This is exactly where I am at. I could not put it into words .... you did .... and I thank you. I retired from 50 years of work in the city to a small home in the boondocks in isolated Tennessee. I've gone from the pressure of work, always talking or calling or answering, constant noise, stress, OCD of everything in order and in its place ....to....this new quiet change. The OCD of organizing my life and home has gone the complete opposite. I feel guilty and unsettled as far as energy to complete and organize my home.
Sally, I will reply to both of your comments here. First, you are welcome. Being content in today, in the very moment where we all exist, has to be enough. It is enough. To think otherwise is to backslide into the confusion of yesterday... to fall into old habits of "do, do, do, and keep doing!"
We have to give ourselves permission to say no, to say, not now, to take time to rest and find ourselves. Otherwise we go back to "the grind," that only served to milk us of every ounce of energy. So good for you, sit back and enjoy, enjoy just being you! You are worth it!
“The grind” is such a perfect way to describe it. Where you have no time for thought and reflection. I am sure this is not how we are meant to live our lives. Thank you for this piece. The other parts to this series have been such a help too!!
Lee, thank you for saying those nice things. "Where you have no time for thought and reflection." This is the most important lesson for all of us to learn. That we MUST create a space for ourselves to rest, to heal, to grow into who we truly are, and to who we will be tomorrow. Be blessed, Lee... you are on the right path... the path to healing, to becoming...
A beautifully expressed description of my current presence; I am loving it and am at peace. Thank you for the nod to stay on the evolving path of this delicious journey. Simply gorgeous writing.
Mary, thank you for the kind words... I feel many are in this very space in life, and are confused about what is next. I am glad you are finding peace in this space. Be blessed!
Excellent post, finding that space beyond the thought process of lack and trying to gain the things you feel are missing. To relax and embrace the Now, and allow the universe to bring to you what you need, even when you aren't ready for what you need. Moving from lack to attraction. That place where you require the solitude to reset your energy to maintain your sanity as the chaos of life and growth envelope your shielded self. Excellent way of articulating that space so many can align with the energy... Peace...
Well said, GW... it is truly that... clearing our heads of all the "shoulds" and "should nots"... the "you should be doing something" thoughts that plague our minds...
It is time for peace, for learning to enjoy this peace, for learning how to line with being ourselves! Be Blessed, GW!
Thanks OC for another node of reflection on this amazing journey in this Biblical Time that we are all living in.
As I read this article it occurred to me that the Awakening Journey that I find myself on started years before the Trump/Q Awakening portion began. While not all of what you describe seems to fit my experiences much of it does. This article reminded me of times 20 years ago, or so, when I began to experience what you did describe here today. That timeline more aligns with my Faith Journey. While I remember distinctly times in my earlier life where Faith pulled me through some very dark times it was not until more recently that the pieces started to reform and what I now realize was the beginning of my Awakening actually began.
I have always been a bit of a loner and never much of a follower so silence was never scary or unsettling to me. Learning to trust my gut/intuition/heart was a big step, but getting through that really made huge improvements in my life.
Anyway, another great thought provoking article and another one I will need to reread more than once.
Joe, great comments as always, I appreciate you. I write for Badlands, so many think awakenings only pertain to The Great Awakening... this could not be further from the truth. Like you, my first experience happened when I was 16 years old. I too was ore of a loner, drifted in and out of various cliques in high school. I got bored of them after their patterns became mundane. Although I didn't understand that is why I faded from group to group then, I most assuredly do now.
Like you, have had multiple experiences of awakening, too numerous to mention. But like you, my most profound was during my first cover-to-cover reading of the Bible... it jarred me from who I was, to who I am evolving into.
I love that you shared your personal journey, this shows that you have truly awakened and continue to evolve using the same basic processes that I write about. I can't claim all the credit, it is literally the same process that the Bible outlines. Just put into words understandable today. Thank you Joe, for being you!
Beautifully written article for those transitioning from an old job, moving into retirement or suffering the sudden change of the loss of a loved one from divorce or death. Your article applies to all these scenarios and I passed it along to a friend who will eventually find her new path.
