Every leaf distracts him. He is caught in the moment of movement and then suddenly without warning he sits down, back straight and simply looks at something. I follow his eyes to see what is he looking at but I can’t always see what he sees. It seems to me sees beyond the veil of the world that I look at and that which is invisible to me catches his attention. He becomes so still.

I wait. I am patient. At least I try to wait patiently, and then, softly, not wishing to force a human rhythm on this new being I say, Come Chino.

On this particular morning, for the very first time he stopped in the middle of the road and did a little poop. I mentally noted that means I have to bring a plastic bag with me next time. Turning round he looked carefully at this tiny sausage shape and then bent down to sniff it. I forced myself to remember that this is what dogs do but on raising his head I saw he had a tiny little bit of poop on the end of his nose.

Oh good grief. What  do I do  now? If I try to take it off, who would I be taking it off for? Certainly not Chino. He is not at all concerned. In actual fact it seemed to me that having a tiny bit of poop on the end of his nose added to the joy of the walk.

So realising Chino was simply being who he is, I too ignored the addendum, hanging off the end of his nose and continued to enjoy our walk.

John: It is more than possible. It is the purpose of being human.

Sharon: Oh! How wonderful.

John: If you look at all of the Master Teachers of all of the ages each of them incarnated to teach this one simple Truth, that even in a physical body the individual can transcend states of being to achieve unconditional love. Love which is ever expansive, irrespective of the circumstances. Unfortunately in your world the focus has been on the suffering of these Teachers rather than the outcome they have attained.

Sharon: Yes I can really see that.

John:  When there is a new consciousness manifesting upon the earth, a new psychic consciousness, and this occurs approximately every 2000 years of your time we have another attempt to elevate the consciousness of the people of your planet and we are always successful and we are never totally successful. That is how it is intended to be.

John: Every individual has their own black hole because a black hole is the means of differentiating between being in a physical manifestation and being in a spiritual manifestation. When it is time to pass into Spirit each individual withdraws the energy through the tunnel of light, however before you get to the tunnel, you have to go through the black hole. The tunnel of light means they are already crossing over to the other side? Do you see?

S: Mmmm In a way.

John: Black holes exist as the polarity of stars. A star is a point of light, is it not?

Sharon: Yes:

John: It is a point of physical manifestation. When the star has served its purpose it is drawn through a black hole because the black hole is the polarity of the star. One is Matter and the other is Anti Matter.

Sharon: A black hole is Anti Matter.

John: However when a star is drawn into this hole of antimatter what occurs is that it pops out the other side in a totally different dimension of being. And so to return to your original question, Love exists in a dimension that does not exist on your earth, therefore fear magnetises Love and the only way that Love can be effective is through this Black hole, because that is the means of moving from one dimension to another. So Love becomes a form of antimatter until it manifests itself as matter in your material world.

Sharon: You are describing a circular process.

John: That is so. Cannot be separated.  This is where we begin and this is where we end. It is indivisible because it is continually evolving, developing and growing as is your Universe.

Sharon : Therefore Love is infinite because it too is ever evolving?

John: That is so. And everything else is part of Love. It is Love expressing Itself in many forms in order to understand the complexity of its potential. Unfortunately in the human mind Love is seen as simply another state of emotion rather than being seen as the Supreme State of Being.

John: If you focus of what you are supposed to be doing then you are focussing on an outcome. If you focus on who you are being now you are focussing on the journey to the outcome.

Sharon: Can you say more?

John: You set your goal. Be very clear about it and then you forget about it. Because your Higher Mind holds the blue print. Once you have set your intent, the Mind knows what it is you wish to achieve and you just continue with your day to day situations and your Higher Mind is very busy operating behind the scenes creating the outcome which is the goal you have set.

Sharon: WOW its like programming a computer.

John: Exactly the situation. You are able to be working on one thing on your computer and at the same time the mechanics which enables you to use this system are still operating where you cannot see them and being very efficient about it.

In Level 6 we can choose to look at events at a universal level or a mundane level. The Mundane Aspect is where we feel an attachment to the emotion. The mundane presents us with a linear perspective. We become attached to the appearance. Someone has to be at fault or to blame for what happened.

The Universal Aspect presents the event, or the situation as an ongoing part of the cycle. It is where the significance of an event is seen from the perspective of humanity.

I wanted to understand what was the connection between Chino and me and my family. Recently I met a wonderful woman by the name of Trisha McCaugh. She is an animal communication. Her website is www.animaltalk.com

She can literally hear animals talk and she translates what she hears to those who are asking the questions.

So I contacted her and asked these questions. Trisha and I both share the same publisher, Allen & Unwin and on one occasion whilst we were both there she explained that the questions need to be directed to the animal in question. So here they are

1.What was the significance of you having  this experience with  ticks?

2. Why were there three ticks?

3. Is there something I need to know that would assist and enrich our journey together?

4. Are you connected to our first dog PK?

5. When were we together before and what was the significance of that time together in relation to our time together now?

6.Is there a child  who is to come into our lives who you are here to support in some way?

The answers literally blew me away. I won’t go into all the answers. They were poignant and personal. What I will say is I realise there is so much we don’t understand albeit our animals wisdom and we could learn a great deal by sitting with them  in silence and being fully in their presence.

Some people may shrug their shoulders and say, the whole thing is impossible. But I know animals are not here to entertain humanity. They are here to remind us to be who we are. They, on the other hand have never forgotten who they are.

JtB as we affectionately call him has gifted me with many pieces of great wisdom and in this blog I will be sharing some of these with you.

It was of course though my conversation with JtB that I came to live, learn and eventually teach The 12 Levels of Being. If you would like to know more about The 12 Levels of Being and the courses I am teaching please go to Online courses

So here is the first gem from Conversations between Sharon and John the Beloved

Sharon: "How do you teach Level 5 to people who don’t believe in reincarnation?'

John The Beloved: "Have you ever had a knowing – something is going to happen right before it happens?"

Sharon: " Like Deja vu? Yes."

John the Beloved: "You simply ask them where do you think it comes from?"

Sharon: "But people may not believe in past lives."

John The Beloved: "We never try to convince. We simply invite people to ponder this question…where do you think that knowing originates from?"

So the next day we took him to the vet. Slowly inch by inch the vet checked him and there on his throat was a tick. Not just an ordinary bush tick, it was a paralysis tick. He took it off him and then continued to look through Chino's fur. There was another and another. We  were told we have a very sick puppy. He would have to stay in the hospital for the night. Lethargic and floppy we handed over our 8 week old dog to Peter the vet and drove home empty handed.

Climate change has brought so many strange events as we all know but one of the strangest is that Australian ticks have begun to infest our gardens in the winter. Unheard of. Bandicoots are the hosts for the ticks and after they dig around in the yard at night the fat little ticks just fall off into the grass and wait for another host. Chino was the next host for those three ticks.

As our pets are our teachers through unconditional love and selfless service I am sure he was protecting us from something or helping us to see something we were not aware of. In what ways am I paralysing myself? That's how our pets work. They will gift us with insight by serving as selfless teachers.

I will continue to contemplate and work on what Chino wants me (us) to know and learn and in the mean time, I wait. His gag reflex was paralysed and so today he will be given a little food and hopefully is able to hold it down. Get well Chino. We are sending you all our healing and love.