So you feel like your life is falling apart...
Good. Now you have the amazing opportunity to let go of everything that was holding you back. Once everything around you falls apart you can start to make decisions that actually serve you. You have an opportunity to Wake Up and realize that there is more that life can offer you then material objects. You may even realize that gathering together a bunch of material objects is not the purpose of life on this planet. I understand that life is hard for you. You're out there fighting the good fight... Only you're probably fighting yourself. Congratulations! What you think is the end of the world is actually the start of a radical transformation of your life on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. If you allow that to happen. If you answer the call of Spirit and turn within to Know Thyself. Otherwise, you'll just turn back into the work-a-day zombie pursuing their next physical fix- whether food, alcohol, collecting something or going to see the latest movie or read the latest book. That's ok. You have a lot of company on the path of the work-a-day zombie. You see, most of us have developed these huge Ego Constructs. We define our world by statements about ourselves, the labels we identify with, our jobs, and what we possess- be it house, car, being a parent or collecting baseball cards. Yet all of that is a temporary illusion. Just as our life as this individual person is a temporary illusion. As I read in an alchemy book by D.W. Hauck recently...our physical life is just one continuous chemical chain reaction right up until the day we die. Ok, well, if you believe all there is..all that exists...is just physical matter reality that idea is scary. You might as well cry out, "You only live once," and do all sorts of extreme dangerous things that put your body in danger. You might as well eat, drink and consume your feel of trashy television programs from the news to sitcoms. You might as well get your jollies out of screwing over every person that you meet. If, and this is a big if, you can bring yourself to believe that we are not our physical bodies...that this is just a temporary vessel for a soul that existed before and after this life...and that we are an Eternal Spirit that will never cease to exist no matter how 'bad' we are in this life...you can see that this physical reality is just a temporary illusion. You won't be able to identify with all of your material possessions then...and you won't really be able to identify with your body. You will realize your body did not give rise to the consciousness that you possess. Look, I know what it's like to see your entire definition of yourself torn down. I've gone through the terrifying experience of the Dark Night of the Soul many times myself. I've had my ego utterly pulverized as I lost everything by which I defined myself...more then once. Let me give you a hint, when life starts letting you know it's time to let go of something...like letting go of your job because you hate it...listen to that before you lose everything that defines you. Learn to listen to your gut instincts...those are your direct line of communication to Spirit. You have to learn how to discern between gut instincts and fear....those are two totally different concepts. Fear will tell you not to change. Fear will tell you not to get out of the bed because the world out there is scary and not for you. Fear...is just the Ego trying to maintain some semblance of the 'ordinary.' Yet, life is extraordinary. Maybe you're having a mid-life crisis and you don't know who you are anymore. You just realized that you're no longer that kid in high school or college. That you haven't done anything with your life except work the same old job...doing the same thing day in and day out. That's okay too. Maybe you've woken up to the fact that there is a rhyme and reason to this world...a cosmic pattern...but because of all of the fear based literal minded people putting information out there you think it's a Matrix controlled by lizard people and you just want out of the Matrix! Either way, you've reached a stage of personal development and you're wondering where you need to go from here. What can you do to change things for the better? Can you reach a state of mind that is both peaceful and joyful without going to join the closes Buddhist Monastery? By the way, there is no judgement if that's the route you want to go. Well, I can tell you that it gets a lot better. The Dark Night of the Soul stage can be unpleasant because it calls into question all of the things that you used to use to define your existence. You can wonder around trying to find the right information to help you set your feet onto a productive path. You'll be seduced by a lot of people who want your money who will gladly offer to do the work for you. Some will pretend to be intellectually superior and so they have the answers that you need. Healers will tell you that you need to come back to see them every week to release the blockages you could learn to