Caroline Myss - There is a Search Going on Within Us Around Us

okay hi everybody good evening everybody uh so you know me i have to get sort of a a holy atmosphere going so i always picture i always honestly picture us and our souls hovering together in a field of grace which is so powerful and i love the prayer of teresa hover over us god grant us the grace to receive the blessings open open me up let the truth of whatever will be given to us pour into me hover over me god amen okay i love opening workshops this is almost like my this is almost my favorite part because it focuses me as much as it focuses you and if i sound like i'm yelling at you i am and the reason is because i'm not hooked up to the mic yet but i will be tomorrow so pardon the yelling because i really am um but i would like to start this evening the the subject as as you know is i took the metaphor of the garden of life but i want to come into it through a different angle and the way that i work is every time i sit with an idea an idea talks to me and the good news about that is that the idea talks to me and the not so good news is that the idea talks to me and off i go off i go off i go and when i was a younger person i had more control over those things and now i think it's because i enjoy the magic carpet ride that i no longer discipline my intellect in the way that i used to and it's either that or my soul takes flight and so i need and i want to follow my notes with a little more rigor this evening than i normally do i want to kind of i'm not sure that's going to work but i i i like what i wrote [Laughter] so i'm i'm determined to follow my notes but um i would like to s to to say that you know we we're at this time that i think of as souls in flight and that's that for the last many many decades now six decades we really have been we could characterize who we are in one way and that we are in search of god and we haven't found that place and that is something we have in common there is a search going on within us around us and that that characterizes the world more than we realize and that is the endless quest contained within this quest is that there has been a dismantling of the familiar a dismantling of the language of religion and exodus of religion a dismantling of so much that is um and and and the dismantling of the vocabulary of religion which is something that you know we're going to just dwell take a look at but not this evening except for me to say at this point that the use of words i hope is something that i'll make very significant for you as we go through the next couple of days and that in the dismantling of the vocabulary of the sacred which is what has taken place over the last six decades that peop the society has blocked access to the sacred and not realized it so if i were to take the color the word blue out of your vocabulary could you see blue okay i would block access to all that is blue including the sky including the ocean so if i took the vocabulary of the sacred out of you including critical words conscience and replaced it with a useless word consciousness if i did clever tricks of the trade and removed the word words that are incredibly significant words like soul or words like even the words the meaning of the sacraments in all religions not just christianity but in all sacred rituals account spiritual accountability and remove these without replacing them with anything and it replaced them i didn't replace them with a more modern version i simply took them away the gap in us has remained ferocious we haven't replaced it we haven't replaced it instead what happened was we took flight in the idea that we create our own reality that's how we replaced it we replaced it with the idea that we create our own reality and that finding the self is a replacement for finding the sacred and that's what we dun did okay we left behind many of the rules of the church you know and the and we left and the significance of traditional religion of all religions so when i say traditional religion i'm not just going to christianity i'm going to traditional religions and traditional buddhism traditional anything of tradition is that it served as guardians of social and moral conscience however it stood within its culture it was a can i take this off without it pulling things apart for me okay it stood as you know the guardians of moral conscience and moral and so and and um a type of it ordered the tribal mind now what's significant about this is that's the lower part of all of us the tribal mind it is the ground beneath our feet and you you'll notice as we move this is where the garden is so i'm going to take us into the metaphor of the garden but i i i'm going to draw it also with the with the fact that we are living in the greatest environmental ecological crisis of our time and i would ask you to connect the dot that these are connected that the uprooting of all tribal traditions down to their roots are directly connected energetically to the uprooting of every tradition down to its roots and i and i i i would ask you to understand as we go through this that it's not about believe me the real the religious traditions and the teachings of i want you to believe in in the teachings of the old testament and the new testament literary literally because if you know me as you're gonna come to know my teachings i don't go there i am speaking symbolically and energetically and archetypally of what it means to be rooted if i could merge the significance of holy literature with the chakras as i did in anatomy of the spirit as i did with your understanding that we were structured long before these sacred places called churches and synagogues and temples were the body was formed on the system of of chakras and the human energy system our system was formed as a map of the laws of creation it was followed it was formed as a map that that works in exactly the way all the maps of nature do and that the the what follows in terms of social structure comes set millennia after millions of years after the maps of creation were formed we come out of the soil of creation those came just a few hundred years ago so what i'm talking about is an imprint in our biology that is millions of years not just a couple of hundred you know two just twenty hundred years ago which christianity and 2500 years ago with buddha there's nothing that's nothing that's yesterday that's noon on