The Shift

There is a global shift, a global awakening. Finding peace isn’t just for a handful of scantily clad bearded workaholics sitting in a cave anymore – it is for all of us. We can no longer deny the illusion of life; quantum physics has shown we don’t actually exist in the manner we thought, and uh, we aren’t actually even here. Um. Well. Yes. What to do with all of that?

We banter topics around that only a decades ago would have relegated us to the status of the under-medicated. We meditate and do yoga and those things alone were for stinky weirdo hippy freaks not too long ago, remember? How soon we forget.

We’re opening. We’re ripening.

After I had my first glimpse of my true nature I wondered what happened to it, where it went. I had trouble articulating it to others as I struggled with the overwhelming truth of it, what I saw – it changes us forever, and yet we remain the same. How do I grasp that, forever, how do I hold on to it and work it into my life?

I don’t, that’s the painful fact. It is always there, I cannot get it or hold it, I can only reveal it behind the layers of bullshit my ego puts in front of it. I had to search deeply, confronting-ly and TRUTHFULLY within myself: what do I want more, everything I know to be true, all that I have and all that I want? Or do I want freedom? For freedom is here in the blink of an eye if I allow it. Just SSSHHHHH!

I wish I could tell the world that what they seek is right here, right now. Freedom is here. Bliss is here. Choice is here. Salvation is here. I have the deepest urge to awaken my fellow beings, it comes before all other things I wish for them, because with awakening comes everything else. If I could, I would tell the world to wake up, to stop their juicy deeply rooted stories and see what lies beneath. Even for just a moment, drop it.Create a new story, or continue the ones you have but please, open your eye and see the story for what it is. I love, I am love. You are love, dance with giddy joy!

That’s what I’d say… if I could.

Your Spirit is not here to learn

There is a common belief among people on a spiritual path that our spirits are here to learn. There is no doubt that there are many layers or dimensions to existence, things only certain drugs, states of mind or awareness can even glimpse. However, at the very core of all of it is the one simple, pure unchangeable truth, and that is the oneness, God, spirit, love… the many names and attempts to nail it into a concept. This magnificent awesomeness is who we are at the very core. And it needs no lessons, it needs no upgrades, it is not here to learn… this I promise you.

 

We are not here to grow spiritually, our spirits already know everything. Our persona, our ego, our identity, whatever you call who you identify as – that entity learns.

 

I remember what it was like to hear such things and resonate with it but basically dismiss it because it had not altered me, I had not tasted it. Gnosis is the only way, and I don’t mean in a religiously Gnostic way, but in the core meaning of the word “to know”. Contrary to popular opinion there is only one way to know something and that is to experience it. Based on that, there are very few things we can say we actually KNOW. And even then, when examined many of those things turn out to be based on little more than air.

 

For instance, I used to know that objects, including me, are solid. They are not. All matter consists of particles and waves, not a lick of anything solid in anything anywhere. So much for knowing that.

 

That spirit is here to learn lessons seems a childish and convenient way of seeing things. Similar things are God personified with qualities like anger and judgment, and enlightenment seen as a floating state of an almost inhuman quality with the answers to all the universal questions and imbued with an unapproachable presence and softly spoken voice and no sadness or joy (that all sounds more like a high dose of Zoloft to me).

The possibility that we are here simply because we like it here seems impossible to the minds of the many.  We come up with all kinds of reasons, and every religion has its reasons why we are here and this includes the spiritual movement.

 

Certain doctors, especially cardiac doctors, have reported on the near death experience phenomenon. That is a whole subject on its own but for the purposes of this post I can share that when people come back from death they say the same thing when asked why they turned away from the beauty, bliss and love they saw on the other side: Because this is life! Life, this body, is an extraordinary experience! Life allows me to touch, to love, to cry, to scream, to taste…

 

Or to quote The Matrix:

 

You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy, and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realise? Ignorance is bliss.

~Cypher.