I’m writing this post to give us a “head’s up”. I am currently working on another project, as well as overseeing my daughter’s education as we head into finals. I’m not going to mince my words, nor tiptoe around even trying to be nice about it.
There is an attitude that is prevalent that is not serving Humanity one bit. I’ll call it our attitude of being emotional spoiled brats and wimps.
It’s the attitude expressed by these statements:
“I don’t want to see anything unpleasant.”
“I don’t want to hear anything unpleasant.”
“I don’t want to experience anything unpleasant.”
It’s this attitude of rejection and denial that has been selling itself as supposedly ’spiritual’, when it couldn’t be farther from it.
Each of the attitudes expresses a LACK, a DEFICIT of inner strength and of Spiritual Integration. And our hope at this time, does not lie in being BIG BABIES.
I have HAD IT, with the selling of this attitude being related to ANYTHING Spiritual and those of us who have been selling this idea, and personally profiting off the ignorance of others, are going down. Realities wiped out unless changed and transformed.
It is not wise at this time to look to outer authorities to solve our problems. As all our problems at this time are a result and consequence of our LACK in self discipline.
I realize there a many of us who think of discipline as “unpleasant” and those of us who believe this, are going to discover that the consequences of lacking it, are far more unpleasant then discipline itself.
It is not a ‘good’ time to be a sheep.
For further reference and comments see:
http://www.hera-kles.com/Blog/2009/01/13/emotionally-infantile/
By: Grace on January 14, 2009
at 4:10 pm
Hi Sue Ann,
I would not wish to be a sheep either in this time:) unless maybe a feral one, shedding wool in case it is needed for clothing, but not being there when it is gathered by man, in the case they did wish to domesticate me, so I could no longer survive in the wild on my own…!
By: tumel on January 14, 2009
at 7:50 pm
Bravo, bravo!!!!!
{{{{{hugs}}}} all around!
It’s time for the Divine Feminine to RISE!!!!
And by that I mean our INTUITION and the emotional strength of Virtue that comes with it.
The idea of insulating ourselves and calling it “love” is outdated. So is surrendering the authority of our lives over to others or some other *old* fart.
We CAN do it! We CAN pull together, one hand washing another, sharing of ourselves and what we have in abundance. Be that time, or experience or giggles or just plain listening.
No, you’re not a sheep {{tumel}}}. Not with that attitude. You’re a goat! It’s goats that climb the mountain of Initiation, leaving sheep behind to bleat all they want, waiting for a Shepherd to lead them.
Speaking of sheep, how many times do we think we can shear one, before it’s finally skinned?
What I have going on and in production is a website, an interactive one, that presents the “Path” in an Integrated fashion, Whole * Complete.
I’m flying to San Francisco in March. In a past lifetime, my tribe kidnapped my {{Sis}}, who was living in this area. So now I’m flying down to ‘kidnap’ her back.
{{{Sis}}} is one of many leaving California and she’s moving {{{here}}}. I’m flying down, to ride back with her, keeping her company on the road and helping with her cats.
It will be BOTH of us TOGETHER behind the business/instructional website.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on January 15, 2009
at 1:11 am
Funny Sue Ann, about the goat
there was a game I played, and in this game you could create a character that came into the world existing, from another planet, they were called Draenei, and had the shape of a goat, the hoofs, the tail, the horns, and were mystical in nature and were all about Light. I loved playing her:) she was a leywalker, and it was funny because when I would travel around in this game, being this leywalker, I would come across little spots in the game shaped like hearts, or a happy face or a bird, intentional I think by the designer.
Anyways, your post got me thinking about sheep, and a need to post about them:)
and I look forward to this website you and your sister create.
By: tumel on January 15, 2009
at 12:40 pm
It’s refreshing to find another person in the spiritual blogosphere not talking the happy talk of “all you have to do is think happy thoughts and your life will be wonderful.” It’s the “law of positive attraction” or whatever. Bad things only happen to people who aren’t thinking happy thoughts.
It’s so fluffy, so absurd so – ugh. It’s strikes me as a kind of mass delusion, since all anyone has to do is turn on the news or talk to a few people to learn it isn’t remotely reality-based.
