WHAT STORIES ARE YOU TELLING YOURSELF during this NOW time? Our stories are prophetic and the stories we are telling ourselves now (or the lack of new stories) are creating our future. How can our future be different from our past if we are telling ourselves the same stories?

We hear so much about this transitional time. That we are moving from third dimensional consciousness to fourth dimensional consciousness, yet what does that really mean? What kind of a picture do you have about “our future”?

A number of years ago my family took a three-month trip around the United States and Canada. It was a marvelous adventure. We camped most of the time and I was deeply impressed by the beauty, history and wonders as we drove through the land. Because of our eight year old, we camped at Disneyworld and also took in the Epcot Center. I found the exhibits of the different countries creative and exciting. They easily captured our emotions. Yet the pavilion of the future was flat, uncreative and unexciting. I was flabbergasted by the utter poverty in forecasting our future. The future pavilion was in stark contrast to everything else at Epcot Center.

Recently, I was reminded of our visioning limitation. My wife and I were talking about this transitional time. As we often do when we are driving, we were brainstorming about possibilities. We could easily talk about the present and the various aspects of 3D living. However, when we decided to talk about the future, the transformational future, we ran into a roadblock. Although it was easy to contrast what we didn't like about a fear-based modality, and hence make statements in opposition to living in fear, we found it difficult to be very specific about what we were supposedly moving towards. We were shocked by our visionary poverty.

Have you noticed how our stories are often reactionary? I paint pictures of what I am against. I spend a great deal of energy highlighting what I don't like. Our storytelling can easily take on the characteristics of a “pity party” or “ain't it awful?” session. This aspect is similar to the medical model, which is really a model based on disease, and hence we basically define health as a lack of disease.

I find the same mentality of focusing on lack or blockages or limitations of any kind to be the basis for most therapeutic practices. In fact, even though I have worked as a therapist most of my professional life, I believe the time of therapy, as such, is past. We no longer need to follow this methodology. In this transitional time, we take the position of power and leave behind the 3D position of victim. We don't have to earn this rite of passage, it is ours for the taking. “Yes, buts” will definitely allow one to keep one's old companion “victimhood” if one so desires. Our choices are power choices and they are prophetic. I believe the focus in this NOW time is whatever increases our light, fills us with wonder, helps us to see the universe as benevolent. Our stories of poverty or lack or faults are self fulfilling and cyclical. It is time we left this 3D navel gazing and move into our birthright of creative evolution.

The new posture is one of “I AM" stance. This is a posture of freedom, not a journey to prove oneself. We have been sold a bill of goods. We bought into the belief that we are damaged goods. This concept is great for therapy, great for religions, but lousy for creative spirituality. We are the Alpha and the Omega. We are not only the clay but the potter. Isn't it time we accepted the fact and began enjoying the experience?

I remember a number of years ago leading an exercise in a stress management group. The idea was to help individuals get a picture, image or symbol of their present health or state of illness. Most of the class could readily come up with some very powerful symbols or pictures of problems or health issues in their lives. When they drew the pictures or spoke about these issues, they were highly energized; the words or drawings were heavy with emotions. However, when they drew or spoke of how they wanted things to be different or how they saw the future, although they could speak or draw in colorful terms, the emotional impress of the pictures or words were significantly less than those of their problems or illness. It's almost like we see our problems in color and our dreams in black and white.

Since I believe that the stories we tell ourselves are prophetic, I wonder what stories are we telling ourselves in this NOW Time. This transitional time is a time of chaos, of weirdness, of constant glitches. Focusing on this 3D field of limitation and problems keeps us in the victim mode and denial of the “I AM.” We don't control or “solve” chaos or weirdness or constant glitches by focus or will power or denial. Rather than limiting our vision we expand our vision. We take on the universal mind, the Zen mind. We accept who we truly are. We have “enjoyed” being passengers long enough. We now move into the driver's seat.

If we are not creating new stories, we are prophesying old stories (recycling old drama-trauma), societal partylines, 3D belief systems. If my wife and I, who have been involved with metaphysics most of our lives, find a certain visionary poverty, are others experiencing the same?

I hope that by bringing this topic to focus, it will free my own story telling and that of others. In fact, wouldn't it be wonderful to get together with a group, to leave behind credentials or whatever badges we have earned, and share our story of the NOW time, not one story but interweaving, one story sparking another, highlighting, contrasting in a fullness of a rich epiphany of creation? In short, consciously creating our future, together.

An experiential adaptation of the concept “from poverty to riches.”

Awesome is as Awesome does! Happy, creative storytelling!

© Bob Basham, 2003

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bob Basham is a life-long spiritual seeker. He has taken the journey as monk, counselor, teacher, trainer, mystic. He was founder and former director of Kairos Center for Holistic Health. He spent 8 years in semi retreat to appreciate and understand the transformational process. He now lives as an intuitive guide, bridging and grounding the new energies; an elder and poet specializing in life transitions. Bob lives in San Antonio with Pat, his wife and co-seeker, and Yoda, their cat. His e-mail address basham@stic.net