< QuantumLeap 5 >
There were two explorers who wanted to set out and discover the new world. They
were filled with ambition and desire and adventure. They set out from the same
port on the same day, so it didn't matter what the numerology was because it was
the same. It didn't matter how the planets were aligned because they were the
same.
The first explorer's name was Chris and the second explorer's name was Mark.
Chris and Mark set out with the exact same type of ship, the same number of
crewmembers, the same provisions on board. Neither knew exactly where they were
going, because it was the new world, nobody had been there before. But they knew
they were setting off to find these new lands, to have new adventure and to have
triumphant discoveries of their own.
They set off at the exact same moment. The only difference was one item of cargo
that was on Chris's ship but not on Mark's. There was a box in the holding area
of Chris's ship. It was a box, a rather simple looking box, but its contents
were very, very powerful. And its contents would come out and be used throughout
Chris's journey. Those contents in that box were doubt. Doubt.
So they left port at the same time on the same day each heading out, and of
course … you can probably figure out the story but we'll tell it anyway. Mark
went off on his adventure with his crew. Shortly after they left port, they hit
a storm. But instead of wondering why that storm was there, instead of wondering
what Spirit was trying to tell them, instead of panicking and wondering why he
had gone on this journey in the first place, Mark said, "There is a storm.
I feel it. The ship feels it. The men feel it. They're all getting sick. We have
a storm, and the storm is just energy. I don't own the storm. I am not the
storm, but I feel it, I live
it, I ride the waves. And that storm will take me to where I am choosing
to go. Even though I think I may be going one way, I know that energy of the
storm is going to work for me and take me to the grandest possibilities of
all."
And Mark went off on his journey with his crew and they encountered all sorts of things - storms, they encountered times of no wind - but they didn't have any doubt, you see. They were experiencing all along the way and they found new lands. They found spices and exotic plants and even peoples and animals that they had never seen before, and it was a tremendous experience and they felt every step of the way. They returned back home after two years of voyages and experiences, richer, happier, more fulfilled and having truly lived.
Chris set out with his ship - his ship with a cargo of doubt -
and the moment that he ran into the storm, he wondered why he had ever left. It
took away from the experience because then the waves were the demons that are
trying to take something from him and trying to kill him, when in fact the waves
and the storms were just part of the experience. He altered his course because
he felt immediately he had done something wrong. How else would he have driven
himself and the crew straight into the storm? So he altered his course.
And the whole time he was worried about this, and the worry that he felt could
be seen and felt by his crewmembers and they began to get sick, but not just for
a moment. They got very ill, and they started to die.
Chris's ship was taken in a course that was very, very difficult, and he didn't
discover grand new lands. He didn't find spice or gold. Each time he landed
someplace he found that the natives, those peoples who inhabited the islands or
the lands, were hostile and angry, and they fought him. They ran him off. More
and more of the crew starved and got sick, and after just a year Chris returned
back to his homeland a failure, sad, lacking in any sort of light or any type of
expression. He was ridiculed by some, and many others were very, very angry
because they had lost loved ones on his ship.