What you are about to read is one of many incidents that goes beyond the common 5 senses (smell, taste, hear, see, touch). Many of these have happened to us over time and we wanted to share it with you to emphasize the importance to give more meaning and importance to the dimensions of consciousness and intention than one commonly does.

Beach ideal for inner reflection and contemplation

It was a warm, sunny Friday morning in August of 2015. Gabriela and I were scheduled to facilitate one of our guided gong meditations in Chesterton, IN later that day, and so we decided to combine it with some leisure time on the beach of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. From there it would be just a few minutes to our scheduled venue later on in the day.

The water of Lake Michigan was incredibly refreshing on this hot summer day. Between lounging on the beach and cooling off in the water, we had a terrific time throughout the day and felt wonderfully recharged and ready to share our inspiration with those that were to be at our sound bath session.

Ooohh nooo…

Just as we were pulling up to park and unload the gongs, Gabriela looked at me with HORROR in her eyes. I quizzically looked back at her saying without speaking: What happened…? Speechless, she stared at me with a look that makes hearts cringe and raised her left hand, emphasising her ring finger, for me to see a “white ring” on her tanned skin. It was one of those moments when the cells in your body and blood take on a certain prickliness caused by adrenaline, cortisol and other bio chemicals. The sobering realization was that our engagement ring was no longer on her finger. It was gone…nowhere to be found, in the car or otherwise.

While backtracking, it became clear to us that it had “stayed” somewhere on the beach, or even worse, Lake Michigan… Needless to say that the initial spectrum of feelings, thoughts and emotions was broad and ranged anywhere from panic, sadness, disbelief, doubt, frustration to questioning and yes, anger. Yet, after these subsided and passed, we both knew deep down in our hearts that the ring was not gone. I had proposed to her with this ring between the Moon and the Sun pyramids, on the stairs of one of the ancient ruins at Teotihuacan in Mexico. If you have not yet and want to, please read our story and what lead up to this moment on our about page. Anyways, it was impossible for our ring to be lost forever. It just did not make any “sense” for it to be lost, and was simply not a reality for us.

We decided to go back to the beach after our event, where Gabriela went to look for it during a thunderstorm, while I stayed with my then 10 year old daughter Stella in the car and assisted her to manage her aversion of the storm. Well, needless to say that in the dark of the night there was little to zero chance to see. Yet, once again, deep down, there was the certainty that “miracles” do exist and happen. The ring was there somewhere, just patiently waiting to be found by us.

Sharing the recount of the experience with the lady who had sold it to Marian, she recommended for us to rent a metal detector. Equipped with such aid, we returned to the beach on early Sunday morning, only to realize that the constant beeping of the equipment posed a big annoyance to the lady who had made herself comfortable in the area we had identified to have been the one we had stayed at 2 days before. Well, so much for the metal detector idea for the time being.

Trust in the power within…

Left with no other choice, we began combing the area with our hands and feet. And after only 1 minute of this seemingly silly activity, given the size of the beach and context of our seemingly monumental task…would you believe it??!! The “improbable and impossible” happened. On Gabriela’s third reaching into the sand with her hands, she scooped out the ring!! You probably can imagine the look on our faces and ecstatic joy and celebration that followed. Now, statistically speaking, the chances of finding a diamond ring on a busy beach, buried in the sand, are probably next to zero or one to a billion. However, beating the odds against us we did reconnect with our ring, or, it reconnected with us...

Throughout these 3 days of which you received a brief recount here, the two of us were holding the very strong vision for the ring, which we view to be a very strong and powerful symbol for our eternal love, to have still been there, not being lost, but waiting for us. We basically considered it to be just temporarily misplaced. That vision was very strong in us, while overriding any possible doubt that desperately wanted to creep in. We knew deep down that what we visualize and focus on, what we give our thoughts to, we attract. And eventually it will take form as matter…

From the viewpoint of Science

If you prefer to look at it from a more scientific standpoint, we invite you delve into the world of non-linear dynamics, also known as Chaos Theory, and the related attractor field or morphogenetic field theories. According to the late Dr. David Hawkins, Chaos Theory, in one sentence, could be described as trying to make sense out of that which does not appear to have any logic to it, and trying to discover the hidden order within that which looks disorderly. What is the inner order of that which looks confused? Until recently, there was thought to be no inner controlling pattern to daily weather changes. Non-linear-dynamic computer analyses have revealed through graphics that, on the contrary, there is an inner organizing principle.

A few thoughts on ‘attractors’

When these principles of what seemed to be chaos and confusion are studied by advanced computer analyses, what results from the analyses are graphic designs - the pattern is called an ‘attractor’. For our purposes, an attractor could be defined as the hidden, inner pattern and that which seems to have no sense or pattern or appears to be chaotic. Once we understand the universe, we realize that nothing is accidental. Absolutely everything is related to absolutely everything else. If we don't think so, it is perhaps because we are not coming from a big enough perspective to see what that relationship is. Advanced research has demonstrated that within all happenings within the universe there is a discernible pattern and organizing principle. In fact, if it were not for the organizing principle, no universe would even be possible.

The last thing we need to know is that there can be more than one attractor affecting the field. There may be an attractor within the other attractors whose power is controlling the very pattern of the other attractors, who themselves are controlling all the factors operating within the visible world. In other words, our attractors are organizing principles, and these have different levels of power. To be in complete and total alignment and commitment to very high and powerful principles automatically and effortlessly organizes the success of powerful people. Mahatma Gandhi is a wonderful example, he was totally aligned, activated and organized in everything that he thought, did, felt and expressed, by the universal principle of infinite power. How else could a 90 lbs man defeat the mighty British Empire, which was coming from a place of ‘force’…?

So, what you may want to take away from this recount is this:

Through concentrated focus and unwavering repetition of the core idea behind your thoughts and intention, you inevitably connect with the all prevailing universal attractor fields that ultimately summon and activate the energy for manifestation.
In a universe where ‘like goes to like’ and ‘birds of a feather fly together’, we attract to us that which we emanate.
What we hold in mind tends to manifest. When something comes into our life it's because we have chosen it. It was the result of our intention, or we made a decision for it.
The Law of Attraction and its magnetic power reaches out into the universe and attracts other thoughts that are vibrationally like it… and bring that to you. And so, you are getting the essence of what you are thinking about, whether it is something you want or something you do not want.
Do not give room and energy to fear and doubt. Instead, harness and apply the universal power residing deep within, while connecting with self-replicating attractor patterns to assist you in manifesting that which you envision.
Love and Gratitude are part of the most powerful principles. The attractor that motivates the heart is a far more powerful attractor than the one that motivates the left brain - intellect. So if your beliefs come from your heart, they by nature are extremely powerful and can attract and materialize that which you wish to manifest in your reality. Needless to say however that your actions or the lack thereof will be decisive factors in the success of your endeavors…