Thrive and Awaken® Tip

Of course we want to know things, it gives a feeling of comfort and safety. We seek this feeling so intensely that we make up stories and then believe what we’ve created. Because we believe them strongly, they feel true.

This desire to feel safe and tendency to make up things is at the root of oppression. Over the centuries we’ve targeted groups of people we didn’t understand, made up stories about their ways of being, and then oppressed them. In our fear driven history this happened with the Indigenous peoples, Black people who were enslaved, immigrants arriving through Ellis Island, Jews in Germany, gay people through the decades, and most recently people who identify as trans or non-binary. Unfortunately, there are many more examples.

We still make up and cling to ideas about the “right” way of understanding the nature of reality and how it was created. Believe what you wish, but believing doesn’t make it true. It’s the ego’s attempt to feel safe, which is understandable, but it keeps us in Survival Mode.

Awakening includes the awareness that we really don’t know…and that is OK. We don’t know the nature of reality. We don’t understand spacetime or why it shifts. We don’t know why some people experience telepathy, see energy fields, or sense events before they happen. The current research suggests these may all be true. If so, why?

Asking “why” is wonderful, it helps us explore and learn. But our attachment to needing to know only creates stress and returns us to Survival Mode. Question, wonder, and release the need to know.

Liberation is delighting in the mystery of the universe and our place within it. Learn to rest in that mystery and you’ll have peace–peace in not knowing.