The Paradox of Separation

Whilst on a trip to Chicago to attend a Conscious Systems workshop by Mark Dunn I was reminded of a blog I wrote about a year ago highlighting the paradox we all face in our journey to Oneness or unity consciousness as some describe it.
The paradox is that to move toward Oneness we must first master our Separateness. In essence to become more aware of the connectedness of everything we must first become skilled at disconnection.
In our wisdom we have chosen a model of scarcity and survival as opposed to one of abundance (the Garden of Eden story). Survival has placed us in unhealthy relationships based on competition and co-dependency as opposed to co-creation and co-operation.
The result of this thinking has lead to a very inefficient and in fact destructive way of powering ourselves. Scarcity thinking leads us to believe that we cannot generate enough energy to meet our needs and fuel our creation and we have consequently set up circuits which allow us to draw, borrow or steal energy from other people. We do this through generating emotional charge and harnessing the resultant energy. This plays out in the typical persecutor,victim, rescuer triangle and we establish patterns in our relationships which allow us to draw energy from those around us. This is as true of the victim as the persecutor! These patterns also play out on a group level (think of your football team), and eventually national level (think of war).
We have come to believe that we need to reach outside ourselves to find our power source. This belief pattern is not only inefficient and destructive but actually costs us a lot more. Engaging in this game actually causes us to lose connection to self. We no longer listen to our heart or trust ourselves, we instead seek approval, confrontation or drama to survive.
The good news is that there is an infinite supply of energy available which will provide all the Power you need to drive your creation. To tap into that energy supply you need to re-establish the integrity of your internal circuits. We are in essence a re-chargable battery which is powered by duality. We are organised to set up a flow between light and dense frequencies and once intact this circuit can connect to the infinite flow provided by the universe and nature.
To establish this virtuous cycle we need to learn to disconnect from the co-dependent, competitive circuits and listen to ourselves for guidance. In effect we need to become more seperate to establish the circuit which then allows us to connect to the original Power Source. In this place we will inevitably see the connectedness of everything as we are plugged into it, and at the same time have the integrity to be an individual expression of that Source. Once we realise that we no longer have to compete to survive we can apply our incredible power to co-creation and co-operation.
The route to Oneness requires Separation. Strange but True!

Powerful Living Workshop, Saturday 24th September, The Creative Space centre.