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She Cheated Me 9 9 She Cheated Me SHE CHEATED ME feet by 3 feet) Our lives have been as magical as she intended, SHE CHEATED ME - A dozen or so picture magazines you enjoy and without exception everything she reading envisioned has come to pass. A few years ago - Scissors we came upon a ceramic Hawaiian wishing - Glue bowl while vacationing on the Big Island. It Friday night from six until ten, and looks Oriental with its green cracked glaze and again Saturday morning from eight until noon, removable bamboo-shaped lid on which is tied Arianne meditated. Her intent was to reach a a leather thong that holds a suspended capsule. higher vibrational state so she could see beyond Each of us has our own tightly rolled-up the cloud bank that had enshrouded her life until piece of paper inside the capsule. On it we write then. She also asked that the way be cleared for our next set of wishes. As each comes true, we her to let go of the past and be totally open to give thanks, pull out the paper, and write down moving into a new life. the next intended manifestation. This is how we By noon on Saturday, Arianne knew she live our lives, taking responsibility for knowing was ready. Her mind had been cleared of all what we want and focusing our intention to preconceptions and was open to guidance from make it happen. her higher self. She set the blank drawing board From time to time I think back on where By Jean-Claude Koven By Jean-Claude Koven before her on the table and opened the first of my other life might have taken me, but I don’t the magazines. She read none of the articles, really see much. Things are much clearer when How we evolve into what we ultimately confining her attention to the photos and I see myself fully here in the world Arianne How we evolve into what we ultimately become is question for the ages. In my headlines. Without allowing her mind to enter crafted for the two of us that one April weekend become is question for the ages. In my case it was neither fate nor self- into the process, she assumed a meditative state more than twenty years ago. The future is case it was neither fate nor self- determinism, but the vision of an determinism, but the vision of an as she slowly turned the pages, waiting for limited only by our imaginations and our incredible woman who conjured me into something to jump out at her. willingness to let go of the past and enter into it. incredible woman who conjured me into existence. By the time she was halfway through the Now it’s my turn to open new doors of existence. fifth magazine, the message on the Treasure exploration. I’ve become curious about the Map had begun revealing itself. She had already infinite potential in relationships and have By the time I reached my early forties, I had found three key elements, carefully cut already written the first three chapters of a new knew I was in trouble. I had achieved almost them out, and placed them on the board. The book that deals with how men must evolve in everything I set out to accomplish in life and first was a beautiful color photo of one of her order to coexist with the emerging divine had little to show for it other than a respectable youthful heartthrobs, Jean-Claude Killy, the feminine energy that is leading us all into the stock portfolio and a shoe box full of badly French skier who won three gold medals at the next paradigm. From here on in I’m breaking tarnished brass rings collected while riding 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. new ground, and I need to actually experience society’s merry-go-round. In the world’s eyes I (Arianne admits to having always wanted a each of the teachings and initiations that await was a successful entrepreneur; in my own I French lover. It wasn’t until long after we’d the main character. desperately wanted a do-over. I had been living been married that she discovered I had been a I’ve been given a clear picture of what someone else’s life, and it was high time I ski patrolman for many years before we met). lies ahead, and the thrill of the adventure has me showed up in my own. The second and third photos were of a well in its clutches. Women will soon learn to Little did I know that 8,000 miles away, beautiful home and a shiny new car. Arianne evoke and embrace their Aphrodite, the in Johannesburg, South Africa, Arianne, the had always lived in homes that belonged to archetype of divine femininity. As they perfect woman who would someday become my wife, someone else, and the one new car she had ever the ability to embrace this exquisite energy, a was embarking on a magical process to create owned, one of the original Volkswagen Beetles, beautiful tree of grace, beauty, and wisdom will the new world in which I was about to emerge. was stolen a few days after she had used the last begin to grow within their being. Men will have She too wanted more. But unlike me, she had a of her savings to buy it. She spent hours going to become so sure, so strong within themselves pretty accurate idea of what it was, and what’s through the rest of the magazines, allowing that they can readily surrender to that divine more, she knew exactly how to make it happen. enough time for each page to speak to her. feminine and hold space for the magic tree to I have asked her to repeat the story over and Occasionally a photo or word glowed with grow. It is the man’s job to shower it with over again, never tiring of hearing how she radiance, a few fairly shouted out to her, but adoration so pure and complete that the created me. Each iteration reveals a little detail, most faded into a haze, letting her know they blossoms of the tree are pollinated and develop a subtle nuance that somehow escaped earlier were not to be part of her map. Arianne into the celestial fruit that will transport the versions. I suppose every child – no matter how reverently cut out each element that caught her lovers into the next dimension of being. old – wants to know where she or he came from. attention. By the time she was ready to glue That is the journey that awaits us all as It started on a late Friday evening in each piece into its final resting place she had we learn that true freedom comes from the April. Arianne arranged to have the house to selected about a dozen symbols of her future willingness to love with such complete herself for the weekend so she could devote all universe. Each piece was moved again and abandonment that one is ready to lose oneself her energies to a ritual of creation – making a again until it linked perfectly with all the others completely in the process of merging. To know treasure map. Just in case any readers of this and the mosaic sprang to life. A small map of this is to know that all is One. article would like to bake up their own new the United States was in the lower right-hand universe cake, I’ll pass on the recipe. The corner, just below a cutout of a jet plane that ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jean-Claude ingredients are easily assembled: represented traveling to the four corners of the Gerard Koven is a writer and speaker based in Arianne claims she had no idea of what Earth. Up near the top were the words Rancho Mirage, CA. He is a featured weekly to do before she began her process, but two “financial” and “security.” There were five columnist for the UPI (United Press things she did know with all her heart: One, she different renderings of “love,” some encased in International) Religion and Spirituality Forum would be guided each step along the way. Two, beautiful hearts. Fairies and angels blessed her and the author of Going Deeper: How to Make whatever she envisioned would without a sliver creation from their perches near the top. When Sense of Your Life When Your Life Makes No of a doubt be manifested. Friday night Arianne she finished the ritual, it was almost dark, but Sense, selected by both Allbooks Reviews and began a fast that was to end only when she she could see her future world looming before USABookNews.com as the best metaphysical completed her work. (Her next meal was in fact her, and she liked what she saw. book of the year. For more information, please late Saturday afternoon.) All she permitted She mounted the map on her bedroom visit: www.goingdeeper.org. www.goingdeeper.org. herself during the process was water and a wall so it would be the first thing she saw upon single apple. There is something deliciously rising and the last before she closed her eyes for ©2006-2007. Jean-Claude Gerard Koven / All symbolic to me in the woman eating the apple the night. We met two months later. Rights Reserved. out of her own hand. Not only was I welcome in the universe - A large sheet of drawing board or stiff paper (2 Arianne created, I am a fully vested co-creator.