JUXTAPOSITION

2015, COMPARISONS, COSMOLOGY

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

You have told yourself for your whole life, and believed, that some condition means a certain thing—then suddenly, you see this condition juxtaposed against a more genuine condition—and you realize the first one for the imposter that it is. Epiphany occurs.

We all labor under assumptions and false beliefs. Sometimes we do this to protect ourselves—a young consciousness, a hostile environment, a feeling of overwhelm, grief, or fear. Sometimes, the state of our denial is more comfortable and preferable to a state of open knowing and acceptance.

Sometimes, the exchanges required to see clearly are too devastating to the psyche and emotions. When you have seen something one way all of your life, and then suddenly see it uncovered for the lie that it is, the foundation that it helped to create in making Who-You-Believe-You-Are crumbles.

Our cosmology is key in the fabling of Who we make of ourselves. Our Who is a reflection of human values, mores, beliefs, social strata, expectations, and abilities. Therefore, our Who is far more fragile than our eternal What; far more easily threatened.

Perhaps you believed an idea to be very wise, until you met a truly wise idea. Perhaps you thought a particular gesture showed compassion, until you were in the presence of unconditional compassion. Perhaps patience was your vanity, until life showed you how lacking your patience was, and put you in the company of persons who had the quality in great measure. Without Juxtaposition, you might never have seen those levels.

Is this judgment?  Yes.  Judgment is the act of wisely weighing and quantifying one thing as compared to another—it is not to compare with the notion of finding one thing less or lacking, or to punish and belittle!  That is a corrupted notion.

Do you love your neighbor as your Self? Do you give without thought of return? Do you act with the eternal idea always in mind? When you Juxtapose your own character traits and behaviors, looking at them in the largest sense, are you comparing them against your own internal voice, or looking outside your Self? If another has helped shed Light on the situation, give them grace—neither punish them, nor your Self, for what you believe is lacking.

The most beautiful object in your world remains so, until another object replaces it. This is growth. Crawling is the fastest way to travel until you discover walking, and then running.  Juxtaposed, one to another, you are able to observe the traits of each in gradients. This idea does not negate the first mobility you mastered, that of crawling, but gives you the insight that allows for the understanding that walking is faster than crawling, and running is faster than walking.  You see?

To Juxtapose two or more things helps us to clearly see all the things together, comparing them. It helps us to see ourselves among the things more clearly. We might ask: on this scale of mobility, where am I? Crawl—Walk—Skip—Run—Fly—Teleport—?

Wherever you fall on any scale in which you measure your standing, know that Truth serves you best. Yes, you may Juxtapose your own habits, qualities, and traits against low standards and accepted mores—or you can follow your inner Light and seek to Juxtapose those same against measures that are Eternal and Divine.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 10, 2015

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ABSOLUTION

2015, ABSOLUTION, FORGIVENESS

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

 Doing the work of forgiveness

Only you can forgive yourself: understand this. Even if you have wronged another, when the one you have wronged forgives you, they are actually forgiving what they bore against you. Did they bear against you anger or hatred? When they forgive you, they are actually forgiving themselves for feeling the anger or hatred that they experienced as a result of your actions. By forgiving you, they release their own attachments to the experiences they incurred as a result of your actions. Do you see?

Yes. There is wrongdoing that occurs when one person harms another, particularly when the wrongdoing was intentional. However: Absolution is a matter for individual regard. Great All is the forgiver. You are your own judge. You are your own forgiver. Great All loves. Great All offers the vibration of purity. You may return to that purity—or may use your free and personal will to experience other vibrations, ones that deviate from the vibration of purity.

When you forgive, you are saying to Great All, I am choosing to replace this feeling of judgment, lack, resentment, anger, or hatred with purity. I am choosing to realign myself with Great All’s unconditional love, and be led by this highest vibration.  I am choosing to be healed of these lower vibrations. I am choosing to re-tune my Song, so that its purity speaks loudly, and above what has become corrupted, until what is pure replaces what is corrupted.

This is how healing occurs, no matter what kind of healing is needed. Depending upon how successfully this is integrated, you will begin to see shifting in the layers of Self. The denser the layers, the more challenging it is to create change. Just as a heavy object is more difficult to lift than a light object, while there in a state of gravity, so is dense tissue or construct more difficult to lift than the lighter . . .

Absolution is yours to do. Sometimes, when a person says to you, “I forgive you,” they cut the connections you have made between the two of you. Feeling it, you begin to disconnect it at your end, releasing yourself. Still, whether a casual or formal matter, the work of Absolution is always yours.

Need you Absolution? Seek you Forgiveness?  Look to yourself. Do the work.
Do you feel wronged? Seek Absolution.  Look to yourself. Do the work.

Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 9, 2015

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DISSONANCE

2015, DIS-COMFORT, DIS-EASE, DISSONANCE

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

When you feel Dissonance in your Person, you know.  Feelings range from mild disturbance of the emotions, to tingling or discomfort of the skin or bodily sensations—even feelings of doom or deep ill. 

This is not to say that all Dissonance is bad or negative; it may draw your attention to something that is pertinent, necessary, or helpful.  You may think a thought or perform an action one thousand times, and at the very next time, recognize that you are in Dissonance with it:  a new state or a newly recognized state of interaction.

Your Dissonance with a homeless person may lead you to a conversation that reveals how much the two of you have in common.  That person is no longer so ‘other,’ disconnected by habits you had assumed and in fact, projected upon them.  You develop a larger picture for the condition:  their part in it; your part in it; the part in it that the two of you share.  

Dissonance has ruptured your Beliefs, destroyed assumptions, brought light to darkness, amplified compassion and understanding, and caused you to view yourself and your world differently.  You no longer walk by the homeless, shut off in your heart and head, using an old story with a closed thread.

How does Dissonance serve your Fear?  Fear, remember, happens in the moment, and is mechanized to serve your survival.  It is the pairing that alerts you, streaming in at all levels of your being:  something is wrong that needs correcting.  Whether the correcting is confronting, configuration, or fleeing, Dissonance is the set of signals that lifts the hair at the back of your neck, dampens your palms, churns in your belly, and flushes the adrenaline into your blood, making you more capable in the moment.  Your Fear begins as Dissonance.

And long-standing Dissonance—that feeling of not-belonging and not-right?  That is what spurs you to make change.  Not fitting in.  Not agreeing.  Being unwilling, for one day more to perform tasks that create Dissonance in the levels of your Person, is the core gift of this condition.  Dissonance is the tuning fork that, vibrating higher, makes lower vibration sickening.  It is also what causes lower vibrations uncomfortable in, or unable to be in, the presence of higher vibrations.

Dissonance becomes dis-harmony and dis-ease.  Recognize this condition, and its related conditions, as they occur.  Dissonance shows you not only imbalance, but where lies the way out.  By its very nature, Dissonance shows you how to regain Harmony.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 8, 2015

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THE HUMAN CONDITION

2015, CONSCIOUSNESS, HUMANITY

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

This term has been much considered—for as long as there has been a Human Condition and a consciousness to consider it.  Depending upon the source consulted, you will receive a variety of replies, but know this:  it is all things that it is believed to be.  That is, your Human Condition and the Human Condition of that outside Self, is how you perceive it—from inside Self—for how could it be other?

This is an important point.  Is it the Human Condition to know suffering?  To understand compassion through knowing pain?  Do you believe that the Human can only gain wisdom by long, difficult trial?  Do you believe that the Human Condition is gaining perfection, or losing it?

Is your own Human Condition synonymous with that of the greater condition, or separate from?  Why?  How did your own condition develop?  What is it showing you; where is it leading you?  How changed will you be at your exit as compared to your entry into this Life?  For that matter, what does it mean, to be Human?

How is being Human different from being Horse or Stone or Wind?  What does this mean to you?  What might you take for granted that is based on myth, assumption, and lie?  How do you live your life, wake and sleep, carry your consciousness from one day to the next, continuing your story . . . that silken thread that you add to the tapestry of the whole?

Do you curse your Humanity more often than you celebrate it?  Do you consider it a strength or a failing, a gift or a punishment?  How does this Condition spend its time with you?

Imagine that you sit atop a hill to meditate.  Feel the earth beneath you.  Breathe in the blue sky.  Now, be the earth.  Be the sky.  How is that different from living inside your Human Condition?  Is that separate from, or part of, this state?  What is it, this Human Condition?

Know this:  we are all caretakers.  We are part of a cycle, tied together, feeding one another.  That is the Condition of everything.  The Human Condition is part of this cycle, tied together, feeding everything—not separate from, not above—but gifted.

The stone does not move but by the water and wind and undulations of the earth, and by the mechanics of others.  You move.  The plant grows where it is placed.  You may grow where you fancy.  The animal must forage, while you may harvest.  And you, seeing the cycles of the elements, may ask them to help you at your tasks.
You are gifted.

To be gifted as such, to have this Condition of Gift, is something on Earth that is unique to the Human.  That is the Human Condition.  The Gift.  Use it with wisdom and love . . .

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 7, 2015

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REGULATION

2015, COMPARISONS, VALUE

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

There are measures by which we value things, by which we make summations and comparisons.  What is more; what is less; greater; smaller; darker; lighter.  Experiences enter and exit through gateways, in and out past our Guardians of Self, both that of lower self and Higher Self.  We must be in a constant state of Regulation—checks and balances.

