Feb 25, 2025
Dear friends,
Last month I wrote that the contrast between outer experience and our inner processing of it is the absolute common denominator in all human experience.
As 2025 gathers momentum, I have been struck by the enormous contrast between ‘truth’ and ‘lies’ that is playing out in so many outer aspects (whether social media, politics or otherwise) of this fast changing world.
Whilst of course the outward picture is important, even more so, is the revealing of the contrast between the truth of who we were born to be and the contrary lies we have told ourselves about who that is.
Very few humans ever truly become the full embodiment and expression of the potential we are born with. From early childhood almost all of us develop into an inauthentic self, a ‘false self’ that masks and shadows the truth of our natural birthright. This is the deepest lie that we tell ourselves.
The false self we develop in response to early childhood trauma has been built to keep us safe. We maintain it by running repetitive patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Yet the essential in-authenticity of the false self only prevents us from fully experiencing the potential of the life we came here to live.
Even if not conscious of it, we all know deep down that this is true. Yet most of us keep repeating this lie, by replaying early childhood trauma responses, by repeating self limiting and self-sabotaging thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
In every day and way, it shows up as an inner critic and habitual behavioural patterns that overshadow a profound inner emptiness and incapacity to experience real fulfilment that persists, no matter the momentary satisfaction of any outer achievement.
This emptiness reflects the deepest level of our lack of self acceptance. For all of us, the great work of life is to achieve self acceptance. To paraphrase psychologist, Imi Lo, Life is not about becoming a perfect human (you already are). It is about learning to perfect the love you have for yourself! The work is the gentle dismantling of the false ego personality. This allows the resurrection of the authentic self which has never been lost, merely obscured by the false self. The vanishing point is to reach unconditional forgiveness of ourselves for ever believing we were defective, lacking of unworthy of everything that the pure nature of our existence has to offer.
There is no ‘right way’ for everyone, but there is a right way for you. It is up to each of us to find it.
Namaste!
Andrew Solomon
Feb 25, 2025
During a phenomenal retreat over this New Year in Mexico I was reminded how In every moment and way, Life is calling us to be who we were born to be. Perhaps like never before, 2024 will call and challenge us to be and live the truth of who we are.
In a purely existential sense, Life cannot ever be anything but that. For it holds the truth of the inseparable nature of all existence, whether understood as Source, Spirit, God, the Unified (quantum) field, Soul or by any other symbol.
In the most practical of ways the spiritual path is about being obedient to the truth of our existence. This means being obedient to the truth of the inseparable relationship that underlies every aspect of everyday Life experience. In a very personal sense this means obedience to the deepest Soul aspect of every being that always remains part of the inseparable nature of existence.
In every moment and way, consciously and otherwise we encounter our inseparable relationship with all that is, whether perceived through the lens of relationship with oneself, with others or with the natural world.
In every way and moment everyday Life is showing us where we are/ are not in alignment with its nature. Every interaction with another is reflecting a condition or aspect of oneself that Life is calling us to pay attention to.
To look deep into our hearts in every moment for alignment with that calling is to remember and live the truth of inseparable relationship. This is the surest and fastest path to true self-discovery and acceptance.
A seemingly justified resentment of another reflects a disconnect from the inseparable relationship of Life and calls for the healing of that disconnect. However, as individual will chose the resentment in the first place it can only be healed by surrendering that choice to the Source of all Life in whichever way that is for you. It is very simple. It is only our insistence on using free will in a self-serving way that makes it feel hard.
May 2024 be the moment you allow yourself to receive the abundance of Love of inseparable relationship that ever-patiently waits to simply be invited. May God speed you on your unique and precious journey deep into the freedom to be and express who you truly are.
With love and blessings
Andrew
Feb 25, 2025
Consciously or not, we are all on a path of self discovery. The great paradox is that the natural self we were born into this world as – is the only true self selection available!
The natural self knows how to become itself, just as an apple seed knows how to grown into an apple tree. It just needs the right conditions. To spark our human development, the natural self of a child needs to be loved, acknowledged and supported by early caregivers. Even for those fortunate enough to be born into a supportive environment with loving caregivers, this rarely happens.
No matter how loving our caregivers, our arrival presented them with a completely unique being for which there is no instruction manual. What might work for another child was not what was required for you – a completely unique being. As such, most caregivers are simply not equipped to offer the deep level of acknowledgment of a unique child required for natural self-development.
Moment by moment, we respond to life experience in our own unique way as best we can. The challenges of childhood demand we make choices, develop beliefs and patterns of behaviour that enable us to cope with the challenges of our lives. Yet in almost all, leaves a residual level of lack of self worth that ranges between subtle and dysfunctional.
When we lose traction with the natural self, we go through a process of dissociation from it. We build an alternative false self that we believe will help us survive life’s challenges and received the acknowledgment we never received.
The false self is an illusory self. Its illusions are the beliefs in lack of self worth and associated behaviours. We live a life constantly trying to maintain and expand the worth of the false self.
None of this ever really works out, because there is no one who is, has ever been or who will ever be, who is configured in exactly the same way that you are, physically, emotionally and mentally and with an identical back story. Because the false self is built from trauma and fear, it cannot find deep fulfilment. Life challenges often get even bigger, prompting dysfunctional coping behaviours and addictions.
Because the false self masks the natural self, the potential for a deeply fulfilling life, authentic relationships and freedom of expression diminishes, even evaporates. At some point, the natural self prompts us to awaken and begin walking the path of true self acceptance Sometimes it is through the occurrence of an overwhelming trauma or loss that is beyond the capacity of the false self to handle.