Suzan, YES, YES, and YES!!! This isn't just about awakening in general... it is a process in which true change happens in cyclical manner. Read Wild Bill's comment above and my reply for examples such as yours. Change is a process, not a one time event.
Thank you for the compliment, I am truly humbled by the words you wrote. Also, thank you for sharing with your friend. I have written all these articles in a generic manner in hopes people would share with others, outside "the movement", that might find my musings helpful.
I understand completely. I was laid off from a corporate job about six years before retirement age. I spent a year to two years trying to pick up another job and never could succeed. I literally couldn’t get a pizza delivery job.
After about two years I feel like I heard Him say between your Social Security and all the maintenance you do on your property and home you’ll be busy enough. So I stopped looking. From that point we’ve never missed a bill never been late on a payment and have had more than enough.
Ten years ago we started reading the Original Edition of A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman). Read it through three times LOL. Then we moved on to A Course of Love (by Mari Perron). Both books lead to and even beyond all that you have written about. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed your work because it aligns so well with the truth of who and what we are.
Going through the process of deprogramming was and is work for certain, but well worth the time.
Dean, amazing story! It is a similar but different story I have heard over the course of 7 years going through medicinal healing circles (ayahuasca, Kambo, psychedelics, etc.), in one variation or another. People wanted out of the "matrix" and didn't know how. They were "stuck" in jobs they hated, relationships that were lopsided, and many other things we are all familiar with.
They just wanted to free from duality (the matrix), they wanted the chart their own course, not have it dictated to them. Not follow "the rules" that were forced on them. Just to live free from the burdens of life that were beyond their control. It sounds like you succeeded swimmingly, bravo to you and the other part of the "we" you mentioned.
Thank you for the references of "Original Edition of A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman). & A Course of Love (by Mari Perron)" - I will add them to my reading list. What amazes me about the Badlands audience is the diversity of reading we all have. I have picked up on at least a half dozen resources that I have never heard of from you all. Thank you for that! Enjoy your freedom!
Very interesting post, OC. Is it possible that this experience can be as you describe it, as a major life change, for some; but for others it can occur many times in smaller increments?
This is how I believe I've experienced it. No major life changes like retiring or changing jobs, rather subtle 'jogs' in perception, where I would awaken with an insight I could not have possibly known the day before. Or sometimes, meditate for a while -- 'cogitate on a problem' -- and then receive a bit of essential wisdom hidden to me just moments before.
I sometimes have felt these as 'God moments' -- where I feel that God or some other external consciousness has dropped a needed gem of wisdom or knowledge or understanding into my life. It has never been 'jarring' in the sense of feeling alone in the wilderness, being 'reprogrammed' or anything like that, rather a moment of insight or knowledge that basically, had to come from outside me, because there is no way I could possibly have already 'known' that thing. More like a flash of light, than a period of darkness or uncertainty.
What do you think? Is what I'm describing similar to The Liminal or something else?
Wild Bill, dude, man, bro... you hit on an upcoming extension to this article... this is a whole series, if you haven't noticed...
This is sometimes referred to as a "midlife crisis"... or a major crisis of some kind... but for most, it is plateau in life, a time for a reset. Typically following some major evet in their lives, job loss, a death of someone close to them, or a sickness that sets in.
But like you, I have found that it is a cycle, A cycle that we can trigger ourselves just by realizing we are "stuck", or we are just unhappy with the way things are going. So we create a pause, a time for just ourselves, to be alone, you know, "to figure things out".
In an upcoming article, I describe the entire awakening journey as a cyclical process, for the past 10+ years I have been through wave after wave of awakening... level after level of peeling back layers of a former self that no longer serve me, or others around me. So many that I lost count, so has my wife... who happens to be in her own Liminal Space right now - and for whom I have written this article in honor of, as I wrote many things she is experiencing at this very moment. God love her.
You talk of God moments... I call them, "Hat Tips from God" - a phrase a friend mentioned to me once... God will poke us once in a while as if to say... "Time to wake up, again!"
This is Biblical... when you read the Bible you see it, cycle after cycle, learning after learning, all geared to bring us to the next level of understanding. The stubborn ones, the ones that refuse to think they need to change, they end up getting the hard lessons. Think about the story of the Pharaoh, how many plagues did he have to suffer before his heart softened?
