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Chapter 5: Creating & Saving Space For Consciousness
Chapter 5
Creating & Saving Space For Consciousness
Creating & Saving Space For Consciousness
Let’s set the stage. We’re about to do some deep cleaning in the storage room of our basement. It’s dark, dingy, with spiderwebs— all the clichés; the beginnings of a horror flick. The dust, piled up because we rarely visit the basement. It stores the things we don’t want to look at, collecting what we find aesthetically displeasing. The silence is deafening, and the darkness is on high alert. We open the door. “What’s she going to do next?” The darkness ponders, fixed gaze trembling in fear.
Next level, you flip the switch. The light bursts on, reaching every corner of the room. What do you see? What frights have revealed themselves? Oh, no! It’s the work ahead. Dun, dun, duun.
This is one way to look at all the dark stuff, with a little humor.
Any components of a poor lover that resonated, it’s nothing more than a bunch of stuff piled in our basement. It’s accumulated patterns, harming and unsafe belief systems, hiding in our subconscious.
Our only job in this life, in the work, is to witness the darkness and walk through it. We can call it personal development, or spiritual work, but it’s the same.
Have you heard the terms inner and surrounding light? If so, this is one lens through which we can view its esoteric meaning.
We’re not the darkness as exoteric religions might have us believe. This experience, however, is a legitimate milestone in our awakening. Most of us have been there before; with that feeling of brokenness, helplessness, and the longing to be saved. This is a stepping-stone experience. If we keep going, bearing witness and walking through the discomfort, we’re destined to meet our maker – ourselves.
The deeper more intimately we go, we’re esoterically destined to discover our own light, energy, and awareness.
Our surrounding light is the collective light. It’s the self-actualized essence of our spirit guides, our guardian angels, the archangels, the healed aspects of our ancestors, the healed versions of those in our lives now, and the light of our highest selves.
Our awareness, our light, is limited only by what we're unwilling to witness and walk through.
Metaphorically, our inner light might be viewed as the moment we open the door to the basement. It’s the moment that we decide to do the work – to clear, clean, and save space for something more valuable than stuff.
We flip the switch, also us, our inner light deciding to look.
The light illuminates the room; that could be viewed as our outer light. It’s the healed aspect of our best friend whose growth makes us uncomfortable. It’s that insufferable feeling we get while grudging through an exploitative and dehumanizing job. It’s that same feeling we might get looking into a basement of doom.
Our surrounding light shows us what stands between us and our potential.
The work of Psyche creating and saving space for Consciousness is uncomfortable, it sucks. If it’s not uncofortable and inconvenient, that’s not the work. That’s a sure sign we’re throwing more stuff in the basement rather than clearing it out.
The inner light and the outer light are not separate from us, they are the same as us. Each ray of light, autonomously radiant in color, comes from the light and is the light.
In the macrocosm, there’s no such thing as time and space.
In the microcosm, time and space are required to self-actualize into our potential. In the microcosm, free will is also available; the harming, disconnecting choice is always an option. What we do with the time and space we’re given is up to us.
CALL TO ACTION
What are we doing with the time and space we have? What have we been, consciously or unconsciously, saving space for? Who does it serve to save space for darkness, our poor lover? Who does it serve to clear out that space with light? Where are we willing to create and save space for our soul mate – Consciousness?
