Hatred and Love, Shifting into Possibility.

Hatred and Love, Shifting into Possibility.

Core spirituality, my personal journey

We have not yet realized the power of our love and its capacity to heal the hate that is still held in our human family, our human minds and hearts and our beliefs. For what is hate really? Is it the refusal to love?

Love beckons!

The need we have to share this love for who we are and all that encompasses.

The need we have to be loved for who we are, and all that encompasses. Exists!

Love has much to do here, and through our trials and tragedies shows us how we can do better.

The morality of love is ever-present, and never-ending in its scope for expression in a world so full of hate, so full of hurt. There are many still captive to the darkened shadows of lovelessness. Yet love prevails in the face of it all!

I have experienced this hate in my life, and it is always hurtful. I have felt this in my family, my ohana. Love is my own primary response to heal that hurt. I have been tested many times.

Wherever there is any bigotry, any hate amongst us that leads to violence, that violence may be delivered in words, in emotions, or in actions.

However this may arise, our response can balance the equation of inequality and mis-perception for self.

The work of any perpetrator will have to also arise from within self. Ultimately this occurs within each of us, and so i consciously choose to do my own inner work and carry on.

These times are filled with many new opportunities to make better choices to love all that which we held outside ourselves …. up to now.

There is another reason for hate, arising from a  wound! The wounded self… 

A wounded mind, a wounded heart strikes out.

This wound in a man or woman, or child needs the love that can hold the wound and press forward to re balance what has passed in the wake of unimaginable pain. The sadness of these things is our heart crying to love.

And love we may permit ourselves, anyway. This is not just hurt alone with which we hold pain it is also our hearts yearning deeply from within to love and be loved.

Many hearts are crying on this planet… our world is opening to a long history of abuse, hurt, woundedness, and victimization.

The wound in our human family is felt because we can love, and we do not.

We hurt because we deeply need to be loved and to love. And only a real love breaks the bondage’s of confusion, pain and suffering.

Our refusal to surrender to love within ourselves is a painful one. Just as a pus must come out for a wound to heal, so too must the darkened thoughts and feelings arise so as to release what is preventing this love from being discovered.

Love is wise and powerful and will right what needs to be righted given a chance. Love is an action and not just an idea, as a verb it is moving energy. Love as an action inside each of us moves us all. Love in this way is universal and leads us to our mutuality. Our universal place of oneness through diversity.

Love is accountable and as such takes new footing in responsible action with regard to hate and the violence that results. It will take a lot of love to overcome a lot of hate in this world. For every bigoted idea, every injurious hatred still held, love seeks a surrender. Love seeks a surrender in any individual imprisoned by such notions. Love seeks a way through our world just as a stream will find any crack in the land to further its own outward flow.

The cracks in our world are those still in darkness. The darkness of the un-awakened heart. And so every tragedy holds open the moment long enough for that love to come through, even if just a tiny bit.

As “WITNESS” to hatred unfolds on a mass level through media this provides infinite new probabilities for re examinations on infinite new ways for our human perception. And to reevaluate how we decide what needs to be in our world.

Re examine everything that is about hate and violence and our need to express this. How meaningful it is that we embrace these feelings within our humanity and make new and different choices in our personal lives. The choice to love and be loved and to have this within authenticity.

Thus meaning is derived by the most base, most horrendous of any action. Without our individual re examinations we doom ourselves to repeat and repeat and repeat.

Love within each of us can provide meaningful purpose for that which seems meaningless.

Loving meaningful purpose arises now to lead us into our darkened hearts and out into our loving free new possibility. Much will change. And still there are those who hold tightly to their wounds. We can and will continue onward holding the possibility that at any moment anything can and will change, and change for the better. Though the path is full of darkness around us we hold a light within. We can have these conversations.

To learn to walk along a darkened path yet hold open and freely a light within. This is a new paradigm and one that can hold much safety and potential. For at any moment that inner light may reach a darkened place in someone, or some place around each of us. we can now learn to speak to that which holds us back and learn to open our hearts in new possibilities.

As the inner light within our humanity grows our capacity to overcome darkness around us increases. Thus we learn to illuminate our interior places. We learn to lighten our hearts, our minds and our bodies and bring newness to that which was old.

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Fears as The Blocks that Dumb Us Down…Facing, Processing, Mastering

Fears As The Blocks that Dumb Us Down…Facing, Processing, Mastering.

Core spirituality, my personal journey

Why face fear with our intention?

When I look away, and stay in denial I am withholding something as a form of awareness that is mine to own and to be transformed. When I ignore those feelings that are telling me that something is not right, I remain in ignorance. When I refuse to see all before me and inside of me with clarity and honesty my spectrum of choices become very limited.

For me to make the most informed choices and decisions about anything I need to have all the facts that are pertinent and without facing fear this is just not possible. Facing fear by way of what holds me back, no matter how vague or undefined it may be, brings up details that widen and deepen my capacity to be informed.

This information is significant in that what we are afraid of or what holds us back about anything, may contain valuable knowledge for personal and planetary growth.

Much knowledge is withheld from our waking consciousness through the walls of fear.

The Walls of Fear based thinking.

I can look around the planet and watch how so many people are emotionally investing themselves in these barriers. Walls of fear that we cycle around and around not really getting through them into the core of the issues. The dominance of fear based manipulation by people on this planet is wide-spread and used to control and prevent progress. My own  unseen fear, my own refusal, or denial to see within myself resonates outward. This resonate frequency within my vibration attracts those fear based scenarios to me. This is how we get hooked in to other people’s fear based programming. By side tracking our own issues.

Progress which transcends the dynamic nature of conflicts, and those of forces of polarization that keep people in massive states of disharmony. This disharmony that side tracks more individuals and perpetrates cycles of more dysfunction all through the human species. This is the “why” we question, and the “why” situations arise that are uncomfortable and have their roots in some form of unconscious fear. This is also how we can observe that we are socialized in fear based paradigms of belief. Unspoken social agreements lived out by passively participating without internal questioning results in the “”sheeple effect. (“Sheeple” = masses of people blinding following!)

Heart openings

When we drop into our hearts we activate our natural capacity to be caring. This energizes all our other potentials to be responsible, accountable and to seek, find, and orchestrate the larger pictures in our lives. We do this by refusing to engage in the smaller picture and moving into the larger one that holds the possibility, the solution for harmony. Harmony born of conflict. New ideas, revelations, and directions open up. Those things that had been held outside our awareness in the closed heart positioning common in the “sheeple effect”. When we clear our opposing positions and polarizing conflicts through deeper more meaningful information our possibilities for solving huge problems becomes substantially improved. Without it, or rather by staying in our own little states of vague, cloudy, confusing fear we perpetrate and prolong all manner of suffering. This is not too smart. This does not express wisdom. Our problems appear to not go away. When actually we are feeding the problems with our own unconscious choices.

Horror movies, murder and so on…

The urge to look at fear is spread all through society, perpetrated in our television and movie industry, written about on blogs, and books and focused on by every major news organization on earth. It is filled with both fearful real and artificial scenarios. Though these things are not all real, they act as attention grabbers where we can remain at a distance from our real, deeper unexplored subconscious fear. When we unconsciously participate in any forms of this we become controlled by fear in ways that prevent us from going beyond it… into our most precious pure awareness of knowing who and what we truly are.

Feelings of fear

We all have fears, however what we are afraid of may not be that.

We allow ourselves to be motivated by fear and this costs each of us some price on some level of our lives. There is that time in our personal growth where the maturity of self seeks to understand feelings of fear rather than continue in the repression, and falsity, limitation, and dumbing down that this incurs. We choose to be accountable. The price I have learned that I pay when I allow real internal unprocessed fear to exist without self-reflection and discernment is staggering. Limiting, and takes away energy that could be used in more productive life pursuits.

Calling upon inner strengths, and willingness to hold the idea that I can move myself past it.

I have found countless times that in passing through the dismantling of whatever is  built into my own subconscious mind, I learn that what I thought I was afraid was not actually something for me to stay fearful about, the feelings of fear were real, the object of my fear was not and so I learned that fear is not my endgame. It never is!

Facing fear has been a part of the awakening of my consciousness… leading me to discover there are plenty of other fields of knowledge still to be learned. Continuing the game of dumbing down has become so uncomfortable that the courage and strength inside me has risen up. This is a crucial turning point for anyone as this is when inner forces gather to generate power, more personal power with which to conquer the fear based emotions. This kind of inner power, is connected to the indwelling spiritual self and as such has long-lasting and profound effects on the development and the direction of our lives.

The paradigm shift towards inner power and self-generated authentic spirituality

The discovery of our more meaningful spiritual nature is exhilarating, sometimes surprising, and always re-balancing.

The increase of the spiritual self has the capacity to shift our physiology, adjust our mindsets , heal our emotional hurts, and much more. These adjustments to our human expression are the aspects of our species evolutionary impulses and not merely our individual growth. This process occurs universally regardless of the particular station in life any human being may hold. Growth is always potentially rich, and ever-present to be expressed. The collective awakening of our beliefs, our actions, and our reactions, our history, and the directions this is all taking is now in full throttle on a mass level.

Choosing growth instead of suffering. Choosing growth thru our suffering!

We are facing down our ridiculous, immature, and small-minded fear. That we live in a polarized world means that we may learn in two basic ways here. Positive or negative. At some point as we clear away what it is we have inherited by way of our birth it becomes unnecessary to have to learn in the same negative ways. We choose our growth, and our choice to be open to learn positively lessens and shortens the negative sting of our shortsightedness.

Getting Real

I find myself feeling less than the ideal picture of myself whenever I malinger in my fears without inquiry. This less than ideal within drives me in a negative way and does not let up until I move into and through those things that scare me or that which holds me back and limit me. The negativity messages move around in my body detracting from my happy places until I act upon them to discover, process, and release the hold this puts on me.

There is real intention that rises up from the deeper places inside me driving me to pay attention to my own limiting fear based ideas, beliefs, and past experiences. The urge or deeper intention within me to face these things leads me to places where I have discovered that i felt  controlled beyond my own desire to be controlled. This deeper urge is a positive message and generates whole new possibilities that negative reactions do not.

And controlled by outside influences, whether they be societal, religious, moral, political, violent, and oppressive to name a few. The idea that an idea or belief that is not intrinsically from me, or is actually a part of me having a control factor over me or within me is very uncomfortable and I find even abhorrent. The nature of a less than spiritual congruence, undermining of deep strength, and loss of energy that arise from fears that have taken hold in the psyche is unacceptable to me. And so it is I find myself in a life long quest to discover, dismantle, disengage, and release myself over and over and over again. This requires an intentional follow through in my thoughts, deeds, actions to come to some inner peace within myself about anything that has fed a conscious or unconscious scared fearful feeling.

Physical fear held in the body and how it is depleting us.

Underneath the chattering mind and its negative  reasons for how things are the way they are those unchecked levels of fear that undermine the authenticity of self. Loss of drive, loss of energy, and the aches and pains, repetitive self-injury in the physical body can all signal unresolved feelings that I have held based on my beliefs about myself, beliefs about reality that are fear based and  held outside normal waking consciousness, rather there is a split inside us called the subconscious.

As a remedial massage therapist trained in practicing therapeutic bodywork with clients who present symptoms all the time I have learned to have a vigilant eye on how fears might be behind physical symptoms that repeat. As a transpersonal hypnotherapist I have seen how injuries that repeat, and frustrations about the body that arise from these pains, and loss of energy is a common symptom that alerts me to unconsciously held fear. The remarkable thing about this subject is the split we humans have in our consciousness…inside  our subconscious. We are learning to know more of ourselves in this current time line. Our subconscious is becoming conscious. And our vague unknowing is being replaced with real knowledge.

That our inner awareness can be running programs of fear simultaneously while we are loving, living, and engaging in all other aspects of our lives naturally is quite a paradox. This is very easy to see as an observer. This is an indication of how we split. (our disconnects )

Listening with clients I have found myself being prompted many times to open up dialogues that express fears. In this way providing outlets for the trapped energy to be released out of the body in some small way. Sometimes there comes the AHAA, and we recognize some aspects of a limiting thought or feelings that is actually based in fear and h holding a person back. These dialogues open up the withheld dynamics that are signaling inside as pain, and release to our awareness valuable new pieces of info that propel us forward. We learn to add to our self-knowledge like how a child puts together a puzzle. For this reason each step we take, each new data point adds to our overall return to wholeness. This is how sharing our stories and listening to one another will diffuse the momentum inside and cause us to hear ourselves.

The value of physical incarnation and the brilliance of how our physical bodies are designed.

I honestly see the physical body as a translator for the spiritual being within it. Translating all manner of mental, emotional, spiritual content.

When fears are anchored into the subconscious minds, they live in the body physical and exert their influences by way of pains, injuries and limitations. Patterns of self-injury, sabotage, and malingering unresolved maladies. The withheld potential that is inherent in a life situation remains unexpressed and dormant as an actual energy in the body. Without processing completely what it is we are learning on these various levels of our consciousness we experience all kinds of messages that go nowhere, circulating inside our tissues,organs and physiology. Shifting our capacity to experience our physical potentials.

I have found it fascinating to observe in the reality TV shows where people are losing weight just how this comes up for every person. At some point in their process there are emotional, attitudinal issues that arise usually from unresolved past histories. The intensive work out programs and deepening into physicality eventually reveal what is stored inside the body. Everyone has a story of some kind that they have been living, some pain that has held them back. They learn to come face to face with these issues in the body and transcend their previously held ideas. Not until they pass through the breakdown of the psychic walls inside them, and feel out all their feelings do they get to the deeper truth that is within them. This is a universal theme! Our stories are not finished because we stopped in fear sometime, somewhere, someway. Our stories do go on. And we learn how to rewrite them in new and better ways.

I cannot even count the number of times I have shared in dialogue with a client over the past 35 years of my practice when I recognized these kinds of disconnects in their faces. It is all too common that as I point out how what we think and feel within us is directly translating through us and put this into context with a particular issue a client is presenting to me with their physical body that I get blank stares, moments of disconnection, confusion, and rapid fire changing of the subject.

Our recent human histories.

We have been very out of touch with what we hold subconsciously inside ourselves and this is dramatically shifting as we learn to open and remember what was once held outside our waking awareness. Unaware of the fact that everything is connected inside us on different levels, and how it is with our minds that we separate it all. We can always choose to nurture our experience of connected-ness by choosing to drop into our hearts to find answers that are outside the intellectual mind!

Our sport, and medical models are so externally based that the connection to interior places in our feelings and thoughts contributing to how our physical bodies are functioning are typically minimized…  and minimally associated to the symptoms our bodies are expressing. Perhaps thousands of times in this lifetime I have asked a client in the intake segment of our session after they have expressed to me what is wrong, their symptoms, the places in their body where there is a problem, “what do you think is the cause of this?” I get blank stares, immediate lines like “I don’t know”, and I recognize an immediate disconnect with the person and their physical body.

Steps to take towards personal enlightenment

On a personal level when I experience these same kind of vague, unknown symptoms in my body I go within.

I quiet myself and ask my body directly what it is saying to me.

What are the feelings I am having that I have yet to identify?

I allow myself to go deeper into what the symptoms feel like and I stay within those feelings until I find answers.

I wait for words and pictures to tell me about what it is that is arising inside me that I am totally disconnected from but are expressing physically.

This is an amazing process that often leads to uncovering deeper fears in the human psyche that are running my life without my conscious knowledge. In this way my awareness serves my body, and my body expresses the deeper parts of myself with which I am about to integrate and learn all about. The resulting outcomes are a wider spectrum of emotions, feelings, thoughts, and beliefs and ideas. All of which add to my self-knowledge. And ultimately freeing me to be more independent and self-sovereign.

Our physical bodies are actually vehicles, vehicles to translate reality.

Our physical bodies are not what we were taught they are…. Translators of energy! Our brains are not the origins of our thoughts, the mental realm… pure thought is!

I know this as I have traveled outside my body many times in this life and I did not have a brain when I did so, yet I had mental thoughts. Our brains translate the thoughts we hold inside the energy body which is the real self this is within our mental field. Our feelings do not originate only in our physical body, they are coming from our emotional field.

Very interesting in my work I have often encountered feelings that have no substance whatsoever in the present day events, yet they present in the body. Memories are such that there is not any real physical thing now happening, yet all the feelings are there coming out of the emotional field of our spiritual substance and being expressed in the physical body!

Paradigm flips.

Once I realized that my body was translating material my entire paradigm shifted and I began the path of awareness that leads me to knowing myself not just as a body, but as a spiritual being having a human experience living within a physical form! Whenever we uncover a new paradigm we start all over from a new perspective. This new way of seeing things places all the components of our questions into a new order and whole new pictures start to evolve. This is how what is called the “higher mind” aspect of ourselves begins to integrate. This takes time and often will result in needed rest, naps, and or longer periods in solitude and reflection. a much more sophisticated mental awareness develops!

Our bodies carry information that is passed to us from our ancestors via genetic coding.

Our choices in the present moment about this information can switch on and off the different components of our DNA, and we can activate whole new genetic pieces of information this way.

I found it fascinating that in recent genetic studies with identical twins born with the same exact genes, checked 20 years later those exact genes were different. They no longer carried the same genetic messages as they did when they were born. This was attributed to the differing choices that each twin made and these choices switched on or off certain genetic messages.

The Soul

I have also discovered how the soul choice for a physical body creates our experiences. In that the levels our soul needs to learn choose the DNA starts and potentials in the family of origin we are born into. This assures a particular focus for the incarnation and protects the soul intentions to learn specific things, and express in certain ways. the choices we make with what we have is more important than the actual content, once we get going with each life time. Those choices determine what DNA switches on and off through out our lives! The question becomes for me “what more can I switch on inside my genetic code through my choices?”

Fear as a defining character trait…do we really want this?

Whether you know it or not your fear becomes a defining character trait. As horrible a wake up call can be I truly learned how true this is.

In my discussions with clients and friends over the years, and my own personal inner reflections, I have observed how it is we actually defend our fears when exposed, or confronted. This defense is part of an inner dynamic within us that we use to logically suspend ourselves because of our resistance to change. And that resistance to change is actually our resistance to process because of our discomfort.

Our resistance to process our fears has an element of  terror and as such holds us back from our purest selves… the core spirituality that is us on the deepest levels of our being. These postures are held in check by the smaller parts of ourselves…. our ego’s!

As humans we live in so many agreements that have been put into place when we are in our earlier egoic developments. We grow up unaware that we do not see the greater value in a more mature self honesty. A self-honesty that pierces through the illusions, logical fears, and limiting beliefs we have learned to be complacent to or comfortable within ourselves. Thus we become shaped by these fears as people. As groups, and as nations and finally as a species!

Whenever I catch myself defending my fear… I say good. It is a really good thing to notice. Because there is unconscious thinking inside those defenses. I want to get to those things. In my past when I stayed in denial, my relationships would point out the hidden things inside my defenses and I would become even more defensive, distant, and combative. This is a common occurrence with loved ones, family members and people who know us. They see what we do not about ourselves. I have learned to observe and listen to myself better. This cut down on many outer problems my own unconsciousness was causing.

Our many masks. Why the masks we wear need defining.

These fear based character developments masquerade in our lives as all kinds of things they really are not.

They become entrenched in our sense of personal self, our ego structures and lead to what I call… ego take overs. ( see previous writing on the topic of Ego Takeovers)

Ego take overs take over many of the other components of our character and dominate our personalities. Thus we have all the power issues in the world manifesting now. Clashes of power,

power take overs,

stealing of power,

power mongering,

power plays.

Loss of power…

The political, social climates of our world are virtually filled with these situations. We can learn to observe the many faces in the world society of these ego driven forces and learn to refocus on our own sovereignty by learning to do what is called “inner work” . This inner work acts as a buffer and stops the resonate field of attraction which generates more of the same. We have the choice to detoxify our selves. Much of what is arising now is very toxic. Providing a perfect setting for clearing and much-needed healing. Learning to face the masks we all wear and discover the greater self underneath!

It is interesting to me how this happens so naturally in humans. When we are invested in fear, we masquerade it as something else. This is so common in my experience that I have learned to tread lightly in the therapeutic setting with clients. (And I have found myself doing the exact same things) I find myself gob smacked whenever I encounter myself in a masquerade, as I usually did not even realize I was acting out some kind of role, instead of expressing myself authentically.

Social agreements that support fear

Simply watching what is reported as news each day reveals to me the tremendous amount of social agreements we invest into that support fear and how easily people will believe the masks so many wear.

Fear that we actually create and perpetrate by socially allowing ourselves to emotionally invest into these dramas. I watch as politics are used to sway people and hold them in fear. I watch as religion leaders use fear to sway people and hold them in fear.

I watch as scientists group together and promote their versions of reality and this sways people and holds them in fear, disconnected from the broader real reality of the cosmos.

I watch as business such as pharmacology perpetrate fear that hold people outside the greater truth of their bodies and our inner capacity to heal ourselves.

Sport

While sport has many valuable sides to it like personal development, learning about the human body, camaraderie, goal setting along with achievement on an individual level.

I question some of the elements of organized sports and look into the darker side of what we have created on a social basis.

I watch as sport enthusiasts use sports to drive their own egotistical agendas, make money, and promote the use of sport as a well-meaning, healthy human character trait. Yet I ask myself how healthy is it when someone always must lose?  ( perpetrating “either/or ” binary style of thinking.) The perpetration that competition is always healthy  can and does become over emphasized and dominates our societal agreements leading us into many habitual forms of behavior and becomes a lingering subconscious strategy to maintain  masses of people in mindsets of subjugation and conflict .

Subjugation as in agreements that support  human values of superiority, dominance, win/lose strategies, control, over powering, and so on… all in good fun? Yea right! Not actually, these strategies, these habits hold humans in forms of thinking of limitation outside the grander spectrum of human capability and cause patterns of repeating over and over again.. I find it crazy. These styles of thinking overlap into other areas of life with much consequence to our relationships.

The themes of dominance, over powering, and profiting that flow over into business, personal relationships, and basic human living do not embrace the large spectrum of universal spiritual values necessary to generate a world where everyone, and everything is evenly distributed. The huge imbalance of human resources, time, energy, and planetary goods remains constant. As a species we do not always see how our very thoughts and feelings overlap to each other, and across the world. Our thinking is what charges these situations with energy and so this is where it goes.

Group fear and petty tyrants, ego take overs, and control maniacs

Whole nations, global religious organizations, large segments of populations all over the world are living in group fears of all kinds. Loss of services  and resources, proliferation of war, lack of food, political oppression, political control agendas, domination, stifling of creativity. It is obvious to me that this is greatly out of balance, is not working, has not worked for generations. I refuse to invest my own personal energy into any forms of ego based policies, take overs, or agendas being fed to us under the many masks of good will. The un-balancing of human resources alone, the perpetual states of conflict, and the sheer levels of human poverty do not express the real values of spiritual wellness.

Petty tyrants that run banks, run businesses, run local governments, run their military all exert influences that seek control of some kind at us. The proportion of our world society that is held in some form of bondage, or subjugation and control is overwhelming. The few that exert dominance, conflict and control on the many is staggering. Money alone as a system on this planet serves the few while making workers out of the many. The levels of corruption, lies, deceit, and misuse that are coming to light now reveal the larger aspect of how money has been used for centuries to exert a “worker-force” of humans to supply the few. It is abhorrent to me how we have learned to accept this as normal. As a spiritual being I find myself pulling out of and away from any and all of the societal agreements we have around the value of money in this way. My personal value in life has nothing to do with how much or how little I have. This situation has undermined the basic spiritual value of an entire species of spiritual beings on this planet for thousands of years. I wonder how long it will continue! This is simply pure distortion!

Our group consensus to perpetrate fear under the guise of heroism, good will, with overt and covert tyrannical systems is like a virus in our human species. One for example is warring. That our government has perpetrated some form of war for 200 hundred years shows me that someone is adamant about making money, having control, dominating others, thwarting resources and really doesn’t care very much about the common man and woman, and child.

The amount of resources used in perpetrating war machinery  overrides every other aspect of our social and group well-being. At the expense of all of us, this planet, and the animals! Those behind the scenes of this are what I call control maniacs.

They represent themselves as just the opposite and want us to believe it. I do not. I refuse to accept that war, dominance, and submission are character traits that I want to live by. I refuse to buy into the many political agendas that perpetrate war, rather  I look at the real causes of oppression, suppression, and the unbalanced proportion of goods all over the world. Power issues are only the tip of the iceberg.

People need basic materials to have a happy, enriched environment with which to create life. How these factions of war mongering continue to fracture, break up, and pit one people against another is truly an ego maniac dream come true, filled with psychopathic leaders and their ego take over completely selfish agendas!

When oppressive societies rise up and individuals begin to feel their sense of true sovereignty.

I find it fascinating how forces of government, political leaders, religious leaders and teachers will exert power over whole groups of people anytime they attempt to exert real personal choice, personal sovereignty! I am not so certain that all the people who participate in carrying out these things actually realize what they are doing. Their own unconsciousness is often something they do not realize, as they would not truly do to other humans what they are doing to them? Would they if they were not brain washed, and driven by their own subconscious programming?

I mean, what the heck are those guys up in the sky thinking when they fill the sky with chem-trails? They are not, they are not thinking. There is a disconnect!

There is tremendous unconsciousness here, and yet this is a good example of how people are controlled through fear and do not even know they are! How many people just want to keep the bread on the table?  My sense is the majority of people perpetrating these actions would not do it were they connected, and self realized as spiritual beings having this human experience. There is a huge degree of human brainwashing and hypnosis in all this negative behavior.

Real fear as a warning, discernment about all our fears. Know the difference!

When fear is a signal of distress, danger, and there is a need for real action to address this, fear is a discernment we all must learn to make. We have to and must pay attention!There is real fear and there is false fear!

Fears that are self-generated, or inherited, or educated into us without real basis are some of the kinds of discernment up for re deciding. Safety and harmony are maintained when we take care of the dangerous aspects of life. I am in no way thinking that we must eliminate, ignore, or disengage with fear. Simply put I want to define it and reveal the actual causes of it in myself and then make appropriate choices. How real is what I am fearful, though my feelings are real, it is a discernment to realize. So much of what we think we need to be afraid of is not that at all.

Family fear and how we perpetrate these fears. Our starting points in life.

Unconscious programming is passed thru us via our behaviors and experiences within our families. Each family has a different perspective it is living out with themes, patterns, and directions. Our soul choice to incarnate into the particular family we are born into has much to do with these things. Frequently we come into these families as starting points for our need to learn as spiritual beings, and then we will transcend those conditions. By willingly going along with family patterns of fear based beliefs we perpetrate them to the next generations. My own experience of this is dramatic. There was a time when I pulled away from my birth family as the most loving thing I could possibly do for myself and there were those who insisted I was doing the exact opposite. It took years for some of them to realize the loving choices I made to disengage from family dynamics that I felt were toxic.

Family carries stories. Our stories carry our family based fears and we pass these along to our children and they pass them on to theirs whenever we allow ourselves to submit and perpetrate these histories. We do this as a kind of family character trait and act as if it is all normal. I choose to catch myself doing this as much as I can and to regroup, reevaluate, and re-decide at any time I need to. And our genes hold these stories and bring up inside us all the emotional patterns of our birth families. By way of conscious knowledge and better choices once we realize what our emotional patterning is we may, we can change this. This will switch on and off different genetic messages within us. Redirecting our future possibilities. We all have observed family members sharing the same emotional genetic patterning choosing differently and then having different outcomes because of how they choose to deal with these patterns.

Fear mongering

Fear mongering is the deliberate act of causing, exaggerating and repeating harm using fear based tactics to achieve control. Using fear to persuade people through their vulnerabilities and cause splits, divisions and chaos. This fear mongering engages us the more we are out of touch with our own inner sense of self. Otherwise this will distract. Fear mongering as a distraction tactic is widely used to actively engage in covert activities all over the world. Much of the contents of our daily news is filled with this kind of fear tactic. Driving the attention of billions of people away from their inner sense of authentic attention to what is real and focusing them on danger. It is a basic, primal feeling that has all of us to paying attention to danger and not going inside to our hearts for solutions. Fear mongering using this innate sense to manipulate and control while redirecting our attention to what may actually be happening. This is an effective method to use in order to dissuade real connection and inner self-awareness in humans. Many individuals are participants in this method and do not realize it. Not only are there serious political activities like this there are marketing ones too. The use of fear mongering in religious doctrines alone control billions of people without them having a clue.

Fear hidden in religious doctrines, dogmas, and how we learn to submit

Threats about the after life that cause harm and submission! If you do this then you will go to hell. If you do that you will go into a bottomless pit for eternity, if you express yourself in any way not keeping with the dogmas and doctrines of many religious teachings you are told you will have to suffer and burn in hell.

This is a distortion of the truth.

I know because I have visited the hell’s associated with this world with my spiritual guides in my own out-of-body experiences. I learned how we ourselves create hell. God does not do this to us. Nor was there a hell created for this purpose. The hell and damnation taught by religious doctrines and dogmas has been perpetrated as a fear mongering method to control people. This is a twisted version of the actual reality.

What I learned was that there is a natural law of the cosmos called action and reaction. This action/reaction causes us to experience the effects of our own negative actions as a means of learning something. Thus it is true that what we put out comes back. We are the source, on some level of whatever we experience. Everything returns to source and that includes source within each one of us!

The hell’s I visited developed out of the accumulations of millions of thoughts of people stuck in negative scenarios after they left their bodies at the moments of death. This caused a widening in the field of this planet that is called the astral realm. I saw, felt, and witnessed the horrible and very sad states of individuals in these places. Places that feel just as real as here once you are in them. But one very valuable aspect of this experience that I observed many times was how the consciousness of the person shifted in these hell’s. Once there became an opening out of the despondent hopeless nature, and self punishing, twisted sense of self, release happened.

This release would manifest according to the belief system of the person in the hellish bondage. If they were Christian… then an angel, or Jesus would extend a holy light to them and pull them out. If their belief system was directly connected to their core spiritual nature, their own inner light would pull them out. We call this redemption. It is a kind of resurrection of the individual. I watched as they rose out of the planes of suffering into more planes of harmonious light. As I watched this I could feel the nature of the darkened planes as those of self-created miseries. It was an obvious thing to see there. I also experienced my own aspect deep within a hell of this kind and the awful state of despair and powerlessness. I also experienced the uplifting release and transformation of that aspect of me. It is an experience never to be forgotten, as the return to true spiritual self is beyond words in description…. it is ecstatic and joyful!

The same experiences hold true for us on this plane. Not as extreme here on Earth, as when you leave your body and completely immerse yourself in a hell. But the dynamics of the miseries, the suffering, the pain that we unconsciously generate stay with us until we learn to shift. And shift into a better state. Probably just about every human alive has at one time or another descended into their own living hell on earth. And then rose out of it. Coming out of our own hell’s, when we finally make it out we bring with us tremendous new awareness’s. We integrate new compassion’s, new love, new understandings. It is an amazing experience. We have our descents and our ascents through our fears. We need to notice how this works and direct ourselves appropriately with understanding about how nature really functions. I have replaced my old beliefs in religious doctrines and dogmas of hell and damnation, pain and suffering with my experiences of how it really works.

Love is the dominant, prevailing, and omnipresent force not damnation and hell.

Most of the people who perpetrate these doctrines do so out of their belief in them, not their personal soul experience. If they were truly connected to the indwelling soul self they would not subject others to this method what so ever. Loving accountability, action and reaction and truthful telling of how the spiritual nature of the cosmos would be the teaching. Many pure little children have been subjected to these teachings at times when they themselves were at their purest and most vulnerable places in life. These teachings go deep into the psyche and then go underground into the subconscious mind as adults.

I worked with this particular issue of religious programming as a therapist. Working with people who had chronic sickness. Working with people who had deep complicated issues that traditional therapy was not reaching. In my hypnotherapy practice I studied and practiced religious deprogramming techniques designed specifically to address the issues I mentioned above. I was astonished to observe in clients the highly charged, emotionally based fear doctrines taught to them as children. Internalized so completely as a result of continuous repetition by well-meaning care givers. Internalized so deeply that these teachings replaced the actual inner voice of the adult. The result was an inability to authentically express their deeper unsettling emotions. The locks inside the psyche that went into place that prevented these adults from access to their genuine anger, sadness, fear and intrinsic inner truth along with  countless other emotions was riveting.

