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Trip to Seattle - Introduction

This is a recount of a trip I took to Seattle. The purpose of the trip was helping my dad drive my mom home to Helena. My mom had just gone through an extensive surgery and my dad had been stay with her in the hospital and not getting much sleep. At home I was dealing with a few things of my own. I was in the middle of studying for my professional license, my knee had been acting up the last couple of days, and my wife and I had just found out that we were expecting our first kid. All the same I decided that it wasn’t a good idea for my dad to try and drive home by himself and I booked a plane ticket for Seattle. Over the course of this little 2 day trip I had some interesting experiences that I though I would share. I am not claiming to know what was going on or if there was anything at all. I am just sharing some of the things that stuck out in my mind as I reflected after my return home.


Trip to Seattle - Getting Going

Trip to Seattle - Getting Going

As I start to prepare for my flight to Seattle I start to get a nervous feeling gnawing at my stomach. I don’t know why this is happening. I am not nervous about flying. I have my trip from the airport to the hospital planned out. The only thing that I can come up with is that I am nervous to see my parents, especially my mother who has just gone through an extensive surgery on her neck and throat. Once my bags are packed I took a moment to sit down in my meditation spot and just clear my head and relax. As I sat there with my eyes closed there was a sudden change in my emotion. I went from feeling nervous and anxious to a calm loving feeling. It struck me as different because it didn’t feel like it came internally from me but more like something came over and gave me a big hug. The types of hug you got from your mother or grandmother when you were a small kid. It completely surrounded me. Soon my wife arrived home. Her employer was kind enough to get her a few hours off in the middle of the day so she could take me to the airport.

Trip to Seattle - Airports and Planes

Trip to Seattle - Airports and Planes

At the airport I got through security with incident for a change. I would say I get randomly selected and personally checked almost every time I fly. I can remember one other time it hasn’t happened to me. This time I thought I would try and go into stealth mode. As I was waiting in line I focused on pulling all of my energy in. It felt like I was trying to hold my breath and plugging my ears. I say plugging my ears because everything seemed quieter while I was doing this. I think it did the trick because the security personal barely even gave me a single look let alone a second. One other thing of note, while I was standing in line there was a guy four or five people ahead of me that seemed to grab my attention. There wasn’t anything in particular about him that made him stand out. He ended up getting pulled aside for a random security check….strange.

While I was waiting for my plane I notice that there is a Buddhist monk sitting across the terminal from me. Not something that you normally see in Helena, MT. I scanned him and found that his energy was very calm, balanced and even slightly feminine. I also got the feeling that he was from Montana as well. I tried to make my presence know by expanding it across the room. I even gave him an energetic “Hi!” But if he was aware of me he wasn’t letting on. It was an interesting experience. After he got on his plane thought to myself that this could be an interesting trip and made it a point that I was going to try and stay aware as much as humanly possible throughout journey.

The plane ride went by in the flash with my trusty Zen MP3 player loaded to the gills with Higher Balance material. I listened to Power of Surrender. The ride wasn’t long enough to cover the whole module but I got a good chunk covered. As we came in for our landing I started to think about everything I had to do to get to the hospital. A small bit of panic set in. I have never been to this airport before; I don’t know where the baggage claim is. I don’t know how to get to the bus that I am suppose to take. What if the baggage is late getting to the claim and I miss my bus? What if they lost my luggage? Then I remember Baard’s blog of his recent trip and how he used time stepping to guide and calm himself. Good idea, too bad I don’t really know what I am doing. “It doesn’t hurt to try.” I tell myself. I make the discussion then and there that I am going to send back all the information that I need back to myself once I reach the hospital. A cool sense of calm came over me.

Getting off the plane I soon realize that just like every airport I have ever been. There are signs everywhere, just follow the signs stupid. Standing around the baggage claim I talk to a few people who were wondering about the college I went to, I was wearing an old sweatshirt, and what was wrong with my knee. I had stiffened up a bit on the plane and I was walking with a little limp. Damn, I thought I was covering it up well. Anyway my bags arrived shortly. I had only one. I would have carried on but they would have nabbed my contact solution. I grab my bag and sling my briefcase over my shoulder and try and figure out where to catch the bus. I found a directory that told me that public transportation stop was at door two. Where am I? The furthest baggage claim there is from door two. “Figures”, I tell myself as I start my hike across SeaTac. As I am walking I pass by a few news / concession stands at each one I am tempted to stop and get something to drink. “No, I don’t need anything else to carry,” I tell myself. I finally get to the bus stop and try and figure out what I am doing.

