Will’s Introductory Experiences
By Will Barber
November 2010
My Presbyterian Roots
The earliest spiritual orientation that I remember was, as a teenager, to a Presbyterian church in a small Texas town where I lived with maternal relatives after my parents died. I admired the pastor there who was an inspiring speaker. Seeing myself following in his footsteps to the pulpit, mid-way through my college years I pre-enrolled in the Presbyterian seminary where he was on the faculty. This pursuit did not last long. In short order I came to see not only that my rather narrow interest was in preaching, which is only part of a pastor’s ministry, but also I began to question whether I could be an effective Presbyterian minister since I did not consider this Christian denomination to be any more religiously valid than any other. Returning to my lifelong career path of becoming a lawyer, I graduated from the University of Texas and Harvard Law School.
Catholic Marriage and Transformation
A year later I married Pat, who had been all her life a deeply devout and conscientiously committed Catholic. During the early years of married and family life, we were both very active in many parish activities. When the transformative era of Vatican II Council and Pope John came along, Pat and I began our spiritual awakening. Departing from traditional Catholicism, which we will always honor and value, we journeyed into our ongoingly unfolding and inclusive spirituality.
A New Awakening to the Universe
During and ongoingly since the 1990s, mankind’s knowledge of the universe has enormously and exponentially expanded. An illustrative list of the many books, with diverse views, in this fascinating field is appended at the end of this section. Spirituality relative to this new awakening to the universe is emphasized in this bibliography of 1990-2010 books. My response to this multifaceted awakening has been to explore and continue to explore from a “lay” person’s perspective the connection, even conscious connection, of our universe and all that is ─ and beyond . . . On my seamless spiritual and cosmos oriented screen there came such thoughts as: In an integrated sense, as physicality of our universe appears to be ever unfolding from whatever origin may be conceived over time by humankind, so also may consciously connected spirituality of our universe . . .
My Experience of Awakening to an All-Inclusive Spirituality
By late 2005, I had formulated a personal articulation of an all-inclusive spirituality in which “All of All,” as I use this term, encompasses that which cannot humanly be conceived or languaged, that which is infinitely unlimited and indescribable (whether as God, Yahweh, Allah, the Divine, or any other human concept or term).
An All/all Inclusive Spirituality/spirituality
All of All/all
is always connected,
is intrinsically diversified,
and
is ever changing
and/or
unfolding,
over time and space
─ no exceptions ─
In this and other writings I use “All/all” (and comparable wording) to express a relationally connected continuum (represented by “/”) between God (capitalized “All”) and humankind (non-capitalized “all”).
Pat’s Rodding Experience
In late 2005, Pat and I were privileged to have a lifelong special friend share with us about some exceptional spiritual experiences he was having through his dowsing rods. Intrigued especially by the spiritually associated aspects of his rodding experiences, when Pat and I were next with him we requested that he tell us more about these experiences. All the more enthralled by what we were hearing, I encouraged our friend to see if the rods would work in Pat’s hands. Pat is not ordinary, especially in her family and other relational connections. This is evident in an inspiring book she authored, Sharing: A Practice for Family Connection (Langmarc Publishing 2006).
As soon as the rods were in Pat’s hands, they responsively moved. Our friend then led her through some introductory dowsing rod-learning exercises. Encouraged by what I saw, I asked him if he would arrange for Pat to have a set of her own rods, which he generously did. When the gift rods arrived , Pat put them away in her study, not knowing whether or when she would attempt to use them again in some way.
My Experience of Confirming an All-Inclusive Spirituality
When we were again with our friend, this time at our family’s Colorado mountain home, an especially sacred place to Pat and me, as well as to others in our family, I asked him to look over the inclusive spirituality articulation set forth above. As he did so, I asked him whether he would be willing to ask some questions through his rods concerning this spirituality statement. Graciously agreeing to do so, he opened an engagement with his rods and permitted me, after some preliminary matters and questions, to inquire: Is the written statement in my hands spiritually sound? His rods moved to the No position. Disappointed with this response, I nevertheless thanked him for doing the rodding engagement, which I assumed he would end without proceeding further. Instead, on his own he proceeded to ask through the rods, one line a time, whether that particular part of the statement is spiritually sound? As I watched in amazement, the rods responded in the affirmative to every line except one. The only negative response ─ that is, not spiritually sound ─ was to the “is intrinsically diversified” line. Pondering overnight this spiritual rodding guidance, I was somehow, intuitively or otherwise, prompted to revise that one line to “is one and diversified,” and to request that our friend repeat the rod engagement, this time with only that one line of the statement changed. When he did so, the response given through the rods was unequivocally that, so revised, this statement in its entirety is spiritually sound.
