Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: continuity of consciousness

  • Heart-Shaped Water Spot

    Sacred Stories

    Out for a bike ride, early Sunday morning, after the previous day of heavy storm-related rain, at 8:31 a.m. she photographed a distinct heart-shaped water spot.

    A few minutes later she sent it to a dear friend in a text message.

    The reply: “I was just sitting here, sobbing about Ella, feeling like she’s so far away.”

    “Nope,” she wrote back, including a rainbow symbol.

    “Your timing is divine,” Ella’s mom wrote, “I love you.”

    “I love you. Ella loves you. I love you. You love Ella. Timing is always divine. Do I have your permission to post this as a sacred story?” she asked.

    “Of course. I am still staring at this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.” Ella’s mom continued.

    “Also look BEYOND the sign,” she reminded.

    “I see her.” (heart symbol)



    PLEASE make an intention to notice. Every moment we are being guided. Right where we are, we are being given the opportunity to look BEYOND the sign….

    (See Ella’s Soapbox for the rest of the story.)

  • Bear and Heart – BIG LOVE!

    Sacred Stories

    She and her husband found this bear at a rock shop in Canada and they both fell in love with it.


    His passing was such a shock…. and loss.

    They had divorced, remaining devoted.

    Making arrangements with the funeral home, she stopped at a shop. The first thing she saw was this heart.



    She had not seen this type of stone since that day in Canada!

    “It felt like he was sending BIG LOVE today….”


  • Two Shoes

    It has been said a picture is worth a thousand words. This one certainly is:


    The photo was taken at 10:14 pm on Friday, December 6, 2019. I had been so focused on the 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle I was working that I did not notice I had on one sandal and one slipper. If this sensation, look, and experience went unnoticed, what else might I be missing?

    In Buddhism for Beginners, The Noble Eightfold Path, Walpola Sri Wahula lists the benefits and elements of mindfulness.

    1. Right understanding
    2. Right thought
    3. Right speech
    4. Right action
    5. Right livelihood
    6. Right effort
    7. Right mindfulness
    8. Right concentration

    Approximately 90 minutes before I snapped that photo, a friend completed his transition. His wife wrote the following morning:

    “I was getting ready to spend another night with him when he just went away. I had told him a short time before, again, that it would be OK if he was ready to go. Thank you for the love and prayers. He went in peace and now he is in great joy.”

    Yesterday in the instruction/sharing time before meditation we had a very lively conversation about view. I am reminded of something Abraham Hicks said to a man who reported feeling like he was running out of time. The man went on to share that he did not believe in an afterlife or reincarnation. He felt that these views were a cop out.

    No wonder the guy felt stress…

    Take a few minutes to explore your own view via Abraham’s response to the man who said I Don’t Believe in Afterlife.

    Perhaps we are in a place where it is possible to allow our intellect to enjoy right understanding. Perhaps continuity of consciousness is that right understanding. Perhaps this changes our experience of life and death.

    Perhaps—just perhaps—we really do have one foot in one shoe and the other foot in another…