Great show, guys; great interview.
I just wanted to expand a bit on what I was trying to say.
G. said you can't do anything and you don't know yourself, but he never said you'll never be able to do and you'll never know yourself.
Becoming a warrior really means IDENTIFYING with the role of a warrior, believing you are a warrior, and part of that involves rewriting your narratives about who and what you are.
How often does your negative introject tell you that you're not cut out for this; you don't know anything; you can't do anything; you're not like the elders, admins, mods, ambassadors?
The truth is, in the beginning, that's probably true, but that doesn't mean it's true now - if you've been doing The Work and learned some things about yourself. The problem is, if we're not identifying with the role of the warrior, we're continuing to identify with a former role; and no one can blame us for that: Beliefs are deeply held and thoughts are habitual.
Thoughts affect how we feel and our feelings dictate our actions. If we think we're not strong enough, we're useless, we can't Do, we can't work things out, then that's how we'll live and that's what we'll manifest and represent.
This is where positive thinking comes in. Unfortunately, positive thinking has become a dirty phrase because of the New Age movement: If I only think nice thoughts, nothing bad will happen. But I'm talking about making a decision to change your negative, defeatist thoughts about YOURSELF and start to think like a warrior and start identifying with the role of a warrior.
There's a chapter in The Wave where Laura covers the topic of Wanderers, and from how I read the whole Wave series, the point Laura's making is that there ARE people who are here for a reason - because they have the power to help make something better. They were born eagles, but from the moment they came out of their eggs, they were brainwashed into thinking they're worms, and so they live buried, underground in the dirt. And it is not as easy/comfortable for them to just accept their environment and cruise along through the soil as it is for all the real worms who live in that environment, because they're supposed to be flying high in the sky, travelling great distances, seeing reality from that higher perspective.
Is it arrogant to entertain the notion, after one has worked on oneself for a good while, that MAYBE alot of us here ARE Wanderers? Even if it wasn't true, would it do any harm to take that as a foundation principle of your life and live as if you were? Otherwise, what was the point in Laura bringing it up?
When approaching the idea of taking on the responsibility, I always think about the necklace Laura accepted in the dream she describes in The Wave. It's consciously deciding that you're here for a reason. You're only a worm living in the soil as long as you believe that that is your role and that is the role you choose to identify with through the beliefs you hold and the narratives you tell yourself.
What if you change those? Stop identifying with who you were before you found Laura's work and start identifying with the role of strong, hardworking elder who came here to make a difference and got brainwashed into forgetting you belong in the sky.
You could identify all the times when your thoughts aren't how a warrior would think, and each time, spot it and then say, "No, I love my life. I love what I'm here to do. I am a warrior and I'm here for a reason. I'm here to fight and I'm here to help." Because the only thing that holds us back from taking on the role we were born to fulfil is the beliefs we hold.