Pointing out the falseness of these teaching while accessing the authentic emotions underneath them accessed much-needed inner power and resolve to tackle the real problems associated with chronic sickness and debilitating mental and emotional states. The unresolved emotional landscapes underneath the physical symptoms.  I watched as client after client went into remission or passed beyond the horrendous difficulty in their therapeutic process. The transformations were miraculous. Once a person regains authentic inner connection to real feelings, and develops the awareness of discernment and learns to articulate and express genuine feelings the entire physical body responds in kind.The mental landscape of the individual clears out ! And a whole new level of homeostasis develops. A completely empowered and authentic spiritual nature moves in to replace the false, toxic belief system and the person is restored!This is a sight to see with your own eyes as the transformation is magnificent, truly magnificent!

Submitting and suppressing our most precious pure selves. The loss of true identity!

What we lose sight of by investing into fear based thinking is our most precious pure self. That is that in us that is below the surface of everything in the core. The core self. When we allow fear to guide our actions we lose the natural effectiveness of our precious pure self and that fear based thinking reshape all our actions and shifts the outcomes and directions of our lives.

To return to our most pure self is a beautiful and powerful experience where we become congruent inside us. We stop splitting ourselves up and conflicts become resolved more effectively, more naturally, more rapidly.

Loss of spiritual integrity, soul integrity, and connection with all of life

When we lose our inner connections in these ways we allow ourselves to make choices out of fear alone we lose sight of the natural spiritual integrity inherent in any situation. The fear masks many details of authentic  spirituality and as such twists and distorts authentic experiences of that which is spiritual. Our soul integrity is held at a distance while our ego based thinking engaged in fear directs our lives.

This cuts up the true interconnection we all have with one another and with life. And for this reason we prevent ourselves from seeing the larger picture. There is some fear controlling a person whenever there is a loss of connection to this large aspect of life. Distance from soul self generates feelings of powerlessness, loss, loneliness, and separation. Anxiety takes the place of our true loving spiritual presence. Repeating levels of anxiety of this kind can signal the need to question what it is we are afraid of and why. Tensions that do not resolve themselves take the place of authentic inner calm.

How fear limits attention, limits awareness, and takes away from creativity

Unconscious fears limit our capacity to pay attention to deeper more significant information that is available to any of us. Fear limits our awareness by dumbing down our awareness and limiting it . Differences are difficult to accept and this undermines our creativity. Without creativity we are doomed to repeat and repeat our life situations generating cycles of frustration and powerlessness. For this reason intentionally facing what holds us back is very important. We have the capacity to unlock all of our conundrums through the choices we make to step out of our fears and work towards dismantling their limiting effects.

We hide from fear, fear notions are designed to hide from us
We avoid fear…. no… we actually hide from it. And likewise our fears seem to hide from us. It is a great cat and mouse game humans play. This hiding from our fears cause set backs and repeating situations to occur over and over again. Cycles of repetition become the norm. A powerful spiritual message surfacing in the masses today is STOP HIDING! It is not necessary to hide your true self, your real emotions, and your deepest longings. Reveal to yourself! Let yourself come undone, or be undone. It is your choice how painful this will be. Whenever I notice a part of myself hiding I bring in love. Fear parts of ourselves cower in darkness, and misunderstanding. Inner conflicts are the results as these parts hold back the natural creative depth of our true inner selves. Loving oneself at this point is a mandatory step. Millions of people are now learning all over again how to love themselves and each other. We are learning to let love in, to let love guide, to let love have its way with us. This is a truly transformational thing to realize. Going through it feels miraculous and amazing. Where it is leading is unknown.

How in charge can you be when you are submitting to fear?

Not too much, though it may appear like it temporarily. Petty tyrants are the best example of this one. I have had my share of them. And I always learn to much. The thing is petty tyrants remain in the conditional states of their own fear based agendas, while those who finally get away, or out from them actually move forward in the life. Without the fear! This has been a liberating experience for me to observe and grateful I have been many times after releasing myself from these controls.

How loving can you be when you are submitting to fear?

Not to your full potential that is for sure. Love has a powerful way in life. Love, real love will usually teach us, lift us, release us from the limiting conditions of our previously self-created fear and transforms. How life looks to you may signal the real truth of your love. I always check this with myself. Am I free? If not I know that I have a way to go in the love departments. Without true inner freedoms my love is still conditional and controlled.

Splitting the human into pieces and how this detracts from our greater experience of  truth

Loaded subconscious thoughts and feelings that overtake our lives is what this looks like. The more unconscious material I can make conscious the better. There is a timing to this which protects the personality so that we do not become completely over taken by the subconscious. However much of our lives is still being governed by it. These splits are manifested outwardly in the splits we see around us in our humanity. The splitting, division of our species now undermines our collective experience of having truth as a whole planetary body. Imagine how it will be when the entire species has reached that quantum level. How differently the whole world would be. For this reason I do my part, with myself. I cannot do yours. We each have our own part in this unfolding process of life.

Committing to healing our fear consciously by choosing not to let it suppress you

The result of facing fear in myself has developed a commitment. A commitment to not suppress. This shifted all my relationships and was at that turning point a huge pivoting of my life expression. Choosing not to suppress myself required a whole new set of boundaries in all my relationships. These new boundaries moved people around in my life. Move me around as I found myself attracted to or repelled in new ways. I learned to take in much consideration to those closest to me so as to not be offensive. And to allow more time and space for them to process how it is I was choosing to be. The most significant thing though has been how many new people came into my life. These new people had different expectations, different boundaries, and were focused in more mutuality.

The breaking of hypnosis in the human collective

The dismantling of the false layers of self, the false beliefs, the false social agreements, the false ideas associated with so many aspects of our humanity are revelatory. I am less of a follower of others. Yet I am in good company. With more people following their inner soul voices, there is a remarkable stability among-st the chaos. There is a bonding, and understanding. There is a mutual recognition, and willingness.

The returning to Source

All returns to source. This is life. This is reality. This is how the cosmos runs. This is in effect here on this planet. What returns to source can be transformed, transcended, and completely transmuted. We simply need to remember that each person here is a point in Source! And that everything in everyone is returning to that source point, the source we share. The great paradox to get over is: we are one, we are many. Source within each of us is having this experience.

The direct experience of Source is Unmistakable. I could write a chapter on this alone. i have had the experiences of Source within me and i have traveled so far beyond the known universe into the the great cosmic sun,  the source for our own galaxy, our own universe. The love that this source has is beyond description, beyond words, beyond even holding so great a love it is! It fuels whole universes that to my observation was beyond comprehension.  For now I will say that the best experience of facing what holds me back, the fears is the experiences of the source-field, the amazing brilliant intelligence and love that is source. Within and outwardly, this is truly an amazing experience of living life as a spiritual being having a human experience. The fulfillment of all things, knowledge restored, and connection enhanced. The full circle moments, and the endless opportunities to get it right. It is all worth it. Every single bit!

Core Spirituality, my personal journey

EGO Take-overs !…, Our Life Shifts Possible From Ego Awareness? … Core Spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

EGO Take-overs !…, Our Life Shifts Possible From Ego Awareness? … Core Spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Help!!!!!!! My own ego has taken me over and I can’t get up!

Conflicts, pain, suffering, confusions, and misunderstandings mixed with power issues. This is terrible! How frequently does my own ego jump in and take over me? And how covert is this anyway? Do other people’s egos over power you? Not only in the general public but also within the spiritual community.

Ego awareness is a tremendous form of self-awareness that opens us to our most valuable inner qualities. Looking into what and how our ego’s take hold and identifying behaviors can be an unnerving yet a most amazing way to get to our deepest authentic self. I decided to write down some of my own ego places and what I have learned by applying self honesty and getting to know my ego.

First of all I want to start by saying the ego is not bad, does not need to killed, erased or eliminated. The ego needs to learn… and to learn how to fit in with rest of the self. The path of the ego is the path of balancing the self in human form. There is nothing wrong with it until you become too uncomfortable, and then it is time to grow. It is the growth of consciousness within us and the balance we learn by applying self-awareness. Particularly ego awareness! That juxtaposes our egos into the best position within us to navigate our lives!

What is the ego?

The ego is that part of our consciousness that develops as singularity of self inside our consciousness and thus is the beginning of the development of our self-identity, self awareness and personal sense of individuality. The ego learns how to get by in the world, and typically sees itself as separate from everyone and everything.

The ego is a starting point for us and need not be the end point of our lives. We are all born into a spectrum of acting out as babies, little egos in the world discovering life.

In the beginning an ego thinks it is the sum total of ourselves… it thinks it is THE SELF! The ego learns to define life from its particular individualized point of view and is a valuable aspect of our human development, yet it is only one aspect of ourselves. I know I am in my ego state when I am seeing life as separate, am convinced in supporting opposing points of view that perpetrate power over others, with more separation scenarios and I am supporting more points of view that perpetrate unnecessary fear, and when I am caught in the act of diminishing others.

We all have had our journeys through our ego’s, and the ego’s of other people… parents, siblings, teachers, those in authority, politicians, scientists, specialists, pastors, religious leaders, leaders of all kinds. This planet is virtually overwhelmed with egotistical voices of authority, dominance, and suppression of true and valuable internal knowledge. Learning to navigate this world of the earthly based human ego is no small feat, they are everywhere in every aspect of our lives. One method of learning true navigation in this ego-based world society is to get to know your own ego.

Below I decided to share some of the incredible ego states I discovered in myself and that I have been learning to work through all my life. I love my ego. Much of it formed its opinions when I was unaware. And because I wasn’t paying attention at that time my ego states grew to ridiculous and many times problematic proportions. As I began to wake up and notice, it wasn’t you who was wreaking havoc with my life, it was my own ego I began to get to understand and know my ego.

Below are just some of the amazing ego take overs I have experienced that may trigger you to get to know your ego self. By loving and appreciating my ego and learning to forgive myself for my own lack of observation in this regard I am learning to re-balance myself with respect for and to my ego self. So here goes, here are some of my ego dilemmas.

I know I am in my ego when I see life as competition and allow myself to feel less than blessed in any situation or any moment.

I know I am in my ego when I am driven to fill myself up, out of a sense of emptiness. When I am eating out of emptiness, when I am compulsively seeking stimulation of any kind. I know I have left the grips of my ego when I return to wholeness, and I nurture my well being.

I know I am in the grips of my ego when I am looking outwards for my sense of right-ness, I have left my ego when I look inwards. My answers come from within me!

I know I am in my ego when I am stuck in any form of lack.

When I have bought into a reality of lack I lose my grounding. I know I have released the grip of my ego when I return to abundance. When I allow myself to rest within the greater truth that there is plenty, and plenty for all. Losing sight of abundance in any way signals me to get a grip. I choose not to perpetrate the ideas in the world which say there is not enough for everyone. That is simply a strange yet true form of ego takeover .

I know I am stuck in ego when I seek wisdom outside me, I know I have returned to my authentic self when I seek, wait, find, wisdom within myself. I cultivate and develop my ability to be wise. Wisdom discovered as a personal experience always replaces that which was from outside us.

I know I am in my ego state when I am in fear of endings, and my own mortality.

When I let go of this fear I go to my own internal space of the eternal. The eternal within me nourishes me and realign my attention towards truthfulness. I eliminate my outer emotional investments in false teachings, doctrines, and agreements that profess anything other than the actual truth, that our nature is eternal.

I know I am stuck in my ego when I am stuck on me.

When I am possessed by my own thoughts, feelings, situation, and positions to the exclusion of others. I know I have passed out of this when I get to we. Replacing me with we always shifts any difficult personal situation and reveals information that was withheld to our awareness because of the selfish nature we were investing ourselves!

I know I am stuck in ego when I cause pain to myself and others as a solution to me.

When I release myself from the grips of my own ego I cause healing. I always shift the equations from me to we and then I realize my own participation and power to truly heal. Healing takes many forms and simply implies wholeness. Anytime I can grab hold of another piece of my puzzle that contributes to being whole I am better off.

I know I am in my ego when I am driven to have outward recognition.

I have left that place when I seek my own inner authority. Inner authenticity is the expression that replaces any forms of compulsive outward recognition.

I know I am a victim of my circumstances and I feel how my ego causes me to be separate, less than, and diminished.

I leave this place when I return to my inner realization that I create my own reality. I shift my perceptions and return to my own resources within. My circumstances are my growing places and I do not intend to stay a victim in these places…. I can always learn something that will add to my spiritual awareness and thus support me in transforming, and transcending a situation.

I know I am in my ego when I fear the temporary nature of life.

When I let go of my ego I find I feel how awesome life can be, that it is constantly changing and that situations are temporary. When I am out of the grips of my ego I recognize a bigger picture unfolding and the greater realization that is unfolding for me to learn all about. I am grateful for the unlimited expression of the temporal nature of life.

I know I am stuck in my ego when I only see and feel how complicated things are.

I feel overwhelmed and victimized. When I let go of the grip of my ego mind I recognize the parts, I see how things fit together, I open myself to learning more. I learn to dismantle my overwhelms and I recognize patterns emerging for me to learn about. Simplicity replaces complication. Simplicity becomes my new theme.

I know that I am in an egotistical place when I I think I am more spiritual, or you are more spiritual than me.

When I think that what I am doing is more spiritual, and I notice the unconscious levels of superiority within me I am surely in an ego take over.. I know when I am getting into self-righteousness and superiority I am deep in my ego separations. I know I have released the pain this causes and the friction it generates when I return to the place of authentic spirituality and I recognize how spirit in all of us is unlimited in expression. I know that everything, and all actions are sourced from a spiritual domain. We are all on equal grounding as humans and our capacity to express our own spiritual directions has many colors, shapes and sizes. I see myself in you and my heart opens with loving attention and willingness to share. Unity replaces separation, and oneness replaces superiority.

I know I am in the grips of my ego when I am hard-hearted.

I let go of my strictness, my fixed-ness and I find compassion. When I return to compassion I allow myself to melt my own ego hardness. At any time I alow myself permission to change, and then to share this with those whom I have held my hard-heartedness.

I know I am in my ego when I get impatient and cause more negativity.

I let go my impatience and find remarkable new levels of patience inwardly. I move with patience and this informs me in totally new ways that assist the unfolding of whatever is going on. Slowing down enable me to be more capable of the details. Details I was missing when I was impatient.

I know I am in my ego grips when I am indifferent, and lackadaisical.

When I lose sight of and interest in the unfolding of circumstances around me and in the world. I let go of my egotistical grips and find myself happy and open-minded to pay attention and remain open. I seek to learn and understand where I refused to care. Caring replaces complacency.

I know I am in my ego when I allow my own mind to generate unrealistic fear about anything. Allowing myself to engage in fear based group mind thinking that is fear mongering, fear making, and fear based limits my authentic self-expression and connections to others, to differences and to opposing points of view. I know I have released my ego based hypnotized self when I begin to experience inner courage, strength, and genuine power. I see how fear is a stepping stone toward greater self-expression, and the possibility for developing group awareness. I see the problems, conflicts and have empathy arise within me to replace the frozen, limiting, hard perceptions that fear cause in my own human conditions.

Hostility is a sure sign I am in my ego self, and when I release this I learn to process the layers of my own feelings and thoughts in a way that reveal my true friendliness and willingness to cooperate. I learn to pay attention to issues that arise and I take care of what needs to be addressed. I refuse to allow myself to participate in social movements that perpetrate these hostilities.

I know that my ego has overtaken me when I am stuck in past and future life scenarios.

Unable to be present the endless playing of story lines, old conversations, and hurtful past experiences dominate my inner world. I can’t reach the future, yet it is the only place I want to escape. As I relinquish this ego trap I return to the “NOW” moment. I become capable of managing whatever arises because I am present for it.

Complaining all the time, is how I feel when I am stuck in ego states.

Instead of complaining I return to gratitude. When I shift into gratitude I release the endless negativity of relentless complaining and I feel a sense of acceptance with life that shows me how to transcend, and use my circumstances to grow.

War…. warring with others as a way of life or pattern of constantly battling is a sure sign I am in the grips of some egotistical state of my own creation.

Including national and international group notions of continual war. I know I am leaving the painful grips of my ego when I accept the possibility that peace is possible and I choose peace as a way to solve conflict. No matter how long it takes, or how it looks. Peace is the choice that replaces war, and restores the core spirituality, or soulful aspect into my life.

I peacefully engage my awareness to the problems of war and my own inner battles.

I shift my energy from outward to inward and I refresh my own attention to my inner battles.

I resolve my inner wars and restore my inner peace as a solution to the outer wars on this planet.

Peace is possible.

Intolerance is the uncomfortable act of ego grip that strangles the soul in the human form.

Whenever I recognize my own intolerance I shift into tolerance. I see my own limited self, my own limiting perceptions and I pull away from any and all forms of externally based intolerance. I stop the flow of this group mind behavior in myself. As I cultivate tolerance within me I contribute in the world in much more meaningful ways and I find connections with others for which there had been none. I learn to bring tolerance to my own difficulties and I love what process I am going through.

Self importance at the expense of others is a horrible ego state that isolates and generates many negative human relationship problems.

Whenever I let go of my own self importance in this way I shift my energy and attention to We importance. Lessening the weight of the self brings equality, equanimity and lightness of being. We not me has become a new mantra!

Self denial is the uncomfortable act of not getting my authentic needs met.

I know I am in the grips of some kind of ego takeover when I am in self denials. The uncomfortable outcomes that arise from self-denial cause all manner of toxic life interactions. Human relationships, relationship to the divine in life are all inhibited and thwarted by my self-denial. Unhappiness, suffering and pain are the usual outcomes. When I let go of the egotistical notion of self-denial I open myself to the genuine possibility and the actualization of my own authentic sovereignty. I become more of an honest expression of my soul in human form, and I tend to life with others in a realistic and meaningful way.

Blaming and shaming others for how I am, how I feel, and my circumstances in life.

This is the uncomfortable short sided perception coming from my own ego based thinking. This generates endless cycles of victimization and diminished self-love. When I find myself insisting on blaming and shaming others I know I am in some kind of ego takeover.

When I get others to side with me I only increase my own ego gratifications and perpetrate ego states in others.

When I release this toxic behavior I shift into accountability.

When I choose my own accountability in any blame and shame situation the entire dynamic transforms for me, regardless of the actions of others. There is no greater inner power in a situation where there is blame and shame being tossed about.

Accountability protects and restores internal integrity where it was given away through the unconscious action of egotistical blame and shame. I refuse to participate in the group agreements where this is being hurled across the planet. I replace all forms of blame and shame with my own internal personal accountability.

Power over others, however covert and sublime, and tricky this may be this is a sure sign I have engaged my own egotistical self-centered selfish self.

While this may be a temporary feel good solution to a problem it never lasts. It cannot be sustained except through perpetrating over and over again ones position and can be made more significant by engaging others to support this negative egotistical position. Power over others multiplied by social agreements creates more of the unsolved problems that dis-empower others and generates cycles of abuse, victimization, and unending cycles of repeating human relationship issues. By participating in group agreements in this way I cause my own problems in the world and never get to the core issues or solutions. When I can get myself out of the grips of this ego takeover state I find humility. Humility restores equanimity and fairness. Humility keeps me in my own place and prevents me from overstepping boundaries of others, demonizing those with differences. And opens me to new levels of perception that lead to brand new solutions. Without humility these solutions to life relationships and situations remain obscured. We cannot and will not and do not see the possibilities that are potent in our life situations when we are in our ego takeovers filled with power over others. Read those last tow sentences again they are treasures.

I know I am in my ego when I find myself over micromanaging, dis-empowering others, and over demanding control over others.

When organization stumbles and falls apart. Over managing situations is frustrating and generates more and more negative outcomes. When I let go of my egotistical ideas for control I find the value I missed in others. The value of our interrelation increases and I stabilize my own resources for accomplishing the tasks at hand. I affirm the power and capability of others and their our freedom to choose.

Global Ego Take-overs

Currently on our planet there are a multitude of themes in banking, economics, business, religion, politics, military, science, education, socialization of whole groups, to name a few… all running some person’s ego takeover of the world. It is truly astonishing to recognize. This is being brought out into our awareness with painful insight, dangerous revelations, and waves of data drops. The times are such that we are able now to see our own global take-overs. Without a certain level of integrity to address these issues one can surely turn into a victim. Victimization on a mass level is being revealed and it is horrific. On the other hand it is enlightening. It is enlightening in that we can now address the real sources of our human problems. We can address them most powerfully and with utmost potency by way of our own choices to address and tend to our own ego based emotional investments, our own ego based ideas, and our own ego driven actions. Without our own individual ego re-educations we are doomed to more and more victimization. All of which stops whenever we clean up, tend to, take care of our own crazy ego’s!

It is not possible for another ego to take you over when you stop giving over your personal power to these situations. I am stopping giving away my resources, personal emotions, thoughts and ideas to egotistical people, groups, or movements.

By taking into accountability my own ego, the damaging effects stop.

How to realize personal power requires the honest self reflection, processing, and decision-making to either continue to invest emotions and thoughts and actions into ego based scenarios or not to invest.

This is a personal decision-making process that millions of people are making at this time in our world. We are collectively waking up and learning to choose differently.

Our collective human species is not in agreement in the deepest core place with all these ego take-overs. Our collective human species is… one person at a time… choosing differently. And the Hundredth monkey effect is happening as more and more people are suddenly deciding not to participate in small ego based, self-centered, ridiculous life situations.

The larger more capable aspect of our species which lies beyond mere egocentric life decisions is growing. What this looks like is the return to earth, or to physicality of spirit. The spiritual being having a human experience. This is core spirituality!

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Spiritual Growth…. Everywhere Awareness Is Growing…, core spirituality, my personal journey

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Spiritual Growth…. Everywhere Awareness Is Growing…, core spirituality, my personal journey

Awareness, intelligence, consciousness… however you choose to word it, is growing collectively. Our entire world is ever-changing in spectrum’s of equilibrium as we pass through the daily activity of our lives, learning new things. Everyone of us holds our growth in our own hands!

How little or how much we really see that the field of human consciousness is growing constantly all around us depends on the awareness we have inside us to know and to be open. Like water for fish, our field of collective thought is what we live within. And even though it is all around us it actually comes from within us! Not only our human consciousness but also all the different life forms around us add their vibrational, essential experience into the larger whole of which we call our planetary body. All life is in a state of some form of evolutionary growth and development forwards or backwards, however large or small that may be to each species or expression of creation.

If ever one has had a garden to tend, it is no more evident than how everything is growing, growing at different rates, sometimes dormant, yet still alive and still in growth. Changes are a constant. To begin to see how the collective or group consciousness is changing we have only to look into nature and human activity together instead of apart and see how the shifting fluctuations, ever-changing conditions we share are in a state of growth around us. Our human activity reflects our growth as we watch the developments arise each day in our species. The endings and the beginnings are plentiful. On an external basis through the internet and television we can see the monitoring of how human consciousness shifts from day-to-day. Issues arise, new discoveries, new policies, new formulations of groupings, endings, death, decay and transitions are everywhere with much activity surging forward day-to-day on planet earth. Buildings rise and fall, streets are built, life is abuzz. These are all examples of our awareness growing.

How each individual adds to the collective

Every aspect of creation adds its perspective to the universal flow of consciousness and we can learn to observe this inwardly. As the interior sight opens up we can see the astounding flow of consciousness that arises from every living thing. Animate and inanimate both contribute to the universal flow of life here. Seen from a vibratory perspective seemingly separate things are really all interconnected and passing this consciousness along through the myriads of pathways in creation. This place is alive with intelligence that is learning. Nature is learning! People are learning! Animals are learning! And so are the rocks learning and together all these expressions combine to make what we see as our world. Consciousness weaves and flows into and out of itself everywhere. Consciousness is learning through us as us!  The interaction of everything is what makes up the totality of this world. Both seen and unseen. Every single individual is contributing their life essence into the totality here. Shifting outcomes, rearranging them, converting them, and transforming them in some way. The miracle of life is within each individual form of creation, and together in the whole picture of creation.

Discerning the frameworks coming forward for new thought

New paradigms on the planet are emerging!

As awareness grows we develop new words that restructure our languages, new thoughts, new ideas, and whole new paradigms with which to express what we are learning from our growth experiences. Pockets of new information pop up in different places with different people. All over the world we are redefining our world, making corrections, and shifting the outcomes by virtue of our growing experiences. Notice new paradigms are showing up in cultures everywhere!

Resistance to growing and change

While new ideas and new paradigms emerge in some of us, others resist this new awareness and develop their ideas based on their resistance. Resistance has its own learning and serves the collective in its own way, thus nothing is lost or unneeded, everything counts! The collective field of ideas is filled with both positive and negative outcomes. Sometimes resistance and repetition are all dressed up with new clothes providing new perspectives that engage us in new ways to see old things. Other times whole new approaches evolve. Frameworks of new thought are born as new paradigms.

Paradigms emerge as the collective thoughts gain in numbers and momentum along with our agreements. The passions with which we energize these paradigms move them forward and into the world society.

The flow of awareness passing through our humanity on any one day is astounding to view on an energetic level. On this level there is also weight, substance, shape, form, and texture in thoughts arising out of our species. Everyone at some time in their lives has walked into a space and immediately felt something for which their eyes do not register. This is the field of thoughts collecting in the space, and our emotions combined, giving shape on an energetic level, its is common for some people to call it a “vibe”. (vibration ) These collections of thoughts produce climates of feeling, vibrational in nature that we sense. As we learn to process them we find words to name what we are learning.

Structures are growing

So not only are our ideas growing but the structures with which we organize thought, our paradigms are also growing and transforming. We see this in all areas of life from science, to human behavior, culture, business, education, there are unlimited new structures forming in our humanity now. We are discovering how we define life in millions of new ways around us. And as we do life takes on new and different meaning, consequence, direction and outcome.

Developing the awareness that everything is in a state of growth

When we “get” how valuable the awareness that everything is growing becomes an aspect of our perception, how we respond to those things that occur begin to take on new meaning. As we realize how reality is truly moving and not so set into stone we can learn to overcome our own inner struggles, with a place of fluidity and openness that embraces the changes we truly are moving into, and feel we need to make. We can simply join in… join the flow of growth in any way we choose by remaining open. learning how to observe growth patterns, shifting directions. This is the natural over-riding state of the cosmos!

The perspective that I have come to be infused with now … how everything is in a state  of perpetual growth. Thus my own leanings into complete definitions, and final outcomes is halted. Suspending my idea of finally knowing i realize the infinite nature of perpetual growth in everything, everywhere… I have learned to accept how the nature of existence is such that things are always changing because life is growing, and what I may have thought one day as “the final answer” regarding something no longer applies. I stay open and even vigilant toward holding any one idea too fixedly. As i develop the awareness of how consciousness is always growing there is a deepening into the meaning of life, of life events, of relationships, and so on. i pay attention to how my mind wants to grasp at final answers, fixed notions, and limited perception habits.

Formats lead to more formats

As we discover new formats and structures of relating in the world, these lead to more new formats. There is a natural path awareness takes in each of us that illumines our mind to the information necessary to go on. Thus when we can learn to remain open within ourselves we can access new information, or we will just stumble upon new information that fits our current piece of the puzzle. All knowledge is connected and thus encourages itself in us to continually learn and grow. These growth periods can take a long time, be very fast, and then sometimes very slow. Whatever the case, the learning is the point to consider. Once we stumble upon a new format that fits for us, then we are on our way as the most natural action is more of the same momentum into growth.

Releasing thoughts, paradigms, and handling what is uncomfortable

Along the way of encountering new information I have found myself having to release old thoughts, let go of paradigms of reality (whole umbrellas of thinking and belief that over ride knowledge ) and I have learned to handle the uncomfortable feelings and thoughts that go along with this process. I remind myself how meaningful it is to allow my uncomfortable thoughts and feelings in exchange for new ones, and to continue to learn.

The process of releasing thoughts we hold about someone, or the paradigms we have emotionally invested ourselves when we find are no longer feeling as truthful drop away more easily as we go through process and learn to ignite the wonder of discovery and the power of letting go.

Releasing and letting go are absolutely necessary to move forward in many situations.

I have found myself doing all the parts I needed to learn something except the letting go. Whenever this happens I realize that I am still anchored in old beliefs and not as free as I imagine myself to be, and of course this is because of not letting go completely. Letting go in a n appropriate manner that completes a learning curve about something generates a new interior space. Interior inside the mind, inside the heart, inside our bodies.

We have to let go in order to progress, and make room for the new life energies coming in to us via our growth experiences.

Psychic information, spiritual connection, and the openings available to us now

Clearing out the mental thoughts, releasing half-truths, letting go of outgrown personal patterns of any kind open our interior selves so that new information has a place to reside within us without conflict or opposition inside the landscape of the self. This is a marvelous empty place inside that is potent with the energies of what could be, and holds “promise” for continued new awareness to develop.

This opens us to psychic information, and spiritual connection.

I find  myself alerted on a daily basis as new information becomes available. Taking the time to empty out  through the process of self-reflection, inner questioning, increased discernment, and self accountability and releasing my loaded subconscious mind, my physical body, and my suppressed and oppressed emotions. The daily spiritual connection that is possible is quite amazing, and truly full of wonder. Inspiring and informative ,our awareness when allowed to get free has tremendous more energy and creativity for living.Awareness in us as us is intentionally urging us to experience growth! Thus it is possible to learn about the psychic conditions we all have possible within us to know things.Psychic information is not limited in the way we have been programmed to only use our 6 senses. It is as aspect of our nature that is connected naturally to the soul, our cosmic environment, and experiencing this educates us without limits.

Psychic information may not at first make sense to our thinking logical minds, however this information has a feeling of “fitting” with other info we hold and how psychic information fits with the larger pictures of our lives is instrumental in developing progress. As becoming fully into our potentials we learn how to pay attention and then to specifically access for ourselves all the information we need. And we can use this information to assist, uplift, and heal with others. Immense paradigms of understandings reveal themselves to us when we integrate our interior senses via the psychic information that is everywhere and inside us. Breaking through the programming of our socialization, hypnotized, habitual patterns opens this to each of us as everyone is more capable than we have been programmed to see ourselves.

Spectrum’s of new growth …balance and unbalanced

Everywhere awareness is growing, intelligence is growing yet how this happens is not the same for each person. In that there are spectrum’s of growth which occur according to each unique individual, situation, and the conditions we find ourselves. Thus on one side of the world people are not only learning about freedom they are also living more freely, and developing free structures for others. On the other side of the world people are learning the negative aspect of freedom, slavery or something like that. Enslavement, imprisonment, limitation and restriction are also aspects of freedom, only in its opposite expression. Thus we have wide spectrum’s between the two polarities.

As more and more people engage and invest their personal thoughts and beliefs into one aspect of the spectrum that one aspect manifests as reality and will do so until enough others begin the changes. I have found tremendous meaning in learning to respect the various spectrum’s of human expression as they relate to personal and planetary growth. As everyone and everything is in some state of growth. We are all growing. When we open up to this we can see evidence of this all over the world.

God in us is awareness, is consciousness, and as such is growing itself everywhere in the cosmos. As a living vibrant expression seeking its way through every life, every form there is a guarantee that God holds all, leaves nothing behind.

Living in the consciousness of growth aligns our attention in ways that energize us, provide us with energy, fulfill our deepest longings, and teaches us the wisdom of what it means to be alive.

As awareness we are capable of understanding the deepest sorrows, the most hurtful pains, and the most limiting of ideas. This is all because the consciousness that exists in us as us is one magnificent life force connected to everything and everyone. Consciousness is the ultimate “internet” .

