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This week I find myself in the Sphere of the Core Wound on my Golden Path journey. My Core Wound is Gene Key 22.5:  Dishonor/Graciousness/Grace.

What does this have to do with Reverence you might ask? 

Graciousness is an attitude of deep reverence and gratitude for life, empowering one to live fully yet with deep respect and consideration for others' feelings in every moment. 
- Richard Rudd, GK 22

Ever since I read that sentence by Richard about Graciousness this week, I’ve been contemplating Reverence. What is Reverence? How can I embody Reverence? How does it fit in the holographic hologenetic expression of the being that is me? 

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As a Line 5 in this sphere of the Core Wound/Vocation I recognized early on in my journey with my Gene Keys Guide Hayley Curtis that I actually process my own stuff through my voice, by speaking aloud what is happening inside me. And so it was natural that I turned to my voice as I explored Reverence here, where my Line 5 meets my GK 22 in the Core Wound sphere.

I went looking for a voice app to record my own Reverence Riff (I discovered Voice Record for my iPad). 

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The Pathway of Realization moves between the SQ and the Core Wound. As part of this pathway, Richard Rudd introduces the Ring of Trials, a Codon Ring consisting of three Gene Keys, three archetypes. 

The Ring of Trails sets us three mythical inner trials before we can continue to the very pinnacle of consciousness.

The First Trial - The 33rd Gene Key - Remembering Mindfulness

The Second Trial - The 56th Gene Key - The Distraction of the Personal

The Third Trial - The 12th Gene Key - The Vanity of the Self 

- Richard Rudd in the Venus Sequence

Lizzie Dewey and I have noticed this week how these trials have been raising their heads in our lives as we’ve been doing our inner work. We’ve been forgetting … and then remembering; we’ve distracted ourselves from the devotion we know is our path; and we’ve been noticing how we hang on to our individuality, our uniqueness, as a way to separate ourselves from others and the inner work that leads us to wholeness. What does this all have to do with Reverence? 

As I recognized how these trials have been coming up in my life I also felt that Reverence was hidden in here somewhere. When I spoke of this to Lizzie this week she found where it was hidden for me within this third trial. Lizzie has GK 12 in her chart and she told me this, which includes a beautiful statement from Richard:

There's this thing about Vanity that I think is where it links to that reverence to all things. "vanity only stops being vanity when you realise that to love yourself is actually to love everyone else. Which is a revelation requiring a quantum leap out of your self altogether." That 'loving everyone else' is the reverence, I think. You know Vanity just loves its own uniqueness, and it does think it's better than everyone else, so of course it thinks everyone else is stupid!!

Ahhhhh…. loving everyone else…. as I contemplate reverence I am expanding that idea to loving ALL else. ALLLLL that we encounter IS Cosmic Consciousness, IS that wholeness we yearn for, IS that world within the world within the world. ALL IS ONE. Reverence THAT!

I find this paradox quite engaging and fun:  the more I love and reverence (honor, be in awe of) myself the more I can love and reverence (honor, be in awe of) others AND the more I can love and reverence others/the whole, the more I can accept I am worthy of love and reverence.

I sit now, as I complete this article, contemplating this invitation from Swami Vivekananda. May I continue to reach for this ideal… to realize God sitting in the temple of every human body and may I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him/her. I find the essence of reverence within this invitation. May I accept it.