What If You Lived in a Hall of Mirrors?
Here’s the Key to Your Escape into Freedom

By Kaye Sturgis

Looking in the mirror, we see our physical reflection staring back at us. But what if we could see beyond our physical appearance? What if we recognized everything and everyone who touches our lives as a gateway to seeing ourselves as we are, already perfect, whole, and unified within and in relationship with one another?

Let’s explore and find out.

Specifically, to us human beings, it isn’t easy to believe sometimes that every person, place, and thing is a mirror of our consciousness. When we look at someone we love, when we’re happy and content, we see a reflection of our perspective about who we are, and likewise, when we look at a beautiful landscape, we see our inner beauty mirrored in nature.

It’s easy to see the Love we are in these loving mirrors. But what about the painful mirrors that trigger us and push our buttons? What good could they possibly serve?

Our most valuable insights come from our close relationships; the closer the relationship, the more likely we will bump into our pesky shadow realities. The great 20th Century seer Edgar Cayce once said, “If you want to be on the fast track to enlightenment, get married!”

Indeed, most realize that the intimacy of living daily in a long-term commitment with another person offers a literal treasure trove of mirrors upon which to self-reflect and grow. Wise Mirrors that appear to inflict uncomfortable feelings show us our shadow side, the parts of ourselves that we feel insecure about and don’t want to face — even though we are trying to get to the Love Consciousness we are.

These types of mirror reflections are painful, especially from those we love most, but they are essential for our growth and evolution. Without them, we would never be able to see areas in our lives that cry out to us to see the light of day.

So, the next time we look in any mirror (reflected by a loved one), we can remember seeing all of who we are – our light and our shadow. Both wake us up to our light. Rather than finding reasons to blame others while secretly judging ourselves and attempting to separate from the pain we feel, it works to pay attention to and do our best to understand what the mirror is reflecting about our inner nature. — It is much easier to get the message if we use humility, flexibility, and compassion.

We are perfect just as we are! This perspective can ultimately help us function as Love in all our relationships and in the face of all our mirrors.

Now that we know that all mirrors are reflections of ourselves, let’s explore more about how to work with them in our everyday lives.

Below are more insights on how to deal with painful reflections:

1. Be willing to try on everything outside yourself that is mirroring what’s happening inside you.

It is not as easy as it looks, but worth the work. When you peer into and master this Universal Law, basking more consistently in happiness and joy, they will be yours. You will have learned how to love yourself and even the parts of yourself and any others you once found uncomfortable.

Tip – If you break an elbow, forget the mirror. Go to the hospital to get your bone set! Using common sense is “doing Self Love.”

Self-reflect later in such cases that demand immediate action. Would it help you to slow down? Have you been “arming yourself” against life? Do you need to be more present in the moment?

Yep. The above was right out of my personal experience. The upside is that it turned out well, and I won’t run at night, not l looking where I am going again.

2. Don’t judge the mirror or take it personally.

When looking in the mirror and seeing something we don’t like, we can remember that it’s not personal. Mirrors aren’t “real.” They are reflections. But if we forget, no worries!

Sometimes, we slip back into the old patterns. We forget that reflections play a role in life, just as we play one. All of this is a play, a dream, a game. It’s temporary!

Pay attention to the context. The role of the mirroring factor is here to Wake Us Up, not to push our buttons. If we don’t have buttons, they can’t get pushed. Right.

Otherwise, we must gently look at the trauma causing the poke (uncomfortable feelings), accept it’s there, soften it, and bring ourselves into balance. Learning to detach with compassion brings deep inner peace and freedom.

3. Unusually severe mirrors are blessings in disguise.

These are here to wake us up, too, so we have to contend with them. There is        no other way around it. And ultimately, we must come to terms with them, for their intensity shape and transform us.

When we get hit with a harsh mirror, i.e., such as an apparent illness, abuse, poverty, death, etc., we can feel deep despair, resistance, anger, sadness, grief, jealousy, or other life-force suckers that rise with paralyzing fear at their helm.

Yes. Life and its mirrors are very intense at times, but the Truth is we are so much more than our circumstances, no matter how dark or dire. Our role is to get humble enough to ask for healing mirrors that burn through that stuff to the Light we are.

Work things out inside before sharing too much with others. It is empowering to turn within for answers, as it’s on the inside where we ultimately clear out the distortions and, in our pure childlike state, once again meet up with Love Consciousness or Who We Are.

Again, use common sense, and if you’re stuck, get a mirror that can help. We save ourselves and everyone a lot of suffering that way.

4. Choose wisely what we spent time on and with whom and what we spend time.

Soaking in the mirrors that support, affirm, and uplift Love Consciousness, Balance, Freedom of Perspective, etc., will help keep us afloat throughout whatever or whoever shows up.

People, images, places, and other mirrors of this type that continuously bombard our well-being with fear and pain are toxic. As we learn who we are, we also realize that we are not who we thought we were – and neither are we the mirrors we see.

