Triune Knowing

The new way of interconnecting will be providing us with more profound ways to see and know each other more revelently, more clearly, more profoundly.

Ordinarily, when we look at another person, we see the outside form.
How they dress, speak, what they do, their presentation.

These days, however, of greater wisdom and compassion, we can begin to see the emotional life under the form.  The hurt child, the frightened baby, the reasons why people sometimes act badly, the fear that their needs won't be met.  The emotional life lives under the social facade. And increasingly we can see it in each other if we look with our hearts.  Suddenly, what they're doing is not about us or to hurt us.  We see their motives and feel compassion, even if we don't approve. We grasp an explanation, not an excuse.  It is as if we've moved above the dynamic to look at it from a higher perspective.

But there is a third level which we are also becoming empowered to see, and that is the Soul, the higher self, the essence of the person.  When we resonate with that person's underlying truth, we invite it to come out.  And if we could all be that authentic, know ourselves well enough, and trust that self, what an interesting world it would be.

My husband, the poet Harry Youtt, often talks about "the irony zone," which he thinks of as the "green room" where guests wait before it's their turn to be on camera with Jay Leno or Dave Letterman.  Where they are themselves, instead of their posing. And as soon as the music goes on, they put on their masks.  You know this situation in your own life, when you're with a sales person, or a bureaucrat, and they tell you that "it's store policy"  or "it's city policy" to do something obviously ridiculous.  At that moment,  you want to say, "Be real!  It's a dumb policy, don't you think?"  and sometimes they come with you into the irony zone, but mostly they stay in their roles and you both become frustrated.

The irony zone is a door into the higher level. 

So is the practice of running your thoughts through your heart.  When you do, you might discover that you don't really believe more than 60% of them!  Try it and see.  You wake up and a voice inside your head says, "Oh, man, this is going to be a brutal day."  That's the time to stop and ask yourself if you believe that.  The little ego/personality voice that tries to keep you small or is run by habit has spoken, but as you move into authenticity, you will want to be sure you've checked in with your heart to know what you really "think."

And when you tune in with your heart, you find all sorts of other answers.

And when you know your own heart, you can know the hearts of others.  It makes you more compassionate and aware.

And then we step into the triune knowing...and the magic can begin.