The last of the Crown Chakras.
Probably my favorite of the video's I've done although probably not as interesting because there was so much that I covered in the Govern's section. Here is the Mountain Top Chakra. An intimidating prospect but if you've worked through the prior levels you should be ready to meet your Higher Self. I really enjoyed making the Chakra series. In some ways I'm sad to see it end and on others I am ecstatic they are over. I think they are a tremendous contribution of the experience and knowledge I've learned. Of course, these are the Chakra's according to me (and I'm not someone trained or certified by someone else...just a lone wanderer for whom this approach worked) based on a few resources. I know to the major skeptics and to the people who think the Chakra concept belongs only to the Eastern Belief System don't really care about the resources but, hey, when I earned my degrees if I submitted a paper with only one Source or, heaven forbid, based on opinion I would have gotten an F. I agree there is safety intellectually in numbers but as Thomas Campbell points out in his Big Toe series...the fringe are usually the ones who actually create innovation...when you're in the mainstream ideas move extremely slowly. Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed this Journey through the Chakra Systems. I had a lot of fun making these detailed videos and a lot of great Feedback from people which was totally awesome. I appreciate those who take the time to express their appreciation for what I have done. The next Map of the Pyche that we are going to explore is the 7 cards of the Tarot that Represent the Spiritual Path of the Seeker. That's going to be a fun and unique journey I haven't really seen anyone cover on YouTube. ​Thank you again for Joining me on these adventures and have a wonderful week!
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Apparently, a gentleman by the name of David Mead claimed that on April 23rd 2018 it would be the beginning of the end of the world. The man apparently made similar claims back on September 23rd of 2018 which garnered mention by the press. Aside from a lone article on my Facebook by Space.com I had heard nothing of it (https://www.space.com/40377-doomsday-april-23.html). This wasn't on my radar because I stopped watching conspiracy videos but a quick search on YouTube showed a whopping 879k views for the top videos on the subject. One poorly constructed eleven minute video had a whopping 390k views. As usual, there are a lot of people who jumped on the fear bus and made a lot of money off of it. Perhaps it was the weird mix of Christian ideas and fear of Annunaki that drove many people not to be interested in this one...after all, the entire Annunaki theory has become far more popular thanks to the History Channel's Ancient Aliens but it's not completely mainstream or accepted by the majority of Christians.
I am extremely glad to see the fear based theories dating the events of Revelation occurring in the outer world have completely lost their popularity. 2012 and last September has taken their toll on people's interest in this sort of thing even if the researcher offers compelling evidence. There are still a few hold overs. In the Metaphysical community they were talking about the Event that was supposed to happen in March or April. A search on the event returns a fall smaller amount of people tuning into that idea. About 417k people watched videos on the subject with one video having a whopping 216k views. Most of the videos on the subject, kind of like the Mead rapture stories, had one woman behind the idea. The metaphysical community, for the most part, covered their basis in case nothing major happened. They said that it was something that occurred on the mental level not on the outer level (although, some thought there would be a literal wave of light they could see that would hit people and change them completely)...so, cooler heads prevailed then in the community following Mead. At the heart of the two predictions was the desire for certain people who are desperately trying to get away from the non-believers and the people they don't like. Like hippies creating a commune together where they can create an idealized society (be careful of the Koolaid in such places, remember the Jonestown Massacre?) away from all of the people that disagree with them...instead of moving to a place of seclusion with a community of like minded individuals they simply want those of us who don't agree with their beliefs to be taken out by a Higher Power. I've covered why I rejected the Doomsday scenario years ago. The idea that people want other people's free will over ridden is really sad. Yes, it's been the story that the Catholic Church and that non-catholic churches have taught because it's a great way to get tithing people into their seats! After all, according to this religions are a 1.2 Trillion dollar industry: https://the-atlantic.blogspot.com/2018/04/us-religion-is-worth-12tyear-more-than.html?m=1. Nothing gets people into those seats and willing to spend money then a good doomsday scenario. After all, if they are in fear for their immortal soul they'll pay any price to save it. The sad thing is that the majority of religious texts from the Bible to the Hindu Bhagavadgita say that there is nothing in the outer world that can bring inner peace. The battle with the Ego is not something that is going to occur with someone in the outer world who has a huge one (much to the disappointment of many Trump haters). Apocalypse is something that occurs within the mind during the period where we are walking the Path of the Seeker and we have to confront our Shadow. The Devil is just an illusion (I hear some gasping as though this is going to bring bad luck upon me...well, I guess keep an eye on this blog to see if that is the case and if it doesn't happen maybe...just maybe you really need to re-evaluate your ideas). First and foremost, if the Devil existed and could destroy souls it would mean that there was someone equal to the One Creator and that's just nonsense...you don't find that in the bible, the Quran or the Bhagavadgita or in any Buddhist text. There is just One thing from which all of creations sprung and nothing that can counter that Force. We can use the energy granted to us for good or evil. We can step onto this path and become a devil or a saint depending on our intention and purpose. However, those who step onto this path for power find that it is at a steep price and they are constantly challenged...constantly needing to perform 'spells' and 'invocations' to get what they think is better for them. Those who choose the path out of Service find the way smoothed before them with no effort really necessary. Unfortunately, for Mead and those who tried to make a buck off of the idea of The Event, a little bit of knowledge and a whole lot of fear from unresolved issues with their personal Shadow leads to misunderstanding. The people that they attract to these ideas, of course, are also people on that wavelength. Now, when big groups of people become disturbed by such an idea and hold a desire in their minds for such an event they can affect things. They won't quite make it to doomsday because there are enough of us are not wishing for the end of the world to counter them (and the side that is in Service to the whole has a more powerful influence on future events). That's why holding onto ideas like these can be seriously poisoning to your soul and it will produce negative issues in your personal life from which you really wish you could escape. Conclusion There is nothing wrong with wanting Jesus to return. There is nothing wrong with wishing the world well...but to wish for Doomsday and a bunch of people suffering just because they don't act or the think the way they should is just sad. Just think how much the people who conceive, perpetuate, spread and desire this outcome are suffering in their lives. Obviously, it is their own lives that they have created by making unconscious decisions like a Zombie that they are trying to escape. So, maybe say a prayer for them today that they will wake up to a greater perspective of reality then the close minded point of view that their world can't change unless there is an act of God that destroys most of the population on this planet.
Commonly called the Third Eye Chakra this chakra is not as exciting as people think.
