The Eye of The Needle

The Eye of The Needle

We are living in unprecedented times. The dominant paradigm is frozen in fear.

Basic world order, during the Age of Mysticism, supported an individual’s inner spiritual world. What people felt was not formed by outside influences beamed at them from the media, governments, religions, etc. We believed in things we couldn’t see.

With the dawn of the Age of Reason and then the Industrial Age individual focus moved to the external world. With everything needing a reason why, what couldn’t be seen faded from importance. The Scientific and Industrial Age and the Age of Modern Technology improved the difficulty of daily living. It also disconnected many from the source of their existence. Where and how food was grown or raised was no longer important. What became significantwas what we could buy at the local grocery chain or mall that we were led to believe we couldn’t live without. We looked outside of us for what we felt was missing but couldn’t identify. We were no longer tethered to the cycle of the earth and her seasons. We now had access to what we wanted whenever we wanted it. The earth and her need for balance was no longer an important part of our existence. As long as we had what we needed to exist and we could buy it, where it came from and how, lost its meaning along with our connection to its essence.

Obsessions, compulsive behavior, instant gratification, addictions all have a common component, “something” is missing internally. We veered from our place and responsibility in the cycle of the earth and life. Technology, ease of existence, variety of foods etc are neither good nor bad. But the slipping away from our connection to every aspect of our lives from an internal perspective came with a price. We no longer kept our eye on the big picture and instead placed it on what makes ME feel better.

Bombarded by outside sources repeatedly telling you to trust their solution or product caused another severing to occur. Individuals began to trust objects, drugs, activities etc rather than their own intuition and instincts. Slowly as people began to believe “experts” knew more about their own bodies, and about what was good for them than they did, yet another link in the chain of internal dialogue was broken. As more ties to a personal connection and responsibility to our existence broke, outside influences took hold. Individuals and groups began to influence large portions of the population with what they believed would solve your problems and fill the void. Personal gain became a goal. “I can fix you, my product or service can fix what is missing.” “How can I support you to find your own way?” was no longer a concern.

As subsequent generations moved farther and farther away from quiet time within, connections to a spiritual awareness in all things receded. As values and awareness of our effect on the world and other individuals moved to a me, me approach, the awareness of what connects and affects us all vanished.

The New Age began to ask people to think differently. It held merit in asking people to think more positively, more globally, more individually. What had not yet come around was internal accountability without judgment or the rating system we brought along with us generation after generation. Our thinking and behavior was still designed to follow” rules” set by others who wanted to control our behavior, spending power and existence. All the positive affirmations in the world could not sever how we were designed by others to think about ourselves.

Fast forward through to the present Ages of Ascension and Aquarius. We are fully immersed in monumental change. Individuals are feeling set adrift with nothing to anchor them to “safety.” A safety that is being revealed as flawed. We are funneling to the eye of the needle. Are you going to get through the eye, the change, and choose a simpler life or are you going to cling to a past that no longer exists?

Mass consciousness is focused on fear in areas of daily existence. Reality is changing and the birthing process is painful when we continually choose to disconnect from a universal power greater than we are. Connection and responsibility is fertile ground for awareness of the greater picture. The power of a loving, balanced existence with All, is difficult in its simplicity.

Each generation has had individuals who retained knowledge of the unseen. Mystery schools, indigenous prophecies, saints, gurus etc. all kept a connection to a greater truth alive. There is merit held in many areas of thought available to us. If we choose not to live void of internal accountability we will continue to struggle.

All of what is occurring on earth is swirling us closer and closer to the eye of the needle, to a massive shift in consciousness. To a new existence, to whatever way of processing we choose to live with. Belief in fear keeps us tethered to outside answers that no longer work. Internal exploration and expansion keeps us grounded in an awareness of our connection to ALL.
The simplicity of being conscious in each moment also holds the difficulty of not utilizing old criteria to judge, rate and identify the moment. With each breath is the possibility of being aware of not only the greater picture of what is occurring in the universe, but most importantly, in our inner self. Is living for more and more toys, latest styles, the greatest gadgets or next extreme thrill really what supports you in becoming aware of your own multifaceted internal world. If external chaos is fed, the internal voice is silenced. Learning to be present with your internal dialogue and emotions without self abuse to make you run, takes repeated commitment, exploration and expansion.

We are all living the crescendo of collective energy the world is experiencing. There is no escaping it, we can’t out run it and we can’t understand it with old ways of processing our thoughts. Feeling has come home to roost. Understanding what we feel, with tools we were taught to disconnect from those very feelings, is not working. Emotions, fears and denial are all bottled up at the entrance to an opportunity to know yourself and how to be in relation to All. One of the greatest fears that navigates our reality is knowing ourselves because up until now we have lived with veils of denial and external mirrors telling us who we are. Yet the simplicity of stilling, feeling and peace are available in every moment, no matter what is going on around us or even in us. It is difficult to re-pattern to something so simple. For we always have an excuse, a “yah but” available to push us back beyond the border of change. Making us believe there is more power happening to us than simple, consistent choice within us. The reality of what is happening to us takes control of connecting within and negates its immense potential through the power of our believing it. What is happening in our physical reality has many reasons for it being that way. Breaking the power of its hold takes simplicity and consistency. Softening our grip on a perceived reality will transport you within to that illusive something that has appeared to play hide and go seek within but in reality has always been in plain sight.
The eye of the needle, a difficult space , thought, pattern, belief etc that each one of us faces to finding peace, love and divine clarity, holds a simplicity that does not allow us to bring truths, realities and baggage that no longer work and never actually did into the future. Getting through that tiny space, a simple truth is done within, moment by moment. No huge baggage, no false realities or me, me allowed.

There is no longer an opportunity to live devoid of awareness that we are all connected. Living unconsciously about our affect on our world is no longer possible.

Living simply, breathing gently with the earth, its inhabitants and our self requires less energy than struggling to maintain denial that an age of change is upon us.

by Karen E Nowak