Have you ever been around someone who is just the most wonderful person you’ve ever met to only find out down the road that you were duped, and that they have been a fake all along. I’m referring to people that you have put your faith and trust in them with your mission or cause, who were just a deck of cards, a house built of sand, a three dollar bill. You know that there were threads of truth that made them seem believable, they captured your interest, and maybe even your attention, love and approval. The areas of business, stock market fraud, politics, money, and relationships have been trouble areas for being easily taken. Our ego and need to have that situation or person be what they say they are, and the person you really wanted them to be, gets you into the mess, and you find out later, maybe after it’s too late, who that individual was in disguise. When it comes to money you are just as devastated, because you have identified with your money as who you are, which is not the real you. Many people identify themselves with their money and possessions. You are not your money or your bank account. You are that Inner Gold, inside you. The real you is the inner Source inside you, your guidance. When you don’t know who you really are, you can much more easily get caught up into what I term, ‘the seductive part of charm’. To say the least it’s a nasty twist and turn of events.
Bernard Madoff is an example of the seductive part of charm. He was a former American businessman, stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. Madoff was the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market. He turned his wealth management business into the Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars. Madoff’s, Ponzi scheme took the world by surprise. His scheme is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. The business world allowed Bernie Madoff to continue with him scam, even when some people were working for many years to uncover his scheme, and stop him. People didn’t want to believe it. Many considered Madoff to be on their side, and that he was such a great nice guy. There are a lot of nice people in our world, but not all nice men and/or women, is it wise to deal with. Unfortunately without discernment, lust, that gotta have or be a part of it feeling, takes hold. There are many other people in the world with similar qualities like Madoff, cropping up from all walks of life and some you might even know right now in your life.
It’s insidious when this happens from religious and other spiritual teachers; those that are here to “guide” us along our paths. We even send them money to fund their churches and causes. You may have even experienced similar situations in your own family or circle of friends. They could even be a well written published author on stocks, or making money, or on any area of life as well. These con artists may be very talented in their field and tell you things you want to hear. When you trust someone you would not even think, or dream, that person would have affected your life any way but for the better, the positive, and you find out over time that they were not authentic at all. And you got hurt! Guru’s of any type can pose great problems.
The pain of thinking that scenario could even be possible, is worse than seeing the truth about that person. So you deny it, or won’t even allow yourself to go there. The thoughts that this could be true, would beat you up, drive you crazy, so you look the other way. You make excuses and say that he/she would never do that to me. Maybe to somebody else, but I don’t care, they would not do that to me! You start making excuses and judgments about that person and resist the possibility to see into the situation, hoping the whole thing would just go away, die down, or dissolve. You may never really want to know the truth, which could shake your world, so you don’t bother discriminating. You just sweep it away with short curt statements, because of the shock you’ve experienced: leave me alone, don’t bother me with that again, or I for one, am sticking by that person this has to be a lie. But the scary thing is the lie is really the truth of it all and somehow it’s going to be found out and a come down will happen from the truth revealed.
If you were innocently taken this can be prevented from happening again; by being responsible for what has shown up in your life. You don’t have to like what happened to you, but responsibility is a quality that we will all be hearing about in 2012. Make a decision to allow your self a new outlook on life. Put the past aside. It’s over. Spilled milk. You may be able to get back what you have lost from a new start. Look at what you’ve learned from the experiences without blame or guilt, that never works, and look to your inner guidance system for answers without rushing, and then move forward.
We are all going through the stages of becoming more aware of what we do in life as we evolve. This is the way of evolving ourselves and our planet. In regards to the seductive part of charm; maybe you just wanted to believe in something more, someone different or something that was important to you at the time to hold on to. Be honest with yourself. Give your inner knowing the opportunity to guide you. It’s waiting for your lead. In 2012 we will find more disclosure, integrity, and authenticity coming forward. Some of this will arise from events or situations that will be uncovered. Making yourself believe something because you want to believe it is lying to yourself. Being seduced by charm is a fake, whose hold on you can be lessened when you’re not wrapped up in the lust of emotion.
In 2012 it’s a time of manifesting your abundance. Just have some clarity before making choices. The grass is not always greener on the other side. If it looks too good to be true, take it for checking. We are to be wealthy, healthy and have all the good we choose while on Earth. Learn to trust yourself. Look into your own self, your heart or gut feelings, before jumping leaping into what you hope it should be. When we judge another we judge ourselves, but you can always be more discriminating. Clearing out the negative emotions will help you to discern much better.
You know that over excited feeling, that gotta gotta have it feeling? That’s a big part of what we call lust and what lust can do. You may have trusted in the person and situation, but you also wanted to believe in them for whatever reason. That wanting feeling was the need you have to believe the lie is true. Have the abundance and authentic relationships. Look with your heart/gut, not to the outer appearances. Looks can be deceiving. If you choose once, you can choose again. 2012 is a time when the stuff held repressed within us and not being worked on, comes up and out for evaluation. Clarity of intent and purpose, will be revealed, and made visible as never before in our world globally and personally.
Your life situations will become better and more harmonious, and as you release the past, you will start to feel lighter and happier. Sometimes this requires some assistance getting yourself to feel like you’re ready to reach and begin again. As you start this momentum rolling in your favor, ask your self, ‘Could it get any better…could I let go and find out? And more, and even more.
To Your Inner Gold and Abundance,
Linda Crane
Photo: from Vivan Jayant
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