Trip to Seattle - The Bus and My Guide

Trip to Seattle - The Bus and My Guide

I walk over to what looks like a bus schedule and route map. It might as well have been in a foreign language. I knew the route numbers I was suppose to take but I couldn’t find anything on this map. Then this older Asian lady walks up to be asks if I need help in broken English. I’ll save you the broken English and paraphrase what she said. She asked me where I was going and she happened to be going the same direction so I could just follow her. Then she asks if I have change. Crap I don’t. She directs me to run inside and buy something so I will have change for the bus and to hurry it should be there soon. I do as she says kicking my present self for not listening to my future self about stopping and getting something to drink. I come out just as the bus is showing up. I follow her into the bus and pay the drive as instructed. She explained to me and the driver that I needed to pay for both buses at once. I honestly had no idea what she was talking about but everything worked out. The bus was pretty full so I let the lady sit while I stood next to her. I tried to have a conversation with her but she didn’t seem very interested so I stopped and watch the scenery fly by. When we got to the station that we needed to get off at she stood up and told me to follow her. We exited the bus and walked through the station and head outside and about a block up the street to the next bus stop. The route number matched the one I knew I was suppose to take so that made me feel better about following this lady around. We got on the next bus and took off. This bus stopped a lot more often. As I was standing again my knee was really taking a beating. We came to a stop and the lady stood up and told me that the next stop was mine. She told me to have a good evening and got off the bus. That was that. I got off at the next stop which was only 2 blocks away from the hospital. I hobbled up the street and through the hospital to find my mom’s room.

Trip to Seattle - The Hotel

Trip to Seattle - The Hotel

After spending some time with my parents it was time to get checked into the hotel. My dad had been staying in my mom’s room for the most part so he had checked out of his hotel a few days earlier. He decided that since I was going to be in town and that we would be driving home tomorrow that it would be a good idea to get a good nights sleep. One of the nurses had told us that it would be quicker to walk then to drive and find a parking spot. We took her advice grabbed our bags and headed out on foot. Well it was further then we thought and it was mostly up hill. Anyone who had been in Seattle can tell you that there are a lot of hills. We arrive and check in but the building our room is in is across the street. We get across the street and have to use our key to get into the building, but as we approach a lady from the inside opened and held the door for us. She says that she thought we could use some help even if I was wearing a Carroll College sweatshirt. Well the caught us both off guard but she explained that she was from Butte, MT. Butte is about an hour south of Helena and home to Carroll biggest rival school. We had a short chat with her in the lobby. It is a small world these days when you can travel 600 miles and still run into someone who lives 70 miles away from where you started. Too bad it wasn’t under better circumstances. Her husband was also receiving medical treatment and a nearby hospital.

Trip to Seattle - Finding Directions

Trip to Seattle - Finding Directions

Back from the hotel sitting in my mom’s room watching TV and talking to each. It takes a lot of effort for my mom to speak at this point so she doesn’t say much. After a while she decides to speak up. What does she say? “Go eat!” I tell her that I am fine and I get the same response and a stern look. So my dad starts to explain where a go place to grab something to eat to me. She then looks over at him and say “You too!” Here we have a woman who has been in the hospital for two weeks, can barely talk but still feels the need to makes sure we are taking care of ourselves. So after further demanding on her part we take off, again on foot. My dad tells me that there is a good place a couple of blocks away. Well we end up lost in a sense. I really didn’t mind I have having amazing time scanning and feeling out the new frequencies and energies. Once I found out that we were basically walking in circles I decided it was time to ask someone. Now people in walking down the street in Seattle act a little different then I am use to in Helena. When you walk past someone on the street here you usually get a nod, smile, friendly hello maybe even a small wave. This is not something that I have ever thought twice about but once the situation changed it felt weird. People look right past you like you aren’t even there or even noticeably avoid eye contact. There was even one guy that crossed the road in the middle of the block just to avoid walking past the two of us. I realize to get someone’s attention to ask for directions to going to take some work. Or so I thought. We turn a corner and coming up the sidewalk is a lady my age. She’s African and has long dreads with white cowrie shells in them. She seemed approachable so I gave her a friendly wave and greeted her from a distance. She was very receiving and pointed us in the right direction. Towards a main drag area with lots of active. We part ways and as we are walking away my dad comments that he can’t believe that. I asked what he couldn’t believe. He said he couldn’t believe that that girl would stop and talked to two guys on the street at night and give them directions. I thought about it more as we were walking. Then it struck me. That was twice in the same day that I was able to attract someone willing to help me out when I needed it.


Trip to Seattle - Dinner and The Bar

Trip to Seattle - Dinner and The Bar

We find the main street and there are a number of different restaurants, coffee shops, and bars. We keep walking down the street to find something that looks good. We come to a side street and that has a number of bright neon signs. One of them just says “Tacos” and has a number of people standing around it inside and out. It sounds good so we head that direction and head inside. As we are walking through the door my dad mentions that he smells a skunk. One of the guys out front turned around and gave him a funny look. I just laughed. Wondering what was so funny I told him that he didn’t smell a skunk but he did smell the weed that they were smoking. It was a pretty cool place to eat. They had good food and the place was decorated to the gills. They had stuff all over the walls and hanging from the ceiling. When we got done eating we headed back towards the hospital. As we were walking up the sidewalk I notice there was a little bar ahead of us. It had a wooden awning stain dark and painted dark green. There was a little folding chalkboard sign sitting on the sidewalk with the drink specials listed. Then the part that didn’t fit, hanging from the awning above the door was a shiny brushed metal sign with bright red characters, as in oriental writing character. It seemed really out of place to me. As we came up to it I looked inside the windows. Seemed like a normal slightly up scale bar with dim lighting. We got towards one of the last windows when I notice that the person sitting at the table there is starring at me. I give the place one last look over and notice that almost everyone in the place was looking at me. It really gave me the creeps and I got a cold chill down my back. After we were by it I decided I had had enough fun for the night. I pulled my energy in and but my hands in my pockets.


