There has been a pattern that I have been seeing in cosmologies that I study recently. I find it really fascinating. This is a thread that I want to share with all of you. FIrst, I'll have to gintoa little bit of a background. We will recover some of the information I've shared before but in a new way. I have always loved this song by Angels of Venice. "Awake inside a Dream." If all the Cosmos is the dream of the Creator this makes a lot of sense. I've covered what awakening might mean. I stumbled across this song in the late ninties- way before "Awakening" became a popular term although Buddhisim has taught the concept of awakening for thousands of years. I think it sets the tone and I will come back to this in the conclusion. This is going to go very deep very fast so hold onto your seat. I hope you can follow here I'm going because while it appears very simple in my mind it becomes complex when I attempt to write it out. So I'm going to lay out the various bread crumbs. As Above So Below, As Within So Without This is a very common saying. Yet, the more I delve into different systems of comsomology I see the reflection of it in many ways. Some say to know God you must first know yourself. This idea is that we are a reflection of the God. In another way of saying it, this is something John Van Auken says, we are all made up of stars. Physics and Scientists confirm this with the idea that everything that composes our bodies once emerged from star in a great explosion. Each of us, as Asaf Braverman states which also reflects this idea, is our own cosmos. God is the outer cosmos that we can perceive but we have an inner cosmos. I'm going to include a video from Beperiod.com and this will help you understand it (although you may wish to go through all of the short videos on Youtube as the video I will be discussing at the end of this blog will make a lot more sense that way). The God Reflection I've explained this before but I'm going to reiterate it...and this one was a big epiphany for me. I see this reflected in all spiritual teachings. There are three aspects of God. The unmanifested God (this is the part of God in which all of the Cosmos exist or the one we would call the sleeper- as the cosmos is it's dream). In Hindu he is called Brahman, the Dogon call him Amma, and in Egypt he was Atum. From the Unmanifest God came "The Word." In Egypt this was called Ra. The Christians concepts of this is "the Logos." This one was capable of perceiving itself. From him came the Seven who created "the millions." Scott Mandelker expresses this best as envisioning a three sided pyramid with a ray of light entering it and emerging as a rainbow (much like the Pink Floyd alblum cover). In Humans we find this exact same pattern. We have a three fold existence- Body, Mind and Spirit (or in the system we will look at today Body, Mind and Heart). We have seven energy centers or chakra's (wheels): Crown, Forehead (third eye), throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and root. Entanglement Remember when I explained Edgar Cacye's take on why we came into Earthly existence? If you don't, here is a very short version: the little sparks of spirit that we were came down into this world, saw animals and began to push themselves into matter. They became entangled with the experience of being in matter. According to this idea it is this entanglement with matter that keeps us here. When we are in the form of matter there is an illusion of separation from the Source. Now, the interesting thing is that in some of the talks that I've been listening to by Scott Mandelker mentions when talking about the Buddhist concept of Sotapana, or stream entry, is that naming activity is stopped when one reaches detachment. Here is a quote from a worksheet about Sotapana by a Buddhist monk named Thaniassro Bhikku: "The four levels of Awakening are defined by the extent to which they cut the ten fetters by which the mind binds itself to conditioned experience." You can look up this worksheet here: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/into_the_stream.html#fetters The fall, then, becomes a story of entanglement with the material reality and the resulting fear/belief that we are separate from Source. While this is impossible and is a false belief it never the less affects the way many view reality and how they perceive themselves. I would even go so far as saying that it was the ability of some souls to perceive themselves as separate from Source that was 'the Fall'. This is what lead to an entire group rebelling and experiencing this sense of disconnection. This Fall isn't a sin. Nor is it entirely bad because I believe it gives our souls a fantastic way to test ourselves in ways that souls that never experience that separation cannot. In fact, it may be an accelerated way to help the Source with it's own sense of self-perception of which each of us are an element. Self- Awareness Laird Scranton described this in one of his Facebook posts that I can't find but I'll do my best to describe it here. First, there were orderly energetic waves in a sort of mother womb (which is identified as the Goddess Neith in the Egyptian cosmology). Second, there was an act of perception that caused these waves to become chaotic. The waves were then reorganized resulting in our physical world. This can be seen as a story of the creation of matter. This is reflected in the bible in Genesis especially if we sub Earth for Cosmos taking into consideration that many interpreters and perhaps the first writers didn't perceive that anything beyond Earth existed 1:1-4: "The (cosmos) was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God Said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness." The Different Sources Now, we've established a basic thread that I can perceive in most of the worlds cosmologies. We have looked at the Macro level of this phenomenon. Now let's look at a curious aspect of this that I see in many of these cosmologies on just how that reorganization of those waves occurred. Genesis I think that we are all familiar with Genesis 1:5 "God called the light "day" and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-- the first day." Then there is Adam's turn to name in Genesis 2:19 "Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name." (There is a progression in that last line that might be a hiding in plain sight teaching. I will go deeper into this once I finish my research on the Egyptian Neters.) Egyptian Book of the Dead "Also in the Book of the Dead the 'self created' God is asked, "Who is this?" She answers, "It is Ra who created names for his members and these came into being in the forms of the gods who are in the following of Ra." (John Van Auken, Ancient Egyptian Mystiicism, 1999). (The Egyptian Book of the Dead definitely deserves a more detailed examination. The person who has passed on and that the rights are being performed for are all considered Horus. The Name Horus can be switched out for the name of the person that they are performing the rite for and can be male or female. The important part is the symbolism that Horus represents that I will go into more deeply later on). Hindu/Buddhism This is called Namarupa- Vyakarana. Here is what Wikipedia says in explaining this idea: "Refers to the process of evolution of differentiation into names and forms i.e. to the unfolding of the primal state into the manifest world prior to which unfolding there was nothing that existed. A Video I'm going to attach a video next and then we will examine different parts of it because it is really interesting. All of these different religious systems seem to represent a particular aspect of the the Divine as it came into being "naming it's parts." In this video we hear it occurring on a human level a tutorial about it that is the opposite of what we have seen int he examples above. We see Braverman use examples of it on the human level and use Separation and Naming to bring order to the chaos of the common human perception of existence. 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Examination of the Video
Okay, so you watched the video. You might be confused. Don't worry. There is a lot of information packed into this video. I'm going to break it down and examine it. After reading my little examination you can re-watch it and feel free to let me know what you think. Now, first let me explain that Braverman identifies what he calls three minds, which we could also call "centers." These, he says are the Body, the Heart and the Mind. This is much different then what I expressed in a previous post and in the above section titled "Reflection of God." In the Ouspensky quotes the Mind is the "Intellectual Center," the heart is the "Emotional Center" and apparently the "Moving Center" is the body. As God has three aspects so do we and much as God is all three aspects, balancing each to form the Cosmos...We have the same system occurring within ourselves. This is one of the ways that we co-create with the divine. What is interesting is this statement, "The fall was into identification with the moment." This does jive with what John Van Auken says about the fall into the material world. We identify ourselves as the person in the moment, as the emotion that we feel, with the group label we feel best describes us. Yet, we are none of those things and that's one of the reasons our little divine light remains 'trapped' with this obsession with material existence. "Separating our mind from identification through naming." This is an interesting concept. Because if we can name something, as he states in a previous video, it is not us. This is an important step in realizing that we are not the material, we are not the mind, or the body, or the heart...but a divine spark. This is how we become in tune with that aspect of ourselves, the small clear voice that connects us back to the Source and with Unity. "Movements and forms are the language of the Moving Center (body). Ideas and Concepts are the language of the Intellectual Center (mind). Pictures and stories are the language of the Emotional Center (heart)." On an interesting side note a lot of people believe that the seat of the soul is the heart. Hence, why we are in Spirit we see symbols and stories in our dreams. This might be our natural state when we are outside of the body (hence in the spiritual realm, crossed over). "...organs of perception. Harassed to the aim of acquiring self-perception." Now again, this is interesting because as in Laird Scranton's take on the creation of matter there is the suggestion that it was the act of self-perception that disorganized the original waves of the deep. So, here we see the reflection of that story on the every day human level of existence. "Left unattended, however, they each produce random "I''s that lull us back to sleep." Again, here we have the concept of awakening and being asleep. This is explained in an earlier video. That video explains the different "I"'s that arise within each moment. The Hungry I, the I that answers a text message, etc. Each of these is not truly our divine core self...but what Braverman calls "Random "I"'s." The sleep he refers to is not being conscious of the underlying principals we are using to create our reality. "Thus our cosmos is constructed so that the three brains (heart mind and body) that cast it into chaos (when we are asleep) are the same three brains that can restore it back to order." Now, this is really interesting. Here we are finding how this chaos, caused by perception of self, are put into order again. Much like our creation story of matter that Laird Scranton has put together based on the Dogon cosmology. Again, as Within as Without. "Chaos is their natural state. Order comes only with Knowledge and Effort." So here too, we find that perhaps our divine spark or soul are a result of that chaotic stage in matter. Remember how the tree from which Eve ate the fruit was that of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Again, there is the perception of something that did not know chaos (Eve), taking the fruit and eating it (creating a state of chaos as there is a concept of self-perception of being separate from the creator) and through Knowledge and Effort creating an Internal Order. This, again, reflects that primal pattern. "Since we have more control over our Mind (intellectual center) we begin untangling ourselves from the state of identification using the mind." Alright, well here is a reflection of the Buddhist concepts of Fetters that keeps the Spirit infatuated and trapped in matter. Now, we know what both of these systems aim to do is remove this entanglement. They just employ different but similar methods of how to do it. "We achieve this through naming." By naming what we are not we can realize what we are...it's really that simple. We can also start feeling a detachment from what we have named because we no longer identify ourselves with that name. We no longer build our own personal concept of ourselves by identifying with that name. "My identity, normally rooted in the three brains, begins to withdraw. I begin to observe my cosmos as God observes his. My sense of "I" slowly moves to it's rightful place: to the Master....the journey to the Master begins with Separation and Naming." Now, as I said Buddhisim and Hinduisim and this method all are different ways to achieve this state. I used another method that I can't put into words or a particular set of steps to help me achieve this State of Observation. This is something I've only recently achieved in my own life and I sort of stumbled over it. Yet, sense discovering this State of Being I have found validations such as this one. Conclusion While it seems convoluted all the different spiritual practices and methods reach and reflect the same idea. The system can be as simple or complex as we choose. We are a reflection of the outer cosmos and possess our own inner cosmos. The process that we are undergoing is similar to that which God underwent to create the cosmos we can perceive. The reflection of this is in everywhere and in everything. These ideas are hardwired into the very universe that we inhabit because everything is a reflection of that one divine source. Now to connect all of this to the video that I shared at the start....Laird Scranton shared something interesting recently. He explained that the Dogon Houses and the houses he examined in Skara Brae Scotland reflect a Sleeping Goddess. This was before the inversion, where "God" became a singular male God. We know from the Egyptian cosmology that the 7 issued forth from the one that self perceived itself. However, they are called Netters because they all come from the Goddess Neith. The Goddess Neith is the void, she is the one that existed before this self perception within our cosmos. Hence, it is all occuring within the mind of a sleeping Goddess not a God (although, I don't believe that there are male/female perceptions in Spirit). Just a little thought. I hoped you enjoyed this little journey of the spiral. I look forward to sharing more with you in future posts. I will leave off with Godsmacks Awake which is a little bit more angry.