The people we love who are toxic people are probably not be ready to look into who they are. We can offer a mirror, but not be attached to the results. It is arrogant of us to think we know what path they need to walk. We cannot change others. Remember all change comes from within ourselves.

Toxic people can sometimes be great “heyoka” teachers for us. Even so, arrogance toward those less fortunate will get equally toxic consequences. One of the gifts this stuff has is to help us to practice humility (flexibility), compassion, and loving kindness while claiming our sacred space.

Recognizing the mirrors we get in life helps guarantee a smoother sail in the inevitable stormy waters ahead and the solutions for the calmer ones that will most assuredly follow.

These are just a few tips on working with mirrors daily. Seeing mirrors for what they are is essential to unlocking the vast reservoir of who we Really are. Check it out consistently to see how much evolution you can handle.

Love, Peace, and Appreciation,

Kaye

Three Things to Remember No Matter What

By Kaye Sturgis

In today’s world, the tsunamis of unfolding drama remind me of a powerful but timeless dream I had years ago. When the dream opened up, I heard my dream guide speak.

It said my sole mission would be to remember the following three things no matter what happened.

1. Life is a Play.
2. To Play my Role, Impeccably.
3. Have No Fear.

The guide asked me if I understood and to repeat the three things. I said, “Yes,” and repeated the list. And then, again, to myself. The guide disappeared, and the entire scene shifted.

I was with a buddy, Thomas, and our “roles” were that we were both highly trained soldiers, wearing camo uniforms and as much heavy metal as we could carry. We crouched, hidden, beneath a small jet parked at an airfield in a desert war zone, readying to fight for our lives and our country.

Once I got my bearings, I heard Thomas whisper in my ear. “I’m scared!” I replied, “Me, too. Who wouldn’t be?” Then, I remembered the three things and shared them with my buddy.

I saw that even though war is the worst choice in most cases that I would use to solve, it was the dream reality in which we found ourselves. There was nothing to do but accept it.

Seeing it as a play and us playing our role as soldiers without fear but instead with a greater focus on preventing the enemy from advancing. The “roles” seemed more significant than the fear could impress. We opened fire.

The scene instantly disappeared, and another took its place. I wound up as a small wooden Fisher-Price type toy! (I know. Who knew to dream that we’re a toy is even possible?) A hundred other people-toys like me filled a small room.

We were lined up so tightly together that no one could move, much less fall over. Suddenly, an unknown force moved the back wall forward, forcing us through a small open door in the corner, where we would fall onto a fast-moving conveyor belt ride into the dark unknown. The toys were terrified!

As I moved closer to the door, I remembered the three things and shouted from my wooden toy mouth to the others. “Fear not! Our life is a play. We need to be the best toys we can. Have no fear. It’s okay,” I yelled out just as I went through the open door.

Whoosh! The conveyor belt was more like a roller coaster, and once we dropped the fear, we squealed with the toy-joy and peals of laughter as we bounced about the conveyor belt ride the whole way to wherever our final destination turned out to be.

The scene shifted, and I next found myself on stage, the MC at a celebrity award show. On stage, my role’s hilarious personality had the attention of everyone in the room.

My only fear to let go was judging myself for being, well, also in the role of being grossly overweight. However, it didn’t stop me from shining through in my role as a comedienne. I was at the top of my game and funny as hell in that one.

The three things to remember were becoming more accessible on an inner level, and I was absorbing them into my consciousness as the scenes continued to shift and teach me a deeper value of the three things.

Finally, I popped into a scene where I was hiking and moving fast up a mountain path toward the top. This time, my role was the identity I am familiar with as this body-mind-role Kaye.

I took in my surroundings and was shocked to see a great fire moving up behind me. I picked up my pace. At the top, instead of descending on a presumed back flank of the mountain, I stood at a cliff that overlooked a breathtaking verdant green valley floor thousands of feet below.

My role was evident at once. There was nowhere else to go but to choose my death; perish in the fire closing in behind me or leap to my death. I remembered the three things and added a fourth: Trust.

I leaped into the open space. (In case it needs to be said, do NOT try this on your own!) At first, falling, as you would suspect, was heart-pounding scary. But because the valley floor was so far below, I had time on the way down to take a breath, calm down, relax, and get my center and breath.

The revelry ended almost immediately when I noticed I was slowing down rather than crashing to certain death on the rocky edges of the valley floor. At this point, I became completely “lucid” or “awake in the dream,” or became fully aware I was dreaming.

I began to fly across the valley to the far side. Then, I slowly ascended until the valley, land, mountains, and all disappeared. I soared vertically along the edge in what appeared to be a vast cosmic egg full of Love Consciousness, mere words to describe the indescribable.

Curving around its top, I began to free-fall again, only this time, the falling was ecstatic, blissful. No fear.