To really reap the benefits of this chakra people need to work on the other chakras first. Sometimes, this chakra is open and functioning, as was my case, but because of other issues I had not dealt with (Shadow issues and inner child issue originating in the lower chakras that were closed) it lead to a lot of misunderstandings...and fear. At this point, when you can see clearly you're no longer letting your emotional attachments dictate to you how to interpret your subjective reality. The old baggage that you had learned or picked up earlier in life that gave your life context to interpret has been stripped away. Now you can look at a situation for what it is...not what you think it should be or how it would be ideally...but as it is in reality. When you see a situation clearly it can help you become detached. Again, detachment is not a bad thing...it just means that you don't hold onto ideas or things that are unnecessary or bring you grief. Most of us hold onto ideas that are negative because they are familiar and have been the primary way we have interpreted our reality. Since we have done our work with the previous chakras that is no longer the case. Take for example a typical work situation. I used to get so caught up and freaked out when something changed at work. Once I did some inner work I realized that those changes had nothing to do with me. I couldn't and shouldn't resist those changes...but instead learn to go with the flow with a flexible and adaptable approach. Then I realized that the company I worked for had a tendency to change everything every three months. Core items stayed the same but the layout changed every three months (this is typical in retail) so there was no reason to get excited or upset about it...that was simple the normal ordinary boring cycle. When people complain now I just shrug...that is how it is and if someone can't accept it they simply should get a new job. On a business level it makes perfect sense as they keep things interesting for every season on a superficial level so that the customer is engaged mentally by a changing landscape every time they come in ...but to the people on the ground level that have to do the grunt work it appears to be an exercise of futility. When you can detach and step back from a situation to act as an observer you see the situation more clearly. As long as you are emotionally involved you cannot see the picture clearly or logically. If you haven't dealt with your shadow you may even run away from looking at some situations. The ability to step back into the observer role, in effect, is the super power of this chakra. Now when I say super power...I'm just saying it's a heightened sense anyone can develop in an exciting format. I would never have been able to create my YouTube videos if I hadn't done the work on the other chakras and developed this chakra. No can I also 'tune in' and read people's energy when I look at them? Yes, and I'm note sure if it involves this chakra or not. This is just something that spontaneously occurred. I always knew I had the ability but I didn't have clear enough sight to understand what I was sensing. I would project all sorts of other stuff onto people. I picked up this book by Thomas Campbell because I've seen him in some YouTube videos and his theory pretty much goes with what I've been thinking for a while. In 2016 I wrote about how people who play video games have an advantage over people who don't (https://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/category/video-game-analogy). Recently, it has become vogue among some scientists and some in the Metaphysical community to believe that we live in a Virtual Reality. I really wanted to see how he developed his theory.
I am into picking up books and looking at reality from as many perspectives as possible. TOE by the way is actually T.O.E. and stands for Theory Of Everything. Campbell really likes his acronyms. The cover of the book promises, "Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics." That's a tall order. I love the sense of humor demonstrated by the title of the book. I am glad I picked up the entire trilogy...the first book would be underwhelming on it's own and I'm not sure if I would continue with the other two if I hadn't bought all of them together. Book One is 288 pages long... I have six markers in it. I really enjoy his sense of humor and his little biography really surprised me. That in itself, even though it's a very small portion of the 288 pages, is worth picking up Book One. There isn't much in this one about how the virtual reality works but it sets the foundation for the acronym's he uses throughout the trilogy. AUO- Absolute Unbounded Oneness The dimly aware consciousness that from everything- Think potential without expression. (Kind of like the Brahmen aspect of the Hindu faith, although, I think Tom Campbell might not like that comparison as he has a huge aversion to applying old frameworks to his theory). AUM- Absolute Unbounded Manifold. The brilliantly aware consciousness that AUO became. The self-organizing consciousness system of which we are a part. (Think Atman principal in Hinduism) PMR- Physical matter Reality NPMR- Non-Physical Matter Reality OS- Our System The Majority of Book One sounds like hard Science but it's actually soft science (it's all theory) and while fascinating I have an allergy to equations so I glossed over that part. I am curious what type of audience he is directing this book towards because I can't see him winning over hardcore scientists and it was a bit of a tough technical read at some parts which would probably alienate the self-help type people who would pick up this book. That said, I'll probably be quoting some of his ideas in my own work. In my Throat Chakra video I use a phrase he coined that I really love...An Open Minded Skeptic. I also use the concept of "Proof is in the Pudding" in my most recent blog. So, Thomas Campbell, if you ever read this, you have already had a profound affect on how I communicate my spiritual perspective and I thank you. That too has been very valuable. So without further ado, I'll share with you the parts I marked. "Significant personal benefit can be gained simply by developing an explorer's attitude. You must be courageous and open minded enough to contemplate the unknown and then step into it (experience it) to find out for yourself. There is no other way. Your experience, your time, your effort, and your mind compose your only doorway to understanding that is not belief-based. A belief-based understanding is only slightly better than no understanding at all if, and only if, what you believe turns out to serendipitous to be true. Do you think the correct belief system can get you to the finish line without running the race? Unfortunately, it cannot- even if your belief turns out to be true. Some people believe that they do not have the time, energy, or ability to gain consciousness quality on their own. They think if they find the right religion, organization, book, teacher, guru or adviser, they can minimize the effort required to develop their personal experience of Big Truth because the teacher will explain what is true and they will simply believe it. Do you think this strategy will work? Non it cannot! You cannot believe your way into consciousness quality any more that you can believe your way into being a master violinist, sumo wrestler, or the president of your country. There is yet another problem. You obviously must choose whom to believe very wisely. How can you do that without great wisdom of your own? Through knowledge can be passed from person to person, wisdom is derived only through your personal experience and is non-transferable to others." Pg. 161 Chapter 22 Right Attitude "True enough, in matters of evolution there is no free lunch. .Nevertheless, contemplating and evaluating the ideas of others can be an immensely helpful aid to your progress, and to your effort to grow the quality of your consciousness. You do not need to figure everything out for yourself. The advice of others can be like having a map to guide your explorations. An incorrect map can send you off on a wild goose chase. You must evaluate the correctness of the map as you go- because, before you go, you can only guess and assume your way through a shallow evaluation of any map. A useful map must necessarily be somewhat general, whereas each journey must be individual and personal." Pg. 163 Chapter 23 Who Ya Gonna Call "You do not need any particular belief, disbelief, or faith to motivate you to start on this journey. You need only to grasp the possibility of a greater reality of some sort. After that, the desire to discover the truth should be motivation enough. Additionally, if this just-perhaps-possible larger reality is also potentially very important and significant to your life and being, nothing should hold you back from expending the necessary energy to explore the truth of the matter for yourself." Pg 165 Chapter 23 Who Ya Gonna Call "You can hope and pray for someone else to provide you with enlightenment (trust me, that won't happen), or you can take the steps to develop and grow it. Do not expect to find shortcuts through the flypaper realms of religious, scientific, or personal dogma, or along the midway of a New Age carnival. You must keep your mind free to change and grow. The right question is: How has the fundamental quality of your being changed. The answer to that question defines the metric of your progress. Self-proclaimed success means nothing; progress must be demonstrated by clear and obvious results." Pg. 167 Chapter 23 Who Ya Gonna Call "In order to understand the natural pressures that drive AUO's evolution we must find understanding how consciousness improves itself by achieving higher levels of internal organization (entropy reduction). Let's review the evolutionary process. After the first step of exploration into all possible states, the second step is to assess which states are profitable or significant and to continue to explore those valuable states while letting the losers go." Pg 225 Chapter 27 The Evolution of AUO: Patterns, Symbols and Information. All that said and done I highly recommend this first book to the devoted Seeker. There is a lot of material in in that is of great value. I know it might not be what some people expect because it contains a lot of Scientific Theory. For the light and fluffy spiritual types this probably won't appeal. Hearing how a skeptical analytical minded person sort of tripped into this bigger expanded picture of reality probably isn't for them. That said I'm looking forward to reading the next two books in the trilogy.
