(Creativity as yielding: humility, softness, and vulnerability)
Creativity means making mistakes. It means flexibility and letting go. An idea moves one way and then it moves another. When ideas begin to become real and move into the world of form they encounter resistance and friction from unforeseen complexities and contact with human emotion and drama. We have to be so yielding to see a creative impulse through all the way and it will have a life of its own. Every endeavour, book, play, business has its own destiny.
The really creative people are humble, not fixed. They’re open rather than rigid. They’re soft rather than hard. They’re dull rather than shiny. To be close to the mystery we must be like the mystery. We must be vulnerable, fallible, naked, pliant. To really understand fire, to shape it with our fingers, we must be just like water.
Beauty is fostered by nature. It’s cradled by silence. It’s nurtured by mystery. Forget trying to find beauty on the outside. That’s a wild goose chase, a fool’s game. Beauty is a lens provided by love. It’s a jewel hanging in the immensity of space.
This is why its Shadow is Dislocation, because it’s been dislocated by human consciousness. It’s in the wrong place. It’s been put into second place. It’s been superseded by the masculine, by evolution. The feminine is being, the masculine is becoming. We have to understand that there is nothing wrong here. No one need be concerned. It’s a perfect mistake! Evolution has an agenda. Evolution is an agenda.
All agendas emerge from distrust in life. It doesn’t mean we don’t act to help, but we help as a response from our love. We don’t help because we feel lost and we need something to fill the void. It’s so rare to find a truly loving heart in this life – a heart that doesn’t want to help us, a heart with no agenda.
(Agendas as distrust; the rare heart with no need to help)
How do we find our way in life? How do we know what to do in life? How do we know what’s right? These very questions are so revealing. They presuppose that we’ve totally lost our way. The rest of nature doesn’t ask these questions.
Every human being one day reaches a stage in which they get so tired of looking outside for home, they get so disappointed by the outer world, that finally they begin to turn inwards and seek the true source of their suffering. We have to follow the river back towards its source.
(Surrendering to every moment: trust as a torus of transformational force)
The more we surrender to everything, to every moment as perfect, the more oriented we become. The more we drop our agendas, our trying, our incessant concerns about our lives and those around us, the more we radiate the presence inside us. Then the magic occurs. Our aura, our vibration, animates our environment. It opens up the currents of the quantum field; it catalyses transformation. We become a force of orientation for all life forms. Simply by doing nothing we become a field of transformational forces. The Gift of Orientation is so profound that it creates a torus around us. That is what our trust does, we trust the suffering of another. We open our hearts to them without agenda, and they receive our trust at a cellular level. Energetically, we let others know that fear is safe. Fear is safe. That’s the key sentence to this Gift. Let it sink into us deeply. Fear is safe.
The consciousness is so light, so delicate, so feminine. It’s the subtlest breeze. It’s indescribable.
But if the endlessly dead could awake a symbol in us, perhaps they would point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel-trees…
It is our ordinariness, but inside, it contains everythingness.
In the tradition of the Hindu school of ‘Advaita Vedanta’, this is why they don’t refer to it as Oneness, but rather ‘not two’. There aren’t two things anymore. There is no separation. Everything is entangled with everything else. Everything is locked in a dance with itself.
It’s the Divine Feminine, and the Divine Feminine is a mystery. It contains the masculine, so we can no longer call it feminine.
Every experience is perfect. Every experience is suffused with Grace when we’re able to hear it. Transformation is life. To be transformed is to be completely relaxed, like water. It’s to trust in the timing of everything. It’s even to trust in fear. This is what these transformational keys show us; trust the Shadow, it contains a Gift. Trust everything, and go on trusting everything. Trust everyone. Trust our disappointments, trust our sexuality, trust our longing, trust our boredom, trust our sadness, trust corruption, trust conspiracy, trust the world. Trust the whole shebang. Know that we can never be lost and we can never be wrong because we are life itself.
Melt into the dream that’s life. Let our heart flow out into the sea of creation. Just surrender ourself to life. Become soft, become like water.
Everything on the human plane is about making compromises, because we’re not quite born whole. We’re born with a question mark etched on our soul, and our lives will revolve around that question mark…
(Inner compromise as the root of self-betrayal)
To learn how to stop compromising is the journey to awakening. It’s the journey out of the darkness into the light. I also want to get the basic definition of compromise really clear, because it’s so easily misunderstood.
