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.
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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.
So often we feel as though we are missing something vital to our lives.
We feel empty on the inside. Shouldn't there be more to this life? Maybe if I achieve the right equation of success, the right people, the right stuff...maybe then I will be complete? Nope. Wholeness is not outside of you...it is within. You contain all of the answers you need. This has probably been one of the hardest posts for me to write. Simply because the world is so subjective and the idea of Wholeness can be subjective. The path to wholeness is going to be The Religious Cope Out This is going to make some people uncomfortable. Yet, I have to address this part of current religious belief because I see it as unhealthy. I see it as an easy cope out. This an excuse for laziness and it's why a lot people who are religious aren't living a life that includes spirit. On Facebook there are posts, "Like and Share if You Love Jesus and want to go to heaven! If you don't share you'll go to Hell!" All of us know this is not true. We all know that to be a person worthy of 'heaven' requires a bit more than simply liking a Facebook page. The same goes for saying that you have found Christ. Simply "Finding Christ" and becoming baptized and being a born again Christian does not make you "Christ-like" nor does it promise you a place in heaven. All Spiritual Paths to true understanding takes dedication, self-reflection and walking the talk. Sure, you may know the golden rule but do you practice it every day in every way at every moment? How about when a driver cuts you off in traffic? Do you turn the other cheek and give them the opportunity to do it again? Probably not. So, let's dispense with the idea that merely accepting Christ as your savior has made you feel "whole" because I know for a lot of people it has not. Being baptized and saying you believe in Christ doesn't give you a ticket straight to wholeness. Living in spirit daily is a practice that eventually permeates you on such a level that you can't imagine life any other way. Relationships There is an unhealthy obsession with soul mates. Another person cannot make you whole. I have found that people fixated on finding a 'soul mate' are not really looking for a person. People looking for their soul mates think that a soul mate will complete them. That once they find them life will be so much easier. Yet, they will be sorely disappointed when they realize that's not how relationships work or what they are about. Life is not a Disney movie. The story doesn't end with a marriage where someone who has been alone all their life has found a companion. There is no "happily ever after" but a complex interaction of emotions and energy that's a real relationship. I remember a sociology class I took. The teacher described that when two injured people come together they are often attracted by the fact that the other seems to have a matching wound. Then they put those two wounds together and they form a communal scab. Such relationships are hard to end because it means ripping open those old wounds. Yet, the relationship is always unhealthy because scabs can lock in infection. This is why people need to do inner work before they get married. They need to clean out the infected part of their lives and personality to become healthy individuals on their own before seeking out a companion in life. They have to find a sense of who they are and their place in the universe. They also need to learn to love themselves as few people do. The moral of the story is that Relationships do not bring Wholeness. If we are seeking Wholeness through marriage it's going to end in bitterness and divorce. The need to "find themselves" and seek true wholeness will eventually end the enmeshed relationship with divorce. So what does? The Success Formula Society has sold us on a Success Formula. I blame this mostly on schools. In order to be happy, we are tuaght, we need to be educated, get the right job and live the American Dream. People think that there is some formula for success in life. Find a partner, buy a house, and have some kids...then poof you're happy and whole. Well, there are a few problems with this Shangrala of modern life. No formula will make you happy. If finding your soul-mate doesn't make you Whole then having kids certainly won't and neither will any personal object. Work and money won't make you feel whole either because they are merely tools. There is no magical secret Formula you can put together in the outer world to make you Whole. Self Help, Quizzes, and Psychic Readings This is another trap I've seen people fall into and never get out of when trying to find Wholeness. Constantly going to others to feed you with directions to the decisions you need to make, advice or even tell you about yourself is unhealthy and can be expensive. There are a wealth of resources there just waiting to tell you how to live your life. To me, when I hear this, what the person is really saying is they do not trust themselves, their Higher Selves or the Source (God). I remember reading reviews of the book called The Secret. The Secret was a self-help book that claimed that all wealthy happy individuals used these secrets that it contained. This was supposed to be a recipe book for becoming rich, being more successful and achieving more in life. Well, sadly, the information is wise. However, this little pocket sized book didn't go into the depth necessary to really understand these "Secrets." Besides, the focus, which I see so often, is on money and career success. Yet, as I said previously, this will not bring that sense of Wholeness people are seeking. Attracting certain objects or a parking space closest to the entrance of a busy store is all well and good but...this is just outer reflections of an inner state of being. The truth is no one knows you like you. This is something that I've said many times when offering dream interpretations for people. Each of us contains all the knowledge we need about ourselves, but it's just a matter of turning inward to see those truths and "secrets." Self-reflection is hard because it requires us to see ourselves in our entirety. Not just what we want to see, not just focusing on our flaws, but the bigger picture. We are not trained to do this, we are so trained to look at the small details that the bigger picture can often escape us. We are so focused on trees (pimples, personal failings) that we don't look at the wealth that the forest has to offer. That's why it's so much easier to go to someone with an outside perspective and have them tell us what they see and yes it can bring insight. That person can see the forest instead of focusing on the trees. But, they are also limited in their observation because we are presenting such a narrow band of information to them. These outer sources might see the forest but they don't have the higher perspective that our soul has...and they might not see that it is us that is lighting the trees on fire in the dark of night and blaming a friend, a spouse or a co-worker. Self-Actualization Abraham Maslow was the first person to really describe why and where we get hung up on on our journey to Wholeness. He described the person that has reached Wholeness as a Self-Actualized person. He believed that only one in a hundred people become self-actualized. I've written on this topic previously and I encourage everyone to research the topic. Maslow envisioned a pyramid with Self-Actualization at the top. He called this pyramid the Hierarchy of Needs. He said, to reach the top a person had to fulfill all of the other needs below it first. I will include a Youtube video at the end of this on the subject. The