In this Category, you are learning to look for,  read and interpret,  the guidance that is available to us all of the time,  from Spirit;  indeed, from the whole Spirit Realm  as we are  gently guided and drawn into Unity Consciousness.   

You have already been introduced to the idea -  more than once if you are a regular visitor to this site! -  that everything that you believe is “out there” in the world, is actually a manifestation of your psyche: your own inner world, or inner landscape. Yet, you need to see and experience this truth for yourself: that your outer and inner worlds are inextricably  linked. The overall aim of this Category, therefore, is  to assist you to see in a new way, so that you become  more spiritually awakened and aware. 

Unfortunately, until we attain Unity Consciousness (Enlightenment) we suffer  under the illusion that we are a separate being, separate and apart  from everyone and everything else in existence.  It  all seems a bit of a tangle, but I assure you, you can and will awaken from the dream of separation if you want to.  Think of it this way: at present you are probably, mostly,  seeing everything through a pair of dark glasses that have obscured your vision, but, you are starting to remove them. 

Awakening from the Dream of Separation.

In order to  awaken from the dream of this world we need to become more conscious and aware of the true state and nature of things, especially the truth about ourselves and our True, or Real,  identity. We awaken when we start to see  in a completely new way, a more enlightened way, if you like. 

There’s a way of seeing which I call  “reading” the world, and when you learn how to do this, and employ it more and more on an everyday basis, it will literally open you up to a whole new world. It will open you  up to a higher level of spiritual vision, in which you will feel as if you have stepped through a portal, a doorway, you  have probably been unaware even existed,  but which will  show you grand, new, multi-dimensional vistas. (Actually, it is you/me  that is multi-dimensional: the world is our mirror, remember. It is revealing us to ourselves, so when we start to perceive new depths, breadths,  heights and dimensions to the world,  new vistas, as it were, really, we are  discovering new depths, breadths, vistas, etc, etc, etc, to our self.  See?)

The world in which we live can be read just as you would read any other kind of text, such as a book, a film, a magazine, or a person’s face - a text being anything that can be read.  Actually, we’re reading things and people all of the time,  but often aren’t conscious of it  because we do it automatically. If you’ve been following this Category of articles, however, and I know some of you  are, you have already started reading the Natural World as if it’s a text. You  have been looking at the world of Nature with new eyes, attempting to read and interpret  the subtle and not so subtle messages, signs and meanings that surround us all of the time, should we have eyes with which to see and notice.

Interpreting Signs and Symbols.

There is a system of signs and universal  symbols we can all use and apply to the world to help us in our interpretations, our new spiritual way of reading the world. For example, birds are ancient symbols of the human soul, so you might want to keep this in mind when your attention has been captured by a bird, or birds.  The phoenix, of course, is a universal symbol of re-birth; being re-born from the ashes of the old (self.) The snake, which is also a symbol of re-birth and regeneration, because it sheds it’s skin  periodically, is also a symbol of deception and temptation in some cultures.

There are many web sites concerned with symbols and their meanings for you to check out,  and check with, but I would recommend that you go with the meaning and interpretation you feel is right, or appropriate. You may want to use the list as a starting point, but do  allow your own intuition to have the deciding vote as to what the signs and symbols you see and encounter, mean.  This strengthens and broadens the channel of communication that exists between your conscious mind and your soul: your True Self. 

Looking at the world in this new way: as if it’s a text to be read,  will open the world up for you, like a wonderful, new and exciting book. Increasingly, you will see examples that the world is a much  more magical and loving place than you have ever imagined. That the birds, animals, insects, even clouds, are infused with  the same loving Spirit, the same Divine Intelligence as you are. It is this Spirit, this Intelligence,  which will guide you back to regaining the lost awareness of your Divinity and Wholeness; it will guide you back to the Garden, back to Heaven. If this is to happen, however,  we need to actively seek this guidance by lifting our eyes and attention away from the mundane and the everyday,  and really learn to look.

Read the World As Loving.

Learning to read the world as  a text in order to extract meaning and guidance is a way of looking at the world with fresh eyes, with  a new, more spiritual vision.  And, when we begin actively looking for personal guidance and higher spiritual meanings in the world, we are demonstrating our willingness to believe that we will be helped and guided. We are also demonstrating a willingness to entertain the idea that we are loved and being cared for at all times by our Divine Mother and Father; that we are not isolated, abandoned and alone, but treasured and valued beyond all price and measure. Yet, our ego-dominated, thinking mind,  reads and interprets the world in it’s own, particular  way: in a very dark way, simply  because it “sees” darkly.  Consequently, because we completely believe in the ego’s interpretation of the world,  until we know better,  we feel fearful, deprived, and often, very unhappy.

For example, our ego ( I mean that “voice”  or “self”  that is always  talking in our head, and that’s  actually a creation of our thinking mind,  but which we mistakenly believe is us. And by the way, once you start to get that it isn’t you, that it’s actually just a part of your mind, masquerading as “you,”  you can begin to  free  yourself from it’s influence  and control) interprets the world as being something that’s separate and apart from us,  something that we need to arm and protect ourselves against. So naturally, because of this interpretation and reading of the world: that we need  to defend ourselves because we are always under threat, the physical world, as a manifestation of our psyche, obliges us by shaping itself into a threatening world! 

Always remember the basic rule: the world is a mirror for us, and  the outer world is a manifestation of our inner world. If we believe we are under threat from our environment, then we will fashion an environment around ourselves that is threatening; that’s the film we’ll project onto the screen of 3d physical reality.  By holding the idea -  better still, the feeling -  that we live in a loving and safe world, then this is what will be projected onto the 3d world of form and appearance. 

You might want to take a look at my article of 14th. May,  entitled, “Create Peace and Harmony in Your Life: Find Heaven.” This article contains an exercise which is designed to help you source from within yourself the energy of peace, harmony, and of being carefree. Holding this higher energy within your being,  will allow you to project a corresponding physical  environment, or world,  around yourself: one that more closely matches the energy and vibration  of Heaven.  If we want to Master the physical world, we must master our inner world, first, so that we only “put out,” or project,  what we wish  to experience.

Read the World as a Text.

You will find that if you view the world as if it is a text to be read, which it is, then this will help you not only receive the information and guidance that will help you return to a state of Oneness and Unity with all of existence, but it will also  help you  remain more conscious  and awake. I find,  it also stops me from getting too lost in the dream of the world: the dream that we are separate, isolated and abandoned, which causes us to experience such intense feelings of  fear, anxiety and loss,  at times.   

Learning to view the world as a series of signs, symbols and messages (IE. as a text ) that you need to decode and decipher,  is a great leap forward in our journey of spiritual awakening. Start to use this new vision today. Look at the clouds, is there something interesting there? Look at what is happening around you as if it is a film being shown for your benefit -  which it is -  and ask yourself if what you are seeing strikes you as particularly interesting or meaningful to you on a personal level.  

Enjoy this new way of seeing, have fun with it. There will be periods of time in which you forget to read the world as if it is a text. These periods are when you have fallen asleep, as it were. You have fallen unconscious and become lost in the world, lost in the dream of separateness. At these times, you will find that you are living “inside your head,” almost completely focused on what your ego, the voice of your thinking mind, is saying, and consequently, you will be  mostly unconscious of what is happening around you, and of what is being said, or really said. Or not said, or not happening, as the case may be . . .