Awareness Spiritual Principle
| Number | 9 |
| Outer Focus | Paradoxical Realms |
| Inner Focus | Pancreas |
| Rainbow Color | Yellow – Clarity & Expansion |
| Evolving Color | Peridot – Service |
Description
Awareness amplifies your ability to be comfortable with paradox. So many aspects of reality contain paradox. For example, when you see a color (let’s say green) what you’re actually seeing is an object that absorbs every part of the color spectrum EXCEPT green. Color is not intrinsic to an object The color we see is the color not accepted by the object.
Another paradox: inoculation. We inoculate ourselves against a pathogen or antigen by introducing it into our bodies in small proportion. That’s just crazy to think about, but somehow it works.
Still another: homeopathic medicine consists of introducing into ones body small doses of substances that actually produce the symptoms from which the patient suffers. Something about introducing the material that causes symptoms triggers the body to stop the symptoms. Do you see what I mean? It makes no sense. . .but paradox is very real, very prolific, and very important to understand.
Our human tendency is to try to “make sense” of the world. But the more awake/aware we become to reality, the more conscious we become of the power of paradox. Awareness gives us a perspective the makes it easy hold self-contradictory concepts.
If you have Awareness in your garment pattern, you feel relatively at home in contradiction: You can see that two “truths” that appear to be opposites can actually exist simultaneously.
Additional Resources
- Awareness Podcast
- Awareness Newsletter (Coming Soon)
Ironically, I’ve always been more comfortable with paradox than a one-sided “truth”. One of my earliest memories is thinking “yes, but…” when an adult would make a proclamation about “How Things Are”. I could always make a case for the opposite point of view. So when I found out that Awareness is the Principle associated with my Sun sign — the gift I bring to the world — I KNEW it had to be right.
The Invisible Garment helped me understand that my love of paradox had already led me to become a veterinary homeopath, learn Carl Jung’s “tension of the opposites” theory, and laugh delightedly when I read that light is “both a particle and a wave”… I wasn’t just a wishy-washy non-conformist! I’ve just been busy living into my Sun sign all my life!