The Power of Awareness, the lamp in the cupboard, pt. 2

For a long time, you wandered, lost in the world into which you were born.  You clung desperately at first to your parents as your native innocence believed all that you were told about yourself and about life in general.

If you had any memories at all from your life in paradise, they were discounted, ruled fanciful childhood thoughts, and you were taught not to believe your own natural instincts about who you really are.  You were taught that you are a human being, born to study, work, make friends, make money, grow old and die.  You were also taught that there is a God above who will judge you on how well you followed the rules, more like a school master than the kind, loving, absolutely unconditionally accepting, nurturing creator we now know God is. 

We are also taught by our current culture that there is nothing else, other than this three dimensional existence.  If we are to have any happiness in this life, we will have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps by our own sheer will power and ability to control (one of my father's favorite lessons to me as a young child).  We will obey our parents, learn our lessons, even follow the teachings of the family religion, which imposes more rules on us.  

And so we go to school, learn to play the games the other children play.  We try to "fit in" to the world around us.  By the time we are12 or 13 most likely we have completely forgotten our magical life.  But, that pearl of a memory is not gone.  It cannot ever be erased.  It is who we really are as children of the divine one.  Although our parents may have forgotten and all others around us have forgotten, when your life has become too dark, too painful, too utterly unbearable, something inside you breaks.  Your ability to endure wears out and the cocoon of darkness into which you were born, cracks open.  Then the search for truth begins.  At this point you will either seek after goodness and truth, a way back to that paradise from within your own soul, or you will join with the dark powers to control and exploit others for your own benefit.  That is "exercising your fundamental option" I talked about in my piece on Ramadan a few days ago. 

Something deep within your subconscious mind, waiting all these years for you to simply uncover and see it, become aware of it, is still radiating, still magnetizing light to itself, still glimmering in the darkness in the deep sea of your soul.  It is that "pearl of great price."

That deeply buried inner light is that "lamp in the cupboard."  It was always there and in it is all your magic.  In it are all your powers of creation, love, joy, hope, promise, flight out of this dark world into which you've been born and in which you have suffered all your life. It is your ticket back to paradise.  The way there is through your thinking, your now aware mind.

For each one of us, that light shows up a bit differently.  You will have to find yours, yourself.  No one can tell you how it is revealed to you.  Others can only tell you how it was revealed to them and often the way is very similar to each of us.  One thing that is certain, there are no rules.  It doesn't convey any  more rules, or judgment, or condemnation.  It is life itself and it lives to simply live.  It is beinghood.  It is good.  It is creative power and it is freeing.  Your joy will be in that freedom from all the rules and restrictions that today bind your soul, like the chains of a jailed person.  

You cannot be creative in captivity, enslaved to the rules and controlled by another - person, system, religion, government, tribal authority.  In freedom, you will find yourself and you find your power and your love.  You will have to learn to love yourself, through all the dulling blankets of negativity and judgment that have been layered on you since you were born. But, when you live out of that new found sense of love and creativity, you will bless the world.  The world is afraid to let go of its control for fear that anarchy would destroy it.  Well, perhaps it is high time that the world's control be broken and an anarchy of the holy human heart and spirit sweep across our globe bringing light and empowerment to all the voiceless, impoverished, fear-based people, all those children of the holy one who still sleep in darkness, suffering at the hands of those dim dictators who rule them, in whatever guise they come in.

The world tells you this is a hard way, this way to enlightenment, empowerment, love, joy and freedom from oppression.  But, it isn't.  It's simple.  Believe me when I tell you "they" lied to you.  It is easy.  Turn your conscious awareness away from the world around you, to that innermost place where you are perfect.  Begin to accept the idea that you have the right to be who you always were.  You have the right to decide for yourself to honor your own thoughts, your own ideas, your own intuitive sense, your own heart.  Think for yourself.  You can turn on that lamp in the inner cupboard by choosing to turn it on.  It will be like one of those dimmer lights that when you first turn it on, it is at first dim and only then slowly, as you continue to focus on turning it up, it will gradually brighten the room.  The lamp is like that.  It's dim at first, but as you focus your awareness, it will grow.  

Turning it on is a process, but it begins with the simple awareness that it is there and can be accessed by your choosing to focus your thoughts on it.  The more you think about it, the more you love it, the more you want to wake up from this long sleep you've been in, like waking up from the world's illusion, it will respond. 

Start small.  Its power switch is in your intention to find and remember who you really are.  The whole world has become a herd of slaves, governed and tormented by the powers that control us by the threat of judgement and punishment.  We live in fear of being judged and deemed wrong, bad, unholy, malevolent, rude for so long that we have even forgotten what we were afraid of as we slipped into a perpetual state of living in fear, which is vulnerability and submission to the outside forces.

Close your eyes, and honor your true being.  You are magical. You are a beautiful child of our creator.  You are loved.  You are magnificent.  You are beautiful and brilliant.  You are the power of light, the power of love, the power of joy and you have the power and the right to overcome all that faces you today and has stalked and haunted you throughout your entire life.  

Our parents were meant to be our teachers, but they were personal emissaries of the world.  They didn't know any more than we did that they had a light in the cupboard or that they were magical and beautiful and loved beyond their wildest imaginings.  Perhaps even if they realized it, the world stomped it out. But, today is a new day on the Earth.  We are all starting to wake up, one by one, slowly, stretching and refusing to buy into the world system anymore.  It is a process, it is radical, it is almost militant, but it is a road made of love and traveled in love.  You go barefoot, my friends, leaving your army boots outside the doors of your inner chambers.

We must be determined and persevere on this path to becoming empowered and unleashing our magical natures.  While we won't be rewarded by the power that sought to control us if we do this, what could be worse than living in darkness?

The lamp in the cupboard will be lighted, your power restored, when you  become aware of it and choose to focus on it.  It is now a provable fact that the power of the mind is the greatest power we have.  We can move mountains if we focus long enough.  When we stop proclaiming to the world we are weak and powerless victims, which is what we do when we complain and gossip and speak negatively, and choose to honor and use our voices to speak power into all things, speak beauty back into our world, breathe love into the air we draw life from, love our neighbors and enemies, bless the stranger with a smile or a gracious word, we will raise our own personal vibration, slowly unleashing our own personal power and our own innate, long-waiting, magical natures.  

As we choose to speak only good, loving, helpful, personally loving words to ourselves in our own self-talk and to others, we turn up the lamp.  We can make the decision to think positively, speak positively, hope and pray and visualize what we want. Only we can do that. No one can take that right away from you.  Even a dictator can't take away from you your right to choose what you think and what you speak. That's your choice.  Use it carefully and turn on the lamp that will light your way back to paradise.