“Lightning bolt will show you both.”
That will make sense shortly.
After the sun had mostly set tonight, I went on a walk to clear my head.
I don’t typically walk in the dark, there’s people and alligators out here, but I had my necessary tools. So I went.
I’m going to show you what happened, then I’ll tell you something that happened right before, which makes this even more of a trip.
I stopped at a clearing to take pictures of the dawning twilight sky. I took a few pictures. The beauty drew me in. Then, I snapped a final photo… and right as I clicked the button on my phone to take the picture, a lightning bolt flashed in the sky to my left.
I noticed while I took the picture of, “oh shit, I took that right as the lightning went off”. I imagined the picture might be overexposed or illumined somehow, but never did I expect this:
What.
That made no sense to me. It’s a perfect line. Like the splitting of worlds. How is it that it looks like it’s daylight on the right side of the image? It was 9:06 PM EST. See how it looks on the left? That’s how it actually looked outside.
To make things even more “strange” — although I don’t think it’s so strange anymore, we’ll get to that in a second - here’s a picture I took right before this. There was no lightning at that time. Notice that cloud formation in the sky? Feel free to zoom in on it. It looks like a Being. You can literally see a face.
That was taken at 9:04 PM, according to the timestamp on my phone.
Yes, I know in the title I said the splitting of worlds was caught on film — well, the digital version. This was caught on an iphone haha.
HOLD UP:
One strange thing that I thought insignificant at first, and am now coming back to this post to add:
When I started walking on the trail, it was dark and no one else was out there. I could hear animals around me but that was it. When I came to the clearing, I was surprised to see one person there. This person wasn’t with anyone else. He was standing close to the water, like this picture is showing. He was just more to my left.
As I approached, I saw him in the darkness, and he was looking out at the water, and kept saying, “capture! … capture!” I thought it was some strange dude who maybe was telling his phone (siri?) to take a picture? That’s what “capture” sounded like to me, especially when facing the beautiful sight. People do weird stuff with electronics and rather shamelessly, so I assumed that’s what was happening.
What’s strange is, once I stopped and became absorbed in this scene myself, and then the whole lightning bolt situation happened, when I started walking again, he was gone. I do not remember seeing him once I looked out at the water / horizon and started taking pictures myself.
I remember walking back toward where I’d come from, and even seeing a flashlight near the water, but no person. And no, an alligator did not come get him. We must have been only 20 yards away from one another. I did not see him again, nor did I hear him walk in either direction.
The reason this stuck with me was not “where did he go?”. I actually felt some fear come over me: is he hiding in the bushes/trees waiting to attack me on the path as I continue walking? That was honestly my thought, so on the remainder of the walk back, I had my hand on my pistol and head was for sure on a swivel until I got back to the lights of the parking area. That’s how I knew he wasn’t there — I couldn’t see him, so I thought maybe he was up to something.
But no, he was not following me back. I have no idea why a man was saying “capture! capture!” and then suddenly was gone. We were the only ones out there, and there’s not many places he could have gone, so… I don’t know. I just realized I needed to add that, for whatever reason.
Let’s back up to what happened before I started walking on the trail:
First off, I was listening to a rather esoteric deep dive of a conversation. I believe it got to the part about certain elevated Beings, The Elohim were brought up, and then I got out of the car and started walking. But before I got out of the car, I did say a prayer.
I prayed for the ability to Perceive God in All Things. I asked for everything in me that blocked me from being able to perceive and see God in all things to be removed. I asked for help with this.
Because truly, the only thing that blocks us from perceiving God in all things, is the static, the noise, the numbness, the density, within ourselves. I think that’s why we’re here, or certainly part of why - to evolve through all that which blocks us from seeing the Truth and Love in all things, in all beings.
Of course we all have our own assignments and missions here as humans on earth, I’m not saying we should all levitate and evaporate into some other realm and hide out there - that’s a trap, but I won’t go down that rabbit hole tonight. I think you get what I’m saying here.
So I say that prayer, start walking, and within maybe ten minutes, I took a picture of something that baffled me. I also recognized that formation in the sky as … well, not just a cloud.
It looked like the signature of an Angelic being to me, but I’ll leave that up to your own interpretation, I am not set out to guide or change it with this post.
So, I sent the image to everyone I knew who might have some sort of idea about it:
I sent it to a few family members, I sent it to a lot of friends, and… there was valuable input from the reactions.
First, one of my soul-sisters and I were talking about it, I won’t take stuff out of that conversation, but I did tell her,
“yo, whats also weird, is right before it happened, I was listening to this”
This was the “esoteric conversation” I was listening to. What I was thinking in my head was “wow, what a trip regarding the subject matter” — what I didn’t realize was the literal TITLE of the video, until I looked at what I sent her.