the clock it's nothing i mean half the world doesn't even have indoor plumbing it's nothing so to understand that this the whole the role of of religion was to take the understanding of of power and somehow put it in a tribal system that could be understood because they could feel they knew that the organization of the human being and the organization of the whole were one in the same somehow and they required some type of governance that was ordered in the same way when we left those traditions and we didn't replace it with anything we began a quest that we're still on that somehow we are i think it's been it's been my experience now that um [Music] uh the speed at which our world has changed the speed at which our world has shifted is not something that we have calculated into the search for god that somehow or other the the way in which the world is spinning around us is somehow not in our lens as being part of the pressures that are in within us and it's not part of the calculations that need to be worked in us because we we do not stretch our energy field to include the pressures in the collective in the way we should said differently our energy system is the size of the collective but we do not calculate we don't do our calculations correctly when we think about um the size of ourselves we still define ourselves by the size of our physical body we still do not get that we have an energy system and that that energy system is a conscious system we we haven't adjusted to just like we haven't adjusted to a new model of god we haven't adjusted to a new model of our biology we're in between worlds we haven't made that leap between what i see and the world that is so we're living in a world the world we see is a world that is no more the world we don't see is the authentic one does that does that sound confusing to you okay the world that we see is a world that you access through five senses but you don't have five senses you have about 30. you have emotional sense you have intuition right yes okay but how does your show me your intuitive sense show it to me put it in a box and bring it here show me your emotional sense now what would you trust more something your emotion told me about told you about me or something you looked at so your emotion you would trust your emotion more so you would trust something you can't see more than what you could see that's my point my point is that the world we cannot see the world we cannot hear the world we cannot taste has now become more authentic to us than the world we can see we can hear the world that we access through the internet where's the internet where is it bring me the internet bring me the size of an email show me an email going from here to there show it to me i don't want to see it in paper show me an email traveling can you do it show me bring it in a box you can't do it and yet you believe there's something up there called mr icloud that you trust more than anyone you have on earth here that has all your data am i wrong where's mr icloud you ever met him have you met him ever had dinner with mr icloud but you have trusted mr icloud with every piece of secret information you have am i wrong no does he know more about you than your mother your dad your husband your best friend yes he has all your data yes could mr i cloud bankrupt you blackmail you ab ho absolutely set you up for a fall wipe you out and you've never even met him never even met mr icloud your whole world is controlled by a world you will never see that is my point we have be evolved into an invisible land a totally invisible land and you are not even aware of it you you've you've got an address in an invisible world and you are not even aware that you've moved and you live in a physical world that you are not even aware is a false address it's a totally fake address there's nothing in the physical world that you trust you certainly don't trust people you don't trust anyone you do business with because you show up with 18 lawyers you don't trust anything you don't trust your bankers you don't trust your priests you don't trust anything when it comes down to it nothing and what it and and nothing you see you trust so how in the world can you go the next step and trust something you can't see like a spiritual path it's been my experience that what people are have what we've done is we've turned the spiritual path into finding with absolute conviction what we do not believe and having no sense with absolute conviction what we do believe what people can tell me is that they know for certain that they don't believe this they don't believe this they don't believe this and they don't believe that but they cannot say with absolute conviction i have faith in this i have faith in that with absolute conviction but they know what they don't believe now there are rare pockets and and you know it's i have looked and watched and studied and wondered for so long about for example miracles and healing because i know i know that healing at a different quote rate of speed healing illnesses that in the ordinary five sensory world physicians would say that's not possible to heal that healing in in illnesses such as blindness in the five sensory world broken backs in the five sensory world healing only using your five senses these illnesses what i would call first column illnesses would not be possible you don't have enough energetic resources but you also don't have enough inner resources inner to the kind we're going to talk about but what kind and i'll give you just that example someone who experiences a healing that is faster than ordinary time so imagine your arm like this is instantaneous high noon light goes into matter just like that there's no time this is ordinary time hour by hour by hour so this is ordinary time this is timelessness and what is actually happening to us is we're doing this shift now and we're moving from ordinary time that we all shared where we had this sense that we all work hard and we saved for 30 years and we all understood that and we we retired at this age and we did this and we all shared the same equations we had a coming out party at age 16. we got married about age 22 to 24. we had our first baby about 26. we you know we there was a a time that we shared after the nuclear age nuclear power nuclear bombs changed our equation and it changed the speed and power at which destruction could happen so now the