Trip to Seattle - The Hospital Room

Trip to Seattle - The Hospital Room

Later on we are all sitting in my mom’s hospital room. My knee at this point in time was throbbing. My mom and dad were watching TV and I was trying to get my knee to settle down. I couldn’t get focused though there was too much noise. Not physical noise so much as metal brain chatter noise. I decided to try and put up a pyramid to see if that helped. When I pushed the energy out to encompass the whole room it was like someone hit the mute button on a stereo that had been turned up too loud. My dad who was only sitting a few feet from me looked over at me with a strange look and asked, “What the hell was that?” I told him that I had just put a shield around the room so I could concentrate. After I got my knee under control my dad and I started to do some energy movement on my mom. She shortly fell asleep, like she always does, but this time while she was out started to twitch. My dad explained that it has been happening since the surgery and that it goes away after awhile. We kept doing our thing until the twitching stopped. I sat down again and put up another pyramid with the intent that it would stay there and protect her while we were gone. It was getting pretty late so dad gently woke her and told her that we where heading to the hotel. The next morning when we got back to the hospital my mom told us that she didn’t remember us leaving and that she couldn’t remember that last time she had slept that well.


Trip to Seattle - Ride Home

Trip to Seattle - The Ride Home

We are all in the car and on our way home. When we get out of the hustle and bustle of the city I pulled out my mp3 player with the intent of listening to the last part of the surrender module. Dad asks me what I was going to listen to and I tell him some Higher Balance stuff. He asks if there was a way to play it so he could listen. I was a little surprised since I had tried to get him interested in Higher Balance before without much luck. I had sat down with him and listen to the foundation set before. It sparked a little bit of conversation but that was about it. I had happened to bring the FM transmitter that I use in my wife’s car. I get it all hooked up and try and decide what to play for him. I think back to the cores and I have The Ties that Bind on my player. My mom is asleep in the back seat so we move all the sound to the front speakers so it doesn’t wake her up. Mom woke up while we were listen to it and asked to turn it up so she could hear it better. With a smile I move the sound back to all the speakers so she could hear it as well. While she has always been open to the idea of energy, healing, and other thing of the nature. She has never showed any interest in learning more about. The module ends and leads into a discussion on the material between dad and me. Soon it is my turn to drive. We switch and get going. Dad asks what next? Art of Healing is right up his alley so I play it. This one doesn’t lead to much discussion afterwards which surprised me. He has focused much of his learning on healing but I could tell that the information really had the old wheels turning in his head. We stopped and gassed up in Spokane. Dad ran inside while mom and I waited in the car. She tapped me on the shoulder and asked if this is what I have been studying. I told her yes and she gave me thumbs up and smiled. Back on the highway my dad asks if I have anything else to listen to. I told him that I had some music to listen to as well. He said that he meant anything else from Higher Balance. I thought to myself that he is a glutton for punishment. I had been talking about some of the High Guard stuff with me the day before so that was next. That got us most of the way home. We didn’t actually finish High Guard. He asked me to turn it off because thinking about all of it was tiring him out. I kind of laughed and turned it off. He wanted to know what was so funny. I just told him that I though listening to the first two would have worn him out and that I was surprised that he made as far into High Guard as he did. He did admit that thinking about all this had been wearing him down. I explained to him that he might have a headache tomorrow. He questioned and I explained a psychic hangover to him. I was right, when I saw him the next day he told me he felt like he had been out drinking all night.

One last story I want to tell about the ride home. We had to stop at this little tourist trap called the $10,000 Silver Dollar Bar so mom could use the restroom. She still needed a little help getting around so we all went in. When she got done I we were standing out in the hallway waiting for dad when she just turned around and started walking into the restaurant and sat down in a booth. I figure she just needed to sit down so I joined her. When dad got out of the bathroom she waved him over and made him sit down. She then told us to eat. We told her we where fine and that we could wait until we got home. She wouldn’t budge and demanded that we sit down and eat. I couldn’t believe that a person in her condition wouldn’t get back into the car because she had decided that we needed to eat. Even in bad health she is thinking about the needs of other people.

Trip to Seattle - Conclusion

Trip To Seattle - Conclusion

Well as you probably already figured out we made it home and got mom all squared away. Not sure what to think about some of the stuff that happened. I know I made any effort to stay more aware but something felt different. I am not sure if being in a completely different and unfamiliar helped or if it was the environment it self. Maybe the work I have done over the winter in starting to show sprouts of growth with the coming spring. Take the events for what they are. It was a learning and growing experience for my and I hope that they may help you in some way.

Namaste,

Chris