Unsupervised

The Age of the Self-Sovereign Creator

There are few arguments worth having these days.

Instead of edifying discourse to break the barriers between two stultified views in order to form higher ground, histrionics has become a vetted response. Like waves of a choppy ocean, imbalanced emotions surge and retreat without a real and satisfying point to take in mind. Just the desire to flatten sand.

What is it about? My guess is a primal response to having the guardrails removed.

Religion was created for those needing supervision and it works for many people to have solid guardrails to walk the rickety bridge between worlds. In its foundational ideology, precepts were created to counter the forces of the lower faculties, namely the first three hurdles, or chakras, of security, unconscious karmic knots and control. “Thou shalt…” becomes the instruction to guard against unconscious urges and obedience becomes paramount. It is for folks that use statement like “I can’t believe they got away with it”.

It can be seen in politics, science, activism, yoga classes, mothers clubs, higher education, healing circles, wellness retreats, human resources, performance reviews, family budgets, marital vows, career counselors, therapists, Ayurvedic practitioners.

The point, if not already taken, is that the vocation or club is irrelevant and you can interchange religion for “a whole bunch of rules”. What is relevant is the spectrum of self-sovereignty someone chooses to align with, within or without the club, that matters. Freedom is hot right now and we have dense and subtle wars pushing the limits to safeguard its definition as open ended choice. What is not as highly regarded is Self-Sovereignty - the daily discipline to cultivate mastery over the lower self, inherently leading to less rules, less division, clarity and self esteem - without needing to fight “the other.”

Sustainable freedom requires self mastery as a prerequisite. The far reaching schism in politics these days is the perfect backdrop to usher in new modes of Self-Sovereignty. The middle road is the obvious perfect response, more than ever. If we took what is as roughly prodding you in the direction to walk your own path with heart, then all is perfect, and the wailing sign posts suddenly cease.

Image Creation: SACRED LIFE DESIGN. There is opportunity in the air to create something new. Freedom of speech AND an unconventional life are not mutually exclusive but it does require a process of balance. The wheel of time is in flux and there is a rising of the feminine in nature. We are at a time of internal wars and junctures. Traditional, systematic methods to earth the process can help.

Continuous Improvement in a chosen field

I lived in Taos, New Mexico, for an enchanting spell. It has an outstanding ski mountain, which is a huge part of the local culture. In Australia, skiing is an expensive hobby, available in a very short window of the season and with limited mountains, so I took the opportunity to learn how to ski. It was reasonably priced, with fluffy powder snow and there were no snowboarders (at that time).

There were about a hundred or so punters all lined midway up the ski field with the instructors at the bottom. I noticed that one side was weighed more heavily with instructors than the other - advanced or beginners were the options. One of the instructors then stepped to the middle and asked us to ski down one at a time. She directed us to the left or right depending on the skill set.

Myself and approximately twelve others were sent to the beginners, the rest were advanced skiers. I was so impressed that the locals, so obviously adept at skiing, would continue to learn and sustain the community that was created, if anything, to make it available to us newbies. There was no certificate at the end or Continuing Education Credits to appease an association. It was just pure fun. I was privy to world class instruction and I developed so quickly that I was attempting black runs six weeks later.

The analogy I’m trying to draw is this. Those adults that were able to be “unsupervised” understood the value of constant learning. Once you crack open disciplined learning, you know it to be a way to feel more free. For us beginners, only a few were called to learn a new skill as an adult in order to know the freedom of feeling unsupervised on the unlisted runs at the back of the mountain. I know, because I went up there with an unsupervised friend at the beginning of my course and set my sights on being able to chart the untamed mountain path. And I eventually did, clumsily, regularly lying in two feet of powder with one ski back half way up the mountain whilst my buddy, with patience and poker face, pulled me back to standing. Wet and exhausted by the time I got to the bottom, I captured moments of wild abandon and it was awesome.

Making choices in the middle road

I have a new definition of hell.

Unbridled unconscious behaviour with a lack of desire to learn from consequences and course correct thereby craving a supervisor to hand over agency.

Hell only belongs to the knowing, as we’ve heard, as the truly ignorant are in bliss. It’s that middle road that forks - either as perfect balance or the choice point of knowing the right thing to do, but ignoring it. It’s the middle road that is connected to the 3rd (Manipura) chakra, which is the site of Creative Willpower.

It is at this point, as Swami Satyananda Saraswati in his book “Kundalini Tantra”, explains as the centre of awakening. The first chakra is the seat of kundalini, the second chakra is the abode, and the third is the awakening. This makes more sense when referring to the energy point as one of creative will. Kundalini can awaken at the base many times and retreat many times when it passes through the second chakra of unconsciousness or karmic lessons. Just like the ocean metaphor at the beginning, you can advance and retreat in endless motion.

It is this midpoint that determines rising above, or the downfall of humankind.

Rising above becomes unsupervised. You take 100% responsibility for the whole gamut of life - witnessing, course correcting, testing, witnessing, course correcting, testing, and so on - towards wholesomeness or a state of balance. It doesn’t mean you don’t take instructions from higher thinkers. It means you make a conscious choice to advance yourself based on your own self assessment.

Once this choice is made, life is no longer grey, it becomes black or white. There is no bending truth for the subjective “greater good”, there is just truth - inconvenient and liberating. There is no time wasted in obligation, just pure enjoyment and a sense of purpose. There is no patience for narratives that create isolation and make you feel afraid, just creative initiatives that raises the vibration in the room.

