The Art of Spiritual Subtraction

Releasing Our Illusion

to

Awaken to the Frequency of Our Eternal Power

 

July 29, 2025

Story # 34

Written by Bill Pautler

Photo by Author

You are a ruby encased in granite.

How long will you deceive us with this outer show? ...

So come, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

  Rumi (Return to Your Soul)

We were never meant to carry so much.
The fears, the names, the stories etched onto us like dust on glass — they are not who we are.
Beneath every layer of judgment and wound, behind every mask we learned to wear, there hums a frequency — steady, ancient, ours.

To remember it is not to add, but to release.

This is the sacred art of subtraction: the unlearning, the unraveling, the returning.
And when the illusion falls away, what remains is power — not the power of the world, but the power of the soul, pure and unbound.

What We Are

We all come into this realm with an energetic signature (ES). Our ES is akin to an address. It is how we are located in the universe.  Whenever your grandmother, that has passed away, wants to “whisper” something in your ear, she finds you via your ES.  Or when I think of you and then you call me, I telepathically touched your ES.

But we also have an energetic frequency (EF).  Our EF is our vibrational frequency.  The frequency at which our energy vibrates or oscillates. It is our essence; it is our aurora. When we think of our good friend, it is their EF we remember and feel.  It is their essence.

When we come into the world our EF is pure and undistorted.  It contains the perfectly aligned frequency of our Divinity, and it holds an energetic pattern of what we want to get accomplished in this lifetime.

It is our EF that is operating our bioelectrical, biochemical organism that we call a body. 

 

What Happens to Us

We come into the world with a perfectly aligned EF.  Then we get traumatized, and our EF becomes distorted.  Our physical body holds this distortion.  And we lose some of the access to our true power. Then we embody societal beliefs that are not aligned with our original EF and are Higher Selves.  Our EF gets more distorted.  And how we view the world then becomes distorted also. Over time the traumas, the fears, the false beliefs and our false judgements have distorted our EF, and we are no longer ourselves.  Our distortion only allows us to operate at 20% of our real capacity. Our desires get crushed, and we no longer are in tune with our intuition and our Higher Self.  We are like a car that: has tires that are worn and almost flat, low on fuel, low on oil and brakes are worn thin.  Our car takes twice as much energy to move.  We become a weak, unreliable tool. And we are no longer manifesting our joy in this life.

And we also carry the weight and distortion of our masks.  The masks we use to conform ourselves to the beliefs of the world and hide our true selves.

 

Subtraction is Our SuperPower

If we really want to be free, pure, transparent, supple, powerful and wise we must undistort our EF.  Work our way back to our original frequency.  We must subtract everything from us that distorts our original frequency.

 

The Three Focus Areas of Subtraction 

            Commitment

If we really want to be awakened, enlightened, in touch with our True Selves. We have to commit. Jesus said, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God".  On August 8, 1988, I made that commitment. I asked Jesus to come into my heart.  Just to be clear I am not talking about the religious Jesus we grew up with in church. I am talking about Christ Consciousness.  The embodiment of God in this earthly realm.  And quite frankly I had no idea what I was doing.  Or what I was getting into, I just knew in my heart it was the right thing. Committing is a key element of the journey.  It is like any other thing in your life that is important.  We must commit. Being lukewarm never gets you to the goal line.

 

We Have to Put Our House in Order

As long as our house is in chaos we can’t focus. I had a conversation the other day with a woman that I know. She runs a company, had been caring for her elderly parents (who have both passed now) and her long-term husband started an addictive drinking habit a few years ago. She had a lot pulling on her. Her house was not in order. But she had the courage to leave her husband. She moved into her own place, started walking, lost 70 pounds and she looks as happy and as put together as I have ever seen her. She put her house in order and that was a difficult and bold move. We all know when our house is not in order. Too much debt, unfulfilling job, bad relationships, too many commitments and many other issues. We know what they are.  Everything we own, we call a possession.  But actually, everything we possess also possesses us. That includes non-physical possessions.  If we are going to walk the walk, we have to put our house in order or we won’t be able to focus on our journey.

 

We Have to Release: False Beliefs, Trauma, Victimhood, Our Mistakes, Judgements, Our Ego and Our Fears

This world covers us in false beliefs.  We know what they are, tune in to your Spirit.  Start with “my religion is the best religion” or “my country is the best country”.  Or “at the end of this life I will either go to heaven or hell”. False beliefs are everywhere.  Our traumas are hard, but they can be lessons, learn from them and release them. Victimhood is actually us giving away our power. I really don’t like the word “sin” it has so many connotations.  So, I like to use ‘mistakes’.  What is a mistake?  Thinking about it as if you were shooting a film and one of the actors got their lines wrong.  You need to shoot that scene over again.  It was a mis-take.  We are all going to not get things right the first time.  That is the whole purpose of this adventure, to discover the depths of our Divine Nature by playing in a physical world.  Mistakes only become a problem when we don’t learn from them and keep repeating them. Judgement starts because we don’t ‘like’ ourselves.  We judge ourselves internally and then we cast that judgement on others.  When we learn to love ourselves, we will love others. Ego, is an exaggerated sense of self, based on the lack of understanding that we are inherently beautiful, powerful, loving beings.  And when we don’t sense our true nature, we hoard our power from the outside world. Fear is our lack of trust in ourselves, the inability to understand and trust in our spiritual journey, not trusting the unfolding and in believing that control is necessary for our safety.

 

This releasing process is a process.  With awareness we should daily observe these issues and then release the false within us, by simply viewing the false with awareness. It is that simple.

 

Subtraction

Now if you will notice, all three of the above topics are about subtraction.  Subtraction of our other commitments, to focus on what should be our highest commitment. Subtraction of the chaos in our lives that steals our energy and prevents us from building a stable foundation.  Subtraction of all the falsities that are modeled to us in this world.

 

Here is the Glory

If we really, really want to be free.  We have a formula. It takes awareness and effort. It is not easy, but it is simple. No standing on your head and facing the sun at sunset. No mantras.  No church.  No religion.  No yoga. I am not saying there aren’t good tools out there to help you. I am just saying, look inside yourself for love and question everything you have been told. Rely on your Inner Divinity. 

 

When you do this, the false reality will drop, the masks come off, a transparency will enter your life that is refreshing. You will have burnt off the dross.   

 

What remains will be your true inner glory, your undistorted energetic frequency!!!

 

Live a SageLife. Be a SAGE!

SAGE --- Spiritual Awareness Growth & Enlightenment

Namaste Bill     

 

Post Script – I remember playing with magnets as a child. I love magnets. Playing with them on the countertop. When I put two like poles together the magnets repelled each other, and you could push one with the other.  But if you got to close and at a slight angle, the magnet would swing around, and the opposite poles would attach. That is what will happen, when your EF becomes undistorted. The experience you desire to have here on earth will come to you. It will be magnetized to you, because your EF is clean and ready to receive the experience you desire.  The experience you planned before you came in.



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