I NEED To Listen To Myself….. THE GUEST HOUSE…Some Writings BY Rumi and The Buddha for reflection, core spirituality, my personal journey

I NEED To Listen To Myself….. THE GUEST HOUSE…Some Writings BY Rumi and The Buddha for reflection, core spirituality, my personal journey

Rumi, the 13th century Muslim poet from Afghanistan, has deservedly won a place in our hearts for his sublime capacity to nourish the depth of our being with his perceptive insights into love, sensuality, spirituality and intimacy with the immediate world. His poems strike a chord in the depths of our meditative being. More…Not surprisingly, insight meditation teachers delight to read Rumi’s poems to spiritual practitioners. One of his best loved poems is The Guest House. The Buddha used the same metaphor in 2500 AD and gave two talks entitled The Guest House.

THE GUEST HOUSE
by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

The Buddha, whose teachings took deep root in Afghanistan, gave two talks called The Guest House. (the Pali Canon of the words of the Buddha were written about three centuries after his death.

THE GUEST HOUSE

By The Buddha

The Buddha often commented that the whole world is found in our body. In one discourse, the Buddha said that suppose there is a guest house and people from the four castes come from all directions, then various feelings arise – pleasant, painful and neither pleasant or painful. He says these feelings may be worldly or spiritual turn up at the guest house.

The Buddha takes our responsibility as the host a step further. In another discourse on The Guest House, the Buddha said we need to:

understand what is to be understood about the guests,

let go of what is to be let go about the guests,

realise what is to be realised

and develop what is to be developed.

Through this means, he said we have direct knowledge of the guests.

The Buddha and Rumi remind us that guests turn up as as different kinds of feelings, welcome and unwelcome.

The Buddha knows we cannot always be grateful for our guests, as Rumi suggests, whether they arrive from within or without. Instead, he encourages us to give the guests our fullest attention to see clearly.

The Connected Discourses of the Buddha.

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How We Give Power to our Emotions Without Being Aware, core spirituality, my personal journey

How We Give Power to our Emotions without being aware, core spirituality, my personal journey

Healing the negatives in our lives.

When we hold back and stuff emotions inside us we carry around these feelings and they are the vibrations that grow and shape our subconscious, our internal health… and the way our cells reproduce.

Contrary to the idea that if we ignore, hide, delude, or “forget”, we give more energy and power to feelings whenever we contain them. They do not go away.

Our physical bodies, and our minds hold on to the feelings and this results from prior intentions of escapism and denial or overwhelm, which are actual forms of energy.

Emotions and feeling as forms of ENERGY.

The energy we produce by resisting our feelings actually gives more power to those feelings.

We often do stuff emotions in different phases of our lives.

And so it goes we can have an inner child that stuffed emotions, an inner teenager, an earlier young adult version, all in our past still stuffing feelings. Even after we have learned not to do that as adults. These emotions linger inside us from previous unconscious growing phases that we have lived out already. This can show up in the form of memories, difficult conflicts that were left unresolved, victimization experiences, and any form of toxic emotional manipulation or mind control by people close to us.

Ways unexpressed emotions, stuffed feelings, and denial take shape in our now-adult lives.

The power our feelings have does not stop because we choose not to look at them, often these unresolved emotions transform into all manner of physical, mental and emotional shielding, defense mechanisms that become habit, mysterious body aches, and many forms of sickness that have all manner of allopathic medical diagnosis. Without emotional depth and maturity, emotional integrity, emotional awareness, and emotional strength our feelings take shape inside us and redirect the course of our lives in surprising ways THAT TAKE AWAY FROM OUR SENSE OF BALANCE AND EQUILIBRIUM AS ADULTS.

As a transpersonal hypnotherapist I learned how all of this is absolutely true. I learned by witnessing clients, and how stuffed emotions, left untended can destroy the full capacity of a human being to live a fruitful, open-minded, healthy existence. And so when I encounter the unhappy state of many body symptoms which are presented to me as a massage therapist I often encounter unexpressed emotions in clients.

One reason we can contain our emotions!

Unexpressed emotions are waiting, held in time, within us as a component of our ability to handle difficult situations, or unacceptable ones until a time that we can process. No one wants to go to the dentist who is horribly angry from a difficult confrontation that occurred earlier that day. So we are able to suspend our feelings in order to deal with them. It is when we habitually deny those feelings, ignore them, and hold on to them that our problems begin to develop. However for children this is a bit different and all of us have the common experience of having grown up through our childhoods.

Children are emotionally important for these reasons.

Children, young teens all feel quite more purely, even if they do not understand what they feel. As children and young adults our little neurological systems, our little physical bodies, and our little minds cannot process many of the adult feelings and emotions that are put upon us. These adult feelings are far to great for a little one. However we live with adults who in their unconscious ways put on us as children, all manner of stories which have elements of emotion and feeling that are completely inappropriate for small humans. The effects of this are felt in the little minds and bodies of children and are a large source of overwhelm, are often not understood, nor are they processed and so they are not even accepted. Adults forget this a lot and lay many overwhelming emotions they are having on young people with the expectations that they can handle this, not so. Overwhelm is the result, and this all plays into the developing person which will all come out later in life in some form of deviation, misunderstanding, brokenness, or physical ailment or all of the above.

It is all too common for a child to grow and never process an overwhelming emotional scenario. When this occurs splits in the emotional body are created that as adults will confuse. Often these emotions seem to be without cause, only in that the conscious grown adult has little or no memory, or past experience in completing the processing of the original situation.

It takes some digging, some self-reflection, and a deepening of self honesty to allow the full expression of past pains, conflicts, and emotional scars to surface so they can heal. For this reason stuffing emotions carries a promise of future inner work that one day will solve the puzzle of the emotional turmoil, and mysterious malingering body aches of the present day adult.

Healing our feelings is not subject to a time line.

In all truthfulness we only have our now moments, and we can access any past incident by bringing up to our now moment. Regardless of the amount of time that has passed from an original emotional incident, my experience has been that the inner child can still feel, still process, and still heal completely as an adult. In my own case l learned to have the mantra….”its never to late to have a happy childhood!” as I learned to allow my inner little boy, my inner teenager, and my inner young adult self to be able to have permission to FEEL MY FEELINGS!

Thus using the power of my present day adult self to give back to my inner child selves all the opportunities to express my feelings and emotions. No matter how painful, horrible, unhappy, unjust, or miserable they were. I found that as I allowed myself to feel, feel more deeply now, many of my own unresolved emotions came bubbling up to the surface of my life to be reexamined and accepted in a new light. I continue to have a happy childhood now, and this is just great. There is no time limit on that either!

Perhaps the reason so many people are reluctant to allow themselves to FEEL DEEPLY, is because of the loaded subconscious memories, or emotions, or an overwhelming single event that still is hidden deep inside.

The fear that originally caused the overwhelming feelings, and the stuffing of emotions is a significant component to being able to allow ourselves access to the emotions.

Those old voices of parents, teachers, coaches, and other authorities that were in our lives are still locked into our emotional bodies and continue to play over and over and over again. The fear that holds us back acts as a container inside us.

Face the fears , we must.

For this reason when we do find that we have elements of fear it is valuable to open the fear in our “now safe” way. For originally there may not have been a “perception” of safety and so the fear surrounded the original experience inside us. Facing that fear around any unacceptable emotion or feeling is the first step in learning to grow out of the limits of a fear based reality into the wide open space of personal freedom and self-expression. This develops immense integrity and opens our feelings to having the possibility of maturity. Maturity of emotions is the soul goal here.

Integrity and emotional maturity is the result of fully processing any unfinished business within ourselves. As the pieces of our broken understanding, our broken self images, our broken story lines begin to come together in new ways of seeing.

Often we will have to engage more heart with ourselves to be able to pass through the dark hall of fear that leads to our emotions.

This self-love that develops brings such a depth of integrity to any past unloved situation that the transformation is remarkable. It is completely true that a person can heal themselves long after any incident of broken heart-ed, miserable pain has occurred. This is another reason why it is so valuable to realize that when we ignore emotions we are actually making them grow stronger, even though we “think” we are doing the opposite.

Deep unresolved difficult emotional patterns that wreak havoc on our lives.

Having done many years of my own personal resolution, healing my feelings, and my work with clients seeking to heal the really difficult emotional patterns, I have come to be aware that as souls we have emotional themes that we are born here to live through and to work out. These soul purposes can have very dark, uncomfortable, painful emotional depth. Often a person will wonder why they have been born into such circumstances that would cause them such pain, or the question “why me” surfaces. For these reasons it is also wise to consider that there may be a soul reason for all this.

Soul growth is real.

That our souls know this earthly domain is a place where we may explore the very depths of emotion is the powerful side to acceptance here for emotional integrity. The soul that we are chooses the time, place, circumstance, and people to be involved in out “growth experience”. We then incarnate into the situations that are most closely aligned with the emotional experiences we are here to encounter. We allow this from our more open soul selves before incarnating where we are vastly more wide open. After we embody here and begin to develop a personality we encounter these emotional situations as part of our individual soul plan. From what I have observed, we do this because our lives are so short in most embodiments here that we are not able to always complete every emotional theme we begin. Thus we incarnate into many lives so that our intention to understand and learn from specific emotions become complete. Which leads me to previous life emotional patterns.

We are born with tendencies of all kinds. Many of which are the tones of feeling we carry into our lives as newly incarnated beings. We continue these emotional themes so that we can continue to learn until such time as the soul self is whole and complete in the understandings of the particular theme. For this reason we change places in our different embodiment’s and play the different roles pertaining to any one emotional theme. In one we are the perpetrator, another we are the victim, in still another we may be the therapist. We can be the husband one time, the wife another, and the friend in still another. As we go around the experience we gather every side of it and the soul is infused with knowledge, understanding and is more as a result. This is why some lives we see people who are the victims, yet without the soul sight, we do not see their purpose in the role they are suffering. The soul self is seeking to balance itself through each experience.

All this is particularly true with the really difficult emotional themes. Our souls are actually not just starting out at the beginning of the this life time. The soul has been working on these emotions for many lives and is still intent on getting the whole picture. So even in victim-hood there is an underlying soul reason unfolding. Because patterns are so strong and so deep inside us we use these many lives to learn how to embrace all the feelings that make up an emotional pattern.

Emotional patterns contain many feelings.

Because emotional patterns have many feelings we will revisit emotions many times. It is pretty common for a person to say… “I thought I already took care of this” when a feeling resurfaces, or a situation reappears.

Not so… for actually there are more feelings in the pattern seeking to be understood and processed. For this reason we repeat, and have many encounters with certain emotional themes. There are layers of feelings inside us that need our attention and we are simply dipping down into another layer of those feelings so we can address what those feelings are and learn to accept and take care of more of what our experiences offer us. In this way we become whole and eventually we heal.

I know this from personal experience because I have arrived at that point when a particular emotional theme is complete and my need to experience it is finished. The feeling of completion is ecstatic, unquestionable and always transforms my entire person in some way. Transforming my life experience so that I attract totally different, new, and better situations. My heart and depth of love, as well as my compassion and self understanding becomes immensely more open. And my knowledge of life becomes something that I cherish, rather than ignore, hide from, or delude myself. I feel a deep gratitude, even though I may have suffered. The gratitude replaces all the suffering.

How we give power to our emotions without knowing it is what happens when we ignore, stuff, or delude our selves, how we give power to our emotions be becoming accepting and willing to process is the other choice. We all go through them all.

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2016…Thoughts For the Coming Year Ahead …Finding Truth… The Inner Domain Beyond Our 5 Senses,…core spirituality … my personal journey

2016  Thoughts For the Coming Year Ahead …Finding Truth… The Inner Domain Beyond Our 5 Senses,…core spirituality … my personal journey

A new kind of human is emerging, and there are new ones being born everyday. This writing addresses the significant evolutionary changes in this new human as we shift into the identity of a spiritual being having a human experience (based upon my own personal history and the changes I have been through).

What kind of truth am I referring to?

Truth which is transcendent and universal, and an all-encompassing octave through which all of life in its infinite expressions, all-inclusive to everyone, and verifiable, repetitive, and everlasting.

Becoming Familiar with my own direct experiences.

The direct internal experiences of truth, not simply the kind I have read about in a book and learned to “think” as a result. I experience a kind of switch within me that I can flip on or off to access more information which has deeper meaning and universal significance. I like to shift from the physical emphasis and my 5 senses alone to include the inner light body and these senses.

The great shift in self identity.

When the shift occurred that I realized that I was not a physical body with internal organs etc, but a light being with a light body that is inside a physical body the awareness of learning to use inner senses became the next step in my own evolution. This is the significant component of the differences of identifying as a human being having a spiritual experience… moving out of “having a soul” to identifying as a spiritual being having a human experience… into “I am the soul” and I have a human self to express into and through. All of the inner senses are activated and begin to integrate through physicality. This is a major paradigm shift in self-identity! This is the turning of the ages for our humanity as we reintegrate our mufti-dimensional capacities into the human self.

I find inside myself an inner sight.

A seeing in the mind. This is a kind of inner sight that I have learned to catch, as it is often very fleeting and almost gets away from my attention. This is completely different from physical eyes, or the common “mental thought “ way we see.

Inner seeing has a 360 degree radius, spans time lines forward and backward, as well as inward and outward. This inner seeing can also see through physical objects, the body for example and sub atomically. There are completely vibrant fields or octaves of light and color that exist here that also contain amazing spectrum’s of geometrical design. I notice this in doing healing work with clients, I see these super brilliant colors everywhere. Truly amazing are the living colors in my orchid collection plants, and nature in general. There are layers of space overlapping our planet with all kinds of sentient beings, spirits, thought forms, feeling clouds, and so on. The field of seeing is significantly larger.

The shift is that instead of everything is separate I have the innate sense of being connected to all of this… “I am the you that is here” as well, for example. I see myself reflected in the most spiritually based ways in everyone and everything. This level of perception simply alerts me to all forms of judgment as I continue to see my own self in all of life. This includes the polarities of negative and positive and far beyond those polarized kinds of perceptions. Thus even in the most negative of human scenarios I can see myself and embrace the experiences as ones of great learning and purpose.

How our memory can teach us how the mind works..

Whenever I am referencing something from memory and I have it recorded as a visual I notice that my attention will pull the “pictures” from my memory. In fact there are times when I couldn’t find a picture and have had to wait and boom… it pops into my inner mind. That we see pictures is something we do everyday yet are not always connected with. I like to really pay attention to the pictures I have in my mind. These pictures outweigh left brain linear logic in that a picture will contain many different levels of information at once. Pictures hold lots of information that can be accessed and taken apart to reveal depth and meaning far beyond mere words. Words are there too, and I often laugh out loud anytime I have lost a word, cannot find it, try to find it, still can’t find it and then hours later after I forgot about it…. the word pops into my mind. Amazing experience we all share. To pay attention to the pictures we are having inside our minds is a way to begin to discern what it is we think, or Intuit, or are receiving from others. Pictures are a way the universal mind informs each one of us. As we develop beyond the intellect alone and integrate mind pictures we can develop our capacity to learn via the discernment process and ultimately to make much better choices about everything and our relationships to everyone.

Another way we see images is fantasy.

For example when thinking about an upcoming trip I have found my mind creating pictures of various outcomes and I choose from those pictures what I would like to act upon, or not act upon. When planning it is common to see a visual image of what the possibilities may look like in our heads as we fantasize about different outcomes and directions. Fantasy as I am referring here is mind generated imagery differentiated from those images pulled from the universal source.

Learning how universal truth is not only words, or beliefs, or thoughts.

However seeing the truth in a situation is a bit more involved as it is always accompanied by a feeling message of some sort which alerts me. This is the reason it is important to process emotions on a daily basis, and maintain a clarity of feelings. In this was I can discern the source of feelings, whether I am creating them from a reaction within myself, or that I am receiving them from a soul place, or I am pulling in psychic information from another person. Learning to have a developed emotional and feeling self is vital in this entire process. For this reason I did years of therapy to clarify my own emotional nature, and the many layers of feelings, thoughts I had built up in my developing childhood, to arrive to the ability to find now-clarity.

Feeling messages that redirect us show us new pictures to process.

When seeing the truth like this I find I literally must suspend all thinking, or my own belief, in order to capture the incoming imagery. Often this will be because I am accessing information that lies beyond my already made ideas or thoughts about someone or something. Suspending just for a moment the critical thinking allows space inside to see something new. Of course whenever we are deeply attached to outcomes, beliefs, and opinions this filters anything the indwelling spiritual self is sending us. And we end up only seeing our own internalized, already shaped ideas formed out of those opinions, outcomes, or beliefs. This is how we become blind sighted and do not see the obvious before us.

How we get blind sighted.

We are unconsciously so attached to outcomes or beliefs we only see our own preconceived thoughts.

This becomes irritating in relationships especially when someone is communicating with us and we don’t see the point of view they are sharing. Often this ends up with a louder, more uncomfortable exchange until we stop seeing only our own pictures and we start to open up. Open up to see something that may not fit into our idea of how things “should” be, in our opinion. When we encounter unresolved conflicts, are stuck, or in a stale mate this is most likely the reason. There is always more information yet to be discerned that exists outside our preconceived ideas.

Intuition and its value in my life.

Intuitive mind flows pretty consistently as I now experience life, and have learned to suspend my own habit of wrapping up every idea, every situation in my own opinions.

Rather I continue to cultivate an opened mind and I have learned to suspend thought and wait to see what pops into my mind. Often I am able to receive valuable insights, clarifications, and even new information that makes larger sense. It is quite often that I am asked how I am able to see things, or know things, and it is that most people asking this question usually are so filled up with their own ideas, beliefs, should’s and should not’s about things they have no openings to get this kind of information. As a spiritual being having a human experience there is no separation from the universal source of life, and we are it, contain it, and live it as who we are. Learning to access this in expanded new ways everyday.

Intuitive mind works in ways for me that solves conflicts, opposing views, or unfinished pictures or ideas. When this happens I find myself amazed at how there is really a larger picture for all things. A greater context … and I learn how to work this into my existing reality. This greater context is not held by beliefs, or mental notions as it arises directly out of the spiritual perception of the soul self. It is not subject to these things when I am able to suspend my opinions. And I love the discovery of this and how I get educated from inside me, instead of externally!

Listening to the subtle cues.

There is also the inner hearing that arises and for some the auditory sense is dominant over visual. I am able to experience tremendous cues through inner listening. This is so unusual to me that I have spent years adjusting my attention to be able to hear inside. Listening to the whispers, or the very light messages has become a real challenge and fulfills many quandaries whenever I am confused. Learning to listen with the mind is different in some ways in that I can actually hear others, inside the mind, like hearing thoughts and communications, yet at other times it is also hearing through my ears yet inside the mind. Both ways work. Quite spontaneously this does happen to me in the grocery store standing in line, or with friends… no matter the distance away. I almost always know when clients from around the world are about to call for a bodywork session, as I get the message directly before they take action. Yet simply thinking of me gets to me. I have found this so totally amazing through the years. Often in nature I will also hear tones and I have found that my own mind translates this immediately into language I can understand. Often I have communicated with people who have passed over the threshold and had to adjust my inner ear to their accent. Extraterrestrials speak in sounds as well, that are very high-pitched tones that catch my attention and then they send pictures. It is all a lot to learn to discern. However discernment is especially important to distinguish the difference between my own inner sounds and those of another. Listening to silence is perhaps the most significant way I have learned discernment. Inside the silence is a vast amount of what appears at first to be nothing, or emptiness, yet it is in this pure silent state where I am able to pick things apart, and learn the discernment tools necessary to integrate the inner sense of hearing and listening.

Empathy and feelings that are not directly connected to the outer world.

