The Strange Power of Not Knowing
The door of Universal Intelligence and unlimited potential is found walking the path of the heart, not the mind.
Do you ever sense that life is like a gigantic black hole sucking you in without giving you a clue as to where it's taking you or what's in there once you get there? Like you're being magnetized to the edge of a bottomless pit with no guardrails or handholds, teetering on the edge of an abyss?
Lately that's how life feels to me.
So ... here's a thought. What about just jumping in?
I mean, isn't it the CRASH! SPLAT!! moment at the bottom of the pit that we're worried about?
If it's bottomless, what's the big deal? Right?
Freefall
Jumping into the unknown darkness is really what we're already doing everyday on the forever ride called life.
Seriously. We're already in freefall. We just don't realize it because we think we actually have control over life. Ha ha ha!! ROFL!! (Picture lots of emojis here.)
What I'm proposing is diving into the unknown consciously—boldly, if not fearlessly—seeing the potential of the situation.
Embracing the ultimate freefall as opposed to fighting to maintain the illusion of stability and security.
Magic carpet ride
We long ago paid the fee and entered the Game of the Unknown where the laws and principles of life give us an ever-expanding universe that only seems physical ... a magic carpet quantum reality where particles can be in hundreds of places simultaneously, communicate instantly with each other across billions of light years, and make quantum leaps between dimensions; where the energy in "matter" is equivalent to its mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light. Where the small amount of hydrogen in a glass of water contains the same amount of energy as a million gallons of burning gasoline.
Wow! That’s some magic carpet.
Plus, almost 96 percent of this carpet is comprised of the unknowable, untouchable, unseeable, mysterious “stuff” we call Dark Energy and Dark Matter. We’re only aware of a measly four percent of what we’re riding on.
And only using 10 percent of our brains while we do.
Plodding in the midst of magic
Unfortunately, the magic carpet didn’t come with an instruction manual. Or maybe it did, but we lost track of it somewhere along the way.
Maybe we lost touch with reality when we created a bunch of rules and regulations, governments and institutions, religions and spiritual formulas to keep us safe. Or maybe we lost track of reality because somewhere in this infinite universe we ran across inimical forces that decided it would be in their best interests to confuse us into thinking structure and strict control over life was necessary?
That we needed beliefs and rules to keep us safe from life and one another?
However it happened, willingly or unwillingly, we entered the corral of limitation and obligingly put our shoulders to the wheel and built the civilization we know today where we have a strange artificial time-keeping system, plenty of regulations, and—despite the ever-changing quantum nature of reality—lots of structure.
We have places to go that stay stable day in, day out, year in, year out. We have responsibilities that don't vary and things to do—so many things we don't have time to think.
Minutes turn into hours that turn into days ... the same minutes and hours and the same seven regular days of the week we've known since childhood. Christmas and Hanukkah come, then Easter, then April 15th and taxes. And birthdays. Same date every year.
The same faces and names and sources on the news and on our phones tell us what's happening in our infinitesimally tiny corner of the universe. We watch the same TV shows. We go to the same job in the same building five days a week. Go to the same church, the same mosque, the same temple, the same synagogue, and say the same prayers every week. We go to the same stores, and buy the same brand of the same groceries and eat the same kind of meals at roughly the same time every day.
The sameness, the regularity ... the predictability has us lulled into thinking we've got life handled. That it's solid. Reliable. Certain.
But it's not.
If the year 2020 didn't teach us that, nothing will.
The information castle
I grew up at the beginning of the Age of Information and was taught that intellectual knowledge was an impregnable castle I could climb into for safety. All I had to do was memorize all the crap on the blackboard and that, combined with a solid amount of applied effort and a good financial advisor, would guarantee me and everybody else the American Dream: A job, money, security, house, car, food on the table and a comfortable retirement someday.
And happiness. Definitely happiness.
Did that promise deliver? NO.
Yes, the mind and science and technology are marvelous. But the realm of intellectual understanding and the facts it accrues is also limited to the measly four percent of the carpet that we can actually physically detect and measure. And just how much can that tell us about the whole of what's going on?
Not very much.
And while our scientific reductionist methods are effective to a degree, they also place us in the position of acting very much like blind men gathered around an elephant poking and prodding different portions—legs, trunk, tusks, tail—trying to come up with a reality called "elephant" that's actually an elephant and not some monstrous Frankensteinian construct named elephant.
Yet despite these ginormous gaps and failings of the left-hand part of our brains, we continue to pursue and worship intellectual knowledge as if it were the Holy Grail of Holy Grails, racing to embrace neural-lace brain implants and AI augmentation.
It's like we've given so much belief and hope to this erroneous, left-brain security formula that even though it hasn't delivered, we figure maybe if we can just crunch enough numbers fast enough, surely life will be better? Safer? More predictable? More satisfying?
But … wait a minute, you say. “Don't economists label this exact line of thinking the ‘sunk cost fallacy’?"
