color turning

standing
the time arrives
your color changes
warm winds are here

Staying present………. core spirituality for your discernment

In the process of staying in the present there is a catalyst which transforms our experience lead on by our intention to stay present.

In the essence of our moments, inside the activities of what needs to be done, in the attending to our lives there is always the possibility to stay present.

To stay in presence. What may be may be lifted in the all – ness of the now moment.  Lifted from the limiting sense of non sense, chaos and confusion.

The catalyst is in the connection to life which disappears when we focus too tightly, or jump off of the present moment.  The akaa….. this inter connectedness is what informs us of the underlying nature of our experience. Informing us beyond the rational thinking mind alone.

A complex yet simple feeling – mind based awareness of what is.

Here there is a divine knowledge which holds many keys to understanding the universal truth of our lives as it is expressed in each of us.

I find this amazing!

That the most ordinary contains the extraordinary is the paradox. The present moment holds every potential with which we need to choose our directions. This potential becomes clouded by the rational thinking mind’s attempts to control reality to fit it’s version. Staying present moves me into and beyond my own personal limitations and rational mind sets. Calling me to be open and allow for new and different outcomes. Usually of which I am surprised, as my thinking mind does not see such things all the time. Learning to integrate the presence of one’s self consciously in the moment reveals our deepest flaws, greatest fears, and our most desperate misconceptions.

Perception is literally transforming constantly.

The fact that we may look into our now and see ourselves as we truly are, spiritual beings having a human experience, can loose the agony of limitations and concepts we hold. Perhaps this is the reason we hesitate to stay present and we engage in our usual ways. I watch this in myself and around me and I find it quite interesting to observe. I know that I constantly find new personal material that is needing to be updated, or in my mind healed. (made whole again)

that life itself evolves has become apparent. In the bigger picture as in the world, the creation, and personally as in myself. That life evolves is such a remarkable thread in the fabric of existence is fundamental to our expressions and to me requires an observance from my attention in the now.

It is the question I ask myself as I live. How is this experience evolving in me? As the core of spirituality seems to already hold all the knowledge of self, It is the experience in time that has the evolution thru us.  This is a discerning place arising from the deep connectedness inside the moment.

I often find myself deepening into this life quality with reverence and respectfulness.

Returning…. I find that a persistent direction arises within me to return to the present moment as I wander off. As my mind thinks. I literally must orchestrate this and use the boundaries of what is acceptable in allowing my mind to jump to conclusions, rationalize, and summarize life. Especially when there is so much more to each story line. To open the concepts of our lives beyond our now is a fantastic spiritual happening. I liken it to being a child. There arises wonder!

Perhaps this is why there becomes joy as the soulful self is allowed to have it’s truer clothing on as I pass thru this world. I find this awesome.

“Staying present john is the result of disengaging from the time bound belief system of your current world situation. It is the result of disengaging from the dogmatic beliefs of thousands of years. It is the result of ending many human scenarios as you learn in experience. It is the result of your own core of spirituality intending thru you to be present in life. “

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passionate presence

nature reveals
itself
there is a presence
it is what it is

Responsibility to self……… core spirituality for your discernment

“Responsibility to self” I do like these words as they bring me into awareness. The awareness of purpose and the ongoing unfoldment of life.

 

That we are called into action to be aware of ourselves as we live. Taking into account the situations that arise in our day and our responses. Though many people are having difficulty now these are the experiences of which we are here to learn specific things relating to our own spiritual evolution.

 

Our spiritual nature and our spiritual purpose.

 

Remembering that we are not a religion, nor are we a political party. Nor are we money, although I do know of one person who has nick-named herself Money! Though many humans act as if they are these things. We are spiritual being having a human experience in time.

 

Decoding the experiences in time and finding the core truthfulness is the purpose of each experience. Getting lost is a part of the process.

 

Worshiping the signs that point us to our spiritual selves (over identification with any single religious path) , fighting over the signs (murderous actions and political actions of divisiveness based on being right and power over another) that point us to our spiritual selves, developing & participating in the creation of  ungodly amounts of weapons of mass destruction ( innocent people, children and families, good military men and women are killed, along with division of world resources: political rightness are all steps along the way of realizing the the core truth of life.

Oneness!

Everything arises from the one and returns to the one. Every experience we have serves to move us along into our awareness of the larger reality. All roads lead to Rome as one saying has said. Learning to embrace and bless the different steps along the way all around our individual lives can for us personally bring us to a realization of truth.

 

Truth that is universal.

 

As we witness these events in our daily lives we have the possibility to deepen into our selves. To root out our own unresolved issues and learn to stop repeating the cycles of not loving.

 

Not loving ourselves. Not loving one another.

 

If there is frustration, anger, then we can bring love to ourselves recognizing our human dilemma and resolve to come to new understandings of our true spiritual natures. That we can do this we will not know until we exert the efforts needed to push beyond the measures of suffering, pain, and separation. And stop repeating the same misguided responses of our ancestors and hold true to the highest they set into motion. We can transform ourselves here and now…. and we are doing this now. 

 

“Every incident in life is connected to every other one. All of life is interwoven in you  as you. You are all that which is… your source.”

 

“By remembering and feeling this, by breathing this into yourself you step out of the repetitious behavior of generations of ancestors  and live in a wonderful state of pure connection and realization of who you  really are!”

 

“Living in the moment. And there is joy in this. Joy for each individual, and all of life. The ticket is to learn!”

 

“The choice is to go beyond yourself and find the learning inherent in all that is. Earth is your classroom!”

 

core of spirit quietly shows me today.

 

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life journey

that a life is like a jungle
each one
may find his way
that we meet others

What is joy to me?…core spirituality for your discernment

Watching super soul Sunday with Oprah I am compelled to write.  I want to write about joy today,

Joy is the magnificent expression of source as creation unfolds in the timeless presence of now.

joy is eternal and always here. that I may feel it is partly choice. that I may not be feeling is also partly choice. in  my past I have gone in and out of it.

yet in my now I find it is always present no matter what may be passing in me.

joy is a substance of which we are made and is the soul food of our lives.

happiness is a fleeting human emotion that seems dependent on what is happening. joy is not dependent on human structure it simply exists and is.

 I experience joy as a underlying force in and around me that is always a source of lovingness with whatever I am experiencing.

I feel joy in nature, in animals, in the earth and in the sky. paradoxically I feel joy even when I am not happy, I feel joy when I am searching, I find joy in all activities of my own humanness. I experience joy even when I am struggling and sad.

 Joy is over me watching and understanding my human experience with cosmic soulful presence. joy is under me as the basis of this life. it is the very core of spirituality.

I find this amazing.

joy is the natural expression of who and what we are and arises easily in larger measures as we open ourselves in innocence and acceptance to what is.

this is joy for me.

Changing directions ……..core spirituality for your discernment

Changing directions is the model for successfully arriving to our most treasured dreams in life. Paradoxically staying in our directions is also true. While we find our way we walk thru the middle ground inside the opposites of our lives and realize that this is possible.

 

I marvel at how the core of spirituality informs me each day. As my awareness picks up bits of information that seem to be in conflict or in opposition. As I tend to my inner stillness I know that extremes of any kind require my stillness in order to reach the middle path. In this way I may be inclusive and open. Otherwise I may cut off, cut out and pass by individuals or situations or directions that are necessary for my own soul’s fulfillment and the greater purpose of my life.

 

This process continues to amaze me.

 

When I was a teacher on my first day of class I would educate my students about the story of the landing on the moon. My goal was to have a successful classroom at the end of the year and for everyone to realize their own unique potential with the material. This story illustrates the complex way we humans need to remain open in order to learn all the details for successful navigation into and thru our most important goals.

 

The NASA teams had the immense job of sending a rocket to the moon. Involving hundreds of intelligent , well educated people working all together. They had a plan! They developed a pathway from the earth to the moon.

 

Point A to point B thru space.

 

Once the journey began they found that they had to make corrections in what they thought they were doing. In fact they were constantly revising their data, correcting their patterns and they ultimately landed.

Mission successful!

 

When then returned back to the earth and looked at all their data they realized they had made almost 98% corrections in what they originally thought was a sure thing. And they were still successful.

 

I find this amazing and a metaphor for all of us  who are so sure we are on the right paths, doing the right things even as all the evidence shows us otherwise.

 

Our capacity to accept changing directions is acutely important to the overall process even as we hold other directions firmly. Yet how many of us simply repeat repeat, repeat the same thoughts, same actions and same beliefs and yet we are not joyfully expressing our best capacity as spiritual beings having a human experience?

 

It is a question I ask myself as I learn each day. I reflect on my own need to change directions regularly and some days this is big some days it is a small change.

 

Whenever I engage the wisdom of stillness and presence within me I get informed and I realize my optimal choice.

 

Digging my feet into hard belief systems and rigid intellectual ideas and personal opinions has a way of undermining this whole process. I watch around me as the reality of life continues forward on our collective time-line and I witness the struggle our humanity has with change. I see the resistance, the fighting, and the unhappiness. I see the addictions to drama and being right.

 

And I remind myself to step back and take a moment to assess and learn by watching others.

 

I do not want to repeat unsuccessful lifestyle choices. We are each one of us learning to do something, get somewhere, and realize something valuable about ourselves thru our daily lives. The earth is truly our collective classroom and we are all students, whether we know this or not. And so I like to learn and I like to learn from what is happening around me.

 

That your story may be different from mine, even opposing my story is significant. That your beliefs may be different from mine even opposing is still significant. That we have these contrasts all around us provides us with tremendous creative input. Our world is rich in diversity and differences while also unity and sameness. This is the design of the life and we are all smack dab in the thick of it.

 

I find this amazing!

 

“That you are realizing, then actualizing the opposites of life is the hallmark of your arrival into the larger awareness of your further potential as a spiritual being in human form. Your humanity classroom will move you along even when you do want that change. So learning to adopt the flow of change as your lifestyle choice serves your ability to advance ever onward in learning new things. This brings you to the release of limitations that no longer serve your greater good and the greater good of your collective. Each day billions of decisions are made that shift the changing landscape of your world. As your human numbers increase in mutuality your overall reality becomes even more apparent to you . As you realize you are each one….. co creating this life. Very potent times as you gather the awareness of yoursleves on a grand scale. The momentum is growing and the potential for change increasing. For things are not as they were…… as life itself has its direction in and thru each of you, as you.

You are life itself. Honor this……….honor your life,

yet honor yourself as life.”

 

core of spirit within me gently speaks.

 

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THE PRESENT MOMENT

standing in now
life is communicating
realizing the furthest
possibility
there is breakdown
there is another way

Discernment …………….core spirituality for your discernment

what is discernment and how is it different from judgment?

 

Discernment is the act or process of determining keen acute insight into  the value and quality of a subject , situation or another person. Especially the activity of going past the mere surface and looking into the details. As a virtue a discerning person is considered to have wisdom, and good judgment and especially so with regard to subject matter often overlooked by others.

 

Discernment is our way of navigating thru the infinite choices and decisions we need to make to find our way in life. My experience is that allowing the capacity of my heart to provide distinct presence in discening matters opens up the broadest range of detail. While  intellectual discernment has its place and serves a tremendous capacity in developing our thinking minds it has its limits. Usually those limits are clouded by mental belief systems, previous training, educations. I personally find that the intellectual discernment alone never quite delivers me to the central heart of a matter.

 

In relationships whether that be with one another or with our creator the intellectual mind simply cannot go far enough, deep enough. It doesn’t get beyond deeply engrained past experiences or beliefs. So while intellectual discernment can get me up to a point, then I allow the heart to join in.

 

Using heart awareness in discernment can actually rock the boat of who and what we think we are doing as the heart has the capacity to show us feeling and intuition. Often times these feelings are not what we want to know, or want to feel. There comes a certain maturity and strength to allow the heart of our selves to guide us. I find tremendous courage in the heart that I do not find in the mind, or intellect. And most certainly we discover mystery as never before whenever we engage a discerning heart. By nature we are led into our own unanswered questions, shortness of vision, limitations in thinking whenever we dare to step into the mystery of living.

 

I find this a bit scarey and very intriguing.

 

And yet necessary to investigate personal experience and truth from within myself. Often times I find myself staggered by what I find as I move along in life and find more and more revealed as I dare to open up. As the pitfalls and dangers along the way inherent in a life filled with duality and opposites, knowns and unknowns so very important in this process….. discernment. To arrive to conclusions based on personal experience rather than the words and beliefs of others requires a sense of self direction and self awareness where discernment is a major exercise on a daily basis. Like brushing my teeth I cultivate my discerning self everyday. I have found as I have aged that I use discernment increasingly as I commit to authenticity in my life in greater and greater measures.

 

That there is much false truth in our humanity, much illusion, delusion. On the surface of things one level activity is happening while on another level even more is happening. For example in my work in hypnotherapy I found that the person appearing before me presenting symptoms had a much richer and deeper set of feelings and agendas in their subconscious. This was always fascinating to me as the individual was often not aware of this initially. When we would go deeper into the super conscious self we would find even greater and yet simpler information all relating to the surface issues. Layers of experience over time, layers of emotions, feelings, beliefs. This was always very revealing and brought about a much more complete understanding. Whenever we have a much more complete understanding we are able to have an improved quality of discernment and better capacity to choose our way!

 

I find that in our culture we use discernment in heightened ways a lot when we are shopping! Yes shopping! As a world traveler myself I often marveled at the acute level of discernment of Americans in foreign countries when beside non Americans in market places, shopping. Americans being bombarded constantly by media messages to buy in virtually all facets of modern life we have developed a keenness in the sales pitch. Gathering facts, studies, etc. that our culture is based so entirely on external values and things we have developed a tremendous discernment about all our materiality.  We seem to know instantly when we are hearing a false sales pitch. Now I would like to ponder this developing further into direct knowledge about spirituality. I imagine this would be far reaching, and shift much of what we have come to accept as basis for truth in our society.

 

“Discernment is the reality selector of your design, to not develop this within yourself leaves you without all the information you need to successfully navigate your way towards the highest and best conclusions for your manifest dreams. Your humanity has a long way to go in this class of earth life. As the spiritual reality of your existence, not all your beliefs about that, the actual living reality of life is right here all the time in you around you. Discerning is the way of finding who you really are, what you really are. This is different from your belief about yourself. Humanity is experiencing a great wave of revelation as deeper meanings, deeper understandings, deeper connection, is becoming apparent. There are many voices and messages to discern now. As your earth classrooms were once all separated you are now realizing how to connect all these classrooms and thus you are beginning to see yourselves together in a larger way, more interconnected. What you do in one part of your world immediately effects someone else on the othe side of your world. As you realize that your actions are all connected and see the results of your actions you will discern new meaning to what it is to part of one humanity, one world. Your collective awareness is significantly growing now. And this is increasing your capacity to discern. So john pay attention here and honor discernment in you allowing each to do the same as so many of you  find your way and ultimately realize you are heading into learning to love what is.”   

 

the stillness within me speaks as the core of spirit in me now

 

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Bridge in hana

The bridge will carry you
to the other side
It makes the journey
pass
so you do not fall
into the abyss
we are like bridges to one another when we love all of who we are

Aggression………………. core spirituality for your discernment

Aggression is a behavior or outlook that is forceful, hostile, or attacking. It may occur in retaliation or without provocation. As behavior it can be angry feelings that hurt or harm self or another. There are many types physical, verbal, mental, emotional aggression.

Aggression has many costumes as it finds its way to express different purposes. To compete with others, as in sport asserting dominance. Intimidating or threatening as in fear. The word is derived from  the Latin agggressus meaning to approach,address, attack.

Being alive on planet earth aggression seems to be one of the predominate human experiences all of us learn to be aware of and have to deal with from early childhood. There has been something in our humanity that seeks this experience and we find infinite ways to do this both individually and collectively. I notice in the international arena this is a daily occurrence in the news somewhere, somehow. Of course this is not a vague experience of a group or nation it is the collective experience of many individuals together. This aggression in togetherness has a magnifying quality that makes it easier to feel as an outsider and has a power to it. As I have written in past notes here danger is a prevalent issue in our human collective experience and aggression is a component in that danger.

Aggression certainly contributes to our individual and collective sense of separation with one another.

And the ideologies, beliefs, teachings and centuries old patterns in our social collective, the very tenants with which many of us live by have undercurrents of aggression as they perpetrate separation in our one humanity. In our own households, workplaces, neighborhoods, cities, countries, and the world.

I find this noteworthy and interesting to look further into.

To stand for peace, and have unresolved aggression is a paradox. And limits the capacity to adapt measures for the good of all. This is why I choose to examine my own aggression and the aggressive actions of people around me.

When I examine aggression inside myself I find many unanswered questions, partial understandings, unfinished conversations, hurt and pain. It is rich with the substance of potential spiritual understandings.

Unraveling the conundrums,problems, obstacles inherent in aggression are the wisdoms of our souls and our spirit’s longing for peace.

For peace to rest it’s wings on our shoulders we then arise to the deeper work of our souls. In fact for me it is my soul’s duty, my duty to my soul to meet up and face off and resolve the difficulties in my aggressions, in the aggression around me. It is a  duty to myself!

I am certain I choose my profession as a care giver and nurturer with this in mind. Providing myself a daily platform to exercise my spiritual, soul self attention as a balance to all the aggression I felt in the world. However in doing so I have felt in the bodies of thousands of individuals the unresolved, weekly, unresolved issues in the tissues of clients showing up for relief from stress and tension. Some of that is AGGRESSION! The gnarled tightness of the deep voice of aggression living inside. The body hold it till a time we surrender to the answers those tight muscles, ligaments and backs and necks cry out for. I find it amazing.

I find it amazing that we do not recognize our tensions for what they really are inside us. Our own unfinished duty to our souls, to ourselves. Those painful memories, conversations, attitudes and feelings. Those intensely physical exertions in competitive sport where we injure ourselves. Hmmmmmmmm I find it worthy of taking note. The price our human bodies pay for unresolved aggressions is staggering. I am certain that many diseases are exacerbated by these aggressions inside our psyche moving around our corporeal selves. The price we pay in our minds thru our limited development, the price we pay spiritually as we stay convinced of our self assured rightness and our separation with our brotherhood and sisterhood in life.  And finally to our soul’s as we are returned to replay, repeat the same scenarios over and over and over till we learn to open up. Till we learn to love what is!

“Aggression is the effect of unfinished business of the self and is  the fuel on an energetic level of yourself to propel you thru a density in your human experience. To learn to take appropriate actions as you unravel your own angry unfinished feelings. To push ahead towards better solutions. To push ahead to remove yourself from situations, to push ahead thru the inertia of not living your dreams. This is an example of how to use your aggression. Learning to recognize dark wisdom of the ugly aspects of self reveals only light! So be courageous within yourself john and honor all aggression and allow it to guide you into the soul as your heart opens, as the heat of the aggression is released you will see eventually there is only love.”

my inner core of spirit gently speaks to me this day

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Sunset in Kihei

Darkness and light
there is wisdom
in both
respect the nature
Revealing

standing still the tree

standing still the tree
reaching into the empty space
touches the light

http://youtu.be/TmKKaf2F6uk

http://youtu.be/TmKKaf2F6uk

it’s the generous acts of spirit thru small acts of kindness that really get to me. watch this video to feel your heart open.

