11/06/10: The ultimate test of trust

To trust or not to trust?
Do you trust that if you do exactly what your soul is guiding you to do, you'll be in exactly the right place at the right time and get exactly what you need to be who you truly are? Do you trust enough to do what you are 'meant' to do?

The world is in pretty uncertain times. If we look throughout history, we've undergone huge transition periods through different eras.
In times past, unthinkable things have caught the unsuspecting people off guard and heart-wrenched their lives. Throughout the ages, royalty has been overthrown, good men, women and children have been enslaved, currency rendered useless, war, disease and famine have wreaked havoc. This list is endless. What makes us so different now?...

Well personally I don’t think that any of us are immune to this type of thing at all! The world at large has had the wool pulled over its eyes for so long, that the majority don't see what is really going on. Most have long since forgotten what it really means to follow the path of the soul and see through the eyes of authenticity.

I feel Heaven in my heart. It is indescribably divine. It provides the deepest inspiration during my journey through life. I see it reflected externally too, but in no way do I reside in a utopic 'La la Land' where I negate what is going on in the world. I see the beauty in things, yet I sincerely acknowledge that there is pain and suffering in this world too. I see the path to liberation for all sentient beings. True freedom IS when we follow the path of the soul in every moment.

I keep noticing these days how most people are still carrying on as if nothing much is actually happening to the foundations upon which society stands. It's like we've built our house on sand and expect that when the floods come and the hurricane blows, that it will still be standing there. Look again!

Imagine this scenario...

    Mr Pleasant has worked hard his whole life to ensure security for himself and family. They own a nice detached urban house, with a little garden and have even paid of the mortgage. The only problem is that his entire dream is built upon the foundation of an unsustainable society, (like millions of others). One day, inevitably, owing to the exploitation in order to create this lifestyle, society collapses. Food imports stop. Conventional trade stops altogether. He is completely dependent on the supermarket a few miles down the road for food, but can’t afford the fuel to get there. He decides to walk only to find that the food stocks have ran out and the doors are locked. He hears that there is no way to produce, package or transport more of the food, so it doesn’t look like there will be any more soon. People begin to loot stores, taking whatever they can, not quite yet getting that it is all worthless. There is general fighting over what little food that can be found. Back at home, although his garden looks very pretty, there is nothing edible in it, nor is there much space to do much if he wanted to. His house is worthless and he is stuck in an area with thousands of other people, where they can’t get food or fuel. Mr Pleasant now begins to wonder where he went wrong. What happened to his secure life, all the insurance policies and the safety net of the matrix? He’s devoted all his life to making sure he is financially secure, warm and fed. Now they are starving, cold and the house is worthless. Nothing of the world they created means anything any more. He’s one of the lucky ones though and decides to abandon his home to seek refuge with his brother in the country, where they are already growing food and using local sustainable goods. He and his family now don’t own a thing, they can only take what they can carry by hand.

This might seem like a far fetched sketch, but it is something that is actually looming in the air in the industrialised world. Similar circumstances are happening to many people in different countries through war or corporate greed, as families are torn and displaced right now. Many western countries have been sheltered from the harsh reality of what really goes on in the world, building a dream of modern comfortable, secure lives. But let’s think again. The fabric of modern society is already crumbling - things are about to get very hot. Don’t settle for deception any more. Most people don’t really want to know as they hold on to what ever ‘security’ they perceive. For most people, it will only really become clear once they are thick in the midst of it - at which time it will sadly be too late to do anything other than scrabble in the chaos, save for a few lucky ones.

This is very real; if not his same situation, then similar ones. It's disheartening to see how so many, even awakened souls, are not embracing the truth of these times.

I don’t have all the answers, but I do know that we each have our own. Fear will take you down a blind alley. Are your choices based on fear or are they based on heart felt guidance of the soul?

What is your soul guiding you to do RIGHT NOW? What your soul is saying is the ONLY thing that resembles security that we are ever going to have! Listen to it with all your heart. Listen, and follow the guidance.

And I’ll see you there!

With Love
Trinity

Lesley Lord's picture

Well said Trinity!

Well said Trinity!

It does seem extraordinary how few people see what is going on behind all the window dressing of the matrix. It seems even those that do see it cannot always break the ties that bind them. Fear and conditioning still rule the choices they make. How well the matrix has exuded its sticky glue which tethers people and blurs their vision.

I feel I just couldn't live with myself if I didn't make the choice that sits right, no matter what issues I am confronted with to overcome. I have to know I'm not kidding myself, I'm not taking the easy option for the sake of keeping this or that status quo. This may seem paradoxical to some, but the tougher the option, often the easier the choice for me, as the way suddenly becomes so obvious. There's no wishy washy maybes, trying to feel the subtle energies of a less "important" decision, the signpost is standing there in the middle of the path, like some fierce woolly mammoth, staring me straight in the eye, it invokes my ray 1 energy and there is absolute knowing, "there's no turning back", only total vulnerability and resolute commitment to truth.