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The Approach
I do not claim to be different from anyone else. My path has been my own and it has been uniquely crafted for me. I cannot provide proof that goes beyond doubt that what I have experienced is not purely imagination or states of mind. I cannot save you. Only you can save you...I can tell you of my path but it is not your path. You must find your own and it is not my burdern to teach you. I do not present myself as a teacher of knowledge that anyone else can't gain. Anyone can gain this knowledge. I might convey it to others in a unique way based on my experiences. I consider myself a translator of very esoteric "hidden in plain sight" knowledge in a way that anyone can appreciate it. Yet, as Yeshua said, do not cast pearls before swine. I only share with those who seek the informaiton because those who do not are not ready to receive it. My Life Purpose I know that my main purpose in this life has been to achieving a sense of "knowing." This seems very simple but it is not to teach. This is my own inner journey and it does not neccsitate that I share it with anyone else. On some level, the soul level perhapse, we are all connected and one achieves this everyone else in this group enjoys it. So there is nothing for me 'to do' and there is no sense of being special for achieving a little bit of "knowing." I think it's interesting how I came to understand the meaning of the 3, 7 and alternatively 8 concept. I kept running acrossed in so many different religions and material. I couldn't quite grasp it and then it just clicked. That's how much of this has been...sucking in a bunch of information like a sponge and occasional bursts of insight. The idea I have of creation, of the Creator, and our material reality has changed quite often. I can tell that my approach to it is far more balanced then ever before. Summing it up for Those Who are Suffering In a recent interaction of Facebook I wrote this: "Remember one thing, one being, All-That-Is does have control over everything. He gave us free will so we may choose where we want to dwell in experience. You may not realize it but fear and believing things can force their will onto you is a choice. When you feel this way it's a red flag for you to look in the mirror and ask, "Am I forcing my will on others? Am I trying to micromanage and control my life?" This is a tough lesson. The reality you create or perceive in the outer world mirrors You're inner world. In psychology they call it Projection. To stop projecting our own baggage on others we have to do self-healing. Why do I keep creating this negative scenario? Then by following the crumbs to their origin, usually in childhood, we feel the pain, accept it, sometimes journal and it ends the need to project. I have also realized through past lives I've been the bad guys. I've done bad things in past lives and I've done really good things. In spirit it doesn't matter, surprisingly. As long as your doing and learning about yourself...That's all that matters on your soul level. If you create a bad experience here...Well, that's because of the mind in this incarnation but it will make good conversation with your souls group in the after life. In the Celestine Prophecy it talked about being "In the flow." I never understood this until recently until I really started letting go. I started to trust the guidance of my intuition and emotions. You see All-That-Is flows all of this potential to you...You choose what you amplify. What you amplify is what you magnify and if that's helplessness or the sense of not being in control of your life...That's what you'll experience. It can be a magical ride or a scary one. Soon, the different threads of the convergence will start separating. We will be on a narrow band with fewer voices to interact with...But right now we are choosing where we want to go. We are aligning our energy to what we want to experience. You're one line says a lot to me. It says, I feel helpless. It says, I do not own my own power as a creator being. It says, I have little faith in the Creator to take care of me. Careful what you wish for. All-That-Is loves you dearly. Loves you so much that you can choose what you create in your life. All-It-is does not force it's will on anyone. That's why it allows you free will to choose and create your own reality by always flowing to you what you need to do so in every minute every day." We Create Our Own Reality Taking responsibility for this can be a struggle. This requires we look fully in the mirror and see ourselves with all of our flaws. This requires absolute personal honesty. This self-examination can be a tough process. What we think directly affects how we experience our lives. There is no magic to it in any form. All of it is mind set but it's not as simple as thinking positively. The idea is really being authentic on every level of our being, in touch with our emotions and intuitions. This requires, a sense of inner knowing of one's self. The Learning Light Center shared an Abrham Hicks quote: "If you are not excited about it then it is not the path for you." We have become so used to being controlled...by our parents who dictated to us how we should feel about things or society...that most of us have lost touch with this inner intuition, or sense of knowing also called gnosis in some circles. How often do we stop when we are going about our daily chores and ask: "Am I excited about this?" Surely, you say, how can you be excited about washing the dishes? Well, if I have the right environment...the task can become a meditation. As Collette Baron-Reid often says, "Sometimes you have to cut wood and carry water." I find that when I am doing some mundane task it helps to clear my mind. Sitting in meditation is not so effective if I'm feeling restless. That's when I have my epiphanies. Many people experience these in the shower. The mind doesn't need to be present in these basic tasks...and meditation is simply placing the mind on a certain thought. By doing these basic tasks we burn off that restless physical energy and can think more clearly. Healing Anxiety Eventually, the need to narrate completely ends. When something happens I don't have to find a motive, a reason, or a meaning in it. I just accept that it happened and carried on. A lot of people recently at my work have commented, "I can't believe they left you all by yourself." Yes, I could react with some sort of bid for sympathy. Yet, I know those people deserve to go on break and I can handle it. I simply explain that the sun will rise tomorrow and that I get paid the same rate either way. I do not feel sorry for myself in those moments nor do I feel the anxiety that I used to experience. There is a detachment and a realization that nothing requires me to react emotionally to the situation or the people who make those comments. The sun will rise tomorrow, it is not the end of the world no matter how much you wish it to be or think that i is...so you might as well embrace the experience, thank it for teaching you a little bit more about yourself and let it go. Doing so in the moment is often hard but, from my experience completely achievable. After having severe anxiety and panic attacks (from which my Psychiatrists does not believe I can ever be healed) I can say this ability to detach, to frame the moment and put it into perspective given the totality of my life has been very helpful. Perhaps, it is very rare as I believe that I have been healed. I have no desire or need for the medication. This ability to enter the 'zone' at will, when doing mundane tasks, whether at home, in social situations or other places is a new experiencese for me. I'm in this zone of just beingness more often then not lately. Sometimes, I find my mind returning to old patterns. I'm actually a bit quizzical when they come up...why did I decide to respond in a way that did not serve me? I realizet it was an old behavorial pattern that used to alleviate my stress, that caused met to think I was getting even and I realize I no longer have a need to react that way. ​ Service To Others With all of that said, I want to explain something I've discovered about Service To Others. Sometimes, you can best serve others by not intervening in their lives. What I mean by this is very simple. You can't rescue anyone but yourself. To try and rescue someone else from a lesson or traumatic event they have chosen to create in their own reality is disrespectful of them and the Creator. Intervening is not going to help people, because it is much like intervening against the will of the Creator. That person is a creator of their own life, they have set up certain lessons and tests for themselves in this life. Much like a mother doing her daughters homework does not help the child in any way when we try to rescue others we delay their learning and development. The most loving thing we can do sometimes is realize we do not have to share the emotional fall outs of such choices. We can see that the person created that scenario for a self-learning purpose. We can offer our unconditional support but we do not need to take responsible for their success or failure. If someone comes to us to seek advice that is one thing. Yet, if they simply need to emotionally vent...let them do so without judgement. Generosity Letting go of the need to force my will on anyone for any person in any way has been a huge relief for me. Instead, I've learned to meet all of my needs for myself and not look outside to others for my needs. I thank them when they demonstrate generosity. Generosity of Spirit is something I definitely reward. I too will shower others with generosity unless I realize that the other side never reciprocates. The flow of energy becomes unbalanced in relationships with people who do not reciprocate. This is a pattern I have discovered in my own life. There is always some new bit that I discover that needs to be healed and integrated. Yet, I can feel a difference and experience differences with other people. I no longer feel an obligation to others in any way shape or form because I realize if I cut wood or carry water for others...they will learn nothing and that is a disservice. A Gentle Subtle Process The process of self-healing and integration that I continue to under go has been a gentle process. I have learned not to try to hurry the process but to completely and utterly indulge in every step so that the wound I am exploring is completely healed. I have learned