You are causing everything that is affecting you.
There is no one else to blame — the ultimate empowerment.
The perception of time being linear has become as integral to our experience of reality as the solidity of matter. The fluidity of reality that spiritual awakening reveals not only includes increased experiences of synchronicity but also coming to perceive time in a more fluid way.
The past and the future are powerful ideas that we use to separate our experiences and apply a potent additional layer of meaning to them.
We have determined that the past is unalterable from the present, and that the present cannot be affected by the future. In this way, we perceive the unfolding of our experience in a linear fashion from the belief that what is ahead on the timeline cannot affect what is behind it. This creates the arrow of time and, like the whole of our reality system, it is a product of our perception.
To organize experience in this way has been incredibly helpful. Just as to awaken to the grand illusion (the realization that reality is a perceptual projection of consciousness) is not to dissolve physicality, so too, after awakening, we also remain in linear time. That said, it is a shallower, more fluid / malleable experience of time. This fluidity is reflected in the loosening of its strict linearity.
A good example of this comes from examining the assumption of cause and effect, as this is the basis for how we apply linearity to our thinking. Typically, we see our inner emotional state as being the result of what we are experiencing in our outer reality. If situations we perceive as negative are happening, we feel depressed or maybe angry. If good things are happening, we feel happy and positive.
Through the idea of cause and effect, reality is seen as causing our mood.
This belief not only includes an inherent assumption that our reality is separate from what we are, it then grants this external ‘thing’ the power of determining our emotional state. This belief is an expression of being subservient / a slave to your reality. To see through the illusion of reality being separate from you is to see through the idea of cause and effect.
Because you and reality are one / are not separate, it cannot *cause* you to feel. It *is* your feeling.
To integrate this idea is to see reality as the expression — rather than the cause — of what you are feeling. This is to remove time from the equation. For example, if something happens that makes you feel angry, rather than seeing your anger as being the result of the event, see the event as being the expression of anger that you were already feeling (even though you may not have been consciously aware of it). You brought yourself to the event in order to feel the anger rising within you such that you could release / consciously perceive / express it.
This is to recognize that you freely participated in the event because it was a vehicle to outwardly express something you were feeling.
Without a belief in cause and effect, you cannot deny responsibility by blaming external events or people for your emotional state. No person or thing makes you feel anything. You choose to allow the experience of all that affects you emotionally.
The idea of cause and effect is a symbol of the separation of our consciousness over time.
The idea of cause and effect is a way in which we simplify and make sense of the world. However, to let go of this idea of linearity is to bring great clarity into your life because it is to see that all experiences that you take part in are a choice. This brings into focus how you are responsible for your own life because it is you that chooses it.
Letting go of the idea of cause and effect will trigger many resistances connected to victimhood (the belief that you are a victim). These will be walls you created through blaming external forces for both your emotional state and the condition of your reality. To take complete responsibility for your consciousness / reality / creatorship is to release the idea of blame and stand in the acknowledgement that nothing is limiting you but yourself.
All limits in your reality are but a reflection of ways in which you believe you are limited.
In seeing that we cause what affects us, we are stripped of the feeling of being justified in retaliation. Imagine that I decide to hit you, and you decide to hit me back. This energetic event is two people hitting each other. That is the exchange. However, the tendency is to use cause and effect to feel justified in your retaliation. This is a denial that you are the creator of your own reality and, thereby, on some level, you gave permission to be hit. If your response was to hit me back, then that would be a part of the reason you gave permission.
In clarity, the exchange would simply be to acknowledge that we wanted to hit each other and get on with it without the blame.
To apply this to your life is to take any situation as a complete energetic exchange with no regard for its sequence. This is to see the exchange as being agreed upon by your infinite self / spirit / eternal consciousness / wider self before it was played out into reality.
Our belief in linear time creates a wall of resistance to our perception of the future. We each have a host of intuitive senses which have the ability to perceive across time. This is not magic. Our infinite self, the unified awareness of All That We Are, is not contained within the illusion of duality (of which time is an aspect). To awaken out of the illusion of duality is to allow yourself to acknowledge the constant stream of information that comes to you from these inner senses … from your spirit.
This is to validate your intuition as a credible source of guidance.
We are surrounded by an ocean of unfolding potentials. As we interact with these potentials, we are unfolding our co-created experience with them. By focusing on a potential, we begin to integrate with it, and it emerges into our reality (the realization of our consciousness).
At this point, it becomes externally visible, sometimes on the distant horizon, such as a choice of a trip we could take in the future, or immediately, such as bumping into a friend. This is when we have allowed ourselves to become conscious of the potential, leading it to tangibly unfold before us. We have, however, been interacting with the event, from the level of our spirit, prior to its manifestation.
How conscious we are of this is determined through our beliefs as to whether or not this is possible.
If you do not believe in foresight, then you will not experience it. In the above examples, someone open to feeling their spirit may have started to pick up synchronicities about the destination for the trip or may have had a feeling they were going to see their friend that day. The more you are willing to loosen your beliefs about the limits of time, most notably in regard to the ability to feel potential events unfolding before they occur, the more expanded the horizon of your perception will become.
Your future is not written. It is all potentials.
Reality is not a singular timestream.
Your future is a landscape that is unfolding before you. With every choice that you make, it changes. You choose which energetic events are brought into your reality through your interaction with this landscape of potentials. Your beliefs determine how you traverse the terrain and what enters into your reality / what is actualized.
Once something becomes visible in your reality, you start interacting with it consciously. Therefore, by coming to expand the limits of your perception by giving validity to your intuition, you will be able to give your conscious choice to potential energetic events when they are further away from your immediate reality. This is experienced as reality becoming more aligned with what you are consciously desiring . This is the experience of being more unified with your reality.
Intuition is a direct experience of potential timelines and not something mystical.
To feel your intuition is to be open to perceiving feelings from your inner-senses as directly as you perceive light through your eyes. Only you can choose to give validity to your intuition. The more you let your feelings be a factor in your choices, the more you will see the power of their guidance. The more validity you give them, the stronger and clearer they will become. The strength of your intuition is a reflection of your belief in the existence of intuition. Allow yourself the freedom of feeling the potentials of your unfolding.
Allow yourself the freedom inherent in living through your heart.
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This article is based on a chapter from Story’s second book You Are God. Get Over It! which is available as a book/ebook from Amazon or an audio book from the Mp3 Store.
