I do that sometimes: have chats with myself, fingers to keyboard… wondering just what I have to say to myself that I’ve not yet noticed. Know what I mean?
One of those explorations is below. Now that it’s here – having bubbled up from the invisible to the visibility of these words on a screen/page – I can move on. Maybe, as you read, you will move on, too.
How do you explain the sensation of touching or being touched such that another can ‘know’ the experience? How do you find the ‘right’ words that are familiar to express the profoundly unfamiliar? Such is the dilemma of a paradigm shift. This may be the one, true moment when, indeed, “You can’t get there from here.”
I am mindful that I often tire of this conversation. In my mind/world/experience, there is so much already in existence that makes it all accessible for those who choose to ‘know’! Must I, yet one more time, seek to find another way… find yet another combination of the familiar words… to entice discovery of a different paradigm through other than its deep, irrevocable experience? Inside myself, the only sound that I can hear is the echo of ‘Let go.’ Clearly, I’ve been here before!
I sometimes wonder if the paradigm can be experienced without the WEL-Systems models; if the perpetual shift can live sustainably in the conversation alone… in the movement of the wave and its flow through tissue… and I am reminded: the wave moves and experience is had… and what then, allows the process of experiencing to be sustainable and not just another random ‘aha!’ moment, left to whimsy and luck to be experienced another time? Without the models, there is no ‘new way’ to ‘be’ in our world – there is only the way we know, with brief and accidental moments of brilliance in what could be a sea of the genius that we are.
I seek to make visible that which we have not been able to see. I seek to make accessible that which so many have longed for, for so long, and have been unable to find. I seek to lay down a path that any can walk, that all can claim, that will lead to the doorway to a powerful and deeply meaningful new paradigm for living. Without that path, we wander around in the world in which we already live, starved for what sits just outside our definition of ‘reality’, inaccessible because we do not know how to reach out and claim it as our own.
In this moment, I am reminded of the Indiana Jones film – the one with his father where he goes in search of the Holy Grail. In one scene, he must cross a wide and deep cavern… urged on by the coded message of a leap of faith… in order for him to find what is required to save his father’s life. Motivated by his unwillingness to settle for the alternative, Indy closes his eyes and stretches out his leg…. only to discover a bridge that has blended into the background of the cavern and become invisible to those who strive to see only through their physical eyes. Strangely enough, once you see it, you can no longer NOT see it! A paradigm shift is the same: once you see it, you can no longer imagine it ever not having been there.
Without the WEL-Systems models, the conversation – any conversation! – is relegated to the domain of its content. Without the models, there are no reference points for drawing awareness beyond the content to both the context and the process, making it possible for an individual to ‘see’ beyond the details of their challenges/problems/ordeals, etc. and lay eyes on the pathway that has brought them to it. Take a different pathway… move into a different context and process… and life changes.
The WEL-Systems models are a proven, predictable GATEWAY to the unproven and unpredictable expression of a new way of being! The WEL-Systems body of knowledge, in and of itself, IS NOT the paradigm – and yet, without this body of knowledge as the solid and visible stones along the pathway, the paradigm cannot be accessed. Why? Because the required context and process to do so is invisible to the way we have been taught to see.
The WEL-Systems body of knowledge is unique in the world. Time and again, this pathway has guided those who have walked along its solid and reliable stones, to come to the gateway of the dotted line between worlds. With the question pounding in their bodies… driven by the sensation of their own heartbeat and its pulse pounding in their temples… : “Am I or am I not a living expression of the godforce in a physical universe?”… the leap is taken or not… the dotted line is crossed… and the discovery is made. For that, there is no description – there is only the undeniable truth that lives in the tissue of our very being. We have become it.
We cannot get to this new paradigm from the one we’re in. We cannot get to a new way of experiencing ourselves through other than the truth of that experience. And for that to be a sustainable way of ‘being’, we must be able to see the invisible and to know deeply in our experience, how to walk that path on our own. Without that, we are destined to always be in search of the next guru, the next master, the next answer… all of which are expressions of the paradigm that we are already in.
WEL-Systems is not a thing. It’s a journey… a passage… that leads to where we are all instinctively driven to go: to return ‘home’ to the godforce that we are. When we reach the gateway, to walk through means to leave the other world – and all that it carries and represents – behind.
WEL-Systems represents a trajectory… a fearless and unshakeable intention of discovery… that is tried, tested and true in lighting the way to that gateway. It does not and will not take you beyond the dotted line – that you must do for yourself. However, it will ensure you are not lost along the way to looping back through thick and dense forest, to the place from which you began, allowing you to deceive yourself into believing you are where you are not!
WEL-Systems is a body of knowledge that offers new ways to see and experience and express; that casts light on the shadowy places in our lives; and that offers new language from which to consider old truths and deceptions – those imposed by others and those created by ourselves.
WEL-Systems is not a ‘thing’ – it is representative of a quality… a level… of experience that is not available in any other way. It represents a perspective that allows us to ‘know’ – deep inside our being – the truth of who and what we are, without the need to surrender any part of who we already are. Through these perceptual filters, we come to see through new eyes, that we might discover the magnificent ‘being’ behind these new eyes through which we know ourselves, so differently.
Without the WEL-Systems body of knowledge, the context within which the process of experiencing can live – to be engaged over and over again – curls back in on itself and becomes static… tied to content and answers rather than the ever-unfolidng, accelerating and escalating journey of discovery of Self that is fueled by knowing that the power is in NOT KNOWING and constantly discovering the more that we can become!
WEL-Systems is a way of life – not because of its content but because of its invitation to move constantly to the gateway… and choose.
An excellent, excellent post, Louise.
I was reminded yesterday of how quickly I weary of the conversation too, especially in trying to find the words to adequately describe how I see the world to others.
It is especially frustrating at times when others claim “their” paradigm is just like mine. In this most recent case, it started with an email from a person explaining “the” universal truths she has found during her work. Specifically her assertion “life is more than energy.”
I responded that, for me, life is energy. That everything is energy, virbrating a different speeds and wavelengths. That all of it, is me. She wrote back she didn’t see any difference, but then continued to use the same old language of her original post. (It often surprises me how those who self-identify as change agents rely so heavily on the knowledge “from inside the box.” And who can’t seem to escape it.)
I have found this conversation cropping up a few times this past year, mostly with my art of hosting colleagues. Every time I engage, it ends with frustration.
Yours is a good suggestion and reminder — just “let go.” I recognize I create these encounters in my life for a purpose, for learning, for discovery. And they have helped me get very clear in expressing my paradigm of living and moving in this world. So, in many ways my frustration is very useful.
And I also know these individuals create their own universe in the most useful way for them. I can’t change that unless they want to change. So …
… let go, secure in my paradigm, my direction and intention, my way of living.
Thanks, Allister, for making the time to share your thoughts and insights.
‘Reality’ is such a subjective and malleable thing! In a recent gathering of women on the topic of ‘practical magic’ in the health-care domain, it occurred to me that it is really, all illusion – so you might as well pick the illusion that most lights up your life!
Clearly, you’re doing that for yourself – and all the more power to you!
Aloha and a hug,
Louise