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The BackStory of the Reading
When I first met Slade Roberson we had an immediate spiritual connection. I can only describe it as a very conscious recognition of spirit, as if, on another level we knew each other. This connection manifested in me asking him for an interview for this blog, a meeting with his guides regarding interview questions and lastly, scheduling a reading.
In each of these instances Slade was thinking something to which I responded, almost as if we had a spiritual short wave radio that we were using to listen to one another. I received my first reading from him a few days after I began my NLP Coaching course. I didn’t know what day he would do it, but was not surprised the morning I got the email because I was aware of another person’s presence (a distinct energy connection) the night before.
What was it like?
It was a journey. Together we traveled through the landscape of my energy toward a visual message that was meant for both of us. We met my main spirit guide, got a look at my god posse and discovered that we both serve the mother/goddess in the aspect of Mary…I would come to understand later the connection between her appearances to me and first chakra energy. Here is a segment of my reading:
I received a very detailed vision of visiting your Tower with you. You told me you had to “run upstairs to check something” and told me to look at a display case of what looked like trays of jewelry or pendants. You said “I want one of those” and ran off. I looked where you pointed and there were two pendants or amulets that appeared to be made of amber. They were shaped like honey bees, but were the size of carver or bumble bees — slightly larger than life-size.
They were gorgeous, and I thought, if Paula gets one, I’m getting the other one right beside it — I want one too! If you come back from San Francisco bearing some gorgeous new amber pendant, I’ll just die from jealousy! : ) Obviously, these are symbolic — I can’t imagine actually finding something like them physically existing… They were almost anatomically perfect, like tiny machines made of jewels or some material we don’t have the technology for. Well, I take that back, circuit boards and computer chips have a similar look and feel, really, in terms of physical material…
So, you came flying back down the stairs and grabbed my hand and said “I’ve got to show you something!” You were very excited. I followed you up this spiral stone staircase leading up into your Tower, and I was anticipating where you were going, but I was also reluctant to mention that I can only go so far up in my Tower — I can’t go out “on the roof” — at least, I haven’t been able to yet.
I was beginning to suspect you had discovered something I have not. Sure enough, the staircase went straight up to the ceiling and awkwardly ended. No door or window. There was a landing at the top, like there SHOULD be a door or window, but the space between the landing and the ceiling was barely half-a-foot high.
You said “Watch this!” You had just “watched someone else do this trick” and had apparently tried it, and very quickly returned to find me and show me:
You laid down and inched/crawled into that space between the landing and the ceiling — barely room to squeeze your body into it. It looked incredibly uncomfortable, claustrophobic… I was like “Paula, what are you…?”
Red-faced and barely able to breathe you shouted back “No! Watch this!” And right before my eyes you pushed yourself up against the ceiling, like doing a push-up and BIRTHED yourself through the ceiling and vanished. Like a caterpillar erupting through the skin of a cocoon.
The ceiling is an illusion. After you went through it, it returned to looking like a hard surface. But I know now that you have discovered a way to another level.
Slade literally saw me go through the roof of my tower and that is an appropriate visual comparison to what I have been experiencing.
What Does the Bee Mean?
The bee piece resonated with me so strongly I was surprised by my reaction when I read it. Around the same time as the reading, I picked up a chakra book at the East West Bookstore in Mountain View, CA when I was in training. I had no idea at the time that I would find a part of my answer to the bee there.
(From Wheels of Light)
The image of the bumblebee is found in Crete and Egypt. In Crete the queen bee symbolized the mother goddess who created everything, nurtured everything, and was the reason for being. In Egypt, the bumblebee was a sign of the female pharaoh, the southern part of Egypt or the Upper Nile.The bee and other insects that move like a bee have a rhythmic movement in their legs and in their antennae. This movement relates to the first center. When that movement becomes exaggerated and accelerated it is then associated with flight. In people, when internal movement (or energetic vibration) becomes rapid, it can be said that we are “flying”. We are lifting and moving, expanding and growing in a way that we had not been doing before. Because of this association, the sound of buzzing is often related to the opening of the kundalini. Consequently, the bumblebee became symbolic of the first chakra in the ancient world.
Understanding Symbolism in Readings
Slade has a way with symbolism and reads authentically. He is his own physic in every sense and has a distinct style and ability mixed with straight forward honesty, curiosity and wonder at what he will learn.
My experience with him was a surprise, the information right on and the connection profound. Do I know all of what it meant? Yes, actually I do, so I will leave you with this last quote from my reading as food for thought.
It’s not lost on me that Jeff Lilly had a vision he wrote about that involved a mechanical bee. What do I think this bee is?
Well, I think it’s some totem that we share. I think it’s connected to technology and human ascension. As a devotee of Mary, I believe the bee represents something she stresses to me about human ascension — that we don’t ascend individually — we’re meant to ascend collectively. Is the bee perhaps a metaphor for the hive mind, the collective social structure, connectivity, our new technologically enhanced democratic communication?
These are my theories. Any honey bee action going on in your world?
