Posted on 30 October 2011, 13:11

The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

J. B. S. Haldane, in Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927), p. 286

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What could be “queerer” than talking with the spirit of Stephen the Martyr?

And yet our book gives ample evidence that this is exactly what we have been doing.  “Exactly?”  What are we to think of a strange conversation with Stephen, when I have been suggesting that Christ is to be found in the space between people.

Like a Gestalt, remember the diagram?  Two faces looking at each other, or if you look at the space between the faces, you see a vase with a narrow waist outlined by the two facing noses. I was comparing Christ to the vase.

Stephen agreed, and then said FIVE WORDS in Greek, “ Iacho me,  phaino se, phrontizesthe”: “I proclaim myself, I reveal thee – think about it.”  Much else of interest was spoken, but especially interesting was what I discovered a day or two later.

It was in Berlins, in the Buller Gorge of the West Coast of New Zealand that this conversation with Stephen took place.  But chance conversations led me to discover that about the time of the conversation, late in the evening, almost 200 kilometers away in Christchurch, there were the following events:

(1) A psychic friend was looking for FIVE NOTES on his piano,

(2) my future wife, Gertrud, had a dream in which there were FIVE LINKS from her body to a philosopher’s stone, 

(3) A school teacher friend was making a UFO with FIVE CONNECTIONS to the four walls of the classroom; and

(4) from The Christian Science Monitor two friends were clipping out this poem:

“Message Received:
Sudden sun bursts…in your thought
The tree at your window… takes leaf in your book
Unannounced five birds
five shadows
gather print in their wings
move within the branches’ tracery
that grows through the words
their meanings alight
Notes on the stave of the tree, they remain
after the birds are gone, after the words fly free.
The eye becomes the ear.
You’re wondering why
in all this sun, in all this gentle urging
five sounds frame one
dear cosmic cry.”

[Underneath were written in musical notation the five notes of the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS UFO. In that same conversation with Stephen, we had been discussing the UFO as a symbol of the interlacing of the physical and spiritual realms.]

To study this event further, go to Sections 120-123 in Afterlife Teaching from Stephen the Martyr

When we have let this story sink in,  we are faced with the question, What are we really doing when we are talking to Stephen?  I was talking to Stephen later about these strange synchronicities, and asked him whether he “magicked” these synchronicities into happening. He denied that he had, and asserted that it was the Christ of the Space Between who had brought all the events into being, Stephen’s five words, Gertrud’s dream, the psychic’s five notes, the teacher’s UFO with five connections, and the friends cutting out the poem.  -  I called this strange coming together of events, “The Five-fives”.

Perhaps it helps us to understand, if we can accept that the spiritual and physical are dimensions of one whole; and if we can picture the spiritual-physical whole as being like the internet, where everything is connected in cyberspace to everything else, where time and distance mean nothing.  Let my Point of View be that computer screen where first came the conversation with Stephen, and then the four other events in Christchurch.  It is as if I had Googled “Five connections” and then as if from nowhere, (or from everywhere), came the other events.  “Christ of the Space Between” can be compared to the Search Engine.  But let us not be carried away with such analogies. After all, the internet is seen as physical. The spiritual reality is not to be understood in purely physical terms.

For more information on Stephen, go to http://thegroundoffaith.net/stephen/

Michael’s revised edition , Afterlife Teaching From Stephen the Martyr is published by White Crow books and available from Amazon and all good online book stores.

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