GIVING UP THE PAST

We are told by our mentors, that we must give up the past in order to be in the moment. The moment, the NOW, where all peace, love and happiness is. We not only miss being in the moment by attention to the past; the past that we mull over, endlessly in our minds, is usually fraught with self criticism or blame.

Most of us are making progress. It sometimes doesn't seem that way, because we are so much more attuned to our minds workings, and we are aware when, we sink into some negative reverie. There was a time, when we wouldn't have noticed much, when we were absorbed by past thoughts, now we notice, indeed.

It is a difficult challenge. We have been programmed for a millennium to be self critical. It is a big change, not going over our past with a critical eye. Yet, we experience great rewards knowing the freedom from the assaults, we periodically victimized ourselves with. As we give up thoughts of our past, our periods of peace grow. We regard our selves more highly and we begin to get a glimpse of the great beings of light that we are.

Giving up our personal past is complex, because it often comes to us in feelings that are buried deeply, as a result of past hurt. They may arise again and again, even though, we thought we had forgiven adequately and were ready to move on. Let us not despair, that is a very familiar human condition. It does stop, as we pay less and less attention to the invitation to indulge in the negativity. We are learning. We are getting better and better at being in the NOW.

As we give up our personal past, we will see more clearly, the need to give up our ideas of our global past. By global past I mean: the history of our past as a group; including racial, political, religious, architectural, anthropological, archeological, national- that's right- everything.  

The folks that were dominate, at the moment, created the history. All history is written with the ideas of maintaining dominance. Of course, this is especially true in the history of nations, but is, also, true in anthropology, archeology etc. It is often true that the more important a person is in his field, the bigger the ego. Big egos are often behind hypothesis formation and theoretical exploration. Folks with divergent views are often made fun of or otherwise marginalized. Possible routes of exploration are never taken; if they are not popular with the bigger egos, they are ignored or not funded.

The more sensitive the area, the more likely the history will be distorted. Therefore, an area like religion, which is both highly political and historical, is subject to the greatest distortion. Wherever, in our history religion is wedded to politics [always], we have maximum distortion. The easiest way to maintain manipulation of a population is through their belief systems, especially their spiritual belief systems. For the last two thousand years religion has been used to dominate the individual and make him submissive.  

It appears that we know a great deal about our past, but much of what we think we know, is not trustworthy, and what we, outright don't know, far exceeds what we do know.

We are on the verge of great discoveries concerning who we are. There is evidence of great civilizations existing long before we thought it was possible. Our minds are just opening up to possibilities, we wouldn't consider a few years ago.

Much of the past has been written, consciously or unconsciously, to keep us subjected to those who would like to have power over us. In our hearts we know the truth. Let us accept only what resonates with us. The truth is freeing, it increases our capacity to love. Let us look for the truth that sets us free.

Love and Peace,  Gregg