The Hundredth Monkey: Ten Tools for Chaotic Living

By Rev. Debra Redman

(This article excerpted from Rev. Debra’s forthcoming book, Fall Down, Go Boom!)

The Hundredth Monkey

Chaos is going to look like your world falling apart. In the coming years, it’s going to look like the world is falling apart. It’s all necessary and happening for a reason. These ten ways outlined below of living successfully with chaos are going to be the difference between emerging as a butterfly at the end of the process or getting stuck in the chrysalis stage of your spiritual evolution.

This is true on a personal level and on a global level. Every time someone deals successfully with chaos, change, evil, and fear, that experience enters the Universal Consciousness where it becomes knowledge available to everyone. People with whom you come in contact will learn from your example. They will be inspired to deal with chaos more positively and productively. This may sound utopian, but this is actually the application of a scientific principle known as the Hundredth Monkey Theory.

The Hundredth Monkey Theory found that when monkeys in the wild learn a new methodology for doing something, such as using a stick to pull ants out of an ant hill or washing dirty fruit in the river, that information is eventually picked up by other monkeys. When enough monkeys know about and start using the new tools, there seems to be a knowledge transfer that occurs to monkey populations all over the world. The knowledge has achieved critical mass.

With that idea in mind, think of the following ten ways to live with chaos as tools.

Ten Tools For Chaotic Living

What can you do to be comfortable living with chaos? First, accept that chaos and change are not out to hurt you. C.H.A.O.S. and C.H.A.N.G.E. are a necessary part of your spiritual evolution. Acknowledge, accept, and allow chaos and change to happen.

Second, use the traditional concept of fear to motivate you to some extent; however, remember that fear used wisely allows you to flow easily, allowing rebirth (F.E.A.R.). Your panic response will almost always block your highest good and make you miss the signs of what is the right action. Sometimes you are lead to do something, but a lot of the time you will probably be Told to Sit Your Ass Down (S.Y.A.D.)!

Third, stay present and grounded as much as possible. This helps you to not panic and lower your energy reserves anymore than they already are. It also helps you to identify when you are attracting the energy vampires that want to take advantage of your weakened condition. Energy Vampires and Energy Vampire Incognito as Light are discussed in the chapter called Transforming Traditional Evil into Light and Love.

Fourth, practice Trust and Faith. Remember that Trust is your conscious response to the appearance of less than ideal circumstances. Faith is the subconscious thought that all is well, regardless of what it looks like. Faith counterbalances the Shadow.

Fifth, take stock of what tribal belief systems are coming up for you. These subconscious and conscious belief systems are blocking the true condition of your situation. Figure out which ones still work and which ones need to be released in Light and Love.

Sixth, review your affirmations and denials. See if you can identify how the destruction of current circumstances may be leading you toward your goals or helping you achieve healing. Did you know you needed to heal a particular part of your life before you could receive the abundance of the Universe? Revamp old affirmations or create new ones. Use denials whenever necessary.

Seventh, don’t beat yourself up when you realize that you aren’t at your peak potential. Most likely, your energy will be depleted from fighting to keep chaos from happening. This low energy state is what allows the Universe to minister to you without your resistance. It’s also what allows energy vampires and Energy Vampires Incognito as Light (EVIL) to enter your life. So, if you realize that you are in a low energy state, allow the process to show you how to get back into a fully funded state of personal power as quickly as possible.

Eighth, practice Faith and Trust, compassion, awareness and patience when the EVILs, energy vampires, and P.I.G.S (People in Great Stupidity!) enter your life. They are there to help you heal whatever it is that no longer serves you.

Ninth, follow the catalytic hunches that are arranging your new growth experiences as much as possible. You are being advanced in your spirituality whenever you enter C.H.A.O.S. C.H.A.N.G.E is actively moving you on your path.

Tenth, have compassion for yourself. Forgive yourself for any reactions that may appear to be less than stellar, learn from the mistakes, and make the adjustments that are needed to keep you on the right track.

This is how the global spiritual awakening that is occurring now is happening. So, your individual response to chaos, change, fear and evil makes a critical difference to the world. Are you the Hundredth Monkey?

The Ultimate Affirmation and Denial

As discussed in the last article, intellectualization, tribal belief systems, Divine Timing, and the subconscious/conscious awareness of Faith and Trust are all blocks to your ability to manifest affirmations and denials. There are many ways to form an affirmation but the one that seems to consistently have the most power to shatter those blocks and causes manifestation is the one that acknowledges the God within you when you say “I AM.” The ultimate affirmation and denial begins with a realization that you are God.

Any statement that begins with “I AM” and ends with whatever you say is a statement of the condition of God within you or is blocking the true state of God within you. For example, if you say “I AM Powerful”, then the condition of God within you is to be powerful, this is the true condition of God within you. If you say “I AM weak”, then you are blocking the true condition of God within you which seeks to have you be powerful.

The Full Moon cycle is about going deep within to uncover what no longer serves you. On August 16, 2008, a major astrological eclipse cycle was completed for 2008. The end of an eclipse cycle mirrors exactly what was happening in your lives six months prior. In this case, the start of this cycle was February, 2008. The key to successfully navigating this cycle is to see the patterns and alter your reactions to the circumstances if necessary. For many, this cycle was about clearing out what no longer serves on a subconscious level. The energy of this final clearing at this vibrational level, where ever that may be for you, will sift through the fallout for another month. The clearing for a lot of people had to do with healing and releasing tribal belief systems.

