We are living in a time of many messengers; we have the Age of Aquarius and its many proponents, the Christians and all their sects, Islam the orthodox and Islam the moderate, much like the Jews and their view of hard-line and tame religion. On the side of science multitudes are singing the praises of quantum physics and the infinite sea of potentialities. Myriad websites and blogs have individual and unique perspectives, born of greater truths and sponsoring thoughts. The truth is out there in many forms, marketed using old and new techniques, all aimed at disseminating and providing different views of a reality that draws us closer to answering the “Why am I here?” and “What is my purpose?” questions, while providing some form of compensation to the author or organization.
Ultimately, no one needs it. Guru’s may help, but the fact is you are buying their view, their opinions and their experiences. It’s just like watching TV. Seeing a show about the African Savannah on TV, is not as good as having been there, having smelt the dust kicked up by ranging herds, or feeling the sun against your skin, the wind through your hair and watching nature play out its ever intriguing dance of life and death through the variety incarnations of animals and plants. You can watch it, hear it and conjure the smell of it, but unless you do it, it’s never the same and each person that actually does it will have their own unique perspective of it.
Everything you receive from another is filtered through their experiences and expectations. Some peoples filters are finer than others, the version of truth they purvey may be closer to something you can grasp onto, meddle and tinker with to then call your own. The truth, the ultimate truth is that you must experience the truth for yourself, by yourself and through yourself.
And so we come to the mighty Onion, the Infinite Onion. Our glorious Onion has many layers, each separated by a thin skin that must be pierced, to reach the flesh of the layer on the other side. Peeling back each layer leads us to a new level of realization and awareness. Yes, the onion symbolizes our individual journey to truth. Each of us has our own onion to pierce and peel; better yet we are all onions. No two onions are ever exactly the same.
You cannot choose to walk the path of the enlightened soul, unless you bask in the light, unless you perceive the glory of God in your life, unless you achieve consciousness personally, unless you make your own journey to center of your onion.
If the messages, courses, and books of others help you get there, use them, let the path of others guide you, but don’t let this stop you from making your own path at some point. At some point, you will let go of the props you have chosen. They have served you well, and allowed you to reach a level of acceptance within yourself as to the truth, either that it exists and you think you can touch it, or it exists and you believe you can.
All of the religious or spiritual authors and speakers can provide variety insights on their journeys, yours is ultimately your own. Use their lessons as tools of reference, but once the gate of your mind is open; your journey of self-acceptance is ultimately that, a journey of self-acceptance – a journey of your acceptance of your Self, by your Self, for your Self.
As you move through the outer layers of the onion, or awareness, you notice that each time you start to strip away at a new layer, new insights arrive, mingling with those of the old. As you mentally and emotionally process the flesh of this new layer, occurrences, thoughts and feelings will emerge, new beliefs will take shape and you will shift your perspective away from where it is now, to where it will be. A remarkable experience may begin occurring and awareness’s you have only just achieved from processing the last layer, now co-mingle with the new layer you are discovering and so realization grows, faster and faster. Perhaps the faster you achieve new realizations and fresh perspective is an indicator of your progress toward awareness. I can only say that this was so in my case, it may not be for you, thanks to free will and perspective.
Have you noticed that to realize new truth and gain perspective from the exploration of your onion, that you must peel inwards, toward the center? The truth is inside you, within you. The expression “Go within, or go without” comes to mind. The realizations that you achieve when you are alone, studying your onion, begin to pervade your thoughts in other areas of your life. My goodness, you start to realize that driving to work is not such a chore, but a glorious opportunity to reflect and explore your new awareness’s. Playing with the kids can take on new meaning as you allow yourself to experience again the joy of a child. Situations of conflict at work or home, may begin to alter. No, wait, they are not altering. It is you who is changing! In fact, nothing has changed, you look the same, weigh the same and dress the same, but your perspective has changed. Your viewpoint has shifted. Your perspective is changing. You have begun the journey from separateness to unity with all.
In truth we are all the same onion, in fact we are more like the cocktail onion, contained in a larger onion, which is within yet a larger onion and so one, yet the deeper we look through the layers of our onion, the more we find, the more we see, and the more we realize that we do not know everything. The onion is infinite, never ending and glorious. In fact, you may hold the perspective that while you hold an onion in your hand, and look at it, that you are existing in the moist, sweet, tear making flesh of just another onion layer yourself.
If you have traveled through your onion, you have realized and perceived the glory and magnitude of Universal Intelligence, have you not wondered what you are doing with that? Despite what I have said here, everyone on this planet is moving toward self-awareness and someone you know could use a hand, or an onion peeler. Perhaps it’s a book, a CD or DVD that ignited your spark for truth. Perhaps it will ignite theirs? Even if it doesn’t, your effort is not wasted. A frank conversation about spirituality, duality or quantum mechanics can spark intrigue and questions.
Help create the opportunity for another to know themselves, become a neighborhood onion peeler. Once you know the truth, your obligation is to share in whatever way you are able, because, once you know the truth, you will speak the truth and live the truth. Having done that, you then know we are all One. To live any other way, is your choice, but how far has denial gotten us as a race?
-Peace
Mikel
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