Mystics Unmasked.

THE STORY – How can we bring our wild, untamed, intuitive selves into a world that often misunderstands us? And how can we build our courage to show up with ALL of our mystic otherness?

With THE STORY I’m sharing words from my soul, stories from my life, and the myth of my experience.This transmission centres your unique mystic-ness and what challenges us mystics face in our day-to-day life, so you can feel seen in your experience and let go of self-judgement.

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You were born a mystic.

A sensitive one. One with more channels to the unseen worlds open than others, a broader bandwidth of perception of this world and beyond. You see where others declare emptiness, you feel where others sense nothing. And when you speak your soul, tell the stories of your experience, the world raises an eyebrow. Maybe you have been faced with shaking heads, sighs, or plain silence. Maybe, much worse, you have had to sit with unrestrained rejection, aggression, or hatred even, for your otherness.

And maybe you have begun to do what many mystics do when faced with the harshness of a world not made for sensitive souls and beings of different perception: You masked yourself.

You began to hide the true nature of who you are, to protect it from the world – and maybe you even reached a point in your life where you felt like you had to protect the world from it. It – your otherness, your mystic-ness, your sensitivity, your seeing beyond the seen.

For as long as I remember I have been masking at least some aspects of my being. As I know today, a large portion of this masking occurred (and still occurs) as part of being autistic (which, I believe, is actually closely linked to my mystic nature – but that’s a story for another time).

From a young age, I have learned that most people act and behave very differently from what feels organic and good to me – so I learned to adapt. I learned to hold eye contact, even though it feels extraordinarily distracting to me to do so, because I experience much deeper insight and understanding in a conversation when I observe the unseen, the space between words, as opposed to keeping my focus on another’s eyes.

I learned to do small talk, even when it felt meaningless to me, and I learned to hold back from speaking my truth when it didn’t fit into the generally accepted idea of reality. I became a chameleon, carefully adjusting my outer appearance to the world around me, to remain unnoticed, hidden, and consequently safe.

There’s a similar process of masking happening to many mystics, myself included. We may go into hiding, and hold back what matters most to us – and if we don’t, we risk rejection.

Maybe you have been there, too:

…keeping your mystic identity, beliefs and insights a secret from your family, friends and colleagues, because you cannot fathom handling the confusion or conflict that might arise if you were to present as your full, mystic self

…toning down or censoring your full expression to make it fit in with what you assume people around you can “handle” when it comes to the mystery

…very gently testing the waters and easing yourself in when beginning to express your mystic-ness, to be sure you don’t overwhelm anyone (but exhausting yourself on the way)

…daring to speak from your mystic heart and only receiving blank stares, or worse, plain rejection from your surroundings

…feeling like you have a choice between staying in integrity with your soul, or keeping up your relationships within your family or social circles – but both seems impossible to achieve

I want to acknowledge how tough this is, and how heart-breaking it can feel to sit at the threshold between your mystic soul and the world you are a part of, and hold a desire to continue to belong to.

Personally, this journey of mystic expression and unmasking my mystic self has gone hand in hand with unmasking my autistic traits. I feel that my experience of the world can be expressed using different terminologies and perspectives, and one of them is the viewpoint of the autistic experience. It was through this angle that I was able to speak into differences in perception, sensitivities and my seeing and hearing beyond what the masses perceive, to family members who don’t (yet) have mental access to exploring these things from a mystical perspective. Even though this still feels like masking core aspects of my soul, it means that I have found an entry point into a conversation.

Over time, I have also been able to find more and more space within my relationships, especially my closest ones, my husband and family, to voice my mystic perspectives on life and the world. We have found a beautiful bridge between the worlds, and can let each other be in the realm that suits at this time, without needing to change or convince each other of a better way.

What I have noticed is that the most important part of deepening my mystic expression in the world and taking more and more masks off is to take it slowly. Allowing my nervous system to come onboard as I remove layers of protection and shields that have kept me safe for most of my life. We cannot rush this process, and we cannot force it. Yet, when we gently flow with the organic unfolding of our true, mystic nature coming to the surface, mixed in with a portion of graceful, soft courage that comes from the heart rather than a pushing mind, we are on a very fruitful, beautiful path towards more unmasked mystic-ness.

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