If one day you should find yourself standing on the edge of a cliff asking yourself how you got to this point and why it is that you’re thinking of jumping, what would be your response? “My dreams never entered my reality and so there was nothing to live for”? We all go through stages of frustration and pointlessness. I can see you nodding. But do you understand why, when all around you everything appears the same? That’s exactly it: everything is the same and that is what is frustrating. In order for the reality to be the dream, we need to allow the change. And sometimes all that is required is that we let go of the old reality so that the change can happen.

Look at the world from your own paradigm…change is what happens when no one is looking. Because at that point, no one is holding on to the past out of fear. No one is sufficiently focussed to fear. Fear resides in the head – it is our own mental creation. Distract it and the change will happen such that we arrive at the other side quite bewildered as to how we got there.

And so the generations renew the planet through change. The young don’t like the way of the elderly and the elderly don’t like what the youth get up to. The reason is to effect change. Fears are still transferred from one generation to the next; pointless, irrational fears. Pointless and irrational because they were created and owned by the generation before and so do not belong. Yet we, because of our own fear, choose to hang on to these fears and this is what is called the “collective unconscious”, the great energy grid that connects us all (see the hundredth monkey syndrome). Yet, that collective unconscious serves a positive purpose too as everything in this world is neutral: it mirrors your fears in order for you to see them. We wouldn’t be able to see what we looked like if there was nothing to reflect us and so we would find it very difficult to drop all our illusions if we had nothing to show us what they are. And life can be an illusion, lived in the head with very little truth but then lies are what we will attract.

Be strong and look in the mirror that is your world and you will see what you are holding on to. Drop all that and you will live your dream. If we all do that then the planet will live its dream too.

I am reading one of Osho’s works: Being in love. Wow, mind blowing stuff. There is no love in the world, is what he says. You are born knowing nothing but love, but you are vulnerable because you depend on your parents for everything. And that is where the corruption starts. That is where the beliefs of your parents, their friends, your friends, your teachers and all the other members of your collective unconscious start to take hold of you and you get lost. You get lost in all the beliefs that once were justified and relevant but now are just believed. You lose your innocence, your love and the uniqueness and individuality of who you are.

The reason for this is control. We all know someone who has an “uncontrollable” child; a child who fails to conform to acceptable behaviour; one who does their own thing “with no respect for others”. Look at how we are trying to control the child to get them to conform. And we want them to conform to standards and norms that lack the love that we are capable of; standards and norms that have been in place for so long that few know the significance of them. How loving is it to take a child filled with innocence and love and drum the ways of this world into them? No matter what your religion or belief you have to believe that a child is born from a place of more love than what we currently live in. Surely? So what are we doing…unconsciously? We are removing the innocence and uniqueness of a being so that they can fit into a society that we spend everyday trying to fit into in denial of our truth and our very being.

For years I have been living a life for others because of this conditioning. I have always wanted to make people like me and to see them happy as a result of my actions. This has included my parents. In fact, they are the ones I have been most concerned about disappointing. So much so, that I reached a point of going into relationships for the other; because the other wanted to. In so doing, I lost myself and forgot what it is that I want. Fortunately this realisation is never too late as the truth is always with you; you only have to drop the lies. It is easier than it sounds. How do you know whether it is a lie or not? If you can defend yourself when under heavy questioning with a clear heart, then it is your truth. If you see yourself getting overly defensive because you are filled with fear of the illusion crashing around you, then you have found one of the lies to drop. Congratulations! Oh, and it is only difficult to drop them if you hold onto them. Otherwise, they simply fall away!

Okay, so this is meant to be a view on the world. What has been going on? What lies have we been fed and held onto? How have we given our choice away and conformed to the collective? Is YOUR financial situation as bad as THEY believe? Has YOUR life changed for the worst as was predicted? If it has, you have to ask yourself just how much you rely on the opinion of others to determine your health, wealth and happiness. Take back the responsibility for your life and know that you are in charge because it is your life, despite all the conditioning you have carried for all this time – it is still your life and always will be!