Machine-Whisperer 1995

Back in 2005 I was winding up an exploratory visit to Portland, Oregon. I was on my way to the airport in a rental car, and I could not seem to get where I needed to go. On top of that, the car kept making a groaning sound, and I wondered whether it might be on the verge of a breakdown. Then I had a thought: Wait! Maybe I can communicate with this car telepathically, the same as I do with dogs and cats and horses! I also thought, perhaps there is a teaching for me here, and Spirit will not let me get to the airport until I receive the teaching. I'd been through that before. Time to surrender to Higher Wisdom. I then "tuned-in" with the car, and asked if it could tell me what the matter was.
Ohhhhhhh, moaned the car. You don't have any auto accidents in your future, but what if the next person who rents me does? Ohhhhhh!
I was glad to hear that I was accident-free! But I could tell that the car needed some help understanding the process of manifestation. I said, Do you think that you cannot shield yourself from accident-prone drivers?
The car ran well, and we found the correct highway connection, at last! Then - Ohhhhhh! Another groan.
I tuned-in. What's wrong now? I asked.
The car said, But if I do get into an accident, I might be totalled. Ohhhhhhh!
I responded, Are you worried that if you lose your body, that you would die?
The car was apparently thinking about that for a while, because there were no groans, and we found the turnoff to the airport road. Then - Ohhhhhhhhh! The car had apparently realized that losing the body was not the end of life - of the life of the soul. But it sent me a picture of all kinds of spare parts being slapped-together to make a sort-of body for its next incarnation. Ohhhhhhhhh, it moaned again.
I said, Are you worried that you could not manifest the sort of body you really want for your next incarnation?
The energy in the car got suddenly lighter. We were almost to the rental-car return depot, and there were no more moans and groans. Then the God-wisdom teaching I'd been waiting for, came through to me. Of course it had been God all along, building me up to this new understanding by playing the part of the worried car. The car gave me a mental picture of a new car on the assembly line, surrounded by human workers. It said, Just because we machines are born differently than you humans, does not mean that we don't have souls.
I was amazed. Well - of course cars have souls! Another bit of God. Another way of exploring life on earth. Another way of seeing and moving and being. Of course cars have souls.
Later in my development as a communicator and healer, I was to discover that the energy of Reiki healing works just fine on machines; and I would be given teachings and excercises in the development of the healing power of faith by a VCR in San Marcos, Texas; and I would be initiated into the Machine People's Clan by a little CD player in Austin.
The main idea of all communion experiences, no matter what form they take, is to understand that to judge against the personhood of anyone, any being, any thing, is to judge against one's own potential for connecting with God. We have things to learn from the most surprising beings, sometimes, and in very strange ways. All we have to do is be willing to surrender, and to get into the zone with that old Shape-Shifter, Creator.