Through those decades of my own evolution, as well as more than 25 years of working with others, I hold this to be the most challenging and difficult part of this exploration, around our illusions:
With ownership, we take hold of mindful and meaningful creation.
Without ownership, we cannot let go of the frantic hope that some ‘other’ will create it for us.
Our collective world – our ‘reality’ – is already in the full collapse of what has, for centuries, seemed stable and predictable; with the expectation that it would always be so. Beyond the density and intensity of this change, we are now faced with the speed at which it is occurring and the clear and inevitable acceleration that looms. As we begin to tune in to the turmoil outside, its vibration moves deeper into the very tissue of our body. Given that we are Quantum Biological Humans™ (refer to iBook ‘New Paradigm – New World! ~ Awakening the Quantum Biological Human™‘ ), the body is both the instrument of calibration of an external reality as well as the display mechanism of our internal reality. At the exact same moment that the body is calibrating both inside and outside, it is also the living membrane between an existing reality and the source from which a different reality can flow. Like the point of bifurcation where reality flows in and out at the precise same moment, the body holds the potential to display and live both the ’now’ and the possibility. We are indeed, remarkable Beings!
To take ownership of this, clears a path for us to become the mindful, awake and aware Creators of our living reality! In that ownership lies the gateway of awakening to our courage and curiosity; to unlimited access to both the willingness and the ability to let go of one reality and to take hold of another; and to the deep recognition that our reality already reflects the truth of who we have chosen to become. In that same ownership lives the decreasingly daunting moment of our own fear, as we rise to the full measure of our unique Self as Creator of it all.
Without that ownership – of what is and of what might become – we continue to live out the historic conditioning to perceive ourselves as the victims of the creations of others. In that, there is no power… no future… and no Life.
Given the Androgynous Baby™ and Nested Living Systems™ process experiences (see eBook ‘Fully Alive: Awakening Health, Humor, Compassion and Truth‘) that we all share, it is not surprising that the very thought of ownership of our capacity to create is a perturbing one. It is also a frightening one since these two processes, combined – as the forces that shape culture – have ensured that we grow up in the long, deep shadow of our inculcated ineptitude, incompetence and impotence. These forces are intergenerational, having long been integrated into the very fabric of what we call ‘reality’, leading us to believe that we are helpless in the face of an overwhelming truth: we are small, we are weak and we are irrelevant to making a difference – either for ourselves, our families, our communities and our world. This, is simply a lie.
What makes it so difficult for us to take ownership of a different truth; of an emerging ‘reality’ that presents with massive and weighty evidence? What is it that insists we cower in the dark corners of our own innate truth, Self-silencing and pulling back rather than claiming voice and stepping out, into the full force of our own convictions, to act rather than react? What is it that keeps us blind, at our own hand, to our potential; and deaf, as our own doing, to hearing the increasingly louder call from within to LIVE!
In the face of habituated powerlessness, with its deep roots in the relentless pursuit of avoiding shame and humiliation at the hands of others, we seek to be seen to be in compliance, in agreement and harmless to the status quo. We become our own, greatest keeper… having long ago learned to Self-silence and pull back in our effort to stay safe and avoid the mockery that comes with daring to defy a collective ’truth’.
We’ve all done it. Now, when we look around at our world, we see the evidence of its great success. We have done that – and we have done it to ourselves.
What might an alternative be? What will it take for us to be able to have our future become more meaningful than our past? What do we need to reclaim in order to walk away from incessant slumber or surrender, and pave the way for a different tomorrow?
Ownership! The deep and unique reclamation of ‘Mine!’. The reclamation of “My world, my reality, my creation!” The declaration of the innate intelligence of the I AM that I am, that declares: ‘I can…. I will… and I CHOOSE!”
Ownership comes first, quickly followed by creation from our own authentic expression. Creation sourced from carving out a reality from an awakened choice; from a meaningful present that frees us into an expression of Being that has surrendered the search and reclaimed the discovery. In our desperation to avoid the pain of isolation and rejection; in the long-habituated and knee-jerk reaction to believing that to be unseen and unheard is to be unharmed, we are coming to realize that THAT is the greatest of all illusions! To think, to believe and to trust that silencing our Self is the intelligent path to follow, is rapidly losing ground and, as a result, its death grip on our future.
When our illusions collapse, on the other side of the bifurcation can emerge the Awakened Creator. From the great turmoil of the churning collapse can come a greater sense of our own ability to BE and to CHOOSE and to DECLARE what is both mindful and meaningful in our unique expression of a shared reality. In the aspect of BE’ing and CHOOSE’ing, we can find ourselves. In the aspect of DECLARE’ing, we can find each other.
Only in ownership can we take a stand that is a reflection of the truth of who we are. Without that link to a greater Self, within, our taking a stand is nothing more than being part of the pack. Our future will not be served by pack thinking – and it will be served by Unique, Whole and Authentic thinkers, standing together.
Waking up is not enough. Staying awake is what will allow us to come Home to a shared reality that sustains Life. The simple truth of that is that it will take all of us, being all of who each of us, is; out loud and in the presence of each other.
In more than 40 years of a commitment to my own ongoing evolution, I have never said it would be easy. And I have always said, it would be worth it! For ourselves, for each other and perhaps most importantly, for all of our children, here and yet to come.
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