Mind your breath and how it operates in your body:  in/out.  Both functions are necessary to sustain life.  The regulation of the gases required to maintain your mortality is critical.  You cannot say that one function is greater than another.  You must take in certain gases, and exhale certain others.  You must breathe in certain particulates and breathe out certain others.

Did you know that as you breathe, you breathe in the matters of others—other persons from other times and places—other types of beings, other conditions and beliefs and realities?  Think on this.  What is contained in a drop of water when one considers it beyond its chemistry?  Water has tensile memory.  As you contain the matter of stars, so does water.

As water contains the multitudes, so do you . . .

How does one Regulate what is beginningless and endless and all-inclusive?  With Free Will.  Nothing enters or leaves a closed system:  but . . . be discreet and selective when you put in place the filters that will determine what you allow and disallow.  Where lie your fears?  How do your Beliefs hold you back?

Regulate your Self in ways that build Character:  strength-of-will; determination; truth-seeking; compassion; patience; non-conditional love.  By Regulating Self, you will soon find a decreased need to Regulate your world.  You will find that more often, the world rises to meet you and your standards.

Through Regulation, you can find the truth and peace that you seek.  You can uncover the Song at your core, singing sweetly, waiting for you to clearly hear it once more.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 6, 2015

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DESPAIR

2015, DESPAIR, PAIRING

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

What is it to Despair?  It is more than being un-paired from High Self.  It is a condition of silence.  Possibly, you don’t recognize silence.  Possibly, this is because you do your very best to fill your time, your days, your spaces, with sounds and textures that distract you from what you might otherwise give your focus.

To Despair is to lose Faith, even temporarily.  It is to lose self-worth.  It is to lose sight of what is possible, favoring instead an outlook of what might be probable in a mortal, limited, and final sense, abjuring to everything that is negative.

To Despair is to suffer; it is to render oneself blind, deaf, and dumb.  To Despair is to sing away the sweetness of all, even when bounty sits upon the table, waiting for the diner’s pleasure.

Is Despair always a condition of choice?  To say that it is would be cruel.  Sometimes, life circumstances grow temporarily larger than the Spirit’s ability to frame the reference in the largest scope and field where it may be viewed.  Sometimes, a condition is met before the conscious mind is quite ready to deal with all it brings.  What then, do you?

Know this:  Despair is paired with its own undoing.  As darkness falls, so lifts the light.  When you wake in the dark and cannot see, remember that you have other senses on which you may rely.  Use them.

What does this feel like, this Despair?  Does it feel real?  How deep is it?  Are you in this room alone?  What brought you here?  What conditions might summon you, or Despair, away?

Let the undoing that is paired with Despair do its work.  Do as the three blind men did when surveying the elephant:  its trunk, its body, and its tail.  Despair has a personality.  It has packed a bag by which it comes calling.  What is in that bag?

Are you currently in visitation with Despair?  Do as do the blind and study its condition by your other senses.  

Unpack its bag and inventory what Despair has brought calling.  You may not see the approach of dawn, but listening closely, you will hear the birds in the glen herald its approach....

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 5, 2015

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THE WILDERNESS

2015, DARKNESS, WILDERNESS

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

There is a Great Wild in you.  Do you feel it?  Gnarled and feral, it is made of all the dark and tangled spaces that comprise nightmares, fears, chaos, and lack.  It is a body of yearning that seems antithesis to desire, a counterpoint to production, and a strike against forward movement.  What is this Wilderness?

It is You.

Do you know your own Greatness?  There are multitudes of multitudes inside You.  The Great All knows you in your every essence and thought.  Your Wilderness is liken to your Being as is your Sunlight and Glory . . . necessary, but more secretly kept.  It is the cobbler’s bench, the writer’s sheaf, the artist’s board.  It is where you go to work.

Make peace with your Wilderness.  Praise its darkness and confusion.  Ask it to show you the language of its gnarls:  what its twists and turns and shadows cast in your life and how it adds strength.  The Earth does not thrive in sunlight alone, nor do You.

When you understand your own fear, you have compassion for another’s.  When you feel adrift in chaos, you are not so quick to reprimand your neighbor for his own.  And feeling lack in your own life helps you to see it outside yourself.  Wildness cannot be understood through what is sterile.  Wilderness cannot be understood through what is controlled.
What do you control?

Do you control Your Self?  How so?  How tangled is your Wilderness with the Wilderness next door?  How great is the forest?  How great are You?

You seek to sit in the sunshine, yes, but how often do you seek to sit in your Wilderness . . . seeing it merely for what it is?  This is no destructive force, but a counterpoint.  Do not seek to understand the world through only one eye.  Open your eyes.  Open your heart.  Let the world in.

When you let the world in, as it is, you let in the Wilderness.  The Wilderness can show you what society has taught you to un-learn.  Relearn this.  

You are part of all, a sentient among sentients:  not separate from.
Not separate from....

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: February 4, 2015

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