by Ikaro Phoenix
What is synchronicity? The answer to that is the answer to spiritual mastery. And it comes down to real spiritual practice. So, what is spiritual practice? I used to be a sucker for get-rich-quick schemes. I received a flyer for a free seminar. It was during the internet bubble back in the early 2000s—these guys were selling e-commerce site development, promising quick riches.
To help drive home the sales pitch, I never forgot what this gentleman said. He said if you want to be a great baseball player, find the best baseball players and be around them. If you want to be a world-class chef, find the best chefs and be around them. And if you want to be rich, find the people who are very successful in business and have made lots of money, and go be around them. In other words, find the people who are the best at what you want to do and go be around them.
I said to myself, sitting there, I want to find the greatest spiritual people in the world and go be around them. And that’s what I have done with my adult life. Because what he said is absolutely true. In truth, I had no interest in what he was selling. My soul was simply looking for a way to have the means to do what I really wanted to do.
The problem was I didn’t know how and used what was familiar to me and seemed the most expedient method to having the means—I needed to get rich. But that wasn’t really what I wanted. I wanted to be free from all the obligations and demands of the world and have the means to go do what I wanted. Being rich seemed the way to do that.
But spiritual practice, at its most basic level, is using what we are being given at the present moment and using it to cultivate our spirit. I had an opportunity to study with a great spiritual practitioner. I took what that guy said, and with practically no money, I left to go study with this spiritual practitioner, in part based on that experience.
Spiritual practice and synchronizing with things is a very natural thing. It’s taking what we’re being given—often internally at first—something we need to do but don’t necessarily know how, and then using our experiences to get what we need to go do that. And it doesn’t happen the way we think.
The obstacle in our practice, in most instances, is our relationships, which cause us to detour or abandon that practice, sabotage ourselves, and do things that take us in a different direction. What I found by surrounding myself with great spiritual practitioners is the reflection of how to live by your spirit, how to reject the imposition of how to act, how to deal with things—how to live your life in a way that honors your spirit.
It is often our loved ones—our very own family members, friends, or fellows around us—who impose on us this distorted way to live, a way that accepts the imposition of who you should be. What is it that is unquestionable, that no one can challenge, which is indisputable of who you should be or how to act that may come from your Mother, father, wife, girlfriend, partner, friend, colleague, neighbor, boss, etc.?
What is it in your life you feel obligated to put up with that you cannot question because that is what you are supposed to do? That is the place where spiritual practice begins. Because it is the place where you feel stuck, feel you are trapped, and, in fact, impose on yourself who you should be but don’t know why. In other words, it’s where there isn’t consciousness—just a program.
Robots aren’t natural—they are out of sync, following a program, a set way of being or acting. To analyze that, investigate, to find out what it is, and if it doesn’t work, to reject it and learn the way that really does—that’s our God-given right and what makes us separate from machines. The ability to self-correct, finding what is out of synch to recover the way that truly resonates with yourself, which is actually an expression of your spirit.
That requires synchronicity—synchronizing oneself with what is emerging in your very own consciousness. Part of rejecting the imposition of who to be or how to live your life, which you do not resonate with, involves being around the right influences. Part of it involves learning the elements and tools to do this in spirit, and part of it requires the engagement of your own consciousness in the application of those tools in your life to identify and eliminate what is out of synch, what does not truly resonate with you in your innermost being.
Spiritual practice is not simply following the rules of some methodology or some set of practices or moral or ethical standards of how to live. Life, in the strangest of ways, in the least likely scenarios or places, reflects to you what you need in consciousness—showing you the steps you need to make.
You may have gone to Peru or Bolivia or a meditation retreat, but you need to function with it where you live day to day in your life. The teachings and elements that allow you to function as a spirit there and deal with what is out of harmony there are the universal elements coming from the Mother.
There is a part of ourselves that is always looking at those inward insights or the ones coming from outside. We simply need the elements to refine and access that part of ourselves because it can come at any time, at any place; the elements that our spirit needs are the ones assisting one’s spirit in aligning with this moment—what it is actually hearing, being told what to do.
Don’t let the world or deviating influences dictate how you go. Listen to what you are being told to synchronize with in spirit. If you don’t know how, go find the best ones at doing that and be around them.
Ikaro Phoenix is a spiritual guide, teacher, and ceremonial leader devoted to helping others awaken their true essence. Through ancient wisdom, embodied practice, and deep inner work, he supports individuals in aligning with their spirit, reclaiming personal sovereignty, and living with purpose and authenticity. www.SeNaNuldaGaia.com