The times when trust has come more noticeably into play for me have been those times when I have been experiencing and processing something new and challenging, often of a prolonged nature, where my understanding of the process was not yet formed. My absolute trust that if I was doing whatever I could to the best of my ability within the confusion that reigned, to stay centered, giving myself fully to the moment and searching for my highest truth in a constant and conscious way, that trust has eventually been honoured when the light at the end of the tunnel finally appeared. During even the most testing times I am receiving, as you say, everything I need to be truly who I am, and I am in exactly the right place and time to get it. How else but through the thick and the thin, would we ever know who we truly are?

Chris often talks about an era of consequences and I believe we are in it. It's time to reassess priorities, step forward in a new way, to live in truth and not comfort zones. Don't look for a perceived mind led outcome, feel how you live more in alignment, and seek that way of being one step at a time. Let everything else fall by the wayside.

If fear arises, breathe, go inside, find your centre, do what you feel is right with absolute commitment, until such time as you are shown to do something else. For if you are truly walking the path, you will only know the next step.

With love to all awakening Souls, you can do it, we all have the inner resources, find the courage within.

Lesley x

Trinity Bourne's picture

walking together

Thank you for the reply Lesley. Wise words indeed!

There reaches a point where it doesn't even feel as if there is a choice any more... other than that of walking the path of higher consciousness or the path of fear. It's a blessing to know that we walk together!

With Love
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Chris Bourne's picture

Profound self honesty

Thanks for this brave and courageous posting.

Yes we ARE coming into a time of great reckoning. We ARE entering an era of consequences where expedient half measures and woolly self delusions will be reflected back in all their darkness.

And paradoxically, for those prepared to seize their future with an open heart and unswerving commitment to higher truth, there is a path of such clarity and light, that it is practically unfathomable in the mind.

This world has become a testing ground for the higher paradigm. We each have a ticket, but to get there, we have to really get onboard. We can't just keep dipping our toes in the water. A Tsunami is coming and we need to be sure we don't get washed away!

Chris

Trinity Bourne's picture

What I am really interested in!

    "It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
    I want to know if you can get up,
    after the night of grief and despair,
    weary and bruised to the bone,
    and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

    It doesn't interest me who you know or how
    you came to be here.
    I want to know if you will stand in the center of
    the fire with me and not shrink back.

    It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
    you have studied.
    I want to know what sustains you,
    from the inside, when all else falls away.

    from ''The Invitation' by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.

Eleanor's picture

Hi Trinity et al "Do you

Hi Trinity et al

"Do you trust that if you do exactly what your soul is guiding you to do, you'll be in exactly the right place at the right time and get exactly what you need to be who you truly are? Do you trust enough to do what you are 'meant' to do?"

I have to say the answer to your questions is YES! i do trust in my heart and soul. And what i'm constantly finding with your website is that it constantly resonates with what my heart is saying. However, i do have some questions on your story.

I have always considered just how lucky we are in this country and realised that it can't last. I think that i have always listen to my heart - even when i didn't realise that that's what i was doing, any maybe this is why i now have a small cottage in a semi-rural area with enough land to grow enough food and to keep a few chickens and possibly goats. I feel i am gaining inner strength to allow me to get up and feed the children after a night of grief and despair! In fact that's just what i did today, in a more literal way

What i don't understand is how can you be so sure that we are on the brink of change, and what is the great reckoning? Why is this era a testing ground for the higher paradigm? What is the higher paradigm? Is higher consciousness in direct opposition to a life of fear? How come all the people following their hearts seem to have the same message? These questions are not a criticism just an attempt to understand and learn. To be honest i feel that what you are saying is right, and i do have faith but i still feel the need to ask why?

Thank you
Elle x

Trinity Bourne's picture

Trust and knowing

Eleanor wrote: "What i don't understand is how can you be so sure that we are on the brink of change, and what is the great reckoning? Why is this era a testing ground for the higher paradigm? What is the higher paradigm? Is higher consciousness in direct opposition to a life of fear? How come all the people following their hearts seem to have the same message? These questions are not a criticism just an attempt to understand and learn. To be honest i feel that what you are saying is right, and i do have faith but i still feel the need to ask why?

Hi Elle,

I had a profound awakening 16 years ago. I wasn’t following a practice or doctrine. I wasn’t meditating or trying to evolve - it was my destiny to wake up for I have travelled a long way in previous lifetimes already. In the moment of my awakening (and without forethought) I surrendered everything I thought I knew, everything I loved, despised, dreamed of, wanted, hoped for, all attachments and agenda. It was the most profound experience of my incarnated existence. The entire world fell away and left me emersed in an infinite field of white light (for the sake of form). Within this experience the boundaries between all things dissolved. There was one seamless beingness. Oneness. Everything/nothing simultaneously. It was the answer to all questions. Within that experience I came to know of things that defy mind led comprehension. I understood the intricate workings of the universe at a profoundly deep level. The veil of illusion had been shatterd forever. So, I trust this energy of higher consciousness - for I consciously experience it. I see in every moment a benevolent force beyond words inviting us all to increasing levels of harmony. I can't speak for all people, but I know that everyone I am given to work with is destined to evolve into a higher paradigm. I trust that I will cross paths with whoever I am divinely given to.