Each time I make one of these videos it's a journey in and of itself.
I think that's why I enjoy these so much and as I go through and unload my knowledge of these topics I find that I have a tremendously lighter burden. Almost by sharing it in this space and on my YouTube channel I feel lighter. Part of that is because I love to share these on websites and what not when people have questions. They become tremendously helpful to refer others to when they are asking for help. Strangely, when working on this YouTube video I experienced a bit of a block. This block didn't really come from anything in particular. I just didn't even know how to begin this chakra and then when while working on it I had a heck of a time recording the audio. There is a low buzzing sound in the background because the one opportunity that I had to record was while my husband was running the AC. I also had one of the nightmares about fish that I mentioned before while working on this video...I continue to work on expressing my truth which is a *huge* lesson in this life for me and will probably continue to be something I work on in personal relationships. This is such a powerful chakra. There is so much that can be accomplished and can transform a person's life when they work on this chakra. I can't even express how amazing it is to me how my life has changed by working on this chakra and realizing that I need to speak up often and constantly so that people don't trample me to get their desires met. The last two weeks have been transformative for me as I shift into a new gear and a new way of being. I hope all of you are having similar experiences and I am sending you a lot of love. I've written about this before but I only mentioned it briefly. I wanted to update and expand on this subject because it's really important. You can find the link to the original blog I labeled as this topic.
This is a strategy that I have employed many times in the past. The words that we use and the stories we tell ourselves...and others about our lives actually creates them. I was once very pessimistic...oh who am I kidding? I was super depressed and had major anxiety. Some days I couldn't motivate myself to get out of bed let alone leave the house! I grew up feeling very lonely and unsupported by the universe. The mantra I had learned as a child was, "Life sucks and then you die," along with, "I am nobody, nothing, no one." If every word, action and deed creates our reality what I was creating was a 'life that sucks' and 'death.' I would tell myself this every time that I hit a set back. Then I would dwell on that set back like crazy. That was the internal story I repeated to myself...my early journals are full of statements such as, "I'll never find someone to love," and, "I'll always be alone." Wow! Talk about creating a reality that I didn't want! Yet, no one told me that my words were powerful and that my attitude about life creates my experiences. I had no other example as the people I attracted into my life were equally negative and had the same attitude that they were a victim...and that life was punishment. That produced a lot of reinforcement for the negative beliefs that I held...worse yet, when I told people how I felt they told me that I was having a pity party and I needed to "knock it off." Being told to "Knock it off," or that, "Tomorrow will be better," or any of the platitudes that people with depression or anxiety receive from those who don't have this frame of mind doesn't work. However, I am here to tell you those states of mind are not permanent and a person can transform themselves. If you find that you have a similar reinforcing negative belief system the best way I learned to deal with it was to, "Fake It Until You Make It." Now, some will sit there and say that is not being authentic. Well, this work does need to be done along with the work I've outlined as we worked through the chakras...healing the inner child, working on giving and receiving affection, reclaiming our will-power, recognizing/integrating our Shadow and learning to communicate. What You Resist Persists Three years ago when I was going through the Darkest Night of My Soul (see a YouTube video on that here: https://youtu.be/aA-OWeBtujQ) my friend Michael did a reading for me. He told me this very potent phrase and it really hit home. At the time I was resisting accepting my daughters death. I was resisting the grieving process. I didn't want to lose her a second time by giving up on her and I felt I needed to grieve to remember her the rest of my life...that I shouldn't be allowed to be happy because I hadn't fought hard enough to protect her. Here is where working with your Shadow is so important. This is a huge phase of self-healing because as long as you resist the Shadow you're going to keep subconsciously reworking the same pattern of behavior expecting a different result. This isn't on a conscious level and you may go through a cycle where you feel better even if you don't deal with your shadow. Eventually you will have something minor go wrong which will send you spiraling down the drain of despair and the shadow will be bigger and stronger then before! Usually, this subconscious program happens as a result of childhood trauma. That's when we originally start constructing our Shadow as a coping mechanism to survive. At that time we are at the mercy of our parents when it comes to constructing our reality. Once we hit 21, however, we can't sit here and continue to blame our parents. At this point, we are adults, and we have the full rights and capacity to start creating our own personal reality. We must face and integrate the Shadow...all that we have resisted, rejected and all that we have repressed for the sake of survival. As long as we resist and repress...it will control our lives on a subconscious level and we will never understand why we make the poor decision that lead us to such despair over and over again. To really get this ship corrected it's going to require an entire overhaul. Simply 'thinking happy thoughts' will not do the trick...we're are going to have to literally reprogram our thinking. Fake It Until You Make It Twice I had the rug pulled out from under me. Spirit and my soul really conspired for me to end up on the Spiritual Path that I walked and to reach this point in my life. I can see how it was my primary goal to do this work and share it. Spirit just wasn't going to let me sleep through this incarnation! This is called the Wounded Healer Archetype. I can't say that was ever my conscious intention prior to the work I've done in the last four years to ever write a blog like this one or make YouTube videos. However, since this was a life lesson it didn't come all that naturally and I really had to put in some mental elbow grease. When I left my ex-husband a broken being and when I became utterly annihilated by the loss of my daughter I didn't think things could become better again. In both cases I thought my life was over. I left my jobs, which in both cases (in my mind at least) had given me value as a person and defined me. I left the people I knew at those jobs and my entire way of life behind which was very hard. In both cases I had to start my life over completely. Going From Toxic To Healthy What I had to learn was the Fake It Until You Make It Strategy. You can't go from being an extremely negative pessimistic being to an enlightened happy peaceful being with the snap of your fingers or a magic pill (and I can say that the psychiatric drugs are absolutely not going to help you when it comes to your thinking...they will turn you into a walking zombie that makes you groggy and feel like your walking in a fog but that's it). Reprogramming your thinking take effort. You're going to have to go through the Hermit Phase of the Awakening experience and that's