These remarkable rodding engagements, together with our friend’s account of his unique spiritual rodding experiences and our longtime trust in him and his integrity, underpinned my threshold confidence in the authenticity of this type of spiritual rodding.
My First Experience: Sudden, Spontaneous, and Spiritual
My own first rodding experience occurred quite suddenly and unexpectedly in early 2006. Given that our friend’s rods had moved in Pat’s hands, and that the rods he sent us at my request were a gift to her and were somewhere in her study, I thought that Pat might well choose at some time, probably when she had completed her book for publication, to try her hand at rodding. Instead, the initial experience with these rods turned out to be mine.
A Literal Awakening
In mid-January, 2006, during a normal night’s sleep, I awoke around 3 or 4 A.M. As I lay in bed, a thought came to me to get up and try to use the rods. So strong was this thought that I got up, went into my wife’s study, and without turning on any light or knowing where Pat had put the rods, I went straight to the rods and picked them up. Then, holding the longer legs of both L- rods as level as I could, and remembering that our friend began his rodding with several questions that included something like,
“Am I ready…,” I asked generally: Is my mind clear enough to use these rods? There was no response; neither rod moved. I tried again; same question; same non-response without any movement of either rod. After thinking I would put the rods down and try again some other time, I immediately thought, no, I will continue.
A Second Try
Then, still holding the rods as level as I could, and in a way like I tend to do when giving a mealtime blessing or other form of prayer, I addressed the All of All, as I use that term, in a prefatory kind of way, and in doing so included Baby William’s spirit (concerning our family’s stillborn Baby William. As I did this, I sensed something different in my hands, a strong tingling-like sensation, a feeling in both hands that was different than any I had ever had. Wondering what this sensation was, I became aware that something was happening. Both rods had suddenly and simultaneously, without any initiative from me, started to move and were continuing to rotate round and round randomly. To my amazement, this was happening without me in any way making either rod move. How was this possible? From some source, spiritual I sensed, l was somehow inspired (in-spirit-ed) to ask: Is Baby William’s spirit present to me? In response, the rods stopped in a Yes position [ ← → ]. Unclear whether or how to proceed, intuitively I thanked both the All of All and Baby William’s spirit, put the rods down, and returned to the bedroom, where Pat was asleep.
A Third Time
But, before I could get back in bed, another thought occurred to me. What if I asked through the rods an appropriate question that I had not yet thought of, and what if the response is No, would the rods move to that position? Wondering about this was strong enough that I turned around, reentered the study, picked the rods up, held them level again, and asked: Should I ask through the rods a question seeking a no-answer as a test? Neither rod moved. Puzzling for awhile over this non-response, I had an insight: I “should not” ask a “should” question whether as a test question or otherwise. Pondering further what to ask through the rods, and again with a prefatory addressing of the All of All and Baby William’s spirit: Is Baby William’s spirit present to me all the time? With no hesitation, both rods responded by moving and stopping in a No position [ → ← ]. Gratefully repeating my thanks to the All of All and Baby William’s spirit, I considered myself ready to put the rods away.
A Parting Thought
Before I could do so, my attention was drawn to the left rod this time moving and stopping pointed directly toward me, toward my heart. When I recounted this wondrous spiritual rodding experience to Pat, she asked, with a directness so characteristic of her: “What do you make of this?” Mindful of some of the spiritual rodding experiences our friend had told us about, I replied: “I make of this a spiritual conscious connection between me and Baby William’s spirit.” My follow-on rodding engagements have affirmed all this as what I experienced during my initial spiritual rodding.