You seem to be one that accepts life is a never-ending evolution of change. So, likely, your change-moments don't come from hard lessons - but soft understanding that you need to adjust something in your life. Good for you, you are wise before your time.
Be Blessed, Wild Bill, although I sense you already are! I am glad our paths crossed.
Thank you, OC, and I wish all of God's Blessings on you as well!
I have a feeling our paths will continue to intersect in the future. It helps (everyone, I think, me included) to know that what we are feeling, or have felt, is not unusual but actually more like universal. We all have various forms of transition in our lives, some more jarring than others. Some recognized 'in the moment,' others only later when we look back and see how the footprints in the sand shifted over a few yards from time to time.
Thanks for taking the time to write these posts, and blessings also to your wife in her life transition. 💖🙏✝🕊🕊
Thank you for the blessing for my wife! I think once we all realize we are in this together, we will learn to start supporting one another on our individual journeys. Because at the end of the day, we are all on the the same path!
I totally get it. I am in end stage renal, I was diagnosed at age 40. The docs gave me 10 years. God gave me 30 so far. I lost my fear YEARS ago and I think a major component to successful transition is fearlessness because of deep faith in Jesus/God the Father and the amazing visits by the Holy Spirit.
The more I listen for Jesus' guidance, the more amazed I am by His constant presence in my life and the miracles He brings me!
I appreciate you writing this article, OC. I have been in this place twice in my life (aged 19 and 45) where old phases had to end and new phases were 'simply recognized' - each time a total and automatic realignment of my life.
And, yet, now, I didn't realize I am in this place again where the old has ended, but this time, the new has not appeared as quickly and 'simply' as before...hence my relief to read your article.
As I sit 'between identities' knowing the past cannot be returned to, but not knowing what's ahead, 'Yes, that's it' were the words that came to mind when I read your piece.
Now, I await the 'whisper between universes' and the compulsion to move onward.
Yatesee, thank you for commenting... I am happy that you found some understanding in reading it. I think many of us have cycled through this phase at different times in our lives, some realize it, some don't. I see you have the awareness to realize it. But as you say, this one sort of snuck up on you. It makes sense as this new waves awakening of energy have been subtle, not like we experience with a major life event... but the slowly evolving escalation of higher levels of consciousness bleeding into the ether.
The whispers have arrived... now it may be time to sit still, quite the mind, and listen to the whispers in the wind - as I like to say. I am between the liminal, and what next weeks article will describe, transcending a layer on my ego yet undealt with. I have learned that in the end, it is the reprogramming of the ego that allows us to more smoothly cross over into the new space that is being created for us. where old patterns, old paradigms, and old habits tend to keep us stuck...
Thank you for taking the time to post your comments, I am sure others will gain from your insight. Be Blessed!
Thank you, I enjoyed reading this very "Jungian" article. I recently likened the 'current' state as being in that barely perceptible pause made in a moving (alive) river, when the energy, that had been cycling clockwise, momentarily slowed then reversed into swirling counterclockwise (and will reverse again when it is ready). Read the brilliant work of Victor Schauberger to understand how he describes this liminal movement. Yes, I know that's where I am at this moment and where so many are as well.
Hello Sandy, very well said. Thank you for the kind words. I have been in a similar state where the energy flow was very perceptible. It felt like multiple flows of energy were coming at me from all directions, hitting me, pushing me... then something happened...
I allowed them pass through me, instead of pushing me around... I went from feeling like a buoy being tossed around in a storm, to being porous enough that the ocean waves went trough me... not affecting me at all... like I transcending my physical being...
I will check out Victor Schauberge, thank you for the reference...
Schauberger was a deep mystic forest guardian whose brilliant Nature observations and great success in logging stream methods caused Hitler to capture him and forcibly turn his energy genius into supporting the war effort. This translated into the alleged creation of an SS space force based on many of his discoveries. And the holy liminality that helped Victor survive keeps saturating Earth creatures despite that evil capture. We urban and forest bathers are now found healing inner and outer realms, expanding between the waves of signal and noise as Kali Yuga is left behind.
