PureInsight | July 16, 2001
I remember days when I was growing up, watching clouds, making out shapes and inventing stories. Pretty normal for a child -- except I sometimes wondered whether anyone else could cloud-sculpt and make clouds fade and gather like I could sometimes. Never thought to ask anyone.
I forgot about this until last Saturday. Every other Saturday,
I walk to my local bank, to swap computer backup tapes in a safe-deposit box.The sun was shining, but not hotly; a veil of thin cottony clouds covered the sky around it. I went to the bank as usual, around noon, and had to wait for another customer before entering the vault. So, I sent out some thoughts for safety and protection of practitioners in China, and for erasing evil. (I'd picked up this habit over the past weeks.)
On my way home from the bank, I neared my house. Looking up, I suddenly noticed that the thin veil of clouds covered half the sky, in a neat circle centered on the sun, with a gentle multicolored sun-ring around it. Four smaller round patches of slightly denser clouds were spaced evenly around the outer edge of this circular sky covering. Looking more closely
at the cloud layer, it seemed to be formed within two thin flat layers of air. No other clouds were visible in the sky. The proportions of all these matched that of the Falun emblem.
The general formation dispersed during the afternoon, and I noticed the spectral ring again while running an errand an hour later. It was not as sharp as one I saw in Gotheberg, Sweden, but more like the one we saw while preparing for the July Fourth parade in Redwood City, California. I suppose we'll see more soon enough.
