Ass.u.me.
By: Nalini Macnab
Tags: Communication, Wisdom, Ego, Consciousness, Mindfulness

Photo by Ansgar Scheffold on Unsplash

When it happens, what happened?

Each of us enters an incarnation with pre-set parameters that filter our perceptual abilities. Theses filters are the limits that define our experience of life.

Then, we gain the experiential content that will hold them in place, augment them, and make them ‘real.’ There is nothing inherently wrong or harmful in this process. It is part of life on the planet, making for a Tower-of-Babel kind of confusion with fingers pointing all over the place.

What if no one was absolutely right and no one was absolutely wrong? What if those definitions always depend entirely on our filters? A filter creates a limit, and every lifetime needs limits to contain its experience. Filters are fine until they become limitations.

Full awakening changes those filters, those limits, mathematically. It exponentiates the openings. The mathematical rule that applies is this:

When a limit approaches infinity the limit does not exist. When a being awakens enough, filters dissolve and are no longer experienced as limitations.

What happens:

A Lightworker, an Incarnate, and a Starseed walk into a bar… {old joke, many interpretations}. Even though these beings are in various stages of awakening, each has her own set of filters running. The Starseed says to the bartender, “I‘ll have a Celestial Soda please”. The Lightworker hears “I’ll have my brand of self-meditation/medication.” And, so the Lightworker judges {or doesn’t} the Starseed for being less evolved {or moreso}. The Lightworker then reacts, and, most likely the Starseed does too. The Incarnate sees the interaction and starts to laugh. Both the Starseed and the Lightworker turn on the Incarnate, demanding to know “what’s so damned funny?”

Answer? “We are.” {Roles are interchangable.}

What happens when we interpret a message through a set of fixed parameters, is that the information and interactions are translated through the lowest common denominators of all filters present. How could miscommunication not happen?

Each one speaks and hears through a unique set of filters and there is no universal translator present.

The pointing finger that states “you’re wrong, you don’t understand” needs to be turned inward. The problem with that, is that the inward-turned finger hits the mirror of the constructed self {ego} and bounces off, fracturing the truth into a bazillinon mirrored particles landing right in our face. “Ouch!” and then some. “No one understands me.” This is true. A being with no fixed identity, “no one,” will perceive you and your interpretations just as you are. That being sees what is, and comments accordingly, though said commentary is rarely appreciated.

The one sending or speaking does so through a set of filters…the more awakened the sender {or receiver} the fewer filters are present and the more TRUTH can be perceived.

Sooo, for example, an enlightened being might be accused of ‘gossiping’ when commenting on another person’s behavior as a teaching example. The accuser interprets from within their own filtered perception, thus misunderstanding both the intent and the example.

Intent is everything. And I’m not talking about ‘good intentions.’ Intent is a stillpoint of unwavering focus. How many of us speak from that place? Even if the answer is “sometimes,” we could do better, right?

Next time you’re triggered, and aren’t we all sometimes, maybe take a breath and remember that your filters and ‘theirs’ are dancing the miscommunication dance, locked in the deadly embrace of ‘being right.’ No one is right. No one is wrong. Only our filters make it so.

I’m not assuming your understanding is the same as mine,

but thank you so much for reading.

~ Namaste ~