The Symbolism of Personal Power
The tunnels of light pass by me, through me, as I drift further and further into the abyss. Once a frightening and foreshadowing passage, the familiarity now wraps me in a comfortable knowingness, a feeling of coming home. I allow the process to unfold (can we ever really rush it?) and journey to exactly the right place. I pass through countless realms and silently observe nameless creatures long forgotten or shrouded now in mythology.
This time I land in a space of infiniteness. The darkness consumes me until a ball of light moves into focus and shapes itself into a planet-like sphere. It emanates bright yellow-orange. As I witness, bright red clouds drift around it swirling on all sides. The clouds take form and become hands shaping the planet in a swirling, undulating embrace. The voice says, “And here we just play with them.”
For the longest time I resisted symbolism while simultaneously yearning for it. Like the eternal struggle between thinking and sensing, logic and knowing, my rational brain wrote it off as flights of fancy while something inside me craved the ability to perceive the world through its messages.
My upbringing, education and military/government training exalted the left-brained grounded realism while stuffing the right-brained intuition and knowingness deeper and deeper. But aspects of our nature can only be shoved so far down until they start to resent the treatment. So I finally started to listen. Thus began my love affair with the mystical.
From a Personal POWER perspective the key is in the balance. Yes, you are a spiritual being having a human experience. And yes, you are a human being who has a spirit. These two statements affirm the dichotomy between accessing the spiritual realms while existing in the physical. Whether you call them physical and metaphysical, “real” and fantasy, or material and spiritual, the semantics really only matter to you.
The POWER lies in marrying the two in a way that serves you. And that relationship shifts over time. As you continue to journey and grow, your understanding of the dynamics between them grows as well. My book, W.A.R. — Watch, Assess, React: The Ultimate Guide to Personal POWER and Safety, combines them using the concepts of situational awareness and self-awareness. I wrote the first edition of that book six years ago when my knowledge of energetic existence was still deeply embedded in my subconscious. Now I study the I Ching.
And, now more than ever, this need for finding your perfect balance of inner and outer knowing is paramount to survival. Not in the apocalyptic-end-of-the-world way, but in a real commitment-to-something-bigger-than-ourselves kind of way. We see it in personal health, relationships, business and the state of our societies. Every day we talk to people so hungry for connection to something greater. Their inner urging screams from a place so deep within them they no longer recognize the voice, but they can’t seem to get their heads above water long enough to take a deep breath and listen.
The irony is it usually takes this level of desperation for someone to finally break down and ask for help, but the process to reconnect them to their Personal POWER is as simple as flipping a switch. For some as soon as they see their greatness reflected through us they shift right back into place. For others we give them the tools to manage day-to-day crises in a way that’s aligned with their particular balance of the physical and the spiritual. And for all of them, just knowing we exist and can provide guidance when needed gives them the confidence to navigate the world from a higher vibration.
This is the POWER of symbolism. Allowing the seemingly unattainable messages to reach us through a myriad of messengers and opening ourselves to receiving those messages in a way that is comfortable for us liberates us from the once unquestioned prison of aloneness and separation. Energy speaks and holds great wisdom that, when applied to day-to-day life, aligns us with our Personal POWER.
