Wizard of Oz – Just a Movie or Instructions for Ascension
Recently a friend bought up watching the Wizard of Oz and at the time it was one of those moments for me where her mention of it really caught my attention for some reason. A few weeks later as I was writing a letter to a friend to help encourage her through a tough time and the movie came to mind. Usually when writing or speaking with someone I will get information from a higher source by way of little things that suddenly come to mind. It might be a vision of something, thoughts of something specific or even a certain song might pop into my head.
As I typed the letter to my friend and I began to discuss the Wizard of Oz, thinking she is going to think I have totally lost my marbles, it all came flowing out. There’s more to that movie than meets the eye. Watch it and pretend that it is all symbolism and the home Dorothy is trying to get to is the same home that we are all trying to get to. Back to the one, Christ Consciousness, that connection, expanded awareness, OUR HIGHER SELVES.
The movie would still be the same. As she travels her path she meets all kinds of obstacles and no one seems to have the answer to that simple question of how to get home or even can tell her where she is in relation to her home. Can she walk there? Does she need a magically broom to get there? Will she get there before she meets her doom or can she avoid all the pitfalls and still stay totally focused on her goal? As you know she does stay totally focused on her goal to the point where people are getting tired or hearing her asking about getting home. Why can’t you be satisfied with where you are at? It’s so beautiful so why not stay?
All the while people (midgets and such lol) tried to convince her that one man had all the answers for her…that he must cause he was the Great and Powerful Oz. For us sometimes the person is church, government, parents, friends, etc. What happened? Temporarily she believed that this Wizard must have all the answers cause he must be called great and powerful for a reason. The title though was just an illusion as well. She was convinced by many to put her faith in the Wizard and he sent her out to do negative things for him that he couldn’t do cause he was just living in fear himself. Living in fear he was not even in a place where he could help her. It would be like me saying I am gonna get someone who has barely started along their path to lead me and truth that they know the way. Would you trust to devil to lead you to God. Of course not, but the problem was that Dorothy didn’t know her own self and who she was. Everything she needed was inside her to get her home. All she had to do was think of home with love in her heart and click her heels three time. Yeah three times…how’s that for symbolism…three (3) stands for the trilogy. Clicking the heels…the feet…represents mobility, independence and freedom. Taking steps in the right direction and contemplating your goals or your next step. I don’t believe for a minute that the story of the Wizard of Oz was not inspired from a higher source. And look at who she met along the way and the order she met them…yes, I am breaking down the Wizard of Oz…lol. She met first the scarecrow. The scarecrow indicates depression or that you are going through some crisis in your life. Moving on next to the Tin Man…represents mental and intellectual expansion. you are broadening your mind and opening yourself to new experiences…and wasn’t that what she was doing? Then she had to oil him cause he was STUCK and hadn’t been able to MOVE…oil represents that you may need to show more love and compassion in your life. Then the friends suggested BEFORE meeting the lion that she should go to the Wizard for help. Receiving some advice, signifies your high level of integrity and morality. Dorothy had that and it was important for you to see that the person that undertakes this journey has integrity and morality…or would have to acquire them. So then they are confronted by the lion who tries to put fear in them. The symbolism of being attacked by a lion, indicates that you have many obstacles to overcome. You must resist the force that is driving you to self-destruction. Then the lion itself represents great strength, aggression and power. You will overcome your emotions and/or difficulties. As king of the jungle, the lion also represents royalty, leadership, pride and dominion. (God says we as man are to have dominion over the Earth and everything on it…that is something he gave to us by who we are.) The lion says that you have much influence over others (just what God said when he said we had dominion over the Earth). You may also need to exercise restraint in your own personal and social life.
Exercise restraint over what really? Your own emotions…resist the force that could drive you to destruction and isn’t that what the Wizard tried to do when he sent Dorothy and her friends out to retrieve the broom of the wicked witch, thinking all along they would meet their death trying to do it. He sent him down that path that was really a path that led to self-destruction because they could have told him no. The choice was always their own, after all they had FREE-WILL. The lion trying to present himself as fearless was nothing but fearful. Ah, but what was it that he needed to be all that he was meant to be? A HEART! Is it a coincidence that the way to enlightenment is through the heart/heart chakra, the seat of the soul. It turned out that it was something that he had all along and just didn’t know it.
Just as Oz was in sight Dorothy ran into more pitfalls, one being the field of poppies. So there were pitfalls along the way. For some it is drugs which they use to fulfill an emotional need. She fell into that trap but then something so simple saved her from it. Rain. Rain cleanses and when she was cleansed she woke up and still she was focused on the goal and never thought again about the poppies again, except to tell people what she had been through to get to Oz. Oz looked so good but notice it never looked good enough for her to change her mind and decide she would just stay and chill. She then met the Wizard and he was from where she was from but he had accepted defeated and decided to stay in Oz because of the illusion of Oz. The dark ones disguised as members of a beautiful place told him he could be their leader and to his negative ego that sounded very nice since he did aspire to be a Politician. It all looked good to him, but it was just an illusion. Things looked good but it really wasn’t reality and we know it wasn’t because in the end she woke up to realize it was just a dream. No matter how bad or good something is or looks often it is just an illusion and a reality we have created for ourselves that is temporary if we stay focused on the goal. We can chase after lots of money and expensive things that temporarily warm our heart but what it benefits you will be fleeting.
The obstacles in life are just little speed bump along the way and all we have to do is continue having integrity, morality and unconditional love and the rest will follow. Sure it doesn’t always look like we are where we want to be but we must be able to tell what is real versus what is an illusion.
The thing about the movie and Dorothy that stood out most to me was how she always stayed true to who she was. The thing that Yeshua would tell you if late at night you sat at the foot of your bed chatting as you both sipped hazelnut coffee would be that once you know who you are that you could not and never could be or act less than yourself. The very truth of the knowledge would empower you like the lion that didn’t know he was what he wanted to be all along but the fear hid the fact like a veil. As Yeshua said the kingdom of God/heaven is within you.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:11 am
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