Over the next several months I “tiptoed” into initiating my own rodding engagements ─ not anticipating the spiritually enriching experiences to be unfolded along my rodding journey ─ spiritual experiences unlike any I had previously had or could have imagined.
Pat’s Grandma and Our Family’s Baby William
Essential to understanding my journey into spiritual rodding is the deeply rooted and in-spirit-ing special place that Pat’s maternal grandmother, Grandma, and our stillborn grandson, Baby William, have held for a long time, and still hold, in my and Pat’s ever expanding family, which currently includes ourselves, our four adult children and their spouses, and our seven living grandchildren.
Pat’s Grandma
In her book, Sharing: A Practice for Family Connection, Pat vividly portrays our family and enablingly explains a family connection practice that we have been blessed to share for many years. In that insightful book, Pat’s description of the meaningful role that Grandma had in Pat’s formative years includes:
My grandmother lived with us [Pat, her older brother, and their parents] until one day in her early seventies, after a long, painful illness she died with bone cancer in the vertebrae of her neck. I adored her. During her last few weeks, when she was no longer able to lift her head by herself, she would allow…only me , to tenderly lift her head, repositioning the small donut-shaped pad for under her ear, and ever so slowly and carefully, to turn her head to the other side. Her German name for me was ‘meine kleine heartzle,” “my little heartbeat.” We shared a bedroom, and almost every night I would sneak across the room and stand by her bedside until she would raise her cover and let me crawl in with her. [S]he was my private bodyguard and personal guardian angel. *** My grandmother’s abundant and protective love was always my safest harbor and softest place to fall. It was lasting and steadfast, but never as such, spoken. She died when I was fifteen, and when she died, part of my heart died with her. The other part keeps her very close and treasured in my memory.
Baby William
Of stillborn Baby William’s ongoing special place in our family, Pat poignantly writes in her book (where his story is fully told):
…Our almost full-term, grandbaby boy [Baby William, stillborn to our son Bill and his wife Melinda] was never to draw a breath of life. Still, he lives vibrantly in our memory. *** During the eighth month of a more-or-less uneventful pregnancy, Melinda sensed a weakening of the baby’s movements. [Going immediately to the hospital, where a test was performed to detect whether the baby’s heart was still beating, Bill and Melinda’s world stopped when the doctor], with utter compassion and grim certainty, confirmed that the baby, in fact, was dead. No explanation, no remedy, no recourse…[During those hard hours] spent together before the doctor induced [this baby’s stillborn] delivery…Bill, barely able to get the words out [asked Pat]: “What do you think we should do about the baby’s name, Mom?” From the first instant they knew their unborn baby was a boy, he was named, “Baby William,” and as we now know, he was to be the fifth and final generation in the line of William Barbers. “Bill, you and Melinda have already given this baby his name. He is Baby William.”
*** [Our family] was shaken by the enormous impact made by our acute loss of a baby boy who was never to draw a single breath of life. In this crucible of grief, a divine alchemy was forged, transforming our sorrow into a deep compassion for one another. Together we entered into a profound honor for all of life. Since then,
we know boundless appreciation for the blessing our children are to us, and we are infinitely grateful for the seamless connection that binds us to our family and friends.
Although it might seem we have been cheated of the opportunity to ever know this baby, nothing could be further from the truth. Baby William was to become, is now, and always will be, a touchstone for our family’s unity and connection. Every year, on the anniversary of his stillbirth, we have a memorial celebration…to honor his abiding presence among us…We celebrate, in a very special family sharing, the timeliness blessing of his small life…[F]amily sharing is equally appropriate, and perhaps even more so, in distressing times, times of trouble, grief, and great disappointment, just as much as it is appropriate in the good times. Baby William taught us the way. It is all part of life and, therefore, it is sacred, and it is to be celebrated.
*** Although this loss for our family was profoundly sad, somehow it was not tragic…When one surrenders part of his humanity to the adverse forces life may bring to bear, permitting bitterness, mistrust, and resentment to corrupt his humanity, I think that is a tragedy. No such dishonor would be appropriate for the gift that Baby William was to all of us. He forged an ineffable place in the heart of our family where only love and gratitude can abide. This perfect and “fearfully made” little boy lives in that holy place where our hearts remember and rejoice.
