Example is Better Than Perception

Example is Better Than Perception

So, I am having this conversation with my inner self, you know the ole wise one, whom you often ignore but in times of trouble you sit down so you can listen, that one, right???!!! I am having a fuss-a-rama because I don't understand why we chose to be on this God-forsaken Planet. I have been wondering this for ages now, especially since we create our own reality, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But me, I am fricken curious as to why we would want to know what it feels like to be in 3D... all polarized and under the command of some force that wishes to control and dominate our every move, just so we can devise ways to overcome it and find a way out of and off of, this PRISON PLANET!!! I been asking and asking and asking and other folks have asked me, because of course, I should know, right?

Now, I do believe that my questions will be answered. In fact, I know that there will be and has been so many answers to my questions, coming to me in various ways.. Some right in your face and others a little more imperceptive.

So..... make a short story long, I got my sign, my answer my sign, today, right after I said...... 

"If we were living on a higher plane of existence and we decided to devolve to this one, we must have been bribed to do it. Since we didn't know what it was like, we must have had some snake oil sales men come along and say......" 

"HEY, WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO COME TO 3D EXISTENCE????? Aren't you bored living in Peace & Harmony???? Wouldn't you like to explore your creative abilities and see if you can design a way back home. DON'T YOU WANT TO SHOW THE UNIVERSE THAT YOU CAN BE A SUPER-HERO!!!! And overcome all obstacles, even the most dire, down in the mouth ones? Don't you want to feel what is felt in physicality, the extremes of emotions, the passions, the lust, the hate, the anger, the frustration, the injustice..... blah, blah, blah.... Wouldn't it just be AN INCREDIBLY AMAZING JOURNEY???" 

Blah, Blah, Blah.

I had this talk with my innerself, and said, somebody surely must have bribed us, that eventhough we may have been on a so-called higher plane of existence, we were not completely satisfied... We were missing something, and that is when the Tempter/Temptress stepped in. They had been there.... They were feeling euphoric about what they thought it would be like... Or that is what they told us... Cause there are Con Artists on every spectrum of reality. 

I am wondering if they just wanted to see what it would be like if we did it. So they claimed, they did it, when in reality, they couldn't have... Who would???? Only some sado-masochistiic socio-pathic, psychotic maniac would chose 3D!!! I mean really. I love the material world, don't get me wrong, green grass, trees, blue skies, water, pretty animals,, but come on, then you tell me this is all an illusion, and that the material world is a holographic cruel joke, and then you ask me do I want to stay here???? Pulease!!!!!

So, yeah, back to my sign..... 

I am cleaning out one of my kitchen cabinets. Had to get a stool in order to reach to the back of it. I have been here 10 months so far.... so when I unpacked and filled it with my spices, I assumed the cabinet was empty. And lo, and behold, I find a packet of soy sauce, and an old, I mean really old, fortune cookie. They don't have expiration dates on them, but it crumbled in my hand when I retrieved it from the back of the shelf. I'm like, okay, I wanted a sign and I am convinced now that this must be it, because, come on, how possible is that? Do we say alignment or what? Someone put that Chinese fortune cookie on the very top shelf of my kitchen cabinet when they lived here, and when they moved, they did not retrieve it but left it for me to find??? I mean, come on, how probable is that??

I stop dead in my tracks, I read fortune cookies, I feel they are often right on the money, except for the lottery numbers, but other than that, there is always some good message there. I put it down on the table top. Not gonna look at it right now, besides, that would be crazy if there was a message in there to answer this question I been asking all my life. And why do I ask this question, because I don't feel at home here. I feel like a round peg, trying to fit into a square whole. Someone, a dear friend told me that years and years ago. I have never fit in. I am not a trendy, I really don't care about superficial stuff and pop culture, and I really ain't fanatical about sports, politicians, religions or any of that stuff. I always was a bit tentative.... 

Somewhere in my mind it just didn't make sense... and I won't go on about the other stuff that don't make sense on this planet. Another dear friend said... "If it don't make sense, it don't make sense." I have to accept that, though it is excruciatingly hard to do so.

After a short pause I open the package and the fortune cookie reads as follows......

"EXAMPLE IS BETTER THAN PERCEPTION"

I am now convinced that we were tricked, conned, bamboozled!!! 