Soul Quotes from History…………. core spirituality for your discernment

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” ― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

 

“That’s what makes it so right. Your eyes– your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That’s the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you’ve seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.” ― Bree Despain, The Dark Divine

 

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

 

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” ― Victor Hugo

 

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

“Whatever you are physically…male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy–all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

 

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“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” ― Walt Whitman

 

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.” ― Karen Marie Moning

 

Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion — these are the two things that govern us.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories

 

 

 

 

 

“When Great Trees Fall
When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety.
When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken.
Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves.
And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” ― Maya Angelou

 

“Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.” ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

 

“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.” ― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

 

 

 

 

 

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?” ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

 

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” ― Walt Whitman

 

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

 

“So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.”
― Lao Tzu

 

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

 

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?” ― Melissa de la Cruz

 

“Crying relieves pressure on soul.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

 

“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by how little.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

 

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi

 

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Sol, piercing the dark moment, nightfalls

In nature there is that which will illuminate the coming darkness, and as the light dims around you and the shadows join together to blanket the day
alas there are the stars.

Rejection……………Core spirituality for your discernment

Rejection is the act of refusal to accept, to consider, submit to, to hear, to receive, to admit someone something, and also  to cast off. Rejection is a quality that I find unspoken yet acted upon in tremendous ways both outwardly and covertly all over this planet. Rejection to anything unfamiliar or different, rejection of ideas that go against traditions, the common standards of groups etc. as I develop unconditional love accessing the spiritual heart of self I am joined with the spiritual presence of the soul of us. Rejection and all its agendas diminish.

I find this very interesting.

I recall one season as  a boy-child standing on the basketball court, with two huge groups of boys picking their teams. And yes I was the very last person that one of the teams got stuck with. Oi ……

my skills on the court were the very worst. I actually hated the game as I could not run, dribble, and pass the ball without losing my step, falling, or having some other ridiculous occurrence. I was miserable. I have never in my life been comfortable with competition ! Add to that no one wanted me on their team! I attempted to learn the game however I truly did not enjoy it. I finally let it go. However that experience of rejection was a valuable one in that I deepened my awareness and feelings as I was learning to fit In as a young boy, My earth classroom experiences made sure I would understand this early and  completely. As a result I have made many corrections in my lifetime.

If you have never been the one rejected the whole sense of this word may not be easy for you. As an adult  you might just be in denial about how separation and rejection experiences actually shape us and silently effect decisions. Unless we reflect inwardly as we learn to observe our own reactions in life and our feelings. Because we actually reject lots of experiences, feelings, and ideas every day.

In ourselves in each other, in our society, and in the world. The fact that as many people as there are live in hardship, without food, in poor living conditions, that whole countries of individuals build immense, unthinkable, ungodly weapons of destruction, designed to kill people just like us is something to ponder.

That there is a general consensus of danger in the world year after year after year. Generation after generation after generation. Century after century after century is very telling. There is something fundamentally universal about our humanity and how we lean towards the rejection side rather than the acceptance side.

I find this fascinating and noteworthy to explore.

When we reject that which we do not understand we place our very lives into such dangerous attitudinal states that we re -create over and over for generations ……….and  then we  project this out onto everyone else.

I find this crazy. And prevalent amongst the humans! We reject so easily every day and we do not even take the time to actually to investigate. I have noticed people are so hooked into technology and fast clicking thru information we appear to do the same in our minds!

Rejecting the ugly, the hateful, the despicable, the criminal, the forlorn, the down and out is pretty common place in a society where self absorption, feeling good all the time and television mind thinking is what drives our life styles. In American culture I find many conversation now limited to a few lines of text and that’s it.

Rejecting “certain feelings” “certain lifestyles” “certain colors of people” rejecting what we do not agree with and or do not like is a sure measure of what a persons future is going to hold. As these attitudes contain elements of discord and lack of love that perpetrate drama. Yes drama drama drama. Do we want this? If so keep it going. If not then go to the opposite of rejection which is acceptance.

Acceptance has a quality of opening things up that just about nothing else will. I have found total life circumstances I have been in dis-accord with magically transform once I came to acceptance. It is truly a  gift of life once we start to realize and produce it whenever we can.

To grok thru our rejections one by one learning to apply some semblance of acceptance requires diligence.

To face that which you reject and hold acceptance up to  is a core of spirituality practice. Examining the deep uncomfortable aspects of our humanness.

This practice of acceptance is a life teacher that brings with it whole new worlds of knowledge, new relating, new and different possibilities. I am not speaking about going against your moral compass here I am speaking about humanity, our humanness and our human short comings, our foibles.  The ugly side of self we hide in ourselves, we withhold with one another. We hide parts of ourselves as we move about in the world. This life teacher sometimes will bring us into encounters over and over again with our rejections until we realize the life wisdom of acceptance. Amazing how the source keeps track and repeats this for us!

Rejection feels squashed, feels little, feels yucky, feels inadequate, feels less than, feels ugly, feels forgotten, feels limiting, feels stifling, feels separate and even more. I wonder if the mass marketing media of the world is targeting this subconsciously in all of us. It sure look like we need a lot of products to make us feel acceptable. And why is that?

Are all those externals, those cars… that make-up, those hair colors, those diets, those money market accounts, and for god’s sakes all that food are they really helping us to feel the acceptance missing in us ?

Core of of spirit within me says “that inner acceptance is a quality of the soul as source, the more we align ourselves with this soul-self we increase the spiritual qualities of that which we are made. That our human selves are in a consistent state of becoming. This process is  a reason for being here. That learning how and what we accept with discerning is the goal, so part of us…. are parts that accept and some are parts of us are not and that is simply how it is done. Eventually we render the totality of this acceptance greater towards one side of the equation. When it is acceptance this is when we see the glow.

You know it when some one has a glow about them. This is the self acceptance in greater measure within. It is a reflection of the pure infinite loving presence of source as us. Its magnificence has nothing to do with age, position, clothing, make up, actual weight, height, or style of pumps you put on that day.

See what is in you today to accept, see what is in another that you may accept. practice this ….

Acceptance is a solution to many individuals for the misery in your world, learning to lovingly accept life around you may promote healthy outcomes, new answers to problems and lift you and another from the sticky entanglements common to human families today,  Humanity itself as a collective may choose to accept itself more fully. lets see what you each decide….

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Love what is Part 2 …… core spirituality for your discernment

Learning to love what is is the long or short direction underneath all the busy activities of daily living, depending on our own decisions in life. It is the ultimate destination and final condition to every human experience. Returning us to our original state in source as the presence of love.

Yesterday I wrote about the quality of loving what is as it protects us.

 

Protects the self in difficult situations, confrontations, negative scenarios. Opening us to a universal love, in that we cease adding every reaction we have and stop layering negativity and repeating.

 

Universal love has the capacity to hold the most difficult of human situations, far surpassing our intellectual minds!

 

When loving what is becomes universal love as an unconditional quality of love this does not mean becoming a door mat. This does not mean you agree with something. This does not mean you are condoning behavior. It simply means the context of how you perceive something is without judgment and suspends, momentarily personal opinions so as to reveal the entire nature of a dynamic in front of you.

 

This kind of loving what is then informs you differently.

 

Certainly in any dispute,disagreement, any conflict there are factors not completely revealed and thus difficulty arises. Were all the layers and all the factors present there would be understanding ( a quality of loving what is) . My experience in human interactions is we suspend getting to the bare roots of our negativity and we end up hurt and separated. Along with partial understandings. And we are destined to meet up with the same or similar situations whether it is with the same individuals or new ones. (have you ever noticed that one?)

 

The unfinished business of human relations always shows up until we complete the experience.

 

It gnaws away at our daily lives and will not let us go until we confront all of what is here to learn. I have witnessed countless people who have stopped short of universal love and deepened the suffering and limitations this bring upon us, including myself.

 

We develop opinions about our family members, our work partners, our friends, our neighborhoods, our countries, and the world, in a partial awareness of the true capacity that simply loving what is can do….

 

this universal love actually has the capacity to show us how to heal our human dilemmas.

 

And the reverse is equally true. This is evident by the repetition of struggles we see all around us that started centuries ago in our ancestors as all this began inside the family units and then into tribes. I always reflect on the current state of the military around the world and the prevailing attitudes of danger and weaponry. Certainly if we had all practiced the teachings of all the great spiritual messengers of the last 2,000 years we would have made significant progress in realizing the brotherhood of our humanity. As every major religion on this earth has been teaching love one another and peace for thousands of years now.

 

And we have not.

 

We still continue to build massive killing destructive weapons to point at each other, spending trillions of dollars world wide. There  is tremendous human investment in energy and resource in all this.

 

I find this very interesting.

 

When we learn to love that which we reject we open a new light on the subject. When we love what is hateful, disgraceful, unacceptable,ugly,and lowly and misunderstood we reveal to ourselves a capacity to create something that is transcendent.

 

I find the growth of service programs around the world a marvelous example of this kind of love in action. These individuals are managing to create new solutions surpassing governments of the world. Spreading universal love to people completely different from themselves ( one the surface) and yet I learn from them that a mother here is the same as a mother in Africa, a sister here is the same as a sister in Syria. A family here is the same as a family in Iraq. We do all share common denominators. We all have the primary need to raise our families in safety , with nourishing food, loving care for our children and respect for one another. And to develop happy environments for growth.

 

I find this astonishing! Some of us are learning!

 

So while not all of us can go out and save the world one of the most significant contributions we can make, which doesn’t cost any money, is cultivating an intention to develop our capacity to love what is. And to seek to learn how this feels. To learn how this can actually transform our own little lives. And to  face our own inner negativity ( in self acceptance ) and the still unfinished relationship issues we all have pending. We can learn to lift our selves out of any and all misery associated with our human conditions. Learning to live more compassionate fulfilling lives.

 

“John do not put limits on your capacity to love. Love unceasingly, as you learn to be guided by your heart and not the repetitive past of your humanity. Allow for room inside yourself to live with the mystery of not knowing all the answers yet filled with the conviction that a healthy loving heart can always bring some element of spiritual understanding, wider acceptance and meaningful relationship to all that you previously withheld from yourself. You can do it!”

 

“New doors open to humans that are walking the path of the heart. Doors that were closed before. Doors into experiences that will carry you beyond  what you are seeing for yourself even now. That divine creator has a larger design for you all, that the spiritual being within you has a greater design for your human self is potent now.  Lean into this universal love to see what is here for you.”

 

“this love will not cease in this world, it will seek every avenue, every possibility as the great reality of the soul is revealed completely in your earth home ….and that reality is LOVING WHAT IS!”

 

Core of spirit gently reminds me this day.

 

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unleashing the possibilities

I reflect on this beautiful waterfall in Hana reminding me to let go and allow the pouring forth of all possibilities.

Love what is ……..core spirituality for your discernment

Loving what is opens us to the innate presence of life as it is expressed in all forms. Loving what is is the very nature of the creator, of the source, of existence.

Learning to love what is we become the presence of love thru our own  eyes, thru our ears thru our bodies. In loving what is we drop the identifications with judgmental thoughts that have held our lives in limitation for centuries and replace the judgment with compassion. Thru generations of our ancestors we have held each other in various kinds of limitation, and selfishness. To love what is we learn to accept the reality all around us and we bring to that reality the very substance of active-compassion in the world. Loving what is transmutes the lesser vibrational substance of human agony and pain, transforms horror, and reveals our true capacity as spiritual beings having a human experience.

Loving what is opens the heart of misunderstanding leading us into the space of recognizing the layers of reality that shape our human class room. These layers contain elements of our experience shaped in pieces and parts as we have sought to unravel our conundrums… our problems… and our obstacles. Loving what is  generates the possibility of receiving deeper information that shows us purpose in all of life, leading to the soul perception of ourselves and to stop the habit of formulating judgmental conclusions!

Loving what is stops the negative reactions to the negativity that is unfolding around us and generates the space for it to express without adding more negativity to it. We stop the cycle of repetition and reaction common habit to our people.

When I first encounter any form of negativity I may have a horrid initial response, I may have a sad response once I have identified in myself how I feel then I may learn to love what is. And thus shift that response in myself to a new level of perception.

As I practice fair witness in myself I have learned that the more I choose to love what is I find the love in my being larger and larger and more capable and I then have first reactions that bring loving what is immediately to the situation.

I find this absolutely amazing!

Everything I do, everywhere I go, and every memory within my self I bring loving to what is….. In every human possibility. I find the universal love seeks this out and constantly grows and grows. When ever I forget I return to it. Now it is a life habit.

As I awaken to universal love I am finding much more to love in this world.

I am finding myself loving many predicaments that I previously held only in negative awareness. Now I realize the capacity of the spiritual heart has an infinite desire to love continuously. Hidden judgmental attitudes in myself drop away.  I even like to love my food before  I eat it. I love the work I need to do to maintain a clean house, a clean car, a clean mind!

Learning to love what is not only transmits love in this world it also elevates attitudes.

My own and others. I have witnessed this loving presence as I listen to others and the shifts that take place are remarkable. Listening to another persons pain, negativity and hardship with life generates a vibrational space of acceptance silently for that person that supports them to move beyond, to take the leap… to step out of the habit and spiraling in limitation and suffering…… all without even saying one word.

This is an actual substance and does not require belief.

For it is far beyond any belief. I have learned even as I do not believe…..when I apply loving what is I come to perceive that which I was prevented from seeing in the past. I find acceptance understanding and humility again and again and again. This feels really good.

Engaging in difficult situations in loving acceptance of what is protects! I have learned that in negative potentially harmful confrontations I am protected from my own reactions, as a human being and I learn to with hold adding to the difficulty. This automatically provides a basis for difficulty in another to process their stuff. I have watched as this reduces the amount of time I normally would encounter in these situations. I have witnessed this also signaling me long before difficulty arises preparing me for a better confrontation and more purposeful use of my awareness stopping me from those horrid judgmental attitudes, criticisms and conclusions.

Loving what is generates fierce presence in me that can look into the depths of human struggle and misery, pain and suffering and see it for what it is. This strength is a spiritual quality that imbues my human self with the capacity to heal denial and ignorance. I choose not to run from, deny, or ignore that which is in me and around me. Rather I choose to stay connected, to remain present, to engage. The outcomes and choices availed me increase as new solutions appear.

This is truly amazing! Truly!

Loving what is increases the amount of gratitude in me that is staggering, absolutely staggering to my humanity. Gratitude transforms and lifts up all of my human experience to levels where my connection to the spiritual presence of life is more and more consistent. And elevates the most mundane moments of living.

Loving what is leads me to look into and beyond the separatist ideologies, teachings, and authorities as this quality of love reveals what is truly in unity underneath human activities. In unity through diversity, thru paradox and theology. When we see our lives from the perspective of unconditional loving we are in our soul perception of ourselves. Our souls, the soul of every single human being…… is infinitely loved by our source,  the source of the soul. The Oneness.

This is life transforming!

“Loving what is….. the destination of all human experiences. The result of trillions upon trillions of moments in time. The result of trillions of human interactions upon your planet. The very direction of the madness, the cruelty, the difficulty of all struggle of all human life is this. Learning to love what is! This is the next doorway of your humanity’s journey. Moment by moment, step by step until every molecule of this earthly home is filled with unceasing, unconditional, infinite love. The urging presence of such a possibility is upon you all now. Your free will choice is potent…. it is up to you, to each of you to choose……..

choose to love what is………..

…………………………………………………..you can do this! .

You are one and all so completely loved by source, so completely loved by source as you learn that you can really LOVE WHAT IS.”

My core of spirituality speaks within me now.

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from my garden

Reminding me of the infinite beauty contained in the striving and the becoming of my ultimate possibility as spiritual being having a human experience.

Life experience as spiritual initiation …. core spirituality for your discernment

Every life experience is an aspect of learning designed specifically for the education of your soul thru physicality. Hard and challenging  life experiences are the initiations of your spiritual self developing and testing your own soul’s presence in yourself as you! Layers upon layers of happenings arise thru your life that the core of spiritual you, the silent ever present you, will engage your awareness. You will find in the earth school of life that you will encounter issues and situations over and over and over from many different angles, seemingly as repetitions.

They are not!

Different aspects of the self show up to engage and thus complete the entire curriculum of life thru your personage, thru your family, thru your relations. That you arrive over and over again into emotional scenarios, mind sets of beliefs and thoughts, is simply the greater reality of existence, ( the all that is )  providing you additional opportunities to learn, to evolve your awareness to nourish your soul and to connect spiritual presence in your body as you in the world.

Stop complaining…… If you want to move forward!

When you find yourself  stuck, or complacent, or having accepted a negative reality and learned to live with it and you have not gone far enough into your life experience and the results will be frustrating, painful, and unhappy. And they may be that way anyway however there is a  natural start and a natural finish to all things. So keep going into your experience learning to navigate deeply using your awareness and all your senses to see what it is left for you to learn.

There is always a mystery.

You do not get the answers before you have done you earth classroom life work. Eventually the AHHA’S  start to arrive and separations and pieces of your experience begin to connect as you develop the larger capacity to understand overall purpose. As you develop purposeful awareness this will move you forward and you will eventually realize a transformation.

Series of transformations in yourself and your life circumstances occur. When you have fulfilled your own soul’s intentions for learning completely these transformations bring you to transmutations. A transmutation is the complete and total transformation of an aspect of self into something completely new.

A metaphor for transmutation is the process of the butterfly. We can learn by observing the butterfly life patterns starting as a caterpillar crawling along the branches of life, eating and growing eating and growing, retreating into its cocoon, this is where the transformations are occurring which result in the transmutation and emergence of the new self…… the butterfly. The new completely updated body and presence of the butterfly was transmuted from the many legged crawling caterpillar!

We all experience this to some degree otherwise we would all still be crying babies! We begin life in an amazing life metamorphosis. From the egg to the fetus to the baby to the child to the teen to the young adult and then to elder. So how come we end up like we do ?

Many individuals are unaware of the purposeful lessons they are living. Thus we become stagnant, complacent, comfortable in our pains, and we perpetrate the kind of world we are seeing today. Watch the news for example. We slow down the learning process in ourselves and each other.

Going back to the transmutations this is when the elements of the personality are completely remade into a radiant spiritual presence in that person. This spiritual presence contributes tremendous possibilities for human joy, human intelligence, human cooperation. The spiritually infused human self becomes intimately present to the existence of source, some call it God, in all  of life.  One does not lose the self, the personality, it simply is lifted out of its sticky entanglements of  previous hardships as the core of spirituality is ever present to meet all future scenarios and becomes the primary identification for what is happening.

Some indicators that initiations are happening are

feeling uncomfortable with yourself as you are, the urge to make changes

feeling uncomfortable with relationships

feeling uncomfortable with how the world is around you

people dropping away in your relationships

losing interest in participating in family patterns of unhappiness, religious beliefs, political squabbles, being right

the need to be alone increases

the food we eat becomes an issue and we must learn which foods bring us the feelings we really want

big challenging problems with the people you love that don’t go away

mild fevers, ups and downs in the temperature of your body

mild aches and pains through out your body

the strong feeling to Run, Die, or get away

surprising moments of sadness and grief

the immense urge to dance, sing, or turn your music up to ridiculous volumes

compulsive behaviors of any kind that actually mask what is really going on inside of you and distract your attention

taking too much pain medication, smoking too much dope

making far to many excuses secretly to yourself and to others

the desire to learn about your ancestors, your roots

the desire to find meaning

the urge to see how you can help others

questioning authority

the urge to broaden your sexuality or experiment with it

Every time we accomplish a success with a human limitation, a human hardship we fulfill a spiritual learning that increases the presence of soul within us. As we increase the presence of soul we develop more and more attitudes of service, we look for unity, we experience transcendent feeling even as things are different. We begin to recognize the unity in all things, all people. All life. The fear levels diminish and the maturity of the heart possibilities in all our relations become important to us. These are all actually spiritual initiations

“not only you john, the whole of humanity is now in a collective momentum of proportions so vast so far reaching in your human evolution and planetary evolution. That together the possibilities are presently beyond the human mind. Honor your life experiences with the awareness of your spirit, of your soul, of your creator, of your source in all that you do. Now is the time. Now…………….”

core of spirit within me gently speaks

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Hatred, Bigotry,Arrogance,Dominance…… core spirituality for your discernment

Hatred is deep emotional extreme dislike directed towards a person, people, ideas, objects, prejudiced or animosity, strong aversion.

