HIGHER-SELF OF CAROLYN GERVAIS                                                          awakeningyou.com


2011...THE YEAR OF RESTRUCTURING YOUR  LIFE  

Are you one of the many who are dealing with the issue of survival more than ever before?  Do you fear for your future and the future of humankind more than you use to? 

Well 2011 will be a year of structuring and restructuring. During this process, most will be looking for ways to define and re-define their lives, in order to create more meaningful and fulfilling ways to be.  The past year has been a bit rough for most but it continues to open whole other aspects of who you are beyond the human mind and body.  

You will be called upon to use sound judgment, vision, insight and discernment in this cycle that not only benefits you and yours, but also those around you.  You now have many of the tools to rebuild your world in the most positive way you can. It will require hard work, commitment and perseverance that will benefit you and others, in ways that can be seen, touched and experienced firsthand. This is important because you cannot truly be authentic in what you do and say until you have experienced life first hand and not vicariously.   

You have and will continue to go through some heavy and necessary changes in your belief systems.  So much so in fact, that many of you have been rethinking your concept of God, of your fellow humans, the meaning of life and of yourselves… with more intent than ever before.  How many of you, at this point in time, are entertaining the thought and wondering if there is a God that created you and the universe.  Some of you whose faith in God was unshakable before, might be thinking that maybe your creation was a random, freak occurrence or why does it look and often feel like, your world is falling apart at the seams?  So if your God is not who or what you thought, who and what is God?

Metaphysical, spiritual and other believers in God, think of the God force as intelligent.  But how does that intelligence manifest in human terms and on the Earth? 

First of all what meaning does the word intelligence have?  In your dictionary the definition of intelligence is: Quickness of understanding, sagacity.  In other words mentally gifted with the ability of discernment; someone who has an acute mind and wisdom, who is able to reason and deliberate cognitively.

This implies that the Creative Force creates through the understanding of thought.  It is assumed that everything began and begins with thought.   Thought creates concepts in the form of ideas and shapes.  The next natural step is to give the ideas and shapes a form by bringing them into the physical five sense realm in such a way, that the ideas and shapes imagined become real.  This is what the human mind does, it imagines and brings to life what it perceives, then sets out to make what it perceives as real as real can be on the human physical level. This is what 2011 is all about.  But how real can a belief become? After all a belief cannot be verified by the five senses?  It can only seem real or believed to be real in the mind of the perceiver, because a belief is not an absolute truth unless it is experienced firsthand, without help from other beliefs.

Let’s take a look at what concepts and perspectives are.                                              

As you probably know, all concepts and perspectives are just that, concepts and perspectives, that is, until they can be proven as factual or absolute.  Until that time, they are neither. If something is not proven to be an absolute, it must be considered as conjecture, imagination or “not real” in and of itself.  This has everything to do with why any type of faith, whether in God or something else, can waver… sometimes drastically, when a type of devastation takes place and people are affected by it personally.  This happens because faith “is not” an absolute or a fact, and neither is a belief in God or anything else.  Faith is most often dependent on conviction, need and desire, to stay active and alive.  A belief is formed and created by circumstances, also by what is seemingly known and unknown through personal experience.

 A tree is a physical absolute in nature because it can be seen, felt and experienced by all who choose to experience it.

The word “absolute” found throughout this message, refers to that which is “not” relative or comparative; that which is self-existent and conceivable without relation to other things or other people.  On the human level an absolute is something that can be proven and is a fact.

History has shown us that big steps in consciousness take place when absolutes come into the picture.  Those who choose to believe or not believe in the kind of things that are not provable, do so because it corresponds with a personal belief of which gives comfort to the body and mind in some way.   Note, that there is nothing wrong with this.  In fact it is the only way a conceptual mind can relate in the world, as a self and with the self of others. 

There are many absolutes the mind and body cling to as a point of reference as to what is and isn’t real.   For instance you all know that when you go to bed at night, the sun will come up the next morning, even if it is cloudy outside.  Why, because it has been proven.  You also know that you have a body, because you can feel and see it with your five senses, right?  What are called cells and molecules are part of what allows you to have a body because you can see them when blood and tissue are magnified at the molecular level.

No matter what you believe, you are all the center of your own universe, whether you call that center a part of God; Christ consciousness, energy, nothingness, randomness, an accident, nature, the soul, the self or the mind.  It makes no difference what name you use, because a name can’t change anything except your perception. Only the human mind cares about perceptions, because perceptions support beliefs that give one a false sense of feeling safe and in control. 

Take a look at your world and everyone in it.  It is made up of people that feel insecure and afraid in all kinds of ways, because of the false/unproven concepts they use, to make up their reality.  Many people in today’s world are grasping at anything they are able to relate to, in order to give some purpose, some meaning to their lives.

