Belief Systems Shattered ...
Objective Observations
12/07/07
How many of you out there are actively practicing objective observing? There seems to be a lot of blame and judgments going on out there for a variety of situations. I have stated this before, and I’m going to state it again—just because you are studying hyperspace techniques does not mean that you are a changed person. You can be the same person, but put it in “hyperspace lingo’ without changing a darn thing about yourself.
You are going to take you with you wherever you go. You can dress your actions in any language or lingo you like, but the bottom line is, they are still the same actions. I applaud those people who are brave enough to post on the forums. I notice that a lot of the postings are by the same people with an occasional new person from time to time. I also notice that the views far exceed the postings.
I’d like to see more people get involved in the forums, but considering they have really only been active now for not even 90 days, I’d say the response is pretty good. I”d also say that what I’m reading is probably a good sampling of what happens among any group of people.
There will always be some people who are more dominant than others. Some people will have more depth. Some will be dull, boring, and lengthy. Some people will think one person is particularly brilliant. Remember ,that even though this is a “hyperspace group” it is still a group of people who are still struggling to learn about themselves, except now the group-mind is dressing itself in hyperspace lingo.
You can use hyperspace lingo to run yourself around in circles. Words do not mean action. You can use the “correct words” and think that this means you are taking the “correct action” but this is not necessarily so.
What makes me an expert on this subject? Well, mostly because I’ve been there, done that. I like to remind you from time to time that the reason I can see you as you are is because I see myself as I am. I’ve had plenty of down days when the realizations have sunk in that I wasn’t doing as great as I thought I was. Or, a well-placed comment from someone brought me to a sudden, or sometimes even slow, realization about myself.
I’ve been on the shallow track as much as I’ve been on the deep track. I’ve thought that I did my work when instead I only made cursory passes at it. I’m pretty good with words, and I was raised with the saying that you can fool the other guy, but you can’t fool yourself. Well, at some point in time I realized that I was pretty good at fooling myself.
People can get into hyperspace squabbles on forums. They can get their feelings hurt, their “backs bowed” and their noses out of joint by a comment or even a word. But if you remember that the world is a reflection of you, and that everyone on the forum is a reflection of you, then you stay with the basic question which is how does everyone reflect me?
If your feelings are hurt, you need to look at this. If you are angry, you need to look at this. If you feel you can’t post because someone said something you didn’t like, or maybe someone made a pointed comment directed at you, you need to look at this.
This is a time of testing for everyone, as I spoke about last week. There are going to be more things you don’t like happening then you do like. This is what tests are all about. You are pushing yourself into who and what you are, or at least this is the time to be doing this.
IN one of my life support groups, we spent a number of months on the child within exercise. When I gave the exercise, I thought we would do it and be done with it for the week, and go on to something else the next meeting.
But what I found out was that people really had trouble with the exercise, myself included. In fact, when I found my child within I wanted to kill it---and for those of you who are familiar with this exercise, which is written about in the Hyperspace Helper, the object of the exercise is to love the child! So imagine my surprise when I had this reaction.
I have to say that I admired the group I was working with at the time. Everyone could have said, I found my child, I held it, I loved it, I put it into my heart, and that would have been the end. But everyone had their own unique issue with that exercise. And not only did we work on it in class, but we worked on it between classes and reported back what was going on.
Each person in the group was really honest with his/her thoughts and feelings. Each person was really working on studying him/herself. No one was trying to impress anyone. We were just a group of people with issues honestly trying to get through them. No one hid from that side of themselves. I give these people a lot of credit.
Use the forum as a growth tool. For me, it is interesting to sit back and objectively observe. I really don’t want to go in and say you can or cannot post on the forums. If you made the effort and commitment to purchase a membership, then there is a reason you are here.
If you agitate me for any reason, then I’d like to thank you for the opportunity you have given me to take a good look at myself. Then, I want to pass that up to my Oversoul and get to work on that area of myself.
I am the first one to admit, I’ve got a long way to go. I may have gotten through some issues more than others, but I don’t lack any material when it comes to issues. I’ve got a plethora to choose from, and I’m okay with that.
Even though some days it is a struggle, I still know everything is about me. Some days I get frustrated when it feels like I just am not seeing what it is I need to see, or I can’t find the door that will let me through. Some days I just scream and scream at my Oversoul. I go back the basics of objective observing. I take a look at myself and my environment. What frustrates me the most sometimes is that fact that I know that I am responsible, that I am the only one holding up my own movement. The people who I find the most challenging wouldn’t be there if there wasn’t some part of my own mind-pattern that invited them in.
The best-case solutions in these kinds of scenarios is when these type of people remove themselves. When that happens, I know that I have released the mind-pattern that attracted them in the first place. Of their own volition and free will, they removed themselves. This means that I have passed my own self-made test.
I think that it is really important to work on objectively observing who and what you are. If you have difficulty with that, then work on objectively observing the people who on some level you have invited into your sphere of existence. Who are they and how do they reflect you? Instead of being so quick to dis-invite them, determine why they are there in the first place.
One way or the other, they are there to teach you. What do you need to learn? How do you choose to learn it? Ultimately, you ARE responsible for your own learning process. Sometimes this seems like a heavy burden, and it would be easier to blame it on someone else. There are days when I’d like to do this, and it doesn’t seem like my shoulders are broad enough to bear all of my burdens. Sometimes I wonder why I chose such a challenging path. Some days, I’d like to take a day or two off and just hide from the world, pretend that it didn’t exist, and would just go away. But that is not the reality.
The reality is that I am still the bottom line, and the sooner I get that, the sooner I can move into something better. Why am I here, what am I supposed to be doing, who is supposed to be in my world? The biggest clues that I have are right here in front of me, but the only way that I can truly learn to interpret them is by objectively observing myself and the other people in my world. So, I can wrap myself in hyperspace lingo and pretend that I am doing something, or I can just go inside and start digging around in the muck. In the long run, this may be the most challenging, but it is still the shortest route that will get me to my goals of inner communication and self knowledge.
Janet Diane Mourglia-Swerdlow