Bigotry is the attitude or state of mind of the  bigot. Intolerance of any belief, opinion that differs from one’s own. prejudiced, holier -than – thou. refusal to accept certain people , ideas with hatred.

Arrogance is thinking and or behaving as if one is superior, better, self important, ,  overbearing pride.

Dominance is power over others, control over others.

Does any of this feel familiar? has anyone ever experienced these qualities? within yourself or directed towards yourself? have you witnessed these qualities in others?

in my experience all these qualities are opportunities to learn something.

with hatred we learn love and acceptance.

with bigotry we learn acceptance and equanimity,

with arrogance we learn mutuality and humility.

with dominance we learn about oppressions and power WITH one another.

every human experience of polarity contains elements with which we need to pay attention. from core of spirituality we can observe the deeper origins of such qualities in ourselves and one another and learn many many things about how we define ourselves and this world. we can always jump to the opposites of any quality and see what else is prevented form expressing.

as we cannot  have one quality without the other in life ,

in a world that is designed with a dualistic or polarity based reality matrix!

I recognize much of this thinking and behavior in our world all around us all the time. in our media today we seem to be focusing on all these qualities, highlighting daily in our news programs all of this and I wonder the purpose in it all. clearly with technology and media capability we are learning to look at our selves much more deeply. why is this? is there a purpose in learning to see entertainment programs based in violence in American culture based on these things? I hold that there is a divine purpose in facing hatreds, bigotry’s, arrogances, and dominances!

as I learn to discern reality, as I scrutinize world events, news reports, I am aware that all these qualities above are sanctioned in many ways by PEOPLE!

PEOPLE  in the military, people in governments, people in religious organizations and churches.  I discern the differences between the actual governments, churches and military’s by avoiding the blanket perception and I recognize that these are really people within these social structures perpetrating these ideas beliefs and behaviors. not only are they perpetrating these things they are doing so with dominance.

I find it horrid. much of it justified with long winded speeches, and rationalities. with political notions and entitlements. I am astounded at our humanity. they make a lot of noise, create a lot of chaos, generate a lot of confusion and pain, destroying many dreams for many lives. and this has been going on for hundreds of centuries.

in my world travels it is one of the most dominant realties to see  powers of dominance everywhere thru history along with arrogance bigotry, hatred. it is horrendous . I have seen this on every continent on every coastline around the world. ancient prisons filled with the history of such darkness, whole native peoples slaughtered, whole nations taken over!

in my core of spirituality self  I reflect on WE  as a human race and our role as keepers of the land I see the results of this behavior and thinking generated in national , corporate, and religious and militaristic activities. this has artificially broken up the world, by cutting up what is all connected into pieces and parts that prevent everyone from experiencing the great wealth, richness and beauty of this planet.

I could actually weep, and have.

no one is doing this to us but us. we do this to ourselves and one another. in ignorance in hatred, in dominance, in arrogance in bigotry. AND THIS IS NOT WORKING!

FROM CORE OF SPIRITUALITY WITHIN ME so many of us are suffering and dying, so many are prevented from the tremendous love inherent in all of life thru mutual understanding and demonstration of universal love.

yesterday  i wrote about fair witness and so today i ask about witnessing all these qualities as they are being expressed in our daily lives. in small ways in the work place, in family gatherings, in talks between friends. to bear fair witness and choose differently is of major consequence now. as we each experience the rumblings of hatred, bigotry, arrogance and dominance.

this has got to stop!

being truly spiritual does not mean that we are entitled to live, believe, and treat one another in these ways. loving one another is what true spirituality is. that religions teach thru arrogance, that nations act with dominance, that rulers kill with hatred, that any group or people or individual acts in hidden covert insidious ways perpetrating this has got to stop. and each one of us has the capacity to see this and respond with our most truthful spiritual self and that is with UNIVERSAL LOVE.

“universal love is the spiritual basis of all of existence in the all that is-nes of life everywhere. universal love is the politics of  life thru which all beings are embraced, universal love is the answer to every problem that exists everywhere. and when  you do not believe it then you have not learned to apply it and realize its transformative quality. universal love is a spiritual substance…. it is not a belief system, not a mind set, it is a spiritual substance of being! john your spiritual being self having a human experience is directly having the experience of universal love and this experience in each of you contributes to the collective experience of your humanity. this substance is moving into your earthly domain now. those fighting this are the ones still anchored in the old habits of your unaware humanity and still killing, controlling, dominating this world. you always have a choice always and when you choose to universally love that is when you will see your life, al its difficulties, and all the problems transform and to this you will marvel….. heal your self of all such things, heal one another thru your actions “

core of spirit within me gently whispers this day

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Fair Witness….. core spirituality for your discernment

Fair witness is the practice of seeing, hearing, or knowing thru personal presence and perception of whatever arises in our day inside or outside ourselves. this practice connects all the separate pieces of ourselves and our world by learning to observe and integrate experience. this is by far one of most potent forms of enlightenment practice I have come to learn. the practice of witnessing ourselves in action and reaction informs us of mental thoughts and ideas, feelings in our bodies, emotions in our minds and all the interactions this causes as life relates to us.

learning to bear witness to our selves in the best light possible also informs us in clarity particularly when we throw out the judges  inside the witness box , so to speak. learning to bear FAIR  witness is essential to this process as having a neutral point of observation is how we unravel conundrums, mysteries, confusions, fogginess etc. in CLARITY!

 

For example  there is nothing more frustrating to a car accident as when the witness is biased when reporting their particulars about the event. thus fair and witness go hand in hand in this process. we are learning to know ourselves fairly by witnessing ourselves in neutrality. later we can add the nuances of our particular points of view. so for the sake of identifying initially what is happening we withhold all judgments

to bear fair witness to any feeling in ourselves can connect all sorts of information together. typically I find when people  express themselves without this process and delegate the authority of what is happening to someone else by reading into their reactions. we by pass the internal place of self reflection necessary to know ourselves. this can turn into a huge reaction action reaction scenario. eventually to resolve something peacefully inside ourselves we are required to go inward. this fair witness process is an inward self observational place.

developing the power and strength of an inner safe and neutral space of fair witness allows  our own particular innate spiritual presence to then inform us as this would relate to our own larger path of life experience.

I find many people delegate this role to external authorities in families, religious institutions, social institutions, governmental institutions and so on. many of these individuals carry on acting as if they know themselves very well when actually they are merely repeating  another person’s point of view! this is how family dynamics perpetrate misinformation, reactionary episodes that last for years and generations. this is how we perpetrate this for ourselves internally. without inward fair witnessing  we can stay muddled up for a long long time.

I have learned to bear fair witness to myself and hold this up to anything that arises with in me and particularly when I am confronted with difficult situations. I find this process extremely helpful. holding this place for myself while in any situation provides meaningful information about my own place in relation to the world that opens up room for making better assessments, better discernments, and overall better relationship decisions both with myself, my relations and my spiritual source within.

“always there is fair witness as it relates to the soul of yourself, you will find yourself tapping into your own soul self qualities more readily as you learn to utilize fair witnessing in your life , john. the core of spirituality of you is ever present in a neutrality that loves unconditionally all that you are, all that you are to become. cultivating this neutrality as your make your way thru life will prevent you from making many mistakes, and hold you free and clear form having a sticky, unresolved feeling with your difficulties and challenges. creating a strong inner fair witness serves your highest possibilities and accelerates your capacity to reach noble and ethical places of character. which In turn generates greater peaceful solutions and outcomes. to align with that part of yourself in soulful spiritual presence whenever you can… however you can ….lifts you out of difficulties even as you are in them. it is a paradox, as was written in yesterdays note. love the fair witness in yourself more and more john, develop this love of fair witness in life and you will marvel at the transformations.”

core of spirit gently reminds me today.

Paradox………………core spirituality for your discernment

Paradox what an amazing discovery in life. That two totally different ideas, situations or meanings seem to exist at the same time and are both true. Once I fully came to this realization and walked with it I realized by design we are all walking moving paradox’s. my awareness of paradox really arose from conflicts. delving into the nature of the conflicts around me I noticed the tendency for trueness to be present in both sides of differing points of view in conflict. I find this very interesting. 

By learning to accept the nature of conflict and paradox I learned to broaden my capacity to hold information. I learned to expand my awareness of reality in its many expressions. this has been very helpful to me in learning to open my heart.

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I learned not to take sides so fast and hard in the differing ways life was showing me. I learned to stop taking sides with my relations. I learned to respect the nature of paradox and lower my own frustrations. I have noticed for some of us on this planet we are hard- wired in paradox as individuals. when I was in my twenties I became acutely aware of my own nature as being filled with paradox, this was after first realizing the conflicted aspect of myself. the pain of the  conflicted self  lead to paradox. and this became a whole new way of defining myself.

instead of spending endless time in taking sides within myself going back and forth, back and forth in a kind of frustrated egotistical unhappy existence. I learned thru paradox to walk a bridge. this bridge connected two opposing feelings, points of view. walking in paradox brought me to a whole new ground of perception that has stayed with me now for decades. that bridge is paradox.

walking in paradox has connected two opposing feelings in a way that when experienced as a larger sense brings me a new dimension of wholeness. the world is different with the whole of life as paradox because this awakens the larger picture of any reality. I learned to practice complete acceptance of paradox in life, in myself, in my work, in my relations!

completely new possibilities arise with different solutions once we learn to see feel and live with paradox as a fact of our perceptions of life. solutions that address the entire spectrum of the differences. I absolutely love this!

Walking in paradox has  diminished many, many elements of un-comfortableness about my life. the capacity to honor all sides of anyone, both sides of a political issue, both sides of a problem is truly wonderful as a life skill. learning how NOT  to take sides is freeing to us as we learn to see a bigger picture. this bigger picture is “the essential” that is seeking expression. and may not yet have fully arrived to us. I love this. this is particularly true in human paradox.

 

too often I watch as family members in my clan jump to conclusions taking sides on issues, completely self- convinced they have all the facts. this taking sides promotes more conflicts and schisms in the fabric of relations disrupting the overall perceptions of the nature of the paradox especially in very heated or important family issues!

missing the possibility to arrive to solutions and resolutions that address both sides of the family as well as learning to embrace the essential purpose in any conflict! 

in paradox I am able to suspend all this for myself and look more fully into the facts, feelings and issues as they arise into my own consciousness.  I am more clearly able to address my own concerns and reactions as I hold back any conclusions. taking sides without all the facts colors our own clarity with our own bias preventing us from seeing the BIG PICTURE. 

instead of the bridges that connect the paradox we find ourselves on only one side of that bridge. too many times in my life I have witnessed the tears and pain of this with people in my life. it is a horrible experience which perpetrates more separation, while paradoxically our hearts are pining for togetherness. it is horrible.

that two opposing things can be true is a real reality.

not until one learns to embrace paradox as real can a person find that bridge that will connect and thus lead to the bigger picture that is seeking to be understood. the” essential nature” as I refer to it.

embracing paradox leads to greater understanding.

embracing paradox heals .

embracing paradox connects the opposites.

embracing paradox lifts us out of polarizing our feelings, our selves, and our relations!

embracing paradox is simple to learn. it is only a perceptual life skill and shows up as a more sophisticated ability to use the mind and senses we are given as vehicles to live our lives and understand our most spiritual possibilities. it is not a big deal until it builds a bridge. then it becomes transcendent to conflict.

a huge paradox is the following premise that I write about;

we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

that many  religious doctrines teach us that our physicality is opposed to our spirituality,  reinforcing that we are sinners first, that our bodies are shameful and dirty, that our human selves are less than spiritual is all false teaching. and perpetrates separation and opposition within self. setting  up a schism of distance between who we are In physicality and who we are in spirit. I find this very uncomfortable and even disturbing. I find this uncomfortable because I experience that our physicality is even here is because we are made by our source, and source to me is spiritual. I experience both simultaneously and they do not even oppose one another on a deeper level. one is simply the expression of the other.

when I walk in paradox I experience the greater reality of existence IS the spiritual all -pervading presence of our source in the all that is. these doctrines seem to come from the experience that the greater reality is the sin, shame, and less than spiritual idea as THE GREATR ULTIMATE REALITY OF LIFE! For me this is only dogma, not the actual energetic experience of living! this particular bias or belief prevents me from seeing the perfection inherent in the divine plan . the divine plan as it is unfolding all around me! two very different perceptions. both realities exist. if not one simply in the mind of the beholder. I experience physicality whilst being in spirituality without the conflict. the spiritual nature of life completely supports our physicality, and has its own divine plan for our humanness. ultimately we learn to not get caught up in duality, by polarizing our positions and causing further pain, conflict, and schisms .  

when war is between two people.

getting stuck on one side

war between two people can pull unconsciousness in more people leading to families, then  groups, that lead to nations. how do we end up in so many wars! it begins with each one of us!

“that you are realizing paradox is the sharpening of your awareness in duality and polarity, just as there is light and dark, day and night. do you ignore one and not the other! were you to  realize the day without the night your world would not be? together and not apart they exist as a whole.

 

“there are solutions to your personal and collective wars. learning to walk in paradox and acknowledging the dualities in life presents the solutions to address the larger issues at hand. walking in paradox is one solution to war. war between you and another, war between your nations . you may consider this … it is in the divine  plan for humanity to learn to rise above its conflicts and come to paradox and then to the larger picture from which reality springs , the one source. one day this will be the majority. one day……”

core of sprit within me gently informs me this day

“pay attention here, john, pay attention! “

Treasure of the world …. core spirituality

Within my self I am reminded that the treasures of this world are for everyone. in core spirituality I see the landscape of our lives differently than the world medias, universities, religious institutions, and political structures would have it, I see our landscape as equivalent standing. 

my mind becomes informed of all the ways I have been educated, oppressed by and m…mesmerized by standards contrary to this perception. it is the amazing way being connected to the core re-educates my awareness.

the treasures of this world are available to all. that power, money , entitlements, status, beauty, appearances, educations are all on the surface of WHO and WHAT WE TRULY ARE. UNDERNEATH ALL THE HUMAN ROLES OF OUR SOCIETY IS A PURE STATE OF BEING that is universally equal in this world. anytime I find myself feeling more than or less than any other single individual I am stilled and I am informed of another reality that exists that shows me that we are on one ground here.

I am relaxed and I learn… for example: in another time of my life i had the opportunity to actually travel extensively around the planet visiting over 75 different countries, this took over 6 years. I perceived many individuals in many systems and I was informed in many ways by my core spirituality how we as individuals actually believe ourselves to be certain things. that our beliefs and our intents frame and structure our different realities.

I experienced the tremendous rich lives of people in Vietnam for example who had little more than shacks and children that played with toy sticks and bicycle parts, yet exhibited stunningly beautiful smiles and inner radiant joy…. yet in the middle east I saw forms of oppression and suppression that showed people who were filled with many material things and were constricted, fearful, and unhappy and stressed beyond words.

as I walked the planet I was informed inwardly how what we believe and hold as true about ourselves shapes our experiences.

Traveling by sea and arriving on each shore and traveling day after day i was struck by the fact that beyond man made boundaries there really were no boundaries in nature. yet I could travel from one country to another and reality would be dramatically different. yet I could see that the resources of this planet do exist everywhere. that the planet is amazingly full of plenty and that roughness in nature, beauty in nature exists everywhere.

I realized in myself that the world of treasures is abundant and for all beings. whenever I recognize a lack inside myself , or a sense of entitlement above another I get informed that i am out of alignment to the treasure of the world. that I could actually have the experience of world travel as I dreamed of as a child came about. that I never relented to how I must pay for it was a huge learning factor. money for one thing is a big trap to humans as there is a belief that one must own money to do things. this is certainly not true. my core spirituality showed me that money exists in many places and changes hands constantly. that a way to accomplish something was not determined by how much money i had but thru my INTENT, and commitment to live out my experience. the way to do this arrived on its own. Money will come and go as do all things in life, the treasures of this world are not limited to our “have and have not” state of income, not our education, not our appearance, not our sense of entitlement. the treasures of the world are determined by my connection to and living of my own core spirituality. and no one, not one person can interfere with this connection. the spiritual integrity of pure core spirituality is strong beyond my words here. in my experience of core spirituality I have the continuous flow of richness in unlimited ways it is , on this planet , “the soup” of existence. this planet is amazing. there actuality is no need to fight over, hoard, withhold, or be subject to any ideas less than universal equality for all beings of earth. in my core of spirituality

I hold that the treasures of this world are for all, and that to be informed of all the lies and deceptions to this is a huge wake up call for our humanity. the pain and hardship of many today can be resolved by each of us waking up to the notion that the old motto is really true regarding the treasures of the world “all for one and one for all” is the greatest reality and happiest place to be for everyone.

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Presence…….. core spirituality for your discernment

When you see two people standing in a room that is empty of all furniture is the space between them empty? I am certain an interior decorator would answer YES! When you look at a painting, say a Rembrandt or Renoir on the wall is the space between you and the art empty? I am certain the gallery owner would say yes! When you see an orchid fully in bloom is the space around that orchid empty? When you peek in on the face a sleeping child is the space around that child’s face empty? When you find your self with no thought is your mind empty? When you meditate on being empty are you really empty ?  In science will the scientists tell you empty space is really empty? These are all questions  I have asked myself over the course of a lifetime.

As I have learned to sit in awareness in the emptiness of myself I have come to the conclusion that the answer to all these questions is yes and no.

 

yes it is empty when I limit my perception to my 5 senses alone. In total physicality and particularly with how my little boy self  was educated in school to my little boy self the answer is yes it is empty.

 

No it is  not empty when I open myself to something beyond my 5 senses, my learned perceptions of my youth. I have found a vast array of information is available in the part of me that is watching, the still and silent undefinable self. This is a presence of consciousness that permeates all matter and in between all matter. Pure awareness…. the watcher who is watching the one watching. Interesting eh? Don’t leave me now stay with me here!

 

Inside this presence, this emptiness, is substance and I have found layers of it. In the layers of this empty substance I find things such as vibrant colors of all kinds. For example two people in an empty room will have surrounding them as far as 10 feet or more radiant light of different qualities, different hues, with different shapes and they can even merge with one another without each person being aware that is happening. I have looked further and I find that these shapes, colors or hues contain another layer and that is thought. Each radiant color is also a thought the person is holding, either as a belief, as an emotion, as a quality of the soul. I can look still further and in the thought is another layer. This is feeling. Every ray of color and hue contains its own feeling. And still further inside these layers of thought,feeling is a brilliant white radiant light and that is source of all those things.

 

These are the finer elements of emptiness and presence.

 

These same qualities exist around all form, living, inert. And in between all form everywhere on this planet out into the sky and even further out into space!

 

I find this absolutely amazing.

