Redeeming the Soul
I love the light and the awakeness of the evolving movement. But the time has come to test our metal. It's time to confront the darkness we feel in ourselves and see in other people. It's time to dig deep, uncover anything that would contract us down. If we follow the path, it surely won't be all love and light, our hearts will be broken again and again, until we are finally broken back into one. Where's your darkness? What pushes your deepest buttons?...
When you close your eyes and go deep within, you may find a corridor that gets progressively darker with a variety of doorways off it. Visualise and feel it now. One might be your childhood, going to school for the first time, when you harmed a creature, when you've been unkind or hurtful to another.
What lies behind that hidden doorway?
You can resist it if you like, pretend it doesn't exist, but there's a part of your soul behind that door, a part that needs to be liberated if you are to fully progress.
Maybe the time has now arrived for you to go there? To open the door and confront all hidden skeletons. To bring them out into the light. To own up to yourself and ask yourself for forgiveness. To remind yourself that it is not your fault. But only you can retrieve those lost aspects of yourself. Another can help, but is ultimately your responsibility.
- "All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."
John Ruskin
We are here for you as you open those doorways. And if you don't feel you can call on us, call on the angels instead. They are there, all around. They'll help escort you through the darkness, to recover those lost fragments of soul and become totally whole again.
The time has come to step fully into the light by traversing the corridor of darkness.
Chris
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17 July, 2012 - 07:46 — Kd1Thank you Chris - I'm in bits after reading this. 2012 is certainly the year for this onion to shed some layers. One thing I remember you advised me to do - was to 'trace all negative thoughts back to the void' - this has been such a key teaching for me. When I can honestly go there and follow a thought/feeling back to its root - boy it hurts - and then I see why for so long it's been engrained and that realisation hurts too. Personally I have always lied to cover up so much about myself and I have had to do some unravelling around this which in the last 2 weeks was pretty unbearable but like you said the time is now. I feel broken right now but happy to 'know' that's the way out. Thank you.
Keep going
17 July, 2012 - 08:00 — Chris BourneHi Katy,
Thanks for being open and honest - that's the hardest part - the first hurdle. Not many are yet being totally honest with themselves. The paradox is, there's really nothing to fear in this. The bubble bursts and yes there's pain, but as we keep pulling on those inner threads, as we keep exploring, we start to drop into that eternal void - and there's simply no other place to be.
That's why it's so important to break apart this cherished identities and platforms we've built for ourselves - there's no lasting substance to build a foundation upon. As we move forwards, ALL such fixed foundations will be broken apart.
So keep going Katy, you're on the right tack. You'll go through a storm yes, but you'll find your way through it and out the other side.
Keep going!
Chris
does the corridor ever end?
17 July, 2012 - 09:10 — RékaHi there! Great article, I don't even mention how appropriate timing... AGAIN!
But Chris, there's a bit of a "trick": you don't mention how long this corridor is going to go on...
I think forever...
What changes, maybe, is not that the tunnel ends (into the light) but that you start learning to see in the dark.
Swim in the mud.
Freefalling in space with no ground to land.
Opening the heart so that everything fits in it: love and cries, pain and lies...
Or something like that.
I've also been walking the path of darkness, with more or less intensity, this always depends on how much I'm able to take... My experience is that however much it is uncomfortable, I always know it's real, it is very real... There can be no wishy-washyness there. Pain is like a thread in the dark that guides you a bit like Ariadne's thread in the Minotaur's cave-labyrinth.
So when I sit I just ask myself, and whatever hurts the most is surely the most honest of all. And then I just sit with it.
Yuck!
I don't always have realisations about the cause or the root of the yuckiness... Sometimes it is enough to sit in it once. Sometimes it's like solild rock, not moveable a jot.
I also trust that everyting has its own time though, and it is also okay just to be with our darkness, not necessarily wanting to make it go away, but not rolling in it either...
I really like Chris your story about loving the dark monster in the room (basement?) you met once. Walking the path of love to me means lots of pain beause it means I have to learn to love what is the hardest of all to love: myself with all its aspects (- of course).
Thank you! Love, Réka
Softly feeling through
17 July, 2012 - 10:37 — Chris BourneThanks as always for sharing Reka :innocent:
I love this...
"What changes, maybe, is not that the tunnel ends (into the light) but that you start learning to see in the dark.
Swim in the mud.
Freefalling in space with no ground to land."
Yes indeed. We learn to see in the dark! Then the dark doesn't attach to us anymore. It just flows through.
If you contemplate infinite peace for a moment - 'the place where we came from' - then any vibration that is only even slightly removed from that could feel pretty dense and heavy.
It's always a paradox of course. Remembering that all experience is transient and attaching to none of it which means having the courage to transcend all of it. In other words to fully experience it and surrender to it by softly feeling through.
Chris
What have you got to loose?
17 July, 2012 - 10:49 — Chris BourneFor anyone new to Openhand, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a little curious we explore the darkness within
The point is, whether we like it or not, we all have some. Or else we wouldn't have incarnated here.
So often I've helped people regress into all those hidden recesses and they've discovered little fragments of themselves which have limited. It's like our consciousness 'blanks out' in such places. In so doing, we're being denied a crucial aspect of who we are.
Someone may have been abused as a child for example. And subtly they blame themselves for it but have shut down to that lack of self worth. However this then manifests like a filter through our relationships and it means that whilst it still remains, we not going to feel totally whole, complete and empowered.
So where's your darkness? Take a look at our poll and see what it inspires. When we own up to it, and be honest with ourselves, when we express it in some way, then we may start to process it.
Go ahead, what have you go to loose but your darkness...
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Chris
That dark corridor is
17 July, 2012 - 11:05 — deepianThat dark corridor is familiar..... symbolised in tarot as The Moon, the unconscious mind, and all its inherent terrors and uncertainties. We have to face our own darkness - any fears we have arise from programming, layers of conditioning like the layers of the onion, which we have to peel away and dispose of, one by one. This takes time and effort, and can be very unsettling at times, i.e. it takes courage too!
To achieve this, we must be in a state of inner strength to start with. Then observe the self, and challenge any fear or negativity, bring it out into the open, and face it. Embrace the "demons" in the unconscious, from a position of inner strength, as to know them - to see them for the illusions and misconceptions that they are - is to conquer them. Darkness flees from light.
It is a process of catharis, and with each door that is opened, and its contents faced and dealt with, the dark burden of the psyche lightens perceptibly.
The corridor is long - there are many doors - but once you start on this process of "clearing out the skeletons" or "removing the layers of the onion", it becomes increasingly easy to find the motivation to continue, as your inner self, of light and love, shines through with ever increasing strength.
From experience
17 July, 2012 - 12:22 — Chris BourneThanks for sharing Deepian - obviously speaking from experience
Your contribution adds important weight to the movement we need to embrace.
Chris
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