By Deborah Bier, PhD, Publisher and Co-Editor of this publication
You will notice sprinkled around this issue -- like salt and pepper -- articles about discouraged, hopeless emotional states, and articles we hope will make you laugh as you learn more about essences. The Light and the Dark. The uplifted and the downtrodden. Pleasure and pain.
But of course, polar opposites hold a deep relationship to one another, and you will see there are many ways these opposites actually cross over and move along side one another. I think this is an important spiritual truth about opposites -- visualize the yin-yang symbol. It's circular, not a line with yin on one end, yang on the other -- that would be the Western concept. Instead, they touch each other all along their boundaries. And each contains a dot of the other, which acknowledges how they are a part of one other. Keep an eye out for this interweaving of seeming "opposites" throughout this edition.
This topic is no accident, though the editors of Vibration did not call it forth. This special theme -- like our last many issues which all had special themes -- formed on its own. By "coincidence," as they say. The only role we played was to recognize and complete it. Let me explain.
When we started doing theme issues, my Co-Editor, Donna Cunningham, and I would say, "Oh, this is a topic we think we should do a special issue about," and then solicit articles from essence writers around our chosen theme. We have even issued calls for papers on specific topics, presenting an editorial schedule for the year coming.
When we completed these special topic editions, we wanted to also go back to some themeless issues. But every time we tried, as we put the edition together we found that a theme would emerge, seemingly unbidden. As we discovered the theme, we would pull articles out of our "stash" of submissions to fill it out, always finding numerous additions ready and waiting for us.
At first we were amused by this phenomenon. Then we were in awe, grateful that the Cosmos seemed to be directing what needed to be taught at that moment. Then we started to feel a little annoyed because we had this stash of articles that we loved, but that never seemed to get published.
We swore that this time there would be NO THEME. We would just take the articles we had, adding a bunch of reprints from books we have been sent recently (November being our traditional issue where we excerpt essence books you might want to give or receive as holiday gifts). We selected book passages by what seemed most educational and concise, and most easily presented in our short format. All the while, continuing to affirm that there was NO THEME for this issue.
But just before we sent this edition to the proofreaders, I dared take a peek at our table of contents to see if maybe a theme had snuck in while we weren't looking. And there it was! I surrender to forces beyond us which we cannot control, though which we can recognize, honor and accept.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Deborah Bier, PhD, is co-editor of this
publication
and the founder of the World Wide Essence Society. For more about her and to read her many articles in Vibration Magazine, see here.
Art Credits: The layers of this treatment are based on stained glass from
the exceptional collection created by
Kokomo Opalescent Glass.
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