The Ground Before the Sky
Why Awakening Needs Roots
Humanity is amidst a collective awakening. More and more people are feeling the call, the pull to wake up to their true nature, the oneness that permeates all phenomena. The ground of this lively expression.
Upon waking up to oneness, more are expanding their field of listening. Star seeds are more prominent than ever. Humans as vessels. Humans as channels to communicate with higher realms of existence.
There’s often a subconscious narrative driving these prioritized behaviors. And yes, waking up is essential. Enlightened oneness. Resting into the connection of all beings. And yes, opening to channel, opening to listen, to realize what is the antenna through which you garner information.
And yet, with so much of what I explore, I’m drawn to view what we experience holistically. How can we integrate as many perspectives as possible to see what each is trying to say? In this frame, deep, relative therapeutic work can often fall to the wayside.
I remember hearing somewhere: “Everyone wants to do ayahuasca, no one wants to do the laundry.” In Jack Kornfield’s book After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, he points at this directly. To transcend the self, one must first have a self to transcend. A healthy, integrated sense of identity is not the enemy of awakening but its foundation.
When we wake up to our true nature, there is a core difference between view and states. Your view is the stage of your awareness. Your state is the phenomena that arises within this view.
Humans, by conditioning, love and attach to states. They are sticky. We love the cuddly warm. We don’t want that to end. We recall and want to return to “when it was better.” Attachment appears in our direct individual experience. It can also have a relational quality, as in attachment therapy: understanding how secure we are in relation to others. Yet when we unpack this more, at its root, humans fall addict to sensations, to feelings. From that space of sensation or feeling we place a label. The label is often good, bad, neutral. From that labeling, sprouts a story. Story is how we begin to derive meaning from, in this case, said sensations.
Thus, the role of psychotherapeutic, and, or any other inner development, becomes vital. Waking up is only one aspect of development. And on the relative level, on the human level, people need the capacity to articulate and express needs. They need to hold boundaries. When is enough enough?
This is the doorway to greater integration. The throughline to respect. You cannot impose your own expectations on others. Rather, it’s an opportunity for you to own how others experience you, yes, with kindness and compassion. And clarity of needs and boundaries comes from deep integration of parts. So often we subconsciously are in a rifraf between various parts of ourselves. Parts blend, parts are in conflict. Without a calm, centered Self to mediate, these parts end up in endless tug-of-war.
Thus, it becomes increasingly difficult to express what you need clearly, with congruence. Imagine you’re looking for water to come out of a spout, but it continues to make a million twists and turns, getting stuck along the way. You’re simply looking to get water.
It’s easy to be drawn towards these wild states of pure bliss, love, and joy. With an external reality that is increasing in density, these states can provide a hot tub amidst chaos.
Yet they are one aspect of experience. And to show up fully on earth, in this lifetime, requires a deeper well of integration. One that honors the earth, the earth of our being, and the sky.
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