If you’re anything like me you were probably drawn to spirituality in the first place, because you wanted to be happy. Such a simple wish, it’s something all humans share in common: The desire to be happy.
Of course in spirituality, it’s a different kind of happiness we’re after. A kind that’s not predicated on outer circumstances. A kind you don’t need to pursue. A type of lasting happiness that’s more of a stable inner quality, present regardless of what’s going on inside or outside you.
Because true happiness, real happiness, is not a mood. It’s one of those divine qualities like joy, peace or silence. It’s a resonant frequency field that’s always operating.
And when you’re in alignment with it, that divine frequency sets your own field vibrating to its sacred rhythm. Your whole being hums with the quality of happiness.
The cells of your body pick up that hum, instantly recognizing it as divine truth—as the way life is meant to be. They amplify it, harmonize with it, and the whole body relaxes into the profound safety of the song.
Meanwhile, the thinking mind automatically relinquishes the steering wheel and takes a back seat; the more natural mind (the one that is meant to be in charge) expands into the gentleness of an opened heartspace.
And there comes a deep knowing that this safety, this love beyond all worldly love, this feeling of being held, is always how it is in truth.
And that’s a seriously happy place to be. Right?
So, when A Course in Miracles, for example, asks Do you want to be right, or happy? This is the kind of happiness it’s really talking about. The kind that’s your birthright. The kind that’s actually part of your own true sacred identity.
It’s the only kind you really want.
Obstacles to happiness
Everything else, basically.
You’ve undoubtedly noticed (how could you not?) that we all seem to be living inside an artificial bubble of ever more sour and aggressively fractious division. We’re bombarded daily with proof of it from all sides:
Me against you, us against them, and political correctness gone mad, where no one dares speak lest they be attacked.
Plus we need to be terrified of each other, we are urgently told. Nobody is trustworthy, everyone is out to get you/steal your identity/abscond with your money. Better put up higher fences, thicker walls, and Two Factor Authentication, as the only way of staying safe from each other.
But is it true? Is any of this really our true nature?
Remember that the key to being in resonance with those divine frequency fields, is to get into alignment with them. What we’re all being fed daily, is the absolute opposite of alignment.
It’s no accident, my dear friend.
But nobody says you have to be a willing consumer of what you’re being fed. You can leave it on your plate and go choose something else.
Because it isn’t just your own happiness here, that’s such a threat to the current system. It’s the incalculable power of your divine resonance field, every time you’re aligned with divinity.
Your sacred resonance catches like wildfire, throughout the human population. (We’re all connected, remember?) It’s what they’re most afraid of.
‘They..?’
The usual suspects. That plucky band of psychotic billionaires currently throwing everything they’ve got at their last ditch plan for world domination. Never has the epic choice between Right and Happy been so stark. Never have the stakes been so high.
Because let’s talk about what it means to be ‘right.’ It means choosing sides.
And choosing sides has its own type of resonance field, most definitely. Deciding who’s right and who’s wrong; who deserves punishment and retribution, is about as far as you can get from authentic divine truth.
Judging and ‘othering’ others, guarantees you’ll never experience the sweet beauty of your own divine frequency song.
So long, happiness. We hardly knew ye.
Happiness remains elusive as long as we remain divided from each other. No love, no happiness. No oneness, no happiness. Because that artificial bubble of hate and division is constructed out of lies. And there’s no place for real truth to land, where lies are willingly upheld.
Happiness and the ‘othering’ of others, then, are mutually exclusive versions of reality. One exists inside the bubble; the other is everywhere else.
We, humanity, are a peculiar mixture of rather sweet gullibility, and phenomenal universal potential. Because we are made of divine love (as everything is) our creative power quite literally knows no bounds.
Yet we are so easily manipulated by those who blow artificial bubbles; those who create false worlds, and tell us false stories, about ourselves and each other. Our creative power can then be wielded against us very effectively, to serve purposes not of our own choosing.
No matter what we’re being told and shown, our true nature is love and oneness. When we are in resonance with this eternal truth about ourselves, we become seriously badass.
