When times are tough, the way not clear or fear comes far too close for comfort, remind yourself with this poem my father left for me so many years ago.
It brings things back to centre, avoids the smallness of things least helpful and reminds us all of who is the boss, who carries the key and who ultimately will walk free.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
In the last couple of days it has been reported the Schumann Resonance has shot up to plus 36Hz – a considerable spike to the normally tranquil calm state of things associated with the accepted 7.83Hz. This is the natural resonance of the Earth, offering an implicit desired state that can be attained in beta and theta dream states, meditation and a propensity to balance a natural harmonic level between self and surrounding environment.
Does this spike and the probable rise of the resonance mark a hint towards an inevitable progression towards ‘separation’ between those operating ‘in harmony’ with natural cycles/law and those too self absorbed in a stunted existence created by lack of self awareness, development and generally healthy inquiry for the ‘inner being’.
In one state/world everything appears as lunatic crazy, fearsome and so full of trepidation as to incite a craziness ultimately taking over life and minds of individuals, communities and nations.
In the other a multifaceted and spectacular world begins to take form and occurence leading an individual to interpret what appears as madness to one as beautiful development and reconstruction to another. In one world lunacy is the norm, where in the other it is seen as the death of the old and birth of something so far removed from the same old, same old as to be blinding.
It goes without saying the lunacy in the world presently is at an all time high today. The process of change, culling and splitting occurs as we speak. For many that demands fear, abdication of responsibility to an external ‘power’ – be it religious, political, corporate or psychopathic – or all of the aforementioned.
Always promoted, to those inquisitive enough, from the beginning of time is the maxim “Know Thyself”. It is a foundation pillar and prerequisite toward developing true being. I am not talking anything religious here. Those particular constructs were put in place largely to harness people, subjugate and hold the individual to the belief third party intercession was the single absolute and most effective path. The encouragement and promotion of self development in thought action and growing wisdom was for the greater part considered heresy.
I am referring to the development through seeking and knowing ‘inner being’ as becoming the most important ‘work’ each are gifted the choice of making.
Of course since choice is a major key in this process, with no one and nothing ‘forcing’ our hand – those choosing not to get to know themselves, instead relying on external forces to guide them, become ‘lost‘. Lost in a world where things, control, powerlessness and external factors are the directing factors . Experience and circumstance are blamed as causal to the inability of making the real journey. They become the excuse in choosing subjugation and control over self empowerment and self control. It can manifest as another person(s), technology, state, etc. Little cognition develops of what truly transpires in the world and an even less desire to know through innate ability to develop critical thinking.
The major hierarchy involved in all this is the degree to which each is willing to use personal will to determine outcomes, to cultivate the full spectrum of mental faculties. There is barely any progress gained without self work and enquiry. The answers enshrined in higher knowledge( as opposed to researched knowledge), wisdom and insight are found through devoted inspection, honest appraisal, enquiry and education through study in one’s inner world and concomitant development of our mental faculties.
Nature operating at her resonance is as near a perfect example as we can find – in fact in our comprehension it must be seen as the perfect example to draw on for mentorship, guidance and teaching.
That the greater part of the human world has chosen to subjugate, brutalise, be blind to or ignorant of this potential mentorship is undoubtedly a major cause in creating our self destruction. It also acts as an excellent illustration of the poverty of development in wisdom and self, existing in these times.
Ultimately those flunking this schooling are left to their own devices, released from the boons of integration with a true teacher and ultimately abandoned to their own self destruction, reprocessing and return to original form and substance.
No religion can save us from ourself. No ‘deus ex machina’ comes bursting through the clouds of illusion to intercede on our part, having refused to recognise those elements of self eternally waiting to be used.
You can take a horse to water but you can never force it to drink, comes to mind.
So as the resonance in natural being begins to raise its levels, the fate of those unable to exist, let alone recognise this rarified atmosphere, will undoubtedly perish, becoming compost for future development. For those existence is portrayed and experienced as chaotic, hellish and the portrait of living nightmares – the normal. For others taking opportunity, recognising the lesson plan of life, a gradual changing world becomes their new and natural habitat. Distinguishing features of that old world dim and ultimately become invisible.
In Nature there are parts not perceivable through the lens of present sense development. This does not qualify them to not exist, it merely ‘hides‘ them from view. As Natural Resonance creeps up, so those open to accepting and having begun development to its waves, witness the fading into invisibility of the illusions previously held as reality disappear like morning mist meeting day’s sunlight.
Do I hear the pitter patter of tiny feet rushing to “Know Thyself”?
Maybe a few will ‘get it’and go for it. More likely, as life demonstrates, most will just brush off such ideas and thoughts of treading this path and put it down to the rantings of lunatics and self obsessed.
Remember the razor’s edge between lunacy and genius (wisdom)?
It feels apposite to drag up a scriptural quote here:
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
In spite of its biblical provenance the interpretation, I suggest, goes deeper. If we substitute kingdom of heaven for self knowing and the metaphor rich man representing the individual too attached to worldly wealth and possession of ‘things’, retention of patterns holding him/her prisoner to desires and frameworks limiting growth, then it can be appreciated how the personal journey is one of letting go rather than clinging to the ephemera of life’s stuff.
To those less able to conceive development in its wider perspective it remains ever thus – the lunatic ramblings of crazy minds. The opening, growth potential afforded through constant development of awareness, questing the inner self and letting go to wisdom and enlightening insight is as lost as the dew to the heat of the sun.
Those finding what I describe as merely an elitist, self satisfied viewpoint of arrogant superiority, I posit the process and development of free choice has been utterly missed with an equal weight of conformity outbalancing the lightness of being attainable through operating such choice and courage demanded when diving deep into the ocean of the unknown.
Of course alternately I could be talking out of the backside of my particular being. Yet a lengthy sojourn on this plane has shown and taught me otherwise. That the journey once untaken, though hard and at times tricky to negotiate so far outweighs the pastures and meadows of restrictive pleasure and blind adherence offered in the marketplace of normalcy is ample reward and only appreciated once negotiated.
Plato’s Cave allegory famously portrays people gazing forlornly at the inner wall of the cave, entranced by their own shadows cast by flames from a fire at their backs utterly ignorant that if they turned and looked beyond that fire they would see a world accessed by the cave’s entrance inviting them to a wholly other more expansive experience. He illustrated how only the few dare turn and head towards that far richer experience.
As always, being a planet of choice, it is each and everyone’s choice to make their own minds up, commit or not to the non repetitive path. Unlike us Nature never vacillates, procrastinates nor hesitates. She operates through constant renewal, evolution through perfect harmony and order.
As always individual choice and response is personal. All that needs to be taken into account is that whatever choice is taken it has 100% personal liability and responsibility scored into it and we would be well advised to acknowledge and heed such counsel.
That indeed is the beauty and order of all things.