to savor the process. So too, I've learned I must be gentle with others. We are all like little toddlers. We are not quite aware of how the universe works and we hurt ourselves more often then not when trying to walk. Just as there is no reason to push a toddler who is learning how to walk..we must not push others. Each path that a person walks to their own self-truth is unique. That path is only known to them and All-That-Is. The path is perfect for them but different from our own. This another reason those who judge themselves superior to others are in error. Just because your path is different and serves you well doesn't mean that it is better than another's path or that the must walk that same path. All- That -Is This one is a bit abstract and many may not be able to follow (if you have been following any of this! Spirit has a way of turning insights into nonsense for those who are not ready to perceive them) but I had a realization. Through a series of dreams and visions I've learned a little thing but hopefully I'll be able to add a video that validates it. The Dogon say Amma, their god, is very tiny...so tiny that he can barely be perceived. Bashar describes that All-That-IS is a particle that moves really really fast to create this entire world. Just as you shine a small flash light on a wall it looks really big...in reality the source of the light is tiny. I see orbs, I can't explain it and yes they may be dust (although they don't really move the right way to be that) all of the time. I cannot explain this but I believe that if there are higher dimensional beings interacting with us this is how I am perceiving them. In a dream my bed was surrounded by what I call orb people. There were these tiny little orbs that looked prismatic and they were projecting a holographic image of people. Those people were the orbs and the orbs were those beings. I won't deny the dream frightened me, I had three similar ones in a row, and they ended because I think I was experiencing too much disannonce and fear (entirely on my side of the experience because these beings were emanating an immense amount of love). Then there is this video I hope to share that validtates that. When a neurosurgeon had a near death experience he experience a globe of light, that was a person, he knew this intuitively. That turned out to be his biological sister he had never met because he was adopted and it was only after his near death experience that he recongnized her. He also expereinced God as a ball of light....both of which validate my own perceptions. (https://youtu.be/qbkgj5J91hE). Conclusion There are subtle nuances to waking up to our multi-dimensional mini-creator reality. Like a flower we gently open ourselves to the loving energy realizing that there is infinite possibility. There is a lot of misinterpertaiton and misinformation out there because people who aren't expereicing it want t be a part of it. Yet, for the person who follows their own inner compass and measures the truth of others by their own inner knowing it becomes clear who is in the Know and who is Not In the Know. There is no pressing need to force others into believing our own unique truth. Just a sharing of information, feelings, and thoughts. There is an innate order woven into the cosmos that All-That-Is has created that leads us to be right where we need to be to share our message with those who need to hear it. This thread of order travels through all cultures, all relgions and all spiritual teachings. That thread remains the same through all of it and it does not matter where it comes from exactly. Only that it exists and that when we perceive it it opens the path to our own knowingness. When we see other people are closed buds in a little box they have created there is no need to change that...because they have an infinite amount of time to learn their lessons and then awaken to their own inner nature. They have their time and date for fruition...and an infinite amount of time to experience what they need to awaken. For me personally, I'm just thankful for where I am, the detachment from the desire to lurch from one best-thing-ever moment to the next and the ability to detach from others emotional states. To be an observer in a world of people who are ruled by their impulses while picking and choosing my own indulgence at will is an interesting stage. One thing Bashar said that rings true with me is that if we were finished here we would simply cease to be here. I realize this is an unfolding process that will take the rest of my life. I am not in a hurry because I realize that infinity awaits me. The stage I'm at has brought me a great deal of peace and eased my anxiety. Watching this time period unfold is fascinating enough of an experience that if I were not ironing out my own issues there would be plenty of justification to be on this planet at this time. In his future lives work Brian Weiss said that we have entered a period that no one can talk about...we each take a unique path through this time period. We are each a thread in a tapestry of reality we create along with the Creator with our thoughts, deeds and very presence. What we are doing here is changing the nature of reality itself...and that's a beautiful and humbling experience to be a part of in any way shape or form. Some may not even remotely be aware...but that's okay too because in infinity there is plenty of room for every experience what they need or want to expereince. For those of us who are consciously aware I think it's more of a blessing because we are given a conscious choice...Do you want to Serve Yourself or Serve Others (which is Serving All-That-IS because others, including you, are what All-That-IS is composed of and without you, along with all those other people, All-That-IS would not be complete). As Yeshua said: Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "Anyone who wants to be the first must be the very last, and the servant of all." What he means, is that those who reach heaven the first are not the greatest of them all. For the last to reach completion will be the one who stays the longest to aid others in their awakening...and in heaven they will be seen as the first. There was a period where everything was about awakening. Songs were about awakening. There was the name Force Awakens for the last Star Wars movie. Bashar tells us to, "Wake up, wake up..."
I found myself asking, "Why is this recent fascination with Awakinging? What are we waking up to?" I think I've found my answer and all of the different takes on it really confused the heck out of the message from the Collective Unconscious of humanity. Because people who weren't tuned it were perverting the meaning of the word. "Awakening' just seemed a hip thing to say...from waking up to the reality of how the United States is Propagandized to a entire host of other things...the message has been botched. Yet, it's there, in the subtle layers of our reality. Here is a quote from Facebook page called Parallel Realities/ Laws of Vibration administrator Fawn Wails: "The reason why We created this group is so that you acknowledge that we live in a holographic universe, full of energy, frequencies and vibrations. Reality shifts are occurring continuously! There is nothing negative about it or having to do with the end of the world. Major thinkers such as Nikola Tesla, Andrew Carnegie, Napolean Hill, all new that this was true, and our thoughts create our own reality." What Is It? Perhaps, all that really happening is that we are awakening to our spiritual nature..to the role we play in our own lives. The little changes to the timeline are winks from the cosmic universe telling us that this is just a dream...a dream of our souls which are one with the infinite creator and, in truth, mini-creators that have chosen to forget their nature for a short duration of time. Edgar Cacye talks about the Fall as souls coming into the material reality. This wasn't really meant to happen, not in that way, and wasn't the intention. The souls became so infatuated with the material world that we became more like animals forgetting completely the normal status of our core selves. Bashar suggests that we experienced this before and we destroyed ourselves. Just imagine limiltless pure infinite beings waking up to the reality that they have, in a sort of illusion, committed atrocious crimes against themselves. Perhaps there would be a will for self destruction instead of 'owning' that painful realization. Perhaps, that is what happened to Atlantis. How to Spot Fake Awakenings Anyone who has really awakened to their spiritual nature won't be as judgmental of others. How can you be judgmental when you own that in past lives you were all of the bad things that people are taught to hate? Anyone who has really awakened won't call themselves superior to others. Jesus said that he was the servant of all. He never elevated himself to the Prince of Peace...that happened hundreds of years later by the Church who then murdered those who disagreed with them in his name. Anyone who has spiritually awakened won't say one religion is better than another or one race is disadvantaged compared to another. The realization is that all is one, that each is a valuable individual that contains grains of truth. Conclusion The awakening is a realization about ourselves. We are waking up to our divine multi-dimensional nature. We are deciding where we go as the Prisim or two different paths separate from one another. This is a gradual process that may have started in 1998 or 2012 depending on perspective and may continue all the way through 2050. For the most part people will really begin to see a very different world emerging during the 2020's which is only four years away. Right now, we haven't quite chosen which future we want to exist in. However, the idea is that with our thoughts we choose which one we want. If we want doom, gloom and apocalypse we will go to a timeline that will experience that....if we think positively and start pursuing that which brings us the greatest joy we will experience a far more positive experience. If we are convinced we are destroying our world we might experience that reality. Could this be the harvest spoken of in the bible? I think it is very possible and as Spirit is always subtle, as to not shock people into psychological experiences, it was chosen that this transition would be gradual but even Jesus said that it would pass quickly...hence why time seems to be passing so quickly now.
