(another) SHIFT in CONSCIOUSNESS

(another) SHIFT in CONSCIOUSNESS

by Ang Stoic, published on Astrology of Now

There are those still trying to feed us with any excuse possible to slouch further into uncreative/destructive existence (phoney marriage and relationship, dead-end career promises, faux social networks, friendly circles who are all smoking the same brand of pop-psychology and pseudo-religion, corporatism, sport-fanaticism, gun-culture, politics-obsession, new-age craze etc).

From a spiritual perspective, I must declare the new-age movement a fucking mess. People might think it’s strange, my being an astrologer and all, but i never bought into it and the hokey circus that it’s always been, with its fad gatherings and the pious pretentiousness of many of those who choose to play along, bless their alternative-minded ways. I have seen what it does to so many of the people who also happen to come my way, either as clients, or in real-life social or e-social situations.

I have studied these types with some degree of skepticism, fascinated at how steeped they are in a language and culture which essentially all beats from the same drum, but to find the source of that beat, has been difficult, and i guess it stems from the potpourri of self-help books and its neo-cosmic superstars. More interesting than the source, I am fascinated as to where it all leads, because from my observation, i see the same group of people swirling around the same circles, year after year, festival after festival, workshop after workshop, and nothing changes in the hazy glaze of confusion in their eyes.

I’ve observed that all the New Age movement does for its constituents is generate an empty sense of wish-fulfilment, a mere bypass for dealing with some deeply ingrained psycho-sexual traumas. Rather than inspiring an active self-examination of our shadow, it provides a false matrix of support by teaching its members to avoid the obvious by acting all ‘spiritual’ as part of this bubble of a ‘holy sacrosanct community’ – one which allows freedom to trip away from the troubles of the convention and due to its high degree of sensitivity to any real-world abrasiveness, one not to be messed with.

In this respect, (like all alternative worlds) the new-age gig has really only fostered a safe-haven, a special playground cloaked with pseudo light beams and rainbows which has really only allowed the darker elements of life to secretly fester and to eat away at the fabric of the individual’s psyche from within, until it has grown to the point where it has usurped all relationships, communities and finally, now the entire world en masse.

Our abject inability or failure to process the phenomenal waves of christed light (intuitive truth) streaming onto our consciousness comes at extraordinary cost. This is mostly due to fear and dissociation, which is unfortunately mistaken by the ‘Namasté Brigade’ as being one of ‘light and love’, as preached by the multitude of goddesses and so called light-warriors…

…more like gaslight warriors.

One thing is obvious, we cannot ignore all the toxicity and poison that is running rife in our world by dissociating ourselves from the darkness. We cannot shun away the dark matter by acting all ‘spiritual’ – not wanting to deal with the darkness directly. In truth, dark energy makes up a great part of our universe. Ignoring the darkness is not how we achieve enlightenment.

Enlightenment is a frightfully destructive process, one of systematically tearing shreds of our ego-conditioning away. This is often not a pleasant business, but a necessary evil we must face if we are to lighten the density that still resides within our DNA and in the matter and substance of everything that exists around us. We cannot take shortcuts with magic rituals, witchy potions and ‘sacred medicine’ journeys unless we know the extent of the damage that can be done if these are not handled with the utmost care.

Essentially we each have the potential to be dangerous. Deep within lurks the potential to behave like indescribable monsters who could commit unspeakable acts of destruction, especially if we should decide to focus all our fury and rage onto one particular point. We have the capacity to cause such havoc and ruin that the fallout of just one selfishly atrocious act could last decades… lifetimes. This kernel of destruction lies deeply buried in our shadow.

In truth, there is no real coherence or any sense to the tommyrot and bilgewater that people are spinning and spouting out as new-age ‘spirituality’. A lot of that stuff is so lame, so flimsy, such soul-destroying nonsense that in the end becomes so disillusioning and disempowering that it is ultimately more dangerous than helpful.

I have seen it employed, particularly in these organised so-called ‘women’s circles’ – these vaguely cloaked covens which seek to perpetuate the ‘shamed, victim-minded’ culture of sexually-traumatised females, who in actual fact only villainise and dominate men by swearing an allegiance to a faux sisterhood. In actuality it merely superimposes a psychic limitation upon its members that only perpetuates unhealthy gender dualites, separation and alienation from the true source of their pain.

Of course, the victim-member is gullible and impressionable, and will only hear what they want to hear. Reinforcing personal disempowerment by asking participants to relinquish their individual power in deference to some hokey group ideal does nothing but make people dependent on another culture – no different to fundamental christianity, feminism or any other organised movement that glorifies itself to a ‘higher cause’.

And of course, the men themselves are often chosen from the ever-growing breed of the irresponsible, the impotent and uncreative – men who have had the lifeforce beaten out of them at youth by the system of patriarchy, whose manhood has been arrested in development during their formative years. Their tendency has been to cower, rather than to step up and take responsibility.

Much fewer men have entered the search for alternatives in the new-age groups and workshop circuits, but they are there, and gradually growing in numbers. However, in the last 2-3 years, this has become a thing, that whilst it has opened the doors to help, has been hardly helpful, both to men and women. The New age movement has become a flaky mess.

Any influence that does not allow an individual to take a good look at the crap they are carrying into every interaction serves nothing but to perpetuate the darkness. If we are not able to look at our toxic emotions from an objective, non-judgemental point of view, look at the true depths of the problems caused by our attachment to our trauma and pain, then our healing shall always be an elusive thing.

Let’s be brave enough to confront some of our darker emotions, use some of the light that’s coming through and to process it in a way that seeks to destroy our fears and our attachment to these fears. Enlightenment requires us to do the groundwork and the training to go into head-to-head with the darkness. Unless we become emotionally prepared to fight (not recede into faux-pacifist or escapist measures), we will never stand to win the war against all the darkness that exists in our hearts, and hence projected onto the world around us.

By assuming that you’re sitting there is a state of ‘high-vibration’, shunning away any negative information lest it ‘brings your vibration down’ is only giving rise to the elements of fear and darkness. This is NOT working with the light. This is simply a state of willful ignorance. Sure, we are sensitive, but we can’t just sit back and watch our world become consumed with ‘evil’. We must have the strength to meet our shadow head on, stop it from growing and taking over this entire planet.

So let’s get off our ‘high-vibe’ pedestal, that bubble of spiritual narcissism and come down here (to earth) and look at the source of all our trauma and disease. Only by detaching ourselves from our negative emotions and standing up to the bullies and the tyrants of this world can we bring about a real change. This is no time for complacency and the cognitive-dissonance bystanding that many employ, especially using the phoney escapist techniques perpetuated by the ‘new age’ movement.

It is time to act responsibly. Only you can affect this by taking immediate and appropriate action to observe how, by not addressing your own shadow, you only limit and stifle your capacity to play a part in enacting a true, universal transformation.

Depends on the motive, but if we are not acting responsibly even under the guise of best intentions, we not only risk hurting others, we end up hurting ourselves.

This phenomenal new shift brings a perfect time to look back at all the historical damage. Ask ourselves, how much of it still lingers in our current world. If we can inwardly redirect Pluto’s brutally abrasive energy we can facilitate great healing rather than continue to allow it to perpetrate more rage, trauma and destruction.

The Pisces Sun passage over Neptune this week creates a three-pronged trident effect on how we reconnect to the dream collective. The Virgo Full Moon holds it all in our face. To really draw the maximum effect of its inspiration, we must stay clear and grounded.

So let us do the groundwork fearlessly, and with the abundance of the amazing light that is there all around us.

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