When I was a young girl I lived near a large amusement park in Rye, New York. It was old enough to still have a House of Mirrors, one of my favorite places to visit. After paying my admission ticket, I would run up the weirdly lit yellow hallway to begin exploring the lopsided maze of rooms that made up the House of Mirrors. The first room made me appear wide. Wherever I looked, there was a distorted image of me looking short, fat and round. The next room made me appear tall and skinny. On the walls, up on the ceiling and even down on the floor I was standing on, everywhere there was a tall and skinny image of me.
I would run through the rooms, each room jolting me with a strange representation of what I looked like. Whirling around as fast as I could, I tried to see if I could catch a glimpse of the real me, but always a distortion stared back. Room after room filled with distortions — such was the House of Mirrors. After a while, I would become dizzy with the deception of the mirrors and longed to see the real me again. If I wanted to see a true reflection of myself, I knew I had to get out of the place all-together.
That is what my blog is about – getting out of the House of Mirrors. This time, it’s the House of Mirrors inside our heads. Free and Fearless is about opening the doors on the distortions that live in the many-roomed house inside our minds – rooms that you, me, our parents, our society, our religions, our governments, have built. When we’re ready to vacate these old and useless rooms of deceptions, we can symbolically blow the whole house up…. and not build a new one. Instead, we can learn to leave the space inside our minds empty and open, so that we can come to the present moment free from distortions, undecided, free to explore and experiment, inquire and create — free to be free and fearless. You are welcome to share this journey out of the House of Mirrors with me and to add your comments along the way.
My Spirit Guides
The spirit world is not at all what I thought it was. To my surprise, the spirit guides I work with are not all-knowing. They do not even know everything about me. That was my first shock. It flew directly in the face of the Santa Claus song I grew up with and took to heart as the model for all spirits. You know the lyrics… something like: Santa Claus is coming to town… he knows (this) and he knows (that) and he knows if you’ve been bad or good… so be good for heaven’s sake!
At first I pondered if perhaps my guides weren’t advanced enough. Perhaps they had not taken the “All-seeing, All-knowing” class. Then I began to realize that not even the “Creator” has taken that class… nor are any of “them” even interested in it! One of the guides gave me a hint into this perplexing state of affairs: it is only humans who are interested in becoming “all-knowing”, because it gives them the illusion of control and domination over the unknown and the uncertain future.
I have since learned that dancing with uncertainty is one of the lessons we come to the earth plane to learn… and that “All Knowing” is not even an option in a multiverse that is continually creating and evolving itself. I will blog about this interesting subject later… in the meantime, you are welcome to visit Jennie Marlow’s blog on the subject of uncertainty. Jennie is the conscious channel for the 3 guides I work with.
Another thing that began to dawn on me very slowly is that the guides were all different. I would note that a guide would give credit to another guide for this or that, and vice versa. I found that peculiar because for the longest time I just glumped them all together, as if they were one cosmic-spirit-energy blob. But now I know them as completely different and quite unique, individuated energies. I have even graduated to the point where I don’t visualize them – or need to visualize them – in human form. Read More »