Tonight I'm going to go off the beaten path of what I have been doing and cover something I've been reading/listening to in my spare time.
Now, I have always felt that there was a deeper hidden teaching that the bible contains. I have, as I said before, had an inclusive perspective of what that teaching might have been. I have sought for the story behind the story, as it were, and I don't believe that Jesus (Yeshua) was in a cultural vacuum. I believe that having gone to Egypt (which is stated in the Bible and possibly India which is not in the bible) he was influenced by the Egyptian "mystery school" and the Buddhist/Hindu perspective. If this is true what he might have been teaching is a little bit different than the Council of Nicea and the Catholic Church portrayed (which gave way to the Protestant, Baptist, and the many other varieties of Christian-dom). Recently, I've been listening to some very interesting takes on this by Scott Mandelker. I will post at the end of this section the first of the Sotapanna Videos and a video where he covers how the Gnostic teachings are in alignment with the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Very few people are inclusive in their point of view only working with certain societies so it's really great to hear someone making these connections. What I have found is that they are also in agreement with what Edgar Cacye and John Van Auken cover about the Egyptians...and not so surprisingly with Laird Scranton's work with the Dogon. This is tied to the information about the Egyptian Neters that I will eventually go into a bit more. The Unfolding Creation, from these teachings, unfolded in a very specific way. I find the way John Van Auken (Ancient Egyptian Mysticism, 1996) teaches it to be the simplest: "From out of the unmanifested God came God teh Creator (self-created). God the Creator conceived cocreators or the Godlings. From out of them came 'the millions'." It is an interrelated network of Oneness and Manyness, of Wholeness in which separateness may coexist. The ultimate goal is to subdues one sense of Seperateness by magnifying the Creator's wholeness, thereby coming one with the Whole while knowing oneself to be oneself." Alright, so in a future blog maybe I'll cover in detail how all of this works out. But here is kind of a chart that covers the idea that Gnostics, Hindu, Buddhist, Egyptian, Native American, Dogon. When we add to this that Laird has gone through and shown the connection between the Dogon, Egypt, China, Scotland, and soon the Maori of New Zealand....I think that we can safely say this was a universal teaching taught in many ways (as Scott Mandelker says in the YouTube Talk I'll post at the end). This my friends, could bring peace to the world if we let it. No separation to religions, all religions with the same exact root... The Simple Chart The Umanifested God (this is the God that is in all things, that we exist within and can never be a part from because all of creation is this God). In Hindu he was called Brahman and the Dogon called him Amma. In Egypt he was Atum (who had a triune nature of Atum, Ra and Ptah). From the Unmanifested God came "The Word." (Many societies call this the word. In Egypt this was Ra. The Christians call this principal of God "The Logos." From him came the seven who created "the millions." I will leave this here, as I will eventually come back to and look closely at all of the Egyptian Neters in a future blog. This concept is enough for now. As Mandelker points out the best image to portray this is the triangle where one ray of light enters it and emerges as the seven rays of light of the rainbow...depicted on Pink Floyd's album and the main image of the YouTube Pink Floyd music video at the top of this post. The Human Reflection Here was a big epiphany of how we resemble the image of the unmanifested God, not the manifested God. Human's are tri-fold in nature: Mind, body and spirit. We have 7 energy centers/chakras: Crown, Forehead (third eye), throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and root. That kind of blew my mind when I realized the correlation. To me this explains a lot. A Little Story The best way to conceive the nature of God, as I see it is that there was an unmanifested God that existed within a womb of darkness. Then, a part of this unmanifested one conceived that it existed. That one called out, perhaps realizing he was alone, and brought into existence the seven who then created the millions. This is a simplified combination of the many different ways of understanding the original story. This obviously would also work with explaining the big bang. Balancing The Three From my meditation practice, which I call naming thoughts and dismissing them, I can tell you there is a silent..beingness that is not my thoughts which are a product of the mind nor is it my body. That silent aspect does not a narrator to exist. That part doesn't need a list of to-do's....it simply is without a need for anything else. When we take care of taming the mind or Turning the Mind into an Ally (Sakyong Mipham, 2003) that part of us does not control us. This takes discipline and a daily practice. When we take care of our body we can better tune into that silent part of us. When the silent aspect, or spirit, is manifest there is a state of peace I can't really describe. I've only recently began experiencing this outside of meditation. While I'm not perfect and haven't quite gotten to where things don't unruffle me (although, strangely, I observe them and my minds reaction to them from a distance marveling that I have no attachment to feelings or reason for my reactions which seem more like habits)... it has been quite the eye-opening realization. I am, quite obviously, not my thoughts...those are a product of my human mind. The Fall The idea I have come to realize, and that had popped up in various forms before, is that something went a little bit wrong. Somehow, humans are disconnected from the Unmanifested God. This flaw or error is what makes our universe different from others. As Laird Scranton recently wrote on Facebook: "Among the comparative points of the cosmology between cultures is a Dogon discussion of the structural difference between a non-material and a material universe. The difference is characterized as a "flaw" in the material universe, but in truth it simply boils down to a difference. This is given in two ways - directly, and metaphorically. The upshot of the direct explanation is that the timing is different for a critical stage of matter at which membranes form. (The Dogon explanatory reference for what they mean is the thin covering that surrounds the brain). The resulting structures are comparable to the two types of sushi - one where the membrane-like seaweed wraps around the outside of the rice, one where it wraps around the inside. This pertains to the spiral of matter, where, from our material perspective, mass essentially spirals around light. The Dogon metaphoric explanation is that the eighth of eight ancestors "descended" out of his proper ordinal sequence - he improperly took his turn ahead of the seventh ancestor, rather than after. A Dogon priest Ogotemmeli explains that the myth is purely a mechanism by which to illustrate the concept of two different sequences. Kabbalism uses a different metaphor to explain the "flaw". In the Kabbalist view, Adam and Eve "knew" each other (consummated their relationship) sooner than they were supposed to. That mistake, which occurred over a series of days during the time frame of the era of creation, would take approximately 6000 years to remedy itself within a much slower material time frame. So as not to lose sight of that eventual remedy, Jews were to celebrate the High Holy days, whose symbolism relates to stages of creation. From the view of the Kabbalist myth, "knowledge" was the cause of the structural difference. Comparison of the two myths shows that as presented within the cosmology, this had no more to do with modern concepts of Sin and Judgment than would a discussion of the difference between an inflated tire and a flat tire, and how to fix it. The myths were alternate ways of illustrating the idea of two things being in a different ordered sequence." Disenchantment Until recently, I didn't realize that Buddhist monks choose to become disenchanted with life itself in order not to incarnate on Earth again. Interestingly, this perfectly coincides with Edgar Cacyes take on things. According to Drs. Gregory and Lora Little along with John Van Auken (Edgar Cacyes Atlantis, 2006) what had happened is spirit came to Earth. The Spirits then started entering animal bodies and eventually became trapped in matter. They were so enamored with the five senses that they became "Stuck." So, to escape this form of experience the way to not be "stuck" any more is to become disenchanted with the experience. To let go of everything that "fetters" or bindings that keep us here. Here is the Buddhist worksheet on the subject (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/into_the_stream.html) and here is the first of the discussions about this study guid by Scott Mandelker so you can cut and paste it into your browser (https://youtu.be/TcgPYzbtWak?list=PLymcQt63IVuJerEdhTXwn2HBT5o8bRdRk). I'll go deeper into an examination of this in a future post. Conclusion While these might seem like the simplest concepts ever...it can become super complicated. All of the various different groups attempt to explain how creation began and our place within it. Pick your favorite of those complex systems...these teaching are at the heart of it and everything is a meditation on the meaning of these simple concepts. These videos are a bit deep but I think that you'll benefit from them. Enjoy! Toxic Belief 4 - We Must Have Goals