Baby William with Grandma
In an incredibly extraordinary experience, a lovingly bonded connection of Grandma’s and Baby William’s spirits was communicated to Pat:
I was making the same six-hour drive from Gunnison to Albuquerque that Will and I had made two weeks earlier when we heard from Bill and Melinda that Baby William was to be still-born. I was alone in the car then, and found myself deeply drawn into the images and events surrounding his still-birth. I put a tape of Lionel Richie on, hoping that the music would distract me from my deep sadness. Not long into the tape however, something compelled me to turn it off. In the ensuing silence, I became acutely aware of the presence of my beloved grandmother in the car with me. This attendance was so strong that it even carried in it a subtle scent of onions cooking, an aroma particular to my experience of her. I was overtaken by a tremendous sense of tranquility and safety in that instant, a welcomed sanctuary that was familiar to me when I was a child in the warmth of her arms. Then came the words in German, “Die kleine engele ist dorr rein mitt meir,” and she was gone.
For a while I simply held on to the enchanted encounter and was grateful for it. There was immense comfort in her message for me. Translated, it says, “The little angel is in here with me.” I knew then that Baby William was somehow in my grandmother’s keeping and therefore must be safe and happy. But what did it mean for her to say that he was “in here with me?” Where was “in here?” Then, in an instant, I understood.
My grandmother lives in my remembrance just as truly as she did when she was alive and with me physically some fifty to sixty years ago. Her goodness and blessing is living here and now with me, and it is every bit as potent in my current experience of her as it was when she was alive. And Baby William, my perfect little grandson, who I now know has joined her there, will live forever in that holy place where my heart remembers.
Inextricably intertwined with the unfolding of my spiritual rodding are Grandma’s and Baby William’s spirits and their distinctly special place in our family
More Than A Simple Yes-or-No
As my rodding sessions progressed during 2006, I experienced during the engagements more and more a conscious connection with what I can best describe as the spirituality of the universe. These engagements unfolded over time into experiences through rodding of conscious connection and communication with Grandma’s and Baby William’s spirits. During this time, my rodding sessions had consisted mostly of asking questions I thought could be answered by the rods moving to a Yes ( ← → ) or No ( → ← ) position. Refer to Basics of My Experiences of Spiritual Rodding. In November, 2006, I unexpectedly came to experience more than yes-or-no responses by the rods ─ spontaneous movements that were in no way initiated or contemplated by me, spontaneous movements that stopped in positions other than simply Yes ( ← → ), No ( → ← ), Open ( ↑ ↑ ), or Non-response ( ← ↑ or ↑ →). During one of my spiritual rodding engagements in November, 2006, I watched as my rods in sequence moved and stopped in these positions: ( → → ), then ( ← ← ), then ( ↓ ↓). After reflecting on these rod-positions not previously seen by me, and for which I had no previously assigned meaning, I asked through the rods:
Question: Am I to understand from these positions of the rods that during some of my rodding engagements more than yes and no communications through the rods are possible?
Response: The rods moved and stopped at the Yes position ( ← → ).
Question: Is this understanding accurate?
Response: The rods rotated and stopped at the Yes position.
Question: Is this understanding spiritually sound?
Response: The rods again rotated and stopped at the Yes position.
Over the course of ensuing spiritual rodding engagements, I have experienced various communications through the rods that are amazingly beyond Yes or No responses.
Number Positions
Out of what I now consider to have been some form of inspired insight during that November in 2006, I started to explore a possibility that the horizontal surface over which the rods moved might at times be seen as having 1 to 12 numbers positioned as on the face of a clock with the 6 nearest me. So viewed, could I receive through the rods numerical answers to number-oriented questions? Could some such questions be date oriented? On an exploratory basis, I began to ask some number-oriented questions and saw one or both rods move to number positions that seemed to be responsive to such questions. These questions and responses included:
Question: Over time can I access conscious communication through more than yes or no questions and responses?
