When he told me he wanted to “explore the ideas surrounding changes in the world now — what some people call The Shift” I was eager to discover more.
First he asked what changes I had seen in the world in the last few years. I spoke of Covid — a leveller in one sense, but a source of division: freedom vs. rules; vaccine vs. anti-vax.
Asher: Yes, that’s how any change goes. The axis is freedom-suppression. People have little visible power so they want to claim small victories, but there will be a cost. Both extremes stand to lose — the suppressors will lose their power to control and the rebels will find their freedom is pointless.
Jes: Freedom from rather than freedom to: like angry kids kicking back against boundaries but with no idea what to do once the boundaries fall down. I’m feeling this is where you have some insights.
Asher: Yes, I do, because it has happened before: much division, factionalism, leaders who lost their authority…
At that point I stopped receiving his message in words and saw one of Asher’s ‘mind movies’. I saw a fire raging and spreading outwards. Gradually the centre burned out and there was a grey wasteland. Blades of grass started to grow but were weak and didn’t thrive.
Next I saw a tall structure like a clocktower. It grew out of my heart but I was seeing it growing into that empty space. It wasn’t for telling the time, but for regulating. It had a great pendulum. It was a rallying point and people turned to it and trusted it. It brought them together.
Asher: Good. You got that accurately. What did you make of it?
Jes: It’s a positive and hopeful idea; one worth striving for. That pendulum, the regulator, has to be the human heart, doesn’t it?
Asher: Yes. What else could it be?
Jes: Is it an image you’ve drawn from history? Other cultures?
Asher: Yes. Be open to the idea of a symbol, created by humanity to draw us together with a common goal. This is what came to the early Egyptians, to Stonehenge, to the temples of Malta.
Jes: But those are all structures…
Asher: It’s the intention that matters, not just what is created. That is the physicalisation of the intent. It needn’t be an object. It could be a song, a story, a dream.
Jes: Wouldn’t ego get in the way? Ownership and control are so ingrained into our society: 2500+ years of top-down leadership with rebels throwing up temporary changes and only altering the balance slightly. Each faction would want to decide how it looked or sounded. What am I missing?
Asher: A miracle. It always starts with a miracle. The sites we see are just the memorials or symbols of what happened. It’s like mistaking The Cenotaph for a world war.
The goal is to remember it — to form a lasting symbol for future generations, so they can recall that this is what once happened.
Jes: Do you know what some of the earlier miracles were?
Asher: Not relevant. They are tailored to the age and the collective psyche.
I was struggling to move beyond the current vibration of the planet — thinking how crop circles and UFOs are so quickly ‘debunked’ by the military. Ash picked up on my thoughts and added,
Asher: The money has to go. It rules everything at the moment. The military and scientists must resist all but the material ‘stuff’, or their funding would go. Without that limitation we would have moved on decades ago.
Jes: I understand what you mean; without funding issues, new ideas are on an equal footing with the status quo.
Asher: Exactly. Another problem at your end is words. There are either no suitable words for what is to come or too many, so that it becomes meaningless.
After that we talked about the power of symbols. I saw an image of 12 circles surrounding one — probably from my recent reading of John Michel and Frederick Bligh Bond. It felt like a universal blueprint for something, with links to early Christian and Hebrew ideas, clocks, zodiac, full moons in a year and far more.
Asher agreed that it was relevant, searched my mind for ways to explain its possible significance but found nothing he could use. Perhaps, as my reading and vocabulary expands, we’ll be able to return to the subject at some point.
Nevertheless, I found what I did get that night to be fascinating.