Yesterday, I sat down with a co-worker that clearly had a lot on her mind. She often looks as though she carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. She told me that she was coming to the end of the semester for her school. For her, reaching that school alone had been a huge life goal. She's nearly forty and she has never moved out of her home with her parents. She just finished her first year at a university and she has struggled. She explained how just getting into the school had been reassuring, it had been a symbol of how she is not stupid and she's not a failure...that she's going to be alright. I sat there listening in silence intrigued by this idea. By chasing an elusive dream for a very long time she has put every other aspect of her life on hold. What she sought to achieve was something her mother achieved, it is where her mother went to get her Masters, and I saw in it a repeat of a teaching from her parents. Her mother probably felt her existence was validated by her Masters degree. Now, perhaps it is because of the perspective that I have where I have a Masters Degree and discoverd, to my surprise, that my favorite job...the place I want ot be...is in a minimum wage job as a barrista. That is my zen zone and I can appreactiate every aspect of that job. My high school honors englis teacher would look down on me for this but I see that as a compliment because for all of his phiolosophical ponderings he was a buffoon I do not admire as a human being. In gaining my degree and finding fulfillment in a job I held before I had it...I have seen that a Masters Degree is all but useless. I believe that millions of people in the United States has come to this same realization, with horror, and in major debt. A Masters Degree is no promise for success and it is not a validation of who we are as human beings. Yes, it boosted my confidence but not because I had achieved it. Instead, it was because it was proof that I could over come a label I was given as a child- that I was dyslexic and would not be able to achieve anything but a general degree according to my Special Education Teachers (who couldn't process that I was also in Honors classes and why I would be deficient in one area of education and not all of them). I did not tell her this, I do not want to violently burst her illusion nor do I think she would hear my perspective for the disannonce that it would cause. She must, I have discovered, come gently to this relization on her own. You Must Have Goals Yet, society tells us that we must have lofty goals, we must be trying to keep up with the Jones's....there is only one way to find sumblime happiness. The suggestion is that if only you had the latest gaming system, the latest cell phone, a really good degree from a well-known college, or a high profile job...well, you're life will be complete. Then when you achieve this goal that is supposed to mean something according to society. The heavens will split open and welcome you into the divine embrace...yet, when that goal is acheived it is off to find the latest thing that society says you need to be complete. Society tells us who they and the majority of their subscribers believe to be successful people. My newsfeed on Facebook used to be full of "useful tips of highly successful people." All of the successful people in the world, the CEO's, the celerbities, and every other imaginable group have some helpful advice for those of us who are 'ordinary." The people with a lot of money say that the reason why the are successful is because they set ridiculous goals and then achieved them. Yet, how many of those people do you see having simple fulfilled lives? How many houses does it take to feel fulfilled? How many of these rich people have multiple homes and multiple vehicles but still are not satisfied? From the biographies I have watched and read they have never obtained Wholeness. Some, when they reach the adulation of millions, still commit suicide because they still feel that psycholgical lack. In fact, most of those who are 'succssful' people according to society are actually the sickest psychologically because it is a mental push that forces them to push so hard to be successful. They achieved what other people envy but they have not received any form of comfort and as their wealth grows they become even more disatistfied. The truth is all of the riches of the world will not satisfy them. By all accounts, Jessus, or Yeshua, didn't even own a home. There is a story that I will share with you from the Edgar Cacye readings. Jesus was given a comb, he used it and then he gave it away. He carried no possions...and this is because he knew that the "kingdom of heaven" did not lie in material possesions or wealth. Goals Are Illusions My husband is a huge goal setter. He would put a picture on the desktop of his computer for whatever his goal was at he time. He has reached several goals that would appear to be unreachable to many in our generation. Yet, every time he reached a goal he set another one. Now, there is nothing bad about this and it's a huge help when trying to set up what you consider requirments to go to the next stage of life. You can look at achieving those goals as achievements but does it bring true happiness? Too often we say that we will be happy when we reach this or that goal...only to replace it with another one delaying our ability to be happy in the Now. I won't be happy until I get the perfect ring....I won't be happy until I find the perfect man...I hear people saying things like this all of the time. I have never, other then saying it myself, heards someone look at their life and say, "I am satisfied." These goals are illusions. They are really not necessary. They can provide focus in what is naturally the chaotic process of life. Yet, we cannot be consumed by reaching those goals. To use a commonly accepted image of heaven...when I cross the veil to heaven do you think that I will be asked by St. Peter to provide a full list of all of my degrees or the titles I held in the companies where I worked? No. So why do we pursue such things with abandon on Earth and think that it will validate our existence when God does not require that of us? Appreciating The Now I used to be very angry when I didn't reach my goals. People would tell me it's about the journey and not the destination. I still despise that saying. Instead, I like to say it's about the Now. We must look at every moment that we have as the best time to appreciate life and harvest oportunity in the moment. Delaying sanctification in life for a future day when we might have what we want is a very detrimental process. Thinking we lack what we need to achieve peace and wholeness in the now is an illusion. Right now at this moment there are many options that you have that might bring you joy. For me, it is writing, at this moment that is bring me the greatest joy. Right now I am living my life to the fullest, my cup runneth over with an abundance of being able to do what I want to do, and I've discovered the more I induldge in this process the more of what I want flows to me naturally...without work, without suferring and without all of the steps we as a collective has stated we must achieve. When we make the most of individual moments by living in the Now we can start creating what we want right now instead of delaying our happiness for the future. Wholeness The issue, that most people don't realize because they do not examine their motivations for these experiences is to find validation and wholeness. Often, children learn from their parents that they are defficient, they are not enough, as they are and they go forward in life seeking achievements in the hope of gaining their parents approval. We have seen, with the recent generation, that giving recognition when nothing has been accomplished has also been detrimental. Children who get rewards without earning them know the falseness of it and start to think that merely showing up for work on time daily means they deserve praise even if they fail to fulfill the obligations of their role. This teaches us a lot about this Toxic Belief and the Illusion that it is tied to it in life. The reason most people seek outside of themselves is they do not feel complete in the very essence of their being. There is a very big black hole in the very center of their being and they are sucking in all of the information, praise, gifts and material succsses in an attempt to fill that void. Yet, that void will never fill with objects and achievements in the outer world. Kids who are given everything they want and all they want still have this hole but they have no desire to seek because they have never had to try....they lack the motivation and catalyst that will drive those of us with broken history's into self-examination. My Path As I have stated before there are many paths in life and each person has their own path to walk. No two paths are alike just as like no fingerprint is alike. I chased this illusion for many years and tasted what should have been success according to society. As I achieved the fruit of my work at every level of achievement it was very hollow. There was nothing filling about it, no peace, no wholeness....and so I turned my eyes to the next task that might validate my existence. The Inner Path, of self examination inevitably leads to the idea of Service To Others. Strangely, when you are able to look within and find a completion or wholeness within yourself....there is an overflow of genroisty that flowers within the heart where it is inconsciousable not to share with others. I, for one, believe that there is an illusion of seperation within this world. The blackhole we experience in our life and our insatiable desires comes from an intrinsic link to the Source/God/Creator/All-That-Is/First Emanation that is always there when we are in Spirit. This sense of lacking then manifests itself in the need to achieve something to validate our existence in the eyes of others who are also looking and focused on that self-validation. The only way to overcome this Illusion of Seperation is the realization that we are not seperated from God/All-That-Is in any such way. That we are always within and a part of the mind of the Source. We can never be seperate, we have chosen the seperation in order to learn more of ourselves and to create individuality but it is just an illusion because nothing can exist without Source. This point of view has been inevitably denied by Christian thought leading to a lot of suffering. I have heard them condemn the Gospel of Thomas where it is claimed Jesus said in Saying 30: "Jesus said where there are three they are without God. And where there is only one, I say I am with him. Lift the stone and there you will find me. Split the wood and I am there." (This passage, based on my own epiphanies, suggests that where a person has not united their Mind, Body, and Soul as one...instead of seeing them as seperate entites...he is not there. That God/the Source is in all things. The idea that Jesus believed that all were one within the mind of God also eliminates the idea of the convuluted idea of son/father/holy ghost. Yet, that is a discussion for another day. =). ) Conclusion We don't have to set and achieve goals to be happy. No amount of personal achievemate can make us happy...they are but inanimate objects. There is not really a choice to pursue materlaisim or to be happy. The difference is a belief in Seperation, between us and the rest of creation. That sense of Seperation and Supermacy are illusions. We have all that we need right now. Creation does not hold back abundance to any of us, much as the Lily in the field does not worry what it will wear tomorrow because it trust that Creation itself will meet all of it's needs. To pursue happiness int his moment in whatever way is available in an abundance of choices is always an option that we have. This is so obvious that most people miss it, beacuse we as humans like complicated systems. If we choose to wait, the universe will allows us do experience life that way. However, life is structured for us to choose happiness right now by pursuing what makes us happiest to the furthest of our ability in the moment. This lead to the creation of even more abundance and a plethora of moments of happiness. Taking pleasure in the small items of every day life, in that space, is where you can find true happiness, peace, comfort and wholeness. Not in some distant goal you might achieve or possessing an inanimate object that is supposed to impress others in order to validate your existence. In this moment, right now, this is where you find happiness because you choose to find reasons that exist in your life right now that make you happy and fulfilled. Yes, it really can be that simple...unless you are happiest when things are complicated and involves suffering. Some people are that way and I will leave them to that because it is their sacred choice to be that way. I have no place to judge anyones personal path. For me, I have chosen to find happiness in the simple day to day pleasures that I experience.
This is probably the belief that caused me the most suffering.
