Its All About Realization

Colin E. Davis

Originally appearing on Facebook January 16, 2025.

"It's all about realization"

One of the dreams that Melissa Mari had during her big transformation was one where Death himself came to her and said "You know Melissa, it's all about realization".

At the time, we interpreted this to mean that her sickness was not about physical death but was about increasing enlightenment in this lifetime. For her, the term realization was also related to Yogananda’s “Self Realization”, so this was also in play.

I often brought this up to remind her that she was not going to physically die from the cancer, but that it was an ego death and a death of old ways of being. Hopefully the death of the "pain body". But what it actually ended up meaning was perhaps something more.

Perhaps what death was saying in her dream was that what is important is not that you may die physically, but that you attain the highest level of self-realization possible. That's how the master architect learns and that's how the soul progresses through lifetimes. She was an old soul who was working on a very big project. This was told to her early on.

What her soul actually needed was to attain increasing levels of self-awareness and self-knowledge of her true nature especially the shadow aspects which played a big role in her inner work and life.

Melissa reached a very high level of self-awareness largely due to major inner conflicts that she studied deeply. She was the "shadow alchemist" and a "dark rock queen" whose life was the “perfect piece of art.”

“You’re not ordinary. Your life’s not ordinary. It’s the perfect piece of art.” - Melissa Mari, “Not an Ordinary Life” by The 01Experience

But then there's my self-realization. Because Melissa was a scene in my movie of life. I'm the death metal guy, the Shadow Tech guy, so of course I would manifest this shadow shamaness to teach me about life and death and to experience its essence so as to understand it as much as possible. She was teaching me the 01 Experience.

More realizations to come...