There is much less integrity and authenticity left to appeal to in the world of today. Why? There is too much dishonesty, hate, superiority, inferiority, greed and racism clouding the minds of humanity.   Many are just confused and afraid of what the future will bring.  Desperation is causing people to act and believe in irrational and chaotic ways.  They don’t feel they have a voice or a choice in how to protect themselves and their beliefs; their children and their lives. This is what survival mode looks like; where irrationalism feeds on itself.

There are those who believe that the mind/body is who they are, and that without it, they would not be alive…that they would not be, period.  Let’s explore this further.

It is said, that the mind is the seat of consciousness, feeling, will, thought and desire.  Even in your American dictionary one definition of mind is that it is thought to be the soul, and or the seat of the soul.  Another definition of mind is that the mind is the body itself.    

Then there is the question of what self really is.  For instance, what relationship does the mind have to the self?  We are referring to the persona/ego self, also called the little self of man.  Mind is an aspect of this self.  Self is the part of the mind that directs and takes action based on learned concepts from thought.  The mind forms concepts consciously and sub-consciously, with the outward knowledge that comes first, from families, books, the media, religious teachings and society.   

Self then uses the concepts of the mind, to take some kind of inward and/or outward action.  The self bases those actions on the beliefs born from concepts to form personal perceptions.   Perception is where the mind channels its concepts, based on the person’s experiences…as the way to interpret the external world. 

The way you interpret the external world in 2011 will have to do with educating the self by weighing present conditions and regaining balance by overcoming the errors of past beliefs. You are to also weigh and think deeply about the tremendous energies that are flowing in the world and through your own life right now and make sure you are using them as wisely as possible; in such a way that your efforts will bring benefit to you and have a balancing effect in the world. As you balance yourselves in peaceful ways, you become a balancing force in the world. 

As a reminder, the self being referred to at this point, is the physical/mind aspect you call your- self.  

Self as a persona or ego therefore, is the part of you that believes in its perception of itself and your world.  This self is capable of taking something that has no personal meaning and making it into something that does have personal meaning, on body, mind levels. For instance, if you had never seen, heard of or ridden in a car, it would be meaningless to you if you saw one, because you wouldn’t know what it was. But let’s say you were curious as to what purpose “the car” served. First you might wonder if it was some rich man’s form of art or if it was actually useful. So you inquired about the car and found out that it is something that can carry you long distances in a matter of minutes. You were taken for a ride in the car, and you quickly realized how meaningful this conglomeration of metal could be in giving you more freedom to come and go as you please and to experience more of the world, once you learned how to navigate “a car”.

Let’s say that humanity is like a huge piece of scrap metal that is being made into something that has never been experienced or seen before on your Earth.  Each of you plays a part in how this scrap metal will look and feel and how it will serve humanity once newly formed.  Yes, it’s not so pretty right now in its unfinished state. This big scrap of useless metal that represents you and your present human conditions has a lot of sharp edges that cause serious harm because they are cutting deeply into the core of the falseness of human life and self-preservation. But in its present form, that can’t be helped. 2011 is the year where some of those sharp and rough edges can be sanded and smoothed out somewhat, if you don’t buy into the fear from the out dated, old/dark energy, of which is desperate to have the upper hand. But make no mistake everyone has some of this old dark energy. This is why all of you are at war within yourselves in some way. Your dark side and your light side are fighting it out you might say, but light fights nothing, it just lights up what the dark hides from itself and that is what the dark wrestles with, its own lies, myths and shadows.  The light will win out; that is, once you have experienced the true Essence of your Real Self first hand and know the difference between what is pure selfishness and what is in the best interest of all who share the Earth.

Many of the sharp, cutting edges of the human mind are not visible until they have cut deeply enough to draw out the blood of fear, hate, greed, racism and lies, to the point where they are no longer wanted by those who have grown tired of these old ways of expressing in human form.  Since this is taking place, you are ready to find new meaning in every aspect of life.  

You have been working up to the 2011 vibration so that when you got there, many or all of you would realize that the meaning you have been giving to life must change to one that is more fitting for your evolving mind and heart.

By giving something meaning and purpose, it becomes something-ness.   Something-ness is real only to the extent of your feelings and beliefs about it.  If you have no feelings or beliefs about something, you dismiss it almost immediately.  This is the way the human mind forms boundaries to protect its beliefs as to what it wants to be real and not be real and therefore control its fears of what it doesn’t know about itself and life.  For instance:  How far back can you remember being you as a conscious being?  You probably can’t remember much if anything, before 5-7 years of age.  Believe it or not, that inability to remember yourself before those ages, gives you an unconscious feeling of insecurity and is at the base of all your fears, whether you realize it or not.

After a million or more years as humans, men and women have created more and more inauthenticity, through false concepts that further bury what is real and authentic about them.   

Self therefore, is the part that believes in its own perceptions, proven or not. Does this mean that the body and mind is you as a self?  No. Why? because you know that when someone dies, there is no one left in the body to be aware of being aware of a self…as a mind or body.  It is the persona self that is generated by the Real Self, that leaves a lifeless body lifeless.  It is your life force energy (from your Real Self) that allows your mind and body to reason, think and perceive the concepts that make up your human life.

