Views from a Psychic on "Crazy"

It doesn´t take an accurate psychic to observe that we are living in a crazy world…but it helps.

Perhaps, like me, you have looked around you and wanted to improve some societal system that we have—education, nutrition, health care, the environment—only to find that at some point in your thinking process of what could possibly help, and in having that help work within our present system, the process of hoped-for improvement stops.

When do we become functional and how do we get there?

I think that when we go beyond what our eyes can perceive and categorize, there is sanity—even deep peace.

As a human race, we have become totally immersed in an "objective" world—one that can be labeled and put into a box of judgment. That is to say, whether or not what we are seeing is good or bad, safe or dangerous, etc. Yet by that objectifying of our present reality, there are no solutions to problems, because by and large we are living out of our ego minds.

When we look within, however, and come to an awareness of the big "I" inside of us that observes all in absolute peace, solutions become more viable because we are no longer stuck in the box of the ego.

Personally Speaking

I take this experience of objective vs. inner awareness to a very personal level as well. Sometimes I look at my own patterns that are in my subconscious—lack of worth, fear—and I used to try to figure them out, thinking that somehow I could erase them and not have to deal with them any more.

I have come to understand that my ego is always looking to cure itself from itself, and that it can´t. Nor can it be totally emotionally stable, nor see the big picture beyond itself.

Is There An Alternative?

Those perceptions that put me in automatic judgment and incur an emotional reaction arise from my subconscious mind, yet, "ah ha," also in my subconscious is my connection to Spirit, All That Is, Source itself.

So as I look within myself I can receive messages that I can now discern are either from my subconscious ego mind or (big, big difference) are from my Higher Self, my place that is that constant observer of life itself. And in this process of recognition, I give myself choice—choice in how to respond, choice in my decisions, choice in how I think.

I Am Present

There are many processes that can help us go within, and they do not have to come about through any extreme means.

Meditation can take many forms--sitting quietly and observing the breath is the one that usually comes to mind. But if you are an active person, you can do a walking meditation. If you love music, you can meditate on the music you are hearing. If you are passionate, making love can be a sublime meditation.

In the end, meditation means calming one´s mind, breathing regularly and bringing our attention, awareness and focus within us.

Even throughout a busy, hectic day we can take thirty seconds out of each hour and just become conscious of our breath, feel it arising and falling and arising and falling again.

Another means of becoming present in the moment is by asking questions: Who is present now? What energy do I feel within my body? Who am I without my thoughts?

We Have Something in Common

And, accurate psychic that I am, I know that we all share Oneness in Spirit, we are equally part of God. And we all are part of the collective consciousness that has produced this crazy world of dysfunction that has so much room for improvement.

I believe that when each of us follows the dictates of our "still, small voice inside," that our thoughts and outer world will change. Let us have peace now both within and without.