Who Are We Really? And What Is the True Nature of This Realm?
Not the Article I Planned to Write Today
Every single night, a strange thing happens to you, everyone you know, and everyone you don’t know. You go to sleep, and have strange experiences, many of which involve other beings and events that do not follow the same laws of time and space that seem to rule our waking world.
And we rarely talk about it. We’ll spend more time talking about a social media post we stumbled upon than the fact that every night of our lives, we’re having experiences that we can’t even consciously recall.
We wake up, pretending we are the same person we were when we went to bed. But we’re not, not really.
We have experiences, encounters, aha moments, visitations and so much more… most of which is forgotten upon waking by most people.
Sometimes we remember certain dreams, but how many go missing forever? Or are they really still there, just hidden from conscious awareness?
I have clear memory of a dream in which I was in a library in my home (this was a dream library, not something in my real home). In this place, I could take any book off the shelf, open it to random place - and the moment I touched my finger to the page, I was instantly transported to a dream that I suddenly knew I had previously dreamed in this lifetime.
Yes, a dream in which I remembered prior dreams. Not just remembered, but re-experienced — as a dream within a dream.
What if this is the real nature of what is happening. That we have endless dreams and “real life” experiences, and none are ever lost.
Or what if they repeat endlessly, an eternal recurrence as whispered by the demon in Nietzsche’s “The Gay Science”?
What if everything that’s ever happened is just looping? Not just for us personally, but at a Universal scale?
Whatever is happening, it seems strange to me how little we seem to talk about, or even acknowledge the strangeness of our own personal experiences.
Cycles of Time and the Roles We Play
Like my dream within a dream, we seem to experience all kinds of loops within loops. However, who we are - our identity, our belief systems… these can shift throughout these experiences.
Even at a mundane level, we move through life changing roles, from child to adult, and sometimes on to becoming a parent, and maybe a grandparent after that. Our careers shift, our relationships, and all of the facets of our lives shift and change, yet we have some deep sense of who we are beneath each wardrobe change.
My question is this — is there an even deeper layer? Is there a bigger role we are each here to play?
I believe this is the case, which is why I hesitate to suggest there is one best way forward, one way to believe, one way to operate in and perceive the world.
What if the role we are here to play is the real determining factor for what we are really intended to focus on? To do and practice… to care about?
For example, I am deeply passionate about exploring the human potential. As I look around me and within own life, I am troubled by how limited we allow ourselves to be. Deep down, there’s some part of me that knows - absolutely knows how capable we are of healing our bodies, of connecting to higher frequencies, of creating amazingly beautiful things when we align with the spark of the divine within us.
This passion may be due to my role. And maybe not even the role I play now, but more so the role I am to play later.
This is my sense of things, but is it true? That is a mystery.
If this is the case, it makes complete sense why these things that matter so much to me might be of little to no interest to someone else, who is here to play a different role.
The key point here is that we need all roles to make good of what we are given.
We need the warriors as much as we need the philosophers. We need the healers as much as we need inventors. We need the artists, the eccentrics, the poets, the makers, the farmers, star gazers, and skywatchers… we need to hear from all, learn from all, appreciate and respect all roles, all members of the human family.
When Your Family Is Attacked
If we see ourselves as a human family - how do we account then for those things that seem particularly and singularly aimed at attacking our humanity?
And if we do not appreciate and listen to others, regardless of their roles, how can we even detect when these attacks are happening?
We’ve been divided, and divided, and divided - and manipulated beyond belief, literally.
The higher aspects within me - the parts that truly believe in our human potential - this part of me knows that we can overcome this. It knows that we have it within us to reconnect with one another, tap into our collective power - to identify the enemy, and ultimately protect our kind.
But believing this is possible will not alone make it so.
Strangest Things
We are living in a time of very high strangeness. I have no idea how many are at a point where they are willing to perceive it, but the kinds of things that were once perhaps limited to happening only in weird dreams - these very same things are beginning to happen out in the open, in broad daylight.
Just because they’re happening out in the open more than ever doesn’t mean we’re at a place where we can talk about it.
Instead of open and honest dialogue, we’re in a place where it seems everyone thinks everything is a psyop, or that everyone is controlled opposition, or — believe it or not — that absolutely nothing unusual at all is happening and everything is “the same as it ever was”.
“Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground”— The Talking Heads
What do you think is or is not happening?
What do I believe?
I believe that you don’t have to know exactly WHAT is happening in order to know that SOMETHING is happening.
To me, the most important thing is to train yourself to perceive reality - as it is, as best you can… and this involves an abundance of discernment.
Know Thyself
To bring this full circle, there’s a key element of discernment that often gets overlooked - in order to discern the “out there”, you have to know what’s inside first.
You must know yourself to the highest degree possible at this point in the game.
In order to perceive what is real, what is important, what is significant for you (any of these things may actually differ from person to person)… in order to develop this skill, you must continually develop your knowledge of who and what you are.
You may not be able to remember all of your dreams, but you can start by pausing upon waking to acknowledge that you have just had any number of experiences… you can check in with how you feel inside, how things have shifted. You don’t have to be able to journal all of the details in order to acknowledge and accept that you have been through some things, and may have shifted some beliefs or understandings as a result.
Likewise, you may not know your role yet - what you are really here to do. But you can appreciate that you do have a role in this world. You can appreciate and respect the roles played by others. And not just the roles that societal narratives tell you to respect - but the real people in your life. The people that touch your world. All of them.
My guess is that you would be surprised to learn the true nature of each and every one of these connections.
If you cannot see through the illusion, perceive beyond Maya, this does not stop you from acknowledging its existence. Indeed, the act of perceiving beyond the veil may very well begin with this simple “stretching” of your perception, giving yourself permission to perceive the possible that is beyond the apparent.
For me, these are some of the dynamics that might help us break out of negative loops. That’s right demons, I do not believe that everything repeats bit for bit. Patterns maybe, but in each cycle of time, we have free will to choose. We may not be able to choose the events in our lives - but our experiences of those events are emotionally charged by and with who and what we are.
When we expand our sense of who we are, allow ourselves to connect to and tap into all available resources inside and out — this helps us to increase our coherence in chaotic times.
Why This? Why Now?
I imagine that at the end of any big cycle, some see it and know it’s happening while others do not. Maybe different groups of people are simply perceiving different facets of the same phenomena, who knows. And I am certainly not saying that I have any magic answers here… but I will share that when I ponder the recent experiences of clients, friends, and acquaintances alike - there’s a LOT of weird stuff happening right now.
I have had a few very odd things happen myself. High strangeness is reaching new levels. And synchronicities are off the charts.
Let me know what’s happening in your world. Is everything same as it ever was? Or are strange things showing up in all the normal places?
This is not the article I planned to write. But this is what I needed to share first.
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