The Seven Essene Mirrors explained by Gregg Braden. I've almost transcribed the YouTube at the bottom. I often find it easier to read than watch things. If you're interested in watching it, it is embedded below.
Each moment of our life, the reality of our internal truth (what we have become) is mirrored to us by the actions, the choices, and the language of those around us.
The First and Second Essene Mirrors of Relationships
First mirror: shows my presence in the moment... what we reflect by others in the moment. What we are radiating in the moment.
Second mirror, similar quality, but more subtle: mirrors to us that which we judge in the moment.
When I find that many people show me the same pattern of anger or fear... they may be showing me my internal truth in the moment.
Multiple new relationships appear within the same month: PAY ATTENTION. There is something to learn.
Look at the people you hold most dear. Look at the qualities that push your buttons most. Are they showing you what you are in the moment? Or are they showing you what you judge in the moment?
Understanding the Inner Technology of Emotion
The Third and Fourth Essene Mirrors
Third Essene mystery/mirror of relationship: the mirror we sense every time we find ourselves in the presence of a person who, when we look in their eyes you feel an electrical charge.
Through the course of our lives we give away or lose parts of ourselves. When we find ourselves in the presence of another inidividual who embodies what we have lost, we will feel it as a magnetic connection to that person.
Ask: what is it I see in this person what I have lost or I've given away or was taken from me?
We will seek to reinforce that which we have lost, given away or had taken away.
Fourth Essene mystery/mirror of relationship: Has a little bit of a different quality. Through the course of our lives often we will adopt patterns of behavior that become so important to us that we will rearrange the rest of our lives to accomodate this pattern or behavior. When we find ourselves in this situation, we find that these patterns may be compulsive or addictive patterns of behavior. The fourth mystery allows us to see ourselves in the presence of addiction or compulsion. Through addiction and compulsion, we give away little by little the things that are most important to us. And in the giving away, we have the opportunity to see ourselves as we lose the things we hold most dear.
Alcohol or nicotine may come to mind. Issues of control. Addiciton to sex. Need for money/create money/abundance - all addiction/compulsion behaviors.
The pattern unfolds gradually unfolds over time. We give away what is most important to us over time. We may recognize the pattern at any time and heal, at any time. Rather than taking it to its extreme. And find our wholeness in the healing.
The Fifth Essene Mirror: Perhaps single most powerful pattern. Can see more and to a greater level why we've lived the lives we live. It is the mirror that our parents showed to us through the course of our childhood/lives with them. Through this mirror we are asked to allow for the possibility, to entertain the possibility that perhaps the actions of our parents toward us are mirroring our beliefs and expectations of what may be the most sacred relationship we'll ever know in our lifetime: relationship between us and our Heavenly Mother and Father. It is through this relationship with our earthly parents that our parents are showing us ourselves in that expectation and beliefs of that divine relationship. For example: if we find ourselves in a relationship with our parents where we feel judged, constantly. Or that we feel that our best is never good enough. There is a high probability that what is being mirrored is our belief within ourselves that we may not be good enough. Or that we may not have accomplished that which may have been expected of us.
Through our perceptions of ourselves and our creator. It’s a powerful and subtle mirror. And it may tell us more about why we’ve lived
our lives as we have than any other.
There are few absolutes.
There are often exceptions. If
you feel something inside of you welling up that says NO WAY, you’ve likely
encountered something that could be really powerful. The only way you’ll have a response is when
you are being shown something that is so deep you may have chosen to avert
looking at it in the past.
There is a good possibility that the words (positive and
negative) you have used to describe your parents have very little to with those
you call Mom and Dad. With those words,
you are describing a mirror. This is the
mirror your parents have held to you of the most sacred relationship you will
experience. The way you see your Mother
and Father (the words you use) of this world is a mirror of your expectations
of the relationship you have with your Heavenly Mother and Father. There are many ways to look at this. Is it possible that inviting you to this
world lives an unspoken responsibility that those who raise us are surrogates,
they are the closest thing we know in our Heavenly Creator. They have impeccably held to you the way you
see your relationship with your Heavenly Parents.
When you perceived your parents anger, you felt what your
creator felt.
This mirror may show you your beliefs, your expectations of
what your creator feels for and about you.
Sentence: What would you say to your parents if you had only
one minute left?
What would you like to
hear from your parents in the last minute of your life?
Through our earth life, we have the opportunity to heal our
relationships with both earthly parents and Heavenly Parents by recognizing
what the mirror is trying to show us, so to release it.
Both the positive and negative attributes of our earthly
parents mirror to us of how we perceive our Heavenly Parents.
