Metamorphosis of Self

Metamorphosis of Self.mp3
5 Minutes 39 Seconds. Read by UK robot Elizabeth.

by Aaron Matlen

Metamorphosis takes place all around us. Molecules are constantly interacting and transforming; things are turning into other things.

The four stages of transformation all things go through are birth, growth, flourishing or maturation, and death.

The most important stage to focus on is growth to maturation (or flourishing). What is the goal or most flourishing period of a thing? I often ask this question. When applied to human beings, what is our growth to maturation within consciousness?

Consciousness can rapidly alter its structure and perception. There are sudden and transformative changes within consciousness. There is an art to metamorphosis of self.

Consciousness is not solid like a physical object, but made up of dynamically moving information systems which are "alive" in a sense.

Dynamically moving information systems (DIS) are perspectives from which you view the world, in essence, personalities that depend on certain “information systems” you have developed in your mind since childhood.

We have many dynamic information systems, such as how we are among friends, compared to family, compared to the rest of society.

Often the immature dynamic systems that developed during childhood or traumatic experiences continue to influence a person greatly and are never matured.

Within every immature dynamic is its potential, its "lesson to be learned" -- and will always exist until fulfilled.

Most people don't ever take the time to mature thought processes or emotions. Beliefs and immature emotional expressions carry on into adulthood and affect thinking.

What Are Some Solutions?

Talking to your self. You can track the dynamic information systems within your mind by communicating with them. Ask questions that discover why this information system "feels or acts" the way it does -- what is its deepest desire, and when has it expressed itself in your life?

You can go on a voyage along the shores of your most potent memories and track where perspectives or ways of dealing with things began.

When you have an outburst that you'd call childish, reflect, and trace your history to when thoughts like that happened before, and where they started.

Finding the source is the key. Then ask questions of that source and ultimately try to find what it really wants. What is its true intention?

Often irrational perspectives of anger, apathy, and so forth are not ends in themselves, but immature ways of dealing with an unfulfilled need for love or attention, for example.

It is easier to communicate with these dynamic systems if you imagine them as your self, in some state of mind, perhaps you in the past in a strong memory when you felt that way. "My ten year old crying self.."

By speaking with love to immature perspectives, or past memory selves, we can guide the process of unfolding their potential lesson.

It takes asking the intention and discovering what is the positive need or want.

Tracking where it came about and finding specific memories that affect you.

Asking if it has been effective in getting what it wants and untying the knots with communication.

Then find another guide, another dynamic system of the mind that wants to teach and mature this one... something will naturally arise, some figure or person you respect perhaps. Just focus your attention on bringing this about and your subconscious will deliver.

Through this guide you create a new perspective that satisfies what the immature perspective's true intention was.

By now you should have an image or memory where this dynamic system was very alive.

Now create a concrete image of a guide to help with this problem. Next, create the concrete imagery for the new perspective, such as a flower.

These mental exercises greatly facilitate maturation, for consciousness is naturally self-organizing, you just must give it direction and metaphor.

Introduce the flower to the old perspective and ask if it would like to become this new form, and if there is understanding of what this change means.

At first you may feel rejection, but with explanation, acceptance, and love the old perspective is absorbed, transformed into the new one, and people often feel a rush of relief.

A real physical change has occurred in the dynamic interaction of systems within the mind. The work is not over though, for follow up is required.

The guide you imagined must promise to help mature this perspective and be there every time it comes about to keep it in check.

Immature or "growth" stages within human consciousness are what I call our negative and irrational instincts and thought patterns. These form within childhood and are not rational or necessary, but perpetuated anyway by society. These include shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, and pride.

A matured consciousness is one that unfolds the lessons of these perspectives and emotions by transforming them with love, joy, reason, and acceptance. This is what is natural to consciousness, this is what our flourishing is. Problem-solving exists in the peaceful awareness with your greatest conception of self, the self beyond what you are, your Full Potential.

In summation, The self is not solid. It is holographic and dynamic, made of systems where one change of structure can affect and alter the whole. We can always seek wisdom by communicating with our self in ways that project our greatest intelligence or values or virtues, in guides on the holodynamic plane of consciousness -- the thought world. Transformations are happening all around and even inside us. What does it mean for consciousness to transform? Where are you in your growth to maturation? By simply focusing awareness on immature dynamics we can take advantage of the universal nature of birth of new ideas, death of old ones, growth from new experience, and maturation of experience to wisdom. One should always ask the question, "is this thought in its matured form? is this world? is this emotion? what is the true potential?"