Shakespeare said it exceedingly well through his character Jacques about the nature of everyday life (Ref. All the World's a Stage) but to the person who has sufficiently developed the Art of Discernment skills the famous quote says much much more. To this person who has sufficiently developed their Art of Discernment skills he or she will see and understand possible hidden messages within that quote. To the degree that this person has come to learn and understand a lot of factual information that is seemingly unrelated to the topic of stage-play over the balance of his or her lifetime and who has also all along nurtured a curiosity and interest about the nature of things and why things are the way they are, then this person will see and understand less or more of the hidden message or messages within that quote. Even the person with limited development of their Art of Discernment skills will sense that there is something very curious and attractively familiar about that quote and will be drawn to that quote when they read or hear it. It rings a bell, however faintly, in the hearts of a man or woman that it is saying something important about the nature of their reality.

An important characteristic of the Art of Discernment is that of getting or capturing one's attention whereby the object of interest is often one that is felt to be curiously odd or peculiarly different or seems to stand out in some way and which may not necessarily be obvious at first glance or consideration to most others or even one's self. The second important characteristic of the Art of Discernment is the act of consciously examining the object of one's attention once it is recognized to try to learn and understand what this object of one's attention is trying to reveal about itself. This examining the object of one's attention means to actively explore what is seen and heard and felt and sensed and thought including delving farther by checking into references or indirect references referred to somewhere in this object of one's attention.

In the video John D. Riley journeys to India to visit the 19th Siddha. While watching and listening to John talk and visit with the Siddha, it is quickly realized that this is definitely curiously odd and peculiarly different and most certainly seems to stand out in some way. Having watched and listened to the video it does not take long before curiosity asserts itself and one feels a desire to further explore into this object of one's attention which leads quickly to the discovery of more information about what a Siddha is as well as to John's Conscious Streams Channel on YouTube. This further exploration leads to a better understanding of the original object of one's attention. In this process of exploration one often comes to notice and recognize hidden messages and meanings and associations that were not apparent or known before.

While exploring the Conscious Streams Channel I discovered there that John had placed a video link which he labeled Ascension which immediately and most definitely caught my attention because I recognized the man as Daniel from the Stargate SG1 television show science fiction series and when I played the video again most definitely caught my attention big time because this video segment was from the Stargate SG1 segment Ascension (Season 5, Episode 3) wherein Daniel has met and is talking to an ascended being about the possibility of his ascending. Daniel though is not clear in understanding about what the ascended being is telling him and is frequently confused and frustrated by the odd apparently meaningless statements that the ascended being replies to him in answer to Daniel's questions. However even though being human and Daniel does not yet understand what it is that is required of him or what this ascension process is all about, he makes a free will decision and verbally states it to the ascended being that he wants to ascend which in fact he does in spite of all of his human frailties and weaknesses and inadequacies ("Your fate is in your hands!").