The impact of tribal belief systems to block your highest good can show up as the internal wounded child who is now demanding to be recognized and acknowledged. The 14 year old who took responsibility for the family’s woes can appear as gallstones and an inflamed gallbladder. The detoxification process required to pass those gallstones could symbolically be the process required to deal with the woundedness of that child. When the old energy is cleared, it creates the ability of the forty-four year old adult to care for and nurture the inner 14 year old. The affirmation of the forty-four year old that says “I AM powerful” now has the feeling and the energy to manifest. “It feels as though I've been released. The tightness in my stomach and chest is gone and I just feel warm inside.” says the forty-four year old adult. The affirmation of “I AM” is all that is required to manifest abundance and prosperity in your life.

You exist now in an energy that supports your ability to say “I AM” and feel how simply Being allows right action to flow through you. This has been one of Jesus’ main teachings and it’s taken over 2,000 years for the energy to be available to the masses so that Being is now our definition of Who You Are. No longer are you defined by what you DO. “I AM” is all you need.

Jesus said don’t caste pearls before swine, meaning don’t waste your time trying to convince, convert, educate or enlighten someone when they clearly have no interest in listening to you. It won’t change the pig and you will have done nothing more than waste your time at best and caused yourself enormous frustration at worst.

As you shift from one plane on the spiral of spiritual evolution to the next, you discover much to your dismay and surprise that certain people aren’t going to go with you. When you discover that a cherished friend, partner, parent, child, lover, or co-worker is no longer resonating with you may have feelings of guilty, sadness, anger, fear, and confusion at having to let that person go. As you increase your awareness and abilities, you want everyone to partake of the new discoveries. Alas, not everyone can nor has the desire. It helps to understand that everyone is at a different stage of development, at various rates of speed and ability, on different planes of the spiral.

It is enough to be aware that everyone is on the path of spiritual evolution and that you must honor each person by allowing them to be where they are. It does not honor a person who has chosen to stay in a low vibration to force them to constantly interact with a person moving into a higher vibration. All that does is make the lower vibrational person feel aware of their own perceived shortcomings. This causes great discomfort that usually causes that person to react with anger, shame, guilt, manipulation, and abuse.

A person of higher vibration cannot sustain the higher vibration for long when the pull of the lower vibration wears down the energy of the other. This is why people who are expanding must leave behind those who are not moving into a complimentary or comparable vibrational level. Lower vibrational people are not in their own personal power and they unconsciously seek out sources of energy that can help them maintain their states of being. Higher vibrational people have built up a level of energy that can power themselves and still have enough to give to others for short periods of time. Lower vibrational energy seeks to drain all of the power the higher vibration possesses. We know these people as Energy Vampires. When this happens, the higher vibration person will find themselves behaving in ways that are not consistent with what they know to be Truth.

Lower vibrational people will always seek the Light of the higher vibrational person. It becomes the responsibility of the higher vibrational person to know when, how, and how much energy to give away in the interaction so that both people are served. The higher vibrational person who learns this is not easily depleted and can move through the world easily, attracting and manifesting what they need and want. Usually, however, this is a lesson learned in time after many experiences of bouncing back and forth between lower and higher vibrations. I call those experiences “Fall Down, Go Boom!”

You pick yourself up because you know you can’t stay in the lower vibration. As you perceive where you are, you move towards the higher, more comfortable vibration. Eventually, most of your time is spent there. You’ll always have periods of time where you slip back into a lower vibration. Those periods serve you and you must learn to honor them and use them as learning and healing circumstances just as much as you value being in higher, more comfortable surroundings. Without contrast, you cannot continually appreciate what you have. You would take what you have for granted.

The advancing spiritual seeker begins to realize that they are tired of being held back and rebels. Sometimes relationships with the stuck seeker can continue in a new way. Sometimes it is best if the advancing seeker realizes that their new energy makes the stuck seeker extremely uncomfortable and the best strategy is to simply not interact with them at all or in limited ways. It is impossible to honor another person’s journey when the level of discomfort rises to a level that causes damaging behavior to occur.

Meditation with the “I AM” as the mantra has the power to move considerable amounts of energy. It would not be unusual to feel that as the crown charka opens, the third eye opens immediately. If there are blocks in the heart and solar plexus charkas, feelings of expansion, clearing and lightness will enter those areas as the blocked energy is cleared with the power of “I AM.” All charkas can be cleared with powerful “I AM” statements.

Use “I AM” to begin figuring out what you need to do to unblock the true condition of God within you. These blocks are usually related to feeling states. “I AM Powerful” is a feeling statement. It is the opposite of weak. “I AM Real” is a feeling statement that is the opposite of feeling like an imitation or substitute. “I AM THAT I AM” is simply the ultimate statement of the true condition of God within you.

Unblocking the feelings that keep you trapped in the false evidence that you are not an individuation of God is the key to manifestation. Achieving that state requires the “simple” act of just Being. That would be easy to do if you didn’t have your monkey mind, your intellect, bombarding you with noise. “I AM” is the going to help you get to that state of just Being. Try it. Watch what happens.