INNER CONNECTIONS

Tuesday, 18th. September, 2012.

THE DAILY BREAD:  The Adrian Rawlins connection.

I first re-met Adrian in this my present life in February, 1972. This meeting took place in the kitchen of a terrace house in Rozelle, Sydney, that  I was sharing with a number of others.  I guess it was a fairly typical 'hippie style' (impromptu) 'community' of the time.  During the remainder of 1972, I had ample opportunity to visit and stay at many other such 'communities.'

What occurred to me after residing at this Rozelle address for a few weeks was to radically change the possible, and perhaps probable course of my life. I returned 'home' one day to the usual situation of people getting stoned on grass, etc., attempting to cook something to eat, and so on. However, this particular evening there was something strikingly different happening. There, seated in a chair in the kitchen (visible from the hallway) was the 'larger than life' presence of  - somebody. There was, however,  something altogether different about this particular 'somebody.' .

I was immediately introduced to Adrian.  It was a most 'informal' and unique introduction: we needed no introduction.  I was at that time approx. 17.5 yrs. old. This would have been the average age of residents living at this address at the time.

I shall not go into any further detail at the present time, regarding this first meeting,  other than to say that through this meeting with Adrian, I was re-introduced to Avatar Meher Baba.

I now believe that I probably met Meher Baba in person in my last re-incarnaon. This would have been in the 1930's in London. Whilst in London, in November, 1977, I met (re-met?)  Delia De Lion and Fred Marks.

However, the inner connection was re-established consciously, for the first time (in this present life-time) through Adrian in February, 1972.

It may be useful to remind my readers that at this time (early 1970's) it was a common theme to attempt to 'expand' ones consciousness -  usually this took the form of utilising a variety of  'chemical keys,'  the most prevalent of  which was cannabis.  However, there was a fair bit of LSD,  Psilocybian mushrooms, etc. The aim was to increase ones consciousness; to achieve a higher level of consciousness.

However, it quickly became apparent to me upon meeting Adrian for the first time, that one did not necessarily need to utilise chemical means to achieve higher consciousness; and that this higher consciousness could be a lasting achievement.  From the moment that I first met Adrian ,  I  experienced this natural 'spiritual high' for myself, upon making the inter-personal (and 'transpersonal') connection! This was indeed something new to me at that time!

 I  have had many opportunities to explore this phenomenon, as well as its precise meaning for me;  in various contexts, and with various other persons, in the interviening  years.


I think it appropriate here to quote from Avatar Meher Baba's Discourses (7th. edn.,p.186) in relation to the fact that all human persons are constantly 'inter-acting' inwardly all the time, irrespective of whether they are aware of this or not: "Those who have even a preliminary acquaintance with the structure and laws of the inner spheres of existence know that complete isolation of human beings is a figment of the imagination."

".....Whether they desire it or not, all persons are constantly acting and interacting upon each other by their very existence, even when they do not establish any contact on the physical plane." (ibid.,p.186).

The  above description  of 'inner connection' and  'inter-action' on the inner planes of existence coincides exactly with my own description of Soul Alchemy.


As I have mentioned previously, it was sometime in late February that I first 're-met' Adrian in this present life-time. I have many  clear memories of my experiences of companionship with Adrian from 1972. One such experience from that time is of the Easter Weekend in 1972, whilst travelling in a V.W.  'combie' van from Sydney to Byron Bay. We stopped off at a Zoo on the Pacific Highway, near Coffs Harbour.I had not as yet read or rather, attempted to read Meher Baba' s book God Speaks, except for the first few pages of Part-1: Titled, States of  Consciousness:  "All souls (atmas) were, are and will be in the Over-Soul (Paramatma). Souls (atmas) are all One. All souls are infinite and eternal. They are formless. All souls are One; there is no difference in souls or in their being and existence as souls. There is a difference in the consciousness of souls; there is a difference in the planes of consciousness of souls;there is a difference in the experience of souls and thus there is a difference in the state of souls." (excerpted from God Speaks; Meher Baba,  p. 38, 1972, edn. Dodd Mead, New York).

To  return to my anecdote,  It was still quite hot travelling up the coast in early April, 1972, so we decided to take a break, and check out the local zoo, with all it's wondrous creatures of the various   'Kingdoms' of evolution. Most memorable of all  (on account of Adrian's inter-action with this particular creature) was the large White Cockatoo, in a not so large cage. We stopped to 'have a chat' with this  creature in an un-natural (human imposed)  state of captivity.

























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