METAREALITY
M
ike and Beth Pasakarnis
may have felt welcome at
the Soul Life conference
they attended in Virginia
Beach, but they also felt a
bit out of place. It was only
six weeks earlier that they
heard about the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Attending such an event was the
last thing they ever imagined themselves doing.
They even admitted as much on camera when
medium Maureen Hancock pointed to them in
the audience and asked them to stand.
The reason for their attendance soon became
clear. Maureen told the large crowd that Mike’s
son, Michael, who went by the name “Wolf”,
came through in a reading she did for him and his
wife Beth two years earlier. With Maureen and
Dr. Eben Alexander as the
draw, Wolf’s father and
step-mother had gone
to the conference looking for answers about his
death. They had no idea
that pieces of the puzzle
lay embedded in the very
grounds upon which they
walked that weekend.
On the last day of the conference, Mike and Beth
had time to kill while waiting for the shuttle to their
hotel. They wandered up
the hill toward the historic
building that once housed
Edgar Cayce’s hospital. The stones laid out
in a circular maze caught
Mike’s eye. Like many of
the things to which he’d
been exposed that weekend, the concept of a lab-
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yrinth was foreign, but the design at the center
seemed strangely familiar.
As he drew closer, Mike had to look twice to make
sure that he was seeing correctly. Incredulous, he
turned to his wife and said, “Do you remember
this?” Beth recognized the design immediately. The round yin-yang symbol with a dolphin in
each half of the circle could have been copied
from a drawing that Wolf had designed some ten
years before his death.
Wolf’s design preceded the construction of the
labyrinth. He had drawn it during his “dolphin
period,” before he decided that the wolf’s image suited him better. He had no connection
with the A.R.E.’s Facilities Support Manager who
came up with what she thought was a unique design for the headquarters’ labyrinth. She chose
to include the yin-yang
symbol for its message of
balance and the dolphins
for their representation of
emotional release.
It was Mike and Beth’s
need for such release that
had brought them to Virginia Beach. Now they
couldn’t help but wonder
if Wolf had led them there
for a reason. The connection between Wolf’s
drawing and the labyrinth’s centerpiece served
as a signpost that Mike
and Beth were on the
right path. As they departed the grounds, they
had no idea that another
vital connection had been
made the day before.
Mike Pasakarnis seemed
somehow different than