Everyone has good days and bad days. Everyone has highs and lows. Everyone has ups and downs. Keep this in mind as you take stock of how things have been going for you. Are you keeping in touch with your spirit and your heart’s intent? Are you loving and kind throughout your day? Are you open and willing to observe the lives of those you love as true journeys of transformation, just as your own is? Are you ready to accept, without regret, and move on when the time is right? Are you, on this very day, willing to accept that you still have so much to learn and still so much to give? Life is meant to be experienced. Keep that in mind as you have your own experiences in life and as you guide others through theirs. Life is meant to be experienced on ALL levels.
Mystical traditions appropriated from fiction the term, Dweller on the Threshold, to describe an inner psychological character who serves the role of initiator to deeper spiritual realization.
The Dweller is a psychological complex that is an amalgam of all of one’s fears and unresolved inner darkness at a personal level of present life, as well as the spiritual debts, or karma, one has accumulated from the soul’s journey through infinity.
The Dweller is a universal character that might appear as a powerful archetypal demon in a dream encounter. However, the Dweller is also quite uniquely fashioned to reflect that which is suppressed, repressed or unknown within the darkness of one’s personal unconscious, what Jung termed The Shadow. Nonetheless, the human race, as a single organism, bears its collective Shadow with its own guardian Dweller on the Threshold.
In order to grow, we must know thyself. In order to know thyself we must ultimately subdue the Dweller who tempts, taunts and exposes us to our darkest deeds, desires, habits, thoughts and primal impulses. To subdue the Dweller we must shine the light upon and accept the full truth of all we have hidden from, or all that has been hidden from us, behind the door to the Shadow.
The Dweller might appear to be an evil entity, and in our encounters with it we might be tempted to act out our hidden compulsions, but full responsibility for all one’s actions resides within one’s conscious personality, named the ego. The Dweller is not responsible for the ego’s failure to grow. The Dweller indeed leads one into temptation, but one no longer faces temptation who has reconciled with the wholeness of who they are through inner shadow work.
Ultimately, the Dweller is entitled to deep gratitude and love for the service it performs in helping one to reach the maturity needed to open the door to higher spiritual enlightenment. Failure to love the Dweller is an attachment to hatred that bars entry to higher consciousness.
Though the Dweller often appears in dreams, it is most often met in the projections that unknowingly issue forth from our Shadow and take on mental and emotional life, as reflected in our daily interactions and relationships. Anyone or anything in waking life that gets us emotionally charged, for better or for worse, is a strong candidate for a potential showing of a character within ourselves.
Those we admire might reflect our unknown innate potential. To own that potential and develop it, rather than living it vicariously through another, is the shadow work of broadening one’s personality. To shine the light on one’s inner darkness rather than blame and hate its outer reflection, in the person of another, is the shadow work of accepting the unacceptable within the self. We are challenged to love, with equanimity, the best and worst of ourselves.
Self-knowledge, self-acceptance and self-love are the key technologies required to effectively open the door to higher consciousness. As regards our projections, we are equally charged to love thy enemy as thyself. My enemy is indeed acting from the same venomous impulses buried in my own heart. I must own and love these impulses, and accept that the law of karma applies to all actions. With awareness, I can pay my dues and make my amends as I become able to somewhat look through the window of higher consciousness.
Behind the door of initiation to higher consciousness is our access to psychic powers, and the astral world with its greater access to the divine powers of the subconscious mind. As we, as individuals, must pass the tests of the Dweller to realize our soul’s potential, so the human race too is facing its own developmental challenge.
There are several Dwellers on the Threshold in positions of power throughout the world, currently, who are challenging the organism of humanity as a Whole Being to face the truth about itself. We are on the threshold of a major leap in human evolution, however, we are too weighed down by the burdens of our disowned Shadow to advance.
Our greatest challenge at present is to accept that we are in an accelerated period of major transition. The antics of the Dwellers mark this speed of transition.
Face the truth and have gratitude for all the Dwellers. They insist that we do our preparation by truly admitting the depths of our narcissism and by learning to love all beings, as necessary parts of our one human family. To love the Dweller is to love the self in its entirety, the ticket to higher consciousness.
As the world churns along, doing its daily task of keeping everything going in the direction that it has determined is the path to take now, you personally can step off that path and take your own individual path. A solo journeyer may find that their path is often lonely but it is also extremely satisfying and gratifying. There is no better journey than the journey into the self, the journey of self-exploration and the journey of creative expression that lies outside of the norm. Allow yourself to step off the mundane path of existence that everyone is on, often called the rat race, and take in the beauty that is right beside you but so hard to see and experience when you are running the race that society dictates as the one and only race to run. There are many other paths to take, and most of them do not involve running! Instead, you will be filled with a calm knowing and a certainty that there is so much more to life, and that you are capable of so much more too.
Without change nothing would happen in the world or in an individual life. Everyone is going to be challenged at some point in their life to make a big decision, to take a new path, to make a most meaningful choice. You are no different. What most meaningful choice can you make today? Be open to seeing and perceiving where spirit is leading you today. Be open and receptive and see what happens as the day progresses. You never know, but when you look back on how the day went, you may clearly see just how guided and nudged along a certain path you actually were. Some days it’s hard to see the path clearly, as it is being walked. It’s only in hindsight that it becomes clear.
Aside from your everyday self who struggles and gets confused, who doesn’t always know up from down, there is the part of you that knows everything, the part of you that has a plan for you, a part of you that is pushing you to take the journey of transformation now, as it is presented. What has appeared in your life recently to guide you toward that journey of transformation? What, in this very moment, are you being asked to do? That is all you need to focus on right now. Decipher that and you are well on your way to your next big moment of realization.
