Blog 16: Spiritual Freezing and Thawing
February 6, 2025
Edited by Carol Hubbard
Quiet Whisperings
One cold winter’s afternoon here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Carol and I were walking through the Frederik Meijer Botanical Garden and Sculpture Park—which includes a Japanese garden with a waterfall. The partially frozen waterfall was beautiful, so I asked Carol (our family photojournalist) to snap the above photo.
To me, it felt spiritually significant. Spirit [1] often communicates in metaphors, so I set an intention to discover the message that was being conveyed.
As often happens, Spirit started speaking to me in a quiet whisper. When listening with ego or fear, I easily mistake these whispers for daydreams or flights of mental fancy. In this case, however, I listened with my heart and was given a message.
Individual and Group Consciousness
In numerous blogs, I have discussed the concept of raising one’s spiritual vibration. This is a primary reason we incarnate. I have also discussed the interconnectedness of souls ( Blog 13: The Blessed Life: Not a Life of Ease)
Raising one’s spiritual vibration is not just an individual soul endeavor. On the contrary, there are enormous ramifications for the human and soul communities. I refer to the latter as group or corporate consciousness.
Individual spiritual awareness spans a broad spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, there are individuals operating from pure ego, self-centeredness, fear, and/or hate. At the other end of the spectrum are highly enlightened souls who operate at or near the level of pure love—expressing their individuality as fully integrated and loving members of the community of souls and the Creator.
Metaphor of the Free-Flowing Waterfall
The waterfall is a free flow of energy and vibrancy. Simultaneously, the waterfall is bounded by its shores—a controlled freedom of positive and beautiful expression.
Waterfalls are filters of pollutants—oxygenating the water and providing downstream nutrients. For these beneficial processes to work, the interrelated droplets of water must flow in concert, comprising one body of water.
Manifestation of Group Consciousness of Benevolence
The difference between ego-driven groups and highly spiritual ones is the value placed on the spiritual health and well-being of individual members and the entire group.
We only need to look at the creation of our Creator to understand this. Like the droplets of the waterfall, we are all individual members of the Creator and their creation. In the purest form of our spiritual being, we manifest pure love. In this form we are individual souls in common spiritual purpose with the community of souls of similar spiritual vibration.
Metaphor of the Frozen Waterfall
A frozen waterfall is beautiful; however, it lacks the dynamic flow of energy and vibrancy of a free-flowing waterfall. It’s akin to slowing the flow and expansion of spiritual energy.
Frozen waterfalls cease to act as filters of pollutants, oxygenators of the water, and providers of downstream nutrients. But even in a season where much of the water is frozen, there is still some that flows. So it is with spiritual energy. That which flows comprises a higher state of spiritual energy. That which is frozen comprises a lower state of spiritual energy. But the core beauty of the individual frozen droplets is not lost: Their energy is simply temporarily held in suspension.
Freezing of Water Is Gradual, Until It Is Not
Human history bears witness to the cycles of freezing, thawing, and the free flow of human spirituality. Ideally, the expression of our individual humanity motivates an expression of our spirituality at a high vibrational level.
Sometimes, we want to fight what we feel is injustice—to attempt to thaw the elements of society that seem morally unjust and stagnant. But justice is seen through the lens, the perspective, of the individual or group. Perceived justice also depends on the state of each person’s or groups’ “spiritual waterfall.”
When there is spiritual balance, the waterfall flows naturally and vibrantly within boundaries (shorelines) that are balanced and just—nourishing the surrounding environment. Individual drops work together for the health of the waterfall and the river downstream.
This is the creation model. Each individual droplet (individual soul) contributes to the flow, without violating other souls. There is harmony in spiritual purpose, love for one another upstream (the past), the waterfall (the present), and downstream (the future). Each droplet maintains its designated path and purpose. There is no judgment.
The frozen waterfall represents the slowing of spiritual flow. The waterfall’s boundaries are blurred. The shores may be maintained, may be exceeded, and may even contract. Groups of individual drops are frozen. In human terms, this represents individuals and groups frozen in their dogma, religion, and ideas—frozen in their anger or fear.
Corporate consciousness rooted in extremism leads to spiritual freezing. It is at the extremes where anger, fear, and hatred thrive. When individuals with common and extreme views gather, corporate ego rules.
Like the freezing of water, spiritual temperatures and energy can fall gradually. But when individual ice crystals begin to form, the freezing process accelerates exponentially to the point of seeming instantaneous.
The manifestation of anxiety, fear, and hatred starts gradually; but when it begins to take hold, it expands rapidly through conspiracy theories, fear, anger, and hate.
Being Spiritual in Free-Flowing and Frozen Times
Hate can never thaw hate. Unchecked hatred will always produce more hatred. Hate cannot manifest love. Only love can manifest love. Only love can thaw hate. Love does not judge. Love only loves.
On the spiritual plane, all things play out simultaneously. In Spirit, there is no time. As I have stated in previous blogs, the soul takes on human form to experience and deal with karma (cause and effect) in linear time—to fully appreciate the connectedness of every drop (every soul) in the waterfall and to realize our individual and collective souls’ dharma (spiritual purpose).
Hate can only create negative karma, and karma must be balanced. Dharma, by definition, is balanced and is synchronous with love and truth. Love can resolve (balance) negative karma, creating positive karma—which, in turn, places a soul or group of souls on their dharmic paths.
Dharma begins with the individual self. As individuals, we must deal with our individual karma to begin to realize our dharma. Our individual self is all that we have control over. When we resolve our karma and step into our dharma, we create a loving and safe place for those around us. Dharma influences others. Dharma does not judge. Dharma does not control.
The process of freezing is gradual until it is not. Thawing follows the same rules—there is a gradual warming of the frozen water until a few droplets thaw, followed by the nearly instantaneous thawing of the whole.
It is the same with spiritual frozenness. When spiritual energy rises, there may seem to be a state of near spiritual stagnation until suddenly there is a rapid shift upward in spiritual energy. Individuals and groups working from dharma—from a place of communal connection and love—are an expression of harmony and love for all souls, the creation, and the Creator.
“You will know them by their fruit.” (Matthew 7:16, Modern English Version)
Blessings to all,
Ken Kyzer – The Spiritual Engineer
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[1] When I refer to “Spirit” I am referring to everything that emanates from the Creator—who the Bible (1 John 4:7) characterizes as pure love—and, more specifically as we navigate our life paths, the spirit guides (deceased loved ones, more advanced souls, ascended masters, angels, etc.—however you view them) who guide us. The number and names of the spirit guides can vary according to what is being addressed. I rarely know whom these guides are when I receive guidance from Spirit. So, on occasion, I will refer to Spirit as them.
Likewise, when I refer to the Creator, I am referring to the totality of all that is seen and unseen and all that is and is not. In other words, I am a part of (contained within) the Creator, I am not the Creator. The Creator is boundless, alive, loving, and ever expanding.
Thanks, Ken, for this insight. I'm reminded of something similar called the 'boiling frog syndrome' where the water heats so gradually, you don't recognize you're being boiled until its too late...
Great post, Ken. These recent days feel very much like a deep freeze, and it is so important to keep our vibrations high and keep those waters of spirit flowing.