That is when the sentence entered my mind that said, “Lightning bolt will show you both”
Then, another friend said something:
They at first thought I was messing with them. I put my word on all that was Sacred and Holy that this was the truth. Plus, I don’t even know how you’d do that - obviously you can edit images and do trippy stuff, but that is not my wheelhouse.
Why did this friend of mine think I was messing with them?
Well, this friend told me, and it tripped me out even more. (Trying to keep people anonymous as these were not public conversations)
They mentioned how rare it was, they said that I had captured light — they said the odds of that were like 1 in 1000000000 (a lot of zeroes, not sure exactly how many they used)
I never considered that.
What are the odds that you push a button on your phone to take a picture of twilight sunset clouds and a lightning bolt flashes at that exact second?
I told this friend I thought it was strange that there was a literal LINE down the picture, like a tearing between worlds, or a tearing of the veil, a splitting between time, because on one end it looks exactly like daylight, it’s not just super bright from a flash of light.
But it was not day. It was twilight.
My friend said that was exactly why it was so weird - because of how fast light travels - they said if a line like that was in the picture, the light was captured right as it was crossing my path.
The first thing that came to mind was “lightning in a bottle” except… this is no bottle. But captured in the form of a photo, nevertheless… so perhaps, this picture is lightning in a bottle.
It’s so strange, why the straight line? And how was the illumination literally a reflection of daylight?
I do not have answers.
All I can say is that I was blessed to behold something so beautiful, something so miraculous and magical and such a wonder… to be reminded that I really have no idea how this incredible Universe works and there is so much mystery to it… what a gift.
And certainly a very appreciated message received in perceiving God in everything — I’d say that was a pretty dramatic example, and perhaps that is what I needed at the time. Something intense and right in my face.
It is said that one has to be of a certain discipline, a certain stillness, to hear the Silent Voice of God. But God is always talking.
If one cannot hear the Silent Voice, then God talks in other ways.
Sometimes we recognize these things as life-changing events, karma, miracles, getting a cosmic suplex, something that gets your attention in a really strong way, because we humans are stubborn and often need some intense shit to get our attention away from the neurosis of unregulated thoughts.
Luckily, this appeared to me in a beautiful gift of the Natural Reality - something I do not understand but am very much a part of, as are all of us.
There were other friends who weighed in on things with a very powerful perspective, one whom I asked if I could share in this post, and she gave permission to quote her:
That is profound. One foot in both worlds. The term Maiden is not about age, the Maiden is the unmarried who accepts the role of midwifing the Sacred in the Society.
- The Great Chelsea.
I’d say her message is pretty profound. That was one of her responses when having this conversation, and I had to ask if I could pass it on.
She has shared a great deal of wisdom and strength, she is another sister in sobriety, we’ve known one another since 2009.
If you’ve been reading this substack since the beginning, you’ve likely seen the podcast episode her and I did that I shared here. I’ll link it because she has a great deal of wisdom to share.
We both celebrated 14 years of sobriety this past November (2023), so I re-shared the podcast her and I did from my apartment in Tennessee in 2022, she was out visiting and it was right around our 13 years of sobriety anniversary.
Life’s a trip, thank God for true friendship.
So… the things about those images.
Lightning bolt will show you BOTH - both realms, dark and light, etc.
and yet, here we stand, right in the middle of them… both.
Lightning in a bottle.
I always think about that when thinking about creating music, really pertaining to songwriting. That is the true art of songwriting, if you truly have mastered it, or done it how it is intended to be in its highest form - you are capturing lightning in a bottle.
Then… there is what she said above. “One foot in both worlds” and The Maiden - the unmarried who accepts the role of midwifing the Sacred in the Society.
Well frens, that’s all I have for you for now. I am going to get back to analog life, but wanted to come into the digital to share this with you.
For even more of a trip, I recorded and released this last night. A reading out of one of Rudolf Steiner’s books. Just the introduction. But it spoke powerfully about this very thing, the polarities, and the third way in between:
Poignant! You were meant to see that and share it. I don't know why but when I read this it brought me back in my mind to a temple I visited in Japan where there was a statue to the God of Thunder who is said threw/throws lightning bolts to invaders...Raijin, God of lightning, thunder and storms...sometimes seen as a destructive entity, also a protector, he has many meanings..seems to me he brought you a boon, insight into dark and light. :) https://mythopedia.com/topics/raijin
That’s incredible, the whole story from start to finish, and your pictures. Whoah. I am in awe, thank you for sharing this!