Impulses and Choice

Thanks to the culture I was raised in, the religions I was subjected too, and the whole idea of good and evil … I (like most people) have been taught to not trust my impulses.  Rather, there are cultural overlays, psychological baggage we call “The Shadow” that is a vestige of our childhood, cultural norms, etc. that block the “still small voice of the soul”.  That voice is the carrier of the “impulses” that Seth is talking about.

I think the key to life is to find that “still small voice” and to recognize the (negative) ego, shadow, and cultural overlays that blind us to our Inner Communication.  

I think the most transformative experience in my “spiritual journey” was working with the Lazaris material called “The Sacred Journey: You and Your Higher Self”.  The Lazaris process consisted of a small book and three 45 minute meditations which took over a month for me to do, but it was an eye-watering experience that opened the door to my “Inner Self” (as Seth would call it).  The “goal” in the process was to awaken “communion with the Higher Self” (communion is communication and union combined) - i.e. to put oneself back in balance (i.e. to balance the outer, physical sensations, thoughts, etc. with the inner sensations, feelings, gestalts, etc.).  

I believe that when we collectively (aka humanity) chose to jump into duality like this (with physical bodies) we thought that we’d have a balanced awareness and that we wouldn’t be blinded by our physical perceptions and our brain.  The metaphor I like to use is the following: the body is like a space suit that allows us to physically live in an alien (aka physical) world.  The problem was that the radio wasn’t as loud as the local perceptions so we rapidly lost communication with the “mother ship” and have been swept up in a raw survival situation on Earth.  This reminds me of the beginning of the movie “The Martian” where Mark Watney is stranded on Mars, fighting for his life, and feels the extreme urgency of communicating with Earth. 

I guess we all have a bit of Mark Watney in us!

“Through your mundane conscious choices, you affect all of the events of your world, so that the mass world is the result of multitudinous individual choices.  You could not make choices at all if you did not feel impulses to do this or that, so that choices usually involve you in making decisions between various impulses.  Impulses are urges toward action.  Some are conscious and some are not.  Each cell of your body feels the impulse toward action, response, and communication.  You have been taught not to trust your impulses.  Now impulses, however, help you to develop events of natural power.  Impulses in children teach them to develop their muscles and minds [each] in their own unique manner.  And as you will see, those impulses of a private nature are nevertheless also based upon the greater situation of the species and the planet, so that “ideally” the fulfillment of the individual would automatically lead to the better good of the species.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 855)