 

As a young child I could see tiny spherical squiggles all around any object I particularly remember this when I was coloring or at the beach. Just this one consistent perception has traveled with me all my life and caused me to ask the question is the emptiness really empty because I see something in it!

 

Once I connected presence with emptiness I became aware of many new realities that exist on a sub atomic level of perception. For example everything and everyone is actually connected. And our presence is overlapping and mingling all the time. And on a very deeper level there is only one presence anyway! I am sure we all  can recall at least one instance of being in a crowd and having the sensation to look around, or look behind ourselves. Surprising us is someone we know or someone starring right at us. That sense that caused us to look around is PRESENCE!

 

When I decided to become more aware of my own presence and practice conscious attention to presence around me I started to notice much more going around me. Particularly with babies! This is so amazing! I found that babies are completely aware of , tuned into, watching, and interacting with us in Presence! In fact I learned to use telepathy, thought transference, with babies with tremendous success. Many moms know all about this. As this is a primary way babies teach us when they come in to be aware of what to do to take care of their needs and to share  joy! I used to live in Atlanta and ride the public transit daily and i would always telepath with the babies in their strollers. I had marvelous joyful interactions regularly. Very often I found babies would break out into these huge radiant smiles once they realized it was me mind talking with them. I absolutely loved this. In fact most bbies were the only ones interacting on the presence levels. The adults all around me were totally unaware of this. I practiced this with my own children as they were growing up as well.

 

Now the converse of presence, and  the practice and awareness of this in our lives is SEPARATION. We all know moms that haven’t got a clue about their babies and how those babies end up crying and crying and crying. That is the effect of separation.  And that is only the start of it. Living life in separation with everyone and everything produces a totally different reality and we are all witnessing the effects of  authorities, societies and institutions that perpetrate ideologies, teachings of separation. I would call it misery! Human misery, animal misery, planetary misery! I would call it lack of solutions that actually work. I would call it repetition of generations of perceptions continuing a false reality. It is not real,except in one’s mind. Separation!

 

Separation is a false reality perpetrated by unaware individuals to maintain elements of submission and control over one another. Living in presence this is literally impossible. Let me say this again. Living in presence this is literally impossible. If you don’t know you are actually connected you are under an illusion that in the space of emptiness between you another person it is possible that they  can do something to you against your will or your ability to see them.

 

I practice presence in my work and have had the biggest teaching of this around the massage table from thousands of silent hours listening to calming music while paying attention. This then overlapped into my regular daily living. Thus my decades of training have catapulted me into vast areas of additional information which has supported me in doing a better job in my profession. I don’t see why anyone else could not practice this with huge success.

 

And lets go back to those babies….. I have often wondered what happened to us? For it seems to me that how we all basically start out in life is with huge presence. Where did it all go? Really now …. where did it all go?

 

I see that the existing people around us, the society we live in, the educations we receive,the religious and spiritual teachings we have been given all process natural awareness out of us, not completely but in huge degree starting around 7 years old as our thinking minds develop. This is when the “big guns of education”  along with parental programing so to speak really lay into us with how we must see life. I always did my best to protect this with my own children, however this was limited to time spent together, other individuals also had their inputs.

 

That we arrive in this world with an astounding awareness of presence is worth pondering, worth considering here. Maybe in our best efforts we are not always doing the best. Our children have natural awareness inside them that may be very different from our own. We can learn from them, as I did all thru my early parenting times. My daughters constantly were teaching me, constantly. I loved to pick up from them the awareness they were born with.

 

“Presence is now ….. the next step in not only your life, john also millions of others around you as the old realities crumble down the larger reality supporting this old one is what is revealed. Learning to catch awareness within yourself in the little things of life, in nature is what will marvel you and bring to you the awareness of joy that exists in unity consciousness, in realizing the unfolding plan of creation for your individual selves and your collective humanity. This is WHY  you learn to slow down, to be still to be in quietness. You do not have to feel as if there is so much emptiness inside of and around your humanity.”

 

Core of spirit within me gently reminds me this day.

 

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Complacency ….core spirituality for your discernment

Complacency is defined in the following ways; feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try any harder. Pleased or satisfied, especially extremely self satisfied even though the situation may uncertain or even dangerous.  Synonyms for complacent are confident, self righteous, smug, unconcerned. I find myself having to confront this within myself regularly and this is very uncomfortable.

 

I have learned for myself this arises as a form of resistance. It shows up always when I am resisting moving forward making the changes I honestly see in my future self. I fight the flow of direction by becoming complacent and I especially act this one out with food. I feel horrible whenever I catch myself in this behavior. I allow my mind to think as if everything is alright inside me, I usually don’t catch the thoughts immediately. This feeling of horrible is a sure indication to me that I need to face whatever I am avoiding.

Sometime I have to even pray for the will to make a change within myself as even the will to change is so diminished.

Yet I know I must make changes. Being successful as a spiritual being having a human experience is not all sweetness and light, that is for sure! Lol!

 

This complacency can go on for years and has, for some issues, others it is only months, and still others it may be days, and still others it is only minutes. It is all the same though. Some kind of resistance to moving forward according to all the signs, messages, signals, intuitions, facts about it!                             Just plain old digging ones feet in to the toenails and resisting. Ughhhhhhhhhh

 

“These are the moments when the spirit within you is talking to the human as you. This is very potent john! When your hesitations become avoidance and you feel the negative effects of not acting. You are actually going deeper into your essence each time you fall to this. Your essence is seeking to push thru your habits of resistance and eventually you may have a break-thru, sometimes referred to as a breakdown, or reaching your breaking point. It is simply a self aware level of honesty increasing with you. Very very potent. Pay attention here.” my still inner voice of core speaks to me. 

 

I truly truly hang onto these words for in these moments of complacency I am comforted in my acceptance of self and my need to move on. Sometime it is all I can muster up… until finally … I push on through the inertia.

 

“On occasion , john your resistance is actually your deeper need to process, to process more information about what it is you are feeling. Slowing you down so that you do not make more unnecessary mistakes or prolong unduly.  Go lightly with this… with yourself. You are also simultaneously widening your experience of the now and sometimes you will discover in the moment that you have more than one layer of yourself invested in your resistance turned into complacency”

 

“Thus embracing complacency inside you leads you to richer knowledge of yourself and the world you are in. letting it become a dominate in any area of yourself, for prolonged amounts of time is how you must monitor yourself. Making even little steps when possible. You can do this …..” quietly I hear the words within myself.

 

Once again I feel comforted.

 

When I look around this world I notice I am not the only one here struggling with this issue. It appears to run rampant thru humanity.

 

Particularly when on the verge of great new possibilities for us.

 

I know from previous notes I have written I have been told the degree of problems you face are equal to the degree of answers , of possibilities also available to you. We are living in very potent times are we not?  This complacency seems to be a common response to new ideas, different ways of doing things, facts that are arising pointing to outcomes that are imminent!  I often wonder what is going to happen to all the complacent people living in this world?????????????????????

 

 

Well for myself and the others in this world who are experiencing complacency I wanted to write about this today.

 

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Sharing……………. for core spirituality for your discernment

Anything I share here in my day to day notes  is simply my own process to look at. I am not interested in changing anyone whatsoever. This is my own inner dialogue I am making public. Each person has an inner dialogue with themselves. Learning to pay attention to what is going on inside is a step I use to generate new sources of personal development for myself. That another person has a reaction is secondary to this process and yet part of it all.

 

The internalized thoughts, feelings, longings each of us have is our own business, I respect this. And adding to this the mutual sharing of our inner selves serves to stimulate discovery and mutuality amongst the day to day experiences we all share.

 

That we find ourselves divided in our thoughts both  internally and with one another I find very interesting.

This too adds to the stimulation of more discovery for me. There is a very different sense of self when one does not share the contents of their inner dialogues. And there is a different sense of self when one is open and shares. I feel that this is a common experience we all share in our awareness of one another. We all can see when a person enters a room with open versus closed interactions.

 

That anyone may be comfortable or uncomfortable with my sharing is also very interesting to me. Though not the purpose for my writing! I write because I am compelled to do so. It is for me a mirror thru which I may look at my own self, and my inner processes again, outside myself. This is valuable. Much like a diary or journal, though this  is made public. All my life  I have had the urge to write and did not act upon it. Now I choose to do so. I am taking down the guards that have been stationed around me for most of my lifetime.

 

The inner dialogues we have with ourselves can sometimes be thwarted by external factors. Too much stimulation outside of us, busyness, external forms of authority that we subscribe that do all our thinking for us, drama drama drama, there are infinite distractions which swerve our awareness away from what is central to us. As I move about in the world I find a lot of this going on around us. Equally so I see how the lack of inner awareness to the deeper, and even the deepest inner longings, dialogues, and feelings create the mutual reality we all live with in on this planet. As I have mentioned in previous notes about the soul perception of life and self, how the soul of life sees is a very different reality indeed!

 

That we reserve ourselves from more intimate sharing of what is inside us, I find also very interesting! Not so much with young children….. they have not learned to be guarded and will share anything that is going on inside them anytime. Most of the time adults seem to like this and find it “cute”, sometimes it is embarrassing, and depending on the social dictates, or the religious dictates of those individuals theat level of complete openness is threatening!

Something else I have observed about dialogue is that in history there appears to be a direction with which sharing dialogue is expanding. That 40 years ago we would never dare to discuss certain subjects  and now we do is significant. The degrees of our internal sharing with each other  appear to be opening more and more and more. The parameters of what is acceptable is shifting substantially  in our lifetimes.

The discoveries that we bring to ourselves by way of sharing that which is with in us can be startling, wondrous, horrific, amazing, dividing and unifying. To name a few.

 

I have often wondered if we shared enough? I ask this to myself because I have learned that by going thru a more complete honest dialogue of sharing both within myself and outwardly the further I have gone the more unifying I have felt! Which prompts the still voice of core within me now.

 

“That you co exist in life with one another is part of the design of life itself, john, and by way of coexisting you find differences and similarities is also part of the design. And ultimately the grand design of life is to arrive into the awareness of the all that is, the source of yourselves. In this grand design sharing….. communicating internally and outwardly facilitates the direct experiences of that which you hold in your minds.  Not until you actually bring out of the mind of yourselves your ideas about life are you able to discover concretely that which you hold to your selves . Sharing with one another in the grand design is meant to be a glorious discovery for you all , all together! The separate beliefs, ideas, that you have not shared, that you choose to live according to simply maintain a lesser degree of what you are truly capable of with each other. And holds back the group experiences yo may ultiamately choose to discover. It is up to each of you in your daily lives as to what degree you will discover the actual reality of source awaiting you. Sooner or later that experience of oneness will happen for everyone. You may decide this one for yourselves……”

 

stillness with in me gently speaks…

 

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Core Identity ……… perceptions from the soul level for your discernment

Who and what we are, how we learn to see ourselves, has an effect on every experience of our lives. To this issue I am sharing some of my own insights from my experiences.

 

Core identity is the awareness of self including and then beyond the human limitations of one’s life and the development of a spiritually based, soul present awareness of source , and experience of the soul/source as an identity whilst being a human!

 

 

 

Dropping into physical incarnate living our soul does not actually separate from source. This is a misinterpretation perpetrated here on earth by many teachers and religious leaders. That an individual exists is testament to the power supply of the self so to speak via the soul. Once having joined into the body physical the familial aspects of that body, environmental aspects surrounding the body and the time elements with which the body is in all have their effects on the soul that is governing that body as I had mentioned in yesterdays note.

 

 

 

The soul is not really separated as this would extinguish the form. Life is source and thus exists.

 

 

 

However that we have a brain and nervous system, 5 senses and the conditional elements of physical reality we then learn how to function, navigate, and ultimately co-create in the earth environment. One of the tremendously co creative rules of existence here is the reality law of FREE WILL. That we have the gift of free will while in the body has lead to all manner of infinite creations here. Some positive some negative. Sorting thru realities and discovering the ones that fit us best we then proceed with these biases in our lives thus co creating our experiences. The soul is watching this 24-7! The soul is well aware of what is going on here.

 

 

 

The soul of life, the soul of the individual are all present.

 

 

 

That one does not see, hear, feel, touch, or recognize this is the effect of physicality. The tremendous focus into,or the overwhelming effects of, or the limited perceptions of that individual in a physical body. It is separation in perception and this perception may stifle or lower the presence of soul within a persons life. Hence we have the appearance of no soul however this is not true in my experience.

 

 

 

In my work within myself and with others exploring the workings of the soul my direct experiences have opened me to see physical life from the perspective of a soul. It is the absence of this soul quality on earth for so many people that I share this today.

 

 

 

Not one time have I ever experienced a soul less person.

Yes, certainly I have encountered what appears to be soul less however, this is not the case. Even with direct encounters with evil I have experienced the presence of the soul. Though that personality may appear to be void of the qualities of the soul I know first hand how the the soul is still present. As we are all conditioned to the same laws of life and have one source. Our presence inside the matrix of these laws is how I am aware of this and the very integrity of my own self as soul.

 

 

 

 Even as a child i loved the stories of Jesus, the saints and how these stories spoke of the astounding presence of caring and love demonstrated to the beggars, the haggard and the lost. Even mother Theresa  demonstrated this in her life work. These are all examples of the consciousness that there is presence of source of soul  in all beings, no matter what!

 

Core identity in source has an unlimited openness to the vast expression of life.

This level of identification protects the purest heart knowledge with the utmost respect. Core sees that the purest heart knowledge has the ability to act in any situation, including very negative, and even with evil situations.

 

Living from a core identity with source brings to our personal selves tremendous strengths that our human identities are fearful of.

Everyone has felt their own heart leap in beats when they are challenged, are growing into new awareness of the capacity of love in their lives. When your very own heart is calling you out to tell the truth, to reveal yourself, or to take action from within your own heart’s conscience! Most people know this feeling. The heart rate going up and thumping inside our chests! This is a deeper core expression pushing the limits of the human experience and challenging our self made identities.

 

 

 

Core identification with a spiritual presence greater than our perceptions of ourselves is often very challenging to our human minds! We silly humans think we know it all! Think we have it wrapped up in a box so to speak! How often have you had a reality blip? A reality check? Hit upon a reality bump? Had reality thrown in your face? Our human minds are silly this way in that the intellect has the notion it is in charge, and can think its way thru anything. Ha! I find this amusing.

Reality on this planet keeps getting more complex, more connected, more diverse, more intelligent, more colorful. Many people choose to ignore this and turn away. This is free will in action, it is the spiritual right of anyone to do so. Anytime! However there are consequences for this as I have learned. (i experience pain for example)

 

 

 

Core spiritual identity in nature has a completely different feel to it in my experience.

For example the attention in nature… lets say a beautiful garden of flowers, in normal human eyes it is beautiful to look at. In core spiritual identity the very essence of life within the flowers touches into and connects to the inside of me. There is an inner recognition, I experience a shift in my presence…. in my being, thru sharing our physicality, I truly feel uplifted and a sense of the creator that we share!

 

 

 

The same happens all the time in sports, in trauma. Where we go beyond the normal boundaries and experience something beyond ourselves, for those moments we are more than we see ourselves!

 

 

 

I find people allow themselves to experience a more transcendent exchange with animals, pets! They don’t speak English, they don’t look like us, they don’t smell like us, they have all their own ways of being yet in those differences we allow a similar exchange, a recognition, and a sharing that goes beyond the human.

 

There is a lot of love passing to and fro.

 

I find the natural presence in animals likens to the qualities of the core of spirituality. That pure loving state without all the dogmas, the intellect taking its position. Yet with each other we place lots of walls boundaries around such transcendent exchange especially someone with different appearance, different beliefs, different sexuality. different lifestyles!

I find this interesting! I wonder if the beginnings of a larger spirituality is  pressing thru our lives thru these animals, since we don’t allow this for ourselves! Certainly these pets  show us how to open our hearts! I wonder if the Great Spirit, as the Native Americans say, has a plan thru all of this!

 

 

 

“That all of life springs from a single source is difficult to hold in your mind alone, john, by opening your heart space and feeling deeply you have engaged all the senses given you in your body, by opening all this you in your heart space you have learned to feel your spiritual self and this has led you to the soul. Now that you are feeling the soul of life you are able to experience thru source wherever you go, whomever yo meet, and whenever you open your eyes. This is your core of spirituality…”

 

 

 

core of spirit within me gently speaks

 

 

Identity ……. core spirituality for your discernment

Cultural identity, spiritual identity, gender identity, national identity, personal identity, hidden identity the list of how we  learn to define ourselves appears limitless. How and why and what we choose to identity ourselves is part of the fun of being human, it is also part of the earth school curriculum. Each path of defining ourselves brings qualities, experiences, definitions to us that show us thru experiences about the knowledge of life, of ourselves. Each identity has a valuable purpose and a marvelous story to share.

 

In my inner work exploring my own soul’s travel into time here I have had to face certain pattens of belief, certain patterns of habit within myself. There was a time when certain patterns I was working on simply would not transform in me. I could not budge them. I underwent therapy of all kinds. Eventually I arrived at past life therapy….. hmmmmm sounds foreign to some I am sure. This certainly bumps up against some of the beliefs we have. Anyway I underwent rigorous hours of clinical lab work in the field of hypnotherapy learning about lifetimes thru hours and hours of trance level experiences! I became certified in advanced forms of past life work.This field of therapeutic work ( trans-personal based therapy )  addresses issues that will not progress with traditional forms of therapy.

 

I learned to understand identity from the perspective of the soul. Form this view point the entire experience of human life experiences take on a most wondrous purpose.

 

To start with not one of us starts life making the choice to incarnate, come here and live a life, as that identity we become in life. From the starting line before the incarnation begins with conception who we are, a spiritual being……. decides who we want to become in the earth school, our identity. Our parents, who they will be, our life circumstances, our time line – the era of time and so on. The soul of each of us descends into the framework of earth reality with specific intentions and major to this process  is our identity. This is one reason we take ourselves so seriously when it comes to who we think we are!

 

I have directly experienced this within myself, I have facilitated this process in hundreds of individuals from every walk of life. Very interesting to me  at the beginning was the actual belief system of the person seeking help had no bearing whatsoever once  they had gone into the levels where their own soul’s capability to communicate became revealed.

 

In other words the process of soul decision making before the incarnation was universally the same.

 

Baptist, christian, atheist, belief in reincarnation, no belief in reincarnation….. always…at the soul level the explanation process of life selections via the incarnation choices it was making was the same. I found this incredibly amazing and very interesting.

 

That the roles we define ourselves thru… narrow the wide range of earth opportunities is part of the design. These roles connect to opportunities for challenges we will meet up with. These challenges are time moments where we bring the soul aspects, of ourselves to bear within the construct of earth living. The challenges are meant to be here. The challenges are the learning modules I have spoken about before in the reality earth school.

 

As a result of these identifications, these roles, we experience certain pains – joys, certain beliefs that we attach to ourselves with the various intensities of the experiences we have thru our lifetimes.

 

The degree of intensity an experience has deepens that identity and belief inside our psyche and these things can stick to us. What sticks to us then may carry thru to more experiences for the soul as it goes out of life here (death) and back again! This is a soul pattern. I find this fascinating!

 

These soul patterns continue to define us as we pass thru lifetime after lifetime. And are meant to be our vehicles for more and more experiences that cause our soul’s to bear forth thru learning. We each have our own timing for releasing these patterns, these identifications. That is from the perspective of the soul.

