In this Episode of my new PODCAST: This Mystic Life, we look at curiosity and controversy from a metaphysical perspective. In “Did Curiosity Kill The Cat?” we are faced with intrigue and deciding where to focus our interest. This attention decides our experience. Curiosity can lead to an open minded questioning of everything, or a witch hunt for information to reinforce that we were right about our identity and the world.

Someone asked me why I said seeming corruptions, when actual corruption is being exposed? So I felt to clarify that the mesmerism is not coming from the exposing of corruption, real or imaginary. What is corrupt is our perception of Who We Are and what we are looking upon. The mesmerism is coming from our fascination with judgement of seeming “others.” Yet even this can be a momentarily helpful outlet to notice the self-hatred we hold.

TRANSCRIPT

All complexity is of the ego. And what you discover—if you find yourself mesmerized with seeming allegations of corruption and compromised leadership—is that the more you engage the less the content that appears to emerge actually leads to resolution.

Ask yourself are you following leads or being led?

Because the ego loves to study its self! 

That is why oversimplified afternoon detective drama is so addictive, it gives a false sense of cleverness and completion with the revelation of “who done it?” neatly squared away and filed under SOLVED.

This offers some relaxation for a mind that natural craves to be in solution, to be at rest.

But like all addictions the fix is temporary, and instead of mitigating the disquiet in the mind, it minimizes and maintains it. 

I’m not for a moment condemning your favorite light relief, I am merely inviting the inquisitive mind that we all share, to investigate avenues, that will ultimately be rewarding and Serve You.

All the roadways of the world lead to death, and it is nearly impossible to find a show streaming now that doesn’t rely on this murder trope. Yet beyond lazy programing, and media sedation. 
It is important to ask: 

Have we fallen into the egos, “seek and do not find” mode?

We have been told that curiosity killed the cat, and whether we like debating whether it’s in Schrödinger’s box, or searching to see if it’s already been buried in the back garden what matters, is that our curiosity is only satiated with pursuit!

With more and more and more digging.

But if it becomes the pursuing—the seeking and striving that we crave, 

and not the finding of an ultimate Answer that satisfies eternally—then we are under the guidance of the ego.

In my experience the truth hides in plain sight, and is not covered up by maniacal means, but by our own denial of shame and self blame, which deflects into story lines of crime and punishment.

There are no guardians at the gate, of your own understanding.

Only tricksters selling wares of distraction, and postponement with a claim that pomp and ceremony will prove you are not guilty. We are looking to be vindicated in the streets. And so the holy show continues.

All the while The Spirit sings alive, awake and aware of every opportunity you have to gladden yourself. 

The gate is narrow, but open. 

It sits plainly without any adornment, sparkling in the Truth should you have the eyes to see it.

Looking to find guilt, is a game of disempowerment.

It is further self delusion to pursue your persecutors if you have not yet found their hold on you. For it is this grip—this easy handle by which you become attracted and attached, time and time again, to that which does not serve you—that needs to be questioned!

There is no need to repeat life’s lesson unless you are insufficiently interested in finding out your part in the entire play.

Without shame and blame we are invited to become curious about why we do the things we do, and why we repeat the same patterns. Beyond the “other” fluctuating figures involved, we are the common element!

Our identity: and our preservation of it maintains the world that swirls around it. 

The scenery must match the scene you keep replaying, in order to maintain a storyline with which you are familiar. Otherwise the sheer contradiction would pop you out of the delusion because it is incongruent with everything you believe you have known, and understood.

If the scene does not match the scenery the result is disorientation.

So to keep our membership of this insane club we must pursue a common enemy. To keep the narrative steady we must draw conclusions and continue to be enthralled.

This world is an attribution of guilt.
Maintained by our plausible deniability.

If outrage has harnessed all your energy, you have stopped short of the REAL REVALATION. 

The only True Recognition that is needed is: I am doing this to myself. 

In saying that—it is still not your fault—yet it is your responsibility to Accept the Correction.

And what is this Correction?

It is not a rap across the knuckles.

 It is the recognition of your own Innate Innocence. A state of mind that defies the tall tales that are being told, and transcends personhood entirely.

Look, you have a perceptual problem!

You are literally not seeing anything as it is in Reality, only perceiving in a way that supports your already entrenched world view.

Even if that perspective appears to be one of: Being loving and forgiving person in a world, secretly you are defending tooth and nail to prove you are not “THAT!” 

And so a world of duality generates to demonstrate your desire to be different. To be different to that.

And because your questioning stopped short, the reflection continues to feed you seeming forgiveness opportunities, that are really judgements. In embracing these deeply felt convictions as true, you simultaneously condemn yourself. This is forgiveness to destroy.

All are innocent or none are.
Because it is one tableau.

One reflection of a dual state of mind: guilty or not guilty? Only the singular choice of Innocence for all can reflect an experience of peace of mind.

We are devoted to consternation and secretly fear the boredom that may ensue if peace prevails. And so we medicate ourselves with morose musing and insidious investigation that reveals nothing about us, except that we are already bored with the world we made, and dying of shame and embarrassment at the slightest suspicion of our own involvement.

Because we expect retribution.
We expect our own judgement.
When all that lies in store once we have the courage to look, is WELCOME.

The prodigal Child is celebrated, and shown that their inheritance still awaits, that nothing of their adventures in time and space could mar the Truth of their Innocence. 

We are Beloved and Belong to the Kingdom. No one is excluded as we are feted.

Now we can be glad that we allowed, our inquiry, our hunger for the truth, to question everything, even our sense of personal identity. 

We can be relieved and happy to discover that our desire for Solution, correctly harnessed, can lead us Home. Instead of using it to abandon ourselves to the insatiable curiosity and novelty of a starving world that seeks fulfillment through personal resolution of problems.

Disillusionment with the way things seem to be can disengage the personal observer because we begin to notice we do not like how we feel. We do not like to feel powerless and afraid. It is a poor trade off for justifying anger.

Our Innate Perfection holds the Answer as we shift in identity to the one watching.

To really question everything you must first accept you have a perceptual problem—not a personal one. Focus your holy mind on that!

 

P.S.

This growing awareness is compelling, it is the adventure of a lifetime.
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