Learning to feel feelings of others who are not physically present can take on the very body symptoms of that person or being communicating. For example the passing of a person who was drinking at the time of their passing I actually felt the dizziness, the off balanced feeling of that person inside myself. Feelings of sadness, joy, immense unconditional love are all experiences that can come over the physical body to the point that I have gotten goose bumps, or my heart racing and tears surfacing. The empathy of feeling life around us outside our skin is vital to integrating how it is we are all made of the same substance yet holding different points of view. This is particularly valuable with animals who do not have language as we do, but do have the exact same emotions and feelings.

This has been very revealing with working with clients with whom those emotions are in the subconscious and even they are not aware they are feeling something. This is verifiable. I have shared my empathetic feelings with clients and seen the immediate shift of emotions as I express those feelings that are coming up and out of the body.

I find that empathy is very useful whenever becoming aware of horrific world events, terrible personal disasters, immense injustices. Through the vehicle of empathy the deeper significance can be understood. This kind of empathy and feeling contains huge amounts of historical information that can tell about generations of behavior, or patterns of soul learning.

Empathy shows me how we are really interconnected and the ideas of separation that most humans subscribe really is not the underlying reality of life.

Separation as a belief is an illusion here on earth.

There really is tremendous purpose in all events no matter the degree of our own ideas of injustice and horror.

When lost in my travels in foreign lands I often used my capacity to feel my way in order to get on track and find my way back to where I needed to be!

Feeling others around us in this world without literally speaking to them also greatly assists me in determining safety, motivations, dangers, and all manner of unexpressed issues or hidden agendas. This is fascinating to me as I have learned to pay attention to the feeling signals I get in order to act as a facilitator of deeper understanding, and a smoothing out of difficulty. Emotional messages will almost always precede encounters we have with one another and in this way I am always available to process before I arrive to any situation. This is particularly strong whenever there will either be tons of love or tons of discord. This is the way the spiritual self is connected and informed and able to face and care for just anything that arises. There are literally currents of feeling that are dominant with certain individuals, or families or groups. These currents, because they are strengthened by the individuals running these emotions are very strong and become quite easy to distinguish.

Empathetic relating with others.

Having a developed inner sense of empathy has the capacity to facilitate the closing of distance, misunderstanding and isolation many individuals carry inside themselves around certain emotions, certain difficult life experiences. I have watched many people step out of their isolated feelings and discover their next step and more meaningful purpose simply by my holding an empathetic resonant space with them. Once this occurs a flood gate of information comes forward for discussion, or reevaluation. This generates progress that assists a person to learn and develop better understanding and self-love. This is transformative and freeing. The inner world of our feelings is far richer than all the usual human thoughts of making money, surviving, drama making. Inside the human condition within any suffering is cause. When we em-pathetically interact with one another we can ease much of the confusion and pain in suffering and truly lend a hand so to speak to step out of suffering when a person is ready. My experience of humans is that underneath all the stuff of our daily lives is a real purpose, a real need to love and to be loved, and an undiscovered sense of real unity.

Clairolfactance or clairescence is the inner sense of smell. This is very specific and can take me to the exact place, or person undeniable to someone else. Fragrances, or flowers, for example specific to people are like calling cards to their loved ones on this side. The specific nature of smell is so precise it can connect me completely to someone outside the realm of this earthly plane. Scent acts as a very good identifier and can completely elevate our vibrations. I have had the experience of roses throughout this life time connected to the presence of very highly evolved spiritual beings who want to gain my attentions. When conveying messages to loved ones from those who have passed over the description of specific scents is astoundingly accurate in making a clear and definite discernment about who is seeking to communicate. This is remarkable as scent can permeate through different octaves of life, different time zones and different realities. Certain life forms also have specific scents that one can smell even when they are not physically in the same octave or dimension. I find this amazing. The future can reach backward with scent, the past can come forward with scent, and higher dimensions can overlap with scent.

How did we get so entrenched in so many world wide problems, and so much pain?

When we hold strict, “exclusive” based religious or mental beliefs, when we see our selves as human bodies only with internal organs, when we hide from our emotions and feelings, when we live everyday in this way we cut ourselves off from the broader spectrum of internal information available to us.

Many of these feelings that hold such limiting, righteous, exclusive, polarized, judgmental internalized beliefs were not only shaped in this lifetime. Much of this is historical inside the soul experience of many incarnations. For this reason when we open up to feeling based empathy, we are able to finally break through these thousands of years old patterns. Many, many of us here now, have been born so that we could ultimately bring ourselves beyond these points in our own souls. This is the bigger why and how of all the chaos and social resistance, and breaking down of the old ways we are seeing around us on our televisions everyday. We are collectively reaching new levels of breakthrough… sometimes very messy, sometimes very hurtful, yet the impulses are here to do something to break the chains of our human conditioning that have entrapped us for centuries.

We edit out all this information in our thinking minds and cut ourselves off from the interconnections that underlie all of existence when we persist in holding on to our exclusivity designed belief systems.

When we hold beliefs that “god” is outside us, or our soul is something we “have” instead of who we are we miss the new integration of material that is available to us. And when we are like this we do not even know that we are doing all this. We are perhaps we could say… asleep to the larger spectrum of life.

Some results of the new shift in how we see ourselves.

Learning to integrate and understand the internal world inside ourselves, instead of  depending on the external world to inform us can show us how much more each one of us is actually living in a transcendent, all-encompassing, enriched, and evolving life experience that is totally directed with PURPOSE.

This shift in our consciousness begins to shape and transform the outer world we live, in holistic, inclusive, compassionate new ways. These new ways inform us to our right action, right relationships with one another, with the planet and our choices become more aligned with the spiritual awareness of the living presence of a much more joyful state of being.

These internal senses become aligned to our external physical senses and readjust the perceptual lenses of our day-to-day functions.

When we see, hear, feel, and smell the actuality of life from this broader octave, our most intrinsic nature is revealed and all the questions that need answers start to arise.

We become led out of confusions, and hurtful habits. We are guided by our own deepest knowing into our creative potentials and reasons for being here.

We are shown our need to collectively live together in ways that bring all that we are, all that we have, to one another. Many forms of selfish, one-sided, small-minded forms of behavior open up into wider possibilities that mend the broken heart-ed past, and heal the ever-present moment of our now time.

The realizations that begin to show up link us in the outer world to like-minded, like heart-ed people, and redirect our personal energies into assisting those who have yet to arrive to these same conclusions, capabilities, and clarity of living. In this was our interconnected relationships facilitate the oneness of diversity and the acceptance of something so deep and beautiful many times it cannot be put into words.

What really exists here, yet few see this yet.

I know that I already see the earthly planet filled with harmony, filled with a living light with colors and majesty beyond most people’s view of this world. For me this already exists and I can look through the overlay of current beliefs, present day creations, structure and history….. and all that this has created and see and experience this beautiful earth. Among many remarkable facets of this alive and radiant, balanced and healed earth is a fantastic diversity of such magnitude that we are actually a spectacle of brilliance in the cosmos. This remarkable state of our planet is without the war and poverty and selfishness that has characterized our world for the last thousands of years. The freedom is beyond words as the re balancing of our ecosystems, our people’s, our resources, and our notion of belonging to the cosmos drops into mass consciousness. The living earth, GAIA, is truly a cosmic gem. Time becomes more pure and our experience of time dramatically takes a big shift.

When our ideas of time completely become reshaped!

We arrive into the amazing state of NOW. This experience of shifting out of the past, and future thinking and deeply into the present moment is a most astounding new paradigm shift that completely enriches every moment.

The ordinary becomes infused with such purpose and gratitude when we have pulled our mental thoughts and unresolved emotional states out the past or the future time-lines. Now becomes full of presence, a presence that is with the soul of self and in this way stabilizes the personality in tremendous ways.

This NOW-state of consciousness opens up the value of every moment to us so that we live with a sense of our experience that draws meaning to the most mundane of activities. There grows for each of us a remarkable new information basis for living that pops into our awareness that directs us lovingly and respectfully through each day. Safety and fear take their appropriate places in our daily life. The habits of reacting to the negative aspects of other humans begin to subside as the wisdom’s of the indwelling soul begin to inform and redirect our old habits.

The now moment of living sustains larger elements of truthfulness that a smaller intellect alone is incapable of sustaining.

My entire perception of time in the now-moment has redefined my experience as I have learned to see how it is that the past and future exist in present time. This is a dramatic shift as pieces of time that have little or no connection in my self have begun to be woven into the fabric of how life is at this moment. I am able to see how consequence arises, and how the various stages of development in the human condition completely relate. This has reshaped my sense of psychology from the ordinary intellectual basis to the extraordinary one of the transpersonal psychological model. In this model of psychology the soul self is evident, and present. I learn how to bring the fragmented parts of myself back into my central identity and heal as a multidimensional being with many facets yet a single core self. This includes other lifetimes with their previous failures and successes, patterns and habits.

I see how this has been a driving force in my now lifetime and I can more easily accept how it is that I am actually a spiritual being and not just a physical human. So anytime I have a piece of myself come up that is still held in the past, I have the chance in my now to learn how to let go and to allow the present now to inform me as to better frame my experience. It is somewhat like finding how to fit the best clothes on your person, suddenly these experiences begin to fit and I feel better with this new knowledge. I no longer have to hold out, hold on, to any old thing, person or memory in the same way.

2016… our year ahead.

In this year ahead we will individually and collective continue to integrate many new experiences. As we pass through the loss, the breaking down of our ideas and beliefs we can look further into the deeper significance of transformation our human conditioning is passing.

We can take the opportunities that show up each day and find new meaning, reconnect with our deeper knowing, deeper feeling, and deeper awareness.

We can learn to cultivate a broader spectrum of inner awareness and learn to act from this inner place.

We can redirect the negative situations that arise and find significant purpose.

We can let go of intellectually based judgmental thinking and see ourselves and one another with a heart-felt compassion.

We get on board with the larger collective experience of becoming cosmic beings with galactic histories.

We can expand our way of seeing in every direction.

We can release our painful memories and hurtful habits.

We can learn to extend ourselves to each other like we have never done before here in this world.

Surprising ourselves and learning. Learning finally to allow the joy that is waiting behind every dark corner, every darkened thought, and every unfinished scenario.

Joy is by far the very fabric of the GOD SOURCE, and because of this it is omnipresent. It is merely up to each of us to choose, to be willing, and to allow that which is greater within to take hold and life up our humanity.

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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.

core spirituality, my personal journey

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.

Inspired by my visit to ohana in the pacific northwest

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

Realizing the ONE in Daily Living…. core spirituality, my personal journey

Realizing the ONE in Daily Living…. core spirituality, my personal journey

Every person, every path is connected to the Infinite One, all points of view lead eventually to this understanding… core spirituality

One of the most amazing experiences I have had has been the realization that every person, every path, and every atom is connected to the One and to one another. I have had this experience in non ordinary states of awareness where I have moved my attention beyond the finite world of linear logical mind, into the depths of space inside myself. This is a cosmic perspective that shifts everything. Because of this fact I see that it is ridiculous to fight over differences. Wars, religions …. for example. Dogmas perpetrated through out our human history have predominantly separated us from each other, and our awareness of Source.

Every point of consciousness, every person, is connected out of the substance of our own creation, our own structure on the most sub atomic levels of this design inside what I perceive as light matrix. It is like tiny protons or spheres.

Consciousness has weight on the sub atomic level, it has space relationship, and it has constant interaction. The universal plane or design of this structure holds the infinite intelligence of all creation in it….. as itself.

This level or perception is not at all limited by teachings,dogmas of separation, the dominant characteristic is unification.

Unification is expressed in increasing and decreasing octaves of complexity, polarity, form, density, expansion, and contraction. We now have scientifically weighted the consciousness that provides our physical bodies with life.

In the early 20^th century a series of experiments were carried out by Dr. Duncan MacDougall. He weighed dying patients at the moment of death and found that 21 grams was the approx. weight of the soul. Our consciousness is physical on a sub atomic level. We are truly beings of substance, light that has many gradations depending on our levels of perception.

When I contrast the differences of what is perpetrated as truth on this planet and what my senses do show me through my capacity to view the other octaves of life outside the normally visible spectrum of sight, I can see how life is organized and interconnected. In contrast to the dogmatic thought forms of generations of humankind. These ideas are not authentically representing how it is our existence is built. Not until one has opened to the perception and experience of non ordinary awareness beyond commonly held beliefs formed out of dogmatic ideas will one have the experience of how truly radiant, supportive, loving, infinite, and connected all life truly is.

As humans having a spiritual experience we stumble upon mere glimpses of this through the tiny particles of truth that lie beneath the surface of dogmatic belief. As reality does not actually go away just because we believe something to be true. Contrary to this…. reality breaks through in coincidence, synchronicity, and deep awesome feelings that flood the personality and open it up past such notions. These beliefs actually hold the human minds in separations, and limitations, even while the heart is struggling to love beyond these ideas. Who has not had the experience of shared heart feelings reaching beyond belief uniting seeming opposing points of view. The heart mind has this capacity to side step our mental manufactured ideas and interpretations and open for us new vision, new feeling, new awareness which eventually will reeducate the thinking mind of humans held in separation consciousness until such time one is filled with so much of this content that the quantum shift occurs.

We realize life is actually the opposite of what we believed. (and has been this way all along)

We are spiritual beings having a human experience and not just humans having a spiritual one.

This is a total paradigm shift in how one sees life, and effects everything with a quality which blends not only the heart, but also the mind. Reintegrating these two aspects into an authentic expression of unity, and oneness that propels a human beyond the past, beyond mere dogmas, beyond the pains of oppression, suppression, obeying false authority, diminishing fears, and the need to dominate others with rules and controls and powerful weapons.

When we recognize that we are all exact expression of the same source with different points of view we come to know another as our self.

When we conduct our life experience with others as ourselves we take down the tremendous fear based ideologies, strategies to dominate, and systems of control that have been in place in our lives for many generations. We stop projecting these things onto each other and gain a clear view. We move about in the world with kinder, gentler, more open, yet fierce presence to the authentic expression of truthfulness. Truthfulness in self, and in others, and in this world.

We pull our selves away from the tethers and ties of anything that is not freely, inclusively expressed, and move in a way I call grace. This grace is the actualization of the realization of truthfulness in life in its many forms as coming from one infinite source. Every prophet, and most religions all speak of this and point towards it. We release the ideas that we are supposed to obey messages of men who have encountered the prophets, lords, and originators of religion through out history for the very thing they were pointing towards. For some people this is called God, or Source. For the messenger, and even the message are only pointing toward s the direction back to god. These messages are the way back, not the actual thing itself. I have found the direct expression of god within myself, within others, within nature. There is no separation, only mind held belief that does this. Finding authentic expression of “god” inside me, and not some mental idea of god.

Our human experiences are our classrooms where we learn. We bring to our lives all the perfect experiences that will serve our current rate of awareness, and sometimes we break through into broader vision. Our human experiences serve as our basis for our expressions as spiritual beings here. Bringing into human life our spiritual nature, discovering this as human. It is a fine set up. Continually upgrading our consciousness, our ideas, our ideologies, our beliefs. We are not the same person at 20 years of age that we are at 60 years of age because of this evolution of consciousness we all share. This is why laws change, systems are upgraded, fashions change, technologies advance… our lives are truly about the discovery of life, how it works, how it manifests, how far reaching everything truly is. Life in this way is the ultimate journey. We grow ourselves as we live and we adapt our lives accordingly as we gain new awareness.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self discovery.

Inspired by a trip to the pacific northwest visiting my ohana there

The Statute of Limitations Has No Bearing on Truth… core spirituality, my personal journey

The Statute of Limitations Has No Bearing on Truth… core spirituality, my personal journey

Statute of limitations as a metaphor.

The statute of limitations with which we normally use as a means for justice does not apply to living one’s truth. Truth has no limitations in this way.

I realized that for me to fulfill myself as a spiritual being having a human experience it is absolutely necessary to live out my story. Living out the story of our lives carries with it UN-imagined new directions that sustain and fulfill the experience of being alive in deeply satisfying ways. This is learning to live the fullness of my story here on earth for the time I have to live it.

The world is a living story each day.

Every person on earth is living a story of some kind that has elements of intrigue, mystery, happiness, sorrows, surprise, deception, deceit, challenges, growth and evolution. These being only a few of the many themes available to us. Within the experiences of these stories we have interconnections, overlaps. Intersections, oppositions, and for many no end to the story. We have the story of all of us together as our planetary story.

What’s your story? What chapter are you in?

Whatever story we have to live with… we have cycles within that story, or we could say chapters to our stories. In reflection it occurs to me that I have a few stories that have yet to be completed.

I stopped.

I stopped living out my story.

And everything up to that point, unfinished still rides with me where I am. Where I go, whomever I am with regardless of my attention or acknowledgment. This is almost as if I had put a statute of limitations on my self, and my story and how it might go. And this does not feel very good!

When truth hits the fan, so to speak.

When I encounter truthfulness as in a realization, or a new perspective then my story is affected, and sometimes I come up against an unfinished theme or direction. This is the path of becoming consciously aware. Up to this point as aware as I may have become there is still plenty more to learn, plenty more to realize. (realize = make real) When truth hits the fan we encounter the limits we have placed both on ourselves, each other, and this very world we live.

When living out our stories we reach places where we must make real what we have realized by taking action with the new awareness.

That is to say, not holding a new idea in without applying this idea in some place in our story line.

This why and how repeating feelings, repeating people, repeating situations will occur for us.

We are receiving experiences with which we may apply ourselves differently using our new-found awareness. This is the truthful living of one’s full experience. Carrying out our story line into and through truth as we come to know it. Without it we are sustaining unfinished stories. We become prisoners of our own statute of limitations.

Hey… the statute of limitations is NOT written in stone!

The statute of limitations is a man-made idea, and we are very good at making up our own ideas of reality, whether they adhere to nature or not. This capacity to override nature with out minds is dangerous. We can learn to use our mind’s ideas and rules to discover the good and the bad of what we have made. Good when we are able to use this to stabilize ourselves aligning in truth aligning with nature, and bad when we do not. Our rules, the ones we make up for ourselves, often are inherited, internalized ideas from our story lines… our families, our schools, the story line of the society we developed within. We live within the artificial boundaries of our made up rules. Not every rule is worth repeating or perpetuating.

Reflecting by asking questions within myself.

A reflective thought I ask of myself is “how am I affected by not living out my story?”

“How am I affected by carrying around unfinished personal business?”

“By stifling my unanswered questions. Getting distracted, losing my focus?”

“How am I affected by dramas inside my story for which I have yet to discover meaning and purpose?”

“How many people have I yet to love because of my own statute of limitations on life, my story, on TRUTH itself?”

“How is my physical health affected by limits?”

“My mental health, indeed my intelligence?”

“And what is my soul intention in living here now inside the story I find myself?”

“The statute of limitations we build into our minds, and through which we live our relationships how does this affect the larger picture of my life…of the life of others whom intersect mine?” These questions have a direct bearing on our humanity.

Questions to our humanity. We all have more to our human stories…

These are big questions we are very capable of asking ourselves now.

My humanity feels like it is yielding towards greater and greater openness. I find myself leaning into new territories and if I am , then surely I am not alone in this same way.

We are on a collective wave of asking bigger questions and finding out there is much more, much, much, more to our human story. All our statute of limitations, self-imposed are growing outward, inward as our species is learning.

We are currently physically entering into a vast new field of the cosmos as our planet spins and spirals through new areas of the galaxy. We are all beginning to feel the influx of new information coming to us. We are in dynamic new realizations of personal possibility like we have not been inside of for several thousand years. And we have all the old man-made statute of limitations of centuries with the unfinished business of untold amounts of human dilemmas, and conundrums. We usually call these our “problems”.

What can our problems really bring to us when we live out our stories completely?