One of the things that we are taught in the early years of our lives are absolutes and to discourage abstract thinking. This means that there is only one way to do things, only one path to God, only one way to go about living, only one way to achieve success, and so on through a plethora of subects. In this point of view only one religion can be correct. This also allows for only one person to be right in an argument. Yet, as I will discuss in a future post regarding Personal Rulebooks, we know for a fact that ANY situation can be viewed in multiple ways with a multitude of interpertations. This goes far deeper, but this is why eye witness testimony is questionable. Even watching a video of a crime can be interperted multiple ways depending on the angle and duration of the video. Does the video show the entire event, for example? There are always at least two sides to every event, often times the "reality" of it is somewhere in the middle. After all, as I said before, life is more or less subjective (entirely interperted by the observer) and not absolute in it's form. That is why each of us have our own individual realities and when we compare/contrast that reality with others we create a third reality that is shared. We, during this process, effectively create our reality as we interpert the data we perceive. Absolutes Don't Exist The problem is that absolutes don't really exist. We find the solution for this apparent paradox when we consider the nature of what God must be. God, in my best interpertation, is best described as All-That-Is. Now there are people who will absolutely reject this, they prefer that there is a man riding a cloud in the sky in another dimension looking down upon all of us, judging all of us and punishing all of us accordingly because guilt has automatically been assigned to us as human existence is a punishment for the misdeeds of our ancestors. I can't really help you if that's what you prefer to believe and I find that to promote a great deal of self-hatred and dischord within the minds and hearts of human beings. How can someone who hates themselves, who is at war with themselves, ever find peace? After all, your mind will be in a constant state of war, self-hatred, self-judgement and condenmnation...the opposite state of peace. All by choice. You give power to what you choose to believe and each belief must be examined...does this really reflect how I feel? Does this promote love within my heart? Does this belief bring me peace when I think it? If it does not...it is not serving you. Your mind, your consciousness was created by God to serve you. All-That-Is created you in his image. Nothing is Permanent Nothing in our life is permanent, nothing stays with us very long- not our friends, even family cross over at some point, not objects and not even the very cells within your body remain the same. The cells in our body are constantly being replaced. Nothing in this world is permanent. On a level of the atom everything is a bunch of paticles, floating loosely together (with space in between no less) and yet somehow a piece of wooden furntiure appears to have cohesion and solidity to our human eye. We can run our hand along it and if we punch it our bones may break while our skin cracks and bleeds. Yet, five years from now you might not have that piece of furniture. You might punch it every day...and yet, one day you decide you don't like it and you sell it or give it away. That piece of furniture then ceases to be in your reality. As far as you are concerned it ceases to exist. Thoughts Are Not Solid While the above reference with the piece of furniture represents a solid thing we can touch...thoughts are not solid. Thoughts are not solid within the mind of a person unless they choose it to be so...and I'm not talking about emotions. Emotions are temporary states that serve us as instinctive warning signals to help guide us to make the right decisions. Thoughts, what we believe to be true and use to interpert reality last far longer then emotional states. We hold onto thoughts, we nourish them, we return to them polishing them up and adapting them as we revisit them time and time again. We beahve a certain way in our interactions with others because of that thought. That which we hold as "truth" impacts the way that we view and interact with the world. Yet, they are not real. They are as phantom in their existence as the Northern Lights. You can see the play of the Northern Lights up in the sky but if you flew up there to touch them...you would find that they are not solid. You cannot take a bit of the Northern Lights home with you. The Northern Lights interplay of light and shadow change each time that they occur. They are never fixed...they are born and die every night giving a new display. Paradigm There is a natural human process where we create a "house" out of our thoughts. In this "house" the world is defined by very set paramaters. This little box that we make for ourselves encompasses beleifs and ideas that we have been taught by other people and interwoven with our own experiences. For those that are not exposed to diversitity, that are surrounded by people who are in agreement and think the same way...this "house" can be very one dimensional. There might not be many rooms or many doors or even yards...it is a simple structure. This type of pardigm isn't very creative and it takes the world very literally naturally placing ideas into ROOM A and ROOM B. A Paradigm is the way that people approach life, the thoughts that they project onto reality set an expectation for a set of experiences. When that paradigm is challenged it can cause a lot of pain and suffering. Here is the definition of paradigm: A typical pattern or example of something, a model. All of us start creating our little model "Thought House" when we are kids. As kids we take everything as absolutes and literally. We are only able to think in more abstract terms when we are adults and as adults it's important for us to examine this "House of Thoughts", question the buidling materials and the very nature of the way we perceive reality...or we can choose not to do so and remain in our Childhood Paradigm. Thanks to Free Will the choice is ours...remain in the childhood paradigm or examine it as an adult to create something new. Most follow the easy road of holding to their childhood "House of Thoughts" refusing to examine themselves (for fear of what they might see and fear of experiecing unpleasent emotions) and few seek the inner path of self-examination. This was the way even in Jesus time as he said in Matthew 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it." Experiecing Disannonce Disannonce can be your best spiritual teacher. If you choose to move through this uncomfortable feeling, to expose yourselve to what is not known or ideas that are not familar...your paradigm, your "thought house" will expand....to the point where you realize it won't even be neccesary anymore. There is absolutely no need for seperation between you, via a "thought house" or "paradigm" and all of creation but that is a more advanced teaching I don't want to get into here. But first, what is disannonce? The problem is when we try to make our thoughts solid. When we say this is the truth and the only absolute Truth....and worse yet- is when we decide that a certain bundle of Truths is all that exists then compare it to someone who believes differently. The idea of "My Way or the Highway" is extraordinarly dangerious and painful both for the person unwilling to bend their mind in a new way and for the person they are trying to force into compliance with their paradigm. Nothing has been more destructive in the human experience then this self-limiting methodologial approach to life. Since Beliefs are not solid, you cannot show them to another human being nor can they expereience the exact same set of experiences you've had in your life that cause you to believe they are solid...you can't make someone believe the same exact way you do. That is impossible and anyone who claims to think exactly as you do is a liar...to you and themselves. If someone challenges your belief, and you have built your house on the sand that there is only one truth and one way, the house you have built within your own mind experiences an earthquake leading to pain and suffering. People don't understand you! How horrible! You must make them understand, you say in youthful insistence. By words or by fist you must make them see what is so 'obvious' to you. Psychologists call this inability to listen to another person truth that is very different from your own: Dissannonce. When you hear a point of view so radically different from what you consider to be Truth or your Paradigm (thought house) you cannot place it within this house. You hae no context in which to place it and so your mind cannot process the information. You will, literally, not be able to hear or comprehend this "truth" that is outside of your paradigm. Their words literally sound like incomprehensible noise. Disannonce Example Take for example someone who grew up listening only to the oldies...just the oldies and believes all other form of music is inferior. They won't even consider listening to other music. Then you play System of a Down for them. First, they will only hear bits and pieces of the song because they are not used to following this type of music. They will hear mostly noise. Based on appearances they will judge the band is singing about people committing suicide and that it's over all a negative song. Well, this was done with a group of older people who watched Chop Suey by System of a Down (one of my favorite bands). Those unfamilar with the band latched onto certain things they thought indicated what the song was about and decided it was negative. They missed the symbolic meaning of the lyrics by reacting fearfully to the way the band looks and the few words they can follow. Beacuse they were experiecing diasannonce they didn't consider that there might be a deeper meaning which is about spiritual searching and profound...if you have the ears to hear. (If the video doesn't pop up below click here to see this example: https://youtu.be/KTX5PruTHkE. ​ Labels Are Make-Believe Things are not always what they appear based on our first knee-jerk reaction to them. Labels, often are one of the walls people put up between themselves and the rest of the world. They define themselves by that label and assign themselves to a group that seems to think or behave like them. If you entered their paradigm, and looked into their "Thought House" the name of their label would be in big bold word across their door. Proudly, they exclaim, "I am this," without truly identifying themselves as an individual identity. This excuses them from the idea of being a mere "human." This differentiate them from other groups them but at the same time removes their need to be an individual. Do you think that Bluebird knows that it's a bluebird and thus different from all other birds it encounters? Probably not. Birds have no use for names or labels. Do you think a lily in the field knows you call it a lily? Do you think that causes that flower to perform the functions of growth and decay any differently? Probably not. The bird just goes about doing what it does to meet it's basic needs with little worry to the title that mankind has given it and the flower continues to grow into the best flower it can be regardless of what we call it. This is how I see labels. They mean absolutely nothing. They are a made up concept that we have created to divide ourselves from others and they are absolutely unnecessary. Do they provide any significant positive role in our society? Do dividing ourselves into groups with labels bring love, unity and peace on an individual level? "A house divided upon itself will fall," such is the Fate of Mankind unless we can drop the need for labels. I believe labels dehumanize people. We are one people, we are not divided into predator and prey in the Evolutionary Theory paradigm...nor are we different in any other way. We each are capable of producing the same amount of abundance and well being if we choose to do so but we pick "our battles" when we chan choose the path of Acceptance. We stop seeing the unique individual faucets of humanity when we assign a group label to people, suddenly they are not unique but a member of a group. They are a faceless robot assigned to the Label they or society has chosen for them. Labels, much like the rest of human existence is just make believe...a rule we have agreed to that we can change at any time if the majority of us so wish. Yes, there might be people who cling to the old definitions but if the majority moves with that idea they will soon be swept along with the current of thinking. Let the "Thought House" of labels disintegrate as you realize that even within groups there are individuals, unique, beautiful prisims that reflect the divine light of All-That-Is. Instead, when you look at those cliniging to labels and group identities you see can see people who are divided in their own hearts painfully rejecting their uniquness and individuality. Thinking In Absolutes Produce Limitations When we set