The New Way Forward
It seems we’ve reached the Edge of Something Big and New.
Do you feel like:
- You’ve outgrown your life?
- Those Things you’ve been semi-successfully repressing or ignoring in recent years have gone from uncomfortable to unbearable?
- You’re literally being forced to confront your baggage, once and for all?
- Some clarity of purpose is required — it’s increasingly urgent, yet elusive?
- The Clock has run out on your old perceptions?
- You’ve come to the End of a Chapter in your Story?
- Change is no longer about just contemplation and theory, but is emerging in a very physical way?
We’ve reached the Edge of our Maps and Blueprints — the way forward is an entirely blank canvas. Old rules and structures which we’ve been able to recycle and reinvent and reuse have become obsolete. What we might have expected to Come Back or to Return… those options have evaporated. The way forward is unwritten.
Do you feel like:
- Something’s on the tip of your tongue, but you can’t find the word for it?
- You’ve reached a plateau?
- Your guides have been giving you very explicit sets of directions, and now suddenly you’ve lost the station, the transmission, the channel?
- You’ve had the urge to withdraw into a cocoon and not emerge until some transformation is completed?
- You feel especially confused or thwarted right now, like all the “tools” you’ve acquired just aren’t working as well as they used to?
2012? What about 2009?
I “know” that we’re supposed to be anticipating some major shift in the human collective within the next few years — but I’ve got to tell you, I feel profoundly that It has already started, and it’s noticeably escalated within the past three months. I’ve never felt That Big Shift was going to be an “Event” or a single point in time, but a graduated spectrum, a spiral, a curve. An Age. We’ll be able to look back on a Period in our history, an Era; that hindsight is going to reveal to us how far into it we already are. Right. Now.
I honestly can’t put it into words — it’s a Collective Experience that’s manifesting in very individualized ways. The energy is similar; the details are unique.
- Nearly all of my peers and colleagues are radically altering their businesses, their missions, their brands. (I’ll have a big announcement of my new project on 11/11 — stay tuned.)
- Nearly all of my clients are “launching” something, preparing to take enormous creative leaps.
- Nearly all of my friends and family describe feeling “impatient” about their futures and ready to be “over” their pasts.
No More “Business as Usual”
The one theme or pattern that seems to be Universally True, across all these lives, and in all these various contexts: The old processes — the paths you’ve pursued that seemed to at least “make sense” — and even the processes and strategies and creative tactics that used to work great — are just not working anymore.
Not only are you being called to create the life you want to live — you’re being called to do it in a way that literally does not exist yet.
The most important questions to ask yourself right now are:
- How flexible are you?
- Are you stubbornly clinging to something?
- How willing are you to let go?
Does this new level of creative requirement for being in the world scare the hell out of you… or are you excited about it?
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Well, Slade, once again this post is timely and spot on. Did you hear i’m closing the weenie hut for the winter? I’m going to get a job that will bring me a chunk of money in a relatively short amount of time with lots of flexibility. It will free up part of my brain to think about how to approach the business next spring, if i want to at all. I’m really excited to see what’s around the corner. i know there’s something amazing, but i just don’t know what it is!
A lot of this stems from that giant slap i got in the form of a truck-totaling wreck. yes, it was one hell of a manifestation, and funny enough, it has forced me to reexamine the fundamentals in my life. I’m so thankful for those who protected me during the moment and kept me from being harmed.
Now i will be forced to come out of my hermit shell by finding a job, most likely fine dining serving and/or tending bar, and be part of this transformation rather than sitting at home and trying to imagine what could happen. I’m so excited!
hugs to you!
Hee hee. We are SO on the same page, as usual! I wrote about my own changing processes on my blog, so I won’t go into that again here since I know you read that!
I am totally in agreement with you about 2012 - to me, that year is about a completion of the radical shift that we are collectively experiencing now. The beautiful upheaval of all rules and paradigms we are currently in is leading up to 2012. My sense is that there will be no massive event, just an ongoing acceleration of old systems breaking down and new ones being birthed. I think a new peace and calm will emerge once we get “there” with upheaval dissipating as we complete the shift into a new era.