Today I am learning to pay attention to growth, and when I don’t see my own , I see it around me and even still I am touched, moved and inspired. We can always tap into and find something that is growing… such is the real nature of life.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self exploration

Permission to let go… core spirituality, my personal journey

Permission to let go… core spirituality, my personal journey

Moving on, progress, release, freedom … all arise from a simply action of permission.

Permission to let go does not have to come from outside us. This is an inner choice and the momentum this creates runs the spectrum from crazy to liberating. Fears jump into our minds as we approach the boarders inside our minds of permission in ways that will stagger the decision, giving us clear possibility to deeply consider our next steps. Other times we must make rapid decisions on the fly which propel us into the unknowns. Practicing the art of giving myself permission to let go becomes an act of creative selection and evolving experience. We get better at self permission the more we access our choices and release ourselves from the grips of our own thinking, our own emotions, our own tired out beliefs. Times arise when the momentum that sets us up for change start arriving in our lives and we become increasingly more uncomfortable with the way things are. Situations arise that once invited us in and now propel us away. People become uninteresting and we no longer want to associate. Out stomachs turn and we must go the distance and make way for the new in our lives.

Know enough about self to make the meaningful decisions that will enact letting go

When we commit to knowing ourselves by paying attention to our thoughts,feelings, emotions, body messages, signs, sychronicities, and patterns we can foresee how meaningful letting go will take us beyond our current situations and propel us into unknowns for which everything up to this point have prepared us. The better we know self, the less guessing and the more concrete our choices develop into accessing new information which lead us through our mysterious questions.

How taking care of our personal interiors open the possibilities

Self care is the base line for all possibility to arise. Nurturing self acceptance and physical habits of healthy well-being generate equilibrium while the other aspects of our personalities undergo the stronger deconstruction, redirection, and new momentum that take shape from permission to let go. Always the good baseline for change is self-love, self-care, and the integrity of our attention inwardly to the process that is unfolding. Appearing as selfishness, at this time of letting go we must take those steps only we can take. Thus to those around us we may appear selfish, and this may be true. It is a time to take one’s self into deeper reflection and meaning and allow this self-absorption, or selfishness to occur. In our single-ness of decision-making we learn to sustain our choices through our own means and we liberate that which needs be.
What we choose to invest our emotional energies into and how this shapes our reality

Though it is rarely taught, it is a realization returning to many now on our planet. What we choose to invest our emotional energies into shapes our reality. We are not simply victims of circumstance, we are experiencing the results of our unique personal investments in our thoughts, feelings, etc. as we believe ourselves to be. The realization that we, I, not someone else is responsible for my life is both unnerving and liberating. The liberation of self through responsible emotional self acceptance is paramount to our moving forward through any difficult situation. Things do not change, people do. For my world to change I must make that change from within. We stop looking outside ourselves for people who can make us feel better, save us, give us what we want, and we do this for our self. This is a paradigm change that has very large consequence in the moment, and for the unfolding future of the next decisions we will make. To be able to untangle our minds from the seriously crazy programming of socialization, and outer authority to an interior place is at first mind-blowing. However so that may be as we see reality transform all around us in our personal lives it is strengthened and multiplied and anchored. Every day is a new day. Anything new could occur. Lets just see what happens as we engage self-knowledge. Self permission and self-responsibility. All three of the anchors to assure changes in appropriate ways. Because this is a learning we do make mistakes along the way, yet we learn to make corrections and navigate through the mistakes and take them as jewels of learning that bring to us knowledge and add to our experience of life.

Giving ourselves permission to move forward and let go while accepting those who do not

one of the most agonizing aspects of giving myself permission to let go and move on has always been not everyone comes with me. So I have learned not only to accept my need and impetus to move on, I also have to accept that those I love or care for cannot or will not join me. Lovingly accepting this for others will make everything more easy for everyone. Often much later down the path, these people have rejoined me when they themselves have caught up to the momentum that was inherent in the changes. Then sometimes they do not and they become more distant, either way acceptance is mandatory.

The paradox of healing ourselves and the amazing outcomes this bring to our life choices

That we make painful decisions that heal our lives is a paradox. The healing is needed yet is painfully reached. Our life choices develop in such a way that we learn to accept pain in this way as a friend going along with us on the ride. It cannot be avoided. The pain is crucial to the whole process as old ways break down, old relationships fall away, and we are left to our own new life choices. In time these painful choices drive us to our meaningful life outcomes which amaze and astound us. In our previous mental habits, beliefs, we could not hold for a minute what now arises. The unending nature of life is astounding as the possibilities unfold and we engage totally new energetics into the circumstances of our lives. It all becomes worth it and the purpose of paradox becomes understood.

Painful memories, grudges, emotional wounds, misunderstandings and why we need to let go

All such negativity tie us to history without freeing us from the now moments of our lives. The negative history we each inherit must be lived through and surpassed as a vehicle of our own self-development. We become strengthened and aware as we face, process and resolve our own side of any negative situation we carry within our self. The loaded physical form, our physical body is overwhelmed with the energetics of the negatives and our alive-ness is compromised when we carry around negative scenarios inside us. Not only that but the energy it takes to hold it in, suppress it, and maintain it is staggeringly unbalancing. The more we hold on, the worse it gets. Sometimes resulting in sickness and even death of the physical. Many of us die ourselves out of this world because we would not let go, would not release ourselves from our own negativity. The amount of this I have personally experienced with people in my practice of massage and bodywork for over 3 decades is truly staggering. I know this to be the case for many individuals.

Shifting the forces of our lives, breaking habits that no longer serve us, or serve our world.

The pain, discomfort, and disharmony signals all point us to our own personal shift, which is also our planetary shift, which is also our species shift. Now underway and gaining momentum in the collective experience of our humanity. Everywhere we look, listen, and arrive to we can find this shift unfolding before our very eyes and ears. The patterns that I will call habits have been in our DNA for generations. Our families are filled with this stuff, and a lot of us are increasingly more uncomfortable with it all. I myself have chosen to do the work, and learn to understand what these forces are that need my attention. Through therapy, emotional release, bodywork, exercise, re-education and a personal commitment to give myself permission to let go I continue to align myself with the greater unfolding now which is wreaking havoc all over the world. Letting old habits die that no longer serve me, or this world.

The world changes when we change

The world changes when we change could not be truer. Until one has tested this one the depth of this will pass you over. And then when you realize that for your world to change you must make the change and you permit yourself to go through with the things you need to do. Reality does shift. It shifts the more we permit ourselves to let go. If my world is not changing enough, I take a cue. I keep deepening into my ability to let go and make that change.

Losing what is meaningful, and rebuilding new directions

Yes we do lose what has been meaningful to each of us when we let go. We lose relationships, finances, and all manner of life circumstances. As we continue we learn we rebuild new meaningful relationships, new ways to finance ourselves, and many other new circumstances develop. We do also carry within us the valuable essences of all our experiences even though we no longer experience them. I know this from my practice of hypnotherapy, my own soul retrieval experiences. Nothing… I mean nothing is ever truly lost that has been our experience. Everything… every single second of life is inside us as us contributing to our personal journey. All of our personal experiences actually go into a larger collective which is Source. Source as itself, in us, is discovering itself through every one of us. The entire nature of existence is growing everywhere through us, around us, and beyond us. Truly amazing to see, feel, and recognize this universal truth about life. Nothing ever is truly lost. Ever!

Grace and the healing of our human history

Grace has many definitions depending on your particular belief. In this case I will refer to the transcendent nature of non ordinary reality. A place of connection much larger than a single human mind can contain, a place with such knowledge and wisdom. This wisdom is also beyond the human mind as it unfolds through synchronicity and the direction of meaning in our lives. This grace is enacted as we meet our most powerfully difficult, and painful life scenarios. I have experienced this many times in my life and have felt a sense of pure divinity, lightness of being, and transcendent personal space beyond words. It is definitely non ordinary reality. It is real, and it is unending. I bring this up now because we are reaching the quantum moments of our human history where the themes of many generations of humans is coming to a point of pure no return. We are on the precipice of life experiences that transcend generations of our ancestors. We are beginning to experience the horrific and startling new consciousness of regaining our spiritual sovereignty. New powerful souls are incarnating with astounding capabilities…. we can and we are truly surpassing all our known knowledge heading into the great mysteries of life. We are starting to connect physicality with spirituality in the most authentic forms of expression and much healing is coming in to us now

The challenges of resistance and how this is meaningful

Resistance is one of my specialties as a therapist, I love this quality. I have the inherent perspective that resistance is simply permission to process. It is a way we are slowed down when we are getting too high off the changes we are experiencing. Resistance staggers the time line, staggers our minds so that we can more fully engage our senses in ways that bring to us the information we need to make the shift possible. Without set backs, and our own personal resistance to change we might endanger ourselves or others. Make unnecessary mistakes, and complicate the situation.

Respect resistance is my motto and learn to see what it is all about. Our resistance carries tremendous info just under the surface of our awareness that needs to be addressed in order to successfully move forward. Resistance in others needs to be honored. We do not all move forward simultaneously as we wish we could. We all move according to some amazing timing unique to each of us. Read that last sentence again, it is truly a jewel to hold.

Staying engaged, cultivating connection, and forging the new directions and letting self sleep.

When learning to let go it is paramount to stay engaged and not lose it all. Staying engaged within and around us is how we stay grounded through immense changes. Sleep occurs as a way to allow the body physical, and the energetic bodies to re-calibrate new points of grounded-ness inside us, and around us in the environment. The actual work of the soul that takes place inside a human is likened to the metamorphosis in a butterfly. There are many new arrangements, new connections to make, new coordinates to be put into place that all take time in this dimension. Staying engaged either by cultivating connection and forging new directions as well as sleep time is paramount to the entire process.

Commitment to self

The redevelopment of new and different ways in which we commit to self is a direct outcome of letting go. Not losing self. Not abandoning our self. Not denying our self, not ignoring our self. But true deeper more meaningful redefining of self is what happens. This can be quite striking to those who have known us up to this point, so letting go of what others think of us at this point is helpful. No one can actually embrace the process of self commitment that happens like each one of us can with ourselves, this commitment grows from within. In time others learn. Patience here is truly a virtue.

Realizations that arise as we heal

When we let go we heal components of our human self inside us. This healing provides new frameworks on many different levels of our personality. As the new energetics of healing engage we will find that new realizations start to happen. The realizations that occur do so because in the healing we make room for that which we withheld in our previous states of consciousness. Our minds are opened in new ways on new levels. We become more capable of translating our individual soul messages, signs, and possibilities. Our perceptions take on wholeness. Whole minded awareness can process huge amounts of new information from design levels. When we start to get the “designs” our souls are offering us we will experience new realizations which not only become solutions for us, they also contribute to our joyful nature as never before. Learning to write down, or draw, or share our realizations is fascinating and fun. Engaging us beyond conflict and returning us to new levels of personal and universal harmony. When we recognize the designs unfolding in us, all around us and begin to see and feel how we are a dynamic part of the cosmos our lives take on such wonderful new meaning.

Joining the mass human family in taking care of business

Letting go by using one’s conscious choice instead of being forced by way of painful circumstance because we have learned the wisdom of it is significant. While many upon within the human family struggle in agonizing ways as these changes come through our planet we can simply choose to join in. this makes our process a bit less uncomfortable and even joyful. As we cry out our tears, and say our good bye’s to our old ways we can laugh right on down the road of life. We recognize how and why we are here. We are uplifting the entire species. One by one. We are engaged in a historical event of such proportion that even the animals are anticipating what comes next. When we take care of what bothers us, what pains us, we are taking care of our human business.

Make a list

I like to make regular lists of changes so I do not forget those moments of clarity as I go about my busy days. I want to stay on track. I want to feed my need for changes. I want to stay engaged. I need to remember what I forget. I make my lists.

Find new interior resources

When we embrace connection and stay engaged we automatically find new resources. It is amazing to me how the universe works. Not only do we find new resources but they find us. You know you are on the right path when this happens because it is so completely astounding. I have looked back at my life and thought how could I have ever stayed so disconnected? This is so much more fun. I absolutely love, love, love how the universal intelligence works all through our lives informing us with new information and possibility.

Discover new aspects of who we are

Only after we let go do we get the new answers. All to often I have lingered before I made a change wanting myself to know before I actually did my work. Wishing for new solutions, new answers to appear and they did not. Finally out of frustration and endless suffering did I finally let go. And not until then did the new info arrive. We must do our individual work on change. And once we do we get the prize… we discover the new aspects of our souls. New talents, new identities and new directions that bring to us experiences that genuinely fulfill us.

The final thoughts on letting go.

My final thought to myself here on letting go is … go for it.

I choose to gain the wisdom awaiting me as I let go my hardened clutches of reality and join the mysterious unknowns of taking new steps. Core spirituality is the expression of our unique and personal truth as each of us. Unique and universal and right in the middle of paradox. Core spirituality is not limited by religious dogma, nor is it directed by politicians, bankers, or any outside authority. I accept my own personal experience as validating and I learn to engage my experiences as my own spiritual path. Just one tiny human amongst billions.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

The Momentum Behind Collective Thought…core spirituality, my personal journey

Portrait of humaity an image taken in Hawaii

 

The Momentum Behind Collective Thought… Directions of humanity…. core spirituality,my personal journey

The momentum behind human collective thought is you and me.

Each singular expression of each person generating their own thoughts is the momentum behind our larger landscape of existence.

What collective thought is

Collective thought is my thoughts and yours and all other people’s thoughts arising together moment by moment in the field of the human reality. Added all together our thoughts join, clash, or move around in a massive field of subtle electrical energy shaping our day-to-day existence.

One human thought multiplied by all other thoughts in resonant harmony or similarity cause tremendous activity which creates a shared reality that we see and experience all around us, resulting in positive or negative outcomes depending on ideas we infuse with our emotions, our minds, and our actions.

These collective agreements and disagreements fill the planetary field of human activity, the environment, and the surrounding space in and around our solar system. This is all reflected back to us when we look into the electronic / technological group mind we share through our internet and media outlets. In case you were not seeing this clearly it does show us what we are all thinking about.

That we are creating reality individually and as group resulting in the world scenarios we witness around us is staggering to embrace, however true it is. This is how powerful our thoughts can become. We do not even know this on a mass level… yet.

We have many singular thoughts ( ideas) that are developing and growing ever stronger each day in size and changing the world in which we live. For example let us look into our notions about the issues of abuse.

Our thoughts on abuse are transforming everyday through out our lives.

For example all the awareness of abuse in human relationships that has existed for thousands of years is now being named, understood, and processed in-depth now and this is shifting the moral climate of humanity as new programs for further developing awareness and assisting victims of abuse and neglect are being created all around us. As well as forming new agreements for which we are now holding ourselves accountable through new and different legislation all over the world. New laws are made and this shifts and reforms our global society.

The climate of abuse while still horrific, is very different now, say from the 1950’s when we had much less conscious thinking about the effects of abuse we are perpetrating upon one another.  This has a significant  and dramatic effect on future generations as each new wave of collective realization redirects the outcomes of abusive human activity. Making, for example, it no longer morally or socially acceptable to perpetrate abuse in any way. All manner of local, national, and global society is reshaped toward more meaningful interaction with clarity regarding the painful outcomes of our abuses perpetrated upon each other.

This has directly affected children, women, people of color, people who are different from the larger groups ( gay, lesbian, transgendered, whole nations, entire populations for example) and protection for these individuals manifests where it did not exist not so long ago. This is the power of a thought multiplied on a collective level  reaching into the live of billions of human beings.

The decisions we make eventually  join together… discernment

The decisions we make based on our thinking join together to create powerful realities that may or may not be in accord with the larger spiritual reality of life. Mankind has held certain notions of the larger reality of existence for many generations and these ideas are being challenged with the growing new ideas being born in us as a result of our experiences. That our ideas actually are in accord with the larger spectrum of universal spirituality is still a reality we have much to learn. We do not always hold this larger perspective in our thinking. However that may be we learn from these thoughts and make corrections as we go and for this reason what you think is meaningful, and important.

The electronic mind, technologies, medias and the internet.

The electronic mind is filled with messages that seek to shape reality, versions of it that not always align with the greater good of everyone. This is why and how media and internet is used today to promote thought amongst our species. So that certain outcomes are developed and shaped so that specific actions will take place. People in “power”… those with money, religious influences, political agendas. military might.   This is a multi trillion dollar industry that is influencing the electric mind, or media/technological aspect of life through the internet, television etc..by filling it with ideas for their specific purposes and design.

Discernment at this point is an absolute quality with which to act upon as we learn the source and purpose of those thoughts that are being repeated incessantly and that are perpetrated as truth, as reality all around us. ( we have to live in fear… the world is totally dangerous, we have to fight everything to succeed and win)  We have a choice here. The momentum behind our choices is developing rapidly now as billions of individuals are seeing corruption, greed, abuse, conflict, war, economic hijacking our resources, and many other areas of human society that are filled with contamination and toxic outcomes for the majority of us living here on the planet.

Evolution requires revolution

I suspect we are on the wave of a collective revolution within our entire human population reaching entirely around the earth at this time. The power of individual thought is gaining momentum and is just beginning to resist all the larger forces of negative, disharmonious, abuse that have been in control for generations in all societies on larger, more massive human levels.

There is a quiet revolution taking shape amongst us now.

In all our Peoples, in every nation, and walk of life.

How do we move forward ? Learning to become more thoughtful about our choices and developing healthy levels of discernment. We move forward with the relentless growth of all our thoughts as we take action and learn the results we discover. We move forward by living from our thoughts in ways that we deem just, humane, and inclusive while still other forces in the minority insist on the opposite. There is a minority of powerful negative thinking people running huge banking systems, gigantic military operations, massive covert political agendas, and many dark religious thinking people believing in rigid dogmas all over the world in all our communities. By accessing media, influencing law making, economics/banking, and many other facets of society this minority number is seeking to exert its control harder and harder with more fear, fear mongering, and fear based agendas like never before. We become conscious and aware that each of our thoughts matter in every single life and every single person when we recognize the lack of love in these thoughts and actions generated by individuals seeking power over others. It is final attempt to exert control even though the collective mind of humanity has already decided we do not want this any longer!

Why is this? Because their time is running out.

The momentum behind our collective thought has already begun to decide that we do not want this any longer.  The regular exposing of , and releasing of secrets, and the unending revelations that result are the forces of this momentum within us . And forces for collective good, forces that expose the underbelly of darkened thinking that control and enslave humans is starting to take hold in the masses of human beings seeking to restore personal sovereignty, personal creativity, and harmonious interaction within the larger spectrum of differences we share. Infighting is no longer going to be acceptable as we prefer to work out our problems without violence, without power mongering, and without deceptive forces of control. We are learning how to let go of our judgmental old style thinking for more liberating happy possibilities that everyone may share. We are just beginning to witness the effects of this all over our beloved planet.

The wave of the future is shaped by these things

This wave of momentum arising in the bosom of our human experience is the power of our thoughts to shape our future and the world for future generations. All manner of human activity is growing in this direction as people in the arts, education, in industry, in medicine, in governments, and many many other areas of life are working on new ideas to generate better living conditions for us all. We are learning how we must include the wisdom of our hearts in our daily lives and make the changes we feel we need to make. Speak to the truth of our lives, and honor what it is that is awakening inside each of us.

A paradoxical thought to hold is the truth that the future is now… how we create reality. This is how our “now moments” are shaping our “future”! We cannot ignore the present moment without consequence to all our lives, the environment, all the animals and life herself in us all.

Humanity as a whole, instead of separate parts.

How we are learning to see ourselves collectively all together is rapidly changing, as we learn to see ourselves made of many yet one whole….  a human species. Just on the tip of this thought we are starting to redirect all manner of outcomes with this in mind.

As we let down our defenses, and relax into our more heartfelt decisions about life we learn to see in new ways. One must cultivate an awareness of this and begin to pay attention to what is not reported on the news. One must seek out these new possibilities and learn to recognize how people are finding new possibilities through new groups and programs that recognize our oneness.

Our mutuality, with differences.

As a person begins to take away the hardened, painful, and limiting beliefs that create separatist thinking it becomes easier to see what is shaping up in the momentum of our collective thought. I have personally researched many significant caring individuals and groups all moving in this direction all over the world despite the horrible circumstances they may be surrounded by in their particular societies.

Standing to power

Using our  voices to face and stand to power forces with dissent. Using our  voices to educate others still sleeping in the fog of victimization. Using our voices to stand up and be heard at great consequence and personal sacrifice. We as  individuals become the beacons of light igniting the darkened forces… where there are collective groups of followers  of suffering, and oppressed voices all over the world  ripe for changes.

Sleepers, repeaters, and awaken-ers, and those who forge ahead

People still living in belief systems of oppression through their respective out dated religious dogmas, people struggling to get the rent paid, food on the table. People struggling with addictions born of their hardships and hopeless life scenarios, people ingrained in massive personal denial, people who submit and follow rather than think for themselves because they have been trained, socialized and hypnotized to stay afraid, hold onto anxiety and suffer through life and live in constant states of unconscious fear. People who just repeat whatever they are told without questioning authority have all yet to feel the true lightness of personal freedom from these darkened old forces. We have people who are moving forward, and forging new possibilities through peaceful dissent, peaceful thinking, and open-mindedness in just about every walk of human life today everywhere. we learn to resolve our own personal conflicts and in so doing contribute to the collective human experience making it easier for the next person to “catch on”.

Solutions are everywhere

Solutions are everywhere, but most importantly inside each of us.

Solutions arise within us as we free ourselves of the limitations of the collective agreements to suffer, to submit, to be oppressed in any way. When one person chooses to stop this in any way in his or her life, they are opening up the collective field. Not simply for themselves, they do this for the next person. We ping-pong off one another everyday, and through our relationships we activate one another for good or for bad, for positive or for negative. Depending on our own individual thoughts! Happiness is universally taught by all core religions, felt by all regardless of religious belief, and is needed by our world. Our world needs individuals to be happy in the face of all that is going on around us so that we can transcend the limitations of our unhappy states of thinking. Unhappy thinking that we have been programmed to hold as normal. Happiness is one of the most powerful forces human beings have within us to confront evil, oppression, and suffering. We need to make ourselves happy by realizing solutions are not just everywhere, they are inside us waiting to be released.

Choosing to take care of anxiety, unknowns, and learning to love the mystery of living become the first stages of personal and planetary transformation and global transition out of misery.  Our happiness and joy are paramount to overcoming whatever holds us back or threatens our innate human dignity and freedom.

When one of us consciously chooses to take care of that which bothers us, to hold our anxiety in new ways. Learning to give ourselves permission to live for positive growth and solutions that matter,

When just one of us moves into the positive choices still contained in our personal unknowns, we cause a shift in the collective mind. When one of us learns that life by it’s very nature holds mystery, and this mystery is how we awaken to our deepest, most meaningful life solutions and creative expressions, we make it easier for the next person. Courage is ignited and a new step becomes possible.

This is how collective thought is born and shapes our shared life journey together on this planet.

It is a scary, marvelous, wild, ride to live here and take part in the energizing choices available to each one of us. To recognize the darkness around us and inside us and choose to lighten up. To make new steps, and to give ourselves permission to grow in new ways, fashion new directions, and embrace changes all together.

There is one mystery that truly is not a mystery, it is simply a realization. That is that the momentum behind our collective thought is not some huge unknowable force, not at all., not some great mystery.

The momentum is you and me,

each one of us.

Taking care to watch our thoughts one day at a time.

One thought at a time.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self exploration

Taking a Fresh Look into the Family ( Ohana) Dynamics that Trigger us… A Soul Perspective….core spirituality, my personal journey

Taking a Fresh Look into the Family ( Ohana) Dynamics that Trigger us…A Soul Perspective….core spirituality, my personal journey

When I did not or refused to love, I learned to love anyway.

When I was hardened, I softened and came to understand more than before.

When I felt stubborn I yielded and learned to be more open.

When I was too soft, I became strong, and in so doing became more capable.

I was lazy, and became disciplined… the painful inertia of my non action forced me to take action. I learned how valuable it is to understand stagnation, and the power of moving. People triggered me to get my butt moving, I did not like it, and I learned to get the message.

When I was victimized particularly as a child, I later healed my emotions, learned to think in new and different ways, and turned my own self around to become victorious. Releasing my holding on to my past and freeing my now moment, finding my true sovereignty. I learned the value of my own inner child voice and I listened. I sought help for myself and in so doing learned respect for the voice of the child.

Any child.

When I was afraid, I learned courage and thus changed the entire course of my life.

When I spoke hurtful words, or they were spoken to me, I have learned to take account of my own subjective experience and understand how my own internal self is effected. In this action of self-reflection I have learned to reflect. I have learned to become objective, and I have learned to redirect my own sense of hurt in a way that has shown me how I can be, and how others are as their words are a reflection of them, not specifically of me. I have learned to stop the patterns of self hurt through the words of others when I can, and accept how it is others show themselves. Dropping judgmental projections for clear discernment. This discernment has become an ongoing trait with less problematic outcomes in all my relationships. My world shifted when I claimed accountability for my emotions and feelings and stopped blaming others for HOW I FEEL.

When I hurt I looked within, took back my own power of self, and learned to be accountable for my own life in ways which removed me from patterns of hurt and replaced those with profound new awareness which showed me I can move on, thrive, and not incur the same to someone else. I refuse to perpetrate cycles of hurt, for myself and for others. No matter what.

When I was saddened I learned to accept my emotions so completely I went all the way to the bottom of that sadness and I sought healing, and in so doing the sadness showed me the value of endings that lead to new beginnings. And generated for me the awareness of how cycles exist all over the universe.

When I felt betrayal I took issue with myself instead of the other, and learned to find power in letting go, finding new directions, releasing people who do this to others, and freed myself from ever having this happen again. I learned acceptance for “what is”, and in so doing moved on. Acceptance of “what is” cannot be underscored more. Learning to accept what others show us about themselves is a primary skill in relationships. Honoring my own feelings, is equally as primary.

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Some of my own personal triggers. These are but a few trigger scenarios I have been through in my own family, and how they each became powerful developmental stages in my personal evolution. Beginning early in childhood, under the roof of an abusive family situation, full of alcoholism, co dependency, and some basic neglect. I learned how to take myself seriously, when no one else would, and to take responsibility, when no one around me would, and to redirect my life as I would have it, because the pain and difficulty was not a choice I wanted to live through. The fury of alcoholism, combined with quilt ridden religious teaching, and the lack of getting my own emotional needs met as a child all changed as I became a teen and found my own will to move on beyond all these many life situations.

We all have personal challenges hidden in issues that arise in families today

I finally learned that issues I experience, regardless of who triggers them are for me to process and that any issue I find carries a significant personal challenge for me to resolve. leading me to  release the controls, manipulations, and any other scenarios from other people, and with gratitude… I do my own inner work. People trigger us for many reasons, the primary one is our soul growth, and not just to hurt us, bug us, irritate us and drive us crazy.

Is it is valuable to note that I have understood the issues that arise for me in my family are the perfect issues for me personally to grow from as a spiritual being. Contrasting this with the common idea that people who dump problems belong to everyone else and I am simply a causal victim, or recipient of the actions of others. This is hardly the case, once we become awakened from the soul aspect of who and what we are. The shift occurs that these incidents are part of a larger design for which I am present here to process, learn, and grow.

Issues of every kind show up in family dynamics. Our people will trigger us. Those closest to us will push our buttons. Our closeness will cause us to get irritated, upset, and angry. Our losses will hurt, and hurt deeply. Our talents, skills, and potentials will be challenged, exploited, neglected, and all manner of triggering. Power, love, misunderstanding,cruelty, abuse on every level. Abundance, materialism, artistic expression, and history.

Today life style challenges many… religious paths, sexuality, gender, politics.

Issues are areas of concentrated emotional, intellectual, artistic, physical, mental situations yet to be explored fully which contain experiences that will teach the indwelling spirit of a person something for which they have chosen to incarnate into this physical world. Issues by nature are unlimited in the earth experience, can be highly charged, totally challenging and either build up or completely tear down existing belief systems, erroneous ego notions, and shift us on all levels of ourselves all over the map of creation.

What is a trigger?

Everyone starts as a child, and as that child may encounter emotional/mental situations for which they do not have the capacity to process. Once adulthood sets in anything resembling those unprocessed emotions can trigger us. Paralyzing us for an hour or even the whole day. We become susceptible in these situations because of our own unmet need to process, understand, and integrate those aspects of emotional intelligence into our selves. Not just because someone has done something to us.

In my experience we also as soul self, choose family situations where we can see specific triggers will likely happen that are precisely what we need in our own evolutionary growth as spiritual beings having a human experience. In my own case I have remembered patterns of emotions that were so complex that one lifetime alone was not enough to fulfill the necessary experience to bring full understanding to me. Thus incarnating into life to continue themes for which I have spiritual purpose to explore so I could come to a full realization of what these emotions truly are . Often this has happened with the same people over and over, as we switch places and play our roles from every side of the equation in a soul based effort to bring to each other greater knowledge while on earth. Sometimes one may play the victim, next the perpetrator, other times the savior.

Triggers are those patterns of emotional intelligence, mental ideas, and circumstances that we carry inside of us, as unfinished potential full realizations. these are the significant components of our earth life with which there are many valuable experiences that will open us, reveal to us, illuminate us, redirect us, and add to our underlying sense of purpose as well as knowledge about life.

They are not merely problems, obstacles, hindrances, irritations, and conundrums solely in our lives to make us miserable. This level of awareness is the early stage of awakening in the earth school. There are many more possibilities for learning that ultimately lead to transcendence and transformation.

How the knowledge of our soul can open up greater purpose

When we have been activated beyond the ordinary awareness through circumstance which may be positive or negative we engage the wider spectrum of our own source self, our spiritual self, the soul. Once we have the connection to our soul perspective this engages knowledge of purpose that likely transcends the typical earthly perspective without the soul. The intellect begins a process of re-education where we begin to observe these experiences from a new perspective filled with meaning and purpose. As we cultivate this meaning in our lives, even the most negative of life situations sheds light and brings significant meaning to our inner selves, the world, and life around us. Widening our view of ourselves, each other and life around us. There is an unfolding of learning that begins to awaken inner knowledge so much so that the experience becomes one of remembering. Remembering (soul) what we have forgotten about life, ourselves and one another. This remembering is the soulful spiritual nature that exists in life everywhere in the universe in vast capacities and is forgotten temporarily through the act of embodiment here on the Earth. When the purpose of any situation becomes apparent from the soul a large context begins to emerge with which to operate our lives, make choices and to understand. This larger perspective may not occur to every family member at the same time, and so often when this happens a wide divide may occur in relationships. Boundaries change, and relationships go through many phases of expression, and understanding.

Memories of my own soul

In my own quest for a sense of completion, and fulfillment, understanding and release from pain I have bumped up against the edges of all my emotional and intellectual edges. Finding myself going further and deeper past those edges into realms of spiritual sight, inner soul memory, and soul based awareness that far exceeds the typical human levels. Because I have chosen to ask myself the necessary questions, and I have chosen to allow myself to keep feeling my feelings I have entered the realms of soul presence. This has brought into contact with others who have had similar experiences and realizations which have confirmed and supported my own soul development and choices to let go and move forward beyond the status quo of my previous understandings. I have spontaneously seen, felt, heard, myself in other times as other people struggling with the essence of the exact triggers I go through in this lifetime. Providing a broader context of understanding that I can say “fits well” with everything in my experience up to this point. Like finding a missing puzzle piece and completing a puzzle these memories of soul history complete the unanswered, questionable conundrums of my life in ways that are difficult to describe. I can say that once a life puzzle piece from my soul comes into place the feeling of peace, of understanding, of completion, and “fit” is perfect. There truly is a quieting of the self, and a peace that passeth all understanding.

Hardships, unrelenting difficulties, and impossible scenarios …unexpected deaths, murders, and various other horrific family stories

As difficult as it may seem to an unprompted human, one who has not opened to the soul qualities of this wider perspective, there is tremendous purpose in these events. For the individuals to whom they occur, those around them, and the general human family collective as well. For in all things there is a vast intelligence and purpose that is unfolding through the human experience. The great tragedies will open us into the soul realm of ourself and begin a journey of exploration far beyond anything we conceived up to that moment in time. Breaking open our minds, hearts and feelings with such depth that only by choosing to relearn and deepen understanding will the event itself not destroy some part of us. Wounded beyond repair this leaves the choice to either lose self in thoughts and actions of greater degradation, or transform and then transcend. The choice is ours.

