Perhaps you have noticed the Maze Trap?


Perhaps you have noticed the Maze Trap?

by Gavriel Shaw

Perhaps you have noticed?

The maze-trap that binds everyone around you…

You, too, are walking through that maze — looking for the exit just like all the others.

BUT:

You are more curious, more open… Looking at the walls that form the maze you wonder if there is no official exit at all…

Perhaps:

You need to break from the norm.

Perhaps the exit is over that wall?

Of course: some people are too busy rushing around looking for the official exit…

…that they never even stop long enough to consider climbing the wall as a possible escape route.

Incredibly, others don't even notice the wall that confines them to the maze — they just keep on running through.

Others look up and see the wall but decide against climbing it:

  • perhaps out of being 'politically correct', or 'respectful' to the designers of the maze (not wanting to rock the boat),
  • or perhaps it’s the short burst of intense effort necessary to scale the wall (and life is tough enough already as it is, rushing about the maze and all…)
  • or perhaps because they don't want to get their clothes in a mess or be embarrassed, just in case they don't make it over the wall and others see their failure…

In fact:

They rarely stop to consider their situation at all… not taking the time or trusting themself enough to put the puzzle of success together… To organize their different experiences into a map of understanding and personal strategy.

So they look back down away from the wall, sigh deeply, resign to the quiet desperation of 'looking for the exit', and start running again, faster, and faster, thinking that speed or struggle will give them success.

They bump into others, asking for the answer. Constriction, exhaustion, almost a strangulation, diminishing their energy.

They begin to walk, recovering their breath, feeling more at ease and, becoming more aware, strolling along, sometimes even with a smile, sometimes reflecting on the absurdity of the others running around who are also looking for the exit out of this trap.

But some accept there to be no escape, no exit, and they become cynical and negative of the people who are still running…

They say:

'Slow down or you might fall and get hurt. Why rush? We all end up the same way anyway. Nothing has lasting importance. Just live for the moment. Why be concerned? Why try? Just stick to what you know".

Some then resign so much that they sit down on one of the semi-comfortable benches.

They somehow fool themselves into thinking they are on top of things, but their gaze is hazy… the fire in their eyes is dimmed… they have lost their way not just in the external maze, but inside their mind and spirit as well.

They group together in small packs of 'friends' to pass the time.

Whilst you watch them, your inner voice breaks the silence:

“You may delay, but time will not'.

In that instance you arrive into an opening with a bench and you stop, aware of a strange new feeling that washes over you – making you at once aware of Two Worlds.

A flash of color and a distant sound catches your attention. As you catch your breath somehow things are different, in you now. You are different. Your mind has re-organized. You see how things connect.

  • Business, creativity, achievement, power, romance, prosperity, life, happiness, success.
  • Politicians, taxes, government, strangulation, stagnation, boredom, failure, death.

You sit down besides another person sitting on the bench, and you can feel the person begin to frown as you turn to the person very slowly and frown in the same way too, as they also turn in the same way to you.

The feeling is eery as you catch eye-to-eye realizing this person is part of your self, the projection of your negative self-image. A slow rippling shiver shoots uncontrollably up your spine from the base of your back towards your head and washes over you. A feint tingle in your hands.

In the next moment your mental re-organization is complete.

That 'other' person is no longer of consideration and you understand the distracting pattern of the maze.

You look upwards, skywards. You feel lighter, breath in deeply now.

And your mind has a completely new way of thinking.

With this new mental technology that we call Neo-Think, you see the world with complete honest clarity.

You see the wall that you had been running alongside, but now you look above it.

You stand. You draw in another deep breath filled with power. Your eyes draw thin by your minds new focussed commitment. You feel a renewed vigor, passion, and self-assurance.

You are going to figure out how to get over that wall, that hurdle, that damn obstacle, and you are going to begin now.

Standing tall, to the bright sunny skies you express…

"I will do it, because I have chosen so".

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