Response: The rods moved to the Yes position.
Question: May I use the 1 to 12 positions as located on the face of a clock to represent numbers for numerical responses through my rods?
Response: Yes.
Question: For confirmation of this, may I as a student of spiritual rodding here and now ask a few numerical questions?
Response: Yes.
Question: What is the year of my birth?
Response: Correctly responding the rods moved and stopped consecutively at these number positions:
1 9 3 1
Question: What is the year of Baby William’s stillbirth?
Response: Again correctly responding the rods moved and stopped consecutively at these number positions:
1 9 9 7
Two days following this rodding experience, and after receiving an affirmative answer to whether I could appropriately ask for further confirmation of the validity of my experience of such numerical positions as these, I asked that the rods move and stop at unrequested number-positions that I would recognize as meaningful. With astonishment, I then watched as the rods consecutively moved and stopped at:
6 2 8 1 9 5 8
This is the date on which Pat and I were married. On various occasions since these early numerical experiences during rodding engagements, I have asked appropriate number-oriented questions and received numerical responses.
Alphabetical Letter Positions
The same month I experienced numerical responses through my rods during spiritual engagements, I had an even more incredible experience of spiritual rodding responses beyond yes-or-no. During this astonishing follow-on spiritual rodding engagement that was not in response to any question or initiative from me, this is what happened:
Grandma’s rod spontaneously moved and stopped, pointing toward my heart. At the same time, Baby William’s rod spontaneously began to move, and I expected it to stop likewise, pointing toward my heart. To my surprise, his rod instead stopped and stayed at what I had come during recent rodding engagements to think of as a number-9 position (that is, if the horizontal surface over which the rods move were seen as the face of a clock with the number-6 closest to me). Baby William’s rod remained steady in that position, puzzling me for some time. Out of what in hindsight I consider to have been another inspired insight, I asked myself: What if I consider this stopped-position of the left rod to represent a letter of the English alphabet instead of the number-9? Assuming the number-1 position to be the letter A, in my head I counted to the alphabet’s 9th letter ─ the letter I. Then I asked through the rods:
Question: Is this position the letter I?
Response: The rods moved to the Yes position.
Then Baby William’s rod spontaneously moved again and stopped at the number-1 position.
Question: Is this position the letter A?
Response: The rods again moved to the Yes position.
His rod next rotated and stopped again at the same 1-position or A-position.
Question: Is this a second letter A?
Response: This time the rods moved to the No position.
Perplexed for awhile over this negative response, I had a further insight. There being twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, what if each of the 12-positions on the horizontal surface below the rods represents more than one letter of the alphabet? In other words, what if, depending on a spelling context, the 1-position was the 1st letter A, or the 13th letter M, or the 25th letter Y? And, the 2-position was the 2nd letter B, or the 14th letter N, or the 26th letter Z? And, the 3-position was the 3rd letter C or the 15th letter O? And so forth around the twelve positions. Visualized this way, the entire alphabet could be positioned on the horizontal surface underneath the rods. So viewed, which of the two or three letters represented by each position and applicable in a given instance would depend upon discernable spelling context. For example, in the instance I had just experienced, rod responses confirmed that the first and second stopped-positions represented the letters I and A, but indicated that the third stopped position was not a second letter A, leaving the letters M and Y as potentially applicable. In this spelling context, “I A M” would be discernibly applicable instead of “I A Y.” With this in mind, I rephrased my question regarding the rotation of Baby William’s rod from, and stopping a second time at, the 1-position:
Question: Is this position the letter M?
Response: The rods this time moved to the Yes position.
Given these insights into the unanticipated movements of Baby William’s rod, I asked and received an affirmative response to whether I could, with honor and respect for my spiritual rodding, put the rods down and draw a circular depiction of the alphabet so positioned in order to enable me more readily to follow the spelling movements. I then drew an inner circle and hand-printed the letters A to L in the 1 to 12 positions. I next drew an outer circle, hand-printed the letters M to X in correspondingly 1 to 12 positions, and added hand-printed letters Y and Z above M and N.