 

It is only when we feel the pressure inside us where we find ourselves unable to experience joy, progress, when states of depression, unhappiness, boredom, disharmony, and deep longing arise that I have found these patterns no longer serve the purpose for which we began! The patterns as well as the identifications. Thus my reasoning for sharing this today.

 

One of the greatest obstacles I observed in these sessions with myself and others was the pain of holding on to our outgrown identities. The inner pain this causes to the mind, the emotions, the psyche, the relations is ASTOUNDING! Conversely one of the greatest experiences to witness has been the freeing up of and release of soul identifications, roles, and mind -sets and the tremendous integration of all those experiences as the person becomes deeply transformed! Only in the final stage where one lets go do they fully realize all that is possible thru their experience. Each of us relinquish eventually to the soulful reality of ourselves where all the integration of what has passed merges completely with  that which we are. Dropping the vehicles of identity and adding the essential knowledge.

 

NOTHING IS LOST!

 

NOTHING! 

 

We then have full memory of this within the soul aspect, yet we are no longer limited by it and are free to explore even further. I have found this absolutely amazing!

 

 

“Identity…. is at the core of all  that you seek to learn of yourselves in physical forms. As human being you take this most seriously, this is because this arises out of a greater identity each of you has, that of your own soul identity.. Your human identities are meant to mirror your soul selves.  Your soul identity arises directly from the source of the all that is”

 

“Getting stuck in identity is something the soul knows it must beware = be aware as this can stifle itself. Remembering as you play in identity that you are a spiritual being first is your safety net in life. Placing all experiences into context with the original impulse to be born. That is to know yourself as a spiritual being while simultaneously living a physical earth based life. All your religions point to this one universal idea!!

 

Be careful john, do not get yourself stuck within the very limiting confines of earthly identification……My core of spirit with in me speaks today.

 

Shared with aloha…..

To pause…………………..core spirituality for your discernment.

I like to pause. Maybe its because I am getting older, I simply find the moments of emptiness something I am drawn into. I like to jump into the little pauses that happen each day as I muddle thru, charge forward, and dance thru reality. Little time slots where I look into the sky and not just look into vastness I like to stay within my gaze till I connect .

I like the space in between thoughts, waiting for the water to boil. Sitting in traffic while listening to music. Listening to my friends  sharing their stories and not having a single thought whatsoever about what they are saying. Listening to the sounds of birds chirping with enthusiasm each morning as the sun rises. I love it when one of my children calls me and all I want to do is hear them. Nothing else. Simply listen and find myself in being……..

 

when we notice all such experiences we open our awareness beyond the thinking mind. The calculations, the planning, the reacting. Kind of like smelling the cookies in the oven when it hits your senses as you walk in the room. Something uplifting happens to bring a feeling of quiet deliciousness. These are the moments of our lives where we are able to have direct connections to source. While all the world is busy, while the TV heads are chattering, while plotters are plotting there is a peacefulness inherent in any moment.

 

The pause is as valuable to me as the plan, the doing.

 

Forced pausing is really tough, waiting in line at the store, waiting in line to get your drivers license renewed. In my past I have had thousands of such moments as my hurried nature was put on hold. Now  I simply surrender to the moment, not always, but I really intend to surrender sometimes I don’t quite make it. I do it again, over and over and over. I intend that there is a purpose in the moments of our lives as we unravel and explore this place called life.

 

I find that setting the intentions completely helps me to notice the time going past us all. Setting the intentions to find presence and witnessing time, paying attention, when I am able to see and connect into the smaller bits……each moment.

 

I notice in the practice of massage therapy a setting where there is an intention to queit the moments in myself for the benefit of another has been a long long road to learning how to recognize the truest deepest significance in a moment. There is a restorative quality to ourselves, I find, a sense of connection inside us that we all need to go to… to stay inside…. to allow the nakedness of the moment enfold our humanness. It is in such a moment I find the spirit is allowed to breathe. For many clients I watch as this is happening, I always have a feeling of real thankfulness come over me it arises from a place in me that feels spiritual. Kind of what I imagine we are supposed to feel like in church. For me this has been happening around the massage table for decades. Also very interesting is the response clients have after they put themselves together again. The gratitude that is shared with me is amazing. The quiet still moments in our lives…….. they really are important.

 

Learning to cultivate our own personal intimacy with the moment, inside the pauses, surrounded in quietude lifts the heavy weight of life from our shoulders. I know this to be true as I have watched a stone faced, tired person leave my massage table radiant and sort of float-y. Beaning with a renewed self. I find this amazing.

 

Once I was called to the bedside of a dieing individual. In the hospital, surrounded with all the beeping instruments, the hustle of nurses tending the sick. The worry of family muddling around the bed coming to terms with the moment of imminent death of their loved one. This person on the bed, I noticed, head stuck deep in the pillow, eyes forced shut like vice grips in a workman’s bench. The legs and feet tight as pine planks under the sheet. Skin pale and white. Oh dear god I thought to myself what  can I do here?

 

I began to apply some luxurious cream to my hands and proceeded to massage the feet of the dieing person before me. Slowly, surely moment by moment I began to feel the tension of death, just around the corner, slowly melt away. The toes, the arches, the ankles, the bottoms of the feet all slowly let go. The breath… the breath… noticed by the others in the room, it too began to deepen and take on a rhythm all its own. More natural more at ease. Around me too, the family all began to relax as somehow the precious stillness took its rightful place all around us. We all began to breathe easier. I stood up when I was finished and looked closely at my client. Now sinking into a pure natural easy rest. I looked around the room at the family and everyone was quiet, still and they all had some kind of gentle spirited – ness over  them. This was a big pause for us all.

 

I left the the hospital that day and later after the person had passed over and the family had done the finishing up of all the tasks of putting a loved away to their grave I received a call. The person shared with me the most immense gratitude. Sharing that their loved one had come back, only for a few minutes after I had finished. This person had opened their eyes, breathed a big sigh and connected with each person in the room gazing one to the other. The gratitude was for the peaceful relaxation they were able to bring their loved one who was struggling with letting go. I was assured that these final moments were so much more comfortable, for their loved one, for the family.

 

“You see john, each pause, each moment has such possibility created into it by source. It is inherent in the design of life. Live john, live inside the moments. You do not have rush around the moments , you do not have to race pass the moments. You simply learn to notice them. You simply learn to enter them more fully. You simply allow all of yourself, as much as possible to climb right into your experiences. Deepening your connection to source.”

“Opening your presence to include all that is possible within you inside the moment.”

“This is “ gift of life”. Holding hands with your ohana, paddling on the water feeling everyone together, noticing  that little gecko staring right back into your eyes. Finding the the emptiness in between your thoughts…. this is core, this is the core of spirituality within you. “

 

I am informed from the stillness with in me today.

 

Shard with aloha…..

Walking in Separation ………core spirituality for your discernment

When I was growing up I learned to think of myself as a separate person. I was educated this way. Told I had a separate soul born of sin separate from god . I was educated about all the rules I had to follow to get back to this god. When i was growing up I learned that we are all individuals living in separate houses living  separate lives doing separate things living in separate nations all on continents separated by water separated in space.

 

I grew to walk in the world seeing myself and everything else as separate. I began to ask myself…. How many problems does walking in separation create in global society? How many problems does this create for how many individuals? How many problems has this caused this planet, the very ground upon which we walk and from whom we derive our sustenance? How many problems has this caused our skies? The very air that is bringing oxygen to our bodies?

 

How many problems have we brought to ourselves when we combine all the true answers to each of these questions? Is it one million problems? Is it ten million? How about a trillion? Actually the idea is completely staggering to even comprehend.

 

The answer is in our laps! It is within each of us!

 

 

Now that I have posed these questions I want to address some responses to start the ball rolling here. Everyone has different perceptions and will have many more ideas on this subject. Yesterday I wrote about equanimity in my notes today I apply this to separation and learn the following.

 

One thing I have learned in this lifetime is for every problem I have had to face I have had to discover or stumbled upon a solution. Typically some sort of conflict arises that informs me of this. Conflict is my awareness signal that some new information is seeking expression here … now. 

 

Practicing new and different solutions redirects the elements of the problem and a new outcome results.

 

Move on!

 

It is by way of the moving on that there is created a direction, movement.

 

And from the core of spirit within me I hear : “Framing the experiences  you are having as only problems stifles the core dynamics of any direction seeking expression thru your right actions and choices. Thus the moving on arises as you discover for yourself new ways.”

 

“Every problem is actually a learning module!”

 

“Yes! A learning module!” ( remember john, the earth school of reality?)

 

“And it would be wise for you to hold this concept as you walk. There is much learning going on here.”

 

“The degree of the problems upon you now is equal to the new knowledge you are about to bring to yourself. So move on with the awareness of the knowledge that things are definitely going to change for you and billions of people around you.

 

“It is inside the totality of  the core of all the problems that  the nature of solutions arise!”

“Your entire human family is about to experience some of the greatest most amazing new ideas and solutions because of the problems you are finding yourselves facing , right now, right here, at this very moment.

 

There is a collective quantum edge as the propensity for  realization  arises on a mass scale.

 

Your planetary body, Earth….Gaia, and all inhabitants, is pregnant with the new possibilities that directly arise from the core of all these problems! Can you not feel the tensions?

 

So……………………. what will you do? What choices will you make? And are the old ideas, solutions, and ways going to carry you thru what is REALLY  facing you in your future? It is this that you address in yourself, john. This place of opening yourself to the next best possibility available to you now.”

 

whew!

 

 

Immediately I recall standing on the beach one very early morning looking out over the gorgeous blue water and hearing for the first time the Hawaiian perspective on the oceans from the view of a paddler. The oceans so big… far to paddle… yet it is thru the oceans we were able to navigate our way because the waters, ke kai, connect all the land together. What?

 

I had a mind flip instantly on the spot. This is the exact opposite idea I grew up learning. In a nan o-second I remembered being a boy in class studying maps. Not one single person in all my life, not one teacher, not one adult ever taught me that the oceans connect the land together. The idea has never left me since.

 

“And so it is there it is right before you, john, it has been for thousands of years. Until now your mind did not accept or realize that instead of separating you from one place to another, the ocean connects you. It is a good idea  for the new awareness arising thru your consciousness. There is but one planetary body of water on your planet….  your human perspectives chopped it up with different names. It is one!

 

Now learn to recognize that living in the one ocean of  consciousness is shifting every aspect of life for you.

 

When you and millions of other people drop their separatist thinking,separatist religious and social, political and power beliefs, separatist idealizations, separatist models of reality and live as if every single act, every single thought, every single person, every single family, every single nation, every single continent, is effecting and  connected to one single planet with one single humanity………… imagine.. imagine… imagine …

 

The different kind of possibilities for completely new solutions that embrace it all, everyone, everything!

 

These are the only solutions that will work now. There is no turning back in time, and life is moving on arising from the one  single source.” thus you may begin to remember with each step in your life to notice…..

 

 

“Walking in separation becomes walking in oneness…….”

 

my core of spirit speaks ever so gently within me today.

 

Shared with aloha….

Equanimity …… core of spirituality for your discernment.

In the stillness of the self , behind the activity of the mind , and beyond the activity of the self is equanimity. A word I find appropriate for the experience I have within myself as I refer to the core of spirituality.

 

I wanted to find a way to describe this more in depth so as to be able to look more closely at the value this brings to my  human experience. Linguistics are a fun way for me to convey some sense of actual experience. So here goes equanimity….

 

I find in the dictionary the definition as:  evenness of mind especially under stress. Balance.

From Latin aequus meaning balanced, from animus meaning with spirit or internal state. 

The quality of being calm and even – tempered.

 

I find that intentionally creating this state while remaining receptive involves suspending all negative responses to what is happening. This could be emotionally, mentally or physically.

 

Pure neutrality.

 

I practice this while listening so as to fully encompass what someone is conveying to me. In myself while I have emotional feelings I also practice pure neutrality so I may fully receive the entire contents of any emotional feeling arising in my body.

 

In my mind I practice pure neutrality so as to discover the components of a thought, its intention, its reason for arising in my mind, its direction outward or inward and the overall source of the thought.

 

Over the years I noticed that at first I would simply drop spontaneously into a state of pure neutrality in my effort to really really hold compassion with my clients in my work. This then began to overlap into my personal relationships as I had exhausted my own capability to understand what was happening. I had to find another way to go further….. deeper.

 

Pure neutrality became the way to accomplish this.

 

I began to notice that even very very unpleasant feelings, situations, encounters, seem to flow without getting stuck to me. I found that  I was able to experience my own negative emotions with greater ease. This pure neutrality also prevented these negative emotions from getting stuck in situations. I suppose that I found a much larger capability to be objective and I found this to be more and more easy to use to resolve the issues I found myself having to face.

 

Important here is non interference.

 

This is a practice of non interference not only within myself as I go thru my own humanness but also non interference with regards to another person’s process. I then came across a Taoist practice called non interference. I doubled my intentions of practicing this in my relationships so that I could learn how natural outcomes arise. I found myself lowering my need to fix people,situations and simply to accept natural outcomes. I find that people will come to their own perfect solutions and I began to facilitate rather than provide answers.

 

This was absolutely fascinating to me.

 

Also whenever I used this purely neutral way of observing myself I found that I had a much better capacity to choose whether I would express personal feelings, instead of reacting, the choice to express allowed me privately the internal room so to speak to , to embrace my own experiences more fully. While at the same time embracing another persons experience more fully without interfering in their process.

 

This is a whole new ball game! Incredible!

 

A much more effective form of interrelating that I found to be more fulfilling. Allowing for much much deeper sharing of feelings between us. This much deeper sharing became a way to experience such profound states of compassion for me because I found that by sharing more deeply I was able to uncover the reasons why a person was suffering. I started to see a much bigger picture about their pain. My heart began to increase in understanding and ultimately this brought me to a wider spectrum of loving.

 

Absolutely amazing, exactly what I had imagined as a young by child for myself  growing up. I was achieving my inner goal set when I was a mere young teenager. This then connected me to joy!

 

Joy differentiated from happiness. This joy seemed to feel light and almost radiant in me. I realized I had  found my true spiritual self. This joy I get is a lifting up feeling. Not the denser happy feeling I was   so accustomed to. This is very different. And I noticed that as I experience this joy with another, different from happiness, joy actually penetrates situations. Joy is a spiritual substance, happiness is a fleeting human emotion.

 

Wow!

 

I discovered that when my actions arise from a state of pure neutrality, equanimity, or core of spirituality, as I have been referencing in my writings here those actions become much more dynamic. I  really really like this too, and this also brought me an experience of joy! And joy is really such a fantastic experience contrasted with all the other muck and mire so prevalent in humanity today.

 

Researching the word equanimity I found the Hebrew word is hashlamah, relating directly to the word for peace, shalom, shlemut, relating to completeness and shalem, relating to being fully present. In Christianity I found 3 words used in history , nepsis; sober observation, ataraxia; freedom from upset, and apathia; dispassion ( not apathy)

 

After years of practicing this core of spirituality I realized that equanimity is the best word to describe my experience. I then looked this up on Wikipedia and to my astonishment I stumbled upon all manner of writings in very very ancient scriptures from across the world describing the state I have been writing about. While my own experience is not subject to the specific religious thoughts surrounding equanimity, the core of it is the same!

 

I found this to be amazing!

 

So here is the link for your own research.            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimity

 

“john, when you give yourself permission to follow your heart inward, inward past your own limitations, deeper all the way into the source of yourself you will find equanimity! This then is the entrance to your own soul the doorway to your  connection to source. Here is the pure self. This then has been the ultimate goal of ALL of your struggle, your suffering, your pain in life. That you would unceasingly push beyond the limits of your mind, your social conditioning…. all the programming in your world designed to distract you from knowing, from experiencing what is truly available to you in order to live a fully realized, a fully actualized, a fully joyful life. This is your coming home place. And so having arrived you will commence the next steps of your journey thru time and physical existence aligned as a spiritual being having a human experience. What you are about to experience in yourself, like many many millions of others on your planet ,will begin to astonish you. For your walking thru life is different now. To see hear and witness the souls intent in your earthly domain is a far far different experience for you to learn to comprehend. And thus it is,  this is the gift of life so many of you yearn for. It is not the riches of materiality as you have known it, nor the power over others. This then is the commencement of the power with source, within yourself, with others in EQUANIMITY! YOU HAVE FOUND THE EQUAL GROUND……..”

 

 

core of spirit within me speaks…. speaks to my humbled self today

 

 

Authority ………..core spirituality for your discernment.

All my life I have had some  kind of fire under my butt when it comes to authority. The silent witness within me watches keenly to how and what I am willing to give of myself to any external forms of authority. I have developed the eagles eye of the mind, keenly, sharply peering deeply into the face of authority in my life. I have cultivated the ear of the bat listening to the implied intents of the voices of authority everywhere around the world. I have learned to step lightly like a kitten around and thru the constructs of authority as I have traversed each chapter of this lifetime. And whether good or bad I have    stepped thru  such terrains with respect.

 

There are significant differences in authority all over this world. People are compelled strongly by how they define themselves based on certain perceptions of authority.

 

The word authority has a long page on Wikipedia and by itself is a fascinating resource for learning.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority )

 

Here are some direct references from this page: The word authority is derived from the Latin word auctoritas, meaning invention, advice, opinion, influence, or command. In English, the word authority can be used to mean power given by the state (in the form of Members of Parliament, judges, police officers, etc.) or by academic knowledge of an area (someone can be an authority on a subject). The word Authority with capital A refers to the governing body upon which such authority.

 

In government, the term authority is often used interchangeably with power.

 

Authority can be created either expressly or by implication

The capacity of influence in all of us around what we choose both consciously or unconsciously to give of ourselves by way of authority has monumental effects in just about ever aspect of human life. The nature of authority we give in ourselves has such far reaching bearing that this may set into motion certain  outcomes overlaying generations of our kind far into their futures. What and how we choose to live by now.

Our humanity has been avalanched with information, in fact watching television I tend to feel like there is occurring an informational war regarding who is your authority? Questions arise in me like who has the authority? Who will you accept as your authority?  How can we take your authority?  Who has the best voice of authority? The presence of the question of authority for each of us seems to have slipped into our collective thinking like a secret we all carry yet don’t seem to come right out and say it.

 

What has authority over you?

 

Yesterday in my note  I alluded to this question within the framework of  oppression.

Today I am looking at the bigger picture. Because I feel that when we don’t individually define what and who has authority in us we may not find the authentic expression of our own innate pure spiritual self.  When we  do not know ourselves  deeply enough we end up living by a life script that is not genuinely ours. When I am not genuine I cause myself disharmony, when I am not in harmony I suffer. This means so much to me. When I think of my children, the authority selections they live by I become very awake. I know that those choices will develop life experiences. I ask myself  will this be genuine? And who’s  life  are we living?

 

 

Parental authority,religious authority,governmental authority,institutional authority,political authority, military authority, commercial authority, ancestral authority, family authority to name a few.

 

What about MY OWN AUTHORITY!

 

William Shakespeare in his play Hamlet penned these words long ago and they have survived to the present.

 

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

 

“To authentically express your own divine nature has meant that you have had to dismantle the long age old effects of authority handed you thru generations of living on this planet. To be the real you! Taking off the garments of religion, and politics as you know it, parental opinion, governmental consensus, popular acceptance to find yourself naked and alone.”

“To remain in the silent now. Revealed and transparent to yourself.”

