Who Chooses Your Destiny

I was speaking with a colleague in a country that has many restrictions and is very depriving and deprecating of the professionals they pay minimally. He was feeling trapped. His circumstances reminded me of an interspecies elephant communication from an old elephant bull called Nduna, which means Chief. He was shot by a hunter, because he kept escaping from the game reserve where he lived a large part of his life. He told me he had chosen to die to raise consciousness. This is what he said:

I have passed many younger, lazy days in the African heat. I walked sometimes with freedom sometimes with shackles.

Then I come to realize that it is ‘my walk’ - the path is mine by choice - not by fate or destiny. Or rather, that fate and destiny can be of my own making.

I grew to realize that beyond the anger of victimhood and helplessness is the calm knowingness that comes with ripening years, that indeed all the footprints that lie behind me are how they were meant to be. Where I intended for them to be.

I see younger ones come...and go. I see what I do not want to see, and I feel what I do not want to feel. The heat began to feel oppressive as the humans drove us deeper and deeper into territory that was never meant to be enclosed. Trapped, many of us tried to get out, longing for the freedom of open paths.

This is how I spent my younger days, lost in difficulty and hardship. Frustrated and angry.

Later in my life, a time came when I saw a Light shining through a human man. This Light reminded me that all life is sacred. This sacredness can be lost while we sit in the balance between destruction and evolution. In the centre of this Light, I was reminded of the Divine-created order, and knew that it belonged to whoever took the time to notice it. I noticed it that day. I noticed that this man was also living by it, his Light awakened mine.

Slowly my old life came back, more like a new life actually. I began to live from within, where I found my freedom. All those frustrated days I had tried to walk the path of freedom, only to now find that inside of me is the greatest freedom I will ever encounter.

Once I had savoured and enjoyed my fill, I knew that the time had come to teach others of my kind about this Light. The more I acknowledged its presence, focused on it and used it, it grew. I knew also that the time had come to release myself from one form of existence so that I could transform more completely into another.

I chose to die, but at the same time, I choose to live. Now I occupy space in many worlds, through the physical world I am known by my legacy, and through these words my thoughts are heard, and my Light extended, so that I share myself now as a Living Legacy.

In the ethereal world, I have found my place in the forest, where the air is moist, and the ground is soft. I have found richness of purpose here, and there are many who share in this Lightness, and come here to be Light-filled.

I am here to support, those physical and those not, elephant kind and earth kind with the freedom that comes from remembering our Truth and embracing our oneness. I embody a Light, this Light exists within me and through me, and it can be awakened in you, for truly we are all extensions of the same Source…the same Light.

Sight is not lost to the blind, for sight exists only in the inner mind.

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