once upon a time, there lived a husband and wife who were very good friends.

Their names were Agatha and Winston.

Agatha was a small, very round, gray bear who loved to amble through flower gardens smelling the flowers and petting the bees. Winston was a tall rather saggy and unstuffed brown bear.

This unstuffedness caused him to look a little shaky, but once one got to know him they would find that he was really quite dignified and precise.

Some of their friends could not understand how Agatha and Winston became such good friends.

After all, it seemed as if they were nothing alike and had nothing in common. In addition, it was clear that Agatha was much sillier than Winston. The gossip was that Winston only kept Agatha around to have a good laugh when he was alone.

These people were foolish friends—if one could call them friends. They did not understand the silent, sweet secret shared by Agatha and Winston. Their shared secret kept them awake at night with delight, and made them laugh out loud in the day.

This wonderful secret kept them such sound friends that they never once argued.

They loved each other for exactly who and what they were. Winston loved Agatha’s round slow plumpness and the way that she could stand so firm even if the wind was blowing hard enough to bend strong trees.

Agatha loved Winston’s unstuffedness as it made it easy for her to put her short pudgy arms around him. She loved how gentle and dignified he was even as he put on his robe and slippers at night and brushed his teeth.

All in all they were happy with each other and with themselves. One day a visitor rang their doorbell and everything changed.

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A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

While Meg reviewed her life, the Mages waited in the cave, Ibris and Dax sized each other up in the Temple, Stryker pondered the map and Aaron sat on his throne, an ocean away. Plotting his next move.

Aaron smirked to himself. Perhaps other people wondered if what they were doing in life was making them happy, or if they were doing the right thing. He didn’t. Everything about his life made him happy, and he always knew he was doing the right thing.

Who wouldn’t be pleased with this, he thought to himself. Everything in Thamon revolved around him. His choices had always been perfect. He had devoted disciples, who named themselves the Blessed Ones—disciples who were willing to be rendered blind so they would have the honor of serving him.

Across Thamon, his Preachers and his Kai-Via made the people happy by converting them to Aaron-Lem. His religion.

He, Aaron, was the God that they worshiped. No other gods were allowed. Any mention of those old gods was an automatic prison and possible death sentence. Not that the people talked about those other gods anymore. He gave them what they needed. They didn’t need anyone else. Their lives were perfect because of him, and they knew it.

Three times a day, a bell would ring and his people would stop where they were and bow to him to thank him for the blessings that they received. Sometimes their faith and gratitude were so intense he could feel it flowing across Thamon straight into his heart. It was a magnificent feeling.

All that good-will directed to him from the millions of converts to Aaron-Lem fueled his knowledge that he had done the right thing. He had cleansed the planet of everyone who wanted to worship other gods.

Although some people only wanted to be left alone to live the life that they wanted to live without worshiping anyone or anything, it didn’t matter. They were also gone. He had eliminated from Thamon everyone who didn’t succumb to Aaron-Lem. Now it was as if they never existed.

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Spiritual Perception

Spiritual Perception reveals that there is nothing going on but God, Good.

Instead of thinking that there will be a time that the tares will be separated from the wheat, we know that as we gain spiritual awareness, what appears to be tares are not something that must be destroyed, but simply wheat misperceived, and then that misperception will completely dissolve what appears to be tares.

Step into the good by practicing Spiritual Perception, and reap the benefit of the constant ever-providing harvest of the Infinite.

This is a practice that will benefit everyone. It doesn’t take special equipment, or the perfect time, or money, or personal ability. It is available to each one of us at all times.

We can begin now, and never stop stepping into the good, by practicing Spiritual Perception in each moment.

*John Hargreaves—The Indivisibility Of The Infinite

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A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win?

Dax stood at the back of the Temple watching Ibris as he stared out the window at the storm. Ibris didn’t move, acting as if he hadn’t felt Dax’s presence. They both stood there lost in their thoughts until Ibris finally turned, and the two of them stared at each other, perhaps sizing each other up and wondering what the other was thinking.

Neither one of them had on the black hooded robes that hid their identity from the people. There was no one in the Temple to see, and they certainly didn’t have to hide who they were from one another. They had known each other since they were babies. Their fathers were brothers, and when they were young their families had lived together, farming the same land that had been in their family for generations.

However, Dax’s father grew tired of farming and moved the family to the city. After that, the families only saw each other every few years, something that both boys regretted. They had been the best of friends then.

If someone had been in the Temple, they would not have thought they were related. Ibris looked like his father, tall and slim with blond hair and blue eyes.

Dax took after his mother’s side of his family, powerfully built and close to the ground with dark brown eyes that showed flakes of gold when he was angry..."

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Is There A God Or Isn’t There?

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.—Albert Einstein

Hasn’t everyone wondered, at least once, how God could allow the suffering, death, and intentional evil in the world to exist? How could he let wars continue? How can he be on both sides of a controversy?

Of course, we have also looked at the other side. We have observed the harmony and beauty of a flower, the flight of a bird, the majesty of a mountain, and we have wondered where all that could have come from, if not from an Infinite Intelligence.

