Reflections – Resistance

The goal of this seminar is one of profound self-empowerment: Becoming conscious of the mystical truth that you are the one who decides what has power and authority in your life.

Six 90-minute Lessons

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Overview of Resistance

We rarely review the turmoil in our society, or any society, and conclude that we are collectively experiencing a mass spiritual crisis. But perhaps, we should.  It’s easy to blame political parties and presidents and other people for our difficulties, but such a response is a knee-jerk reaction to events unfolding before our eyes.  And knee-jerk reactions are motivated by fear and panic, only leading to choices fueled by the same toxic energy.

In times of upheaval and extraordinary changes that move a light speed, we want to withdraw into places of calm. Often, we turn off the news and focus on just getting by, believing that by silencing outside voices, our inner self will return to center.  That approach generally works with small, inconsequential eruptions in our lives, but that is not what we are experiencing in this era of vast transformation.  As we watch our government, and other governments, tear through familiar norms and protocols, we are realizing that even our tried and true legal options are rapidly evaporating. Something bigger, if not cosmic in size, is at work behind the scenes.  Transformation is a Divine dictate, not a human one. The chaos that systems in transformation causes, however, is absolutely generated by our human response to unparalleled change.

Now then – if we were seated in a classroom together, I would tell you a very profound mystical truth: You were born to be here at this time, born to participate in the most dynamic and chaotic era of transformation ever to unfold on our Earth.  The extraordinary changes we are living through, and will be living through for some time, are not going to bring us back to our familiar world. So, how do we even try to assess the purpose in the upheaval happening right now? And, how do we as individuals – and as groups of like-minded souls – respond? 

I am contacted by so many people these days, sharing their deep anxiety and concern about how rapidly our familiar world is evaporating. It’s not a surprise that the onslaught of sudden and dramatic changes in our life triggers panic.  There is an alternative way to view the social rumblings filling our airwaves every day.  Change is inevitable. Though we can point to people and policies as the “obvious cause” of so much chaos, blaming others is the knee-jerk reaction.  Something far more profound is at play – and that is what we will explore in this seminar.

I’ve chosen the title, Resistance, deliberately. But I am not directing you to resist authority or to take to the streets in protest.  Here’s a mystical truth that we will explore at length: We have entered into the age of energy, the era of the soul.  Our greatest power is silent and invisible. It is the power we have to understand that we are the engines of co-creation. We empower the world around us by deciding what we will and will not believe it.  The moment you decide not to fear the bully, you’ve disempowered that bully.  A bully had no power unless you give him threads of your own power through falling for the spell that somehow that human being has more power at his command. 

The goal of this seminar is one of profound self-empowerment: Becoming conscious of the mystical truth that you are the one who decides what has power and authority in your life. You decide what you will or will not believe; you decide how to direct your own behavior and actions; you decide how to respond and interpret everything you see within the landscape of your life.  Mystical teachings going all the way back to the ancient mystery schools of Greece were – and remain – focused on instructing students to master their own inner power, as that is the true jewel of the human experience.  A particular Taoist instruction that changed my life was this simple bit of wisdom: Do not lose your power to a spectacle. Every part of your energetic ecology would respond in kind and further, in remaining centered, you position yourself to make an empowered next choice rather than one that results in a psychic infection of fear and panic.

I reflected upon that teaching for months, realizing that actually everything in life is nothing more than a temporary spectacle, some lasting a second and some much longer. 

Even though life’s many challenges can certainly appear to be much more than a spectacle, the physical challenges continually unfolding in life do not negate the mystical truth that I am the one who decides my response to each and every one of life’s obstacles or spectacles. If I decide to call a challenge a “disaster” or a “catastrophe”, then my entire bio-energetic ecology (aka, my body), will respond in kind. I will immediately begin to hemorrhage my energy (life force) to the event or comment or decision because I had named it a “disaster”, a threat to my survival.   Everyone has had this experience and likely many times. But what if instead of using words that naturally activate fear and panic, you resisted that knee-jerk response and instead made the conscious decision to look beyond the noise and chaos of an event and remain neutral and calm. I now rely on the mystical truth that everything I experience is the result of many more energetic dynamics than I can possible calculate, therefore I resist the temptation to freeze something in my mind through labeling it a disaster or crisis based upon the impressions generated in the heat of the moment.  Give something a label and you freeze it into your mental landscape, where that word and image continue to pulsate a constant thread of fear into your entire being.

Resistance is a seminar on imagining your power in ways perhaps you have never considered.  What happens to any situation if a number of people are no longer intimidated by someone?  That person is rendered powerless, precisely because the essential energy of belief has been cut off.  On a more personal level, consider what happens in your own life to an idea or a dream the second you stop believing in it.  It evaporates.

Soul resistance is not ignoring what is happening in our world. Rather, it is learning strategies of the soul that empower positive choices while disempowering fears and threats.  In this class, we will explore the idea of soul strategies and how to learn the soul craft of resisting the gravity fields generated by fear and chaos and replacing dark thoughts forms with love, compassion and faith.  We will explore a mystical interpretation of why our global population is sharing this journey of transformation.  The chaos generated by the power of transformation is not generating havoc only in the United States; it’s everywhere, including in the dynamics of nature and climate change.  What changes and decisions are we being directed to make?

Believe me, it is a privilege to be alive now, to have been given the gift of your life during a time when we are meant to realize – deeply and truly realize – a vastly more cosmic understanding of the power contained within the human experience.  We will indeed witness much of the old and familiar world evaporate. But in this transition, we are given the opportunity to consciously create the world anew.  We will end each class with a healing prayer and invocation for grace, as that pure soul medicine.

Love,
Caroline