THERE IS A IMPORTANT LEARNING HERE!

Though murder, unexpected deaths, and seemingly impossible scenarios hardly appear to have such meaning, they actually do! Soul consciousness extends beyond the boundaries of physicality and time. Living from a spectrum of spirit that within us is so vast that it includes a physical lifetime. And the soul is fully aware of this. I have had hundreds and hundreds of experiences communicating with loved ones who have passed over due to extraordinary circumstances and regained their full faculties after life and have come forward to express details which release and heal those left behind. Myself, I have remembered my own tragic life endings and recalled the details of my ongoing soul evolution. Without any doubt, I am fully aware of the greater meaning, and spiritual significance in horrific endings, tragic outcomes and sad scenarios left in the wake of a life through tragedy.

Ways in which we are meant to learn….. Physical, mental, spiritual, social

Looking at human life from the soul perspectives we are set up, so to speak, ( by our own soul choices and agreements before incarnation) to learn specific things about ourselves.

The nature of reality, and the essence of life itself. The most difficult of human learning bring the greatest capacity to break patterns that have existed in families for thousands of years, repeating and repeating until such time as a soul awakened individual breaks free of the limiting emotions, imprisoning belief systems, and twisted notions of reality. These people are truly present all over the world right now passing through some of the most difficult scenarios thought possible. Their choices to learn from these experiences are causing tremendous changes everywhere and sparking others to loosen up, to question authority, and to seek answers from within.

Physical

There are infinite scenarios through physical challenges that we find problems, obstacles, triggers,and limitations. All of which when observed with an awareness of learning from and learning through the process of painful physical illnesses, and limitations we develop depths of understanding about the natural world of a physical body, and how to successfully achieve results. In my case I must always attend to my circulation, via exercise of all kinds, play time, and authentic sensuality. If I do not pay attention here I always end up sluggish, lethargic, unhappy and disconnected. My body shows me through the non verbal messages of pain and pleasure, restfulness and excited-ness just how to find balance. Diet has a significant impact on cell physiology, circulation as well as mental and emotional states. Our physicality is a major area of universal learning. As a body therapist I encounter all of these and many other issues through the practice of body work, facilitating the clarity with clients and the deeper more meaningful messages in the body.

Mental

How we think, what we think, and then any actions we take or do not take based on our thoughts impact every aspect of our daily lives. When we develop a vigilant attention to our mentality we open unlimited areas of resourceful possibility, and when we do not we close off any of the same possibilities. Mental illness, as it is called is in my family, and through humanity. Mental illness both for the person experiencing it and those around them impacts our lives and is monumental catalyst for shifting people’s awareness. As we learn to take care of our thoughts, and how they affect life in us and around us we heighten our consciousness in ways in which we can not only heal, we can transform, and still go further and transcend these situations in ourselves. Developing the witness part of ourselves is a signal that we are learning to face, and move through mental states instead of being victimized by our own thinking and the thoughts of others. Intellect alone or knowledge is not sufficient to clearly embrace the totality of our mental states. Self awareness develops the witness aspect of a mind capable of seeing its own thoughts, and discerning the intellect, the thinking mind, the rational mind and the intuitive mind. Intuitive mind is unlike the intellect in that the frame of reference in any intuitional thought arises from a basis that may include thinking, or intellect, yet more than often comes from beyond it. In other words it appears to be from left field as the saying goes. Having little or not connection to what the thinking mind is saying. I have learned to hold on to intuitive thoughts longer, so as to give my thinking mind time to process, translate and integrate the significance of the intuitive thought. I experience this both inside my head, and above my head about 4 feet above. This is an aspect of soul connection that informs me. This is almost always amazing, provides answers that bypass all the typical logical thought processes and integrates the mind as well. By choosing to face our thinking triggers, pass through our thoughts to completion, and to remain open-minded to learning the mental issues we face will always show us new perspectives far beyond our beliefs, thought processes, and logical deductions.

Emotional

When I look at emotions I like to discern the difference between non verbal feeling that arises from the depths of myself, or my body and the thoughts I have about what feelings I am having. I find many times there is not a distinct discernment in thoughts we have about what we feel. In fact it is common when asked about an emotion a person will reply with an “ I think that….” kind of statement to put into words what they feel. I also detect how we think so much about feeling that we layer thoughts over feelings and address those as our emotions. This confuses the person, and the body sending many mixed signals all through the biology and physiology of a person. Causing much physical distress, hypertension, and all kind of diseases as these scenarios progress and become deeply ingrained in the character. Emotional intelligence is the cultivation of our feelings and thoughts. Separating them and identifying all the components of a particular emotional situation. Intuitive feeling gets bypassed, or ignored because it does not always have words, or fit into our specific emotional patterning. Intuitive feeling is different in us all. In myself I know how I have feeling that is deeply intuitive that arises directly from my heart, and or my abdomen. It is almost like a watery substance that comes from beyond my conscious awareness and I have learned how to hold on to these feelings long enough so that they become processed and then translated into images, and words that I can understand.

Spiritual

Every family either has a spiritual or religious pattern, or none at all. These days our spirituality is being confronted, challenged, and developed by the immense amount of polar opposites that arise in conflicts. Our innermost spirituality is easily broken wide open through our family tragedies, intense possibilities now available in self-expression and personal direction, amongst so many other issues. That we look deeply into ourselves through the challenges all the way to our innermost spiritual selves, our religious beliefs is all part of the plan. And learning to view ourselves and each other and all life as spiritually based. Moving beyond the limitations of only physicality as has been the case for thousands of years. Our spirits are activated, excited, speeded up, and flipped out into our lives like never before. Expanding every aspect of human life out into vast spaces of larger meaningfulness. Many are choosing instead to go the route of more limitation, more fundamental religiosity, and deceiving themselves and others about hatred, non inclusive rules, bigotry, egotistic maniac-ness in the effort to hold on to thousands of years of old patterns that no longer serve us. This reversal of spirituality is a free will choice that has its consequences and limitations. It is steeped in denial on all levels… physically, mentally, emotionally as well as spiritually. Perhaps the pervasive thought and emotion in going backwards is the fear. Fear based spirituality has been used to control people for long history in our human family.

Social

We are redefining all of our social places through our expansion of our complex human sexuality, gender identity, class-ism, economics, and so much more. As we develop new relationships we expand upon the old ones causing more inclusiveness, more understanding of our selves and each other. We develop new social structures, procedures, systems, laws, and so on. We have many socially unacceptable situations needing our attention. We have many unresolved social problems we need to take care. In the process of facing these issues the triggers subside, diminish and lead to many many new understanding and possibilities.

Patterns exist because we have lived before

Looking from the soul view patterns exist in our lives because we have lived before! Within our own bodies are generations of DNA that are the former expression of people who were ancestors. We do not realize it because many of us are so completely cut off from the knowledge of the history of our particular family ancestors, however the effects of all this live within us as us. Add to this the embodiment, or physical incarnation patterning carried forth through the subtle body of our soul self. Here are the continuing intentions for learning, the timing of events and people who will trigger us and the unspoken longing for truth about all these situations. Our incarnate directions are within us aligned with the soul choice for embodiment through the circumstances of our birth. Picking up on themes we are seeking to develop. These may be either positive or negative or any combination.

The deflated ego and the restoration of self

The majority of the early work of our lifetime is in the structure of our ego nature. This is very important as it will provide a personal container for our soul essence in life. As part of the curriculum of this planet we will pass through many many stages of ego development. In my experience one very misunderstood aspect is the deflated ego. The deflated ego feels like depression, sadness, dark emotions, feelings of being lost, and disconnected. Once I realized much of this was the realignment of my own ego I began to catch on to the fact that my ego is not really in charge. And when it deflates it is a good thing, though it feels awful. The deflated ego learns to let go of silly ideas, twisted notions of power, inappropriate life plans, and immature ways of living with others. To truly grow up we pass through all the delusions, and illusions of our ego creations. However the trade-off is the larger self, or spiritual self… the soul. Spiritual here different from religious. Innate spiritual forces that exist within us are independent yet may be connected to religious dogmas, disciplines, or beliefs. Yet even still the pure aspect literally stands independently of any man-made religion. It is what it is because this is the source of what we are as spiritual beings having a human life. Family triggers punch lots of action into our ego structures, testing their strengths, weaknesses, and the reality of truth with which we hold. Whenever my own ego gets deflated I have learned to reflect upon those uncomfortable feelings and I let go to a larger aspect of myself. Every time the result has been what I opened this writing with, I shifted and learned something very valuable and traded my limited little ego stand for my inner authentic soul place.

Changes in locations

Family triggers will cause us to move. The changing locations with which we pass into are significant in that new opportunities arise in new places. Separations, relocations, sudden movements of large groups of people as is now happening are all purposeful in the larger unfolding plan of our human family. Out of the larger collective family arise forces that alter our locations and in turn shift our relationships. Causing us to face differences, solve new problems, expose out dated customs, and free people from many painful life circumstances. I like to remember how family triggers include the larger family of humanity. And like our smaller micro family dynamics these larger ones add equal value to the human evolutionary process. As we integrate all that this means we have rich opportunities to grow and to evolve our selves.

Abuse and how we are to learn from it

A shocking realization for me was the memories that surfaced within me through the emotional work I did on healing myself. As I released more and more of the stuffed up, contaminated, overloaded contents of my own sub conscious I found a clarity. As there became a deep abiding inner peace within me I became emptied of many family scenarios of which I had suffered for years. In this peace my soul qualities filled in. In these peaceful internal states I integrated powerful memories of soul choices I had made before I became the me I am today. As a pre incarnated spiritual being I had looked closely at the earth based, family dynamics I could be born into. And to my shock I recalled the choice to undergo the difficult and painful experiences I would later learn to name abuse. Yet from the soul perspective I was particularly excited to avail myself of the chance to learn more and more through these difficult life scenarios. In my work with individuals over the years, I have witnessed the same exact realizations. These individuals who worked through the deepest layers of their negative pain, also had similar such soul memories. This has happened with such a congruent way I have learned that what we call abuse is meant to teach us, reveal to us, and to release us as we grow out of those circumstances. Not at all to imprison us as is the common idea held by people without soul awareness development. Shocking as it may be I found in the memories of many previous death experiences in past lives, even death has purpose.

When I was 33 years old I had a spontaneous soul review. Similar to a life review that is reported by people who have near death, and dying experiences. I had a soul review that showed my a long history of incarnations and the prevailing patterns in those lives and each death at the end. I reviewed the after life experiences and the returning to my soul self with each incarnation. This overview provided for me a larger context with which to frame human experience based on my own personal evolutionary unfolding in the earth school. In many incarnations I was learning every component of human power, power over others, power under others. And now as was revealed to me in this experience power with others. I experienced the tremendous, infinite love of God for me to have these experiences including death through murder, being murdered, and everything else. This love is far greater than even humanly possible to understand. So great is this love and so intelligent I learned how each negative experience I was victim to or had victimized would also contain an equal opportunity for balancing. Thus the polarity of experiences and the roles I played in all these different life times. The abuse we suffer here is actually meant for us to learn to understand, transform, and then transcend. This has not been the prevalent teaching in history of religion, and I learned that there have been powerful forces inside many religious institutions that are subliminally exerting hidden forces of control and manipulation. Thus in this lifetime I have learned that when a dogma is mean and unloving in any religion, I notice that. I do not participate any longer in any such teachings.

Soul agreements for incarnating and suffering through hardship

The incarnation that you and I are living within now contains soul agreements with the people in our families, as well as the collective human family. Suffering only need last as long as it takes to wake up to the larger perspective of a spiritually based ( not necessarily religious ) soul awareness of life. The depth of the painful things that are happening now have a polar opposite in the larger context of our human history and human species. The depth of pain has a counter balance in the depth of how unconscious we may be. In other words put like this… were we not so unconscious about the nature of existence and relationships we would not create or allow to manifest that which we are creating in this world. Out of our own unconscious thought feeling and action we generate experiences that will by nature arise to balance these things out. There is wisdom in the seemingly crazy unconnected terror, horror, pain and suffering we see around us. As we learn how not to create oppression, submission, power over others, greed, malice, and all the darker human emotions we currently still create we will have less expression of terror, abuse, suffering and pain inflicted one to the other. However we will have to learn from our triggers and seek to stop recreating patterns of hurt.

Release and freedom, the transcendence of conditions

Summing up here releasing self, learning to abide in freedom, and transcendence of negative situations is the underlying momentum arising naturally out of the great wisdom of creation in us, as us. Our experiences of suffering though not all consciously created, may be consciously transcended through prudent, vigilant exercising of our own free will. We all have some element of free will within the dynamic patterns of our pain. There is not final outcome of unending suffering and pain that is taught all over this planet. The soul is timeless, and directly connected to God. The soul in us is possible to be activated in any situation. Until one has passed through this, tested it, and learned this ….it may be hard to embrace, however that we effort to test ourselves, our beliefs and learn from what triggers us is a defining key to the human conundrum and mystery of suffering on our planet.

Anchoring the personality into the soul self

The result of the effort of the healing of our family triggers inside each one of us is ultimately the anchoring of the soul itself into the personality structure of self. Bringing into the world the greater will . Purpose, and light of a spiritually based person. A soul infused person who will manifest the love of our source here on this planet. If you have ever met or encountered such a person you will not forget them. A soul infused being has a powerful love, unflinching understanding and deep embrace of the human. Their very presence shifts the world around us. And they exist in every single walk of life, from the most lowly to the highest stages of human activity. I have been fortunate to have traveled all over the world and met many many such people and I am always left touched in some way with a gentle, yet even fierce love.

Living in the world as a soul being, and the effect this has on the world.

A soul incarnate being contributes in this world in ways that bring balance to life. They may even be your worst enemy. The bane of your existence. The choices that one encounters as a soul infused being, in my own experience defy what is normally accepted. Soul infused choices arise like magic, and create opportunities where humans could not. My own life has been filled with amazing such happenings. I know that soul people heal this world where ever they go. Their actions may be quiet and subtle yet their power great. Power to lift others, to show the way, and to pass beyond the most difficult of circumstances. Making way for truthfulness and the possibilities to love like never before here on earth.

The mystery of deep listening

The mystery of deep listening is that we learn to listen beyond the common voice of current rhetoric, and habitual patterning of anything less than soul based awareness. Learning how to pay attention to the unspoken promptings inside us, around us, and in nature. To listening to each other far beyond our words. The mystery in silence is there is more in the silence than in the words. I have learned to honor the pauses in life, not to fill every moment with chatter, and to hear past what you are saying. There is the sound of your soul, my soul yearning to be heard, seen, and felt. Our triggers lead us deeper so that we may come to these places in ourselves, and with one another.

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The Transcendence of Hardship…. core spirituality, my personal journey

The Transcendence of Hardship…. core spirituality, my personal journey

It is perhaps the least spoken of and certainly least understood of all human activities our hardships and our unwilling conundrums. Where we find how our transcendence of hardship plays such a vital and important and always contributing spiritual action in this world. The act of transcendence is a universal sub-note or theme to all of our lives and carries a universal purpose. Not limited by any one religion, any nationality, race, any place, or age of person. In fact the act of transcendence is connected to all human activity… directing the future for all of us. So how is it that we have forgotten this deeply moving and important aspect of living?

The facing of the difficult.

The facing of difficulty is so common that we hardly give it a thought, so pervasive in society that we have a vast array of choices we all make which serve to distract us from this very thing! Much of our human activity…. the quest for power, the abuse of drugs, the proliferation of violence as entertainment, the chasing of money, the complete obsession of so many aspects of life and much of the negative psychological problems we share arise out of our resistance, and denial of our need to move forward through circumstance and transcend the conditions we find ourselves.

Transcendence happens on all levels of our lives. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social… there is hardly a human arena where we do not have the personal power to exert change and difference in our lives through our transcendence of hardship. There are no limits to gathering what it takes inside us, around us, and through us to take on the task. Often it is not until we have passed through the fires of a painful and difficult time do we even discover the meaning of it all! Yet in hindsight we frequently do arrive at the greater purpose that was unfolding all along in our hardships.

An act of spirit.

As an act of spirit transcendence transports us into realms of mystery, and revelation, where we are able to shape and develop personal qualities, conditions around us, and participate in something larger than ourselves.. that of evolution. The opening to personal revelation and our unknown strengths and weaknesses are almost always revealed. The forces of circumstance drive us all to move beyond ourselves and to taste the sweet waters of humility. Here is where we regain our footing in new vision, new possibility, and new outcomes. Our soul selves quietly lead us forward through these things all to bring to us the larger place of being, where we discover our most important truths, unravel our greatest mysteries, and find the love we were searching all along. Yet… oh how we resist and fight the urge to transcend our own short comings and negativity. Until we reach the place of our deeper wisdom and learn the purposeful unfolding, we suffer. And most often we generate our own suffering through our ignorance ( from the word : “to ignore” ). The act of spirit is heaved forward into our lives as we gain momentum with our transcendence of every single circumstance both within ourselves and outwardly!

The idea of polarity.

What is so vital in all this is polarity, those forces of positive and negative. For as we face hardship and grok our way onward we gain strengths and wisdom’s as we face the tremendous negativity in our lives. It is perhaps the single most powerful teaching that any negative force can show us. The horrific negative scenarios in our world awaken human beings and redirect us in ways it is almost inconceivable to understand. When we gather one to another uniting in our efforts to face the hardships and difficulties of this world we literally change history, alter the future and gain tremendous strength of character. We are able to redefine and transcend these negatives. Within ourselves whenever we face a personal state of our own making, our own negatives, we draw from the very substance of our lives, the spiritual energy needed to move our blocks, shift our minds, release our pains. It is not uncommon to look back after such a growth zone and think of it as a miracle! Yet as humans this is perhaps one of our most powerful and fluid capacities. We can move mountains! We are truly spiritual beings having a human experience and not just humans having a spiritual experience. Never more is this realized than after passing through a difficult hardship and successfully and completely transcending the conditions and limitations that used to over take us.

How we react to the world and why it matters.

How we react to the world is of pure consequence because our reactions have momentum, have energy behind them. Every thought, emotion, action, or lack of … shape the collective conditions of our lives. Building our days with human choices both conscious and unconscious.

Once the realization that our reactions cause more actions with our environment, our human brothers and sisters, and all life on this planet we learn to pause. Pausing allows us the moments we need to learn to consider how and what we choose will affect life around us.

Staying prejudiced, or remaining stubborn, holding on to our viewpoints when another expresses an opposing view, for example, will only cause ourselves to continue to experience the same limiting and painful scenarios over and over.

Unyielding points of view in the face of opposition only add to conflict.

It is a choice to be this way, and learning to just relax and let others have their say, and to act on their notions is sometimes the one act that can bridge the differences. There is a third place where oppositions meet and the possibility for understanding then has a grounding for arising. It is quite possible to say no to injustices, suppression, oppression, and any forms of subservience while not creating any hardship. Learning how to engage difference has its strength in this world as it can show us how we ourselves may make a difference through the willingness to peacefully face such actions in the world. For truly all of these scenarios show us on the most primal level, what not to do to another. And so not to cause such in our personal lives in any degree.

Saying no to injustice, suppression, oppression and all forms of subservience to outside negative forces.

Choosing kindness over hatred

Choosing empathy over defensiveness

Choosing understanding over prejudice

Choosing strength over weakness

Choosing clarity over confusion

Choosing openness over closed-ness and obsessiveness

Choosing cooperation over fighting

Choosing willingness over resistance

Choosing love over… as the final result in all matters on a personal level
These are but a few harmonious conditions we can always grow in our personal lives in the face of hardships.

Transcendence is a core element of spirituality.

Transcendence is an aspect to core spirituality as it is basic to all of life, even on a cellular level. Transcendence is core because whether we like it or not, whether we want to at the time or not, circumstances will eventually lead us beyond ourselves and the limits we place in life. And this transcendence connects into the collective. Our private thoughts, feelings, and actions do affect the public domains of our common ground. As the actions, words of such generate the conditions we live within. How often have I discovered a private and personal act of transcendence brought to me a new door opening, a new friend, new possibilities. Yet on the surface there did not appear to be any connection outside me. The revelation was indeed, we are… and all things and circumstances all connected.

“Going against the grain” when it serves your intent to transcend.

“Going against the grain” is an uncomfortable realization that our personal growth demands of us eventually. There is a time when it becomes right to step away, to step out, and to go another way. Even at the dismay of loved ones. Our deeper urge to transcend does not always align with the timing of the people with whom we love. Thus there is a pain and this pain we are urged to bear as we move forward and learn to not only face our difficulties, but also to transcend them. Resulting in many turn rounds, shifting of circumstance and whole new unexpected directions. Family and friends are not always up to speed with us at the same time this happens. When we choose differently it is helpful to be considerate of our loved ones and to take time to share, if that is possible. When it is not we must go forward anyway and my experience is that in time, more opportunities will show up later where the chance to build understanding will manifest. But until then, “going against the grain” may become the central theme of our lives.

Transcendence as a way of life, the art of always giving self permission to move on.

Clearly one of the most difficult aspects of all this is giving ourselves permission to move forward! Yet it is needed, as no one has the power to do it for us, we have to act on our own life force from within ourselves otherwise the transcendence is not complete. Going it alone, and learning self permission is one of the scariest most important realizations on the path of facing the difficult. When we can muster this with the smaller conditions, we graduate to larger ones. Along the way we learn how transcendence is a way of life and an art to living that is absolutely necessary. Often it is in our loneliest, most alone moments when we discover our own most powerful strengths. Graduating to the art of transcendence where we learn to love and live happily as we make our changes, even when we face our hardships. This is where we encounter the paradox of living. Paradox becomes familiar ground and acceptance is the way through the polarizing opposites in our nature and the world around us. Many times in my own history of transcendence I have been in a state of paradox until I achieved a greater momentum in my direction. I learned to accept this about myself, life in general and this supports me in facing the difficult with much less angst and more layering of negativity.

The evolution of circumstance based on choice.

When in hindsight we reflect upon circumstance it is much easier to see how our evolution and growth through our choice selections generate the circumstance. When we discover how we create reality, (circumstances) we learn how to value what is inherent in facing hardship. It becomes worth it to move onward and go through whatever it will take to transcend our unhappiness, our discords, our pains, and our adversities and adversaries. All such negative situations become the fuels with which we use to propel ourselves out and beyond. We stop fighting them, and we learn to transcend them…. ourselves.

This is most valuable with larger issues where whole groups of people are involved. We may not have unto our individual selves the powers necessary to shift a whole group, yet we do when it comes to one individual. Me! One transformed person will make it possible for another and another, and so on. In case you have never heard of The Hundredth Monkey phenomenon, then investigate that. We learn to be appropriate in the larger context of life and we replace our rant of “change the world” to “change my world” and we get on with the business of living the change ourselves. This is powerful.

Anchoring intention into states of transcendence vs. the struggle.

When we arrive to the natural impulse within ourselves to transcend, and concentrate on our own life, and stop projecting this onto every person, group, nation or whatever that we do not agree …we cease the continuous state of conflict so many humans place their energy.

We then add to the harmonious forces of transformation and transcendence that already exist and are popping up all over the world. There is an appropriate action facing the negative forces around us , and there is the time to do this work internally and make the change within that we want to see outwardly. In other words… “I become the change I want to see in the world”. And thus we become a force for transcendence that is unstoppable.

Through out my entire life I have experienced all these things and I know how new levels of transcendent living actually shift the very life around me.

Forces of negativity that once pulled upon me withdraw their grip and the freedom within is untouchable to those forces.

There is still a lot we all are learning when it comes to sovereignty… and one of the most difficult realizations is no one can give this to you, no one can make you sovereign like you can.

Yet still the masses seek freedom outside themselves, when it is actually within us.

The discovery that we make this ourselves is for all of us.

As more and more individuals begin to live this, the forces of oppression, suppression, injustice, and harm will only continue to diminish. These kind of negative forces can only take hold in individuals that do not live in alignment with transcendence and the self sovereignty of a human life.

Thus for these negatives to go away we all will learn and learn so fully, so collectively that negatives will have no place to anchor in us, in our lives.

This is the deeper more powerful truth of the transcendence of hardship that all negative forces do not want you to learn, for it does mean their end.

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The Old World Borders and the Age of Global Social Reform, core spirituality my personal journey

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The Old World Borders and the Age of Global Social Reform, core spirituality my personal journey

Ideas are not subject to physical boundaries.

The old world borders which kept all our lives separate can no longer contain the wave of global social reform arising in our collective humanity. Ideas have the capacity to move beyond physical barriers and man-made boundaries traveling across the world in light speed.

Our world is passing through a tremendous time of transformation that on the surface appears to be filled with mostly terror, revolt, dissent of all kinds and corruption. The situation is vastly complicated with many layers with which to reflect and understand. A time of great change. Something so big is going on that everyone all over the planet is feeling it in some way. We are in a collective shift of the ages. We have lots to do.

Human consciousness is evolving beyond the old world ways and we are feeling the painful dismantling of centuries old order. Difficulty abounds as leaders in every nation are learning how to come to terms with the ascending awareness of the collective human conditions which seek to know freedom and the exercise of creative impulse. Resistance to allowing these changes to happen is accumulating, and the ways in which people are enacting their notions of control are being exercised in every conceivable manner. The time of our lives is fraught with horrible danger and staggering possibility all at the same time. All the while the push back continues to build everywhere all over the world.

The technological age.

The advancement of technologies have taken us over the edges of thousands of years of doing things a certain way. We are feeling the need to transform this and so new paradigms are emerging, a whole new possibility to communicate.

How we learn to communicate is of vital importance now.

What we communicate is of vital importance now.

Each person’s reactions add to the world-wide arena of ideas.

Positive or negative…. we are seeing ourselves like never before.

The souls of those now on earth.

The souls of those present on earth, the young, and those coming in are poised to question authority, stand up to injustice and inequality, and voice opposition and enact push back to old world forces on a scale such as we have not ever seen on a global level.

World wide “Push Back”

These incarnate beings in every country are living out the needed changes that are part of the larger spiritual shift happening in our world community. We have every position being taken from each end of the polarity of possibility from the most positive to the most negative and many have suffered, been killed, or have elevated and freed themselves and others through daily choices being made.

There are the many growing ideologies of freedom urging forward in the hearts and minds of these new souls. The many old world systems which have served humans for centuries are being questioned and challenged. Political controls … absolute monarchies, democratic monarchies, dictatorships, powerful forces for oppression and suppression through military action, financial take over are all having to contend with the push back now. Our humanity is stirring and it does not look to me as if it can be truly stopped. Evolution has its own truthful components needing to be addressed through out the world-wide landscape, and HUMANITY is feeling all this.

Our collective need for honesty.

No longer satisfied with patronizing words, misleading, misinformation, or deceit the massive movement of a greater truthfulness is seeking expression through the masses demanding real reforms, ending the patriarchal oppressive forces of control. The rising to equality in the woman… the rise of the feminine in us is calling out with each and every voice. Balancing centuries of patriarchal law and rule. The call to true transparency and the deliberate destruction of false propaganda is virtually world-wide now, and growing! The revealing of the secrets, the hidden agendas, and motivations will continue world-wide in all our lives as we learn to live in greater states of personal honesty. This new level of honesty is what transforms what is corrupted, twisted, and hidden to us. The very personal choice to be self honest is where we find our true innate spiritual power.

Secret empires all over the world.

Empires of all kinds, whether familial, political, religious, economical/financial, and hidden to the public are being challenged with the voices of democracy as the voices of deceit are pushed upon. The loss of personal privacy with the global breakdown of the internet via governmental forces all over the world is being questioned through the many speeches, meetings, and lawful challenges against the NSA. The people want to know. Humanity has the idea that we all have the need to be free, sovereign, and creative drivers of our lives. Not dictated by an external authority!

What is not reported in global media.

New service committees, new programs, new areas of collective discussion are finding new possibilities as the madness continues to scream at us. We continue to develop communication formats that would replace the world-wide military actions that are attempting to maintain order. People are realizing that communication is the peaceful and most powerful means to resolve conflicts. The world watches in pain as these forceful actions continue to kill, mame, wound, and injure innocents. Still there is greater possibility now more than ever to develop new platforms for understanding as a way to solve problems, not violence which increases the disenfranchised and displaced actions of millions of people. There is growing all over the world a new voice for ALL people. Fundamentalist, or violent, or suppressive jihads ( not in the true sense of the meaning of the word, but in the fundamentalist war mongering way) , fatwas, along with secret military and political and economic take overs which distribute wealth, and resources in massively disproportionate degrees of inequality are all facing us as we learn how to replace these actions with greater understanding and mutual respect for differences. We are having to all learn in the collective plane of this physical world.

Reforms emerge and grow out of needs.

As we learn to be aware of what is really going on around us we are waking up to how rights, freedoms, and creativity are really being withheld by the few against the many. The growth of new reform is birthed as more and more individuals realize how much we need to make changes. This is a natural response in life, as we all have the innate interior messages within us to protect, and to grow personal freedom and creative living.

When the present circumstances no longer fulfill the purposes of the present day it is a natural response to creatively make new… to re-form what has been.

When this awareness reaches a massive level in whole groups of people we see what is known as revolutions.

What is a revolution?

The word itself comes from the Latin revolutio, meaning “a turn around”. Or in action it becomes a fundamental change in power or structure, and arises as a “revolt” or push back to the current status quo. Major changes in other words.

Major changes on both sides of this equation are all over the world now. Dissent, intimidating, threatening, arresting, torturing, killing are much of what we see now. Anyone who speaks out using justice systems is likely to encounter those who use them to create political agendas by having secret courts, enacting ancient laws, and using financial resources to thwart justice. All to stop this reform from happening. Resulting in people who feel more anger and then more revolt and push back… this is quite natural. There is an innate dignity in each human, there is the need to learn to have tolerance and acceptance now of these difficult problems on a massive global scale. The violence that ensues rises up as a natural response to continued, unending, perpetrating forces that do not meet people’s needs, both political and social, combined with all the deceitful intimidation and suppression. This effects whole regions as shifts in consciousness ripples to neighbors and the younger generations respond versus the older generations.

The right to education.

The right to be self informed via truthful reporting, and media accountability, and transparency is vital to our new global citizens. The right to educate through higher education in grade school, primary and secondary is something people are working on in many countries. When medias are severely controlled, journalists threatened, or arrested for speaking truth to power in their efforts to inform the public these people are acting as educators. Without clear information we are not capable of decisions that will be in our own best interest. As the reality of the corruption is brought to light all over the world the existing powers are having a difficult time maintaining their status quos of limiting personal freedoms. Free speech is not tolerated and seen as a threat. Yet at the same time we cannot stop learning, growing, and becoming better without the truth to make corrections. I am astonished at how free speech is handled by governments, corporate powers, and judicial systems all over the world. Reform is absolutely necessary here.

In core spirituality, the bias I hold is that we are not humans having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human one.

This experience of being human right now entails the understanding that the human condition is in flux, and at times in greater change than others times.

As a spiritual being I have the inherent capability to see clearly, know deeply, and respond as such to my surroundings. All rights come from the one Source. Whether you call that source Allah, God, Lord, whatever your belief, the Source of life is the source.

We have as expressions of this source the innate possibility to arrive at all truth, truth beyond religious or political belief. Truth as the expression of the pure nature of Source.

In this way we can choose to live as expressions of this truth and we can grow this inside ourselves… no matter the physical circumstance. That we have the ability to respond…. responsibility to our lives is how we make choices day-to-day. Our choices are enhanced by our ideas, by our physical surroundings, by our infinite spiritual nature. When I observe the unfolding events here I am reminded how transient and conditional physical life really is, and by nature how unending spiritual life is. What is happening here on earth is a spiritual transformation. As every aspect of our humanness comes under scrutiny. As we question all that we do this is spiritual work of being incarnated. And as such serves both a personal and a collective whole. We learn to be self sovereign. Learning how to become a self sovereign spiritual being alongside all others. Learning how to be a self sovereign spiritual race of humans.

