PATH OF THE OBEDIENT HEART II
Discover, and then pass through the barriers setting between your thinking and the activities that will constitute your legacy. Feel, in a real and undeniable physical way, the blocks, thoughts, habits, and mental objections that prevent living from your heart and spirit. Experience one of life's most dramatic and effective historical practices for spiritual growth. Flogging is used to physically empower the acceptance and employment of your personal fetishes and other unique characteristics that enable the distinct destiny for which you were created.
All of life's growth occurs because of our experiences. We progress spiritually down our unique paths only when we are offered life's circumstances, and respond.
Our response can either be conscious or unconscious. We can react from the habits and values that we already have that have been developed over a lifetime, or we can look for the lesson and develop new responses. Growth is having new responses.
How much we know, who we know, how many seminars we've attended will never substitute for any of our spiritual growth. Growth isn't knowledge. Growth is a change in perspective that has either been discovered or forced on us from surviving life's experiences.
It is normal to spend the first part of our life unconsciously experiencing our destiny. It is also normal to eventually outgrow our unconsciousness and to become completely aware of life's influences on us. This switch from unconscious to conscious destiny is a transition that each of us must go through.
We don't normally invite this transition because it changes life's rules. These rules have guided us, even made us successful. We've already paid a high price to learn what has served us so well to this point, even gotten us through some very difficult and traumatic times. In this transition we're asked to release all the rules to become fully conscious of our path. The transition is in itself a path.
Path II provides experiences the ego can't control and experiences the ego can't hide from us for its purpose to keep us unconscious. When we can't hide from ourselves, we expose ourselves to who we are, and in so doing identify where we are along the inevitable path of our spiritual development.
Path II provides a clear mirror into which we can look, and after seeing ourselves more clearly, then decide what we want to do as a result of what we see there. Additionally, there is a resulting empowerment that comes from releasing the soul to express itself without the egotistic controls and confines of our expectations and current self image.
Part of the Path growth comes from discovering the wisdom, kindness, and intention of our spirit. Since we really are who are spirit is, when we learn to admire and then to love our spirit, we grow in self esteem. From the resulting confidence, we become able to qualify for the unique work of our destiny.
There is no potential for damage, neither physical nor emotional. Those who fear the truth either of who they are or where they are on their spiritual developmental path will choose to leave. Without prejudice and without judgment, that's OK. We have all found ourselves being afraid of who we are and of being afraid of knowing how spiritually developed we are. It is a part of our normal development.
It is a dramatic and substantial step in our lives to want to expose ourselves to the truth. It takes a lot of courage and conviction. This is an investment in who we are. Our soul wants us to know we're not who our egos say we are. It wants us to know we don't exist in our heads, we exist in our soul. Learning that is what marks the transition from unconscious to conscious destiny.
Path II is a safe and secure space where you are surrounded by people who care only about who you really are, not who you try to be. It is where there is support, encouragement and guidance to let go of our self-controlled selves so we can meet and/or learn to trust who we really are above all else.
Self development is a decision to let go of the neat, handy, well-managed tenets of our lives in exchange for the freedom to do in this world what no one has ever done before us. Without that freedom there is no possibility of finding our destiny. Our souls already know this. This is a chance for our minds to catch up.
No life's purpose, no destiny, is about us. All destiny is about others. We develop so that in the pursuit of being ourselves we find ourselves performing the activities that will aid others. We can't even expect to know which activities those are. The most stupendous actions might have the least impact. The slightest gesture made to someone unknown to us might dramatically change the world. So long as we can recognize the consequences of our actions, they are still trivial. When we can't see, nor understand, the consequences of action taken in honesty and with integrity, the effect is monumental.
Path II releases the soul's behavior, the strongest definition of our integrity. The release is performed in pairs where there is a partner who can accept what your soul intends. Learning to behave in integrity without the opportunity to control the outcome or perceived result is to discover who we really are.
In addition to all the other motivation, a sense of adventure is necessary., Like a two-year old who is playing in a big field full of lots of curious places, our soul seeks life's adventures in the same way. The soul sees it all as play. Only the ego's capacity to judge allows some activity to be classified as work.
When we remember that we are best being who we really are, it is easy to see how becoming who we really are is the easiest way to go through life. All of the time, energy and investment in being what others have expected of us has been the difficult route. It's strange how strongly we'll argue for the right to live the hard way when honesty and integrity allows us a more efficient, rewarding and satisfying alternative.
The Path II experience is only one of the alternatives in life. No one makes a life out of a single experience. It takes many experiences to make a life time. Path II is a spiritually focused opportunity to consciously invite discovery into our lives. Only your soul knows what it will find.