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This article is from The Sedona Journal of Emergence
Stepping Outside the Box Blessings to you, dear friends. It is a joy to visit with you in the sacred energy of your inner temple. I am the energy of Amon Ra and I travel to you on the ray which appears to you as violet and bronze. I exist in that realm which is beyond imagination and have come to teach access to this realm. Your reality is changing with great speed. Every being within your perception is experiencing this truth at some level. Those who are more spiritually aware and more able to feel intuitively activate this phase of awakening more consciously, but no one is missing this adventure. How could they? This is the time of unity… this is the time of acknowledging that all is one and that as one, the experience must include all. Many are asking what they might do to enhance their experience of awakening… I wish to offer several ideas for consideration. These are not the only tools available… they are simply the ones to be focused through this forum. It would be inappropriate to begin with any other suggestion than love. As always, loving others without agendas (unconditional love), living a life of loving service and loving yourself without agendas are all perpetual conditions to the realized life. Any love experienced in the energy of unity must be shared by all. The greatest point of dissonance which I observe today is in the weak skill of humans to love him or herself. If you do not love yourself… you must exist in duality… As you love yourself you find that magical doorway within your own sacred heart which opens upon the experience of unity. Do you see the possible advantage to beginning here? As you center within the energy of your own sacred heart you open the intuitive centers which allow you to witness the light of others. As you love yourself, you balance and align your energy centers and clear the mists of emotions that you carry for yourself and others. As you love yourself you purify, heal and awaken your true self. In genuine self-love, you unlock the memory of who you truly are, you blend with your own Godself while freeing your soul to new experiences of growth. You activate blessed receiving and you align elegantly with the Divine Plan. Fill your heart with love until it overflows… A natural side effect of loving yourself unconditionally is unity. The overflow that happens when you live in this process fills everyone and everything around you with love even unto the ends of the universe! By beginning with what many would call a selfish act, true unconditional love of all is the result. Many of you are striving to see the beauty or the Godself in all those you meet during your days and you are having very different levels of success… Don’t be too hard on yourselves! Remember that it is the effort which is most important! It might be a bit easier if you would simply attempt to find one thing which you appreciate in everyone you encounter. As you do this, remember that you are each entitled to your privacy and many of you consider your Godself to be quite a private matter. Some of you hide your light very thoroughly while others shine it only when they feel safe. No matter how it may appear, none of you are without divine light… The lovely thing is that, as you appreciate the timid smile of a passing stranger, they feel the appreciation… they feel at least a bit more safe and loved and, as a result of that exchange, they are infinitely more likely to allow you to witness the light of their true self, even if only as a momentary flash. Another suggestion is that you learn to listen! Your world is filled with noise… Have you noticed how much of that noise is the speech of beings trying to be recognized for who they are? I include in this suggestion the constant thought babble which oozes from most of your brains. How often do you genuinely listen to the words of others? In truth, while others speak most of you are forming your next comment and missing the majority of the conversation while many of you are actually thinking about totally unrelated topics which interest you more. Listen with your ears, your eyes, your brain, your nose, your heart… your whole being. You will be prized as a friend if you do. Everyone speaks with more than words… there is body language, telepathy, the aromas of your bodies and your auras. Your hearts are constantly emitting signals which are easily received if you quiet your own emissions enough. All your senses are part of the listening process when you expand your habits beyond simple audio attention. For those of you desiring to live in unity… if you so separate yourselves from the exchange due to disinterest or your own pressing thoughts… how is this unconditional love? When you disconnect you are not participating in the exchange… you are separating yourself and separation equals duality. Listen intently and with compassion to the words of others. This is loving service… this is giving the gift of love to those whom you encounter. And have you ever noticed how much less you learn when you are doing all the talking? There is great opportunity now to learn to live outside the box. If you consider that the box is made of what you know and outside it is simply what you don’t know… new stuff… stuff beyond imagination. Included within that unknown is the known, it won’t be forgotten or lost and you will always have it as a foundation to support and comfort you when needed. The personality trait which prevents movement outside the box is judgment. If this surprises you, imagine how you react when someone else steps out of their box… Are you shocked or supportive? Chances are your reaction varies depending upon how much your box and theirs align. For instance, if you love to dress outrageously you will probably be very supportive when a friend comes to work with purple hair. However, if that same friend takes up sky diving and you are deathly afraid of flying, you may feel more alarm than support. It is important to remember that what appears inappropriate to you is simply their step outside their own box. Your observation of what you consider to be their inappropriate actions simply bind you within your own box. Release the judgment of their action and you have found the key which unlocks the door to your self-made prison… you have opened ‘the gateless gate’… the next step is yours! As you develop the ability to move beyond imagination, you will eventually move beyond the imagination of the collective consciousness. This is what grows your world… your soul… God/Goddess/All That Is. If dyeing your hair purple is new and expansive to you, you evolve with that action and this has impact universally. If you move into a totally new area for your entire collective consciousness, your entire collective grows. If you need an example, look at the exciting efforts of those imaginative men and women who are redesigning space travel to make it inexpensive and safe for all. [Burt Rutan recently fathered a private space mission and is now planning more events. The internet is full of information for interested seekers.] It is also suggested that you ‘be the prayer’. You have probably heard the old definition: ‘Meditation is listening to God, prayer is talking to God.’ Unfortunately this explanation does not teach how to pray. If there is a wrong way to pray, it is to pray without feeling. All the mantras, chants, rituals, verses, incense, candles, confessions, supplications, visualizations, affirmations and etc. ad infinitum are simple tools and techniques to help you to arrive at the feeling of the work. There is no single method which replaces all the rest. The method which works for you personally and within your collectives is the method to use. The objective is to feel the prayer with every element of your being. And once you have found that place of feeling, live the feeling in every moment of your lives. Expand your time of prayer beyond the Sunday service or the mealtime grace. When would you like to live your life without the impact of prayer? The only valid answer is “Never!” My brothers and sisters of the light urge you to appreciate… Your eyes may contradict the prayer… yet feel the prayer. Your ears may demonstrate that your desire must fail… yet feel the prayer. Your heart may disbelieve that your request can be fulfilled… yet feel the prayer. What are those attributes which constitute ‘feeling’ in this discussion? Unconditional love, service to all, gratitude. No revelations there… the surprise is how many fail to pray in this way. And the joy is how many live their lives in this way. You might wonder what this discussion of prayer has to do with living outside the box. Imagine a world of unity and peace… That world lives beyond imagination just now, but it is moving into the realm of possibility with greater speed in each moment. In true prayer, hold the feeling of world peace and you will be one of the creators of that reality. It is difficult for most of you to envision what world peace actually looks like, tastes like, feels like. As you live the prayer of world peace you begin to understand the vision… the potential… And in your understanding you create a bridge between the world as you know it and that world which exists already as loving potential. Your efforts to venture outside your box and the box of the collective consciousness are heroic, valued, honored and admired. You are truly the mapmakers. The Masters of Light are here to help you in this great alignment with the Divine Plan. As you ask, we inspire. As you acknowledge and claim your mission, we assist. As you step beyond imagination, we await you upon the bridge. Let us be partners… let us hold the prayer together.
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