The Sixth Essene Mirror: ominous name: dark night of the
soul
We are reminded that life has a propensity toward balance,
nature has propensity toward balance.
It
takes an extremely skillful and masterful being to upset the balance in nature
and to upset the balance in our lives.
When we find ourselves in the greatest challenges of life, it in those
moments that we may be assured that the only way those challenges are possible
is after we have amassed each tool that will allow us to move through that
challenge with grace and with ease… until those tools are amassed, we will
never see ourselves in the situations that ask us to demonstrate these high
levels of mastery.
From this perspective, the greatest challenges of life, may
be viewed as tremendous opportunities to demonstrate mastery, rather than tests
that may be passed or failed in life.
It
is through this mirror that we see ourselves naked, without the emotion and
feeling and thought and constructs around us that we have constructed around us
to keep us safe.
We have the opportunity
to see ourselves in a naked way and to prove to ourselves that the process of
life may be trusted.
This mirror is an opportunity to lose everything we’ve held
dear in life and see ourselves naked.
As
we climb out of the abyss that is left after the loss of everything we held
dear, and we see ourselves in a new way; this is where we find our highest
levels of master.
LIGHT and DARK
From the ancient perspectives, possibility that the forces
at play in our polarized world have chosen to come here to anchor. The only way to anchor, is for a force or
field to hold the mirrors for us.
Pre-twelfth century texts show benign beings Gabriel and Lucifer
volunteering to anchor light and dark respectively.
Dream fire ceremony: gaze into the flame, at the space
between the flame and the rest of the flame… it allows us to relax and move
into an altered state of awareness, sometimes without knowing it.
Your body mirrors your belief.
Illness is only possible if you believe that
the forces of light and dark are separate.
If we know that dark and light both originate in our creator, we will
not fear.
As you heal each memory (a single memory) you heal the
universal fears (3).
- Fear
of not being good enough.
- Fear
of trusting and surrendering.
- Fear
of abandonment and separation.
The science of compassion is an even great possibility.
The Seventh Essene Mirror: Most subtle.
It asks us to allow for the possibility, that
each experience of life, regardless of its outcome, is perfect in its
nature.
Regardless of whether or not we
achieve the lofty goals that have been set by others, we are invited to view
our accomplishments in life without comparing them to anything else, without
any external reference.
The only way we
can view ourselves in failure or success is when we measure our accomplishments
to an external yardstick.
The question
then arises, what is it that we hold ourselves accountable to?
What do we use as our yardstick of
accomplishment?
From the perspective
of this mirror, we are asked to allow for the possibility that all aspects of
our lives (each aspect of our personal life: body shape, body weight, academic,
business, athletic achievements) are perfect as they stand.
And can only be judged when they are compared
to an external reference.
Allow for perfection in the imperfections of life.
What standard are we holding ourselves to which
cause us to feel unhappy?
How do I know when I have succeeded or failed at something
in life?
My Notes For Me
If I am giving you the best that I can, until I compare
myself to someone else, I am ‘perfect.’
(Perfect in that 100% is 100%, not perfect as is Christ.)
Power of thought, feeling and emotion will make us more than
Christ (as He predicted).
Essene’s remind us that we will go through each of these
mirrors through this life.
Sometimes
multiple times and sometimes multiple mirrors at a time.
We are invited to know ourselves in the presence of others
through our relationships.
As those
relationships are reconciled, we become the benefit of that healing.
It is that benefit that we carry with us
through life as we walk between the worlds of heaven and earth.
Compassion
Jesus Christ and how He chose to respond to a woman with
whom he worked.
Two questions Jesus asked before He healed as conveyed in the Bible: Do you believe in me? Do you believe in my Father? Response: yes or no. Then: What have you learned in your illness?
Woman born with leprosy.
She was angry at her disease. She
responded that she had learned nothing.
She said she was so hideous she’d never had a friend, never known a man,
all cower from me. Christ responded, “If
you have learned nothing, then die and come to know yourself through
death.” He loved her that much.
Compassion may be defined as:
Thought without attachment to the outcome.
Feeling without distortion.
Emotion without charge.
Anger is in polarity.
Denial, not allowing feeling.
Allow feeling opens path to compassion.
If you feel nothing when you learn of something horrible, it’s possible
that you are in denial. If you want to
get even or make someone pay, you are allowing yourself to feel. If you can say to yourself, I miss those
people and this didn’t have to happen and there’s a sense that there is a
balance in the event, then you may be on the way to compassion.
Our Father’s Prayer: Aramaic: Our Father who is everywhere.
