We live in a non-material world, yet, we are collectively more fixed in materialism than ever before. And we've taken the ideal of connectivity and tossed the world wide web on it, which feels equal parts freeing and stifling.
There's really something there in the way you explain the result of trauma as immature beings or children yearning to grow up. It's gentle and explains much of how I coped with childhood abuses. But after pursuing a life of the mind (reading, writing, willingness to change and be open), events from the past feel so long ago and, honestly, not to be flippant, not a big deal anymore.
Looking forward to meeting some (all?) of the Clan members. Thought-provoking post, as always, Veronika! 🙏🙏🙏
So true. The WWW gives us the illusion of connectivity while also making us (collectively) increasingly disconnected from ourselves. I assume that's why it feels both freeing and stifling.
Trauma, I think for some (maybe most?) people is a wounding to heal and move on. For some others (like Peter Levine for example, and also myself) it is a portal leading onto a path of life's purpose. This is not something we know until the proverbial shit hits the fan. It is a calling that pulls us forward despite ourselves.
That the original trauma is not a big deal anymore at some point is a good sign. This is what we should be able to expect from all that reading and inner work. That's a big deal! Many congratulations to you (and myself) for having reached that healing/ wholeness within ourselves.
Thank you Lani, as always for your beautiful presence and kind support 💗🙏
Thank you. I’ve never had anyone congratulate me for all the inner work I’ve done. The reward was in unhitching all that baggage, but it’s still really nice to hear that I did do it.
Now, of course, I’m sure, like 100% sure there’s some cobwebs in the corner. And there’s always some new challenge that pushes us, prods us, and puts us in that place where we’re like, “Haven’t we done this before???”
Oh Lani, in my world, the inner work is the most important work any person can do! Unhitching all that baggage is great. But there's a lot more to it (in my understanding) and that's the unlived potential which is virtually immobilised through all that baggage. I'm sure if you look back over your journey you'll notice too, how much that unhitching has not only freed you FROM but also liberated you TOWARDS certain experiences.
And those 'cobwebs' 🕸️ ~ yes, we always take ourselves with us whereever we go (dammit)
Hi Veronika, l am going to have to read this a few times ☺️. Yes, trauma most certainly a portal for me … the catalyst. … and in the process of the inner work, has opened other portals (thankfully). Re manifestation … I understand that our experiences can be manifested by our thoughts, in that the experience matches the vibrational frequency of the thought … in basic terms, positive thoughts manifest positive experiences (perceptions of events etc). I understand that wanting something will not manifest what is desired when it comes from a pace of lack? Inner work allows for a greater understanding/acceptance of self (in the space of conscious awareness) which in turn shifts perception …. Results including a broader scope of possibilities (choices) and therefore probabilities … and less lack, be it emotional, physical, spiritual etc? Thanks 🙏😊
Thank you so much for reading and feedback, Simone. (I know these chapters are dense and probably too long... I'll have to go over this ground again myself)
Yes, manifestation is a funny word. One one hand we 'manifest' all the time (through thoughts, beliefs, intentions, feelings, desires etc. aka 'acts of knowing'), on the other hand, manifestation is a lot more complex and tricky.
I wouldn't say that "positive thoughts manifest positive experiences" necessarily ~ if, when, and because what is often called 'positive thoughts' can be generated at will to overlay and repress negative emotions, and potential negative beliefs, of which the 'positive thinker' is unaware, which then results in so-called 'toxic positivity'.
So the question is: what is negative and what is truly positive? It's not always that obvious...
When we are grieving, for example, that process is perceived by some people as a 'negative emotion', while in real life experience it is a positive authentic response to a profound loss. Those who perceive grief as a negative emotion, might try to 'cheer the griever up' by talking about 'positive things', attempting to divert our thoughts and attention etc...
Those 'positive thoughts' wouldn't 'manifest a positive experience' because in that moment they feel inauthentic.
To manifest whatever it is we really want, thinking in terms of 'positive or negative' is not always helpful. What does help is to think in terms of authenticity.
