There is a huge reservoir of experiences stored in our subconscious, accumulated over many lifetimes. With it come desires, fears, aversions, and tendencies that we express in our life. We try our best to steer through it, but like a massive magnet, we attract whatever it takes to bring this stuff to the surface.
Modern wo(man) makes the best of what is stored deep inside and runs with it. Say we faced a lot of violence and aggression in prior lives or early childhood, and we have been blessed with an athletic body, so it becomes natural to earn a good living on the football field. The heroic soldiers of the past might well be the hall of fame athletes of today. Earning a billion dollars is possible with the trauma of the past, finding happiness though is a near impossibility.
Awakening is a falling off of these programs. Unfortunately though, the breakthrough is often only partial. With one foot in heaven, and the other in the realities of life we are a bit confused. You might say spirituality 1.0 is the quest to bring love, serenity and empowerment into our life. We are closer to our heart, enjoy a quieter mind, and have found the little life hacks to surround ourselves with these healing higher energies. Yet, we are not quite there yet because we are still using that outdated ego-consciousness to find the path to God. “I have come so far already,” we say, “and with a little more inner work I will get all interferences out of the Way.” Well, you never do. That voice promising anticipated progress and comparing you with the 3D people who still have all the work ahead is exactly what is holding us back.
Don’t get me wrong though. Awakening is nice. We are halfway there of sorts. We see how the heart can override the mind. We experience love and compassion to a degree few others can, and we receive amazing boons from a higher dimension of being. It’s just that we cannot work ourselves into freedom that we know we have, we can only awake to that “inner sorting mechanism”—ego consciousness—that refuses to go away because it is embedded in us just like our body is attached to us.
I chose the French expression “coup de foudre” as a title for this post because it fits perfectly with the hack to awaken completely: “an astonishing occurrence”, “overwhelming love at first sight”, “a clap of thunder”. That’s it really. The pain body of the past, the urges and aversions stored in our subconsciousness have to come to the surface, but this time around we don’t assign it with any story. We just let it pass, burn up in the demands of the day-to-day living, while we awaken to the inner compulsion to make a me centered picture of it. It has to happen instantaneously—a complete recycling of energy and then it’s gone—for the moment at least.
This is the point where every enlightened teacher gives you a method to get to that stage. I can’t. Instead, I would like to ask you whether you have experienced this inner disappearance of the I-identity in a flash. Ego consciousness comes back like a basketball pushed under water, so it requires an ongoing alertness, sensitivity and equanimity of mind to embrace the here and now. It’s fun though. Spirituality 2.0 is not that different from that first step to the oasis of being. We are mostly free, mostly in a state of love, compassion and serenity, but when the energy gets polluted for some reason or another, we investigate and break free once again.
Did you experience the “flash” while reading this post?
No comments:
Post a Comment