It was pure bliss alternately falling and flying, and this was the best role ever, one of being who I AM and who WE ARE, naturally, without effort, just joy. Wow. What a busy night!

This world is a play. Play your role impeccably. Have no fear; until then, see it for what it is and put it behind you where it can’t lead. (Unless you’re about to go down a dark alley and your intuition says, “Don’t go.” In that case, listen!) Common sense is a winner in our waking life!

What would your life look like if you were to remember these three things, no matter what? Try them in different roles you play this coming week, and share your experiences in the comments. Thank you for reading.

In Peace and Love Consciousness,
Kaye ❤

Introduction

Over the last couple of years, several specific dreams led to my writing you today. You are my family, dear friends, clients, and readers. My whole life’s work has arrived to serve you with the wisdom I’ve gleaned over a lifetime since my childhood Near Death Experience (NDE).

In the NDE, I experienced a profound and in-depth all-consuming trust, inclusion, security, freedom, and total relaxation in an ocean of Unconditional Love. I am not afraid of death because there isn’t any. We’re misinformed about that.

Death is only the appearance of the end of a temporary role we played in a body-mind. I became aware that this Unconditional Love “Consciousness” is the Truth about where it’s really at for us humans. In fact, I am not the first or not the last to say it.

Who we are is made out of Love.

After the event, I wanted to apply my NDE experience to my daily human life, i.e., Heaven on Earth, but many obstacles appeared. I finally began to see patterns of these in my thirties. With the help of Astrology and Tarot, along with other excellent teaching mirrors and masters, I eventually realized that the obstacles – and their solutions — were in me.

Love Consciousness itself drove the motivation to disentangle these obstacles. Love is everywhere, and you can see you are this Truth if you look for it earnestly. It often moves through personal relationships to help us see ourselves, warts and all. While we are One in Love Consciousness, this human world is a duality.

Relationships of all types appear for us to reflect upon ourselves. Due to this, we often confuse our relationships for the True Love in which we Really are seeking to unite. Painful mirrors guide us to let go of what’s in the way of Love (who you are), and loving mirrors guide us to connect with the Love we are. Here’s how one of my favorite awakened ones, the anonymous Jed McKenna puts it in Jedvaita: The Way the World Unfolds  http://jedmckenna.com/ 

It seems like everyone in the spiritual marketplace will tell you to be loving and tolerant and compassionate, to be on the side of the light and the angels, to be a bright, shiny, radiant person, and that’s why humanity is unable to find the only thing that can never be lost; we’re hopelessly afraid of the dark. Darkness is not the destination, but it’s a big part of the journey — the deconstruction of the false self — and you won’t get anywhere by pretending it’s not.

Don’t you love a sane influencer? I do.

Years ago, during my first plant medicine journey here in Ecuador, an unexpected vision of the future knocked me off-center. It was hard to imagine at the time. When I regained my composure, I asked the Universe-at-Large what could help balance the devastating threat to our existence. The answer was crystal clear,

“Love is the only solution.”

I can’t tell you how many hours more I pondered how Love could solve the immense challenges we would soon face together as humans worldwide.

We all remember in the early spring of 2020 when covini-martini appeared on the scene, making our populace drunk with fear. I had a riveting nighttime dream during March that my next step was to “get out there” and communicate my gift to whoever was attracted to it. I have always paid attention to my dreams.

I woke. Great! No pressure! After taking what seems to be a million steps in life to arrive at whopping 70 years of age, where I planned to relax more, my dream was crystal clear in its guidance. I was not done!

We all can trust we get things the way we need them, even if it doesn’t seem so at the time. In retrospect, the guidance for me to be of service to you this way late in life announced itself in a nighttime dream because I would have talked myself out of it had it been suggested another way.

The dream helped me to get out of my way, surrender to the idea presented and see what happened. Mostly, I asked countless questions in meditation and waited patiently for the answers to show up, as they are likely to do. And I wrote everything down.

So, here I am, and if you’re reading this first entry on Medium, I am in mindful, dedicated service to you with the best that I AM. I want to show how everything is here to wake us up to the Love we are at our essence of being, and offer pointers on what stands in the way of the Love We Are.

We’ll explore and discover how to be, see and do Love within and all around us to create a balanced humanity, etc. It sounds wild, I know, but there is a deep relaxation in its Truth.

I don’t have all the answers or any. All the important ones are inside you. I can only share the ones inside me. Are we like-minded? You’ll be the judge. I will continue sharing my best with you and see what unfolds next.

What I do understand is that inside these body-minds we are all diamonds in the rough being tumbled and polished by the Love We Are at the core of all this to shine right this very minute. Can we take the heat? Absolutely. We can handle this!

Thank you so much for showing up. I appreciate you more than you can know. We are all connected, corpuscles in the body of existence.

In Peace and Love Consciousness,

Kaye Sturgis ❤