In the long-standing debate over “is there a God” or “isn’t there a God,” we can agree with both sides.

The answer is: “no,” there isn’t a God that allows evil to exist; and “yes,” there is a God that is the Principle of Life.

Perhaps part of the problem is the word God. Depending on what framework of perception we grew up within, and have worked out for ourselves, either we love this name of God, or we hate it.

If we could drop our preconceived ideas about what the word God means, perhaps we would find that we are all in agreement. Perhaps we would also find a way to resolve our own internal struggle with why evil appears to exist if God is Love.

What if we stopped seeing God in terms of a powerful human that knows both good and evil, and can be swayed by human prayer and opinion?

What if instead we saw God through a scientific and Spiritual Perception as the Mind Fabric of what we perceive as the Infinite Universe?

What if God were The Infinite Intelligence that both creates and holds it all together? What if God is not in any way human, but instead is like the principle of math, the Principle of Life?

Don’t most of us blithely say that God is omnipresent, omniscience, omnipotent, and omniaction? Have we stopped to examine what this means and implies? Isn’t this a scientific statement that leads us to the evidence of God as the Principle of Life?

Could this God, the Principle of Life, be both good and evil? Wouldn’t this idea of duality negate omni? There can be no debate. Either God is completely good, or God is completely evil.

The original meaning of the word God is Good. Makes sense doesn’t it? Because if God is evil, it stands to reason that eventually, it would destroy itself.

Therefore, thinking logically, there cannot be a God that knows evil, or is on both sides of a controversy. There can only be a God that is the Infinite Principle of Life.

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A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win?

Outside the cabin, Suzanne and her new friend Silke Featherpuff sat on a tree stump watching Trin peek over the western horizon. Trin, along with the first sun Etar, wouldn’t rise much further during the day. That meant that the Islands would not only be cold but would remain in perpetual twilight for the next few months.

Suzanne didn’t like it. At all.

If she hadn’t come to Thamon to rescue her wild-child sister, Meg, she could be back in Erda bathed in the warm sun, flying the skies with her dragon friends.

Instead, she was on this cold and dangerous planet waiting for the newly reformed Meg to return with that wizard, Tarek.

Suzanne knew that being irritable wasn’t honestly how she felt. Well, maybe she did. Meg’s new friendliness and the cold were not what Suzanne had expected. She thought Meg would be cold and the Islands warm. Both of which she was used to, and could handle. This reversal was unsettling.

The portal maker had warned her. Not about the weather, which she would have liked to have known. But he did tell her about the banning of magic. She decided to come anyway.

She didn’t blame the portal maker for what he had done. There had been many times in her life with her sister when she had secretly wished she could banish Meg. Send her away so she would not have to deal with her and all the trouble she caused.

But when that secret wish came true, Suzanne had discovered that she didn’t want that after all. So, she had said goodbye to her parents and all her friends to come to Thamon. Her parents had been grateful. Her friends tried to talk her out of it.

“Is Meg worth it?” they had asked. "

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Three Habit Stories

Story One:

For over 6 years, I had eaten peanuts in the shell for breakfast. This may be a crazy breakfast, but I loved it all the same. However, every time I cracked a peanut, little peanut pieces flew around which required some careful cleanup afterward.

Then one day Del decided this was the day I could learn the easy way to eat peanuts. Instead of breaking them in half I just had to look, or feel, for the dimple in the top of the peanut, give a slight push and the peanut opened easily, with very little flinging of pieces.

I was amazed to learn I had been cracking peanuts the hard way for years. However, that was the easiest part of the lesson. Ever since then I have to remind myself constantly, “Not that way,” as I crack instead of push, “this way.” I am still working on eating peanuts the easy way.

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A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure:

When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win?

As the tyrannical, man-made religion of Aaron-Lem spreads across the world like wildfire, banished shapeshifter Meg Portia struggles to come to terms with the weakening of her own powers. Her shapeshifting powers were what made her unique and special. Without them…who is she?

"Oblivious to the crashing of the waves that crested onto the shore only a few feet from the edge of his black robe, Ibris Elton, known as the Preacher, knelt in the wet sand on the island of Hetale. He shivered. Etar’s blue light held no warmth, but bathed the sea, sand, and the white cliffs that rose behind him in an eerie blue glow.

Even when Trin, Thamon’s second sun rose, there would be no warmth. The cold season had arrived, and both suns would never rise far above the horizon for many months. Ibris wrapped his robe around himself and raised the hood against the cold wind that flung the spray from the waves onto his back. It didn’t help.

Ibris shivered not only because of the cold but because he knew that no matter what he chose, his people would suffer. Horribly. He moaned. He couldn’t call them his people. They weren’t his people. They belonged to Aaron now, and it was his fault.

The knowledge that he would suffer didn’t matter to Ibris. For him, life was suffering. But that didn’t mean he wanted others to suffer as he did. He had dedicated his life to alleviating the suffering of others.

But the way he had chosen had been the wrong way. He knew that now, but what could he do? ..."

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