I don't believe we learn lessons or that Earth is a school.
I don't believe anything outside us organizes life to teach us something.
I don't believe that when we don't listen to an outside voice (gods, guides, ancestors), we are punished for it.
Those are entirely human mind-made concepts.
My sociology professor, Dr. Ronny Turner, rest in peace, said it best: all of life is only choices and consequences. All choices lead to some kind of natural consequences and more choices. Period.
Things break when energy, which is always in motion, is blocked from forward movement. Not a mystery - just natural cause and effect. It is easy to understand, and not as easy to change the patterns, but it can be done!
I do believe we’re here to experience this plane of existence as fully as we can for as long as possible. I believe we gather experiences for the sake of the experiences and the consequences that follow.
As someone who used to judge herself harshly for having gathered several lifetimes of experiences in just 57 years, I can tell you that understanding this changes everything. Life is a learning process sure it is but there is no set curriculum, no goal or levels or grades as there is no graduation date and nothing to achieve. It’s a much different experience, this living thing, when understood this way.
Our choices lead us down roads that twist and turn and form our future choices and adventures.
Our choices are influenced by previous experience. The chains that bind us fall away when we wake up to our conditioned responses and inherited narratives that have been driving those choices.
We are free, and our freedom comes from living and seeing with clear sight.
To evaluate our choices before we make them, not from a fearful desire to get it right and guarantee we never experience hardship, but from a place of understanding that living life from the perspective of gathering experiences can NEVER be assessed as right or wrong - this is freedom and authentic power.
The more experiences we have, the wider range of choices; of course, this means even more experiences to, well, experience. Raised in our society (USA) we’re told experiences have to lead to something, preferably more money and higher social status, but again, these are mind-made creations, and we get to ignore them at will.
Life soon becomes very simple: a series of choices and consequences. We soon remember how to create our own threads and weave a rich tapestry of embodied knowledge.
To yourself deeply as both the Weaver and the Woven is my end-of-year wish for you.
XO,
LMW