Written by Gary Osborn, 1997.
Taken from a yet to be published autobiographical work,
The Stargate Chronicles. Book 1. Limited Experiences of the Infinite.
Copyright © G Osborn. 1997. All Rights Reserved
November 1989
(Peter D’s house, Catford, London.)
Those present: Peter D and his wife Tracie; my brother, Paul Osborn and myself.
After some conversation about mundane things, Paul began to tell us of a strange coincidence which happened to him two nights previously . . .
Paul: “Something weird happened to me the other night while I was driving home from work. It was raining, and the traffic was really bad so I turned off the engine and just sat there . . . not really thinking of anything in particular. And then the words, The Eye of the Storm just sort of popped into my head.”
Pete: “Well, what’s so special about that?”
Paul: “I don’t know yet . . . I really didn’t think anything of it. I just said the words over and over in my head and then I put the radio on. There was a song already playing . . . I didn’t know the song but it was quite good. Another song was played immediately afterwards and then after the song had finished the DJ revealed the name of the track he had just played and went on to say that the track he had played before that was by Roger Hodgson of Supertramp – from his new album In the Eye of the Storm.”
[The room was silent for a moment.]
Pete: ‘Yeah? well? . . and so what?’
Paul: “Well that’s it!” [Shrugging his shoulders.]
Pete: “Ah, you must have heard those words when you heard the song.”
Paul: “No Pete! . . Those words were in my mind sometime before I actually put the radio on!”
Pete: “Load of bollocks!” [Laughing.]
Gary: “Wait a minute . . .” [Turning to Paul]
“After those words popped into your head, you said that you turned on the car radio and a song was playing, and then another, and then the DJ said the words in the eye of the storm, right?”
Paul: “Yes!”
G: “You definitely never heard those words being spoken before the song?”
Paul: “Nope! . . Not at all. If that were the case, I wouldn’t be talking about this now would I? I mean, it would be so trivial.”
G: “And you didn’t know the album or even know the song?”
Paul: “No!”
G: “Well I wonder what that means? You don’t just get words popping into your head for no reason unless it means something or means something later.”
Pete: “Ah it’s just a coincidence . . . so what? Ok, so a few words just popped into your head. Words are now popping into my head while I’m talking. However, if you say you HEARD voices in your head then that’s another thing . . .” [Laughing.]
Paul: “Look Pete, you know me, and you know that these things usually mean nothing to me. But it was only that afternoon at work when I was talking to Mick Watson . . .”
Pete: “Who’s Mick Watson?”
Paul: “Oh he’s a screen-printer there. I was quoting him a few things from this book I’m reading at the moment.”
G: “What’s the book?”
Paul: “You know . . . the book you lent me . . . Umm . . . Beyond the Occult by Colin Wilson I think.”
G: “Oh yeah, I forgot you borrowed that.”
Paul: “Yeah . . . well anyway, I was telling Mick all about it and it was just going in one ear and out the other.”
G: “What was the conversation about?”
Paul: “It was all about strange coincidences. I was just relating a few examples to him from the book. He wasn’t really interested, and he just gave me that exaggerated ‘don’t bore me’ look . . . you know the way he larks about.”
G: “Yeah, that’s just like him all right.”
Pete: [Turning to me] “Oh so you know him as well do you?”
G: “Oh yeah, I used to work there as well. But why talk to him about those things Paul? You should know he’d just laugh at you . . . I mean, he’s another sceptic just like Pete.” [Nodding to Pete, who is still grinning.]
Paul: “Yeah, well, I would say that in many ways, that book has made me think, and now all these strange coincidences are happening to me.”
Pete: “Ah it’s just that you’ve got your mind on it that’s all. Reading that book has made you want to make more out of what’s really just a coincidence.”
G: “Oh so you’ve had more strange coincidences then?”
Paul: “Oh yeah, but not just coincidences . . . there’s been a few other weird things that have happened . . .”
[Pete gives one of his loud and exaggerated laughs . . .]
As we learned some years later, ‘The Eye of the Storm’ is also the Centre of the Cyclone . . .
‘The centre of the cyclone is that rising quiet central low-pressure place in which one can learn to live eternally. Just outside this centre is the rotating storm of one’s own ego, competing with other egos in a furious high-velocity circular dance.
As one leaves centre, the roar of the rotating wind deafens one more and more as one joins this dance. One’s centred thinking feeling being, one’s own Satoris, are in the centre only, not outside. One’s pushed-pulled driven states, one’s anti-Satori modes of functioning, ones self-created hells, are outside the centre.
In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the creators of us.
Here we find we have created Them who are Us.’
Taken from The Centre of the Cyclone
by John C. Lilly, M.D. 1971.
Author's Note:
The above composition is a fairly well remembered account of a short conversation we had after a so-called, “band meeting” at Peter D’s house, Catford, Nov 1989.
Pete – a friend of mine from the old days in Peckham, London – was our bass guitarist at the time. The band was called True Lies, and later became a successful semi-professional rock band - gigging throughout London and Surrey between the years 1990 and 95.
After talking about important band issues – as we had just formed the band – the four of us: Pete, his wife Tracie and my brother Paul and I, eventually settled down for a casual chat. We somehow got onto the topic of ‘strange coincidences’ and this is why Paul related this particular incident.
None of what was said here seemed important at the time; it was only years later as I looked through my diary notes that the true significance of what was being said that evening became astonishingly clear.
The synchronistic event that Paul related to us that evening was some eighteen months before his first experience with the “energy phenomenon;” . . . something he first referred to as an “unknown energy.”
This life-changing event happened on June 7, 1991. In the days following, Paul experienced paranormal phenomena, which on later analysis would be seen to contain similar details to those found in the “abduction” accounts often associated with the UFO phenomenon.
My brother’s strange experiences then had an affect on me, whereby I went through something very similar to his core-experience two years later.
These experiences we later found to be related to a ‘Kundalini Awakening’ – a phenomenon we didn't know anything about at the time and one I will be looking at extensively - approaching it in many ways and from many different perspectives throughout these articles shown for the first time on this website.
The second piece, The Friction between ‘Yes’ and ‘No,’ (click button-link below) is a quasi-dramatised adaptation of some diary notes I made during the early ’90s when I worked as a self-employed graphic-artist and screen-printer in Mitcham, London.
I have chosen this piece for two reasons:
1.) It includes a descriptive view of the vast contrast between two different environments – each of which, as I later understood, could be associated with the traits we now ascribe to each hemisphere of the brain and also to the yang (masculine) and yin (feminine) polarities. (The significance of the left and right halves of the brain as regards this work will be explained throughout.)
2.) Like the first, the second piece gives another notable example of the many strange coincidences and synchronicities that have always accompanied certain pieces of information and knowledge received both by my brother and I – something that will begin to make more sense as go on . . .
