Today (May 14, 2019) I’ve been reading Kinship With All Life, by J. Allen Boone, an amazing, delightful, classic book that introduced animal communication to the Western world in 1954. Most of the book is about the spiritual education of the author under the telepathic tutelage of Strongheart, the canine superstar of American cinema in the 1920’s. However, the last few chapters are about the author’s extraordinary relationship with an “ordinary” house fly he named Freddie. In the final three paragraphs of the book, he describes this scene after being up half the night educating a famous actor about the equality of flies with humans.
“Freddie and I lingered on in the morning sunshine. Thinking back over our friendship I could not recall a single instance in which the little fly had done even one of the antisocial things for which his kind are so ruthlessly hunted down and slaughtered. His character and behavior patterns would have been commendable in a human. For the fine example he was setting me as a fellow being and as a special mark of my great admiration, respect and affection, I mentally pinned a Medal of Merit on him.
“Just as I was concluding my heart speech about this, Freddie suddenly took off and began flying slow circles just above my head, each circle a little higher than the one before. The sun's rays pouring in through the windows turned him into pure gold, a scintillating part of the rays themselves. Then across the centuries again I could inwardly hear the words of Meister Eckhart; 'When I preached in Paris I said then -- and I regard it well said -- that not a man in Paris can conceive with all his learning that God is in the very meanest creatures -- even in a fly.'
“Freddie's slow circles grew higher and higher. I wondered what he had on his mind and where he was going. Round and round he went in his golden circling. Then he became so fused with the sun's rays, so much a part of the glory of the morning itself, that it was impossible to distinguish him as a separate object. It was all one presence, one substance, one action. And somewhere in it all my little friend and teacher was being his part in the divinely motivated grandeur. I never saw Freddie the Fly again. It was a perfect exit, by a perfect performer, after a perfect performance.”
Not realizing I had reached the book’s end, I was so moved I could read no more. I sat for awhile overcome with tears of joy and fulfillment from the author’s relationship with this supposedly tiny creature, so large in spirit.
To find the only experience I could imagine that would not disturb my ecstatic state, I turned to do the final 10-minute contemplation of my lesson for the day in A Course In Miracles -- Workbook Lesson 128 -- and read this paragraph, “Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs. But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.” W-pI.128.6.
Reading this, Freddie’s golden circling disappearance became the perfect symbol of my mind joining with my Creator’s mind in a holy instant. Yet another amazing synchronicity in my course-in-miracles adventure! More waves of bliss engulfed me.
[References (free links): https://epdf.tips/kinship-with-all-life.html, https://acim.org/ ]
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