For now, though, new rules call for utter authenticity and inner wisdom! Can’t wait for your big announcement (and you picked an awesome date, which somehow I never think to do!)
Blessings,
Andrea
Yes. That’s all that comes to mind/heart when I read your post. Yes, yes, and yes.
(Oh….and THANK YOU!)
Alisa,
Your clarity regarding your business as “seasonal” and how to work with that, as opposed to just struggling against it, is a really wise move. Just as you said, freeing up that energy and reinvesting it in a different way is exactly the way to go.
I think one of the things entrepreneurs are realizing in this “new age” — especially creative people — is how to customize and incorporate a variety of income streams.
Andrea,
I was so glad to read your post about “Intention and Process” — especially pleased that you wrote something specific and personal about all this, as I went the “general” route. (Some of what I have been “forced” to clear up are medical issues… Kind of private, kind of scary — surgery! But of course the energy that is being freed up from confronting and ridding myself physically of outstanding issues certainly has an energetic impact on my creativity and other areas of my life, such as my business).
I know you know from the last time we talked that I was experiencing that same kind of thwarting frustration with my productivity and process. I had to retreat and re-approach, just as you suggest, and it all started “clicking” again.
I recommend everyone — especially business people/entrepreneurs read your post in conjunction with mine. Isn’t it wicked groovy how our “pages” and messages align? Love to you!
Everyone, read Andrea’s post on Intention and (New) Process!
Susannah,
You’re very welcome! Glad the post spoke to you.
I guess it’s nice to have company.
My best description of this time period is the junk drawer. God only knows what’s in there, quesioning what was I thinking when I saved that particular specimin? Seems I got tired of wasting the space, dumped the drawer on the floor and now deal with things as I trip over them, come upon the unexpected, unexplainable, unacceptable or even just get fascinated at my own whys and ways. Activities surrounding resolution can be loud or quiet, hard or easy, funny and not. Seems I don’t know, and can’t know, which, much like the items themselves.
Becomes a treasure trove and a nuisance all at once, probably all things in between, too.
I’ve been going through this process of letting go of old concepts of reality since the beginning of 2007. It has been step by step… and no going back.
Yes, over the past few months, really since the eclipses of the summer in July & Aug, ‘time’ has been speeding along like on Meth! and moving on!
Very recently the realization came to me, “don’t worry about what it is you are ’supposed’ to be creating. Stay in your intution and you will move into the the next step. and in this way be honest with yourself & others. johnny on the spot”.
This is plugged in communication! Love it!
Thanks for this post Slade!
Slade,
Yup.
I had several past-life readings in the last month, as preparation (I now know) to get rid of baggage. ( I was, apparently, a warlock once upon a time, a very powerful witch who misused his power). Yup, again.
So, last night a huge painting fell off my wall in the library when I was elsewhere. As I soaked in the tub this morning, easing my painful and explosive psoriasis (shedding a skin for rebirth), I thought about what the painting’s fall meant. With the help of my guides, I realized that I was being
urged to RETELL MY STORY. The “picture” had fallen. Time to create a new future and new me with a new story-line.
Your post was utterly right-on, and I deeply appreciate receiving this additional
message, in your words, which calms me down and helps me embrace a sense of creativity and imagination as I — we — move on.
Jody
Alignment is so cool.
Just before sitting down to catch up on emails (and not knowing what your post was about yet) I said to myself, “Self, this life isn’t working for me. Still. I need to make yet another radical change. This still isn’t right.”. So I am pondering yet another tweak to the system.
While I have no idea what the new thing/direction will be, what I do know is that I have no choice other than to follow signs, signals, symbols, hunches, intuitions. That’s all I have to go by right now. It’s funny, I’ve been on the lookout for my guides to speak to me clearly. I keep expecting an actual voice but know now these signs and symbols - synchronicities, etc ARE my guides speaking to me.
Yeah, it’s scary, but I may as well get used to it. Wow. I think I’d better go write my own post about this. Thank you, Slade, for yet another inspiring message.
Wow, right on the spot Slade!
Feels like Renaissance #2, isn’t it?
Totally resonates with me as well, Slade! I am right on the cusp with you!
