What are you creating?

The other day, out of the blue (actually, while I was sitting at work) I began thinking about how once we label/name something it becomes confined by the parameters set forth by its very label.  For instance, when Adam began naming all the animals in the Garden of Eden he began “creating” the world. He and Eve essentially were the binary embodiment of God as they set forth creating through capturing their experience via language.

When the Garden of Eden existed before “man,” there was no language to confine Divine Expression. Everything in existence simply existed as a thought in the mind of God. Once humans began speaking, judging, and labeling things, what was once pure expression unfolding became what we experience as “the fall.”

The Greek and Hebrew origins of the word “sin” are defined as “missing the mark,” or “failing to meet a goal.” (I’m intentionally not giving a reference, to encourage you to look it up for yourself and see the different explanations of the origin of the word “sin.”) I can’t help but wonder if when Adam and Eve began naming aspects of their experience in the Garden of Eden, their “sin” was believing the limitations created by their own conceptualizations.

Through naming the various expressions of the Divine, they began to experience separation from the Divine because, rather than it all being seen (or experienced) as “good,” it became good vs. bad, right vs. wrong, light vs. dark, male vs. female. Humans began to see and experience duality rather than continuing to exist in a state of Oneness.

As language developed and humans created more words to conceptualize their experience as conscious beings, The One continued to be further divided. The fractal pattern that runs behind the natural/physical experience began unfolding. As humans grasped at understanding Truth through their external experience captured in language, they repeatedly “sinned” – or missed the mark. They were (and still are) thoroughly living “in the world.”

This early inability to capture the experience of being human and understanding how to navigate life was passed on to subsequent generations. As anyone who has done any navigation or even geometry knows, a small deviation from the path initially translates into a substantial deviation from the objective. Thus, the missing of the mark by original man had ensured their misunderstanding be visited on the heads of their descendants.

And, from time to time we have oracles, holy wo/men, saints, and visionaries that attempt to point humanity in the “right” direction. The problem is, we continue to use and manipulate language in an effort to secure the very state that exists at the foundation of our being. When we can be still and quiet (inside and out), when we stop trying to capture and isolate life through language, we momentarily stop separating ourselves from our Source. Anything outside the stillness and quiet draws our focus into the world; with the narrative that runs in our mind like Adam perpetually naming the things he sees and experiences in the Garden of Eden.

We seem to have lost an Awareness that this is what’s occurring – that we are operating as emissaries of the Divine, creating the world we exist in by imagining, speaking, and acting it into existence. Predominantly from a place of separation.

There are a couple of things we can do to harness the power of the Divine that we have been gifted:

1. Tell a better story. Karen Curry Parker and Quantum Human Design is one of the best resources, in my opinion, for understanding this concept. She is a consummate advocate for realizing our creative capacity through our personal narrative.
2. Recognize, when we are telling a story – for better or worse – it’s only ever our own story to tell. We can use our story to help others write theirs and we can borrow elements of other’s stories. However, we can never dictate someone else’s story or recreate it because no matter how close we get to controlling it or duplicating it, it’s still filtered through our own light. Additionally, it takes us away from the stillness within because when we are focused on other’s stories, we are externally focused. Ultimately, this will only guarantee we miss our mark.

Fortunately, we are not totally lost as a result of our “fall.” As a matter of fact, we’re not lost at all. We just feel lost because we’ve been subjected to and perpetuating the idea that we ever were lost, separated, or fallen. All we need to do is pause and recognize, in this very moment we are not separate, nor have we ever been. This is grace. This is what Forgiveness means. There is nothing you have to do other than become still and quiet enough to experience the fundamental truth that you are a unique expression of the Divine. The light of creation flows through you as a singular point of light that, collectively, is the Divine, the One, the Alpha & Omega, the Beginning & the End, the First & the Last. Duality and separation end in the stillness because we are no longer attempting to capture fragments of it on the physical plane.

So, the next time you find yourself in the midst of a story you do not like and want to rewrite remember to… “Be still and know that I Am God.”