What’s interesting about this scenario is what’s going on on the inside. If we decide to stay because our love for our partner is greater than our disappointment, then we haven’t made an inner compromise. We’ve honoured the integrity of our love and relationship. If on the other hand, we decide to go out and enjoy ourself while our partner stays at home feeling terrible, perhaps we’ve made an inner compromise, a compromise of our love, of the integrity of our relationship, and even our own honour.
The inside is where the gold lies hidden, to learn how to overcome our selfish tendencies to compromise our higher self, our integrity. To live without inner compromise is to live a life of deep honour and virtue.
The Dilemma of this Shadow is Self-Belief. People have stopped believing in themselves. People are content to be tiny little ants running about just maintaining the world. Ra, my teacher from my Human Design days, had a terrible expression for such people, but it’s true – he called them ‘furniture’. That was his dark sense of humour. It’s true that if we compromise our hearts in life, we’re nothing more than furniture on the great movie set.
We may also feel that we’re trapped, if we’ve been living a very compromised life. But we’re never trapped. If we begin right now to make small decisions and actions that don’t compromise our sense of inner integrity, then even one uncompromising act a day will make a difference.
line in the hexagram, that leader, suddenly knows what to do, and we can launch our ship. Once we have a clear vision, it’s all downhill from there – I mean in a good way. The forces of the cosmos bend to our will; they have no choice but to serve our vision. But we must be patient. We must have our vision absolutely clear inside us and continually nurture it. The danger of this Gene Key is always greed. The danger is that at any time we may be tempted to compromise our dream and to compromise our integrity for some kind of shortcut. The wagon rolls at its own sedate pace, and the more patient we are the more it picks up speed. Competence is an electric force, a dynamic Gift – it’s not just about being good at things. It contains the spark of enthusiasm that creates a cohesive team, that inspires a group to achieve great things.
(Syntropy and bounteousness: love as self-refuelling solar giving)
All we need is one 14th Gene Key in the team, because its power gets transferred through the group aura by means of the vision of higher service that the group holds. This is the basis of the principle of Syntropy – the mechanics of collective prosperity, whereby the total energy – or money – through a system is exponentially increased through an ideal rooted in a higher level of consciousness.
This is Possession in Great Measure, and that’s the definition of love. He or she who loves unconditionally generates, like the sun, huge inner wealth and radiance. This in turn generates friends, opportunities, blessings and above all, more love. Love begets love. Remember this always.
The 14th Gift is a wonderful power to have inside. The key is not to isolate ourselves. You’d be surprised how many 14th Gene Keys do this. They would rather work alone, but this is only fear. If we dig a little, we’ll find the fear. Most of the time it’s the fear of success. It’s the fear of being powerful. Poverty consciousness, which is what the Shadow field is built upon, does not want us to be great. It wants to keep us small. It hides behind false humility.
It’s about gratitude. I was so grateful to that little spark. I was so grateful to the elements for giving me that gift. Bounteousness comes from that vast sense of gratitude. It’s the gratitude for the spark of life. When we nurture that spark of gratitude inside ourselves, then it becomes a steady flame.
The Sun gives of itself endlessly, tirelessly. Its gratitude is infinite. It’s continually refuelled through the power of its own giving. This is bounteousness. It’s to give and give and give. There is no whiff of take. Take has all gone when we get to this Siddhi. We’ve reached unity, and unity is based on love and giving. Of course, with giving comes receiving, but receiving is different from taking. Receiving fuels our gratitude. The more we give, the more we’re given, and the more we’re given, the more grateful we feel.
There must always be a Shadow, and there will always be those who hide in the Shadow. They tend to hide in numbers, together, where they feel the illusion of safety.
Many of us don’t even know what it feels like to be hungry anymore. We eat before we’re hungry, so we miss out on that feeling of emptiness that gives life its edge. At every turn we dull our senses – we dull them with technology, smart phones, films. We dull ourselves with the inessential trivia of our voyeurism.
At one point, as I sat in silence with my eyes closed, smiling softly, I suddenly felt all these little creatures like demons or goblins. They had fastened grappling hooks and ropes to the ends of my mouth, and they were pulling down on my smile to make me stop smiling. My mind battled with them for some time, until finally I let go, stopped smiling, and they were gone! Again, the point of the story is that those demons are now built into our society. From all quadrants, comfort is like a siren song to blunt our sharp edges, to make us soft and take life for granted.
accumulation. So we must ask ourself, is our life sticky?, or do we move through our days like a knife slicing through butter?
existence. The 41st Gene Key relates to the very first of the symbols in the Tarot, the Fool. The Fool represents the beginning and the end of the story, the alpha and the omega.
