Beyond the seduction of power
Getting back to the journey called creation — The Power to Manifest Part 4
I confess I couldn't bear to watch the first 2024 US "Presidential Debate" last week. I did, however, manage to get through 30 minutes of cringe-worthy highlights ... or rather "lowlights" of what was patently not a debate. And if by "presidential" we mean something honorable, substantive, credibly intelligent and noteworthy ... it wasn't "presidential" either.
I wish I could get it up to be jokey or lighthearted about what happened on stage that night. Or caustic and sarcastic. Or even bitter. But that would be giving the pathetic farce that played out in front of millions too much credit. More than anything else at this point, I am left with feelings best portrayed by Edvard Munch's 1893 painting, The Scream. (See image above.)
That my country and the rest of the world have come to such a low point of self-awareness that 90 minutes of highly-moderated viciousness, disdain, name calling, distorted "facts," and painfully obvious senile ramblings could be given any credibility whatsoever—let alone warrant serious political commentary and network air time—is beyond belief.
The emperor is totally naked and nobody seems to have noticed. Or maybe people are just too sick, tired, and stressed to care.
Or maybe it's the fact that we've been hypnotized into believing that this is really how life and people are just supposed to be.
The quick fix
For the last several weeks I've been dissecting the Power to Manifest and the massive issues around it—from radical exaggeration of the science "proving" the power of mind over matter, to the practice's grotesque over-commercialization in the New Age arena and the spiritual materialism it has fostered, to its questionable alliance with what can only be called magic.
The seductive draw of gaining personal power over the material world—the dangers of which are both epic and legendary—cannot be denied. And then, on top of all this, there’s the power to manifest’s "Easy Street" cachet.
If we do it right, manifestation is supposed to be effortless. And it is, relatively speaking. (Please read last week's installment Surfing the Zuvuya.) But doing it "right" by aligning with nature and doing it the way personal manifestation is taught in books and workshops in the marketplace are two totally different things.
The commercialized version of personal manifestation is the quick fix, the short cut we powerful divine beings are supposed to be able to employ once we figure out the mechanics of thought and how it impacts the quantum field.
Forget the journey and all the steps involved in … oh, let’s say, becoming a millionaire the human way. Just manifest the lottery. Or manifest a jump in timelines and become the version of yourself whose Great Uncle Ted is a childless billionaire who dies and leaves you everything. Or kill two birds with one stone and manifest a soul mate who happens to be filthy rich.
POOF! Done deal.
Dissing the physical
For a very long time, the mass-to-mass method of creation has been sold as a far lesser path than employing mind over matter techniques.
It's less “spiritual.” Less evolved because it involves sweat and tears and calluses and effort, time and process. It means getting dirty, physically and metaphorically, and usually involves other people. And when other people are involved in a creation, things tend to get complicated. Worse, needing the efforts and contributions of others detracts from the singular potency and greatness of the manifester going it alone to bring his/her vision to life.
What an ego trip the power to manifest is! How perfectly it fits the current materialistic paradigm. And … I actually never saw it before. But it’s also a practice that shows great disdain for Earth and for natural “physical” processes.
The fantasy
I have not been immune to the glamor of personal manifestation. I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to simply snap their fingers—like Samantha, the good witch in the 1960s TV show Bewitched—and have stuff instantly materialize? Or go away?
Bye-bye cancer. Bye-bye hip pain. Hello flat abs. Hello eternal youth. Hello mansion on the hill with the Ferrari that gets me to the docks where my private yacht awaits.
SNAP!
It's seductive as hell.
Easy, instant gratification every moment of every day of my eternal life.
Yawn.
Fun for awhile. Then absolutely, utterly, suffocatingly stultifying. No wonder the “gods” are so often portrayed endlessly warring with one another. They’re bored out of their skulls and don’t even have the imagination and insight to understand why.
Reality bites
The clown show called the recent debate made it painfully apparent that there is absolutely nothing in the old world I grew up in that hasn't transmogrified into a monstrosity.
Democracy is turning into Big Brother totalitarianism. Politics is mime and puppetry. Media and journalism are propaganda. Healthcare is a corporate murder-for-profit scheme. Education turns free spirits into crippled drones. Men are now women and can bear children. Entertainment is entrainment into violence, mindless sex, and dysfunction.
Lies are truth and truths are lies.
Globalists chuckle as we pay for products that poison us, hypnotize us, and invade our privacy. Synthetic bio-unavailable glop is replacing $25/pound beef. Child sex-trafficking has reached monumental proportions. AI has penetrated everything. And a billionaire is developing technology to spray crap into the stratosphere to dim sunlight around the whole planet to save us from global warming.
I stood in line for 35 minutes this morning at Spectrum waiting to pick up a new higher speed modem for my residential Wi-Fi, watching grossly unhappy-looking, sick, fat people enter the store, robotically check in on a computer and then fixate on their phones while they waited. All over the walls monitors blared the good news about 5G services, 250 new channels on cable, 85,000 shows available for instant viewing, invasive new "health" monitoring software from Apple, wristwatches that count steps, tracking us everywhere we go.
Part of me wanted to grab and shake each person shrieking "Wakeup!!" like something out of the movie They Live. I wanted to shake myself ... shake myself out of the devastating sense of helplessness I feel watching nearly eight billion people racing into the gaping maw of a dissolving reality—most not even seeing it coming.
