Alchemy of the Edge: Take Your First Step Into Consciousness Design
Is it time to question your place in the game?
“We are the only species that lives in zoos of our own design.” ~Christopher Ryan
It’s an odd thing to notice you are conscious.
Most humans don’t discern they are conscious. They see the doing as why we are here. They feel separate. They act like they are separate, separate special little chips off the quantum block here to get theirs, whatever that means.
So you go along and someone teaches you some rules so you can remain in the good graces of the humans around you. And when there are rules, well, there must be a game, yeah?
We start seeing opportunities to advance in the game. Behave and you get a treat. Yay! Good grades and you get celebrated. Yay! Good performance and you get a raise. Yay! I like this game.
Then one day you notice that even those who are acing the game are really not winning at all. Long hours, perfectionism, health scares, dead stares into digital boxes, white-knuckling until the next time to opt-out for a while on that well-earned vacation.
It’s then you might have a moment of awareness, a fleeting feeling: This game sucks.
That awareness may feel intimidating, destabilizing, even dangerous. Indeed it is because you just pulled the first thread without even realizing your reality was starting to unravel. For those who are familiar, this may sound a bit like the preamble to Neo taking the red pill, but let me assure you, this process isn’t Hollywood glamorous, but it is more wild and spectacular than you can imagine.
If you are feeling called to the sexiness of that destabilizing danger, you’ve found this precisely aligned missive or it’s found you, semantics really in this quantum existence.
The rub is the adventure is your own. You have to find your own circle of rebels who have experienced enough static and dissonance in their existence to invite themselves on the consciousness design journey. Some have coalesced around consciousness design already with diverse perspectives within the same journey. My passion is leading humans who have chosen to opt-in.
This journey is a constant choice. While noticing the much more expansive energy underlying the game has an irresistible allure, the path on the journey is cobbled with mundane choices, unyielding discipline, and incessant opportunities to reject the game and also rife with naysayers and penalties for not playing by the rules.
You in?
If you are, this is a taste of your new consciousness owner’s manual. Well, you don’t really own your consciousness, you are your consciousness.
Just like any other experience on this earthwalk this path comes from a particular perspective. On this path, there is no right or wrong, no bad or good, because remember you are opting out of the game.
On this path, everything is an adventure, everything is interesting, everything serves your consciousness.
This is usually the part where the game and even the rules may start to appeal again.
Having something, anything as an anchor in judgment feels familiar, even if you at your core know it doesn’t serve you and you reject it. Knowing someone is wrong and you are right gives your ego purchase. Phew. That feels better. I know where I stand now.
Yet it is precisely that feeling of duality and egoic certainty you must relinquish to pass through this portal.
If it feels like too much of a challenge right now, that’s an invitation. There is wisdom in the resistance. What is it telling you? What does that resistance highlight? That resistance is allowing you to shine a spotlight on your growth edge to harness the alchemy of the edge.
The alchemy of the edge is an exhilaration in transmutation: taking that resistance and turning it into wisdom as guidance on your consciousness design journey. This is where you will exist at this very edge.
The edge isn’t a place you visit, it’s now the place you live, if you opt-in, of course.
When you approach the edge, your ego flails, the game flashes TILT, and typically humans retreat upon feeling that unfamiliarity and discomfort. Therein lies why so few expand their consciousness and feel the beckoning of the consciousness design path — you have to ignore the warning signs as you leave your safe little self-constructed zoo and have faith there is so much more.
Start by slowing down to take the first steps of your journey within.
You will have to undomesticate your cognitive learning.
You will have to unlearn the messaging that you can’t trust your emotions, body, or energetic intuition.
You will have to transmute the discomfort of existing in uncertainty into the powerful creative flow that it is.
You will have to surrender into the curiosity of fresh eyes on this world and decide for yourself that which is an illusion and that which is authentically aligned for you.
Lastly, you will have to relinquish the prizes of the game — like that plush bear you tried to win at the carnival and then realize you spent all your money and energy on the game, but found no pleasure or bliss in the experience at all, because there are no real winners in the game, prize or not.
We are here on this earthwalk for more than that. So much more.
Turn your awareness to what is deeper than that.
Let the gamemakers keep their artificial prizes.
Your consciousness transcends stories and limitations. Your consciousness is pure, profound potential. Your consciousness responds to energy first.
It’s an infinity of bliss for your spirit when you recognize the prizes are meaningless to those who are ready to journey beyond the game. Play with the possibilities and get curious about where they lead.
Be the experiment.
*This article was originally posted on Medium on May 30, 2022.