Another great read. I think many of us go through phases of growth, followed by a plateau or pause. The pauses, or liminal in your phrasing, can be either a welcome rest or quite unnerving. Spiritual practices that once served you well suddenly don't work. You have to find your new bearings before moving on to the next stage. Learning to accept constant change helps. Not that I'm there yet myself, heh.
Louis, thank you... you are right... it is a cyclical process... we cycle through is in what I call, seasons... The Liminal is just what you say... a pause to integrate... to perform deep introspection, a luxury we don't often afford ourselves.
I like to say, change is the only constant. Learning to be conformable being unconformable is a gift you can give to yourself. I invite new awakening seasons... I actually trigger them myself more often than not. But many. come right from God, where He pokes me hard as if to say... It's time to go inside and figure this out! That's when I shift in The Liminal space and pray, meditate, rest, and heal!
So very well said. At 74 I have gone through most of these stages and am enjoying a much more peaceful relaxing life. Not retirement but finally living. “He”, said, “You are the Light of the World”. Keep shining!
Dean, thank you for your comments. I have a friend that retired 3 years ago. He is struggling, he said he wished he learned "not to worry" before retirement. He said he thought retirement would eliminate his worrying. The reality, as he are working out together, is that because he didn't work on the pattern he has for worrying prior to retirement, he still suffers from it. Now he worries about getting the lawn cut, taking out the garbage, etc...
Using what my friend is going through, I started on working on my propensity of fretting the small stuff. Like caring whether or not things at work will work out as "I desire"... forgetting that "my plan" is rarely, "His Plan"... I am learning to free myself of the way I think think things should be, you know, my expectations.
This passage perfectly describes my journey of the past few years after being forced to retire from the chaos of healthcare after 25+ years. Your validation of my dreams and the release they are slowly providing is reassuring. It is time for a new chapter of my story.
This is exactly where I am at. I could not put it into words .... you did .... and I thank you. I retired from 50 years of work in the city to a small home in the boondocks in isolated Tennessee. I've gone from the pressure of work, always talking or calling or answering, constant noise, stress, OCD of everything in order and in its place ....to....this new quiet change. The OCD of organizing my life and home has gone the complete opposite. I feel guilty and unsettled as far as energy to complete and organize my home.
Sally, I will reply to both of your comments here. First, you are welcome. Being content in today, in the very moment where we all exist, has to be enough. It is enough. To think otherwise is to backslide into the confusion of yesterday... to fall into old habits of "do, do, do, and keep doing!"
We have to give ourselves permission to say no, to say, not now, to take time to rest and find ourselves. Otherwise we go back to "the grind," that only served to milk us of every ounce of energy. So good for you, sit back and enjoy, enjoy just being you! You are worth it!
“The grind” is such a perfect way to describe it. Where you have no time for thought and reflection. I am sure this is not how we are meant to live our lives. Thank you for this piece. The other parts to this series have been such a help too!!
Lee, thank you for saying those nice things. "Where you have no time for thought and reflection." This is the most important lesson for all of us to learn. That we MUST create a space for ourselves to rest, to heal, to grow into who we truly are, and to who we will be tomorrow. Be blessed, Lee... you are on the right path... the path to healing, to becoming...
A beautifully expressed description of my current presence; I am loving it and am at peace. Thank you for the nod to stay on the evolving path of this delicious journey. Simply gorgeous writing.
Mary, thank you for the kind words... I feel many are in this very space in life, and are confused about what is next. I am glad you are finding peace in this space. Be blessed!
Excellent post, finding that space beyond the thought process of lack and trying to gain the things you feel are missing. To relax and embrace the Now, and allow the universe to bring to you what you need, even when you aren't ready for what you need. Moving from lack to attraction. That place where you require the solitude to reset your energy to maintain your sanity as the chaos of life and growth envelope your shielded self. Excellent way of articulating that space so many can align with the energy... Peace...
Well said, GW... it is truly that... clearing our heads of all the "shoulds" and "should nots"... the "you should be doing something" thoughts that plague our minds...
It is time for peace, for learning to enjoy this peace, for learning how to line with being ourselves! Be Blessed, GW!
Yet I have no time frame to complete or answer to anyone. As for today I will just go with the flow. I am content today.
Thanks OC for another node of reflection on this amazing journey in this Biblical Time that we are all living in.
