This Book Seemed Like it Was Calling Out to Me

The day we met, I was in a thrift store in a quaint little village I often visit that, to me, feels stuck in the 1950s/1960s. I don't usually take very long in these types of stores. I mostly skim through everything but I never skip the book aisle. Most of the time, I walk out empty handed. I skim through the book titles because there are just too many to stand there and read every title and decide whether I want it or not. Besides, the vast majority of them are dramas or "new" dieting trends.

Unexpectedly, this one book stood out to me. The title immediately grabbed my attention. The word "Shambhala" reminded me of a video game I wasn't interested in but played at the behest of my best friend. We ended up really enjoying it and making treasured memories playing it together. From what I know (based on the game), Shambhala, or Shangri-La, is a holy place shrouded in mysticism, mysteriously hidden and revered by monks.

I picked the book out from the shelf. There was something special about it. Since there was not much information on the back, I opened it to gather some sort of insight. Just like the other books I posted about, there was a map on the inside cover spanning two pages. Reading the inside flaps of the dust cover is what truly forced me to purchase the book. There were many trigger words all at once, which was not a coincidence. I don't believe in coincidences, only synchronicities. Places like Kathmandu were mentioned, which reminded me of the esoteric journey of Dr. Strange. The words "intuition" and even "synchronicity" stood out to me as if in bold font. I thought to myself that I must have been meant to find this book which clearly is about topics I seem to be constantly thinking about. This book is for me.

Unfortunately, as most of us often do, I lost sight of the way. The book sat unread for months, not on my bookshelf but tucked away and out of sight in my basement. Do you believe that there are factions out there that are subtly trying to keep us from awakening? Very recently, I stumbled upon spherebeingalliance.com, a site with many articles by Corey Goode and famed author David Wilcock. Although Corey has not posted for some time (I wonder what happened to him), his articles have a general theme of peace, forgiveness, service to others, and raising our vibrational frequencies to benefit our co-creative conscious. This really helped me get out of my miserable mindset and change my attitude to a more hopeful one for myself and humanity as a whole. (It also helped me put something else on my reading list: The Law of One by Ra-Tier-Eir)

Finally, now that I was more motivated and in a better mindset, I opened the book. I felt a little out of the circle at first since this book seems to build on Redfield's previous books, The Celestine Prophecy and its sequel, The Tenth Insight. The Secret of Shambhala is in the first person and recounts the author's experience as he was led to Tibet after a seemingly random suggestion by a neighbor along with a cryptic message from an apparently nervous close friend. It was interesting right off the bat and did not have that usual slow start many books do in building the exposition.

I was glued to the book for a while as I read the first three chapters. Despite claiming to be busy, James Redfield left the comfort of his home and flew to the city of Lhasa. This was in response to a strange visit in the middle of the night from a close friend, Wil, who told him he would meet him at a hotel there. Nowhere to be seen, he is instead approached by a suspicious gentleman who claims to be a friend of Wil's. He says Wil is in trouble and needs him and that they need to go. Redfield reluctantly goes along, but notes that, yet again, there is something going on that nobody is telling him. It takes a while before he begins to actually trust the stranger and all the while wants to return to Lhasa to board a plane back home. The author quickly realizes why Wil and his friend were so anxious when they notice that they are being followed and later chased by Chinese intelligence agents. They escape by what seems like pure luck but was actually their intuition showing them safe paths through the hills until they find temporary refuge in a remote monastery.

That's as far as I've made it to date. I set the book aside for a few days after a different book that I ordered finally arrived. After watching a video by David Wilcock on YouTube yesterday, I am reminded again to read this exciting story. I wonder if he will actually find Shambhala, a legendary place some believe to only exist metaphorically or in spirit.

Peace and Love

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