key thing is that it does take some work if we are hung up on one of the lower levels of the pyramid. For example, it's easy to become hung up on the level of security if we grew up abused and never felt safe. Further, we might not have that issue as a child but something in adulthood can happen and throw us back to that state. My Path To Wholeness I have re-written this part of this blog several times. I couldn't decide how to go about writing the transformations that I've under gone in my thinking as the years have progressed. Should I break it down into steps? That didn't seem right as each person has a different path to tread. So, I'm going to give a general overview. The Calling The first time I started down the path I realized that there was a bit of a mystery in the bible. This was when I completely read it from cover to cover when I was fifteen. I was shocked to see that the Old Testament discussed animal sacrifices which was something I always associated with witchcraft. I was also surprised that Yeshua eluded to deeper teachings, that there was a set of teachings given to the disciples and a set given to the people as parables. Later, I would learn that in many cultures this was the norm....the uninitiated who do not seek the knowledge are never given the knowledge. At this time I read the Celestine Prophecy series and found it interesting. I also began interpreting my dreams and was introduced to Edgar Cacye's story with my Grandfather Douglas McMasters (the Dreamer of Muscoy) America in Prophecy. I also read the book Journey of Souls. Finally, I discovered that while it was easy for me to tap into the Oneness at that age (which became harder later on and I lost the ability and desire for a long time) not everyone could. This was strange to me and I really couldn't imagine not being able to feel that way. Major Wake Up Call One For a few years I fell off the spiritual path. Although, I do feel those were wasted years of my youth something wonderful happened. In working loading trailers I managed to find that sweet spot that Athletes call "The Zone" where the mind no longer has to govern the actions of the body and everything becomes synchronized. A Wake Up call that completely destroyed how I viewed myself and ripped me out of the life I had created (friends and all) provoked me to return to my spiritual search for knowledge and wisdom. I had to start my entire life all over from scratch. When I did go back to the spiritual path I discovered more than I ever imagined. There was a lot more information out there on spirituality and a lot more on the web. Befriending the Mind I began working with meditation. I read Sakyong Mipham's book Turning The Mind Into An Ally. I began to understand that the mind is not necessarily consciousnesses. I learned how to find my center and to quiet the ceaseless chatter of my mind. A lot of it was tuning into the "zone" that I knew how to access because of the work I did loading trailers. Now, if I want to think of a subject I summon up the thoughts. My mind is no longer the director (I think most people call that self-narration portion of our mind the Ego but my thoughts on it are a little bit different and complex). I also sough to meet my "higher self" although the idea remained abstract to me. I also read Dan Millmans books at this time which further encouraged me along my road towards balancing mind and body. I realized that being able to tune into the zone, as I did at work loading trailers and when meditating was a rare gift (later I would become aware that I had practiced meditation in a previous life). I discovered at this point that I could alter and control my dreams. I also became familiar with the idea of Projection. This is where a person projects the disowned aspects of their own personality onto other people. Often when a stranger doesn't like us for any reason or a co-worker decides they don't like us...it's because of them and not us. A lot of people to do this, I'd even say the majority of people are like this because it takes a lot to look at one's own reflection and own aspects of ourselves that we don't like. So, when we start seeing a pattern in someones behavior we see that its not the other person the individual hates...but the part of themselves that they have rejected that they see reflected in the other person. ( Although I did not discover this at the time it's appropriate information to place here. The only way to stop projecting onto others is to work with our own shadow, embrace those shadow elements we have taken on and transform them. One of the methods to do this is in the video I'm attaching at the end with Christie Marie Sheldon. Her method, of finding a pattern and then "zapping it out of existence" is the best that I have ever discovered. Since using it myself and releasing a lot of old negative baggage I've carried around I feel happier and lighter. I can feel my aura, my energy, has doubled and expanded.) Then there is a concept of boundaries. Establishing firm boundaries, which you will not allow others to cross and will speak up if they do is important. Part of this requires that you decide what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior on the part of the other people. I made great strides towards self-confidence during this time period. I did a lot of work on rebuilding my self-image. I had wonderful successes, achieved three degrees and was promoted to management roles at two different companies. Major Wake Up Call Two Again, a decade later, I had another Wake Up Call. This time was different, however, and more soul shattering. Whereas I had been able to find meaning and purpose in all of my other adventures in life I could not find a purpose for this one. I felt completely abandoned by the Creator/God. I was mad at my Higher Self that had the full picture of what was going on for letting something so tragic happen to me and for me to be ripped so completely out of the life I had been creating for a second time. I struggled with this over a span of two years. Sometimes I felt completely broken and alone...completely abandoned by Spirit and unable to tap into the Oneness and harmony I once could feel so effortlessly. I felt utterly abandoned. Setting Aside Personality This time I learned that I don't have to create a persona for myself. I've never built myself up again. I don't have a self-image. I have no expectations for myself, no goals, no desire to "prove" myself to anyone. I have no need or desire to belong to groups or apply labels to myself. I know that all labels and social constructs are all..well, imaginary bull crap that divides people and I just don't want to buy into anymore to feel as though I belong. I exist, I am a part of the Source, created by Source because the Source of All-That-Is desired my existence and for me that is the only validation I need. When we are children we begin to build a personality for ourselves in this world. School starts training us in thinking that we are a vocation. I have a yearbook from elementary school where they asked us to draw our future selves and what our vocation will be...the drawing is surprisingly accurate but I learned early on that I didn't want to be a vet because I don't like to see animals in pain. This type of training is what leads so many people to base their self worth on their jobs. Not only that but we are challenged to build a personality, what we do not like, how we define ourselves in comparison to others throughout our school years and even our teachers or parents give us certain definitions- he's the underachiever, she's the teachers pet and so on. Yet, we are not, in our basic essence, those personalities. In a talk given by Edgar Cacye in Washington D.C. Februry 3rd 1935 he said this: "We have been admonished by this one, that one, and the other to develop our personality in order to be a power in the world; but if we turn rather within ourselves, where the Kingdom of Heaven is, what has been the promise? 