An Excerpt from “From Money to Love—Journey to a New Paradigm”
A Course by Leslie Temple-Thurston and Brad Laughlin
Authentic abundance is a flow of divine grace and love and often includes material abundance too; it is always having exactly what we need, but not necessarily always what we want.
In the third-dimensional world of duality, most people cannot access a flow of abundance because they feel very separate and disconnected from each other and the world around them. The flow is blocked much of the time because of the nature of the dual system in which we live.
The ego is polarized between negative and positive, and on the journey to living a life of authentic abundance, it is essential to integrate duality into Oneness. Reconciling the opposites that we hold in consciousness helps one access the flow and understand and embody the unity.
For example, virtually every human on the planet has the following splits in consciousness, which keep us locked into separation and duality: victim-tyrant, pain-pleasure, shame-pride, worthlessness-worthiness, poor-rich and so forth. We flip-flop. Consciousness fluctuates between the two sides from moment to moment, day to day, year to year. We chase one side and shun the other.
Sometimes we have success, but often we fail and have to live out the negative side. No matter how hard we run towards the positive side, like a mouse on a treadmill, we never seem to actually arrive there. That’s because in the system of duality, the negative is always chasing us. But by reconciling and unifying the opposites inside of us, awareness changes, ultimately resulting in changes in the outer world.
Reconciling and healing the polarized consciousness inside of us is also known as clearing the shadow, and this work is entirely possible to do. There are many techniques nowadays for clearing the shadow, and it is important to find one that works for you. We offer a few methods of clearing shadow, simple journaling techniques, in our book The Marriage of Spirit, and several free chapters are available online.
One such method, Polarity Processing, involves finding opposites, and in prayer, making an offering of these lists and asking for the new, higher truth to be instituted in your consciousness. Here are some common polarities associated with money issues that create enormous, life-changing experiences when they are unified:
- Success Failure
- Spoiled Abused
- Survival Death
- Homeless Having a Home
- Work Play
- Worthy Worthless
- Abundance Deprivation
- Withholding Trust
- Asceticism Hedonism
- Control Chaos
- Power Powerlessness
- Fulfillment Emptiness
- Greed Generosity
- Selfish Selfless
- Rich Poor
In prayer, make an offering of these lists and ask for the new, higher truth to be instituted in your consciousness.
Furthermore, it is very hard to change our behavior around money without clearing the money shadows that affect our mindset and stop us from living in a flow of authentic abundance.
When searching for our programming around money, it is often helpful to identify the family and tribal messages we were given about money. For example, here is a short list:
- Money is the root of all evil.
- There is never enough to go around.
- You win some and you lose some.
- Be careful of losing the little you have.
- Me first, me only. Or, I’m all right, Jack.
- Take the money and run.
- Every man for himself.
To counteract these tribal messages, it is helpful to rewrite them to reflect a higher truth. For example:
- Money is neither good nor bad; it is a neutral force.
- There is plenty for everyone.
- At the level of unity consciousness, there is no such thing as loss and gain.
- Always live with a generous spirit, even if you have very little.
- I choose to help others less fortunate than I am.
- Practice giving without thought of reward.
- Love your neighbor as yourself.
Again in prayer, make an offering of these lists and ask for the new, higher truth to be instituted in your consciousness.
When we first took incarnation and experienced separation, consciousness fell out of the wholeness of the unified field in a very particular sequence. The original separation was an emerging out of the unified state or the whole. This resulted in a subject-object split between all that is and the soul. The soul contains all of the frequencies out of which awareness in this system is fashioned. I use the word frequencies because creation, at its most fundamental level, is vibrational, with the particularized frequencies emerging out of the unity. This androgynous soul form includes both the masculine and feminine frequencies, both negative and positive, and both conscious and unconscious. 
There are two kinds of truth: absolute truth, an alignment into the oneness, and egoic truth, which is very slippery and subjective. The egoic version of truth is based in opinion. 
The third-dimensional ego (personality) is defined by polarization. Polarization is an endless dance, ever fluctuating between desire and fear, loss and gain, attraction and aversion, and all the other pairs of opposites. By finding the center point between the two sides of a polarity, we find the neutral witness, or neutral observer. By being neither attracted nor repulsed to either the positive or negative sides, and by identifying with the witness/neutral observer, our awareness rests in The Middle Way. It is there that we find the doorway to the great treasure. This treasure is the “space” between the two sides of the polarity. It is the still point, the center of existence, the deeper eternal Self, our real Self and the state of oneness or unity. The lack of understanding of this principle leads to corruption.