These “problems’ just may be the stepping-stones of our best new ideas were we to start finding more of our personal answers in life. As each of us find our answers we bring to our collective a quantum level of awareness that catapults us as a group. When a whole groups gets a new idea, the statute of limitations shift, and we rewrite them. I find this amazing. Life at this moment for the majority of us is still a daily exchange with a mysterious puzzle. Life as a puzzle that calls out to be solved!

Puzzles innately contain answers.

Solving the puzzles of life for each of us diminishes tremendous negativity. And looking around at the horrific state of world events we could use a lot of puzzle solving.

Whenever we transform an unknown into a known we balance the negative we have held towards the positive.

This is one of the great puzzle pieces of life… balance.

Applying balance by using it to find answers in our puzzle.

Balancing our positive and negative life experiences in ways that bring out the CORE TRUTH of our lives. And that TRUTH will always connect, interconnect, support, and strengthen all manner of relationship. However it does require we allow ourselves to shift our statute of limitations and grow, evolve, and reach new levels of personal maturity.

TRUTH naturally has many forms of quality that can always be verified or else it is not a TRUTH. It can be seen to be duplicated, multiplied, reversed, and so on. If not, it is not a TRUTH.

TRUTH is universal and can be applied in many and various circumstances. Can be uncovered from its opposite, untruth. TRUTH has another quality of revealing something.

Truth may hurt, however that is only because of the way we have held that truth. Our own statute of limitations was incomplete in some way.

Looking inside ourselves.

When we look at our own statute of limitations we are looking at our own self-made, and inherited ideas of inner law and the time that we give that law to exist and facilitate our own resolutions. Inner law here referring to our own mind’s ideas of how we conduct the day-to-day existence.

I am speaking metaphorically here. We all create, live by, and sustain an interior realm of law which we act upon with or without thinking. We all carry silent rules, silent justices, and ways of behaving. We all create time lines for whatever is happening, even when we forget, and malinger in the unfinished business of living out our stories to completions. Analysis of these internal worlds we carry is up for reexamination, review, revision. I am referring to the jurisdiction of what is going on inside each one of us here on the planet. Our inner worlds.

The greatest story ever told is the one you live. We need to discover this… each of us!

When we resolve our stories, and learn to analyze our rulings with regard to our thoughts, actions, emotions, behaviors and revise what is not working, or is unfinished, or yet to be discovered ( as in a yearning or longing yet to be lived out) we manage our inner world and this will directly shift our outer one. Person by person.

We are all so much more capable of expanding our consciousness and learning to live more positively, more joyfully and more healthily. We have this because of our innate nature as spiritual beings living out a story called “human being”. We fail to discover the infinite nature of our possibility because we stop ourselves through our own ideas, rules and our lack of knowing ourselves inwardly.

By learning to be reflective and applying attention to what is inside us with a loving forgiving heart we open our potentials, potentials that stay locked and unexpressed because of our own self-created limitations.

We are actually so much more than these limits.

We yearn for our freedoms, yet do not free ourselves.

We love, with condition so we fail to arrive where more of our brothers and sisters are waiting to embrace us.

We make boundaries where there are none all over the world, boundaries that separate people.

Our final conclusion certainly as a species is far more reaching than all of this.

Each generation of human beings takes the boundaries and the limits further. We can see this.

Yet there is today…. and with this day we can learn to choose to fulfill our story.

Day by day building each day upon another we are building the experiences we call “Life”.

We can honor TRUTH by living in that truth as we come to know it.

And……

We are all writing the story of our lives through our choices.

It is a time to choose wisely!

Cores spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

The Activation of Our Greater Interiors,Seeing Life from the Eyes of Our Soul… core spirituality

The Activation of Our Greater Interiors,Seeing Life from the Eyes of Our Soul… core spirituality

The following paragraphs are all written from my own soul eyes as I have learned to reinterpret my life experiences.

Each incarnate soul here comes here with some kind of plan for its lifetime. Each soul comes here with some plan of action around experiences that will grow and evolve their consciousness. There is absolutely no limit to what this means, as this spans the wide spectrum of positive and negative life experiences. It is within the context of understanding how we take on a physical embodiment and the circumstances that arise from the birth that I will share my experiences of our greater interior activations of consciousness.

Everything is agreement and this creates the relationship.

First there is agreement outside this life, where we are connected to our soul self that has greater complexity and spiritual awareness. This is not 100% always the case however in my experience, more often than not. So before taking the embodiment we make choices and here are some of the choices we must look at for the incarnation experience. We accept soul agreements for our lives with others on Earth starting with the parents.

Our parents contribute a genetic profile that creates our physical body, and these DNA sequences hold the bias, and direction, momentum of our physical lifetime, serving as the base line of experience. This includes certain environmental, behavioral, social, spiritual, physical characteristics that will be dominant around the genetic family grouping.

Behavioral pods in our families.

These genetic predispositions set up our relationships in patterns. These familial patterns become our first classroom on earth. We learn to develop our person as we grow up from infancy to childhood into our adulthood. All along managing our actions and reactions to the stimulus of those circumstances we either learn a lot, or we may not depending on how well we make choices, how open we are, and the degrees of the positive and negative depths of the family, socialization experience.

Triggers are the continuation of those original patterns.

When we reach the adult stages we typically leave the circumstances of all the previous stages with our families and we self generate our own new life experiences away. (Of course this is a generality as many people linger and or continue to have a need to stay closer to the original family dynamics.) As for myself I was ready to leave at 16 years of age.

The triggers are the surprising and often disrupting situations that continue in our lives. Triggers are usually conflicting situations which will bring to the surface deeper feelings. Triggers may also be filled with tremendous joy as well and these serve to sustain us in times when we are anything but full of joy as we traverse the harder, more negative interior feelings.

These deeper feelings are inside us, still being lived out inside our subconscious away from our outermost attention. We carry these deeper unresolved feelings and emotions because from the soul aspect of who we are we want to feel.

To feel deeply is to be informed and to learn about ourselves.

Frequently on this planet this is negative feeling, hurts, pains, and feelings of being lesser than. Our most authentic selves seek to feel these deep feelings and emotions, not to hide them, compartmentalize them forever, or to deny them. Our authentic genuine soul selves seek to feel all these things as a means to evolve itself.

There arises that momentum in our personal growth and evolution when we have completed the baseline of our original familial dynamics and this no longer serves who we are, or where we are heading. Where the value of those relationships shifts and we no longer hold onto the day-to-day significance of their earlier meaning. We find ourselves disinterested and need to move forward with the discovery of the next time line of personal relationships. (This is not always the case for everyone.) Many families maintain close communication for their entire lifetimes, but not all. This does not in any way diminish the feelings of love for those people it simply means the experiences needed to continue to grow and evolve shift out of the original family. Often this is signaled by some break, or conflict which sets people apart, yet this is still only part of that dynamic.

As each person on each side of the equation has the fundamental need inside themselves to grow their awareness, to feel out the feelings, and learn to recognize the deeper significance of these changes.

Many times people find themselves without the understanding of the deeper meaning behind situations like this because of our inability to recognize our responsibility to self in a holistic way. Meaning that we resolve all issues within ourselves regardless of the other party to the point of letting go with love. Finding a peace within self that is natural without any conflict and remains open toward the possibility that everyone has their own life plan that they need to come to terms with and will do so in their own time. We finally learn to accept the “other” without judgemental-ness.

Timing is unique to each soul incarnate, I often say to myself…”not every flower in the garden blooms at the same time, some never do!”, As a way of learning to accept the differing levels of awareness that exist in any family dynamic. Our souls inherently know before we are born that the classroom of life is filled with many levels of understanding and perception all in the same classroom. Getting back to the triggers… these triggers are strands of the original patterns set in place through the DNA sequences we inherit, then the early development stages / experiences of our childhood. When we still have more from out original soul plan we have yet to understand, process, and release these will be the contents of the triggers inside us. Something occurs as we mature that shifts this entire learning pod about the triggers.

We “seek” to be self responsible. Triggers as gifts!

When we realize that every trigger is a gift to us because it shows us our own deeper unresolved feelings we shift how the perceptual lens we were looking by shifting the emphasis off of the “perpetrator” or the persons who trigger us…. for example : “you did this to me”, “you hurt me”, “you, you, you.” and we give our self permission to own, feel, process, have and let go of any feelings or emotions from those triggers because we realize from our side of the equation these are ours, and not the other person’s. Each person has their own feeling content and emotional patterning. They have their own matching dynamics to me and I have matching dynamics to them. We can literally transform our own side of any human equation with or without the person who is triggering us. We do this by being responsible to ourselves and connecting to the soul level of self which says I wanted to feel this out, I need to feel what this tells me about myself. I accept how I feel, I accept my own emotions and I release you (the person who triggers us) to your own feelings and emotions to resolve in your own way in your own time. Transcendence!

The end of the cycle. Transformation of consciousness and transcendence of circumstance.

When we ourselves complete all these steps we are left with only an original greater sense of self-love, and compassion that becomes actualized and this transforms our consciousness. Eventually leading to loving without any of the attachments to outcomes, the “perpetrator” or the person who was the subject of the triggering. We understand what we did not about what the trigger was all about. In this way we have been activated to our greater interior self.

Enough of these processes add up to an unflinching view from the aspect of the soul within us. The soul self does have tremendous capacity to live in us as us. Yet when our soul is limited to dramas, conflicts and hurt and pain and until we learn to go further into it all and open the soul self is very limited. The doorway, often enough is the stuff of our conflicts and dilemmas. These hardships which are an aspect of the purpose of those circumstances being in our lives so we may become connected to our greater interior self while we are in physical forms. Not just when we go to heaven! Right here, right now. The exact same holds true through our experiences of joy and happiness as this will also open our greater interior self and allow the soul in us as us to be active!

Multiply the actions of one person by every person and then look around.

Our human species is collectively in this learning as we reach the zenith points in all our social structures, lens of perception, and how we set our lives up. And it is time we utilize this greater interior self to manage and readjust how we are co creating life on planet earth. Individually every person is in some way contributing either positively or negatively. The more we choose to learn to transcend by using everything we have inside ourselves the more our outer world will reflect this back to us with greater systems of inclusion, self-sustaining principle, abundance and so on. This is core spirituality!

Thank you to my sister Ann, who triggered this writing today.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Flower of Life, Crop Circle Meanings, and learning to receive the messages, core spirituality

Flower of Life Symbol, Crop Circle Meanings, and learning to receive the messages, core spirituality my personal journey

Symbols have meaning with which we communicate.

We use symbols everywhere in society. We all understand street signs in our different countries, we all have seen mathematical symbols in geometry. We use symbols on our cell phones. Symbols are another form of communication which reach directly into our right brain – hemisphere and then get translated into the language we use by our left brain hemisphere.

We can communicate tremendous amounts of information very easily whenever we substitute a symbol for words.

Symbols have been used to communicate for thousands of years as evidenced through ancient archaeology. Every continent on earth has these symbols located on it. Some of these symbols are unique to the location and time, yet other symbols are universal and are found everywhere on earth predating known human history, one such symbol is the Flower of Life symbol. Burned or laser fashioned into ancient temples, rocks, and caves all over the world.

Dropping the grip of left hemisphere dominance in our perceptions.

As our awareness deepens and our grip is let go from the constant chattering of the intellect, when we attend to the silence and stillness within ….symbols rise up in new and fascinating ways. Symbols begin to take on relevance.

Curiosity develops and the decoding begins.

This is a natural component of freeing the dominant left hemisphere control factor over our human perception. We activate the other hemisphere of our brains and start to integrate more information coming in from our right hemisphere.

The more complex thoughts are readily brought forward by way of the symbolic languages that are universal. Particularly those thoughts that express concepts of reality, how reality is constructed, how it is expressed, how it can be understood in finer detail. Thus when we have opened our minds to symbols we are accessing deeper, more meaningful, complex levels and octaves of understanding. This has been referred to as “higher understanding” by master teachers for centuries.

Symbols can be distorted, reversed and mixed up in ways that confuse the information or redirect/reverse the information that is originally inherent in the appropriate balance. For this reason it is wise to pay attention to symbols around us and how we allow them to inform our awareness.

A question I ask myself is….

Perhaps it might be interesting to ask self, do I even pay attention to symbols? Beyond driving and such if the answer is no, then perhaps I might be spending the majority of my thinking, processing mind in left hemisphere logical thought and missing the other half of what my brain could actually communicate to me. I find symbols expressed in the design of nature, in flowers for example and because I have a hobby of growing orchids I look into their faces all the time and this connects me with the designs inherent in nature. However if you do not spend time in nature then you would be missing an enriching aspect of your mind by remaining in linear logical thought processing all the time. Boo hoo…. this means you miss out on the marvelous designs all around you. Architecture by shape in our world contains tremendous design all of which reflect basic shapes that are the foundations of physical reality. I marvel at the squares, rectangles, triangular shapes and all their intersecting lines when I view architecture around me.

As the conscious awareness opens up and begins to integrate more of the balance of both the right and left hemisphere perceptions, symbolic representations take on greater significance and they begin to grab out attention because of what they communicate. This is a signal that we are developing our holistic thinking, or as some have called it higher mind.

It is with the development of the integration of our whole brain that more and more of life makes sense.

Which is also a signal because if you do not find yourself making sense of chaos, opposites, contrary-ness, and difference then you know that you are not using your whole brain and you are stuck in left brain, linear, logical perceptions most of the time. And you will not be able to break out of the limitations of this style of thinking until you open further into using your right hemisphere.

Reality cannot be embraced in totality through linear logical thought alone.

Read that last sentence again, reality cannot be embraced in totality through linear logical thought alone truly keeps me in an honest level of self understanding and assists me in moving out of linear boxes of my own perceptions.

Perceptions that I have taken on through my own socialization process as a human being.

I know that I am capable of more and so I remind myself of these things. As a result how I perceive has a component of wonder. This wonder is the element of “non-thought” where I suspend my left brain tendency to think long enough to see, deepen, and to feel. This brings in the rest of the data or information relevant to inform me. Then my left hemisphere can translate this in ways that make sense.

This is the opposite way of the world in which scientists, teachers, university programs all teach us to learn. To think our way through life, to deduct and reason our way through problems, challenges conundrums.

This will never work, does not work and is a very limiting way to exist.

We can see the results of this dominant style of perception all around us in that so many systems we have in place do not actually take care of the problems. We have been using only half of our brain capacity. With only half of the results and the multiplication of problems as the result, not the solutions that self sustain and generate genuine solutions. Interesting to ponder, is it not?

For all these reasons I have found a curiosity about this Flower of Life symbol. It is the most ancient symbol found all over the world and our scientists have completely ignored its significance because they are stuck in their left brain perceptions and this just does not fit into their “half brain” (literally) concepts. This symbol is the mathematical representation for the basis of all life on a sub atomic level, and the unification of ONENESS of all life from the sub fractal expression of dynamic space-time inside the proton! MAGNIFICENT!

The same holds true for crop circles. I am intrigued with them. The call out to me. I found myself gazing at them wondering what do they mean since the eighties? Obviously the genuine ones are communications from off planet beings speaking to us in the least aggressive way possible. Symbols in wheat? Pretty safe I’d say.

These images of the crop circles have illustrated the most advanced mathematical principles we currently know. There is even one crop circle that is a response to a binary coded message our scientists sent out into space decades ago. This is remarkable to decode as it directly corresponds with the one we sent out using the same system to communicate their own place and their own information just as we have. Again….MAGNIFICENT!

To open up the mind and start to crack the linear logical dominant thinking I will post several videos here that will discuss these ideas.

The real purpose of wonder.

 

The world of wonder is accessed when we use all of our brains. That means learning to integrate our right hemisphere with our left one.

Wonder is open awareness of what is before you when you suspend thinking and simply take in what is before you.

Wonder is the state of consciousness that brings together the capacity to learn, to learn through that which is initially larger than the thinking mind, and then expanding that thinking mind to greater and greater levels of comprehension and perception by way of accessing the right hemisphere data together with the left.

It is the discovery of existence of a Lady bug and her life in the garden to the stars and their constellations in the heavens.

Perhaps this is what the master teacher Jesus was saying when it is recorded he spoke of being like a little child in order to enter heaven.

To actually see heaven here on earth we must use wonder.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

 

Deep Silence, Stillness and the Infinite Nature of What Lies Within…core spirituality, my personal journey

Deep Silence, Stillness and the Infinite Nature of What Lies Within…core spirituality, my personal journey

 

Today it is easy to come across the word meditation as more humans are becoming drawn to the subject. There are many paths of meditation to learn, many videos on YouTube to follow and lots of material that is free and online to read. However the single most simple technique I have found is to pay close attention to the deep silent, the stillness around me and inside myself.

Teaching myself to disengage from “NOISE”.

This requires the desire to disengage somewhat from the “noise” of our social and work environments, television, and constant technological interaction. I notice the gaps between thoughts, between moments and I touch this deep silence, it touches me, and I return to the stillness there. In these places instead of there being nothing, I find the infinite nature of what lies within this silent stillness.

Teaching myself to be present in the gaps and hesitations. Gaps in the thoughts, the conversations, the waiting in traffic, the walk to the door. We have an untold amount of these moments of stillness and silence to absorb. This is both an internal place and an external one. I am learning to stay connected here and to absorb the place between say… Point A to Point B instead of disconnecting my attention and only staying focused on where I am and where I am going. These are the silent and still places in all our lives.

This world around us can inform us in endless ways when we are open.

In the external place of silence and stillness I am looking outward into the world where ever I may be. I am noticing inside what appears to be empty space between objects there is this amazing other level of reality. There is so much more going on in the stillness than I ever imagined or realized. I have been watching this since I was a little boy. I have learned to stop thinking. To stop paying attention to my thoughts long enough to suspend the chatter that is so easy to distract me from what is before me. In learning how to disengage from mental chatter while I am observing life externally. In this practice I notice that I am in “a simple state of being”. This simple state of being is how I find myself connecting to the outer world in a way that traverses through and into the silent place of being that exists around me. The vacuum in which places, things exist. This is the place of the presence of life.

Our world is filled with Presence.

The presence of life contains not only the surface of whatever we are observing it also contains the components inside, around and connecting it all that make up our observations.

There is presence in all physical reality.

This is the thought of something as it is made manifest into physicality. The thought of an object contains the organization, the design, the origin, the materials within it and behind it…. that make it so. I have a daughter who is an architect who has shared with me the principles of geometry, design, intention and purpose by observing how a building is constructed. I have seen blue prints of the thoughts that created those structures.

As an artist I learned to focus my attention on a subject to perceive it and then to duplicate it in a painting, an etching, a photograph, or a piece of sculpture. In my youth I spent years learning to see as an artist would by noticing every detail that exists on the surface of an object and the light as it interacts with the subject. Learning to be in a pure state of observation is a fantastic challenge and quality that easily can deepen into more which leads the awareness into the deep, the deep silence and stillness that exists in objects, places, people, plants, animals and all of physical creation.

This is the matrix of design that our physical reality becomes a thing, a person or a place.

There is more to what we see than the mere physical surface of all things.

The deeper my internal stillness and silence the more I observe there is to see in ordinary reality.

Inside my own deep silence and stillness is conscious awareness that is a form of presence. The part of me that is watching me when I am watching life. Read that one again… the part of me that is watching me when I am watching….life. This state of presence continues to grow and deepen as we learn to stay present in the moment without thinking. As the state of conscious presence becomes anchored into our daily life more and more the deepening effect to our human self is multiplied in ways that allow our attention to bring in more detail. Thus I become informed on many more levels of perception. It has been my experience that as I learn to integrate silence and stillness more and more and then to learn from the information this brings me, my capacity to integrate more complicated data, or information in many levels increases. Here is an example.

Communion with a tree.