The only path to true self acceptance is to retrace our steps. This is simple but not necessarily easy. It takes a degree of will and perseverance because it requires us to start dismantling the beliefs and behaviours of the false self. Whilst there are countless ways and tools to support the process, it takes as long as it takes…
Yet, the pay back is priceless. The more we let go the defences of the false self, the more the powerful presence and ability to express the gifts and talents of the natural self emerge.
Until next time,
Love and blessings, Andrew Solomon
Feb 25, 2025
This year has started with such fierce volatility and I have been feeling so intensely its unfolding events, that I wanted to share some thoughts with you.
Hot on the heels of the still ongoing COVID pandemic, the indescribable horror of events in the Ukraine and consequential shifts in the geo-political and socio-economic landscape, make this a time unlike anything I (and perhaps any of us) can recall.
Whilst a more ethical stance from much of the world to events in Ukraine is a positive sign of some true growth, the message prompted by COVID to ‘wake up’ – to re-evaluate our perceptions of reality, our relationship with each other and the natural world has evidently not yet been sufficiently heeded.
Yet heed it we must if we are to co-create a renaissance of human consciousness – a new Earth, a new ‘golden’ age of awareness.
This renaissance is a new stage of human evolution symbolizing an awakening from the unconsciously self destructive ignorance of the ‘homo sapien’ and the emergence into ‘homo luminous’ (the light human).
Transcendent of any and every human perception, reality is an indivisibly interconnected unfolding of the creation of Divine Will. Anything contrary within individuated sense of self, our, beliefs and perceptions of reality must be willingly or unwillingly in this incarnation or another surrendered into alignment with such Will.
For that is the only reality.
The outer always reflects the inner (and vice versa) because that is the indivisibly interconnected nature of reality. The outer turmoil is reflecting and revealing the inner schism in our individual and collective human psyche.
Here is the deeply personal invitation to see the untold turmoil of the world outside is it as an out-picturing of the world inside us.
Aside from human turmoil, the natural world from which we as a species have become so dissociated is particularly in our faces! Floods and other climate change related events are reflecting changes perhaps beyond anything we can imagine or even understand.
Recently measured temperatures at both north and south poles are at highs (30-40 degrees centigrade) beyond any levels previously recorded at this time of year and have never before been seen occurring at the same time!!!
Less tangibly, ultra-fast cosmic radiation (gamma waves) from a new peak cycle of solar activity is transmitting life changing vibrational frequencies of light and sound subtly altering the light-sound quotient of not only the energy field of earth itself but all life in and upon it.
Such frequencies activate and accelerate the vibratory rate of matter (carbon, iron, oxygen and silicone) and measurably altering the density of carbon based matter upon and within earth (including that within human cells and bones) to lighter, finer vibrational frequencies.
Consciously or not all life upon and within earth is getting impacted. One way or another earth and its inhabitants are getting ‘fired up’ with the vibrational frequencies of a new cosmic spiral – the new earth / age of Aquarius).
Where this may take us… what it may look like… no one can tell. For it is both uncontrollable and unknowable.
Yet when all is boiled down it is only ever a battle of the individuated self with the interconnected SOUL SELF – self centred will versus Soul/ Divine Will.
Beyond all the chaos it is well to keep in mind that this is an incredible time to be alive. For to live trough these time offers enormous potential growth for the Soul.
To realise our fixation with perceiving our limited individual experience as substitute for the indivisibly interconnected nature of reality is our uniquely individual path of healing!
Such is the path of the ‘mystic’ that those of us who have chosen to awaken are called to follow.
Until next time please stay safe and well.
With love and blessings,
Andrew Solomon
Feb 25, 2025
We are living in very turbulent times and, perhaps more than ever in our lifetimes are being called to realize the power of integrity’. For only this will unlock the expansion of human consciousness needed to get us through the challenges of our age.
The integrity of the collective is only as good as the integrity of the individual, so this is primarily an individual calling to pay attention to the integrity of our words and actions.
Irrespective of worldly worth or talent, not one of us has anything of value to contribute to the world, except through the integrity of our word and deed.
This is not just a matter of opinion! The Singular Source of All exists in an eternally sustainable way because it exists as a state of unconditional structural Integrity. It is the fundamentally non-negotiable structure of existence. It is not subject to views and opinions of what it means or whether it has value.
Heart centred integrity carries the expansionary energy of creation. Lack of integrity has no true creative power and can only contract back into itself.
Integrity is an attribute almost globally claimed yet rarely practiced. Examples abound, many evident in the immediate spotlight where integrity is falsely boasted and doubly defended!
The values of human experience always have a relative orientation to the fundamental integrity of existence. In a worldly sense this is reflected in the realm of ‘ethics’. Whist there are many theories and debates about what ethical principles ought (or ought not) mean; ‘ethics’ can only truly reflect the point at which the values and laws governing human existence intersect with the immutable Universal laws.
As such, the fundamental ‘rights’ of every being (human or otherwise) reflect the inherent integrity, equality and unconditionality of the Singular Source of All.
To lack integrity is to refuse to be accountable for the words and actions we sow in our lives. There are many reasons for this: feeling disconnected, unworthy, powerless, incapable… Yet all these boil down to believing ourselves victim to our circumstance.
Yet this is utterly impossible! We may perceive ourselves to be the victim of our circumstances and the words and actions of others, but because reality is indivisibly interconnected we cannot really be victim to any other…
What is certain is that you and I are the only ones who can be responsible for making new and better choices for our lives, which is why the development of ever increasing levels of integrity is key to the spiritual path.
The truth of who we are can only be discerned through heart centred integrity. In the axiom ‘to thine own Self be true’ is the recognition that the true self resides in the unconditional Integrity of the Divinely Singular All.
With love and blessings, Andrew Solomon
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