Door to Liberation—Protocol for Facing Saturnian Energy
January 17th, 2012by Leslie Temple-Thurston
The following is the edited transcript of an excerpt from a live event:
…Here is a protocol to help you bust out of your limiting patterns.
It is a protocol for times when Saturn is having a lot of influence over you. Saturn can be experienced as the angry, vengeful God of the Bible or as the heavy-handed, dominating parent. So notice if these kinds of processes arise. Saturn can also be about rigid structures in your life. It can be about inflexible routines that you live. It’s very patriarchal, so if you have patriarchal issues coming up, they would relate to Saturn. Because each of your astrology is different, you’re going to experience the Saturnian energy in different ways.
When you feel intimidated by an outside authority… by those with wealth or by people who seem self-confident and successful… you are under the influence of Saturn. Saturn can make you feel inferior by putting you in a situation where you have to face these people who you project are superior. And it is important to remember that it is all a projection of the ego.
The low side of Saturn is that you’ll go deeper into your programs of worthlessness and victimization in such a way that you can easily buy into them. You’ll feel intimidated or crushed by an outside authority and will begin reliving some of your childhood processes about things like: discipline, deprivation, neglect and abandonment. And if you make the programs real while they are replaying, then the groove of your pattern becomes more deeply ingrained.
When you can witness the illusion of what Saturn is pushing you into, Saturn will liberate you. It is critical to understand that Saturn offers a doorway out of your limiting programs. When Saturn is pushing you down, you will experience a piece of childhood programming that is playing out through a present day scenario. You must recognize that what you are experiencing comes from your childhood and that Saturn is highlighting it for you so you can let it go. You must recognize that Saturn is exposing some of your authority issues, and you must state to the universe, “This is not real! I understand it is from a childhood program and I release it. I surrender it. I let it go.” Then Saturn will shatter those rigid structures into tiny fragments and sweep them away.
But first Saturn will attempt to trap you. It is very clever at placing you in a situation where you feel pressured. Saturn intrudes in a heavy-handed way and pushes down on those places inside you that need to be transformed. And you’ll feel awful because it feels like a heavy pressure from an outside source. You will experience your childhood program being played out in some way…. through a boss or a parent or an uncomfortable money situation. And you’ve got to recognize what is taking place and hold onto your witness. Rather than believing that you are having a really bad day… you stop and ask, “What the heck is going on here?” There is obviously something that is playing the dominator and something that is the victim. So do some processing of your consciousness using whatever method works for you. Squares are excellent. [Editor’s note: See www.marriageofspirit.com for a free chapter about the Squares technique.]
Explore and define the issue and take it back to childhood. Ask, “Is this a replay of childhood?” It will be for sure. Always! Our present day issues are replays from our childhood.
And though Saturn is wily, if you do your part adequately in recognizing what’s going on and make that statement to the universe… then Saturn becomes a liberator. So take your notebook and shake it at Saturn and say, “Saturn, I’ve got you now! I see what you’re doing.” You can release the whole pattern. Keep this in mind as you move through a Saturn transit because then one can bust, bust, bust programs like you have never seen before. You’ve got to be vigilant and catch it, which means being in your neutral witness all the time.
Money issues are some of the most crushing things that I see everybody going through. I have a feeling that Spirit brought this issue up for us to work because the money issue is going to be the rock crusher that Saturn tries to catch you in. This may not be true for all of you, but I suspect that survival might be a major issue in the coming times. What I’ve outlined today is the protocol I want you to follow if you find yourself dealing with Saturnine issues.
British people pronoun the word “Saturn” without the “r”, and so it sounds like “Satun”, which is very close to the word, “Satan”, as in the devil. I really believe that somewhere back in the midst of the past, Satan got named for the energy of Saturn. And so we’re inclined to feel duped at times when Saturn comes in strong. We feel oppressed by an evil force. So it is very important not to lose your witness and get caught in this false belief. Do not try to run from it by hiding, blocking it out, or going to the movies. You have got to face Saturn! Use your knowledge that nothing is real, that the patterns are an illusion. You don’t have to succumb to them. Use a Saturn-influenced period of time as an opportunity to break the patterns completely. They break when you say to Saturn, “You’re not real!”
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