fine! First, turn off the news and television. Start paying attention to what your filling your mind with...have you been watching conspiracy theories on YouTube? Turn that off! Do you watch a sitcom on television and wish your life was like that...put it to the side for a little while (none of what Hollywood writes is ever grounded in reality). As they say...if you put garbage in you're going to get garbage out! The Fake It Until You Make it strategy means that when I felt absolutely horrible I had to say I was fantastic. Not because that's what other people wanted to hear (I am a rebel, I'd prefer to tell them what they don't want to hear) but because feeling that way was *MY* goal. I applied this strategy for my well being happiness and...I had to do it despite of other people because I had surrounded myself with some pretty negative ones. Again, this is reprogramming your mind. When someone asks you how you are doing and you share all of the personal woes of your life with them...you are placing an order with the universe. You are saying on a subconscious level, "Ooh, this is part of my identity, this gives me something to talk about and makes me interesting...I want more of this!" If you have a buddy at work or that you call to share all of the woes of the world with...where you compare who has it worse and who is suffering more...you're just reinforcing the negative experiences that you share with them. (This is different from venting...venting is just discussing an event that perturbed you and with the right friends they can help you see the bright side or see that you're over reacting or solve the problem- that is healthy...but competing for who has the worse life is definitely not!). By participating in such a conversation you are reinforcing the story of, "I want to win the competition for the worst life ever!" Then the universe goes, "Your wish is my command!" Then it gives you more misery...because that's what you asked for right? Miserable people always try to out do each other on the miserable victim scale...because it gives them an excuse not to put much effort into life or changing their life. Since they have an excuse they can use that to make others feel guilty and get benefits for it...usually more days off of work, their spouse shouldering most of the financial burden or it allows them to say unkind things 'they don't really mean but they're going through a lot.' Eventually you'll discover that this type of person has a label...we call them toxic. If you want a Debbie Downer in your life that's constantly saying they are a loser and they aren't ever going to get what they want...well, you're just looking to be abused. Most of the time these people are narcissists. I will admit I was utterly and completely toxic myself at points in my life. When you first start off on this path you need to cut these toxic people out of your life...especially if that's the majority of the people that you spend your time with because they are reinforcing your negative reality experience (don't worry, after you have a firm grasp on a new reality it's not hard to deal with them, although, they may try to avoid you or change you back because you're no longer on the same mental page which will make them feel very uncomfortable). Fake It Until You Make It At the heart of this strategy is doing exactly what I said...Faking it until you make it your reality. No matter how bad your day has been reply, "I'm fantastic," whenever your asked and, better yet, make it a rule to ask every person you interact with how their day is...and you will create the opportunity to tell them your day is fantastic (plus, if they are a service person such as Starbucks, A Grocery Clerk or Cashier, Bank Teller or a Fast Food worker you'll have the satisfaction of watching them react with shock, their eyes light up and 95% of the time they'll react with gratitude...and ask how your day is giving you the opportunity to tell them that you are Fantastic!) Eventually, you'll start to say this with great enthusiasm, reflexively and before long it will become true. People's reactions to that reply are startling. Some people will go, "Man I wish I could answer that way! I like you!" Some may say, "Oh really?" very sarcastically (maybe because they've never had a fantastic day in their life and they don't have the capacity to believe someone be fantastic). Some may just remain silent and try to get out of your presence as soon as possible. That can be a fun part of the experience...paying attention to who reacts to the statement in what way. Pay attention to the body language of that person because you'll notice it's the people who are either very happy or moderately happy that will respond enthusiastically to that statement. Don't you want to attract more people like that into your life...don't you want your work environment to consist of people who are happy to be there and deep meaningful relationships with happy people? The overwhelmingly positive response helps to reinforce the feeling. People may be curious to see why you can respond that way asking, "What's going on that's so good in your life?" Then you can tell them that you're starting off on an amazing road of transformation! By putting out that positive energy you will get it back ten fold. For some reason, the negative types will just flee into the shadows (however, if you dwell on the negative the boogymen will start coming out of the woodwork making your life severely difficult...and if you don't integrate your shadow it will come back bigger and scarier then ever if you experience a set back...as long as you are in that dualistic state of Shadow/Persona you're going to experience periods of joy and despair but the Fake It Until You Make It strategy can help even those out until you achieve unification). Conclusion Every word we say sends out an intention into the world...people in the spiritual community call this a vibration. The cosmos is created to respond to our desires/needs and wants without bias...it sends back to us the same energetic vibration we send out. If we focus on the negative...we will create more of that experience. Often, it does benefit in some subconscious way...allowing us the time we need to rest that we may not allow ourselves to otherwise or giving us an excuse to not even put forth the effort to try and make our lives better...because why bother if you have a self-sabotaging personality? As our mind set changes and we start to wake up to focusing on the positive...we start celebrating the small victories. Waking up every day at 8am if that's our goal instead of sleeping all day. Eating a small container of Ben & Jerry's ice cream or celebrating the completion of a new project. Celebrate the minor accomplishments and you'll graduate to the bigger ones. Eventually, you'll learn to let go of the small stuff. You learn not to sweat the small stuff or dwell on what goes wrong...wishing that you could go back into the past to change it and constantly being caught off guard when the same event occurs again. One day you'll wake up and realize you do feel fantastic...when someone asks you how you're doing you'll say, "Fantastic!" without hesitation and your life will start reflecting that...work won't be so much of a chore, doing errands won't be a chore and you'll attract extremely positive healthy relationships into your life...and that my friends is Manifestation! Now, this stage only applies early on in your Spiritual Awakening. Although, this stage is a huge accomplishment! There are much bigger and better states of mind on the horizon as we continue! Finally, here is a blog where I celebrated the success of this technique two years ago: https://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/category/fake-it-until-you-make-it. Today, I'm going to start off with a few announcements.