proportions were changed and it's important to understand that it went from this many people being killed in this amount of time to instantaneous now that equation time and space shifted because the it when we went into the world of quantum time timelessness quantum physics are you following me here so now we're dealing in the world of quantum with our own capacity to reach our own quantum technology in the world behind our eye in the world behind our we're we're spiritual the spiritual journey is about reaching our own quantum technology quantum spirituality behind our eye instant healing is intention into form without time let me say it again that ordinary medicine has to work within the timing of the body take this medicine for six weeks which means you'll be sick for six weeks this medicine takes six weeks okay now what energy medicine said was that with the use of consciousness we can shift the speed because we'll increase consciousness and that will decrease time with me so the more conscious you become the the needle moves up and the less authority time has over what's happening to you are you with me which means that the meter becomes in your head versus out here because i don't know how how what every one of us becomes responsible then for our own meter our own meter we're all on our own now because and this is if why for example when i do a reading and i see someone attached to their past an attachment to history is an attachment to a meter that's going to cost you years of time it's going to cost you years of cell tissue and in terms of medicine i'm going to say this is going to cost you at least another week you can't i'm going to have to lower your meter you're going to need a lot of chemical resources because you've got so much history am i making sense here okay so that's that's how it works now which means that ultimately every person can theoretically get to that place of kairos timing where they have enough energy in them that could outrun the speed of an illness that if you have enough timelessness you could outrun the progression of a time disorder like cancer when someone says this pancreatic cancer it can wipe you you've got six weeks here baby but if you had if you could reach enough timelessness you could blow that right out of the water absolutely i this is not theory for me this is the way the spirit versus matter works now that said here comes factor number three which is my opinion is the biggest one which is could you handle that experience actually happening to you because in truth and this is where we're going to dwell for the weekend is the strength of your spirit and what's actually in your spirit what is it comprised of and how to make your spirit of such substance and that's that i believe deeply that one of the reasons the main reason one of the main reasons i should say that such profound ex healings are denied people it's not because your faith isn't wonderful and and you're not a good enough person or we're not good enough people it's because you're not strong enough to experience something out of the normal speed and and sustain the feedback from people who tell you such a thing is not possible i think that if you are still so connected to the tribal mind where your whole sense of validation comes from saying you have to believe me but you have to because you want them to sustain you you want them to think you're terrific you have to believe me i did this how come you not you can't you don't believe me you if you need other people to validate or sustain things that happen to you then as you transition to the inner world where personal experiences become more and more a reflection of your personal inner life they can't be validated by another person they simply cannot and if you require that then the greater act of compassion is to deny you that experience because it to give it to you is to position you for madness for such suffering as you have never known is to give you something so beautiful and then to have you forget that experience and turn you into someone quite ugly because others will not believe you do you see so the actual journey here is one of what can you sustain on your own what is it you actually believe what do you think your car the spiritual journey is is one of moving into what is my garden what seeds am i planting what do i refine what what i what i believe is happening now and i i i deeply believe is that this movement away from traditional religions is something that was supposed to happen it's not the fault of churches and bad priests and bad nuns and bad rabbis and bad this or but that's nonsense we were supposed to move on the um mythologies of religions were meant to collapse because they can't sustain us but that's just part of it that's just part of where things have come to an unnecessary end um another is that we have evolved to we've morphed to become something very dangerous and that's that um we have uh fallen out of harmony with our essential nature with our essential nature itself we have fallen completely out of harmony we've taken a detour with our uh essential nature years ago centuries ago in the beginning of um the age of reason when when we had descartes in galileo when they discovered all of these scientists discovered the age of reason discovered the capacity of reason discovered different aspects about the beginning of science real science and they fell in love with the capacity to reason and what happened at that time was that they they created the god of reason and because we could reason we became half man and half god we became half man and half god they made we made ourselves spiritually special in terms of all the other creatures on the earth we became the most special because we could reason and then we decided that anything else that couldn't reason was not worth anything and that gave us permission to be abusive to everything to people that we decided couldn't reason who weren't like us who didn't believe like us to animals to nature to absolutely everything to anything and everything that did not reason like us it gave us permission to abuse it to kill it to use it to imprison it to enslave it to do whatever we wanted we still feel that way this is still the reasoning system we use to make our laws to rationalize what we do and it comes all the way from galileo copernicus newton and our belief that we are reasonable creatures this is how we see