What if There's Nothing Wrong?

Thus, in this way, the science from the new sciences is catching up to the spiritual and indigenous traditions–both the Indian and Chinese have been our examples–which have always told us that our world is nothing more than a reflection of what we think and believe. For clarity, remember that this then combines back with the fact that this is the Observer effect “discovered” by quantum physics, where our subjective expectations contribute to what happens on the physical plane, in collapsing a wave into a particle in specific certain ways that align with our thoughts, feelings, and expectations of what will happen. Then the particles take over, which is when physical matter begins. This is over–simplified, but ultimately it is what was uncovered. So these factors combine to therefore justify Braden saying that we are architects of our reality. Without going any further into the mechanics of how our thoughts create reality–for there are many other resources doing this, and more importantly this is not the point of this discussion–this basic understanding implies enough to see that how we think affects to a degree what happens on the physical plane. We are interacting with and co–creating to a degree what shows up in our physical world. But this is also metaphysical; remember, meta means beyond, bigger than. And this is key to the motivation to clean up one’s thinking. Life and managing to live it successfully goes well beyond the physical, right? Then why should we allow this to remain our collective–and individual, for many–dominant focus of our metaparadigm? Furthermore, it seems more than just irony behind the spiraling nexus of crises within our culture that these crises are from the very institutions built on the metaparadigm’s belief and focus on the physical. Hence, it’s these very systems that are crashing, and also screaming out that they need to change, suffering from their own dysfunction caused by this very imbalance. Quite possibly the banking system and the housing crisis all came about due to greed, focus on the physical, or the material. Do you see? Pioneer, teacher of intuitive energy medicine and author of The Anatomy of Spirit, Carolyn Myss says, “The Divine is coded within paradoxes.” She was speaking about being able to read the hidden meanings of the bigger picture, or perspective, within life’s events, saying that the divine communicates to humans within paradoxes. This is something I provide for my clients consistently because it’s what they require. Most seem to get lost in the small-me personality created me of the cognitive mind and so they lose the perspective that could tell them how to view symbolically what they’re going through. What is needed for them to change their situation is what they’re looking for from me. I help steer them back to what their own system is saying it needs, by helping them reconnect to this higher perspective. Realistically, it seems like, by using the energy medicine modalities I do, I am helping them reconnect to the their soul, and their ability to sense the soul, or spirit, in life in general. At the same time, I am using energy medicine and other tools to help them move beyond their minds. It seems that this is precisely what many experts, including myself obviously, agree is lacking in our culture. This historical, and mystical, or soulfuness that ancient cultures still have. So there is a sense of perspective, or a higher backdrop to life, beyond the mind and the small me personality. So by adding the crises within the major systems in our society built upon the foundation of the materialist scientific metaparadigm, to the growing consensus that we are not just separate from nor uninfluential on the subtle power behind what we see as the physical world, this then equals the conclusion that there is a need for a metaparadigm shift. This recognition requires that we see how at the subjective and subtle energy level we are very much influencing, if not creating, what then manifests on the physical plane. And that we are doing this with the power–or lack of, and so creating by default–of our consciousness. This is the shift in thinking needed. Our thoughts and beliefs–beliefs are thoughts that have been thought over and over again with an emotional charge–direct this power. So if we’re not managing our thoughts well, or if we’re not examining our beliefs, we’re still creating from this mayhem of mismanagement, and we’re not aware of the power of our thoughts, we’re creating mayhem. So at the very least, we’re not creating what we want in our lives. We’re only reacting to what’s in our lives if not consciously engaged in some form of “mental management.” The shift here, now, is the belief of where the power exists. Is it outside of us, or within us? Or both? And where inside of us? It is not that the physical plane exists and we are subject to it, as thought within the Enlightenment scientists’ ordering of the objective world. Instead, this next stage, or phase, or metaparadigm definitely involves the importance of the mind. For within the mind is our consciousness, or consciousness both underlies and branches up and out of the mind. It does so more fluidly and cleanly when not hindered by a rather unsettled, unstable, discordant mind in struggle or ego based afflictions. Focusing on the physical, or the material to the exclusion–or near exclusion–of the subtle, or consciousness, leads to a more afflicted, clinging, controlling ego based mind. The ego is created for operation and navigation on the physical plane; it’s its partner. So if we are focusing more on the physical, we are coming more from the ego, more than we are coming from the Higher Self, or the sacred self with a sense of a larger perspective than just the human made, physical world in mind. This is where we are; at this nexus of having to work out of what we’ve created from the entire scientific materialist metaparadigm that emerged during the 1700’s. As the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures point out, getting beyond this ego based personality part of ourselves allows us to then connect more with a higher state of consciousness. Perhaps even to the point of a higher consciousness of unity with a divine source, with others, and with the universe overall. If one is an atheist or agnostic, substitute “universe” for “divine source” here. Typically, historically, this kind of transcendent focus was left to those who had “dropped out” of the material “race” and pursued a life of solitude. It has been an either–or lifestyle choice traditionally. Henry David Thoreau of the American Transcendentalists is a well known example. So are the baby–boomers who dropped out of their teaching positions at Harvard, or their professions and went instead to India, in search for something more in the 1960’s and 1970’s. However, as Carolyn Myss has said, it is the time now to become “urban monks.” Meaning, this historical dichotomy of either focusing on the material and physical and being an active member of the scientific materialist metaparadigm, its’ institutions, businesses and “game” (as it has deemed it is played,) or withdrawing from it and going off into solitude to focus on the inner life is no longer an option. Instead, we are to do both together, each in a modified, yet genuinely unified, balanced way that keeps the little me, or the ego–mind in check with a cultivated Observer, or a “Higher Self.” This can be - and now needs to be - while maneuvering on the physical plane of daily life of family, careers and all its accompanying necessities that we keep ourselves so busy fulfilling.