The Gatekeeper

Hatred and fear tend to replace trust and love when people have been shocked too many times. They start sending signals in that always speak of danger when there really is nothing to fear.

For want of a better name, I'll call it the gatekeeper. Probably psychology calls it something else, but... The gatekeeper guards what comes in, making sure that only that which is fearful gets by. It believes that only that which is fearful is true and no other information is to be trusted.

The secret, when people have a gatekeeper (and most everybody does) is to speak in ways which get the hopeful information past the gatekeeper without him even understanding what the information is. He can't stop something that he doesn't even understand. Code it, and he lets it through. However, the other side of the brain, being able to understand the complex feelings that underly poetry, sees what's being said.

Hope, sent past the gatekeeper, is sent like whispers in the dark. The gatekeeper clamps shut anything else. People are completely unaware that they're doing this all the time. They've come to agree with the gatekeeper and not agree with messages which bring hopeful and uplifting thoughts.

However, the self is starved to hear those thoughts. Hopeful things. Health-affirming things... The self knows that all the gatekeeper's lies are just that... lies.

However, it's really quite easy to get past the gatekeeper. Poetry seems to confound the gatekeeper more than anything else, probably because the gatekeeper merely consists of words and resides in the word side of the brain. It isn't a real thing, after all, but a protective mechanism gone haywire.

Given enough signals that say, "Things are fine. You are fine. It is safe to come out now." The gatekeeper lets go its hold. That only occurs when the whole self truly believes that to be true. When that occurs, the gatekeeper backs off, the person regains control over their own hope and health returns. Because we all used to have a mind with no gatekeeper, back when we were children, it helps to reinforce and encourage memories that were pre-gatekeeper. That way, those synaptic connections return, bringing back the pre-gatekeeper conditions to less fear and more hope.

I see you as being about 3/4 through the struggle into hope and out of having a clamped-down gatekeeper. You've had your eyes opened to the degree that you see, but what you see still frightens you. That's still the gatekeeper filtering the information. When the gatekeeper is gone, that will no longer be true. The 'Matrix' aspect, where a person thinks that fighting is the answer finally disappears because the only thing which caused the thought that fighting would succeed was fear. Fighting only increases fear.

When the gatekeeper finds that it is safe to release its protections, you will be free of it and hope will arrive. You're very close to the end.

If you were in a dark tunnel, before, and you were walking out towards the light. You are starting to see the light at the end of that tunnel.

You will be released from the thought that you need a gatekeeper and hope will return to you. It will occur very soon.