November 2007 Newsletter

A Life Without Fear in Fearful Times
by Douglas James Cottrell

I recently came upon an individual who claims to have used Bible interpretation to decode a prophecy that the world will end in May 2008. Am I afraid that the world will end in six months? No. While I agree that these times are not easy ones (many would use the term "chaotic"), I do not believe the world will end in 2008 (nor in 2012, or any time soon). Why? Simply put, there is still so much spiritual work to do. We, the people of Earth, are not yet enlightened or spiritually aware. In other words, our journey to perfection is not yet complete. The physical world is where we learn to attain perfection.
We are living in world-changing times yet again. I believe the planet has a consciousness of its own, and that all the minds of those currently on the planet influence the environment on a planetary scale. Therefore, the chaotic times we are experiencing are, in part, a reflection of our combined chaotic thinking.
There are mathematical cycles that must be met, and while it seems at times that chaos is alive and well, it really is an ordered, constructive chaos we live in, and not a destructive one. With all the atomic testing, polluting, and consuming of our planet’s natural resources, a huge imbalance is occurring that cannot be rectified. Yet, even though we have war, disease, discord, and violence, the world is also filled with wonder and beauty. It has existed long before humans appeared and can correct any imperfections within it, returning to a balance point with or without our participation. But I submit that it would be better to cooperate with Mother Nature than to irritate her.
We will live through this time. The question is how?
The necessity of change demands that we immediately overcome uncertainty, suffering, and fear of loss. These reveal your spiritual poverty and lack of faith. If you have faith that the world is unfolding at it should, and that you are exactly where you are meant to be to fulfill your destiny or karma, then you feel no fear.
How it is the world can be held hostage by the few individuals we term "world leaders," and continue in a downward spiral? Certainly there are more "good" people in the world than there are "bad" ones. Mahatma Gandhi asked the same question and change soon followed. Not with force, or military might, but change started when good people refused to cooperate with injustice. The world can only survive when good people choose to act with self discipline, and to be morally and ethically correct.
To save the world’s people, this attitude, this choice starts with you. Every day act fairly. Every day be tolerant of another’s point of view, lifestyle, beliefs or religious concepts - even those who might not believe as you believe. To borrow a phrase, "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
In short, refuse to cooperate with anything that demeans or belittles another person, speaks in a judgemental, condescending or condemning way. Instead, attempt to act fairly. Do not cheat another, or let yourself be cheated. Passively refuse to cooperate or remain silent when you know someone is being bullied. To be a good person is to refuse to turn a blind eye to some hurtful act or deed. Instead, do something. This is the way the world can be saved; one person at a time, refusing to cooperate with immorality, indecency, injustice, deceit, indifference, and darkness.
The key to the world’s future is to raise up the brother- and sister-hood of humankind. Be a just and upright person, which means avoid doing anything to someone else that you wouldn’t like to be done to yourself. Prudently extend this attitude outward from yourself as far as you have control. Encourage others to do likewise and offer your friendship to others who exemplify this behaviour.
For how can 6.6 billion people live in fear of a few hundred thousand? Your destiny, your karma is in your hands. The predicted upheavals in the world will come and go. The world will not end, though the world as we know it will change. With computers and satellites beaming information to every household in the world, these days, the only catastrophe that can save the world’s people will be the destruction of the prejudice and bias that separate us all.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE HARRY HOUDINI EXPERIMENT

The following is an unpublished article by a Canadian-based author, who has followed Douglas' career for three decades. Anyone interested in the media's reaction to Deep Trance Meditation (DTM) will find this article illuminating. Note that the opinions expressed are those of the writer, and do not necessarily reflect those of Douglas Cottrell.

On October 31, 1978, the publicity-shy Douglas accepted an open challenge from the media to prove his ability. Fifty-two years to the day after the death of Harry Houdini, Douglas demonstrated the live DTM to a group of reporters at a rented theatre in downtown Toronto. It was an extraordinary performance, made even more extraordinary by the fact that Douglas, who has spent some 99% of his career doing readings of people who are alive and presently on the planet (although not necessarily in the same room as himself), was sent "back in time" to the death-bed of Houdini himself (the exact coordinates for which a reporter kindly provided). And then, reminiscent of a Star Trek episode, Douglas was asked to read the body of Houdini, in "real time," as though Houdini were right there in front of him, still alive (on the hospital bed where Houdini would, in fact, die several hours later). Douglas opened his mouth and began speaking in that dry, steady, sotto voce tone which, over the years, his clients have come to know so well.
"There would be conditions of difficulty to the kidney and to the bladder itself...lack of oxygen in the blood because of the poisoning of the body by the kidney...one kidney is badly damaged, as well as pancreas and bladder...there was a blow to the chest...fluid has accumulated in the heart also, as we see it...." It was unnerving to hear then - as it is every single time he does a trance session, up to and including the present. This is, of course, Douglas speaking, but at the same time, it is "much more" than Douglas. Arguably, in fact, this is one of the most complex phenomena in all the pseudo-scientific literature.
Return to October 31, 1978.
Slowly, patiently, as if he had all the time in the world, Douglas began to talk about Houdini's body as if he had it on a table in front of him, and he was using an X-ray machine, or MRI to dissect it, system by system, organ by organ, cell by cell. Note also that Douglas didn't just jump right to Houdini's so-called abdominal infection - information readily available from any newspaper account of the day. That would have been beneath him. Instead, he focussed, as he always does, on what it was that, according to his own unique vision, was causing Houdini the most damage at the time - failing kidneys, and a malfunctioning heart. Also interesting was that, from Douglas' unique "minds-eye-view," the infamous blow reported in the press was (as Douglas saw it) delivered to the chest more so than the abdomen; an interesting variation from the published media reports as well as the accounts in all the biographies of Houdini.
The whole reading, organ by organ, system by system, took about 15 minutes.
The reporters took notes, but were clearly not happy.
Whatever they had expected was clearly not what they were getting.
It was awkward for all parties.
With Douglas still in trance (most last about an hour) the frustrated reporters, still looking for a good Halloween story, took one last, desperate shot.
They asked Douglas to contact the "spirit" of Harry Houdini so that they could ask it questions about some of the "mysteries" Houdini had left behind.
This was an extraordinary question, especially for the times. It would be almost another quarter century, in fact, before the notion of "talking to the dead" became sufficiently mainstream to serve as the focus of a world-wide best-seller and merit regular airtime on Larry King Live! "This entity," said Douglas, "is currently completing a growth experience in the dimension that you would associate with the planet Venus, where it is learning about Love. It would be presumptuous for us to intrude."
Planet Venus? Love?
Growth experience?
Presumptuous?!
While this was clearly too much for most of the so-called "paranormal" reporters in the room, who were in way over their heads with Douglas, in fact the notion of "planetary sojourns" was a bona fide part of the entire Edgar Cayce cosmology of life and death. If you accepted, as millions do, the accuracy of the Cayce health-specific readings, then you pretty much had to at least be open-minded on planetary sojourns also.
Unfortunately, the reporters left the room in a state of shock. But this bizarre turn of events was, to Douglas, just business as usual.
A week later, Douglas received a courtesy call from one of the reporters who had taken the most notes. The man had gone to the trouble of contacting the medical archives of the hospital in which Houdini had passed on. Not only did Douglas' reading seem to match the medical records, we were told, but, in fact, they went into much more detail than the official records ever indicated. This made it impossible to determine how accurate the reading may have been, since, ironically, the source being tested appeared more complete than the source being used for verification! - R.A.

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