Opening to the Strange Attractor

We’re in it now. The impeachment trial of our President has begun. Our nation is divided. Pluto has uncovered corruption. Saturn brought it into manifestation. The ranks are lining up for battle. Our collective psyche will wrestle with very important questions and much is at stake. In the weeks ahead, we will all vote for the future we want. We will be challenged to stand up for what we believe in and what we value. We will be asked, “Do we have the courage to face the truth?”

A drama will unfold on the Senate floor but the real battlefield lies within each and every one of us. America is being tested. We have come to a fork in The Evolutionary Road. Which way do we want to go?

You may be wondering why I say “We.” That brings us to the first metaphysical truth – We Create Our Reality. We create it out of our thoughts, our attitudes, our feelings and how we express them, our choices, our dreams and our behavior. In a word, we create our physical reality through our consciousness.

Each of us operates within a bubble of awareness that is part of an infinite field of collective consciousness. We are responsible for this bubble of awareness – this inner garden in which we live our lives.

What is the state of your inner garden? What are you cultivating? Is it teeming with life? Is it filled with beauty and love? Or is it a neglected wasteland? This is what you are offering in return for the gift of life.

Saturn is serving us, in this time of transformation, with the opportunity to take full responsibility for our piece of the Great Puzzle. The challenge for each of us, individually, is to tend our inner garden and bring it back to the paradise that it has always been.

We’re talking about integrity. We all are being challenged to reassemble ourselves, to call back all those dismissed parts of ourselves, to reclaim lost power and reconnect with the angelic beings we truly are. We are one and the same with the whole of Divinity! We have an opportunity to bring Spirit into us, to allow it to flow through us and transform our world.

What we’re doing through this year is navigating a passage from one state of consciousness to another. Einstein told us that we cannot solve problems from the same state of consciousness that created them. So we’re evolving our consciousness. It’s quite an adventure! And that’s the best way to approach it – with curiosity and a sense of adventure. Dread will only engender more dread. Fear will only perpetuate a fearful world. We are pioneers! We are truly going where only a very few have gone before!

To prepare for the journey we must gather some provisions. Luckily some wise ones have gone before us and left a list. There are certain qualities of consciousness that we can cultivate to assist our awakening. The first is Innocence.

That must sound ironic in this age of information and guilt. The innocence of which I write is not the opposite of guilt, it is a state of consciousness, it is a context. Innocence is an approach to life. It is the opposite of a know-it-all. Innocence means approaching every moment as if it were our first. It means we carry no preconceived notions, no expectations, no certainty whatever. When we approach life in a state of innocence, we experience it in the raw. It is brand new information in every moment and we are completely free to respond in a brand-new way. This is the way to set forth into the unknown. The less we think we know, the more we can learn.

Innocence is one of the most powerful transformers. It will immediately bring forth all our defenses against raw experience. And that’s good because we need to know what our defenses are. We need to see how the ego stands in the way of our living life fully in the moment.

This is a process. As with any tool or instrument, we have to practice using it. I don’t recommend stripping down raw and throwing your defenses to the wind. That could cause a psychic shock and set you back. I’m suggesting, rather, that we can cultivate innocence, begin to approach people and circumstances from a place of not-knowing.

How many times have we “known” beforehand what the future will be like? We are obligated to go to a party, for instance, and immediately we know how boring it will be, how awful the guests. We form a vision in our minds of a miserable event. And guess what?  That’s exactly what we get. We experience exactly what we envision, especially when it is fortified with feeling. A feeling of dread or loathing will lock an image in place and begin to bring it into manifestation.

This is how we create Strange Attractors in our lives, by imagining a future and solidifying it with emotion. We  empower a potential which attracts that event into our experience. When our imagination is limited to our experience, we are locked into repeating the past. Furthermore, we imprison each other with our expectations. If we want to create a different future, we need to open up to new possibilities. 

Here’s a good place to start. Next time there’s something we anticipate with less than joy, we can call upon innocence. We can drop our expectations and don our suit of not-knowing. We don’t know what will happen, who we might meet, what bit of insight we may glean, how much fun awaits. In innocence, we let life be the adventure it is meant to be.

It is only through the eyes of innocence that we can perceive a new world. It is this perception we seek, because it will calm our fears and strengthen our resolve. Furthermore, it will become a Strange Attractor drawing us forward. How is it that reality self-organizes chaos into patterns of beauty? We will take a deeper look at the Strange Attractor phenomenon next week and how we can use its power to draw us into the future we desire.