Everyone holds the world in his or her hands.

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Consciousness and Belief… Finding Core Value, core spirituality, my personal journey

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Consciousness and Belief… Finding Core Value, core spirituality, my personal journey

Consciousness here is defined as the totality of my own psychology, emotional nature and feeling of sensations, perceptions ideas, attitudes in both ordinary and non ordinary (dreams, meditations, and altered states) super conscious and subconscious experience.

Belief here is a state or habit of my mind, a conviction of truth in which I place my trust and thru which I view and experience reality.

Core value here is what I have come to understand, experience, learn and remember as central to the experience of being human from the viewpoint of my own spirit, soul self.

My own paradigm shift!
While belief plays a significant component to life here on earth and provides a framework for experiencing our lives it is not actually the most important value as many human beings hold true.

In my experience of passing out of and beyond this physical existence while still in body with my present awareness completely intact, I have learned that how and what I create and cause to evolve within myself holds the central core value of meaningfulness to each physical embodiment or incarnation.

Circulating all over the earthly human environment are voices which do not hold fast to this idea.

Having passed from their original spiritual state into the physical incarnation cycles, many people ( spiritual beings ), the idea of belief has become for the masses the most important value and is the cause of horrific and vast conflict among-st our collective humanity …..
undermining the basic core value of our species reason for living.

My own “wake up” realization!
When what we believe and how we believe it becomes more important than how our beliefs cause us to evolve or hold us back from evolving, we sidestep and avoid the deeper more meaningful purpose with which our beliefs serve us.

What we are actually doing to one another that is based in placing our beliefs over our evolution.
To use belief to oppress, suppress, control, manipulate, hoard, harm and kill others has been a longstanding outcome to many of the religious, political, and personal beliefs of billions of humans adding to the suffering of many and the preventing of global unity and collective prosperity for everyone.

The effect of which causes me to observe…
I find it very telling when groups, nations, military around the world, whole bodies of religious people all involve themselves in hurting of others for the sake of their own beliefs.

In this way we can observe a signal that some aspect of belief is inherently out of sync with the larger picture of our collective experience (especially from the spiritual, not religious perspective). Whether the belief is based in Christianity, Islam, or the Jewish systems the history, or any other religious or non religious systems is noteworthy here of how people of these faiths have allowed their belief to perpetrate harm to others… to children, adults, animals, the environment which supports us is staggering.

The application of religious belief combined with political will to withhold basic human rights, to perpetrate control over whole masses of people and the justification of harm to others is highly questionable to me. I feel myself wanting to understand this about our humanity.

When what we believe becomes more important than how that belief supports us in evolving our awareness and our consciousness shows me how we have personally and collectively lost something central to the experience of being human that together we all share. The underlying spiritual being-ness that we all share! ( for example … the unyielding quest for power in thousands of ways at any cost to others to maintain a status quo !)

Decades of working with healing modalities have shown me…
In my personal work of healing my own pain in this life and those others who have come to me, I have had a lifetime of experiences of moving beyond belief, and into the purely spiritual aspect of my own self and others, my soul to realize what it is I am or am not learning.

The massive astral realms of souls.
It has been my experience that after death of the body many individuals pass into gigantic realms of collective belief far into the astral realm of this planet. Where the mutual thoughts have generated artificial astral realms filled with millions of souls who have gathered together out of their collective beliefs formed while in body. This is true for every religion.

I have visited these astral realms and been shown how the over emphasis in belief causes the staggering of the soul beyond incarnation. Yes! Beyond this lifetime! Like wise I have traveled beyond these realms and witnessed both for myself and others how we eventually come to realize what we have learned as a result of earthly life when we make it beyond the realms of our earthly belief !

The “soul reviews”…
I have witnessed the assessments of evolution that arise from these experiences. I know how the value of evolution, personal and collective growth plays a much greater role in our spiritual selves, far beyond the beliefs we have held while in body. As each soulful aspect, each being, has the opportunity to learn of itself, its experience, and to assess its own evolution while on earth!

While what we believe is all well and important… the actual question of the soul is; “what did I do to evolve my consciousness, how did I grow by learning?”

Once in this realm the appropriate configuration of belief is understood for the true value it holds and we reconnect with the context of our experiences from our purely spiritual selves.

Belief is merely a vehicle for mind, emotion, feeling, and experience which teaches us about our nature as spiritual beings having a human experience.

For truly it is so…. we have a common, yet diverse experience of being human, as spiritual beings we are all on a much larger common ground of spiritual experience.

As soul beings, or expressions of the Source, or “God”, (use the word you feel best expresses this) our souls have much more in common and are all completely connected one to the other. It is quite ordinary while in physical body to use beliefs to substantiate exactly the opposite! And maintain a separateness one towards another while in the body experience. Contrary to the larger reality of the vast larger, true and actual reality of life where this is not even true.

In viewing my brothers and sisters in spirit I have seen the realms where they go based purely in their earthly beliefs, where Christians are still waiting for the coming of their lord, or where Muslims linger in a paradise of their own making. It was a startling experience to watch as I moved through these realms learning to understand how what we believe even directs us after we die our bodies here.

There are realms which exist beyond earthly belief in the universe!
Contrasting thus further with the realms where the actual soul essence is supported to engage in honest self-reflection, self understanding about what we did with our beliefs while on Earth. This engaged a huge wake up call to me as I learned how much farther we go knowing we are not a belief, we are pure spiritual being and this being is far more open, far more larger, and far more connected to something far greater than all these separate beliefs COMBINED! In this place we understand the nature of our consciousness as not just a human having a spiritual experience, we know that we are a spiritual being having a human experience!

The conditional reality of living only within a belief as the very core of the structure of life, and that being in life is seen as that…. conditional. And not the actual full reality of existence. This is why I have learned to shift the emphasis of belief to its more appropriate place and to look to how my or someone else’s beliefs are causing us to evolve. I look to the evolving results, or the learning, while respecting the belief that brings us to our personal evolutionary states.

We as a species have a tremendous leap now as all the beliefs of thousands of years are being stirred. As our world becomes personally closer one to another through technology and the expansive experience of consciousness growth, and we face how what we believe is actually hurting our collective “us”.

We have further to go towards understanding and what we do with our wills.

How we choose to act, towards our belief differences. We have so much more capability here to resolve what has been our history.

As more and more of the darker side of our beliefs is brought out, into the light of how we actually harm one another, or withhold universal rights to all beings we can evolve into a completely diverse yet harmonious humanity. Yet… this will take work.

And this work is for each one of us in our daily lives, in whatever ways we can muster toward greater understanding that beyond what we all believe, how we evolve from our beliefs, what we actually learn is the central value and purpose of our ideas in the gift of living each day.

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Emotional Intelligence… leaning into self awareness to heal, core spirituality

Voices in His Head

Emotional Intelligence… leaning into self-awareness to heal, core spirituality

Learn to address every emotion that you have. This is my interior message this year. Learn to identify moods, gut feelings, disconnects, and the interior places that still pull me out of my own joy. Generate the understanding in the world you wish to see for the place you inhabit, your physical body and let the world of madness go by you. Do your inner work and learn to know thyself.

Learn how it is your emotions play into your life as they will be the source of many situations that you still do not comprehend. ( shaping your reality from behind the curtain of your conscious knowing)

Radical self honesty is arriving to your door, so pay attention!

Your sub conscious is becoming conscious as you open yourself to the deepening discovery of radical self honesty. Profound self honesty empowers your personality to gain strength and momentum in the ongoing unfolding course of your life experiences. These experiences are also a large component of your path, your spiritual path. That you come to understand and identify what you feel is the precursor to more significant self-development and capability is starting to gain momentum within humanity now.

Stuck places, repeating mood swings, disharmonious life patterns and lack of joy and personal freedoms are symptoms of your still as of yet, unfinished inner work, and spiritual development.

A big AHAA is upon you!

It is rare that emotional development is tagged as a major component of spirituality, rather we are led to focus on belief alone as our source of spirituality, yet this is still far from the larger truth of existence.

As spiritual beings having human experiences our feeling nature is extensive, multi-layered, mysterious, and complex. When we only focus, as we are led to believe by so many external forces such as religious leaders and many teachings they promote, on belief without integrating all of our feelings and emotions we block from ourselves vast amounts of information that lead to deep understandings and the true interconnection of all life.

External forces of religion that perpetrate belief without emotional sovereignty and deep self honesty for all feelings then have a capacity to box up certain feelings that prevent a human from having full access to the larger innate and very powerful feelings that will guide one through the maze of human life.

Beliefs alone are used as mental ideas and these will not sufficiently embrace the wider spectrum’s of feelings and emotions any human is capable of having. This blocks the natural flow of spiritual feeling and the possibility for knowing something from inside self as a direct experience.

When we are externally focused in this way our emotions will continue to pop up, and cause frictions with our personalities in ways that maintain a continuum of human confusions.

This is a real aspect of the darker forces that have been active on earth for centuries. ( hiding in so-called spiritual places, yet religions)To prevent humanity from knowing the significant truth of self, as a spiritual being, and to direct subservience, and passive acceptance without understanding of how life works. This form of subtle coercion exists all around us in all forms of media control, religious belief, and how our society is informed on a daily basis.

Do you actually believe that all the news that is reported is really “the news”?

We are not being shown the actual truth of our lives, as we are led to believe. We are not really getting all “the news” as is reported by every news media. All of this is selective, and is selective so as to lead us into a very limited perspective about our lives and each other.

The amount of real and relevant information is being omitted is huge!

The ramifications of this are the continual use of power over others through war mongering, political positioning and control, media hype, and religious perversions that cause and perpetrate powerlessness and victimization as long-standing patterns within our human family.

How does one come to really know this?

It is from the deep radical self honesty of self-reflection, and learning to integrate our emotions and feelings on a daily basis which lifts one out of the hypnosis of falseness still being perpetrated across the entire planet. Self knowledge and clarity of emotions inform us directly from within, and in this way we have our own detectors for information. This interior state of feeling and emotional clarity carries significant more information that reveals purpose, direction, and many of the answers our humanity is seeking. It comes from within self. Within each person one at a time, day by day. And our connection to this interior place is our own sovereign life force in us, as us.

It is quite simple.

The big AHAA, is that each of us has this capacity built inside us and we can increase, develop, and maintain this if we so desire. Thus diminishing our sense of victimization and lack of knowledge about any subject.

One has to walk the path of emotional honesty so completely that this becomes obvious, and not until one has cultivated this to a significant degree will it become so obvious and relevant.

To persevere in the face of ignorance, denials, and the habits of being a “follower” and to shift into knowledge, acceptance, and self sovereignty is how we learn to truly grow up. To learn to take the substances of our dally lives and utilize this material as a learning lab for our spiritual selves and to rise through it all.

Our humanity is venturing forward now in larger ways towards a collective wake up, a collective leap into our own larger capacity to hold vastly greater amounts of information which can generate tremendous new self-knowledge. More and more people are becoming aware of the lies that are being perpetrated all over the world, as well as all the corruption. How we feel about all this and what we do about it will depend on our capacity to feel our feelings. Is retaliation really the best way, is power over others, is emotional immaturity really working?

We are learning to discover how emotional maturity really feels, and how this redirects us into better life choices. Our learning curve is huge here as we have so very far we can go. Our future generations of humans will be riding on the decisions we make now. And I can tell you that this is very essential to integrate as another form of emotional maturity… that we realize the actual consequences of our actions without repeating the same victimization and violence over and over and over.

To shift into a better capacity to handle increasing intensities, choose radical self honesty!

Instead of the same emotional denial and reactionary patterns we usually have in our life patterns we can choose radical self honesty. Radical and profound self honesty has the capacity to withstand the intensity. It has the capacity to drive through difficulty, and to align us with much more powerful forces available to us for manifesting reality. This honesty will diminish your ego, tear your “so called” self importance down, it will deconstruct and reconstruct an improved you.

Getting though all the pain.

The transformation of our humanity is passing through this in each of us as we learn to let go and allow for a better way inside our selves. As we learn to release our pain and suffering, our sorrows filter to the surface to be released.

As the tears of our sorrows empty out our eyes begin to fill with new vision.

We birth into ourselves something new, and this requires all the self honesty one can muster at any single moment. It is all worth it.

Personal freedom precedes all other forms of freedom, and cannot be taken away once one has brought self into the frequencies of radical self honesty. It is powerful beyond any politics, any religious teaching, anything external. This is because it is the living essence of truth within as you.

Truth fullness as a self expressed aspect of who and what we are as spiritual beings having a human experience.

The somewhat confusing reality of our lives.

That our humanity is filled with twists and turns is how we re-position our attention.

We shift our possibility as we go along and make many corrections.

This is the remarkable flexibility of our emotions and feelings that empower our species.

Truly astounding.

We are all so much more than we thought ourselves to be, or anyone has told us.

We can discover this without permission, without anyone needing to do this for us. It is a singular experience, one day at a time, one person at a time. This is the dawn of the transformation of our humanity!

Core spirituality, my personal journey

Willingness to Watch Our Inner Conversations…. core spirituality, my personal journey

 

 

Willingness to Watch Our Inner Conversations…. core spirituality, my personal journey

What did I say to myself today?

These posts are reflections and expressions of my own internal conversations.

The voices in my head.

The feelings that arise, and the ongoing development of my own place in the cosmos.

We all have the “inside place” where the voices inside us speak.

My question is how well do we know these places and are we listening?

Listening to the internal dialogues we have with ourselves is a crucial element of inner development which leads to our personal revelation, and self discovery. Without the conscious awareness of these interior voices we are subject to reactions, rationalizations, excuses, and pitfalls of infinite variety.

How we learn to catch these inner voices is one thing, discerning them is another and integrating them is still another step.

How long has a voice spoken inside me without my ever listening?

Do I ignore my own internal dialogues?

Am I afraid to listen… sometimes?

How can I make peace with the voices within me that are unresolved?

How do I stabilize my thoughts? Have I truly resolved my own inner conflicts?

Today when will I submit to the urge to be silent enough to be aware in some new way?

So much information around us now,information overload… when there are too many thoughts, voices inside me, how do I refocus ? Do I allow my interior dialogue to remain in constant conflict?

When are the voices or thoughts inside me not really mine, but some internalized influence from someone else? Society, religion, parents, media, friends, many voices blend within us. Am I clear enough to recognize the difference within me as I sort them out and find my own genuine inner voice?

What we are learning now is how to refine our perceptions of our true inner most voice.

The voice of our most intimate internal knowing. Without the clarity and discernment here who do we actually become?

The discerning awareness of self-knowledge is a vital new interior place of self-awareness that is growing in the human collective today.

As more individuals learn how to recognize the truthful self within and those thoughts that originate from the pure center of self, or from the actual biology… the physical body of self, or the mind of self we engage our placement outside, into the projected realities that others in this world would have us believe, have us submit, or have us engage. Fear being a primary example.

FEAR.. A force that is easy to become caught up, easy to internalize, and easy to perpetrate without really knowing how we do this. Easy especially when we are unconscious, or unaware, or cut off, or in denial of our own inner voices. When this happens our outer life circumstances become enmeshed and entangled in the lives of others also all in engaged in fear scenarios.

And so is this what the innermost self truly seeks?

Listening to ourselves, refining discernment.

The act of listening requires our commitment to honesty and some silence in order to stay connected without the constant distractions and sidelining of external voices seeking to reach us on a daily basis.

The capitalistic nature of our society is constantly speaking to us with voices of buy, buy, buy, buy now, hurry.. buy now. Without discernment we are grabbing our credit cards, our phones, and buying as if our lives depend upon it. Mindless really, or thoughtless, yet in our culture this is prevalent.

The stillness that exists inside us and all around us, how familiar are we really with this?

The stillness is a voice of silence.

How well do I listen to the voice of silence?

Have you ever considered that the voice of silence actually is a voice with meaning?

How we learn to appreciate our own inner voice of silence plays a major role in our personal development as we learn the art of discernment.

This silence carries the unspoken awareness of direction within the circumstances of our inner world. This direction is constantly moving and carries us along as we go through the many phases of development along any single theme within us. The silence has a way of clarification that brings out the most valuable components of our current themes. We can learn to pace ourselves in any situation by maintaining a vigilant intention to honor our inner silence and what it will show us. Because our lives are in a constant state of movement this is valuable as we receive continuous updates from within this silence.

So how does the silence, which seems to be nothing, actually speak to us if there are no words?

The silence is a form of presence that is us. This presence contains the actual consciousness of our larger self, perhaps the spirit, or the soul of us. This silent presence is our very witness to everything inside us and carries a significant point of view that is an important aspect of our totality.

For example when I am watching the world with all my thoughts, what is watching the watcher that is me? This is the silent voice and still presence that is our larger self outside the boundary of our physical, mental, emotional life. This silent self is here always and holds something quite valuable to the process we are having of being a spiritual being having a physical experience… our life. This is our most valuable resource as we entertain, struggle, and move through being human.

The paradigm shift of knowing self is upon us.

The capacity for our thoughts to be rearranged, to be revised, to elevate emotions and feelings, and to highlight important details all exist within the silent and still voice of presence that is who we are. For this reason once we learn to integrate all our inner voices, manage them, name them, and familiarize ourselves with them we can add the silent voice.

In this larger paradigm of inner awareness we break through the habits, and hypnosis of casual living and exchange this for intentional living. We become more able to accelerate our purposeful directions and meaningful relationships with a lively state of inner knowing. This is why the ancients subscribed to the notion KNOW THYSELF.

Meaning know thy thoughts, thy feelings, and learn to know your own so well that you solidify your person.

Anchoring our selves in the midst of chaos and confusion.

When we solidify the state of inner knowing we can hold the space of greater potential and direct the outcomes of our lives with significant more fuel. The fuel of self awareness, which holds the attention and the intention of the silent, still voice of our spiritual self, or soul self. The strength of this protects us from the casual nature of, distraction into , and subversion of forces which would have us be slaves, be perpetual victims, and malinger in life long conditions of unhappiness and suffering. Our very own negativity is called into check as we increase our self-knowledge and learn to grow inner courage.

We cultivate courage to pass beyond our self-imposed limits and our own deeply held habits when we increase self-knowledge, know our inner voices, and integrate the silent, still self. This courage is a signal to our person that our efforts are all worth it, that our willingness truly does make a difference, and that we have unlimited potential to explore.

The maturation of our human condition requires this courage within us both as an inner voice and as a presence. The maturation of our individual human selves adds to our collective experience and we learn from one another thus creating new paradigms of possibility for us all. This is our collective human evolutionary way, we are all contributing something to this on this planet at this time.

Do not your fear to control your “inside places”, or if you are… seek assistance, guidance and help. For there are many incarnate souls living in our world who came here for this very purpose. For the purpose to assist the humans with their consciousness, feelings, thoughts. We have legions of people here dedicating their lives to helping humanity one person at a time.

In my previous writing I wrote of how life is increasing in spirituality, and how we have the choice to love in any situation. Now I am adding that we have the choice to know ourselves, more completely, more deeply. It is in these discoveries that life as we know it is being transformed and the future generations will step forth from our efforts and succeed even further.

Core spirituality. My personal journey

The Paradigm Shift Happening In Our Humanity This Year- 2016… core spirituality, my personal journey

The Paradigm Shift Happening In Our Humanity This year 2016… core spirituality, my personal journey

In these times of great chaos, confusion, violence, and conflict involving global change we are experiencing a shift in our attention, our very way of perceiving that which is coming to pass. This shift in our awareness is personal and impersonal, individual and collective, and is permeating, in some way, through every aspect of life on this planet. This shift is in our thinking, our feeling,our way of perceiving, and our very cellular bodies and is changing everything.

The shift I am referring to is the spiritualization of our humanity and our world …as we know it.

In a recent post I wrote about the choice to love in 2016, and this idea grows from that one. The spirituality of who we are and how we respond to our daily lives is completely up for a rewrite. I see the human scripts changing everywhere.The interior messages growing within people are those of a spiritual realization about life.

The “spirituality of life” is different in that some of the old ways of handling our difficulties, of facing problems and even how we view evil are transforming in that we no longer are able to sustain our separate notions of difference in the same ways, we are no longer able to sustain many old patterns of belief, our very natures are transforming.

A few of the dynamic changes arising from global spirituality.

We are realizing how we are both different as people… and the same.

We are realizing that what ever action we take in the world has a reaction that returns back to the source of that action.(each one of us)

We are realizing that conflict without spiritual perception is totally futile and only leads to more futility. We are recognizing ourselves in each other in ways that provoke our hearts to open towards greater empathy and we want to help one another more.

Disasters, horrendous events of terrorism, sick and morbid pathological, egotistical governmental decisions are becoming less tolerable to the masses. This is the result of the spirituality possible in these times within each of us to rise up and transform our very actions and reactions.

While we have pathological, psychopathic, egocentric people who suffer from these kinds of traits we also have more numbers of people with whom the spirituality of daily life acts as a buffer to the actions of these individuals and the syndicates, and conglomerates they perpetrate onto the sleeping humanity.

Our own consciousness turning away from participation in unhealthy behaviors, relationships, and our inner turning towards our own individual self-healing and personal growth is actually shifting our world slowly one person at a time. We have power, we have the capacity to learn more, evolve further, choose the appropriate actions as we learn to experience our own individual unique spirituality. As we multiply this force in groups this power increases. We can discover that we are all much much more capable this coming year than we thought ourselves to be!

When I refer to spiritual I do not specifically mean a religion, however there are billions of good people in Muslim, Christian, and Hindu, Jewish as well as many other religions that are activating spiritual principles in their daily lives, and much of these principles are universal to all religions.

Spirituality that is universal is one that is inclusive, and infinite and can speak to any individual walking on any different religious pathway. Ultimately the one universal loving source that exists in all religions is being activated, beyond yet including their respective prophets, leaders or originators. As I wrote in a previous essay, love is love, whatever name one calls it, and where one thinks it comes from. It is what it is.

We can see this clearly because all of life responds to it regardless of the name we call it. A child in any culture will respond to love whether it is called Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Christian or whatever name. A pet will respond in like manner, your pet bird, or dog does not know what religion you ascribe, he only feels the love that is present. ( as within your respective pathway of belief)

Particularly demanding is our response to the negative aspects of life here.

We are all touched in some way by the negative actions of others in this world. Whether this is close at hand in our own home, or distantly from across our vast planet. The spiritualization of the negativity is a very large component of our individual lives and our collective world situation. And we are becoming better and better at how we approach the negative situations we all encounter.

However this work is far from over and our task is still at hand demanding an ever-growing vigilance towards the pitfalls, hurt, and pain that results from our own negativity. The single largest piece of learning in this is how we ourselves choose to respond to our own interior negative experiences. How we handle what we feel negative about matters greatly as our response can accelerate, perpetrate, and increase any form of negativity very easily. In other words we create what we are negative about because we are the ones being negative. Thus how we face the negativity this year will have a substantial outcome on our daily lives as we pass through more of the difficult unfinished business of all our lives. A significant aspect of this negativity is our fear.

Fear on this planet is substantial and our lack of awareness to our own negativity will certainly cause this fear to grow even bigger, more powerful, and with further consequence should we avoid our own negativity on a day-to-day basis. For example I am particularly aware of this because of the experiences I have with family members who are participating in the military. While on one hand I am told and shown how very powerful we are, on the other hand there is the overall fear. It is immense, intense, and yes it is scary. It is scary to the point of pure justification on a scale that is almost more than I can actually comprehend in any one setting. However it is a “real” thing for all these people…. this fear. How I choose to react feeling all this when I am totally in the midst of it could either increase it more, or stop with me. Even though I am one small person, I choose not to allow myself to engage in those levels of belief about fear. I do not carry that fear away with me whenever I leave those circumstances, in fact I increase love. Within my own family I also have a dear precious Muslim person and I have been made well aware of the fears that arise when this persons relatives come to visit. Just walking down the streets is quite a spectacle of discomfort at times with the reactions of those we encounter as we walk along. How I choose to face this when we are walking makes a difference, and I know how truly loving these people are on a personal basis. The issue is the fear and how do we face it?

How we choose to process fear inside each of us had much consequence in our lives, and a deeper introspection may be helpful. Small fears, medium fears, then the bigger fears. My intention is to take more time to take apart my own fears and dismantle their hold over my personal life in any way I can muster. I know that how I choose to face fear has consequence… and that there are many probable outcomes to the many choices we each have in conquering that which makes us uneasy.

Evil is another aspect of our lives with which we must face. How we face this also had many pathways. As more and more evil is revealed in this world we are having to face it. Face that which we hate, despise, and usually ignore. This too is subject to spiritualization as I know I can react by hating more, and increasing the disharmony I feel, or I can choose to face evil with the power of a more balanced positive and yes even loving stance. I know this for I have had occasion to personally address evil face to face in my life, I have watched it recoil in the face of my lack of fear to it. And my willingness to address it in my life or to allow myself to become engaged in their evil ways. We have much still to learn about our reactions to evil and what is and what is not appropriate in the way of our reaction.

There is spirituality in conflict.

How we see conflict beyond right or wrong, is apparent once we allow our spirituality to guide us through the opposing points of view. World problems that are conflicting in nature are actually holding many spiritual problems that need to be addressed. When we open ourselves to the idea that problems are spiritual we open ourselves to much richer possibilities for restoring and balancing these situations because we are finally dealing with the real problems… the spiritual ones masked by the conflicts.

For example the levels of powerlessness, oppression, servitude, abuse, and personal violence that ensue from these scenarios are the real spiritual problems for people suffering all over the world.

Lack and privilege mask the spiritual problem of greed and egotism on a very disharmonious level everywhere for so many individuals.

Once we can learn to respond with a more spiritual nature to these world-wide problems we will lower our need to use military solutions of “power over” and might, domination and suppression to alleviate these situations.

Spirituality has such tremendous power in it to overcome because the source of the spiritual nature is infinite, contains the perseverance, the desire to understand more, and willingness to work through the difficulty. Instead of stamping everyone and everything with power alone.

Our ignorance about ourselves and each other is bridged whenever we choose to seek out the spiritual nature of our relationships. Withholding and distancing actually become too uncomfortable whenever we allow ourselves to connect with what really is spiritual in our human dynamics. The fears we place on one another begin to drop and the desire to build bridges of understanding start to form. And though at first this is all very uneasy, and can become even sloppy, when there is a spiritual intent behind any action, that action is received differently. I know this for I have worked with it for a life time. Our capacity to unlearn our preconceived ideas about our differences is softened as we open ourselves to our spiritual nature.

As we practice the letting go of fear and negativity a unique form of spirituality will develop. It may be called by many different names. Whatever those names that level of spirituality in any situation will be felt by those involved and begin to transform any circumstance. One does not truly discover this for themselves until they have actualized this, perhaps several times. It is a remarkable experience and is a deeply satisfying expression of core spirituality.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

When There is a Choice…. Choose Love in 2016….. core spirituality, my personal journey

 

01 Jan 1976 — Mother Teresa Visits Patients At Kalighat Home For The Dying — Image by © JP Laffont/Sygma/CORBIS

When There is a Choice…. Choose Love in 2016….. core spirituality, my personal journey

What makes a difference in every outcome, every conflict, every confusion, and all stale mates?

What generates surprising new outcomes, impossible new openings, and brings connection?

What supports, strengthens, and engages in us beyond our “thought-out” possibilities?

What brings calm inside us, and opens the doors of further understandings?

What lifts us out of boredom, mediocrity, selfishness, and self-deception?

What will redirect our lost and angry voices, our deeply sad unfinished business?

What will urge us to seek new solutions, and open our hearts to possibilities beyond every imaginable conundrum, problem, and unanswered question inside our common human condition?

What will sooth the hard edges of our torn and wounded emotions, our painful memories, our childish insistence on suffering?

What will force us to let go when we are holding on for dear life to those we love, those who hurt us, and those whose ideas are no longer fitting to a world filled with so many unanswered questions?

What brings an understanding to the most resistant, the hidden, and lonely ones of this world?

What will bring courage when there has only been fear and cowardice?

What will bring song when there has only been angry bellowing?

What will make a long dark night worth living?

What will sustain you when nothing, absolutely nothing else is left?

What will make an idle soul take action when before there was only lazy idleness?

What will raise a child to honor him or her self, and bring this honor to our world when nothing else will?

What will stretch the impossible short-sighted vision of ignorance and suffering to realize it is time… time to move beyond all the craziness?

What will heal the bloody effects of the violence we throw at one another and begin to seal the wounds of pain and injustices?

What will cause a meek and mild man or woman to rise up, to make their voice heard and to stop submitting, stop being abused?

What will force a hand in life to extend to another instead of grabbing for all he can get?

What will open the way for truthfulness to be seen, heard and felt in the midst of all deception, lies, and subversion?

What will make room in my world for the light of this truthfulness to grow inside us when so many, so much around us succumbs to darkness?

What will turn off the noise of endless television, cell phones, and demented media propaganda’s?

What acts as an anchor when everything is leaving us, changing around us, and the life as we know it is disappearing moment to moment? When systems, and programs crumble right before our very eyes?

What sustains us when we realize our religion no longer holds enough of the truth of our very life experiences?

What is it men in power fear most, women know works, and exists in the very heart of any situation?

What is it that lies within the heart of every man, woman, and child, every flower, every animal, and the entire design of creation that we turn our backs and refuse to see, feel and engage ourselves?

What lies within your enemies, is hidden by their taking sides, and knows only of the absence of your choice to understand?

What is the one choice that every person can make that will bring about the solutions, the answers, the new directions, the power, the possibility, the courage to change, transform, and heal the human circumstance of global suffering, mass injustice, global poverty, global war and mass killing?

It is my friend , the choice in any singular moment of my day,

a realization of my ability to choose,

and the action of choosing to love.

And to bring this choice of love where it is not.

There is no force more powerful, more sustaining or more surprising than love.

Love is a force to reckon with in case you have never tested these waters. Love will turn you around, put you upside down, and rearrange you like nothing in this universe will do. Love will pull you out, expose your darkest secrets, and open your most painful wounds. Love will show you your most horrendous fear, your worst enemy, and your deepest sorrows.

Love will bring your secret tears to flow upon your cheeks, will reveal your innocence like nothing else on earth. Love will make you hope and keep you strung out when you have lost it all and want it all to end.

Love will bring you more possibility than any other quality in this universe and will lead you to your first new steps of discovery.

Love will loose your tightest grasp, your most angry voice, your deepest held secrets so you can learn how to be free.

Love will open the doors, illuminate the darkened halls of your unknowing like nothing ever did before.

Love will answer your calls when absolutely no one on earth will.

Love will give you reason beyond reason, direction when there is none, and purpose when there has been absolutely no purpose.

Love is intelligent beyond the wisest man, the holiest of the holy, and the greatest of any one person.

Love is for everyone and works all sides, so to realize its place in your life will cause you to stop it. To stop taking sides and unify with your brothers and sisters, your fellow creatures, your entire physical world.

Love will produce for you out of nothing, it is unlimited in resources and endless in its insistence in your life.

Love is calling within you, outside you, around you.

Love was beckoning all along, is resounding now, and most likely will call through you in your future.

Love is omnipresent, omniscience, and without beginning or end. It is the way, though in this world it goes by many names besides love. Love is love, never the less!

When you do not recognize love at your door, it will surely knock again, and keep knocking at your heart till you answer, love is relentless beyond your wildest imagination. Love is a real force, a real substance, ask any mother, or any child.

When you least see love, feel love, and know it not…This is your time. It is your time to choose it. To choose love when you least would do so. Love is like this for us all.

Love is known by every heart, yet given in parts and pieces, with conditions and circumstance. For this reason… that it is truly known in each person, that it knocks and beckons without end till you die and go to your grave, love will be there. And after too.

Love is not just the folly of fools, that kind of love is only a taste, love in its purest form is powerful beyond any spoken word. Love has this capacity for it speaks to everyone, no matter their language.

