The Comfort Zone, The Hero’s Journey, and a Prayer for the World
Gaia is suffering because we are suffering. Humanity and its individuals will have to change. This will require that each of us move out of our comfort zones to help Gaia, and help humanity.
Gaia is all of the Earth and its manifold inhabitants. Gaia is a superorganism, existing in a vast Universe of space time. A few of Gaia’s inhabitants are causing most of the problems. An international consortium of bankers, petro oligarchy, and military industrial complex mafia are mucking up Paradise. We have become so used to this muck, and so desensitized to the making of the muck, that we just carry on with the status quo of our lives, our comfort zone, and ignore the muck.
Gandhi once said the now famous line, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
You think you can do it?
Part I–The Comfort Zone and The Hero’s Journey
A major aspect of my work is assisting people in recognizing and breaking through the limiting fears, beliefs, and mindsets which have served to encumber their lives like a ball and chain. Both positive and negative beliefs are formed in the vast and fast processing subconsciousness, and these beliefs then filter up to our conscious mind where we play them out with thoughts, words, and actions. The subconsciousness is fully formed by age 7.
We all are encumbered to lesser or greater degrees by beliefs formed during this early period of life, and people can spend a whole lifetime holding onto their various beliefs in order to maintain a feeling of safety and familiarity; thus maintaining a sense of control over one’s “comfort zone.” We may believe that stepping out of our comfort zone carries some inherent risks and troubles. We might lose something, or we might get hurt.
At some point, many people sense that their comfort zone of maintaining the usual status quo is shifting into the “discomfort zone” of a more problematical perpetual status quo. Such an awareness often includes the realization that things could be better, but might not ever turn out the way our Heart desires unless we move off of the square.
We begin to feel the baggage and the weight in our lives that we wish we could be done with, so that we can feel free and happy. If we can’t make a positive shift and evolution, then more self judgment ensues. The Judge, Critic, Skeptic, Pusher, and Victim mentality of self sabotage emerge. The Heart Mind is subdued by the noise of the left hemisphere into yet another round of contraction.
We continue to attract the events and synchronicities which serve to reinforce our Identity crisis of feeling that we are limited. We continue on with this façade, and with an ongoing play of relinquishing our connection to Unbounded Mind. We feel separate, and this feeling is a grand illusion, or Maya. We relive our enmeshment patterns which were learned in the first 4 years of our life.
Enmeshment is a wounding pattern, or trauma, of the time of development of Chakras 2 and 3, roughly ages 6 months to 4 years, largely in the preverbal period of childhood. The subconsciousness is developing in this time, and is completely developed by age 7. Age 7 also marks the time of completion of the Heart Chakra, the seat of the Mind.
To be enmeshed is to live the emotional identity of the family of origin, not one’s own. We are taught not to develop our own emotional identity. We are taught to assume the emotional identity of the family. A child’s needs, griefs, fears, and angers are to be held in check. Buck up. The family is not there to supply the child’s needs. When the child attempts to supply their own needs, they feel guilt and shame. The individual learns to look outside of self for the self worth and the self esteem they were never taught. The result is a life lived without individuation or authenticity.
Reverse enmeshment occurs when this training comes back on the older parent from the older children who then enmesh the parent with their overriding dictum on how things are going to be. What goes around, comes around, to borrow a cliché. The term “reverse enmeshment” has now been coined. You have not encountered this terminology before. I hope I’m not enmeshing you here.
On the other hand, other types of events and synchronicities may also arrive in our lives to help nudge us into the wider world of who we can really become as we align with Source energy. Some of us then begin to feel a strong desire in our Hearts to move forward out of the old “comfort zone,” and take the big step of Courage through the threshold of adventure. We begin our Hero’s Journey, moving onward beyond the requisite tests, challenges, and helpers, and into the apotheosis.
The term “apotheosis” is a Greek term, and it signifies our understanding and ability to align with our Divinity, an allowance of the operation of Grace in our lives. From this experiential alignment, a peak experience, or a “moment of joy” unfolds, and we come away with some sort of Gift.
Having taken hold of our prize, the Gift, we can either mindlessly squander it, or we can return to our prior, and now evolved “comfort zone,” and share our Gift with ourselves and the rest of humanity in some fitting fashion.
I have just rendered a version of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. It may also be described as the journey of moving through the 5 stages of competence, or consciousness:
1) Intentionally Incompetent, or Intentionally Unconscious—intentionally staying in the comfort zone because you have no intention of getting out of it. You know that you don’t know, and you want to keep it that way.
2) Unintentionally Incompetent, or Unintentionally Unconscious—staying in the comfort zone unintentionally because you don’t know any better. You don’t know that you don’t know.
3) Consciously Incompetent, or Consciously Unconscious—staying in the comfort zone, but beginning to understand that you alone are keeping yourself there. Desire to move on is close at hand.
4) Consciously Competent, or Consciously Conscious—waking up and following the Call to leave the comfort zone. Your desire is greater than your fear, and you allow movement.
5) Unconsciously Competent, or Unconsciously Conscious—allowing yourself to be guided out of the comfort zone, developing trust, and evolving through the apotheosis with the assistance of tests, challenges, and helpers. You are in the flow and the zone of being.
