I wrote this a while ago, edited it down some for brevity. Thought I'd share...
What do you do when you want to learn something new? You find a teacher. This teacher is usually a person with experience in whatever aspect you are trying to learn. They have navigated an aspect of their experience and cleared the confusions in their own minds. Ideally, a teacher can shorten the barrier to entry in a particular aspect we want entry into. When I say the word teacher I'd like to extend it to it's most general and precise applicability. Traditionally, this has meant a guru, or a mentor, or a coach or perhaps an apprenticeship was required. Without the template from the master, we would be helpless to reach our own mastery. Unfortunately, teachers often guide us astray as well. Their own unintegrated concepts then become the same barriers against which we push to free ourselves. That is why the teacher must move out of the way at some point and we must become keepers of our own experience. This is what I will call self-facilitation, some may not be ready for this, but once again, have you bothered to ask yourself why?
We'd be helpless on our own, so what we turn to is not something outside ourselves but inside and outside and all around us. It is an innate intelligence that is our birthright. It is an intelligence so great that it speaks loudly to us even in our very lives. It makes symbols come alive with meaning. It fuels the depths of our experience. It creates a sense of peace and purpose, even in the most difficult and challenging times. This is a most special Guide. It is your Higher Self. It is the Vibrational. It is the Holy Spirit. It is a true voice for God. Why settle for anything less? You can intelligently process you karma when you turn to this one. Thing is we don't yet know how. If we did, we'd have what the bible calls the second coming of Christ and I'm sure other traditions have names for it too. This is a collective awakening, not just one of the individual. Still, while we are fragmented individuals in this world, this trickling down of the first Christ can still happen. Please forgive the charged language I've used with those last few sentences, but I hope you can take it in the inclusive sense towards all traditions, including your own understandings, without getting bogged down by the particular form I chose to express myself at this moment. Any tradition that has lasted the halls of time has had awakened Beings to illuminate the path. I have valued the path they illuminated, and it has illuminated for me too... So where is this going?
Life is trying to speak to you. Do you want to listen?
If you didn't have any pre-conceptions towards this notion, I think most people would say yes. Assuming they trusted the guidance that was being offered. This issue of trust is one you will no doubt have to perfect through doing, being and practicing, it is an extraordinarily important one. What other limitations might there be towards this? Your language! Life is speaking to us but we don't understand.
The thing with language is that we seldom create our own.
We accept the collective understanding for these things so that they may become tools for exchanges of ideas. Within this scope language is a most wonderful form of expression. I absolutely adore language. The thing with language is that it is impersonal. While useful for navigating the exchange between individuals, this exchange gets lost when we relate our experience to ourselves. There is a dimension of intelligence so much greater available to us that gets lost in translation. So if you want to self-facilitate your own experience why not create your own language?
Here's my plan: I agree upon the meaning of the symbols that are familiar to me in my life, not the ones of esoteric traditions that mean nothing to me. These symbols take the form of colors, numbers, body parts, sounds, planets, stars, seasons, and many, many more. I create this language and it will be my own private agreement with the Universe. I will keep this to myself. I will then use these symbols to reach my own understandings that are appropriate to the situation. These understandings, divorced from the underlying meaning of the language, once integrated may be shared in our consensual language of choice. English, French-Canadian, etc. Sharing it now makes it real and creates beauty in our collective understanding.
The essential feature that makes this happen is that life wants to talk to you. It's as if everyone is animated around us by our own confusions and this in turn confuses us. You wouldn't be confused if you had your own language to understand the events around you and believed in the source that orchestrates the meaning. It takes a brave individual to step outside of this confusion. When you realize just how true this can be you will laugh a cosmic laugh.
One last thing about your language that I humbly suggest you listen to:
Don't limit your own language.
This doesn't mean that you can't revise, but life will have to show you your language is limited until you listen. Let me illustrate what I mean by this. Say I am trying to assign a meaning to the color black, and I look into my experience and it conjures up images of sorcery and black magic. I say to myself the color black must mean pure, unadulterated evil. I write this down in my notebook and say, oh yeah, black is bad. Now I'm stuck living a duality that as you know has no end in sight. Way to limit your paradigm. Use a language that brings you joy and peace to guide you assuming that's what you value.
Your language is your own, and our language is our own. Let your own truth speak to you and be guided. Your highest self will guide you towards love, light, freedom and cosmic well-being. Lets take that on faith rather than chasing shadows.
