I recall one time when I was about to go to sleep and I suddenly had a falling dream experience. When I hit the bottom of the pit into which I fell I awoke and immediately said to myself that if it happened again I would try and resist waking up just to see if anything else happened. I started to go to sleep again and the same thing happened. As I approached the bottom of the pit I tried to stay in the state that I was but the fear of impact awoke me again. Then it all happened a third time and this time I did not awake as I hit the bottom but my mind seemed to expand to encompass the whole universe of both time and space. I found myself observing everything that had ever happened and ever would and I could see where everything and everyone fitted in and what life was actually all about. Suddenly I knew I had nothing at all to be concerned about and that my life, and that of everyone else, was just as it ought to be. It was the most rewarding and blissful experience. I awoke from this state and immediately woke Lydia Anne and told her that I now knew without a doubt what life was all about and she begged me to tell her so that she might know as well. It was only then that I realised that I could not remember even one thing of what I had seen. I only knew that it had happened. Noah‘s birds, therefore, could report to him that the state of things was fine or not fine but they could not provide him with any particulars and the story does in fact say that even with the report of the dove in hand Noah still waited to make sure things were settled enough before he departed the ark. The Phoenix sets out to overcome this problem in destroying and remaking itself and when it comes back to life it does so with only one head which has melded both forms of the old awareness into one new form. So the story of Noah is telling us that consciousness has two forms; one that is finite and the other that is infinite. When one is focused in space/time one cannot be aware or even recall anything of the infinite and when one is experiencing infinite consciousness one cannot relate what one observes to anything in space/time. To overcome this problem we have to behave as the Phoenix; we have to break down all our old ideas about reality, we have to stop thinking in the old ways and we have to recreate ourselves from out of the ashes of our own destruction. This is some of the information that I think is contained within the story of Noah. There are many other stories that contain just as much valuable information and we will discuss some of them later in the book; but at the time that I was first reading and experiencing these stories in this new way I didn‘t want to believe what I was seeing and so I struggled with interpretation and I was very unsure about just who I should talk to about this material. Apart from Lydia Anne and, to a lesser degree her husband, there seemed to be nobody. Many years later, decades later, I am able to reflect on all of these events and say that if we are open the One indeed does reveal itself in our lives in many amazing ways. For some of us it appears as spirits and UFOs and for others in events like ‗draw the creation‘.
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