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Is Attraction a Law?The Scent of Lotus BlossomsI grew up in a rational world, surrounded by left-brained logical thinkers. Between 1968 and 1978 whatever car I happened to be driving was hit in the rear while stopped at a red light. I suffered varying degrees of whiplash injury eleven times that decade. Once, a guy traveling sixty miles an hour hit my stationary car. That ruptured a disc in my spine. By the 1980's cars had brighter stoplights--at least my car did. Then, one day, a young man without a license, driving a borrowed car, ran a red light through an intersection that I happened to be transversing in my car. He plowed into the side of it. The police had my car towed to a garage and me, by ambulance, to the hospital for a legal check up. I wasn't damaged. I had to call home for pickup. My man blamed me for getting hit! I had to shut myself off from his accusations. They came through the keyhole anyway. I thought he was crazy. Looking back now, I think he may have been right. Perhaps I had attracted all those accidents, including him, including all the other miseries of those years. One day I cried, "Uncle" and said "No" to others and "Yes" to myself. Last year I sat in a conference room near San Francisco Airport with 200 other people in silent meditation. After twenty or so minutes this huge room filled with the strong scent of lotus blossoms. There were no flowers in the room, nor artificial sprays. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." W. Shakespeare Evy |