With this circular A-to-Z drawing before me, I resumed my spiritual rodding engagement, requesting that whatever spelling Baby William’s rod had begun be started over from the beginning. In absolute awe, I watched as the left rod consecutively:
Moved and stopped at the circular I and U position.
Q. Is this the letter I? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular A and M and Y position.
Q. Is this the letter A? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped again at the circular A and M and Y position.
Q. Is this the letter A? R. No.
Q. Is this the letter M? R. Yes
Moved and stopped again at the circular B and N and Z position.
Q. Is this the letter B? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular A and M and Y position.
Q. Is this the letter A? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped again at the circular B and N and Z position.
Q. Is this the letter B? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped again at the circular A and M and Y position.
Q. Is this the letter A? R. No.
Q. Is this the letter M? R. No.
Q. Is this the letter Y? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular K and W position.
Q. Is this the letter K? R. No.
Q. Is this the letter W? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular I and U position.
Q. Is this the letter I? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular L and X position.
Q. Is this the letter L? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular L and X position.
Q. Is this the letter L? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular I and U position.
Q. Is this the letter I? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped at the circular A and M and Y position.
Q. Is this the letter A? R. Yes.
Moved and stopped again at the circular A and M and Y position.
Q. Is this the letter A? R. No.
Q. Is this the letter M? R. Yes
This was my first spelling experience during a spiritual rodding engagement, and the spelling was:
i a m b a b y w i l l i a m
Moved to tears by this incredible experience, I managed to utter, “Yes you are Baby William.” And, as I had done during previous conscious connection engagements with Baby William’s spirit, I imaged in my mind giving him, in a spiritually symbolic sense, a loving hug.
During various ensuing spiritual rodding engagements, I have experienced additional spellings not only from Baby William’s spirit but also from Grandma’s and other spirits. Over time I became more and more able to recognize which of the 2 (or 3) letters is applicable in a given context, and accordingly the times that I ask for confirmation as to which letter have become fewer and fewer.
Grandma’s Ouija Board
After completing this phenomenal first spelling experience during a spiritual rodding engagement, I immediately sought out Pat and told her about my astonishing experience. Pat then told me something she had never told anyone else. When Pat was a young girl, Grandma had on occasion used a Ouija board with Pat present. Although Pat’s mother and aunts may have known about Grandma’s Ouija board, to Pat’s knowledge no one else in the family was ever present when Grandma used it.
Naming the Circular Alphabet: Grandma’s Alphabet
Not long after my initial I AM BABY WILLIAM experience, I had another unanticipated spelling during a spiritual rodding engagement. When Grandma’s rod spontaneously began to rotate and continued doing so until my attention focused on it, I asked:
Q. Is Grandma’s spirit initiating this movement?
R. Yes.
Then Grandma’s rod spelled (as had Baby William’s rod, refer to the preceding Alphabetical Letter Positions): :
M A R I E S C H O E N S T E I N S T E I N A C K E R
Before this experience, I was aware that Grandma’s name was Marie Steinacker, but I had never heard, as a maiden name or otherwise, Schoenstein.
Q. Grandma, are you the source of Baby William’s spirit spelling I AM BABY WILLIAM?
R. Yes.
Q. Did you teach Baby William’s spirit to spell his name this way?
R. Yes.
Q. Did you in some way inspire and influence my insight regarding the circular alphabet?
R. Yes.
When I told Pat of this experience, she confirmed that Schoenstein is Grandma’s maiden name. Out of this experience and with loving honor for Grandma and who she has been, is, and always will be to Pat, to me, and to our family, I call the circular alphabet:
Grandma’s alphabet
Associating Rods and Positions with Individual Spirits
Out of rodding engagements in which I experience being consciously connected through the spirituality of the universe with the individual spirits of Grandma and Baby William, I now associate my right-hand rod with Grandma’s spirit and the left-hand rod with Baby William’s spirit. Also, with the right rod pointing toward me, Baby William’s left rod occasionally moves randomly back and forth in what seems to me a playful manner. And, at times, when the right rod is pointing at Grandma’s picture, the left rod points toward Pat wherever she is in our home, sometimes following her as she moves around.
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