Thanks Veronika, yes much more complex, thanks for your exampling … l certainly can relate to what you say about grief, projected notions, toxic positivity etc. you’ve helped me bring clarity with my own thoughts … positive thoughts/ experiences as in those that are manifesting from within because we have no control over what others think and how they behave which is where the authenticity comes in …. And for me this has meant that l understand there is nothing to hide, nothing to defend … that has become a bit of a personal mantra, not in an arrogant way … in ways related to protecting personal boundaries and energy, in the instances such as those you outline above. Re manifesting from a sense of lack … for example, if l felt l was lacking because l wanted something on a material level, isn’t going to manifest it. If l felt l needed a partner to be complete, isn’t going to have him knock my front door 🤣. Thanks for your reply 💜🙏😊
“They are waiting for an opportunity to return from this dark and half frozen remote place in the inner wilderness into the warmer zones of internal comfort. They are continuously living in hope that one day someone will come and carry them home.”
This permafrost metaphor is brilliant Veronika… and how you connect those young, traumatized inner-children with the eventual blossoming of our purpose when embraced by the warmth of our compassion. “Children will inherit the kingdom of Heaven” takes on a whole new level of meaning.❤️
Thank you so much, Kimberly! 💗🙏 You picked out the essential seed-thought here.
Yes, context is everything. Anything we perceive/ experience as negative, shifts immediately through the new understanding. 1st ~ It invites the question, "what if this is one my immature inner creatures?" 2nd ~This question opens up a string of other questions like, "what can I do to help it grow up?"
This way of interpreting our negative experience takes the 'good vs. evil' judgement out of the equation and makes our mind receptive to new possibilities.
“Children will inherit the kingdom of Heaven” ~ I didn't think of this phrase, but you are absolutely right. Every time we release an inner child from the permafrost it takes us straight into experiencing that kingdom (temporarily ~ and those experiences gradually grow from suffering towards bliss) Thank you for throwing this into the collective alchemical cauldron.
" “every living organism brings forth a world”? It’s a big statement."
Indeed it is. The shift from an anthropocentric way of thinking to a symbiocentric way of thinking has far-reaching consequences for our experience of, and approach to, life - not always easy to develop a feel for. If seeing a world of 'facts out there' to be learned and manipulated, lead to one experience of life..., then 'bringing forth a world' through 'acts of knowing' must surely lead to a completely different experience of life.
Having journeyed and wrestled with this over many years, what do you do when that which is unfolding in front of your eyes is not what you wanted/intended, knowing that a significant part of the unfoldment comes about through autonomous processes in Consciousness which can be largely unbeknown to us, and need understanding, and integrating?
The answer lies in and through the negative experience itself, those wild frozen-in-time traumatised children, who are signalling it's a natural opportunity to process something, who are desperate to mature and make their 'adult' contribution.
I have found that humility and courage are two characteristsics one needs to cultivate in this process. Instead of the anthropocentic approach of pushing through an obstacle, (there's an objective world 'out there' to be beaten into submission), ... the symbiocentric approach requires a 'standing back' and delving into the negative experience of it all - and as something becomes understood and acknowledged in greater depth, the 'outside world' re-arranges itself automatically (both in our experience, and materially) via an 'act of knowing' that has 'brought forth' a different experience of what might be a little-changed circumstance. Many times have I experienced a shift in consciousness that was easy, natural and unforced (the right amount at the right time), leading to a change in material circumstances that through anthropocentric thinking would have required huge amounts of 'dance-hammering positive thinking' leading to only a temporary change where the pattern of experience is not really shifted -- you snap back into the old patterns.
All of which is rather a long comment, (perhaps, I admit, 'mansplaining' to myself) but Synchronosophy is something that I know to be hugely precious, not least because it is an accessible way of re-introducing trust in universal ways-of-being -- a trust in 'one's unique path, negotiating being in the world but not of it', if you like.
In these chapters I am collating all the materials I have found to be valuable over the years, and curated them in relationship to the different Faculties of Consciousness, so we can make more sense of those theories in everyday experience. These will be useful references later on when we get to the practice. We are all in the process of transition from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene. It's a huge and radical learning and transformational process!
One of the biggest and most significant differences, perhaps, shows up in the distinction between anthropocentric manifestation and symbiocentric symbiopoiesis. In the 'anthropoman' approach humans can't help but perpetuate the existing paradigm. Progress remains an illusion. Nothing fundamentally changes because the intention itself is already known within the existing paradigm.
In the 'symbiocentropoietic' approach we are listening to and collaborating with the holorhythm of the holopoietic universe. The shift happens when authentically new information enters the organism, stimulating the unfoldment of IHC in our wholeness of being.
We live in a non-material world, yet, we are collectively more fixed in materialism than ever before. And we've taken the ideal of connectivity and tossed the world wide web on it, which feels equal parts freeing and stifling.
