On Waking Up
Victoria Hardy
May 01, 2007
They say perception is reality and there are many different realities out there, perceptions of the world that are as opposite as night from day. I assumed this was common knowledge, but when I see people holding so tightly to their opinions and beliefs and expecting others to fall in line, I am left befuddled. The seekers in the world walk a fine line, balanced precariously between fitting in and standing out. Or perhaps I should call them thinkers, no longer satisfied with the multi-media thought numbing outlets, made restless and uncomfortable with the blurs between truth and entertainment, they insist on seeing behind the curtain.
I wonder about a world where it is an established fact that people are different, but every means possible is undertaken to make us the same, want the same things and think the same way. This idea of uniformity crosses so many barriers and dimensions of our lives, from the way we dress and talk, to our thoughts and the beliefs we hold most dear, to the movies we see and the places we eat. It seems most don’t care to even consider why they must wear make-up to the grocery store or own the finest riding lawn mower on the block, we do because our parents did or our neighbors, friends and co-workers do and that’s good enough for us.
So when it comes to questioning bigger things like religion, wars and media fed illusions, most folks don’t want to be the odd man out, the non-conformist, the weirdo or the freak, it’s easier and safer to concede. The thing about questions is that they lead to other questions and once we uncover truths, we also uncover lies. And once we begin to see the illusions, what we once knew as truth begins to change shape and lose importance. Perhaps that is why questions are so offensive these days, we are not to question the status quo, be that the media, politics or religion. And I wonder if the pedestal on which the leaders have resided has become so unstable that just the right question could cause it to topple.
These last few years have been interesting for me, strange, traumatic, exciting and frightening and I’ve looked around trying to determine exactly what caused the change. I am strengthened by hearing others speak of “waking up” or “being called” and know that I am not alone in what appears to me to be a spiritual journey. I am not religious and I’m not a joiner, I believe that prayer works, I believe in God, but I think that religion is loaded with delusions and distractions. I’ve pondered at length what brought me to seeking, to questioning, was it the loss of my only child? Was it nearly losing my life at the hands of a surgeon just a few months later? I guess it doesn’t matter, because once we begin exposing the illusions, there’s really no looking back.
The term “wake up” is storming the Internet, it seems one side is always telling the other to wake up and even though I feel as if I am waking up, I wonder what I am waking to. The New World Order and Illuminati followers are telling us to wake up to the manipulations, the Chemtrail watchers are telling us to wake up to the poison in the sky, the UFO enthusiasts are telling us to wake up to the cover-ups about extraterrestrial life. The 911 Truthers tell us to wake up to the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people and the war protesters tell us to wake up to an illegal and corporate war. The ideas continue from global warming, the threat of terrorism, concentration camps on American soil, the winding down of the Mayan calendar, extraterrestrials on their way to earth to the second coming of Christ. Wake Up is the phrase of the day.
So for those of us waking, what are we waking to? We’ve seen the lines in the sky, spider webs or white snakes, just as the Native Americas predicted we would. We’ve seen the corruption in high places and wars, just as the Bible suggested we would. We’ve seen the odd lights in the sky, just as a myriad of prophecies from many cultures stated we would. And now we are left to figure out what it all means.
I wonder why others don’t seem to see what I see and then I wonder if it is my responsibility to wake them. Doesn’t this fall into the realm of choice and free-will? We choose to see or we choose not to. Some can look at 110 story buildings falling in under 10 seconds and say, that’s normal, others see an illusion. Some can look at the lines in the sky and say contrails, while others are made uneasy by the sight. Some can look at war and call it justified, while others only see misery, despair and death. Some look at global warming and see it as a result of man’s neglect, while others see only natural evolution. Some look at prophecies, Biblical and others, and call them absolute truth and some see total lies.
If we are spiritual beings having a human experience, as I suspect we are, then the idea that all of us must see and feel the same way is purely a human idea, ripe with illusions and self-preservation, the proverbial crabs in the bucket. And the free-will of waking up cannot be managed or manipulated, we will either choose to wake up and see what is coming next or we will be taken by surprise.
I wonder about a world where it is an established fact that people are different, but every means possible is undertaken to make us the same, want the same things and think the same way. This idea of uniformity crosses so many barriers and dimensions of our lives, from the way we dress and talk, to our thoughts and the beliefs we hold most dear, to the movies we see and the places we eat. It seems most don’t care to even consider why they must wear make-up to the grocery store or own the finest riding lawn mower on the block, we do because our parents did or our neighbors, friends and co-workers do and that’s good enough for us.
So when it comes to questioning bigger things like religion, wars and media fed illusions, most folks don’t want to be the odd man out, the non-conformist, the weirdo or the freak, it’s easier and safer to concede. The thing about questions is that they lead to other questions and once we uncover truths, we also uncover lies. And once we begin to see the illusions, what we once knew as truth begins to change shape and lose importance. Perhaps that is why questions are so offensive these days, we are not to question the status quo, be that the media, politics or religion. And I wonder if the pedestal on which the leaders have resided has become so unstable that just the right question could cause it to topple.
These last few years have been interesting for me, strange, traumatic, exciting and frightening and I’ve looked around trying to determine exactly what caused the change. I am strengthened by hearing others speak of “waking up” or “being called” and know that I am not alone in what appears to me to be a spiritual journey. I am not religious and I’m not a joiner, I believe that prayer works, I believe in God, but I think that religion is loaded with delusions and distractions. I’ve pondered at length what brought me to seeking, to questioning, was it the loss of my only child? Was it nearly losing my life at the hands of a surgeon just a few months later? I guess it doesn’t matter, because once we begin exposing the illusions, there’s really no looking back.
The term “wake up” is storming the Internet, it seems one side is always telling the other to wake up and even though I feel as if I am waking up, I wonder what I am waking to. The New World Order and Illuminati followers are telling us to wake up to the manipulations, the Chemtrail watchers are telling us to wake up to the poison in the sky, the UFO enthusiasts are telling us to wake up to the cover-ups about extraterrestrial life. The 911 Truthers tell us to wake up to the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people and the war protesters tell us to wake up to an illegal and corporate war. The ideas continue from global warming, the threat of terrorism, concentration camps on American soil, the winding down of the Mayan calendar, extraterrestrials on their way to earth to the second coming of Christ. Wake Up is the phrase of the day.
So for those of us waking, what are we waking to? We’ve seen the lines in the sky, spider webs or white snakes, just as the Native Americas predicted we would. We’ve seen the corruption in high places and wars, just as the Bible suggested we would. We’ve seen the odd lights in the sky, just as a myriad of prophecies from many cultures stated we would. And now we are left to figure out what it all means.
I wonder why others don’t seem to see what I see and then I wonder if it is my responsibility to wake them. Doesn’t this fall into the realm of choice and free-will? We choose to see or we choose not to. Some can look at 110 story buildings falling in under 10 seconds and say, that’s normal, others see an illusion. Some can look at the lines in the sky and say contrails, while others are made uneasy by the sight. Some can look at war and call it justified, while others only see misery, despair and death. Some look at global warming and see it as a result of man’s neglect, while others see only natural evolution. Some look at prophecies, Biblical and others, and call them absolute truth and some see total lies.
If we are spiritual beings having a human experience, as I suspect we are, then the idea that all of us must see and feel the same way is purely a human idea, ripe with illusions and self-preservation, the proverbial crabs in the bucket. And the free-will of waking up cannot be managed or manipulated, we will either choose to wake up and see what is coming next or we will be taken by surprise.
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