One day decades long past, I was sitting on my front door step in a wooded section of Georgia where I lived at the time looking across the property gazing onto a large tree. I was looking at how tall it was, the breadth of its branches, the place where it was growing out of the ground, It’s roots. I was simply watching it without thought, only noticing it with increasing attention. Suddenly after several moments of enjoying this tree I noticed a glow. I then had a thought, what is that? Quickly I returned back to just watching and I saw it again. There was a beautiful soft bluish white glow inside and all around the tree extending, as I then noticed some more, far beyond the parameters of the branches. I resisted my own tendency to think about it, and chose rather to simply watch. As I did there was an instant within me where I suddenly felt the life force of the tree within myself. As if it had jumped into me or sent me a message. I began to feel the life history of the tree as it had grown to that point. I felt it had joy and it had purpose and I felt how it interacted with the light coming from the sun, and I felt how it’s roots pulled moisture and organic nourishment out of the ground.

I realized after several moments of what I would call communion with this tree that it was an alive being. I knew it had a living presence with intelligence and purpose and that it was interacting with the sky, the light, the ground, and the space around it. It was a single tree and so it had plenty of room to grow, and I knew that it knew that. I observed in that moment of silence and stillness all those things I wrote about in the above paragraphs. I can honestly say I have never been the same.
The new awareness that I learned showed me so much new information that my idea of what a tree is was transformed to a completely new level. I realized a deep respect inside me that transformed into a reverence with all growing things that continues to this day. I even learned that in its own way this tree had a sentience all its own as I had the experience of its communication with me. I was passing through one of the most painful times in my life and suffering the agony of some of life’s most difficult lessons.

When I had this experience I learned from this tree.

I saw from it and felt within myself , as I had this communion experience, the seasons and changes, the reaching and striving, and the fitting place of this life form in a unique personal way… as only this tree could be. This brought my attention out of my pain and refocused me. I experienced this urge to keep going by learning to allow myself to let go, to see the larger picture, and to reconnect with Source. For this tree literally was filled with the ingredients of its source self. This was all together amazing to me. Infinity really does exist within each of us.

When I lifted myself up off that step I was never, ever the same again. I have had untold repeats of this experience since that time as I learned how to engage my awareness to those levels of stillness and silence again and again so as to learn more and more from the environment around me. This might be called active meditation, as I have often wondered. Because my outer world shifted some time long ago and that shift in perception was so like the internal conditions of my meditations that there did not appear to be any separation from the inner and the outer world. Perhaps this is a kind of active meditation, yet really it just feels like another level of conscious awareness that is always integrating and growing with increases of more data leading to more octaves or levels of more awareness.

There is a grounding that occurs… that feels stabilizing and centering that is inside silent stillness.

I know in this place I have both the experience of my physical world and simultaneously the cosmic.

I can see and feel beyond the molecules of physicality, I know that my little human body sitting on this tiny planet is suspended in an infinite cosmic universe inside to my mind , unfathomable space because that space reaches out from infinity far beyond the stars all the way inside my own body and there is no real separation what so ever.

My own world view, and my view of myself has been shifted out of a kind of separation mentality into a connected one as I have felt/observed this way for years. To literally know and experience self as just one more aspect inside all of creation as an integral part of it, like everything else is highly uplifting and normalizing.

This is how and why I call this blog core spirituality, and I identify as a spiritual being having a human experience, and not a human being having a spiritual one. Although it is essentially true either way…. my human self is being spiritually transformed on a daily basis.

Learning form opposites.

Ignore what appears to be empty, ignore the hesitations, ignore the silence, ignore the stillness and what you get is a form of imprisoned human. Fearful and easily lead by forces all around. Without the internal connection to all of life through the infinite doorway of creation inside each one of us. Lost and confused, lingering and malingering in the past hurts of generations of unconscious behaviors. Ignore the silence and stillness and concentrate only on the chattering of your mind, of all the minds around you and see what this gets you. Ignore the possibility of life and focus on your cell phone, the television messages of fear, control, and mindless human behavior. Focus on over working, bringing your self to physical and mental exhaustion day after day… for what? If you have not found the infinite within you what then do you truly have?

Focus on all the distractions calling you and pulling you away from your center, still, silent inner place. And then do you wonder why it is you have not found joy? This is something to truly consider.

And finally is it not true that to see the world thru the eyes of a child is to look with wonder?

And in wonder realize that in this way we  find that all along we were actually all connected.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Orchids right out side my front door.

This is from my other blog featuring my orchid growing hobby.

You can view many more little movies, here is the link.

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Nature’s Magnificent Design

When i look into the face of my orchid collection, my food garden full of Kale, and all the other plants I not only see their inherent beauty, I also see their design. There exists singularity, polarity, multiplicity, complexity, and repetition all by design.

There is an inherent intelligence inside plants that is highly organized.

This intelligence expresses something of the intelligence of “being”, of existence. These images feed back to me something of myself and the brilliant intelligence and organization within our physical bodies.

When i see opposites in repetitive design, when i see circles and squares, triangles, and lines i am reminded of the core nature of design of which life is made. This is perhaps why we like to spend time in nature as it exudes an unspoken intelligence made of such organization… both simplistic and complex, yet repetitive and self generating. These qualities of the designs of life mirror to me that which i find within myself and serve as a grounding experience with which to keep myself in balance.

By observing the living properties of plants i find a peaceful form of creative expression that amazes my senses and uplifts my mind.

Watching how a plant grows itself out of the very living vibrational matrix of life is very inspiring and reminds me how we too, as humans, draw from the same substance of the cosmos right here in our little back yards, homes and apartments.

When i see the unfolding patterns in flower petals, in leaves and branches i feel a sense in the physical world of the unseen because i see the amazing geometric designs that these plants self create. i find the same geometry repeated in larger and larger scales out into the universe. The very same patterns are in a tiny flower that exist in a whole galaxy. This is a kind of repetitive patterning that shows me how life is inherently organized in an intelligent design with which i do not feel we must tamper with too much of a zealous attitude.

Disrupting the core inherent intelligence in the design of the matrix causes a disharmonious relationship within the natural order.

For this reason i observe how the scientific, the pharmaceutical, and many other aspects of our society stray too far from the center of inherent intelligence within nature. Too much untested long term, GMO tampering will create results that we have yet to understand.

Intelligent science without consciousness is dangerous.

Without the conscious awareness of how the natural design of life holds the larger spectrum of life out into infinity. Everything is connected and thus for every action there is a reaction. Without conscious awareness in the sciences, technology, pharmaceutical industry, and so on we are missing how the basic design of life is self sustaining, repetitive, and evolving within a construct already inherent by design.

Nature teaches the simplest of little children to the most schooled of scientists, yet without the conscious awareness to wholeness and totality, to self sustaining principles in nature we are doomed.

Anything in nature that is not self sustaining, that is self destructive has a tendency to die, to end itself. And to this awareness we must apply our lives and choose to be conscious and to allow nature to teach us in any one single moment of our lives.

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Infinity is within me….Cosmic Awareness is arriving… core spirituality, my personal journey

Infinity is within me….Cosmic Awareness is arriving… core spirituality, my personal journey

“In the stillness of the core place inside me, there resides the singularity of creation from which all complexities arise…” is how I describe my own experience.

(and this exists inside every atom everywhere )

This means that inside the core of myself in the center of me, there resides the place of creation.

We constantly create. For indeed we are self-generating millions of cells on a daily basis within our physical bodies. We are rearranging the substance of these cells and their contents without even knowing it. The atoms that make up these cells are in a continual state of dynamic spin, dynamic relationship one to the other including the actual space around our bodies. This space that we “think” is empty is not, for it is all filled with atoms which compose our reality and together there is existence that is in constant dynamic relationship, that is actively learning. The very inside and outside of my perception edge is communicating as each one of us and adding to the larger picture of the greater cosmic place. The core self where in lies stillness and singularity gives expression to multiplicity, complexity. Each individual holding a slightly different place in totality. Every atom holding a different place in totality.

( if that is too much to take in… well please take time to reread it.)

This place where everything that is about you or me springs forth as a dynamic expression of Source.

Inside this place we have the capacity to connect with our totality.

From here we can investigate more deeply and not be limited to the outer 5 senses or the mere boundary of our skin. We have inside us the very stuff of creation and here we can access beyond time into the infinite now.

Drawing from many time-lines and many aspects of our personal history as a spiritual being, (an infinite expression of aware self that seeks to have experience so as to know itself). From inside here originates the polarities of Yin/Yang, of male/female, of old / young, of inside and outside and all the dynamic properties of existence. All science, all knowledge, all mathematics, all understanding is “in” this inside place. I know this as I have witnessed many lifetimes in different time-lines and places of my own soul experience, I have seen and understood knowledge that is outside my physical locale. I have moved out of time and into no – time where upon my return I was gone but moments, yet within I was gone for hours. No one can deny me my own personal experiences of this type. This is real and becomes a part of my dynamic lens of perception adding to my sense of the possible, the probable, and the truthfulness of how life is designed and can be checked and rechecked to substantiate and verify anything that I discover along the way of my deepening explorations.

From one there becomes two, into infinity… and so complexity, or creation is birthed.

Consciousness itself has organized until it becomes self-aware, as a duality or “other” in relation to itself or Source. First there being the singular aspect of Source that then created itself again out of itself. This dynamic polarity is at the basis of all life, all physicality, all of the dynamic properties of life share this basis and build upon it into infinite forms of complexity. We can understand this through mathematics and learn how to substantiate and verify our own ideas. We can check and recheck our notions through the balances of how life is designed by understanding life by seeing it in its totality, or wholeness.

The transmutation of self view.

When we learn to recognize that we are THAT … then the paradigm of the self becomes transformed and by transforming our view we transmute our sense of self-identity… we become something all together new. Through the attention to the actuality of self, the truthfulness, the dynamics of creation, math, science, as well as consciousness we pop out of the limited mindsets of our habitual ways of seeing and advance beyond the duality and into the complexity of the inner universe and we do this most easily by remaining very simple.

KEEPING THINGS SIMPLE.

Simple by way of holding awareness open and just perceiving, without so much of the intellectual mind thoughts we can observe life as is. WE DO THIS WHENEVER WE SEE LIFE WITH THE EYES OF WONDER… OF A CHILD. Many spiritual masters have spoken of this for centuries, relating in different ways that we must “go within”, or that the “heaven is within”. The message has been repeated now for many generations and springs forth out of the basis of all the world religions.

Our need is to get a grip on how it is we look at life and notice the lenses we are looking through.

We are learning to see “how” we are seeing and this affects the outcome of our perception. When we move our attentions beyond linear logical thinking alone we gain access to much more information. Transformed out of the notion of the limited physical plane and three-dimensional, left – right brain model and the separate self model,contained in the physical body (that is perceived as disconnected to all other bodies). Transforming the lens of perception through which we learn to see ourselves.

Once this perceptual lens, or bias is penetrated we can observe how what we are made of and who we are is far more than any of us have been taught through the socialization process of being human.

In truth we are consciousness made of the stuff of the ALL THAT IS, or the SOURCE.

We learn to see how what is both inside us and outside us shapes the information that informs our awareness.

So when I look out into the vastness of the glimmering night sky and I face the infinite quality of space I know that this exists inside me just as it does outside me.

There is a continuous verification to my understanding.

There is a continuous loop of information.

There is not only vastness, infinity, and endless possibility in our night sky, it also exists inside each of us.

The outer world confirms the inner one, and the inner one confirms the outer.

In this way truthfulness is verified again and again as creation repeats itself by design.

I am reminded of the quote “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…” Hermes Trismegistus

Hermetic law comes from Hermes.

The Seven Principles taught by Hermes Trismegistus

These are the seven principles taught by Hermes Trismegistus, also known as Hermes, the Greek God of travelers/thieves/commerce and the messenger of the Gods. He was also known as the great priest Thoth to the Egyptians.

“….it is understood that these ideas were passed from Master to Initiate for generations, for the purpose of personal growth and with the intention of achieving a greater and deeper understanding of the self, the world and beyond. For the student of religion, philosophy and science, the Hermetic teachings act as the key to tying all of the different schools of thought into one cohesive body of knowledge.”

The Seven Principles of the Universe:

1. Principle of Mentalism: “All is Mind”

2. Principle of Correspondence: “As is above, so is below.  As is below, so is above.”

3. Principle of Vibration: “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.”

4. Principle of Polarity: “Everything is dual; everything has an opposite, and opposites are identical in nature but different in degree.”

5. Principle of Rhythm: “Everything flows, out and in; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left- rhythm compensates.”

6. Principle of Cause and Effect: “Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.”

7. Principle of Gender: “Everything has its masculine and feminine principles.”

I give myself permission to redefine as I learn!

As we redefine our human experiences through daily life, through our AHAA’S, through our inner attention, through our physical world, we can see how easy it is to verify, and substantiate any new discovery. The magnificent design of life is such. The design of life from the spin of the galaxies to the spin of the water going down the drain repeats and verifies itself. We begin to see how the designs of life are everywhere. How they are repeated in simplistic design out into complexities.

Still it is what it is and so there is tremendous force in all this.

Tremendous intelligence, organization.

Physical science reflects inner science.

There is a place where there really is no separation… only the continuous expression of the ALL THAT IS.

Infinity is within me…. yes, just as infinity is outside me. We exist inside an infinite multidimensional reality. The wonder of our child like eyes will show us these things as we allow ourselves to return to simplicity. From the standpoint of this simplicity all complexity unravels and we transform our ways of seeing, and when we transform how we see, we transmute the old self. We learn to grow.

When we learn to grow in these ways we multiply our capacity to generate better outcomes. When we generate better outcomes our individual lives do improve significantly.

Yes we may be a tiny little dot of a person here, however we hold a place that is equal to and relative to all other dots. Every dot of a person is informing the vastness that is. The evolution of a single person really is the evolution of a species. The evolution of a species is really the evolution of a world, and the evolution of a world is the evolution of the universe.

Every person matters.

Every new revelation counts.

All learning contributes to the whole.

The whole of life supports every person, every aspect of life.

We are really expressions of the infinite…. too.

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Signs,Symbols and Synchronicity…. core spirituality, my personal journey

Signs,Symbols and Synchronicity…. core spirituality, my personal journey

Finding meaning in everyday normal life.

Symbols and synchronicity took on significant more meaning as my consciousness deepened and I had learned to untangle my own mind from the programming of my youth. Unlearning old patterns and relearning to see in this new way has led me from disconnected, separate perceptions to connecting the thoughts, feelings, events inside and around me. Connected perceptions happen when we “connect the dots” and begin to recognize how events, people, emotions, situations are really all arising out of one another in an unfolding pattern of brilliant interconnection. As the awareness of our attention shifts from belief systems that tell us we are separate… separate from god, separate from one another, separate from happenings, I have learned that none of this is factually truthful, it is ALL connected.

Everything and everyone has a connection in life to everyone and everything else.

How opposites can teach us.

For example I learned in geography class as a boy child that the oceans on the map separate all the continents of the world. This left me with the feeling of distance and separateness between places all over the world. When I moved to Hawaii I learned from local people in my ocean outrigger paddling that the oceans connect us from one place to another. That the ocean is the “highway” where we are able to meet one another and connect. This was the exact opposite idea I had lived with for over 40 years and I was astonished as I felt the energetic shift inside myself when I saw how oceans connect us all instead of separating us. The design of life is paradoxical in that we may appear separate, yet we are not. These are matters of perception and the energetic shifts that follow as a result shape future contact with new experiences.

Going past the surface and living deeply.

Symbols take on more meaning as we learn to connect the dots of our awareness and observe how symbols everywhere are placed in such a way so as to inform the conscious mind and more importantly the subconscious mind. These symbols are massively used in advertising medias, sciences, mathematics, communications, and many other areas of our society. We use symbols to convey a meaning without the use of a word, a meaning which may have many words to describe the significance of the symbol. In other words one symbol could relate the context of an entire book, or period of history. The use of the symbol of the cross pulls up such info to many people in this way. Bringing loads of information far beyond the symbol script itself.

These symbols speak both to the left and to the right hemispheres of the human brain. The left hemisphere being one of language and the visual recognition , the right brain brings context and meaning and depth of feeling to any one symbol. Our brains store this information both ways inside us.

How we become lost in the soup of our humanity.

When we lose sight of the significance of symbols in our lives we may not realize what is being communicated by way of these symbols and thus disconnect our conscious awareness from the information that is flowing thru to our right hemisphere. We may unconsciously be influenced on an energetic level.

Why developing our awareness has so much value, or in other words… living deeply.

As thoughts are things, and do have the substantive quality of energetic information, and movement as in vibration and thus causal effects. How we use symbols then becomes valuable in that we connect our attention to the energetic levels of these symbols when we attach meaning, and relationship to any symbol. This is the beginning of developing vibrational awareness , and the integration of right hemisphere information.

Vibrational awareness is the attention to, and translation of meaning and of the quality of movement of a message within a symbol as it translates into and through our brain as information. This is easy to understand as it relates to signs.

Signs along the roads and highways, signs in the airports and terminals of travel. Every child learns early on how to recognize signs so as to navigate life easily, and many signs are taught early in life so that we understand our mutual agreements about direction and information. This is the purely physical side of symbolic interpretation. The very mechanical and logical level. Interpretation can get confusing when we cross over from one culture to another as signs take on different meaning depending on the context of the culture in which we observe them.

Examples of signs in my life.

As my own awareness developed and I was free from the old style thinking I began to see through what ever I was seeing. By this I mean I began to see how seemingly random events were actually connected. More and more I began to recognize this is how life most genuinely expresses. I learned to catch the signs of meaning in the most simplest of ways. For example just a few days ago I was digging deep into my self to find an answer relating to my next steps. When I got into my car and stopped at the first street light there in front of me was a bumper sticker I had never seen before. It said.. YOUR SOUL PURPOSE IS TO LOVE in big capital letters.

Gut feelings lead the way toward intimate connection with subtle information.

Many other signs appear and in less obvious ways, in my old thinking I would say coincidence, now I say synchronicity. Many times I will be requesting understanding of something and every time I go out into my garden a butterfly will flit and fly around me, for up to an hour! Then there is the gut sensation of rightness, that goes beyond logical deductions. Many times I will have a gut feeling that I will not ignore that tells me some direction is right when everything around me appears to be the opposite. Then a person will appear and unknowingly say words that speak directly to my situation, and I feel it without question in my gut…. that “right feeling”. That was not merely a coincidence that you said that . I always marvel when this happens.

Many years ago I learned to pay attention to these gut feelings as I learned that the physical body acts like an antennae and is connected beyond my thinking mind to everything that is. Distance has no bearing, nor time. As signs often appear before something to encourage us to go forward no matter what, or to stop no matter what. Signs which have significance, or symbols or things that have meaning will appear in my path or attention that cause me to immediately think of a particular person. I know these are signs and I then redirect my attention to that person from within myself to see what it is I need to pay attention. This has happened many times with my children, family and friends and even places.

Indigenous people always have this very connected kind of radar and use it to maneuver through their lives. I have read many accounts and talked with many indigenous people in my lifetime sharing stories on the subject of signs, and this has reinforced this experience for me many, many times. For these people this is very natural and I have learned to adapt myself also to the thinking of this being natural.

Why feeling separate is important to notice.

It is only when we live in separateness that life appears to be coincidental, or miraculous when there are signs and synchronicity. This is our own unconscious making when we refuse to live in the greater truth that life herself is totally supportive, connective, and reaches into all of creation. I remember far back in the eighties when I realized how profound a shift this was. For me to finally see and feel how life is not truly separate but connected and only I had been living outside of it….. this dramatically impacted every component of my life and how I would move through the obstacles, joys, and challenges that proceeded . I learned that I even felt tested on this as I learned to deepen and trust, to wait before acting so as to see the signs and synchronicity. I know that many times I went so far out on a limb beyond my comfort levels that I depended on these events. Finally I accepted the fact that once I was running my awareness as a form of interconnection with life these occurrences were natural. Living in separation felt less and less like the genuine reality. I observed that anytime I encountered myself in thinking, or feelings of separation that I would become super sensitized to this and I would be drawn into a deeper observation. This has led to my letting go of many paradigms that we all take for granted as normal. I am astounded at how complex the ideas are I have uncovered within myself based in notions of separation. Through out my complete socialization in many incarnations I have taken these ideas on and learned how to live with them, finally now, to let them go. The polarity of connection and separation is a fascinating one to take apart and to truly inquire within the self.

