Foot Prints

We all leave our foot prints.

Whether that is on the beach where our impressions linger in the wet sand until the next wave washes them away, or rather the paths we have walked that become road maps for others who are traveling in a similar direction… 

Yet no matter how you look at it, we all leave our foot prints — and have done so throughout time.

The fascinating thing is that even when we are not necessarily trying to retrace our steps, we may stumble upon them anyway…

Have you ever had that experience of familiarity in a place you were visiting for the first time? Or when you were reading about a certain place or time, that you just knew how it was at the place, in that point in time? Perhaps experiencing dreams of a long forgotten time…

Chances are, that even when we tried, we would not be able to retrace our actual foot prints. On the other hand, our dreams may give us a lot of information about those far away places or timeframes that are buried deep in history. We can also use meditative processes to gain ever greater insight, not just about what was happening in that place once upon a time — but more interesting — what it has to offer us in our lives right now.

Did we leave our foot prints at that time just for us to retrace them now? Sort of like a “Back to the Future” moment, helping us to gain a different perspective? A way of looking at things that may have been commonplace back then, yet is all but forgotten in our world today?

And if that would be the case, how far away — both in distance as well as in time — would that take us? How deep do our roots run?

For me, I find that there are many foot prints to be found — and retraced — in North Western Europe. Ancient foot prints. Old enough that they  seem to accompany the fossilized bones of the Woolly Mammoth that roamed the area as long ago as before the last ice age, about 120.000 years ago…

And looking at those (metaphorical) foot prints — listening to the stories they have to tell — I find myself surprised every time by the wisdom they have two offer. The insights that in a sense are “not of this world”, and yet are so needed in our world today.

Messages that turn out to be valuable and productive in my life, right here and now…

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Imagination

Imagination is probably more important than we give it credit for...

Whereas fantasy is not based in reality ~ or even is a flight from reality ~ imagination is our roadmap to where we are going. Without it, we would be stuck right where we are now; just because we cannot imagine ourselves being anywhere else...

All great plans started out at some point in the imagination of the person that thought: ‘What if...’

What if... my business would really take off?

What if... I would be rich, like having won the lottery jackpot - rich?

What if... I could travel to where-ever I would like to go?

What if... I could help groups of people becoming more aware?

What if... there would be peace on earth?

And just by pondering the question with an open mind, we are giving it positive energy. It is the first step to actually manifest it in the physical world ~ yes, even the ‘peace on earth’ thing.

As soon as we can see in our mind’s eye what it would look like ~ whether ‘it’ is something mundane or spiritual; something personal or something global ~ a path forms that shows us how to get there. And again, it is to a certain extend up to our imagination whether that path is wrought with challenges and obstacles, or whether it is smooth, even easy-going.

This doesn’t mean that imagination is the only thing that is needed. 

We can imagine things; we can think about it all we want ~ at some point we need to bring that which we have imagined outside of ourselves. Usually that is when we start talking about it, making logical plans, doing actual research as to what we need in order for our plan to be successful; and finally, we need to put in some physical action.

If your ‘what if?’ is about getting rich by winning the lottery jackpot ~ buying the lottery ticket maybe all the physical action that is required. If you trust yourself more than the lottery, maybe looking into what is necessary for you to get that really well-paying job is a better route.

Of course, as soon as you are thinking: ‘oh, finding that job is going to be sooooo hard ~ and even then, I would have to put in 80 hour workweeks...’ Then that is what you are imagining, and likely what you will bring into your life.

On the other hand, if you are imagining 20 hour workweeks at double the pay you have now with your 40 hour workweek...

As the seraphim Julian has said: ‘Imagine the greatest, most wonderful thing you can achieve ~ and realize that is only going to be your first step!’

Julian Teachings website  

First published in April 2010