Nine months later, Christine's husband, Paul, a minister who is completing his doctoral dissertation, stands before all the SOM teachers to introduce the dream of a world headquarters building to a new group of people. The response is immediate – when do we start, what's the goal, how much money will it require, what can we do?
Clearly, we are ready. The time has come.
When I think of the headquarters for the School of Metaphysics, I think of people. I think of the people who do the work of engaging the world. I think of the artists who design covers for books and brochures. I think of the scientists who log data from dreams and intuitive reports. I think of the masters of consciousness who create the teachings and write the books so others have the ideas for practicing a better life. I think of the teachers who inspire other's inner urge toward soul growth and spiritual progression.
When there are two computers and three people wanting their services right now, or when someone searches for half an hour for a ruler left under a pile of papers in cramped space, or when we have 100 people for dinner in a room that seats 70, I think about a greater physical space to accommodate our current needs.
For the first ten years, the Springfield, MO branch, the mother school, housed SOM headquarters. The file cabinets holding copies of hundreds of intuitive reports became so full the supporting second-story porch floor began to weaken.
By 1983, the first building was built on land near Bennett Springs State Park purchased for the College. Headquarters now had an independent physical space. Headquarters was maturing. Still, personal computers were just a gleam in a few people's eyes, the internet would not be born for another 7 years.
In 1993, over two dozen students attended the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago. Ten of them gave a musical presentation called "The Power of Prayer around the World". Dr. Daniel Condron spoke on the subject of his latest book Permanent Healing and I spoke on Kundalini in a workshop entitled "Spiritual Initiation: Gateways to Higher Consciousness." We had begun to think seriously about a building to house headquarters even to the point of creating a protype 4-foot model of what we called "the octagon." The impetus and funds for that building went into the first dome on campus.
In 2003, that dome was dedicated as a universal site for peace. We call it the Peace Dome and it has provided a space to welcome students, friends, and visitors while we worked and waited for the right time to arrive. Whether I think about the mural on the College barn, painted over 8 weekends by 80 people who came just to learn and help, or the new roof at the Moon Valley Ranch or the addition onto the Gatehouse, a dormitory on campus, I see the same urge to be a part of something greater in ever-changing groups of people.
This urge was preparing the School to receive that something greater. We experienced core groups studying in all four levels of the course, and more graduates were electing to share their matured awareness of Mind through post-grad teaching and service. We began offering day-long teachings for continuing education credit in professional fields. We started building alternative energy machines. We traveled to other countries for international speaking engagements. We started receiving the stones for the Healing Wall. The beauty of these and many other movements is that all of them were moving in the same direction! Toward the same end.
It was also 2003 which saw a celestial event of great importance. Here was where the Christ seed was born, the Cosmic Star in the Heavens over our planet that would foretell the coming energies of the Venus Transit in 2004 and the opening of the heart of the world.
The conscious convergence in spring 2010, brought the necessary combination of three factors needed for this effort to manifest: inception, reception, and perception. While the first Peace Ambassador conference met in the Peace Dome, College of Metaphysics director Daniel R. Condron attended a conference in Louisville and met with SOM students there, while in Dallas teachers and students used a Hollywood movie, Inception, to introduce Ft. Worth people to the study of Mind and dreams. Everything was in place for a collective next step. If there's a moment the headquarters building was initiated, the conscious convergence in July 2010 is that moment in space.
Just six weeks later, Paul Madar stepped forward as project director and the countdown – in sync with the time acceleration predicted by the Mayans, the best astronomers our world ever produced – for the World Headquarters Building for the School of Metaphysics began.
What I find delightful in writing this is how the decades line up. With 1973, 1983, 1993, and 2003. In Paul's projected timeline, we prepare to inflate the dome during the first week in June 2012, just in time for the return of Venus. Then continue finishing the inside of the building for dedication the next year – 2013!
All of these thoughts have surfaced in my mind in the month since Paul announced our intention to build headquarters. The inception successful, now is the time for reception.
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