Fear terror eye (Photo credit: @Doug88888)
Hang on tight to your sanity stockings ’cause shits about to get deep up in here.
Okay, so what I’m about to tell you might be very hard to grasp, but try to stay with me. I’ll go slow and write concise. I’m learning this stuff as I go along, so nothing is settled in me as I type. I write and then it becomes settled.
I experienced an epiphany while I was playing in a poker tournament last week. The epiphany was about knowing where your limits are and finding the courage to move past them. Whenever you test your faith, that’s when you learn where your limits are. Poker is a game where you get to play around with this.
I’ll get into all that in just a little bit, but first I need to tell you about an out of body experience shared by four separate travelers.
I like to read about peoples experiences with going out of body. On several occasions I came across stories about astral travelers ending up in places where they can choose to go deeper, but fear holds them back. Their bodies become immobile. The places they described were mostly all different, but their experiences are eerily the same.
For one woman it was a hallway. The further she walked down the hallway, the more scared she became. She knew there was something important at the end of the hallway, but she couldn’t get there. She wasn’t brave enough.
And in another story, there was a man at a cinema. He went inside a dark theater and started walking towards the movie screen down the long middle isle. The further he moved down the isle, the more frightened he became. He looked around at all the others sitting in their seats as you would expect in a regular theater, but only there in that particular theater he knew that those people picked those seats because they were unable to progress further down the isle. They went as far as their courage could take them.
With each step, terror rose in him until even just the slightest inch forward sent him into panic. He could move no further. He had to take his seat in the nearest row.
Two other people experienced this test of courage with a pyramid. They were not traveling together, but arrived at the same pyramid by chance. And as luck would have it, I stumbled upon both articles.
They started walking towards a pyramid made out of crystal. At first it was effortless, but then became increasingly difficult. There were obstacles in the way. They became stricken with fear the closer they came to the pyramid. One made it, while the other did not.
These stories are scattered everywhere on the net. They’re hard to find if you specifically look for them, but if you read enough OBE’s they pop up.
I connected the poker tournament with the fear of walking down that dark corridor. I saw it so plainly – I seen and felt it.
Poker is a microcosm of human behavior and interaction. You are dealing with raw emotion, concise purpose, and have little control over what cards you’re dealt – at least you think you have little control.
It’s been a while since I had this epiphany, but I remember duality playing a huge role in your luck. The duality of physical reality over spirit. The abrasive rub that shapes us and makes us stronger.
Everybody wants to win – you want to win. If the law of attraction is real, than why can’t you win? It won’t happen because you don’t have the courage in yourself to make it happen. You don’t believe. You don’t have enough strength. You don’t have the trust or faith in taking that next step. And if you tried taking that next step, you would become terrified of the unknown possibilities – losing your ego and sense of control. Going deeper feels like death. Unless you’re confident or don’t care about winning, you will feel a looming dread every time you rely solely on faith.
The imagery and knowledge seeping into me was inescapable. If felt so real. As real as the pocket 10’s in the folds of my hands.
I reached enlightenment as I sat there holding my cards and staring at all the other players. I saw them plain as day. All their tells, all their thoughts, fears, anxieties. The room became hazy and misty, my head felt light and dizzy.
Me thinking – “Holy crap this is real. This is so real. I can feel my own fear. I can see my own distrust, my own limits!”
I physically felt blocks in front of me preventing myself from moving further. I hadn’t the faith or the courage.
I understood. I understood everything.
Okay, now let’s take it a step further. This dualism that we see everywhere is actually a feedback loop from one unifying, underlining entity. The “dualistic” part is merely our perceptions trying to rationalize one thing. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (karma). The reactions will keep happening until there is homeostasis – peace. In order for these exchanges to happen, it must sprout from one continuous, harmonious cycle of energy in flux and flow and in communion with itself.
This is done with the help of a feedback loop. Our current actions shape our futures and those futures direct our present moment. It feeds back into itself. Like an ouroboros.
