Ten years later…
The Dursleys’ mantelpiece is filled with photos of their son
Dudley. Nowhere is there evidence that Harry is a member of their family,
unless Harry is seen, which the Dursleys make every effort not to happen, as
often as possible. Of course, Harry goes to school, but at home he knows he is
to be seen and heard as seldom as can be managed. He is to confine himself to
the dusty, cobwebbed cupboard under the stairs, with the exception of mealtimes.
When you are a Fringe Dweller rather than a Status Quo
Tick-Tocker, others feel uncomfortable around you, which means, they’ll likely
try to control you. Your different awareness has a higher energy vibration than
SQTT members have because you are more in tune with the frequency of All That Is,
and you tend to notice inconsistencies, contrasts, and contradictions more
easily: These are more apparent to you. Plus, higher energy doesn’t want to go
lower and lower energy doesn’t want to go higher. None of this means you’re
better than they are, just more awake, even if you aren’t as fully awakened as
you one day intend to be.
Here’s something from Stuart Wilde’s book The Art of Redemption that will assist you to further understand
what it means to be a Fringe Dweller:
“I’ve come to believe that certain people
have a special karma, a destiny to transcend, and that deep inner feeling puts
them on the edge of society. I call these individuals the fringe dwellers. These aren’t hippy revolutionaries or New Age
space cadets, for the fringe dwellers are set apart only in that they think
differently. There’s a spiritual energy that calls to them from a long way off,
causing them to question and wonder.
You might have been working in a humdrum
(what I call “tick-tock”) job at the post office for 40 years, but in your mind
you don’t quite belong to these systems. You know that you’re a citizen of a
far country, a part of a spiritual consciousness that doesn’t tally much with
the regular, everyday mind-set. It makes you different, not special
necessarily; it’s just that you’re not aligned to the way the world thinks.
Being on the fringe can sometimes cause pain and difficulty, especially if you
fight it, for its inherent contradictions can cause confusion and
listlessness....
If you’ve ever experienced the fringe-dweller
perception and you’ve noticed the way it carries you off into strange places,
then you’ll know what it’s like to be marginalized. Congratulate yourself on
having held on to the authentic you in spite of the unfavorable odds...”
When you perceive the world differently than SQTT-ers do, you
may find that they don’t include you, if they can help it, for the reasons
expressed above. You may even find this is true in your immediate family. Or if
they do include you, you feel restricted about just how YOU you can really be
around them. This is part of what Wilde refers to when he mentions that the
contradictions can cause you to feel confusion and listlessness. It’s a form of
swimming upstream—in the rapids.
Stay strong. You can
find others like you. You can find yourself flowing in the stream of All That
Is and in the right direction, if you open to doing so. You can mingle in
person, or in this electronic age, look around online for others who appear to
also be Fringe Dwellers. But do use your intuitive sense to perceive if they
are sincere and authentic. You’ll be able to tell. “By their fruit you will
know them.”
Harry didn’t fight how he was treated and expected to behave at
the Dursley’s. Yes, he was miserable, but he would have been far more miserable
if he’d gone against that current—until he was actually prepared to be able to
do so with the confidence of knowing himself. Sometimes we find ourselves in
situations that feel intolerable and we want to fight it. I’m not saying a
fight is never appropriate, just that timing and method are important. Plus,
there is an energy in “fight” that you want to really understand before you
choose to engage in it: what you transmit you attract more of. You can exchange
fighting for shifting—from the inner level, where All That Is manifests from
into form and experiences.
Harry’s isolation during his first eleven years with the
Dursleys, and on summer break, provided a particular opportunity for him: His
appreciation for his true nature, true world, and true family his friends and
their families became to him grew exponentially each time. This appreciation
nurtured him in ways that were integral to who he was and was to become. And
the contrasts between who he was and how the Dursleys thought, felt, spoke, and
acted also served him. He could more easily determine and choose how he
preferred to be because of this. Sometimes we learn how to be by learning how
not to be. This did, as we learn later, help him to figure out, on his own, who
the right sorts of people were.
You may at times feel levels of isolation as you look for and
find your right place in the world, as well as acceptance of yourself as you
really are. Let such times speak to you. Let The One Source and All That Is
communicate deeper truths and Infinite Love to you—and through you.
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