Freedom Dove

By: Sophia-Taniah-Lorna-Lynne
The One Who Flows With The River

I realize that a purified heart gives more clarity to the mind and
increases the sensitivity of the body with the ability to accept others and accept their point of view!!

This article is a work in progress. I am sharing these ideas to bring greater clarity to myself, while also offering them to others who may be interested in exploring the same questions.

My life experiences have shown me that what I once thought my goals were was not always what my soul had planned for me. Over time, I found myself wondering why some people believed I liked to argue when, from my perspective, I was only interested in sharing another way of seeing.

Eventually, I realized I had carried a preconceived idea about what arguing meant. I had not deeply contemplated the difference between arguing, debating, and simply offering another perspective. More recently, I began to see that what I once thought was an argument may have simply been a debate — or even a moment where two different perspectives were meeting.

I have discovered that having a different point of view does not automatically make one side right and the other wrong. Life is a series of experiences, observations, reflections, and choices. I am learning to become my own witness — to observe what I am experiencing with an open mind and a kind, loving heart — and then decide how I may contribute to life and to those within my field of experience.

From a very young age, I had a natural curiosity about life. I instinctively questioned existence itself.

What is life?
Why am I here?
What is God?
What is consciousness?
What is this experience I am having?

These inner questions opened me to many defining and undefining experiences. I am not entirely sure why I was able to surrender so deeply in those moments of asking, but somehow I was willing to receive direct experience as part of the answer.

How often do we pause long enough to contemplate the information being extended in a moment before we judge, conclude, or decide what something means?

What causes any one of us to make a quick decision, form a point of view, and then rigidly stand on it? Why do we sometimes accept information without question? When a situation arises, why do we not pause and ask ourselves whether we have all the information available before making a decision?

And once more information becomes available, do we have an open and flexible mind? Do we allow ourselves the freedom to change our mind?

I have discovered that giving myself permission to change my mind gives me a greater capacity to see and hear more clearly.

The word argue originally carried meanings connected to making something clear, making something known, proving, declaring, or demonstrating. Its deeper root even carries the sense of shining or making bright. This is fascinating to me because, at its origin, arguing was not necessarily about fighting. It was connected to clarification.

The word debate, however, has roots connected to striking, beating, fighting, or contending. Our friend and mentor in law, Malika, has said that “debate means to beat down.” When I heard this, it gave me pause.

For me, self-awareness and comprehending how the human design operates are fundamental to knowing myself, my relationship with life, and how I relate to others.

I have discovered that when I am stuck in one perspective, I limit the information available to me in that moment. Have you ever experienced yourself through that which you are observing? Have you considered that this experience may be available because you are consciousness itself?

While relaxing in the tub earlier today, a thought came to me:

A penny has two sides and an edge.

Does the penny experience itself only from one side? Does it know itself from the inside out, through both faces and its edge? Does it experience itself through the field of awareness flowing through it and around it?

And what about us?

How do you experience this moment as you sit here reading these words? Do you sense an energy field flowing around you and through you? Have you ever considered the non-physical aspects of the body? Have you wondered where thoughts come from? Have you noticed that there is a thinking part of you, and then there is intuition — a different stream of knowing that seems to arise from a deeper or more universal mind?

In other words, are you aware of how you process information and project that information into the field?

Do you know what motivates you to think the way you think, speak the way you speak, respond the way you respond, or react the way you react?

How did you arrive at the point of view you are holding and conveying about your experiences?

When you hold a point of view, from what angle are you seeing? From what angle are you drawing your conclusions?

The stories of the past, along with the emotions and feelings invoked by those stories, can act like interference patterns. They can keep us from seeing and hearing clearly in the present moment.

This is where the idea of a bird’s-eye view becomes useful. A bird’s-eye view is an elevated view — a way of seeing from above, as though the observer were a bird. It offers a wider perspective than what is visible from the ground.

So how are we seeing the proverbial “elephant in the room”?

How are we viewing life?

Are we viewing life only from the inside looking out? Or from the outside looking in? Are we seeing through the spirit, the reasoning mind, the conditioned mind, the subconscious, the ego, or the personality? Or are we seeing through the higher self, Infinite Intelligence, the Mighty I AM Presence, or the superconscious mind?

Are we seeing the elephant only from the front, the back, the left, the right, the top, or the bottom?

Or are we willing to shift into a more expanded point of view?

The information we process about the elephant — or about life itself — changes depending on the direction from which we are viewing it. Each angle reveals something different. Each point of view gives partial information.

When we are fixed in one point of view, or when we are narrowed by ideas and opinions we have learned, our conclusions become fixed and limited.

Our emotional state, mental state, state of consciousness, and spiritual intelligence are reflected in our capacity to disengage from the urge to defend our point of view. Why do some people experience another perspective as wrongness? Why do we sometimes feel threatened when another way of seeing is offered?

Just because we see things differently does not mean one is right and the other is wrong. It may simply mean we are viewing from different angles, through different memories, different emotional states, different levels of awareness, and different degrees of consciousness.

The ability to look at an experience from more than one angle is directly tied to empathy and compassion. When we can shift our perspective, we become more able to feel compassion for the spirit, mind, ego, and personality — both within ourselves and within those appearing in our field of experience.

Have you ever considered looking at your life experiences from multiple angles before making a determination or decision?

When we shift our perspective, we often receive more information. In that moment, insight becomes available. What once looked like conflict may become clarification. What once felt like opposition may become an invitation to see more.

And perhaps this is how we begin to stop allowing the past to govern the present.

We pause.

We observe.

We question the point of view we are seeing from.

We ask whether the emotion belongs to this moment, or whether it is an old memory replaying itself through the body.

