From the inside Out

Featured in July 2017 Issue of Otherwise Magazine.

Waking up one day you find yourself inside this body, this form, this hallowed ground, asking yourself the question….. “How did this happen, how did I get here?”

Then the journey begins. All of us wake up to this realisation at some point in our life. The realisation that we are indeed Spiritual beings engaging in a human experience. That there is a consciousness so grand, so amazing, animating this form that we occupy. Not the other way around, as is often the way when we think that a spiritual dimension to this life is optional.

When this awakening happens, often what occurs is, we put it back to sleep; it’s too much, it asks too much personal responsibility. It’s so intense a realisation that we can tend to forget, forget until the next time when the opening occurs again, and it will, when light shines through. Our light, our precious light, our essence, the mirror of the divine within each one.

Often intense sabotage patterns arise again and again to try and put us back to sleep, to the place of suffering and ignorance. The inner battle begins. Ego struggles to survive, to prevent itself being washed clean, being annihilated by the magnificent light of Spiritual awareness. This is because the world of “me supreme”, “me the controller”, becomes obsolete as we discover more and more that surrender to a higher conscious is not only possible, but so necessary in a world gone crazy.

This is the beginning. Often mistaken for the end. Awakening in the body can feel like a trap, an imprisonment in the mire of our own ignorance. Only when we embrace the journey and transform through intent, the vehicle, this body, to be the truest companion, the ideal partner. The partner that we often only look for outside. Only then do we embrace the path of true transformation. When we embrace this body as companion while compassionately and gently meeting our difficulties, only then does the real journey, the real healing begin.

The end becomes the beginning as we gaze on and uncover behaviours that do not serve the awakened inner essence. That, in fact, will then shock it more and more into awakening even further, as it chisels away like a master sculptor on the dense, karmic patterns that have moulded us into the caricatured personas that we call ourselves. Patterns that have hardened as we passed through education, religious upbringing and the materialistic culture into which we were born, which is starved of Spiritual integrity.

''Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Jalaluddin Rumi.

THE STRUGGLE TO BECOME WHOLE

The struggle to become whole begins with this waking up into our present condition. Until we know where we are abiding, real change cannot happen. When we gaze passionately, yet dispassionately and compassionately on our own condition without blame or shades of victim mentality. When we empower ourselves to heal each block toward our own liberation from ignorance and suffering, no matter what. Only then are we truly on the path. Freedom from suffering does not mean that we will not experience pain and loss. However it does mean that we respond to our daily experiences, with trust, with clarity and knowing that all is well and all is occurring within the divine order and that, no matter what, we are always held, always being further honed, further chiselled by the divine spark within ourselves that has truly become alive.

OWNING AND DISOWNING

There is the personal journey and there is the collective journey and both are inextricably interconnected. No one walks alone. This too, needs to be learned, trusted and experienced. Our tribal consciousness has been hijacked in the world of material gain and intellect at the cost of the compassionate heart, a heart that knows we are all one. Upon awakening to and owning, that we are indeed spiritual beings arrived here into this human experience to remember who we are. To become truly that, a human being, not an animal wallowing in greed, lust and ignorance at the mercy of the prevailing cultural storms.

Upon this awakening, our whole world, our whole intent toward our every experience changes, turns around from what and how we have been living before that point. Spiritual awareness is not a luxury for the few, it is the eternal realm of all. It is what will not only redeem ourselves but our world, our planet. Primarily unconscious of this great power that drives us, this breath that breathes us, we journey in ignorance toward ignorance. Without awakening to the breath that breathes us we are indeed living in the dark with no knowledge of this tremendous essence that contains us, permeates through each cell of our bodies, that which birthed us and that which will embrace us at the end of the adventure we call our life. We are Spiritual beings who have forgotten, only to take on this arduous journey to remembering.

''We are living in an imbalanced world where male and female are at odds, divorce, violence, mistrust and addiction are rampant. We must, to assist in healing this open wound, find balance within….'' -Mary Sky

HERE BEFORE

Something called me and I answered denuded now by a foreign understanding I discovered I was here before. There’s an eye in the needle that beckons us through vacant space of supreme possibility requiring no question requiring no answer. Passion arises resting in an expanded openness Breathing a mildly strained sigh I surrender I remember I was here before.

I am not a scientist, philosopher, mystic, psychotherapist or saint. I am a human being remembering daily what I have forgotten. While remembering, it is the time to shed and disown aspects of the human form, this caricature of the divine being that we have become. We must shine with our own light. Shedding and dissolving down to the bare bones, down to our naked rawness and here we will begin the journey home hand in hand with the divine spark. It is each of our personal responsibility to recognize and disown what is not useful, what no longer serves us, what it is within ourselves that does not mirror our truth and our essence and prevents us dancing daily to the music of the vast universe that we inhabit and that we are. Only then, as we embrace that journey can we make an impression on a world drenched in suffering and torment. With personal responsibility comes collective shifts. As we make peace with our demons they dissolve, allowing for the vast energies that have been tied up in holding and contracting, to be released. This energy, far from being lost, is now used in service of the new life. If each of us travels the path to light, through what it is we have forgotten and remember our divinity, then a realm shift is indeed possible, is indeed happening.

A REALM SHIFT IS HAPPENING

Each one of us carries in our matrix, our flesh and bones and cells, the shadow of the lie. This untruth that we “are not made in the image of God/Goddess”. That we are “not the breath of the divine”. These are the untruths we have inherited by forgetting. No blame. Time to remember now, time to remember again our own true light. The light that permeates all things, all beings, all times. This light we must remember to recognise in everyone we meet, everything we see. There is no place that it is not. We are here, collectively to remember this truth. To walk the middle road of balance and remembering, allowing the heart to speak and to listen. To listen ever so deeply to its inherent, timeless wisdom. We are here to become re-enchanted and as the Shamans say, “to get out of here alive”. To be the warriors we are, travelling this human, unknown path together. We are indeed brave to even be here on this beautiful planet, our home. This Earth we live on, is our Mother, our provider. This Earth gives us everything we have, own, eat, and breathe. Gratitude is a wonderful gift to give back in return. Gratitude and care. We must and we will, as we heal ourselves, see that this will reflect on how we treat, not only our own bodies, vehicles of the divine spark, but how we treat our planet Earth. Our personal healing journey can only really be a collective healing journey. May all beings benefit. Or, as the Mayans say, “In La Kech”, I am another yourself.

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INSIDE ME TO PROTECT AND GUIDE ME SO THAT ALL BEINGS MAY BENEFIT.