The Foundation – Part IX(Expectation and Limitation)

Expectation is Just Another Form of Limitation

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The nuances of this particular principle are still being revealed to me two decades after I was first taught it. As always, the first place I was taken was to the dictionary.  A lot of my understanding came from the definitions that were given for the two main words in the principle: “expectation” and “limitation”.

Definitions first:

expectation :  Something expected, anticipated; something to look forward to, whether feared or hoped for.  Anticipation.  The feeling that something is about to happen.

limitation : A restriction.  The act of limiting or the state of being limited.  Something that limits the quality or achievement.  The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed.  The act of controlling or directing…

The Foundation – Part VIII(Remember, Camouflage)

Remember, Camouflage

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It took me quite a while to understand this principle.  Camouflage?  What the heck does that have to do with my spiritual development?

But because I’d been working with some of the other principles for months, I knew this wasn’t just a throwaway.  I knew there was an insight to be had here.  So I began to work with it.

The Foundation – Part VI(As Above, So Below. Introduction)

As Above, So Below. Introduction

We’re almost to the end of this series.  As I stated before, the principles are relatively straightforward.  The learning and the growth comes from the conscious application of them, and the frame of reference they provide. I perceive them as a new pair of glasses – for those of us who need to wear them, when you have the proper prescription, your vision clears and often your field of vision expands.  That’s how it was for me with these principles.

I literally began to see life differently, and began to live it in a different way as well.  A lot of how I move in the world makes no sense to other people because often it is not “logical”.  And that’s OK.

The Foundation – Part V(Truth Is)

Truth Is

Is anybody noticing how straightforward, how simple these very profound principles are?  It is very easy to have intellectual understanding about what it is I’m sharing here, but I challenge you to choose one, any one, of these principles and live it for a week.  I’ll make it easy:  live one of these principles, fairly and completely, giving it all you’ve got, for just one day.

I’ve been working at it since they gave these to me two decades ago, and I am nowhere near even beginning to understand the levels and the layers of insight that are available to me just by working these simple principles.

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There’s a certain phrase I hear a lot: ” well, that may be your truth, but it’s not mine” or some variant thereof.  What does that mean, exactly?  And how can we know something is true, or not?

We’re walking around in a perfect truth-sensing vehicle: our bodies.  I was told ” the tuning fork of Truth resides in your heart.”

The Foundation – Part IV(Microcosm/Macrocosm)

You Are a Microcosm of the Macrocosm

The rest of this principle is: if you can understand the workings of your physical body, you can comprehend as well how all of Creation works.  This principle is actually rather complex, and contains layers that may be too intricate to detail here, so I shall just stick to the basics.

Probably one of the most important insights I’ve had applying this principle to the seed thoughts my unseen teachers would give me is this one:

Each one of our chakras, or Energy Centers, is a microcosm of an entire dimension of existence.  For example, we are currently experiencing third dimensional existence.

And what is it the third chakra is all about, energetically?  Power. We live in a world that currently appears to be all about power and control.  I am using the widely accepted definition of power here, not the definition that I understand describes true power.  I am in alignment with David Hawkins’ approach as he set forth in his magnificent book Power vs. Force. (I would highly recommend this book to any of you who are on the expansion of consciousness track, all you seekers focused on attaining and maintaining the consciousness level commonly described as ” awareness”. It has been an invaluable resource for me, and has greatly expanded my understanding of what my individual impact on the evolution of consciousness on this planet can actually be, simply by working on myself.)

Power, properly defined, is a state of being, a level of awareness.  It is “force” that most people are describing when they use the word “power”.

Force is all about manipulation and control.  It is about one individual or organization seeking to orchestrate how another individual or organization will act in this world.  Force is, at its foundation, all about the imposition of one person’s will upon the will of another, thereby limiting that person’s free expression.

Seems to me this is a pretty accurate description of what’s happening on this planet at this time.  The microcosm of the energy of the third chakra is being expressed globally.

I would also give you this to ponder: this planet called Earth; if you take that which is last, the “h”, and put it first, you get “heart”.  The heart chakra represents fourth dimensional existence, and is also the point of integration according to my teachers.  I’ll expand on this a bit more when I discuss another one of the principles.

For now, I will say this: the more you are able to orient your consciousness in your heart chakra, and function from that place effectively, the more stable your energy field will be and you will be able to remain more in alignment with the current transition we are moving through.

It is through the energy of the heart that we shall collectively lift ourselves up from the density in which we currently find ourselves mired, and move into our next level of expression which is the fifth dimension (represented by your throat chakra).

It is also through the application of this particular principle that I came to the understanding some 22 years ago that there are more than seven chakras.  We live in a base 12 universe.  There are 12 tones in a chromatic scale, not just the do-re-mi seven we learned in school.  When I first came to this awareness, no one was talking about those other chakras.

Now it’s common knowledge, which was a good validation for this process of working from the inside out that my teachers told me would lead to my self-realization.  They were absolutely, as always, correct.

It’s taken me seven months to muster up the courage to try to explain these early teachings.  Now that I’ve started, I’m going to have to finish.  I may lose some of you along the way, but hopefully some of you will travel this entire journey with me.

I have definitely been walking the road less traveled, but it has been a most satisfying journey.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. ~ William Wordsworth

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