LOOKING FOR ANSWERS

When you come up against something in life which brings up the energy of "I don't know", what happens? how do you respond?

We all have various strategies for handling these situations, even if it is to deny that they happen to us. If someone asks you where to get a good pizza, you might get out the phone book, or look up pizza on-line. If you are a pizza lover you might have the answer already in mind. You already know that you know. This is worldly or external certainty. Some people might go inside and intuitively find an answer there. They know that they know even when they don't know. This is inner certainty.

Perhaps you are looking for a good automechanic, ie, both capable and reasonably priced. The stakes are higher and the process of looking is probably more complex and feels less certain or riskier. You are likely to ask friends or seek personal recommendations of some sort. You may use your intuition to screen these recommendations, but the noise from the ego, worried about the consequences of a wrong answer will make it more challenging to hear yourself clearly.

When we are in the place of "I don't know" we often invalidate ourselves. There is a voice that says, but you should know, what's wrong with you, etc. There is fear about a wrong answer, anxiety about what happens if you make the wrong choice, and the mind is off to the races. The mind's job is to know the answer, and the more important the answer is the more invalidated and fearful it will be if it doesn't.

When you are in the place of "I don't know", if it brings up doubt, fear, or invalidation, you are vulnerable. Lots of people will offer answers, and they are almost always carrying more invalidation. This may be obvious and harsh, or kindly and subtle, but in any case they reinforce the belief that we are not enough in some sense, that others are better, know more, or are more capable.

You can go to the place of "I don't know" and be OK there! be fearless, neutral, certain in a deeper way. We are taught that certainty is external, in knowing the answers, ego certainty. There is a deeper certainty of the soul that knows we are alright even when, for the moment, we are without answers and "don't know".

The larger the life issue, the harder it is to be neutral. If you ask the world for answers you'll get lots of them: other people's answers, which may or may not be yours, and mostly come with at least implicit invalidation. Try my answer; do it this way; I know better. You are even more lost, off balance and out of your center.

In the place of "I don't know", find yourself first; drop into your heart, know that you are OK, calm the paniced ego, know that you do know your answers, and ask what they are and where they are. Be open then to how they show up, but without fear and you will find them cleanly and with clear discrimination. When you can validate yourself in the midst of external uncertainty you are cultivating your internal certainty. These days we all need as much of that as we can remember. It is a much better place to find answers from.

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CHANGING TIME

I was told many years ago that there is no time and space in Spirit. This means that working on the level of spirit things can be done easily and swiftly. Being able to step out of the physical beliefs and limitations and work energetically can therefore be powerful and effective. The body, living in the 3-D world, obeys somewhat different rules. It takes longer to process, integrate, and manifest.

As with most things in life there are both benefits and cautions in working between these two levels. In history, and for most of us, our awareness of them is kept separate. We have experiences of stepping back and forth, which can be practiced and enhanced, but we are usually aware of one at a time and transition between them more or less gracefully.

It seems that this is all changing. The much discussed "End of Time" is not about the "End of the World" in a cataclysmic sense, or even just the rolling over of a calendar from one age to the next. It is a reference to changes in our experience of what we call time, or the lack of it.

As we pass Equinox and head into Spring, I realize I am still bracing for a winter that is already over. And yet the Solstice was a "long" time ago. Holding these both at the same time is the "end of time": the timeless state that we know as spirits, where yesterday and last year are all present right now.

Our changing experience of time parallels the widespread experience so many of us are having that we are both Spirit and Human simultaneously. As we move more into this dual awareness of both levels of our being, part of the global transition, the timelessness of Spirit is overlapping our accustomed linear egoic sense of time.

The sun still rises and sets, the Earth moves around the sun. The calendar and clock are still there if we choose to use them. Our personal human aspect still moves through linear time. But we are also aware of the timeless, of all times. The "moment" is no longer a single moment in linear time, but open to the presence of all moments at once.

While disorienting to the ego, this is that way your spirit has always existed and relaxing into Spirit you know how to be this way. Just as we are learning to integrate our awareness of our spiritual Selves with that of our egoic self, and walk that spiritual awareness in the world, we are also learning to integrate a different relationship to what we have know as time and space.

So if you are having strange experiences of time, or even space, know that this is not a problem, but an effect of the growth and expanding awareness that we are all going through on the planet. Keep breathing, remember to "notice what you notice", be a bit amused, and perhaps wonder what interesting effects will show up next. Trusting Spirit and your spiritual Self to guide you into a new way of being in the world. Receiving these new experiences with the joy and wonder of the soul inside you, you step forward in your evolutionary transformation.

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