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Making Your Darkness “Conscious”

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Making Your Darkness “Conscious”

“Darkness has no existence of its own, it is only the absence of light. When the light is present, how can its absence also be there?” ~ Osho

No amount of darkness can survive in a room full of light. However, you can take the light from a single candle and light a room full of darkness. It is this analogy that we can see that light need not be “afraid” of darkness.

darknessimage1All the light needs to do is be present and darkness goes fleeing. But what does all this mean for us?

All it takes is a click on to the nightly news to see that there are people who endure terrible things in this world. Wars are being fought, murders are happening, there are people living in poverty and people getting sick with disease.

It is no wonder that some people become angered and offended when you suggest to them that only love exists, that darkness and evil are not real and technically everything is God.

“How can you say that evil is not real?!” they ask. We live in an infinite Universe. If we think of the Universe like a dimmer switch to turn on the light in a room, we can get a clearer idea of how darkness, is not really its own entity at all. It is simply a measurement of light (or lack thereof).

Think of a dimmer switch that goes on for infinity both ways. The part that you push towards the light just goes on forever and ever getting lighter, and the same goes for the side that you push towards the darkness.

And although our human minds may name something as “evil”, technically no level of darkness can survive completely devoid of the light. And all it takes is the light of awareness to show us that no darkness can exist in the presence of our awareness of it.

At a certain point, one might ask the question, “If God is real and all powerful how does he let such terrible things happen to people?” Which leads us to ponder the question, “why do we even NEED darkness in this world?”

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ OG Mandino

There is no one on this Earth who has lived a life completely devoid of fear, anger, sadness, etc… To some extent or another we have all had our own personal uphill battles.  darknessimage2

For those who have made it through their challenges to the other side of fear, they will tell you that when one has experienced the “darkness” it makes the light seem that much more amazing.

How can we truly experience gratitude if we have only known pleasant experiences?

While some would love to focus only on the perceived “enemy”, (which may come in any number of forms the government, the elite, the rich, the poor, to name a few) as the source of “evil” and darkness in this world, the only thing that one really does is wastes time focusing on something that we may not have the power to change in the present moment. There is only one person we have the power to change in any given moment and that is ourselves.

In order to bring light to this world we must first make our own unconscious (where darkness resides) conscious (the light of our awareness.) As Carl Jung, put it, “one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

darknessimage3To do this we must become fully aware of what is happening to us internally. Instead of pretending our “dark” spaces don’t exist, by denying them, trying to stuff them down further into our subconscious, or blaming them on other people, we must bring them into the light. We must only be aware of them, observe them without judgment.

If we observe our anger without judging it as “good” or “bad”, observe our fear without trying to run from it, we essentially become the candle in the middle of a dark room. The only thing keeping our shadow aspects alive is the fact that we have become accustomed to denying them. In the light of our awareness they cannot exist.

Our conscious awareness of the darkness inside of our own selves brings about a complete surrender and acceptance of the ‘what is’. Not only that, but we soon learn to love our darkness, because we see that it can teach us too. Without our perceived darkness, we don’t get the pleasure of the human experience.

The full range of emotions is one of the gifts we are able to experience by seeing the world through the viewpoint of a human body and mind. What a travesty it would be if we did not get to experience the pleasure of moving through our perceived pain.

It doesn’t mean we “deny” darkness, or turn our heads and pretend that it does not exist, it only means we experience it fully without judgment. At this point we realize that we are the light.

The more we embody our own conscious presence and light we become the change we wish to see in the world. As we change, the world around us begins to change too. And then we realize the only thing keeping the darkness around was the fact that we believed it existed in the first place.

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Gray Jedi and the Subtle Art of Gray-walking: Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 5

Gary Z McGee
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Gray Jedi and the Subtle Art of Gray-walking: Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 5

“Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found everyone, myself as well.” ~ Rumi

In Star Wars mythology there is a sect of Jedi known as Gray Jedi who walk the razor-sharp line between the light and the dark side of the force. The title is used to refer to unorthodox or dissident Jedi who did not meet the strictest requirements of being either a Jedi (light side) or a Sith (dark side).

