Bleeding Edge

As we go looking for our ideal life into this world, here is a list of things to remember and to put in motion in our regular life — in order to get us covered as part of the ultimate insurance policy that is the understanding that we are part and parcel of the physical realm that supports our world.

When we remember that – then we are permanently insured against all manners of Loss and Disappointment.

Number One: Remember our place as being part of the natural world, because in the last couple of hundred years we have detached ourselves from nature. We have exploited, ravaged, consumed and attempted to control nature to appease our greed driven by self-absorbed madness. We tried to distance ourselves from the natural circle of life. We forgot how to listen to and understand the natural rhythms and cycles of the earth – its signs and languages. We forgot to follow nature’s path and live in balance with it.

Number Two: Remember our connection to life and the environment, because by detaching ourselves from nature, we forgot that we are deeply connected to it and to the cycles of the seasons, climate, and nature, as expressed in the movement of this Earth through the year around our solar system. Some tribes intentionally living on the outskirts of this civilisation, who still follow ancestral ways, have preserved this connection with respect and reverence. We, on the other hand have instilled a sense of separateness which drove us out of balance, into disharmony, and disease. We forgot how all consciousness is interconnected and weaved into a delicate and beautiful dance.

Number Three: Remember our ancient wisdom, because we forgot our ancestral wisdom. In the quest to gain scientific knowledge through the rationalisation of our mind, we forgot the wisdom through the opening of our heart. We forgot the ancient stories and folk wisdom that was handed down from the seers and wise men of antiquity who lived in harmony with Earth’s Natural cycles and with the universe’s  rhythms.

Number Four: Remember our path and our dreams because by stirring away from our inner path we forgot to dream the dream of life. More importantly we forgot how to awake in that dream and see our true nature as co-creators of life – as the dreamers. We forgot that we have the power to weave dreams and use our power of intention to direct those dreams into manifestation.

Number Five: Remember our purpose, because with so much chatter, noise, and distractions in this dense reality we forgot what we came here to do. We forgot our purpose. We are caught in the mass trance of fabricated consensual reality. We lost sight of our authenticity, that inner spark that drives us towards our happiness and self-realisation. We forgot that we are here to be realised as spiritual beings embodied in a physical form and embedded in a congenial universe.

Number Six: Remember that everything is Love, because this is perhaps the deepest mystery of all that only some gifted teachers came to understand it as an all-embracing truth. That truth however is hidden somewhere deep inside of us. We knew it at some point but have lost touch with it. We forgot that everything is ultimately energy and consciousness and that love is the fundamental fabric of existence that runs through all energy and consciousness.

Number Seven: Remember to Forgive, because by being made to believe that we are separate and disconnected from the others and from everything else, we forgot to forgive. In its deepest sense forgiveness is the act of reminding ourselves that we are one with everyone and everything and that there is no victim or perpetrator. It’s just all of us together moving together in a dynamic web we call life.

Number Eight: Remember to be Free, because we need to remind ourselves one thing everyday: “We were made to be free. We were born and raised in a ‘reality’ where freedom is only a concept. We were bound through the shackles of fear, uncertainty and doubt, to the wall of Plato’s cave because our head is full of misconceptions, false ideologies, material stick & carrot rewards, and we were held for ransom to rules and laws laid down to safeguard the interest of the very few, at the expense of the many. We were thus became serfs, servants, & slaves, and made to forget that we are free agents of change. We are free to be who we are without fear or guilt.

Number Nine: Remember our real powers, because living in fear has made us forget how powerful we are. We forgot the massive power of our will and intention to change our reality. We have been tranced into sleepwalking and following the ready made signs leading us to certain death — like automatons and sleepwalkers.

Number Ten: Remember our lessons from history, because if there is something that history has taught us is how quick we are at forgetting our lessons. Time and time again we keep on repeating the same mistakes, stuck in the same patterns of greed and self-destruction. We cannot be blamed individually for the mistakes done by humanity in the past but we are responsible as individuals to to remind ourselves of the past mistakes and pass it on to the collective psyche.

Number Eleven: Remember to be simple, because human life has gotten far more complex, busy, and complicated, in the last few years. We are seduced by the glitter of more and not by the power of less. We forgot to be simple and discounted the very meaning of simplicity. Life is simple really. Simplicity means discarding all the inessential stuff and ideas that clutter the view to our life purpose and the other truths we have forgotten.

Number Twelve: Remember to trust, believe and wonder, because we lost our enchantment with the world. We forgot to wonder at the sight of the everyday miracle of life. We do not stand in awe at the majesty of Life anymore. We’ve been jaded. We’ve become cynical and lost.
Our skepticism and cynical view of the world has made us lose trust in ourselves and the magic of the universe. We forgot how to believe. This is perhaps the biggest tragedy of all, because it weakened our spirit and impoverished our soul.

Yours,
Pano

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Number Thirteen: Remember to notice things, because the more I ponder about life, the more I notice the details and the small things. The baby steps necessary to realize the importance of accepting our place in the present World, and our responsibility of keeping this World operational and functional for the future.

And it’s hard to remember our purpose here — because for most people, our ego driven consciousness is on a mission to break the link to our being part of the whole and subject to the interconnected web of life and this causes us to forget our universal consciousness.

But on a collective level, this forgetfulness as perpetuated and reinforced by social and cultural means – mainly by people being brainwashed into a reality of unconscious consumerism, inauthentic lifestyles, and unsustainable materialistic mindsets — is crumbling and collapsing all around us.

Thus we are awaking to this fallacy and the giant disconnect from the “Commons” and we are slowly getting to a place of wisdom and positive action.

The brighter side of it is that we all have the chance to remember and to reconnect ourselves with the universe at large, because the power of remembering is at the centre of the spiritual path to self-discovery and realisation.

And that’s how we transform ourselves from human beings born from the earth into human spirits borne upon the stars.