Yes, this is an extra blog for this week...specifically for Friday when I usually intend to post my YouTube videos. I have decided that the amount of pressure I've put on myself to keep up with posting two blogs and a YouTube video every week is a bit much. I knew I wasn't going to be able to keep it up once Baby Michelle is here but as I go into the more serious period of this pregnancy (20-26 weeks) I have decided to cut back. I've experienced a lot of fatigue and even some pain this week. That can make it very difficult to concentrate. The YouTube videos in particular are time consuming. I usually put them together over the course of three days. That is a lot of time. At the moment I am most excited about sharing the YouTube videos so I've decided that is a priority over the blog. I am also working on a very complex Tree of Life drawing that I hope to have done sometime prior to August which is a priority. I am not sure how much time I will have for art once Baby Michelle is here...and this drawing is for her. Every Wednesday I'll post a blog and I will post a YouTube video every weekend. The YouTube video may go up on Saturday or Sunday depending on how the rest of the week goes. This is completely based on my schedule and what I find easiest. For some reason I have no problem posting my Wednesday blog. Monday's are always hard. Friday is usually taken up by my weekly OB appointment...so the YouTube video ends up being posted on the weekend when I'm not competing with my husband for the internet connection. So, to reiterate...you can expect a new blog on Wednesday and a YouTube video to be posted with the background/added information on Saturday or Sunday. By far I am not done here. There is so much more I want to explore and say. I am very excited to share with all of you the newest phase in my life. New State Of Mind Part of this also comes from a new state of mind that I have. First, I have covered a lot of information in this blog over the years. A lot of information. I think that it's easy to see the evolution of my Path in these posts. They start off really confused and searching. Even last year, when I was trying to comprehend the symbolism of the Beast that showed up a lot in the movies I was confused and still fear based. Over the last year I have really blossomed. I have worked through major issues and hurdles. The last four years have been a heck of a learning curve and I've hit that phase where all of it was completely worth it. Each time I reach a new plateau of peace it amazes me. I share this journey with you not out of a desire to be a guru. I don't desire to have followers. There is a reason I don't provide you a way to contact me. I don't want you to look at me to save you or anything special...I want you to do the work for yourself. Read what I have to share and take what resonates with you in this blog and move on with your Path. Yes, it is a form of teaching but most importantly it's a form of *sharing*. I find this incredibly useful when working with people in the various FB groups that I am in...I can send them a link to a well written blog or a video. I don't have to go into a full description *every* time I am responding to a specific question. I still have a lot of information and insights that I want to share but the intent has, for the most part, changed. No Need To Save The World Part of this desire to take it easy and not push myself so hard with sharing content is due to a shift in my perception. This shift has been there for quite some time but I've reached the point where I understand it completely. I have absolute Trust in the Natural Order of Life itself...call it the One Creator...call it All-That-Is....The Force...God...or the Immaterial World. Whatever works for you to connect with an idea of a Higher Power. The need to save the world is an Ego Trap. Yes, we have all been taught and the burden was placed on the Millennial's to make this world a better place. Yet, one person alone cannot make this change and it isn't something that we achieve by 'doing' in the outer world or forcing our will on the outer world...but by transforming our inner state of being. We awaken to our gifts. To the fact that we are an Empath. That we can read others. That we can do energy work. That we can speak to or see the restless Spirits...or that we are healers. Then we feel this need to do something as a result. We feel we have been given this tremendous responsibility and there has to be this huge reason. Well, there is a huge reason but it doesn't have to do with the outer world. Everyone in this world has these gifts to varying degrees. I felt this way too...at my lowest point. I felt as though there was something I needed to be doing and I thought it was other oriented and that it was going to help save the world in some way. I felt as though it was this huge burden and that there was some force of evil holding me back...but I was totally wrong. There was something evil holding me back but it rested within my own mind... The need to make a difference in the world is a huge Ego Trap. The road to hell, as the metaphor goes, is paved with good Intentions. Hitler thought he was going to make the world a better place...so did Stalin and Mussolini. In their minds the best way forward was for them to reshape all of Creation into their own image. How very...Devil like...clearly they thought that their version of Creation was better then the One Creator's who didn't seem to be directly involved and seemed to be letting things go to hell in a hand basket. The Ego, especially as you start out on this Path, tries to distract you with anything that it can. The whole 'life purpose' and 'being here for a reason you must fulfill' nonsense is a huge part of that trap. I don't think it helps that society tries to reinforce that bull pucky. Feeling the need to convince others of the importance of the Path is also an Ego Trap. Free Will is sacred and out of the knowledge of that sacredness we must honor every person and their choices. If someone is meant to come to the Path they will reach places of information such as this Blog or my YouTube Channel...it cannot be forced. They will do a search and they will be lead by Spirit to the information that will serve them at the point of the spiritual path they have reached. Perhaps they enjoy my epiphanies. Maybe I've laid out a path here that others can follow. That is my greatest hope. Yes, in some ways, it is true that you are meant to share information and help people...but too often the need to grow a business from doing energy work taints the work. Once it becomes revenue and your livelihood depends on it...the message can be harder for people to reach when they are most in need. Through these online groups and going to the Learning Light Center I learned something incredibly important. There are hints of it when you study these subjects. The fact Maslow believed the Self-Actualized person being only 1% of this population, for example, and Enlightened people being super rare. This is because a lot of people just aren't interested in this information. A lot of people are not willing to take a long hard look in the mirror at themselves. This is work...and it's not something that someone can give you. They want to fight something outside of them rather then turning to tame the beast within. I can give you all of the information that I have gathered about how I saved myself... how I reached this profound Sense of Peace and Harmony with Creation. Yet, it is up to you to decide and apply this information on your own. I have full and complete trust that this Awakening with so many people has already completely transformed this planet. We are going to watch the pieces shift into place and it will play out...but the change has already been achieved. The results of a good profound change always takes awhile to be seen in the outer world. More people will spontaneously Awaken as a result. There were just some who had to lift themselves up by the boot straps first...to kind of pull humanity upward and it had to reach a critical mass before it would trigger the Awakening in everyone else. The Proof Is In The Pudding I am currently reading Thomas Campbell's, "My Big TOE." (T.O.E. is an acronym for Theory of Everything). One of my favorite parts of his book is how he explains that it's the results...tasting the pudding...of our work that indicates it's value. Has the belief system or the things you have undertaken to further your spiritual path or further develop your consciousness brought to you what the Christians call the fruit of the Spirit or what the Buddhists would call Enlightenment? Have they eased your personal psychological/spiritual burden? Is there a part of you that says that you're a flawed being unable to reach that state of being...so why even bother? These are good questions to ask yourself. Comparing and Contrasting This last week was a trying one for me. I celebrated the anniversary of my daughter Lilith-Ann's death and I dealt with the fear of losing my mother who was fighting for her life in a hospital after a random car accident. I was profoundly shocked at how well I took all of it...these events would have torn me to pieces