Gray Jedi are vigilante Jedi who tread the periphery of the force by manipulating loopholes and taking advantage of gray areas pertaining to myopic black and white justice.

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Gray Jedi are walking, talking, force-wielding, Middle Way, renegade yin-yangs moving against the currents of the extreme piety on both sides of the force—and in the face of these two behemoths, they surf the waves of nihilism toward the eternal power of sacred humor.

Gray Jedi can be a powerful metaphor that we can use to shine light into darkness, set fire to high-horses, and curtail the extremism of our time.

The main function of a Gray Jedi is to puncture the ego of power by reminding the powers that be of their own fallibility, while also reminding those who are not in power that power has the potential to corrupt absolutely if not balanced by other forces. They poke holes in things that other Jedi take too seriously.

They create a cultural dissonance born from their gray-walking strategy, from which anxiety is free to collapse on itself into a humor of the most high. It is precisely the evolution of this high humor that leads a Gray Jedi to his/her mastery of the force: assuming the form of the Jester Jedi.

They declare to all users of the force, “Gray-walking doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their control.”

Jester Jedi takes the power of the middle-gray to the next level: Cosmic humor. Jester Jedi laugh at all things, with a humor of the most high, backed up with a power in the force that would make Loki curl up into a ball and cry.

They are Gray-walkers par excellence, blurring the lines drawn between black and white, between love and hate, between light and shadow, between masculine and feminine, between Apollonian and Dionysian. They are the trickster-gods of the force, the sacred shamans of the Jedi order, tapping the power between opposites, while laughing at the cosmic joke of life in order not to be the butt-end of it.

210-1-1401806049They embrace the esoteric power of shamanism, paraphrasing Alberto Villoldo: “The shaman (Jester Jedi) demands that you take your own steps with courage, compassion, and vision. The priest (Jedi and the Sith) is interested only in answers; the shaman (Gray Jedi or Jester Jedi) is more interested in provoking you to ask the questions that will lead you into paradox and duality.

The task of the shaman (Jester Jedi) is not to pursue meaning but to create it, to bring the sacred to an otherwise profane and mundane reality. That takes a daily act of courage and a willingness to make mistakes.” Jester Jedi are willing to make mistakes, and through those mistakes they become wise beyond the limited value-structure of their Light or Dark side counterparts.

Jester Jedi are the personification of trial and error by fire and laughter. They personify “rolling-with-the-punches,” knowing intuitively what Darwin surmised years ago when he said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

They realize that the primary force within adaptability is having a good sense of humor. They understand that the real enemy isn’t the dark or light side, republican or democrat, Muslim or Christian.

darth_revan_w_i_p_by_nixaster-d48pxg8No, the true enemy is extremism. They laugh at this extremism. They mock this extremism. They even count coup on this extremism. They do it through acts of high humor: civil-disobedience, non-violent acts of resistance against tyranny. And they don’t care who they piss off. They understand, as William Blake did, “If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.”

Moderation through a good sense of humor is the key. In between the cracks of light and dark, in the shadows and within the brightest lights, Jester Jedi discover the profound secret of the self: impermanence. And they roll with this impermanence.

Like Carl Rogers said, “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Jester Jedi are willing to give up what they are in order to become what they must. Whether they were once a Jedi Master or a Sith Lord, they give it up; they let it go in order to maintain a balance (both personal and universal) within the force.

They don’t fear change, they change fear through the power of a fluid and adaptable sense of humor. It’s all just one big giant metaphor anyway, and the Jester Jedi are riding that metaphor like a cosmic hover bike through time, unbound by the past, present, or future boundaries that limit other Jedi, as they have mastered the ultimate power hidden within the force: imagination. Just as “nothing can stop an idea whose time has come,” nothing can stop a Jester Jedi whose time has come.

No so-called Jedi Master or shortsighted Sith Lord can possibly fathom the power of a Jester Jedi, because where the typical Jedi and Sith practice within boundaries, the Jester Jedi practice stretching those boundaries toward greater and greater horizons, using both light and dark sides of the force, blending them into an intoxicating and liberating middle-gray.

