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On The Map Home: Many of us are sick of rehashing the same limiting issues whether they are physical, emotional, mental or spiritual without effecting lasting change. We have delved into various books and films on self-help and spiritual guidance and found that, while apparently true, these don’t translate into daily life. Yet, always in the background, is the feeling that we are missing something important that we could be and do so much more. We are living in very intense times. Legends, religious texts, and prophecies all point to huge changes on our horizon, yet no one can agree on their meaning. Time seems to be moving faster and we feel as if we are on a crash course with something big, bad, and ugly. Some believe the world will come to an end in 2012. If it does, (or did, depending on the date you are reading this), this book will be ashes along with everything else so it won’t matter. If, however, the world doesn’t end, The Map Home is a guidebook to living in the new energies of 2012 and beyond using our forgotten power to manage matter at the quantum level. Not only will application of the principles outlined in this book give the reader answers to ancient spiritual questions, it will offer practical, empowering solutions missing in most spiritual texts. Information in The Map Home is revolutionary, evolutionary and as old as time itself. This book is not just a mental exercise in spirituality but a primer of solid principles enabling one to manifest change at all four levels of life; physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. The concepts offered in The Map Home have been field tested in my 30 years of private practice as a shamanic practitioner, where I interface with a wide variety of medical professionals including doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists. This work has changed countless lives for the better and continues to do so. In writing The Map Home I have condensed the principles of shamanism into scientifically based logic that is easily understood by the Western mind. Yet, shamanism is only one of many modalities included in the The Map Home. This book is about life; past, present, and future. The Map Home reveals how we can move from being subject to a dying system to becoming powerful co-creators of not only our lives but our world. - - - - An excerpt from Gwilda Wiyaka's upcoming book The Map Home: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Evolution and Personal Empowerment
One of the contradictions of a polarized view of reality is that even if we choose to perceive certain aspects as separate, everything is subject to natural law and, therefore, interrelated. Any time we judge against anything, we are judging against something in ourselves. If we judge against the dark and only value the light, whatever in us that is of the dark (fifty percent of our expression) must be firmly shoved into denial. This not only detaches us from half of our personal power and expression but puts that same amount of power outside of conscious control, and under the direction of the unconsciousness. The more denied we are the more unconscious. Now, I don’t know about you, but I am not fond of the idea that half my power is running amuck out there messing up my life.
When we judge against part of ourselves, we experience guilt and shame. Most of our emotions have purpose, even those we judge against. An example of this is rage. Rage results from denied anger. Anger is a natural and necessary to set boundaries. The mother bear is formidable in her protective behavior. She has no qualms about expressing anger in all its snarling glory. Yet, when her cubs are no longer threatened she does not hold a grudge and goes on about her business. Humans, on the other hand, feel less free to express anger. It is not civilized to growl at someone crossing our boundaries, so we stuff it. While anger is not expressed in the moment, neither is it forgotten. Instead we tend to hold grudges. Stuff anger into denial enough times and we become full of rage. The unfortunate person who unwittingly gets on our last nerve is blasted. After we have vented it becomes obvious, even to us, that the response was over the top for the stimulus and we experience guilt and shame. Guilt and shame are not natural expressions. They are not found anywhere except in the presence of judgment and denial. These foreign energies are so toxic that they can only be endured for so long before we have to get out from under them. The usual method is to project judgment and blame upon the poor hapless person that triggered our rage. Then, that part of us that knows that we were out of line gets shoved into denial. As a result, we are even less conscious, present, and in control. I once had a conversation with a lady about guilt. She held the position that without guilt, people would do bad things. I believe that people are intrinsically good and want to do good things and belong. Guilt and shame force people to act against their nature by judging against themselves, causing them to fragment from that which they judge against. The worst crimes result from the projection of self judgment onto another, then attacking the object of their projection. The vicious circle of judging against ourselves, feeling guilt and shame which we project and further deny, results in extreme compartmentalization.
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Guilt and Shame
Polarized, compartmentalized reality has us viewing ourselves as separate, not subject to the same laws and forever alone. This leaves us vulnerable to a consumer-driven society. Anything that promises to relieve the illusion of unbearable aloneness and self denial becomes extremely desirable, so much so that many of us will gladly mortgage our future for the promise of a moment’s relief. This is the pain and suffering we have come to accept as reality.