The Path of Awak­en­ing 

When did you “wake-up”?
How do you know what you know?
What does it mean to be “Intel­li­gent”?
 

The sto­ry of Spir­i­tu­al Fire, the Light of Con­scious­ness, is found all over the world. Many, many ages ago the so-called “gods” walked among us. They came at the appoint­ed hour, for it was their hon­or and priv­i­lege to pass on the pre­cious Light of Self-Aware­ness. As it had been giv­en to them in an age long before our own, it was now their turn to pass this gift down to us; it was their sacred duty and hon­or to pass on the “Fire” that we know as our most pre­cious gift of self-aware­ness.  

Their names are numer­ous, but the sto­ry that is told is much the same around the world. We call them “myths”, these tales of Prometheus, Lucifer, Quet­zal­coatl, Loki and the Kumaras. The heart of this sto­ry reaf­firms and reminds us that we humans are part of a great rib­bon of Light, Love and Con­scious­ness, that stretches back­wards and for­wards, through Time and Space. All of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness is on this nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of self-becom­ing, and one of the most crit­i­cal steps in that jour­ney was reached by us humans in this moment that her­ald­ed the begin­ning of our self-aware­ness. 

Their Light was passed onto us, and so they part­ly live on through us; just as you and I are made of one anoth­er too. In all the realms, from the phys­i­cal, through the emo­tion­al and the men­tal on up through the Spir­i­tu­al, through­out all these hierarchies of Ener­gy-Forms, you will con­stant­ly find that the great­est illu­sion you will need to break is the one which makes it seem as if every­thing is sep­a­rate and apart from every­thing else. 

The Truth is One; that there is but One Spir­it and each and every part of cre­ation is in some way formed, shaped, fash­ioned and brought into ever high­er self-real­iza­tions through the com­plex web of rela­tion­ships that form the entire hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness. 

You cer­tain­ly have made you, but you are real­ly made and com­posed by a host of oth­ers too. From your par­ents and your sib­lings, from your class­mates and your col­leagues, and most cer­tain­ly by your dear­ly loved ones too, all of their feel­ings, thoughts and actions have become part of you, as yours has become an inte­gral part of them. We are all made of one anoth­er; we all need one anoth­er to be who and what we are, for with­out one anoth­er we would not be. 

What you know and how you know is formed by all with whom you jour­ney, in the present life, and all those many lives that came before too. You are made of all these sto­ries that we have told one anoth­er since we woke up. We told our sto­ries of where to find food, how to make fire, and how to avoid dan­ger. We laughed and cried, and shared our sto­ries and our love with one anoth­er. We made one anoth­er and are all in one anoth­er in large part because of these sto­ries we shared with one anoth­er. 

Yes, you and I made one anoth­er and this most cer­tain­ly includes our thoughts, our ideas, and that won­drous fac­ul­ty we call our Intel­li­gence. Many may think that Intel­li­gence is found­ed and formed by expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge, and so that the more you know, and the more that you can do is the way in which mea­sure how intel­li­gent you are. But this is not intel­li­gence at all. 

Our Intel­li­gence, which is an essen­tial part of our Self-Aware­ness, is one of the gifts we hon­or at this time of year, as we move through the realm of Gem­i­ni. The real essence of true Intel­li­gence is this: It is the abil­i­ty to con­sid­er the matter/question/situation or object being observed from mul­ti­ple points of views or per­spec­tives. It is quite sim­ply the facil­i­ty of your mind to move its focus around and con­sid­er what­ev­er you are try­ing to under­stand from more than one angle. 

I like to say that our aware­ness is like a light illu­mi­nat­ing the mat­ter before us. We shine a very bright light, and it seems we are see­ing so very clearly…but we are also, from assum­ing a par­tic­u­lar point of view or per­spec­tive, equal­ly cre­at­ing and cast­ing some very dark shad­ows of what we can­not see, of what we can­not know or under­stand. We are in fact blind­sided again and again by our par­tic­u­lar point of view. 

That is where “Intel­li­gence” comes in, and by it we are able to move our mind’s eye around to con­sid­er mat­ters from over here, and then over there, from above and below (and even from inside), and in so doing we slow­ly but sure­ly elim­i­nate the shad­ows and come to a more com­plete know­ing. 

When we are shad­owed, we often become stuck. The issue or chal­lenge seems almost bina­ry, there is only “this way” or “that way” to address the issue, and often nei­ther of them are “good”. But when we break out of our self-cast shad­ows and move our mind by intel­li­gence to con­sid­er mat­ters from many angles, often the prob­lem goes away or an ele­gant solu­tion is revealed. 

This is the Gift of Gem­i­ni, the gift of curios­i­ty, the adept­ness formed by being contrary and think­ing “out­side the ordi­nary”, the essen­tial need of an awak­ened mind to Ques­tion everything…it is the Gift of Intel­li­gence and it one of the prin­ci­ple instru­ments that dri­ve your sto­ry of the Self-That-Is-Becom­ing. 

We all have Gem­i­ni in us; some­where in your nature there is that need to ques­tion, to not set­tle for the ordi­nary or expect­ed point of view; to con­sid­er a mat­ter from a dif­fer­ent angle; to adopt a point of view and debate the issue, and then, to turn “on a dime” and be able to argue the exact oppo­site point of view too. That is what Gem­i­ni and your Intel­li­gence is about; what a gift of spir­it to be open to the won­der of it all. 

This is the time to cel­e­brate Gem­i­ni. To ask why, and why not. 

The abil­i­ty to hold two, exact­ly oppo­site points of view, and then some­how to find anoth­er. 

It is the gift of Intel­li­gence, and it is the key to your awak­en­ing. 

Always and for­ev­er,  

Keep shin­ing.