No One Can Do it Alone

Hello hello,

Community is important. This is one of my biggest lessons of this week as I reflect on being in this course. We cannot do it alone. 2025 being the year of the snake, it is time for renewal, transformation and growth as we shed our old skin. What that means to me is to get out of my own way.

As was told in the Master Key Experience (MKE), the flower or the tree or nature for that matter never has to contemplate whether or not to grow to its full potential, it simply does. But it can’t do it alone. It requires the sunlight and rain and the earth.

I am a full-blown introvert. I literally have to recover from sensory overload on a regular basis. I have suffered from anxiety and panic attacks in my past. I came to realize that this part of me needs to be managed and it is my responsibility to do so.

So where does community come into play? It’s about having the right community. A community that provides the sunlight and watering and foundation to grow, where I’m not depleted because I am being enriched.

I have grown so much since the start of MKE. I was a person who when ask what I wanted out of life could not fully comprehend why I hadn’t fully entertained this question. I was asked for 100 things that I wanted and could barely come up with 10.

Through community I was encouraged to learn to become aware of my thoughts and ultimately self. This week’s lesson edifies this point by stating:

The predominate thought or the mental attitude is a magnet … This mental attitude is our personality and is composed of the thoughts which we have been creating in our own mind; therefore, if we wish a change in conditions all that is necessary is to change our thought; this will in turn change our mental attitude, which will in turn change our personality, which will in turn change the persons, things and conditions, or, the experiences with which we meet in life. Charles Haanel, Master Key System Week 21, 12-13.

I’m so grateful to myself for taking the mental diet and this course seriously as this was the result.

My entire life opened up because I learned that the possibilities of life were always there, I was just unaware. Then and only then was I able to start to shed the old skin and or start to remove the cement.

This happened fairly quickly but as I grew in awareness of self and became the observer, my belief level grew exponentially. And it’s still growing for that matter because I know now that awareness will always show and prove.

In history we hear of the elders passing down the stories of life lessons and wisdom and I think it’s a shame that it’s not as prevalent nowadays because of how badly it is needed. Being self-aware one becomes more aware of those of whom that are not.

On this journey, had I not had the community and actually utilized it, I would not have been able to stand up to the adversity of life and the growing pains that are sure to come and perhaps even succumb once again to the unconscious world.

I went almost 50 years thinking that I could do this life on my own. Not fully letting people in because most people proved to be let downs. Totally unaware of how I was contributing to my own discontent.

The irony of it all is that as an introvert, I have learned to become more of who I was born to be through community than I could have ever learned to be on my own.

For this I am eternally grateful.

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life. Og Mandino

Peace and Blessings,

Lakia McCrae aka Alchemist Kia

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