two years ago...but I was optimistic and hopeful. I was okay with the idea of my mother passing away. I had told her everything I had ever wanted to tell her in my life...that she's an awesome mother, that I am so thankful for her and she is by far my favorite person to reincarnate with! I knew I would see her again and that she is always with me in Spirit...even while alive I know I am not very far from her thoughts. In this contemplative mood sat down with my journals from 2014-2015. I was looking for the Past Life Reading I had written down in detail and the details about some dreams that I had at that time. I will share with you some of the information I found and the profound level of beauty that my Past Life Regression continues to have on me...like a time capsule where I continue to unpack the awesomeness of that experience. What really blew me away, however, had nothing to do with the content. Instead, it was the amazing amount of suffering that those entries contained. The darkness of my words were mind boggling to me...I remember thinking that way but it is so incomprehensible to who I am now I was dumbstruck by how much I have evolved consciously. Sometimes I look back at my entries in this blog from 2015 and I see the same thing...so much pain and confusion. Even in some of the entries from last year amaze me. The Path of the Seeker has not been a straight one...but a convoluted one with many dead ends. For me, the process of my transformation has been a little bit at a time. I find it a lot like the pile of rocks that I have dug out of my garden. One by one I pulled these bits of myself out of my mental garden that was preventing me from growing properly. I examined each (and if you know me...you know I love our mineral brothers and sisters- i.e. rocks!) and decided if they served me or not. When they did not I added them to a big pile but the process was slow. Now, going back and reading the way my mind worked back in 2014 and 2015 I feel extraordinarily grateful. The transformation is so complete and so profound that I don't feel like that person. That person, with that old habitual negativity that was suffering so much has passed away and I have been truly been reborn in Spirit. Like the phoenix I have risen up from that past into something far greater then I thought possible. The profound peace that I tap into every day in meditation...is beyond compare. I have defied the odds. I have seen miracles and the raw power of prayer. I am the person I always wanted to be...and every day is a chance to test this new state of being...to exercise patience, love and understanding with each and every person I meet. Choose Life I went to see my mother this past Monday. She is now home from the hospital after her harrowing brush with death and her miraculous overcoming of the ventilator. She has always been told that if she was put on a ventilator that she would never come off of it because she has emphysema. Yet, she did. I went to say goodbye to her on Friday the 23rd of March. I wanted to tell her that if she chose to go I understood. Her body is tired and she has live a full life. My Dad had lead me to believe that there was little chance of her coming back. While I was there at her bedside, however, she woke up and I knew she was going to be okay. She told me there was a point where the doctor told her the night of March 22nd, "You either go on the ventilator so that you live or you die. The choice is yours." That's one way to face your worst fears. She thought the ventilator meant life support and death. When I gave birth to and lost Lilith-Ann I faced all of my fears but I fell apart. She has handled all of this with so much grace that I am in awe of her. She has lost her ability to drive, my dad literally took away her keys, because her health is just too poor to take the risk. She is willingly giving up all of the things that she has told me for years defined her...her lifestyle and she is doing it with such gusto that I can only be grateful because they are changes I have seen she needed to make for years...but nothing could force her to make these choices. That is the power of Free Will. She told me that she surprised herself by choosing life and then she told me, "Always Choose Life." What a profound statement. I too had come to that point where I chose to Live. For me, that point on the path was far more subtle. I have to admit that it was only within the last few months that I really 'got it' and that shift has been profound. I will have to cover this topic and along with what I think is it's cause more in depth in an upcoming blog. As I explained, I thought once I really owned the experience of Oneness...once I started to see the One Creator in all beings, in all things...I thought that was the end. I really thought, when I started my journey on this Path that you reached Enlightenment and that it was time to bust out of "Prison Earth". These are the stories you get told by so many Spiritual charlatans. Only, I had pledged to be with Ross the rest of our days here. I couldn't imagine leaving my friends and loved ones. So, when I had the dream about Oneness and that something bigger then me acknowledged that I had passed that test I didn't know where I was supposed to go from there? I thought that was the entire point and reason for the experience of life...to realize our Oneness with the One Creator...but life ground on and I was aware I am still here for some reason. I was puzzled, though, what was the purpose of remaining here? Where was the great epiphany for having reached this level of understanding? Did I really need to be incarnate anymore? Where was the benefit....or as we like to say when striking a business deal, "What's in it for me?" I was still seeking to find what my purpose was in all of this...what I could do to help save the world which so many in the Media (whether it's Fox News or the L.A. Times or the Gaia channel) believe is circling the drain...but as I said that was just an Ego Trap I needed to wake up from. The Greatest Service The greatest service that we can do is to choose to live for our friends, family, neighbors and the world. By remaining and serving as an example to others. The profound shift I saw in my mother this past week was merely evidence of what I have talked about before...just by being fully present moment by moment we trigger changes in others. The huge difference between the day before and after I sent out my prayer request for my mother (against my fathers wishes) was amazing. Over fifty of my friends and family prayed for her...and she did the impossible...she came off of that ventilator...and she's a living miracle. I've seen other miracles on this journey. Those stories have been told in previous posts. The most unlikely random things have happened that have transformed people's lives for the better. Being an example of how one person can do this internal work, attain this level of peace and then watch miracles unfold around them...is the greatest service I can do the world. We have a subtle influence on every person we encounter. Our loving actions can transform someones day or their entire life. What may be a small gesture on our part sends out tremendous ripples throughout creation. In business they have a saying. One bad experience breeds 100's of bad impressions. That applies to human beings as well...expressing love and understanding to one person (or that you just give a shit by acknowledging them as a human being that has infinite value) causes them to go out and transfer that love/understanding to everyone they meet. I have to tell you, it doesn't require any work on my part at this point...yes, the transformation itself was work. There was a point that required mental elbow grease...but at this point...it all flows...obstacles that would daunt me before just melt away into nothingness. Each time something is blown up to be a big deal...the issue is resolved effortlessly...I've just learned it just takes faith, trust and patience on my part. Conclusion I recently shared the dreams that I had with you...the one where I meat Jesus in the Garage and the One Creator 'removed the car trailer' from the garage of my house. Little did I realize that he house across the street really belonged to me. I didn't realize it then but it was a new state of mind that had been prepared for me. Now I'm dreaming of living in a new house where things are being installed. I realize now that this is a New State of Mind- a New Mansion as it would be called in the Bible. A deep peacefulness where I just mind my own business, continue to follow through with the motions of the life I have chosen...primarily that of motherhood...and stop worrying about the rest. I let the rest of it go... Trust and patience. Those two words would have irritated the heck out of me four years ago. Of course, I had no one to tell me they were sending me love or that I need to trust and have patience. That everything was okay and that there is a divine order and that miracles are possible. I didn't have anyone to role model the behavior and attitude that I have come to appreciate. Our first reaction to the unknown tends to be to fight...to resist...to take