'All of these things shall be added unto you, in their place.' We are all on our way for a development." At another talk given to a Norfolk Study Group Open Meeting Edgar Cacye said this: "Apparently, I am one of the few who can lay aside their own personality sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to this universal source of knowledge- but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact, I do not to claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inheriently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual that doesn't possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of- if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities. Would you be willing, even once a year, to put aside, pass out entirely from, your own personality?" I have absolutely no reason to view myself as superior to anyone and I do not view anyone else as superior to me. As I have progressed along the path of spiritual knowledge I've learned no one is a superior to anyone else but I do have a deep seated respect for each person as a reflection of the Source (God). Each of us has a gift or a talent that we can use for humanity. The Creator didn't create us without a purpose or strength. Not everyone's purpose or strengths are the same. Each of us has to turn inward to find what our purpose and strengths are...then we have to learn how to apply them to the outer world. Owning Our Flaws I worked on owning all of the aspects of myself that I had tried to reject and repress. By embracing those darker aspects of myself and owning them I realized I saw people differently. I could see them for who they were not what I wanted them to be or needed them to be to justify my own actions. I just saw the movie Suicide Squad and there was one point, when Diablo discusses how he killed his family by losing himself to rage (the monster within) and Harlequin tells him to, "Own that shit!" That's what we have to do in our life. We have the choice to be the victims of our own actions by disowning what we have done or parts of our past we don't like. We have the free will to spend our entire lives feeling sorry for ourselves if we want and there is no Judgment from Spirit. The greatest judge we face in the afterlife is ourselves. We can also choose Responsibility. We can choose to own those mistakes, embrace them, realize we are imperfect humans that are going to make mistakes. The Great Spirit already forgave us, he knew all what we would do when he conceived the idea of us in his mind before he unleashed us into the universe...and he did it anyways because he knew that our Spiritual potential is great. All of us are a little twisted, we are all a little flawed and if we don't embrace that aspect of ourselves and transmute it then we are going to create a shadow self. That shadow self of all of our disowned junk that we don't want to face and didn't even know we are creating can pull us down into a mire of unhappiness. I see this as naming our own demons so that we can cast them out in the way that Christine Sheldon describes. A Higher Perspective Perhaps, what transformed my view of life the most was my experiences of Past Life Regression and meeting my Higher Self in a dream that explained a few things to me. This sounds strange, I'm sure, and I'm sure you're wondering what the Higher Self means so I'll go a bit deeper into my personal interpretation and experience of that in another blog. What I discovered was a perspective of life here on Earth far removed from what my parents, society, teachers and religious dogma taught me. That our souls don't view it as a punishment or a prison sentence because of a Fall. That we voluntarily come to Earth (my soul sees Earth as a sort of Disneyland that is incredibly fun and exciting ) and that we learn the most on a spiritual level when we face adversity and experience what some might call 'suffering.' Because strangely from 'suffering' we learn Compassion, Patience and Unconditional Love. In Spirit there are no "Good Guys" and there are no "Bad Guys." We are just Spiritual Beings on a Human Journey of Self Knowledge. Our souls can be damaged if we do evil deeds, but that is a different subject and that still does not provoke judgement on the part of Spirit. I realized also that life is subjective. That two people can have the same exact experience and create lives that are totally different. Another Insight is that the Soul really doesn't care what the nature of the experience is as long as we are experiencing something. Our soul chose these lives because they knew the risks and they knew how much wisdom they would gain. In fact, the entire purpose of incarnating is to gain the hard won knowledge from experiences. (Remember Eve ate the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and that knowledge came from the existence of death). The Great Spirit Then I realized that we are souls, not our bodies, we are created in the spiritual image of the Great Spirit and it clicked. The Great Spirit is the great spiritual fire and our consciousnesses are little sparks of the divine. That means that all of the people we meet are also an undeniably perfect aspect of the Great Spirit and even if they don't realize it, even if they abuse their creative abilities, to insult them or treat them poorly is like mistreating ourselves and the Great Spirit. From John 10:34 we learn, "Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your law, "I have said you are Gods?" This is a quote from Psalm 82:6, "I said, "You're Gods." You are all sons of the Most High." Then I learned that God/The Great Spirit is never separate from us, that we are part of the Great Spirit (the word God doesn't seem to capture the depth of the Great Spirit) and he is a part of us and there is never separation. Just a sense of it in this realm. I will go into these concepts a bit more in a future post that I will share on Friday called The Mind of God. Further, it dawned on me how the Mind is the Builder and how we create our own reality. I realized I was putting out a lot of frustration and anger towards others in this world. This misdirected energy was coming back to me and short circuiting my attempts at a more peaceful life filled with what I truly desire. With all of this combined, and continuing to find information that validates my own intuitions I have found an inner peace that cannot be taken from me. There is more, and I will go into all of this in more depth (to go into all of it here would turn this post into a novel) but I wake up most mornings refreshed. I have occasional low energy days just like everyone else but compared to last year, when I was in the depths of despair mourning my daughter and wishing I had joined her in death, it's been a miraculous turn around. I haven't gotten it all correct, yet, but I have become more balanced, more grounded and more aware. My current mantra when I start to give into negative thoughts about others or the world when reading a political article is to say, "Peace, Healing and Love," within my mind and imagine a tremendous ray of light from Source, from God, from All-That-Is being emitted from me to the person harboring such negativity in the hopes that their burdens become lighter. This is helping me to consciously rewire how I think and to place my focus on what I want to think about instead of falling into typical knee-jerk reactions. Achieving Wholeness I can't explain when this deep seated peacefulness took up residence in my heart. There was no magical moment where I reached Wholeness, no sense of nirvana, it was just a progression and one day I realized that I felt entirely complete. The