To come into flow with the divine design is to rid ourselves of belief systems of hierarchy. We understand that all is an interconnected web of influences running back to the very inception of this experience we call reality. Everything has a residual return. Everything.
In one of my past lives I was an Okyeame in the area now known as Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The lessons I learned during that lifetime I diligently put into practice during this one. To the extent that I can sometimes fear my own power because “absolute power corrupts absolutely” —Lord Action. It is better to be wise than to repeat the same mistakes lifetime after lifetime.
These experiences shaped me in ways that have led me to be a highly detailed critic of any human or entity creating a narrative or energetic imprint in today’s world.
We did not come here to learn the same lessons twice as previously mentioned. Once lessons have been integrated from our soul’s memories they manifest into our everyday magic and can be lived out in their most evolved expressions.
During a shamanic initiation from late 2016 to early 2017 I was bestowed with the knowledge from a whole life of experience as an advisor to a chief. An Okyeame carries a linguist staff and acts as the intermediary between the King and all those seeking council from him.
Lots of karma was accumulated during that lifetime, both positive and negative. These waves of karma have manifested during this lifetime in various forms depending on who and what I am interacting with. Leading to a re-remembrance of the lessons and the value inherent in each word I utter. As well as the powerful ripple effect they have over other people and the world at large.
In this sense the power of word is magnified for me. Words are our most elaborate contributions, both as gifts and as weapons. Sound itself plays a role in this, intonation and poetic or metaphorical embellishment of the messages we convey carries tremendous power.
We co-create reality with them. Layer by layer through time and space, we define and refine that which we wish to create with each other, for each other and through each other. Continuously bringing us back to the question: are we creating with divine intelligence or through lower realm imaginations?
Either way we are always creating together. It is impossible to separate ourselves from one another because we are all in fact sharing the same minde, which is commonly known as the collective consciousness and the collective unconscious. A hermetically sealed mind space is an illusion. Everywhere you look there you are, so where do you wish to co-create from?
There is a difference between expressing authentically and expressing from a place of wholeness. There is a difference between being a chameleon and regurgitating what others have suggested to you or what you have read on a screen or in a book.
To come from a place of wholeness is to heal the inner child. To do the shadow work and attempt to own all parts of self, past and present. To bring the masculine and feminine (anima and animus) forces that exist within yourself together and into harmony. To become a whole being. It is only then that we can be discerning as to whether we are interacting on a healthy level with ourselves and with others for purposes of higher co-creation.
To approach people with dignity and respect means refraining from being dogmatic. When we are dogmatic we attract two types of people. Those who externalize their power and those who are closed minded. Only the wise stay open to what is arising, allowing it to transform us, from the outside in to the inside out. Not for the show of it, not for the power gained in the eyes of others but for our souls evolution. The reason we came back to this school of life.
The power to change and influence people always comes at a cost. We are either doing this from a place of seeking power over others or from a place of sharing experience and knowledge to assist those around us because we ourselves have decided to honour the process of our personal growth and collective evolution. In this sense we choose to initiate ourselves over and over in order to stay in integrity. To live with reason and bear the fruits of consequentialism.
To stay as a healthy contributor to the whole requires us to talk only so much as we walk. And to not bite off more than we can chew so to speak.
It’s a real challenge in today’s world to refrain from selling out our integrity and value systems just to make it to the top of what is an otherwise toxic environment to begin with. The cost is often losing sight of our soul’s mission, connection with each other and with what it means to be a healthy co-creator.
Those that did not weave with integrity became the ones that paved the the road to the problems we find ourselves in today. 90% of global leaders are diagnosed as psychopaths by the time they make it into power because that is what the current system requires of them to make it there.
The inner workings of this system are anti-human and corrupt at its core. If a system requires you to sell parts of your soul to make it to the top of it’s ranks it’s a dead system.
Having experienced a past life where I personally abused of such psychic powers to influence people and populations I can easily identify it in the world around me and know what and what not to let into my sacred temple. These magician can only exist until they are called out for their abuse of power.
Healthy co-creators on the other hand have more to offer the world at this point in time. Creating change not because it will help any specific individual or entity rise up to the top of the big tech ladder, Fortune 500 Company, Big Pharma or Country but because it’s the healthy thing to do in a dying world that has lost touch with what soul crafting truly means.
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“An okyeame is normally called a “linguist” in English, but an okyeame is much more than a linguist. Communication with the Ashanti king or with chiefs and fetish priests will go through an okyeame. The current Ashanti king has thirteen okyeame. Most paramount chiefs have seven and eight. An okyeame must come up with the words, proverb, saying, or metaphor that will most accurately express what the chief is saying or what is being said to the chief. This means that an okyeame must not only be a good speaker but must also know as much or more about the social and political system as the chief he serves. As a symbol of his authority to speak for the chief, the okyeame carries a staff, an okyeame poma. The finial on top of the okyeame poma normally represents an Ashanti proverb or saying.”