To say that my life is becoming stranger by the day would be an understatement. Ever since I took the decision to research and write the book Intervention, more and more evidence has been flooding in. Of course that’s exactly what any researcher wants but the strange thing in my case is where some of it is coming from.
I have to say before I go any
further that being singled out for special treatment I don’t entirely
understand is not exactly new for me. Over a decade ago, back in the days when
I was writing books such as ‘The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge’, I was
regularly approached at conferences and seminars by people who were completely
unknown to me, but who seemed to know very well who I was and what I had been studying.
On at least four or five occasions
at such gatherings I was gently pulled aside by a man who was probably in his
middle forties. On each occasion all he would say to me was “My name is Michael
and I’m an ex Jesuit Priest. I just want to tell you that you are going in the
right direction and that you should keep looking.” That might be considered ‘fairly’
odd but what is stranger still is that each time this happened, the ‘Michael’
was a different Michael!
On one occasion, when I was
conducting some research at Canterbury Cathedral, my wife and I were discreetly
followed around for the whole of the time we were there. The person shadowing
us was a tall, pleasant, early middle aged man with the same sort of beard
sported by all the Michaels. He never spoke and bore a composed smile on his
face. He was present wherever we went and I’m gratified to say that the only
place he didn’t tag along was when I went to pay a visit. On at least two
occasions he actually walked in front of us, and stopped in a particular
location that was of specific interest to me, such as the St Mary Magdalene
Chapel in the crypt, where it is rumoured St Thomas Becket is actually buried.
Over the years I have become
almost immune to people who obviously have an interest in my work, either
stopping me and telling me strange things, or else communicating snippets of
information to me by letter or email, but nothing has prepared me for what is
taking place right now.
.At this moment in time I have
four specific correspondents emailing me on a regular basis. Of course I’m
lucky enough to get a lot of emails from people who are interested in my work,
but these are quite different. In none of the four cases do I have the
slightest idea who the people in question are. Also in each case it is obvious
that the names they use are not their ‘correct’ names. Most surprising of all,
each of them, in their own way, has imparted information to me that I assumed
at the time only I was aware of. In some cases these emails pre-empted a piece
of research I had been planning to undertake. There are also three of four truly
amazing pieces of information I have received from the mystery email
correspondents that I knew nothing about prior to tjem telling me.
I’ve tried with all these contacts
to get them to tell me who and where they are but although they keep sending
information, they never divulge a single thing about their own identity – or why
they share my research interests. It is quite obvious – and in the case of two
of the email senders, more than obvious, that these are knowledgeable
individuals and that no subtlety of my investigations is lost on them – even when
I haven’t told them what I seek.
So there we are. If you are one of
the contacts in question and you are reading this, I’d like to say again a big
thanks for the help. Of course I’m bursting to know who you are and how you
know so much, but I will respect your chosen anonymity. Maybe there are reasons
why you ‘can’t’ give me any more personal information (and the thought of what
that might be frustrates me all the more.) But as it says in the Desiderata ‘No
doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.’
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