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    WAKING WISDOM: What the Cat Saw
    WAKING WISDOM: What the Cat Saw
    WAKING WISDOM: What the Cat Saw
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    WAKING WISDOM: What the Cat Saw

    By Kim Parker

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    What the Cat Saw ... and other tiny true transformational tales

    This first book in a trilogy is for hearts that thirst for the miraculous and for a spiritual life that isn't just dogma. It argues strongly for a science of life that incorporates, rather than scorns, the non-ordinary.

    The various short tales here will slake the thirst that lies wit
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEuropa Centre
    Release dateJul 1, 2021
    ISBN9780645173611
    WAKING WISDOM: What the Cat Saw
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      WAKING WISDOM - Kim Parker

      Introduction

      Sharing life experiences can create emotional cohesion, invite discussion and touch our hearts, minds and souls on multiple frontiers.

      Story telling is one of the oldest arts. Oral traditions, pre-dating written language, kept a community or tribe’s history alive, their values and their concepts of the sacred current. Tales that are told entertain and are an effective mechanism for knowledge transfer because they inform. They instruct us how to act wisely, to understand our place in the greater scheme of things and assist us to comprehend the perspectives of others.

      People have been telling tales and listening to tales as far back as we know. In some cases stories were considered so valuable that they could be given to others as gifts or made as offerings.

      When our brains hear a story that captures attention, the neurons fire in the same pattern as the speaker’s brain, this is known as neural coupling. The brain can respond to captivating stories as if they were actually happening to the listener.

      ‘Mirror neurons’ create coherence between a speaker’s brain and the brains of his/her audience members. (Why Storytelling Works: The Science, Ariel group.)

      Emotionally touching stories can actually increase the production of oxytocin, which in turn increases our generosity and compassion. Therefore stories can affect our behaviour in addition to creating new perspectives of our experience of reality.

      In a global technological storm of information, life experiences and their sharing, guide us to the heart of what is of great importance, what truly matters to us as individuals and as a species.

      There is little difference really between a story and a tale, perhaps the big difference is that a story tends to have a definite path, a goal and a hero or heroine. Tales however, from my life experience of over sixty years of the non-ordinary are akin to being thrown to the four winds. Tales take us on wild rides into the very essence of the previously unknown or unacknowledged. The path is more a spiral than it is linear. Tales challenge our sense of what is real and laugh in the face of our mortal beliefs. They mock our narrow sense of what is possible. However, when you allow the imagination to wander through a tale as if it were your own it grants gifts that expand the conscious understanding of reality. A good tale can thrill you to the core as it unfurls before you the inherent possibilities hidden deep within your own consciousness.

      There are many tales of my personal life experiences collected here. They are for perusal by those who refuse to be restricted to a life that is reduced to a reflection of the material world only. This book is for hearts that thirst for the miraculous, for a spiritual life that isn’t just dogma, for a science of being that incorporates rather than scorns the extraordinary.

      The very different types of experiences indicate that such happenings cannot always, or even often, be replicated in a science laboratory. They are frequently spontaneous and not orchestrated by the person who experiences them. Science does not have procedures and protocols to test for such events and hence they are pushed aside as being unable to be substantiated. The value of human testimony by reliable witnesses is ignored no matter the similarities, consistencies and durability of those testimonies over time and throughout vastly differing cultures.

      My advice, if required, is to wander through these tiny tales as if you were living them. Question what would change in you if these things had truly been your experiences. What beliefs would be laid aside as uncomplimentary to you as a spiritual being of immortal consciousness? Watch the light of expanding perspectives shining around the harsh corners of societal conditioning. What self-limiting guilts and blames, shames and judgements would you throw into the abyss? Lay aside scorn and ridicule and let your mind fly free. Find and cherish the shiny nuggets of possibility nurtured in the realms of the non-ordinary human experience.

      Most of all enjoy these gifts from my heart to yours.

