[Movement, movement, movement . . .
Wyl narrates —A.A.]
Sitting here beneath Gnarly Tree, eyes closed as thoughts and memories of past-teachings rolled over my mind, I realized in truth I was preparing myself for something I did NOT want to look at. And I can recall being enlightened to the fact that one's own Self would shield itself from any "disruptive" influences—till he or she was prepared to handle them. And I had learned that this was law: that nothing more than we can handle ever opposes us. I had learned, too, just how adept we are at fooling ourselves into believing we cannot handle or "deal with it." (But even so, teachings or no, I still felt a little bit leery.)
But the Master's teachings came clearer, rolling on to say that this was a teaching that could only teach through the experiencing of the reality: of the vibrational-situation '. . . of full participation in the situations appearing before you—' if I remember correctly'—your growth-lessons which will, in time, gift you TOOLS to use when a same or similar lesser-nature once again takes form and resurfaces.' —And the vibration would be experienced (so said the Master), and movement would occur as we dealt with "the situation," repetitive, till full understanding was gained and we acted appropriately. And then we moved on. ("We," apparently, as I remember it).
One clue I recall is that every "difficulty" we DO face has within it the solution . . . if we look for it. If we look for it, the solution will eventually arise because every situation '—no matter how it was created, but because it was created—' carries within it a grain of truth/light which brings that situation to life. 'And the grain of Truth, no matter how small—hidden inside the situation—is the seed-form of the solution,' the Master had said: 'You WILL have need to find it.'
It WAS ironic! There IS irony here! The flow through mind and body, which I was so painstakingly pursuing in order to be in harmony with the Natural Flow of LIFE, now had to be shut down—so that I could reflect, take a reality check, and find that grain—that solution hidden within the situation—so that I might regain the freedom of my soul. I would have to face my fears, pains, growth pangs, whatever they were and however they might appear: my difficulties, my sufferings, my negatory-stuffs, my "beasts" guarding the gates on my pathway to consciousness—face them, as they came up, as they appeared, in the moment—or succumb to illusion and maybe to death. DEATH!
(Dear God.)
How adept we've become at steering clear of our growth pangs. Fears, beasts—call them what you will. But growth pangs are key. 'But they're so very hard to deal with!' So it's usually one good twist, or we dress them up, or dress them down, and then we call them evil! Evil, evil growth pangs! A perfect excuse for not going anywhere near them! But the truth is that evil is but the forced-suppression of our feelings: the forcing of our energy against our energy! (And I suppose there's other kinds of evil, too.) And if we avoid our growth pangs (task avoidance, as I seem to remember it), or if we hummingbird hover (contemplate stuff for too, too long), then we end up on the downgrade . . . sitting on the fence again . . . and we don't get round to dealing with our personal situations which are strongly tied into the individual sets of circumstances that we attract to ourselves. And if we don't, don't, don't get round to it, then sure enough (in some similar roundabout way) we'll keep forcing our energy subconsciously against our energy—by denying, by pointing the finger elsewhere, or simply by stuffing! But, they don't really LOOK like growth pangs, do they? No. They don't. Situations or circumstances—I get it. But because we all have similar situations and circumstances that we don't like, or that have hurt us e/motionally, we, together, collectively, find Common Ground, and (innocently maybe) we raise-up an illusion, a twisted truth . . . and (uh-oh!) we further empower the lower-Astral plane which then rules over us! Oh!, and then we end up living like sheep in a pen, following the lead of some wise woolly leader (a wolf in sheep's clothing!), round and round together, caught-up in some tainted, festering perception. (Sigh.) All the while dying because we fear Forward Movement. All the while individually using our energy to fight against ourselves . . . suppressing our fear, funding yet more illusion in support of our safety: the illusion that we are safe right here in our comfortable place where there is no wisdom gained from individual-experience with which to experience Forward Movement in the moment. And so, little or no ability exists to cope with these pangs-of-energy issuing up through us . . . these lesser parts of Self seeking consciousness through this Rhythm meant for natural growth.
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The Seventh Direction
AdventureA spiritual, mostly fictional adventure, which takes place in both the 3rd and 4th dimension . . . and perhaps occasionally in the 5th. Under the umbrella of Mother Earth---School of Learning, Freewill Zone---the story, rather than looking at us as...
