Tag: consciousness

  • Train Your Two Year Old

    Train Your Two Year Old

    Article 17/365 of Jacques’s writing quest

    The other day I misplaced my keys (again) and lost my shit. I hadn’t lost my temper in a long time, so it was a strange and debilitating feeling. I had the most awful temper when I was younger, and I knew that if I never got it under control it would destroy me.

    Because we are justifying machines, I found a great but stupid reason for my volatility: my bloodline. I have Spanish, French and Arab coursing through my veins. It was a cute and convenient excuse for my ‘passionate’ disposition. 

    But it wasn’t cute at all, it was sad. Luckily, I learned early on in my life that whenever I flew off the handle I looked like a two-year-old child who had no control of his emotions.

    You know the one I’m talking about, don’t you? You’ve probably experienced temper tantrums and attention-seeking from a two-year-old, possibly your own? Feeling embarrassed when people look at you and judge you, saying “Control your child.” At that moment you (and everyone else) wished that you’d taken birth control.

    When we see an adult behaving like a two-year-old, it’s always uncomfortable for everyone involved, isn’t it?

    Of course, you’re smart enough to know that sometimes we behave like that two-year-old. And, more often, than we’d care to admit.

    And, nobody wants a two-year-old messing up their vibe.

    So, what’s the trick to dealing with your two-year-old self? I find that becoming an observer works for me. Going from unconscious to conscious. Hmm, I see my child is becoming problematic and making everyone feel uncomfortable. Let me remove him from this situation. He’s not in control, I am. He needs to learn to behave appropriately. 

    Don’t let the tail wag the dog. You’re the adult, act like it and train your child how to behave appropriately. 

  • Witchcraft and Heresy

    Witchcraft and Heresy

    Article 14/365 of Jacques’s writing quest.

    Last year, I told some friends that I attended a business lecture at The Church of Scientology at The Castle in Kyalami.

    The response was overwhelmingly negative. “It’s a cult, they brainwash you, and they just want your money.” That pretty much sounds like every religion I’ve ever been exposed to.

    I got a similar response when I embraced Islam. “Are you getting fitted for your bomb jacket?” Same goes for my short flirtation with Freemasonry. “You’re making a pact with the devil.”

    Some people act as if Scientology, Islam, and Freemasonry are to blame for the current state of the planet.

    They think that it’s witchcraft and heresy. And, you know what they do to witches, don’t you? In the 14th century, 500 000 ‘witches’ were murdered over a period of two hundred years. That’s probably why I never tell people that I’ve astral travelled, searched for alien artefacts in the Karoo, played with an ouija board, built pyramids to sharpen my razor blades and that I have a sneaky suspicion that we may just be the slave species of the Anunnaki. And, I definitely don’t tell people that I meditate, pray and journal every day. Being burnt at the stake is not really the way I want to go.

    Every experience I’ve ever had with anything different to my Judeo-Christian worldview has been benign and to my benefit. It may be because I believe that everything that happens for me is for my good.

    I come from a home where curiosity and open-mindedness were encouraged. So, it is alien (pun intended) to me that many people are so closed off and refuse to entertain anything that is different from their worldview. I suppose they really do believe that anything different is dangerous. 

    If I look at David R. Hawkins’s Map of Consciousness (MAC), I have an inkling as to why this is. According to the MAC, 1000 hertz is enlightenment and 20 hertz is shame and 200 hertz (courage) is when we start to step into consciousness. According to the MAC, 85% of the planet is vibrating below 200 hertz. This is where we are mired in the dense energies of shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger and pride.

    Every nation that is embarked on a conflict or exploiting its people is a lower form of consciousness. You and I can’t do much about that. But we can start by elevating our own consciousness which starts with courage (200 hertz). We can be open to different. We can be curious and not judgemental. We can be kind and not cruel. 

    Let’s choose consciousness, you and I.