The Puppet and the Puppeteer
September 9, 2008
Neale Donald Walsch and I have met for interviews in Portland Oregon several times at two different hotels and a radio station, and in Beverly Hills in the most astonishing suite at the Four Seasons, and most recently in a tiny manager's office at a local Borders.
We sat knee-to-knee in the back room, and we just talked. Of course, there was a mic in my hand, but to me, it is a magic wand, gathering in wisdom.
There is so much content in HAPPIER THAN GOD, that in the interview I found myself simply dancing with Neale through whatever ideas popped up.
One of Neale's points in the book is to get out of your story so you can truly live your life. Too many of us are stuck in who did what to us when. That's gossip. Not good. Awareness, very good.
Another tool is illusion. Do you think what you're living is your life? Not really. Everything is an illusion. Stay with me here. It's a mind-bender.
Before I interviewed Neale. Before I even received his book. I had the most real dream. I told him about it:
"I was at a gathering, and there was a performance going on. I was being given notes as to how to improve this performance, as I was doing the performing. I wanted so much to be the best I could be that I was taking notes very diligently, thinking how would I improve, what things would I do."
"And, suddenly I saw the strings on the performers/me in front of me," I told Neale, "They were puppets in front of me, marionettes, but they didn't look like puppets. They were me. They weren't me. And I reached out and I plucked one of the strings, and the whole thing -- whoosh -- vanished, and the entire picture went to black. And, I said, 'Oh my gosh! I'm making it all up'."
"It was just such an amazing picture." I said, "Then I read your book -- and I realized this is your tool Illusion."
"That's a very powerful imagery," Neale says to me, "I think you were given an insight. Many people live their whole lives without ever receiving such an insight. That is absolutely true. We are all puppets on a string. What we don't know is that we are both the puppeteer and the puppet."
How very freeing!
Neale Donald Walsch and I have met for interviews in Portland Oregon several times at two different hotels and a radio station, and in Beverly Hills in the most astonishing suite at the Four Seasons, and most recently in a tiny manager's office at a local Borders.
We sat knee-to-knee in the back room, and we just talked. Of course, there was a mic in my hand, but to me, it is a magic wand, gathering in wisdom.
There is so much content in HAPPIER THAN GOD, that in the interview I found myself simply dancing with Neale through whatever ideas popped up.
One of Neale's points in the book is to get out of your story so you can truly live your life. Too many of us are stuck in who did what to us when. That's gossip. Not good. Awareness, very good.
Another tool is illusion. Do you think what you're living is your life? Not really. Everything is an illusion. Stay with me here. It's a mind-bender.
Before I interviewed Neale. Before I even received his book. I had the most real dream. I told him about it:
"I was at a gathering, and there was a performance going on. I was being given notes as to how to improve this performance, as I was doing the performing. I wanted so much to be the best I could be that I was taking notes very diligently, thinking how would I improve, what things would I do."
"And, suddenly I saw the strings on the performers/me in front of me," I told Neale, "They were puppets in front of me, marionettes, but they didn't look like puppets. They were me. They weren't me. And I reached out and I plucked one of the strings, and the whole thing -- whoosh -- vanished, and the entire picture went to black. And, I said, 'Oh my gosh! I'm making it all up'."
"It was just such an amazing picture." I said, "Then I read your book -- and I realized this is your tool Illusion."
"That's a very powerful imagery," Neale says to me, "I think you were given an insight. Many people live their whole lives without ever receiving such an insight. That is absolutely true. We are all puppets on a string. What we don't know is that we are both the puppeteer and the puppet."
How very freeing!
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