Deathbed or Life Bed?
It’s a Matter of Electricity
Greetings all!
Our only news since our last newsletter is that a) the New Orleans humidity is finally upon us (so is hurricane season!) and b) we’re a hundred pages or so closer to finishing the colossal, multi-book editing project of summer 2021. We’re enjoying it, actually, because each book is a compilation of all the visions, experiments, and teachings that took place during the past few Guild seasons.
Check out this wild image of a Guild member’s altar from the 2019-2020 season. That was during the height of the Pinnacle Prayer Book days:
It’s not quite time for another newsletter, but we just read this brief report from last year and it inspired us. Perhaps it will inspire you, too.
Our next Guild season will be here before you know it! We can’t wait. You’ll be hearing from us again, soon.
Love,
Hillary & Brad
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Last year, Hillary dreamed that we were visiting a Sacred Ecstatics Guild member, Sean, and his family in Toronto. They were attending to an elder man in hospice:
We went to the nursing home facility where Sean and other family and friends of the ill patient were gathered. They had been there for several days and were tired and weary, but still in good spirits. We never saw the patient, but I knew he was some kind of grandfatherly figure loved by many. After greeting the family, we sat down in the waiting room. Instead of chairs and couches, however, the room was filled with large beds. Everyone stretched out on the beds to hang out and chat as we continued to wait for the man to pass on.
Sean’s son, who was a little boy at the time, spontaneously started to pray for the dying elder. He closed his eyes and spoke as if no one else in the room could hear him: “Dear Tesla, please, I think two more days is enough.” I immediately knew that he prayed to Tesla because he understood that life and death are a matter of electricity. His parents and the rest of us erupted in laughter at his childlike honesty in expressing the desire for the man to get on with dying so we could all go home and get back to living. His prayer brought a burst of joy to what was otherwise a sorrowful situation.
A few years ago, Brad asked everyone during a Sacred Ecstatics intensive, “Are you going to wait until you’re on your deathbed to pay attention to your rope to God? Or are you going to do it while you’re on your life bed? Deathbed or life bed—it’s your choice.” Based on past teachings received from the spiritual classrooms, we now feel that life and death are indeed a matter of electricity. We unfortunately live too often as if we are half dead, asleep like zombies who are unaware of the big room mystery surrounding us. This results in the absence of the vibrant current that comes from deeply feeling our relationship to divinity.
Most people do not spiritually wake up to vibrant mystical life until they are on their deathbed. Then for the first time they truly feel their need for divine electricity enough to pray. This is when the alternating spiritual current of n/om is ready to flow as trickster’s escape plans and distraction maneuvers prove useless. Yet there is no need to wait until you are on your deathbed for your heart and soul to be plugged in to the highest power station.
In one of our most important visions in 2019, Brad dreamed we met Mark Twain in the mystical library on the other side. Twain, who was good friends with Nikola Tesla, had written a new book after he crossed over called, “The Book of Life.” After giving us this book as a gift, Mark Twain commented: “It’s all about electricity, my friends. And above all else, keep God on the line.”
Wake up! Have you fallen asleep on your life bed again? We are all gathered in the waiting room, suspended in the middle between biological birth and death. It’s okay to be honest that sometimes you feel so weary, bored, or confused that you’d rather just get on with it; two more days of being stuck in a lifeless middle may feel like enough. But the older and wiser part of you knows that what you need most is not a final escape. You are in need of plugging your power cord into the numinous receptacle on high in order to re-ignite your inner light. It is all about electricity, friends. Keep the current humming by making sure you feel God on the main line. In the big room of mystery there is no static beginning or final ending of life versus death, only an alternating current that moves from one side to the other side, circulating the love-empowered life force throughout space and time.
-The Keeneys, June 17, 2021