2011 is driving home the fact that the type of duality that makes up your conceptualized planet, that is not working… is all about the survival of the self and its personal judgments of good and bad; what is liked and disliked in human life and what is real or not real and “whose real is the most real”.  These are the things humans fight over; imagined truths made-up by the human mind in order to feel safe and in control of what is feared by each personal self.

Let’s take love and hate and compare it with how nothing can become something. Of course there are different degrees of love and different degrees of hate. Taking nothing and turning it into something, is like a relationship that begins by meeting.  After meeting, the two people become acquainted by sharing words, ideas, concepts, perceptions and experiences. It’s on its way to something that has meaning.  The next step, if all goes well, is that both are able to relate openly and honestly enough to one another on mental, emotional and physical levels, to where liking or even loving the other person, becomes possible. Once that happens the relationship transforms into something-ness.   

In the past two years especially, love and hate have been extreme emotions in your world.  2011 can become a period of balancing these two extremes a bit, if allowed. Love and hate are concepts that are learned by living in the world and of which form beliefs that makeup perceptions that are used as filters to judge.  Human love, like hate, are not real, because they come with conditions that have been ingrained into the human mind as the self for so long, that they are more easily controlled by mind force than with absolute understanding. Absolute understanding carries one out of conditional love because it is dependent on nothing but itself.

As long as judgment is based on conditional love and hate, it will be acted out in ways that harm you and everyone.   Life, if one allows it, teaches what works and doesn’t work.  What the world is saying to the human mind right now is that hate and greed have reached its full capacity of containment and is now imploding on itself and you. It must be transformed into something that rebuilds and renews the minds and hearts of humankind before the devastation becomes greater than it already is.  

Is it no wonder people are asking themselves if there is a God and if so, does this God guide, see and feel what humanity is going through?  Whether the answer is a yes or no the answer is still a conceptualization that the mind has created, because that is all mind can do.  You might be saying right now, that you have an absolute proof that God exists, but can everyone experience your proof just because you can describe it in words.  No!  One man’s truth does not an Absolute make.  If that were not true, all would have one view of what God is or is not.  And then there would no longer be a reason to kill or be killed over one’s personal, religious or non-religious beliefs.   

You know that some creative force created all you can see and feel.  You must at least suspect that this creative force is capable of some kind of love, compassion, reason, logic and discernment or where did it come from?  But those qualities have become buried deeper and deeper, under layers and layers of misperception and selfish interest.

Ask yourself.  Does everyone have the right to believe the way they choose?  Yes, as long as a person doesn’t choose to hurt others because they don’t have their same perception.   But you see that’s what has happened.  People feel threatened when others don’t perceive life the way they do, to the point of hate and wanting to cause harm.   But what is it that is really being threatened?   Isn’t it merely a person’s perceptional beliefs of him or herself and their idea of the way the world (should be) according to what they have decided with their mind what is true and real, and in turn has created their identity. The threat of losing an identity that gives one’s life its only purpose and meaning, can and does seem like a matter of life and death to the person who believes their identity is dependent on what someone else does or believes. All must realize a personal identity is nothing more than a conceptualized belief, that it is no more real than a speculation, a theory at best, that hides the more authentic aspects of you.   

 When the external world does not correspond to the mind’s perception of it, the mind brings up past fear.   The person either acts on old fears or works to create new concepts, through new knowledge that comes from deep inner contemplation of one’s actions and reactions. In time honest contemplation will show you that fear is just a belief you are calling real. The mind is its most open and authentic when it is dealing with unknown aspects of itself.  The world is rampant with unknowns right now.  This is setting a stage for new ways of being, doing and perceiving life.   

2011 is part of the stage of your evolution where you are being called upon to put in to order the reasoning, conscious elements of the material/mind world.  This is done through the   acknowledgement of your ability to discern the truth in any situation that enters your mind and life.  2011 will rule all things that have form, shape and substance. Your beliefs and fears will continue to form and shape your future, individually and collectively.  2011, which is an aspect of the vibration of the number 4, progresses in an orderly, methodical fashion.  If a step is missed or not completed in a way that brings increased stabilization, personally and otherwise, it will be repeated.  Deep unbiased inner evaluation and contemplation of what is for the good of all, must take place in each of you, to assure successful conclusions in the days to come…personally and collectively.  

The vibration of 2010 has been forcing you to look at self and acknowledge what is authentic.  2011 is asking you to give the world the authenticity you find inside of you, through deep, honest contemplation and use it to create a new way of being together in the world that promotes harmony, balance and peace for all. What one believes with the mind, has nothing to do with what is real. Who you are beneath your beliefs is what the world needs from you now.    

We will speak more on these topics in future messages.

Till next time my loving friends.

Higher Self of Carolyn Gervais                                                                         awakeningyou.com