If we are aware enough to visualize our futures and take the appropriate actions needed to achieve those visualizations, the feedback loop will reciprocate and good karma will come of it. You don’t have to be compassionate, giving or enlightened – as long as you believe in yourself and have faith, you can achieve anything.
When faith outweighs the fear…
But if you do achieve success while being unenlightened, you won’t have peace. You’ll still have to deal with the universe throwing you curve balls trying to wake you up – but at that point you’ll have so much success that your ego blocks everything out. You may even end up losing your entire empire if it’s being loosely held together with ego, fear and control.
Inside all physical reality exists a piece of the spiritual and inside the spiritual exists a piece of the physical. They exist simultaneously. The physical acting as a mirror, a shadow from the infinite expansion of the spiritual.
We can effect the feedback loop because the feedback loop is dependent on the sum of it’s parts. It is a living, breathing mechanism that we are all a part of.
If God creates everything in the universe, and we stop worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea – we can create too.
Skeptic – “Why would God create poison berries and plant them next to edible berries?”
Me – “That’s the duality that shapes us. Fear shapes us and keeps us alive, aware and evolving. You can never have one without the other. You should never judge one as being “bad” while the other “good.” They are both one and the same energy of nature.
Skeptic – “But what about all that garbage you said earlier about having faith and no fear? You would end up eating the poison berries yourself you fool!”
Me – “Okay shut your pie hole and listen up. You have to accept and respect natures process. It humbles you by doing so. Being knowledgeable and utilizing that knowledge is how we evolve our brains. The poison berries serve their purpose in the world. If you want to test your faith, go ahead and eat them. It weeds out all the arrogant gluttons.”
The meek shall inherit the earth.
Skeptic – “Okay wise ass what about parasites? All they do is feed off their host. How’s there any purpose in that? What do they give back?”
Me – “A parasite feeds for survival and by them feeding, subtle changes take place in their host that leads them into developing a series of complicated evolutionary leaps that both evolves and strengthens their immunity. And as we evolve, so does the parasite.”
(That’s why antibiotics are bad. We stop evolving and the parasite keeps growing. And our eyes are getting weaker because we insist on wearing sunglasses! Our DNA actually changes when we put on a pair of shades and that DNA is passed down to our children. Do I personally wear sunglasses? Of course I do! They make me look cool and mysterious;)
There is no good or evil, nothing is ever all black or all white. There’s only awareness and using that awareness to see how everything fits into place.
Contrasts create beauty. Contrasts teaches us choice and free will. They form our individuality, our self-awareness and our ability to create. Contrasts helps us in distinguishing what’s what.
The illusion of duality is necessary to sharpen us, or to smooth us – depending on your role in the great almighty rock tumbler. Labeling something as being evil is a sharp judgement and an arrogant unaware reaction to an undesirable retribution of karma. Learn to let it go. Let go or make war.
Judgement serves in protecting ourselves. Whether it protects our ego’s or our lives – we manage to stay ahead and in control. This is how all species survives.
We must separate ourselves from the animals by using our self-awareness. That is the only thing that separates us from them. And once we find it, there will be peace.
The crazy part is, we NEED those sharp people in the tumbler as much as they need us! They need to feel loved and accepted as much as we need to be polished from the pain they inflict. It’s the yin and the yang, the snake eating its tail. David would not be David without Goliath. Goliath was just as much a part of the sacred, blessed light as David – so much so that he can be hailed as a martyr. His death created a great man and all he got in return was hate, judgement and blame for all of eternity. Who’s the real hero in the story?
Once you see duality as being the one infinite conscious energy that it is, you’ll be out of the blame game of hate. You will learn and understand compassion in its entirety.
And seeing how all this fits / plays together so simply, astounds me. There is no longer a blank day in my life where I don’t find myself being astounded over something. I’m blessed. I’m freaking blessed!
Anyway, I made it into being one of the last 7 players in the poker tournament. There were about 40 of us at the beginning. Not bad for a first timer.
Mellie likey poker.
Muah ha ha. Is this my angle for world domination? Eh hem, I mean living a quiet peaceful life?
If you’ve read all this than bravo. You get a lolly.
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