This attitude also abounds in alternative medicine circles. If you get sick or “fail” to recover it’s because you’re generating negative energy. Happy, positive people never get sick…
By: Paul Maurice Martin on January 15, 2009
at 5:27 pm
Greetings {{{Paul}}}!!!!!
Those {{{}}} are hugs btw…
Heart to heart, that’s me. I haven’t met a one of us yet that couldn’t use a {{hug}}}
I thank you for the Honor you extend in sharing your appreciation. *stuff* like this is what my archives are full of. Can’t say that I’ve been popular with this attitude of mine but I’m not out to win any popularity contests, either. (I leave that to Presidents.*chuckling*)
“Absurd”, I like that description of all the drivel!
Like the title to my blog says: Always embraces all ways. That’s ALL. Negative as well as positive. Existence encompasses everything and everyone.
Whether I’m having a “bad” day or a “good” day, whether I am happy or miserable, each moment is a Present, A Gift of life experience. And I am fond of asking the question: How much do we Love Life?
For most of us have been taught and raised to only love half of it….the “good” and the “pleasant” half. This makes our “love” completely conditional.
UNconditional Love is THE “Immaculate Concept”. All conditional love does in make us emotionally needy all the time and filled with doubts and worry about whether we have satisfied all the conditions, which change constantly, depending upon who we talk to.
Interesting you mention the Law of Attraction, for it is our subconscious and not our conscious mind that is activating what we attract.
In my model creation works like a rubber band. Everything we deem “negative” is something we reject. I liken this rejection to pulling one end of a rubber band away from us. Sooner or later this rubber band is going to reach maximum extension and *snap*. THEN everything we have labeled “negative” is going to come right back to us, *whap*.
I point out that if creating only “positives” in our Life is what Mastery is all about, then Christ was a nitwit and no Master. Boy, did he mess up!
I am sharing that Mastery is about *knowing* that no matter what experiences come into our lives, we have whatever we need within us, to rise to the occasion and cope with it.
Assurance takes the place of insurance. Like self assurance takes the place of self doubt.
We’ve just started into the cycle where we’re going to be witnessing and experiencing the results of all the “positive thinking” and it isn’t starting off very “pleasant” for many of us. Everything we’ve been living in Denial of, is coming back to smack us squarely in the face.
I speak a lot about our “emotional coping skills” and cite we’re lacking in them. I also illuminate that my feelings are mine as yours are yours, his are his, etc. No one else is in charge of the peptide production of our own hypothalumus. Which really upsets a lot of us, since making others feel guilty or trying to make others feel guilty for however we feel, is what has been going on all around the world for the most part.
Once I validate myself I don’t need to look to others for that sense of validation. And not getting that validation is what a lot of us call “being mean” or “hurting their feelings”.
I take a lot of flack over it, however, if someone doesn’t stand up and point out that it is Us, that have the power over our own feelings, then we are forever doomed to remain un-empowered and continue in our experiences of being emotionally victimized.
It has been said that “the Truth is what sets us free”. It has also been said that “the Truth hurts”.
Defining “love” as only what is “pleasant” doesn’t leave much room for Truth and Honesty. For when our little “pleasant” worlds have been based on lies and delusions, it is bound to hurt as our realities come crashing down.
A bird wakes up singing every morning in celebration of Life. And goes about gathering worms free of worrying about whether a cat is going to get them.
Speaking of birds, I wonder how long it is going to take for someone to come up with the idea that Al Qadea trained the carrier pigeon to fly into the plane’s engine? Or maybe Canadian geese being trained as suicide bombers?
Welcome! Welcome!
By: Sue Ann Edwards on January 15, 2009
at 8:29 pm
I agree with a much of what you’re saying but don’t follow how labeling or recognizing ANYTHING – which would include things like torture, rape, murder – as a negative is itself a negative that comes back at you.
Just seething over such things in impotent internal monologs – that’s negative. But simply recognizing unwellness as unwellness seems to me has to be positive. If, say, MLK had thought discrimination was OK we’d still have Jim Crow.
By: Paul Maurice Martin on January 16, 2009
at 12:09 pm
It is never a good time to be a sheep or a bobble head! We must be willing to embrace it all, the good, the bad and the ugly.
By: tobeme on January 16, 2009
at 12:43 pm
What’s the name of that game {{tumel}} ? It sounds fun! Yes, I agree, the designer must have been Insightful, for the ‘higher’ we go upon the path, the more love is in our hearts, the more smiles we find on our faces!
It’s because as we ‘climb’, the more of our fragmented self we claim, the more ‘parts’ we love and the Whole-ier we get. *smiling*
{{{Paul}}} I understand your questions and they are very good ones! I am not proposing we *magically* change and start liking things that are unpleasant and/or painful.
What I Am saying, is that we change our approaches, our initial perspectives. 1st, we cease our knee jerk reactions to judge and condemn a person for the act itself. For once I’ve decided to judge, then I have rejected ‘it’ whatever ‘it’ may be. From this state of rejection, I have cut myself off from understanding, for my own rejection stands in my way.
I have to desire to understand before I ever will.
We often question “what was that person thinking?”, when what we need to ask is “what was that person feeling?” Putting ourselves in the other person’s place.
What are the feelings of that rapist? What are the feelings of that terrorist? What are the feelings of that white supremacist?
From there, we can go deeper into understanding our human condition. Why does he/she feel that way?
It is in asking these kind of questions, that leads us to a DEPTH of Understanding. For if we ever would like to see such acts vanish, then we must endeavor to find their cause, rather then just using rejection and judgment to “cast thee out”.
Simply put, who ever it is, whatever ‘they’ are doing, we ask ourselves “How would I like to be treated if that were me?”
For what ever we sow, is what we shall reap.
Instead of ‘walking a mile in their moccasins’, we ‘live that mile in their skin’.
You may be interested in these posts:
http://sueannedwards.wordpress.com/living-light/understanding/
http://sueannedwards.wordpress.com/living-light/knowing/
In your example of MLK, since we still live with discrimination and prejudice, the cause behind this prejudice and discrimination has yet to be addressed. All Social condemnation has achieved is suppression.
If we looked deeper into the matter, we’d find that issues of Self Worth and Self Esteem are at the root of the trouble. By imagining anyone lower then ourselves, it elevates us in the confines of our own minds. In order to feel ‘good’ about ourselves, we cite others as ‘bad’.
This is a parasitic relationship, where the elevation of one group is achieved at the expense of another.
What I Am suggesting, is we find some other way to feel ‘good’ about ourselves, BESIDES delegating others as ‘bad’. Once we find this means, then we have found a way to elevate ourselves while elevating everyone else along with us.
I’ll use the Hebrew idea of a “chosen”. This idea is not ‘wrong’ in and of itself. It’s the unstated part, that there is an “unchosen” that forms the basis of prejudice and ideas of supremacy.
Much Clarity can be gleaned if we substitute the word “life” or the phrase “unified quantum field”, in place of the word ‘God’. For the perspective of Unity is the same no matter which word or phrase we use.
Having read your blog, I’ll save you some time and simply share that physical hardships have been a part of my life experience, too. 2 strokes, which I know call my ’strokes of luck’ for ever since I’ve had an awareness of Eternal reality in my head. I wake up with it and live with it every moment of my life and it hasn’t been easy! Within the past year and a half, I’ve also had 4 surgeries repairing arteries that have collapsed.
I’ve gone from my left side being numbed and paralyzed, being unable to see, unable to talk and unable to walk, to being *fine*. So fine, no one can tell I’ve had any troubles or problems at all. I can also walk without pain, for the 1st time in years. Where I used to fear pain, I’ve since discovered within me is the resilience to “rise above” it. I’ve also recognized and realized: persistence, determination, versatility and flexibility of heart and mind, as well as resilence.
Medical issues, especially those that are difficult to diagnose, are ones where there is something *else* going on besides “unwellness”.
There has been a shift in the quantum field itself and if we’re alive on planet earth at this time, then we’re all shifting with it.
{{{tobeme}}} ABsolutely! Through the very act of embracing, we discover what’s within us! It is a part of Self Discovery, Self Realization and Self Recognition.