As I read this article it occurred to me that the Awakening Journey that I find myself on started years before the Trump/Q Awakening portion began. While not all of what you describe seems to fit my experiences much of it does. This article reminded me of times 20 years ago, or so, when I began to experience what you did describe here today. That timeline more aligns with my Faith Journey. While I remember distinctly times in my earlier life where Faith pulled me through some very dark times it was not until more recently that the pieces started to reform and what I now realize was the beginning of my Awakening actually began.
I have always been a bit of a loner and never much of a follower so silence was never scary or unsettling to me. Learning to trust my gut/intuition/heart was a big step, but getting through that really made huge improvements in my life.
Anyway, another great thought provoking article and another one I will need to reread more than once.
Keep up the great work.
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
Joe, great comments as always, I appreciate you. I write for Badlands, so many think awakenings only pertain to The Great Awakening... this could not be further from the truth. Like you, my first experience happened when I was 16 years old. I too was ore of a loner, drifted in and out of various cliques in high school. I got bored of them after their patterns became mundane. Although I didn't understand that is why I faded from group to group then, I most assuredly do now.
Like you, have had multiple experiences of awakening, too numerous to mention. But like you, my most profound was during my first cover-to-cover reading of the Bible... it jarred me from who I was, to who I am evolving into.
I love that you shared your personal journey, this shows that you have truly awakened and continue to evolve using the same basic processes that I write about. I can't claim all the credit, it is literally the same process that the Bible outlines. Just put into words understandable today. Thank you Joe, for being you!
I’ve had a very similar journey. Silence is not an enemy and many are just finding this out! Blessings, Joe!
Beautifully written article for those transitioning from an old job, moving into retirement or suffering the sudden change of the loss of a loved one from divorce or death. Your article applies to all these scenarios and I passed it along to a friend who will eventually find her new path.
Suzan, YES, YES, and YES!!! This isn't just about awakening in general... it is a process in which true change happens in cyclical manner. Read Wild Bill's comment above and my reply for examples such as yours. Change is a process, not a one time event.
Thank you for the compliment, I am truly humbled by the words you wrote. Also, thank you for sharing with your friend. I have written all these articles in a generic manner in hopes people would share with others, outside "the movement", that might find my musings helpful.
I understand completely. I was laid off from a corporate job about six years before retirement age. I spent a year to two years trying to pick up another job and never could succeed. I literally couldn’t get a pizza delivery job.
After about two years I feel like I heard Him say between your Social Security and all the maintenance you do on your property and home you’ll be busy enough. So I stopped looking. From that point we’ve never missed a bill never been late on a payment and have had more than enough.
Ten years ago we started reading the Original Edition of A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman). Read it through three times LOL. Then we moved on to A Course of Love (by Mari Perron). Both books lead to and even beyond all that you have written about. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed your work because it aligns so well with the truth of who and what we are.
Going through the process of deprogramming was and is work for certain, but well worth the time.
We look forward to following your journey.
Dean, amazing story! It is a similar but different story I have heard over the course of 7 years going through medicinal healing circles (ayahuasca, Kambo, psychedelics, etc.), in one variation or another. People wanted out of the "matrix" and didn't know how. They were "stuck" in jobs they hated, relationships that were lopsided, and many other things we are all familiar with.
They just wanted to free from duality (the matrix), they wanted the chart their own course, not have it dictated to them. Not follow "the rules" that were forced on them. Just to live free from the burdens of life that were beyond their control. It sounds like you succeeded swimmingly, bravo to you and the other part of the "we" you mentioned.
Thank you for the references of "Original Edition of A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman). & A Course of Love (by Mari Perron)" - I will add them to my reading list. What amazes me about the Badlands audience is the diversity of reading we all have. I have picked up on at least a half dozen resources that I have never heard of from you all. Thank you for that! Enjoy your freedom!
Very interesting post, OC. Is it possible that this experience can be as you describe it, as a major life change, for some; but for others it can occur many times in smaller increments?
This is how I believe I've experienced it. No major life changes like retiring or changing jobs, rather subtle 'jogs' in perception, where I would awaken with an insight I could not have possibly known the day before. Or sometimes, meditate for a while -- 'cogitate on a problem' -- and then receive a bit of essential wisdom hidden to me just moments before.
