Finding Your Way

This column was already forming in me when someone close to me asked me how they could help someone close to them feel better about themselves. A loaded question indeed, and where to begin?

After a few deep breaths for inspiration and connecting with many of the resources that are available to me, I responded with something like “The core purpose of life is healing, growing and remembering who we are. And when we embark on a path of healing we will eventually understand precisely why we have been created exactly the way that we are and develop more love, patience and acceptance for ourselves.”

I do believe that we are experiencing this human life to learn a lot about what it is to be human, accept that we are fallible and have weaknesses, and discover our divine gifts and muster the courage to share them with others to help the grand plan unfold. For some this is a lot to swallow and they prefer to believe that we are here, just along for the ride and that there is not grand scheme of things, just random experiences that have not connection to one another. And I am grateful that we do have free will to believe what we choose, because it is that same freedom that allows us to experience and explore beyond our perceived or learned limits.

So what is this grand plan that is unfolding? Right now it is a plan of remembering, and the energies are intensely focused to push us into situations that will help us to crack open our walls of forgetting what it is like to live interconnected with and respectful of every living thing. In Tom Cowan’s book “Yearning for the Wind”, Sandra Ingerman writes in the foreword “ Once upon a time a spell was cast upon people across the land. The spell made people believe we are all separate beings with no connection to each other and no connection with nature or the rest of life.

The spell continued with the belief that anything that we could not see, hear, feel, smell, or taste with our ordinary senses did not exist. And the spell caused people to believe that only humans had a soul which a punishing God judged the nature of. Happiness only came from financial gain, collecting material objects, and having power over people, the animal world, and all of nature. The spell also set the belief that individuals were not creative and their role was to behave and conform to society. The effect of this spell put people to sleep. They forgot about the beauty of life and their own soul’s purpose. The light went out of people’s eyes as the old knowledge of how to talk to nature was forgotten. Empty gazes and looks of fear and desperation replaced the light. The veils between the worlds closed down. Magical thinking was replaced by reductionist thinking. The magic was gone along with people’s souls. These were dark times indeed”.

Yes indeed I believe that we are still living in the dark ages, but the good news is that the darkness is being replaced by dawning light. We are awakening to remember how we were created to live in a fully alive world, cooperating with one another and other living things and systems. These times have been predicted by many cultures who have ancient roots and stories to share. For some who are beginning to remember, this is a huge step and the non-ordinary happenings that they are experiencing may scare them and make them question their mental health.

They may begin to hear things they have never heard before – whispers from other dimensions and beings. They may be having strange physical sensations as their nervous system awakens from this deep, generations long, sleep. They may also feel some of the life force of non-ordinary beings when they are nearby. People are seeing things that are not there, at least in this dimension, and chalk it up to stress and not enough sleep. Interesting odours may waft through the room from unapparent sources, and people’s on alert systems may kick in when no obvious cause is seen.

If any of this sounds familiar I want to reassure you that you are okay, don’t be ashamed and afraid, celebrate and prepare for more. Share your experiences with other trusted friends and ask them if they have similar stories to share. Learn together, grow together and let go of your fear together. If you do not have any open minded people in your midst, seek them out. Join a meditation group, a yoga class or find an intuitive who can assist you. If there are few resources locally go online and read a variety of articles on the subject and filter out what does not fit for you and work with the guidance that seems to resonate with who you are.

Why are we so afraid when things that are out of the ordinary occur? It is a natural reaction to fear anything that we do not understand. Our multimedia world that we live in with vivid horror films, alien invasion films and other sorts of adrenaline producing entertainment have also programmed us further to fear what we do not understand. Kudos to those filmmakers who have had the courage to present more enlightened and aware approaches to us in recent years. Fortunately we do have the ability to override the fear and ask to explore and understand what we are experiencing. This takes energy, courage and patience.

Many children in our young North American culture will report nightmares of great ferocious creatures chasing and trying to eat them in their dreams. I simply suggest to them that the next time they have such a dream they can stop running, turn around and ask this creature what it wants. In many incidences these dreams are actually guardian spirits trying to bring healing, encouragement, and energy to the child, and if the child can shift their focus from fear to acceptance there are many gifts to receive. I have many stories to share from my own life that offer these kinds of teachings.

So if you did take the time to read right to the end of this column you may have a few new cracks forming in your forgettings. Bless the cracks, be gentle with yourself, welcome your fear and be willing to move beyond it, stay open to teachings and understandings and they will find their way to you. Spend as much time in nature as you can. Sit or lie on the earth and let the grounding energy help you to let go of old ways and let new ones emerge. Slow everything down whenever you can. Take time to just sit and be and you might start to really hear what the whisperings are telling you, you might see some of the living beings that are resting right next to you and you will undoubtedly find the simple joy and beauty that is you and that you are a part of.