4: The Whole World's Asleep

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The Whole World’s Asleep

Letters to Ascended Master

St. Padre Pio,

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

6: 45 A. M.

Dear Padre,

          I finished reading In the Spirit of Happiness by the Monks of New Skete yesterday, my favorite chapter being “What Does Love Look Like,” which I’m going to pursue in another letter or spiritual musing, or both, but this morning I want to share with you my thoughts on something that the Seeker (who is a composite character made up of pilgrims who went to New Skete) said to Father Laurence, the founder of the Orthodox Catholic monastic order of New Skete in Cambridge, New York.

          The Seeker had corresponded with Father Laurence and wanted to meet him in person, so he flew to New York to visit New Skete, and Father Laurence picked him up at the airport. On the drive to the monastery, Father said, “How about telling me a bit about yourself,” which the Seeker did; and when he stopped talking, Father said, “And what have you learned through all of this?”

The Seeker thought before replying. Finally, he said, “I’ve learned that the whole world’s asleep—including myself.”

If I may, I’d like to explore this concept of being asleep to life, which is the dominant theme of all spiritual paths…

Jesus came into the world to wake us up from the deep sleep of life, but you really took me by surprise in one of my spiritual healing sessions when you told me that Jesus came from the future. That blew my mind!

It took a while for this to sink in, and then I asked if you would tell me where the world was headed if Jesus had to come back from the future to wake the world up from its deep sleep. Was the world headed too far off its spiritual course for it’s own good and the Spiritual Hierarchy had to intervene by sending Jesus to troubleshoot with his teaching of salvation? I asked; but you wouldn’t tell me.

You said that had to do with the finer inner workings of the universe, and it was not for me to know at this time; but now I’d like to explore this concept with you of being asleep to life, because I believe the world has veered off spiritual course again and there is a great spiritual intervention happening even as I write you this letter—which was confirmed by the book that Providence brought to my front door by my neighbor, The Only Planet of Choice, by Phyllis V. Schlemmer: the Nine Silent Ones said that the world is in danger of destroying itself. And, if I may be allowed to say this, I believe you are one of the Ascended Spiritual Masters that is intervening to help steer the world back on its spiritual course—hence, your coming to my Medical Intuitive three years ago so we could meet and work on the book Healing with Padre Pio, which will help to wake the world up from its profound spiritual stupor.

But what do I mean by “profound spiritual stupor,” because that’s how I see the world? The Seeker told Father Laurence that his searching had led him to believe that the whole world was asleep, including himself; but I see this sleep as a profound spiritual stupor. Not that there isn’t something profoundly spiritual going on in the world, which I believe there is because I am a part of this new spiritual awakening, but as I told you in one of my spiritual healing sessions, I believe the soul of the world has become much too big for the ego of the world, and something has to give—like grass growing through asphalt!

This is why the world is undergoing a spiritual cleansing with all of these natural catastrophes like earthquakes, tsunamis, violent hurricanes and floods and forest fires and droughts and crop failures and famine and world climate changes that are forcing humanity to wake up to our relationship with our environment. We simply can’t continue the way we are, because we are headed for disaster. This is what you told me these world disasters were all about—waking us up to our spiritual responsibilities!

But why this profound spiritual stupor? What’s the root cause of this deep life-sleep? Why do we refuse to wake up to life?

Padre, I’ve given this a lot of thought in my novels, and especially in my spiritual musings, and I’ve come to the conclusion that we have reached the limits of our ego potential; we simply cannot gorge ourselves any longer on the pleasures of life and expect not to pay a price for our indulgence. This is what the Nine Enlightened Ones in The Only Planet of Choice said. Earth is the only planet of desire, and man has become so greedy with desire that he has forgotten his spiritual purpose in life, so they have to intervene to wake us up to life.

This is why the world is experiencing these natural disasters. It’s the only way to wake the world up from its profound spiritual stupor. In a word, the ego of the world has gone mad and something has to give; but ego is terrified of waking up to our responsibility to the world, and it is doing all it can to stay asleep to life!

Fear is the root cause of our profound spiritual stupor; the fear of having to sacrifice some of that boundless desire and assume our spiritual responsibility to the world we have created, and I can see this profound spiritual stupor whenever I go on Facebook. I cannot believe our preoccupation with the “good life” and thousand and one struggles that this life of self-indulgence entails; and anything that threatens our spiritual stupor, we refuse to acknowledge—like my spiritual musings on “old whore life.”

But you did tell me to speak only to those who have ears for what I have to say, and which I finally understand now; so what am I to do?

I’m certainly not going to stop writing my spiritual musings, because they are a phenomenal way to tap into the higher consciousness of life and awaken the stuperous soul; but if I don’t start attracting readers who resonate with my writing—or, if you will, people like the Seeker who want to wake up to life, I am going to get pretty discouraged. Can you do anything about that? Can you start bringing those people to my books?

You did say that I shouldn’t worry about this, because it was your job and God’s job to bring readers to my books; but “at my back I hear, time’s winged chariot drawing near,” and I’d like to see some fruit for all my labor before it’s too late, if not for myself for Penny’s sake. Penny’s belief in me keeps me going, but some days can be very trying.

Enough whining. Thank you for listening, Padre. I just wanted to let you know that I’m very grateful to you for bringing the book In the Spirit of Happiness into my life. It gave me a wonderful insight into spiritual growth through a community of like-minded people.

Oh, I should mention (not that you don’t already know) that the New Skete monastic order is an offshoot of the Franciscan Order. The Capuchin Order, which you belonged to, is a Franciscan Order; and this is just another one of those little coincidences that have become so common in my life from the day I began my spiritual healing sessions with you!

In fact, so common and in greater proximity to each other are these coincidences happening in my life that I have the terrifying thought that I am approaching what Jesus called the “Holy Now” in Glenda Green’s book Love Without End, Jesus Speaks: “In the state of hypersynchronicity” (the Holy Now), cause and effect are the same. As awareness departs from the sacred point, cause and effect are observed to be complimentary…” (p. 288). Wow! Is this where I’m headed?

I remain,

Your faithful companion,

Orest

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