Enlighten Up
The Breath of Life By Freya Sampson Custodian Eartheart
The Cycle of Relationships In the December 2019 issue, we began to delve into the nitty-gritty of relationships. Let’s back up a little and take an overview of where we come from and what relationships really are? Then we can journey back into the nitty-gritty dynamics that make or break our relationships and create the experiences. The very nature of the Divine itself and therefore one’s own true nature, becomes realised through the interplay of souls, through relationships. Thus one could say, at the highest level of truth, a relationship is the vehicle which the Divine has chosen to work through, in order to know thyself, as the perfection of love in all of its forms, in action, to be of service, aka self-realisation. From an individuated perception of creation, which each of us has, what does this mean in everyday life? It’s very easy to take relationships for granted, for
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as far back as we can recall in this life, at the point of conception, we come from and through a relationship. From that point onward, we are experiencing how the people around us interact. This occurs through gestation, the growing foetus is a soul’s vessel, moving from a state of oneness into a state of individuation. A soul, therefore, has a relationship with its body. The foetus is experiencing its mother’s responses to all of the energies of life that she is exposed to throughout that period. It is already beginning its relationship with the world. As the body grows, its senses become more specific and targeted, hearing, seeing and feeling. The soul can begin to interact with the people who engage with its mother and with them directly. Birth occurs and the soul, now fully vested into a body, is birthed into the world and
this being takes the next step into self. Still strongly dependent on parental care to provide everything required for his or her healthy development, none-the-less, absorbing and learning all of the time. Imprinting about relationships is already well underway. A relationship, like all things in creation, is cyclical in growth and pattern of flow. There are four phases in any relationship - The Honeymoon, Noticing Differences, Potential Conflict and the Golden Afterglow or Separation. The aim, in a healthy relationship, is ‘Golden Afterglow’ – to grow in harmonic resonance, virtue and love. This can be understood in rational terms through the geometry of the Golden Mean. Born in 384 B.C., Aristotle’s ethics are to be found within the Golden mean, which involves finding
