~ The Three Gates/Spirit ~

You, the beautiful spirit, the source of playfulness, spontaneity and trust, have been imprisoned for too long, held in a state of terror, vulnerable to marketers of products, services, and diseases, all working your fear, to steal as much of your hard-earned money as possible. You hide your fear, try to control your fear, medicate your fear, all to no avail. You seem powerless in its grip, for the fear has robbed you of your power, and turned it against you. At any moment you can take it back. At any moment you can begin to dissolve it, to free yourself of the fear forever, and in doing so, pass through the gate back into Eden. It will appear fearful, but then anything you look at through the veil of fear appears fearful, and there's nothing that gets the fear's attention quite as quickly as the prospect of awakening.

There is one key that helps keep you focused on how to navigate the gate of fear. A simple remembrance, a mantra if you will, repeated whenever the fear starts to grab you: "It's only a physical sensation. Period." It helps to keep you focused on reality, rather than the terrifying dream it generates. For the reality of the fear is that it's only a physical sensation located in the stomach area.

A great spirit of light, held in bondage and terror by an uncomfortable bodily sensation. Don't believe me? Simply look for yourself. Whenever you are anxious, nervous, worrying, or in downright panic, look in the body, in your gut, for a familiar, uncomfortable sensation, and you will have found the source of all your problems, all your suffering. All the reasons, the causes, the justifications for why you are feeling fearful are simply distractions from the actual problem; an uncomfortable bodily sensation. The problem, the sensation, you can actually do something about instead of relying on expensive pharmaceuticals to dull it, giving you the illusion it is some kind of incurable disease you are helpless in the face of. Don't trust the experts, they have fear themselves, they're popping pills themselves, they too are lost in the illusion. Trust yourself! The power the fear has is the power you have given it. Take your power back, and the fear dies. Forever.

"It's only a physical sensation. Period." This is the master key for spirit. For if you look for the sensation it creates, if you find it, and are able to see it clearly, as simply a very uncomfortable sensation in the body, then you have the key in hand. For, in order to see the reality of fear, you must be separate from it, and each moment you are separate from the sensation you are denying it your light. Without you continuously pouring light into the sensation, it must, it will, die. The sensation is the only place in this physical reality where the ego presence can actually be seen by the inner eye. Whenever the fearful thoughts are present, so too is the sensation, but you are not aware of the sensation, you are aware of the thoughts the sensation is generating. Remember: "It's only a physical sensation. Period." This will direct your awareness back to the reality of what is happening. Detach and watch, neither for nor against, and the sensation will begin to dissolve, and as it does so, so will all those fearful thoughts that have plagued you for so long. Nothing to fix, nothing to control, nothing to express "appropriately", simply detach from a sensation, denying it the light that has sustained it, and it dies. As it does so you pass through the gate back into Eden. Warning: It's been trashed in your absence.

Your great gift is trust. Innocent, unconditional trust. All your relationships within and without, are based on trust. In a nutshell, you have been, unconditionally and innocently, trusting the beast within to keep you safe in the world. Look around you. What is making the world unsafe for all creatures? Pain, fear, and anger. You have been trusting the very source of all the world's problems. You have been energizing the very madness which appears to make the world so unsafe, so unfriendly. What you don't realize when you are hidden behind what appears to be a wall keeping you safe from the world, is that it's not as solid and impermeable as it appears. In fact, every time you are fueling that sensation with your trust-light, that light moves through the fear, and, transformed and corrupted, that fear light is projected into the world. A world already drowning in the pain, fear, and anger projections of six billion, unconscious , sleeping, beings of light.

Spirit. Trust more in existence, less in the fear, for existence will guide you home, the fear will only guide you deeper into the darkness, closer to disaster. Screw your courage, find the sensation, and see your oldest, most trusted friend, the fear, for exactly what it is: stupid, lying, and deceitful. The safety the fear offers is the safety of a dark, isolated cell in the bowels of hell. Watch the sensation, and pass through the gate.