When there are no signs or synchronicity I know that I must make more effort on my part with whatever subject I am seeking to understand. Often I have learned that I need to not know exactly what I “think” I need to know and I make mistakes and learn to move forward using my own decision making process before I am lifted out of my separateness and illusion. Thus I continue to grow myself and be in willingness to be guided by life. Balancing and re-balancing the polarity of separation / connection. It is essential for me to have learned to accept that this embodiment is one where experience is vital. The experience of living here provides enriching material that passes through the lens of continuous discovery and deep remembering of a soul level of existence. I find it humorous how my interior core spirituality knows stuff, while my human physical self is always tripping up and discovering out of my not knowing. Once I establish enough of a basis of new information on any reality subject I find myself shifting out of discovery to remembering.

Learning to let go by editing. Releasing unconscious ties to dark forces.

Editing out symbols that do not carry the energetic messages I want to have in my life is crucial. Learning to become “symbol aware”, I have learned to cut out any deeply anti-life, or dark symbols from my physical world. These dark symbols carry the energetic links to astral states, other dimensional places outside our perceptual line of sight. Dark forces of control, upheaval, reverse messaging, that manipulate the truthfulness of life do not have the subtle doorway into my life field as they once did. Learning to detect the vibrational messages to symbols and how these open doorways to life forms and forces that have less than my complete and ultimate pure expression of divinity are not acceptable any longer. For example I have seen many tattoos on the bodies of people I have massaged that carry a link into astral realms, of which I have no desire to open to myself. I do not wear clothing with logos or symbols that I do not have clear and specific knowledge. I do not post, hang, or adorn my home with symbols that carry the darker, lower astral, reverse messaging that is prevalent in our world society today. In this way I do not create the energetic, vibrational pathways into myself that this opens up.

Editing out in a conscious way signs and symbols can take on an uplifting effect in the energetic designs of our lives as we learn to become aware. Opening up to learn about them in new ways acts on a positive level to do the same. For this reason I became attracted to crop circles and the mysterious nature of their creation, to the messages contained in their design. Truly amazing.

Signs, symbols, and synchronicity contribute fantastic new bits of information to my human experience and learning to cultivate this as natural on a daily basis has become a lifestyle. The astounding way this has enhanced my relationship in nature, with animals, and deepened my intuition recharges my life on a daily basis. To feel connected to life is an amazing, life energizing experience that arises out of the simplest of mundane moments.

Synchronicity, to me, is the dance of living. It is the level of vibration that confirms either positively or negatively any direction or thought I am having. As well as showing me how everything is actually connected. Relationship is most deeply felt in all of life through the synchronicity, and this adds the element of wonder to my average, normal everyday life.

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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.

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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

ATMAN… My Encounter While Watching TV, core spirituality my personal journey

 

ATMAN… My Encounter While Watching TV, core spirituality my personal journey

Here is my story. I was tired after a long day of sessions of bodywork and eager to relax for an hour before bed by having a bite to eat and watching a favorite show on my dvr, I needed to just shift gears. As I was watching TV I kept feeling a radiance or tingling , tickling sensation pouring onto the right side of my head. At first I thought it was my hair, then I thought there was something on me, I ignored it. However it increased in intensity until I was feeling a steady hot streaming of electrical impulses that were very fine and completely focused on the right hemisphere of my brain.

Ultimately I just lay back with my head on a pillow as I felt this tingling electrical sensation going through my head. As I lay there with my eyes closed I began to wonder what this was that I was feeling, and where it was coming from? I looked up above me as I could feel the streaming direction to my left and just behind me.

I saw a translucent being sitting in a lotus position that was male. I wondered if this was a Bodhisattva, and just as I asked I realized this being was in direct telepathic rapport with me as I immediately heard a response that said “NO”. I wondered if this was an ET and again it said “NO”.

Hmmm ….. I began to see more as I was beginning to visualize a clear radiant pattern of electric like light pouring down into my head. And the figure said, ATMAN in a deep resonate kind of way, like we were in a long gigantic tunnel. I heard this repeated several times. ATMAN……ATMAN.

And I did not know this word.

Surrounding this figure and within it I also could see a beautiful golden sphere of light and another white sphere of light around that from which this figure emerged. I took it all in and then returned to continue to watch my TV show without much thought.

 

However again it spoke to me, “I am the original you, from which all your incarnations arise”. At this point I began to see a long holographic movie that spanned millions o f years of time in which I could see many many embodiments in which I had the distinct understanding and feeling that were all part of my own experience. This surrounded me in a semi circular way. These images flashed rapidly and appeared to be dimensional as they looked alive as in real life. I could see the vast range of history through these images and this included other planets, other lives as non human as well as lives in pure energy form in a kind of no-space place.

I was sort of suspended in “no- thought” as I watched the scenes unfold all around me. And again I heard ATMAN repeated several times in a clear and distinct resonance that felt as if it was moving thru long halls of time and space. As I was quite tired and eager to watch my show I simply listened and watched this unfold and then I returned to watch TV. (I was really tired )

When it was time for me to go to sleep I got up and turned all the electrical things off in my living room and the last thing was my computer. As I walked over to my desk I had the idea that I must google that word, ATMAN. To learn if this was a real word, and how it was defined.

When I googled the word I found the many ancient references through the various religions of the world and older writings. I saw that this referred to the original self, the deepest aspect of self within the soul. I was astounded.

This was a spontaneous non ordinary experience that I learned has specific meaning to me. I went to bed in a state of awe as I realized the entire experience I had just gone through. When I awoke the next morning my attention immediately returned to the ATMAN.

I went into my day with a different sense of clarity in seeing everything around me. Most noticeable was my feeling of order and beauty in the natural world. I felt a sense of cosmic order and a deep remembering of the soul. I found my inner thoughts through out the day returning to this deep place of understanding how it is we choose and take on embodiment and how we as spiritual beings live our embodiments as a means of knowing ourselves as aspects of creation learning many many things along the way. I began to have many thoughts about birth and death and life and the magnificent unfolding way with which we create our existence as souls. I kept reflecting on the immense opportunity of wide ranges of both positive and negative experiences we are able to have. This heightened state of attention lasted for almost a week and then it gradually lessened. Yet I was infused in a new personal inner experience that had opened up to me the nature of my life and the world around me. I could feel that I had another level of understanding of soul from the direct heightened experiences that started with those first few moments on the couch.

Non ordinary states of consciousness are naturally integrated in the journey of each one of us as we open and learn and let go along the way of each life we live. These states of awareness that join with our common day serve as backgrounds of substantial substance adding to our place here. In this way we learn to integrate more of who we truly are as spiritual being having a human experience. Not that this ever need be shared with others, the resulting effects are such that the vibratory nature of our awareness is shifted and enhanced and this shift leads to a widening of the perceptual lens with which we view reality. Most often this new vibrational level is enough and I find no reason to share these heightened experiences with others.

As this is a very personal experience I find myself referencing it like any other memory I have had. As each of our experiences imprint us and shift us as we go along in our day. This one had the effect of releasing thoughts and ideas that are not born of the INTELLECT, but of SOURCE AS SOUL. This release of thinking in me opened me up to more possibility of soul recognition in my work, and in my own ordinary day time activities.

The new imprints available that arise from within us are here to update us as we evolve and grow and truly assist us in navigating more harmoniously and more peacefully in the world. Lessening our reactions to what is happening because we see how soul is behind the activities and the differences in soul activity and human intellectual, egotistical activities are expressed here in our society. The differences become more clear.

When we have direct experience of our source self from within us we also shift the interior self image and thus relate from this new place with its added understandings.

I know that the days after wards I noticed a subtle lightness about me with less density in my own body and mind. And I know from within myself that this lightness of being is more closely related to the vibrational nature of the spiritual self, or soul self I experienced when I encountered the ATMAN.

I have since felt an ever deepening love and compassion in my chest, my heart. I have found myself viewing life and the horrid things going on here with this sort of objectivity which continues to grow each day. This loving compassion lifts the judge-mental weight of the human intellect out of the heart and replaces it with a detached love of which it is hard for me to describe in words. Although I know this is a direct feeling experience that helps me and those I serve through my work and my daily interactions. It is not something that could easily be taken away from me now. I am impressed with sharing this experience in light of my previous post to demonstrate the differences between how we generate beliefs through our points of view versus reality and the direct path of inner knowing that arises as we evolve our awareness out of intellectually based thinking. There is more to all of us to discover….

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

How Do We Humans Get Ourselves Into So Many Problems ?… core spirituality, my personal journey

How Do We Humans Get Ourselves Into So Many Problems ?… core spirituality, my personal journey

I have had to ask myself how did I get myself into so many problems in life, issues, and conflicts and what about the rest of the world and the human problems I see all around us?

I came to see how I was born into a specific set of circumstances loaded already with many issues the people in my family, my society, all had running when I was born. I took it on

I began to question and I started to sort through the layers of experiences and the beliefs behind these experiences to find my own answers to life’s challenges. Without the active pursuit of an open minded questioning I would still be stuck in myriads of situations that presently some members of my family are still suffering, and also many in the larger human family struggle continuously now for many generations. It is a difficult situation that we as a human family share. I determined to look through the lens of us as a species to gain a larger context for the conflicts and problems associated with daily living.

Developing sincerity along the way.

Developing a sincere attitude towards willing introspection along with raw honesty I have been looking within for my answers for many years now. Quiet reflection and solitude I have surrounded myself as I have learned how to disengage from the habitual business of human life and constant drama, drama, drama.

I have learned to recognize characteristics with which I have learned are very much subconscious to many people, these aspects of human habit are right under the surface of our normal attentions.

We collectively agree through our actions and the thinking behind those actions and perpetrate specific human behaviors merely out of habit.

This is a genuine form of unconscious living. A kind of zombie like behavior that millions of individuals participate every single day.

These are some of the ideas with which I have come to ask myself.

How do I form my point of view, my lens of perception?

When we base our point of view on our perceptions alone, those born of our point of view without stark reality we form and perpetrate many illusions. Generations upon generations of people have specific beliefs which are born of a point of view that does not come from reality.

This generates a conflict.

Without questioning our perceptions and how and where they come from, while disregarding stark reality we form our mindsets and these become beliefs that we live and die by. (a good reality check is look around you at the current state of suffering and injustice still prevalent globally)

Regardless of reality. I find this astounding.

Am I really who I “think” myself to be?

We form these ideas, mindsets, and beliefs without the clarity of reality as easily as we pick up a book off the table. No thought about it with a kind of automatic agreement to those around us. And because we have this silent agreement we perpetrate false realities, false ideas, false beliefs that have no basis in reality. We believe our mind’s ideas are reality and carry on. We feel supported by like minded others and so we think ourselves to “right”.

I have adjusted my attitude in the following new way…(I’d rather be real than “right”, I’d rather be good than “right”)

So the question arises who do I think I am, and what am I?

Looking around this planet we can see many conflicting differences to this one question. Without the stark reality of life there is little to organize and connect it all. Purely subjective, and separate individuals create their notions of self with little regard to the larger perspective of reality.

The illusions perpetrate lifestyles, politics, religions, businesses, military actions, dangerous businesses, that continue to undermine the possibility of a general consensus of reality that is interconnected, interdependent, co creative, and win/win in it’s outcomes. The small minded notions of self as separate, in a kind of constant race with others simply does not work in the long run for everyone. The blind acceptance of mindsets generated by television, by religious leaders, by military factions, by political voices, by scientific zombies, to name a few are a dangerous path leading to more of the same thinking that created all the problems in the first place. I made a shift here, we can make more shifts in our thinking.

We cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created those problems.

An open minded approach to self understanding and the willingness to define ourselves from within, versus from outside us is a significant leap in human evolution.

We are starting to realize we must redefine who we are, what we are. And stop taking the answers to these questions from authorities outside of ourselves. We can be our own authority. We rewrite the script that generations before us have paid a dear price for and recreate a better way.

Truth tellers, whistle blowers, and those who have learned to face and embrace reality, stark real true reality, and not the “reality of some man’s thinking” are coming forward now all over the world. Individuals gathering into masses are coming forward to express their genuine truths and the status quo that has held things in place does not like it.

All manner of social systems, politics, and other factions are beginning to break down now as we watch the unraveling of the world we thought was real, and is not.

The falseness of our ideas and the systems we put into place are crumbling all around us. As those who hold tight to these outgoing ways strive to exert their last attempts at control, fear, submission on the larger collective or our human family. The result is tremendous fear building and much bloodshed and mayhem along the way.

The effects of false ideas perpetrated as reality

We are not merely a result of cellular division, as science has told us. We are light beings, souls incarnate with weight that can be measured. We are not originally sinners who must submit to blind beliefs as many religions tell us. We are actually spiritual beings having a human experience and the spiritual being that is us is an expression of divinity of which all life is made. We are not all separated from one another by countries as military and politics tell us, all those boundaries are man made and made up. We are a single human species with much diversity living together on one, one planet! We do not have to find our answers to life from those outside ourselves as many leaders from all factions of life are telling us who we are and what we are, we may find those answers for ourselves inside our selves. The experts are each one of us collectively helping one another to be our best as we ourselves each decide this!

Deception

The level of human deception and the betrayals that follow this is beyond present understanding on this planet. The result of the deceptions of thousands of years of human activity are upon us as we wake up to the gargantuan problems we have created for ourselves and we learn to go within to find better answers to life. This is a difficult task for our humanity. We find ourselves having to let go and to move on to new thinking.

Everyone is impacted and everyone is making choices.

Consciously or unconsciously we are creating what we are living through every day of our lives. It behooves us to awaken to this and learn to humbly release ourselves from all forms of outward submission, blind belief, and choose to stop our suffering. We can and we are doing this already.

I define myself many ways as I have come to know myself, and my primary identification is as a spiritual being having a human experience. I have very vivid memories of my life here, my childhood, and even my own conception. I have clear memories of incarnations in other times as other people. I have clear memories of lives in other worlds and outside this world and physicality. My own spiritual essence has shown me and connected within me these pieces of information as a result of my own intent to be honest and clear with self, and find my way out of the problems I have had to encounter. I know we humans are much much more than we have previously held ourselves to be. I know that I am not the only one!

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self reflection and discovery

The Deconstruction of Our Collective Darkness… core spirituality, my personal journey

The Deconstruction of Our Collective Darkness… core spirituality, my personal journey

Oh the times we live filled with the revelations of human darkness all around us. There are very dark forces alive here that we are all learning to become aware and it seems quite difficult as we learn to come to terms with how things are, have been, and seem to be going. Humanity is challenged now to see into our own darkness.

Learning how to see the dark and the light.

The growing awareness of the dark side of life seems to be permeating the world through all medias. The news of injustice is staggering. The hidden motivations of banking, the corporate world, medicine, science, military, education are all beginning to show themselves as controlling forms of world views that have been perpetrated for thousands of years.

The history we thought we knew is not the real deal, the politicians we once trusted are all suspect, the military and police activity is questionable, the corporate greed for profit at any cost is becoming obvious, the narrow and slanted view of scientists stuck on their righteous views of reality is braking down. Religious leaders are fighting with one another along with their believers to the point of murder and mayhem in many places around the world. Dictators are being expunged by their people, millions are leaving their countries seeking safe havens away from the power mongers and killers of their own kind. Main stream media is suspect as we begin to see how manipulated our emotions become by way of perpetrating fear, chaos and disconnect reported now 24 hours a day.

The whistle blowers are stepping out, alternative medias are opening the doors of perception to gain a presence that expresses beyond the main stream flow of war, profiteering, political strategies. Whole nations, entire groups of people silent for decades are standing up for their acceptance and liberties. Gathering together in ways unparalleled in history to express their rights for equality.

Economic systems, political, educational, social, religious, scientific, historical are all subject to suspect and review now. Clashes and conflicts arise as these controlling factions seek to grab their power from the masses and the very planet and her ecosystems in hungry gulps of morbid frenzy.

We have arrived at the pivotal time of the deconstruction of darkness.

We are taking it all apart, finding what it is that has been done, is being done now and we are learning that we can face this like never before. The world view is dramatically shifting.

In personal ways individuals are expressing the deepest darkest most horrific actions of suicide and murder and deceit, while hero’s are ascending to question, to address, to right the mighty wrongs all around us. Individuals are responding by feeding the hungry, dressing the poor, opening the borders to the displaced, educating the children. The amazing ways some humans are able to respond is heart rendering and mind blowing. Individuals are showing herculean forces of overcoming the difficult.

We have already begun the deconstructing our darkness and it is a very, very big task.

To recognize that all this darkness is up for revelation and this is how we have entered into the great deconstructing of thousands of years of such stuff. We cannot correct that which we do not see, and are not aware. Thus the beginning steps of the gargantuan unfolding plan is the waking up to it all as purposeful. We will clean this mess up.

As we break down these systems of corruption, as we free the multitudes from the grips of dictators, as we take to task multinational corporations we are correcting the actions of syndicates, hidden forces of power that have been operating in this earth plane for generations. We are deconstructing our darkness.

When we personally choose to take the path of understanding, of empathy, of consideration, without allowing ourselves to continue to perpetrate judgmental behaviors because we see what is going on here between us we are deconstructing our darkness.

There will be more to see.( so prepare thyself )

I am certain we are only beginning to see the whole picture of the complete stealing of our human species true liberties, true connections, true history, and true capability. There is more. We will shudder and shake as we continue to realize how it is we have believed ourselves to be less than we truly are. As spiritual beings having a human experience our next big steps are to face these things with open hearts and redirect the massive amounts of human energy available to us in whole new ways which will serve the greater whole and begin to restore the intrinsic joy inside the soul of our human species.

We take down the darkness so that we may make room for the light.

The deconstructing of our darkness opens the field of our existence for the light of a much kinder, much more loving way to live for everyone. Thus we pass through this time with the growing realization of the purpose of seeing all this negativity and fear, all this pain and chaos is that we are actually taking it all down. We are, as a species, taking matters into our own hands and beginning to learn how we can correct these dark forces that have been in place for generations in all our families. This is our great wake up call toward a more positive new future. For as dark as it may get, the light is just as light depending on where you stand.

Thee is a natural law of about darkness and light. We can see how it works very simply. So just experiment to see how quickly darkness recedes. Go into a dark room, blacked out completely and and open a window. Faster than our eyes can … the darkness recedes as the light comes into the room. This is a metaphor for our lives. Whenever we open up light withing us the dark recedes.

Learning to see the light.

The light of honesty, the light of genuineness, the light of pure intention. These are but a few human qualities anyone can muster and develop along the way as we deconstruct the darkness around us in our personal lives. That we have such powerful emotional capacity to feel shows me we also have that same emotional power to create. To drive our emotions in ways that are beneficial to ourselves and to each other. We have much untapped power in our emotional capabilities. We need this fuel to regenerate our lives in positive ways. To harness our emotional powers into creative action is the next step of our humanity. To stop the deliberate annihilation and destruction of ourselves and our own people, our own home planet for the sake of a few no longer makes any sense.

We each have the power of reality selection.

Many different realities are being perpetrated today and I wonder how many people realize how all these realities exist simultaneously. It is not an either this one or that one. That they all exist shows me how capable we are of manifesting the reality we choose. Day by day our willingness to choose deliberately and make manifest something of our lives here. How we do this, why we do this, is all important as we realize how our emotions combined with our choices are truly very powerful.

