You Can't Serve Two Masters

MindBodyAnime #131

You Can’t Serve Two Masters

Not gonna lie, I’ve been checked out the past week.

Apart from being sick, I’m just ready for Japan. Maybe my consciousness is preparing for my new life in Japan for the next 30 days.

The amount of hours I’ve spent watching videos on Japan in the past month, I can basically be a tour guide in Tokyo right now. Still have to work on Kyoto, Osaka, and Hakone, but those areas aren’t as eventful as Tokyo.

But I’ve been going through some interesting emotions in anticipation of this trip. And I’ve also been revisiting some Neville Goddard material and I see some common threads between Goddard’s teachings and what I’m experiencing right now.

In my contention, anytime you do something that stretches your comfort zone to the edge, I believe you level up in consciousness.

But it’s also very easy to regress back to your old consciousness. In fact, that’s what the brain defaults to doing. You’ve probably heard the metaphor of crabs in a bucket when it comes to people around you.

If not, let me quickly explain. If you've been crabbing and got lucky enough to get a bushel full of crabs, you’ll notice something interesting. All the crabs kinda grab ahold of each other, handcuffing each other in place.

When you use some tongs to lift a crab out of the bucket, you’ll see other crabs try to grab ahold of that crab to pull it back down.

Is it a safety mechanism by the crabs to save one of their own from their fate in a pot of boiling water (and eventually my stomach)?

Maybe. But if you have family or friends who are rather rigid in their beliefs, you’ll notice that they’ll always try to pull you back to where they currently are.

That is probably why Goddard encourages everyone to keep their ambitions and desires to themselves.

But I think the people around you aren’t really the biggest enemy when it comes to preventing you from transcending beyond your current self.

You’re your biggest obstacle.

You are the proverbial crab that’s pulling you back to your present consciousness.

It’s important to become aware of this otherwise you’ll never fully escape the bucket of your old consciousness.

This brings me back to the emotions I’ve been experiencing for this Japan trip.

There have been as many waves of fear and anxiety as there has been excitement.

And I think this phenomenon is happening because there’s a clash of my new consciousness that I’m stepping into with my old consciousness.

Another one of Goddard’s concepts is that you cannot serve two masters. The masters being your consciousness.

To completely upgrade into a new consciousness, you have to let go of the old. It’s literally a rebirth of yourself.

To let go of your old consciousness, it means you have to let go of beliefs, fears, and limitations. And the longer you’ve let these things run rampant in your mind without awareness, the harder it will be for you to let go of them.

So I’ve been constantly recalibrating myself to the person I need to be to enjoy myself in Japan without any worries. Like any habit, it’s something I just need to practice until it becomes instinct.

Goddard says you can’t pour new wine into old bottles. That expression I don’t fully understand… because you can… but why would you… whatever, I get what he’s saying though.

It makes me think of the idea that 20 different people can see you in 20 different ways. Some people may know you as a charismatic, confident person while others see you as a soft-spoken reserved person. All at the same time.

But it first starts with how you see yourself.

Whatever goal or direction in life you’re pursuing probably requires an upgrade in consciousness. Knowing that, you must also recognize that you have to let go of your old consciousness.

And while you’re in the stage of transition, two versions of yourself will essentially be co-existing. So just hold your new consciousness in awareness as much as possible until you become that person.

It’s like the relationship between Yuji and Sakuna in Jujutsu Kaisen. Except, Sakuna is the most evil cursed spirit and you don't want someone like that to be your permanent consciousness.

Trust the process, love the process.

Kevin