Meditating with E.T. (yes - that E.T.!) and the Animals

Photo Credit: Anne Wertheim

During two guided meditations in the past few weeks, I’ve experienced E.T. presenting itself – yes, that E.T. – from the wonderful movie released in 1984. This took me by delightful surprise! Though if I know if I were to share this with some people they may think I’ve lost my marbles. But the encounter touched me and so I felt called to share despite feeling a bit vulnerable.

The first time I saw E.T. during a recent meditation was just like in the movie when E.T. with its spindly finger points to the Cosmos and says that famous line, “E.T. phone home.” I was nineteen years old when that movie came out and I still recall how palpable that moment felt.

In my mind I said, “Okay, of course, ‘phone home’ but what do you mean? Is there something more you wish for me to understand?”

“Dial in to your heart,” E.T. said.

I understood this as truly and deeply dialing inward – that this is the way – the only way – to more love and peace in this troubled world.

Then yesterday during another guided meditation calling in my Spirit Ally Team, E.T. was there again. We were deep in the forest and surrounded by a plethora of animals. I felt very much at home. I reflected on how at times it is painful to live in this world much like E.T. must have felt having coming to Earth and so far from its true home.

This time, E.T. slowly bent forward toward me and placed his loving alien hand on my heart and it instantly lit bright red surrounded by a white glow. I sensed this as reiterating its recent message of dialing in to my heart. As my heart pulsed this bright red I noticed all around me the hearts of each animal was also beaming bright red.

Leaned up against the trunk of a large tree, E.T. sitting beside me, another scene from the film played out in my mind. The one where E.T. is sitting among all the stuffed animals as a way to disguise itself and from being found out by the mother in the movie.

This is how I’ve felt for as long as I can remember – how I feel at home among the animals – how safe they’ve always made me feel – how I can be just who I am with them.

Just before the meditation came to a close darkness began to fall upon the forest. I watched as a red squirrel climbed the tree trunk, out onto a branch, and hung upside while holding a lantern in its tiny paws to help light the way. It was such a comforting meditation and assured me that when love leads the way the world fills with light and all will be okay.

XO

Barb