How to Jump the Sinking Ship of a Time Long Gone
A short guide for tuning in to You while the ship slowly sinks...
One time I sailed from Panama to Jamaica. It was after having spent about a year by the magical Atitlan Lake in Guatemala, and because I had sailed across the Atlantic from Spain to Ecuador a couple of years earlier, I wanted to make the journey complete and sail back to Europe as well.
It did not work out just as smoothly as I had expected…
I hitch-hiked down to Panama from Guatemala and spent about a week on different boats that
were going through the Panama canal, on the Pacific side. After going through the canal and
spending some time in a marina on the Caribbean side, me and my friends got sent away as we
were not officially crewing on any of the boats. I needed to move on, I felt, and after consulting the
pendulum I decided to take a bus to the ferocious port city of Colón and then on to Portobelo. When
I arrived at the Colón bus terminal, the old repainted US school bus to Portobelo was just leaving.
They waived me over to jump on and one spot was left on the bus, right next to the only other
gringo. I sat down next to him. The man told me he came from Sweden and he was paying a
delivery captain called James to take his sailboat (definitely not a yacht…) back over to Europe. As
faith wanted it, they were looking for a crew member, as the owner himself was not going. What a
blessing, I thought. I said yes, and a couple of days later we set off towards Jamaica.
We would be under way for about 5 to 6 days.
James turned out to be a chronic drinker, emotionally abusive and hurt(ful) old man. He would
blame me for anything that went wrong and I did not know how to handle the situation well, as my
previous sailing experience had been one of companionship, mutual respect and cooperation (and
a lot of waiting). James shut down as soon as I started talking about virtually anything and
bragged a lot, but obviously had very low self-esteem. I just allowed and accepted the situation for
a couple of days, him being the captain and the person with more experience at sea, until at a
specific point he told me about something I didn’t do the way he wanted it to be done in a very
disrespectful way. I needed to speak up. He calmed down as I got my point across. I kept
journaling everything I was experiencing and eventually James started to listen to me and respect
my points of view, and, yes, even my feelings which at that point I did not fear to share anymore.
We were on a sinking ship, though, and more and more things started to go “wrong”. The currents
got too strong for the old boat to be able to tack into, as it could not get close to the wind, and
when we got to the North side of Jamaica the wind died down and a line got stuck in the propeller.
We were pretty much done for at that point, and after ten days of sailing we had the island in sight
but were not nearly there yet. We were afloat and were unable to get the line out of the propeller
from up on deck. The seas were calm as the morning came but James would not allow me to go
into the water to cut the line loose. So we waited... Eventually the wind picked up slightly, but not
nearly enough to get us going in the right angle, to Montego Bay where we had decided to attempt
calling at. The seas got slightly more rough and our situation started to look pointless, so I decided
to go down and try to cut the line loose. It was a terrible but adventurous job, and had the seas
been any more rough I would have hurt myself. Somehow we managed to get most of the line
out of the propeller, just about enough for the thing to create some momentum. So we got going,
slowly slowly, and when the winds did pick up we finally made it to Montego Bay...
The day after we arrived I decided to jump ship. Crossing the Atlantic with this man, even though
we somehow learned to respect each other, seemed pointless. I had intended to go ahead and join him
for the full passage, but my endurance had to make place for self-respect.
There comes a time when you need to leave a sinking ship, when it becomes a wise idea to jump
ship. In the case of Western “modern” civilization we are nearing that point. I cannot really judge for
other places much, but a lot of cultures adopted some of the “Western” ideas of progress and
consumerism. I strongly feel that we do not need to invest more energy into something which is
clearly not working. The Earth has had enough.
It is an interesting path, growing up in an industrialized society, with all its material benefits and
relatively “good” education in many places, training us to use the mind and be an intelligent and
disciplined player in the machine of consumerism and performance. What brought our societies to
this point is another story, but in terms of creating a humane and respectful society we have a lot
of work to do. And the first step in creating that society is by understanding that it needs to radically
change, and that it can only be done by starting with ourselves.
Also, it’s not really just a sinking ship, because of course within the world there is also another
endless array of realities, ships which are not sinking where you already are a part of as well. It is a
matter of seeing another reality and tuning in to it, like you would use a dial on a radio transmitter.
Learning to manage your frequency is a powerful act. When you make the jump to another tuning,
another frequency, beliefs or programs that are not in tune with this new frequency will be seen.
Why? Because most of us were programmed to all be on the same frequency, to not venture out
there too much because we might get lost, we might never be the same again. This is often other
people’s resistance to change projected onto another person. So in order to remain on the same
frequency (and not stand out too much) we managed to create or adopt a whole bunch of belief
systems that keep us there. Now let us talk about reprogramming…
Eventually they are just ideas, beliefs, which can be let go of. You do not have to take those beliefs
as an absolute truth just because everybody else believed them when you were a child, or still
does right now. Our essence is
ever changing, and we are in constant evolution as human beings.
It is no more than normal that you already are a master in changing your ideas and beliefs into what
feels right. And it is an interesting transition to recreate your life in tune with your highest
excitement and your highest potential. I do not mean to let go of any structure in life completely, but
tuning in to your bliss will bring more sincronicity into your life and things will flow more easily, because
it’s just simply who you are here to be. And the more people that embody their divine essence
with grace, the easier it becomes for yet more people to do the same.
In that sense, we are all in the same boat...
Also, evolution and expansion will never stop, because the universe is always expanding and each
of us is an essential part of existence. Without any of us creation would not be complete.
It might be an intense journey for some to see the fears and resistances to change, as
we can now observe in many events all over the planet. But we are at the point of seeing it for
what it is, a co-created grid that used to keep us enslaved. Feeling and seeing this enables us to jump into
the abyss of the unknown, where the new me, you, us - the new planet we all came here to birth is
waiting. It is not a given, but the more we believe it is difficult, the more difficult it gets. So connect
with your tribe and join in for the new times of co-creation and realignment of head, heart, body and
soul through your
life on Earth. Creating a new reality is something real and happening right now.
The harder governments and concerns try to keep us down, the more signs our Earth and our bodies
will give, so feel free to jump into the unknown, it might not be as hard as you believed it would be.
Feel the possibility of tuning into another life. Know that you can be anything you desire and that it’s OK if
others judge you, because it might just be hard for them
to let go.
We were holding on to a
system which did not work anymore, because it is what we were expected to do. And letting go of
it would mean a whole lot of trouble, we were told. Walking out of the grid meant chaos, even treason,
and threateneds the commitment of others to being a part of that old paradigm, whether they saw it or
not. Shifting means redefining all of reality and who we thought we were. It means holding space
for the new Earth to arise and it means embodying your desire to be real, whether others judge you
or treat you as an outlaw or not. It means choosing for you, and in that powerful act learning to
reconnect to your power to build bridges between the old sinking ship and the new world we came
here to create, so even more people can jump before the ship finally goes under.
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