I’m a sucker for a good novel. I love being transported into another world, into the lives, hearts and minds of characters who, like me, are finding their way in the world.
Recently, when I finished reading a very long and dense novel, I realized that when I enter into the narrative world of an author I am giving myself over to them in trust. I am reading the product of their imagination. It feels like a sacred act, a solemn trust.
As a reader I am picky. I want the author to take me somewhere meaningful, somewhere transcendent. I don’t want to spend my time reading a story that leaves me on the same vibrational plane that I experience in consensual reality. I want to enter into a narrative world that transports me into the New. This is why I have no time for dystopias. They are unimaginative. They merely play out a catastrophic trajectory to an epic dead end.
The Fiction We Live In
Why does any of this matter? Because fiction isn’t limited to the books we read or the movies we watch. We are living in a fiction everyday—the fiction in our own minds as well as the fiction in the collective mind. You could say that this whole world is a novel, but unlike the books we store on our shelves, we are both the characters and the authors of this novel we call the world.
And we have a choice, each of us. We can either continue spinning the same narrative thread of the past, remaining loyal to the premises of its plot, or we can be bold enough to invite a surprising narrative twist that opens up a whole new horizon for ourselves and for planet Earth.
And we all know it’s high time for a surprising narrative twist to take place on planet Earth.
Willingness Opens the Way
How do we invite that? All it really requires of us is that we be willing to relinquish our loyalty to the narrative that has been passed down to us, defect from its ground rules and its demands for enemies, divisions, struggle, winners and losers, fear.
Notice that I said it requires us only to be willing. That’s an important point, because one of the core themes of the current story humans have been authoring is based on the belief that we have to make things happen, and that even this planetary transformation and this global awakening is on us to carry out.
But it isn’t, and the first narrative twist happens when we accept that there are spiritual Beings who are in this with us, cheering us on, eager to partner with us to help bring forth what wants to happen in our lives and on this planet.
Since the spirit realm respects our free will, it will not intervene if we want to try to go it alone. This means we can decimate the ecosystems on the planet to the point of collapse if that is what we choose. And the shocking truth is that even if we do, Love would not reject us.
A New Story
So I encourage you to be picky about the stories you indulge, beginning with the stories in your own mind, because a New Story is ready to emerge on this planet. It isn’t based on the fallacy of separateness and division and judgment, but expresses the Reality of Love and the truth of our inter-existence.
This New Story is a partnership between the spirit realm and we embodied ones who are willing to release our allegiance to the narrative world of the past and become co-authors of what is to come.
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The only narrative I’m hearing in the world today is hatred and attack. That’s the only narrative being allowed. What does Spirit say about censorship?
Your writing is so timely. Thank you again.
I agree enthusiastically! We are leaving behind an old paradigm of patriarchy and domination for one of partnership and collaboration. All the angels in heaven are cheering us on. We can do it!
Thank you for being a voice of optimism in challenging times. We are all in this together—literally.
Love this piece! I’ve long been aware of the fiction we create but get stuck in my ‘doing’. Also been reading B. Katie’s ‘Thousand Names for Joy’ where she talks of how decisions just come. We don’t need to ‘make’ them. Thank you!!
Hi Patricia,
Your description of the kinds of novels you prefer very much resonates with me. I’d love to see a list of some of your favorites, via email.
Also, should the 6th mass extinction include humans, where might love take the 8 billion souls residing here? Having listened to many YouTube nde descriptions, I wonder if we’d all be moved to the realm of unconditional love.
Hi Patricia,
It’s September 16, 2021; I missed the original posting. However, two days ago my friend and business partner discussed the movies we watch and the news we hear. We were considering the impact on our consciousness. Your post comprehensive summary of the conversation.
I appreciate you and the consciousness you exemplify!