Road to Essence

New Age spirituality and Metaphysics are both wonderfully rich and helpful, yet many in the community at large are missing a fundamental element at the point of development they have evolved into thus far. There is a break between the common wisdom that we create our realities and can therefore manifest anything or experience we wish to have, and the old wisdom that we must surrender control over our world to the Divine within, our Higher Selves. Both are true and must work together. Manifesting is not a matter of creating cars, money, homes, security, etc… Manifesting, in its purest form, is a matter of going ever deeper within to discover the many layers that rest between the ego and the Essence that has space for a functional ‘self’. The Essence is always within, and once it is tapped, the ripe time to create begins. All creation outside of Essence is hollow and unfulfilling.
It is important to notice one’s thoughts, desires, and patterns, but energy is misspent here when this level is the focus of one’s spiritual practice. Instead, we must first make peace in the battleground for control within ourselves. This venerable battle is meant to encourage us to decide, mindfully, which part of our makeup will move us through life; our ego, or our Essence. When we are propelled by our ego, our creations will always be fear based for the ego is the origin of fear. The ego tells us we need security, money, things, situations, people, patterns, and ideas that, in turn, keep us imprisoned in our own lives. The result is misery and we blame our loved ones and circumstances that we once so desperately worked to create in our process of manifesting.
Before we can build a creative workshop, we must lay a foundation. We must decide if we will build our lives on sand or solid Earth. The sand of our ego is the stuff disappointment is made of in our spiritual development. The Earth, however, is the option that gives our Essence, our soul, the ability to manifest without having to fight any tide in the process of creating. This sensory experience lends itself well to grounding details and steps that can be measured in happiness, fulfillment, and deep satisfaction of the Spirit within us. Building our lives on the solid Earth of our Essence is the process of looking within and separating the meat form the bones of our inner workings. In this process we must look at the difference between the wants we feel from our ego and the passion we feel from our Essence. Both offer a form of desire that motivates our creative process, but the power of the intention in the passion of the soul elicits more profound manifestations than the wants born from the fear of loss that the ego generates.
We will “lose” many things in life. Our circumstances will change. Friends and family will die. We will die. Our organic vessels will rot over our Spirit eventually. These are the truths about the laws that govern this realm of existence, therefore, choosing the creativity of the ego is choosing a form of manifestation that guarantees upset, disappointment, and anguish. The ego struggles to fight the tide of life, that is the way of ego. It is hollow, frustrated and aims to create and control parameters for every aspect of our being. Its very nature is to form a pen around the experiences we may have in our lives. When we dig into our Selves and meet our Essence, give ourselves over to it, surrender our struggle with it, we can access the Divine magic we are born with. With our Essence as our magnet of attraction, we can give our ego a job, a role, a title that is productive in the process of living from passion while always remaining mindful of its pulls and sways. We can wear our ego like a skin or an outfit, a uniform of sorts and can expedite the many tasks involved with creating from the passion of our Essence.
A basic source of frustration in the creative process driven by the ego is that we flip this process around. When our ego is the creator of our manifestations, we try to enslave our Essence and make it the “do-er” of our tasks that must be executed. We ask our Essence to connect with the Divine on matters of want, to pray for our creations to come to fruition. We give our Essence the job of talking to the people who will be involved in our creative process. We tell our Essence that it must travel outside of us to affect circumstances around us. We assign our Essence to read energies and gauge circumstances so that we can get homes, jobs, mates, deals, and the like. Our egos leach our very souls until we come to a crisis, a breaking point, at which we are forced to look at the bottom of ourselves. We drain ourselves of the energies we have to live our passions until we find ourselves on respirators.
From the surface, this appears to be a reaction to a set of fears based in survival. Another way of saying this is on one level of truth, we are afraid we will not survive. This level is rich with questions we are invited to answer in order to move deeper into ourselves, to tap into our Essential truths. Among these questions are, “why do I not trust the Universe to provide for me?”, and “why do I fear death, even though it is inevitable?” . In exploring these and other similar questions, we are also beckoned to consider how we might be of service to our neighbor, our fellow human friend, for any person who has the means to afford the time to ponder such questions therefore also has the responsibility of testing answers. The key is to always continue to try. When deeply considered, these questions reveal a deeper set of fears all together; fears of humiliation, the truest fears of the ego.
Anything can happen when we become devoted to being of Divine service in our lives. The creativity of ego is designed to keep us distracted from the essence of our soul. The very drive to manifest the desires of the ego is, in itself, a savvy mode of ego control designed to keep us occupied with the busy work of managing our set parameters of life experience. The impulse to resist or control ego is, in its own right, yet another tactic of the ego. Because the ego is so inclined to distract jus from our true purpose, it is vital that we make the intention of a spiritual practice to be a journey of fortification of the soul. Our current collective Essential spiritual purpose is to learn to recognize and notice the difference between our true selves and our ego, and to re-learn to function accordingly. This seems to be the live wire of alternative spiritual and consciousness communities across the board, so I close with simply an offering that your deepest, truest, Higher Self can ponder, and, hopefully become empowered by.

So much love, friends, and take good care of your spirit!