Dark_jediJester Jedi are reaching through space and time, through the boundaries of mythology, into our world, begging us to stop worrying about good and bad, happy and unhappy, light and shadow. They are advising us to go beyond good and evil, to move past the immature structures of the parochial past, and to look outside the outdated box of our forefathers.

They are the perennial mystics of the cosmos and they need our help. Don’t drown in the polluted, militant waters of our time. Rise up into the fresh air of a more profound way to be a human being in this universe: cosmically humorous.

Like Joseph Campbell said, “The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

Such delight awaits us all, we need only laugh, and laugh hard, at all the gods and men we’ve propped up into positions of power.

We need only laugh so hard that the vibration resonates at such a frequency that it topples their high-horses to the ground, and leaves their false authority a mere puddle of mud beneath our feet. Yoda (overly, self-righteous good) & Darth Sidious (diabolical evil) be damned.

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Animal Spirit Guide: The Transmutation of Poisons & The Death of the Ego

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Animal Spirit Guide: The Transmutation of Poisons & The Death of the Ego

“All space is sacred space. Every inch of Mother Earth holds a specially energized connection to some living creature, and is therefore to be honored.” ~ Jamie Sans

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The more widely recognized chthonic, or ‘earthbound’, and therefore evil symbol of the serpent has given snake a mixed reputation for centuries. The Greeks recognized this as the three Gorgon sisters; Medusa being one of them, Christianity and Islam as the serpent who tempted Eve, and the ‘evil’ of the snake translated itself as bad luck for the city of Thebes which was said to have its foundations built on a giant serpent.

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In more enlightened circles, the snake is a symbol of medicine and health. The Bowl of Hygieia, Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius denote pharmacy and healing, whilst in India snakes have been worshiped as Gods with the cobra wrapping its way around the necks of Vishnu and Shiva, and women to this day still pouring milk on snake pits as a gesture of reverence. Nagraj is the King of the Snakes, and many believe the snake to also be a symbol of fertility.

Snake medicine people are meant to be very rare; they are able to shed their old skins and transmute any poisons, making them feared but also great witch doctors, able to digest life’s diversity of illnesses.

If you see a snake it may be a sign that Ix Chel, ancient Maya Goddess of Midwifery and healing is trying to contact you.

It is for this reason the snake is often associated with the divine feminine – as many main stream religions have used to deepen the misunderstanding and hatred of women – the snake tells a tale of the misunderstanding of the night; tempting the curious into acquiring knowledge as an inevitable step on the path to enlightenment. First we must endure the suffering of knowledge in order to grow.

The snake also symbolizes Samsara; the cycle of life, death, radiating luminosity and becoming. Wholeness is transient, and to be enjoyed as an impermanent part of the cycle… painful and difficult as the process of birth, but misunderstood by the ego as a threat.

Snake people may have been bitten many times, or have lashed out themselves at others, but these painful experiences have been put in place to make them great healers and understand the mysterious qualities of the High Priestess and leads to great wisdom.

The snake stands for the element of fire; and it is through this feared and loved force that it continues its cycle of creation and destruction. Like the Hindu Goddess Kali, snake and fire show us that destruction is needed in order to create; and that both states are as equal as the other.

“This fire energy, when functioning on the material plane, creates passion, desire, procreation, and physical reality. On the emotional plane, it becomes ambition, creation, resolution and dreams. On the mental plane it becomes intellect, power, charisma and leadership…” ~ Jamie Sans.

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And on the spiritual? A connection to the Divine and the great mysteries of the universe. Often seen as a heavy burden, snake energy and the power of fire is an eternal element of the Shaman; a sacred dance with the more enthralling and intimidating powers of this planet, the snake uses pain as a way to transform.

A path to be trod by the individual, the snake is a rare and sought out doctor who has digested all the painful poisons within themselves in order to burn up the evils of negative thinking and doubt in the other that has led to disease in the body and inaction in the spirit.