Yes, they do.
Options
So, what are our choices?
One approach is to throw science and technology under the bus and live like the Amish and the Mennonites and modern "back to the land" afficionados. And what a relief that would be to many! (Myself included.) To go back into a slower, simpler, nature-based way of living and get out of the insane pressure-cooker of modern life.
And there is a logical rationale for this choice, which is: We're obviously not advanced enough in consciousness—not wise and kind enough—to safely wield advanced technology. Best to put it aside and live more simply until we grow up.
But while this choice may seem appealing, the danger is it becomes yet another formula to embrace as an answer to our issues. We're right back to Rules and Regulations and the "right way" to live and be—a way that if imposed upon everyone, is little more than a totalitarian Luddite regime
Which brings us to Door and Choice #2:
We grow up.
And that entails accepting what our souls already know: That the mind is a brilliant, sharp tool—a tool whose highest and best use is to serve the wisdom of the heart.
A terrible vision
As befits an avid movie-lover and sci-fi fan, I was sitting in a darkened theatre the other day, watching the film Dune 2 … for the second time.
At the end—spoiler alert!—the defeated Emperor Shaddam IV leans in towards the bloodied but victorious Duke Paul Maud'Dib Atreides and poisonously spits: "The reason I had your father killed is because he was a man who ruled from the heart. He was weak."
The first time I saw this line delivered, I reeled in my cushy recliner like I'd been slapped. What??? I thought. Twenty thousand years into the future and we're still playing out this tired old trope?
But, then, how not?
The six Dune novels written by Frank Herbert back in the 1960s are a saga of power and competition between interstellar yet still feudal "noble" houses. Apparently, in Herbert’s mind, it was highly probable the same old delusional story running present-day planet Earth would still be in play in the future in galaxies far far away. And that is:
That the heart and love, feelings and emotions, are pathetic indulgences of weak, impoverished minds and play no valuable, credible role in our lives.
This is the destructive lie our civilization has been built upon. And in that moment, sitting in the darkened theatre, the vision of humanity playing out the same mistaken belief that has us currently pinned and writhing on the mat for another 20,000 years was unimaginably horrific.
Two more years living in this world with the rigid, arrogant, loveless mind in control is harsh enough to imagine. Twenty years seems nearly unendurable to my soul.
But 20,000?
Our great fear
We cling to the mind and reject the thought of letting our hearts guide us because the heart is unpredictable. It defies logic. Its living intelligence often points us towards choices that the mind considers insane.
What????
Let go the business I've spent the last 19 years of my life pouring my guts into just because I have some stupid FEELING that I now want something more? Something more expansive? Something more joyous, alive, and fulfilling? Let go my income, my identity—my child, my creation and all my hopes for it—and move on???? Because this illogical FEELING of desire and excitement and heart-opening is guiding me in new direction???
HELL NO!!!!!
But ... this is where our brightest possible future lies. If we're brave enough to go for it.
Which brings me back around to black holes. If we can take a hard-as-nails, assessing look at where all our KNOWING has brought us—the world we live in today — maybe NOT KNOWING ain’t such a bad idea?
The gravity of love
"The more you exist in not knowing, the more you will be moved by this universe. The more your capacity to receive and to give will grow.
This is it. The life you have dreamed of living is here. It was never how you thought it would be, and you certainty didn't expect everything to be kicking off in the way that it is. But out of this will come a blaze of truth and integrity that will put everything right." ~ Jacqueline Hobbs
I'm beginning to think this black hole—the abyss of not knowing that I fear—is the gravity of love pulling me inexorably closer and closer into its embrace.
There is a growing excitement as I get closer to the event horizon ... a sense of expansion, even a taste of limitlessness. A spaciousness that knows it can and will be filled ... though I know not by or with what.
But the very fact that I am turning away from the known is encouraging. Not that the life I've lived and created and the world I've lived in has been all bad. It hasn't been. Many people and experiences have been beautiful. And the mind can imagine and create wondrous, precious things. But it is a limited realm. And a nightmarish prison if it doesn't know its place.
A lot of people spend a lot of money seeking adventures that will give them the thrill of freefall, jumping out of planes, parachuting off cliffs and high buildings. Maybe it's the excitement of knowing there's a possibility of the ultimate SPLAT!!! at the end if things don't go right?
Personally, I like the idea of jumping into the gravity well of love and seeing where the ride that never ends will take me.
Much love and aloha ~
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About Cate Montana
A professional journalist specializing in alternative medicine and health, Cate is the author of several other books, including Unearthing Venus: My Search for the Woman Within [Watkins 2013], and The E Word, Ego Enlightenment & Other Essentials [Atria 2017], and a spiritual novel titled Apollo & Me. She has a master’s degree in psychology, and is a highly informative and compelling speaker and guest on radio and TV shows and podcasts. She is very grateful to be able to say she lives in Hawaii.
For more information www.catemontana.com
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