Our world is changing very rapidly now, and I think it is futile (and energetically draining) to resist the momentum. If instead we open our minds to change, we can work with it more effectively. I have long held the intention to work FOR what I believe in, rather than against what I don’t want. Fear and resistance usually get expressed as a negative force rather than a positive one, and can block one’s capacity to know deeper truths.
I choose to make my life an example, as best I can, of what I believe in and what I desire. As these beliefs and desires have shifted over time, my life-response has also shifted. I feel happiest and most integrated when I allow myself to keep changing all the time, freely and organically. To clarify, my inner Self doesn’t actually ever change at all (only my awareness of it, or my relationship to it), so it is a very comforting anchor for me in times of great change in my outer life and expression.
How are you experiencing the great shifts happening in our outer world today? How do you feel when you hear something that seems to push against every fiber of your belief system? How do you choose to focus your energy and attention?
I aim to stay grounded in an understanding of the essential symbiosis of dark and light, rather than their opposition. This can be tricky sometimes! Just the other day, for example, I felt emotionally triggered by an interview I heard on a radio station that I usually don’t listen to anymore, because I don’t find it to be truthful. Now and then I check in there, out of a curiosity to know what other people are hearing that might shed light on why they are currently seeing and experiencing things so very differently than how I am seeing and experiencing them. On this particular day, the interview was with a very high-positioned person who publicly outright rejects all that I know to be true about how to create health and avoid disease. Someone who is proven over and over again to be lying to the public knowingly, for his own gain…and yet the radio host went right along with all of it. It began to stir up a feeling of rage in me. I feel that these particular lies are especially egregious, and have caused great harm to people I love. I was helpless to have any input into the conversation. I had no choice in the moment but to let those damaging words and ideas hang in the air (well, I did choose to turn the radio off after a few more crazy-making minutes).
As I processed my reaction afterwards, I reminded myself of the symbiotic, interdependent relationship between dark and light. I also reminded myself that one tiny flame of light (or truth) overpowers a relatively much larger area of darkness. There may indeed be a more visible than usual battle playing out right now between light and dark, or good and evil…..and yet, both are but shadows of each other. Ultimately, the more falseness we are shown, the more of us begin to seek what is felt as real and truthful.
“One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies, the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth, and there is nothing more devastating to a structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to reverberate throughout the Earth for generations to follow, awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth.” - Martin Geddes, “Open Your Mind to Change.”
What I believe is being asked of each of us right now, is to claim our sovereign right to think for ourselves, and to anchor ourselves in what is real, which we know through our intuitive intelligence (rather than our intellectual intelligence). If we would all do this, we would be tapping into a force-field of light and goodness that would be strong enough to integrate within it the shadows of the darkness (and deactivate their ability to wreak havoc).
This work starts WITHIN. It is a spiritual awakening, one person at a time. An awakening to our essential, unified Self, and to our true power and peace. When we know the truth of our universal divine nature, we have the strength to keep our minds and hearts open to change. Instead of railing and fighting against the lies, or against inconvenient truths, we naturally prefer to laser-focus our attention on shining a light on the beauty of truth and goodness, and we confidently let truth defend itself.
Do you find inner peace elusive amidst the barrage of ever-shifting, wildly conflicting information all around us? Do you feel buffeted about like a ping-pong ball, not knowing what to believe or who to trust? Are you frequently filled with anger, righteousness, or hateful feelings? Those are hard ways to live, and I believe there are coordinated, manipulative tactics working from the shadows to keep people disempowered and feeling these ways.
Are you willing to open your mind to changing your life-response? What would it feel like to choose peace in a world of chaos? To be the light in a dark place? To release your need to try and control what is happening? What would it take for you to cultivate that response? Do you feel resistance to that idea? If so, do you know why you resist?
There are situations where it may be necessary to confront darkness or lies — the spirit we bring to these situations matters. When we are anchored in understanding of the inner Self and its unchanging permanence, we can consciously choose to remain grounded and objective even around conflict. And we will have an unflinching confidence to keep ourselves open to constant change, and able to allow our resistance and insistence to fall away. A new peace prevails, when we welcome the true nature of life, with its light and its darkness both necessary to each other.
Here is a wonderful short talk by Alan Watts, on the nature of Awakening, which addresses this concept. Enjoy:
Very good as is "Don't Waste You Life" that follows the first Alan Watts you included <3