Beyond The Dream

"Imitation Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery." -- Mahatma Gandhi

A couple of months ago, I had the unusual experience of finding my site name "Prisms of Reality" listed under another well-known metaphysical site as their art gallery. It appeared the name referred to a particular digital painting which stunned me even further. Beneath my moniker of "Prisms of Reality" was what I would consider an astral portrait of me. It was as if my energetic signature had been viewed by this artist and cast in digital format for all to see. Not only that, but it had my web site name all across it without my permission.

It seems rather odd that the creator of the artwork didn't know what he had created and yet I knew the significance of all his choices simply because they were me. The reason he chose that particular shade of blue and lavender was simple: they were my essence families - my spirit family colors. He chose a prism in the background that reflected to me a particular focus I have in the future that likes geometric constructs and deals with this area primarily. He put the gold aura around me as many psychics and cameras have noticed being part of my imprint. He created an etheric form of a butterfly as an overlay that seemed more like a woman, and there again, he captured my association with Elias as he favors the butterfly as his symbol. The female image aligns with my choice of focus as a feminine orientation in a patriarchal world. And the whole thing was based on energy drifts in an space-like astral framework, almost as if the artist had caught a glimpse of my energy as I went about some astral voyage.

It took me a while to make contact with the publishers and the artist. We discussed copyright laws with regards to my web site name. But, more importantly, I was curious: Why? Why did they choose that name? How could any one person take my energetic snapshot like that without my objective knowledge of it?

The answer is rather simple and yet defies all logic. As the publisher of the e-magazine explained, the image was sent to a person who meditates on the submissions and chooses a name. Sometimes they get an impression of several choices. In this instance, upon seeing the image the meditator took little time to ascertain that the appropriate name was "Prisms of Reality." In fact, she told me. They were sure of the connection and adamant that no other name should go there. Well, I had no issue with the fact that the meditator was recognizing the connection in energy of this work of art to me as it was obvious to me as well! But, what are we to do in a world that says that using my name without my permission is copyright infringement?

In the end, we decided to rename that section of the site and it was no longer accessible under my name. But, it leads me to consider that all of our work is not hidden. That aspects of us that we believe are not being recognized are fully recognized in Spirit. When we think we are safe in our anonymity, we are only fooling ourselves. When we discount our worth as human beings, we fail to realize that everyone contributes to the whole. There are no worthless human beings. When we lay claim to "our work" we forget all the other people who contribute energetically to it. We are not separate. We are all one.

It is said you can not observe an atom without having some effect on its path. If we are all connected within Spirit then all that we do is recognized and all contribute to its existence. Someday, hopefully, we can build a world that echoes that knowledge instead of feeling the need to protect our property and insisting that we own our work and we are the sole originators of that work without impoverishing ourselves as well. That would be the ideal.