That you forget love is only temporary, your suffering heart will always deliver you back to its door. To learn that love is what your really are, were always meant to be, and is what your being was created out of.

That love exists inside you as you, unique you. Love your self, for you are that.

That love that is connected to all of creation. Let love reveal you to you.

Love is never quite what you imagined, so prepare yourself for love’s presence in you as you.

Love….Do not underestimate the smallest of your choices this year, Remember just as a mighty oak begins with a tiny acorn, so too does the smallest choice to love lead to most mighty of circumstance.

Core spirituality, my personal journey

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Denial….. Our Own True Greatest Enemy…Breaking Out of Our Shared Agony, core spirituality

Denial….. Our Own True Greatest Enemy…Breaking Out of Our Shared Agony, core spirituality

The media of our times, elements of the religiosity of our times, the political climate of our times is messaging us daily about who and what our enemies truly are with a speed, and tone that overrides the intellect and is so pervasive that the group begins to accept many of the pointers… the talking heads and we lose sight of the genuine enemy that underlies, undermines our core life experiences.

Our own internal denial shapes our innermost intimate and valuable places, beyond any outer person, group, or ideology.

Denial is considered one of the most primitive of the defense mechanisms in human beings psychologically. Denial is one of the pervasive of all human traits and is more common that we think. Denial is both insidious and blatant with a wide spectrum in between. Denial is so common that we usually project it on to others without a single thought.

Our world culture is swimming in it like fish in water. (well worth pondering)

What is denial in its many forms?

Denial is the refusal to, the ignoring of, the looking away from, the hiding of….. truth from ourselves AND OUR LOVED ONES, and the world around us. The truth of our innate, honest, spiritual nature. Our cosmic bearings as spiritual beings having a human experience. A universal truthfulness and all that this contains for us as a species, as individuals.

When denial has become normalized.

Denial is so covert that the manner in which it is passed on from one generation to another is considered normal and healthy. Sanctioned by people in just about every walk of life! Sanctioned and perpetrated by many places in society, education, religion, government,military, science, ad infinitum.

Our churches, schools, parents, our global soldiers, our governments, our politicians, our teachers, our scientists, are exercising massive forms of cover up which prevent the actualization of world peace, global harmony, world understanding, and then perpetrate victimization and violence on a scale of such magnitude that our entire planet is covered in separation, delusion, and mayhem, with massively dangerous weapons and all manner of killing capability.

We now seem to consider this dangerous situation one that is normal?

What we have now is…

Collectively we are a body of individuals gathered together merging our ideas based in all manner of denial and producing a world that is about to get some big wake up calls. We are reaching a zenith in our self-made agony. It is not over yet. There is still more to learn about our human experiences.

The NORMAL ways we are programmed to use denial.

We use denial to refuse each other in so many ways in efforts to control outcomes, to control people and this is covertly done under the guise of every conceivable excuse and reasoning.

We refuse to honor so much so …that it is intrinsically universal about us as a species instead choosing to repeat our mental and emotional habits of separation, differences, creating all manner of classicism, righteousness, superiority in almost every sector of society we literally deny the reality of how we have so much in this world for so many. It is time we stop pretending!

What can I do about this horrendous, insidious, negative, violent situation?

I learn how to accept and process all my own denials in any form I discover and I hold this as a valuable component of freeing my own spiritual self on a day-to-day basis.

Holding beliefs on their own , talking a good talk does not replace the actualization of facing and process denial.

Perhaps the most powerful place to start when choosing to consider denial and its power over us in life is to begin to identify how we use self-deception, self-delusion, and self-denial as normal ways to navigate through the uncomfortable scenarios inside us. There is no greater way to stop the insidious activity of denial… then by cleaning up denial inside myself.

This creates a space of integrity whereby anyone living in denial will not have a willing participant to go along with them and the chain of toxic behavior ceases or go away. I cannot change you…. I CAN CHANGE MYSELF!

The negative feeling we have about the world, what goes on around us? These are actually our own unprocessed emotions, thoughts and feelings. All inside the self…and reflect to us valuable signals about how it is we are, one by one, creating this world.

When we choose to remain present in the face of difference, in the face of opposing points of view and to see clearly where our enemy is we stop the projecting of our denials. ( the real enemy of us… within )We open our capacity to realize how easily my own unspoken and unconsciously held issues are anchored in beliefs of righteous projection and I stop this with my intent. The action of genuine processing of denial increases self honesty, which aligns my person with the core spiritual self in often surprising new ways.

What happens when I let go of self-delusion, denial ?

When denials fall away I am left with pure consciousness of my own spiritual essence and this informs me far beyond man-made rules, obligations, dogmas, religious beliefs, and so on. That we each are made of a substance which is the same is a startling experience when we have long believed we are all separate and limited by the beliefs we have energized through our inherited ancestry, or our socialization process growing out of the parental frameworks.

My experience has been in my own family of pulling away, as I no longer felt the impulses to feed myself into the accepted norms of denial around me. Not playing by the game, by agreements has often created distance between people. As I have learned to stop my own actions of distancing myself because I no longer participate in the agendas, beliefs, and patterns of denial I have learned to hold the space for togetherness even as we are different, when ever I can muster up this within myself I am surprised by the capacity I am able to remain in a state of mutual respect without the agreements that we socially put on one another.

My own capacity to embrace whatever I may not agree with is surrounded by a grace like form of compassion and deeper understanding which drops in to replace the old patterns. This is one of the main reasons for doing the work of clearing out my own self deceptions, delusions.

This heals misunderstandings, pathology of all kinds, and in so doing opens my heart mind to wider spectrum’s of genuine love….. truly an amazing experience. One that a person cannot truly hold inside themselves until they have done this internal work.

This is the process of “waking up”. Waking up to what it is I am investing my thoughts, feelings, and actions that no longer serves the greater whole. Nor does it align with core universal spirituality. I experience both the awful feeling of deflation of ego, and the awesome upliftment of fantastic spiritual AHAA’S. My person goes through transformations that redesign and realign me with much broader spectrum’s of life. And this feels much better to me. Staying “asleep” or unconscious has begun to feel uncomfortable and my life themes are taking on whole new vision and energy. None of this is possible through the action of projecting my beliefs, ideas, or notions of what is right onto anyone else, any group, any family member. It just has to arise from within self to work and to become long-lasting and uplifting.

As a spiritual being having a human experience it is my perception that we take on all these illusions, delusions, deceptions as part of the current human agenda for each lifetime. This is not intrinsically a bad thing.

It is our classroom for learning as we sort out identity, and direction.

To judge others because they are locked into their beliefs, and their stories of pain and suffering does nothing but hold them in those boxes. something I do not want to do to anyone.

Thus I shift the emphasis on changing them, and the world by changing my self, and my world.

This works much, much better and generates real long-lasting transformations.

For this reason I am on vigilant watch inside me, to make sure I catch my own projecting, my own judgmentalness, and my own limiting negativity.

It is really a very arduous task indeed. It is so commonly accepted to blame others, to point the fingers toward another, to malinger in pain and sadness, to stay in a sleepy victim state. For this reason I spend time with myself in silence, in nature, and I take time to meditate. While I grow my own stronger personal spiritual sense of myself beyond the maddening crowds, lost souls, talking heads, medical authorities, political manipulaters, social critics, bigoted religious leaders and so on. It is simply no longer worth my time or my energy to give in to them any longer. It simply is not.

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THE BIGGEST CLUE I FOUND TO HEALING ANY FORM OF DENIAL I AM UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT IN A PERSON, GROUP OR THE WORLD?

When ever i recognize denial in any form around me and think it belongs to some one else, or group or place in the world…. i turn it around and find what it is in myself i am in denial about. Every time i do this and take care of me i lift another piece of madness out and away from the place i exist. The action is always to go inside self using the clues.

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Acceptance without agreement leads to a new paradigm of living… core spirituality, my personal journey

Acceptance without agreement leads to a new paradigm of living… core spirituality, my personal journey

Whenever we can hold an open space of acceptance in the face of opposing views with genuine goodness and resist being judgmental we generate a third space between us. The field of space that is generated by opposing views is still very connected and the typical dynamic of separation ceases. We become connected in the awareness of separate visions yet common ground as a dominant dynamic of social behavior.

We are all living out being our human selves. Our shared humanity becomes the next focus of our action. Instead of me versus you, or me versus the world.

When we can embrace opposing views in this way we activate a kind of intelligence which is larger than the polarity of our differences.

This other kind of intelligence arises from the common ground of our shared experience and makes room for the differences while maintaining connection with one another. This intelligence becomes a new place from which to view ourselves and our thinking, beliefs, and what it is that may need to be understood with greater depth and clarity. Without this intelligence we remain in a kind of personal and collective stand-off with one another that locks the differences into their polarities and perpetrates limitation and unresolved feelings. This is futile as it prevents the next octave or level of awareness from rising out of the differences. Stale mates, confusion, aggression, misunderstandings, and violence grow and become the outcome.

When we can psychically, mentally, and with our sense of inner presence allow another who is not the same as ourselves the same respect and honor, as spiritual beings having a human experience we open to new paradigms of intelligence that will find the solutions, understandings, meanings, and significance of our differences. This psychic space which is a third zone of perception maintains continued dialogues in ways that deepen any opposing points of view revealing material, and information previously unknown and certainly unexpected. In this way we ignite intelligence in new ways that bring new discovery. There is almost always more to learn, to understand, and to process in any conflict, opposition, or difference amongst ourselves.

The dangerous habit of shut down, and learning to find this in myself.

I’ve learned about myself that it is simply a mindset, a human behavior to shut down when ever a powerful opposing view is expressed to my own. Shutting down and the hidden feelings of judgment sit just below the surface of my own thinking and acting.

This is a common pattern among us as humans. Turning away our attention because someone may express something so different from ourselves.

I find that I have even diminished my own self expressions as a result of these kinds of interactions. My own human behavior limits me and in this way I stay in self perpetrated separation with others.

Dwelling upon this dynamic is quite enlightening and reveals tons of human behavior patterns that ultimately end up creating negative situations. Negative situations in our own minds and bodies and in the world around us.

This is all self-generated by each of us as we participate unconsciously and habitually to another person or group differences.

We can see this pattern in people practicing many religions,

people from different life styles,

people of different colors,

people with different political views,

people in different social classes,

people from different cultures,

people who eat different foods,

people who adhere to scientific theories,

people who work in different sub categories of life,

people who simply dress differently, have different hair styles, it grows to levels of stupidity…. really.

The universal impulse to belong.

In our culture belonging is socially significant and a primary universal experience encoded within us, so anyone who is of color, has a different culture from ourselves, has a different lifestyle, loves someone of a different gender, or even changes their gender are all subject to the negative effects of separatist, or non inclusive socialization in the larger group. I have lived with this my entire life as a gay identified man and know just exactly what I am speaking about.

The remarkable outcome of directly opposing points of view.

The remarkable possibility that arises from oppositions, especially directly opposite ones is how they actually arise out of the same source thought yet are the polarized differences to the furthest spectrum of the idea. I have found how this literally will show me the many facets of any one situation with detail, as from one end to the other of a spectrum there is the whole picture.From the very positive to the very negative. So all the people who are in separation because of their religious beliefs, really they are all stemming from their ideas of Source, or ultimately God. They have this in common and express the widest possible notions of difference in how to perceive this one thing.

When ever I encounter people expressing their differences I like to say to myself, “just wait” because whenever one person breaks out of their shut down side of opinion, this third level of awareness automatically pops up and suddenly they are able to see another view, while perhaps not agreeing. The next step is to embrace the person or group anyway and hold out for the option to connect anyway. I have practiced this many times in my life.

When I learn to remain open to differences, and even direct oppositions I most likely find myself learning something valuable. I typically learn how to drop my own preconceived ideas based in some form of my own judgments. My place of understanding stretches beyond my previous held convictions. While this does not always lead into agreement it does lead into mutual respect, honor, integrity, understanding, and even love.

We as humans in our society for the most part have all been repeatedly educated in a common way, indoctrinated in similar ways, and we form habits out of these places. When we cultivate acceptance in the face of disagreements and stay open we shorten the gaps between ourselves as people and groups and shift the paradigm of human belonging from the old style of exclusive to inclusive.

This generates a kind of harmony within. Inclusiveness actually feels good the more we learn to enlarge upon this in our lives. The common ground we share becomes highlighted in delightful ways and as socialized beings we receive feelings of goodness in ourselves and for one another. I have reached this many times in difficult situations where I let down my own prejudices, and beliefs which contained hidden messages of … “my ideas are better than yours”. I have found this is not always true, and besides not all people actually are in the same place at the same time in their awareness of anything. Divisiveness becomes something that I no longer want to participate in and I realize how silly I may have been. I stop projecting onto others my own separation. I take responsibility for myself and this responsibility carries weight and substance in this third field. A weight and substance that holds “we” and not just “me”!

Are  problems in our world associated with our differences which can turn into pure oppositions? Yes, and to inwardly continue to live at odds with others from inside myself no longer feels good.

I find how this begins to lighten.

And I don’t find myself having to, or automatically reacting to the news, to the radio, to anyone else in the same way. I find myself accepting that in our world everyone is learning, whether they realize it or not. I do. So I can move on and live my life caring, and compassionate in this world full of so much incredible, awful, awesome, magnificent diversity. Acceptance without agreement is possible.

Mutual respect,

Caring,

universal understanding,

connection,

and intuitive learning all arise as we learn to move to the next level in our human relationships.

Core spirituality… my personal journey of self investigation

shared in the spirit of Aloha

Inspired by my visit to the Pacific Northwest with my ohana

“Holding Space”for Differences…core spirituality, my personal journey

“Holding Space” for Differences…core spirituality, my personal journey

What is “holding space” for differences, and what will this do for me and you?

Holding space refers to the attention I place on withholding judgments while I am in the presence of a person or persons who are expressing a point of view different from my own.

While holding this space I defer expressing my own emotions outwardly in an effort to authentically listen and observe someone else’s point of view, however different from my own with the genuine intention to embrace differences.

The psychic space of holding an active form of attention while in the presence of a completely different point of view allows the inclusive quality I deeply cherish and seek to make room for in this world.

This action, on a deeper level has acceptance as a basis, without agreement.

Yes without agreement.

I have learned how easy it is for me to have complete acceptance of beliefs, ideas, and notions that others may express without my need to do anything except generate authentic acceptance. I do not have to agree! And I love this feeling.

Our mutual futures!

This will be a necessary component of building better relationships based on my desire to align myself with the principle of true compassion, authentic safe expression, and genuine connection even though I may not agree whatsoever with another person or group.

The act of holding space like this allows for the lifting of tensions felt yet not expressed because of holding different points of view. The act of holding space generates a new space,, a third space, where conflicts are allowed to surface, or opposing viewpoints are expressed without negative effects.

While at the same time allowing myself to have my own point of view without having to give up anything except perhaps my own judgmental-ness. Which in fact feels quite good to recognize within myself as I prefer to let that go whenever I discover it within me.

Holding space requires self-determination with another in mind.

The focus intentions become we instead of me. Determination to include differences or even completely opposing standpoints. Determining to focus on what is mutual beyond the differences.

What is mutual when we are in opposition?

What is mutual is many things. For example we are all spiritual beings discovering our human selves, through the living out of our different points of view. We have this in common as most people may share points of view they are rarely identical in 100% of all the factors because we each embody different spaces.

Not everyone holds this point of view, however since I do hold it, this is the way I see us and so I am able to let go of wanting anyone else to agree with me. My own viewpoint is enough for me until I need to embrace you…. with whatever difference you bring to the table.

What is mutual may be the driving force behind our differences, which many times is identical in nature yet completely opposing in form and expression. When two parents act out of their desire to fulfill their roles to their children their love may be quite similar and even identical, yet their form of expression may be totally in opposition. Which place would you rather be? Opposed to one another, or mutual in understanding the driving force behind the actions? This is all a matter of clearing up our perceptions, and learning how to stop projecting, judging, and boxing one another up into our own little ideas. What is the value in not boxing up others into our little opinions of each other?

We are designed in such a way that different points of view actually serve us. These differences stimulate our mutual growth and evolution. And that could also be another way we are similar, yet different, we are all growing, yet in different ways. See?

How we learn to get along here is multiplied by the sheer numbers of human beings inhabiting the surface of this planet. We have a lot of us here now to contend with as we learn about how diverse our humanity actually is right now. At the same time there are new levels of universal understanding arising to assist each of us on this journey. We have options. We have lots of options with which we may choose to live in greater harmony even while we are different.

We do not have to hold the same beliefs or points of view to get along!

Because you believe differently does not diminish my own place here, it does not take away from my own experiences, my own core values. We can get along with our differences!

For those people still exerting their wills on others, filling up the medias with the idea that they have the “right way” the “only way” or the ‘best way” and need agreement to feel safe…. I say grow up.

It is time to allow others the same respect you give yourself, the same rights you give yourself.

Would it be easier if we all thought the same, acted the same, believed the same,looked the same, dressed the same, blah blah blah?

Yes it would if our design was a hive, a hive society like bees, or insects. However this is not the reality we live. There are forces in this world seeking to dominate, control, and manipulate. There are forces that have been actively using covert forms of this and hypnosis to have things their way for many many generations now. These people live in religions, live in governments, live in businesses, live in groups all over our world.

They have a big wake up call coming because it doesn’t work. ( it is only a matter of time passing as more and more humans are awakening)

We are simply too rich in our human gene pool, too rich in our diversity for this to actually have a long-term harmonizing benefit.

If we were a hive species, then yes it would, but that is not the case. We are richly full of such diverse magnitude that we are a stunningly amazing species of beings. Our world culture is so rich with so many interesting, different people with whom our songs are truly magnificent. Our humanity can make such fine music out of the richness of our differences, yet combine through the sound and rhythm . We are a glorious species when we join together in these ways.

I have spent a lifetime enjoying this world through travel. I have been fortunate to have visited at last count over 75 countries, lived in homes all over the world and participated in peaceful sharing of our diversity and I know from personal experiences that which I am speaking. This is no Polly Anna thing! It is my experience. When I was a young man of just 17 years of age I participated in a global experience representing myself in the world. This experience consisted of about 125 people from 23 countries who did not all speak the same languages, eat the same foods, believe the same things. We lived together for a year, traveling all over North America and Europe. We lived with host families wherever we could. This experience was called Up With People! Our cast successfully created a world blending of individuals with mutual understanding and tremendous love for one another, and this world through our intentions to get along and to develop understanding. This was a powerful experience for me in my teens that has grown deeper throughout my entire life. I will never forget this and it’s effects have shaped my entire adult life. I know because I experienced this.

Holding space for each other does take practice.

Well worth any effort any of us give it, as we learn how to enjoy this life and all the diversity. Are you a different color person, are you an elder, are you a foreigner, a christian, a Jew, are you gay, or transgender, are you a republican, a democrat or a nothing at all, a military person, a peace activist? See how many different experiences we have here to learn something. To learn to get along, and to see each others place?

My difference from you will not undermine your place because I exist.

Your difference from me will not undermine my place because you exist.

A new paradigm, acceptance without agreement.

Mutual respect.

Universal understanding in action.

One day at a time, one person at a time, one conversation at a time.

This is my experience.

Core spirituality… my personal journey

Inspired by my visit to the Pacific Northwest visit with my ohana

Consciousness Does Rewrite Programming… core spirituality, my personal journey

Consciousness Does Rewrite Programming… core spirituality, my personal journey

When our habits of mind and body are no longer useful our consciousness has the capacity to shift the programming inside us and rewrite the scripts we live by.

Consciousness has the capacity to deepen to the point of overcoming that which is inside us by re-informing the self.

Body, mind, and emotions. Spiritually our consciousness is perhaps the most potent aspect of our make up.

Consciousness as it grows within us on any subject reshapes and redirects the experiential basis of our reality by bringing in a stronger capacity to fix our attention combined with our knowing along with intuitive feeling states. Our consciousness is a major working component of our totality here on earth!

When we keep going.

When we reach a quantum degree and form of consciousness this will begin to shift the existing state within us. For this reason we develop our consciousness positively by choosing to open our heart and mind in any direction that is arising for our continued sense of personal development. By cultivating the attention to our consciousness we are generating experiences that connect the knowing part of ourselves and this knowing gains a stronger place in our overall attention by shifting what it is we focus upon. We can do this in either polarity… positive or negative.

What is consciousness?

Consciousness is a state of being-ness or IS-NESS that exists in the ALL THAT IS, and whenever we are allowing our own consciousness to open and develop we are activating something that is universal and larger than the self for which this is streaming through.

We activate a state of attention and knowledge that is not limited by a physical boundary or person.

Many people share consciousness states and gravitate toward or away from one another based on the polarity and subject matter that they are currently engaged.

Consciousness exists as a field of presence, or state of being that connects. This connection within us of ever-expanding consciousness can grow to such degrees that it replaces generational, very old, and even stuck programming. The connections we make thru our consciousness leap beyond physical boundaries, time and space. Consciousness is an infinite field of presence.

Our own experiences in this way cause the developing changes in our programming that open to us more and more of our potential capacity to know ourselves and to know the genuine truthfulness of reality.

As our developing consciousness translates into our lives our intellect becomes informed by the new information that arises creating new pathways inside our brains and thus our intelligence gains a precision that can grow in massive leaps of quantum understanding. (versus the old model which is to cultivate the intellect to obtain new information without much of the consciousness or knowing behind it. )

A major paradigm shift.

The field of consciousness develops as a basis for the intellect providing a framework, or direction for which our thoughts organize and put together meaningful interpretations of experience. We come to redefining reality in this way. The intellect becomes the interpreter of our consciousness rather than the source of our experience alone. This placement of the intellect then becomes a valuable component without overriding the more expansive and connected aspect that is our innate consciousness.

The habits of which we seem to be imprisoned are subject to our consciousness as the pure state of attention and combined presence have the capacity to increase in substantial energy that then becomes a force that grows stronger than the habit.

As new experiences are gathered the new information informing our attention re-informs the existing programming until a shift occurs. This is the dynamic state of growth and evolution of consciousness in us as spiritual beings having this human experience. The cumulative effects of increased awareness and consciousness onto any subject can cause much of our programming to literally fall away as we trade meaningful knowing for the mindlessness of programming with which we have been subjected. The mindlessness or lack of consciousness around any programming becomes translated into our physical body in such a way so as to become quite uncomfortable and without a basis of inwardly felt truthfulness. When programming like this begins to break down we are subject to crisis of all kinds.

The purposefulness of Crisis.

Crisis, when viewed from the perspective of an intact well grounded consciousness looks like opportunity as the levels of information inside our biology, begin to come undone. This can feel very uncomfortable, especially when we have developed an attachment to our programming, or we have invested tremendous feeling, emotion and patterning into programs inside us. This affects the relationship of our consciousness to our sense of identification as we already have an unconscious identification with the programming and at first do not realize this. This is where consciousness steps in to redefine. We then process levels of attachments we have to the programming and unravel it. The increase of consciousness in this way steps in to take the place of the old style and transforms the components of identity within us in brand new ways, as we grow in this process. Crisis is the start of the opening to new probabilities, new possibilities, that would have been blocked under the previous thinking.

Identity crisis… who am I?

“What am I? where am I? who are you? what are you?”naturally shifts as the new consciousness filters through the old styles and conflicts come up. These conflicts need the continued consciousness expansion to show our attention how to keep going successfully.

My experience is the deeper we develop consciousness the more information is available to us. All this new information can re-frame the old, or it can cause it to drop away and completely transform. As consciousness moves through us this becomes a metamorphosis of the self, which in turn transform the directions we are on and ultimately generates completely new possibilities. This is why we say we cannot fix the old problems with the same thinking that created them. We need more consciousness to develop as we traverse the pathways of our existing situations. When we reach a quantum level of transforming consciousness our sense of who and what we are moves like the caterpillar to the butterfly, almost unrecognizable… or simply the very best of who we already were becoming. Now the world that we see around us becomes transformed as we view it through a different lens of perception.

Cycles of repeating.

Consciousness that has shifted does not go backwards. Although it might appear so, in truth, it is simply reaching deeper into more of the old programming to transform more completely the whole body of material we were previously invested. Dipping down into old stuff eventually becomes natural and we stop losing sight of the forward progression we are making. Although our intellect thinks we are repeating, our consciousness knows that we are simply clearing out more of the same old stuff, often hidden from our awareness because of our lack of consciousness around any one subject.

The consciousness of a whole species.

As consciousness moves through more individuals we gain a collective wave of mass shifting in our attention, our capacity to understand, and our potentialities. This is happening now to our species. We are on a giant wave of collective consciousness expansion and all our previously held ideas are subject to scrutiny and updating everywhere we look.

The entire human species is in a dynamic state of break down and redefining what we all thought was real and truthful.

Our world, outwardly reflects what is actually going on internally for the vast number of many of us. Yet still there are those who insist on digging their heads into the sand, ignoring the changes, resisting those changes and there results much confusion, suffering and pain as these humans do not want the changes.

We are free to choose to grow our consciousness or to keep our programming.

We are not stuck, even though the feeling may feel like it. This is because we need to develop beyond the programming and open more to consciousness. Thinking our way out, or by intellectually trying to make changes does not work. Remembering that we cannot change a problem with the same thinking that created it. Thinking alone is not enough to rewrite hundreds of years of familial, genetic, patterning. These programs need consciousness to get the job done.

Consciousness is what is transforming each of us, and along the way we are losing our old programming. These programs are deeply entrenched without any consciousness and so take huge amounts of consciousness expansion to release. Patience, and forgiveness, along with doses of quietude and self-care go along way to healing any condition we are seeking to change. Programs inside us are only patterns without consciousness, this is why and how our attention to developing consciousness becomes paramount in today’s world. We did not realize how unconscious we were.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Consciousness and the Intellect… Learning the differences…….core spirituality, my personal journey

Consciousness and the Intellect… Learning the differences…….core spirituality, my personal journey

Exploring my “Lens of Perception”.

Here I will explore some of the major differences I have found developing the intellect and developing the consciousness and how this has brought me to view my understanding of life ( revealing my perceptual lens).

Childhood “education”…programming.

Early in my life I began to seek answers that I could not find from the world around me through the practice and development of meditation. Like everyone else, as a child, I found myself surrounded by adults who seemed to have an idea of what was best for me and so I was educated, indoctrinated…… taught in all manner of political,social, religious, emotional, intellectual basics.

Much of it very useful in learning how to get along, how to pass and fit in with others, how to “think” I had a connection to something larger than myself. Things like reading, writing…. how to use my mind were all good things that are valuable in today’s society. Like everyone around me I learned all these things and yet by the time I was 15-16 years of age I still had a deep stirring in my gut that was very uncomfortable and would not let me rest with what I had learned. I seemed to have a greater sense-ability which I could feel that would urge me beyond the realities I was told exist and that I had to abide by. None of it actually true. However the case, I look back now and I see how I had one very discernible difference within myself from the majority around me.

This was the relentless development of my consciousness, over the intense training of my intellect.

Maintaining a vigilant awareness of internal freedoms.

I simply felt the need to protect freedom within myself, without the controls, that to me seemed unnecessary. The primary feeling deep within myself of this difference I noticed is the capacity to find more meaningful answers to life that went beyond what always appeared on the surface of how and what the world in general was teaching me. I need to be free inside to be the real me.

I can see now how the development of consciousness has served me in living a prosperous, generous, lively, evolving, inwardly personal responsible life regardless of how much money I have had or how I looked. Where as when I see a majority of my contemporaries who have followed the more common path of developing their intellects along the lines of traditional thinking there is a sizable difference. I see so many zombie like people believing everything in the mainstream medias which fill the air with fear and powerlessness, believing dogmas and doctrines of religions without personal experiences, people numbed out from use of pharmaceuticals and social drugs, and a general level of life frustration that never leaves. There are way too many followers needing someone to tell them what to do. Externally dependent individuals are everywhere.

The result is a significant difference, the many forms of internal, social suppression of all kinds which limit the perception of embracing what is actually possible in life. There is a sever limiting of the human potential, or the genuine expression of the spiritual being in the masses of our humanity.

Hidden forms of social and spiritual suppression.

Upon reflection I can see a wide spectrum of diverse forms of suppression. Suppression of genuine inner knowledge, and a connection to the universal realms of life beyond the visible spectrum of light.

( If I cannot see it, it does not exist… mentality) Not learning to observe outside the dogmas and doctrines of our organized society leading to the subversion of genuine self-awareness and genuine alignments to internal freedom of self-will.

The ways that an externally based education can subvert inner learning about the truthfulness of self is remarkable as it covers over self-awareness or deeply knowing self and our relationship to the greater whole of existence. I find this fact remarkable and I see how this leads to many covert forms of social, group and individual forms of spiritual control.

For example I know now that the doctrine of Original Sin programmed into me as a child that lead me to believe I had to be baptized and submit to rules of the catholic church are all bogus. None of this is truth! Even though I was taught this everyday in school for my entire childhood. Eventually I was able to experience many direct moments of clear connection to what I would call is my soul, and none of those ideas actually exist there. They were as I discovered… all man-made. I was educated to believe that all homosexuals were perverted, sinful, and abominations. As I grew to investigate the truth of my self and my connection to my soul I learned again that none of this was true, it was all man-made up.

All manner of controls through perception have been created that subvert the genuine self-knowledge that are directly within us all. Very interesting. What is generally referred to as education is actually a kind of perceptual suppression which tells a person how to see and think in the world which limits how we perceive what is possible.

Life is all vibrational.

This is most evident to me through my own development of the awareness of vibration. As I have become more vibrationally aware I have learned to recognize life beyond the visible light spectrum of what we are taught is reality. And this perceptual level holds a vast wider range of life, and a genuine existence extending far beyond the programmed one I was taught to see and live accordingly. The astounding truth of how life is vibrational in nature is so much more filled with so much more information that it is staggering to learn how to integrate. Yet this is never taught in our schools when it is actually a main component of what reality is in all truthfulness.

This obvious omitting of vibrational awareness allows a kind of dumbing down, or thought control because we do not see beyond our lens of perception and thus our potentialities are blocked. (if I cant see it, it doesn’t exist… mentality)

I will never forget the early days of my introduction into vibrational awareness as a young teenager. I learned to see how color and sound were but the same expression though expressed differently depending on how we perceive it, seeing the auric fields of people, plants and the earth showed me how the actuality of life is in a state of inter-connected-ness based on the frequencies of its origins. The idea that everything is separate is simply not a truth. That we are not separate invalidates millions of laws on this planet, millions of political actions etc.

I remember the first couple of times I went inside a bar, a place I had never been before as a child, where I could see the vibrational component of activity there.

To my astonishment I was able to watch how individuals who were intoxicated were actually being vampire- by entities who were not physical at all. I could see all kinds of unconscious activity being downloaded into and through people under the influences of the alcohol and drugs in ways that were not actually genuine to those people. As entities would “piggy back” on people and fill them with all kinds of negative energies, behaviors and experiences. I was horrified to observe the airspace around people and above them as this was all going on. This was awful to see yet powerful to realize. Losing self composure, I learned was a way for non physical life forms to grab hold of people and influence them when they were not looking.

Later in my work world I could see how the vibration of an individual is clearly evident regardless of what picture they were telling me, or showing me. Our field of vibration is truthful and reveals any kind of self-deception, any kind of self-imposed limitation, any forms of denial, in any way that a person may be trying to lie, or deceive. It is easy to see the walls, the darkness, and the sludge inside the electronic field of a person. This would alert me to the genuine nature of a problem the person would be expressing and I could see the origins. We carry people, memories, unexpressed emotions of all kinds inside our electric field of vibration and it appears most people are not aware of this. Inside the physical body are all the channels of energy flow in which the electric vital forces of the body are distributed. I began to have an interest in acupuncture as I was seeing these channels and could observe the high or low flow of energies in the body. This is all real and became a way for me to learn to assist those who came to me in need of re-balancing. I observed how I could direct this vital force from myself to another to influence it in a corrective way thus restoring balance. I did not need anything, no needles or implements simply the conscious awareness and intention to heal and balance. Each session I would be shown through the lens of perception… the perception of vibration.

