Just finished Dan Brown’s latest novel “Secret of Secrets.” In the novel, Katherine Solomon is a leading noetic scientist. This was the first time I had heard of noetic science, which is the study of consciousness relating to inner wisdom, direct knowing, intuition, or implicit understanding and the interconnection between all things. It is a modern field that is expanding. Noetic science has an explanation for the person who has never been to China, never studied Chinese, yet while under anesthesia speaks perfect Mandarin, or when dreams foretell the future. The book was intriguing.

So, while I’m reading this book, I’m consciously trying to fit these new ideas into my understanding of the world. At one point, the book discussed halos, which are normally viewed as light radiating from the being with the halo. But, anciently, the rays of light depicted “revelation” from the universe coming into the person under the halo. Lots of points to ponder here.

While visiting with the Firths about this idea, Max told of an ancestor, William Arnold Rose, who found an abandoned Indian baby on a deserted battlefield in the Lemhi Valley in eastern Idaho. Rose and his traveling companion, David Boyd, immediately tended to the child and took her home to Utah. She eventually was adopted by the Leonard Rice family of Farmington. She was called Indian Annie. She had no contact with her Bannock tribe and was never taught the Bannock language. She was very industrious, talented and had a particular gift of using herbs and vegetables for healing. She grew to adulthood, married a white man and had children. Just before she died, she stretched her arms as to embrace someone and said, “Mother.” She then spoke in the Bannock language for the first time in her life for about an hour and then quietly passed.

Mary Evans Jones, my great-great-grandmother recorded in her life history that she had a dream where two men in suits appeared to be flying through the air and stopped at her door. They had a book which they offered the family. The dream was very real to Mary and became pivotal when the next day the missionary Dan Jones and a companion appeared at their door with a Book of Mormon.

Now, I have dreams which I seldom remember. I “studied” Duolingo for about a year trying to learn just a little Spanish, all to no avail. However, there are times when I get feelings and promptings to act. Sometimes I follow those promptings, sometimes I don’t. Perhaps, we all have halos that need some fine tuning, and I would suspect that requires pondering and acting. It’s a Good Life when the halo works!