Hi Lesley,

I think the concept of 'filters' is quite an advanced phenomenon and they might frequently be in operation without people realising what's going on.

So a filter seems to be an energetic 'implant' that is in some way inserted to create a 'sacred contract' between people. It means we may see and experience a relationship with someone in a particular way.

So for example, we may meet someone and feel sensually attracted to them but be 'seeing' them (in fact it's much more than seeing) through a filter and this may be colouring the relationship in a particular way. We might feel particularly needy of them for example.

However, once the lesson we needed to get is realised and integrated, I've observed how the filter can be suddenly removed and then we're invited to see the partner in the new - more authentic - light.

I think within human relationships there tends to be a great deal of imposed conformity - so there are certain expectations and demands placed on partners for example. Or that relationships should fit into certain pigeon holes - like soul mates for example.

In my truth, fixed relationships are really very limiting and counterproductive to evolutionary growth. To me it's more about relating to people as and how we find them in the moment. Yes there may be a history to the engagement and this needs to be honoured, but to truly respect and honour someone unconditionally, and for ourselves to be honoured unconditionally, we need to act so that our beingness is allowed total freedom of expression...

"Rigid relationships are as redundant
as building structures on shifting sand.
The sand has no relationship with the sea,
rather it relates to the ebb and flow of the waves
when they choose to kiss the shoreline."
Openhand

People may choose to be life partners because it serves them, yet I observe how such relationships can be highly limiting if breathing space isn't included for growth and evolution of each partner and the partnerhsip.

So in summary, I observe how energetic filters seem to be inserted into 'sacred contracts' so as to provide the learning environment to discover something much deeper about the true nature of their soul. When the realisations are made, the filter is released and then the invitation is to embrace the changed situation in the new light as authentically as possible.

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for that.

As you know, "filter" is a word I've heard you use, it seems like I've extended the use of the word outwards from what you would mean by it. So if I'm seeing something in a distorted way, would it be more accurate to just say I'm seeing something coloured by my distortion, rather than through a filter?

When I remember being shown something by benevolence that could be termed "factually incorrect", but was later instrumental in me being able to take some important action of a life saving nature, I've looked back and having realised how key that incident was to what unfolded, I thought I'd been shown something through a filter. Would it be more accurate to see it as an important synchronicity that was dropped in, that I read as I was meant to read it, which had a use and then ended?

You seem to be using the term filter for a more long term effect that happens in the way we relate, to play out "sacred contracts." Though some sacred contracts could of course be really brief.

Would you ever use it as a description for something of a more temporary nature? It seems meaningful in the various uses to me. I guess this is where we get into the limitations of words, as we might use them in different ways, which can lead to misunderstandings. Sorry if I seem pedantic, just wanting to be clear on how you personally use the word.

Thanks,
Lesley

Hi Lesley,

I think sometimes we use the word 'filter' when we really mean 'inner distortion' that causes us to see the world in a particular way.

Of course a filter does the same thing. But what it appears to be, is some extra energy 'inserted' between people that exposes distortions more strongly, which are then later removed. At least this is what I have experienced.

You say...

"I remember being shown something by benevolence that could be termed "factually incorrect", but was later instrumental in me being able to take some important action of a life saving nature"

I can't say I really understand what you're getting at here. Maybe an example would help?

Chris

Hi,

I think I now understand how you are using the word filter, quite fully, thanks for taking the time out.

I don't feel I can describe the circumstance I was talking about without going into someone elses personal details, so it doesn't feel appropriate. At thetime I was benevolently gifted a piece of information, which although it turned out to be factually incorrect, helped enormously in a tricky situation, which may not have resolved if I hadn't applied that information. As an unconnected example: Say I'd seen a fire exit poster and it really caught my attention, enough to specifically remember the information but it turned out I'd misread it to show a fire escape in the opposite corner to where it really was. When a fire happened I went to that corner of the building and found I could get down a tree next to the window, and was therefore safe and sound, when it turned out that if I'd gone to the corner where the fire escape really was I might have perished as it had been accidentally locked. So it seemed that I had definitely been "helped" to see something "incorrectly" that was a key to being safe. Because I saw the "incorrect" thing so clearly, it seemed like it fitted to use the word filter to me, but I wouldn't want to get using terminology differently amongst other Openhanders as I think it could be confusing! Gosh, hope I haven't confused anyone by writing this lot!

Lesley x

Actually Lesley, the issue you're describing doesn't sound like what I'd call a filter. It just sounds like a more sophisticated way of reading synchronicity.

I'm sure you're aware that synchronicity can be a very powerful language indeed. It can become infinitely fluid and adaptable. So much so, that we don't even need to process it through mind to take advantage of it.

I remember being taken in hand by Benevolent Consciousness right at the beginning of my journey. I'd be encouraged to follow coloured signs: green meaning yes and red meaning no. Or spotlights on a car. The guidance would take me on a merry journey and then suddenly, right in the middle, all the signs would reverse and I've have to read them with opposite meanings.

It was fascinating and frustrating at first. Until I learned to process the signs through my intuition. So the 'maths' of reading became more an 'art'. Since that time, the language has increased multi-fold in its sophistication. So subtle signs would lead me so far but then switch in mid flow, or take on new, more evolved meanings.

So no longer do the signs simply say "do this or that", they build up a landscape describing how to do things.

Maybe this explains to a degree what you're experiencing.

Chris

Great - I can really see how I've labelled a few things inappropriately through not understanding that one fully. Thanks so much for your replies.