And incredibly happy, too. By the way.
By this refusal to ‘other’ others, I’m not talking about being passive in the face of injustice. I’m not recommending spiritual bypassing of the world’s ever-increasing horrors. Divine resonance with love and oneness, is an extremely active way of being.
It’s time to revisit Gandhi, here, is what I’m saying. He’s the role model for ending war and oppression.
Satyagraha
Although the West tends to translate Gandhi’s Satyagraha strategy as ‘nonviolent resistance,’ that’s not actually correct. Nonviolent resistance was merely the physical form his strategy took. The actual strategy itself, translates as something closer to ‘Truth Force.’
Truth, meaning the eternal spiritual truth of love and oneness. Force, meaning the extreme badassery that occurs when implementing spiritual truth, in the face of extreme wrongdoing.
In Truth you have no enemies. Not even the psychotic billionaires. Not even the governments that do their bidding. Yes, they might very well consider you their enemy. They might be doing all they can to exterminate everything you hold dear. But that’s irrelevant.
Because you’re not playing their game. (Their game is one you’ll definitely never win.) You’re on a completely different chess board. And on your board, there are no opponents.
You’re wielding radical compassion, born of divine trust. You’re witnessing the oneness and the divinity of all those involved, no matter what. You’re refusing to take sides…because you know that as soon as you do, you’re a goner. You’ve lost the game.
But radical compassion is a weapon unlike any other. Your refusal to ‘other’ others, calls upon divine truth.
And the resonance field set up by divine truth, is a power unlike anything of this world. Guns, bombs and the atrocities du jour, can’t touch it.
Anything built on lies automatically begins to crumble in its presence. Even if you yourself can’t see any immediate indication of it. (That’s where the divine trust comes in.)
It all starts within
Because what we see ‘out there’ is intricately connected to what’s going on ‘in here.’ We know this, right?
So, Job One is always to attend to the inner hatred and division first—in the recognition that our own inner landscape is just another product of that false bubble of lies and division.
All those firm beliefs about which side is the right one, which facts are the true ones, which of us are actually the bad guys…?
There are no right sides, and no true facts. Not, that is, if you’re going for Truth Force. And have you noticed? That the warring parties can never agree on who the bad guys actually are?
Think about that for a minute.
Then take a breath. Take back your power. There’s nothing to fight against, and nothing is true except the truth.
Perpetrators will lose their power, without you condemning them. Perpetrators will lose their power because you refuse to condemn them.
Your refusal to condemn, opens the door for divinity to enter. Not some kind of righteous wrathful Old Testament divinity, in which those bad guys get the full-on punishment they deserve. That’s not gonna happen.
Divinity enters, meaning it’s the hastening of the world made of love. The high frequency world of divine truth, where war, and lies, and wanton destruction can simply no longer exist, at that sacred frequency setting.
And isn’t that the internal and external world we’d all prefer to be living in?
It’s already here, waiting for you to say yes to it. You have it in your power right now to do your bit, for making that world a tangible reality on this earth.
Never underestimate the positive effect that one divine being of love—you—can have on the rest of humanity.
You, stepping outside the bubble of lies; you, courageously choosing happiness over the addiction to being right; you, turning your back on yet more division, yet more hatred and fear…and going with the truly radical act of choosing compassion instead.
Radical, because it calls your own fundamental beliefs into question. It messes with your own self identity. But honestly? That self identity is the primary thing that’s always stood in the way of your own happiness.
Knocking out its underpinnings is a radical act, but it’s no bad thing.
So, pop the bubble.
One popped bubble sets off a cascade of others all around the globe. And there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
Do it for you, do it for the sake of all beings—even the psycho billionaires. You’ll never regret it.
Hit the nail smack bang on the head!!....non violently, of course ;-)))
Woohoo!! Thank you Carrie, I agree with every single word! Nearly didn't read this as so much going on and coming into my inbox, but so glad I did. Hit the nail smack bang on the head!!