Hello fellow Humans on Planet Earth!
Well, well, well. Who the heck am I and why should you care?
So… I have avoided this for many years. I designed, built and launched a Website Let’s Wake Up Earth in 2018 then chickened out and took it down. I have ignored hundreds of signs from the Universe including coincidences, synchronicities, kismet and literally a smack in the head (thanks Erik). Yes. I am one tough nut to crack in terms of spirituality. If you find yourself saying things like, “That was a strange coincidence! That did not just happen; I’m sure I imagined it! I must have been dreaming.“ Then you’ve dismissed them too. We all do it! We are socialized to ignore our own senses!!!
Most of us are sleepwalking through life, working 9 to 5 in our consumer comas through shopping malls preoccupied with marketing suggestions to buy bigger, better, faster, more stuff – then I’ll be happy! I know, I bought into it too. I found myself in a Crate and Barrell frenzy foaming at the mouth eyes rolling back in my head, grasping a $15 designer eggbeater. I already had 2 in my cart when I came to the realization that I had completely lost my mind. WTF am I doing. I beat eggs with a fork anyway! At this point I started to question my values; what is important to me? Why had worked so hard in my life, doing it by the book, study hard, work hard, get through college, get a good job in Corporate America. The American dream, right, to own a home, a car, have a good job is the pinnacle, right? We value money, success, things. Or do we? That was the first time I stopped long enough to ask myself what I value. Not just the values that I unconsciously bought into. Not that they were bad or wrong, just that maybe they weren’t even Mine!
Back in the late 1990’s I picked up a book called Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch, I started reading it and it scared me so much I threw the book across the room. I refused to pick it up for 3 years! By the time I was ready to read it, it had a massive impact on me. I started to open my mind and question everything I was ever taught by well-meaning family, friends, teachers, and society. My religion, my value system, the news. Slowly I started to open my mind to other possibilities. It blew my mind and I kept thinking to myself with each new revelation of course! I knew it! The truth absolutely resonated in every cell of my body; My Soul overriding my mind. What incredible liberation! I wanted to scream it from the rooftops, to set everyone free in their thinking but not everyone was on the same timeline, they wanted to throw me across the room! So, I respect where each of is on the path. Let people be where they are. You can’t open a cocoon and force the butterfly out before it’s ready. We are all on the same path some further along but no one better than another.
Well-meaning awakened ones may be surprised to be met with anger or even hostility by those they are trying to help awaken. There is nothing more personal than our beliefs. Bringing that into question can be threatening. You are suggesting that everything I believe is wrong! So I need to change everything; I’ve wasted all this time? Waking up can be terrifying at first, unsavory, uncomfortable and not for the faint of heart. I even grieved my belief systems, going through Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ 5 stages of grief denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The other thing as we awaken and take our power back to ourselves, we have to be accountable. For all of it. If we are the Creators of our reality, we can’t really blame our Mom anymore, right? So there is a great deal of self-responsibility and personal accountability to be realized as well. This one is foreign. We’ve always looked up for help, up to God, up to our parents, up to our teachers, up to the Government, up to the Military, outside ourselves for help, waiting to be rescued from the mess we find ourselves in. Afterall, it’s being done to us, right?
Taking our power back is liberating, empowering! You don’t have to chuck everything you ever believed and live in the woods with no running water. I’m suggesting have an open mind, take what you like and leave the rest. Denial is an important device in place to self-protect. Our subconscious protects or holds information from our unconscious minds that we are not ready to handle yet. It drips in as we awaken so we can process it and then heal from it.
I was raised in the Roman Catholic faith, educated in Ohio public school system, grew up in an upper middle-class suburb complete with country club and golf course. It was great! We were essentially winning the game of life according to what I believed to be the rules of the game. But then as I grew in consciousness, I really started to feel unsatisfied, restless. Is this all there is? There’s got to be more to life than stuff and things. And so I started on my path of seeking the Truth.
Reference
Conversation with God by Neale Donald Walsch
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