heal on your own. Psychics will want you to come back for more readings to talk to your dead love ones for advice. Realize that good teachers don't want your money. They want you to Awaken as they did to help lift the entire human community to a new level of being. You can develop the discernment to know which teachers are good for you and which people are completely false. As you travel down the path you will start to have experiences- dreams and synchronicities- will help you form the basis upon which to measure these teachers. Good teachers will also be in alignment with one another. First you have to let go of the false reality you held that you thought would never change...you are not a fixed element. Like water, you were created to change in this Physical Matter reality...to go with the flow, adapt, learn and grow. When you become too stagnant, too fixed or crystallized, and too stuck in your ways life has a way of coming along and smacking you in the head. At that point, you can curl up into a little ball and demand, "Why me?" I know I did...but eventually, the best option, is not to build yourself up again. Instead, head out and start questioning everything. The path has been trodden many times by many Seekers. You can check out my YouTube channel or any number of topics listed on the right of this blog. They will help you on the Path. You're invited to travel down as many avenues as you need. Just know, that you have stepped onto a path of self-transformation and liberation. Also know that I can't do this work for you and I can't walk this path for you either. You must walk it on your own. You can see my footsteps, though, in the dust of the road and know that there are many that have walked this path before you. So, congratulations that your life is falling apart. Now it's time to be your own hero and save yourself! Stop gathering knowledge about this temporary realm and learn to trust the intuition of your heart. Get out of your head and the intellectual state where logic alone is king. With this blog and my YouTube channel you will have all of the Tools and Information you need to free yourself. Maybe you'll be like me and devote your life to the life long study of the fascinating labyrinth of the Seeker...or maybe a brief stay and tune up will get you going on forging your own path. Consider my Blog and my YouTube channel a loving welcome package. Man do I wish all of this existed when I was first walking the Path of the Seeker! Good luck on your journey and have fun rising from he ashes of your life like a Phoenix with the rising sun.
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The Building Blocks and Structure
Early on when thinking of subjects I wanted to cover in my YouTube videos I realized I needed to start small. My audience is primarily people that don't have much time that don't know too much about mysticism. Maybe they know a lot of superstition or dogma but that's it. The basic building blocks I outlined are those I've become aware of and examining psychology and my own personal life discovered. I wanted to explain how most people create a thought structure through which they view the world and how they do it. The fact that most belief structures are inherited by parents doesn't really matter. For the past twenty years everything has been blamed on the parent. However, while I do sometimes whether someone's parenting style is just terrible...I do admit that once a person hit's eighteen it's their responsibility to grow as a human being. If they remain in a temperamental child like state that's up to them...but the Path of the Seeker is the path of the adult mature human. To not go through a phase where we question our parents belief structure keeps us from maturing. From this general starting point there is a plethora of subjects I can cover. I'm laying a foundation for bigger topics. I've worked so long on the path of the seeker that it's really a bit hard for me to start at the beginning but for people who've never had exposure to basic subjects it's important to start small. While it boils psychology down to it's most basic elements it is a decent way of interpreting the cause of behavior. This workable structure can be used in many ways because people can be more aware of their thoughts- which is mindfulness. I didn't really intend for the Dark Night of the Soul to be the first big concept...yet, it made total sense. At this point there are a number of videos swimming in my mind. My next video is going to be on Meditation because it is *SO* important. Then I'm going to see where that takes me. I still want to do the video the Perceive what you Believe video, the science backing up the self-fulfilling prophecy...and there are more. So far, this is has been so much fun and I'm really happy to share this information. Also, if viewing the video's it's an interesting progression...from sun ray, to sun rise, to a light bulb to the day moon. Totally unintentional but it flows. This is one of those subjects I've been meaning to write about but just haven't.
