I was in my garden today weeding and actually getting a tan of sorts which is unusual this early in the season for this neck of the woods. I was thinking about some of the things I wanted to say about the ten commandments of shamanism when i first posted that blog.
So often in our search to re-menber our true self we create for ourselves a list of the qualities we think belong to that true self,. Or perhaps we are thinking of the divine self within us and again we create a list of qualities of that divine self. or of the divine within us. We tend to hink of joy, peace, gentleness, as qualities in alignment with that “self” and therefore qualities we should cultivate. Again, we tend to think of anger and frustration as qualities we should not cultivate.
What so often happens is we create a list of qualities we think are attributes of the true self or the divine self and that list is created from outside sources. Rarely do we go within and ask. In this process we tend to alienate ourselves from ourselves. We tend to bury the qualities we dislike or do not approve of in an attempt to be the qualities we think are the best to acquire.
I can actually bury qualities that might help us along our way but we can also alienate ourselves from ourselves and at the same time we fall into the habit of judging one quality as better or worse than another. And if we are in judgement whether of ourselves or another we are at a very low vibration.
Anger can be a very powerful force for good.
Frustration can teach us that we need to study something more.
Peace makers can be making peace where judgement is required. so what we might think of as a “good” quality can be a very , shall I say, “ungood” , depending on the circumstances. And vice versa.
So much of our third dimension is illusory. And in our attempts to escape that we often bury ourselves deeper and deeper into ilusion when we create a list of should and should not.
We are the moderators and co creators of our reality.
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