Certainty and Freedom

I think that when anyone has an insight, on almost any topic, that very state of insight has as its natural energy, the space of simple certainty; a sense of knowing. This is, I believe, indicative of thoughts that appear when tapping into any of the longer energetic wavelengths. An insight shared from that deep space carries with it a solid sense of certainty. As I experience them, longer wavelengths live in the background and thus are the relatively stable canvas on which my everyday experiences are alighted. So when a new insight is tapped from that wider field and expressed, the listener may feel the impact of the words landing as fact. Declared facts, by their nature, eliminate options contradictory to the stated position so can be experienced as restrictive to the listener. Just as when you are fully focused on some task, everything outside of that area of focused attention disappears from your experience. Certainty pushes alternate frequencies/perspectives to the sideline.

Now one of the most fundament aspects of Being, is freedom. Being is unencumbered at its origin. I think that most would agree that at Being’s deepest level absolute freedom is one of its fundamental attributes. And since it lies there in our depths, it is one of our fundamental attributes too. Thus anything we experience as impinging on that absolute freedom can evoke a dissonance that can reverberate downstream from the natural depth at which our boundlessness resides.

If someone is very exuberant or passionate about something, the force of the certainty lands with a comparable energetic impact. This form of certainty feels a bit different than the expression of an insight, but a freedom limiting experience can be initiated in this way too. This can be experienced by the listener as much more limiting than a simple insight, since some generative intent lies behind it. And yet the power of the new, of discovery, is indicative of the Becoming aspect of the universe seeing the next perfect thing to create, and create it will. Its focused attention, deliberate choice and certainty of will are primary features of creative acts. The act of creating this universe was not done with timidity, but certainty, so that trait too lies deep within us.

My point here is simply to note that it seems to me that fundamental aspects of Being (freedom) and Becoming (choice/creative certainty) have some naturally opposing forces, and it is useful to notice their interplay as we operate in the world. What shows up for me as resistance can often just be an initial impulsive pushback against a perceived limitation that is generated by someone else’s certainty. And this particular type of resistance may be welling up from aspects of my identity that lie deeper (closer to unfettered Being) than levels of awareness that I normally occupy in my everyday life. Armed with that knowledge I am at least capable of cognitively catching a dissonant impulse before tripping the auto-response circuit that I occasionally have when I experience limitation. Perhaps this process will become habitual at some point on my evolutionary road. One can only hope.