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The Bat is another misunderstood creature; half bird, half rodent that hangs upside down and is active at night, it has become the western symbol of Old Hallow’s Eve and witchcraft, but in the Mesoamercian traditions is the symbol of rebirth. Among some tribes, such as the Creek and Apache the bat is a trickster spirit and a shape shifter, who torments its victims, perhaps drinking their blood, and, like the snake, it is ultimately evil.

Bats are commonly associated with death and the fear of it – their love of caves and cemeteries link them to the underworld and omens of darkness. The Kaqchikel Maya believed him to be in league with the Devil, collecting the blood of various animals and babies to later feed to his master. bat-animal-spirit-guide

In Eastern Nigeria and Oaxacan mythology the bat represents jealousy; desiring to be something it’s not in its nocturnal friend the bush rat and more elaborate cousin the bird. The ugliness of the bat is sometimes confused with its purpose as is its supposed confusion as a species.

However, in the Tongan the bat is more companionable; the physical manifestation of a separate soul, and in Catalonia it is admired to be a winged dragon, called upon to aid battle and the symbol of a respected soldier. In Aztec, Toltec and Tolucan rituals the bat is a most sacred creature and symbolizes the shamanistic death of the ego.

In hanging upside down he is like the hanged man in the tarot; contemplating sacrifice and seeing the world from a different perspective. The shamanistic death of the ego embraces Kali’s moment of destruction and, like the snake shedding her skin; the hanging bat sheds his stifling notions of self and identity to be reborn and freed to fly into the mysteries of the night.

Though the ancient initiations involved various forms of humiliation – much like the taunting the bat has previously endured and the snake’s transmutation of poisons – ending in a final burial in the earth to rid the young shaman of all traps of the ego, the final birth was as a pure spiritual being, free from the illusions of desire and aversion.camazotz

The bat’s cave can be seen as a symbol of one’s grave – the confrontation with the inevitability of death will set us free from it and our struggles with our own demise. Our Bat spirit guides encourage us to let go of old patterns and stagnant energy to release ourselves into the night and come face to face with our own mortality.

The death of the ego can only come about when we have released ourselves from all aspects of it; light and dark. The jealousy, ugliness and assumed evil of the snake and bat call upon our own desires to be liked and accepted.

The Shaman and the visionary walk a solitary path; heckled by the crowd who imitates, it is confronting the ugliness within ourselves and loving it just the same. Decay is a necessary part of death and those who stand against the flow, though feared and hated, may be closer to being reborn on a higher plane.

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6 Signs Your Crown Chakra May be Godding

Gary Z McGee
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6 Signs Your Crown Chakra May be Godding

“Up there, godding the whole blue world, and shrieking at a snip of land.” ~ Anne Sexton, Birds

No, the title of this article is not a typo. Yes, god can be a verb. No, it isn’t religious. Yes, it is extremely spiritual. “Godding” means a sacred flourishing of the human condition, a divine blossoming into self-actualization.

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When the crown chakra is godding it is an all-out embracing of self as cosmos and cosmos as self. It is an overwhelming, agape, in-love-with-the-moment breath of fresh air at experiencing the cosmos as an interdependent whole.

The crown is the accumulation of all the energies of the chakras, a blending of all the unique lessons learned from meditating on the other chakras. It is the merging of our personal consciousness with cosmic consciousness to bring forth all the knowledge that is available to us.

Tapping into the awesome power of the crown chakra means being in motion with who we really are and living our authentic truth. Here are six signs your crown chakra may be godding.

1.) You have made an art of questioning who you are and why you’re here

“The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?” ~ Tim Ferriss

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You’ve questioned things to such an extent that you’ve come to realize that the only answer is to question. You realize that anything can and should be questioned to the nth degree. You see how the only rule is change, and how change is a beautiful giant question mark radiating its potentiality and probability within an impermanent cosmos.

As a vital aspect of this cosmos, you have become the dot on the question mark, and the dot is a yin yang. You are the yin yang, bursting with ability to balance polar energies through your art of questioning.

You know who you are, and you realize that who you are changes from moment to moment, from day to day, from year to year, and so you have mastered the ability to adapt to and overcome the vicissitudes of the Self.

You know why you’re here. You know what your unique contribution to human evolution is, and your crown chakra is bursting with your soul-signature, ready to manifest your destiny.

