At this time, it is so important to become conscious creators who take an active role in life to choose what feelings, thoughts and perspectives we want to give focus to and bring into reality. This also means to know ourselves deeply in order to distinguish between what is our own sovereign creation and what is perhaps being artificially imposed on us by those forces who would prefer we give up our creative power. For example, do our viewpoints about what is happening in the world today come from ourselves and our own deep knowing based on inner resonance and connection with life? Or is it fed to us by external sources that use fear and doubt to manipulate our minds? From which place do we make our choices— empowerment and confidence in life, or from fear of the unknown and a desire for control?
This month is strongly emphasizing themes of creativity, polarity and heart expansion. The history of this planet is predicated on ongoing conflicts between various factions which are merely an external projection of an archetypal story of duality. It is to understand that polarity and duality are not the same thing; the former is the natural structure of this reality while the latter is an artificial distortion where conflict is perpetuated. Everything on this planet is created on the basis of polarity— through electromagnetism, masculine-feminine gender, day and night, Sun and Moon, etc. It is a cosmic law that is reflected through scientific observation. For example, there is no birth without the coming together of man and woman as one. From polarity comes creation, comes life itself.
Those walking a spiritual path are here to be masters of polarity. There is a false dogma in the New Age about unity consciousness signifying the eradication of all polarity or difference, even that of individual identity. Certain Advaita philosophers see diversity of identity as the play of Maya, or illusion.
Yet other Vedic schools of thought see life as diversity within unity; that we are simultaneously both one and different from each other. This understanding allows two seemingly paradoxical realities to co-exist, for polarities to relate in unity, creating the richness and vastness of life.
Truly the doctrine of oneness without difference is the illusion keeping us in false light— where we are desiring to merge back into God and the realms of bliss while denying our human experience and our responsibilities as sovereign beings to care for God’s creation. What makes the light false is that it feels good and lets us escape the darkness of Earthly life, ironically augmenting duality by refusing to see it with neutrality. True Light, on the other hand, faces all with love.
Denying our unique identity and hiding in homogenous oneness is symptomatic of the collective pain related to the heart. When we have experienced heartbreak in the past, we feel as if we were betrayed by God and thus will do anything to prevent this from happening again in the future. Wanting to get away from more pain, we try to detach ourselves from the reality in which we have experienced that pain.
Until we open our hearts again to heal the old wounds, we will often be magnetized to ideologies and belief systems that advocate for transcendence of polarity and of human circumstances— and this comes in many forms, whether through Advaita yoga, postmodern nihilism (which views life as meaningless), or the religious idea that we should look forward to leaving this planet and ascending to heaven.
Without being centered in true love, we will always resist seeing the full picture of ourselves and of life— preferring the partial viewpoint where we can ignore certain unpleasant truths. And this is how we leave ourselves susceptible to manipulation; allowing bypassed aspects to control us from the shadows, making us more fragmented instead of more integrated and whole from within. Forgetting love, we fear surrendering to the unknown and become entranced by teachings that numb the soul rather than awakening it. And we lose ourselves in an artificial construct that comforts but does not illuminate.
This is most evident currently in the widespread fear of natural aging and death. Death is seen in negation of life rather than in natural polarity to it; with the end of life there is believed to be total annihilation of being. In truth, death marks a transition where we continue our evolution. There is no rebirth without first walking through the portal of death. Yet death (both physical death, and all the little “deaths” we experience in our lifespan through loss, endings, sickness, or stagnation) entails surrendering into the Great Mystery and having the faith that our soul is eternally resting in love, even despite the temporary disappearance of all we hold dear and familiar.
The confusion around polarity is also on display in the dysfunctional relationship between men and women, with people now arguing that gender is a social construct and that natural differences should not be embraced but eliminated. Of course, the gender roles of popular culture are disempowering, yet does this mean that there is no true essence of gender corresponding to biological sex? The discovery of real masculine and feminine has been forgone for a false sense of equality that only further perpetuates animosity, the “battle of the sexes.” Again, there is clearly much pain collectively in the relation between men and women. Yet until it is addressed directly and healed, it will continue to haunt humanity.
It is not gender that is the illusion. Nor is polarity the illusion, nor is it our individual identity. The illusion is believing we can shut off our hearts and still live a sane and meaningful life. The illusion is not seeing the human being and Earthly structures as holy creations, downplaying and denying them to focus on so-called transcendence of material circumstances.
It is an old tale fixed in modern human consciousness that we have fallen from the Garden of Eden and, now exiled, must win back the love of God. But truly we are already within the Garden of Life whenever the heart is allowed to bloom, when artificial programs of fear are consciously rejected, and we recognize our creative role in this Divine web of reality.
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