Fear of Vulnerability Underpins Self-Alienation
The ancient yogis use a number of similes and metaphors for the transformational process, one of which is the image of the snake that sheds its skin: once it has outgrown that skin and reached maturity, it must be left behind, and the skin is shed.
But for the yogi, unlike the snake which grows a new skin, the yogi who attains realization of the Self by shedding the ego skin, which was meant only for one’s infantile period of life, but once consciousness has matured into its fullness and its true nature, it does not grow a new skin, because the consciousness has become infinite and has no boundaries, nor is there anything to defend against that requires a skin because there is no other. And not only is there no other, but there is no internal sense of a particular identity, so there is nothing that would be inside a skin or outside.
And it’s this state of the realization of the nonduality of what had been considered the inner and the intimate, versus the external and the alien, that disappears, and one’s self-alienation from one’s infinite Being falls away, and one recognized it to be the one obstacle: one’s own identity was a refusal of one’s infinite Nature. And one’s fear of vulnerability was what was preventing the realization of infinite joy and of eternal life, love, peace, power, beauty, purity, goodness—all of the qualities of the Godself that are instantly realized when one expands into that nature that cannot be encapsulated by any skin.
When the consciousness becomes comfortable in the silence without producing the skin cells of thought, the narrative that produces the sense of a skin that keeps the illusion of a particular identity and tries to protect it from the influence of the other—even though it is the other internalized that has caused the desire to have such an apparatus between oneself and one’s reality—when that production of narratives as a defense no longer takes place, the consciousness in that silent presence automatically receives the constant flow of grace in the form of the creative intelligence of the Infinite Self; and it is that that becomes one’s aura of protection and of connection, an internal connection to all of the infinite archetypal aspects of beauty that constitute the creative intelligence and the will of the Self to manifest as beauty, as truth, as goodness, as that power of the Real that cannot be destroyed or defeated, or harmed in any way, and therefore abides in fearless freedom.
And it is this that enables the nobility and the royalty of the Self to emerge from the skin that had made one a beggar for the validation of the other—and that brings one into the independence that is the prerequisite of creative production of that which has never before manifested.
It is in that absolute novelty that comes out of the cloud of unknowing, out of the essential nature that can never be objectified, that creates a new manifestation of one’s Being within the realm of becoming, that accurately reflects one’s divine nature, and the very special and individual form in which the beauty of the transmission of the Godself’s vibrational frequency into the morphogenic field of the world comes with a specific pure tone of absolute clarity, precision, power, and divine perfection, that contributes to the music of the spheres that together manifest a new world as a symphony of co-creation.
