Are we here to exist in the light or transmute darkness into light?
In the year 2000, when I was nineteen years old, I sat around the table with my parents and two younger sisters, and we did the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test for the first time. This is what I read:
INFPs have a profound sense of honour derived from internal values. The INFP is the Prince or Princess of mythology, the King’s Champion, Defender of the Faith, and guardian of the castle. Sir Galahad and Joan of Arc are male and female prototypes of an INFP. To understand INFPs their cause must be understood, for they are willing to make unusual sacrifices for someone or something believed in - David Kiersey
I read that the INFP was considered a 'healer', deeply caring, the most compassionate of all types, idealistic, romantic and passionate - drawn to unity, beauty and purity, but simultaneously aware of the negative, evil and tragic aspects of the world - 1 percent of the population. Strangely, I recognised myself in the description, although being somewhat intimidated or even frightened by the implications of what I had read.
During the years following, I continued to play out the characteristics of the strange creature that I came in as; with a heart always a bit broken and eyes ever close to tears - passionately caring about my family and friends and those I fell in love with, going into battle on behalf of the vulnerable - the children in my care and my work colleagues, hurting for the darkness of the world, and fearing the seeming emptiness of the future.
Rather than attempting to become like other people, I learned to work with my shyness, my sensitivity, and my empathic nature, to see the gifts in them rather than the drawbacks, and to channel them in positive ways. I learned to replace fear with faith, to connect more readily with the higher power I always knew was supporting my life, and to see my path as Divinely guided rather than evidence of my failure at life. I learned to allow others to come in and out of my life as they needed to, and to allow them to make mistakes and experience discomfort without always feeling responsible to protect them.
Fast forward to the last few years, and I am meeting many more people who are on a Spiritual path. I am discovering new aspects of myself and more understanding of the way forward. I am continually sifting through ideologies and attempting to connect them with my existing understandings and with my life. There have been many questions:
What is wrong with Love and Light?
What is New Age Spirituality? Has it been corrupted?
Why are people going back to religion?
What is a high vibration? Do I need to have one?
Must I release attachment? What is neutrality?
Why must I avoid Spiritual bypassing?
There are subtleties to all of these questions, and I am beginning to clarify my answers - they may be different for you. We come here with diverse journeys and priorities for each lifetime. Finding love and light in the world, and existing within it, with neutrality and detachment, are aspects of New Age Spirituality. I believe these have merit - I was always drawn to love and beauty. Some find this love and light in nature or in science, some in the heroic nature of people, and some in the perfection of newborn babies or innocent, trusting children. Some look for it in religion, and eventually step away when they develop the confidence to find it within themselves.
I believe that we are here to do more than just exist within the light - I believe we are here to work with it, as light workers and as warriors for the light. I believe we have brought light with us from other dimensions, and that by raising our frequency we can better work with the light that we carry to provide healing for the planet and for those upon it. I believe that, although we are learning to live and to love as humans, we came here as fractals of Source energy, already knowing love, and that we are assisting each other to remember it. I believe we must release attachment to outcomes we can't control and increase our trust in a larger view of things - not bypassing our humanity or rising above it, but deeply, passionately caring about ourselves and about the world, loving everyone and everything so much that we step into our purpose and channel our energies in the ways that most serve the greater perspective.
I believe we are here, not to avoid darkness, but to transmute it into light. Avoidance is fear, and to live in fear is to push love away. Similarly, we do not need to avoid our own emotions or our own fears - they are information to help us understand how to heal. We must feel our feelings to their fullest extent, so we feel fully heard, acknowledged and loved by ourselves. Only then will we have the capacity to project more love outward, towards others and the world.
I have friends who feel called to travel to other locations, to transmute darkness in them. I have friends who work with lower dimensional beings, and who bring lost souls towards the light. I am having dreams that I am also working with the souls of children in troubled parts of the world, assisting them in safe passage to the other side. My primary channel is my voice, and I am learning new ways to use it to transmit love and healing. Quantum frequencies carry over long distances, and everything is interconnected. The compassion we feel in our hearts, our hope for the world, and our faith in a higher power, are tangible and can be felt. We are not isolated and impactless, and we must know and understand this.
We recorded this video in our meditation session yesterday - a toning and light language transmission sending global healing, particularly for people in the US who are feeling insecure about the future after this week's events. This is one way that I, in this moment, in this body and with this voice that I came in with, can work with the light and for the good of humanity. I am honoured to be able to do so. What we are doing in this moment, what we feel called to do, and that which is uncovered along our path, are our purposes in this lifetime. We will have higher guidance to bring us to each next step so the way becomes clear. To exist in the light - to 'be' in the beauty of all that is lovely, noble and good, to play in the light of the sun and the stars and the wonders of all creation, are pleasurable and right and will strengthen and fortify us for the profound work we are here to do. All we must do, is do it with joy.
Reference: INFP - The Questor (derekhendrikz.com)
My second ever blog post was about personality: Is Something Missing? (pennymuller.com)
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