If you haven’t experienced any near misses, you may have at least heard or read about them. When people describe their near misses, they say things such as “The bullet missed my heart by just a few inches,” or “I was only a few feet away from car that crashed into crowd,” or “Had I not turned around, I would have been killed.” Are these misses luck, coincidence, or some power at work? I think you know answer.

And how about meeting you forgot to attend. As long as meeting went well, you probably would not think much of it. But what if a fire engulfed building where meeting took place and many people were hurt or killed? Chances are that you would realize you would have been in that fire too, and that forgetting meeting probably saved your life. How do you think it happened that you forgot?

What about those random events we call luck or coincidence? If so-called lucky break or coincidence involves meeting someone who gives you break, then you should know that your guide and other person’s guide may have worked hard to get two of you together. Our guides have a responsibility to remind us of certain things or help bring about certain events that would not have happened without their assistance.

Remember, they have blueprint of your life in their possession, and they are constantly checking to make sure nothing is missed.

How about that sudden illness that prevented you from attending party of year? Yes, one you were so disappointed to miss. Have you considered that something disastrous might have happened to you had you gone to that party? What does inconvenience and discomfort of minor illness matter when something so much more important is at stake?

This example shows that we can be helped and protected by things which are generally not considered to be good, such as illness. And it shows that there may be some truth to adage “Every disappointment is a blessing.” Guess who may have contributed to this blessing in disguise? You guessed right. Your guide will do whatever is necessary to protect you from negative experiences you don’t need to attain your goal in this incarnation.

Perhaps you had a grandfather like Mr. Rich, who discovered artificial gene that cured many diseases, became wealthy, and left a fortune to your dad and subsequently to you. Do you know who guided Mr. Rich through discovery process? This illustration shows that we benefit not only from direct assistance of our own guide but also from other people’s guides, at least indirectly. But let’s not lose sight of primary goal: cure of disease.

--- Context-Free ---

A "context" is a circumstance, point of reference, or a situation by which a particular view is aligned and a unique meaning is derived. Our personal contexts are those rules, belief systems, and cognitive maps that we've developed over our lives that provide us with a basis for making decisions, passing judgment, applying bias, filtering incoming information, and learning new ideas.

Immediately, it becomes apparent that living a "context-free" life is impossible. If we even attempted to do so, we would become mental vegetables! Information and sensory information would simply flow in and flop on floors of our minds.

But, living with an overly complex contextual point of reference can have a similar affect. In such a case, information and sensory information are processed to point of non-existence and we neither move forward or backward in our lives and learning. Instead, all data is "mashed" and "sliced" to fit neatly within knowledge we already have simply to ensure a "safety context".

With complex contexts, regardless of how absurd or inaccurate our context is, mind will devise any justification even if it uses a basis of other absurd or inaccurate information. It is our way to ensure that our "comfort zones" go unaffected.

--- Your Contextual References ---

We all have some point of reference that we use to analyze and store information that comes in through our physical senses and psi channels. These contexts come from parental voices, authority figures, experiences, trauma, and success. As we move through life, context is usually altered to accept new information and understand how it is to be processed and managed.

However, many people's complex contextual references block and isolate internal mind to point of stifling and smothering mental processes. The mind can then only reprocess same information it has done so in past. In end, you derive same answers to same problems and end up back at point you started.

--- Simplifying Your Context ---

On extreme, over time, rules beget rules until, eventually, we have a complex data filtration system that kicks out anything that remote resembles some idea or information not completely in-line with our systems of belief. The human mind tends to develop such complexity to answer questions for which it is unsure. It creates a web of cross-connected information to prove that our lives and beliefs are justified.

This type of thought process leads to a stifling existence, little creativity, and a biased view of life as a whole. In end, we end up with self-composed theories about how things are and should be and are unwilling to accept anything else. Eventually we can become embittered, angry, frustrated, envious, and prejudiced.