For as we feed realities with our feelings we generate those realities inside our heads, and then they appear around us as our physical realities. As spiritual beings having the human experience we are embodied to co create. With out the knowledge that this is what we are doing we fall victim to whatever passes through us day to day. Thus we can learn to harness the powers of our choices and our emotions to create for ourselves that which is in our greatest well being. We deconstruct our darkness’s, our dark selves, and liberate the light, the light self. Our innate souls, our spirit’s embodied in this incarnation.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

Dominance and Supremacy & The Shifting of a World View… core spirituality, my personal journey

Dominance and Supremacy & The Shifting of a World View… core spirituality, my personal journey

Major Paradigm Shifting

Traditionally, historically, normally, socially, emotionally,individually and collectively, the ideas of dominance and supremacy have been the accepted manner to conduct our daily lives with each other without the thought of how or what this does to our species in the long term, and we have looked away from the consequences of our actions.

However at this point in the time line we are now able to see how the effects of this mindset actually hurt the greater whole, our human species and the planet and all living creatures who share this place, by way of the many forms of control, violence, and suppression. We now have a growing global view with which to learn the larger picture of the consequences.

Our behaviors shaped out of dominance and supremacy have created a massive world wide mess of proportions staggering to the average person. Systems and the people within them … the politics, military, economics, business, societal structures, medicine, science, labor to name a few are all suffering for the many… while the few take the goods, control others. The resources of this planet are squandered, and appropriated unequally leaving far too many individuals in horrific conditions of lack. These human conditions arising out of our small minded notion that as one group or another, one individual or another is better than another or supreme, and dominant are beginning to fail us. We have also damaged our natural world with eco-systems braking down, animals leaving the planet, and filling our pure resources with highly toxic substances that interrupt the natural order and flow of the living planet.

The profit driven economic systems based on these ideas are no longer able to withstand the gigantic real need of our humanity, or the rest of the living Eco-systems, and life forms on earth. The growing consciousnesses of our collective experiences and the conditions of the time we live are signaling to us now. We are learning to see the results of generations of these lifestyle choices begin to crumble around us as we seek to find solutions to the many problems this has created in our world.

As a human species…we have major corrections to make ahead of us.

Power with, not over.

Dominance and supremacy are beginning to fizzle out, and the paradigm of centuries is shifting. The old powers that have run this place are no longer to function in the same ways. The problems we have at hand in our humanity require a much broader approach, an inclusive one that addresses these issues. Whole nations of people refuse to be dominated, and as those who dominate continue to destroy, injure, misplace, deceive humanity, people are waking up. The old ways are not working any longer.

The paradigm of power over others is shifting to its new active point in our solar system and we are beginning to see power with others, power with life replace it.

This is a major paradigm shift in consciousness that one by one is dawning within the attention of individuals everywhere.

The daily pulse of our existence is transforming… tick-tock, tick-tock, moment by moment. This is going to be a dramatic shift in life as we know it. The future will look quite different as we correct the history of our humanity and replace these ineffective ways of behaving.

One individual at a time.

One person at a time we find ourselves having to recalculate where our lives are going. How we will make it. What will we do. In my case I have come to learn one valuable way in which I could join this massive wave of change that is rising upon our human collective. I have come to understand how it is one person at a time can accelerate and embrace and transform with much greater ease. I have chosen to live with an understanding of a different kind of power.

A power that does not seek to always dominate, or suppress another, or have a one up man=ship in every verbal exchange. I have learned to join with, to access power with another. And at the same time remain open to the habitual ways of power over that I need to drop in my behaviors. This might seem a small action, yet it is one that I have found transforms my daily experience in an uplifting way. Power over becomes power with…

We each make choices.

By way of our individual choices we can accelerate or diminish or fight the wave of equality arising now.

By my choosing to see another as myself.

For example my own thinking is changing to ….your economic status, your acquisition of material things, your education, your this your that do not in any way reflect your true power here, nor do they reflect my true power. This is completely false and only held as real by those playing that game of life, outside that game in the majority of people this is a total falsehood. I have stopped participating and whenever I unconsciously catch myself caught up in this craziness I immediately correct this about myself.

Realities fed to us as real are actually falsehoods perpetrated and are illusions.

All the life scenarios created out of the idea of supremacy and domination and the use of power over others that result are nothing but illusions that as I pull out my emotional investments into them, I find repeatedly, how there is another layer to life without these silly games. Competitions, sport for the sake of dominance no longer have the same appeal. Military supremacy as is the case in the American system has lost its appeal for me. Social advertising which defines who I am, how I look, what I am suppose to be… no longer has the power over me. Religious dogmas, scientific dogmas, economical pictures of dominance do not have their hold over me. Any kind of dogmatic, purely man made intellectual idea that has pervaded my thinking is being wiped out now.

The return to heart intelligence.

As I pay attention to the heart of all matters, and feel my own beating heart and the intelligence within it I am finding my way thru the illusions all around me. There appears a better way to go about living. This is the integration of heart intelligence and an open mind combined with the willingness to let go of the power games we have been playing. By my choosing to power with each person and situation, by my choosing to see how dominance and supremacy are only games that some people subscribe, and by my not being willing to invest my own emotional energy into it I find I have a whole lot more room for happiness and solution. This opens my personal psychic space to completely new possibilities, unknown to me from the old viewpoints of power over others.

There is a life beyond the greed, selfishness, and the power mongering that is the habit of a profit driven form of society. There is a way beyond one up manship. There is a way to conduct myself with each person everyday where I no longer feed my emotions into such craziness. And this feels good to me. There is certainly less friction with others, and even more joy driving my car as I watch people talking on their phones as they speed 20 -30 miles over the speed limit only to arrive at the next red light beside me. I let all that go. I don’t know where they are all speeding to but I do know I that I can move along just fine without that. I do not need to speak my opinion as much, and I get to watch the world news that is perpetrated by the controllers as “the news” with less of an emotional attachment. I do not lose energy from all this. There is another way. I recognize the story that is being perpetrated and I know I do not have to accept it as my own reality. I always have a choice inside me.

On a personal level we all make choices to go along with, sustain, participate, engage, perpetrate, create and increase the subliminal forms of posturing that are based in dominance and supremacy. The subliminal nature of the media messages that are telling us this is how to live actually keep us from discovering the larger perspective that we are all connected, have greater similarities, are intrinsically leading each other on in a ridiculous human charade. None of it is genuine from the core spiritual, soul perspective. It is just a dress up party with people acting as if they are characters in a charade of other people believing their dress up party roles. I am beginning to see right thru all this.

Certainly the desire to be the best one can be, manage and manifest the best quality of living is a genuine concern, however, not to the exclusion or sublimation of others as less than ourselves. This is a paradigm shift of gargantuan proportions. To create life experience without the substance of the consequences of our creations to each other and the suffering this generates here on earth is something to realize and adjust within ourselves thru the choices and behaviors we give emotional energy into on a day to day basis. I have asked myself repeatedly… “is this worth the price ?”

Consideration on the increase.

The result of pulling out our emotional investments, financial investments, time investments, attitude investments in subliminal forms of domination and supremacy is increasing consideration. Consideration by way of the way we do business, how we relate to others, how much political standing we bring to the table and what we do with our resources. By developing the awareness of a larger awareness of consideration in all our action, thoughts and deeds we shift the directions in our own personal lives.

Directions are shifting anyway.

Whether we shift our directions consciously or not they are inherently shifting of themselves far beyond the individual human.

These are massive forces active in the cosmos that are beginning to integrate into our solar system, into our planet, and right into each of our personal lives.

Those having the greatest resistance now appear to be struggling in greater and greater measure all around us. I notice that the fear based thinking results and this fear generates very negative consequences. So when ever I find myself in a position of negative pain, suffering, I stop. I take inventory, I look at how I might be unconsciously investing emotional energy into ideas and behaviors that are engaging me in these places of subliminal domination and ideas of supremacy. I weed them out of myself and I return to a more considerate ground of being. It works every time!

How we wake up to overt forms of domination and supremacy truly matter!

How we wake up to cover forms of domination and supremacy truly matter!

How we learn to recognize the sublime messages we pass one to the other thru our conversations, thru our participation in the subliminal messages of domination and supremacy all really, truly matter!

What does awakening here and now to all this really mean?

As we awaken to the impulses of equality and overall consideration we bring to our personal and collective experience much greater possibility as well as promise to our future. We navigate the difficulties differently shifting gears as we go along. Making corrections and redirecting ourselves. We then bring into life the qualities of living that embrace our human family, embrace our living planet, and embrace the conditions of all animals everywhere. This makes a difference in each person’s life that when we add it together we can see something better.

As a spiritual being having a human experience I am learning that to bring into my human life my sense of core spirituality… to each and every aspect, uplifts and eases the hardship of my life as we go thru changes.

It is a choice.

We always have a choice in everything.

When we do not see the choices we have we can step back and find some.

It is a great lie perpetrated on this planet to believe that we do not have a choice in every situation.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

Conflicts and Challenges, Awakening Our Creativity…

Conflicts and Challenges, Awakening Our Creativity..

The Development of Our World View… core spirituality, my personal journey

There are two kinds of conflicts and challenges that everyone encounters.

One is personal, these touch us directly and indirectly within. The other is impersonal, these do not touch us personally and occur at a distance. How we process our challenges and conflicts determines our creative capacity and develops the outcomes that arise in our conflicting and challenging situations.

Friction is actually a spiritual force.

As a spiritual being having a human experience my sense is that every incident is cause to ignite creativity in some way. The creative response to our conflicts and challenges are the very experiences we have from which to draw experience. These experiences are our growing edges. The places where our spiritual self is learning and growing. Without the awareness of growth as the primary reason we find ourselves in conflict and challenge we simply are missing the very most valuable component of a physical embodiment. Learning.

Creativity and pain.

We learn by exciting our creative responses to finding new ways, new solutions, new understanding, new actions, new directions all out of the challenges and conflicts. Painful as they may be for us to undergo, the spiritual self is well aware of the difficulty and seeks to exert some kind of creative response.

This goes for all conflict all the time.

This applies to all challenges all the time.

Timing is always perfect for each of us.

The disruption to our peace by way of a challenge or conflict arises as we find we are ready to learn something else. “Ready” in this case is qualified by way of the spiritual self, and the circumstances at hand. Not the personality, or emotional perception at the time. Many times we are caught in surprising ways that redirect our attention, how this may be uncomfortable or appear to be a nuisance is only the personality response. The timing is perfect looking in from the view of the soul, or spiritual self.

These “redirects” fit into place with future possibilities that are simultaneously developing, often below the awareness of our personal radar.

Because of this setbacks play a meaningful role in our day to day timing and will slow us down when we are moving too rapidly. Too rapidly without all the inner knowledge we will need to advance forward. This is easy to see in hindsight.

In hindsight we can observe that if we had moved forward in the way we thought we were going, we never would be successful in the way we expected. This is how disappointments are generated.

Unrealistic expectations that create outcomes that are not going to work in our highest and best interest.

This is the reason to stagger ourselves when conflicts arise or challenges appear so that we can reexamine some necessary components. These components may be physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, political, economical and so on.

Everyone has their own “growing edge”.

Conflicts and challenges reveal what we are holding in our subconscious minds.

Conflicts and challenges surprise us by showing us our unconscious thoughts, feelings, and actions in the world with ourselves and others. This can be quite uncomfortable to realize, however as a barometer of self, they are specific and target our most hidden parts. Conflicts will reveal details to us with which we must learn to face and come to terms with and consequently redirect.

The growth of self awareness and new understanding.

Much new self awareness is born out of this kind of friction in life, and much understanding of others will eventually come to the forefront to take the place of the gaps, miss-communications, and lack of self awareness. These are what I like to call our “growing edges”, the edges of our experience and knowledge and the progression into new territories of thinking, feeling, and knowing. This is exactly why humility comes up to preserve the inner self as we make changes. Without the humility factor we are typically destined to meet up with a recurrence, or even stronger example of the same challenge or conflict.

Repeats.

Repeats happen for this reason, a lack of humility, but not always. Sometimes we will have a challenge or conflict arise again because this time we will use another aspect of self to solve the dilemma. All too often I have heard myself say why is this happening again? The reason I finally realized was I had more of myself that needed to come to the table. I mean that I needed to bring perhaps more feelings, more thoughts, or my actions had not changed yet and they needed to change in the outer world. The repeats in life challenges and conflicts serve to DEEPEN us beyond even what we may see for ourselves. This is why and how they are so vital to embrace and work thru.

Awakening from forgetfulness.

Most of us are born in forgetfulness with regard to the spiritual self, or soul aspect of our earthly experiences. We deliberately birth ourselves at the time and in the circumstances we find ourselves so that the exact dilemmas, conflicts, and challenges are there for us to meet so that we can gather experience which teaches us the important things about life that we as souls are seeking to bring into humanity. Our humanity individually and also our group humanity as a species. Collectively as individuals we are feeding into and building a group learning as a whole species on Earth. This is also how and why we share experiences in groups as well as individually. While we also need fun, and happiness too and this may play a greater or lesser part in this, it is the challenges and conflicts that historically we have used to advance ourselves thru exciting and igniting our creative responses.

Soul agreements.

We each are the expression of Source as an individual soul aspect and we have in this experience agreements with which we come to earth. We also forget that we have these agreements. These promises we make to our soul-selves to encounter our difficulties transform us into pure joy once we accomplish the resolutions to our challenges and conflicts. This element of spiritual understanding and joy is an indicator of our completed agreements with ourselves, and the other people who are playing a role in our learning. The transformation of self, of life circumstances, of life directions is truly amazing at this point and in my experience always transcends the goodness I had envisioned possible. For this reason it is perhaps we use the expression “soul searching’ whenever we encounter something deeply challenging or a painful conflict. We must learn to reconnect with the soul self along the way so as to unite the gaps in the human experience. Bringing our soul selves into the earth is a way to adjust the frequency of everything around us and bring ourselves into a much wider and greater expression of

creative harmony as human beings. We are not always successful in our initial attempts and this is why we also have more chances arise to face what it is our soul agreements are. These agreements are vital, very important to each of us, this is another reason we learn to respect others as they too go thru there own experiences of trouble, conflict, challenge, pain, and hardship. These are all soul agreements we are living thru together in this great time of change.

Challenges and conflicts at a distance.

Those occurrences that do not touch us directly also reveal much by way of our continued reactions.

Our reactions to the difficulties, pain, and hardships across the world directly bring us into contact with those frequencies.

Whenever we react we create, though usually very unconsciously, a frequency inside ourselves that then brings this very conflict or challenge into our life vibrationally. We alone are each determining our vibrational frequencies here via our choices to react either positively or negatively.

By way of vibrational resonance we accumulate experiences with which we do not have direct experience and make this energy our own and then it will be made manifest locally. This is how and why indirect conflicts and challenges out in the world, and the way we respond to them is also so vitally important. We can generate more of the same war frequencies, for example, at home simply by thinking them. Then they show up thru our own relationships, or the traffic on the road, or some other way that seems incredible. Yet it is all linked by way of the natural law of the cosmos. Everything is in vibrational resonance and like attracts like. We are creating vibrations whether we believe it or not, whether we realize it or not. Because this is the actual reality of life, life is vibrational.

The transformation of the World View.

Our view of the world and ourselves is in flux, transforming thru the challenges and conflicts we meet each day. This is all part of the dynamic plan of our humanity to learn and grow. To learn to choose to be positive whenever we can, and to understand the negative so as to turn it around. We can see this in our individual lives and we can see this as nations, groups, and ultimately as a human species.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self discovery

Discernment is Part of Our “Species Plan” by Examining Our Changing World View… core spirituality for your discernment

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Discernment is Part of Our “Species Plan” by Examining Our Changing World View… core spirituality for your discernment

The act of discernment, when it comes to our world view, has deep and meaningful purpose as we learn to take in new information along the way. It is our capacity to discern that increases our own personal revelation and shapes the reality we find ourselves. We determine our reality!

Thoughts are things!

Every thought and feeling moment by moment has a resonate frequency and fits into the larger resonate field of the cosmos. As such what we choose thru our attention, thinking, and feelings draws to us magnetically and harmonically the experiences we personally find ourselves.

That which is happening at a distance, not to us personally, but out there has meaning as we make our thoughts and feelings about it. Judgments can cause our vibration to attract like energy simply thru the natural laws of the cosmos and how they operate thru harmonic attraction. This is why what we think and feel about what is not personally touching us can have an effect and shift the reality we find ourselves. And we end up finding a similar or like experience in our own backyard.

The world view that we generate inside ourselves can be based on personal experiences and/or it can be based on non-experience experiences simply thru our thoughts and feelings.

The world view you hold without personal experiences.

When we hold on to a thought or feeling without the experiences behind it we generate a gap in our own personal understanding and we bypass the wisdom available to us that naturally arises out of our experience.

For this reason discernment is especially purposeful as many times in our world culture of super sonic information sharing thru the internet, TV, and other sources we can easily attach ourselves to views that we do not have personal experiences with which to shape our reality.

When we do attach ourselves we then become part of that reality.

Without the experience and only the intellectual notion, or emotional reaction once again we begin to vibrate our essence to that thought. This creates huge consequences that without understanding of experience infiltrate our own private life situations. So for example a judgment about a war happening on the other side of the world will return to us in a judgment in our personal lives. Though we have no actual experience in that war, we draw to ourselves a like vibratory experience that is harmonic to that of our judgments.

Religious beliefs, ideologies, theories, and other forms of human creation all have a vibratory resonate field within our daily lives. When we energize these things on a daily basis repeatedly over time we call back to ourselves these creations.

Whether they may be accurate, valid, or real at all does not matter here as these are mental and emotional man made creations that become real to those who subscribe to them.

Yet when any ideology, theory, or belief is not actually part of the universal truth of existence thru out the larger reality of the cosmos we will have a major wake up call. Especially when that greater reality of life herself, the genuine, real, universal truth arrives at our own front door.

The larger truths are arriving now.

We can see this happening thru out our world society as people are coming forward with their personal truth. Religion, politics, business, Gender, sexuality, issues of freedom from oppression, are but a few examples where what one believes is the truth is smacking into the real experience of truth of individuals world wide.

Laws are being rewritten, psychology is being updated, economic realities are shifting and oppressions are receding at great peril and human price to many. These are actually brave souls here living their experiences and showing the rest of the world and personally held world views are clashing as these realities are no longer being held in the backgrounds.

Discernment is a wise choice here and now, in place of being judgmental so that the understanding within self can learn.

The difficulty of acceptance.

The difficulty of acceptance of differences arises out of our own core world views.

Perhaps these were formed early in life, before we had the capacity to deeply understand and question?

Yet… how many people still hold on to and energize these notions without the sophisticated more in depth ability that we develop as adults?

This is cause to apply discernment so as to continue the greater purposeful growth process our individual spiritual beings incarnated into physical embodiments for.

As spiritual beings having human experiences here we are all effecting what it is, what it means to be a human being.

Our humanity is a living expression of the source that we are all made.

We share a universal origin,make up and source… together as one human species.

Humanity as a living physical presence on this biosphere called Earth, is growing just as each individual within the humanity. Collectively we are one species and as such have that larger agenda which reaches beyond survival alone. We also collectively have the impetus to grow, thrive, and co-create as a successful living global tribe of individual spiritual beings and one Source Being … as many.

When we realize our lack of discernment and our repeated thoughts and feelings that we energize by returning over and over to ideologies and notions of reality that are purely man made we can see how it is difficulty arises.

Choosing to do the personal work.

Without the personal work of investigating truth in each life, the gap is tremendous between the greater reality and the man made ones. For example the greater reality being one of inclusive, cooperative, and loving versus exclusive, power over, power mongering, unloving ideologies, beliefs, and world views. Discernment is needed.

By choosing to be discerning in place of judging each other we shift our personal reality with each nano thought and feeling and thus we shift our reality. We are capable of shifting our reality from a negative to a positive and then learning to always find and maintain a genuine balance.

