Tradition, Individuality, and Innocence — Sparks of the Infinite
Hi Elan and friends!! :). So I recently saw a comment on a spiritual video that encapsulated a greater energy and evolution happening in humanity right now I wanted to reflect here! My questions will be brief but I want to lay out everything I have been sensing first for context.
There are certain areas of 'spiritual' talk that are particularly self-divided. And I've found a lot of the division has to do with one's idea of either obeying a tradition, a rigid system of Truth, doing spirituality the responsible and 'correct' way that is universal for everyone — or celebrating the unique individuality of each path and allowing every being to explore for themselves. In simplified terms.
Moreover, there is an energy of "conflict" between the interpretations and experiences of spiritual awareness that can result in judgment, close-heartedness, insecurity, and disconnection. The comment I will quote to illustrate this energy that exists in many other places is as follows:
"Christianity is true, everyone is deceiving themselves because they're traumatized and everyone is reluctantly accepting the power of Tradition because they're stuck in childhood from their wounds and don't want to leave neverland, grow up and become responsible adults "
There are many areas the idea of a singular, universally True way and interpretation of reality can create division. Monogamy / Polyamory, Masculine and Feminine / Nonbinary (I.E. a view of gender that isn't binary), Drugs for Expansion (DMT, plant medicines, shrooms) / Drugs as Dysfunction, Sexuality / Chastity, ETs as Positive / ETs as Negative, Reality and God are You / You are subject to an external Reality and God. These all come up as subjects that can elicit negative emotions and responses of invalidation.
There is often an energy of, "This is The Way, and if you explore something else or feel differently it is a problem, a flaw you have to heal from."
QUESTIONS:
How do you feel we can find unity and unconditional love for ourselves and each other despite these different vibrational approaches and interpretations of Reality?
How do you suggest we follow our individual excitement when there can always seem to be an "argument against" our excitement from a different perspective?
Thank you Elan if you answer in the book, and anyone else here who wants to :). Much love to you all!!
I find it helpful to think about it like this:
If someone tells you what their favorite color is, for example, yellow.
But your favorite color is purple. Do you really mind what their favorite color is? You can acknowledge it and appreciate their perspective and exploration but it doesn’t really matter in that sense because your favorite color will always be purple, because why would you change what you know you like? It should actually show you even more that purple is the way to go for you. Except you give in and follow their yellowness. 🤔 Or you can stick to who you are. In this case: a purple fanatic. :D And this can be implied in all areas of disagreements.
All colors that exist are beautiful in their own way. And everyone can choose whatever fits best to them. It’s just a matter of you seeing, why they might choose the color they like and understanding their perspective.
Imagine people telling you that if you don’t like yellow, you are doing something wrong. Why though? 😄 But of course it could also happen that suddenly yellow is the absolute best color for you. It actually happened to me a lot that when I was willing to listen and face what I disagree with, it turned out positive and sometimes it changed my opinion and sometimes not. But it replaced the hate with love and being understanding.. if that makes sense. Maybe it's even similar to what Elan says about facing your emotions?
Btw I’m not a huge fan of yellow but I like limegreen which is impossible to have without yellow. 😄