absolutes, when we insist on the way we will accept things, we limit the breadth an depth of our experiences. This naturally constricts the way that the Creator and the Matrix of the Creation can interact with the individual. We have a two bedroom "House of Thoughts" while the universe is infinite and unlimited. If you absolutely refuse to accept anything but one outcome...you become blind to other outcomes that might be even better. You actually limit yourself and become trapped in your own expectation. When you practice being open to all possibilities you invite a multitude of opportunities into your "thought house." Eventually, as your "thought house" continues to expand you become aware that it is not neccesary. That all "thought houses" are valid in unique individual situations and neccesary for the individual to retain their identity while they learn and until they choose to work to expand themselves. Conclusion - Plenty of Room We must release the idea of holding onto absolutes and narrow "thought houses" (paradigms). These limiting beliefs constrict our spirit which is the same infinite source from which all of Creation emanantes. Until we release these "thought houses" through a self-exploratory expansion we will be at war with ourselves and the world. If you choose to be at war within yourself and the world you are, in effect, arguing with Creation and the Creator. When you try to force your view of the world on others, to bend creation to your will, you are defying the Creator and demonstrating a lack of trust with the Creator. This has been, for me a very long process to reach the point where my paradigm has effectively dissolved. This is a far advanced point of view then what most people are capable of perceiving. That's understandable. The best way to describe all of this from my point of view, is that their is plenty of room in infinite creation in this moment for everyone to have individual unique beliefs, thoughts, and ideas. There is no reason to judge these individual unique thoughts or ideas when you reach the point where the need for a "house of thoughts" to categorize creation is dissolved. Things simply are, they arise into your perspective, and then they fade away when you have learned from them. There is no need to hold onto ideas, thoughts or even memory. Most are so trapped within their "Thought houses" they inflict pain as they travel through the world and when you're own "thought house" is dissolved you can see that, assess what beliefs are most likely causing them pain, but out of deep respect for the learning process they have chosen to go through you don't intervene or provide aid unless asked directly. Sometimes, in the desire to present relief without invitation, mistakes happen. Concepts too advanced for their level of learning are introduced and they suffer more because of the confusion and disannonce. The reason I have reached a place of non-judgement is because I understand that each step of the process is neccesary and just important as the level I have reached (in truth there are no "levels" or "steps" but that's how we tend to relate things so it is easily to visualize it this way). The amount of pain people need to reach in order to "Wake Up" to the nature of Creation is up to the indivual, the path and the routes they take is up to the individual...which is entirely beautiful and fantastic in every way. I didn't think non-judgement was possible, when I started this journey. I didn't think that was a possibility, my paradigm was very narrow, but now that we earch chart a course to be reunited with the Creator/God/All-That-Is in whatever way we wish...and that all of us that choose to be Seekers and turn to the Inner Path of self-knowledge fall off that path at some point. We are not "perfect"by design. I just want to explain, that if you are not there yet, keep going but it is possible. There is still discernment, "I do not want to be around this or around this person," but it's not judgement and no desire to change others or affect others. ​ Post Script Here is one that I saw recently. Here is a kid who believes that he will be disowned by his friends...that he will be treated differently. He owns it by putting a seperation between him and others by wearing the Storm Trooper helmet. They, however, decide to accept him for his uniquness and then emulate him. Most of us are doing this, we use our fandoms to create a wall between us and the rest of the universe. Within our fandom we feel safe with people who think like us who are delighted by concepts that we enjoy. Yet, again, this is a way we misplace our identities by hiding it behind this fandom....because we are afraid of our unique flaws, differences, struggles and gifts. The next toxic belief that I wanted to cover is the idea that Change is Bad.
When life fell apart around me and I left my ex-husband after a very bitter year along with very confusing events I fel likt I had lost everything. The life that I had spent five years building was completely in tatters. I had to leave a job that I loved doing and the people that I had come to consider family. The same thing happened when my daughter died, everything changed and I fouund myself without a job afraid to get out of bed because I struggled to conceive the scope of what had happened. I discovered, that first time my world was torn asunder, that everything falls apart. There is a fantastic book called When Everything Falls Apart by Pema Chodron. I highly recommend it, because it really gets to the heart of what the idea that we are programmed to fear change. There is this concept that this reality is solid, when it is not as solid as we think, and that we won't be able to cope with the unknown. The truth is life is always changing. Life is always in flux. Nothing is solid or for certain. Our body is literally not the same that it was 7 or even yesterday as we take in different nutrients every day. When we forget that life is impernanent and constantly change we argue with the nature of reality...which in a way is arguing with God. This is very exhausting procedure. We create, it falls apart, we grieve and then we create again...often going into the same cycle. Stepping Into the Unknown Most people remain with what they are comfortable. The devil that you know is far more easier to deal with because you can predict how things will be...but if it's a constant cycle of pain is it worth it? The most magnificent part of life is when we face a new circumstance no matter how daunting it might appear to be...for the sheer joy of the experience. Yes, it can be scary because you can't predict what might happen. Yet, to experience and to grow we must constantly reach out and measure ourselves against the unknown. We must constantly reach out to new ideas and information. If we stagnant we will have an inherient discomort, because experience, and learning by measuring ourselves against the unknown is what really brings meaning to our lives. If I tell you I stayed home and binged watched Arrow...I don't think it's all that admirable (although, I'm totally guilty of that one!). Yet, if I tell you that Ross and I drove over 400 miles on the Harley to Denver Colorado....well, that's something not everyone does. Yes, staying home binge watching Arrow is safe...but that Harley trip represents a tremendous amout of challenge, stamina, and purely being in the moment. With binge watching you're viracriously experiencing an artificial reality...but I can tell you on that road trip I was very much aware of everything. I was aware of the kevlar jeans that I wore, the helmet on my head, the various layers we wore (as we traveled through rain and snow), the weather, and the terrain (we are so blessed with beauty in this country). Was it risky? Some people are so afraid of the risk they won't ever get on a motorcycle let alone ride one. Did we survive? Yup, there was the slight suffering of soar thights but that's it! Change Is Growth No matter the nature of a change it inevitably leads to Growth. Our souls, in my opinion, thirst for that Growth and experience. Even when it's a bad experience, it is an experience and we learn something new. When we don't challenge ourselves against the unknown we remain stagnant. Our ability to think creatively literally fades away. The ability to think out of the box, unless we challenge ourselves, does seem to fade. With each new experience we discover what we do and do not like, we discover a better approach to a situation, a new flavor or a new taste. Once we learn to savor these experiences, perhaps they will be stories we tell friends and families for years to come...you start to welcome them instsead of fearing them. I have seen some really horrible things, I've had really horrible things happen to me and yet somehow the next day the Sun rises. Life goes on. We might loose absolutely everything we have but for some reason, the world continues as though (even if some do) no one has noticed your slip up. I think of it this way, sometimes we mis-speak. If we are around a jerk suffering from low self-esteem they might point it out and pick on it. Decent people either know, intuitively, what you meant or just continue as though you didn't miss a beat. I think, if someone notices and points it out, they are probably paying too much attention to you because they can't focus on themselves without feeling empty. So, such people should be pitied. This is what happens when we stumble in life even if it is an epic fail. Life goes on and the good people in your life will support you through the experience and be there for you through it all. If we do not approach the unknown we simply remain in a self created little box too fearful to peak out at the infiinite amount of possibilities that our life holds. Fear of the Future Too many people are afraid of the future because they expect change to lead to bad experiences. They hold within their mind all of the possiblities that they fear most. Strangely, these fears manifest thanks to the process known as self-fulfilling prophecy. Learning to let go of those fears is a difficult thing, we think that we must gurad against them at all cost least we suffer more but it is holding onto those fears that cause the suffering. We inevintably create what we fear and fixate on the most. Fearing the future is like fearing ones shadow and then becoming so fixated by that outline we never move again. We become a concrete statue that people look at in wonder but don't necessarily admire. We cannot assume anything about the future because it is a blank canvas. We create the picture that is depicted on that canvas based on our thoughts in the now. Instead of focusing on the blank canvas we need to work with our emotions and thoughts that we have at the moment. This will lead to healing that will allow energy that was trapped by those old emotional wounds and fixated fears to become available for us to apply now. Conclusion The future is a blank slate. Change is a necessary and completely undeniable part of life. As long as we think that change is inevitably bad and we try to prevent it...we will struggle and suffer with life. Change is growth and part of the cycle we choose to experience very deeply when incarnating on this plane of existence. Instead of fearing what may happen we must embrace the possibilities. In the deepest heart of the darkness, in the blackest part of our night sky that scientits thought insignificant is where we found the cluster of galaxies that boggle the imagination. Black contains all of the colors of the rainbow, so mixed that they are not differentiated and so it represents the ultimate womb of creation and potentials. When we look to the future and we fear the darkness...we must remind ourselves that it that holds the most potential rich with experiences and ideas that we have not perceived. We need to focus on our actions today and let those potentials exist beyond our conception. We are building the future with every act we undertake in this moment and every intetion we have when we make our decisions. We must give each moment our full attention to savor it and explore it's full potential so we can experience a much richer future that we can imagine. This is why I say that we exist within a nexus, the energy of our actions in the now brings us the potentials that we really want because we acted instead of focusing on a fearfull protective approach. As long as we fear change we will have a self-fulfilling prophecy in which we continue to experience a chain of events, we create futures, that we do not like. Embrace the power of change and work in the moment to create a better future. Accept what you currently have and start working with that to the best of your ability. The circumstances will then arrive where you are naturally offered the best next progressive step forward that the universe has to offer. There is no reason to experience a lack of abundance, save that you create that lack within your mind, and then subconsciously act out that scenario unintentionally. When you focus on what you lack you often miss out on appreciating what you do have. One of the most toxic beliefs that I have dealt with and worked on has been that some emotions are not okay.
