The following is why I believe humanity experiences so much conflict. Here’s to liberating ourselves!
We have been navigating our way through this human experience with tremendous obstacles. Indeed, the conditions have been exceedingly treacherous here! It has been very distorted on this planet for ages, and there have been immense shadows that we’ve been battling with.
Of course, the existence of darkness on our planet makes sense. Duality requires both light and dark in order to manifest. But there also exists a collective ego or shadow side of civilization. And it has saturated our very behavior.
We’ve been conditioned by this shadow side since birth, and it has led to unnatural conflict. This shadow operates just like our own egos. It teaches elitist attitudes that support those at the absolute top – those who have authoritative control. Their rules are enforced by little and big fears that restrict us, such as safety and money issues. Such fears perpetuate our obedience.
We’ve been conditioned to follow systems that keep us unaware, distracted, and docile. For example, fluoride was added to our drinking water because it disconnects us from our spiritual reality. When we regularly consume fluoride, the pineal gland in the human body becomes calcified, and this cuts off our connection to the divine. It dumbs us from our own power. This makes it very hard for us to wake up and challenge those who control the money on our planet and perpetuate starvation and war.
You see, the uber elite make us fight their wars for them, and so we die for their power. They divide us so that we are not united, and we suffer in separation. The uber elite demonstrate again and again that they do not honor the sanctity of life. And they teach us hierarchy so that we mimic along.
This kind of manipulation has been going on for so long that we really have to turn things upside down to see it. Domination is so ingrained in our society, and in our DNA, to the point where we even try to control each other, as a child might imitate a bossy parent, and far worse.
I see the ramifications of this shadow behavior everywhere, and to me, it explains so much. I think our fixation with celebrity is a good, mild example of how we’ve been trained to revere money and fame – things that have no value to our loving and limitless nature, all in order to perpetuate hierarchy.
A more dramatic example of shadow behavior is how women have historically been treated. If we followed our natural divinity, we would never disrespect more than half of all humans in a demeaning and often violent manner. We have been out of balance for ages.
Our souls come from a purely loving place that is so incredibly different from humanity’s shadow, and that is why life on earth is so full of conflict. We are living in a world that goes against our benevolent core, and carrying learned negativity as we try to navigate our way. Most of us have been taught that we are separate from each other and from everything, including God. From an early age, we are taught to restrict, judge, punish, and please. We are told to conform to society through rule-following as we control our piles of scarcity and compete with one another. It’s a poor replacement for the truth – that we intrinsically belong to an abundant universe. We are direct aspects of God and are powerfully connected to all of creation. But we’ve been intentionally denied our natural power. What has strengthened in its place are our conditioned egos. These are the shadows that we each carry in ourselves.
To realize this is ultimately a liberating experience. I now feel much more free from the questionable rules all around me, especially knowing that I have a direct link to the loving laws of the universe. Fortifying spiritual connection is essential to transcending the human condition. This is our built-in navigation system, called our highest intuition or Higher Self, and it gives us our power back.
In addition, if we acknowledge and even embrace our individual and collective shadows, we are able to heal them. This is crucial and allows us to move forward with love. If we recognize the conditioned fears of our violent past, we can transcend them with compassion.
Right now, we are going through a collective healing of our conditioning. We can help each other and ourselves through this process with kindness. By following the loving and uplifting feelings of our true nature, we are able to dwell in the light, positive side of our world. Indeed, fortifying our positive reality is paramount. And the good news is that the light side of our world is far stronger and growing stronger still as we evolve.
I think the butterfly portrays it best. We are waking up from the cocoons of conformity, and breaking free to rebuild a humanity that finally reflects the soul. As we take flight, our unique and crucial gifts are unveiled in all their glorious colors and patterns. And finally, we are free.
Share the Spiritual 
yet again i can follow every word you write and i hear myself telling me the same words. as my guides have taught me as a parent: we live in the rule: authority world but where we do best is in the boundary:respect world. i do my best to handle everyone with boundaries and respect. it is hard to let go of that shadow but with the words you keep writing, i know several of us will heal through your blog.
James Barrett
I have several thoughs on your blog. I can say with my poetry that my soul is living. Here are several: It is our very
separteness that brings us together….and The next time you pray let God do the talking.
Like the butterfly touch each soul you encounter on your journey with love and grace. Our earth home would be such a wonderful place if we all could just do what the butterfly does
touches with love and grace.
The wisdom of your comments carry such thought-ful-ness! Respect and Grace – you are truly teaching me. I’m grateful to share the themes of life here. I learned this past year that awareness of the shadow is key, because it allows us to heal the whole truth. If we don’t know both sides, we can’t experience true, Unconditional Love. …Next week will be about the tremendous Light in our world! You both have so much to teach us about our Light!!!
This post has me thinking a lot about the following quote by Carl Jung.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
I think that making the darkness conscious is the first step to then experiencing light’s healing…. only after the realization of our darkness (such as when an addict finally admits his addictions and powerlessness over his addictions), does light’s natural state in the world begin to show itself….. one can just let go and there it is.
This sounds so easy and for those who I know have achieved it, it is… but for those of us still struggling, it’s quite challenging… but then again, if we are struggling, are we REALLY letting go?
Wow, Rosary, this is so thought-provoking and I love that you bring up addiction. What a perfect example. “Struggle”, we must explore this more in the future. I still don’t understand the immense suffering of life down here. …I feel we must have compassion for ourselves, and LOVE every part of ourSELF, even the darkness – especially the darkness. Maybe we can let go once we’ve truly loved this darkness with a full embrace? Thank you for your wisdom. I love having this dialogue!
The struggling is our resistance to letting go…we cannot live in the light until we let go and sit in the still quiet “dark”. It is by sitting in the “dark” that our true spirit becomes alive.
We all were created in the light and brought the darkness in as a way to protect us from things that we were taught. An infant knows only light. As the infant lives it is taught fear. The fear that is passed on to generation after generation comes from the ego driven world.
As we grow we develop shadows. These shadows are not ours…they are taught to us by others with shadows taught to them. Turn around and look them straight on. Once done they will fade away and should they ever show up again, face them and love them and thank them. For when we greet them with love they fade away forever.
I love what you write here James. It is startling to wake up to the fear we’ve been taught. I especially appreciate your thoughts on facing our shadows.
This is how I see it. The ego is born of fear. I have come to understand we often only learn the truth in ‘things’ by learning that which they are not – fear is the ultimate illusion and in recognizing it’s illusory nature we know Love; but could we perceive Love if we weren’t deluded by it’s opposite – fear? Therefore through perceiving fear (falsely) we in turn become aware of it’s opposite – Love. Then we know which is truth and we can let go of illusion! Beautiful! Love that ego/fear – bring it to the light and watch is disperse like smoke! Even the ego is great teacher if you let it.
Didn’t get that fully till now, thanks Suzy and James!
This is how I see the ego. The ego is born of fear. I have come to understand we often only learn the truth in ‘things’ by learning that which they are not – fear is the ultimate illusion and in recognizing it’s illusory nature we know Love; could we perceive Love if we weren’t deluded by it’s opposite – fear? Therefore through falsely perceiving false fear we in turn become aware of it’s opposite – Love, which eclipses fear totally when you feel it. Then we know which is truth and we can let go of illusion! Beautiful! Love that ego/fear – bring it to the light and watch is disperse like smoke! Even the ego is a great teacher if you allow it to be, without judgement yet still recognizing the falsity in its proclamations!
Didn’t get that fully till now, thanks Suzy and James!
oops sorry posted twice by mistake Suzy