2.) You have the ability to download information from your higher consciousness and apply it


“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into [creating]. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” ~ Anais Nin

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Your imagination is profound indeed, promethean in its reach. You have the creative power to reach into the cosmos and pull down precious information. You realize, as Einstein did, that “imagination is more important than knowledge.”

You have learned how to tap the cornerstone of infinity, which has further revealed the philosophers stone, and you have trained yourself to harvest the sacred information.

Like a gardener cultivating a garden, you are a Zen Gardener cultivating the garden of the gods, reaping what they sow, and providing it to others in a Promethean leap of faith. And the gods be damned if they don’t like it. It’s just as much your garden as it is theirs. You know better than most that you’ll reap no evolution if you don’t sow a little revolution.

3.) You practice big picture thinking over small picture thinking

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” ~ Albert Einstein

Your big mind trumps your small mind. The small mind is still there with its whiny, woe-is-me, overly-dramatic, needy sense of entitlement, mind you, but you have learned how to fly over it with a humor of the most high.

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With a bird’s eye view and high humor in your heart, your big mind perspective oversees the tiny goings-on of the small mind and laughs at its pettiness and need for attachment. You’ve mastered the art of sacred humor.

Your third eye is a cosmic owl, perched upon the high limb of the universe, taking everything in and seeing how it’s all connected like a giant web, or Indra’s Net, stretched like gossamer across the human condition and its relationship with an indifferent cosmos. Sometimes you fly down and meddle with mortality, but eventually you fly back up and the big picture always puts things into perspective for you.

4.) You have moved from a low vibration of survival and fear to a higher vibration of forgiveness and love


“You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you remember what they did to you. It doesn’t matter what others did to you, you are going to forgive them because you don’t want to feel sick all the time. Forgiveness is for your own mental healing. You will forgive because you feel compassion for yourself Forgiveness is an act of self-love.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

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You realize how the seeming need for material possessions is a brainwashing technique used to weigh us down and keep us vibrating at a lower level.

You have learned how to detect deception, mainly from your ability to question all things, but also because you practice and cultivate acts of love and forgiveness for yourself and others who are, or who have been, deceived. Your self-love is all-consuming and it radiates outward catching everything and everyone with its sacred light.

Like a beacon of hope in a dark world, you shine your light into the shadowy unconscious, thereby making it conscious; and revealing to others the interconnectedness of the collective unconscious and its effect on each other and on the world. You forgive because you love.

Through a world-as-self and self-as-world, interconnected perspective, you love because you realize that you are everyone else and everyone else is you. You are no longer a victim of the world, you are the world, and you seek to enlighten others that they are the same.

5.) You’ve learned to take the painful high road over the satisfying low road

“When we crave simplicity, we are not after an easier life. We are after life.” ~ Dave Bruno

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You are the calm within the storm. When the rest of the world is busy falling apart, you are busy falling into place, in order to be the one who can put things back to together.

You have simplified your life –mind, body, and soul– and the lightening of your load as put all things into perspective. You see how knowledge is pain and ignorance is bliss, but you choose pain anyway, because therein lies the truth: pain is a side effect of love.

It is precisely because you love that it hurts so much, but you endure, because love intermittently liberates and connects the soul. You are the one walking the hard path, absorbing the slings and arrows of doubt, indifference, hate, and anger being thrown at you from the low road.

But you need not the clumsy invulnerability of armor; you need only the absolute vulnerability of naked love. Let the confederacy of dunces sling their false arrows, you are immune, and you have even figured out how to sling them back from the Bow of Love & Forgiveness.

6.) You realize love is the basic building block of the cosmos

“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” ~ Rumi

Love is the basic building block of the universe, and you are an architect par excellence. Your love is not the petty, attachment-oriented, one-upmanship type of love practiced by small mind; but the lofty, relationship-oriented, cooperative type of love practiced by big mind. Your crown chakra is blossoming into infinite Love, and you are the vehicle which experiences it.

