Sept23rd2011_Who_You_Really

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The Mystic Twins

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September 23, 2011

Subject: Who You Really Are vs. Masks and the

Mundane

It's easy to get caught up in seemingly important
material, physical, and other labels because it's the

nature of everyone in society to judge based on those

labels.

The real, spiritual you is not your race, personality,

gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, height, weight,

muscles, legs, breasts, biceps, butt, hair, lack of hair,

beautiful or not face, fit or not body, net worth, car,

friends, lover, family, city, state, country, clothes, home,

pets, toys, habits or addictions, illness, or political

affiliation.

Some of these things may enhance the real you, yet
excessive focus on many of them can interfere with

your true essence. Much of how people identify

themselves is far from who they really are on a soul

level.

If you find yourself predominantly identifying with one

or more of these mundane classifications, you may be

straying too far from your authentic self.

Who are you really?

Your soul, including your spiritual history, makes you

who you are and we believe you arrived on this planet
knowing, subconsciously, all of it. You can remember
some of it if you choose, and those memories may help
you more easily fulfill your life purposes for this lifetime
and deal with the challenges on your path. Past life

regression, meditation, comprehensive astrology and
numerology, and other tools can help reveal your

genuine nature.

Earthbound Personality vs. Spiritual Essence

In addition to numerous mundane incarnations, we

believe we have been spiritual aspirants (of various

faiths) and metaphysical teachers in many lifetimes and

have returned, in part, to do more of the same.

Even though we are responsible, disciplined, work hard,

take a very practical approach to life, and are far from

being New Age cosmonauts, our mother resists our

career paths.

She has told us she wishes we'd never read Shirley

Maclaine's book, Out on a Limb, when we were in our

early teens. Even though the book was only one of many

that helped remind us of who we are and started us on

this path again, she blames Shirley for our metaphysical
interests and chooses to avoid trying to understand or
believe in them.

It's like a young musician being influenced by multitudes
of successful artists in his early years, and having his

intolerant mother blame his career path on David Bowie.

If only her son had never been exposed to David Bowie,

he would be the lawyer or doctor she always wanted,

instead of the successful musician, doing what he loves.

Years ago, we took it personally that our mother chose

to have a highly skeptical and judgmental attitude about
our beliefs and careers. Then one day we did a series of
past life regressions about the subject. What we

perceived astounded us and caused us to appreciate

and love her all the more and even be grateful for her

position.

We saw her being terribly traumatized in lifetimes where

she witnessed us being persecuted for our beliefs, and

lifetimes in which she was persecuted, in part, for her

non-traditional spiritual convictions and society believing

her to have witch-like psychic powers (she has a lot of

psychic talent now, which she denies).

We also had a glimpse of our mother, or the soul of our
mother, on the other side, giving us a knowing look and
smile. We instantly and intuitively knew that her soul
agreed to have a negative position (as our mother)
towards our metaphysical interests. This served to help
fortify our convictions and belief in ourselves in the face
of opposition.

The opposition also came from friends, other family

members, and coworkers, especially early on. Now we
realize that the resistance was part of the plan and even
relates, to some degree, to our own essence: our

objective is to identify and share the truth as we

interpret it--if we are rejected by some (even family and

friends) for simply occasionally being vocal about our

view on the spiritual side of life, then so be it. We accept

and detach from those who shun us; it's part of our

spiritual agreement and we embrace it.

The lesson? Try not to take it personally when people
don't express their nature beyond the mundane, or
acknowledge or accept the spiritual, inner-self you

express to the world. It's just their earthbound

personality and they may be serving you perfectly.

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