To ERR is Human – Case Study #1

Case Study #1

To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope

Traditional Mindset

Focus on the excuse of making errors, brushing it off as “normal” and dangling the “gosh, golly, gee, it’d be great if I could be better,” while being sure to include the, “but…alas…I am human, I am flawed” dismissal. This stage begins the process of realizing that, while we’re only able to see ourselves through the personhood aspect, we can start to see beyond ourselves. We can look out to an example of Spirit as something to reach for. We’re not quite ready to admit that we can actually BE that, but we’re willing to entertain that it’s nice to know it might be out there somewhere.

Evolved Consciousness

Introduces the awareness that we are both human and spirit. We can behave as one or the other, because we are both. As we realize our divine aspects as more than just pretty stories, we start to see that once we reach a certain developmental stage, relaxing into the “well, I’m only human, after all” mentality is irresponsible and lacks awareness. This is where we start to connect to our spirit/soul relationship and look at the world through a different lens. We start to piece together that if we continue behaving as “human” with all of its excuses and victimizations, we continue receiving everything that offers…and nothing more. We start to set higher standards for our person’s behavior and realize the relationships between our perceptions and our reality. “Thoughts become things” and “working through things” are foundational concepts in this developmental playground. We have a strong sense of walking our paths and we strive to learn how to be both human and divine here on this earth plane. Plus we usually start drinking and eating weird things and engaging with our “new” friends, much to the dismay of those around us. All paths inevitably lead to some form of forgiveness work. First learning to forgive others, then ourselves. We use this process to fully integrate all conditions and programs of the traditional mindset playground, creating space for an evolved consciousness to guide our behavior. Here we still have the sense of accessing Spirit outside of ourselves, but we start to relate to it more closely.

Abstract Frequency

In this playground, humanness loses its appeal as an identity and we move into an awareness of self as the divine. Erroring is no longer possible and the machinations of the personhood simply represent how we play here, nothing more. Experiences no longer define the identity and we’re able to see that forgiveness was the passageway through to freedom. Forgiveness work concludes because we surrender our behavior to the divine aspect within us who made decisions long before we became aware of the choice. We don’t hold expectations of ourselves or others beyond the connection we feel to Oneness.