When we learn to achieve this balance over and over we then learn how to sustain it in the positive manifestation of the reality we choose. We no longer have to fall to the victimization of another person’s reality, or another group. (governments, religions, social oppressors, financial institutions to name a few.)

Discernment is the key that opens the door to our own balance as a species.

Personal commitment to this work is the day to day meaningful activity of living.

So what reality are we creating here?

What reality do you create in your life?

What is your preference, judging one another or discerning?

We each are deciding by way of our actions, our thoughts, our emotions, and our reactions every single day.

Every single moment.

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The Question of Personal Experience, How This Shapes Our World View… core spirituality, my personal journey

The Question of Personal Experience, How This Shapes Our World View… core spirituality, my personal journey

The question of personal experience and how this shapes our world view contains meaningful clues to how we invest our emotions and personal essence thru life and the outcomes we see all around us. Equally so is the question of no personal experience and how this also shapes our world view and reflects or contains vivid information for detecting our personal integrity. The two sides of this equation, a person with direct experience , and the non-experience person, holding a world view that is not based on personal experiences.

Reality checks and how they play a major role in our world view

I awoke to realize something about personal experience. One of the most significant realizations was how many Non-experience experiences I had inside my head.

The question of how I could energize these non-experiences as real and then base my point of view came up for serious reflection. I realized that I had a gap within myself whereby I was believing certain things, holding on to certain ideas, and acting out upon these things without any personal experience to rationalize, authenticate, or verify my stand. This realization caused me to want to change and as I came to understand was a source for much internal confusion.

I began to stop believing in things of which I had not the experience.

I began to stop acting as if I had real knowledge of things I did not, and I began to shift my thinking, my behavior, and my world view to more accurately reflect my personal experiences.

I certainly did not know or understand sufficiently to hold certain points of view. Especially without any experience. So I stopped a lot of blind acceptance of what I was told and taught as a youngster and replaced this with a new kind of willingness to be more authentic.

I had to admit what I had to admit when I really did not know what I was thinking or believing… esp. as this related to my world view.

How often is it accepted to express a point of view based on an intellectual thought alone without personal experience?

How often is it accepted to express a point of view based on a belief without any personal experience?

Repeaters are those who simply repeat information without direct knowledge.

Our educational systems are largely based in repeating information back to the teachers as an indication that we have learned something.

Certainly we have learned material that was told to us, however what basis is the information ?

History, science, politics, as were told to us were for example all selectively chosen to tell a story or explain a specific premise.

Are these the whole story, the definitive knowledge on the subject? When we base our world view on information like this how well based is it in the truth of our reality? I have to ask myself these questions whenever I find myself holding to a point of view without personal experience.

Spiritual teachings which are faith based, without personal experience, cause all manner of world views to be shaped. Yet I ask myself how valid are these without my own personal knowledge and experience? I have spent years and years in deep meditations, inward reflection and I have learned many things about the after life, the nature of the cosmos thru my own direct experiences in non ordinary states of awareness. Springing from these experiences I learned to discard the false teachings, and beliefs I was taught that no longer fit with those experiences.

Without personal experience we can create experience.

The impetus to have experiences which directly show us is enhanced by realizing that we must open ourselves to new experiences so as to learn. This becomes a kind of accountability to self, with which we can test, retest and evaluate our world views. And to with hold judgments until we have those experiences ourselves. This alleviates much tension and confusion and replaces this with clarity and personal knowledge.

How do we get ourselves into so many messes?

Whenever we act on beliefs, bias, or a world view without the basis of our own personal experience, we are open to forces with which there is little or weak standing. The proof is in the outcome and informs us so that we may learn thru experience. As this is one of primary reasons for embodiments. Our need to have experience while in this world.

Personal revelations replace impersonal belief.

The revelations that arise from personal experiences versus blindly held emotional/intellectual belief is the strength of knowing versus not really knowing.

Personal experiences contain inside us a strength of which weaker forces cannot penetrate to sway or change. Personal experiences open us to depths and layers of knowledge that reveal deeper meaning to everything in life. Without this personal experience life seems to be fragmented, separate, and always changing. With personal experience all manner of subjects begin to intersect and find origins in larger truths which are easier to validate from many points of view.

The depth of truth one discovers thru personal experiences eliminates the need to accept half heart-ed intentions, intellectual notions of partial substance, spiritual beliefs that are man made versus universal.

The capacity to test reality becomes a significant aspect of experience as experiences themselves lead into more. Personal revelations thru our direct experience show us how our own ideas actually fit into the large picture all around us and may or may not be positive. However, non experience experiences simply reinforce our own strongly invested ideas until such time as a real experience comes along and this always deepens our sense of personal integrity. Even so all experience counts as learning.

I ask myself what ideas do I hold onto, what beliefs do I invest myself, what teachings did I blindly accept as true that limit my personal sense of pure freedom and make me feel heavy? The discomfort that arises thru personal reflection can be the result of taking apart this notions one by one to uncover our own reality based personal experience or lack there of. There is further to go in processing and more experience to be had and future personal revelation to unfold.

Planetary changes in world views.

Planetary changes in world views are increasing as more and more humans awaken to life and all that is here for us to discover. When the quantitative numbers of us collectively see and feel together as we are doing now we have a planetary change. It is for this reason I have decided to share my writing today as I have been processing my own world view, as are so many others now on the earth. The decision to base our ideas in personal experience or non-experience is a personal one. My feeling is that it is thru my personal experiences where I derive the most substantial grounding in how I live my life.

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How the Language We Use, Shapes and Changes Our World View… core spirituality, my personal journey

How the Language We Use, Shapes and Changes Our World View… core spirituality, my personal journey

How and why communications are so important.

Language and speech are ways we can track ourselves when it comes to discovering what our world view is and how it is or is not changing, by listening to our own words and paying attention to the speech we generate.

The words we think and speak open up the neurological pathways inside our brains and this sets into motion many other responses in our bodies. Like our hormonal levels, our heart rates, our oxygen levels as this relates to our breath. Our muscular conditions and even our daily activity in the world are all lead by the words inside our minds, and those words we speak into the world.

When we speak more than one language we can even shift our entire perspective. Each language has its own characteristics and these elements lead to different expressions of who and what we are, and what we are doing.

How we communicate with others either builds the bridges of our community thru togetherness or it may distance us and generate wide gaps between us all.

The unconsciousness of our speech.

The unconscious use of words in our day to day relating has tremendous effect. Whenever we are not congruent or we are not exact in our use of words we are apt to be misunderstood by those around us. Whenever we are unconscious about our words we set into motion circumstances without realizing how it is we create these circumstances. And with the omission of words we do the same. With our words we guide the life force, or “mana” as we say in Hawaii. Where our words go is where the life force follows and flows into energizing.

When we use words that do not match the actual thoughts, ideas, contents of our feelings accurately we are more likely to be misinterpreted and our desired results are put off by our lack of clarity and our disregard for our capacity to express ourselves with congruency to our true feelings, and thoughts.

We may not be expressing the genuine vision of the world that is truly within whenever we find ourselves using words that are not matching this inside us. This is how language shapes our world. The opposite is true when we find and use the words which most clearly express out thoughts and feelings we set into motion our vision for ourselves into the world.

Whenever I have discovered my unconscious use of words I get a “wake up” call which alerts me to my need to look more completely at what I am saying. This acts as a triggering element for the ongoing development of my awareness, and thus becomes a good thing. I can get conscious about something that I was previously unconscious about and add on to my sense of greater congruency.

Which language do you speak?

Early in my youth I had the opportunity to learn to speak Italian and live amongst many Italian families. I found that when I spoke Italian on a regular basis, which is not my native language, I found myself feeling much more fluid, more musical and open to feelings that ever before. I allowed myself to be more highly creative and open. I also have this experience whenever I listen to Italian songs. At another time in my youth I studied French, and lived in a french speaking country where I had another shift in my world view. Here I learned to drop a certain sensibility that was my American way of relating to people. I found myself taking on a European sense of community unlike I had ever experienced as an American at home. And still on another level of myself living and speaking in another language catapulted me out of the smaller view of the world I had held as an American and expanded my view of the world beyond those borders to include many more ways of life, ways of acting, and general understanding of how life works.

The different words in the different languages map the brain in different ways and this changes the view of the world.

Anyone who speaks more than one language knows how this is. We can also see this in a smaller way in different neighborhoods where there is a local style of speaking, certain words with different music to the sentences convey totally different views of the world. Including even the differences in the USA from the north to the south. The cadences in our expressions all create views of the world in which we place ourselves and communicate to one another.

Our lack of words and inability to find our most genuine speech.

Whenever we have not taken the time and the depth to define our selves in our language we get stuck in misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and general disconnect with others. Thus the omission of words is as telling as the words themselves. Numerous times in therapeutic settings working with people I have encountered how not having developed a language for how one feels stops the flow of feeling and experience and stifles the understanding that would or could be available.

An inability to put into words how it is we genuinely feel or think is an indication that we have more processing and this requires some time and attention to sort out how it is and what it is that is ongoing inside us.

Our need for genuine inner reflection.

This leads to reflection and quietude. This can do wonders to bring about the words that best express us. Going inward serves to define and redefine our own thoughts and feelings so that we stay congruent with our daily growth and development as spiritual beings having a human experience. Without it our world view can easily become stunted, out grown without our even being aware of it.

This is important because the world around us, and the billions of people too are all still growing. We can end up having a real crisis when new information smacks us in the face when we have not taken the time inwardly to define and redefine our own thoughts and feelings. I call this a “reality check”. ( more valuable than a money check!)

When we change our words we change our world.

I learned early how changing our words truly changes my world. Particularly as I learned to be more accountable to myself. I found that I had to change the way I spoke to people. For instance in my old style of thinking I would have said to myself …”you make me mad!” or “you make me feel awful!”, when I changed my words to say “when you act like this I find myself feeling mad” or “when you do that I have feelings of being awful”. The shift is that now I am recognizing that I am my own source of these feelings, not you. I shift the action of blame outside myself to the action of accountability within myself.

This is a major paradigm shift that takes all the power back to me where before I had the world view of powerlessness.

My own process for my experience becomes one that is my own to manage and I am not subject to what you may say or do any longer. Thus people and circumstances arise as triggers that help me to discern how it is I feel and think, I do not have to be victimized, rather I am empowered.

Over the years as I have learned to shift my speech habits and this has adjusted my world view considerably. No longer do I see the powerlessness in life as I used to, not for myself or for another. I do see how others unconsciously see themselves as powerless thru their use of words. And I now use this information to have a better understanding of things. To have true empathy and I am able to generate the appropriate concern without adding to people’s unconscious drama, drama, drama.

When we become conscious of our words we shift our thinking.

As I have learned to use my words more consciously I have learned how this has a ripple effect inside the thinking mind. I have learned by using accurate language and defining and redefining myself that I am better capable of shifting my thinking into progressively broader ways.

I find that changes I need to make, while not altogether are without their hardship, they are much more manageable to make. I find there is a natural progress in making changes that “fits” me as I go along. This better “fit” to my speech aligns my mind and heart and I find myself flowing with greater ease as I adjust to circumstances on a day to day basis.

When I am really in a hard place I find myself much more open and self accepting as I notice how difficult some changes are to make. I still use my words as allies in my life.

I value the spoken word, and the written word.

I pay much clearer attention to the words you use too.

And I can see how making simple changes in speech, better choices in my words actually promotes the well being of my ongoing developing world view.

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Our World View… How is yours changing? … core spirituality, my personal journey

‘I understand your world view, but what world are you coming from?’

Our World View… How is yours changing? … core spirituality, my personal journey

What is a world view?

It is a set of beliefs, assumptions,a philosophy, or point of view with which a person understands the world. Our individual views blend together and form the larger world views making up our global society understanding. We each have a world view and together we have our collective world view. And I see that our world views are shifting and changing in massive ways on our planet today.

When your world view is about to shift.

When your world views are about to shift there arises circumstances that let you know.

This appears at first to be quite uncomfortable. Challenges to thinking, and believing may arise that are contrary to your own well established ideas and they persist in a pattern of repetitions as themes. At first this may not be so noticeable, however after a series of repeated exposures to new ideas we can learn to discover how a point of view may be up for some rethinking.

There may be a series of uncomfortable feelings that do not go away and linger inside the body until such time as one chooses to look more deeply into what it is that is upsetting the status quo in your life.

Whenever we are stuck in our left hemisphere of linear logical thinking as a pattern of seeing the world, this will have very upsetting messages to that mindset. The left hemisphere of linear logic aspect of our mind likes to “think” that it has the whole picture and may resist the natural progression of new information arising to the attention of the world view inside one’s perceptions. It may tell you it is right and justify with every conceivable notion why one should not change. This is purely mind thought attempting to deal with a level of change that is about to upset it. People can get real crazy at this juncture in this whole process and fly off the handle, all to preserve their point of view and not make any kind of change. All manner of scriptures from all the religions, all manner of philosophies, past educational, previous experience come up to defend at this one point. I have encountered all such things in myself, and in my private practice working with people.

When the gap inside a person becomes wide enough between the old style of thinking and the new one arising and a person persists in holding on, the disharmony becomes increasingly more uncomfortable with pain, to the point of headaches, stomach aches, fatigue increases, loss of joy, and general melancholy.

There is a law of the universe that states whatever we resist… persists. And so cycles of dysfunction develop and grow and ultimately become our illness. The physical body registers all the interior thought and feeling thru out the cells and structures, this is how we self create some of our states of illness. Weakening the immune system and opening us to the myriads of other illness traveling amongst our world. This is why some people never catch colds, or catch illnesses from others as they maintain a high degree of interior congruency with mind, emotion and physical body that generates a healthy, strong immune system response.

As a new world view arises to be taken into account and disturbs the status quo, a temporary form of chaos ensues that shakes up our perceptions. Confusion increases and may well dominate our consciousness for a while. This confusion is the mix of the old information we hold onto with the new information seeking to find a place in our awareness.

Confusion of this kind is one of the signals of world view changes.

In other words, attitude shifts, emotional openings to new or old unprocessed emotions, new ideas and visions all clashing with the old styles of perceiving. As one learns the value of this type of confusion one can learn to translate the confusion as being the time to rethink, reorganize, or drop certain ideas, beliefs, philosophies, and world views. Like a surfer riding a wave thru all the phases of highs and lows in the sea, so too can we ride the waves of our changing world views and the confusions that come with this adjustment.

The more aligned a person may be with their interior sense of authenticity the more uncomfortable it can be to stay resolved in old style thinking, and thus the intensity of the results of new information pouring into the awareness will have deeply upsetting or changing outcomes. The personality is pressured to let go and move beyond what it had held as “the truth” or whatever the world view they have invested themselves and eventually learn to come to terms with the new awareness.

This pressure which arises inside the self as mental, emotional, feeling based components that may not even have language or words connected to it yet. However as a person goes thru a process of self inquiry the words appear and the whole matter becomes much more real, and the possibility to handle it increases over time. This is actually a very dynamic state for any human being.

Reconnecting to our child like strengths.

Children experience that regularly as they grow thru their early stages of development.

As adults we learn to become static and stuck without realizing it, and thus we disrupt that natural understanding of personal growth and development.

Perhaps this is why prescription drugs, and alcohol play such a significant place in so many adults lives. They have disengaged from their own inner growth and misunderstood all the messages.

A valuable way to align with the shifting of world views is to rekindle our child like wonder, and child like innocence towards ourselves and one another. Our inner child qualities are very alive with the unknowns and the joys of discovery and learning.

When our inner child has been overwhelmed with experiences from a childhood filled with many painful or disturbing experiences the filter to the world and ourselves becomes clouded and again we resist the new. This is particularly important to understand so that we can take the time to rekindle our relationship with our own child like self and heal the past wounds thru therapy, or play or especially self acceptance for our little child pains and learn to allow the feelings and thoughts to flow safely out of ourselves.

This will cleanse the filters of our perceptions and open us up to present day time, present day now moments and avail us to living more congruently. When we live in the present moment without the painful effects of our past experiences we can access with greater clarity the components of confusions arising now as adults. This is critical to get and to practice so that the current stage of our lives is open to more spontaneous out-flow and genuine self inquiry.

Learning how to accept new ideas for ourselves is not so hard.

When we cultivate a practice of learning new things, learning different ways to view our world and we allow the discomforts of conflict within us to arise peacefully we actualize the process of growth.

When we learn to practice acceptance in all the ways it is arising for each of us we gain a strength of self, and a deepening of spirituality within. Though it may not always make the dismantling of a world view that has met its time of demise inside us, it does offer a place to step towards that ultimately brings us inner peace. When this becomes a way of life the changes we need to make in our lives go by with less negative charge to them and there becomes a kind of “flow” which holds a precious meaning and greater significance to change. I find that joy has more of an option to fill in to life for me as I have learned how to allow myself to keep changing.

How much change do I have to go thru, its enough already?!!!

So often I have had this thought, and languished over it all. So often I have wished it were over, and my mind was confronted with the notion that change is inherent in this universe. I have had to confront change so much so that it took all resistances out of me. I have even been left with nothing but the change I was going thru, while all else fell away by virtue of circumstances, by relationships etc. Raw naked to the moment and completely revealed to myself, I have discovered that I can embrace change as a regular thing, a daily occurrence, a way of life.

I have discovered that I actually prefer it. I don’t mean it is comfortable, I mean I prefer the change to the resistance of change. I prefer the way this releases my self in the world to redefining me. Redefining how I see the world, in other words redefining my world view.

We can all mostly agree we live in tremendous times of change.

We can ultimately learn that this is the very reason and purpose for which we were born…. to live thru such changes. To watch ourselves become what more there is to become and to break down the old and watch how useless it truly is now.

We can become change agents in each of our lives both for ourselves and our loved ones. We can learn to love the changes, love the conflicts, love the confusions, love the hardships of change for each other.

As change agents our silent awareness to what is going on allows the incoming new waves of possibility to exist, we create the space for this all around us where ever we go, with whomever we are with, and whatever is arising.

As change agents we recognize the signals of change and we facilitate them, even without speaking.

When we accept our capacity to process changes we vibrate this into the world with our personal essence. Our individual essence combines with others on a vibrational level mixing into the world in a way that acts as a buffer for the difficult changes we are all passing thru in our lives.

Yes it is scarey that the old ways are dieing, many are reacting in increasingly more dramatic ways to these changes. Our presence is a balance to these fears. Our love is a soothing vibration that heals these fears in our atmosphere of social and planetary shifting.

We have so much more power when we live with change instead of fighting it, we have so much more power with acceptance and love in what is arising as new possibility.

The old ways do not have a grounding in this powerful new way of living. They cannot stand the acceptance and all the love it holds.

As change agents we do not have to react so negatively to what we see as fear based reaction in this world.

Fear only has the power we give to it.

As change agents when we face head on our fear based notions, we can stand strong and firm in our own place and not be caught up in all the drama that fear likes to make and EMPATHY IS BORN.

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‘I understand your world view, but what world are you coming from?’

10 Signs of Spiritual Bypassing and How to Reverse It….. By LJ Vanier

If you haven’t heard the term before, a spiritual bypasser is someone who prematurely jumps to the spiritual side of things in order to avoid dealing with their own unresolved emotions, memories and healing.

A spiritual bypasser is someone who hasn’t done the inner work to make their outside their inside and because of this, that persons spirituality manifests itself only externally preventing internal, personal, and authentic growth — such as unconditional love and tolerance for others.

Bypassers can also be viewed as “fanatics”. These are people who fall in love with the idea of spirituality, or the idea of religion without doing any of the real work themselves.

