I’m watching, and listening to, another person break through on issues of abandonment that have been crippling her all her life.
It’s humbling, amazing, spectacular to watch – and be part of.
Ten years ago I would have talked about emergence as if it were only a gradual process, like continually polishing fine wood.
But, watching my friend break through and having experienced the falling away of my own character armor, (1) I’ve now made more room in my model for sudden breakthroughs!
This breakthrough (renewing a relationship with the man she has always loved and yet parted from perhaps 20 years ago) is something she has wanted for as long as I’ve known her (fifteen years). And I never heard her falter.
As you might expect, from an ordered universe, almost immediately, now, alternate futures begin to make their appearance. Testing her commitment? Helping her complete her past and begin a new chapter?
Would you like to come to Australia? Well, would you? You’ve been talking about it so much. Was that just desperation? How much do you want this relationship? Please commit yourself.
What was it Murray said?
“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
“All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occured. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way.” (2)
Let me spend a moment on my own case. I was fully committed to having the breakthrough I needed to write at levels I wanted to be writing at and the minute I was and with Michael’s help, I dropped my character armor.
Not like that would ever have occurred to me as something that could or needed to be done. But once it was done, oh, the difference it made in my life! (3)
Returning to my friend, look at the unfoldment in her, yearning for a relationship that she could never “hold” because of her issues. And now after more than fifteen years of loyalty and work on herself, that relationship has arrived, in full blossom.
Honestly, can things get more inspiring than that?
Footnotes
(1) On that example of emergence, see Factory Reset; or, Dropping Our Character Armor at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Factory-Reset-or-Dropping-Our-Character-Armor-R6.pdf
On the more general subject of emergence, see:
(2) W.H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition.
(3) Well, of course that was what needed to be done. How could I have thought otherwise? Not just reporting events, but reporting their impact on us as we move through this extremist-populated jungle. This godless, Satanic landscape.
Pardon me while I put on my robe and sandals. … To the promised land. OK, off with the gear.
What else can I say?