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Going within is essential for the
journey of reconstitution. Quite
simply, we need to be able to unplug ourselves from our external
world to learn our own truth and what exactly it looks like. In
going within to do our exploration, we may find we are pulled to
isolate ourselves and/or isolate ourselves from various aspects of
our external life. We may need to spend an enormous effort and time
exploring our internal world without the distractions of the
external world.
To go within, we will need both the time and a place to do so.
However, there is a right way and not so right ways to go within.
The not so right ways are to allow our
mind to determine what it
thinks the withdrawal and isolation should be. The right way is to
allow our
intuitive guidance and
body wisdom lead us to it.
It does need to be noted here it is said a right way and not so
right way. To withdraw and isolate ourselves the way mind thinks we
should is not necessarily wrong. It is just not the optimum way and
the way that will give us the fastest results. Here again, we are
involved in a
creative endeavor and
mind only knows the past.
Current mind, the mind we experience as a result of the experiences
of our current life, has never consciously experienced the truth
depth and breadth of our
creative
ability and creative power. Mind
coming into existence is one of the primary reason we
lost our
ability to be in the
most
creative state of play. So, mind of
itself, will not be able to show us how to
reconstitute our creative
ability and creative power.
Many have come to believe the physical conditions is somehow an
undesired or less that a divine experience. Because there is
pain,
there is the perception there is something wrong with
Physical Creation. They see the needs and distractions of the body as an
issue that keeps us from stepping into our
creative
ability and creative power and/or to obtain
enlightenment, achieve Nirvana or
access Heaven here in Physical Creation. So they see withdraw from
the world and/or the body as a way to go within and become free. But
to do so really denies the whole purpose of Creation and for being
here and denied the wisdom of our
creator/Creator whomever that
creator/Creator may be.
We cannot have it both ways. Either the
creator/Creator knew what
it/It was doing when it created
Physical Creation or it/It didn’t.
If it/It did know what it was doing, who are we to judge whether or
not there is something wrong with Physical Creation as it is. If the
creator/Creator didn’t know what it was doing and created at
inadequate Physical Creation, then it/It is mot much of an all
powerful creator/Creator is it/It?
Similarly, as a result of the reported
experience possible through
meditation, many chose
meditation as means to go within. But
meditation is insufficient to do the job for several reasons. One,
and probably the most important, is that meditation carries the
baggage of having been chosen by the
mind. To choose meditation
because what we think it can or will do for us, is the same as doing
any other activity determined by our mind. We may get a wonderful
experience from it, but it an experience created by the mind none
the less. It needs to be remembered that in a
creative endeavor,
mind cannot lead us to where it has not been. Whatever experience we
create through meditation if we choose meditation is only another
experience created by mind.
There is also the issue that times have changed and what needs to
achieved does require slightly different techniques. It needs to be
remembered
each human is a product of the collective and the
collective understanding of what
it means to be human has changed over time and continues to change.
At the time and place when
meditation was developed the
ego was not
as strong in self identification as it is now exists in the Western
world and rapidly coming into existence in many non western
societies. In the past, individuals tended to see themselves as the
servant of their society, their king or whomever ruled their
society. The concept of individual rights and a destiny for the
individual was not as common as it is today. Today, in Western
society, there is the belief the individual has certain inalienable
rights and the freedom to choose what they experience. How the
individual defines themselves is somewhat different than the way and
individual would defines themselves when meditation was first
created.
When
meditation was first created, it was a technique sufficient to
create the inner awareness and has been used by many successfully
for centuries. However, the
ego that has developed through the
current Western line of thinking tends to be very strong, very
masculine. It needs a more active approach for its transformation.
In the past, the ego was much like an egg in that it had a thin
shell easily broken with the slightest tap. The reason for this is
that collectively, humans were very much at the mercy of the world
around them. Most were never able to develop a strong ego for the
experiences of the world continually reinforced the belief that
anyone individual was not in charge of their life. In these
experiences, the ego never really felt that it was in control of its
world. The ego always seemed to somehow be surrendering to powers
well beyond their ability to control them.
Modern technology has changed all of this. It now lies within the
individual human’s ability to control and change the world in which
they live. Our
egos have begun to believe it is in control of what
is happening. Although this is true for we do create our experiences
and the reality of those experience, it is not true in the way the
ego has come to believe it is true. That is, the individual does
control its world and its reality for
we are a world unto ourselves.
However, it is
part of a much larger process only playing a role in
that process.
In any case, the modern
ego has become more like a coconut than an
egg. As a coconut, its outer shell can be quite strong requiring a
rather large hammer forcibly striking the coconut to shatter its
shell. On this note of the strong shell of the ego, the thickness of
the of the ego, has nothing to do with whether a person is raised in
a traditional Eastern or Western culture/society. The thickness
arise from the evolution of the
collective human consciousness and
the human being thinking and, more importantly, acting as though he
is separate from, and somehow more important than, the rest of
nature. This separation of the man from nature runs very strong in
both Eastern and Western traditions. The whole concept of spiritual
leads to this separation. The prevalence of human thinking that
spirit is somehow separated from the physical is only the ego and
the ego shell of the collective human consciousness revealing itself
as to who and what it thinks it is.