      1

      What The Cat Saw

      This tiny tale tends to support the theory that energy itself has consciousness. It suggests that life is an agreement process in which energy creates forms at levels we have yet to even approach understanding. Additionally, the science behind such agreements and arrangements is not even close to being within our grasp.

      Cats have been companions of mine since my earliest memories of dressing the long-suffering Mandy, a tortoiseshell cat, in dolls’ clothes and pushing her around in the dolls’ pram. Anyone who has led a life accompanied by cats will probably have experienced the behaviour I am about to describe. Very few I suspect have had the great good fortune to perceive the cause of that behaviour. I passed more than sixty years in the company of cats before one cat introduced me to ten seconds of another reality.

      Every now and then a cat’s pupils will become huge and dark as they appear to see something in the room that we can’t see. They will twist their heads around following this invisible form, or even chase it around the house. What I have until recently called the cat crazies, often lead to mishaps such as broken things, curtain climbing and plain odd behaviour that the cats in question would not normally exhibit.

      Like everyone else no doubt, I have always put such bizarre behaviour down to the inherent nature of cats. Sometimes we think of it as naughtiness or boredom or even curiosity. The latter was blamed for the demise of a large Chinese vase I kept by the front door. After years of not paying it any attention one of our cats decided to stand on his hind legs and pop his head in the vase and bring it toppling to its doom on the ceramic tiles in the entry foyer. However, my opinion of the cause of the cat crazies altered when I experienced something rather strange.

      In the house where I live there are two terracotta elephants on low lying ledges either side of a very short passageway between the kitchen and the lounge room. The cats have never, ever climbed on them in the few years of our joint residence. They never paid these elephants any attention whatsoever. Until one day the cat in the lounge room with me got an apparent attack of the cat crazies. Her eyes went dark and she very obviously thought she could see something in the room.

      Unfortunately, that something she thought she could see was hanging out near the terracotta elephants of which I am rather fond. They came all the way from a roadside shop in Pune, India, where we lived for a short time for my husband’s work. They had travelled unscathed from there to Australia and now were in peril from a cat that appeared to be going bonkers with sheer naughtiness. There was nothing there for her to be chasing with such determination, or so I thought. I removed her from one elephant’s back several times, she seemed to think there was something above it that she had a chance of reaching. After a few harsh words from me she appeared to calm down, and thinking she had recovered her sanity I sat down on a chair side on to the elephants.

      From the corner of my eye I saw the cat heading back towards one elephant, she was very much in hunting mode. I turned to face her when to my absolute shock I saw what she had been chasing. Wrapped around the corner of the wall near the elephant was what I can only describe as some type of energy being. It appeared to be composed of hexagons ranging in colour from deep navy blue to lighter shades of blue with a sprinkling of hexagons in deep glowing gold. The whole thing had a radiance to it that is difficult to describe, and around the edges there was a slight haze.

      Before I could even draw breath it vanished. The cat launched itself onto the elephant’s back again and I got up to lift her off. Poor cat, she was convinced that this Being was now hiding behind a print of an elephant that hangs above the terracotta statue. She did not give up until I pulled the print out from the wall and allowed her to see that nothing was hiding there. I think that little Being knew I saw it and decided it was time to depart. Its fun was probably ruined by my moment of extraordinary vision. It left through the print and the wall behind it, that much was made plain by the cat’s behaviour.

      Now had this event taken place when I was not in the room I strongly suspect my terracotta elephant would be in a similar state as the late Chinese vase, smashed to pieces. I would have put the whole affair down to one of the usual suspects – cat curiosity, boredom, bad behaviour or even spiteful revenge for some perceived slight against cat sovereignty that I had inadvertently performed.

      However, I am now in the most excellent position of knowing that there exist little conscious energy Beings that seem to thoroughly enjoy a game of ‘tease the cat’. I presume the game could be considered even more entertaining if the cat can be lured into breaking things. Do little energy Beings have a quirky sense of humour then? This would indicate a high level of intelligence.

      It seems then, for devoted cat persons who are reading this, there is an altogether fascinating possibility

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