“This place you have found yourself, john, is the place of coming home. In your meditations this is the you that exists. Will you learn to find comfort in your own precious soul? Finally recognizing your own authority within? Do you choose the purity of spirit that will lift the falseness of all those authorities perpetrated to claim your attention, to claim your very soul as it passes the halls and classes of earth life? What will you accept? Will you continue the cycles of living as if your life is lived in the shadows of knowing who you really are?  As if this were normal?”

 

“Do you recognize pure source !”

 

“All such questions arise thru the subject of authority and the meaning of the answers for you. This is a great time on your planet to have this inner discussion. It is all about the learning you bring , the awareness you develop, and the presence in you that results.”

 

My spiritual core speaks with me today.

 

Shared with aloha…

Oppression…………………..core spirituality for your discernment

Oppression is derived from the Latin word opressionem, opressio meaning a pressing down. And defined as the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. Here are some synonyms for this word ( words that mean the same) : abuse, coercion, domination, maltreatment, persecution, suffering, hardness,subjection,torment. Now here are some antonyms ( words that mean the opposite ) benevolence, compassion, humaneness, kindness.

The expression of oppression on this planet has and still is one of the most pervading human experiences we share. From the many external forms handed out thru all manner of political, social, religious, scientific, educational, military sources. From the many internal forms handed to us by our very selves, in the guises of spirituality, doing what is right, fitting in, job security, financial security, personal authority, parenthood to name a few. I have been keenly aware of this issue since I was a little boy child and I have never ever been comfortable with its presence in this world. I have almost always been somewhat of an individualistic personality. I have sought to understand the nature of oppression for years, and I have sought its wisdom as well.

Historically it seems to me that control over has been the motivator. The different religious paths all have some form of past relating to oppression which led to killing…. people practicing Christianity and Muslim especially. Or being victimized by people who held the notions about a religious practice as in the Jewish path, persecution and death again! Power seems to be the other motivator for generations of our humanity. All in all the results always seem to be the same…..SUFFERING! TORMENT, ABUSE,PERSECUTION.
It is a very sad sad state of our experience now and in the past.

Strangely I find without going deeper into our own conditioning, beliefs about ourselves, and taking internal inventories most likely we oppress our own SELVES without even knowing we do!

I find this astounding and shocking to really face within myself.

Thus I decided long ago, in order to find some way to be authentically happy I had to do something, I mean really….. I had to do something for heavens sakes! I began with activism as an early teen during the beginning and duration of the Vietnam war. I asked questions in my catholic high school religion classes that got me moved to the back of the room all the way back into the furthest corner. I began developing a vigilant eye towards anyone, anything, anywhere that felt oppressive. And I felt a lot in myself that was “pressed down” preventing me from having true happiness. My awareness began to really watch and listen to my fellow human beings and …..

…when I encounter the problematic side of others sharing their struggles in life often I am struck with a sense of internal “pressing down”. My experience has been that this is a very common pattern in being human. Personally and collectively I see this everywhere. The prescription drug use, the illegal drug use, the amount of crime, and the physical sickness of so many is overwhelmingly staggering on this planet. The levels of stress, and what I call distress in the bodies of the people I have massaged for over 30 years now, mainly arise from some sort of “pressing down”, some sort of frozen, helpless, stagnant, repetitive patterning we have somehow come to learn. The sale of over the counter pain meds alone go into the billions each year! The excess of alcohol drinking is almost beyond comprehension for me. Not to mention the abuse of food in this country, staggering once again. There is a lot of pressing down going on here! A lot!

“When you choose to root out, define, and face your inner feelings, when you question your conditioning, as you take apart the components of what has authority over you in yourself… john, you begin the clean up of your human domain and you fulfill what your spirit’s intent and your soul’s spiritual purpose for having this lifetime, at this time, in the collective history of your humanity.”

“The painful sting of oppression and pain in all of it horrid forms has held spirit in earth in limitation for many many many generations. The basic uncomfortableness of oppression arises because of your spirit self, your soul… for this aspect of you is still very much connected to source, to the “all that is.” From this place there is not such limitation and pain. The spirit that is well connected to its soul, and then to its source is full of joy as a natural state. The collective rising up of whole nations of people, of entire groups of people who are and have been subjected to forms of oppression is the signal that the spiritually connected soul of your collective humanity is more present here , more so than ever in your memory of time. Their voices will not be squashed, will not be ignored and most of all will not allow this oppression to rest comfortably in the bosom of yoru humanity any longer. The soulful spiritual expression of resistance to all forms of oppression is gaining momentum and strength in your earthly reality! “

“The arrival of a presence of spiritual intention is becoming understood in the individual hearts of all oppressed people everywhere increasing so everyday.”

“And finally the generations of pain, death, destruction will come to a new understanding of something very very important in the human experience for you all. The great realization of oppression is FREEDOM!”

“AS FREEDOM IS BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN IN THE BOSOM OF YOUR HUMANITY THE PAINFULL PAST WILL SERVE TO REMIND YOU, ONE BY ONE BY ONE, OF THE SWEET, SWEET SPIRITUAL PRESENCE OF YOUR SPIRIT – SOUL. YOU MAY ULTIMATELY LEARN TO CHOOSE AND MANIFEST FREEDOM…… REPLACING THE MEMORY OF OPPRESSION FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS WHO WILL SURELY BE BORN.”

“FOR WITHOUT THIS CHOICE IN EACH OF YOUR OWN HEARTS YOU WILL SURELY CONTINUE TO SUFFER…..THIS THEN IS THE GREAT WISDOM OF OPPRESSION….. THAT YOU CHOOSE ………. CHOOSE FREEDOM….. WITH IN………..FOR EACH OTHER….. FOR YORU PLANET!”

I am informed by core of spirit today.

Shared with aloha…..

The mind………. for your discernment core spirituality

The mind is defined as: 1. the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc. 2. the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities. 3. intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing, intelligence. 4. a particular instance of the intellect or intelligence, as in a person.

 

The process of organizing and processing our realities is subject to the capacity with which we allow- steer- direct- and utilize my mind.

 

The pure mind has the ability to do this in a way that is clear. This clarity of mind contains the presence of a substance I call consciousness. To discern the separate place of one’s consciousness and the mind is a valuable ability that generates an infinite possibility within the human experience. Awareness!

 

That we are limited in our minds, is something I like to pay close attention.

That we also build awareness in ourselves I also like to pay close attention.

Awareness is the joining of the intellect and the consciousness of each us.

We have individual awareness, we have group awareness. When we combine individual and group awareness we create another something even larger, mass consensus!

 

I find this amazing,powerful, and something worth truly questioning in my life.

 

Have you ever heard the term….SHEEPLE? (if not that’s people + sheep = )

 

Conditioning, as I mentioned in the note yesterday is a factor that may either cause the further closing of perceptions or opening of our  perceptions in the consciousness,

that is the witness to what our mind has attention towards.

The mind is subject to our own unique conditioning and thus selects from all the information available at any one moment in experience.

 

When your mind is thinking, what part of yourself is watching this?

 

I call it the witness self. It is that which is behind the activity of the mind…. the consciousness of self. It is this consciousness of self that, to me, appears to be silent within, still within, ever present, unlimited in nature, completely neutral, and this witness self is gathering experience to itself, thru me, via my human life, processing thru my mind. Kind of like how a computer processes!

 

I am not my mind! I have a mind!

 

Sometimes the contents of my mind seem to fill up my head, and I become in capable temporarily of having clarity. My consciousness is overloaded, and overlay-ed with thought. When I encounter extreme religious beliefs, social beliefs, political beliefs, self image beliefs, familial beliefs, national beliefs, scientific beliefs,historical beliefs, medical beliefs, military beliefs,money beliefs,sexual beliefs, power beliefs, dietary beliefs, in myself or another I find that the consciousness of , that still, silent, clear presence appears overshadowed. There is where I find hard limits in my humanness.

 

The hard limits, deep in the mind – set then become the definers of reality. This can begin at birth proceed thru childhood, into adulthood and finally to old age. Then death! I ask myself, (the consciousness that is watching all this behind the mind ) is this what I really want?

 

Is this what I really want?

 

The propensity of my human self to rely on the faculty of my mind, my intellect, to define all of reality and live by those decisions, especially when my mind is looking thru and selecting only certain information bits that arise from either conditioning and beliefs can have many staggering outcomes as far as….

 

what the quality of my existence will become each day I am living thru my spirit in human form.

 

So what I have come to realize, learn thru all this is to delegate within myself appropriate standing to the part of me that is consciousness, the part of me that is mind, the part of me that is conditioning, the part of me that is belief. I have had to sort thru and reposition these parts of my human self so that I may have the experience where by my core of spiritual self is the primary part, and all the other parts have valuable roles within me.

 

I personally do not want my limited conditioning, my hard beliefs, or my mind’s intellect to dominate this reality I have chosen as a spiritual being having a human experience… lifetime! Nor will I abide by the external social frameworks of the same!

 

For whatever reason my sense of things is the historical aspect of my inherited generational humanity has reached a new point in time where what has been needs to be completely integrated in a whole new way. The times where intellectual, hard belief definitions, and historical conditioning ruling this magnificent planet we call Earth are over. Becoming over. And the time where a spiritually defined, spiritually driven presence is driving the actions has arrived. This much more neutral, inclusive, holistic, interconnected presence is seeking expression in me now.

 

“you are free to do so, john” core of spirituality gently informs me.

 

So bring it on! I inwardly decide… over and over and over and over…..

 

I want to reach the furthest capacity possible to live in and experience how the spiritual presence of the source of all of us, the source of the ALL THAT IS. To  learn what this is in  practical daily life without the limitations of my intellect , and the world intellect governing my reality.

 

“you are free to do so, john” core of spirituality gently informs me once again!

 

Shard with aloha

Conditioning…….. core spirituality for your discernment

A definition  for conditioning is this; the act or process of training a person or animal to do something or to behave in a certain way in a particular situation.

We are all conditioned thru out our lives by thousands of factors. Many of us remain in the original states of conditioning we received as children. We are conditioned also by many intentions of the people around us. We are conditioned both consciously and subconsciously all  thru our lives. We are most susceptible to conditioning in the early part of our lives as babies and small children. We become “trained”   in almost every way possible. The daily messages we receive in this training (conditioning) are very powerful childhood experiences that we do not even recognize, nor do we remember,  are often times running our adult lives today!

 

I find this astounding!

 

Most commonly as children we are conditioned without our consent…….. as spiritual beings.

Many of us even have been punished for questioning the conditioning we were receiving as children from the adults around us when we were very small.

 

The adult world around us creates expectations, and outcomes based on the conditions we are surrounded with. Our classrooms are filled with conditioning that goes along with our “education”.

Our family experiences are filled with conditioning that even attaches to our  names…...even our name, when repeated to us will bring up images -feelings- and sensations  of self that are conditions with which we have been raised.

 

We ultimately become IDENTIFIED with our conditioning.

And deepen our convictions of who we are even fighting for that, at times  based on our conditioning.

 

Our individual and collective conditioning then becomes the way we see ourselves, the way we interact in the world.

 

If a person was influenced by a religious conditioning then not only will their sense of self be based on the conditioning they received, but also their relationship to and expression of  their conditioning to a higher power, god, or spirituality. Whole segments of our world  societies are willing to fight for and die for and do magnificent acts and horrific acts all based on the conditioning that they received thru life experience.

 

Many times people express their conditioning as beliefs!

 

I have come to refer to my life experiences as arising from the earth school of reality. Having grown up around an alcoholic one of the primary things I decided long ago was to completely commit  to being sober, clearly not being sober  all the time was  f#%$ ..ing up the family. Thus I began to reference what is happening around me as “facing reality”and the earth school of reality stuck!

 

 

I have come to learn one of the first steps in passing thru the grades of life successfully and finding authentic happiness is taking a good firm look at my conditioning,the effects of this,

and defining for myself ….

how I actually feel about the conditioning.

 

I found a lot of stuff that isn’t really me and I have discarded those “trainings”, or conditioning. I call this taking a self inventory… having been actively pursuing this path for my entire adult life I am very sensitive to issues, definitions, and conditions I encounter in others.

 

I often sense that what I am really hearing or seeing in another is not authentically them, it is their conditioning talking… acting out…struggling with their earth based reality.

 

The multiple layers of personal, and planetary conditioning of the last two thousands years is bearing down on the generations currently inhabiting this planet. The entire ecosystem of Gaia, the living earth, is full of the effects of actions on our part relating to conditioning. (ie. My parents did it so can i, we have been doing these things for generations its how we are! Attitudes prevalent today. ) 

 

Somewhere along the line most people have heard this:

 

the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

 

Core of spirit within informs me…..”john,   The process of self definition is a responsible action for you when you are  conflicted or unhappy or not living in harmony with earth reality, your life.

Re- looking into the conditioning you have accepted and then become identified.

Questioning the staus quo, religious teachings, and all such manner of things in life can enrich your experience of that which is innately authentic to your own spiritually driven self. When your souls enters the earth domain it is up to each of you to decide the reality you will choose to live.

 

“You do not have to accept all that has been handed you for the rest of your lifetime!”

 

“As you grow into your adult self  you may pick and choose as you see fit, first having learned from your original life conditioning and then deciding ……  Decide  the terms of the complete authentic you, you came here to be.”

 

“Truthfully living the honest real directions as they arise from source within. Thus all your earthly experiences are subject to questioning. Decision making and redirecting your course in life. Many fall in life because they  have NOT dared to go deeper into their own conditioning and thus are caught in inauthentic beliefs, circumstances, and directions that do not align with source within and find they are in disharmonious relationships which only add hardships to the life experience.”

 

“Thus beware—– or be aware! Which ever way you like…….”

 

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Loving presence…our emotions… and authenticity … core spirituality for your discernment

The premise being that we are spiritual beings having a human experience does open us to a wide range of emotional awareness. In my own stabilizing of of the presence of love to meet all conditions I am learning this does not mean I ignore or edit out, or deny my feelings. There is simply another point of view co existing with and just behind my human experiences. That is loving presence.

 

The capacity to have both the emotions and the loving presence while remaining authentic.

 

Our authentic humanity is one of  the most potent expressions of our existence.

 

Hiding, denying, distracting, pretending, and thwarting the authentic expression of human emotions leads only to another re-occurrence of those feelings. (ever feel to yourself the question : why is this happening to me again?)

 

Repeating…….This is a life guarantee! I find this is how the game is played.

 

Early in my life I began to learn I have a very deep and far reaching capacity to feel emotions that far surpassed the adults around me. Add to that the nature of the Living Earth School of Reality, I had to find ways to address my own deeply wide range of feelings safely and completely! And the emotional set up of my own childhood was filled to the top with many negative and difficult scenarios triggered by an alcoholic parent and a catholic dogmatic religious education, and then the early realization of a homosexually oriented nature. Combine just these 3 facts and I had to come to terms with a lot of difficult emotion, not only in myself, in the adults around me, and the society I was growing up inside.

 

Denying, hiding, thwarting, and distracting were my little boy ways to handle the intensity of the depth of what I was experiencing especially as I realized adults around me were all using these tactics in their lives too. I did not grow up in an authentic, open, happy,honest, spiritually understanding environment. Even though the adults “acted as if” this was the case!   It was the 50’s and early 60’s.

 

Welcome to earth school!

 

Core of spirit with in me says :  “john, your own soul’s decision to take on DIFFICULT AND COMPLICATED EARTH SCHOOL  classes from the very start of your birth by virtue of the immense denial, pain and suffering of your family dynamics is a testament to the very strength of your soul’s desire to have the depths of experiences which would catapult you into the heights of your own spiritual nature. Your soul knew this!

 

And thus your little boy self  began his journey of …..And as was said yesterday in your note, “ the never ending journey of the soul and spirit. That of the  prime directive, LOVE.

 

As you now grow into the realization of the next phase of your experience your adult spiritual self has the capacity to align with and live from a far reaching awareness of the essence of life, the nature of others life experiences and the withholding of judgmental frameworks as your base of operations! Thus you are compelled to deepen whole- heartedly outside the frameworks of dogmatic beliefs, and social agreements that do not support the soul’s authentic expressions.

 

You are becoming your own  new human,( along with millions of others too)

 

…Defined by your ongoing self realizations of your own spiritual nature and the universal spiritual framework that is at the core of a physical existence, all of which has been arising within you as you have graduated thru your Earth School curriculum. To have direct internal knowledge based on the difficult experiences has been one of the essential aspects of  Love , prime directive.

 

Keep going you are not alone!

 

I find this absolutely amazing!

 

“The purpose of what your humanity experiences directly and witnesses indirectly all may serve something much greater than yourselves.

 

Eventually each one arrives to remembering ….LOVE THE PRIME DIRECTIVE.

 

THIS ONE REMEBERANCE WITHIN YOUR BEING SUPORTS ALL AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION. IN THE ALL THAT IS THERE IS ROOM FOR EACH OF YOU. TO LIVE LIKE THIS WILL PRODUCE THE GREATEST SOURCE OF CO OPERATION, CO EXISTENCE YOU COULD EVER IMAGNE.

 

As more and more of the human aspects of yourselves integrate the authentic spiritual nature that is truly YOU systems, structures,outcomes will continue to improve as they have been for thousands of years.

 

There is a time for all things and now is the time for you step out of your little boy thinking into your adult spiritual next directions….keep going ……. and watch for the others joining you as you discover whole new territories of a spiritually infused world.”

 

core of spirituality within…. informs me this day.

 

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Love , the journey of its way…… for your discernmen

I am committed to the… stabilizing of the presence of love with in myself to meet the events of  my reality everyday and this has changed everything. When I was about 15 yrs. of age I had a remarkable meditation where I decided to grow myself up as a man… that lived and acted from my heart. This was a conscious decision that started a journey that has filled my life with many many unexpected directions. At that time I had no idea the mysterious ways of love, and following its direction would take for me, and my relations.

 

I heard and felt a distinct message as a boy-man at 15, it was a meditation filled with light and a message that said; “ we need your hands, we need your heart”. When I had a reoccurring dream later in my early twenties where I saw myself going thru a door that said MASSAGE on it I decided to investigate what exactly that meant. Sharing the dream with a teacher of mine she remarked it was a message that I ought to explore and that she knew a man who had a school for massage. She sent me to him to learn : what is massage? This is back in 1977. I had no idea! I was gifted surprisingly so  with a full scholarship by that man, and I took this step based on that meditation I mentioned earlier about hands and heart. My work life began a complete new direction.

 

Immediately I  was confronted with very close intimate contact with every variety of person which challenged my young sense of self. Holding to my intent to stay in my heart I took to the challenges of learning what this actually meant. Through the years I came face to face with my fears, judgments , desires, and every notion of thing that could possibly block the love inside my heart. A difficult task I had embarked upon indeed. For initially I had the opposite of my desire to love. I was young and full of my own limits. Upon hundreds of hours in small workrooms in the back of gyms practicing massage I was dismantling the barriers of my love as a spiritual being thru my desire to be of true service and a practicing heart centered work.

 

This was surprising to me as I learned first that to love as I imagined, all that is not love in me would surface. Part of the mystery of love’s way!

 

Then in the eighties I had the notion to apply conscious presence to my work. Here is where I began to find the feelings of , the energetic space of, and the dynamic power of holding loving presence  for one another. As I was inwardly informed time after time to withhold my own opinions, my own fixing, I began to watch and follow the way of love….

 

To simply  listen to another and do nothing initially except remain in a loving conscious state of presence.

This scenario repeated for me thousands of times. Love was showing me how to stop using my intellect as my primary source of knowledge. I seemed to always be standing on the precipice of something, but I still did not understand.