I’m incredibly excited about having a clean slate, about the infinite possibilites, and about the unkown yet to be. At times i have to admit that it is more than challenging, and often unsettling… but I’m learning to go with the flow and be open to everything the infinite possibilities. I think we are living in the most challenging but most exciting times!!!
Wow! Shockingly close to the truth for me Slade. While I was driving home, just before sitting down at the computer I was asking my guides “What do I need to know to take my new “thing” to the next level?”
While I am still just following the breadcrumbs every day, it feels good to know that others are doing the same. I have been going through the experience of trying to get comfortable with letting go of my old life, while not really knowing how the new one will look. I feel like I am getting very near to being able to let go.
I’m not sure if I still have to learn some new “skills” or what will allow me to get there quicker. Maybe I’m just too impatient. For now I will keep doing what I am doing each day, those things which are the funnest and most fulfilling, and hope that I keep being led in the right direction.
Can’t wait to see what your new project is!
Also makes me wonder if everyone can feel this in some form or fashion.
I’m also caught in the midst of change. Very recently I started opening myself up to radical changes of direction in my life. Since then, new ways of thinking and doing have been revealing themselves to me.
This time next year, I might be back in my home country, preparing for college. Just the thought of that feels so incredibly good to a part of my soul that has been neglected for years.
Indeed—I feel the same way.
Lately I’ve had to adapt–find (or perhaps manifest); learn about; learn to use-completely new paradigms and ways of being. This has happened to me in the past, but never have I experienced something as profound as this. Heh, your lists at the start of the post were kind of like a checklist… “check, check, check, oh, definitely, check.”
It occurred to me yesterday that the path forward might be less about reaching a place where things are less intense and more manageable, but learning to allow what is happening and go with the flow–to sort of adapt to and navigate this new, stronger current, rather than waiting for it to die down (damn you, Art of Surrender… I seem called to practice it so often maybe I should start abbreviating it. “Oh, looks like another AoS moment.”
). In retrospect, that’s always the way forward, but it seems–feels–very true this time around.
It’s very interesting to hear about your experience with “this”—to learn that many people are having this experience, not just a few.
It makes sense, though. Recently I’ve been contemplating how our desires seem to function less as individual units that only apply to us and our individual universe, but more like a collective, massively collaborative harmony with the desires of everyone else, constantly unfolding in a way that is harmonious and consistent with All That Is—collective, individual desires, and the degree we’re allowing them in this moment.
I appreciate—find comfort in—that there isn’t so much an “I,” but rather, an “us.”
Interestingly, I just remembered that when I was pondering the way forward (for both “I” and “us”) before I went to bed last night, I heard the word “co-creation.” Didn’t seem right within the context I considered it in last night, but now, it seems fitting.
Perhaps, moving forward, “collaboration” is a good way to think—a sort of “co-empowerment.”
Your post was timely and provided some nice (comforting) confirmation. Thanks, Slade.
– Bruce
Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!
Spot on. Indeed I have lately had the feeling that something is about to happen, or that something in a sense is already happening. Things in which I found meaning before, have started to feel meaningless to me. I find myself semi-consciously almost quitting school without any real backup plan, because it feels dead to me.
My perspective too seem to have shifted from the individual I to the more collective we, but curiously this in a sense makes me feel closer to myself. The boundaries between I and you, between inside and outside, seem to be blurring.
Still, it is oh so elusive, I have the sense of grasping through fog, reaching for some kind of clarity that seems to be just out of reach. Like my vision blurs up at distance and I must strain to see far.
Before, this would have scared the shit out of me, but strangely, while there is stress on the surface, I can sense a deep love and a confidence that when the time comes, I will be ready to let go into whatever emerges.
Slade,
I am with all the others who have posted here - I am feeling the exact same energies. Initially I was really confused - then I read Andrea’s post - and now yours. There is a sense of relief that I am not the only one experiencing this and that we all seem to have similarities in it. I have been experiencing very fast and radical shifts in consciousness and “world-view”. Things that I thought were solid are not and vice versa, in the physical world and perceptions and ideas. Mind-blowing seems to be the word of the day!
Sending you healing energy and loving thoughts for your surgery. And I’m looking forward to hearing your news on the 11th!
Blessings,
Keena
Absolutely SPOT ON! ~:)