I sometimes have felt these as 'God moments' -- where I feel that God or some other external consciousness has dropped a needed gem of wisdom or knowledge or understanding into my life. It has never been 'jarring' in the sense of feeling alone in the wilderness, being 'reprogrammed' or anything like that, rather a moment of insight or knowledge that basically, had to come from outside me, because there is no way I could possibly have already 'known' that thing. More like a flash of light, than a period of darkness or uncertainty.
What do you think? Is what I'm describing similar to The Liminal or something else?
Wild Bill, dude, man, bro... you hit on an upcoming extension to this article... this is a whole series, if you haven't noticed...
This is sometimes referred to as a "midlife crisis"... or a major crisis of some kind... but for most, it is plateau in life, a time for a reset. Typically following some major evet in their lives, job loss, a death of someone close to them, or a sickness that sets in.
But like you, I have found that it is a cycle, A cycle that we can trigger ourselves just by realizing we are "stuck", or we are just unhappy with the way things are going. So we create a pause, a time for just ourselves, to be alone, you know, "to figure things out".
In an upcoming article, I describe the entire awakening journey as a cyclical process, for the past 10+ years I have been through wave after wave of awakening... level after level of peeling back layers of a former self that no longer serve me, or others around me. So many that I lost count, so has my wife... who happens to be in her own Liminal Space right now - and for whom I have written this article in honor of, as I wrote many things she is experiencing at this very moment. God love her.
You talk of God moments... I call them, "Hat Tips from God" - a phrase a friend mentioned to me once... God will poke us once in a while as if to say... "Time to wake up, again!"
This is Biblical... when you read the Bible you see it, cycle after cycle, learning after learning, all geared to bring us to the next level of understanding. The stubborn ones, the ones that refuse to think they need to change, they end up getting the hard lessons. Think about the story of the Pharaoh, how many plagues did he have to suffer before his heart softened?
You seem to be one that accepts life is a never-ending evolution of change. So, likely, your change-moments don't come from hard lessons - but soft understanding that you need to adjust something in your life. Good for you, you are wise before your time.
Be Blessed, Wild Bill, although I sense you already are! I am glad our paths crossed.
Thank you, OC, and I wish all of God's Blessings on you as well!
I have a feeling our paths will continue to intersect in the future. It helps (everyone, I think, me included) to know that what we are feeling, or have felt, is not unusual but actually more like universal. We all have various forms of transition in our lives, some more jarring than others. Some recognized 'in the moment,' others only later when we look back and see how the footprints in the sand shifted over a few yards from time to time.
Thanks for taking the time to write these posts, and blessings also to your wife in her life transition. 💖🙏✝🕊🕊
Thank you for the blessing for my wife! I think once we all realize we are in this together, we will learn to start supporting one another on our individual journeys. Because at the end of the day, we are all on the the same path!
I totally get it. I am in end stage renal, I was diagnosed at age 40. The docs gave me 10 years. God gave me 30 so far. I lost my fear YEARS ago and I think a major component to successful transition is fearlessness because of deep faith in Jesus/God the Father and the amazing visits by the Holy Spirit.
The more I listen for Jesus' guidance, the more amazed I am by His constant presence in my life and the miracles He brings me!
👏👏
Needed this today, thank you.
Thank you, WinifredGirl... I am glad you found something in the moment that served you. Be Blessed!
I appreciate you writing this article, OC. I have been in this place twice in my life (aged 19 and 45) where old phases had to end and new phases were 'simply recognized' - each time a total and automatic realignment of my life.
And, yet, now, I didn't realize I am in this place again where the old has ended, but this time, the new has not appeared as quickly and 'simply' as before...hence my relief to read your article.
As I sit 'between identities' knowing the past cannot be returned to, but not knowing what's ahead, 'Yes, that's it' were the words that came to mind when I read your piece.
Now, I await the 'whisper between universes' and the compulsion to move onward.
Agree !
