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by Allisone Heartsong © 11 March 2005 In God We Trust
Life in this wondrous world of polarized illusion is essentially a spiritual
initiation, the purpose of which is to teach us the difference between choosing
to live from the outside in and choosing to live from the inside out.
As a necessary prerequisite for undertaking this journey, we have agreed to be
born on Planet Earth as human beings in an unnatural state of spiritual amnesia,
which has the effect of preventing us from remembering our previous incarnations
and our true identity as spiritual beings unless we make the conscious choice,
at some point in our lives, first to acknowledge and align to the Source of our
being and then to wake up to the remembrance of who we truly are.
This unnatural state of spiritual amnesia is caused by a closed heart chakra,
which has the effect of blocking access to the spiritual attributes of our inner
being (love on the fourth dimension, power on the fifth dimension, and wisdom on
the sixth dimension), thereby confining our awareness to the first three
dimensions of consciousness: our physical body on the first dimension, our
emotional body on the second dimension, and our mental body on the third
dimension.
So long as our heart chakra remains closed, our outer mind has no access to our
inner being, as a consequence of which we find ourselves living in a third
dimensional state of separation consciousness where we appear to be separate
from other people as well as separate from our Source, and where we have
absolutely no remembrance of who we truly are.
Thus it is that when we find ourselves living in this challenging world of
polarized illusion with no access to our inner being, which constitutes our true
identity, the very first thing that our outer mind does is to begin the task to
constructing a substitute identity, which we call our personality and which is
composed of every perception, emotion, desire, thought, intention, action, and
memory that we choose to experience during the course of our life.
Because of the crucially important fact that we begin our lives as helpless
babies who are completely dependent on other people to protect us and take care
of us by meeting our physiological and psychological needs for nourishment, we
are compelled by the very nature of our human condition to spend the first
several years of our lives learning how to play the role of an obedient child
for the purpose of pleasing other people by conforming to their expectations and
requests, which are normally presented as a combination of demands and
prohibitions enforced by a combination of rewards and punishments.
However, as we cross the bridge of adolescence from childhood to adulthood, we
find ourselves confronted with the developmental task of learning how to be true
to ourselves rather than living to please other people, which means that in
order to become an independent adult we must first exchange the role of an
obedient child for that of a rebellious adolescent who refuses to continue
conforming to the expectations of others.
In any case, our lives as human beings in the third dimension of consciousness
(which is characterized by a competitive orientation) are essentially an
internal contest, the outcome of which is determined by our choices between the
negative judgmental emotions of the second chakra (which is characterized by an
enslaving orientation) and the positive harmonizing feelings of the fourth
chakra (which is characterized by a cooperative orientation).
Thus, whereas anger is the negative judgmental emotion which occurs when we
invalidate the present, joy is the positive harmonizing feeling which occurs
when we validate the present; whereas fear is the negative judgmental emotion
which occurs when we invalidate the future, enthusiasm is the positive
harmonizing feeling which occurs when we validate the future; whereas grievance
is the negative judgmental emotion which occurs when we invalidate the past,
gratitude is the positive harmonizing feeling which occurs when we validate the
past; whereas guilt is the negative judgmental emotion which occurs when we
invalidate our self, love is the positive harmonizing feeling which occurs when
we validate our self; and whereas depression is the negative judgmental emotion
which occurs when we consistently choose to invalidate our life, bliss is the
positive harmonizing feeling which occurs when we consistently choose to
validate our life.
Due to the fact that we are born into a judgmental social environment which is
characterized by conditional acceptance or rejection rather than by
unconditional forgiving love, it is virtually impossible for us to grow up in
such an unenlightened environment without engaging in negative judgmental
emotions, which have the effect of imprisoning our outer mind by keeping the
heart chakra closed.
As a consequence, life in this unenlightened world of polarized illusion is
essentially a process of first learning how to imprison ourselves with negative
judgmental emotions and then learning how to liberate ourselves from our
self-imposed mental prisons by making the empowering choice to practice
unconditional forgiving love in every situation so as to love ourselves free
from all of our self-imposed limitations.
Before we can graduate from separation consciousness in the third dimension to
unity consciousness in the fourth dimension, we must claim our mastery by first
acknowledging and aligning to the Source of our being, next recovering the
remembrance of who we truly are as spiritual beings having some human
experiences, and then learning to be true to our innermost self by allowing our
outer mind to be guided by our inner being so as to live from the inside out.
The key to opening our heart chakra so as to love ourselves free consists in
making the empowering choice to place our outer mind in the service of our inner
being and then to practice unconditional forgiving love in every situation,
which has the effect of transmuting all of our negative judgmental emotions and
causing our very identity to shift from our outer mind to our inner being.