 

Then POP….. I STARTED TO GET PICTURES, IDEAS, AND DIRECTIONS  that directly applied to each client in their unique way. Wow! I found this amazing.

 

I began to realize love has its own way and has a direct “connect” to a larger picture that can organize and synthesize whole seemingly random pieces of information. I began to practice paying attention from my inward state of loving presence more and more.

 

My personal life began to take on this dynamic as I found absolutely new and different ways of seeing and responding to circumstances around me. I found myself jumping over, and dropping completely many of the ways I had been educated as a good catholic boy, son, and husband. My place with the status quot began to dramatically shift.

Relationships began to have new meaning, new direction, and many then simply fizzed out. I was alone in some sense yet still committed to my path. I found myself being drawn to whole new ideas, people and circumstances that seemed to be miles from where I had started out in life. I found myself living in different countries, learning languages, enjoying people , that on the surface seemed entirely different from myself.

I found that love unites differences in a very pleasing way and my world grew exponentially larger, more interesting,and more challenging! I liked that.

 

As love would have it…to this day I continue to pay attention as best I can, and I am regularly surprised. For every time I think I know , every time  I think I have the answer to something , I want to blurt this out to someone I find that waiting inside myself for what LOVE has to say about the matter …the directions ALWAYS CHANGE  into something I had not even considered!

 

There is a magnificent wisdom that love carries within itself.

 

A wisdom that connects ideas, people, circumstances, in ways that will bring out the truths, the best in, and the most important facts in day to day life. I find this amazing.

 

“Yes, the path of love will lead you john, however not where you think you are going. The presence of love within you will take you further than your conscious mind can even conceive in any one moment. Love being a divine substance reaching into the darkest of and furthest reaches of life, both high and low,  has the capacity to transform any human circumstance, any human being. This you have been learning. It is the “never ending journey” of spirit and soul. For that which started and that which will end will all be that of LOVE.”  It is the prime directive. My core of spirit speaks to me.

 

 

“LOVE….THE PRIME DIRECTIVE.”

 

“When there is nothing else in a situation, there is love. Hold to this in your coming days. Hold fast, hold strong for there are many places in your world where the only key to open the door leading you out of your human limits, your human tests, your human tribulations will be the key you hold within yourself. That key is love, the prime directive.” Core of spirit gently whispers.

 

Shared with aloha…

Love the Prime Directive………..For your discernment

Something is happening to me that is completely redirecting my awareness. My heart is overflowing with love. EVERYDAY NOW!  My heart is overflowing with waves of love triggered by everything! For  months now I have had these little cries take me over  in nature, I mean, I didn’t used to be like this.

 

When I an in nature  I am overwhelmed with a gigantic sense of tremendous love from creation itself.

 

  I feel it is permeated with a divine love that is part of, inside, around, above, below everything I encounter. I have even had heart palpitations…. little leaps inside my chest, that when I lye down and ask within I am informed by my core “relax do not be alarmed.” when i prepare myself for my day I have an entirely new thought that goes with me before I leave my dwelling. I think and see myself  bring love to WHATEVER ARISES IN MY PATH THIS DAY! I didn’t used to be like this.

 

I see a picture in myself that as I encounter reality I bring love to that which arises no matter what that reality may be. It could be pain, suffering, negativity, hatefulness, violence, vengeance,human chaos…  any and all forms of ugliness,there is no limit!

 

I am absolutely compelled to learn to STABILIZE myself in a state of loving presence.

“ It is my classroom assignment for earth school.” core informs me.  I find this absolutely amazing.

 

I used to first experience something ,perhaps a negative, then be negatively effected, I would swim in that for a while and then love would arrive. After the fact. It is completely reversed now.

 

I am compelled to stay in and reside in  much more time in silence,in this silence I am informed every day about the events and details of my life and how I might adjust my perception, my attitude, my habits, steering my direction in an alignment that becomes more  fully loving.

 

My sense is that meeting each moment in a state of loving presence immediately increases my own capacity to remain in the heart centered state, and there is a cleanness in relationships. I actually feel like negatives can be wiped clean in an instant. Not just for myself , even for a person I am witnessing as they share a negative thought, feeling, or happening.

 

“Simply the presence of loving attention transmutes the negativity in the very moment. You will find yourself  move on……..” core informs me.    I find this fascinating.

 

There is not always a need to provide answers. there is not even the need to always speak! Amazing….

 

Core of spirituality with in me gently informs me that..  “as your capacity to love is increased thru your physical earth bodies your connection to the all that is becomes more easy to see, that you are not a separate part of, and everyone else are   multi – expressions of one spiritual source! Every day you  have opportunities. WE, all of us, to meet our experiences with loving acceptance, to meet each other with loving eyes, loving hearts, and well wishing for one another s relations.”

 

“This includes bringing  love to all the tragedy, the negativity, the darkness, the ignorance, the cruelty, of your humanity. However you may yourself reacting with any number of human emotions ultimately the game is loving….

the active  verb form of expressing love thru the very mind -heart -and body of yourself.

 

“When you , john are feeling this love from within the shift is made, and the love you carry to the world has a wondrous sensation that feels to you like wise seeing, hearing, and informing.

 

This informing has the capacity to lift yourself and others up, out of, your own previous limiting versions of reality.

 

When your reality expands to include everyone, everywhere, all beings, and all things both far and near you are beginning to understand the greater place growing up has in your field of experience. Much of humanity is having leaps now of this “growing up” it is how all of you will begin to integrate much  more of your own spiritual nature, the experiences that your soul carries with it from beyond this physical world ,and your actual place in the divine scheme of life!” your collective Humanity is growing into the next phase as  spiritual adults! So then ……enjoy your journey…….”

 

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Time…….. for your discernment

Time….. I question this thing called time. The speed and condition of my own life has reached a place where I find myself in a time zone called NOW, everyday! My life did not used to be this way when I was younger. Back then I thought of the future and how and what I wanted to be, what I wanted to accomplish and  how in life I wanted to become. Thus I would keep my eyes on the direction I was taking always with a sense of my future. I had a distinct need to always keep a watch and stay abreast of the time. Granted I had many appointments, responsibilities, yet in my mind I was thinking about time past -present -and -future. However I find this is shifting significantly in my inner experience. It is my personal relationship with time that is so different.

 

As I keep having these  private AHAA’S which relate to my life experience, I have had the releasing of old ideas and previous forms of referencing in myself .I have to come to rely on my inner sense of presence and now like never before, and quite naturally too! I do find that my experience in time, in Now has a very different feel to it. I get that the now is a much more consistent feeling, one way to describe would be a sense of being sustained while in movement thru blocks of activity and inactivity.

 

There is a definite different feeling here as contrasted to my past experience that I am learning to enjoy.

 

Recently I had the experience of looking at the sun, noticing how different the colors are compared to the sun of my childhood way of seeing  which used to be a brilliant “eggy” kind of yellow, since the late eighties I have noticed the light of the sun becoming lighter , than whiter, and now even more white! Reflecting on the sun I realized I was referencing in my mind the sun as a star, seeing this difference in light.

 

My inner core of spirit said to me one day; “that’s right you are having a different experience in your relationship to the all that is and you are growing to understand to see yourself in relation to the bigger picture, the cosmic, or celestial view of yourselves. Recognizing your sun as a star as one of the infinite bright lights in the heavens that you normally see as far far away. For indeed the sun is a star! Sun AS star … this is a significant shift in awareness.” I now relate to that thing in the sky not as sun but as OUR STAR! I really like this!

 

Collectively your humanity is growing beyond all the limits of previous understanding, both of your selves and the world you inhabit. This includes not only your single planet, it also contains your solar system, the galaxy your reside in and the larger context of the wide open celestial space. “

 

This all relates to your corporeal time feelings too, because the actual domain of your planet where your planet, your solar system is located is moving in the bigger picture. The entire solar system moving further into the galactic center is moving all of you into a whole new kind of feeling of life all around you.

 

I feel like as I really grow up as a incarnate physical being , I mean true adult, that I live not in the time frameworks of my childhood, rather the time framework of present experience. And that is NOW!

 

CERTAINLY TO CO EXIST WITH OTHERS HERE I AM KEEPING WATCH ON WHERE EVERYONE ELSE IS SO I MAY STAY IN TIME WITH EVENTS, HOWEVER INTERNALLY MY OWN FEELING OF TIME IS TRANSFROMING AND DIFFERENT.

 

Which brings me to children…

in the company of children I find myself very very comfortable and I feel like this is due to our mutual sense of time, it is completely in the now. I wonder when I see adults around me having frustrations with children, being uncomfortable often it is their sense of time overriding the child’s sense of  his or her experience.

 

All children go thru the learning to adjust to how we as adults organize our lives thru our idea of time.

 

To the child this is an adjustment and requires our sensitivity as their caretakers. What is it about a new little human that they do not have the experience of time as we adults learn to have? Is it something related to the pure core of ourselves? Is it because of the reality that little spiritual being has come from? I find this very interesting and the answers even more fascinating!

 

Time as an organizational tool, as  a means keeps things in order has its values. However to live like time is the ruling notion of reality is not in keeping with my experience in nature. In nature I feel now, now now, over and over. Time is money… is that really true? Do we need to actually live like this forever? Or will our evolution show us something better? Time heals all wounds … is that really true? Or do we simply adjust thru what we learn, because I know I work with many who do not heal from time!

 

My sense is that as I move forward in life my experience is largely one NOW. Perhaps one day we will all live in the now, and the standards by which we measure the quality of existence will ultimately  shift out of all the controlling issues we have around how time rules the essence of our lives.

 

Core of spirituality reminds softly; “john as you live more fully from the absolute pure nature of your own spirit, time will lessen and lessen in its importance and the full realization of your now becomes imbued with the eternal qualities of spirit on earth. The essence of your spirit contains the vastness of your soul and your soul contains your connection to your source. Your source becomes your reality. Source contains the bigger picture with each of you and all of you collectively as a species. Imagine how life will be transformed once this is revealed in everyone, just imagine……..”

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Prayers are being offered up now………..for your discernment

The Light of God surrounds me. The Love of God enfolds me. The Power of God protects me. The Presence of God watches over me. The Mind of God guides me. The Life of God flows through me. The Laws of God direct me. The Power of God abides within me…. The Joy of God uplifts me. The Strength of God renews me. The Beauty of God inspires me. Wherever I am, God is!

This prayer was written by James Dillet Freeman for all soldiers during World War II. It is one of two Freeman compositions carried to the moon by Apollo astronauts. In 1969, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin took the “Prayer for Protection” along on the first manned moon landing. A microfilm copy of Freeman’s poem “I Am There” was left on the moon in 1971 by Apollo XV astronaut James B. Irwin.

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make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there is darkness, light, Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much… seek to be consoled as to console, not so much to be understood as to understand, not so much to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we awake to eternal life.
St. Francis of Assisi

 

Great Spirit Prayer
“Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to all the world.
Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom. …
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice
Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.
Help me to remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards me.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
Help me seek pure thoughts and act with the intention of helping others.
Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy
Myself.
Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame

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Cherokee Prayer Blessing
May the Warm Winds of Heaven
Blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit…
Bless all who enter there.
May your Mocassins
Make happy tracks
in many snows,
and may the Rainbow
Always touch your shoulder.

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1. Give Us Hearts to Understand
   Give us hearts to understand;
   Never to take from creation’s beauty more than we give;
   never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed; …
   Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth’s beauty;
   never to take from her what we cannot use.
   Give us hearts to understand
   That to destroy earth’s music is to create confusion;
   that to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;
   That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;
   that as we care for her she will care for us.
   We have forgotten who we are.
   We have sought only our own security.
   We have exploited simply for our own ends.
   We have distorted our knowledge.
   We have abused our power.
   Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,
   Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
   Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
   help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.

   Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
   help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
   Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,
   help us to find a way to replenish them.
   Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,
   help us to find the way to restore our humanity.
   Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
   whose breath gives life to the world, hear me;
   I need your strength and wisdom.
   May I walk in Beauty.

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The ONE core spirituality for your discernment

All that you see and all that you cannot see arises from the ONE.

The source of the all that is. This statement reflects what emerges in me now, and i deepen my experience of oneness moment by moment day by day engaging my reality within this field of the one as much as is possible joining the multitudes of angelic, and spiritual beings everywhere.

 

 

 

Beating with in our very hearts is the love that surpasses all obstacles, sweetly, powerfully, endlessly and at this time necessarily!

 

 

 

Dropping into the heart of ourselves we can feel this love when we choose.

 

( However there may be layers still sitting on top of this love. No worries….we all learn as we go so go for it anyway!)

 

 

 

 

 

Layers of beliefs that are based in thoughts of separation. for example;

 

  “my way is the only way, otherwise you are going to hell” i will try to tolerate you in my world and that makes me a good person!  I have encountered this one in individuals PERPETRATING religious DOCTRINES.

 

 We’re heterosexuals…   we know whats best for everybody. And we are right about all of this!~

 Only heterosexuals have the right to ….. have children, get married, have a sexual relationship, have all the rights afforded by our societies! And to experience healthy loving relationships. We know what’s best for everybody.

 

 i have encountered this insidious attitude through out the world, in covert ways, cloaked in religions, and socially. i regularly experience distancing from people once they become aware that i am not like them. if you are a white person in a white run culture you will not experience what life is like being in a minority that has judgmental beliefs projected on  to it year after year, unless you have lifted off your separation beliefs and begin to actualize oneness.

 

why is the suicide rate for  LGBT teenagers 30% – 40% HIGHER?      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBT_youth

 

 i am “entitled”  because i am rich, born into a high family lineage, white, have an education, this list goes on and on….too bad you’re not. i can take more than i will ever need regardless of how this will effect the planet.

 

 we all see the collective results of this  in corporations, lobbyists, media controllers… however every corporation is run by individuals. many people have stock portfolios supporting those businesses. entitlement  can be separative. i have encountered this personally and collectively for years.

 

“I am not good enough.” The most prevailing human self doubt on the planet. A insidious belief perpetrated by unenlightened sources seeking to thwart the truth of what we are….

 

 

That we are all made of the ONE source.

 

 

 

I have to be perfect, thin, good looking, college educated, white, black, Christian, Muslim, Baptist, straight acting, masculine, feminine, rich, drive a new car, have the best clothes, smell a certain way wear a certain perfume, have a lot of hair, be tall, be muscular, make a lot of money, wear the right clothes, act the right way, young. old,  I live in this country , or I belong to this tribe, this lineage, the list goes on and on and on into completely ridiculous left brain thinking that literally drives people loopy. I mean look at how crazy the world is acting right now.

 

 

 

STOP

 

 

 

TAKE A MOMENT here

 

BREATHE

 

RELAX

 

 

 

There is a powerful choice happening right now in all our lives. As our awareness grows, individually and collectively we have options here.

 

 

 

What we choose right now will have an effect on the futures of all of us and our planet….

 

 

 

Lets look at this and break it down so we can handle it shall we?

 

 

 

Resist the changes up for you, staying comfortable in limiting beliefs that hold separation as the absolute reality here on this planet.

 

 

 

Hang with it all. Go with the flow and  ride the waves and see what happens.

 

 

 

Take action by being in charge of your reality and meeting the new possibilities in self each and every moment of each and every day.

 

 

 

Core of self informs me … “there is no should or have to here , there are different outcomes what feels best to you john? Resist change? Flow with change? Take action by changing?”

 

 

“It will be decided by each of you one way or another.”

 

 

 

That the ONE permeates all of our very existence, each and everyone of us, and then all around us is a staggering thought I can only access whenever I lift off the beliefs that are based in separation. On a daily basis there are so many fantastic ,shocking, awful and awesome moments innately triggering the divine within us to release limiting beliefs that have held us captives keeping us all in servitude to forces outside ourselves I find myself refreshed by allowing myself to be in the ONE!

 

 

 

Yesterday I wrote about listening deeply, going into the silence. That in the silence is presence. This presence is within  the oneness of life. No agenda, simply here, being ONE.

 

 

 

The act of defending ourselves to each other is becoming more and more uncomfortable for me as the possibility to understand each other just feels better.

 

 

 

That there are differences are really really really OK!

 

 

 

In fact being a world traveler to every continent on earth has been a fascinating and interesting life long experience. Because as I encountered all kinds of life, all colors of people wearing all kinds of clothes praising god in all kinds of religions eating all kinds of food I have felt enriched by THE DIFFERENCES!

 

 

 

Which brings me back to the ONE and the big AHAA of all this.

 

 

 

Having differences does not change the ONE.

 

 

 

The ONE is still the ONE , the absolute source of us, the absolute source of life itself!

 

 

 

The human family of earth is so diverse, so different at times, is so rich in differences it is staggering to even comprehend. ( languages alone completely blow my mind and let’s not forget about fashion… i mean…. ) Yet along with all the differences there still exists the inherent nature of all differences ….a ONE SOURCE!

 

 

 

Everyone is tapping into it. Everyone has different names for it. Yet that one simple notion that all that you see, and all that you do not see exists as it arises from the source. I call it ONE.

 

 

 

To sum this up I would like to proclaim from my own little beating heart here and now…

 

 

 

WE ARE DIFFERENT …..WE ARE ONE

 

Humanity individually and collectively is learning to see, hear and feel the outcomes of years and years of  holding separatist belief systems. we are being revealed to ourselves  like never before in our known histories. we are watching the breaking down of  many  walls of painful oppression, of  violence perpetrated amongst one another including the innocents,one by one personally as well as  whole nations rising up to march and demonstrate their beliefs in freedoms and untiy, whole groups of people are staging collectively the voices of the many to bring attention to the  separatist belief systems and  

oppressive hold overs still held as thoughts in the beliefs of many people. Many such beliefs based in religious doctrines, entitlements, and ignorance of the divinity within all of life , especially one another!

 i feel this pain of this world and more deeply i feel the urges of spiritual oneness underneath the surfaces of all this we see rising up right in front of my eyes. i am you and you are me is an indigenous spiritual thought shared by many cultures close to nature all over this world.

 

 

“Practicing  presence connecting into ONE, listening deeply within,  daily as we interact with our differences… is a way … to bring ourselves into contact… with the source…. of life itself.”

 

Core of spirituality gently whispers to me…..the divine plan for you all is to discover how  you are one…..

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Health care for your discernment

Listening deeply within I am informed daily about taking care of my own health and for those who seek my assistance, their care as well.

“Within each of us is a vibrant innate knowledge and connection to that which we truly are made .”   “Our spiritual essence”  Core informs me.

 

There has been so much health care discussion and fighting in our society and so much hidden agenda provoking media information lately. That in America our medical system is a FOR PROFIT SYSTEM DESIGNED TO MAKE MONEY CORPORATE BASED SERVICE is hardly mentioned. Core of spirit within me informs me to “pay attention” as there are many options her and now.

 

“we are all source divided into souls expressing as souls, living as humans having human experiences thru the human physical body! All life essence is vibrational in nature before it takes on the physical form! Thus vibrations, the ones we surround ourselves and take into our bodies. directly effect the pure nature of who and what we are. “ Core of spirituality informs me gently.

I respect this more and more as I evolve and grow. I find this fascinating.

 

Within our physical bodies we have a brilliant pharmacy that specifically communicates with all the other parts of our physicality. This pharmacy is called an endocrine system which regulates and releases chemical compounds directly related to our functioning, a lymphatic system that addresses the toxic effects of our biology and cleans out our bodies, a nerve system that communicates systems one to the other and externally to us, the spiritual being living inside the body… messages about the state of our balance, an immune system which specifically addresses foreign materials that may hurt our physical bodies.  A waste system designed to carry away any and all materials no longer needed by the body. And much much much more.