ourselves right here and this is what we have never the truth is we have never been more unreasonable in our lives we've never been more irrational unreasonable we've never been more foolish but because we see ourselves as just the opposite we can't see ourselves for what we're doing we simply can't see it we simply won't see it okay when in fact um wait a minute there are things i wanted to go through here that are important because i can't expect to remember all this in my little cabeza yes that would be reasonable ah here we go um what what this allowed us to do over the course of centuries was that um as we became enamored with science with newton and just all of them east and west but mostly the west is that we formed a relationship with nature with knowledge itself because remember that we we have a relationship with knowledge itself by saying this knowledge is valuable this knowledge is not the study of earth knowledge the study for example of knowledge that is about our relationship to our own nature we decided was not important we decided that when in fact the study of the systems that tell us about our own nature such as astrology should have been incorporated into every child's education because it's not fortune telling it's the study of the science of the systems of nature as they relate to the elements in the garden of your body and the four elements that our body is managed by earth and water and fire earth water fire and air okay all those four elements this is my last my latest reflections class initiations by these four elements these are the four elements that you are comprised of and you are in fact one and the same with the laws of nature these are your governing laws this is the new theology in my opinion is understanding the god within nature what i call organic divinity which is exactly what this class is about okay this is the gar this is what is in you to understand how you are structured to understand yourself as saying am i planting a seed here do i really want to plant a seed here is this situation going to bring me balance or not because the laws of balance govern you whether or not you get that or not you're going to get that because the dow is in you you are the living tao you are the living truth that for what you do to one you are doing to the whole and whether or not you like it doesn't matter it shouldn't matter to anybody that's the mathematics of the system it's divine mathematics and in my opinion to save the environment the next the theology we have to have is nature's theology which is the one our body has which is an organic divinity that says the god in me is in fact biological it's echo spirituality and that the thing that makes us personal with god is prayer and that somehow in this huge ecological system in which there is no religion for god but that we are one in the same with the whole of creation that somehow what makes this universe personal and intimate is prayer that what we are witnessing is the rise of consciousness in every living creature that we stand back and say how is it possible that animals have consciousness they always have but we separated ourselves from nature it is we who separated ourselves and said they can't be conscious why because we said so and now we look i said look at that dolphin it loves this little pup look at that whale it loves its little pup look at that gorilla it loves its little baby you want to take that person put its head in the toilet what is the matter with you why do you think other creatures would not have emotion what are you thinking it's because i'm not i'm not ready to change my lifestyle therefore you can't have an emotion therefore you can't have it because i don't want to change and that's how we've been running the universe but that's got to stop now it's got to stop now and we will do we've done that so long as we live here when you when we feel that we are not what we forgot what we eclipsed in these last hundred years as we decided we were not part of nature is that it gave us permission to be observers of nature and from that came this i have to go in the country and get some nature because there's no nature in the city really are you not standing on the earth in the city are you flying are there no trees why does the earth suddenly stop when you're in the city how is that possible i don't get that i've lived in the country for 10 years i live in the city and so far as i'm concerned nature is everywhere i've gardened in the city i've gardened in the suburbs i've gardened in the country i've gardened everywhere i don't get that i've seen and nature everywhere nature is everywhere so don't get people who have to see the tree to sense nature to that i would say snap out of it knock it off you may prefer to look at the forest but you better develop the senses to sense nature everywhere or cut off your air supply in the city because that too is nature oxygen is nature air is nature waters nature wind is nature when you are observers of nature and not part of it you get to say that the laws of nature don't apply to you cause and effect doesn't apply to you gravity doesn't apply to you going up and down doesn't apply to you sensing doesn't apply to you magnetic attraction doesn't apply to you what you get to say is the laws don't apply to me period because i am not ordinary i am extraordinary in fact i'm extraordinary so you get to operate by the belief that you were born for something special and that becomes your creed i'm not ordinary i'm something special in fact this is why most people hold being ordinary in contempt god make me anything don't make me ordinary they name their kids don't you love it sunshine meditation karma apple north star what's your child's name doorknob just astral lab but don't call him jane right my children are so special and then they have the unmitigated gall to send you christmas cards full of pages of how special their children are i take them trash can trash can do not send me that garbage okay warning you all of you and you know what everybody nobody wants pictures of your kids with special on them i just got to tell you they don't they could care less and they don't think your kids are special so i'm just i speak for everybody i speak for everybody stop with that junk

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Length: 43min 3sec (2583 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 22 2021