THE DANCE OF THE DUALITIES

We’ve been exploring the above-below duality, and as the descending heaven energy merges with the ascending earth energy, we understand that opposites are actually connected, that there’s a meeting point in the middle where we can have a new experience of integration and comfort with paradox.

THE QUICKENING: HEAVEN AND EARTH COME TOGETHER

As the frequency of energy and consciousness rises, the amount of what we can know and do increases. Life becomes intense as our comfort zone stretches, and the pitch builds to the breaking point. The first phase of the process is about the true experience of being in your body—and all that entails!

Lots of us sense that we’re passing from one reality into a brand new one, and the rules of how life functions are SO different between what’s behind us and what’s ahead of us. Part of the challenge now is that we’re not totally conscious of what the “old” reality is, and what the “new” reality feels like. Yet once we get a whiff of how great the new reality is, we don’t want to go back—ever! I’m convinced that most people won’t step through the doorway until they feel safe, until they know what they’re stepping into. First we must identify the “old” reality so we can consciously decide we don’t want life to function that way.

Every so often I’m drawn into the temptation to “process” blockages, to clear myself of negative beliefs by rooting them out of the subconscious mud of my past, or to discover hidden passions and goals by fishing for lists of them in the great ocean of possibilities. It’s an old habit and one shared by many people I know. I used to have a therapist friend who constantly dragged me back to childhood to make me find wounds I wasn’t sure existed. We ended up in friendly fights, as I maintained that I didn’t need to go there, that the secret to freedom was in the present moment, not the past. He thought I was the Queen of Avoidance.

Lots of us sense that we’re in a doorway, passing from one reality into a brand new one, and the rules of how life functions are SO different between what’s behind us and what’s ahead of us. Part of the challenge now is that we’re not totally conscious of what the “old” reality is, and what the “new” reality feels like. Yet once we get a whiff of how great the new reality is, we don’t want to go back—ever! I’m convinced that most people won’t take that step through the doorway until they feel safe, until they know what they’re stepping into. First we must identify the “old” reality so we can consciously decide we don’t want life to function that way.

I recently found this piece of writing I did after I had had a stream of clients who had lost motivation for what they’d been doing successfully for a long time, and who were now feeling rudderless, not yet able to find the sense of their destiny-direction. I asked my inner voice, or Inner Perceiver, what was entailed in finding and embodying one’s destiny.

These books were highly instrumental in helping me wake up and develop greater wisdom and compassion. The common elements in these—and all the books I’ve integrated into myself over the years—are a quality of deep honesty, resonance with higher truth, and a succinct, personal, direct writing style.

I hate the word ‘creativity’, because it is a word invented on Madison Avenue by advertisers. It’s clear that the industry needs to renew itself continuously, because otherwise it does not sell. People get bored, generations change and you have to change everything. This is about industry, it’s not about society. Industry needs advertising, and advertising needs creativity because the market needs to renew itself continuously.

If the leader whose sanction springs from inherent righteousness, such a person will gather a cabinet of “unpurchaseable allies.” Their complete devotion to the public welfare will quicken in turn the public conscience of local leaders and seep down from there to inspire citizens at large. For the process to work, however, rulers must have no personal ambitions, which accounts for the Confucian saying, “Only those are worthy to govern who would rather be excused.”

As we seek to apply intuition for practical purposes, I can think of few other applications as important as obtaining accurate guidance for ourselves and sharing our well-intentioned insights about others with them.