amount of joy and peace that I feel on a day to day basis cannot even be expressed in words. The person I am today is totally different than the person I was one, ten, fifteen, and even twenty years ago. I feel whole and complete. I do not desire anything. I realize that everything is impermanent and bound to change. If things are wonderful and blissful at the moment...that will change. If things are challenging, chaotic and barely tolerable...that too will change. I just ride out the different eddies in the current of the river of life peacefully knowing that it leads to the The Great Spirit or Source (God) (as you can tell, I see all of these terms as interchangeable). My life is comfortable and while it continues to morph as time progresses, as all lives do, I find it is incredibly fulfilling. Yes, I'm still in a processes of self-discovery and experience but I'm a willing participant able to to see how I direct the flow of energy in my life in different directions depending on how I'm thinking. Conclusion Reaching Wholeness is a process that starts off with self-reflection...then we realize the entire world reflects back to us our own inner state. Meeting others can be a study in self-reflection once we know boundaries. When we identify certain patterns in our lives we can learn that by identifying them (naming them) and dismissing them (zapping them out of existence as Christie Sheldon describes it) we can transform our lives. I strongly believe we come to Earth to learn Patience, Compassion and Love. I believe that it is rare for souls to take on this quest. With some key realizations life becomes really obvious and simple. Yet, it is a complex progression of realization that diverges greatly from what we are initially taught. The way I perceive the world has become more flexible. There is no hard and true reality that exists the same way for everyone. I will delve more deeply into this change in perspective and how it differs so wildly from how I initially perceived the universe in a future post. I apologize that this is such a small snippet of this huge subject but to summarize what I have said....there is no outer path to Wholeness. The Great Spirit by whatever name you wish to call it does not exist outside of us. We have deep inner resources...a plethora of spiritual help....that we can tap into for guidance but ultimately our Higher Self and Source is what we should seek. There is no right way to reaching Wholeness. There are many paths. Yet, I am proof that it can be achieved on this level of existence (some claim that it cannot be achieved) no matter how terrible our experiences have been and without guidance from a specific guru or "master." On each step of the road after each Wake Up Call, where I found I wasn't living in attunement with my Higher Purpose....I learned a lot. So, even though painful Wake Up Calls from Spirit are undesirable they are always beneficial. The key I've learned, is not to ignore Spirit...because at first the Wake Up calls are subtle...but when I've ignored they become even louder and louder until they can be a life shattering experience. Yet, at the end of the transformations I find myself right back where I started just a little bit more wiser. You might ask, what is the point? Well, that is a completely different post but, suffice to say, inner peace in light of all of the struggle and suffering I see is more than enough of a reward for me...and that sense of Wholeness and At-One-Ment with all of Creation. I find it similar to training a new employee, if you do everything for them they will not learn. Sure, they may fail. Yet, failure is often the greatest learning experience.
There has been a trend regarding the idea of "Awakening." This trend goes back to 1998.
As I explained in my Zombie blog post, a lot of people are walking around spiritually dead. They are stuck in the seemingly hard and fast rules of the world that we are taught by our parents, society and our schools. In that world all that there is gaining material possessions, hitting certain hallmarks of achievement and death. They define themselves by the groups they hang out with, the possessions they have, their children or their jobs. There is, clearly, something going on in the Collective Consciousness of humanity. The desire to wake up and the idea that we were waking up on some level. There are more people feeling the Spiritual Call then ever before but it's been a slow gradual trend upward. The question I had, when I was analyzing this trend and explaining how I saw it, what does waking up mean? Why do we have this urge to wake up now? Why does it seem so urgent? There is a definite pattern to this desire to wake up. So, let's explore this first. The First Group Awakening 1998 I find it interesting that Edgar Cayce marked 1998 as a milestone year. There was a not a lot of information that came out at this time. This was about the time that the song "Awake" came out by the rock artist Godsmack. Prior to this period there was very little "New Age" material on the shelves. In my collection of books there are three from this time period. Those three are Celestine Vision By James Redfield from 1997, Dancing the Dream by Jamie Sames (1998), Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock (1995) and Dan Millman's The Life You Were Born to Live (1993). These people were the precursors to the movement we see now, the people who awoke the earliest, and could see a spiritual pattern in what was happening. There was not a lot of information out there that really spoke about a spiritual path. Yet, these topics were not exactly embraced by the larger community. The idea that we are all interconnected, that how one behaves affects others and an Inclusive perspective of all cultures was just seen as being the stuff of tree hugging hippies. Sure, Celestine Prophecy and Graham Hancock's book had both become Bestsellers. Yet, the interest just wasn't there for most people and it was still very much a part of the counter culture that didn't interest many. That was the first opportunity for a more inclusive spiritual approach to life. Perhaps this was amount of awareness largely due to the imminent approach of 2000 which people saw as important. After all, we were leaving the 1900's behind and even in the 1980's people hadn't really envisioned the future past 2000. That date seemed so very far away. The movie Back to the Future had some wildly interesting ideas about what a future world would look like in the 2000's, but, unfortunately progress is a bit slow and we now have cellphones instead of Hoverboards. The Second Awakening 2008 This Second Awakening really centered around the date of 2012. A lot of people looked at that date with anticipation. Of course it got associated with the Apocalypse and then became the whole debacle that evolved into that 2012 movie and everyone thinking it would usher in the rapture. Some thought that it heralded the return of Zechariah Stitchins Annunaki. However, there were ideas spread then that began to take hold in humanity. Hence, the wide popularity of these ideas. Of course, the movie and what was fed to the general population at large was a majority cataclysmic horror and not the spiritual ideas. About this time period there was also the book the Secret that hit stores and Depak Chopra became as sensation (his books are okay). Yet, the 2012 movement was inspired mostly by spiritual concepts. The big deal about 2012 was the Precessional year. Undoubtedly the world is in the process of moving from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. The actual process started approximately in 1960 and probably will end about 1940. The Doomsday people thought that because the alignment with the Galactic Center of our Universe happened in 2012 some sort of catastrophe would