How to Remedy an Expired Inner Myth with Spiritual Law
This podcast was originally shared inside of the Futurewriting Collective as a private podcast episode in 2024. Enjoy.
Spiritual Law as Mythic Remedy
One of my favorite ways to remedy a mythic construct that is outdated is to work with spiritual law.
A lot of us carry a relationship with law that is non-negotiable. We have a sense of legalism associated with it, a perfectionism that comes online around “doing it right”. This is a Western relationship with “law”, where the assumption is that we will be punished if we don't follow it.
That's not the version of law I'm talking about.
I think of law as a code for how we exist in reality. Laws are codes. They are not tools for punishment. They are stories that we are saying yes to — or no to — about the direction we are agreeing to move as a person, as a species. In this sense, laws are like myths. We can take in a law and say, okay, this is a code, a boundary, a norm within which I am going to exist as a human inside of this particular culture.
When we work with spiritual law, we are not working with something we can punish ourselves with. We're working with a construct — a boundary, a norm, a code — that we are experiencing our life force through in order to experience certain things in life, in society, in culture.
The Law of Assumption
One of the laws I love to work with is the Law of Assumption.
The Law of Assumption says that anything you assume to be true is exactly what's going to happen. And this is not a conscious assumption — it's a subconscious one, based on stories and experiences from childhood, or stories about what is true or possible that were fed to you by a parent or caregiver. These assumptions about how the world will engage you, or how you will engage the world, can paint reality in a very specific way.
When we change those assumptions — those core level myths — we start to see change happen.
The Law of Cycles
Another law I love to work with is the Law of Cycles.
The Law of Cycles says that life is seasonal. That opportunities come around again and again and again. That there is a rotation to the way life offers us the chance to expand, to grow, to step into new identity. Nothing is ever really lost. There's no linearity to the way life moves — it is more like the sun rising each day and setting in the evening.
When I attune to the cycles of life, I can begin to see what's available for me and have grace for my becoming. I can move at my own pace. I can move in my own time. There's no one-track ascension here. I am always descending and always ascending, and every time I move through the spiral of consciousness, I am expanding in awareness, in knowing, in capacity for wisdom and maturity.
Spiritual Law as Futurewriting Technology
The fun thing about spiritual law is that its not trying to give you a new religion to follow. With some spiritual laws, you can take it on to begin to work with it and then take it off. It's like putting on clothes. As long as it's working to help you receive from life what you're really wanting to receive, it's useful. And when it no longer is, you take it off and try on a different construct.
This is what I mean by spiritual law as mythic remedy — allowing one construct to enter your subconscious template and begin to recode and recalibrate the rules.
If you've told yourself a story that it's too late for you to change, that you've done too much, that there are no new opportunities available for you the Law of Cycles and the Law of Assumption might be exactly the laws to begin working with. A new story that helps you step into new potentials, new possibilities, new power.
This is spiritual law as futurewriting technology. And it is one of the most potent tools I know for rewriting the inner myth from the inside out.
