On our journey of remembrance of unity, as individuals we have "aspects" or parts of ourselves that have "fallen" into duality. We no longer represent the unity within ourselves--and no longer feel at "one" with the Creator or Creation energy. (And anything other than an expression of unity is an illusion.) I also find that it is not a coincidence that "sin" is very close to "sine" in Latin which means "without" and that "sin" in Hebrew literally means "to miss the mark". What I believe is "missing" or "without" is the idea that we are not separate.
Mythology is filled with stories about "mini-falls" or dualities, and as such they are filled with fears and desires. These are the symptoms of an illusion since the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, are all emergent from the same energy.
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The intention we put behind energies make entities/beings/contexts seem "positive" or "negative", but the Truth is neutral.
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Mythology are stories in our collective conscious that remind us of times when we forgot the penultimate rule: that We Are One. Dreams are an important mechanism to relay these stories in contexts that make sense to you--to personalize the universal.
Every myth has its impossibility. There is always something a little unexplainable....and this is why myth is relegated to fiction. "How doe he have super strength?" "How did she get pregnant as a virgin?" "How did they return from the underworld?" "How does s/he know things that we are heretofore oblivious to?" But what if these stories represent real accounts written in metaphors, yet the metaphors have lost their context over time and are now taken at face value. Once we can transcend the limitations of the chronological context, these stories represents underlying principles and archetypes that echo throughout time. Again with each archetype representing a "duality" or a fall.
As we heal our mini-illusions that collectively create the grand illusion in our minds and bodies, your being, the planet and the universe(s) will heal as well. We can stop reenacting the infinite play of illusion and participate in the reality of unity. Our children will lead lives in abundance....rich with opportunity. And by "opportunity" I mean the ability to achieve that which is imprinted on their souls...what it is "in their blood to do"...to express themselves in the way they intend. Opportunity is not equivalent to the ability to acquire mass amounts of wealth or to attain a position in a hierarchy that gives more weight to those who venture farther away from "one". For as we seek to obtain credentials and goodies that set us apart from the rest, what we end up with is just that--being "a part, not whole--and without experience of the reality of equality.
Mythology assists us in understanding the forces in our lives that
we have little understanding of. We
often wonder how it is we end up in the same situation or fail to learn a
certain lesson, or why our lives never go quite as we plan them. It is because who “we” think is doing the living
and planning is only a small representative of the totality of our being. There are planners in our being that many of us are
largely unaware of. A part of you wants
you to fail because you don’t think you can do it, you are not worthy, or maybe
because deep down inside, you know that the path you are pursuing is not the
location of your bliss.
Ossian Summoning the Spirits, Gérard, 1802
The forces that make up your own
sphere of consciousness are the same ones that govern the body and the universe, but are manifested as psychological dispositions. Your mind, body and spirit are in constant
war with itself to create harmony (another paradox)—much like the cosmos—to maintain a balance. We already have a notion of this in our
biological sciences called “homeostasis”. Homeostasis is the idea used to talk about how various
parts of your biological being work together to achieve balance, and that when
organs and systems are out of balance, dis-ease occurs. Your conscious and subconscious mind also works in this fashion.
Psychological discomfort often arises because
we are all of these energies, but desperately
try to identify only with those attributes that we consider positive. This of course disrupts our natural state of internal harmony and agitates the energetics inside
of us that we consider "negative".
Ironically, as experience is a large circle or loop, the more we run away from the
dark or negativity, the faster we run into it again. All is experience—positive and negative—the best
we can do is to hold on to the center.
We are all one, we are all the energy of source...there is no need to be envious, confused, angry or depressed. Yet, don't beat yourself when you feel these emotions. If you find yourself reenacting any of these "mini-falls", look at the source of this situation/feeling. Be honest. You can look through a mythology book (or website)...identify with the "fall", the character, the setting...and call upon the name associated with this fall to acknowledge, process and release this fear/desire.
In La Kesh
{"I am another you"}
~*Sophia Alcyone*~
