Shedding your skin: life amongst the intuitives

As a highly-intuitive person, I have lived a lot of my life feeling like I didn’t fit in with the “normal” groups of people. As a child, I ended up spending much time with the animals and out in nature. Sometimes I’d spend hours, high in the tops of my favorite climbing tree, just watching the birds and feeling the wind rock me in my perch. I’d watch and sometimes listen in on any people, adults and children, who wandered beneath the tree. They usually had no idea I was there, above, watching and listening to them. This really became a metaphor for my relationships with groups of people … living amongst them but, somehow, not on the same plane.

Large groups are the worst. Public school was torture and I was often picked on and even beaten. I couldn’t even raise a fist to defend myself because the idea of causing pain or harm to someone else was too overwhelming.

So, now, I live in this amazing place that I was “called to,” by my intuition. Many others who live here were drawn to this place in the same way. Something about the place and this community.  So, despite the size of these 3 villages there is a huge proportion of people, here, who are intuitive and gifted.

Now, you would think that I’m in Nirvana, right? Well, yes and no. Have you ever stopped to think what life would be like if most of your friends knew whether were telling the truth or not, most of the time? What if having a really bad night meant that some of your friends would wake up feeling it, too? Or where your emotional pain can become their pain? Believe me … there is no more “faking it.”  It’s like standing there without your skin.  A very naked feeling, indeed.

Well, I wasn’t quite ready for that. It doesn’t mean I’m not up for the challenge but when I started to get a real sense of how much we all really impact each other and the world around us, just with our thoughts, it made my head swim. I am working a lot with meditation and intention, but I swear, it’s some of the toughest work I’ve ever done. Calesthentics for the brain … advanced yoga for the mind.

Anyway, back to living in a community of intutives …

Put the shoe on the other foot. What if you can really “see” a person, through-and-through. Their intention. Their soul.  As well as those things that we all struggle with: fear, bias, anger, self-doubt, deceit.

How often do we tell little “white lies,” to others … to ourselves? What if we can’t do that anymore? If we are laid bare, good things and bad; are we and our friends able to really handle that?

It’s quite an exercise. A real mind blower, at first.

But, then, I realize that this is how it’s supposed to be. All of these layers of subterfuge and deceit are what need to be stripped away. They are energy-wasters and have no place in an evolved society. So, those of us who choose to accept this challenge, to live and work amongst our new communities and continue to evolve together… we will eventually be able to strip off all unnecessary layers.

We will shed those dull, dead skins and stand shiny and new and reborn in nothing but our pure essences… free from the fears and the self-deceit. And I wonder what being in a community of us will be like, then?

That’s what keeps me going