There's really something there in the way you explain the result of trauma as immature beings or children yearning to grow up. It's gentle and explains much of how I coped with childhood abuses. But after pursuing a life of the mind (reading, writing, willingness to change and be open), events from the past feel so long ago and, honestly, not to be flippant, not a big deal anymore.
Looking forward to meeting some (all?) of the Clan members. Thought-provoking post, as always, Veronika! 🙏🙏🙏
So true. The WWW gives us the illusion of connectivity while also making us (collectively) increasingly disconnected from ourselves. I assume that's why it feels both freeing and stifling.
Trauma, I think for some (maybe most?) people is a wounding to heal and move on. For some others (like Peter Levine for example, and also myself) it is a portal leading onto a path of life's purpose. This is not something we know until the proverbial shit hits the fan. It is a calling that pulls us forward despite ourselves.
That the original trauma is not a big deal anymore at some point is a good sign. This is what we should be able to expect from all that reading and inner work. That's a big deal! Many congratulations to you (and myself) for having reached that healing/ wholeness within ourselves.
Thank you Lani, as always for your beautiful presence and kind support 💗🙏
Thank you. I’ve never had anyone congratulate me for all the inner work I’ve done. The reward was in unhitching all that baggage, but it’s still really nice to hear that I did do it.
Now, of course, I’m sure, like 100% sure there’s some cobwebs in the corner. And there’s always some new challenge that pushes us, prods us, and puts us in that place where we’re like, “Haven’t we done this before???”
Hugs!
Oh Lani, in my world, the inner work is the most important work any person can do! Unhitching all that baggage is great. But there's a lot more to it (in my understanding) and that's the unlived potential which is virtually immobilised through all that baggage. I'm sure if you look back over your journey you'll notice too, how much that unhitching has not only freed you FROM but also liberated you TOWARDS certain experiences.
And those 'cobwebs' 🕸️ ~ yes, we always take ourselves with us whereever we go (dammit)
Hi Veronika, l am going to have to read this a few times ☺️. Yes, trauma most certainly a portal for me … the catalyst. … and in the process of the inner work, has opened other portals (thankfully). Re manifestation … I understand that our experiences can be manifested by our thoughts, in that the experience matches the vibrational frequency of the thought … in basic terms, positive thoughts manifest positive experiences (perceptions of events etc). I understand that wanting something will not manifest what is desired when it comes from a pace of lack? Inner work allows for a greater understanding/acceptance of self (in the space of conscious awareness) which in turn shifts perception …. Results including a broader scope of possibilities (choices) and therefore probabilities … and less lack, be it emotional, physical, spiritual etc? Thanks 🙏😊
Thank you so much for reading and feedback, Simone. (I know these chapters are dense and probably too long... I'll have to go over this ground again myself)
Yes, manifestation is a funny word. One one hand we 'manifest' all the time (through thoughts, beliefs, intentions, feelings, desires etc. aka 'acts of knowing'), on the other hand, manifestation is a lot more complex and tricky.
I wouldn't say that "positive thoughts manifest positive experiences" necessarily ~ if, when, and because what is often called 'positive thoughts' can be generated at will to overlay and repress negative emotions, and potential negative beliefs, of which the 'positive thinker' is unaware, which then results in so-called 'toxic positivity'.
So the question is: what is negative and what is truly positive? It's not always that obvious...
When we are grieving, for example, that process is perceived by some people as a 'negative emotion', while in real life experience it is a positive authentic response to a profound loss. Those who perceive grief as a negative emotion, might try to 'cheer the griever up' by talking about 'positive things', attempting to divert our thoughts and attention etc...
Those 'positive thoughts' wouldn't 'manifest a positive experience' because in that moment they feel inauthentic.
To manifest whatever it is we really want, thinking in terms of 'positive or negative' is not always helpful. What does help is to think in terms of authenticity.
Thanks Veronika, yes much more complex, thanks for your exampling … l certainly can relate to what you say about grief, projected notions, toxic positivity etc. you’ve helped me bring clarity with my own thoughts … positive thoughts/ experiences as in those that are manifesting from within because we have no control over what others think and how they behave which is where the authenticity comes in …. And for me this has meant that l understand there is nothing to hide, nothing to defend … that has become a bit of a personal mantra, not in an arrogant way … in ways related to protecting personal boundaries and energy, in the instances such as those you outline above. Re manifesting from a sense of lack … for example, if l felt l was lacking because l wanted something on a material level, isn’t going to manifest it. If l felt l needed a partner to be complete, isn’t going to have him knock my front door 🤣. Thanks for your reply 💜🙏😊
“They are waiting for an opportunity to return from this dark and half frozen remote place in the inner wilderness into the warmer zones of internal comfort. They are continuously living in hope that one day someone will come and carry them home.”
