I had been
learning English since I was thirteen.
The times that I am abroad or in English speaking trainings or groups,
my English improves fast and I feel very connected to the language. And then
come times when I feel like I just did not learn enough.
Among all
of the words that I have learned, ‘insight’ was a word I used or was even aware
of until I read “The Celestine Prophecy” by James Redfield over ten years
ago. Since I was a kid, I had had
experiences of synchronicity, feelings of déjà vu and amazement for the strange
coincidences that show up in my life at unexpected times. Then after reading James Redfield, few years later, the word ‘insight’ would this
time appear in game developed at the Findhorn Eco village in Scotland. As a part of the amazing “The Transformation
Game”. In time ‘Insight’ became for me a
word that meant a world of personal discoveries.
As I look
back, I cannot pin point exactly when I started to be more aware of the
surprising coincidences in my life. That
there is something to them, about them that needs to be discovered. It probably
was after I went to the US for college.
Then books
started to show up in my life. The first
book that I can definitely say was an eye-opener for me was “The Road Less
Travelled” by M. Scott Peck. That book
stayed touched something in me and made me look for more. I went to Boston for
my first Thanksgiving to visit the sister of one of my best friends. And in Boston Renin gave me this book. “The
Road Less Travelled” touched something in me and made me look for more.
Then Erich
Fromm and Rollo May started to interest me.
For the first time I was reading about psychology. In junior high and high school, I had read
only novels. At least one per week. I loved reading. I loved fiction. In that
fall of 1988 in Boston, something started to change. My focus of attention was starting to change
suddenly in my first few months in the US.
I had come to New York to study engineer. I always thought I loved math and numbers
were my calling. And now I was discovering that my real interests seemed to be
very different from what I had chosen to learn for my future. Away from home and in new territories of all
kinds, I guess I was terrified to even consider that I was not on the right
track. And I ignored the signs, until I
could not.
From that
autumn in 1988 in Boston to 2013 naturally a lot has happened. Looking back, my life seems to follow a path
like what James Redfield is writing about in his books “The Celestine
Prophecy”, “The Tenth Insight” and his other books. Following and discovering
the insights he wrote about.
There are many
signs in our lives. Call them whatever
you like corner stones, lighthouses, wake-up calls, warnings, dilemmas,
coincidences, synchronicities or insight.
There are signs in our lives that seem to try to lead us to events,
people or situations that will makes us happier, healthier and more
satisfied. Listening to them, seeing
them, choosing to see them and accept them makes a difference.
And may be
the coincidences in our lives are the answers to our prayers.
*
Some
questions from James Redfield to
leave you with for the next few weeks:
1-
Were there any particular
coincidences or signs connected with getting your current living space
(significant house numbers, encounters with neighbours, delays in negotiations,
mixed-up phone calls, special street names, or any other odd detail)?
2-
How did you get your past or present
job? Think back to how you found out about it, to whom you talked and what
messages you might have received?
3-
Describe how you met your most
important relationship. What led up to your being in that place at that time?
4-
Do you see a pattern in how things
come to you? What was the similarity, if any, between meeting your significant
relationship and getting a job or a place to live in?
*
Wishing you
many delightful coincidences and sought after insights.
With love,
Zeynep
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