“Without elegance, playing and winning are not enough.”- Rene Lacoste

The heart as Unsupervised

So it goes that once enough self-sovereign choices have been made, internal energy gains momentum upwards and begins to penetrate the heart chakra, the seat of clear seeing. By this stage you are hopefully choosing like minded company and you have given up the idea of taking sides, with the freedom to go anywhere you want (that is alive and vibrant). You can sit in a red or blue seat and listen clearly to what is being said whilst putting the information through your own filters (and not spiral into hysterics).

Ideally you are taking cues from others that are connected to clear seeing. You can easily tell by the brightness of their eyes. In fact, a good way to ensure clarity in important decisions is to look at your eyes in the mirror with honesty. If they shine bright and clear, then you’re probably good to go, if they look fearful, angry or lethargic, then wait - the world you’re about to create will have those energies attached to it. Better to re-balance first.

In Ayurveda the Pitta dosha (fire) is connected to the eyes and also comprehension via the heart chakra. The idiom “the eyes don’t lie” reflects the Ayurvedic logic well. The spiritual heart, incorrectly claimed by many, does not have preferred emotions over others. I’ve heard the claim that gentleness is better than aggression, but in the wrong context, gentleness can lead to gullibility. In the right context, aggression becomes self determination. Without context, and without dynamic thinking that allows the appropriate feeling to move in connection with the context, it instantly becomes a way of categorization of good versus bad (refer to the opening statement).

I went through a phase of listening to Abraham Hicks and their law of attraction videos which are not dissimilar in message to the Ayurvedic philosophy. “Law of positive attraction” is the Ayurvedic version of balance. Looking for a “good feeling thought” is focusing on your Prakruti rather than obsessing about Vikruti (disease). Their approach to healing is grounded in self-sovereignty. They speak about moving up a scale of negative thoughts to positive thoughts - for example, from despair to anger, with anger being a better thought because there is more agency involved with anger than despair. This scale eventually leads to a constant stream of “good feeling thoughts” that naturally attracts your Dharma (or Prakruti in Ayurveda), which is how you become a self-sovereign creator.

In this simple practise, you do not stop at outrage and vitriol, nor do you attach it to a static situation - it is a bridge and you are meant to keep walking.

The Unsupervised understand this. They understand that feelings are a guide, not a point in time, and they understand that clarity is the goal to act upon an urge for it to meet your highest desires based spiritually in the heart space. The Unsupervised, specifically, reach a point when their heart chakra is fully matured, so that they feel the effect their choices have on another. It becomes impossible to devalue another human being. It becomes easy to be non-judgmental when your perception is dynamic, not fixed. Compassion becomes cloudy when we linger in an over used emotion. It gathers moss.

Self-Supervision - the primary education

Education, as we commonly know it, makes no sense. Things change too quickly for our education system to be relevant because our current system teaches stuff, not how to think, unless you were fortunate to experience the real life insights of a rogue teacher. Education is (mostly) taught by educators rather than those that have life experience in the subjects they teach. Those that are experienced are always humbled by the nuances life throws at them that wasn’t in the textbooks - they had to figure it out on their own and they know how to give great examples that seed into your sub conscious as a call to action.

Everything can be learned on the Internet now. You don’t even need to know the language anymore. Therefore the only real skills that need teaching, as far as I’m aware is to learn to see. For every subject that is of interest in the world, learning to see the many innovative variations that a subject can morph into, is the new way of education. For twenty students in the class, there should be twenty interpretations via their personal context. There are many online courses teaching fundamentals but what is not replaceable (yet!) is the magic of reality that comes to someone who has spent thousands of hours of their life delving deeply into a subject; skills and life energies taught as one.

There is no way to test this, so of course tests become redundant. Innovation and fulfillment become the new norm. What we have, as a result, is an adulthood that is vibrant, with men and women finding personal mountains to climb for the rest of their lives. When I look around these days I see such lethargy in people’s eyes. Fear, lethargy and exhaustion. The container that felt secure and safe is tightening a noose around spirit.

Everyone will be given an opportunity to “fight an evil”. This dark energy shape-shifts according to your predispositions to push you towards a stronger, more self sufficient human that forms collectives of unsupervised adults, not clubs. Sitting on the other side of my “time in the desert” it all makes sense - I had to let go of the guardrails, even my usual expectations of how healing works, and really listen to what needed to be said and transformed this time.

If you change your perception towards self-sovereignty, you will see it all comes together and that the world is currently priming you towards your own Kingdom within.

The command come against your will is for the blind follower of religion. Come willingly is for the sincere. The former loves God for something else, while the sincere one has a pure, real love. The former loves the Nurse, but for the sake of the milk, while the other has given his heart, for the sake of the Nurse Herself. The child is blind to Her Beauty - he just wants milk, while the other is truly the lover of the Nurse - single-mindedly, passionately in love.

- “Real Beauty and Real Love” - The Rumi Daybook - Kabir and Camille Helminski

SACRED LIFE DESIGN came about when, after working in my Ayurvedic Practise in a creative town for a few years, I wanted to understand a main question -

Why would clients hand over agency so easily by asking me to tell then what to do? And within that was a curiosity as to why spiritual creatives, that walk to the beat of their own drum in every other aspect of their life, defer their health to generic options?

In response to this curiosity, I traversed the twists and turns of the proverbial rabbit hole and came up with a process of seeing using the Ayurvedic philosophy to inspire spiritual creatives to heal themselves via their own unconventional life design towards balance.

If this feels like your next evolution, the site goes live March 14th but you can sign up and be notified by my marketing newsletter if you’d like to stay informed.