When I come to these Siddhis I love to use stories. Last week I took my boys to see a film at the cinema, one of those Marvel films, Dr. Strange. As is often the case, these kinds of films hide coded truths with which the younger generations deeply resonate. They go for the Emanation because in their cells they’re anticipating the Siddhis, our collective future. There were several very deep truths in this film. My favourite was that the hero, Dr. Strange has to do a deal with the devil at the end. I’m paraphrasing here. He manages to lock himself into a time-loop with the devil in order to bargain with him. The devil refuses to bargain and kills him. Dr. Strange keeps returning and the devil keeps killing him. He’s effectively caught the devil in a trap because he’s willing to keep coming back and lose to the devil, which makes the devil his prisoner.
Gene Key 42 THE WAY OF detachment Shadow: Expectation Gift: Detachment Siddhi: Celebration Programming Partner: Gene Key 32 Dilemma: Dissapointment Codon Ring: The Ring of Life and Death The Transformational Way of the 42nd Gene Key moves from Expectation to Celebration, and it’s the Way of Detachment. In the Gene Keys at a mystical level, there are alchemical paths, Christ paths, and Buddha paths. This 42nd Gene Key has strong aspects of Buddha’s teachings. As we move deeper into the Gene Keys and the Codon Rings, we’ll notice aspects of each of these paths in the individual Keys. The 42nd is in the Ring of Life and Death, with teachings about living and dying and birth and death.
(Safety in the shadow: facing fear dissolves it)
We have to remember that we are safe. That’s what maturity means, remembering how to breathe again, remembering what it really means to be human.
The challenge is how to feel safe in a world that doesn’t easily let us relax. We rarely feel truly secure in our skins. If we did then we would feel safe even in our suffering. Our suffering is the place where the journey begins. It’s supposed to be there, to wake us up. When we listen to the feeling of unsafeness inside our body, our attention to it dissipates it, melts it. The Shadow is a good thing because it leads in the direction of the heart.
How do we overcome our insecurity and remember that we are truly safe? It’s the same answer in all the Gene Keys – face the Shadow, feel it, embrace it. Know the nature of the fear that lives inside us. When we feel it, we can give it the space it needs inside us and it’ll be transformed.
All the Codons within us create a harmonic resonance. It’s like when we put a magnet beneath a piece of paper that’s covered in iron filings. They all form beautiful organised patterns, but the magnetic field itself is invisible. The universe is like that; trust is like that. We just come into alignment with the whole cosmos, and we feel calm and ease, no matter what we’re going through.
Once we realise that we no longer need to compete with each other to survive, the next stage is figuring out how to work together. This is a great challenge and the 45th Gene Key is adept at this. It’s not so much about teamwork as facilitation.
The 45th Gift knows that any group has its own self-organising principle and that if it’s given enough time and space, it’ll eventually find a natural higher harmony.
This is where trust stems from and synergy comes into play. It uses the interference patterns of the Shadow to create the higher order. The amazing thing is that this higher order already exists in another dimension.
In almost every religion there’s a tradition of having a day or two of rest. On this day we put aside our business and either pray, eat, sleep, fast, or spend time with our family. Whatever we do, it isn’t supposed to be about work. This is the origin of the word holiday – the Holy day, the day set aside for contemplation, for the essential. I find Sundays fascinating! If you’ve ever got up early on a Sunday morning and gone outside, there’s this aura hanging over the land. It seems almost as if even the birds are in on it. There’s this Sunday Consciousness, a descending silence that sets the day apart.
The funny thing about this feeling is that it’s a total illusion. It’s fake, fabricated. We made up the days of the week.
Money is our great symbol for the value of time. Money makes the world go round, gives us only one day a week off, and three or four weeks in a year. We don’t often think about these things, but does that sound natural?
the silence, the spaciousness, the trust. No ‘why am I here?’, no ‘what do I have to do?’ Just being here is enough. Imagine dying after a life like that. It would be no different from living. We just drift in, and drift out; no need to even miss each other. We’re just coming and going, coming and going, for millennia and millennia. Timeless.
I’ve experienced the Siddhic state and it’s very far from boring. It’s blissful. In fact I don’t think dullness exists at those frequencies. Imagine what we might do with all that time, such as become a polymath whose genius is spread across multiple fields. Everyone might have an intelligence like that, and there would certainly be no need for money. We’ll have figured out energy by then too; we’ll have discovered the secret of free energy.