We allow consciousness to rise above the fixed position and see from a wider field.

From that wider field, the present moment is no longer forced to repeat the past. The body is no longer required to relive the same emotional program. The mind is no longer trapped in one angle of the elephant.

And in that expanded awareness, a new moment becomes possible.

Below are some questions that have compelled me to pause, think deeply, and contemplate more fully who I am, how I experience life, and my reason for being.

Have you ever sat quietly and contemplated how the human design you are experiencing life through actually works — especially in relationship to what you are experiencing and how you may be participating in the creation of each moment?

Have you ever wondered about your reason for being, or what life is truly about?

Are you enjoying every aspect of what it means to be a sentient being?

Do you have the presence of heart and mind to fully receive the information available in any given moment?

Have you ever considered the possibility that your preconceived ideas may hinder your ability to experience what is actually unfolding in the moment?

Could those same preconceived ideas also be limiting your ability to enter into meaningful, beneficial, and heart-centered relationships with the people you encounter?

As you watch the following video, I invite you to set the intention to be fully present as the observer. Allow yourself to be open, receptive, and willing to experience the information being shared without rushing to judge, agree, disagree, or conclude.

God Speaks To Man: The Oldest Revelation

A slightly softer ending could be:

As you watch the following video, I invite you to enter it as an observer — present in heart, open in mind, and willing to receive whatever insight may arise for you in the moment.

God Speaks To Man: The Oldest Revelation

I have discovered that just when I thought I had it figured out, life revealed another layer waiting to be uncovered and experienced.

Even when we believe we have gathered all the information, life reminds us there is always more to be revealed. Every moment contains another angle, another layer, and another invitation to move beyond fixed knowledge into living wisdom.

We are not here merely to collect information. We are here to awaken into direct knowing — to experience the sacredness of life through the body, the breath, the senses, the heart, and the field of consciousness moving through all things.

As Walt Whitman wrote:

“Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Once We Know

Once we know the transformational ability of light and love, should we not make a conscious and concerted effort to uplift one another?

Do we realize the impact we have on the field around us?

Are we, perhaps, unwittingly acting as frequency generators when we are unaware of the energy, emotion, thought, and perspective we are projecting?

Every word, thought, feeling, and reaction carries a frequency. When we are unconscious of what we are radiating, we may contribute to the very patterns we say we want to change.

The world begins to change when we change the way we see the world.

And perhaps this is how we truly “change” people — not by force, pressure, argument, or correction, but by becoming so anchored in love, clarity, compassion, and presence that something in the field around us begins to soften, open, and remember.

We do not change people by demanding that they see what we see.

We change the shared field by becoming the light we were hoping to find.

This is why the following video, “How You Change People,” spoke to me. Beneath the title is a deeper invitation: to become conscious of what we are standing witness for in others, and to ask whether we are strengthening the old story — or calling forward the Divine spark within them.

What Are We Standing Witness For? because it connects directly with the deeper message of the video.

How You Change People

Presence, Self-Awareness, and the Inner Field

The “past” and the “future” exist in the mind as thoughts, memories, images, expectations, and emotional impressions. What is truly alive is this moment — the moment where awareness is focused.

Yet the present moment can become influenced and limited when we are still clinging to former ideas, emotional reactions, inherited beliefs, and fixed concepts created through past experience.

There is no time, space, or distance in consciousness. The past, present, and future all exist here and now. This invites a deeper question:

How do we stop allowing the past to govern the present?

How do we free the body’s cellular memory from repeating former experiences, so we are no longer living through an old lens, an old wound, or a limited point of view?

When we cease dwelling in what has already been, we open space for the present moment to become something new.

Awareness is a gift we give ourselves. When we move through life without self-awareness, we may be pulled along by inherited beliefs, emotional immaturity, spiritual conditioning, family patterns, social programming, religious instruction, and the voices of parents, teachers, pastors, priests, and other authorities we once believed without question.

At some point, we may need to pause and ask:

Do I have the inner clarity to recognize where I may have been spiritually, mentally, or emotionally conditioned?

Am I aware that my emotional field can interfere with how I receive and process information?

Am I being influenced by old emotional patterns and unresolved experiences that still live in the body?

If Infinite Intelligence is available within us, why would we cling only to the limitations of the intellectual, conditioned, carnal mind?

Presence is the ability to become fully aligned with the moment. To be present is not merely to sit still. It is to become available to what is actually here, without filtering everything through yesterday’s pain, fear, disappointment, or conclusion.

This requires cleansing the subconscious mind — the attractor field — so that the body, heart, and mind may become more receptive to the higher wisdom of the Superconscious Mind, the Christ Within, the Mighty I AM Presence, or Infinite Intelligence.

Pain in the body may sometimes reveal places where old experiences, judgments, or unresolved emotional imprints are still being held. When we are fully embodied in the present moment, resistance begins to soften. The mind becomes more aligned with the Unified Field, the heart becomes clearer, and the body becomes more available to light.

When the subconscious field is cleared, the heart purified, and inner vision awakened, we begin to perceive life from a more expansive state of consciousness.

From this state, our point of view is no longer limited to the ego, the wound, the reaction, or the old story. We begin to operate from the awareness field flowing through all life — what some may call the Superconscious Mind, Christ Consciousness, Unified Mind, or the Divine Intelligence within.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

A contemplative image inviting us to consider the power of thought, word, emotion, and intention upon the inner waters of the body.

Ask yourself: Can my body feel where the past is still living within me? Can my mind’s eye perceive the invisible threads — the emotional imprints, memories, judgments, and quantum entanglements — that are still influencing how I see, feel, respond, and create in this present moment?

What is keeping us from knowing peace?

Know that I love you as I love myself very much!