I’d say being ‘gullible’ has been one of our main issues.
For what is NOT being told right now in our media, is that last year we saw the GREATEST number of NEW business starts on record! It’s not corporations that will be pulling us out of our current mess.
I like my husband’s idea. Why not give every single man, woman and child in our country $26,000 and let us go spend it or bury it or deposit it where we Will, rather then bailing out all the failing businesses. Then we’d see where the REAL demand for goods and services lies, rather then continuing to create false demands for services that aren’t what is genuinely needed.
Since this is not what is being done, there is a *hole* in our market serving what has become the needs of our People. I suspect in 2009 the number of new small business start-ups will be phenomenal, as we discover that if we don’t have a job, we can sure make one. All it takes is to fulfill a “need” of our People. However much “value” people find in it, that’s make life ease-ier and more bearable, is its Worth.
I sense you could use a {{{{HUG}}}}
By: Sue Ann Edwards on January 16, 2009
at 5:52 pm
May I say: Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
(trying to imitate the sound of a lone sheep).
Ah yes, it is no time to be one, but having been raised as same, I’m having a hard time raising the shears to my own wool!
Blessings, thanks for the kick in the pants!!!!!!!!!
By: SurfaceEarth on January 18, 2009
at 1:47 pm
Ohhhhhh {{{{SE}}}}} !!!!!!!
{{{{HUGS!!!!}}}}}
You’re no sheep! Never have been either!
You were simply told you had to dress up in a sheep’s costume. So you did.
While everyone has been looking for wolves in sheep’s clothing, no one bothered to look for the goats in sheep’s clothing.
And after all that time running around buried under layers of the sheep’s costume, it takes a while to relax to the feeling of running around in your birthday suit.
Love,
Bopeep
(“Uh oh, there’s goes another one.”)
By: Sue Ann Edwards on January 18, 2009
at 6:05 pm
World of Warcraft SueAnn:) When I play it I sometimes wish that the ones I have come to know through wordpress were there playing it with me as well.
By: tumel on January 20, 2009
at 6:50 am
Ooooohhhhhhh!!!!!!
I am familiar with World of Warcraft. My son plays it. I don’t have the hardware to play. Not yet, anyway. But I’ll most likely get it this year.
My son is a “rogue”. It’s his character’s talent to inflict damage.
Inspired by an idea I shared with him, he created another character, this one a “druid”, for my idea was that while most players were trying to be fighters, I was going to choose to be a ‘healer’ myself. So he beat me to it and lo and behold, the game comes out with a new expansion pack with “druids” the only ones able to access the *new* ~power~.
I’ll be there sometime!
{{{{{hugs}}}}}
By: Sue Ann Edwards on January 20, 2009
at 3:48 pm
I’m also beginning to learn to accept all aspects of the journey…..and this is after doing a lot of self-develpment that seemed to take me away from the journey.
Life isn’t about always being up, it’s about learning to accept the ebb and the flow.. It would be ridiculous to think we could ever stop the changing tides of the ocean, yet it seems like some of us are trying so hard to stop the changing tides of our self.
I’m also learning that self-acceptance means accepting that sometimes I don’t accept myself
It’s all part of the ebb and flow…and only human.
By: http://www.thesalviablog.com/ on March 28, 2009
at 5:49 pm
I enjoy your analogy to an ocean and trying to stop the changing tides!
For so long, so many of our beliefs have been tied to insulating us from Life. Most especially the parts of life that are um….err….unpleasant. The “dark side”, the parts we label “negative”. But we were in ‘denial’ then. That was the name of the game.
Now the board may look the same but “denial” is no longer the name of the game. For it is in embracing our “dark”, that we discover our Divinity.
“Power” isn’t about control, as you well know. “Power” comes from knowing the ability and capacity is within us, to rise above anything.
Like Solomon once said:
Straight stick, crooked stick, a stick is still a stick.
Happy moment, sad moment, a moment is always a Present.
It’s not perfection that counts. It’s our ability to embrace imperfection that does. Now you know why I have claimed being a “Complete Idiot”.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on March 30, 2009
at 5:29 pm