Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

being played out here, I thought.
Then on Wednesday, it hit me. As I watched the
scenes from England and experienced the great out-
pouring of emotion from people not in the least re-
nowned for showing their emotions, especially in the
open, I suddenly realized what Diana’s spiritual mis-
sion had been. The overarching purpose of her in-
carnation had been to open the heart chakra of Great
Britain and, by so doing, greatly accelerate the spiri-
tual evolution of the British people, no less. I had no
doubt whatsoever that she had achieved exactly that.
No one who watched the events of that week could ever
doubt that she had single-handedly transformed the
country — and indeed, much of the world — at the
heart level. Only a very few people in all of human
history come to mind as having had such an effect on
the world purely through the expression of love en-
ergy: Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela
perhaps; Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ, certainly.
(No wonder the Queen of England bowed her head to
Diana’s coffin — something never before witnessed.)
While in terms of human achievement and spiritual
example in life, any comparison with Mother Teresa
would be unfair; it is nevertheless interesting to note
that the death of Mother Teresa, whose life and work,
in most people’s eyes, brought her close to sainthood
in her lifetime, did not take the spotlight off Diana even
for a moment. That two women whose lives so deeply
touched the world through authentic love should make
their transitions within days of each other like this has
enormous spiritual significance.
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Even though the British people had been through two
wars this century, suffering and grieving enormous
losses, they came through it all with their legendary
sense of humor and proverbial stiff upper lip, but not,
I think it is fair to say, with an open heart. That had to
wait, not only the coming of a people’s princess, but
her divinely planned, and to us at least, untimely and
tragic death.
Since then, commentators have tried in vain to ex-
plain her effect on the world in terms of our fixation
on, and willingness to almost deify, celebrities we know
only through the media. Jonathan Alter in Newsweek
came closer than most by referring to what Richard
Sennett, in 
The Fall of Public Man
, called the ideology
of intimacy, in which people “seek to find personal
meaning in impersonal situations.” It is true that
people did not know her personally and, to that ex-
tent, it remains an impersonal situation. Yet she tran-
scended those limitations imposed by time and space
and somehow touched everyone’s heart very deeply
in a way that cannot be easily explained.
The key to understanding her power as a human be-
ing lies in the archetype of the wounded healer, which
teaches us that our power lies in our wounds — in the
sense that it is the wound in me that evokes the heal-
ing in you and the wound in you that evokes the heal-
ing in me. We are all wounded healers, but we don’t
know it. When we keep our wounds hidden and totally
private, we separate from and deny healing, not only
to ourselves but to countless others too. The stiff up-
per lip is a terrible way to withhold love. It atrophies
the heart and cripples the soul. Through her willing-
ness to share her deepest wounds with the whole
world, Princess Diana evoked the healer in all of us,
opened our hearts, and healed our fractured souls.
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The whole world watched as people took their cue from
Diana and opened up, sharing their grief and their
woundedness, just as she had done. She gave the
people a language of intimacy that they could use to
express feelings openly and authentically. I don’t re-
call seeing one display of emotion and feeling that
was not totally authentic, and on television today, that
is indeed unusual.
As we each begin to emerge from behind the pain of
loss and the rope burns of grief, anger, and projection
of guilt regarding our insatiable appetite for Diana’s
image and curiosity about her life, which the press and
paparazzi merely reflected for us, we begin to discern,
through the mists and veils, the divine perfection of it
all. The more we contemplate the mission she ac-
cepted and the extent to which she succeeded, the
more we are able to surrender into that perfection.
We find ourselves experiencing a new level of peace
as we move beyond the emotions and thoughts that
once would have tied us to the World of Humanity for-
ever and held us hostage to the victim archetype and
move towards the acceptance of the fact that it all had
to unfold in exactly that way. The mission absolutely
required the upbringing that she had, the marriage
that went terribly wrong, the rejection she suffered at
the hands of the royal establishment, the criticism of
the press, the hounding by the paparazzi, the dramatic
and violent death — everything, down to the very last
detail.
And as the future unfolds, you will notice that now that
Diana has returned “home” having completed her mis-
sion, the energies that held all those dynamics in place
will begin to disperse. Not only is she released from
those dynamics, so are all the other people who were
involved in the drama we know to be only an illusion.
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Charles is now free to become warmer, less distant
and a more loving father to his two boys — and he
undoubtedly will. (The Press will say that he changed
because of what happened, but we will know the real
truth.) The Queen will probably become less stuffy,
more open and not quite so irrelevant. The monar-
chy itself will transcend the cult of personality and will
become a stronger, more meaningful institution, not
as a direct response to what happened, but because
of the energy shift that occurred when the mission was
over and the transformation complete.
But just because someone opens their heart chakra,
there’s no guarantee that they will keep it open. That
remains a matter of choice at every moment. The
same is true of the collective. The British people, and
others around the world, will either stay in the love vi-
bration that Diana’s death catapulted them into, and
use that power to transform themselves, their royal
family and their society, or they will focus on the illu-
sion of what happened, blaming Charles, the royal
family in general, the driver, the press, and others. If
they choose the latter, that will be their choice and
perfect in its own way, but it will cause the collective
heart chakra to close again.
Perhaps this book has a part to play in keeping the
collective heart chakra open. Maybe the insight you
have gained by reading it will enable you to remain
focussed, not on the illusion of what happened in the
tunnel that night in Paris, but on what is real in the
Princess Diana story from beginning to end and the
mission that gave it meaning and significance.
Maybe everyone who reads this book will truly recog-
nize and acknowledge that, just as Jeff played his part
for Jill in the story of Part One, Charles played his