Before Every Bright Day Is a Dark Night

By Paul Lenda

Staff Writer for Wake Up World

Humanity is going through a collective Dark Night of the Soul right now. There has been a lot of gunk in the collective unconscious for so long, that it has come to a point where it has to come up and be addressed. This is a natural purging process that has to happen sooner or later, so we can be grateful that it has finally arrived. The sooner we address the shadow aspects we have on a personal and collective level, the sooner we will see the dawn of a bright new day for humanity.

After every dark night there is a bright day, and it may appear darkest just before it comes. We are at the dawn of the Great Unknowing for our collective consciousness. What will we redefine our destiny and future present as? Since nobody is an island unto themselves, this is going to be a collective decision that mobilizes the collective consciousness towards either a balanced future or an unbalanced one.

Only those who are strong in their willpower will endure the present and future psychosis experienced in the collective consciousness. We can see just how unbalanced some people have become today. It seems as if there was never more imbalance, uncertainty, hostility, and suffering. However, if there’s one thing humans have proven ever since they existed is that they are incredibly resilient and able to overcome anything. We will get through these challenging times, and we are currently addressing the shadow aspects within us.

The assignment each one of us has is to tend to our gardens and pull out the weeds. We need to do this before we help others tend to their gardens. Otherwise, we will end up causing more weeds to sprout up. To see a bright future for ourselves and humanity, we need to all address the darkness within us first.

Become a Bringer of the New Dawn

If you are a dreamer and a visionary, you can find your way by the moonlight during the time of the Dark Night, seeing the dawn before the rest of the world. I know how much we all want to be out of this part of the evolutionary process, but we need to be patient wherever we are, sitting in this darkness. The dawn is coming. When it does, humanity will be waiting for guidance and understanding for how to navigate the world without falling into old patterns and traps.

We are in the process of co-creating an entirely different future. Virtually nothing will be the same. For those of us who do not need to process as much darkness or density, we can engage in the process of co-creating a new future. The energetic blueprint, at the very least, can begin to get laid down. Beyond that, a framework and structure to the new harmonious, coherent, and collaborative systems can begin to get designed and established. The building phase is not yet here, but the preparation phase most certainly is.

Humans work within paradigms in the 3D world, so let’s make sure the new paradigm we create is one that takes into account everyone being part of the same interconnected and interdependent network of consciousness, so that we can all thrive and continue on our journeys in experiential existence in a way that is more balanced. As W.J. Bryan famously once said, “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.” By addressing everything that needs to come up during this collective Dark Night of the Soul, we allow for humanity to go forward with a greater possibility of thriving and avoiding pitfalls it succumbed to in times past.

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About the author:

Paul Lenda is a conscious evolution guide, founder & director of SHIFT, author, writer, speaker, meditation teacher, life coach, and ambassador for the New Paradigm wishing to provide an integral role in personal transformation and the collective social transformation of humanity. Paul offers private one-on-one holistic life counseling & conscious evolution sessions, via Skype or phone. Paul takes into account all aspects of the hyperdimensional matrix when providing guidance, counseling, and coaching.

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