Ride the Unknown: From Ego Fear to True-Self Freedom

Today, I would like to talk about the “unknown” and the effect it has in our lives. We feel that it is our enemy and not our friend. Our current understanding of the “unknown” is that it represents danger and uncertainty and that it’s better to stick with the “known”. But of course, this is not true. Not everything “unknown” is dangerous, just like everything “known” is not harmless. Let’s not generalize here. Not knowing what we don't know makes us anxious and distrustful of the “unknown”, rejecting it out of hand.

However, knowing on one hand that the universe is infinite in all aspects and on the other hand that there are learning experiences waiting literally behind EVERYTHING we experience, it stands to reason, that we can learn from it. It is not us who reject the “unknown”. It is our ego, because the “unknown” will rock its boat. Remember, the ego doesn't want to change the status quo, and it doesn't want to change the conditions in our life, unless it’s initiating changes itself. It is trying to control our lives by introducing change when such change suit it or rejects change when it believes that change is forced upon it.

Control of others and our environment is the preferred tool of the ego to keep us safe, or so we believe through its belief systems. The fight or flight impulse originates from the urge to control. But what would you say, if I told you, that we cannot control our lives. Not really. Sure, we can plan for every imaginable contingency, but what about any contingencies we can’t imagine? Then we shrug and say, "Life happened". Let’s remember Mike Tyson’s famous quote: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” The Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns said basically the same: “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley”, from his poem “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough”, meaning no matter how carefully you plan, something may still go wrong. There is a Yiddish proverb that goes, “Man plans, God laughs”. This is rather self-explanatory. The Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder said, “No battle plan survives contact with the enemy”. This quote was repeated by Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz. US General Dwight D. Eisenhower paraphrased, saying “In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Plans must be constantly adjusted. The “unknown” is much larger than the “known”. This is the quantum concept of the observer in action. Observing something alters its properties and thereby our perception of it. Let’s face it. Original planning is doomed to fail. That’s because we don’t “know” the “unknown”. That’s why it’s literally called the “unknown”. Our conscious, limited self tries to prepare for and basically defend itself from a future that it doesn’t know. Only our true Self knows, and it does so in a way that our small, limited self could never grasp. Quantum probabilities are constantly reshuffling universal forces based on factors that we don’t understand and can’t control. Period. These factors are beyond our reach and more importantly, they were never meant to be within our reach.

Most people are obsessed with planning. I'm sure you've heard of the saying "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". Everybody plans. If only one individual was planning, the results would be more in line with what our ego wants. However, plans of one individual can be detrimental to plans of another individual. We observe something and it changes. That’s quantum physics 101. Wave-particle duality, quantum superposition and quantum entanglement are all in motion based on quantum probabilities and are the influence of the observer effect. They are making sure that every plan needs constant adjustment. It is true that in our Western society we need to plan our lives, but is this truly the way to go? Monks in monasteries don't plan. They are immersed in spiritual activities. Anybody living off the land would live in a similar way. These people just follow established ways to live with the land by being, instead of thinking. If you ponder about our inability to control others and our environment, you would agree. Let's look at it logically. We are living our lives in Western society. There are things that we need to plan for. Food, shelter, amenities for life, they all need to be taken care of. We need to work to pay for all the above. We believe that work will generate an income that will help us pay the cost of living. In other words, we are paying dearly for our existence. You might think, "Hold on… Why are we paying for our existence? We are not paying for our existence!?"

And you would be right. From the perspective of the ego, this is correct, although it is rooted in denial. Our ego would not accept this statement as valid. Yet, everything costs something and we pay for it, sometimes dearly, while being exposed to financial predators or the financial system itself, which favours the haves at the expense of the have-nots. We are attached to money, going after money, any way possible, believing that holding it in our possession will enable us to live better by spending it to exert control over others and our environment. From the perspective of our true Self, we are not paying for our existence, as our existence is multi-facetted and multidimensional, so this is also not true for our true Self. So, what's wrong? There is clearly something wrong here, otherwise the statement "cost of living" wouldn't affect us so much. The problem is not so much about money itself, although it is indeed the root of all evil from a higher perspective. The problem is embedded within the structure of Western society, where everything is tied to a way of life that requires us to earn an income to stay on the hamster wheel of the ego's need to survive. Our “dog-eat dog” society is all about hustling. This is why living in it has a cost of living attached to it as a means of modern enslavement. The more "advanced" the Western country is that we're living in, the higher the cost of living typically.

