Much of What Shapes Our Life Is Not Conscious
We Can Learn the Skills to Pull Back the Veil and Command Our Future
I have written extensively about our unconscious agreements and how we can learn to command our dreaming, a skill we develop in Level 2, Shamanic Self Mastery. What I have not yet shared is the way in which these agreements sit in our energy bodies and how they cause dysfunction.
What Sits Above the Crown
Most people are aware of how social narratives can bias our interpretation of life, but few realize the energetic mechanism of how it works or the deleterious effects on our health and well-being.
Societal agreements filter our perception of events before we ever become aware of it, sitting above our crown and distorting our connection with Creator. Imagine a gel over a theater light. The agreement does not appear as a thought or a conscious interpretation, it colors source energy before that energy ever enters our crown. By the time it reaches our awareness the light is already tinted. We do not perceive the world and then interpret it through a belief, we perceive a world that arrives pre-filtered.
These agreements are visable at various heights above the crown. Personal and family agreements tend to be close in, generally the range of 3-6 feet above us. Higher up, at a range of 10-25 feet, we find larger group agreements, and higher still we find broad societal agreements.The higher you go, the more subtle it becomes, and the larger the scale of the agreement being held there.
The Ones Nobody Sees
Societal agreements tend to live at those higher levels and extend downward into everyone underneath them. And these are largely invisible to the people living inside them, in much the same way that water in a fishbowl is invisible to the fish. It is not a thing the fish believes. It is the medium the fish exists in. And for us, it is much the same, it is the matrix in which we exist regardless of our active belief.
When people lived closer to the earth, these societal agreements were simpler, interwoven within a code of ethics that governed the tribes, clan groups and families to which an individual belonged. The societal agreements reflect the values of the society. For a society living close to the earth, agreements governing responsible harvest, reciprocity with the land and with others, reverence for nature, care for future generations, honor for the spirit of the plants and animals harvested for survival would comprise the majority of the ethical code.
As humanity has drifted increasingly further away from living in conscious, direct connection with Mother Earth, societal agreements have changed. Narratives that serve institutions or people in power have replaced ones which valued honoring and caretaking the earth for both the present and the future.
Many of these agreements are parasitic. "You Are Not Worthy of God's Love", "I Must Sacrifice Myself to Help Others" and "Suffering is Noble" are all examples of common parasitic societal agreements that drain life force from individuals and interfere with spiritual sovereignty and free will. They can originate with families, institutions or societies as a whole and they short-circuit our individual ability to live into our full potential.
In the Spirit World, these spiritual parasites often appear as octopi. A head at the top, and numerous tentacles reaching down into the energy fields of the individuals who have accepted the agreement. The vast majority of people are unaware, and you may protest with your conscious mind that you don't agree, but that does not change how the programming works, how it short-circuits your ability to achieve your goals, or the life force leaking away.
As adults given informed choice to agree or not, most of us would not; but these agreements were programmed into us in early childhood, not with words, but by observing the actions of those around us. We did not consciously consent, we unconsciously agreed by mimicking the behaviors of our caregivers, because our survival depended on it.
Why You Cannot Talk Your Way Out
You cannot affirm your way out of an agreement that is shaping your perception before you even know it is there. You are using the very lens that was shaped by the agreement to try to see beyond it.
So how do you free yourself? First you must learn to Command Your Dreaming. Then you can apply advanced shamanic healing Techniques such as spiritual parasite removal to locate the "head" of the parasitic agreement far above the crown. Another method is what I teach in my Inner Vision Course, where we learn to scan ourselves at depth and find the hidden places where we have been anchored to these types of agreements without our conscious awareness. For complete healing, you have to work both high above the crown and deep within the body, and sometimes back into our Ancestry.
These agreements were made without our knowledge, but they are not permanent, and they are not who we are. Learning to see them is the first step in learning to remove them and regain command of our lives.