I think that's a good thing because at the end of the day I really now can say I understand the purpose of the Dark Night of the Soul. Everyone goes through them. You could say that Job in the bible had a Dark Night of the Soul when he was ravaged by every imaginable thing to try and make him denounce God. Although, I personally look at that as a metaphorical tell instead of something that actually happened...it is a good representation of a Dark Night. Why Does It Happen? Dark Nights of the Soul seem to happen when we become to entrenched into a way of life. Sometimes we might feel stuck in some way just before it happens...but the one thing it promises is that it will absolutely break down all constructs we have about ourselves, our lives and the way the Universe works. Sometimes, we become so stuck in our Box of Perception...unwilling to change or move...that the only thing for movement to occur is for everything to breakdown. Most of the time there are little hints before hand that things aren't the way they're meant to be...there are little nudges by Spirit. We can work with these, if we are wise and have learned our lessons, but most often in our Scientific society we ignore them. After all, our gut feelings can't be real...can they? We are so out of tune with who we are we deny our own instincts. The Dark Night of The Soul We're going along and boom! Out of nowhere we lose our job, a family member dies or a relationship ends. Then we are plunged into a life where we question everything. This can lead us to ending up on Conspiracy websites and buying into really harmful ideas. We can want to see the rest of the world punished and suffer as we are suffering. We can end up hating life itself...possibly even suicidal. Or... A Catalyst A catalyst is something that increases the rate of production without a chemical being changed...think of it as a laboratory experiment. If you combine two chemicals they have an interaction. That's what a Dark Night of a soul can be...it can cause a reaction within you. As I said, it can take you into the deepest depression that you know and some people never leave that state of being. Yet, it also offers the opportunity to change for the better...to encourage the person to become a Seeker. The need for an explanation can led to a life that is absolutely transformed. The caterpillar may think that it's preparing it's own tomb when it's forming it's cocoon...but it emerges a beautiful butterfly. The Dark Night of the Soul prompts us to create our cocoon. We can choose to live in that cocoon too afraid to peek out the rest of our lives... Or a Dark Night of the Soul can lead to the ultimate liberation. The Tower Tarot Card Recently, I've been studying the Tarot as a archetypal symbol. Tarot seems to have appeared in Europe during the Dark Ages. They can be studied as archetypes...or universal symbols. The tower card shows people falling as a tower is struck by lightening. The tower represents the perception that we carefully put together about how the world works. When a Dark Night of the Soul strikes those towers crumble. As I said, this can be a wonderful opportunity for self-discovery or can lead to a permanent unhealthy mental state. I can't speak poorly or condemn bad things happening to good people because sometimes it doesn't make sense but it does lead, eventually and sometimes after a long road...to something better. Staying In The Flow After my last Dark Night of the Soul I never rebuilt my personal inner image of the world. I let go of needing a personal construct in order to understand how things work. I realized it's not necessary. The process was a long one, I admit, it wasn't as though I just wanted to let go and I did. Instead, it's more of a process of slowly realizing that it's not necessary for everything to make sense. That there is a rhyme and reason even if I don't know it in every moment. When something breaks down it might lead to the unfoldment of an even better opportunity. I used to try to force my will onto everything...I tried to make the world conform to my little box of perception of how things will be...but that's not necessary. That's not my job...the world is not my circus and the people on it are not my monkeys. Since letting go and realizing there is a much bigger purpose at work...that everything is an illusion that people create within their own mind everything has changed. All of the things that I was super scared of and appeared to be blocks melted away. All of the things I really wanted dearly have appeared naturally with no effort on my part. Life isn't easy. I still get thrown unexpected curveballs but I realize they are temporary. I embrace the temporary part of life...that nothing here lasts forever. Things come together and fall apart all of the time in an endless cycle. I no longer beat my head against the wall wishing things were a different way. I see the wisdom in how things are and I am grateful for it. I keep people in my prayers when they go through a Dark Nigh of the Soul...hoping that they will use it as an opportunity for personal growth that wouldn't occur if they weren't pushed out of their comfort zones. Conclusion Although Dark Nights of the Soul can be uncertain, scary and depressing when we are going through them there is so much hope. There is a silver lining and a purpose if we but see it...and use the catalyst as a means to experience a personal transformation. We can take comfort in knowing that a new state of being is under construction in our lives. We can see them as an opportunity to let go of all the ideas that didn't serve us and the chance to create new ones. We can also take comfort in the fact that all states of being in life are temporary. We are only children for a temporary time. We are only confounded by an abrupt ending in our life for a short period of time. We can adjust to almost any type of situation. Today is temporary no matter how unpleasant or painful the moment might be...and we don't have to perform perfectly every day of our lives in every aspect. We are allowed to make mistakes. We are allowed to be grumpy...we don't have to be nice to everyone. That same feeling makes the moment sweeter when it's good. We know that this wonderful moment of bliss is temporary. So we can allow ourselves to fully revel in it and immerse ourselves in that state of being. We can make small adjustments, like trimming our sail, when we sense these different state of beings. We become less afraid...and trust that things will change because that is the nature of our reality. That trust can be a powerful thing in the scheme of life...like the lilies of the field we know that we will be okay. The lilies don't count the days they are in bloom. They simply are and we can learn a lot from that state of being. Appreciating ever breath...every day...and every glimmer of beauty that we experience. |
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