So how can I be sure that we are on the brink of change?

We can never truly know what is going to happen in the next moment. If we fix our mind on anything with certainty then we are not present with the new moment as it arises. We are then not in 'the flow'.

Yet paradoxically, in pure presence we are guided as to what flow is taking place. We attune beyond the limitations of time and space and are imparted knowing.

My role is to share. Not to tell or professes, but rather to inspire another to see if they are party to the same knowing within themselves already. I am not attached to this knowing, yet at time I feel given to express certain signposts.

I was gifted many visions years ago about what was going on in the world. Day by day I realised that there were many others independent of myself unfolding similar realisations.

Eleanor wrote: "How come all the people following their hearts seem to have the same message?"

When people truly attune to the flow of higher consciousness, they’re accessing a place of universal knowing that defies the limitations of the human mind.

Eleanor wrote: "Is higher consciousness in direct opposition to a life of fear?

I wouldn’t say it is direct opposition. Higher consciousness is more like that which arises when fear falls away. It doesn’t recognise the judgement of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ in notions of opposite.

Eleanor wrote: "What is the higher paradigm?"

The higher paradigm is that which emerges when we evolve. The world we see around us reflects our internal state of consciousness. Some people are experiencing a higher paradigm now whilst engaging in the 'old world'. These people serve as a bridge between the two. Some people will not reincarnate into the third dimensional world again, but rather the fifth. That is a whole other topic in itself Wink

I hope this helps

With Love
Trinity

Ben's picture

great article!

great article!
I agree. I resonate with the energy of it, and I feel the world changing, the fabric of society breaking apart, and wonder why more people aren’t living more consciously, are ignoring what seems obvious. Perhaps more will start to see with increasing clarity as things unfold. and perhaps not. In my truth also I feel an invitation, and a flow, towards a Higher Harmony.

I can also empathise with those struggling to 'break free’, those who feel there is another way but are struggling to realise it. The programming of the system is quite ingrained through much of society, and letting go and finding another way, it can sometimes seem pretty challenging!

I was speaking to a friend the other day who illustrated the nonsense of the 'system' in an incident he related. In the village where he lived some people had applied for solar panels to go on the roofs of a new house, presumably in an effort to be more self sufficient and environmentally aware. Their application however was rejected by the local council, and the reason given was that it was in a 'conservation area', essentially because they didn't look 'right'.

I found the story ironic - that while solar panels are generally considered an environmentally friendly way of generating energy, helping people be more self sufficient and more aware in terms of effects etc, they were rejected in a 'conservation area'. It made me wonder what the definition of 'conservation area' might be, when a proactive means of 'conserving' or supporting the wider environment was turned down because of aesthetics! They wanted to keep the village looking the same as it has for the last 200 years or so. Yet times have changed. So what are they trying to conserve?!

It seemed to me a great example of society's thinking on these issues. How long would an area remain ‘conserved’ or harmonious when people aren't doing anything to try and care for the wider environment! How long can society try to sustain a system that just doesn't make sense, by making surface changes and ‘rearranging the deckchairs’? Will people really care what their neighbour's roof looks like, when their lights are out?

Yet there was also some ‘light’ within the story, the fact that there ARE people trying to find alternatives, trying to break free! and I feel as you say that what's being invited is for people to acknowledge that the system can’t keep going as it is indefinitely, to open their eyes to what's going on 'around' them, not just environmentally but on many levels, attune to what they really feel within, what's being invited, and trust in that... and go with it.

with love

Ben

Eleanor's picture

Hello It is as if

Hello

It is as if everything you say i already feel, although i don't yet have your confidence or ability to just totally let go and trust.

You mention the 'veil of illusion'. To me, although this is another unfamiliar concept, i would say that this is the outside world/reality opposed to our inner world: thought or action that is the product of rational thought as opposed to the thought and action that our hearts lead us too. Would you agree?

It seems to me that if you can just trust and let go then what comes up from within is so much more truthful and wholesome than what you get in the 9-5 world. This is why i follow my heart.

With regards to trust, just after finding this site and all the wonderful people here i was able to make leap forwards in what you would call my evolution. I was able to let go of fear. I did what you said and stared fear in the face, identified with it and felt the depths of love for it. Your advice was what i needed and i am eternally grateful. As you know there has been so much fear in my life in the last 15 years and it all just fell away. Now there is joy where there used to be fear.

Now feel that i am part of the flow, connected to infinity without knowing how. I also feel an inner strength beginning to form: hard like a crystal in the core of my being, and for a want of a better way of describing it i am beginning to shine from within.

Thank you Trinity for inspiring me to trust a little bit more!

Trinity Bourne's picture

it's already in there

Elle,

Yes, I get the sense from what you share that it's already in there Wink Your alternative desciption of the veil of illusion fits very well too.

It's so warming that you are confronting your fears leaving room for something far more powerful to emerge instead. I feel you shining out there too.

Ben,

Very synchronistic. Thank you for sharing such an appropriate example.

Trinity
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