Entering the Pathway to Self

Bam! Life throws you a slider. What do you do? Criticize? Suffer through it? Despair? Or do you take a different route by finding meaning in the experience, considering it a transpersonal moment, a pathway to self?

“Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.” ~Eckhart Tolle

The Pathway to Self

“There are places in this world that are neither here nor there, neither up nor down, neither real nor imaginary. These are the in-between places, difficult to find and even more challenging to sustain. Yet they are the most fruitful places of all.” ~ Thomas Moore

Consider some names for places that are neither here nor there, neither real nor imaginary:

• The Between
• Betwixt
• Psi field
• The Zone
• Quantum field
• Collective Unconscious

These places–these pathways to self–are invisible ones that can’t be forced, controlled, or willed into existence.

One must first create a channel between the conscious and unconscious to the place where guidance can be found.

But how?

Entering the Pathway to Self

The channel leading to the place of inner knowledge and breakthrough experience goes by many names, including:

• Portal
• Veil
• Gateway
• Hole in the fabric of reality
• Crossroad
• Threshold
• Mind’s Gate

And this channel/gateway/threshold is not limited to geniuses and visionaries.

With practice, anyone can push the gate of the mind ajar and peep through the door of their being via:

• Relaxation
• Visiualization
• Meditation
• Art
• Journal-keeping
• Surrender

When we let go of our task-oriented, controlling self and follow our impulses moment by moment, magical, threshold experiences occur.

Crossing the Threshold

Between Will and Surrender: Chapters Ten-Eleven

In chapters ten and eleven of my novel, Between Will and Surrender, my protagonist, at the suggestion of her psychologist, goes on a retreat—away from her town, away from her home, away from all that distracts her.

She checks into the Carmel Valley Inn with the intention of slowing down and following some blind alleys. No plans. No commitments. Time to live the questions instead of seeking the answers. How hard can that be?

Slowly, curiosity takes the place of fear toward the spiritual turmoil in her life.

But no sooner does she clear her mind and allow her heart to lead the way than she begins feeling out of her element, as though she has crossed a threshold from which there is no return.

Synchronistic events start to occur: signs, whispers from the Universe, connections that she can’t explain as chance.

Synchronicity

According to Gregg Levoy in his article, Synchronicities: A Sure Sign You’re on the Right Path, “Synchronicities are minor miracles, little mysteries that point to a bigger one, perhaps a central one, of which we are all a part.”

Join me next post to see how magical threshold experiences start showing up in Marjorie’s life, experiences that match the events going on within her.

In the meantime, if you’d like to read up on synchronicity, check out David Wilcock’s “The Synchronicity Key.”