Things That Go Bump
Weekly Reading Topic for July 6, 2019: Things That Go Bump
Well, good morning, love!
I just opened a Reading for you, my newsletter subscribers and here’s what I heard in answer to the following:
What do my readers most need to hear this weekend? What is the most important message to send to my beloved readers?
The answer was: “things that go bump.”
It gave me goosebumps. What follows is your Weekly Reading.
Weekly Reading │ Things That Go Bump
Q: What do you mean, “things that go bump?”
A: We’re all scared of something, and some of us are scared of more than one thing. No matter how long we live, or how much “work” we do on ourselves, we still have fears hiding out in the cracks in our mind, the dark space under our bed, the space between our hand and the railing.
And those fears that crowd those spaces sometimes bump into each other, and make noise, noise we cannot ignore. And when that happens, the Things That Go Bump call our attention, and keep it for as long as they can manage.
And that’s OK. Because our fears, our things that go bump, are no more real than our dreams, our fantasies, our things that we love.
All of it is just thought, not reality.
Even when our fears are based on things that are Really Happening, the fears themselves are always just perceptions of the things, not the things themselves.
We know that this is true, physically. When we use our eyes to see, it means only this: a nerve in our eye takes information back to the part of our brain that sits just between the ears, at the base of the skull. And way back there, our brain unscrambles the data sent back from the eyes and assembles a picture IN OUR HEAD. That picture is NOT what we are actually seeing with our eyes. It’s an interpretation, a painting, really, of what that nerve tells that part of our brain.
So seeing is literally believing, which is why we should never think that we know as much as we believe. We always believe, we rarely know, when we use our physical senses and our brains to interpret.
We are always at the mercy of a mass of nervous tissue jellying about in our brainpan, constructing wet dreams and wild fantasies out of billions and billions of signals from not just our eyes, but every other nerve in our bodies.
We are walking around in a movie studio of our own mind, a place where our own perceptions jostle each other to construct our own continuously running drama. We all deserve Oscars. We are the ultimate showrunners of our own existence.
And so the Things that Go Bump are terrifying, yes, it’s definitely true. And some of those things that we are afraid of, our bumps, are based on real, actual information and events Out There in the Outside Of Our Heads. But we can never trust that our own internal movie, our own horror show, is any more real than any horror flick you’ve ever seen.
It’s all made up, even when it’s made up of data that is real.
We’re not asking you to distrust yourself, or your movie. We’re just asking you to remember that it IS a movie. And so watch it, but remember to suspend your belief a little.
Plato said we are all watchers of shadows on a cave wall.
Shakespeare wrote all is true.
And Einstein said reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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So let’s all take a look at ourselves this weekend, and see if we can breathe deeply while Things Go Bump. (Because things are bumpy right now, in the world and in our lives. There’s a lot rattling around out there, a lot of noise, a lot of booms and bams and bombs.)
Breathe deep, and listen for the quiet that persists along with the noise. I promise you, that if you attend to peace, and ease, even if it’s fleeting, even if it’s rare, your jelly-mold miracle machine will respond with a movie that includes more of that. The things that go bump may not ever disappear from the cracks in our perception. We might not want them to, or need them to.
But getting better at holding the tenuous thread of peace, of breath, of calm, is a powerful answer and antidote, both for yourself and for those around you. For all of us.
Spiritual warriors are being called now, as physical warriors may be called in the coming years. It’s time, it seems, for us to make Real Choices, and those choices must be principled. We are living in what the Chinese call Interesting Times, and many of us did not ever think that would be our fate. When we look back at ourselves from the future, our response to this time will be what we are proud of or disappointed in. Making sure that we are prepared to hold all of this in True Perspective is an important point of focus right now.
This is not the time to Panic and Believe Every Thought and Fear. This is the time to Breathe and Remember that what we perceive to be reality is in fact a shadow and that everything is true, including the things that do NOT go bump.
It’s our love that carries the day if that’s what we choose. And that’s what we choose, isn’t it?
If there is something you have been saving for someday — some juicy project or endeavor, it’s a good time to see if you can give it some attention. We all need to be loving ourselves deeply and respecting each other. That’s the way we reduce the noise from the Things That Go Bump.
And when the noise is reduced, the fear is reduced, and all things start to feel and look … more beautiful.
And when we see beauty more often, it’s easier to make choices that include love, and nurture, and care. It’s easier to be strong, and brave, and true.
When we let the things that go bump just be what they are — thoughts jostling around and forming scary movies, we have a shot of living as Free People.
It becomes possible to not only stand up and leave the cave of shadows ourselves — we can show other people the way out, too.
Let Freedom Reign!
I am always here to serve in any way I can.
Much Love to You,
Molly
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