by Berenice Andrews
By cultivating these aspects of your being—your inherent (and sacred) powers of Life, Light, Love and Law—you can become all that you truly are.
And since you already are the energies of creative consciousness—you already are a manifestation of the Spirit—all that’s really necessary is for you to know this and to live all the wonder that is you.
Introduction
If your intent is to develop and live with that greater knowing, i.e., a deeply personal awareness of the Spirit and the Spirit World, as this is taught on the shaman’s path, please prepare by referring first to the ritual of “Casting the Circle,” which appeared in the January 2015 issue of Transformation Magazine, and part 1 of this article in the February 2015 issue.
With your intent to experience inner transformation and transcendence and with your disciplines (your discipleship) moving you forward with faith and trust, do you sense that you are ready for what is coming next? Are you becoming comfortable with the “both/and” of paradox? If so, let us go to the next level while you continue to identify and to work with the macrocosmic and microcosmic energies/powers that are your being. Here, then, is an invitation for you to continue on your “sacred journey” of becoming all your “I-am-ness” in this dimension.
LOVE
With an ever-deepening sense of inner empowerment and freedom, you make your way into the West. It is the cosmic realm of ripeness and fulfillment for which you have been preparing with your disciplines (discipleship) of “letting go” and “balancing.” It hasn’t been easy, but you are sensing in you a “higher” vibration—a readiness for something more.
It’s your next essential discipline (discipleship) —a “containing”—that lets you hold and carry (while you are allowing) the huge changes that are happening in you. And that’s possible because, in the West, you are on your path of Entering Within. After having opened the way and come into being, you are vibrating at a much higher frequency than you were at the beginning of this sacred journey. And you realize that while your “will” has increased, your fear-based desire for control has been steadily diminishing. Meanwhile, your inner Light/light, your connection with your own centers of consciousness, has been becoming a familiar presence.
And so it is that on this path of Entering Within you now have the capability of tapping into the consciousness energies of your heart center. Meanwhile, you have been making ready to encounter the “higher mysteries.” How is that possible?
It’s possible because you are becoming connected with the aspect of your being that is Love.
Love vibrates as every particle/wave of the cosmos, including you.
Love as macrocosmic energy is eternally unchanged and unchanging. That Love, as Jesus the Christ explained, is the Father/Mother (Abwoon) out of whom you have been generated and with whom you can joyfully live. Thereby, your microcosmic energies of love are constantly beginning, renewing and expanding themselves in, as and through you. And you are becoming the human being you really are. Then, how is all that possible?
The energies of Life/life and Light/light in your “lower” centers have promoted their healing. Also, (with your dedicated help) those energies have been triggering your transformative and transcendent, i.e., “higher,” vibrations, i.e., the consciousness energies of your heart center. That triggering was the onset of a huge knowing about your own sacredness. It was the awareness that was possible when you began entering within. You were entering within the Love energies that had always been there awaiting you.
While you move along this path, you will increasingly know that the heart connection is a “covenant” between you and the Spirit, whom you increasingly know dwells within you. It was the covenant promised to the ancient Israelites after they had fled the tyranny of Egypt. That very covenant was reaffirmed in modern times, by a great teacher, Deepak Chopra, who assured you that “you are love, you are beauty, you are existence, you are being.” Thus, you can be pretty sure that after Life/life and Light/light have led the way, Love/love that empowers your heart center can promote the conscious integration of a truly human being. It’s your own transcendent nature.
It is also your fullest expression. And it’s inherent in your “higher” chakras. Herein are the consciousness energies of your throat, third eye and crown—the transcendent matching energies of your “lower” root, sacral and solar plexus centers of consciousness. While those lower energies are being raised during your sacred journey, those “higher” energies are gradually marshalling their immense power. And at a point of “conception” (when the vibratory frequencies connect), the upward and downward rebirthing flow gets underway.
Yet, here again, there’s paradox, for Love has been there all along fostering the rebirthing process. It was Love that was pointing the way. But what was directing that power?
Inescapably “while love points the way, law is what makes the way possible” (Robert Browning). Thus, while Life/life, Light/light and Love/love have been striving in, as and through you to bring about your transcendence and transformation, it has been the Law. Causality—that was making it all happen.
And how was that possible?
LAW
The Law: It is the same in the macrocosm and the microcosm and vibrates as every particle/wave of the cosmos, including you. The Law/law that is immutable, implacable and impersonal is the constant ordering power that creates, governs and maintains the cosmos. The Law/law has been awaiting you in the North. There, many wondrous gifts are yours to claim, including your androgyny. There, also, is your final path, that of Finding Wisdom.
All along (whether you thought it or not) your “goal” has been to attain wisdom. Why? Wisdom exemplifies humanness. Yet the goal does not end there. And why is that?
In the North, you are in the cosmic realm of constant endings and beginnings—endings that appear to be “death” and beginnings that are immediate rebirth. And herein is the final paradox that you will encounter on your sacred journey. Here in the North, for all this lifetime and for those that will follow, you are immersed in a long (perhaps eternal?) process of becoming.
All along there have been the aspects and the paths that have moved you forward. And, all along the Law/law has been at work sustaining and upholding your intent. Thus, you have been (and will continue to be) a work in progress…lifetime after lifetime. Thus, you are developing and will continue to develop your human qualities.
Although there are many splendid human qualities, they all can be rendered down to two: purity and simplicity.
Those fundamental qualities express and accompany your empowerment. And on you go! …While you steadily develop the knowing that you and the Spirit are one.
When this is your realization, you will have added your third splendid human quality—unity. And you will have accomplished this, not with the control that you had formerly sought to exercise, but with surrender. You understand (finally!) what Jesus meant when he said (and exemplified) that “the greatest among you will be the least.”
In conclusion: Your rebirthing, sacred journey of becoming human is the basic message of every one of this world’s spiritual teachings. For many centuries they have told you that this journey is the most difficult, yet easy, and the most exciting, yet ordinary “work” you will ever undertake. And why is that?
It’s your own act of creation, your own self-realization, in which you (at last!) acknowledge your own great being and blessedness.
Berenice Andrews is a shamanic teacher/healer and a regular contributor to this magazine. To explore the ideas presented above in greater detail, please refer to her book, Rebirthing Into Androgyny: Your Quest for Wholeness…And Afterward. If you are interested in becoming her student, see her website: thestonecircleclassroom.com.