Again, timing is everything.

I’ve recently seen several videos each claiming that the August 12-13 closure of the annual astrological Lion’s Gate Portal is the most powerful part of all, being the practical culmination of awareness gained during its process.

Today, being the 13th of August, has certainly lived up to this rep.

Throughout this portal time, which opened on July 28th, I’ve been reading through a small acquired library of Louise Hay books, as well as a 2017 book by Susan Van Hoosen called One Bite at a Time, which I bought it for one reason, but later, upon reading, discovered a deeper one.

One Bite At A Time: A True Story of Transformational Change and 7 Life Lessons Learned To Help You Live Your Best, Healthiest, Happiest, Most Inspired Life tells first of the author’s reeling from shock, grief and PTSD symptoms after the sudden, unexpected death of a beloved life partner. And then of the gradual evolutionary process of creating a “new normal” life of service and transcendent wholeness.

Not coincidentally, Louise Hay’s beliefs and teachings shaped Van Hoosen’s views before, during and after her initial loss.

The capstone of my personal healing journey began today, the 13th, with receipt of one last book on same subject:

You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death, co-authored by Louise Hay and David Kessler. David earlier co-authored two books with his mentor, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, expert/author on the five stages of grief. He built a career around applying her ideas about accepting one’s personal demise to grieving over lesser losses across the board — of jobs, homes, health, relationships, pets . . the full spectrum.

During the 2020 COVID epidemic, David gathered a huge internet following, comforting and counseling a grieving population as we adjusted to the many losses experienced during that crisis. . . not just of life, but in a larger view, of a familiar lifestyle.

Hay and Kessler’s message boils down to this. Personal grief doesn’t grow smaller over time. It’s up to us to grow bigger.

My aha! moment today was this. Over the next few years of paradigm shift, brought about by massive changes — political, geopolitical and extraterrestrial, humanity will experience a similar, planet-wide grieving process as many reflexively resist change — clinging to the old, familiar being lost in the process of the quantum paradigm shift already in progress.

Being aware of the stages of grieving — the natural process which, successfully traversed, has the potential to lead to acceptance and adjusting to higher understandings . . . is best done consciously and deliberately. Kessler adds a sixth stage: infusing loss with higher meaning.

And this is another subject which needs be addressed in The Quantum Solution.

Also, I initially came across Van Hoosen’s book by that title while searching to see what possible titles might still be available along that line. Because I became aware that the elephant imagery applies to The Quantum Solution. The Quantum Paradigm with its major applications may be too big to digest all at once. Perhaps it’s better approached by introducing the Quantum Paradigm as a stand-alone subject. Only then, thereafter, in a series of bite-sized essays, if not small books, might the time be right to introduce one smaller portion of the subject at a time — a more digestible, acceptable approach.

Just thinking.