happen. They paired that along with the end of the 13 Mayan Backtun calendar (the Mayan's had many calendars and a Mayan Elder visiting the A.R.E. during the 2012 nonsense actually commented that he was more worried about surviving the two following 13 year cycles that end in 2038) and assumed that it would be the "end of the world. People, though, in a negative way, opened their minds enough to consider the idea that the way that the universe operates may actually affect them. They also began looking at the stories of ancient cultures and seeing parallels and similarities. Yet, amazingly in seeing these parallels with the Bible people are starting to connect the same stories with other stories around the world. They are seeing the connection that there are remarkably similar stories and perhaps this isn't because they were primitive people worshiping nature. Maybe, just maybe, there was more to these stories that should unite us. From a spiritual stand point this Inclusive sort of view is a huge step forward compared to the very negative literal tunnel vision that has dominated this world for thousands of years. Perhaps, on the Collective Consciousness level, we decided instead of being pushed into this spiritual awakening through a catastrophe that we would experience it in a different way. Third Awakening These days there are more people awakening then in the previous two groups. There are more people talking about the Annunaki, about ancient mysteries, about the 'spooky science' of Quantum physics and people are thinking about the world in totally different ways. There is so much out there now to read about Spiritual Awakening. There are so many songs, for example, Imagine Dragon's Radioactive that I included at the start of this post which was a huge phenomenon and quite honestly I got sick of hearing it on the radio. Sadly, as is quite normal, everyone is attaching negative beliefs to these ideas. There is a prevalance of people believing that they are being controlled by beings more powerful than them (which means they carry a belief of not being powerful enough). There are people who think that CERN is messing with the fabric of the universe in attempt to free Satan from the abyss (a strong fear belief). Even the Christians are getting into the act with "the convergence" that was supposedly going to happen on September 23rd of last year where they really thought the rapture would happen (a belief that the world is evil and they cannot change it so they must escape it). Then there are all of the people who are so excited about the Blood Moon Tetrad and Jonathon Kahn's the Harbinger. Of course, the Harbinger is all about God's Negative Judgement on our nation and that he may allow it to be destroyed because we have 'turned from him.' The Annunaki have actually been mentioned on television on the Ancient Alien Show. In fact, Ancient Aliens is presenting a very Inclusive look into the history of our planet. This show has been on the air for years and it's popularity is so strong that it does not show any signs of stopping in the near future. Heck, the concept of possible Alien 'creators' has influenced a couple of movies (Prometheus and Jupiter Ascending). Suddenly, we are not looking at our ancestors as Primitive idiots who were barely a step above the cave man. We are looking at them as possibly being more advanced than we are now and perhaps knowing more about their origin then our current society does. We are contemplating that perhaps we are not the epitome of human evolution. This mass level of spiritual awareness can be seen everywhere. More and more people are waking up and realizing there might be more to these Dusty Old Religions and beliefs. Heck, maybe there is more than our five senses and indulging our physical whims. People are running radio television shows and YouTube pages talking about this change in consciousness, spirituality and how Mind is the Builder. There are people talking about Kundalini Awakenings and what it means in a practical sense and that it can happen to anyone not just some ancient Yogi in India that has been practicing it for decades. The Call of Spirit I felt goosebumps the first time I watched the Force Awakens trailer. There have been, through various channels, the suggestion that we are going to regain powers that we had in Atlantis. That in those times we destroyed ourselves with those powers. Some think that these powers are of a technological nature, and they may well have been, but I think there was a great deal of spiritual power. We absolutely create the world that we live in. When we look at the world and we see chaos, hatred and so much evil it is a reflection of our own inner turmoil. Psychology points towards individual manifestation with the many experiments that prove Self-Fulfilling prophecies. We have the unique ability to manifest our desires and format the world around us to our liking. I believe there is a reason that so many people are awakening, or feeling the need to go back to their spiritual roots and examine all of those old stories Reason, Logic, and Science told us were no more than nursery rhymes to soothe the Primitive soul. We possess technology that can destroy the world. The Nuclear threat is something that we have been aware of for a very long time. The more we stray from the belief that we are all interconnected, that we share a communal spiritual history, and (when we reach a certain level of understanding) that we are all One...the more likely we are to try and annihilate each other and destroy humanity. I recently came across the information involving something called the Maharishi Effect. In this experiment that was done in the 1970's they discovered that if only 1% of a population practiced meditation there was an effect on crime. In one city there was a 17% drop in the crime rate. Further studies showed a correlation in a drop of sickness and a drop in accidents as well. (http://www.trancenet.org/maharishieffect.htm). I am a little skeptical, after doing some research, that this correlation is only present with a certain type of meditation that a certain type of school teaches. This seems to be a very self-serving method of driving in students to a particular program. Do I think that this needs to be researched by science? Absolutely. Do I think they will study it? Nope. This strays to close to the idea of validating spiritual ideas. Let's just say that this phenomenon does exist and it's not just the Maharishi meditation technique that causes this decrease in crime, health and accidents in the local community. Let's say each person that has awakened an remembered their spiritual nature has the same effect. Their path to that connection and that remembering of their spiritual nature can be many fold (not just a specific form of meditation) but the effect of all of those awakened people will surely be felt. Now, let me be clear about my own practice. I do not work with anything beyond myself...I work with Source and my Higher Self. As I meditate and go into the 'zone' I am able to hold more and more of that energy that originates from my Higher Self and ground it into this reality. What that means is that I'm literally bringing heaven to Earth and holding it here. That is what I feel is the most important aspect of my own Spiritual Practice and I don't doubt that is what causes the Maharishi Effect. By acting as a clear vessel for my own Spiritual Energy it helps embody and be an example to others that it can be done...and there are almost intangible effects that I see on the people around me. But Why Is There So Much Bad In the World? Times are, as far as the media portrays, far worse than they have ever been when it comes to unity. People are being polarized by the narratives that the media is offering. Yet, I can't blame it all on