From a reconstitution view point,
meditation is best used as a tool
to help learn to focus our attention and awareness and establishes
the ability to sit and the ability to watch. Especially to watch and
observe our inner world. Meditation itself will not shatter the
strong
ego shell of the modern world. It will take something else in
addition to the meditation. Given the nature of today’s ego, it will
take a combination of such things as contemplation, a
cause-effect review to
pull the string as to the why something occurs the way it
does as opposed to another, learning how to use
body wisdom and
intuitive guidance, use of clear intention and the variety of other
concepts such as those discussed within these
Creation Building
Blocks will be needed to help one fully transcend the ego identity.
To truly know and understand that we are infinitely complex and
the
creative
ability and creative power available to us it is
foolish to think that even understanding one hundred and six
Building Blocks will allow us to have a complete understanding of
who and what you are. All the concepts in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material are only the starting point for our
journey to discover who and what you really are and the depth and
breath of your true nature.
On this point, if there is the feeling of being overwhelmed with the
volume of concepts in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material, most probably there will be the experience of feeling as
though we will be suffocated or drown when we do see the truth of
reality. Yet to see the truth of reality, we must let the
ego die -
however we wish it to die or let it die, but it must die. Isolation
is one such way the ego has traditionally died. On this note, if we
try and choose how our ego will die, our journey will be long and
painful. If however, we allow our
intuitive guidance to lead us to
its death, we can have a
gentle transformation for our intuitive
guidance and
body wisdom has our best interest at heart. Our
mind
has only its ego at its heart and it is not always in the best
interest of our total being.
In the
journey of reconstitution isolation is part of the journey
and always has been. It is not uncommon for an individual to
seemingly have isolation forced upon them to create the space for
transformation necessary to call back their creative power. For
example, modern individuals who have undergone such transformation
to transcend aspects of their
ego such a Gandhi or Nelson Mandella
spent time in prison in solitary confinement. Individuals like
Buddha, St Paul, and others of ancient times were isolated in one
way or another during their transformation. This confinement and
isolation gave them the time and opportunity to resolve many of
their inner conflicts because they had isolation forced upon them.
These individuals, past or present, all said, in one way or another
that the isolation was the most important time of their lives. It is
because this isolation is so valuable to their inner experience and
has ways been part of the process, the concept of going to the
desert, to the mountain cave or some other form of isolation is a
quite common practice in many esoteric traditions. However, the
isolation that is required will come when it is required in the way
it is required. We cannot force ourselves into isolation and elect
to isolation ourselves. It does not work for the isolation we create
is of the
mind and
ego and in reality an ego trip. Nature itself
will force the isolation when it is necessary for it is part of the
journey
The isolation that is force on us does not necessarily mean we goes
off into the desert or some other remote location or we travels to
some other part of the world. It means we must withdraw from the
aspects of our life that are causing us to remain bound to the past.
What it looks like will vary from person to person. The problem is
we do not allow ourselves to experience the isolation when it is
required and when it presents itself. For most of us, we don’t
recognize the call when it comes. As a result we fight again the
isolation rather than accepting what is.
Today, we are not taught to listen and follow our
intuitive guidance
and learn the
inner language.
Today many of us do not take the time for an in depth inner search
so we are not aware when the journey itself requires us to become
isolated. The “regular” people in any given society, of which we are
apart, have no time for the inner search because we are caught up in
what needs to be done to survive. It doesn’t matter whether it be
fighting animals and nature as in ancient times to find the food to
live, or we are fighting the rampant materialism and success
criteria of the modern world. We are on a treadmill of survival,
ignoring the joys of the evolution of our own being. It can only be
overcome by taking time to know who we are. But to take time means
we will have to
step out of mind
to step
off the treadmill of life to see there is
an alternative way.
We have to choose to step of the treadmill of life in whatever time
and place we find ourselves to do the inner journey. In doing so,
the universe will respond and if isolation is needed, whole or in
part, it will provide that isolation. Whether we look at that
isolation as justly or unjustly being put in prison, a traumatic
illness and recovery period, or a job changes that seemingly
isolates us from the world or takes us off the “success” path. It
doesn’t matter how we perceive what is happening. If we choose to
reconstitute ourselves, the universe will respond and provide what
is necessary. We only have to follow its guidance and it will speak
to us thorough our
body wisdom and that
intuitive guidance. That
same wisdom that grew our body from an infant into an adult will
guide the grown of our inner awareness from the infant and childlike
state of the
ego as it currently is into a conscious awareness of
who and what we really are.
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