Oct 22, 2008

So Oct 14 has come and gone, and Australian medium Blossom Goodchild's prediction that an extraterrestrial spacecraft would make itself visible to Earth and its people for three days from that date did not come about. On Oct 16, she went on YouTube and apologised to the world for the non-event.

I have to confess that I watched that clip with mixed emotions, and disappointment was among them.

Ms Goodchild said she had received the message from cosmic beings known as the Federation of Light in August. The spacecraft, she was told, would appear “in such a way as to prove to us the existence of other life forms in the Universe”.

She shared this message on her website, and by September, the news had spread, setting the global Internet community on its ear. While lightworkers and UFO believers rejoiced at the news, the rest of the world – as expected – either cast stones or turned their backs.

It was inevitable that, when no spacecraft appeared on the given dates, all hell broke loose.

The woman who appeared in the YouTube update on Oct 16 was very different from the one I had seen in an earlier clip, in which she had confidently talked about the upcoming mass UFO sighting that she’d predicted would occur.

To be honest, I’m not sure if I would have been brave enough to do the same if I had been the receiver of such a message.

In this later clip, she was subdued and obviously hurt – not only by the overwhelming number of hate mail that she said she’d been receiving, but by the non-occurrence of something on which she had banked her faith, her hopes and her credibility as a medium. She was shutting down her blog and website, she added, because she needed to think about what she would do next.

I felt her humiliation, confusion and sense of loss. And all I could do was send her love, light, and my respect. For it had taken courage to stick her neck out and speak her truth the way she had, despite knowing – as she must have done – that she’d be opening herself up to worldwide scrutiny and judgment.

To be honest, I’m not sure if I would have been brave enough to do the same if I had been the receiver of such a message. When I first heard of her prediction, a part of me yearned for it to come true. Yet there was still a part that grappled with my own irrational fear of the unknown.

While I know in my heart that we can’t be the only ones created by a God who had the imagination and the power to bring the entire universe into being, I still found it hard to stop the War Of The Worlds-type scenarios that played in my head as the “moment of truth” neared.

Even now, I’m not sure if I’m more relieved or more disappointed that no UFO sighting occurred on a grand, global scale.

And if I, an active lightworker, still had to deal with such fear during this crucial time of spiritual change and ascension, how much more frightening it must have been for those still in the dark, or for those who blindly cling to religion the way children, with eyes tightly shut, do their mother’s skirt.

I don’t know. Perhaps the Federation of Light realised how unprepared the human race is to take a step forward in light and truth, to acknowledge that the world does not begin and end with us.

Perhaps the whole exercise was simply a spiritual test for Ms Goodchild.