Empire State

Hi,  I want to share a note that I wrote a little over a year ago about the Norway shooting.  This site tends not to focus too much upon the negative or tragedies or angry making topics but that is not because I don't recognize that they exist.  I absolutely do and I see them as a vital manifestation of how humanity wishes to experience itself at this time.  Now this opens the door to understanding that within the same plane of existing, which is to say, within the same dimension we are able to narrow our focus.  That focus may be completely different than someone else's.  So here we begin to unpack the possibilities of what ascension means.  Many of our teachers have acknowledged that some of us have begun to, or have already, ascend(ed) from 3-D to 4-D, or 5-D.  The Ascended Masters are also very specific in addressing that within each dimension there are sub planes of possibilities.  This leads us to the understanding that while some of us may be opting out from a state of violence or a state of attaching to drama within that very same sphere others can pursue injury to themselves or others.

Yesterday in the morning a man went to the Empire State building and went on a bit of a shooting spree.  How odd I thought, until I realized the magnitude of what this means for our current evolution.  The Masters and Galactics remind us that we chose what dimension or state of consciousness we exist in based on our own individual frequency or vibration level.  Shootings are scary, they are also sad, they also make people angry and all of those feelings hold their own frequency.  They are impossible to ignore.  It's very important to allow ourselves to fully experience our emotions including the ones I just mentioned, despite the fact that they hold a lower density and quite frankly serve the purpose of bringing us down.  The point is that we can't ignore our own shadow. It's okay to interact with feeling down, but that interaction doesn't own you, it is not you at the very basis of your being.  Ignoring it, ignoring our feelings or the fact that things piss us off or hurt us terribly actually transforms the memory that brought us to the reaction in the first place.  As that memory mutates it sinks deeper into our subconscious mind and sometimes into our cells, blood and bones.  Ignoring the feelings or signs we receive from our physical, subtle, mental and emotional body is the root of dis-ease, reacting can save or enrich your life.  But then let it go, know that behind every storm the sky is a still and peaceful blue space- it is immovable.

People criticize light workers as "hippies" or people that just want to focus on peace.  They criticize people for meditating too much- they project that we are just "escaping". I would like to speak on behalf of these groups who allow themselves the opportunity to practice peace through meditation or other pursuits, not in defense of but in proclamation for.  Meditation and other energy work is not escaping, its inscaping.  It's inward travel that allows us to merge all fragments of ourselves.  The violent one, the righteous one, the teacher, the friend, the parent or child, the bitch, the saint.  Practicing ahimsa* allows you to access a clarity where you can call out all out to all of those fragmented parts of yourself and not become angry or injurious when it is very clear that you still embrace the ego self, the judgement, the anger, the drink, the sex, the cupcake.  Whatever is supposedly  "bad" or "sinful" or what we "shouldn't be engaging with" as enlightened individuals.   Leave all that duality bullshit to the politicians.  And even then, wish that they find peace.  We are a fully feeling and experiencing people, that is the gift of life and of passing through this age of polarity.  We emote in the spectrum of the rainbow, look how many different kinds of birds there are- and they are all just birds.  When tragedy strikes people who have a practice of peace or stillness are able to be stay centered in ourselves.  We observe our feelings or reactions with a sense of security and we accept that whatever just happened is something that we still need to learn from.  The resistance of this acceptance ultimately creates more pain and more suffering, so we surrender.  We can maintain a state of wholeness, despite injury.  Thank God for that.  It is possible that this is what the Ascended Masters and Galactics are alluding to when they repeat that many individuals are already on the ascension path.  It stands to reason that we are having difficulty digesting that because we are waiting for some grand gesture of physical evidence even though it is quite obvious that internally many are returning to a radiance of being that feels like home.

Having a daily practice is not about being or feeling better or more evolved than other people, I don't buy into that hierarchy- which actually separates us even more. We have chosen to maintain a certain frequency (or to elevate that frequency) and to respect others for choosing whatever frequency they have chosen too, try to enjoy the dance even when you don't any the song.  This whole life is just the divine experiencing itself in many different ways, no one way is better than the other.  Sure, some can be more harmful and others can be more helpful but at the end of the day we are all traveling in the same direction. I believe that tragedy is a wonderful platform for unity.  Unifying our experiences in effort to realize that we are each a fiber in the fabric of humanity and that we need one another to keep it together.

One of my teachers says to stay close, that if we move too far out we could get lost.  I re-read the below message today with that sentiment in mind.  We need one another to keep it together.

I love you,
Nicole

In light of what has happened in Norway I find myself asking my heart how to move on.   Our only true recourse against a show of hatred to this magnitude is to continue to love.  Beyond loving ourselves and our friends and family, we must search ourselves with the greatest discrimination and capitulate to loving those who are nothing like we are, those who bewilder us, those who make us angry, those who are alone and in danger of being overcome by their solitude, insecurity or rancor.  

Fear and hatred sit in the same seat.  In dimness they are impossible to discern, the one from the other.  Hatred is like a tri-fold mirror.   We look upon it thinking that we know which enemy is on the left, which is on the right, and we find ourselves seated righteously in the middle off all extremes.  Each version is a version of our own self.  It is the thing we fear the most about who we may have been in the past or who we might become, it is our most profound shame manifest.  In our fear we do not consider looking upon the face on the right or left  to recognize that it is much more similar to our own than it is different.  Without love or friendship the mirrors start closing in.  Our vision becomes blurred and our discernment becomes obfuscated both by and to our own hatred and obsessions.  We loose touch with what the offenses we perceive are being carried against us are.   We redouble our politics and abstract our principles.  Suddenly our face is unrecognizable against those of our enemies.  In the confusion we justify any measure it takes to expel or damage the "other"… including their measures, the ones we once found so fundamentally unjust.  Our minds, in blind preoccupation, cannot find a moment to bite down the chatter of fixation for silence or reflection.  Our faith becomes battered and fleeting and our hearts shrink under the weight of so much bitterness.  We become lost. 

Each time a life is lost because of hatred cowardice wins.  Not solely the cowardice of the individual dastardly enough to carry out the crimes, but also of the individuals whom avoided the opportunity of reaching out to someone who was in need, simply because it might be difficult.  Our politicians will not save us from the repercussions of crushing and furious hatred… they too are abstracted by fear of how such actions reflect on themselves and their ability to govern.  We must act on our own volition.

To the families whose children and loved ones perished on July 22, beyond offering my greatest condolences I promise to be kinder to those who need kindness.  I promise to guide those who live in shadows out of the darkness and into the light, this is how I honor the memories of the deceased.  This is how we can all honor them.  

*Ahimsa is a sanskrit term for non-violence.