 

We have a mind which houses an awareness that is capable of watching to listening to and responding to all these systems. However very important to know about the mind is unwatched our minds can over ride any system, shut that system down, alter that system, and significantly over ride all the systems of the body!

 

Our spiritual nature has the power to discern the best vibrational medicines, foods, and experiences via their vibrational aspect for our greatest well being. (more so when we specifically engage this spiritual nature as an awareness as an active participant in every aspect of our human experience)

 

when you are feeling powerless about your health care pay attention! for certainly some elements of yourself have gone off track. You always have options and realizing this promotes those options to you! When you feel powerless STOP AND BREATHE, YOU HAVE EVERYTHING AVAILABL E TO YOU.

 

When I listen to the pharmaceutical commercials on TV I am literally horrified. Firstly the pictures they show never match the the information they share, that is filled with scarey side effects that are horrible. Secondly the persistent repetition and number of these so called medical commercials that tell us to ask our doctors, are so persistent because these companies have to make profits, do make profits, and do so without ever mentioning the innate natural benefits of healing within our bodies. Instead we are made to believe, (there’s another one of those separatist limiting belief systems again) that we are completely powerless in the world without such medicine. I  find this ignorant and appalling as a health care practitioner for over 30 years.  I remember the days when all we saw on TV was Bayer baby aspirin! Now it is an onslaught of this stuff.

 

That we are powerful enough to decide for ourselves with out asking the doctor is a fact  for example ;

how much sleep we need to feel refreshed

how much food we need to power our forms

what kind of foods bring to us that desired result

wash our internal systems regularly by drinking good water all the time

by moving around, other than sitting in front of a TV, doing tasks, or going to work

go outside and enjoy whatever nature has to give wherever we are and whenever we need a shot of vibrancy, life force, and exit from our hectic focuses

walk barefoot and actually touch and feel the magnificent planet we are so blessed to live upon

listen to the sounds of nature rather than the incessant negativity

take the time to be with friends, laugh, talk, discuss, reveal and revel about how amazing life truly is!

Stretch out our body parts if they get tight

get a massage, facial foot bath to balance out all that we do in our world…. I am talking receive nurturance here

seek out new thoughts, ideas, ways of looking at life when our own seem to go flat

play with a child, instead of always guiding that little spiritual being….just play

find a hobby that intrigues you instead of harping on how miserable you are, how awful the boss is , how terrible the world is now

sing instead of think…. (my favorite to do in the car lol)

do nothing!

Say nothing!

Think about nothing!

Veg out!

Sleep take a nap

dance instead of sit

boogie on down instead of walk

roll with it all instead of complain, resist, and fight yourself. (ZZ Top, my favorite for this one. Super loud windows open hair flying riding down the highway)

comedy instead of tragedy when picking out a film

 

c’mon people all of our life activities release VIBRATIONS,  these vibrations are the fabrics of living and DIRECTLY effect the health of us all, including our planet.

 

Core informs me gently, “how and what you decide about your health care is having profound effects. So WATCH IT!” 

 

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What is hetero-sexism? for your discernment. …

I post this because I HAVE EXPERIENCED SO many forms of separation occurring with individuals our families, the world at large.. some people even pit anyone not heterosexual like them as hated by their god, and ally the lgbt people with what they call a devil. I find the entire scenario VERY LOOPY! And a source of ridiculousness, when all of us , deep within the essence of who we are actually love one another. I am talking core here.

  the natural outpouring of our hearts with one another has been thwarted by thinking and belief systems perpetrated thru social institutions, religious doctrines and media bias.

 

my own personal experience includes every form of this practically. my own experience has also transformed into experiences of deep rich exchanges and profound levels of understanding “because” of our differences. I know the place in us  that is universally loving.

 

I have processed this stuff for years and realize the wisdoms in our uniqueness. so for all the heterosexuals out there who don’t even know what hetero-sexism is here ya go….

this is from a study I found online.

 

Heterosexism is the assumption that all people are heterosexual and that heterosexuality

is superior and more desirable than homosexuality or bisexuality. Heterosexism is also

the stigmatization, denial and/or denigration of anything non-heterosexual. We live in a

predominantly heterosexist society and that attitude is used to justify the mistreatment,

discrimination and harassment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning

individuals. Many who are LGBT also internalize this attitude leading to denial of their

true selves/identities, low self-esteem, self-hatred and other issues. There would seem to

be a direct link between heterosexism and homophobia, the irrational fear or hatred of

homosexuals (including bisexuals and transgender individuals).

Some manifestations of heterosexism are:

Over-sexualization:

• It is thought that GLBT people are only looked upon as mere sexual beings rather

then complex people with lives apart from their sexuality or gender identity.

• Assuming that every same sex interaction is sexual, or potentially sexual.

• Assuming that GLB people are interested in someone of the same sex regardless

of sexual orientation.

• Interpreting everything that GLBT people do in terms of their sexuality.

• Avoiding touching or becoming close to GLBT people in fear they will take it the

‘wrong’ way.

Denying Significance- Personally:

• The opposite of Over-sexualization by assuming that sexual orientation is not

significant.

• Remarking, “It doesn’t matter to me that you’re gay.” Sexual identity is

significant and should matter.

• Expecting GLBT people not to talk of their relationships as many heterosexual

people do, assuming that sexual orientation should not be talked about.

Denying Significance- Politically:

• Criticizing GLBT people for making on issue of their sexuality. Remarking things

such as, “I don’t care what they do in bed, but don’t tell me about it.”

• Not understanding that in our culture, which is alternately oblivious to GLBT

people, or dangerous for them, sexuality and gender identity is already a political

issue.

• Not understanding that heterosexuality is politically enforced by giving legal

rights for marriage, finance and other such things, while legally denying

homosexuals the right to marriage, housing, jobs, child custody, etc.

Labeling Homosexuality,Bisexuality or Transgender a Problem:

• Being in the mind that GLBT people want or need special treatment. Or believe

they all need special treatment because of their sexual orientation.

• Believing that homosexuality, bisexuality or transgender can and should be cured.

Making Invisible:

• Assuming that everyone is heterosexual until told else wise.

• Always asking women about boy friends and men about girlfriends.

• Telling GLBT people they are over reacting when they get upset about the

oppression that they feel.

Expecting to be Taught:

• Putting the burden of responsibility for education and for working for change on

the GLBT person. Not helping or working for change concerning GLBT issues.

• Forcing GLBT people to take all of the initiative in coming out.

• Not making openings to come out by acknowledging in conversations the

possibility of non- heterosexual relations.

• Becoming upset that GLBT people are not patient about educating you.

Miss- Defining Homosexuality, Bisexuality:

• Confusing bisexuality with non- monogamy; assuming that bisexuality means

being involved simultaneously with both men and women.

• Assuming that bisexuality is fickle or promiscuous, that they cannot commit to a

stable monogamous relationship.

• Mussing that lesbians hate men.

• Assuming that GLB people want to convert to heterosexuality.

• Trying to help someone go “straight.”

• Thinking non-heterosexual orientation is a phase.

• Assuming lesbians and gay men’s sexual orientation is in reaction to a bad

heterosexual experience.

• Thinking that you have more right then a GLBT person to judge the morality or

normalcy or any persons sexual orientation, including heterosexuality.

Heterosexual privileges

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to be able to be free of fear and walk across

campus holding my girlfriend’s or boyfriend’s hand.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged that I can be a member of ROTC without fear

of being “found out” and losing my scholarship as well as my career plans.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to join a fraternity or sorority without fear of

being rejected based on my sexual identity.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to be able to talk freely about my

“relationships” with roommates, friends, and family.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to play varsity sports without the fear of being

removed from the team because of my sexual identity.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to walk into any bar or dance with my partner

and dance without fear of being verbally or physically abused.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to interview for jobs and be able to discuss my

plans for marriage without fear of being discriminated against.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to run for a student leadership position without

students focusing only on my sexual identity.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged to walk this campus without fear of physical or

verbal harm based solely on my sexual identity.

• As a heterosexual, I am privileged that I am a member of the dominant culture

and I MAY CHOOSE TO BE AN ALLY for gay, lesbian, and bisexual students.

Listen deeply core spirituality for your discernment

listen deeply to the voice of your soul, then listen further to the source of your soul into the silence of THE ALL THAT IS!   ( hold on  now stay with me here )  Listening deeply is a technique that brings our own personal vibration into contact with silence.

 

Silence contains a presence that we can bring into the world whenever we are having an exchange with one another.

 

In my field of practice I have had years and decades now  of standing around the massage table learning how to listen deeply to the body – physical of clients seeking DE-stressing. Listening deeply when someone is pouring out their story, their angst, their need to be heard. I feel the tight  knotted up muscles, joints, and compressed breathe in thousands of human beings now. Don’t think what I am saying is not valuable!

 

Listening deeply has brought me into contact with something I have learned is beyond the conscious thinking mind, intuition. The intuitive impressions come in faster than the speed of light and require practice to be able to catch and bring to the outer world.

 

When someone is bringing to you uncomfortable information, pain, or anything outside your own sense of comfortableness I have learned that deeply listening  asks only that I acknowledge, I do  not have to accept. Core of spirituality says pay attention to this one…

 

deeply listening  asks only that I acknowledge, I do  not have to accept.

 

Acknowledging one another’s experience without accepting is the first step into deepening into creating  a space for each of us to explore what is happening. And this allows the diffusion of negativity and confusion to be processed as we disentangle ourselves.

 

Acknowledgment not acceptance. My core informs me gently…

 

Internally not everything I see or hear am I personally comfortable with, however I can acknowledge you ,what you need to express and what is going on in the world.

 

Listening deeply means paying attention to blank spaces in our thoughts. In between the thinking mind the blank spaces hold silence. Learning to become aware of the blank moments in between our thoughts….

 

serves a completely different part of our brains!

 

We do not have to think our way thru our lives, we do not have to think our way thru our confusions, we do not have to think our way into solutions. What is new here is deep listening where the intuitive presence behind all our internal thinking and outer activity is informing us.

 

Learning to use a different part of our brains is important now, because the information available to you thru the intuitive mind has solutions completely with and outside of your rational logical thinking mind. There is a much bigger picture going on here! With each of us!

 

It is the job of the rational mind to organize  our  physical reality from  the information of the intuitive. Not take over reality! Breaking the habit of thinking our way thru existence. It doesn’t work anymore. We are reaching the zenith of our   lives and the limits of our thinking. Our life pictures are expanding individually and collectively, the amount of information we need to process is growing. Losing our was is occurring as the life pictures expand. Getting lost in the immensity of it all, our histories, our moments with each other is happening as we spin into ridiculous realms of logical thought attempting to hold that which cannot be held by left brain alone.

 

Shift gears!

 

Right brain!

 

Arrival destination….. whole brain thinking

 

break-thru….

 

 

one more thing….regarding  nature and children

 

when we are near a flower, or out in nature and we deeply listen we can have the experience of  being informed completely differently than we are in the human realms. Much less static, less disharmony, more joy. Nature and its living presence has a natural rhythm a natural way that is soothing, enlivening and joyful to the human DNA. Our human DNA  responds on the intuitive feeling level in remarkable ways that show us we are connected to something greater than ourselves and that we are alive!

 

Listen deeply to yourself  in nature…. immediately your breath will deepen and you will start feeling refreshed and renewed

 

Children are life’s continuous expression of our humanity all around us. They are the new us, arriving daily. Children have not developed their rational thinking minds like we adults. They do not understand even their own thoughts yet! Yet like flowers, or nature they too have a presence that does not always fit into the rationally organized, movement and speed of a thinking adult’s reality.

 

Listening deeply to myself  in the presence of children has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. Children carry a presence that challenges every parent in a way that both expands and reveals that parent to themselves. This is the design that perpetrates continuous growth for our humanity.

 

Listen deeply to yourself  in the presence of a child. Slow down …..

 

 

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Earth star….

Earth star…. sometime long ago I stopped thinking as I was a child and seeing only a sun. it occurred to me that this is our star, one of infinite ones , shining and informing our solar system. now when I look up I think “Earth Star” and I feel tremendous connection out into celestial realms. core spirituality informs me…. hey john this was a shift!

 

The beautiful you core spirituality for your discernment

When you think in yourself  “you” to yourself what is it that your mind sees? Do yo see yourself in the mirror? Are you big? Tall? Skinny? Fat? How about naked? Do you think of yourself with brown hair. blonde, red. bald? How do you see yourself ?  When you talk with your friends and you are sharing something about your self  how do you feel? How have you been feeling lately? When you see a picture of yourself here on FB , or when you see your pics on your camera what do you see?   How do you feel about you?

 

When you encounter something different, something outside your “box”, your comfort zone of spirituality ,of emotions, of thinking, or ways of being. Do you see yourself? How do you see the other?

 

Each of these questions lead down a path of self definition.

 

How we self define is of major importance now because this will determine many many decisions and the unfoldment of many possibilities. Even if that possibility is simply a closed door of self.

 

When the core of my spirit  gently rises within me and around me I am enfolded in a pure state of wonder. “The you we speak of is a magnificent being of high intention and pure pure light, the expression of a divine source as YOU! The task you and all of humanity have taken on , that of the human condition,  has been arduous, difficult, very tough, deeply painful  assignment at times. Being physical in the earth has led you to many trying situations and uncomfortable moments. And for many of you you have gotten so deep into your classroom of experiences, your growing relationships, your physicality really, that you have reached a new zenith. What once worked no longer works!

 

“It is time to remember that you are a spiritual being having this experience. I find you all magnificent.” When core continues I am shown the powerful bravery in everyday life, mundane moments, the creative solutions with our families, our driving, our lives. Core reminds me to see this is quite extraordinary about you and continues on !

 

“I tell  you john, you are beautiful because in the spiritual -ness of who you are this is what I see, this is exactly the same for each and every other human living on the planet today.”

 

I ask my core even those wall street guys? The bankers? The tyrants the manipulators and oppressors ? Core informs me that everyone is playing a role of some part. The WAY  you choose to respond is what Is most important. Do not get caught up in the roles! The beautifully powerful souls of yourselves extend far beyond such limited versions of a physical self. So define and redefine YOU and hold steady to the magnificent you that  is the source of your experience. Ever person provides an opportunity to engage your pure spiritual self so what do you decide about all those ugly role players? It is up to you to reveal your full spiritual presence in the world no matter what!

 

I recall a saying BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. So behold yourself, yourselves!

Hmmmmmm  I decide today to see beauty in you, myself, and yourself. And each and every companion along the way of this journey thru this magnificent creation we call LIFE. 

 

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Ignorance core spirituality for your discernment

Ignorance defined in the dictionary is the lack of  knowledge, to ignore means to refuse to take notice of or to reject something as ungrounded. The derivation of the word ignorance comes from the late 14^th century old french word ignorant, from latin ignorantia, from ignorante, ignorare, which means not to know, to be unacquainted, mistake, misunderstand, take no notice of . Hmmmmmmm I find this all interesting.

 

As a verb,  to ignore as an action , I find this particularly powerful. ( in a negative, very negative way!)

 

I find this interesting because of my own and our capacity to live in our little psychological, emotional, spiritual boxes. This , to me, appears to be a human habit of sorts that takes a lot of persistent effort to open up. I have found box after box after box of my own human perceptions limiting me in ways that have been so uncomfortable I literally have had to reach as hard as I can to find anything, something to open up my own body’s internal well being and freedom from limiting mind stuff.

 

I have learned that how we believe something to be has a profound effect on our perceptions because the nature of a belief will selectively view reality based on the parameters of the belief. That applies to science to religious  to political to interpersonal to social. The list is endless. This is important because we can either open to or close to awareness about life depending on the nature of our belief!

 

“And the nature of so much human suffering …. is not some of this ignorance?” My core of self asks me.

 

I know that I have had to repeatedly revise my own boxes based on personal experience I have had either thru my healing body work , my own meditations which have led me to extraordinary perceptional leaps or  personal experiences in nature and contacts with various life forms.

 

When I was a little boy , the eldest of 5 , my mother used to tell us something that caused me to really really look at ignorance and ignoring. Whenever someone was bothering us we would complain to her, her response was” just ignore them!” Well as a ten year old I would go back to school or whatever and I would do my best to ignore the person or behaviors that were causing me so much disharmony. Hmmmm…..  this is really potent now. So I did this for a time until I realized something and I related this to my mom and she never had another response to me after that.

 

I found the more I ignored something the more it was in my face! In fact I noticed myself constantly having to stay on guard to make sure i watched to make sure I ignored “it” . And I learned this made it worse. In fact it made it more prevalent in my world, and often if it was a person , they would intensify the behavior. I recall telling my mom that ignoring didn’t work , that this was getting worse. She had no more to say on the subject. I was left to figure this out on my own. To my knowledge she is still living by this idea!

 

Thru many years I tried many many strategies, going around, avoiding, looking the other way, even moving across the world to another continent ( I moved to Belgium when I was 18) and still this did not work. After I had  been living in Belgium for about 6 months, going to school, and working on a community farm I found my angst was still with me.

 

And I heard these words in my mind…. “where ever you go– there you are!”

 

Whoa….. I used to walk a lot in Europe and I found myself walking – thinking about this a lot. I learned to finally realize something about myself that has stayed with me all my life…

 

And that is the only way out is thru.

 

This one realization and consequential revision of my own internal awareness of self was dramatically shifted and I began to rapidly accept , define, redefine, search for and find a multitude of new answers to many many issues I had carried around  with me for most of my early years. In fact years later after going thru a particularly powerful  reality shift so powerful I could not get thru it at first my core of self whispered this little poem into my mind and it too has stayed with me. “ define and redefine until you have lost  your mind and are no longer held by its boundaries.”

 

Lose your mind!? What? ! I walked for years with this one until I realized this as a valuable internal tool about the mind. Firstly losing my mind really meant to lose the limit of my mind, which in some cases felt like I WAS losing my mind. However this was not the case. It was only the limit of the mind. Next I realized that the pure nature of mind is actually limitless.

 

Yes limitless.

 

The more I learn the more I realize there is to learn! I find this absolutely fascinating and actually really comfortable now.

 

The gentle voice o f my core begins “What is it that you are ignoring john? What do you turn away from? Search  yourself for your own answers your own root causes for your own human experiences and that of the world around you. Examine your beliefs and the ways your mind is talking inside your head. Feel how your body holds his thoughts and his feeling and how it has held such things inside of it. The body will let go and re condition as you realize ….

 

You will find all that you seek, not thru ignoring. And not thru your ignorance…. Rather let the doors of ignorance within you lead you towards the great unknown where there you WILL  find!

 

Did not one of your great masters teach you long ago that to knock and the door will be opened?

 

Do knock, do, when you reach your limits open and then you will find!” Core of spirituality gently continues……

 

Awareness waves are passing thru all of humanity now. Each wave arrives in a specific way and time for each individual. Pay attention to the awareness waves and please do not ignore what is going on, do not ignore each other or the world.

 

Learning to catch your ignorance, your refusal to take notice, or to reject something now can have tremendous impact on your life, your relationships, and the planet. Bringing awareness waves into your daily life actually nourishes your spirit, and lifts the mistakes,and the pains of learning difficult learning histories you have all encountered. It is time to to be aware. Time to move on!

 

Beware = Be Aware!             Feel that shift happening now.”

 

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