action. Yet, that shows a deep lack of faith...and a tremendous amount of Ego to think what we will to happen is all that is...even if it negatively affects others. That only through our own personal will power and limited vision would be the way to 'fix' things in our life. If I were to sum up my newest state of mind in the most generalized way possible it would be..."To be fully present in the moment so that I can choose to respond in the most loving matter to uncertainty, chaos and attack because I trust in a Higher Power." Jesus had this trick down, and right now I'm learning it...and I'm sure I'll continue to learn it and practice it with my kids....goodness knows what little bit I know about children I will need love and paitence. So, right now, at this part of my Path this is my focus and my current set of life lessons. When Jesus said, "Come to me all of you who are burdened and weary and I will give you rest. Take my burden upon you for my yoke is easy and my burden is light," in Matthew 11:28- 30 he was inviting us to be like him and through becoming like him we experience the fruit of the spirit. Dogma has made it so much less then that...saying only that we need to believe that he is God incarnate to be saved...removing all personal responsibility and the possibility of self-transformation. Such a waste, such shame and such a sin that those pastors and preachers are teaching people helplessness and disempowerment. I with the Grace of the One Creator have reached this point...it's a relationship based on trust that gives rise to a deep unshakable knowingness...I know this body is just a temporary physical vessel that my soul took up for the purpose of learning to Know Myself...and that even when this vessel dies and this life as Bridget is over...I will go on into eternity playing my part in this beautiful well orchestrated Creation. The proof is in the pudding...I've done so much work on myself, I have tended my mental garden to the point where I can now choose how I respond to each situation I encounter. I'm not perfect. I still need practice but I get it now...and I see a much large picture then I ever imagined in wondering the Path of the Seeker. There is so much space, time and love that I have no need for knee-jerk reactions. If an opportunity is missed I realize that it has happened for a reason and I'm still learning. Yet, I can see how far I have come and I can marvel at that...while looking at humanity with the hope and knowledge that I am not the only one...that there are others out there moving and evolving in this direction that will transform the perspective of the world. Do you choose life and love? Or... Do you choose death and a war against the world that consists of your brothers and sisters? Which path do you really think will bring you the most inner peace? As always you have Free Will and it is your choice. This is the second in a three part series of books written by a study group that asked Edgar Cacye about God.
I must acknowledge that the Edgar Cacye A.R.E. recommends that these books be read in a Study Group. These groups meet and read each section. I chose, as I always do, to remain independent and read them with no outside interference in their purest form without interpretation. In case you don't know who Edgar Cacye is, although I have written about him a lot in my various blogs because his work has had a tremendous influence on my life ever since I was a teenager. Edgar Cacye went into a self-hypnotic state and worked with the Akashic Records. Some call him a psychic, others a medium...but I'm not sure those labels really apply to him. He was, for all intents and purposes, a simple man that wasn't really sure of the gift he possessed. The Records are accessible to anyone but he used them to help people by diagnosing health problems and doing a very limited amount of soul readings. Although a great deal of Edgar Cacye's work has been sensationalized the bulk of his work was holistic health. The Search for God Material is the result of a group of people asking about the spiritual nature of God and creation. The group was composed of mostly Christians (Edgar Cacye was also a devout Christian) and that definitely colors this book. Everything is from a very Christian point of view, although, it is very different from the collectively agreed upon Christian dogma. The book is not in a question and answer format. Instead, the group asked their questions of Cacye during their sessions and then summarized the material based on their understanding of what he said. The book doesn't so much reflect the Cacye material as it does the actual group that put it together (which had a lot of internal strife and lost and gained members during the investigation). However, the difference between Book One and Two is significant. In book one Cacye was directly quoted. In Book Two, which was printed after Cacye's death, there are very few direct quotes from the Cacye readings. Having read Elsie Sechrist's book, "Dreams Your Magic Mirror," the writer of the A Search For God Book 2 is very evident. The books are so similar in style there is no denying they are written by the same author. There are personal experiences, much as in Dreams Your Magic Mirror, that are more like asides from the author. These are meant to reinforce the lessons of the chapter and help people connect them to their personal life. However, I think it detracts from the material and makes it very dated...and very group specific. The part of this book that I enjoyed the most were chapters 5-7...Destiny of the Mind, Destiny of the Body and Destiny of the Soul. The obtuse language made reading it a bit difficult to read. I would have preferred actual quotes from the Edgar Cacye material which I am familiar with reading as opposed to Elsie's style which is very similar to how Cacye spoke while in trance. Since the two styles are both very formal it would be easy to think that Book II was a long Edgar Cacye quote...which it is not. I would have hoped that instead of offering an entire book in the obtuse language of the Edgar Cacye style they would have translated it into an easy to understand and apply format. For the most part, each chapter does have a little affirmation and it does have a structure that can be applied easily (there is a study guide out there I might buy just for fun to see if it helps bring the material to life) and I realize a good deal of the older Edgar Cacye material does have this limitation. I read a book by Edgar Cacye's son, Hugh Lynn Cacye, and it had a very similar writing style. I have to wonder if it was the strangeness of this material made it difficult for the people in the original group to process and share. There is almost an anthropological element...as though the people from the group, including Elsie, have not 'owned' these ideas for themselves but are studying and stating this information as that of the 'other.' To them it wasn't a personal, familiar and day to day experience...but an external study of something strange...and that's why they couldn't it put into their own language. This is a primary example of having the knowledge memorized and theoretically understood...without the wisdom of the actual application of the information to their day to day lives. However, the book does fascinatingly weave in parts of the bible as an example of how this particular paradigm is indicated in scripture (as opposed to the widely accepted dogma that makes no logical sense). That said, this book had a lot of potential. Given its time I'm sure it was groundbreaking but it is severely dated...or at least on this part of my path I found it a bit redundant (most of what is talked about in Book II was discussed in Book I) and there are superior sources that contain the same information in a more applicable form. I marked only one quote in this book which is significant because it is far less then I am used to and here it is: "When we pass out of the body from the activities of material things, what carries on? Is it not that which we have built within ourselves through constructive or destructive forces? Then, if our activity is as boundless as eternity, let our steps be in the way of Light, that these may bring, not only to us, but to those who follow after, those things that make for better understanding of what life is. Let us study to show ourselves approved unto our Maker, and not be confused, nor consider that the spiritual or mental life is different from the material, but know that one is the reflection of the other. If we live in the Light, the shadows fall behind. If our face is turned from the Light, there can be nothing in life, in mental and material things, except shadows." pg 18 I recommend A Search For Good Book Two to those who are really interested in the Edgar Cacye material and in the early days of the Edgar Cacye A.R.E. As for those new to the Path of the Seeker...I would advise to avoid this until you've matured a bit because it will just cause confusion. Or actually join one of the Edgar Cacye study groups that exist because I'm sure as these study groups have evolved they have a different and wider perspective of the material then what is offered just in the book.