the media. There is the Flat Earth guy on YouTube and the Dark Age Christians running amok saying we need to burn the 'music witches' and that symbols are the language of Satan not Spirit. This is mind boggling to me but it makes sense that as more people become more positively connected with remembering their spiritual nature that it would trigger a tremendous push of energy back by those who have not. A good part of the population really seems to want to see the world destroyed as it was in the days of Noah so that we can begin again. These people have, for all intents and purposes, given up on humanity and think that they will be part of the Elite 144,000 that will be spared out of the Billions of people on Earth. Sadly, it is probably about a billion people who think this way. One recent end of the world video on YouTube managed to rack up 1 million hits and was even shared on Television. To me this is madness. The Polarization This is where things become a bit odd. I have noted the polarization that we are seeing around the globe on different issues. From the movies to the political process there is a polarization among the people. I didn't really comprehend what this meant until I watched a video by an entity known as Adronis. Something he said just made it click. Frequency is something I studying because I intuitively know what it means and I think of it like music. Trying to sort it out for people who don't comprehend it right off the bat can be a bit confusing. I don't have musical training so, for those who are musically trained such as my husband, when I describe it a musical sort of way he scoffs and criticizes my lack of music knowledge saying that I am talking nonsense. To borrow from Bashar all of us are like little radios. We are tuned into a certain bandwith on the radio- let's say 102.7 or 98.7. Now, most of us have used the radio so we know that every radio station is very different. The feeling you get from listening to Big Band as opposed to Rock Music is totally different. People are like radio stations. Depending on our mood, mindset and what we are creating in our life we are tuned into a particular radio station. We also act a little like an attenna and we give off the energy of the radio station we are tuned into. For example, when we watch Winnie the Pooh...it's clear that Tigger and Eeyore have a different energy about them. Tigger gives off the energy of excitement, of too much energy, and a bouncy uncontrollable cantankerous energy. Eeyore expresses a very sad, gray, droopy...low energy. People are like this as well and when we are around people with a lot of energy it tends to be contagious just as a depressed mood can be contageous. The same goes for people who are holding the pure vibration of energy grounded in their bodies. Only, what happens is that when they are around people who have not done personal work inevitably it brings up the issues that the other person has buried in their subconscious. When this happens all kinds of weird reactions can ensue because the people who are burying their heads in the sand, spiritually speaking, don't want to face the subconscious shadow versions of themselves, which the pure spiritual "frequency" or energy provokes. So, the natural reaction is for some people to rise higher while those who are not ready to deal with their issues fall quickly to separate themselves from an experience they view as negative. This is happening because so many people have awakened and ground this spiritual energy. There is so much friction between these two groups of people that it's bringing the most ugly aspects and issues out of those who aren't ready to remember their spiritual nature. What Do I Need To Do? I've run into a lot of people feeling the pressure, what do they do now that they know they are important and that answer can be found in the bible and it is the most important rule we were very taught. We start conducting ourselves in a more loving fashion of support and service to others. As Yeshua said the Golden Rule and his most important teaching is: the "Treat others as you would have them treat you." Even more important is to share your own perspective. Share your experiences with other people. Coming across people that have had similar experiences to my own has been tremendously helpful. The trolls that like to ground negative energy have already banded together and formed groups. It is just as important for those of us who are working more in the positive to join together in support. Each unique expression of the Source needs to contribute their piece to this "Awakening" or "Acsension" experience. I think it's important to that we don't get caught up into the negative belief that we are going to leave everyone behind. I don't really think it's going to be that obvious or blatant. No one can really say how each of us will experience this change. All that I can say for certain is that it is very obvious that a change is occurring. From Jonathon Kahn's Harbinger, to Bashar and Adronis saying that everything that will in the Fall of this year, and just based on the current strange mood in this country it's clear that change has arrived. Perhaps, the amount of Light Workers that have Awakened have reached a criticle mass such as the 100th monkey phenomenon that I've spoke about before...so many people have spiritually awakened it's causing spontaneous awakenings in others. Jamie Sams hints at this in her book Dancing The Dream when she says that previous Dreamers and Seers forged a path for others to follow into the Dream Weave and to the Rainbow Whirl Dream. Those words really appear to be felt by many of the people experiencing this new spiritual paradigm. Most importantly don't become just another animal in a group. Express your individuality. Conclusion We are in midst of a Spiritual Awakening that as been happening since 1998. This is what so many musicians have sensed and why they have wrote songs about waking up. According to Adronis this is the start of an eight year period where we will see a restructuring of the infrastructure of the world. Even weirder is some people are calling the "Awakening" a "Harvest" and it does make you wonder about Revelations. This Spiritual Awakening may last until 2040 and may lead to a new "root race" where people are more aware than they were before of their relationship with others and Source (God/All-That-Is). We are at the end of the Age of Separation from Creator/Source that started with the Destruction of Atlantis. Yet, the survivors of Atlantis knew that forgetfullness was just a temporary phase in human existence. They knew when Humans would start to wake up to their Spiritual origin and Spiritual nature. They knew that we would regain our 'God Hood' that humanity had in the days of Atlantis. They left us messages, one is the Hopi Prophecy Rock, another is Gobekli Tepe where pillar 43 indicates this time and place which only happens once in 26,000 years (at the half way point is when Yeshua appeared). The Great Pyramid points to 2038 which is the end of the cycle it predicts and describes. At the same time the very real danger of destroying ourselves exists. There are a lot of people that seem to want that to happen and are willing it into existence. Our strange tendency to think negatively and not to be optimistic and hopeful as a species makes this time particularly precarious. I could probably include a dozen other media items about "Waking Up". There are about a dozen songs that I can think of that have that theme. But I'm sure that you're just aware of this theme as I am.
(Note from 2017: I'm leaving this up to show that my own perception of Awakening has evolved in many ways. I started off with a very fear based ideaology and I did listen to very fearful people who seemed to be making connections.)
