Enact change through engaging the intent of your Higher Self, the knowledge that you are more than physical matter, and the truth that you are fully capable of all that you intend. When these three truths of the Self are engaged in enacting change a positive outcome is more likely, but the most important aspect of the Higher Self is love. So don’t forget to practice loving kindness in everything you do, for Self and other. With love everything is possible.
Another go round? Or emergence? – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Why am I here?
What is the purpose of life?
“Just to love” was songwriter eden ahbez’s answer. For Bob Monroe it was all about reaching Super Love. This was the answer he was given when he posed the same question to his non-human guides, what he termed INSPECS, his acronym for intelligent species, astute observers of human life that he encountered in his faraway journeys in infinity.
The INSPECS gave Bob Monroe the metaphor of human life on Earth as an energetic factory that transforms the raw material of emotion into the purest grade of love, or Super Love. Carlos Castaneda used the metaphor of humans as chickens in a chicken coop, unaware that the energy spikes of their emotional trials on Earth symbiotically served the energetic needs of another inorganic species.
The exchange offered by such a parasitically binding relationship is the opportunity for humans to develop their consciousness and refine their emotions, to eventually free themselves from such servitude. The process for such evolutionary advancement has been dominantly that of Groundhog Day, celebrated today, February 2nd, where the necessity for continued repetitive behavior is assessed: more of the same repetitive darkness, or return of the sun?
The question for humans is the same as the groundhog’s: Have I accrued enough consciousness—that is, the bright sun—to see my shadow, and with that awareness be ready to change? Or do I go back to sleep, in the repetitiveness of habitual behavior? The ability to see one’s shadow and own it, is the willingness to retire one’s addiction to a central illusion that one has been living.
The illusions we live are intricately woven into our emotional attachments. At root is the attachment to human physical life itself. Humans are beings who are going to physically die, hence, powerful emotions are engaged in the counter-effort to continue to survive.
Attachment to caretakers, food, shelter and power are prime emotional movers of most daily activities to ensure survival. Sexual activity, as well, has at its core the survival drive, as sexual intercourse ensures replication and continuation of the human species.
Much of human life energy is spent in the passionate activity of ensuring survival. The emotions of fear, anger, sadness and joy punctuate the daily round of repetitive survival activity. Jealousy, possessiveness, worry, doubt, and hope further augment the emotional volatility of daily encounters.
Most individuals are driven by a captivating primary story, their personal karmic groundhog day, the main obsession of their lives. The repetitive behaviors of their lives generally entail a need to fully explore a passionate fixation until they solve it. Solution requires a genuine release from obsession with the desired or feared object.
For example, many people who were obsessed with a fear of death obtain release from this fear through an experience of life beyond the body, for instance, in a Near Death Experience (NDE). This experience of knowing that life continues after physical death can genuinely transform a fearful being into a being of magnanimous love.
The refinement of all emotion to the delicacy of pure love turns out to be the key to all spiritual advancement. True love is the acceptance of everyone and everything. This does not imply not protecting oneself from an aggressor. It does though require that one have compassion for the other, regardless of circumstance.
True love requires nothing from another that is not freely given. True love is guided by right action; action completely filtered from illusion. True love evidences no possessiveness. True love lives fully but is ready to leave in a heartbeat, when it is time to go, with no regretful turning back.
True love is letting the other go when it’s time for them to leave, with no requirements. True love is loving the body and the experiences of the senses, but releasing them all with good wishes when it’s time to change form. True love is remembering all, with equanimity.
If this groundhog day evidences no shadow, may your dreams in hibernation accrue to future sunlight. If the sun reveals the shadow of your illusion today, grab your opportunity to know and own it. Perhaps this might be the time the obsession lifts and you may move forward into the adventure of new life.
Whether you be a repeater or are ready to be launched, know that ultimately, all roads lead to advancement. With compassion for all, step forward.
Only you can change yourself, for only you know what needs changing. Only you know who you are and who you can be, and only you can connect with your spirit, the one who watches over you and waits for you to be aware. Lift your eyes inward and upward to this other self and ask for help. Let your heart speak words of innocence and ask for what you need. You will not be disappointed, for your spirit is you, the other you whom you so long for, who has never forgotten you but whom you have separated from in order to live your life. Return to this other self, this spirit self, and find the answers you seek. Love will answer you back, love will find you.
Recycle fear into love, worry into calmness, and persistent thoughts of doom into kindness, just as you recycle plastic into items of usefulness. Turn that which no longer works for you into something that provides positive energy that can be used for the greater good of self and other. Use the power of your intent, combined with discipline, to enact a new plan for life that is sustainable, healthy, and good. In this manner, carve a new path of heart that will bring that which is needed into your life.
Remain calm and focused on the power of the Great Mother, she who rules the Universe, to guide and protect, to allow only what is necessary to unfold, who wishes only for love, peace, and goodness to fill the hearts of the many. Remain a being of love and light even as darkness may descend. Keep in mind that in the Universe of the Great Mother the light always returns; the sun will rise, the moon will shine, the good hearts will light the way. Whatever happens, keep a bigger picture in mind. Remain loving of heart, kind of word, and act with goodness toward one and all.