As Munch wrote in his diary, January 22, 1892, about the inspirational origins of The Scream:
“I was walking along the road with two friends – then the Sun set – all at once the sky became blood red – and I felt overcome with melancholy. I stood still and leaned against the railing, dead tired – clouds like blood and tongues of fire hung above the blue-black fjord and the city. My friends went on, and I stood alone, trembling with anxiety. I felt a great, unending scream piercing through nature.”
A great, unending scream piercing through nature ...
That pretty much says it all.
Temptation
I freely admit I have long fantasized about jumping timelines and landing myself in a world where none of this is happening. Where the long scream of horror is far behind us or never occurred in the first place. Where I simply wake up in another time/space reality, sighing in relief, thinking, It was all just a bad dream.
For years this was my focus.
Mired deeply in New Age spirituality, my absolute intention was on ascending to a plane of permanent bliss ... which, of course, is simply a more exotic Eastern way of saying "heaven."
Every meditation I engaged was about getting out of my body, getting away from Earth, and going to the Light.
It was well meaning on my part. I was just one amongst millions of nice people in the New Age community who simply couldn't stand the pain anymore. Who wanted out.
Eventually I grew to the point that I switched my focus from leaving Earth to healing the Earth, joining the millions of people who want our planet to be a better, happier, more loving place. Who want to live in a world where life is honored, respected, and partnered with, not exploited. Where creativity, fulfillment, play and adventure are the norm rather than the exception.
The beautiful thing is, so many peoples’ long-standing, ever-growing desire for a better, more loving world is what is manifesting a better, more loving world.
It's happening.
And the reason it's happening so fast now—the reason the world is turning to shit before our very eyes—is because this desire is in full alignment with the desire of life itself. Our desire is, as Jacqueline Hobbs, aka Oracle Girl would put it: “in alignment with nature's principles.”
We're backing the right horse. Riding the right wave, surfing the Zuvuya of all existence headed to a destiny that has always been planned, that has always been inevitable.
But here's the deal: It's not going to happen magically.
It's not happening because a few million souls are focused on a vision board with the words "A BETTER EARTH FOR ALL" written on it. That's not how life works. Life requires investment in life itself. Boots on the ground, hands dirty, actively getting involved in things that are in alignment with the intention "A better Earth for all."
So, what does that mean?
It means to the best of your ability, your entire life—thoughts, emotions, actions, choices, and relationships—must be actively aligned with the vision itself.
And even then, nature ultimately decides if it manifests.
You can't meditate on peace and then go to work at Raytheon where the latest advanced laser weaponry is being developed. Or focus on peace without being willing to do the enormously hard work of getting your own emotional house in order and engage all the dark shadowy places inside keeping you from that peace yourself.
You can't follow draconian mandates that fly in the face of sovereignty and freedom and still expect to be free. You can't meditate on health and then passively accept untested, damaging pharmaceuticals into your body while believing that magically "white lighting" the contents of the syringe will take care of the situation.
Aligning with life means aligning with life.
Not fantasy.
Unglamorous work
We've been intentionally made to lose track of how magical life really is just as it is.
We've lost track because highly destructive, inimical forces have been working against life, grace, and flow for a very long time. Humanity has been manipulated and held down for so long—life has intentionally been made so difficult and stressful—it's no wonder the journey has lost its appeal.
So, if boots on the ground and shoulders to the wheel seem unappealing compared to visualization, lists, positive thinking and dreaming, I understand. We're not accustomed to reaping many rewards for our physical efforts.
Well, this time will be different.
This time all of life/nature is on our side. This time there is a tidal wave of needed change behind us, pushing the trend. This time, there just might be enough "wake up" energy being generated to blow the fairy dust from most peoples’ eyes.
The next few years aren't going to be easy. Surfing the kind of wave we're on takes skill, focus and grit. But we're in this together. The resources each one of us has in the people around us are huge—if we're willing to lay down the unhealthy programs of "independence" and mistrust that have been instilled in us and come together.
It is likely that the people in your life who are truly aligned with life who can provide support for real change aren't part of your family. And they come wearing disguises. It's your local coffee barista whose brief comments in the morning tell you she knows what's really going down. The woodworker down the road who gives shelter to the homeless. The neighbor raising her own chickens.
Unassuming people, perhaps not even educated, perhaps who adhere to the "wrong religion" or the "wrong political party" who, nonetheless, aren't afraid to work hard and show up on the side of love and freedom for all.
I think we're magnetizing each other. Recognizing each other despite the disguises. Invisibly creating an alliance that will, eventually, create the world we want to see. But it will take the diligent worldly efforts of all of us to make it happen.
And that, I think, is magic enough.
Much love and aloha ~
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About Cate Montana
I’m a professional journalist specializing in alternative medicine and health, and the author of several 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. I have a master’s degree in psychology. A lot of TV, radio and podcast show hosts as well as listeners around the world have told me I’m an interesting and informative—even compelling—speaker. To which I say “Thank you.” Talking is something I enjoy doing even more than writing! (It’s more immediate and connected.)
I am extremely blessed to have been called to Maui and grateful every day to awaken here.
For more information you can reach me at www.catemontana.com and info@catemontana.com
Well said, Cate!! I also appreciate Jacqueline's (Oracle Girl) simple approach to our true power in connection with all of Nature and the Universe! Staying in alignment with Life! Yes!!!!
Beautiful Cate,
Simply beautiful! Yes: “Aligning with life means aligning with life”. This is a deep daily meditation, so multilayered. May we all heed the call. NOW.