They told us that we can think about it all day and all night for millions of years but until we actually experience it physically, that is, unless we are a bonafide example of what 3D is, or unless we become a bonafide example of what 3D is, we may perceive, perceive , perceive.... but we haven't truly attained it until we make it to 3D!!!!! 

I am struck, like a lightening bolt just hit me. 

Somebody..... 

came along..... 

and told us..... 

you gotta do it..... 

in order to know.... 

what it is to go through it.......

SO HERE WE ARE.......

GOING THROUGH IT....

HEAVEN????      HELLL????

OR IS IT ALL ABOUT PERCEPTION

???????????

Making That Change - A Recipe for Growth

Change is not always something that can be easily entered upon, Habits are deep rooted expressions of our relationship to our world. They are often automatic, taking and needing little or not thought. Trite as it may appear, these habits are a funtion of our every day life.  They add meaning to what we perceive as purpose and totality. I do not claim to present a formula but merely a perspective on an approach to change and an effective adaptation to it, after we have made the effort.

To begin, we realize that we may need to begin or end a pattern of behavior. We are given a step by step procedure for change that represents a recipe of sorts. Often well wishers will give us in brief a formula, twelve steps, ten steps, three ways and the like. After reading/hearing such a formula we are left with the awesome task of application. We need skills. The skills of rationalization and patience. We need the ability to process and absorb what has been placed before us. In essence, we need the common sense stuff that makes what we were just told, shown or directed to do make sense. We need the ability to read. Inherently reading is not always done through the absorption of words on a page. We also need to read the unseen and feel the intangibles that affect and permeate that page of life that holds this formula for change.

Next, we need the ingredients. These ingredients represent our inner wherewithal and resources. The stuff we are made of. The main ingredient is a willingness to change coupled with an inherent awareness of its need. We need availability and access to these ingredients that come from the innermost depths of our soul..

Next, we need the utensils or tools, those external resources that are tempered by our sheer will to do what we need to do at all costs. Here we are talking about physical strength and courage. The ability to do what we must do to make these changes. Once the intellect has made this choice towards change the physical and emotive forces of the being must be mobilized to move ahead. If we are overwhelmed, depressed or exhausted we are weakened and thus unable to move forward. We may find ourselves day dreaming about what we wish to do, yet never doing it.

Now that we have done our reading, pooled our resources and accessed our skills we have in essence developed/created the batter, that matter that makes or represents change. We need only to internalize it. We place our mixed and formulated ingredients into the oven or dark recesses of our being where it goes through a chemical change. This change is not physically apparent and is spiritually invisible to the naked eye. The signs of change present themselves as we smell/ feel the inner workings of what is to be manifestated. There is a stirring or movement of the unknown.

At this crucial moment we may succumb to self doubt or sabotage the process by opening the oven door too soon. Opening the door we allow altercations or opposing ideas or threats to hinder, alter or destroy our product. Often fear of the outcome would have us to interfere, abort or deter ourselves from our goal or simply abandon the process altogether. We may engage this process several times in an attempt to change the exact same expression of ourselves. Feeling an urgency we may become redundant and repetitive in our attempts. If we surpass all of these challenges we may become ridden distrustful of how this new expression of the self will be perceived by the outside world, colleagues, friends, loved ones, etc. This point is critical because we do wish to be accepted as we offer our newly evolved self to our outside world.

We may even peep in ever so often to check on our own progress and make a report to any who would listen. We need reassurance that we have done the right thing. But nature has its own way of assisting the creative process. Even what we may anticipate as the final product may barely smack of what we have expected. We then become uncertain of our own ability to handle our new and changed selves, our finished product.

But who is the final judge? Who is the omniscient power source that determines the success or failure of our movement towards change? Who gives the license and the decree that all is well? If we align ourselves with our own creative process accepting our own creative choices and expressions, our own contradictions, then we in fact fear no judge but merely allow ourselves the ultimate joy of exhilarating revolution. We are free to mingle and delight in our own design of ourselves and remain at peace. Constructed in the sense of our own image we cater to our own inner pattern and demonstrate our own power. We are changed, altered, released and enjoined to continue on our own trek of spatial freedom and wisdom. We emerge fully contrived and redeemed. We are another expression of our selves never faulted or denied. We are tempered and secure in that which we have patterned for our own behavior. We are manifesting our own creative process for change and evolution. We are total and yet unloaded. Encouraged we move forward toward our next enhancement of the self.