This permafrost metaphor is brilliant Veronika… and how you connect those young, traumatized inner-children with the eventual blossoming of our purpose when embraced by the warmth of our compassion. “Children will inherit the kingdom of Heaven” takes on a whole new level of meaning.❤️
Thank you so much, Kimberly! 💗🙏 You picked out the essential seed-thought here.
Yes, context is everything. Anything we perceive/ experience as negative, shifts immediately through the new understanding. 1st ~ It invites the question, "what if this is one my immature inner creatures?" 2nd ~This question opens up a string of other questions like, "what can I do to help it grow up?"
This way of interpreting our negative experience takes the 'good vs. evil' judgement out of the equation and makes our mind receptive to new possibilities.
“Children will inherit the kingdom of Heaven” ~ I didn't think of this phrase, but you are absolutely right. Every time we release an inner child from the permafrost it takes us straight into experiencing that kingdom (temporarily ~ and those experiences gradually grow from suffering towards bliss) Thank you for throwing this into the collective alchemical cauldron.
Sooo good! I have not been able to dive deep enough with these last two but am saving them to savour soon! Thank you so much!!! 🙏❤️
Thank you so much Jamie for your reassuring companionship and continued support 💗🙏
I know there's a lot in these chapters. It's a big topic...
Am just on a little vacation and saving them for the way home 🙏❤️
" “every living organism brings forth a world”? It’s a big statement."
Indeed it is. The shift from an anthropocentric way of thinking to a symbiocentric way of thinking has far-reaching consequences for our experience of, and approach to, life - not always easy to develop a feel for. If seeing a world of 'facts out there' to be learned and manipulated, lead to one experience of life..., then 'bringing forth a world' through 'acts of knowing' must surely lead to a completely different experience of life.
Having journeyed and wrestled with this over many years, what do you do when that which is unfolding in front of your eyes is not what you wanted/intended, knowing that a significant part of the unfoldment comes about through autonomous processes in Consciousness which can be largely unbeknown to us, and need understanding, and integrating?
The answer lies in and through the negative experience itself, those wild frozen-in-time traumatised children, who are signalling it's a natural opportunity to process something, who are desperate to mature and make their 'adult' contribution.
I have found that humility and courage are two characteristsics one needs to cultivate in this process. Instead of the anthropocentic approach of pushing through an obstacle, (there's an objective world 'out there' to be beaten into submission), ... the symbiocentric approach requires a 'standing back' and delving into the negative experience of it all - and as something becomes understood and acknowledged in greater depth, the 'outside world' re-arranges itself automatically (both in our experience, and materially) via an 'act of knowing' that has 'brought forth' a different experience of what might be a little-changed circumstance. Many times have I experienced a shift in consciousness that was easy, natural and unforced (the right amount at the right time), leading to a change in material circumstances that through anthropocentric thinking would have required huge amounts of 'dance-hammering positive thinking' leading to only a temporary change where the pattern of experience is not really shifted -- you snap back into the old patterns.
All of which is rather a long comment, (perhaps, I admit, 'mansplaining' to myself) but Synchronosophy is something that I know to be hugely precious, not least because it is an accessible way of re-introducing trust in universal ways-of-being -- a trust in 'one's unique path, negotiating being in the world but not of it', if you like.
Thank you so much for 'mansplaining' 💗🙏
In these chapters I am collating all the materials I have found to be valuable over the years, and curated them in relationship to the different Faculties of Consciousness, so we can make more sense of those theories in everyday experience. These will be useful references later on when we get to the practice. We are all in the process of transition from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene. It's a huge and radical learning and transformational process!
One of the biggest and most significant differences, perhaps, shows up in the distinction between anthropocentric manifestation and symbiocentric symbiopoiesis. In the 'anthropoman' approach humans can't help but perpetuate the existing paradigm. Progress remains an illusion. Nothing fundamentally changes because the intention itself is already known within the existing paradigm.
In the 'symbiocentropoietic' approach we are listening to and collaborating with the holorhythm of the holopoietic universe. The shift happens when authentically new information enters the organism, stimulating the unfoldment of IHC in our wholeness of being.