As We Awaken . . .
As we awaken spiritually we become more conscious and aware. We begin to see and understand more about what is going on around us. We become more consciously “present” in the present.
As we continue to awaken we begin the process of unifying our self, our consciousness, with the ”rest” of the world. We start to heal the illusion of separation that exists between our self and the world, the world we have believed - falsely - to be separate, distinct and apart from us.
Until we begin to awaken, we are unconscious most of the time, living life inside our “head.” For the most part, we are lost and absorbed in a private world of our own, our thoughts often centering on the past or the future. At this stage, we are often completely unaware that everything that exists is connected. Or that everyone in the world is another “me.” Read the rest of this entry »
This article is to introduce a new category : “The World: Our Mirror,” which will contain articles about how the world and everyone in it reflects (mirrors) yourself back to you so that you can experience the effects of what you, yourself, create. It’s a category intended to empower you by :
a) Assisting you to break free from the illusion of separation, a basic belief of third dimensional consciousness: that we are all separate individuals, existing as seperate entities and therefore apart, isolated and distinct from everyone and everything else in the universe.
And,
b) Learning that you have vast creative power and that you can design and create more enjoyable and nurturing relationships with other people, as well as create a life which allows you to experience more joy, ease and abundance, as opposed to experiencing a life of pain, lack and fear.
This article is to introduce my new Category, ” Journal of Awakening” which will have as its focus, How to Recognize and Follow Spirit’s Guidance (actually, I tend to think of Spirit as being The Great Mother, or, The Goddess, so I’ll probably use these terms interchangeably.) I’ll be using my own personal experiences for illustration purposes, but, of course, you will have your own personal experiences and adventures with The Goddess which will be tailored to you and your needs and requirements.
Our Great Mother is always trying to guide us, but we don’t realize this because we’re not usually paying Her any attention. We are usually too busy paying attention to another guide: our ego, that dazzlingly deluded creation of our thinking mind that thinks it’s an expert on everything! (Well, mine thinks it’s an expert on everything, I don’t know about yours.)
Learning to Recognize and Follow Spirit’s Guidance is a Practice and a Discipline.
Learning how to recognize and follow Spirit’s guidance is a practice, a discipline, and it marks a new stage of accelerated growth and awakening for us. It’s also a practice which, ultimately, frees us from being dependent on any other person for guidance - persons such as myself. Unfortunately, we often only turn to Spirit for leadership and guidance when we realize how incapable our ego-mind is in protecting us and leading us towards wholeness and joy. As I discussed in my article, “Initiation: Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection,” we sometimes need to reach a very low point in our life before we’ll admit to ourselves that we need a higher, wiser, form of guidance than our own thinking, rational mind has been providing us with.
If you have reached this point you will know it, because you will know that you need help. This marks the beginning of wisdom for us: we are finally ready to admit that we can’t go it alone! Now, we start to look for our Divine Mother to lead us towards wholeness, safety and joy.
Throwing off the Control of the Ego.
At some stage in our journey to enlightenment, before we can receive enlightenment* we usually need to undergo a major initiation in which our lower-self personality, passes from being under the control of our ego (the mind-made identity we believe ourselves to be ) and willingly comes under the guidance and leadership of Spirit. This initiation is composed of a series of difficult and painful events which are best described by using the metaphor of Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection. It is, quite simply, a test of our spiritual Mastery, and it only presents itself when we are ready.
When we have emerged from this cycle of events our lower-self personality has been purified of the lower instincts, impulses, desires and emotions, which until this point in our life, have ruled and driven our actions and behaviour. Once we are free of the misleading influence of our mind-created ego, we are transformed, re-born, as it were, into a freer, more conscious, joyful, creative and powerful version of our former self. We understand our part in the Divine Plan and are in full possession of the skills, abilities and strengths we need to carry it out successfully.
So, the series of events that make up our personal Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection, are challenges, trials and tests which provide our personality with perfect opportunities to become free of our baser, lower aspects and weaknesses. At the same time, these events also enable us to conquer and master our insistence on asserting our individual will. Instead of following our own personal will, we learn the wisdom of choosing to submit consciously to the Higher, Divine Will and so allowing ourselves to come under the leadership and guidance of Spirit, rather than the dominance and control of the ego.
Thanks to Bill Reichart, pastor of the Provocative Church at Big Creek, for responding to my article, “The Loss of Soul.” You can find Bill on www.provocativechurch.com.
Bill ’s blog includes the first talk in a series entitled “False Self” which I thought you might want to check out for yourself, you men in particular.
As you know, I’m running a series called “Quest For The Soul,” which explores the same theme. I enjoyed the first talk in the series at Bill’s church, however, because (a) it was given by a man who’s obviously experienced his own spiritual awakening (you could tell this because he’d dropped his masks!) and (b) it was a talk given by a man for men, and consequently had that unique male perspective and focus. It also got me thinking about the issue of masculine identity in today’s world.
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