By choosing a profession for days and weeks and months and years and now decades of time in stillness, silence, and quietude I have learned to be much more aware of how people feel, how places feel, and in this way to develop a vibrational awareness. Including the capacity to expand on what healing really means to me, and how to participate in a healing process without interfering with another. I have learned how not to believe what much of what religions, social systems, society, authorities of every kind are perpetrating all over the world.

Distortions of perception

When our perceptions are severely limited, shortened, and distorted our capacity to experience truthfulness directly by way of personal experience is completely high jacked.

We do not know this because of the collective agreements we share through our perceptual lenses. Our agreements about how we see one another effect our behaviors and this in turn generates our collective experience of reality.

A reality that we create out of our ideas of perception. Even though this may actually be a distortion.

This pattern has repeated for generations upon generations in our humanity. We can see this as we finally learn to see ourselves beyond what we thought was true. When enough people see something differently we seem to be able to shift our reality and then things change. We can see this quite easily in our law systems. Laws evolve out of our growing need to maintain a level of safety and well-being. Yet even this can remain distorted as in the present day laws enacted out of the crisis of 9/11. We can see now how our very constitutional rights are being eliminated for more covert forms of social control. There is a delicate balance between real and not real everywhere that we are learning to detect.

Suppression of what is possible

The most significant outcome of developing our intellects far beyond our consciousness is how we are suppressing the possible in our lives. Firstly many of us are deeply entrenched in thoughts that control us and limit us is hard to see and break through because we do not see beyond our own beliefs based in thinking that is purely intellectual and self-made. We become prisoners of our own making and yet know it not. The immense, gargantuan tide of human denial is mind-blowing. Denial prevents us from our most intrinsic inner freedom of expression and self knowing. Thus we do not recognize how so many of us are being controlled by forces outside us. Forces that we have all internalized as real. This is clear in millions of ways in our global society.

The flip side of this is not seeing, not knowing that we can…. we can do ….. we can get along, we can find ways to feed everyone, we can heal violence, we can heal the hurts and on and on and on. We believe ourselves to be separated by all these thoughts that distance us from each other and the reality of this is none of it is actually truthful. It is all man-made. I know from personal experience. I have traveled to over 75 countries, worked in many different cultures with many different people, I have encountered my own self everywhere in all people. We are not that different as a species, we think differently…. but we are not innately that different as beings.

We are all learning

As a spiritual being having a human experience I have had to look deeply into my own way of seeing life. I have had to identify my own perceptual lenses. I have had to learn how to see again, how to see inside what I see and see more. I have learned that what I see around me is a result of my lens. I understand how valuable developing a healthy mind can be, and learning to use my intellect. However I have moved the intellect over so that it is not my dominant means of perceiving. I have allowed my consciousness to expand and to inform my intellect. Which up to now seems to be a more appropriate place for it to be. I continue to see how an overly developed intellect can separate and divide, how it can generate fear, and be used to control people.

The word Consciousness is originally derived from the Latin con (with) and scire (to know).

The difference in thinking something and knowing it is our conscious experience.

Consciousness is well worth developing.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

The Evolving Realization of the Self… core spirituality, my personal journey

The Evolving Realization of the Self… core spirituality, my personal journey

Their comes a time on the path of self awareness when we realize how our experiences are here to remind us of some deep inner knowing, something we have forgotten. Pointing us in a direction which holds a better way for each one of us.

This activation of our attention starts out in sporadic ways as the dawning light of our soul’s true essence breaks through the massive litanies of our human history. We begin the lengthy process of unlearning.

Recognizing the great charade, unlearning what we thought was real.

How important unlearning is becomes evident as genuine remembering of the natural reality of the spiritual self arises inside us as we go through our AHAA’S. These AHAA’S are a wake up signal that we can learn to cultivate. We begin to recognize that there really is within us a familiarity and a knowledge of life that fits with our sense of personal harmony.

First we learn how to face ourselves and take off the blinding actions of shame and blame.

However, the long process of facing what is real within us first becomes the work of the evolving realization of self. As we learn to accept and face our feelings which are hurtful, harmful, painful, agonizing, and self limiting. The honesty of self reflection at this stage does not always reveal the greater awareness which lies just below the surface of our attention.

We are too invested in our drama, drama, drama at the early stages of waking up.

The choice to honestly face both our deepest most uncomfortable feelings as well as our most precious unexpressed longings are the initial steps to awakening our active participation in self realization. By self realization I am implying becoming our most REAL SELF.

Grappling with what we do not want to see, face, or feel.

The difficulty with this stage is the tremendous amount of mental and emotional energy we have used to build our walls of protection against our ills, our pains, and our illusions of reality. And also the people we have surrounded ourselves with who have contributed to our needs for agreement so we can sustain these dramas.

We sustain our points of view with our personal attention by repeating scenarios in our minds to make sure we are still where we think ourselves to be in drama, where we believe we have been victim, or to perpetrate the drama we want to run with people around us or the world dramas in general.

We then surround ourselves with others who will reinforce our notions and we gain agreements to solidify our pains. To learn to give these dramas up to something that feels more harmonious takes effort. Our thinking and the emotional patterns which arise from this are deeply set inside our attention and are habits to break and require a vigilant effort to learn to release.

Refusal to see ourselves, facing our denials.

Learning to face what is real contains the notion that we are creating through our own feelings and thoughts. We learn to see what we are really doing by way of these self made feelings and thoughts and up to this time this is all very real. This can bring to the surface of our person many feelings which up to this point have been denied expression. These are the unacceptable feelings that the self has stored away and hidden with justifications, defenses, and painful histories which provide a basis for staying in our limited selves. We grow ourselves up here at this point by choosing willingly to take full responsibility for whatever it is we are feeling and thinking and start to heal the hurt, and the victim self.

Choosing the path of self responsibility

The result of facing these kinds of emotions and thinking is the development of emotional awareness, a more refined identification of our emotions. As we develop our emotional awareness and learn to identify our feelings, name them, and learn to feel them completely through we learn how these states actually transport our awareness into a more clear development of our mental, emotional nature.

The inner work leads to new forms of personal clarity.

When we develop our emotional nature with greater depth and clarity this leads to the greater realizations of spirituality that are waiting to be felt and expressed which exist beyond the limiting boundaries of our lesser selves. These larger spiritual places of which there is greater personal freedom lead us into our more honest places of true free will. At this point we have learned to go beyond what we thought was the limit and found inner resources which provide additional self understanding, strength, and now VISION.

New pictures begin to form inside our heads.

Vision, as in seeing who we really are as spiritually identified beings… Vision as in the soul based, spiritually energized access to our own inner purposes and plan for this embodiment. Here we contact the universal substance of co creation within us and then use this new awareness to continue on our path. And while many scenarios of discord, confusion, and incongruity may drop away there is still more to tackle.

What is shifted is our capacity to resolve our personal dilemmas and to make better choices which will transmute the negative life scenarios still active around us. With this new spiritual fuel of a more highly developed emotional awareness, and the clearing of our own negativity we hold a larger space of possibility for our own further development and greater access to authentic true free will.

This is much like the transformation of the caterpillar to the butterfly. Personal metamorphosis arises and lifts us out of many damaging life situations and redirects our attention to the new directions inherent in our life plans. Healing on all levels is activated as our physical cells now have access to greater life forces, our minds are opened beyond our old thinking, and our emotions are not squashed into our loaded subconscious and we have clear access to feeling that now includes intuition.

Intuition is simply the essence of the self now activated into and through the personality. It is a natural component of the self. And it is something that now becomes a new tool to learn, to respect, to develop.

Intuition is amazing.

Intuition is amazing in that it connects us to the larger picture of life, and connects our attention beyond the limiting ego self. The ego self is merely the organizer that makes sure we have our keys before we go out the door, or makes certain we know how to get where we are going. The ego self is actually a wonderful component which helps us stay connected into the time-line and daily activity. It no longer is the main driver of our life. As intuition develops more and more we learn how capable we are of holding a larger version of reality, of how not to hurt others, and how to navigate through difficult situations with finesse and a real sense of deeper cooperation with life. We learn to use the ego self in proportion to the other parts of ourselves with a much better balance. We learn too that we are much much more capable at this point as there are so many coincidences, serendipitous happenings, and amazing circumstances that show up and we observe how purpose is behind whatever is now currently happening around us. We learn to embrace mystery as a safe passage into opening ourselves to being able to hold greater and greater truthfulness about life. We then realize we are part of the cosmos.

Taking away the fear of mystery and not knowing.

When we learn to embrace mystery and not knowing with an opened mind, a receptive heart, and a clearer sense of feeling we start to actualize potentials. Our potentials were not available before to us in our limited, judgmental, self loathing, unloved state. However at this point these qualities have become so refined that our discernment is much more refined and we are stronger and more able to explore our own mysterious not knowing. We learn to live with paradox as we walk fine lines between different realities around us and people running all kinds of dramas. I have felt many times the fine balance of real knowing simultaneously beside not knowing and moved forward anyway. We learn the difference between real fear, which is signaling danger is ahead with self created fear, fear of not knowing. The discernment of fear and its origins becomes another valuable tool that we add to our awareness as we move through our own personal paths of mystery.

The creative urge is mysterious.

As we encompass larger components of our creative urge we connect with our deepest longings and our intuitive nature combining our resources to cultivate discovery in ever more fascinating ways. The act of creation is not all filled with instant knowing of what lies ahead but does hold a kind of promise. We learn what I call “right direction”. Right direction is the meaningful way our own daily life unfolds from one moment to another with a sense of purpose that speaks directly to each one of us. This right direction has its own boundaries and movement, along with stasis and set back. All of it meaningful as we continue through our journey of life.

Learning to open ourselves to even more.

When we can live each day with a pure sense of self, connection to the ALL THAT IS or source, when we can be strong enough to face our own self loathing, self created miseries, and let go of our painful histories, when we can sustain an open heart, and open mind, and then embrace our own personal life mysteries, we have begun the path of self realization towards co creation. We learn to embody joy as natural to us without the need for circumstance. We learn to hold possibility for those around us as they too struggle with the pitfalls of self realization. We learn to walk away from the damaging aspects of our human past and we align with something much greater than all of us. This is core spirituality.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Reality Selection…core spirituality, my personal journey

Reality Selection…core spirituality, my personal journey

Reality selection is the choice to live with what is real.

Reality selection is something all humans are participating and whether we do this in a conscious way by selecting truthfully…. or unconsciously, by selecting only those versions which fit our perceptions regardless of natural truth is all a matter of our growing self awareness and evolution.

We may choose moment by moment by way of examining our free will choices. We may choose unconsciously out of habit, comfort, familiarity,or inheritance through our family of origin and social systems. Without the questioning of what is real, or that which we consider reality we are subject to what it is we place our attention and our personal life energy. From this we develop our experiences which arise from these places. (this is happening whether we recognize it or not because this is the nature of reality.)

The ever present experience of powerlessness and the victim.

The idea I encounter in the world most frequently, especially as a therapist is victim thinking. So frequently even highly effective people have hidden pockets of this inside them without realizing this; I find individuals stuck,or in a stasis of non progress with their situations not realizing that the subtle feeling of not knowing what to do next, or not realizing that one must press further in a personal search for solutions, rather than allowing self to submit to another person’s idea of action.

I find this with people who go to doctors. Physical therapists, and therapists of all kinds. I listen to people express this through their political opinions. Seeking answers, guidance, support, and treatment for whatever their particular ailments might be. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. I often encounter a lack of awareness of the “self development” required to address issues with others so as to cultivate one’s own interior self design for what is to come next. This is all about the inner voice we all have that is guiding us and ultimately choosing to act upon the final decision in the matter based on what our inner voice, or conscience, heart mind, or spiritual self is seeking.

Human beings and our evolution.

Humans are like babies in this way as so much of our socialization is externally based and the inner self has been subverted for outward forms of authority that provide solutions for inner places within us.

Read that last sentence again.

This is beginning to change in larger and larger ways now. There is a gigantic shift happening. We are learning to turn inward to find the authority to learn to see, feel, and design life more from the interior place of free will choice and the realization that our possibilities do arise actually from within self.

The process of growing ourselves up.

When we accumulate enough of these kinds of experiences we learn that reality as we select it, is truly something that evolves from within us and the outer world falls into a kind of order from this place that is actually within. The world becomes the outer manifestation of our inner selves.

With enough of this kind of reality we build into the self the authenticity of inner sovereignty.

Still we can see all over the world many people still seeking this authentic authority outside of themselves and how this is slightly out of alignment with natural order. For natural order is by nature something that we are all born of , made of, are immersed within, and learn to recognize as our own mastery through the experiences of having a physical embodiment and recognizing that when we identify as spiritual beings having a human experience, and not the other way around… physical beings having a spiritual experience. We are free to select any version of reality as we go through the life experiences we are having regardless of our circumstance, our nation of birth, our color of skin, our family history, or even our previous life experiences. We can choose to shift our experiences by way of making new choices that lead differently into our future time-lines.

Learning to transmute our experience into something better.

As we accumulate experiences into ourselves which come truthfully from within us and not outside of us we realize the power we have to transmute whatever it is that is unsatisfactory. This is quite natural and places us into a wider spectrum of choices because we have moved off the limiting game board of generations before us onto the the one of CO-CREATIVITY.

Co-creativity is the most natural place for a human being to see themselves develop and this inner place of awareness nurtures the entire purpose for physical embodiment.

All of life around us is already in this dynamic state of co-creativity, all the different aspects of life thrive on this kind of order. Animals, plants. The planet, and the cosmos.

It is the most present, everlasting, largest most consistent form of reality. Co-creation !

However for the majority of life forms the one component that is most different from our is the matter of personal, free will and how we use free will to make choices about all of this. Each representative of our species )that is each person) has this single component to learn to activate. Yet in the other species this is more of a collective choice or group mind choice. For us this is individual.

By way of transmuting the incongruity in our lives, by transmuting the negatives into positives we shift the reality we live and widen our choices further. Because when we do this we are placing ourselves into the natural order of the cosmos, of life herself. By taking ourselves out of a man made ideology, or an intellectually based notion of reality we free up the life force that is us and we join with others who are already learning how to do this. This is called reality selection!

Belief systems

ideologies

socialization

past histories

social and family rules

political standings

self identity

are but a few of the very important places inside us with which we each have the power, the possibility to change through our free will choices.

Learning that all we thought was and is not real but actually made up by man, is a big step to unravel as so many of our perceptions were learned from these kinds of thinking. Agreement by others reinforce these man made ideas. To step away and discover what is truthfully inherent and what is not within us is a task that comes along as we mature with our choices and develop our self identities. Nothing is written in stone so we have total inner free will to decide for ourselves all along the way.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self reflection and discovery

Deepening Our Awareness Within… ( Spiritual changes to the human condition )… core spirituality, my personal journey

Deepening Our Awareness Within… ( spiritual changes to the human condition )… core spirituality, my personal journey

Paying close attention to the interior of self, sorting out emotional messages, feeling what the wordless messages are that pass thru my body, watching thoughts, and observing reactionary responses are all ways the vibrational frequency of my personal consciousness has begun to open to embrace changes, transformations, growth and discovery.

As I learn to embrace a larger context of self awareness and to discern all such things I find my own personal point of view is transforming constantly. I find myself alive in the context of life with a plethora of different emotions, feelings and thoughts as I withdraw myself from my previously self made memorized patterns.

I step away from the ideas of conforming to fit in to conforming to a heart space of loving self , and loving what is. Acceptance of how life informs me whether this is a negative or a positive experience is about discerning and choosing how I authentically align myself in the world with my innermost sense of truth-fullness and the expression of my heart as it seeks to love and love and love evermore.

I notice my own ignorance… my ignoring what is intrinsic to life and how it is I have chosen to look away from the natural laws of life to shape my own notions of what I want life to be like. This is a delicate process as not all thoughts or ideas are actually aligned in the truth existence. We do not want to see life as it is because we do not want to, this is a common human way to live our lives. We simply edit out whatever we do not want to accept and think this is going to work in the larger spectrum of reality. It does not. And in case you do not see this… look around at all the personal and collective mayhem and insanity of endless unsolved problems seeping within our humanity!

We humans learn to shape life according to our wants, desires, needs, notions, and intellectual stands as if these are the laws of life itself. Many such notions are far from it and only the property of an unquestioned intellect. Formed thru external influences learned in our families, our neighborhoods, our churches and temples, our schools, our social and political locations in each of our countries.

However this may be there are far more universal laws of life which are common to everyone regardless of all these factors, and when observed and applied as actualities cause expanding states of internal personal freedom that does not have the need to exist in the world as the common person thinks. I am reminded of a bible quote about being in the world, but not of it.

For example when I reflect on the natural law of Vibration, of how life is vibratory in nature. Made of atoms, protons, molecules and light photons I look at things differently as I observe how nothing is as solid, nothing is as rigid, or hard as I have previously made it out to be. I am learning to recognize how life substance mingles and intersects, swirls and overlaps, how thoughts and feelings are free to travel beyond physical boundaries. I realize that my own thoughts and feelings are connected to other thoughts and feelings and this shapes reality.

I see how time and distance do not actually prevent the overlapping of ideas and feelings with others. You could be thousands of miles away and in a single instant also connect with a thought or feeling I am having, or me with you. Those ideas of separation simply are not the actuality of life. My internal world is intermingling with the larger one in quite a natural way. I learn to see how the ripples of human thinking travel and all the emotions and feelings travel across distance without any sort of physical boundary. I experience the thoughts and feelings of those not living in this physical domain. Repeatedly in my work I encounter the loved ones of those who have passed over from this life as I see their faces, hear their thoughts, and feel the messages of love they want to convey to their loved ones still in physical embodiments. This is happening because the opening up of the vibratory nature of our lives is occurring while at the same time our capacity to open up our own vibratory field expands, and the walls of separation between the physical and the non physical diminish.

I am learning to see how each person is a life force of vibrational light. The colors around and inside people have clear and distinct shades of different expressions and I watch as the thoughts and feelings change the colors inside and around them changes too. This is the aura… the vibrational component of us. I see how our lights can be clean and clear, or darkened and muddied according to our attention, lifestyles, thoughts and feelings on a daily basis. These vibrational color forms express the person precisely as they are, when there is deception this is very apparent as there are dark walls of shadowy light, when there is confusion there is mixing and overlapping of contrasting color and shading.

When I observe the vibrational nature of our lives I see how similar vibrational patterns and colors around people are attracted to each other and multiply and increase as those light particles engage in mutual vibrational resonance.

That life is not as solid as we commonly have held it to be!

That it is actually a gigantic vibrational field and completely interrelated!

Vibrational perspectives are a totally new and interesting way to learn to observe how life animates with itself thru each of us!

Often in my work, or even in my daily life I notice feelings that have no words, and even the beginnings of thoughts that seem to come from outside myself. As I learn to pay attention to these moments I have learned to open to intuition.

I have learned to cultivate an open place of awareness that is integrating information on a finer, more delicate, and I think… a higher vibrational level. As I am learning to integrate this I am finding how connected everything actually is and that this connection is capable of informing me so that I may be of greater service in how it is I choose to interact with people and how it is I walk with life and calls me into deeper self honesty in the world.

This opens me to the consciousness beyond the physical appearance around me.

And assists a connection to nature as a living presence with it’s own form of consciousness.

This is particularly fun with people’s pets. As I can see the pictures they have inside their minds and I can understand their emotional impulses much much more clearly. I also experience the wild life, the plant life, the terrain I live, the sky… all with this same kind of consciousness that is it. All of it is a vibrational expression of waves and particles of light shaped into what it is my eyes are seeing. However it is more than my eyes are seeing as it is real consciousness that is all connected. It is all connected to itself, and it is connected to the sun, the space around us and connected to the deep, outer cosmic field. I feel this as I a learn to recognize life as vibrational in nature.

Learning to recognize the vibrational nature and how nothing is truly in separation, though there are boundaries in place in some places, I cannot but help to become aware of the law of cause and effect. As I perceive what is happening from a causal level in the cosmic field from far out in deep space I see how it is effecting the local field of our physical domain as vibrations travel inward to this planet. Likewise I can see how what starts inside us as a little thought, (a cause), goes out into the world and “effects” the outer world. I also see how the military actions of violence and destruction vibrate out into the cosmic field effecting our solar system, the spaces inside it, and beyond. Everything is actually connected.

The observation of how everything is connected opens up the realization of how we are each responsible for what is happening in this world thru our individual thoughts and feelings.

The consciousness of every individual is effecting physical reality.

Whether one believes it or not, whether one sees it or not, whether one cares about it or not. This is an immutable, stable expression of cosmic law that is active 24/7 !

I find stability in knowing this and so I embrace this as a form of personal knowledge for living that supports my existence.

This replaces many of the false ideas, and rigid beliefs, and the notion that I need many of the man made laws ( which I still respect and abide), I simply inwardly do not allow myself to see them as the great pillars of strength we have been lead to believe.

Many of these intellectual laws, policies, and ideas simply are not capable of managing the immensity of the truth of life as billions of life forms co exist and manage their lives on a daily basis.

In other words there is a natural order of life that is truly NATURAL.

And it is not what science has lead us to believe.

This becomes apparent as we learn to integrate the knowledge of our lives from the perspective of vibrational awareness.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Our solar system is a reflection of an atom! see below. This is immutable, as above so below. Nature… discover it for yourself.

Relationships… core spirituality for your discernment

I listen… core spirituality, my personal journey

 

 

Whenever I have a question,

whenever I am stuck,

whenever I do not understand,

whenever I have confusion,

whenever I have missed something,

I listen.

I listen to the silence.

I listen and wait in anticipation of learning something new.

I listen to your tone of voice.

I listen to the silent pauses between your words.

I listen to your joy and your pain.

I listen to the sound of nature to restore my equilibrium.

I turn off the noise, the chatter, the propaganda, the ill informed voices of discontent.

if only for a moment.

I restore myself thru my silent ability to hear you,

to feel you,

to understand you.

I always remember I am myself in you.

There is great completeness in listening.

Where there is not great completeness, there is absence of deep listening.

I return to the silent space of hearing with my heart, my body, and my spirit.

 

 

Listening, deep listening is a choice.

 

core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Presence…core spirituality, my personal journey

Presence… core spirituality, my personal journey

Whenever I remain in the awareness of my capacity to choose… I choose to connect.

Choosing to see hear and feel my connection with what arises in any moment of my day.

I discover how what arises is not separate from my awareness.

Whenever I experience my self in you I am charged with the substance of life that is limitless. My mind is in check, my heart remains open.

My ego identity knows it’s true place and surrenders to the knowledge arising.

The simple wisdom of that moment reveals to me my optimum action or non action.

My awareness becomes infused within the sanctity of our humanity.

The voice of judgmental notions is quieted.

My heart space opens more and more.

I realize again and again, it is only an illusion that we are all separate.

It is only an illusion.

I know what is myself as you.

I experience what all ancient mystics, great spiritual teachers, and all religions have pointed us toward.

The practice of presence is more than just being there.

In this way I do my part while I am witnessing you doing yours.

Loving what is….

I am your brother, your son, your father, and yet something that is more than all of that.

Often I am silent.

Yet present.

core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation.

 

 

Finding the Truth… core spirituality, my personal journey

 

 

Finding the Truth… core spirituality, my personal journey

The most significant aspect of dropping into self truth for me has always been the conscious and deliberate action of taking apart my denial.

When I listen to friends and or clients struggling with the truthfulness of situations they are limited by I detect the denial that is still unspoken and yet to be embraced.

Denial is a powerful form of avoidance that may suggest one is not ready to embrace some aspect of genuine truthfulness.

Denial may also be a clear signal that we are ready for a reality check.

Terror is a reality check for me.

Terror as it is being expressed in the world today is an example that has triggered in me my own need to face the painful feelings I have and the deeper source of those emotions. The thoughts I have held and the way those thoughts have caused me to feel. Terror in life could be a tremendous wake up call for all of us with the willingness to hold ourselves accountable for our own emotional weather. I began to look at my own feelings that were triggered by the immense pain of inhumanity in the news recently.

Denial is camouflaged in infinite variety of ways. For example the quest for feeling good, the constant need for entertainment, the obsessive drive for money and things, overworking ourselves into a stupor, all are ways we divert our attention away from uncomfortable truthfulness about how we feel and suspend ourselves in envelopes of denial.

The lack of familiarity with processing uncomfortable truthfulness is a habit of externally based thinking that seeks results outside the source of our experience.

When I seek to make myself feel better by purchasing a new car, finding a new restaurant, and so on without inward reflection into my genuine uncomfortable feelings I may miss the mark for the source of how it is I truly feel, and end up placing an external over that denial. It is a pattern I see very commonly habituated in human beings.

I make a point to face my own truth by cultivating the habit of embracing what arises in a positive manner. Recently I was horrified by world events that seem to be accumulating and increasing in ways that I became overwhelmed. At first I was only observing the external basis of my feelings. When these would not go away I had to look inward, further, deeper, and more honestly.

In reflective observation I noticed my own horrible thoughts and feelings along with elements of self denial. In this way what grabs our attention outwardly can act as a mirror to our inner world. I resolve to come to terms with my own painful feelings once I discovered my own denied emotions.

Terror results from many sources some of which are oppression, powerlessness, righteousness, impatience, short sightedness, injustice, fear, shallowness, fundamentel-isms, along with many other emotional scenarios. Who has not experienced any such feelings? When we deny our own darker nature what can happen can be terrifying, terrorizing. And then how we choose to attend to this is of a critical nature as well. This is a big, humongous wake up call for our human family.

Without the individual making choices to face what ever it is we deny about our own darker nature we are subject to an increase in all this mayhem. Without the knowledge of our darker nature we are devoid of meeting our own needs hidden by our reluctance to see the truthfulness of our own thoughts and feelings. The cycles of dysfunction, pain, and suffering continue to haunt us.

Fear grows and we start to believe the fear and we generate more and more of it.

When fear becomes the overriding driving force of our collective action we create more of it.

While we are believing our fears we are missing our authentic capacity to be genuinely empowered to find healthy, non violent, peaceful solutions that address the real problems that created the denial, the terror, and the horror of our own inhumanity.

This leads to control.

There appears to be some element of the use of fear for control behind the terror of the day. The militarization of police, the use of violent militarization, the enacting of laws used to impose limits and controls on many by the few. The over use of the military forces of this world to solve the problems that arise out of our denials is staggering.

There is always a better way.

The core voice within me shows me how this is so.

I can take my own life into my own directive. I can resolve my own fear, panic, terror, pain, etc. etc. thru addressing what it is that makes me uncomfortable. I can utilize my own consciousness to see and feel authentically. I can dismantle my own denial.

I can love what it is in myself that I have not.

Bottom line in authentic living is the habit of loving oneself enough to address the totality of our human experience. By addressing both sides of the equation of our emotional states, our thoughts, and remaining open. (the light as well as the dark!)

We do not have to be afraid of what we feel.

Core within me reminds me that this is the spiritual being having a human experience and how I manage this is up to me.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Learning to embrace our experiences (neurotic behaviors)… core spirituality, my personal journey

Learning to embrace our experiences (neurotic behaviors)… core spirituality, my personal journey

When we deny any shadow aspects of ourselves through transcendence, avoidance or repression these very forces come alive in our neurotic behavior.

They come to the surface in our jealousy, in our angry words, in our irritability

toward life, in our inability to communicate with our partners, children or friends.

Yet these very shadows, if embraced and met with love and compassion, become helpful aspects and illuminated qualities of our true nature. 

We may notice that if:

If we deny our power, we become angry.

If we deny our sadness, we become cold and heartless.

If we deny our humility, we become closed and arrogant. 

If we deny our fear, we become anxious.

It is through embracing our darkness, our shadow, that we become both free of our shadow as well as embodying of the very positive aspects of our humanity and Divinity.

When we embrace our anger, we become powerful.

When we embrace sadness, we become compassionate

When we embrace arrogance, we become undefended

When we embrace fear, we become open hearted.

The transformation of our humanity is our true work in this world. As we do so we discover there is no separation between our humanity and our Divinity.

Craig Holliday

http://www.craigholliday.com/index.php/blog

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What are we capable of in this world ?

It all depends on our thinking…

It all depends on what we believe to be true…

It all depends on me… and

you!

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Entering the Valley of the Rainbow, Core spirituality, my personal journey

Entering the Valley of the Rainbow

We Are Being Led to Figure This Out…Together , core spirituality my personal journey

The year that lies ahead is filled with possibility….2015

The amazing way life unfolds leads us to one another in search of peace.

While the ignorance inherent in distrust and hate-filled painful isolation and separation only lead to repeating our inept cycles of dysfunctional behaviors. Murdering, killing, destroying, bombing, only lead eventually to our eventual meeting our enemies again and again.

The end of any disharmonious situation continues unresolved and is put off again until such time as the quantum numbers of us finally come to our senses and open up to acceptance of some kind, acceptance of something possible thru peace  and cooperation. There is a critical number of mass quantum activity that gathers increasing in power and force for us to deal with.

The quantum numbers of massive problems our humanity faces are leading us to our oppositions, enemies, and least expected people to peacefully resolve the pain that results from our actions here on planet earth. Not only do we seek similar thinking people out in our efforts, we eventually learn how we can heal and resolve by also including everyone.

Whenever the pain of a situation reaches that unbearable place of such magnitudes and great uncertainty do we find ourselves opening doors of thinking beyond our comfort zones and learning how to embrace a bigger picture, a cooperative one,  a notion our minds had rejected long ago.

We are drawn to the obvious differences to recreate a new answer for ourselves based in mutual respect and longstanding soulful patience. Eventually coming to that which we held ourselves away.

When masses of people reach these points in life those of us looking on as observers can see how the patterns unfold.

We see how the opposites naturally come together…. eventually.

We see how the  conflicted,dejected, rejected people and their thoughts make their way back to us to find their place in the overall solutions which arise from an open heart, and the willingness to cooperate, correct, and heal the shared pains that pass beyond the boundaries of taking different sides.

We find our answers together.

The acts of discrimination become acts of mutual redemption and efforts of cooperation, whenever we decide we will acquiesce and learn to make peace with the messes we create when the pain is just too much.

We learn that the pain we generate as human beings is the same no matter what side one takes.

No matter what.

Pain is universally the same for everyone.

It is a common denominator that ultimately causes the ignorant in each of us to submit our ego based, self centered, righteous ways to come together and stand beyond the conflicts of differences to seek common peaceful ground.

Thus now we have quantum levels of planetary pain unfolding thru the masses of human beings thinking these painful thoughts, and learning how this makes us feel.

We are reaching whole new levels of possibility thru the path of pain and suffering we inflict on one another and the directions that arise out of the sanctity and appreciation of life for everyone.

The world is a tearful place of living hell filled with imprisoned minds. Some refer to this as “the prison planet”. And indeed it is for many. Poverty rules, along side this making it all the worse. The global pain expressed thru the voices of this earthly agony are being projected thru all the medias of this world day in and day out.

While this continues the great distances between us diminish, we cannot help but be aware of our brothers and sisters who suffer. It is getting harder and harder to deny our human pains. The pain is overlapping all of us slipping into the awareness of anyone who turns on a TV, surfs the web, or reads.

The level of terror inflicted on each other rises from the cries of this great collective imbalance shared in our humanity.

What is terror ….REALLY?

Deeper in, deeper into the causes of  terror, perpetrating terror, participating in terror there are reason humans are hurting and crying out, and becoming desperate. While I do not condone terror in any way, I do seek to understand the nature of it, its roots, its causes, its deepest origins. ( I am well aware of how it appears that many so called educated people use the news of terror in the media, in military propaganda, and many other outlets to perpetrate a continual state of controlling fear that limits, and paralyzes the common person ) I question this… I question the real and deep causes that would bring people to commit their acts of terror, and then those who perpetrate the news of this terror in our world. I refuse to settle with the surface perceptions of terror as it is presented in our media, our consensus views from society. So I ask myself what could be some of the underlying causes of these people’s lives that create these scenarios? I write in the plural (we) form as I am questioning our humanity, as in we, the human civilization.

