Searching The Truth Will Set Us Free: Successfully Navigating the Unknown

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Successfully Navigating the Unknown

By Kenneth Schmitt

Posted on August 20, 2024

It’s 3:30 a.m., and your plane has just landed in a country that is totally foreign to you. You have no plans and no resources. You do not know anyone here. You’re here only because you’re following your inner knowing. Your acquaintance with cosmic knowing is guiding you to fulfillment in everything you do. All you need to do is pay attention to your inner knowing, which is infinite. Something happens, and you suddenly have a place to stay in the company of wonderful people.

In a real sense, this is the condition of each of us, when we begin to live beyond ego-consciousness. When we came into incarnation, we received a mind-wipe and had to begin to develop an ego-consciousness. It does not know who we are in our essence. It knows only the personality we have developed, but at some point, we begin to wonder if we may exist beyond time and space. Unless we are blessed with an out-of-body experience that feels more real that our empirical life, we can expose ourselves to the accounts of those who have. There is one thing that all report. It is that our awareness beyond the body is the same as we’re accustomed to, except that it’s so much more. We do not need the physical body to have conscious awareness. In fact, the physical body tends to hinder our full awareness.

We can gain a new perspective beyond fear, and we have the opportunity to continue to hold that perspective, which provides an understanding beyond ego-consciousness. Ego knows no higher guidance. We can be aware that every moment is new and unknown in its connection to our past or future, but we always receive everything we need in every moment. Our circumstances arrange themselves around us as expressions of divine wonder. We just need to maintain a sense of unconditional acceptance and gratitude for everything. We control the quality of our every moment.

The ego is afraid to navigate the unknown. It knows that it is susceptible to being lost at sea without provisions. Because it knows only the consciousness of the physical world, the ego has accepted disease, intimidation, suffering and potential death. None of this can happen without our conscious acceptance, but how can we know this? Without higher guidance, we cannot know it from within the physical world. We have created a compartment of consciousness by developing deep limiting beliefs about ourselves in order to have an experience that challenges us beyond anything we had thought possible. But we gave ourselves a way to become the masters of our circumstances.

We call it intuition. It is the inner knowing that comes through the consciousness of our heart. When we awaken our sensitivity to it and intend to follow its guidance, we transform our lives. We awaken our ability to welcome every experience with gratitude and joy, and we can always know the guideposts along the way.

Kenneth Schmitt