I would like to start by mentioning the small but special experience I had with the comet while in Glastonbury. And then, I will briefly discuss the issues related to "Heaven's Gate". For a really spectacular tale involving a Comet read my page for the Shoemaker-Levy9 comets that hit Jupiter!
I had first seen the Hale-Bopp Comet while in Houston walking home from work one evening and there it was hanging in the sky! It was twilight and I don't recall ever being able to see a comet so clearly with the naked eye. And the tail shooting out from behind it made it unmistakable. I was mesmerized by it's beauty and thrilled at the spectacle. I enjoyed watching in the evenings to come too. Many months later I was in England on my first sacred trek to Glastonbury when it had already become less visable to me in Texas when I was awaken my last night in the Chalice Well Retreat House by a persistant feeling. Unpoetically I had to go to the bathroom, to be frank about it. The funny part is that I said to myself ,"roll over and go back to sleep, you can wait it out." But the nagging feeling pursisted. When I got up, I automatically looked out my bedroom window over looking the gardens and there she was BIG AS LIFE! WOW!(Now I knew why my guides wouldn't let me sleep.) I felt like I was back in the times of King Arthur and Merlin with this beautiful magic in the sky. Glastonbury is a small town, miles away from any other large towns so at night the stars are very bright and the comet was breath takingly low in the night sky (at 4am) and the tail was so brilliant and vast the image is forever in my mind! And the power and the magic of Chalice Well Gardens was also enhanced by this experience. I almost felt as if THIS is what I had come all that way for, was just to see this sight over the gardens. I would never of had such a beautiful vision of it in the Big City of Houston or London! And after my experience with the Jupiter comets I have felt very close to that kind of energy.
Now as to the "Heaven's Gate" incident associated with the comet......
I had an experience just before writing this section that dramatically highlights some of the difficult questions posed by the "H.G." experience and how it shocked the conscience of the nation and the world! Most of us in the metaphysical community were stunned even more so, as this group of intellegent and spirit oriented people evaporated before our eyes. I personally stuggled with finding my own answers to this for a long time and never with a total understanding as to the appropriateness of such an out come. Only that all life is sacred, and immortal too. So while all death is mourned we know nothing REAL has truthfully been extinguished, yet there is a profound sense of loss even by those not directly affected. Why?! Because, I think, we all know in our hearts that we are here to love one another in that unconditional way that never seeks to harm another, only to awaken them to their true self of compassion.....and "Heaven's Gate" seems to fly in the face of that truth I think.
There is something pathically and sweetly innocent about the new matching Nike tennis shoes, the rolls of quarters and matching jogging suits used to "catch" the comet's UFO ride out, that makes the heart ache and asks the question, "Did these people really know what they were doing?","Does God/The Universe REALLY work this way???". Working from the given that, "We all have free will" and "All realities and possiblities exist and are valid", it still begs the question "Is this an acceptable "truth" (The Heaven's Gate Incident), to be asked to accept on these terms?", because make no mistake we ARE being asked to accept it. Or find another answer.
I've had my own psychic experiences with Comets, UFO's, Multi-dimensional beings, guides, and otherwise. Undoubtedly, DISCERNMENT is a major issue! But, after having been on the wrong end of such an experience myself and knowing how hard it can be to get clear about EXACTLY what IS going on, I can't help but feel very deeply for these people and for that matter everyone and everything even remotely affected. Because this is what my expeiences have taught me....If they really WANT to fool you they most probably will, because you are usually in a total state of trust when these kinds of experiences happen and your heart is unusually open and receptive to the unconditional nature of Love. Secondly, if your guides have set this experience up, nothing you are LIKELY to do will stop the direction of the experience. In other words, if you are not MEANT to win, you probably won't. And of course, this all falls under the "You have Free Will" catagory! Which feels more like a legal disclaimer at times rather than your best and highest good!
In other words, I FEEL DEEPLY for the "Heaven's Gate" people regardless of what they intended or how close they got in manifesting their vision , because I KNOW what it feels like to be out there in that void and trying to find your way with your highest truth and discovering how awesome a task that is. And instead of watching like innocent bystanders to an accident, there becomes a need to surround and support these most gentle beings with Our Truth and Our Light while they hold that most daring place for us in their innocence and not abandon them to Our's or Their ignorance of the"realities" and "possiblities". AND....since on many levels we all share conciousness (In other words, "What you feel, I feel too.), even in our unconditionality do we really have the right to ask of each other to experience these things and carry the burden of them? I don't know about you but My heart tells me instinctively there is another way that is more honoring of ALL our sensitivities.....As with many of us, I did not need to experience the tragic loss of Princess Diana or of the gentle people of Heaven's Gate to feel the power of their gentleness and compassion in my life and I question and resent being forced to, because the message that I get out of it is that sweetness and gentleness and tender compassion can not survive in this world unscathed OR "that is how life is"....I am not willing to accept either of these. Therefore , I put it to each and every being here to make a stand to protect something sweet and gentle and sacred in this world everyday, starting with that part of yourself!
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