I was looking at the image on our website's homepage and the fog, which hovered over the water and the mountains, caught my attention. The fog seemed heavier in some spots then others. As a result, I could see the details in some areas more then others. It reminded me of when I was driving through fog and I could barely see what was ahead of me. However, as I moved through the fog in faith, a few feet at a time, I always reached my destination. Sometimes I had to slow down and focus on being mindful of where I was and what I could see, but I made it through.
Physically fog can be caused in a number of ways. In the most simplistic of terms, most fogs occur when warm air blows or hovers over a cold surface such as snow or a cold water mass. It is that interaction between warmth and coldness, which creates the fog.
Spiritual fog, that’s what I call it, seems to occur when the energy of others hovers over the energy of the Infinite in our lives or vice versa. Some may think of this spiritual fog as an obstacle to one’s spiritual growth, but it is a gift from the universe. It is an opportunity for us to work through those thoughts and beliefs, which no longer work in our lives and separate us from our relationship with the Divine.
Don Miguel Ruiz in his book The Four Agreements tells the story of The Smoky Mirror. Here he talks about the fog as being “made by the interpretation of images of light – the Dream of humans.”[1] This fog, the dream of the planet, as defined by Sheri Rosenthal, is the “combined energetic structures of beliefs, roles, and concepts that all the humans on our planet simultaneously dream and project onto one conjoined reality.”[2] As long as we agree to the beliefs, roles, and concepts of this dream, we are not aware of the fog, of which we are a part. However, once we begin to break with this structure, we become aware of the fog and then can begin to work to examine our own beliefs and agreements.
We begin this process of becoming warriors, “one who is fighting for freedom from her own domestication and social conditioning. She is free from needing to link her self-worth to the beliefs, thoughts, and wishes of her fellow human, free to be happy no matter what happens in life.”[3] The process of doing so, of moving through the fog, is about the process of releasing our attachments to opinions, emotional reactions, and things and moving towards a space of being in service to the Infinite. It is about the process of moving from the Dream of the Human/Planet to the Dream of Heaven, which “refers to heaven on earth for a Warrior; a life of beauty, unconditional love, grace, self-acceptance, inner peace, and happiness.”[4]
The fog, in this case, goes from being a state in which we live unconsciously to a state where we are aware of the fog and are on a journey of moving through it, as we move to a higher level of consciousness, awareness, and relationship with the Infinite. As I say all the time, it is all about the journey.
[1] Miguel Don Ruiz, (1997). The four agreements: A practical guide to personal freedom. (San Rafael, CA: Amber-Allen Pub., The Smoky Mirror).
[2] Sheri A. Rosenthal, (2005). The complete idiot's guide to Toltec wisdom. (New York: Alpha Books. 321)
[3] Sheri A. Rosenthal, (2005). The complete idiot's guide to Toltec wisdom. (New York: Alpha Books. 326)
[4] Sheri A. Rosenthal, (2005). The complete idiot's guide to Toltec wisdom. (New York: Alpha Books. 321)