Phew was this Heart Chakra a labor of love this week guys!
This is just proof that sometimes we have our plans and the Divine has an entirely different plan in mind. I could blame Mercury Retrograde which usually causes delays and miscommunications. However, as I worked through editing this video today (12 attempts to get the timing right) I realized how much Easter is the perfect day to share this video. Forgiveness is one of the most important loving acts that we can participate and it is through forgiveness that we develop compassion...but that starts at forgiving ourselves and developing compassion for our own plight as limited beings in a temporary world seeing order within ourselves who have a chaotic state if we do not turn to the inward path. With my friend Diana this week I explained to here my favorite Meditation from Colette Baron-Reid's book The Map. In the guided meditation the exercise is to sit down and imagine a beautiful garden. Describe it in detail and what it looks like...I'll explain what it symbolizes at the end of this post. As I explain, this is the chakra where we are at the buds of the seed that we planted when we first started working on the root chakra. We have go through the Root, Sacral, Solar and now we are at the Heart Chakra. At each Chakra we have worked on a certain psychological unfoldment so that we can become a fully self-actualized being. We haven't hit Self-Actualization yet...however...but here our healing and transformation occurs. I place the teachings of Jesus on this Heart Chakra because his ministry has to do with this level on so many levels. Not only does he teach forgiveness...but he is the very symbol of forgiveness as the Christian Church teaches that through him we are forgiven by God. Now, some of us believe in a little bit of an alternative belief that he represents a pattern and it is through emulating him as much as possible that we are also redeemed...not just simply accepting that he is One with the Father. So here we achieve At-One-Ment. Our mental stay is no longer the dual spiritual essence (observer) and Ego (the chatterer/Shadow/Subconscious)...and it is the direct result of bringing information out of our subconscious into a conscious state of mind so that we can 'put them into order'. Now in the garden, usually the first time you do this there will be a bit of chaos. Without work the garden doesn't tend to be orderly or full of plants that we willingly planted or orderly. For example, when I first did this visualization mine was full of itchy weeds and long grass that was not fun to walk through. There wasn't any wildlife and an old decrepit tree at the center of the field. Four years later and I recently did the meditation again. In it the field was filled with bugs, insects, a green grass that was well mowed and loved. Lots of beautiful flowers. The tree was ancient and beautiful with a gorgeous crown of leaves and flowers. As I knelt at the base of the tree and gave thanks to it for it's beautiful shade I looked up and then a fawn came up on the right and we leaned our forehead against one another sharing enormous love. Take a look at the atonement blog I wrote: ​https://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/at-one-ment1122515 I hope this helps you on your own personal Path! I really thought that I had covered this concept in a previous Blog. I'm sure I did but I'm not sure what it is under or if all of my thoughts on the subject are organized in a concentrated way.
I have known this teaching for quite some time. I won't sit here and quote sources for this one. I will only focus on teaching you what I know, as I know it in my heart, but the Edgar Cacye work and the book A Course In Miracles are the two books that really helped me with this concept. What is Atonement If you go to the Catholic church they will tell you that you need to atone for your sins. Jesus, it is said, died upon the cross to atone for your sins. Is atonement punishment? If you were to go by what the many Christian Church's would tell you...yes. You don't find so much emphasis on this subject in the Jewish religion, or the Islam...or Hinduism or any Indigenous tradition. This sense of guilt lies primarily within the Christian tradition. When you look up the term it will say that is a payment for a sin. However, the etymology...how the world started off indicates that it started off as At-One-Ment. Jesus' death on the cross allowed him to become At-One in spirit with God on a symbolic level. I think it's important to realize this in order to understand how a word that meant one thing became something totally else when seen through the eyes of people who didn't understand. The Hero's Journey When we explored Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey we found that Atonment was attached to the concept of the Father. What does it mean to become At-One with the Father? Well, clearly here, we would think of the heavenly father. In many myths this is a God of some sort. With Hercules it was Zeus. With Jesus it's Jehovah. We see this in many myths throughout many cultures. Yet, before we can reach the point where we reached At-One-Ment with the Father...we have to reach At-One-Ment with ourselves. The most important concept behind Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey Cycle is that we under take this transformation many times. The first through we're only focused on one thing...we are focusing on ourselves. The second time through we will discover that we must completely release our attachments to events, people and places...to wanting to control the universe. I think a big reason we come down to this Earth is to relate to The One Creator, to have the closest experience to what it feels like to be the One Creator... Yet, the big step is submission. Submitting and saying, "Hey, One Creator I realize that I am a limited being. Even in my Divine form I am a limited Being. Therefore, I submit to your will above all because you are the Knower of everything in a way even I cannot comprehend. I let go of trying to control the world around me, to influence others to do my will and for this- your creation- to look what I think would be best because such a vision is limited and flawed." That's a big step though...that brings you so much peace I can't even describe it! You might be able to manage that simultaneously while obtaining Oneness with your self but that's unlikely. At-One-Ment With Ourselves First, before you can reach out the One Creator...you must resolve the conflict and duality within yourself. Within yourself you are divided into Light and Dark...and it is our job to embrace our Shadow. As I've explained to before the Shadow is where you cast all of your unwanted emotions, feelings and desires. Everything you hate most about yourself...all of the emotions that you experience...all go into the Shadow over multiple lives. Embracing and integrating your shadow is such a tremendous undertaking it is commendable all on it's own. However, it is a tremendous victory to own that and the amount of peace you get at this level is amazing. Here your mind is silent because the ego is your shadow. That's why I say you don't destroy your ego. You don't annihilate it...you embrace and integrate it. This not an easy phase...it seems so easy the way I'm writing it but you MUST explore and discover this concept for yourself. Read Buddhist books on meditation. That way you develop the understanding that you are the Observer and not the endless chatter of the Ego. Read Carl Jung's books on the Shadow. Read a Course of Miracles. Conclusion At-one-ment with yourself is a huge victory. At-one-ment with yourself is not the end of the Path of the Pscyhe but it is where you finally feel at peace within yourself. Atonement with the Father is even more mind stopping shocking...or at least it was for me because I was pretty skeptical that a One Creator existed. Realizing that there is a Force that is bigger then all of us and that is more knowing than all of us that orchestrates the cosmos...was huge. No matter what part you are on when reading this I congratulate you for this wonderful victory! |
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