METAMORPHOSIS

Do you use them?

Our American culture speaks the creation story often and repeatedly every year through our traditional events and holidays. Our Christian traditions and Bible stories offer an explanation of the process of creation that I’m sure you have adopted. I am certain you have used the concepts from both Bible teachings and American history teachings as you developed your own creation story of your life.

Although many spiritual traditions have creation stories of HOW mankind came into existence, the story of Adam and Eve, or a man and a woman, and God pervades most stories. So, consider distilling the elements of these “stories” as maps revealing the process of manifestation or creation in this dualistic dimension of life. If we do that, we could determine that one of the principles required in the creation process is masculine energies represented by Adam and feminine energies represented by Eve. Notice that neither the masculine nor feminine energies are...

Are you a slave to the old ways? The ways of your ancestors? The ways of your peers? Associates? Friends? Celebrities? Government? When I ask the question “Where are you in your own creation story?” I am asking if you are the sovereign of your life, or are you still operating your life with the same outdated principles and methods of others?

When we come into the world, we automatically adopt the ways of the humans we see around us. This is an unconscious method of conditioning. We are conditioned to think, to feel and to act like the humans we observe, because they just by being in our space, they are communicating what it means to be human. If we do zero observation or research about other ways to be, other ways to do, other ways to have or create in life, we end up operating only from our conditioning.

If your parents smoked cigarettes, chances are you did too even though they warned you that the practice is addicting and not good for you. Unless you adopted a new...