Oracle of Consciousness

Unfortunately, on opening her emails a couple of days into their Lhasa sojourn, Angelique was confronted with some very sad news.

Her grandmother had passed away a few days earlier at the ripe old age of 93, surrounded as she wished, by her loving family.

Just days earlier, sensing her imminent passing, her grandmother wrote Angelique a beautiful, heart-centred letter and added wonderful quotes from Rumi, both were contained in the mail.

"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there."

"When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

In the letter, Angelique's most favourite grandmother had asked her not to break her travels and return to Paris, but to celebrate her passing in a special and holy place.

Grandma was planning her exit from this earthly plane.

Angelique was dear to her and she wanted to spare her the grief of the family, the subsequent funeral and all the associated sadness that accompanies most westerner's passing.

Grandma was a most considerate, loving and compassion person.

In a following email, her dad this time had some uplifting news, which would seal their plans to visit all the sacred, energy places on the couple's proposed agenda.

Ahead of her time to pass, grandma had taken her Dad aside and whispered into his ear, "Please send my darling Angelique enough money for her entire trip. It can come out of her inheritance."

That night, in a refreshing break from their frugal and humble accommodations and food in India, Jake and Angelique dined in fine style at Lhasa's House of Shambala restaurant near the Lhasa Potala Palace, where they raised their glasses of bubbly and clinked grandma a fond farewell on her onward journey.

At the bottom of grandmother's letter, was a sentence,

"If you miss me my darling Angelique, just feel into your heart, because a part of me lives there now and forever."

Raising their glasses again and with both of them touching their hearts, Angelique tearily whispered,

"Farewell great soul, until we meet again."

After a few days of rest and Angelique processing her grief and loss, the couple started researching their Tibetan sojourn, both online and quizzing hardy travellers who they came across in Lhasa.

It was early morning just after dawn when Angelique sat bolt upright in bed and began shaking Jake furiously from his deep sleep.

"Jake, Jake Jake, wake up."

"I've got it!" she exclaimed!

Jake unaccustomed to such a rude awakening, and blearily eyed muttered, "In the morning honey, in the morning," hoping she would go away.

But alas for Jake she didn't, and swinging the doors wide open she insisted "Jake , it is morning and you have to hear this!"

"Do you remember Assaji in Nepal, he talked about a wandering Sadhu he met years ago who was living in Tibet and is very old and extremely wise?"

Assaji said "If you are ever in Tibet, you should seek him out."

Angelique prodded Jakes sleepy memory alive.

"Yeah, yeah, I remember now," said Jake "And how Assaji's face lit up when he spoke about him."

"Apparently he used to be a high Tibetan Rinpoche in Lhasa at the time, and then left to go into solitary silence in the mountains."

As they made their way through the labyrinth of cobbled stone paths winding their way back to their accommodation, Jake suddenly reached for Angelique's arm and gently pulled her to a stop to question her.

"How on earth did he do that Angelique?"

"Do what Jake? She replied, somewhat startled.

He said, "I have been waiting for you."

"How could he have known we were coming and why us?"

"Ahhh....' mused Angelique, 'firstly, well done for picking up on that Jake and secondly, let's just put it down to Quantum Entanglement."

"Quantum what?" Jake blurted out.

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