Michael Crichton came and delivered a one, two, punch to the world, then he exited gracefully on Nov. 4, at age 66, having transformed many lives, including mine.
I read his book Travels in 1988. This was way before I had any inner stirrings in my soul about Spirit. Reading Crichton’s autobiographical “Travels” changed my world.
In my book, “Portrait of a Life: On the Road to Becoming,” I wrote in 2003 about Crichton and Travels:
“My learning began with my reading Michael Crichton’s Travels in early 1988.
At that time, I was searching for answers. But I didn’t know the questions to ask, to whom I should ask them and for what reasons I sought them.
I just knew that I had to know.”
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“It was during this time when I was stuck looking for answers that I read Crichton’s Travels. The book was an autobiography of the author’s own travails as he searched for himself, through medical school, then through spiritual explorations, taking him to places internally and externally that he had never before imagined. Even though I could not yet identify with the “internal” explorations he’d done, Crichton’s book resonated with me. I felt a pull to do some internal plumbing of my own.
“Slowly, the guidance about how to go about “looking inside” came to me.”
That was the beginning of my spiritual search and a totally new way of looking at life!
Every day, I’m still looking for new ways to grow closer in Spirit to the force within me. I’m always looking for ways to get closer to the "inside.”
Michael Crichton changed my life: "Thank you, Michael, may God rest your soul. I know wherever you are, you’re looking down with a certain amount of pride on your tremendous contributions to the advancement of souls everywhere.”
For those of you who may be unaware, Michael Crichton was the author of many great historic and pre-historic works: Andromeda Strain, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and other great books. He also was the creator of the television show, "ER". The world will be absent such inspiration until the void is filled by another emerging Presence.
Whenever there is the death of someone great or even those who were not well known, I go back to thinking of the Source of our being: Why are we here? What are our contributions to the world? For what purpose did we manifest in body?
This is the time, too, that it reinforces the knowledge: “I am NOT from here!”
So, then where are we from? Where is Michael Crichton..right now? Where are all the other souls who departed? Did they “die” too with the body?
Death makes you more aware that life as we see it is not truly the LIFE that we are!
With someone’s death, too, we should become more reflective on the contributions we want to make to the world and the legacy we’d like to leave behind, aside from our children.
We can begin to do this by beginning in the very place Crichton introduced to me: “Inside!”
If you’ve never looked within, it is a scary proposition. The question and the hesitancy might also be: Why should I?
My question is: Why should you NOT?
How can you have such a vital part of you that is unexplored?
You know that you operate through what you see and what your perceptions indicate and lead you to believe.
But I also know that you MUST sense there is MORE to you than “meets the eye” and the senses.
Are you prepared to wait for death to discover that aspect of yourself? Or, is it that discovering this inner “self” is a key reason for this life we have here on earth?
Just know that your life has a much, much greater purpose than meets your eye!
Just know that as you delve deeper and get closer to your “inside” you will discover more and more of that greater purpose!
As I’ve discovered, the road may not always be easy or smooth. As a matter of fact, it gets downright rocky, scary and slippery in places where you thought you'd made a firm foothold. But it is by getting through those rough patches and rocky roads that you discover the ESSENCE of you!
When you begin to connect closer to the within, also ask of life: "How can I serve? What is it that you'd like me to contribute?"
Michael Crichton: October 23, 1942- November 4, 2008.
Your legacy of truth and unfolding ...and sharing...will continue here in earth!
Your light continues to shine ever brightly and will never be extinguished!
Namaste’,
Che’
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