You are the tool that is consistently leveraging it into living life. You breathe it in, you breathe it out. You meditate on it and cultivate it. It is the source of all inspiration, and you are divinely inspired. You are building with it a new world, a new way, a new platform where the sacred expression of our souls can be collectively actualized.

You understand that your crown chakra is godding precisely because Love itself is godding, and you have simply tapped into its higher frequency. You’re surfing its divine wave, and you’re here to show others how to do the same.

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Changing Perspectives: Choose to View Life Through a Different Lens

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Changing Perspectives: Choose to View Life Through a Different Lens

“Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception–do not confuse them with ‘facts’ or ‘truth.’ Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that everybody has a different viewpoint.” ~ John Moore

There is only one thing we truly own while we are here on Earth. One thing that can never be taken from us and that we carry with us every single place we go every day of our lives. This thing is our perception.

Our perception is completely unique to us. No one ever, anywhere, will ever have the exact same perception of reality as we do because there is no two people whose lives have been exactly the same.

Tperceptionimage1 e1534663409292he way we were raised, the culture we grew up in, the relationship we had with our parents and siblings and the types of music, books and movies we have been exposed to, all play a part in forming our perception. Our perception changes naturally over time.

The perspective we had on life at 10 years old is completely different than the one we have at 25 years old. If we are lucky, at a certain point in our conscious evolution comes a shocking discovery… our perception does NOT equal truth.

Here we had been going through life thinking every idea, judgment of a situation or a person, and belief was the ultimate 100% correct viewpoint. Technically, we were wrong but we were also right. If we think of the phrase, “perception creates reality” we see that while our perspective is OUR truth, our perspective is not EVERYONE’S truth.

So yes, we can choose to see the world a certain way and that is the reality that we will manifest, but when someone comes along with a completely different perspective of life and how the world works, they are also creating that reality for themselves.

Yes we are all living in the same world, we are all viewing the same people, events, and scenery, but as the saying goes, “there are 365 ways to see an elephant.” (And that’s only from the ground!)

“Your reality is as you perceive it to be. So it is true, that by altering this perception we can alter our reality.” ~ William Constantine

Two amazing things happen to us when we come to the realization that our perception does not equal truth. The first being, we are able to view circumstances and people from a birds eye view rather than being attached to one side or another.

Because of this ability to see things from both sides, we notice that we no longer are naming situations in terms of black and white, right and wrong, good or bad.

We see that each person has their own unique viewpoint and technically they are both “right” (from where they are standing.) People can only see things through the lens of their own perception, and if they are not at the point that they realize that their perception does not equal truth, we must be aware of that as well.

We may meet people who are able to look at the coin from both sides and be able to empathize with both, but it is certain that we will also meet those who are still completely rooted in their own perception and can not bring themselves to see a situation from another point of view.

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Either way, this is ok. People can only understand and process situations from the level of consciousness that they reside at, so if we are at the point where we see all perspectives as one, and they are not in this frame of mind, we can only accept the situation as it is, without trying to convince them otherwise.

Everyone we meet is exactly where they need to be for their own journey, and the sooner we realize this the sooner we stop the tiresome act of trying to change people to meet our standards and expectations.

The second magical revelation is that we have the power to change our perception at any given time, thereby changing our reality. Instead of being a victim of circumstances where we think that our perception is formed FROM the things that have happened to us, we take back control of our lives and change the lens on our cameras.

We instead come to realize that we see things as WE are and not as THEY are and if we don’t like how something has happened all we need to do is change our perspective of the situation. The happiest people know that there is always good in every situation.

Either in the form of a lesson or a blessing, and even though a situation may have made us feel negative emotions, at the end of the day, if we stay focused on the fact that every circumstance is given to us either to help us work through an unhealed aspect of ourselves or to challenge a limited belief system, we align ourselves to always find the silver lining in every circumstance.

When we begin to challenge and question our perceptions we will find that our life changes dramatically. We become more accepting of others and the happenings of our lives to the point that we no longer find ourselves resisting unplanned events, or people who we may view as different than ourselves.

A beautiful wisdom naturally occurs as we transcend the nature of our perception which allows for the complete tranquility of unity consciousness to emerge.

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