Over Shadowed Meadows

All this time you were there, I thought. The reverend had just finished giving me so much information about what he is, where he is, and how he is and where he most recently came from.

It's pretty clear to me that he has been with me for many long years, he knows things about me that I have long forgotten. It hurts sometimes, knowing that someone is with you, in you.

The reverend last incarnation was Paul Bogle. Paul Bogle was a Deacon of the Native Baptist Church in Stony Gut, St. Thomas, Jamaica. His belief in the teachings of the Bible inspired him to become involved in the peoples' struggle for justice. Paul Bogle spent much of his time educating and training the members of his congregation, and is credited with initiating the so-called Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865. Edward Eyre, the then Governor of Jamaica, offered a £2,000 reward for the capture of Paul Bogle for his alleged role in the unrest at Morant Bay.

One day, in 1865, two men from Stony Gut were on trial in the Morant Bay Court House. Bogle and some of his people went to support them. A man called out in the trial and the police tried to arrest him, but Bogle and his men came between them. The man got away. The police went to Stony Gut to arrest Bogle. But the people did not let them. They fought the police and sent them back to Morant Bay.

Then Bogle and his people marched to Morant Bay. They went to the Courthouse where a council meeting was going on. Armed policemen and soldiers were on guard. A fight broke out and the guards fired. About 20 of Bogle's people were killed or hurt. The others drove the guards back into the Courthouse and set fire to the building then killed people who tried to run away.

Bogle and his people went back to Stony Gut. The Government sent troops into Portland and St. Thomas to stop people rebelling against the Government. The troops shot and whipped many people. They burnt 1,000 houses. Bogle's followers killed a few people and burnt some estates but they could not really fight, because the soldiers were well trained and they had lots of weapons.

The troops destroyed Stony Gut, and Bogle's chapel. Bogle was captured and taken to Morant Bay where he was put on trial. Then he was hanged at the Court House. Four hundred and thirty-eight other people were also executed.

I knew then why the reverend is so afeared of spreading any kind of religion to people and he is so insistant that people must choose for themselves and NOT follow the lead of someone else.

Up to this very day he blames himself for the death of his parishiners, he feels strongly that if he would have kept himself to himself then those people would not of died. He feels strongly that religion is to blame too, not the religion of God though, the religion of men.

After he let me know this, I never heard from him for a long time.

Over the last few months I have had so many questions running around my head that I thought I would make a concerted effort to get some answers about Overshadowing, once I began looking into to the concept I began to get a lot of information. Of course the reader can do that too if they wish. What I am not going to go into right here is historical facts and figures, but what I will do is point to some background reading along the lines that I myself had to do in order to make sense of my own direct experiences.

http://www.lucistrust.org/lucispub/aab.shtml

http://bernie.cncfamily.com/spi/bailey/

Enough of this. Back to my questions.

My closest shadow comes from the Reverend I think he is the strongest and most experienced of my soul group, he talks with great knowledge and experience, and it has taken me many years to begin to trust what he says. Over the years \I have been convinced that he influence was bad and would cause me to go astray or do things that are not good. After much verification and testing though now I trust him implicitly and I know that his words are sound. In no way does he expect me or anyone else to take up what he says without a great deal of self analysis. That is well worth remembering.

The Reverend has no other names that I know, he is only known as that and more, although he is a man of God he is not a Church Reverend in the traditional sense. He says that now, but in the past he has been a Church Rev. Now he considers his self a reverend of life. His life that is.
"Do only that which is right".
Every person has the natural right (and the responsibility) to peacefully determine what is right. The Rev. is an advocate of religious freedom.
He wants all pursue spiritual beliefs without interference from any outside agency, including government or church authority.
He is very clear that authority lies with the individual alone and with no other, also very clear that this is no way anarchy. As each person realizes that they are as responsible for the mess we are all in as the next person we will see some marked changes in the way we all live on earth.
I don’t talk to the reverend, I kind of think to him similarly he doesn’t talk to me either, he thinks to me. Even so, I am totally aware that these words are no good for describing what is happening because they are far too literal. What I mean by that is, I don’t get thoughts in my head from the Reverend nor do I hear voices! All I can try to do is describe what is happening using the words that I have, the poor fact is I know that the words are not up to it.
There is a clear reason for this, the perception of some things are not based in the logical mind alone, they are a mixed of logic, emotion and perception.
The best I can do is describe what I know bit by bit and not worry too much about making sense.
The reverend though goes to great lengths to explain if I don’t understand (which is often)

I was fourteen when I first met him. Although it was brief, I have clear memories of his efforts, 32 years it took me to actually begin to accept his shadow. "Firstly, it's only right to explain to you that you that you are the meadow" I remember those words clearly. The shortest sentences can take 30 years to truly understand.

He says there is no one special in this world, at least, no more special than any one else, that in itself is easy enough to understand, of course. "We are not talking about anything that isn't clearly true"

One of those ideas that was shared with me was the fact that the'soul' itself was a mauch larger entity than we give it credit for " In comparison it is an eliptical shape that stands some 100 feet tall". The Idea is that the average soul has anywhere between 40 to 120 distict personalities attached to it. Imagine a lucky charm braclet, withe loads of charms, all connected by a commom 'cord'. The point being however that only ONE of the personalities is 'incarnate' at any one time.

You will have to be able to imagine the image of a ferris wheel detached from it frame and slowly rolling forward. Each time a carriage is near the ground it gets 'born' and slowly moves through time as the soul rolls on. The next personality will be born either as the other leaves or a little time after.

The soul 'organism' has a rolling motion which facilitates the birth and death process, but the process itsself is a function/effect of the forward motion. Still you have to be able to imagine the soul as an Iceberg, where as over 90% of its form is not visible, but is visible from a different view point.

The personalties of a soul are numerous and very accomplised in differering areas, for there is hundreds of years life experiance in any one soul. This description here falls short by many thousands of words, I can eleaborate on the nature of the organism later but right now I must indicate that the incarnate personalty can draw on hundreds and sometime thousands of years of direct hands on life experience. The process can and has been called Overshadowing.

There is not a button to press though, it can take a whole life time of 100 years to even have the energy to grasp even the concept of the soul and how it works. Surley momst people in modern life are lost in their own lifes and like me have little or no chance.

The only real truth is that people will start to work together to change how we live, It is no way easy becase resources have been 'just used' for many years. These generation though have to start choosing the way.

Let me tell you some things about Over Shadowed Meadows...