Wide Awake Living

It can be a great revelation when we discover that our minds have been running amok and being our own greatest enemy.

This is often seen when we also see that we are not our minds. We are something else even more wonderful!

We then can begin to see exactly how it is that our minds can cause us to lose touch with reality and go off on all sorts of tangents and suffer needlessly. This is a great turning point! When this is seen, then we are no longer simply at the mercy of whatever happens to us, but begin to accept the role of creator of our own experience.

The word has been out for decades that we create our own (mental) reality, but we can’t begin to be creative in this way until we see exactly how mind has habitually been ruling us.

We have fallen into a trap of believing the stories that mind has told us, believed the mentally mediated version of reality it fed us with for years. But we weren’t fooled. We weren’t satisfied. And now its rule is ending.

Many of us have been seeing through mind’s antics for years. And for many of us there remains a suspicion against mind, probably because of our 5000(?) year foray into egoic consciousness where we were so thoroughly led astray into suffering. There is a natural hesitancy about picking up mind now as a useful tool to be employed in the service of whatever life wants of us.

Yet these amazing tools we call our minds are the most wonderful instruments, able to calculate far beyond the capabilities of the smartest computer. Our minds are able to construct mental reality by using two (almost separate) hemispheres which perceive in very different ways to compile the information collected through the senses and then put them together and know what to do next!! How extraordinary!! What computer is capable of such sophisticated processing? None.

Without the guidance of something beyond itself however, mind seems to have hit a wall. We experience so much suffering from our having detached ourselves from our true nature while developing these minds. Yet now the world seems unable to proceed much further in the same direction without self-destructing. Out of necessity and the natural preference for survival, mind is being forced to abdicate its throne (to stop pretending to be in charge). Yet, with guidance from that which we are beyond thought, and with an attunement to the well-being of the whole, rather than the preservation of the ego, suddenly the possibilities for the future open wide.

A partnership between the two (inner guidance from what we truly are (call it God by any name) and the incredible usefulness of our amazing mental toolbox) is what will move this planet from the current critical status towards the kind of a future that we want for our children and grandchildren. And this movement is being driven by an evolutionary impulse to survive that we feel in both our archaic nature and our most modern facets. All that stands in the way are the vestiges of egoic identification which have to show themselves in order to be seen through. The way is open.