​ Alright, I'm inviting you again to walk this spiral path. I was trying to figure out a few years ago why everyone was talking about, "Being Awake." I never could quite understand the meaning behind this saying although it appealed to me. I thought it was odd. Then there came the influx of zombie movies and I realized that people were feeling like zombies. At the peak of the 'zombie apocalypse' obsession people began to realize it was a subconscious representation of our over worked/unenlightened population and the type of lives we have created. We are like the walking dead repeating the same routine over and over. Awakening oneself to spirituality (or the sacred heart of enlightenment) is the answer to preventing a person from being 'the walking dead.' I will cover this is in a future post so we can look at this more in depth. This idea has been with me for a very long time and I have always gravitated to music or books regarding 'being awake within the dream.' This has been a driving force and the first whispers of this was in the late nineties. That's when I heard the Angel's of Venice CD "Awake Inside a Dream" and the Godsmack song, "Awake" came out in early 2000. However, recently the pervasive theme about being awake has seemed to spring up everywhere including the Christian rock band Skillet and one of my favorite witty artists, Katy Perry. I should also add that I have great skill in controlling my own dreams and interpreting others dreams. I've found that it's a bit more fun when I let them take on their own manifestation instead of trying to control them. I will be posting more on dreams in future blogs. Reality is an illusion. I'm going to show this in several ways in the next few blogs. We, as a group are creating this reality together but at the same time it is just an illusion. We never leave the Spirit World where we are created in the image of the Great Spirit (God/Source/All That Is). First, understand that I am in no way special. Everyone can do what I've experienced. All you have to do is to let go of yourself. Pema Chodron said it best in her book When Things Fall Apart, "You must learn how to let go of yourself." Things falling apart is a natural part of life but the natural answer is to rebuild a different version of the original intent. Further, it is important to tame the mind. In Turning the Mind Into An Ally, Sakyong Mipham describes the process as trying to tame the "Wind horse". The mind (Jung called it the Ego) thinks that it's in control of the situation. The Mind thinks that it is the one in charge interacting with the world but that's not true. Our spirit or soul is the one doing the creating and it's just better if we learn to flow along with creation instead of trying to control it (much as I learned in my dreams). (We see this on the world stage because man is trying to create and control nature). Psychology teaches us that repressing emotions can be bad because they find expression in negative or harmful ways. When we repress emotions or memories we actually hold onto them. One of the worst things we can do is be like the Monk's or Priests and repress ourselves completely in an attempt not to be human. Whether it is our sexual drive, our drive for attention or a billion different things repressing our feelings is not the correct path. The correct path is to embrace the fear, embrace the pain, learn our lessons from it and move on. Reality is like a Snow Globe We are like a snow globe. Within ourselves we create the illusion, we agreed to play this game with others but they are bit players. We are the architects of our own worlds, we are the dreamers, and we are the makers of the dream. Other people we know, with Snow Globes of their own, share the illusion with us by projecting themselves into our reality. We project ourselves into theirs. Projection is also a Psychological concept. When we project onto others it is usually negative parts of ourselves (things we have disowned/our shadow) because our own state of being distorts their true image. The only way to not project on others (you will always project into their worlds) is to quiet your mind and find the center place- the place of calm in the eye of the storm is what I call it- and look at the situation from an objective point of view. Building Worlds Learning how to build worlds can be a little difficult as a writer. It forces you to think beyond yourself, beyond this world but as every author knows you start with yourself. In order for a world to be plausible it has to contain parts of this world but it can have different names or actors. Gravity, for instance, can't be changed and still seem comprehensible to the human brain. Stephen King said it best when he explained that writing, although this can be expressed in the form of video games (especially the creation of worlds like Tolkien, Narnia, Skyrim, etc.), is a form of telepathy. This is the transfer of thoughts from one to another where it becomes engrossing. When you combine that with the fact that the authors, musicians, directors, game creators and artists of our world are the Shaman's what you get when reading are two globes sharing the same reality. This too will be another blog post. A Projection From Spirit This world is a projection from the Spirit World that we are making. We are always safely with God, we never leave him, but we are projecting ourselves here as a some sort of game. This too will be another blog post. Time is one of the mechanisms used to control this reality. Time has really sped up in the last few years so that it's hard to have a family, hard to have the time to do everything we want to get done, and the resources to do it. Yet, if we are the architects of the dream then we can also control time. I've experienced what I'll call "Untime" which was actually a very fun experience. Most people would be afraid to have the experiences that I have had. I am not afraid. I guess I've just lost so much, faced all of my greatest fears and lived through them just fine. I've let go of Fear, I see this life for what it is and it is my job to share with everyone how it works. I'm trying my best to convey this information to everyone else so that we can all wake up within the dream. Two Analogies I see life this way... When I was a child I would go to Disneyland and I would ride Star Tours. I was so confused by what is and is not an illusion that I would scream in terror throughout that entire ride. That was so real to me that I thought that I was really flying through a comet and getting stuck in Darth Vader's tractor beam. I learned, however, by going on the ride many many times (I had an annual pass) how to enjoy the illusion. I learned to relax and just trust that the seat belt hold me in and eventually I had the muscle memory to know when there was going to be a twist or a turn. However, when I had learned the entire sequence it became boring and I wished that they had different destinations. I knew that it would be so easy to do and I couldn't see why they hadn't thought of it before. Well, now they do have different destinations but I'm sure that by going on the ride often enough the people with passes have gotten to know the twists and turns (although, I will say that the newer versions are more shallow and less immersive than the first). Here is another way to describe how I see life. When going to Knott's Scary Farm I throw off the people playing "monsters" because I have an unusual reaction. I know that they are just actors so no matter how gruesome they look or how fierce they might seem I know that it is all an illusion. No matter how immersive the mazes are, no matter how much depth that they put into the construction of these mini-worlds...I see through them. So when a monster comes up to me holding a knife I know that it is not real so I say, "Hello," and just laugh. The actors are so used to scaring people the illusion completely falls apart. This is what we need to do to overcome our fears. Shattering the Illusion Having the illusion of this reality being (I envision it as a globe within a globe type of scenario) shattered is not a terrible thing. I think that it can really end up opening up a way of living that people can't currently imagine. We have, effectively, painted ourselves into a dark corner and now it's simply time to turn the light back on. We must learn to laugh, to "lighten up" in order to be "Enlightened." Our light does not shine as brightly if we do not smile through the tears and embrace the fear. There is no reason to have a heavy heart. None of this is real, this is just a dream. Even our nursery rhymes tell us that this is so... YouTube Videos Again, I do not mean to infer that there is any intent of any conscious group effort to form this pattern that I'm going to include. Nor do I mean to infringe on the artists who's work I'm including. I'm just showing everyone the patterns that I am seeing. My intent is not to say that there is any sort of conspiracy but to imply that this is the act of the collective unconscious (that consists of us working together on the spiritual plane of existence).