Terror is the loud voice of the thoughts of powerlessness.

Terror is the voice of the thoughts and the beliefs we create of oppression gone wildly mad.

Terror is the voice of the thoughts of deep injustice.

Terror is the voice of the thoughts of horrible unspeakable long lasting generational suffering of the likes many still have yet to understand and to embrace.

Terror is the voice of misplaced notions of how life naturally unfolds and results from our dysfunctional attempts to live.

We must scream out!

Terror is the voice of all of this multiplied by fear.

Terror is the voice of the thoughts we have in our powerlessness disguised as power plays, dominance, submission, control, oppression.

Terror is the voice of desperation magnified by those who are in its darkest expressions seeking to find solutions.

Terror is the voice of the cries of those with whom we have yet to listen, their lives shaped by thoughts of painful injustices, religious ideas of superiority, years of oppressions.

Terror is the voice reaching out to the larger humanity to listen and learn to see the real problems we face.

Terror is the voice of people who are thinking and feeling out of control and filled to the brim with pain acting “as if ” terrorizing  is a TOOL for powerful control ….lashing out in this world. ( which it is not )

By the act of believing that all these painful scenarios will be solved thru militarization is ridiculous.

Terror is only the voice of……. something much greater we have denied in all of us. Our human family has many unresolved issues.

Might over terror is simple child’s play and completely ineffective in resolving the magnitude of underlying problems that are deep in the roots of human terrors.

More bombs, more weaponry, more guns, more shouting, more protests, more violence, more dominance, all generating more of the same.

Terror… on it’s own is the face and voice of massive humanitarian  denial….that which we have yet to face.

Our greatest super powers are not our might, our military’s, our politics of domination, or our defeatist notions forced upon one another.

Soldiers, civilians, even the women and children are being murdered in our best efforts to use might as a solution.

Might is not our super power as we are lead to “believe” thru the propaganda’s of war and politics.

Not at all.

We are a suffering humanity.

Our suffering is leading us to one another in the eventuality of peaceful new terms of problem solving.

It is life’s great silent way of showing us that which many have yet to learn.

Where the problems really exist, who is suffering because of these problems, and what the problems are. The maddened, crazed, insane voices of terror rise from the underbelly of our denied humanity.

We have denied one another, in some way, in some unthinkable ways and we are starting to wake up to how we can embrace our suffering.

So while we lament, and cry our tribulations this coming year we can actually learn to start to engage peaceful, non sterotyping new thoughts, new conversations, and new possibilities of solutions in our individual lives by coming to terms with our denials and releasing our grips with ignorance and constant repetition of solutions that have not, and do not work for everyone of us.

We can follow the directions of our most broken notions of life and where they lead us to our op-poser’s, our enemies, into our conflicts not to create more, to resolve and find new meaning and possibility.

To face ourselves in one another.

And finally see who it is we are fighting.

Ourselves.

Myself.

The amazing way life leads us thru both our joys is also our pains, leading us back to each other. We can learn to respect the pain as well as the joy of our humanity.

Learn to love your enemies, yourself.

Learn to love enough to see what you have denied, ( I have denied)

Learn to break open the illusions of terror.

Our real super power is our capacity to co operate to find our solutions.

Our real super power is to bring our man heart spaces so strongly forward that we face our denial and learn to see the truth of our actions.

Learn to recognize the voices for what they truly are……

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

The Choices I Make for Anger, Core spirituality

CHOICE..
I LOVE THE COMPASSIONATE ACTION OF LOVING THE “ENEMY” AND THE SHIFT THIS BRINGS INTO MY LIFE .
I LOVE LEARNING TO OPEN TO THAT WHICH IS DIFFERENT AND APPEARS TO OPPOSE MY THINKING.
AND LEARNING HOW DIFFERENTLY I FEEL WHEN I DO THIS.
I LOVE THE DAY THIS IS REALIZED FROM ONE PEOPLE TO ANOTHER FROM ONE LAND TO ANOTHER FROM EVERY ENEMY TO THE OTHER ACROSS THIS PLANET,
HOWEVER
IT TAKES EACH OF US TO REALIZE.
OUR HUMANITY IS ONE HUMANITY,
INTERCONNECTED.
INSTEAD OF FIGHTING THE FIGHT I (WE) CAN ACTUALLY FACE THE GREATER ISSUES AT HAND.
AND LEARN TO RESOLVE THOSE ISSUES.
THIS IS REAL POWER, NOT DOMINANCE AND SUBMISSION AND DESTRUCTION…..
I VISUALIZE THE SUPER POWER OF “WORKING TOGETHER” TO SOLVE A PROBLEM.

THIS I VISUALIZE…
STOP THE MILITARIZATION OF WORLD PROBLEMS, THIS DOES NOT WORK,
(ALL SOLDIERS EVERYWHERE)
WE CONTINUE TO REPEAT THE STORIES OF OUR HURTING DISCONTENT.
I SEE WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON.
I STOP PRETENDING THIS IS CREATING PEACE. (WHILE PLANNING THE NEXT BATTLE? )

I CHOOSE TO STOP THIS THINKING.
I ASK MYSELF…”IS THIS TRUE?”
AND
“HOW WOULD I BE WITHOUT THIS STORY?”

I STOP THE PROLIFERATION OF STEREOTYPING THE “ENEMY” “THE OTHER PERSON” “GROUP” OR CULTURE.
I STOP PLANNING THE BATTLES
I RELEASE FROM THE FIGHTS TO FINALLY SEE THE REAL PROBLEMS ( MY ISSUES PROJECTED ON YOU)
I CHOOSE TO FIND AND BRING TO THIS WORLD THE POSSIBILITY OF
NON VIOLENT,PEACEFUL, SOULFUL RESOLUTIONS !
I ACCESS LONGSTANDING AND SOULFUL PATIENCE IN MY PROCESS.
I CONTINUE TO QUESTION AUTHORITY, MY BELIEFS, MY THINKING AND I ASK AGAIN AND AGAIN…

WHAT IS THE THOUGHT INSIDE ME THAT CREATES THESE SCENARIOS, AND HOW IS IT THAT I AM BELIEVING IT?
I (WE) DIRECT WHAT UNFOLDS IN MY (OUR) LIVES THROUGH HOW I (WE) BELIEVE WHAT IT IS I (WE) THINK AND HOW THIS MAKES ME (US) FEEL.
IGNORANCE, AT SOME POINT, BECOMES A CHOICE. A CHOICE TO CONTINUE THE DRAMAS.
I AM LEARNING EVERY DAY AND THIS IS THE GIFT OF MY LIFE TO COME TO TERMS AND RESOLVE THAT ….
I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
AND LEARN TO OBSERVE THE CHOICE…….
UNTIL I MAKE A DIFFERENT CHOICE THE WAR WITH SELF CONTINUES ON
AND IS PROJECTED OUTWARD
TOWARDS YOU
IT IS A CHILDISH GAME

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

 

Redefining Courage.. Opening to the Deep Masculine. Core spirituality, my personal journey

Redefining Courage.. Opening to the Deep Masculine. Core spirituality, my personal journey

Redefining our ideas about courage as they apply to ourselves involves the turning of our attentions from the outer circumstances of our lives to the inner ones.

Historically masculine courage has been collectively agreed upon and defined thru actions in the outer world and this is good, however it is no longer sufficient to meet the modern day circumstances arising around us as we watch conflict, stereotyping, war planning, domination, bullying, violence, isolation, and unspoken depression reach global levels of very large numbers of men, women and children.

There is a shift in consciousness developing as our attention is being so pressured that we must turn to our insides to find new solutions to the issues that repeat generation after generation and cause violence and suffering to so many.

What is a man without the fortitude and strength to ask of himself the very questions he asks his enemy? He repeats the cycles of misunderstanding based on beliefs and defining thoughts inside his head that tell him he must go outside himself to prove his worth, his strength, his courage.

When a man learns to turn within to find what is not working, what is unloved, what is left unresolved and then goes forward to replace his old behaviors, (like finger pointing ), he begins to take the path of the deep masculine.

The peaceful warrior arrives in us to redirect the notions that to solve the problems he must change another, conquer another, destroy another, and so on. Replacing these external based strategies with internal ones. This takes a different kind of courage.

This takes redefining what courage means and the process leads us to drop into our man hearts to find new forms of courage within us. The peaceful warrior arrives in us to take on the new levels of need inherent in the ineffective strategies of which we have succumbed. There is more work to be done and it is not the same. We then learn to start to redefine courage.

The courage to face ourselves, and what drives us crazy.

The courage to face what triggers us that is inside us as revealed by you.

The courage to face what has no words, yet blankets our day with feelings yet discovered.

The courage to face those feelings that were always to big too handle and too foreign to our sense of masculinity.

The courage to face how ineffective our ideas about conflict have been and find new avenues to walk thru that lead us thru new doors of soulful patience leading to conflict resolutions, cooperation, harmonious co existence, interconnectedness and acceptance of differences.

The courage to reveal the truths to ourselves about ourselves that were to painful to accept.

The courage to face the repeats that do not work, have not worked, and to stop repeating patterns of disharmonious conflict.

The courage to face what our ancestors were unable to face and to resolve what has not been resolved in our lives and stop passing this crap on to our children.

The courage to choose life rather than death as a means to an end.

The courage to hear, feel, listen and touch those with whom our painful ways have hurt.

The courage to cry and finally let go of our own discord.

The courage to love, and stop hating.

The courage to embrace differences and stop distancing.

The courage to be willing to be open and yet remain strong.

The courage to be tender and strong as steel all at the same time.

The courage to let out our voices of painful histories and reclaim our deeper voices of purity, restoring our honor within.

The courage to advance on the path of re-identification of our unique masculine selves alone, when those around us choose to go with the crowd.

The courage to ask the difficult questions instead of malingering in ignorance common to those who dismiss and reject “inner peace” as a viable path to world peace.

The courage to trust ourselves and use this to replace our out dated modes of distrust of one another.

The courage to listen, really listen, to allow ourselves to be touched deeply and to own how this makes us feel as men.

The courage to act upon our deepest heart messages, instead of buying in to the acceptable norms of common masculine behaviors that are toxic. We learn to replace toxic thoughts, acts, and lack of taking action with deep heart motivation.

The courage to embrace our fear, and to stop projecting on those around us, families, friends, society, and the world in general.

The courage to face responsible action, and stop placing it on others. (finger pointing)

The courage to do this now, instead of always putting it off, to another day, another time, a time that never really arrives.

The courage to speak up in the face of hatreds, bigotry, stereotyping, injustices, and suffering.

The courage to act towards peace rather than wars.

The courage to be truthful with ourselves, our significant others and the world, instead of believing lies, perpetrating lies to ourselves.

The courage to walk away from our old habits which are anything less than the heartfelt deep masculine that lie within us.

The courage to see the beliefs we hold that are false and lead to more separations, more discords, more exclusion of others. Replacing these beliefs with ones that are inclusive, lead to interconnection, and harmony.

These are but a few of the ways that come to my mind when I look at the shift in what it means to redefine courage.

We can learn to walk in the world in new ways.

We can learn to embrace the wisdom of our mistakes and reach further, better, and closer to our brothers, women, children, families, communities, and this world.

We learn to find a new comfortableness with the deep masculine that has a remarkable way of shifting our day to day existence. We learn how to respect the deeper feminine around us and thus we claim our own inner nature. We truly learn to accept, embrace, and love the deep feminine in what ever way this shows up.

Taking responsibility for own nature as men and stopping the tendency to project ourselves outward is a courageous step in the direction of healing the wounded masculine in this world.

The wounded masculine hides, hides in the world thru pretending it’s opposite.

By pretending to be powerful thru dominance, thru aggressions.

Thru pontificating in big ways in religious authority, military planning and strategizing, business acquisitions, scientific righteousness, political stands which exclude and dominate, covert communications designed to control and manipulate masses of people. The list goes on and on.

The actions of the toxic masculine sweep thru our world cultures on a daily basis poisoning the sanctity of life. The toxic masculine justifies war, displacement of the masses, murder for right, loss of life, destruction of society, destruction of ecology, endless proliferation of dangerous weaponry, all leading to recreating fear based situations that perpetrate more fear based situations.

The toxic masculine creates the toxic problem, finds the toxic solution to that problem and then recreates it again. It is a vicious cycle of huge proportions that only stops when men stop believing their ideas based in external forms of toxic male thinking of hundreds of years of toxic misery and hardship.

Yet we are told this is for peace.

I question this seriously. Very seriously.

When we redefine our mindsets of courage we learn that what we are creating is only a lens of perception and that we can literally shift this lens.

When we face ourselves we stop this in the outer world, around us.

Whenever I listen to a man postulate his righteousness thru aggression I observe a lack of self awareness, a lack of inner seeing. A lack of inner connection.

I hold ground each day with my inner peaceful warrior.

I discern the differences.

I am in willingness to redefine courage and to embrace the deep masculine.

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“Unconditional Positive Regard”, The Return of The Peaceful Warrior…core spirituality, my personal journey

“Unconditional Positive Regard”, The Return of The Peaceful Warrior…core spirituality, my personal journey

How can I recognize the arrival of the PEACEFULL WARRIOR inside my life ?

How do we as men heal ourselves and our relationships? Our relationships with one another, with women, with family?

How do we heal ourselves with the world, and the effects of negative images perpetrated as masculinity? (when actually those images are not truly so positive?)

How do we interrupt the cycles of suffering caused by repeating thinking and behaviors? Behaviors learned from each other and our fathers, our grandfathers, our ancestors?

How do we heal the immense unspoken pain of our wounded warrior selves?

We learn to cultivate the perceptional lens of UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD.

We practice the intention to see, hear, listen, observe, and empathize without all the opinions, learned male messages, and stereotyping of our world culture.

We engage with one another in this way so as to learn how it is we are able to identify differences without reacting except for an inner place of unconditional positive regard for what our human condition is experiencing at this moment thru one another.

We suspend any kind of judgmental thinking.

We learn to pay attention to our pains!

We learn to see what is before us.

Awareness is seeing…. not thinking about what we see! (please read that again)

Plain seeing and nothing more. Seeing as much as we can about what arises. Taking it in…. with a sense of unconditional positive regard.

By doing so we create conditions that open pathways to face our conflicts peacefully, and with soul-full patience. We learn to create extraordinary moments of possibility where we make it possible to end bickering, fighting, hardships, suffering.

We lift the unspoken masculine “dark cloud” of burden we secretly harbor, while we hold ourselves open to pure seeing…. A conscious awareness of what is.

We are able to avoid meltdowns, smooth out the rough edges of ourselves and situations that are disharmonious, TAKE ON abuses of all kinds, and manage mistakes and repetitions whenever we are able to stand ourselves inside our own unconditional positive regard for life…. for living.

This is the arrival of the PEACEFUL WARRIOR.

We learn how to validate life in one another, with all the messiness and misery, joy and unexpected synchronicity possible.

We see with new eyes the cost to heal our issues and how to begin to form new steps which bring resolution, relief, and unburden one another thru new solutions.

When we allow ourselves to drop into our man heart – spaces, when we learn to allow ourselves to have our feelings of being touched in deep and meaningful ways we completely redesign the limbic systems of distress we carry inside our bodies. ( the emotional center of our brains)

We acquire realistic outcomes that we can then apply to generate and influence the positive outcomes we need to feel fulfilled and in greater harmony with ourselves, with other men, with women, with children, family and our communities and the world.

Getting realistic is the goal.

Becoming real is the result. Honor returns to the man.

This is the way of the peaceful warrior.

Historically men have created and then repeated creating world scenarios of war, enemy thinking, and conflict, along with dominance and greed. Power grabbing at the cost of one another, of societies, and the innocents as a means of feeling that power.

The ultimate power is not outside the man here, the ultimate power is within him, within us.

When we live and act with unconditional positive regard for all of life we then have the capacity to share power with one another that addresses life in healthy, regenerative, healing, with bridge building new efforts for peaceful outcomes.

This is the spiritual power inside us, not the stolen power we seek from others!

We stifle the tendency to plan for and energize war thru the illusion of power thru dominance, a toxic trait of the earth based masculinity lived for centuries here. We gain access to the ways of wisdom left dormant thru previous learned behaviors of toxic masculinity!

We stifle the tendency to stereotype our “enemies” and we begin to heal the effects of our historically based WOUNDED WORRIORS.

Until we heal our own wounded warrior we will not be able to heal that which makes us crazy about our enemies. We repeat the cycles over and over and over.

The wounded warrior carries the wisdom of our work ahead as he has seen the battle and learns to understand the fight. He has suffered the loss and knows the pain this brings. He has given up much to his battles and is left without all of the rest of himself intact.

The peaceful warrior reclaims the sanctity of his heart in order to learn to become whole once again.

Our men have yet to shed their tears.

And come home to their innermost super powers which lie dormant within the beating hearts, and breath inside our bodies. The real super powers are peace, not war. Harmony with… not dominance over. Understanding not misunderstanding. Loving not hating. Cooperation not covert agenda making. These are but a few of the true spiritual powers awaiting any man willing to allow the presence of his own peaceful warrior to surface.

We must come to terms with our warring manhood. We must learn to yield to our man hearts so as to learn the languages of how to heal our wounds. We must learn to open our hearts so that we may comprehend the greater work ahead beyond constant war and battle and conflict. That which lies ahead is the building of peace. This is the ultimate and true power for a man.

Our wounded warriors lead us to surprising meetings as we open to our wise elders. Who are our wise elders? Where are they? Who has learned to listen , to embrace and to love them? The silence we now relegate to our wise elders is a sad, sad state of our ignorance and unwillingness to embrace our man heart spaces. Our wise elders know the pains and distresses of our wounded psyches. We need them to show us how to heal us.

We need our wise elders voices to disturb the comfortable places of dominance and power mongering inside us and amongst us.

We have learned to settle for a far lesser possibility thru our repeating and repeating. Our insistence’s of righteousness and might.

Once a wise elder spoke and reminded me of that thinking…. “an eye for an eye” which is a basic tenet of many and said to me what would this bring to you? Continue like this and everyone will be blind !

He knew, he had seen, and now he reminda me.

Blind men leading more blind men.

Many still carry on this way, many are blinded by the thoughts of their aggressions.

The peaceful warrior steps up and says to me.. “this is your cause to pause, reflect on these things.”

“Learn to open up.”

“Be strong, be whole, learn to be wise. I have returned in you, the journey of the peaceful warrior has much further for you to go.”

core spirituality, my personal journey of self investiagation

Meaningful Chaos…How do I own my feelings? One man asks… Core spirituality, my personal journey

Meaningful Chaos…How do I own my feelings? One man asks… Core spirituality, my personal journey

As men how we take ownership of each feeling within self is a door that opens the way to personal revelation. Leading into self awareness and the capacity to increase responsibility to myself, my life, my family, my community, the planet.

Responsibility places the ability to direct the outcome of any feeling that arises into my hands. This places meaningful purpose for daily life experience. No matter what!

The process of ownership, meaning “owning the processing” of my feelings leads to recognizing the thoughts that pass thru my mind and how these thoughts make me feel.

This opens up the door to deeper significance which lies behind the simplest of moments. Causing the awareness to enliven with the now-present unfolding of life. This activates the many other facets of the self with the excitement of living and the possibility of discovery.

Discovery leads the me further along into the soulful aspect of myself where greater understanding and acceptance is reached. The soulful aspect of myself is filled with an unlimited desire for connection to Source. This soulful connection to Source energizes any single thought we have. ( and one reason it is smart to pay attention to what that thought might be )Thus self development proves to be a vehicle for a continuous unfolding plan with which each of us is born. Even if we do not yet know our plan then it is the job of myself to find this.

However this may look, it is for each individualized aspect of Source in us as us to learn to see, feel, and live this out in a way that satisfies the most innate urge of our spiritual being.

Bypassing self awareness ( remaining ignorant) has all the consequences of acquiring more experience and knowledge and is still a door way thru life that brings to one the possibility of discovery, life purpose, and upliftment, however this will be sporadic, less joyful, and contain many more moments of life confusion and repeatitions. Either way, with or without ownership of feelings, each is in a state of ownership and discovery by nature of the organization of life. Without it one must experience the repetitive victimization which accompanies the “bypass” with less understanding of how to direct the personal life forces available that present to self on a regular basis. ( we miss the awareness of possibility )

Consequences are a natural outcome of every thought and lead us further.

Without self awareness and the continuous intention to develop self we will repeat consequences until such a time that we begin to recognize how life works. Thoughts repeating thoughts.

This is our growing edge.

The place where each of us is experiencing something new that will bring to us more personal development and the possibility of unburdening the incarnate life we find ourselves.

Our growing edges merge in numbers as individuals find themselves on similar thought patterns and feelings. Entire generations of incarnate souls actually enter into life here with specific themes and we can see this thru the historical breaking down of ignorance which is a hallmark of each generation.

This elimination of hardships and increased self development serves the greater good of the entire species and does require the individuals in our human species to become activated. ( everyone matters)

We increase awareness by creating both negatively and positively charged scenarios of which we must face and transform. The human species is now on a giant growing edge of self awareness of unparallelled proportion as we discover the greater truths inherent in life, thru ourselves and one another.

Collectively we are rearranging our lives for better or worse depending on our own individualized elements of self development arising from our perceptions of greater inherent truth.

Ultimate truth unites, solidifies, repairs, and generates greater good for everyone.

Once the incarnate self learns to live in harmony with ultimate truth of the self, and of life itself there is a lessening of the repetitions of burden and suffering common to this planet. Co creation takes on greater meaningful purpose as “all for one and one for all” or “we are One” is realized.

Quite different from the “me versus you” mentality of present day politics and military conflicts and war. While the world on a grand scale is not expressing this universal understanding as of yet, small developments thru individuals,local groups, and even some multinational intentions are forming, and individuals are seeking this in our personal lives thru our friendships, work relationships, and families.

We have much further to go. Much further. Much, much further!

The ultimate truth of universal understanding and interconnection drives onward. Ever pressing thru our lives showing us how it is when we hurt another we hurt ourselves, when we help another we help ourselves, when we serve another we serve ourselves and so on.

This perception of life has completely different consequences to it. This perception alone transforms any single individual situation or any single global one.

That is the nature of universal awareness.

Thus when we take responsibility for how and what we choose to invest our life energies into we are co creating a world that looks like it does. This gets better the more we own what it is we feel, the thoughts we have that make us feel that way, and we redirect our lives with intentions of greater good for all of life, even our supposed “enemies”.

Enemy mentality is replaced with new solutions that arise because we stop “either or thinking”. ( either it is me or it is you, and replace this with us)

While we are in staggering proportions of transition from “enemy thinking” to “universal awareness”, we can stay vigilant towards not recreating any more scenarios in our daily lives with every opportunity that arises.

We are in a species level, global level transition of consciousness right now. Chaos ensues as the different paradigms of perception and thinking and feeling meet one another.

Meaningful chaos !

I respect and honor the “meaningful chaos” in our world today!

Meaningful because which side of the equation we choose to energize will generate that side of the current world scenario. We are all choosing now, consciously or unconsciously, with or without self awareness of our thoughts.

The chaos continues.

We continue.

What will each of us choose?

Right now every human life matters. Both good and evil. Because how and what we do to respond to the current situation is unfolding as we live out our choices day to day. We are creating our responses to this.

Do we repeat history?

Do we create a new future?

When finding self repeating a distressing thought we can choose to enter into the space of recognition and slow down the process enough to make new choices.

Repeating is a choice.

Do I want to repeat a distressing thought, and what will be the consequence of doing so?

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

The Darkened Self, One Man Returns To Living Grace. Core spirituality, my personal journey

The Darkened Self, One Man Returns To Living Grace. Core spirituality, my personal journey

When i read this I say to myself,

“When I place the blame of judgment on someone else, this leaves me powerless to change my experience: taking responsibility for my beliefs and judgments gives me the power to change them.”

Men, as “silent” victims, who live under the dark clouds of their emotions, end up stuck in the harbor of many a discontent notion and find ourselves repeating and repeating the unquestioned effects of emotional pain. Our own, our father’s and the grandfather’s and those before him!

We do this as we place blame on others and judge them according to our hurt and hold hostage the image of our discontent.

I watch this scenario in the media as what is perpetrated as news is endlessly reported.

How we evaluate our circumstance in life without self responsibility becomes an endless tirade of finger pointing and mistrust, broken promises, and dangerous world circumstance. That men in politics, men in military, men all over the world continue to view the world as “silent” victims is a sad component of the sleeping unawakened self… Still dreaming a dream yet to unfold.

The result is the violence perpetrated thru war, thru dominance, thru greed and power stands, thru covert agendas and the insistence that someone else must make the change.

The voice of the wounded man is surely a voice we can learn to heal. In one another and in ourselves.

Yet without the inner power of recognition to the source of our discontents, our sadness and our own feelings of victimization we are self limited in “boxes” of our making. We struggle with the notion of external power as a means to the end, and it is not working. We build more weaponry, we create new strategies for control, and we distance ourselves from that which may have the greatest capacity to reveal to us new solutions.

First of all we need to look inside our own selves and see what we harbor inside our own bellies and learn to to turn the directions around inside the hurting selves. Then we begin the genuine transformation of the ills of this world. We take down and take apart our tendency to act out of violent response, and endless tyrannical outbursts and expressions of “the wounded”. We find the place where authentic power lives inside.

The awakening man is a glorious thing to see. No longer satisfied or under the illusion he must convert, force, control, or gather power at the expense of another, no longer hypnotized by those around him,  he separates from the pack of other men and walks alone for a time to discover what it is he can do within himself.

This is the shift from external power to inner power. ( See previous post on this )

This is how we make the remarkable strides in transforming this planet and the ghastly amount of violence and poverty and greed that exists all around us.

We as men on this planet can and are doing this.

We are choosing our trade offs and moving quietly amongst the crowds.

The inner warrior with whom we as men are more comfortable than practically any other archetype of behavior and identity on this planet take on new strategies.

The strategy of overcoming the war within.

The battlefield is moved.

It becomes the place in our own belly, our own minds, our thoughts and how those thoughts make us feel.

Temporarily we lay down our weapons and we find anew something with which we have not considered.

Our own dedications, and mighty stances of right no longer seem to work and must be reworked. We find there is more power to make a change, yet it is inside our own perimeters of life. Our own houses, our own families, our own work spaces, our own neighborhoods.

We find our enemy finally, and it is ourselves.

How startling a revelation to realize that who we have been fighting all along was yourself. How sad that we thought it was YOU and YOU and YOU! We learn to sit with this, we learn to walk with this and ultimately we rise up and accept the challenge.

We begin to take on the battles within.

When a man finally see this he becomes instantly different.

He begins the arduous task of becoming himself again. ( there is the start of a pure little boy in each of us still) The armors of self protection, of falsehood and right…he begins to take down, to lay aside and finally there is a spark of much greater humanity that begins to shine.

Beyond all hope is the actuality of true change in all this. There is possibility that needs hammering out. New behaviors practiced, and learned. A man becomes more of himself. Any mother would be proud. And father would be amazed.

For a man to take his life in his own hands and shape it according to his own inner needs, and genuine self is a mighty thing indeed, surrounded by so many others, yet alive to this kind of thing.

As men we can question each other, yet stand aside and withhold judging as we learn how we truly look to one another in peace, instead of war, instead of conflict, instead of, instead of, instead of…..

the time of making excuses comes to an end.

There is much resolution to be had, much to made with ourselves and each other.

No longer is it so important that I conquer you.

The peaceful warrior has arrived.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Shifting External Power to Inner Power… How We as Men can Learn to See Labels, Core spirituality, my personal journey

 

Shifting External Power to Inner Power… How We as Men can Learn to See Labels, Core spirituality, my personal journey

When i read this is say to myself…

“As soon as I believe that a label I’ve put on myself is true, I’ve limited something that is literally limitless, I’ve limited who I am into nothing but a thought.”

As men we view each other, and the women and children in this world thru our lens of thinking. We are creating life as we think and it is time for me to reflect on how this is shaping our realities. Here is a place we can learn about inner power. The power we give to the labels we think to ourselves.

We define ourselves by what we think, how we think, and the way our thoughts make us feel. Until we wake to the power of our minds to define our realities… we are stuck in the thought of the moment.

This is why I ask myself repeatedly, “is this true?” and “how would I be without my story?” .

The definitions I place on me constantly shift and change as thoughts evolve thru my consciousness. Leading me ever on towards recognizing that the bottom line is we are limitless in who and what we are.

This is core spirituality for me.

That label I put on you?

Well it is only a thought. I ask myself… “ is that true?”

In all honesty I look again and I realize how limiting my thinking is.

The power of one thought can define an entire person? A label! How silly is all this?

We label ourselves, each other and the world without editing and we end up in many painful, unhappy scenarios. Separate and distant and disconnected from each other. I am talking about our families here, our work relations, our mutual humanity! I find this horrific.

Christian, Muslim, Jew, atheist, gay,straight, sissy, black, white or yellow. Good, bad, ugly. Right, wrong, crazy or lame. Selfish, uncaring, blocked and stuck. Right wing, left wing, liberal. Open minded, closed off, unaware missing a lug nut somewhere.

The list of adjectives we use to identify ourselves and one another is long and repetitive. We use these words like they are real. We define people and we believe these definitions for years. They become our “boxes” and we create filters to our perceptions and we reinforce them by repeating them over and over and over.

There is danger in labeling ourselves.

There is limitation in this.

We take ourselves out of the present moment whenever we look thru our filters and then act as if they are real. No one person is any one of these words we use to define us. We are so much more.

Describing a moment in time, describing an experience we have with one another, describing an exchange we shared, these are little fragments of time, little pieces of experience in the totality of any one single day. And we limit us by our attachments to these thoughts.

Attachments to labels.

We deepen our attachments to labels as we invest ourselves in believing out thoughts and repeating them to one another to solidify our stories and make our cases.

The world we live in is defined by many a label, a label of attachment to seeing only one way, one thing about ourselves… about each other.

We miss a lot whenever we stop seeing the unlimited qualities of being that exist as the true nature of ourselves and one another. We end up making lots of corrections, we back step, we return to the idea to make it better whenever we learn a labeling thought is just that…. a label.

How could I do that to you?

How could I do that to me?

This is a brilliant question to ask of self.

Brothers all over the world now have the opportunity to revisit our labels thru the intensive demonstrations being waged in the world thru conflicts. How we believe these labels and what the effects of this are creating on our shared humanity.

There is much silence in men. Some of the silence in us is our unresolved thinking. Thinking that is full of labels about ourselves and each other. I find this kind of silence unsettling.

Labeling ourselves defines the next step. A step  that  is labeling one another and this is how we create divisions amongst the peoples of our world. Believing our labels and then creating programs, policies, agendas, rules, laws, systems, implementing them on to each other.

How would our world look were we to view ourselves as unlimited and we detached from our labels… as men? “

How would I act differently were I to let go of my labels?”

This is a brilliant idea to ponder.

Letting go of our attachments to labels we open ourselves to genuine vision.

Our capacity to “en-vision” beyond our limiting beliefs opens us to solutions. Solutions arise that are available to us that serve everyone.

Because the little “boxes” are far too small for such endeavors to succeed by way of the labels.

We are starting to outgrow our labeling. Some of us.

Make a list of the labels I use to describe people has shown me how easy and habitual labeling is in my mind. The habit of labeling becomes a form of identification and boundary making keeping me “safe” . When actually it is only the thoughts in my own mind making me unsafe. We men do this a lot.

To free ourselves of our unresolved distress, we need only find our labels, and dismantle them in our minds to reveal what more lies ahead. What more is possible inside us. What more there is we are capable of. And begin with each new thought that arises out of self release.

I want to make the habit of recognizing my tendency to label myself and others. I want to experience a wider spectrum of happiness and fulfillment.

The human habit of labeling is temporary. Eventually we die our bodies and move on. Why wait until we are dead to realize the magnificent unlimited nature of our inner most selves? Why put it off?

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation.