For What It's Worth

Are you just hanging on by a thread?

Perhaps you're so filled with discontent you're thinking of blowing up your life and starting over. Or maybe you're facing a life threatening illness that's got you asking "why me?"

Both are symptoms of an inner voice calling you to awaken to who you are and what you're about. And to begin to reflect that in how you go about your life.

This blog is the beginning of what I hope will be an extensive dialogue with you. Not just me talking, but all of you speaking out as well.

We know there is an event on the horizon commonly called the Ascension. All the religions predict it. The Mayans were so sure it was coming at the end of 2012 that they skipped the rest of their perpetual calendar.

We all know it's coming.

I can feel it. I think you probably can, too, deep inside.

Today we're going on an inner journey. It is one that will require thought and reflection. So if you're reading from work or with a lot of noise or activity around you, you might want to print this out so you can consider it more deeply when you can get some quiet time.

Together we're going to look at what life is really bringing you. Because that's where you must start if you're to get what you really want.

Perhaps the answers will be obvious, but I encourage you to reflect on them, and allow yourself to question whether something else lies deeper, below the surface of your awareness.

Let us begin.

I try to challenge the status quo and loosen the hold of the lower ego wherever I can, thereby making way for our higher aspects within. My objective is not only to raise awareness of our common evolutionary journey, but to do it in ways that can be more easily applied in our world.

This is, after all, the critical failing of religion. What good is it to be told to love each other, if we don't know how, much less have the will to do it when faced with the hard choices of life?

My own situation requires a personal connection where I can look into the eyes, and touch the hearts and minds, of those beginning to awaken to new ways of seeing their lives in this world. Why, I don't know. Only that I must.

I'm tired.

It's not that life is getting me down. I still love life. But I just don't like the way it's lived in this world.

This is a world of opposites -- good-bad, hot-cold, etc. And frankly, neither side holds a lot of appeal for me any more.

Don't get me wrong. I believe in doing good and all the positive sides of our pairs of opposites. And do my best to reflect them in my life.

Allow me to share another view of life, one you may never have considered. It may test your beliefs and ability to consider new ideas. Or it may feel completely right and natural at a place deep below the workings of your mind.

We are souls born into an interactive system of creation, dropped into a strange and unforgiving world without any rules other than the limited teachings passed down from generation to generation. Limited, for their wizened advice is in effect little more than the blind leading the blind, based on the distorted perceptions of their outer experience where conflict and struggle were their only reliable tools to survive.

Here we go again. Another new year, another fresh start to redefine who we are and how we'll live our lives.

I used to make resolutions. And to be honest, I sat down and wrote up a few for this year. But even before the new year started, I threw them away. Because they weren't much in the way of resolutions anyway. Only things I wanted to come about this year, and maybe a couple of the action steps I thought might help me create them.

Does life ever seem a bit upside down to you? I know it does to me. And while it might not look that way to others, we sure do notice it when it happens.

Take, for instance, your My Whisperzone page. Most of you see it with the latest entries first. Me, I see it backwards, and have to go to the end of the list to see what's been added recently.

When life seems to be upside down, maybe that's a good indicator that what you think you should be working on is the last place to start. And the last thing on your list should come first.

Try it a while. Maybe it will help you set things right. In the meantime, I'll check back with our programmers to see if I can get things right-side up myself.

Most of what I try to do here is to get you to look at what's going on inside you. So you can begin to bring it to the surface of your outer being.

Once you start, though, then it becomes an even grander adventure. Because then you're faced with the challenge of allowing yourself to be what you are, notwithstanding all that you can be. Even while digging deeper and deeper to know it.

What are you experiencing while you go about your journey?

Traveling the spiritual path is all about seeing the experiences of life in a new way. And using them to learn things about ourselves. This art of self-examination is the primary tool of the inner path.

Some of those things are on the surface. Like our personality responses and patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. But the journey doesn't stop with just looking at them. It means considering what causes them and how and why they serve us. And that means digging ever-deeper, looking for the hidden inner factors that shape our outer lives. And then digging deeper still.