The spiral path of freedom is the path for those human souls who are ready and willing to take greater responsibility for their destiny, and to begin to truly unfold their spiritual lives. This path cannot be walked by those who are not ready to take this deeper responsibility. It is not possible, for these souls are still lost in the wounded archetypes of their psyche, longing for mother, father, partner, guru, doctor, government to save them.
One cannot be a victim, and activate this divine evolutionary unfolding. One must step out of the victim consciousness willingly and fully, to untangle the hold that such a mind state naturally has upon the self.
Victimhood is a prison for the spirit, and reflects a life unlived, unloved, and unexplored. This is a life that willingly gives over responsibility of the self to a stranger, and hopes for the very best.
This cannot end well.
When we step into the path of liberation, we move into a current that says, we alone are the keepers of our soul, and the co-creators of our destiny. We begin to activate and embody the divine gifts which have been individually given to each of us, and we begin to become more and more whole, empowered and sovereign.
A sovereign soul does not give their power away.
A sovereign soul does not attempt to control other beings.
A sovereign soul does not ask others to save them.
A sovereign soul learns to awaken and activate within themselves the sacred flame that is at the heart of every human being.
Through this activation, the spiral path of liberation unfolds before us. Doors are opened, where before there were none. One begins to hear the call of their own spirit through the rhythm of the breath, the pulse of the blood, the dance of the wind mingling in the trees, the moon at night, and the movement of the stars through the sky.
When the doors are opened, the soul on the path of liberation walks through them when the deeper clarion call is heard to pass that threshold, regardless of what is on the other side.
The soul must be willing to journey into the deep valley, traverse the flames, and move through the dark night, so that the proper initiations can occur. Without such initiations, the soul remains in a holding pattern, unable to heal and integrate the wounds of the past, both personal and ancestral, and unable to transmute the shadow into the light, the lead into the gold.
This is an alchemical process that is a natural flowering of human evolution, when we allow ourselves to walk the path, and take ever greater responsibility for our lives.
This includes body, heart, mind, and spirit.
Once the soul truly senses the movement of inspiration through the body, once one begins to feel the spiritual wings that lift them into the atmosphere, there is no way that such a soul would turn and walk backwards into the dark cave again. This would be a walk back into ignorance and a self imposed prison. There will be times when we each retreat in grief, fear, and horror. But the numinous taste of freedom transcends all of these experiences, and connects us into an invisible web of spirit, exquisite in its beauty, simple in its truth, and all encompassing in its love.
This is the majesty that awaits all of us, the majesty of the spirit, when we learn to transmute our own suffering into the divinity of the self, and to let go the chains of our own self inflicted prison so that one might free the heart.
We are made to soar.
photo by Jeremy Frindel
