Summary #2

                                                              Summary #2

 

 

                                            

                           “It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”   Ken Kesey

Rude awakening is the re-cognition of your mechanical, robotic, unconscious, conditioned ego personality and the movement of a free, wakeful, curious, questioning and self-observing consciousness.

Doing things differently will build this awareness, such as getting up on the other side of bed.

This awareness gives us hope, we don’t have to allow ourselves to be ruled by negative, self-diminishing, or shamming voices, we can build relationships based on honesty and equality, but we need to start with ourselves.

It is a courageous act to see, speak, and move yourself into and through the world as an empowered agent of change. By facing yourself in your interior, intrapersonally, you build equality within yourself, so with this inner equality, you naturally will treat others as you would want to be treated.

A humility of character will help you accept the fact that most of life is beyond your control. Accepting this fact is a radical acceptance and letting go of your false attachments and illusory control.

“Knock knock.”

“Who's there?”

“Control freak, now you say control freak who!”

This radical acceptance is, as it were, a 1^st step admitting your powerlessness, starting recovery and seeing that you/we are out of control! aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Now you are experiencing freedom from illusion and it is blissful! The dance of Shiva is the unified dance of polarity; light/dark, right/wrong, male/female, creation/destruction. We must all face the dark side of our moon to become enlightened.

Enlightenment is demonstrated by compassion. To see another as equal and relate to them with empathy brings kindness and understanding into a hostile world. Two other aspects of enlightenment are freedom from worry and the experience of more synchronicity, experience of one integral whole.

Adolescents experience a surreal, fragmented, and stressed world that is unsafe. We all need to be mentors and elders to help adolescents through their initiation into adulthood. Seeing and pointing out the good in an adolescent has a huge effect!

Our culture is trying to raise itself out of an adolescent level of consciousness. If we can move away from a polarized belief that we should all join hands and sing Kumbaya, to a recognition that  every person and group is exactly where they need to be, we're not here to necessarily win elections or convince others to be like us.

Evolved consciousness sees the appropriate stage and level of all consciousness and builds bridges, tools, resources, and supports should people choose to use them.

A culture that pays attention to themselves, others, and the environment rather than miniature, computerized mind suckers could become the new norm. That would be a 'normal' of epic proportions!