My favorite scene from Star Trek V "The Final Frontier." Obviously, it is a rendition of the classic nursery rhyme Row Row Row Your Boat, which, as I said states clearly that this life is an illusion. The fact that it is the very base motivated Captain Kirk, Spock who represents logic and McCoy (my favorite character) who would represent the heart ties in with a post regarding the number Three that I plan about writing later. (I apologize for references to future blogs but this information comes in waves that are so deep that it takes me a bit to navigate through the information in a way that is easily understood.)
This one ties in the most with this post. Reality is like a snow globe and this captures that analogy of how the illusion of this world works. The glass dome distorts the image of a butterfly making it appear to be a scary bat. Then Lindsey captures a glimpse of the truth when she sees the bat turn into a butterfly. We see, in the mechanical part (in the system) Lizzy Hale helps Lindsey (the inner child or the spirit) break out of her physical prison by placing a doll in the gears. All of this is out of the desire to feel complete, to not feel alone, and to find that inner connection to Source again. The mirror reflecting the illusion of who we are breaks for Lizzy. Lindsey then turns into a crystalline entity of light followed by finding herself in a new much larger world.
This was one of the very first songs that I was attracted to but for some reason Wikipedia doesn't list the exact date the album was released. This was the first glimmer that this reality is an illusion. The symbolism in the video isn't terrible and does capture the essence of the song...so sit back and enjoy a kind of rare song that I adore.
Alright, in this one we get a more funny take on the snow globe analogy. Albeit this is kind of backwards from the way that Lizzy portrayed it. In this song Matt Wertz wishes that he was in a snow globe and it's conveyed as Christmas every day. Of course, if Christmas arrived every day then we would take it for granted. Also, his world starts to get really crowded to the point where he's crawling along the ground until he finds a door. At the end we see the snow globe version of Matt looking outside of the trailer. Realizing that there is a bigger world then his snow globe he and his buddies decide to set off and explore leaving their little Christmas world behind.
Alright, the symbolism in this one is a little more hidden. This one was at the leading edge of these songs back in 2000. This was from sixteen years ago. There is the prevalent point of view that we are trapped, that we are prisoners in our own soul dream. The box is a male symbol, this goes back to the entire idea of being trapped in a cage (the human body). The prison itself also represents being imprisoned. Notice how the prison guard looks outside but they don't see the band but the band is inciting the rebellion of the inmates. Then the prisoners are let out by a wise old man that appears to be at an old stone door. Eventually, at the end just as the swat team arrives the sign for the prison falls and it now says closed since the sixties! (This link is not playing so follow this link to YouTube: ​https://youtu.be/opU1urLhw50)
In the following we see a Christian band taking on the meaning of waking up within the dream. This alblum was released in 2009. The part that I want to focus on here is the "breath into me." It is the breath of spirit, of the collective unconscious that Yeshua represented (and I believe channeled) that helps us to keep going when it seems that our light is about to be extinguished by fear. Strangely, I couldn't find the actual music video on YouTube for this one.
Alright, so in the next piece we have the Goddess Kali being displayed after a collage of endangered species (two of whom are a part of my animal totem- the Butterfly and Humpback Whale). There has been a similar collage at the Vatican. I want to note that the ending is of the Triune Goddess Durga. Kali is the part that is the breaker of the illusion. This is just one form of a wake up call. This collage has received a lot of negative attention.
Here we have the "Power Piece" add for X-Men: Days of Future past. To me the resemblance to Kali is obvious. We find out in this piece that Kali must not kill a man. Once she doesn't kill the future of the world is changed. As I stated before there are two different paths that have been emerging and this is one aspect of the new path.
Here, in this video from 2012, we see Katy Perry in the labyrinth of her own mind where she found a strawberry (forbidden fruit). Also, in the labryinth she does seem to resemble the goddess Kali when she smacks the walls.
I must add one of my favorite stories about Samsara (the recycle of death and rebirth) Strawberry from Pema Chodron's book. In it she describes the story of a woman traveling through the jungle. A wild tiger begins to chase her. She climbs down a vine and then looking down sees that there is another tiger below. She realizes that the vine she is holding onto has a strawberry and she grasps it and eats it. The taste of that strawberry is extremely sweet in precious because of her situation. When Katy decides to 'let go' a flare goes up from her chest that lights up the sky. That's when her inner child appears and rushes her into a hallway filled with mirrors. When she bursts through the mirror her inner child stands up to the 'devils' (the bulls), and they rush from the hospital into a garden. Her inner child (intuition) sees that the guy is misleading her. They then see a new door to the "light" through the heart. This video also doesn't work so you're going to have to follow this link to see it: https://youtu.be/k0BWlvnBmIE)
In this we see the movie Inception. This is where Leonardo Decaprio's character explains how 'co-dreaming' works. This is how reality works. This is a wonderfully "backwards" dream (I will go into that in a future post as well). Notice when she's afraid that things begin to explode until she "kills herself" in the dream. I think that we have all had those moments where we were so afraid our hearts felt as though they were going to leap out of our chest and some how in those moments we manage to hurt ourselves inadvertently. Some people have literally fainted or died from fright.
In this video he channeled entity, Bashar, is explaining how we are actually dreaming. As I have established in this post what we consider reality is in fact a dream that our higher-self (on the spiritual plane of existence from which we originate) co-create's this dreams with others. Those other people project themselves into our personal reality. One of the important things to remember is although the dream isn't real the experience is real to our soul.
I though this would be a fitting end to this one. I'm sure that there are some who don't think that we can awaken within the dream. That they want to keep us in the negativity that we see. Instead, I'd like to prove them wrong and show that we can all be peaceful warriors. There is a lot more I can say on this point. The images and story lines are becoming more clear as I investigate each thread of this tapestry every time I walk the spiral. I, however, am going to spend the rest of the day walking my dogs and being outside in the fresh air. This post has taken the better part of two days to put together. I apologize that it is very long. However, I really didn't write this for those with short attention spans. Maybe I'll eventually make videos for them in the future when I can distill this information even more than I currently can.
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