I just want to share
an experience I had back in the summer of 1991 which was kind of weird. Back then I was a serving soldier with the Corps of Royal Engineers
and was based in the German city of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. I was married with
my second wife at the time and our daughter had not long been born. The
previous November I had started an Amway Business, as a lot of us did back
then, and had spent several months traveling after my day’s work to various parts of North
Germany holding all kinds of meetings from home presentations to hotel
trainings to product demonstrations and so forth. I was doing OK and loving it.
On this particular day, a Friday, it started as
it usually did at five in the morning with my daughter crying out for cuddles
or a nappy change or something along those lines and, as I usually got up
around then to get ready to go to camp for my day’s soldiering, I usually had
the honour and privilege to be the one who got up to take care of my little
bundle of joy.
I was on parade for seven o’clock at the camp
where I was stationed, then spent my day doing military stuff until four in the
afternoon, or 1600 Hours in Military speak. Back home I played with my daughter
before having a bite to eat, then donned my dark suit, white shirt and red tie,
a look which was believed to indicate and emanate a sense of Trust and left in
the evening around six for a two-hour drive to present a Home Meeting for a new
Team Member, a fellow soldier who was based near Celle. It was a very
successful meeting which ended up taking over four hours such was the interest,
and I finally started my homeward drive sometime after midnight. By this time,
as you can imagine, I was pretty tired and looking forward to a hopeful Lie-In
on the coming morning with it being a Saturday and I wasn’t on ‘Baby Duties’.
As an aside, that usually didn’t go to plan, and I wouldn’t get that Lie-In!
It was whilst driving down a long, straight,
tree-lined road with my side windows open to keep me awake and listening to a
Jim Rohn audio when the strangest thing occurred. All the trees on either side
of the road changed from 3D to 2D! They looked just as if someone had cut them
out of cardboard, painted them, tacked them to wooden stakes and stuck them in
the ground facing towards me like Billboards. I shook my head and blinked my
eyes however they kept reverting back to this cardboard cut-out kind of image,
even moving in the breeze as I drove past. The whole experience only lasted a
few minutes, by which time I had reached a junction, and the rest of my journey
was uneventful. It was probably tiredness that caused it, yet it seemed so
real. Maybe that’s
how early lifeforms saw their surroundings before 3D vision became a thing.
Just a thought!
What do you think?
Namaste,
J Sadler-Scott
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