The Risk of Opening

Once you start having these direct experiences, some predictable things will happen:

You will begin to see the possibilities of a world that is structured on very different premises, and begin to live and work in ways that advance that vision.  

You will cease to see the world in black and white, your judgments will be suspended and you will encounter an entirely new set of possibilities. It will shake up your life. You will probably change your job, your friends, the way you eat, the way you love, the level of excitement and energy with which you approach every day life. You will start diving directly into hard things, with zeal, not avoiding them. 

Your passions will be rich and vital, fired out from your core being. Curious and creative solutions will come to you. Discoveries and inventions will grace your notebooks. You might find yourself reading people’s bodies: reading sadness and armoring from across the room. Synchronicities and serendipities will appear with startling frequency. You will begin to live from a direct present awareness of the gorgeous, wondrous, incalculably beautiful, interconnected reality of the cosmos.  Of which, as you now know, you are always an inseparable part.

You will know it’s working by the fruits by the quality of your daily experience of life, how unfazed you are by externalities, by the improved quality of your relationships, by the quality of your communication, by how you serve the world around you, by the manifestations of positive change in all domains you engage in, by the presence of more love, peace, patience, kindness and clarity in your daily life.  You will feel yourself to be increasingly your own sovereign being, living from your deep wisdom while being connected to the oversoul.  

In the beginning, you may find it hard to talk to your existing friends, family and colleagues about the things you are trying and the things you discover, but eventually your direct experience will give you a platform from which to share your reality. You will meet a network of new friends and allies. Your joy will have its own perfume. 

Are you ready for that? 

Psychologist Erich Fromm wrote way back in the 1940s about the Fear of Freedom. The anxiety of choice creates a pull to authority structures outside the self, as if we were saying,“Just tell me what to do so I can feel less unsure. So some people will begin to expand… and then suddenly constrict right at the breakthrough point, lose their moxie. And that’s okay, too.

But trust me, there’s a whole other shadow reality inside of the existing culture that you will meet when you cross over. In this underground, I have met NIH Researchers, Google executives, school teachers, nurses, construction workers, attorneys, rock stars, poets, mathematicians.  All walks of life, all income levels… all having had it with the way things are. 

There were many more people there, and many more “normies” than I ever imagined.  

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