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Metaphysical Easter

Have you ever had a crucifixion/resurrection experience? I've had 2 big ones in my life, and they weren't very pretty.

These are the experiences where you feel like your life and existance is destroyed in some real way. In my case, both times I had to give up important beliefs about me and about life that I thought were true and, seeing a phase of my life end in flames, start over again from scratch. Each time I became a significantly different person - wiser, I hope, but time will tell.

The second of these two experiences was the most severe and complete. In a 18 month period, I left a marriage that was dysfunctional, traumatic and increasingly violent, and then walked away from my corporate career. Stripped of my self-assurance about almost everything, it was a real crucifixion.

Here's the good news if you ever have to deal with this in your life. I found that when I got emptied of what I thought I knew, I became teachable. Out of the teachableness came the resurrection into the life I have now - an unbelievably great marriage and work that I love.

See, I didn't even know that I was unteachable. I was just confidently opinionated about a lot of stuff. As Mark Twain said, "It's not what we don't know that's the problem; it's what we do know that ain't so that's the problem."

My motivation for becoming teachable was not particularly high-class. I just wanted to find out how I had created such a pile of crap in my life so that I would NEVER do it again. Any motivation will do if it moves you in the right direction! So with the help of some great teachers like Bob Proctor, Dr Mike Buck, Richard Rogers, Emile Cady, Flo Dibblie and others I got to work.

You know the old saying about "When the student is ready the teacher appears." You can count on it. Make a committed decision and ask the Universe for the information. Then pay attention.
All my teachers were there all the time, but I was blind to them until I was ready to listen.

Everything I do now is part of the resurrection out of that crucifixion. I discovered my life's work, my spirituality, and the love of my life. The book I'm writing, "You Can Have It!" is a direct result of what I learned about the mind from Bob Proctor and what I learned about relationships from my own miserable experience.

One of the 7 great laws is the Law of Opposites (or Polarity) which says that every experience has two equal and opposite aspects. If it looks really bad, there is a really good part you can find if you look. You may not be able to see it right away, but with time and looking, you'll find it.

posted by Wes Hopper @ 11:07 AM