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Page 5 of 5 BREAKING ESTABLISHED PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR.
On many occasions I have found that intuitive insights have led me to break my usual conditioned pattern of social behaviour, and it is essential to be open to this. The most dramatic example of this for me was a visit to an organisation called the Ockendon Trust near Woking in Surrey. This was primarily a refugee organisation that had done a great job of rescuing refugees from Vietnam and helping them to resettle themselves.
Ostensibly, I had gone with a friend who wished me to drive her there. She was interested in attending a meeting to be held concerning the organisation of the Trust. Neither of us had any idea that the visit would have any significance for me. The Trust had recently chartered some aircraft and airlifted some orphans from Vietnam, who were in need of sustenance. This had been carried out without any official permission of any kind, and while this appealed to the humanity and compassion of the general public, there had been the usual rumblings and murmurings of disapproval of the bureaucracy. I was looking forward to meeting people who were prepared to take such risks and act incisively in the saving of lives.
As we arrived the lunch gong sounded, and we joined the line of people waiting to collect their meals from the self-serve counter. Now, in Britain, as elsewhere, it is very bad manners to force your way to the front of the line. In that kind of social setting it is not unusual to see a certain amount of polite re-shuffling and jostling going on in the line to encourage others to go before you. It is not considered seemly to be in a hurry to get to the food!
You can imagine my consternation when my internal computer suddenly urged me to break ranks and push ahead to the front of the queue. My companion had become aware that something was amiss with me, and when I muttered what it was, she firmly pushed me out of line and told me to go ahead. Pauline was one of the most intuitive people whom I had ever met and was much more disciplined than I in carrying out such inner directions. She had become a tremendous ally in the short time we had been together.
As soon as I decided to go ahead, aided by Pauline?s encouragement, my anxiety about breaking the rules of polite behaviour dissipated, and I became indifferent to any reaction that I might be arousing by my rude action and marched up to the head of the line. I thrust my empty tray forward to the server, just ad she was going to hand a loaded plate of food to a very large, powerfully built man who was at the head of the line. Her hands wavered, and then she placed the plate of food on my tray. I was very aware of the man?s stare at me as she added my dessert and my drink.
I felt very self-contained and aloof as I sat down. I was the first to be served so I had the pick of the tables. With a loud humph, the man whose place at the head of the line I had so unceremoniously taken sat himself next to me. What was my name, where was I from ? a series of staccato questions burst from him. I had the impression that my behaviour had either impressed or irritated him and he wanted to find out who or what I was. From the concise way in which he questioned me and handled the answers, I assessed him as a man very accustomed to interviewing people, either a journalist or a barrister.
When I told him that I was staying at a community called Findhorn, he asked me how many were on welfare there. He seemed pleased when I replied that none were, as far as I knew. The Findhorn Community did not encourage dependence on the social; welfare services. They support each other. I told him about my interest in helping people to become self reliant and creatively inner-directed by contacting and following their intuition. He seemed fascinated by my observations that prisons, wars and the need for social services would largely become things of the past if people would be in touch with the source of their being and become positively creative.
?How would you do this en masse?? was his response. ?You have told me that you can successfully teach people individually and in small groups such as at Findhorn to contact and use their intuition. But what about whole countries such as this one? What about if I gave you the country to turn on, as it were? I am David Ennals, the Minister for Social Security, and what you have to say is fascinating. If you don?t have an immediate answer to how to do it, write a report and let me have it at the House of Commons as soon as you can. Thank you.? And with that, he turned to his neighbour and started another animated conversation.
I sat still for a moment, my mind racing. Here was one of the most powerful men in the Government, a Cabinet Minister, and near in seniority to the Prime Minister, no wonder he was interested in how many were on welfare at Findhorn. It became very clear to me why my intuition had prodded me to force my way ahead in such a rude way to attract his attention. How would I turn on the country? What a question, one I badly needed to have asked of me! I rejoined Pauline after lunch. ?Well,? she said. ?You have really struck gold today. Now all you need to do is wait until the answer comes and then you can write to him.?
Three days later the answer came. Until that point, I had consciously thought that the way to reach everybody would be to sell kits of, a small end-less loop tape player, time switch and instructions. Then the penny dropped. Why make things complicated! Many people do not have the resources to spend on such sophisticated equipment. An excellent method of communication is already in existence, the radio.
There are many radio frequencies that are not being used at night. Radio stations could be enjoined as a public service to broadcast a very quiet pleasant sound. So that listeners could set the volume for playing is at night when they are asleep. Then in the middle of the night a recording would be played, that would enable them to become intuitive at will.
So I wrote the report and handed it in at the House of Commons. I had no illusions, however, that my idea would be seized on with loud cries of joy and approval. It would probably take a private company to take the idea over and broadcast it for a fee. Or perhaps another product like the marmalade will surface into my consciousness and I will be able to fund it myself. Well we shall see. You can read more about this idea and others when you purchase the book. There is also lots of advice on how to avoid your self criticisms that often arise to block your creativity. Also I have added some fairly basic advice on patenting and starting a business for yourself.
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