At the moment, I am in a phase of “clearing out drafts” that have accumulated over the past years of my work on the site. One of them concerns the theory of the Gene Keys by Richard Rudd.
Four years ago, this theory was still not very well known in Bulgaria, and his book had not yet been translated. But since I was deeply captivated by what he was saying, I bought his book in English and watched almost everything that was available as video material online. I liked this man very much! And although my enthusiasm is no longer the same, I still like him very much. The reason lies in his alchemical way of thinking.
So, back to the subject. Among the drafts I also found a begun translation of the Shadow of the 55th Gene Key—one of the most important ones, because it is the one that “unlocks” freedom. If a person understands what this Shadow represents, they will be able to “alchemize” it and reach the positive expression of this archetype as well. Among the things that help us understand what it contains is the unconscious belief about the nature of human suffering and the role of spirituality in dealing with it.
Here is what Richard Rudd writes on this subject, which is the real reason why I wanted to share information about this Gene Key.
“The web that holds us in low frequency has many subtle and devious twists and turns within it. As the saying goes, one of the greatest tricks of the devil is to persuade people to seek God. The most devious aspect of the 55th Shadow relates to spirituality, and this has particular relevance during the current historical era.
Spirituality itself has become a focal point of victim consciousness, because it can so easily give you the idea that there is something you can do to free yourself from your Shadow and emotional suffering. This notion has led to the greatest illusion of all—the illusion of some other spiritual reality beyond our own field of experience.
If we examine this notion with clarity, we will discover exactly the same pattern of longing for self-realization. If you create an unattainable reality, then you can spend your entire life longing for that reality without ever having to experience it directly. For many religious or spiritual people, this can be a difficult truth to digest.
True enlightenment is not at all what we actually want. To begin with, it is not exciting—it is utterly ordinary.
Nevertheless, the greater part of spirituality is built upon the pursuit of the extraordinary. High-frequency states do not necessarily lead to ‘spiritual’ experiences. In fact, high-frequency states tear apart the very illusion that there is such a thing as a ‘spiritual’ experience. In contemporary New Age culture, spiritual materialism is widespread—so to speak, people have acquired a brand-new drug called the pursuit of truth.
It is important to understand that there is nothing wrong with any of these things. If you are drawn to seek something higher, then something is compelling you toward it, leading you somewhere. If you follow it through its natural process, it will eventually reveal your true path. For some people, seeking is the direct path to transcendence, but for others it is merely a diversion that draws them away from their true nature.
The 55th Shadow prevents the spiritual seeker from following their call through to its natural conclusion. It does this either by identification with some form of teaching, or with a teacher, or with the path itself. Accordingly, there are three categories of people who are caught in the trap of the spiritual path—those caught by the structure of a teaching, those caught by the magnetic attraction of a particular teacher, and those caught by their compulsion to be spiritual tourists.
All three of these spiritual traps are authentic stages of any path that will ultimately lead to true freedom, but all three are masquerades of freedom itself.
These are some of the subtlest levels of the Shadow of victimization…”
— The 55th Gene Key, Richard Rudd
(Note: This quote is a re-translation from Bulgarian.the quote is re-translated from Bulgarian article)
I find the above to be psychologically very true and insightful. I am very glad that this book is now available in Bulgarian—it deserves to be read in its entirety. At this point, I only wish to complete the presentation of the Shadow of this Gene Key—victimization. This is the Victim mindset: the tendency to feel like an innocent victim of other people and of life circumstances. It is precisely this mindset that is the real obstacle to freedom, because it deprives a person of the power to change their life for the better.
Because how could you make positive changes in your life if the cause of the way you feel depends on external factors? Such as the actions of other people or the generosity of life itself? I fully understand the intensity with which Richard Rudd writes about the importance of this Key. Stepping out of the victim mindset is of fundamental importance for mental health, because it relates to a healthy sense of responsibility.
A healthy sense of responsibility arises when we reconsider our sphere of influence and see what actually depends on us. We may think that many things depend on us, but the reality test is whether the outcome of the actions we take to change a situation that is unsatisfactory for us depends solely and exclusively on ourselves and on our own efforts. Only then do we begin, for the first time, to understand what freedom truly is.
And freedom is very, very important—it is the condition that allows everything else in life to unfold in the right way: our relationships with other people, our own realization, the choices we make, and the happiness and joy of being ourselves.
The paradox is that freedom comes only when we accept our limitations.
The difficulty of accepting inevitable limitations has many dimensions, and in my experience the most difficult ones are internal. This is the resistance to the fact that we do not have the power to make things happen in the way we imagine and want them to.
The publication of this article is a small example of this—I had to accept the limitation that the translation is not complete, and that I no longer have the energy to present the entire Gene Key in greater detail. I accepted this limitation by telling myself that a little is better than nothing.
And so, we can feel like victims in so many different ways—of other people’s actions, of the injustices of Life, of our own perfectionism, or of our resistance to the inevitable limitations of our inner nature. But the way to be free is only one: when our emotional reactions no longer depend on whether we get what we want.
For me, this is the true criterion of freedom.
Kameliya
