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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"philosophy",<br>"author":"therealpaul",<br>"permlink":"escaping-the-new-age-cage-an-important-message-for-all-spiritual-beings",<br>"title":"Escaping the New Age Cage- An Important Message for All Spiritual Beings",<br>"body":"<h2>While I could say that the words have eluded me,<br> the truth is that I\u2019ve long dreaded writing them down,<br> but now it seems that I must. It is time that I share a warning about the New Age movement.<\/h2> \n\nSome will probably become offended,<br> while others may shake their heads in pity as I rant,<br> but one or two may hear me,<br> and a few might listen. I only know that I have a responsibility in this world to share what I know,<br> and now I know only that this can wait no longer. \n\nSo that this epiphany of mine can be shared effectively at this time,<br> I will give a short account of how it came to me.\n\n![lizardd.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZSr2bu9xN8uMhCxdNZn1nAwN97nELoxWMKW29zqRQUMb\/lizardd.jpg)\n\n<center><h2>My Desk: An Ancient Artifact?<\/h2><\/center>\n\nIt started for me a while back when a friend was visiting and suggested that my stone desk could have been part of some gigantic structure in the distant past,<br> and that our world is littered with these clues to our possible origins. \n\nI could see what he meant,<br> and I didn\u2019t doubt it as I had seen many of those clues myself,<br> but my friend\u2019s voice shook as he continued. He\u2019d heard that these ancient builders were due to return to our world soon,<br> and that catastrophe awaited us in the near future. **Doom.**\n Furthermore,<br> he quivered,<br> these ancient beings are spiritually advanced,<br> and they will have little tolerance for anyone who is not evolved to a sufficient and acceptable level,<br> and without such credentials our potential saviors would see no need to save us from the doom.\n\n<center><h1>That Old Familiar Tale<\/h1><\/center>\n\nThis was a familiar story,<br> I thought,<br> and I wondered if he was describing a new _fear-based_ religion,<br> where participants would be challenged to a game,<br> as certain **'soul points'** had to be earned before the spiritually-evolved bouncers at the door of the afterlife party would consider letting them in. \n\n\n\nI knew about these types of religions because I\u2019d fallen for them before myself; the New Age,<br> or \u2018Cage\u2019 religions. Just like the old age religions,<br> the New Age religion often holds up a kind of spiritual enlightenment as the ultimate goal in life,<br> while then presenting a nearly impossible regiment for attaining it,<br> whether it be enough hours of meditation or the right chant with each ritual,<br> desperately attempting to communicate with our higher selves,<br> and beyond,<br> if only we are worthy.\n\n<center><h2>Astral Projection<\/h2><\/center> \n\nI remembered a time when I had rather weakly attempted to learn _astral projection_ so that I could practice dying,<br> but gave up when I didn\u2019t get immediate results. I decided that I just wasn\u2019t spiritual enough to leave the confines of my physical form at will,<br> and that no matter how I focused outward,<br> my soul-body was staying in.\n\n<center><h2>The Merkaba<\/h2><\/center>\nI didn\u2019t try astral projection any more,<br> but after a while I bought a book that was full of the right sacred geometries and symbols,<br> and this book was going to show it\u2019s readers how to make a _merkaba,<br>_ which was a pair of interlocking,<br> spinning tetrahedrons that surrounds our bodies-- little disaster pods so that we would survive the doom. The book really did have it all,<br> too: \n\n- We are spiritual beings having a physical experience in a geometric matrix.\n \n- With the right training,<br> devotion,<br> and will power,<br> we can escape our goemetric form at will.\n\n- **Doom.** You\u2019d better hurry,<br> because _the world is ending soon,<br> very soon._\n\nI wondered how many of my friends would fail to make their _merkabas_ in time,<br> and I thought how lonely it would be floating around by myself over the charred remains of the world. There was no need to envision such a scene though,<br> because the level of commitment that it would apparently take to make a merkaba was something that I knew I would not be going through either. This made me think.\n\n<h2>Could we really be more spiritual,<br> when we are already spiritual beings?<\/h2> \n\nI was a spiritual being who had been programmed to believe that I was deficient in spirituality,<br> and that I was **always just short of enlightenment and salvation.** \n\n<center><h1>It Hit Me<\/h1><\/center>\nI was tempted to blame the author of the merkaba book for making a such a cage for me to flop around in,<br> but I realized that I had actually created the cage myself! Even as I knew that I was the creative force at work in my own world,<br> I was trying to assign that creation to an outer force,<br> instead of being responsible for it by admitting that I had made the mental cage,<br> using my own imagination.\n\n<center><h2>I\u2019m My Own \u2018Higher Self\u2019<\/h2><\/center>\n\nThis was when I remembered that I was making my world,<br> and that I was still the most potent being in that world. I wouldn\u2019t have to wait for my higher self to come down and tap me on the shoulder when I was ready,<br> because THIS IS IT. There\u2019s no \u2018getting spiritual\u2019 for beings like us. We are there already!\n\nBeing the force of creation,<br> the intelligent source of all life which finds it\u2019s way into the physical world in the form of consciousness,<br> we soak in our creation,<br> and then beg to be pulled out of it,<br> either with the guidance of our ever-so-shy higher selves,<br> or from some advanced race that might find the grace to show us a way to that supposed higher existence. The truth is,<br> that we are consciousness,<br> and it doesn\u2019t get any higher than that.\n\n<center><h2>Winter Isn\u2019t Here<\/h2><\/center>\nNow the air is filled again with rumors of a coming winter,<br> but from the compost I\u2019ve found a berry in which to dip my pen,<br> and the food is plentiful as I write. The nights have been noticeably cooler,<br> but it\u2019s daylight right now,<br> and I no longer mix the two. I see what\u2019s going on now,<br> and **this is it.** \n\nNow is the time to write about all of this because the external programming is still underway,<br> depriving us of our power by assigning it elsewhere,<br> so that we wouldn't notice ourselves beaming with pure creative vigor. Now we hear stories of races of blue birds who are coming to save us all if we are good,<br> and before that it was a galactic brotherhood of saints who would decide if we were worthy. Please don't take it the wrong way,<br> but I think that you and I are the most powerful beings that exist,<br> and as we live as such,<br> we will manifest such. \n\nThis is the time for me to write this because this is the moment of them all,<br> and as for those who are disappointed with themselves for not being spiritual enough in the past,<br> they can rejoice now; we are all infinity,<br> and that includes **everything.** That same infinity can only express itself through one conduit in order to flow into the world,<br> and that is us,<br> right now. \n\n-------------\n\n<center>_image above is watercolor and ink on watercolor canvas,<br> by me_<\/center>\n<center>http:\/\/i203.photobucket.com\/albums\/aa41\/beehelicopter\/Screen%20Shot%202017-07-13%20at%202.28.06%20PM.png<\/center>\n<center><h1>_@therealpaul_<\/h1><\/center>",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"philosophy\",<br>\"spirituality\",<br>\"art\",<br>\"life\",<br>\"writing\" ,<br>\"users\":[\"therealpaul\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZSr2bu9xN8uMhCxdNZn1nAwN97nELoxWMKW29zqRQUMb\/lizardd.jpg\",<br>\"http:\/\/i203.photobucket.com\/albums\/aa41\/beehelicopter\/Screen%20Shot%202017-07-13%20at%202.28.06%20PM.png\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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