“ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?”
Chapter 1
“The Search for the Real Self”
Are you experienced? By yourself? By others? For who you truly ARE!
If not now – hopefully soon!
Do you experience the REAL YOU? Or is it covered over with old memories of trauma, or the injuries we all carry from dysfunctional friendships or family relationships? Maybe we are carrying the information from other, often well-meaning people, who have told us who we are or “who we need to be” in order to be “successful?” Maybe we are carrying “guilt trips” from when we have used our power in ways others didn’t like or appreciate. Sometimes we can lose sight of who we really are – losing the ability, however temporary this may be, of expressing ourselves from the deepest, most meaningful parts within us that contain the blueprints and information from our “original selves” – the people we were before we were covered over with all of this material.
It’s surprisingly easy for this confusing process to occur when we’re growing up – because we are just learning who we really are, and searching for information about how to navigate in an often complex and unsupportive environment. There is so much information out there about how we “should be” – what we should think, how we should conduct ourselves – and there are countless sources of this information available to us when we are looking for who we are. Sometimes we tend to see this and trust it to tell us who we are, instead of searching within for the information. So it’s easy to become “covered over” with lots of extraneous material and information that leads us away from what is truly in our hearts, our minds, and our emotions. We can easily become confused about which voices to listen to and believe. Often we believe the authority figures in our lives! “After all, don’t they know what is best for us?” we think. All of this information pours into us during our formative years, and we often don’t have the quiet time within ourselves to sort it all out, and so we are simply overwhelmed and confused by this process. It’s possible that our friends and family members simply did not have the clarity to be able to perceive us clearly! Maybe no one has ever SEEN the real parts of us – communicating with us in an authentic and caring way.
All of these things can have significant and often devastating effects on the sensitive Lightworkers among us – many of whom may be naïve and trusting in an unfamiliar world – looking for guidance and help. The time is NOW for all of us to begin the journey to the place deep within ourselves where we can commune with the most authentic parts of who we are so that we can begin to express ourselves from this place which contains such beauty, knowledge, and power!
Through searching for this part of ourselves, we may uncover a place never before known – which feels like “coming home” for us, after many years of wandering and feeling lost – as a “stranger in a strange land,” to use the words of Robert Heinlein, who was apparently not unfamiliar with this feeling! It’s about learning to trust ourselves and our feelings when we contact these deep places within us that speak to us with so much information from other times, other places – ages past, and things we often do not remember.
It is ALL encoded deep within us, volumes of information — from everywhere we have been, everything we have experienced — and it speaks to us in the language of emotion and intuition. Often this appears in dreams and altered states of consciousness – to reveal these deeper truths that we may have temporarily forgotten while we are so focused in present time with our attention on outer events. But it never leaves us! This call to truth, which exists, always, within us – “calling us home” – from a place we may not remember, a place “forgotten” by our conscious minds – which are now distracted by having to make a living or care for our families.
There are so many things to distract us from ourselves and the greatest journey we will ever make – the journey into our “authentic selves,” deep within, which contain our inner knowledge and our perceptions of the myriad forms and patterns of the universe in which we live. Constant distraction is often the current state of affairs for many of us, as we have become a society which is focused on the outer world while neglecting the richness and knowledge of our inner worlds of feeling, intuition, perception, and the guidance which we are constantly receiving from our spiritual nature. Because of this, many people live the lives of “quiet desperation” described in so many of the songs and writings of the present day.
It doesn’t have to be this way! Not when we begin to make ourselves, our consciousness, and our well-being a priority in our lives — and choose to realign everything within us and our outer lives on this priority. We can reclaim the richness and beauty – and the authenticity – of our inner selves and our inner experiences. We can experience who we ARE – from the deepest parts of ourselves! They speak to us daily! But these voices are often unheard and misunderstood because of the noise levels in our lives and the many distractions of everyday life.
So now we have the opportunity to reprioritize among the many things in our lives and to make ourselves priority number one! Not in a selfish way – but instead by realigning things to facilitate our own health and well-being so that we can be the person that we really sense and feel within us – the one that is constantly calling for our attention, our love, and nurturance. By not reaching for these deepest levels within us, we often shortchange ourselves and are limited to surface communications with friends and loved ones – who may rarely, if ever, glimpse who we really are and have the chance to meet us in this authentic place of such love, wisdom, and power! This is the opportunity that is created when we express how we really feel and think from a place of “soul knowing” and the beauty of simply “Being Who We Are” – right here – right now!
There is so much richness of experience that comes forth when we stand in this authentic place within us, because we may experience communication with our spiritual guides and teachers or the inner knowing that comes from the highest soul levels within us. And we may have opportunity to learn the new name that resonates within the deepest levels of who we are! These are the riches waiting within us to be experienced when we refocus and give ourselves the time and attention needed to establish communication.
I can promise you that NOTHING else you will ever do will be as rewarding as this experience – which is the journey of the soul, within, to the source of knowledge of who you are! Blessings to you on your journey, and may you have the guidance and accompaniment of Angels and the Ascended Ones from the Heavenly Realms!
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