Yatesee, thank you for commenting... I am happy that you found some understanding in reading it. I think many of us have cycled through this phase at different times in our lives, some realize it, some don't. I see you have the awareness to realize it. But as you say, this one sort of snuck up on you. It makes sense as this new waves awakening of energy have been subtle, not like we experience with a major life event... but the slowly evolving escalation of higher levels of consciousness bleeding into the ether.
The whispers have arrived... now it may be time to sit still, quite the mind, and listen to the whispers in the wind - as I like to say. I am between the liminal, and what next weeks article will describe, transcending a layer on my ego yet undealt with. I have learned that in the end, it is the reprogramming of the ego that allows us to more smoothly cross over into the new space that is being created for us. where old patterns, old paradigms, and old habits tend to keep us stuck...
Thank you for taking the time to post your comments, I am sure others will gain from your insight. Be Blessed!
Thank you, I enjoyed reading this very "Jungian" article. I recently likened the 'current' state as being in that barely perceptible pause made in a moving (alive) river, when the energy, that had been cycling clockwise, momentarily slowed then reversed into swirling counterclockwise (and will reverse again when it is ready). Read the brilliant work of Victor Schauberger to understand how he describes this liminal movement. Yes, I know that's where I am at this moment and where so many are as well.
Hello Sandy, very well said. Thank you for the kind words. I have been in a similar state where the energy flow was very perceptible. It felt like multiple flows of energy were coming at me from all directions, hitting me, pushing me... then something happened...
I allowed them pass through me, instead of pushing me around... I went from feeling like a buoy being tossed around in a storm, to being porous enough that the ocean waves went trough me... not affecting me at all... like I transcending my physical being...
I will check out Victor Schauberge, thank you for the reference...
Schauberger was a deep mystic forest guardian whose brilliant Nature observations and great success in logging stream methods caused Hitler to capture him and forcibly turn his energy genius into supporting the war effort. This translated into the alleged creation of an SS space force based on many of his discoveries. And the holy liminality that helped Victor survive keeps saturating Earth creatures despite that evil capture. We urban and forest bathers are now found healing inner and outer realms, expanding between the waves of signal and noise as Kali Yuga is left behind.
Another great read. I think many of us go through phases of growth, followed by a plateau or pause. The pauses, or liminal in your phrasing, can be either a welcome rest or quite unnerving. Spiritual practices that once served you well suddenly don't work. You have to find your new bearings before moving on to the next stage. Learning to accept constant change helps. Not that I'm there yet myself, heh.
Louis, thank you... you are right... it is a cyclical process... we cycle through is in what I call, seasons... The Liminal is just what you say... a pause to integrate... to perform deep introspection, a luxury we don't often afford ourselves.
I like to say, change is the only constant. Learning to be conformable being unconformable is a gift you can give to yourself. I invite new awakening seasons... I actually trigger them myself more often than not. But many. come right from God, where He pokes me hard as if to say... It's time to go inside and figure this out! That's when I shift in The Liminal space and pray, meditate, rest, and heal!
Thank you for your comments, much treasured!
Thank you for putting what I've been feeling for some time into writing, so encouraging to know I'm not alone 🙏❤️
Eivy, no, you are not alone - there are many of us going through the same thing!
Perfect timing! Thank you.
My Rap Daddy, cool name... I am glad the timing was right for you! So many of us are going through this right now.
So very well said. At 74 I have gone through most of these stages and am enjoying a much more peaceful relaxing life. Not retirement but finally living. “He”, said, “You are the Light of the World”. Keep shining!
Dean, thank you for your comments. I have a friend that retired 3 years ago. He is struggling, he said he wished he learned "not to worry" before retirement. He said he thought retirement would eliminate his worrying. The reality, as he are working out together, is that because he didn't work on the pattern he has for worrying prior to retirement, he still suffers from it. Now he worries about getting the lawn cut, taking out the garbage, etc...
Using what my friend is going through, I started on working on my propensity of fretting the small stuff. Like caring whether or not things at work will work out as "I desire"... forgetting that "my plan" is rarely, "His Plan"... I am learning to free myself of the way I think think things should be, you know, my expectations.
This passage perfectly describes my journey of the past few years after being forced to retire from the chaos of healthcare after 25+ years. Your validation of my dreams and the release they are slowly providing is reassuring. It is time for a new chapter of my story.