In our society there are two types of emotions that are acceptable in public- Happiness and Anger. There is not much judgement if someone expresses they are "pissed off" at another person, especially men, and everyone prefers a happy person. I have said, in previous blogs, that sometimes we have to Fake it until we Make it with being happy. Expressing how depressed we are with other people will just push them away. In expressing only discontent with life we will subconsciously create more via a psychological Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. We will only attract people who are equally unhappy. Often we try to hide our sadness, our grief, our anger or even fear from other people. All of these emotions are considered weak but each of them is immensely valuable during our life's journey. I am in no way saying that does not mean that we are not allowed to feel these emotions. In fact, I encourage people to immerse themselves totally in feeling emotions that comes up and to explore the feelings that they have. Doing so in public is not acceptable in our society but there are many ways we can pursue this on our own and with trusted friends. Suppressing Emotions Does Not Work I used to think that I was very good at suppressing my emotions and I was proud of that. I tried to keep a clear head in traumatic or stressful situations. I froze out my emotions and didn't really experience them. I believed that people who were balanced all of the time that showed very little emotion were mentally healthy. We see this portrayed in the movies all of the time with the stoic general or president outlining the plans to save the world. The problem is that you can't ignore emotions. They will pop up in other ways in our lives and when they are denied they will emerge as something very negative later on...what I consider a Wake Up Call from spirit. For many of us our emotions will be expressed with our appetite if we do not consciously acknowledge them. My friend Jennifer recently wrote a blog, coincidently that she published yesterday as I was writing this that explains Emotional Eating: (http://observationsfromasimplelife.blogspot.com/2016/12/emotional-eating-recognizing-it-and.html?spref=fb). Over eating and under eating can both be connected to suppressing emotions. Instead of being comfotable feeling the uncomfotable emotion we express them by over eating to comfort ourselves or under eating to punish ourselves. If we ignore our emotions for a long period of time, and express them in unhealthy ways, it can lead to a variety of health problems. Obesity and anorexia are just two ways that unexpressed emotions can manifest themselves in a persons behavior. The inability to have stable relationships is another way that emotions can be channeled in an unhealthy way. Often, when we have an emotion that we can't deal with we project it onto someone that we know. Most often, it is the people that are the closest to us because we know that they probably won't leave. When we unleash the entire onslaught of unexpressed emotions it causes the other person to wonder where the angry tirade came from...when it was really another emotion from an entirely unrelated situation such as grief over not being promoted or a feeling of helplessness from watching the news. Emotions Are Road Signs Emotions have a very significant role in our lives. I, personally, believe they are one of the ways our soul intuitively knows something about a situation. Often, because of being conditioned by society we ignore the more uncomfortable emotions. Later, when a situation didn't go as planned we find that we had a terrible feeling before we committed to it. The thing is that Emotions are often not logical. In our society, where we often pretend we are robots in a mechanical universe and not people...we don't like that because it introduces a variable that can't be weighed or measured. I have discovered, in my own personal life, that my emotions are road signs indicating which way I need to go. If I'm feeling uncertain about a situation I sit down and write out how I feel about the different options that I have. I pay attention to the emotions that I have as I consider the possibilities. For example, if I am considering attending a party I look at both options and how I feel about them. Option A: Stay At Home....I feel positive, I'm a little excited to have time to read a book I recently bought, relaxed, and only slightly guilty for not going to the party. Option B: Go To Party....I feel sick to my stomach. There are some people I know I won't like who are there. I never really feel comfortable when I'm at that person's house, the food is usually disgusting, etc. Sometimes it's the opposite. I find whatever option I'm excited about that invokes positive feelings is the one that I should choose. I challenge you to test this in your personal life, because when I started using this technique to make decisions I experienced a huge change in my level of satisfication with my life. Too often I was doing things to try to please other people and it never brought me happiness. Paying attention to our own intution by being in tune with our feelings can lead to a much more fulfilling life. Exploring Emotions Sometimes an emotion comes up that doesn't make sense. Recently, I've felt very rejected in some interactions I've had. I decided to explore the emotion in my journal. The emotion felt very irrational. What I discovered is a deep seated feeling of rejection that started when I was a small child. Part of it comes from when my mother was looking to discipline me. She had a lot of rage that came out when she was spanking me. Then in third grade my best friend, named Julia, decided she wasn't my best friend anymore and became best friends with the new girl at school named Jenny. Both girls rejected me and teased me horribly based on faulty assumptions. The emotion of sadness that popped up was a signal that I needed to work on these childhood wounds. Learning how to heal and let go of old burdens is incredibly important. Healing Emotional Wounds The best way that I have discovered to heal emotional wounds is to express and explore the emotions we felt. As I child I didn't fully understand the emotions I was feeling and why. Sometimes, this involves a long conversation with one of my best friends. Exploring the topic in a blog is another way to acknowledge that emotion. Another thing I will do is draw something- often times in an abstract way- that expresses that emotion. Ultimately, I do not seek approval from others while exploring an emotion. That is a very important revelation that I experienced. We have absolutely no reason to justify our emotions to other people. Second, if you work on a emotional wound pamper yourself. You deserve a reward for doing this hard work. Stay home in your jammies, enjoy a cup of hot chamomile tea, buy a slice of chocolate cake and watch Disney movies all day...engage in whatever activity nurtures your soul (that does not have negative side affects such as drugs, over shopping, over eating, etc.) The trick is to do this as a reward, not a constant activity, and to reprogram (recondition) your mind to associate dealing with these 'unpleasant emotions' with positive reinforcement. A spoonful of sugar, as Mary Poppins said, makes the medicine go down in a delightful way. I've learned by simply acknowledging and working to express an emotion (especially those I could not give voice to when I was a child) heals the emotion. The emotion will simply evaporate as I reintegrate the energy that had been struck within my conscious mind...and I feel more energized during my day to day activities. Emotions are like mirrors, they show us what it is within ourselves that is a little off. Just as you have to adjust your sail in a boat according to the pattern of the winds, we must pay attention to our emotions and adjust our course accordingly. Wake Up Calls As I have said, I have not always been good at paying attention to my emotions. I completely froze them out for a very long period of time. What I found is that when I didn't deal with an emotion it came up as a major medical Wake Up Call. One of the major issues I often have is sticking up for myself in situations where people take me for granted. I find that often when this happens I end up having problems with my throat. This week, as I dealt with this issue of rejection that came forward in my conscious mind as an emotional wound I needed to heal, I put off working on that feeling. I didn't write in my journal to explore it and I didn't do any of the other activities I normally do...then I promptly had a really sore throat. Sometimes, when we ignore our emotional needs it will lead to other problems. Especially if we have been working non-stop. Emotions will pop up as a marker that we need to slow down and if we don't we will get sick or injure ourselves in some way to ensure we do take time out to rest and relax. Conclusion Emotions are a major tool that the Creator has given to us. Through our emotions we can intuitively know what direction to take in life. We can be given warnings that what we are currently doing is not beneficial. Also, we can catch conditioning that we might have learned as a child and even Emotional Wounds that we need to heal from childhood by paying attention to our emotions. A very insightful statement I have heard recently is that from the age of 1-7 we learn the 'rules' of how our world works. That is when we are conditioned by our parents and society how to interact and respond to the world. Sometimes, what we learn during that time is not correct (in fact, I've learned a lot of what I learned wasn't) and we have to re-program how we think. Emotions are wonderful helpers in doing this work and giving us a clue as to what we need to heal in order to have a healthier and happier life. Ultimately, I believe that we are meant to be happy the majority of the time. We often carry around a lot of baggage from our childhood that needs to be healed, however, that keeps us locked in circular negative patterns that we repeat. Each loop we complete upon this negative pattern causes the problem to become larger and larger until we have a HUGE Wake Up Call that we cannot ignore. Yet, we have this amazing emotional ability that can act as companions upon the Road of Life. All Emotions should be savored and appreciated. Each time an Emotion comes up now I say Thank You...because I see it as a companion and a helper that the Creator gave me to navigate and find healing in my life. |
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