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Creating Bridges: The Spiritual & Philosophical :
The BUT Doctor
Healing America's Real Crack Problem One Person at a Time
The BUT Doctor Reminisces about Pizza, Sweet Tea and Dreamland
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“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”-
Richard Bach
Last night I had a dream about my best friend, Tim. In this dream we were chatting and laughing just like we have since the first minute we met in 1982 while employed together in the wonderful and complex world of retail. Tim and I were hired as part-time Christmas help to assist holiday shoppers with their gift-giving lists. We instantly hit it off and have been virtually inseparable ever since. Even today it’s hard to believe that we’ve known each other for 23 years.
Tim was the first person I felt completely safe sharing my true self with. By true self I am referring to my heightened intuition and ability to future forecast for people. Tim is the easiest person to talk to about anything and through our friendship we helped each other to become more aware and conscious people.
Our favorite thing to do is to laugh our butts off, to have fun and to contemplate spirituality, dreams and life after death. We are great sounding boards for each other and we especially connect through music, art and dreams.
In my dream we were laying on my bed, eating pizza and listening to Janet Jackson’s new CD. Periodically Tim would leap off my bed with a mouth full of half-chewed pizza and dive into dance moves from Janet’s Miss You Much and Rhythm Nation videos. He has always loved to dance and at the same time he was too shy to dance in a night club. So his not-so-cute choreography was saved for the privacy of his own house and once in awhile for his best friend.
“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
- Richard Bach
Tim was the first person to help me see that I; like everyone, had unique gifts to share with others and that I wasn’t a victim of my upbringing or a casualty of my own history.
He encouraged me to pursue my spiritual beliefs, to read every book that peaked my interest and to work and study hard implementing my new lessons and knowledge into a series of life plans. Pushing me beyond my social retardation and fear of public speaking he showered me with love and self appreciation so that I could live the life I was born to live while helping others to do the same. Everyone should have such a great friend.
Over the years I had often worried whether I gave Tim back as much as he gave me? I wanted to believe in my heart that I mirrored for him the gifts and unconditional treasures he gifted to me–then again, how could I be sure? I think that we all want to feel that there is an even exchange of energy between us and those we love and respect. Not necessarily keeping track of each item for item, instead believing that our associates get as much from us as we do from them.
My worries were put to rest last night during the most realistic dream I’ve had about Tim in almost 12 years. While laughing and jumping around pretending that we were Janet’s back up dancers “Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty,” we collapsed on the floor of my room. Tim grabbed his 44 ounce glass of sweet tea and drank big gulps of it while catching his breath between swallows.
The mood swiftly shifted to a more rich heart to heart communication. Tim looked me in the eyes and said “I need to talk to you about something.” Now I had a mouthful of pizza and I stopped mid-chew. I knew this side of Tim well, it meant “pay attention” in the deepest, soul-sense. I managed to chirp the word “Okay” passed my food-filled-cheeks and waited wide eyed and ready.
He began with “You have always been my best friend and if it weren’t for knowing you I would not have been able to make the transitions I’ve made in my life, especially in 1993.”
I started to remind him that he was one of the most resilient people I knew and that without me he would have been more than fine in 1993, then Tim cut me off at the chase with, “Let me finish.” I swallowed my pizza and kept quiet, for a change.
“I’m serious,” he continued. “You helped me wake up to a huge part of myself that I didn’t understand before you came along. I’d been praying for someone to help me understand the whys and what ifs of life, and pouf there you were.”
I listened to Tim as my bedroom morphed from my existing bedroom in Los Angeles today and began to shape-shift into my old bedroom in the house Tim and I shared in North Carolina in the early 1980’s, before finally shifting into Tim’s hospital room in January 1993. An array of kaleidoscope images danced between Tim and me. Each time we felt good while thinking about our friendship. Each moment from the past that we uplifted, inspired, motivated or appreciated each other throughout the years vibrated through our beings simultaneously. In that moment we each felt how our friendship had, and still does affect us.
I awoke to my alarm clock playing a Janet Jackson song. I was grinning with a newfound peace of mind, accompanied with a soothing calmness.
It’s hard for me to believe Tim died in 1993. We were best friends since the first day we met at The Gap, selling jeans over Christmas. And I can honestly say that we are still best friends today. His nonphysical spirit is even stronger than his physical attributes were--and those are the attributes that drew us together in the first place.
In my book, Kicking the Big BUT Syndrome I say that nighttime dreams are more powerful than our daydreams. Why? Because when we sleep we are in the land of pure energy. We have no distractions, and certainly no Big BUTS. When our physical bodies are sleeping, our conscious thinking mind tiptoes to the back burner so our subconscious and super conscious can come out and play with our Heaven-Self.
We’ve all had premonitions, visitations and other worldly experiences in our nighttime dreams. We can float, soar, fly, and create miracles in our dreams. We can future forecast and seek unlimited guidance directly from God/Universe.
Nighttime dreams are BUT Free zones. In our dream experiences our soul personality only enhances our strengths, our life purpose and direction, sprinkling this knowledge into our daily lives like spiritually inspired fairy dust.
The beauty of this dream was the soothing “worry-free” calm Tim brought. Over pizza, sweet tea and a few Janet Jackson dance steps we were able to reconnect on a heart level in a way that my conscious mind could not dismiss. And to amplify the reality of Tim’s dream visitation my clock radio was playing Janet Jackson when I awoke--smiling.
Our friendship continues to thrive each day because I choose to take the gifts, lessons and inspirations from our 11 physical years together and blend those years into the 12 years that he’s thrived in the nonphysical realm communicating with his loved ones--in their dreams!
“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
- Richard Bach
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Eddie Conner,
Author & Soul Intuitive
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Eddie Conner has achieved international acclaim as a Soul Intuitive, humorist, speaker and the author of The Big BUT Syndrome™.
To date Eddie has shared his metaphysical teachings on thousands of radio stations in the U.S. and is currently creating a show for national television syndication. Eddie is a contributing writer for The Power Agent and The Caster Magazines in Los Angeles.
He's the founder of the Spirit Light Expo ~ Merging Movies, Magic & Metaphysics™ and conducts tours to Peru and the Far East. Eddie and his teeny weenie BUT live in Los Angeles, California.
Soul Awareness with Eddie Conner (818) 734-9392
www.EddieConner.com
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