Exactly this is what makes the ego think about the future and anything “unknown”, that might threaten our lives and our survival. Due to the linear nature of time in 3D consciousness density, we cannot perceive the future the same way we perceive the past. Over time we have equated the concept of the “unknown” with uncertainty and danger, unaware that from the perspective of the true Self that the “unknown” contains only learning experiences. It is the limited worldview of the ego that we trust, which keeps us from experiencing more learning experiences, making our consciousness evolution slow and cumbersome.

If we had a sense of adventure like Indiana Jones for example, we would be thriving in the face of danger, both literally and metaphorically. We would be experiencing life both faster and deeper than ever, making the duration of our learning experience on Earth as short as possible. That would typically not affect the duration of incarnations, as they are tied to experiencing life’s themes. However, living life on the edge would enhance the accumulation of life experiences and diminish the resistance with which these life experiences would be assimilated by the soul in any incarnation. We would ride the wave of the “unknown”, instead of fearing it. If we embraced the “unknown” as a friend, then it would diminish traumatic "shock and awe experiences" to the degree we surrendered to the “unknown”, because we would learn gracefully. "Shock and awe experiences" are typically utilized by Spirit if the learning resistance is high and we don't learn gracefully. That’s because a strong ego is resisting the learning process. Without grace we would be compelled to repeat lessons, because our ego typically doesn’t allow us to learn gracefully what is needed. Our ego thinks it knows everything better. Every repeated lesson that's not assimilated by the soul, increases the intensity of the next relevant life experiences dynamically, until the penny finally drops and we get it through “shock and awe”. It’s up to us whether we want to coast through school or attempt to learn faster than our fellow students. If we coast through school our learning experience will be slow and dull, perpetuating our oblivion to the wonders of life and the universe. However, if we choose the proverbial red pill instead of the blue one and resolve to learn faster, embracing the “unknown” and riding its wave, than our lives will be rich and rewarding. Choosing the red pill would announce to the universe our will to surrender to it, instead of to control it. By “working” with the universe to ride the wave of the “unknown”, we deliberately refrain from constantly interfering in the work of our true Self, by making constant adjustments to plans that are a mere approximation to the plan of our true Self.

But… at this point you might remember me mention our true Self earlier. What does all this have to do with our true Self? It is simple. Believe it or not, dealing with the “unknown” is deeply interwoven with finding aspects of your true Self. That’s one of the reasons the school of life exists. The more aspects of our true Self we discover, the more we can relate to the “unknown” changes. We relate to our conscious self through the “known” and to our true Self through the “unknown”. If we embrace the “unknown”, then, by definition, we will discover more about our true Self, as we ride the wave of the “unknown” and in the process classify aspects of our “unknown” Self as “known”. The process of “know thyself” depends on our interactions with reality itself. By observing our thoughts, emotions and deeds in 3D consciousness density our true Self reveals itself to our conscious, limited self.

Now… I hope you understand that planning in 3D is something that keeps us slave to 3D consciousness density, without allowing our limited selves to grow beyond 3D and into 4D as our true Selves. Unbelievable, but nevertheless true. Our true Self will not allow us to perish in 3D, unless of course we need to grok the meaning of death, but that’s taken care of through the experience of war. If we trust our true Self to guide us, we can experience our lives with more harmony, while they become rich and fulfilling before our very eyes. And lastly, we don’t have to fret over missed opportunities anymore, because we will be able to perceive more of them by riding and experiencing the wave of the “unknown”, whereas perceiving everything through the prism of the “known” will gift us with a “safe” but dull life that will leave us craving for more opportunities to better it.

Come on, let’s live a bit outside our comfort zone for a change. At least this way we can invalidate the concept of FOMO.