Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student (Illusions 2)
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This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.
I prayed for this? Nearly dying? I don’t remember praying for an airplane crash. Why was this event the one I prayed for? Why me?
Because it was right on the edge of impossible, that’s why. Because it would require absolute determination, day after week, month after month, and then it could have a host of difficulties. I needed to know whether my beliefs would overcome every one of the problems.
The doctors were required to talk about what could happen, how my life would never be the same again. I’d be required to smother every one of their beliefs with my own, beliefs I called true.
They could call on all of the knowledge of material Western medicine, I could call on what I thought was spirit, hold to it even though it didn’t appear to my senses.
I am a perfect expression of perfect Love, here and now.
That mattered to me more than living in this world, this body. I didn’t know that, before.
I shook my head, turned the page.
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Unsuccessful Animal Inventions:
Wolves on Stilts.
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“Wolves on Stilts? How does that affect my life, Don?”
“It’s a Lesser Maxim. It may not affect your life at all.”
“Oh. Who wrote this odd book? You keep it in your pocket.”
“You.”
“M.”
“You don’t believe me, do you?”
“N.”
“Turn to the last page.”
I did. I had written an introduction, my caring for the sheep of ideas never printed, signed my name to it.
“Wolves on stilts?”
“You’re kind,” he said. “How many sheep would love to see the wolves practicing?”
I smiled. “Some. Never published? I forget.”
“Maybe you’ll change about forgotten memories, maybe you won’t.”
“I want to remember what happened to me and Puff, Don, not what my mind put in its place!”
“Interesting,” he said. “Do you want to see it again, the landing as it happened in the belief you prayed for, not as you remember?”
“Yes!”
“Will you know that whatever appears to you, it isn’t real?”
“I am a perfect expression of perfect Love.”