The Messiness of the Unknown
Transcript Excerpts of Jane’s Teachings during a
“Shifting into your New Consciousness” group experience 6-18-09
(Names are changed to protect privacy)
(To Chas) “I’m guessing that you don’t like being engaged. And so you come into an individual TimeLine session, we find out what the limiting decision is, and we clear it. You’re done and you leave. Whereas here in the group, we muck around, and you have to get in the mix. You have to mix it up. And you’re basically in a place of the unknown, where stuff comes up that you didn’t want to have come up, things are seen that you didn’t want to have seen. Issues show up. You’re involved and engaged in a way that is not in your control. It’s very experiential in a way that shifts your reality, in a way that the individual work doesn’t do. It puts you in exactly the kind of situation that you feel uncomfortable in, and there’s a reason you feel that way, which would be very important to figure out what it is. The point for your defense system is to not engage. It is to try to get it over with, whatever it is. Whereas this group is about engaging.
Everything real happens in the present moment. It has to do with being present with who you are in the context of other people. The real stuff tends to come out in the context of other people. Your defense systems are meant to keep you from being in the present moment. And my intention is to get you in the present moment. And that is a lot of what this process has to do with. And you’re getting feedback from a number of different people in the group when you’re avoiding the present moment. Being present and being in the process of coming into the present, is a transformational process. The one-on-one, in the TimeLine sessions is a whole different dynamic. It doesn’t bring up this kind of thing. It’s not as messy. It’s the messiness that brings up anxiety for you. It’s the messiness which is the unknown. The unknown is the present moment.
When a person makes a limiting decision, it’s always some form of ‘Life is not meant to work and there’s something inherently wrong with them.’ The reason for people’s defense systems is to avoid coming into the present moment in order to avoid finding out whether the limiting decision is true or not. So you could say that’s coming into the unknown. But underneath that, they’re sure they know what it is, and it’s negative. So they do everything they can to avoid coming into the present moment in order to not find that out. So that’s a description of what you’re doing, and what any defense system does. It’s like you are doing a soft shoe dance around it, distracting around it to avoid coming into the present moment to find out the truth of it.
What happens in the group is we pin you down so you come into the present moment and you find out the truth of it, and it always turns out you’re wrong, and the limiting decision is not true. It’s a dynamic paradigm of reality that is being held in place here. And as each person in the group moves forward, they’re participating on higher and higher levels, at holding it in place. So it’s like a living community, or a living microcosm. And it’s being held in place from all around you, and different people are holding it from their different perspective, and that’s very powerful. Basically what we’re trying to do is help people out of a misconception of what reality is, to being supported in a different frame-of-reference that works better. What you’re probably afraid of is that the group will end up proving that what you are afraid of is true, which relates to the limiting decision.”