These states were reviewed and described in detail in a May 21, 2009 blog entry entitled “The Quandary of the Evil Tongue.” Those are good descriptions, and I hope you will read that entry sometime.
A brief description of these 5 states might also go like this, entitled Life in Five Chapters, adapted from the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche:
- You walk down a street. There’s a hole. You fail to see it, and you fall in. It’s not your fault. It takes a long time to get out.
- You walk down the same street. Same hole. You fall in again. Again, it’s not your fault. Takes a long time to get out.
- Same street, same hole. You see it but you still fall in. This time you take responsibility and are able to get out quickly.
- Same street, same hole. You see it and walk around it.
- You walk down a different street.
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Part II–A Prayer for the World, by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Let the rain come and wash away
the ancient grudges, the bitter hatreds
held and nurtured over generations.
Let the rain wash away the memory
of the hurt, the neglect.
Then let the sun come out and
fill the sky with rainbows.
Let the warmth of the sun heal us
wherever we are broken.
Let it burn away the fog so that
we can see each other clearly.
So that we can see beyond labels,
beyond accents, gender, or skin color.
Let the warmth and brightness
of the sun melt our selfishness
so that we can share the joys and
feel the sorrows of our neighbors.
And let the light of the sun
be so strong that we will see all
people as our neighbors.
Let the earth, nourished by rain,
bring forth flowers
to surround us with beauty.
And let the mountains teach our hearts
to reach upward to heaven.
Amen.
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Crestone and Beyond
In order to save Gaia from the nepotistic power clutches of the petro oligarchy, the military industrial complex, and the insane banking elitists, we will have to develop advanced energy forms, and wean off of our destructive suckling from this fossil fuel tit.
Need I mention the horrific destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, or the interminal imperialist military presence of the USA in the Middle East; the loss of peace, and the massive loss and maiming of human lives?
This is the recurring theme of muck. This is the pursuit of black gold, now a century old process; oceans destroyed, bodies torn asunder, lives and dreams dashed by power mongering morons. This is the blending of blood and torn flesh and dusty dirt into bloody mud. I know this muck. I have seen this kind of muck. You don’t have to sign up to go over to Iraq or Afghanistan to get your own viewing. It’s coming to a community near you, yes, unless we can change.
Have you ever studied all of the by-products produced from the fractional distillation of a barrel of crude oil? What you may not know is that 40% of that barrel of crude oil is a waste product called gasoline. It requires that we manufacture waste disposal units called automobiles, etc., to handle it. And yes, the bottom 2% of that barrel of crude is used for asphalt and for tires that have built in premature obsolescence. We have to use up all of that barrel of crude, right?
While I am warmed up on the subject of creative genius…….
You can also study how the good people at Monsanto, et alia, are lending their hand with the stretching out of that barrel of crude into other mild forms of madness. Monsanto brought us polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) back in the 1950’s which were used in the big electrical transformers up on the telephone poles on the highways we travelled. Remember? PCB’s are highly carcinogenic, and take millions of years to degrade.
The production of PCB’s was outlawed, but, no matter, Monsanto was off and running and is yet another ambitious and voracious Frankenstein roaming freely about Gaia.
Monsanto is an example of the worst of the worst. They are true mafiaso. They own politicians. You can view the documentory, “Food, Inc.,” to learn about just one of their industries. The Monsantos don’t need oversight. They need to be made to completely redesign their creative energies to assist Gaia. This could actually be made to happen.
Currently, however, they are systematically destroying how real food is made with their extraordinary genetically modified seeds. See the movie. Not to mention their other nefarious endeavors. What if Monsanto took all of that creative intelligence and industrial technology and…….
Did you know that you can make a Brown’s gas generator for your car by hydrolyzing water into oxygen and hydrogen? Hydrogen is highly combustible, oxygen assists with combustion, and such a rich mixture can be routed with simple tubing into your carburetor. This will increase your gas mileage dramatically, and, it is safe. I have seen local Crestonians do this with simple Mason jars under the hood! You can purchase some simple items and rig up your own Brown’s gas generator. Go ahead, google it, read all about it. Why isn’t this happening in current automotive technology?
You can help out, if you are up for it.
Go to www.theorionproject.org, and learn about the concepts of advanced energy systems and a few courageous peoples’ efforts to help bring this needed change into reality. For example, learn about the story of Stan Meyer who perfected a highly efficient Brown’s gas device, drove a car from NYC to LA on a few gallons of water, made big press, refused to sell out (for billions!) to some Middle East petro thugs, and then got bumped off by some other mafia petro thugs.
Advanced energy technologies have been covered up for most of the last century. This website will inform you about the technologies, and the types of suppression. Please study this website and its concepts, and surf around to learn more about Steven Greer. Contact Dr. Steven Greer directly and tell him you want to try to assist him, in some way. Please, give them some juice. Please research the body of work that Steven has been doing for 20 years to help Gaia, and humanity.
Please consider a generous donation to this important cause, a cause which is being offered by strong people. I know these people personally, and I know what they are going through, and I know their steadfast dedication to a real Hero’s Journey.
Shakespeare’s words…….
Go to thy bosom, knock there, and ask what thy Heart doth know.
How is your comfort zone feeling about right now?
Thank you.
Signing off from Crestone and Beyond.
Love