The Inner Pioneers: We ask questions from the inside out!
Hey beautiful friends,
During a time of introspection a few months ago, I toyed around with an idea that came to me of a group of people who are deeply dedicated to taking full responsbility for their lives and challenging each other to be the very best they can be. Below are some of the musings that came of this. Enjoy!
With lots of love and joy,
Fred
The Inner Pioneers: We ask questions from the inside out!
Shit happens.
There is no one to blame.
Apologies, forgiveness, and taking personal responsibility
are transformational acts of love!
How am I somehow creating what's happening in my life and world?
How are we co-creating all of this?
How can we help each other to take personal responsibility?
Emphasis on I, but always remembering/considering you and especially We.
These are our big questions.
We welcome all answers.
We do not accept any answer as the Truth with a capital T, yet we welcome your truth and all answers as a part of the truth.
Who am I?
Who are you?
Who are we?
Why do we exist?
Why did the One divide and separate itself?
Why existence as opposed to nothingness?
What are we creating? Why?
Who are we being? Why?
Three key questions:
How am I creating this? (self)
How are you creating this? (other)
How are we co-creating this? (collective)
There are consequences for all of our actions.
All actions are consequential.
We create our energetic experience of reality through however we interpret what happens in each moment. We can change our reality by supporting each other to develop more empowering interpretations and take greater personal responsibility (ability to respond).
The deeper question than "how" is "why."
Rather than provide answers, we prefer to help people frame the questions.
Learning how to be and create as unique individuals in a collective.
Transforming our collective myths and stories.
Going where my consciousness has never gone before.
Helping each other to take personal responsibility for whatever is happening.
Taking personal responsibility to depths I've never plumbed before.
Let's be real with each other.
What's deeper than that?
We can create love. We can generate love within us where there was none before.
Everyone wants to be loved.
Clear, loving intentions can transform our lives and world.
Suppressing emotion creates energetic pockets which eventually will find expression in some way. Intense suppression can lead to major unexpected challenges in the future. Maybe our collective suppression of the shadow plays a huge part in the unfolding of the drama here on planet Earth. When we both individually collectively choose to acknowledge the shadow, and then learn to engage and even dance with it, life transforms.
Don't forget the importance of venting, of allowing full, authentic expression to our emotions in a way that honors all involved. It is generally most empowering not to focus our emotion when venting directly at the individual who was the trigger for our emotions. Encourage getting back to the raw emotion without directing it at anyone.
After fully experiencing the emotion, consider playing with the idea of exchanging "I'm so upset/angry at you for ..." with "I'm so upset/angry at me for ... ", all the while realizing that on the deepest levels, there is no one to blame. And remember that apologies, forgiveness, and taking personal responsibility are transformational acts of love.
What's working for me? For you? For us?
What's not working for me? For you? For us?
Form many questions out of these.
The Inner Pioneers: Where Titans Tread and Fairies Flitter Together
Experiencing and exploring life and the universe as a gigantic hologram.
It's all a game of mirrors. We are mirrors of God unfolding.
Wow, Bob! I so love what you shared! Yes!!! I would even encourage you to post what your wrote in a separate forum. I am very inspired by your experience. I, too, and finding that it is when I relax and surrender, I have access to far expanded realms which give me the strength and wisdom to deal with challenges that arise in my life. What a joy to know that on the deeper levels everything in this physical world takes on a greater significance. Thanks so much for your words and sharing your beautiful experience. You take care.
With abundant love, joy, and gratitude,
Fred
I'm just adding to this thread to move it back up into the "visible spectrum" of threads so that a new member won't miss it. Based on what she said about her journey, this might be valuable for her.
B.
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Thanks, Fred, for these insights and questions about vital things -- both everyday and fundamental. Would that more people asked them. They remind me that both questions and answers can come from different places in ourselves. And so, relative to this, I would like to share a very recent experience (from the inside) and a resulting perspective.
Three days ago I returned from a meditation retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains -- near you. It was wonderful and I learned much that satisfied the mind. But the most crucial thing I learned was beyond my thinking mind. I learned that when meditating (or just going about my life), when I pay attention to my own mind and emotions (and body) in a direct, open, non-analytical way (as a pure observer with no judgments, goals, or expectations), I see, first, that emotions and thoughts of every kind come and go. They have no enduring quality in themselves. And the shadows are there, too, naked, flitting in and out of existence with all the rest. It's all okay -- nothing to reject. As time goes on I notice that there are spaces betweens my thoughts. These spaces become more numerous and longer as my "observer" stays on the job. And these spaces grow, and sometimes there is only empty space, which is filled with light and love. It's simpler than simple. Can we call this True Self? God? Well, these are just words. Why pile names on it?
So I see that in the experience of (identity with) this empty, luminous space are the answers (non-verbal and comprehensive) to the questions you posed. In one sentence, this is what I'm left with: Everything -- all of existence (the world, all things and events, our thoughts and emotions and shadows, ourselves [all of us]) -- is shot through with luminous awareness and love. That's it. But it's an experience, not an idea. We needn't even look for it, just open to it. It's already there and always has been. We are that. That's fundamentally all there is. So we can truly relax (with awareness, not laxity). Easier said than done in this turmoil, but even if it isn't easy, it's simple -- and possible. It's about looking "inside" as well as "outside."
Having said this, I realize that there are many paths through this phenomenal world -- and experiences -- on all levels. For what it's worth, this is one.
Bob