Here are 10 Ways to Spot a Spiritual Bypasser

1. Using spiritual beliefs and practices to avoid dealing with unresolved wounds and painful feelings
2. Showcasing premature forgiveness
3. Wishful thinking
4. Ungrounded behaviors
5. Experiencing a radical detachment from one’s self-identifications
6. Emotional repression and numbing
7. Blind tolerance and compassion
8. Overdone niceness towards others instead of developed emotional depth and authenticity
9. Overemphasis on the positive
10. Manifestation of anger-phobia where anger is confused with aggression and ill-will

Consequently the person who is bypassing will build their spirituality from the outside in, instead of from the inside out. These types of people can sometimes be deemed as a energetic vampires as they need to pull energy from others who are doing the real healing work to grow spiritually.

How to Reverse Spiritual Bypassing

Bypassing can only occur when we make the conscious choice to avoid dealing with our own pain and emotions.

It’s a “fake it until you make it” way of being. But when comes to growing spiritually, faking it won’t get you anywhere.

However, we can reverse this problem with 3 easy steps.

1. Seek Knowledge — Find teachers, workshops, books, meditation classes and seminars. Any practice that teaches you how to grow and gives you empowermentof self. Do not attend the class simply to be a part of the group.  Bring a note pad and a pen, be open and willing to learn, then apply these teachings to your every day life.
2. Find Time for Yourself— The best way to know yourself, is to spend time with yourself. Set aside at minimum 5 hours per week to be alone with no distractions. Get into nature or find a quiet place to just be you. Sit with your own emotions and feelings, listen to yourself.
3. Get Creative — Find a healthy way to express the true essence of yourself. Head off somewhere alone, bring a journal or a paint brush and paint. Or grab some clay and create your masterpiece, plant a garden. Do what you feel is an expression of you. If you can’t think of how to express yourself creatively, go back to Step 2, you’re not done yet.

The real danger to bypassing is that it prevents the person from true introspection. Which is essential to truly become self aware. Introspection gives the seeker the opportunity to transform them self and paves the way for the journey into the depthsof the soul.

Namaste

LIFE COACHING BY LJ Vanier

Website

http://isoulscience.com/2015/08/signs-of-spiritual-bypassing/

The New Normal? Core spirituality, my personal journey

New York Times best selling author Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. For more than 22 years, Gregg has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. To date, his work has led to such paradigm-shattering books as The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix and his 2008 release, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits. Gregg’s work is now published in 17 languages and 27 countries and shows us beyond any reasonable doubt that the key to our future lies in the wisdom of our past.

http://www.greggbraden.com

Restoring Joy… core spirituality, my personal journey

Restoring Joy… core spirituality, my personal journey

Joy is the energetic quality of feeling of pure happiness and connection with life and is directly received by the soul self from source as a substance of pure being.

Joy…. different from happiness, is eternal in nature and and deep.

Joy is not limited by circumstance in the same way as human happiness in that it springs from the depth of the self and permeates the human with a multitude of pure vibratory frequencies that heal, restore, strengthen, illuminate, and expand the self. Revealing many of the components of the core spiritual self in ways that have direct bearing on the activity and lifestyle of a human being.

Joy is the vibrational quality of our higher dimensional self, which simultaneously exists as us as we undergo the experience of our embodiment. This higher dimensional self is outside the conditional matrix of our lives yet within it, when we choose to learn how to stay connected to our soul self beyond this world.

The returning to joy and the learning to translate this soulful quality is one aspect of core spirituality that reeducates the human awareness so as to maintain a frequency of life force that brings in the experiences of which the incarnate being learns about the greater evolutionary impulses within self. And thus guides each one of us thru our difficulties making safe passage thru them and out of them.

Joy is purposeful, meaningful, necessary and takes the place of the incessant ego based mindsets, ego based commands, ego based ideologies, ego based dramas that most of us learn to pass thru on our journey thru our embodiments.

Joy is not subject to happiness to exist and may even coincide with sadness as the baseline experiences of joy do not depend on earthly conditions to exist.

Joy is the soulful expression of being-ness that is innate in the life force as a primary component of existence.

Joy is expressed all thru nature in the various life forms, and to my knowledge even in the rocks, sky’s, oceans, and landscapes. It is the natural harmonic of life that signals the loving vibrational aspect of a loving creator, a loving creation. This harmonic of joy is the substrate of life and exists before materiality and exists beyond materiality. The joyful nature of the human is categorically and historically associated with good times, good music, and high states of happiness, yet these are only snippets of the experience that joy brings.

Caring for joy

When we choose to intend joy in our lives our intentions shape what we do with a perspective that is accepting and open ended.

Caring for joy thru choosing right actions, choosing right decisions becomes a priority with regard to the unfolding conditions of each and every day.

By paying attention to and choosing to care for joy we learn how powerful this substance actually is and we can learn to allow this to all of our human conditions.

Acceptance is a key attitude to joy as the ego based mentality, the slave mentality does not quite understand it and will work against this by insisting on having its way. Ego based mentalities are righteous and commanding beyond reason. Lifetimes of ego based living take time to go away.

Thus to access this joy requires the willingness to bypass many of the ego based ideas and to go forward with the joy regardless of the circumstances.

Living In The Paradox

By caring we learn to develop and cultivate joy and we can understand how joy is lived in the face of hardships, sorrows and sadness, depressions, disappointments. I have experienced this many times thru all these circumstances as I stayed connected to my soulful self as the conditions of my life unfolded around me. This has been my experience. Yet in the early stages of awakening this seems to be almost impossible and even crazy. This is because the ego based mentalities are still in charge and until more of the soulful self is allowed to express then the joy seems distant and fleeting. However it does still exist even if it is only momentary and this is the signal that something is deeper inside us all that is potential still as yet expressed. Many of us have lived many many lifetimes in negativity and the process of breaking down these human habits requires transition time. This time will feel like we are living in a paradox, yet onward we go. I have practiced this thru out my adult life.

I found an ancient Sufi expression that I felt expressed this perfectly as it fit me quite well, many many years ago when I was in greater daily torment and suffering. The saying goes like this: While the heart is weeping for what it has lost, the soul is smiling for what it has found. This Islam Sufi saying has been a grounding one for me for many years and I know it is a true one.

Learning to access joy thru our decision making process is an amazing feed back experience in that testing this does bring results that confound the thinking mind. In fact may go completely opposite what the mental thoughts may be saying. However the access points in joy reward the human with simple pleasure and contentment and wisdom thru all circumstances. There is nothing a human being can face that joy will not lift one out of until one accesses this they do not understand its potency.

As a human being learns to let go of ego based negative thinking, believing, and acting, the balance inside self adjusts and the interior self feels better. As the balance of positive and negative are equalized this joy replaces the old ways. As this balance increases I have learned that it overflows into life. This overflow will reconnect a person with nature, or music, or some other activity that is especially good for each person. Connecting joy with outer activities increases the experience even more and the actual life style undergoes a transformation, not unlike a caterpillar to a butterfly. This is regardless of circumstance. I have experienced this with individuals in my work with whom had catastrophic life experiences and this was still true. Getting shot and paralyzed, losing body parts, severe death of family and friends, rape, and financial demise to name a few. In each of these individuals I witnessed tremendous joy after the fact as they allowed themselves to come undone and to be transformed by life thru forgiveness, or letting go, or simply by healing from the trauma it self.

The redirected self

The redirection of the self undergoes many a new transformation. This is in thoughts, feelings, physical health, mental health, and outlook. These new ideas begin to take root and eventually come to sustain a person as they tackle greater and greater issues until the self ultimately achieves a whole new equilibrium. This is happening within our humanity everywhere to millions of people as this new level of higher vibration begins its way into our world community. Perhaps the single largest component of this great transformation into joy will be with the forgiveness we bring to ourselves and to each other as we awaken and realize what we have been doing to ourselves and to our planet. Yet still the power of love is within joy and can increase evermore as we are all tested day to day in our personal lives. These tests are not from some master somewhere, they are our own tests from our own higher vibrational selves that are loving us thru existence. Much like angels.

Joy may also connect us to living angels, pure alive beings who know only the most sincere forms of love of source. Joy may connect us with entirely new people. Places, and circumstances of which we never could conceive in our lower vibratory life patterns. Joy naturally connects with pets, animals, plants and life forms all around us providing heightened interactions with these life forms that are mutually pleasurable and full of harmony. I have watched the natural state of joy in my pets, and the pets of friends grow substantially whenever we share joy. This is a tremendous feeling. Leading to nature herself.

Joy naturally connects us with nature in ways that are awe inspiring, uplifting, and catapults a human in a nano second into a higher state or frequency of living. A plant, a sunset, a garden, a field of grass can ignite the heart and uplift in amazing new ways. These joyful interactions with nature increase and as they do our interconnectedness grows. As we come to recognize our interconnectedness we are much less inclined to violate nature. This walking with beauty, or walking in joy wherever we go adds a marvelous feeling to the most simple of walks. Nature is truly alive with astounding energy and to feel that one is also a part of this is a most fantastic and liberating experience. This can lead to much more in depth healing to humans, animals and our magnificent planet.

When we allow joy to live within our hearts while in nature there is a quantum lift in our vibrational self that heals. This healing takes place on many levels as we heal our minds of our negative thoughts, as we heal our pains and emotional wounding, as we heal our bodies of years of negativity and fatigue. There is an automatic reciprocal exchange of life force that attends to joy and this exchange brings possibility of healing to each of us the more we allow ourselves to spend time with nature and to relax into these new higher vibratory fields.

Our human species is undergoing a joyful transformation right now, as I have learned I am not the only one on this planet having these experiences. This joyful transformation has been written about, prophesied, and hoped for by many generations. And it is happening now.

Restoring joy is going to catch on pretty quickly as more and more individuals awaken and let go of old ways. Many more transformations will occur of which I have not spoken, as we learn to liberate the human self and find our way. Joy is a clear indicator of this direction, and lack of it may also be a clear indicator. Lack of joy may be showing one how far off the mark they actually are in their thinking and how they live. The immediate contraction and discomfort of joyless decisions is becoming more common, the immediate lack of joy is a painful experience. We can also learn to navigate better once we realize we are withholding ourselves from joy by making choices which hold joy outside of our lives and all our relationships. Joyful relationships will be a topic I will write in a future essay.

I allow joy to direct my life and I willingly give myself to the discovery of what this means to me each day by living more, and more openly to the wisdom that joy provides me.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I find this absolutely amazing!

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

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

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

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

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

This is an actual substance and does not require belief.

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

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

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

This is truly amazing! Truly!

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

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

This is life transforming!

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

choose to love what is………..

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

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

My core of spirituality speaks within me now.

Shared with aloha…

The Act of Will……………… core spirituality for your discernment

The Act of Will……………… core spirituality for your discernment

There is a great will , there is a little will. There is the “will of the people” and there is “thy will be done”.

When looking into the act of will we make choices that develop experiences that become the design of our lives.

That we give ourselves over to the idea of our will has significant purpose meaning and consequence.

The awareness of our will is effected by many external factors some directed at our greater good some directed towards someone else s idea of good.

The effects of exercising our will can be felt directly in the corporeal reality of our body. There is a feedback inside each of us.

The decisions that arise out of our truest will lead us to our most significant learning, our most outrageous discoveries and our greatest leaps of personal development and unfoldment.

I often reflect on the idea of the will. It is a daily on going process for me. I make reality selections based on my sense of my most truthful will. Weighing the options inside my awareness as I choose the responses to life, to unfolding directions, towards all my relations.

The act of will has become for me, a kind of co creative directive. A directive that has arisen from the years of learning how the action of pursuing a will of truth-fullness feels. I still ask, I still question, I still weigh things. It has become a major aspect of my day to day existence that has grown over time to have a deep and meaningful place in every moment. I still find myself going unconcious at times with regard to my will, slipping in and out of staying connected to the truth-fullness of my core self. It is such a commitment to pay attention to the will. And not to go off, not to stray from my deepest core of will.

In the act of being a spiritual being having a human experience the act of will is one of the most powerful day to day experiences one can have. Form the smallest seeming decisions to the biggest. It is a constant directive for me. And provides meaning to the seemingly insignificant occurrences of our daily lives. This provides a rich experience to daily living I find very enjoyable.

Upon dismantling the artificial authorities in life, the false religious teachings, the false voices of those who seek power around us thru their religious views, the artificial authorities of  social norms, the academic world, and all the falsehoods of this reality….. we are left raw with nothing but our own internal process and inner sense of things.

Contained in this place, inside us is our own real genuine greater will. I love this place. I seek this place inside me, thru quietness, introversion, thru learning to be gentle and patient. I like the pauses in life….. I find this place over and over in ways that surprise me. As core within me informs my mind in ways that reveal such credible improvements, inclusive living. I find this inner resource astounding.

I love this place inside us very much.

This is the place where there is a vastness of cohesion in chaos, much understanding where there is none, where there is truth surrounded by human falsehoods …the way is opened up.

The possible resides within the external world of the impossible.

There is such tremendous personal freedom inside us when we learn to discern our most intrinsic inner will.

With this personal freedom there is a source of energy that transcends external circumstances  in a way that provides flow to life and connectedness to the mundane reality of the ALL THAT IS.

The work of clearing our shadow selves, the work of learning to disengage in the unhealthy dialogues and behaviors of this world around us connects us to our purest sense of inner will.

The development of awareness of our emotions opens our capacity to filter life, thru our body we can feel the most pure emanations of our true will within. Healing the wounded psyche we inherit thru our families we can return ourselves to our greatest good. The act of healing shifts from the absolute necessary work of our survival into sanity out of the insanity of this world. The act of healing these hurts then transforms into a gift that lives in us that only wants to serve. Healing all our hurts thru choosing the will of our deepest soulful self becomes the healing of everyone and everything around us as all the hurts arise to be loved and nurtured.

I often find myself simply loving someone, and not providing answers. The silent act of loving opens the possibility of their finding those answers for themselves.

The act of will takes the most unholy of human reality and makes it holy…. makes it whole! I find this amazing. I am humbled by how my heart beats more simply from writing this sentence.

Often in my life the act of will becomes something greater than my own sense of self, it is bigger than me as it flows thru me and I realize many things. The act of will, the pure will, the greater will of life actually “lives us”, as us , thru us. To me it is miraculous.

Within the act of will, of the greater will, is the most fierce, the most mercy full expression of what is possible in any moment. To allow self to be shaped by this greater will is an experience that will shift and redirect at any moment anything, any possibility that arises. It is constant…it is ceaseless… it is totally resource-full when there appears to be no resources. I find this amazing.

To engage in life fully requires learning about our greater will. Investing our energies where they are best suited and provide experiences that draw to us perfection and beauty.

Once upon healing a tremendous pain, a hurt so deep that my body was aching for years I released a horrible fierce cry. A cry that rippled into sobs and opened my heart so completely that I fell upon the floor and drained out years of pain. Which then turned into generations of hurt leaving my body. Releasing out of me so deeply I felt the letting go lift out of my very bones, my skeleton. Emptied out and drained I lay still in the emptiness. There I was lifted out of myself. I found myself flying in space thru the cosmos past whole galaxies, past vastness that is impossible to describe. I was delivered to a magnificent light. A light so great and far reaching and so encompassing I immediately felt the words… I am home. This light emanated the most unceasing greatest most profound feeling of love that I can even give words. I floated in this light as I received tremendous downloads of information of Source. I knew I was at the center of creation and that I also had a spark of this light in me as me. There was no longer any question. In this experience I felt the loving will of source. I learned that the greater will is one of goodness. I realized the work of being human and the value of honoring our humanity, our darkest selves, and our innermost pure will. And my life has never been the same. As I returned I brought with me the awareness of this light. I have felt and seen it now for years. It is within this creation, behind the creations of humanity, it is the source for the true life of humanity. And ever since I have learned to weed out the false creations, the falsehoods of those who would have us believe we are anything less than truly divine beings having a human experience.

“The act of will is at the root of your human experience. Every difficulty has the capacity to bring you into the awareness of your greater will. To connect that life is about living fully. Stay close to your greater will to learn what is next….”

core of spirit within me whispers..

shared with aloha

The Great Paradigm Shift of Our Time

“You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.” -The Group

How would you like this story to end?

Waking Up! Oil based economics? Geo enginering? Now is the time to awaken!.

The Silent Ecocide

Photo-Boy holding a pilot whale featus from the Faroe islands killings that took place over the last few days…

The year is 2015, there is a divided race of bipedal apes that walk the Earth that call themselves ”civilized”, they think they have earned the right to plunder the Earth and kill other creatures or make them suffer, this is what some of them teach their children to do, others are teaching their children to care and love the Earth and her creatures, there are not enough of the empathic kind however, the caring human is in danger of extinction, as those that dominate are those that are the most destructive and biophobic. They are destroying the Earth and her creatures because they cannot see that they are her and she is them, therefore they are destroying themselves and the rest of us will either vanquish with them or find a…

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Intentions, Bringing Clarity to What is

Intentions, Bringing Clarity to What is
Really Happening Around Us… core spirituality, my personal journey

Questions About Intention

Intention… how well do we understand our intentions?

Do we recognize the values inherent in the intentions we place into this world?

How do our intentions create the outcomes we see all around us?

What are the hidden intentions really communicating to us?

How do we see the intentions of those around us?

Do hidden intentions have hidden outcomes?

How well do we understand the intentions of our political representatives,

our military leaders,

our television producers and news producers,

the media moguls, television in general,

the gazillion ads and all the commercials that flood the American culture,

religious people, religious leaders and teachers,

scientists and the sciences they teach to us,

banking corporations ( I call them cartels),

the medical doctors and the political lobbyists that drive the medical industry in this country.

How well do we as a people, collectively truly understand and recognize the intentions which drive the many forces of our world?

Do we take enough time to look into what is really going on around us and do we even care?

Does Intention Really Matter?

The intentions of each person on this planet combined with every other person create and develop the many outcomes we live within and thus the idea of being clear about intent is a valuable awareness arising from core spirituality. We are creating by virtue of living!

Our intentions when magnified on a collective level have a deep and meaningful outcome with regard to all aspects of living and to remain unconscious, or stay IGNORANT, or to ignore this has had dire consequences and will continue to have dire consequences into our future.

How we intend our day may support any number of situations positively or negatively in the larger world around us. Even when we ignore this fact, or deny that one little person doesn’t make that much of a difference, the unspoken intent of our lives is creating the scenarios we find ourselves.

Negatively Held Intentions

In a negative sense we may find ourselves supporting a slave mentality by submitting our own actions via a lifestyle as a slave in our jobs, perpetrating slave masters on the job because we participate in that activity on a regular basis. We “think” ourselves into the notion that we have to submit ourselves to less than we are creatively capable for the security of the paycheck, or the medical insurance or both. I see this often. Yet this behavior actually magnifies these intentions and creates avenues for more of the same. Thus replicating the effects of the negative intentions. Perpetrating a cycle of master/slave in the workplace.

Yet on second thought was that the intention?

Clarity is Important When It Comes to Intentions

Without the clarity necessary to observe our own intentions we are left to the effects of those intentions. Could there really be an unconscious intention underneath this scenario which is saying “I can’t do something so I will just do the best I can with this”, is there minimizing going on in the unexpressed intentions? I have to wonder about that. The message that one is powerless is a dominant theme in our humanity, especially on a feeling level. Powerless to create what brings me joy and purpose. When we hold these feelings and allow the intention of them to overtake our lives we are subject to our creation without realizing that it is our own intent, though unconscious that is creating the underlying circumstances. This could be a big wake up call once we understand the true nature of our own intentions and begin to drive forward what it is we truly want and decide to activate our truer intentions.

I frequently observe military actions as reported around the world, and beyond the surface reports of what I am told in the medias I look for intentions. What are the real intentions in all this militarization in our government, or around the world? Do these intentions align with what is actually being reported? I find myself learning more and more how the hidden intentions of people actually drive the surface activities of these military efforts. Not all is what it is reported to be on the surface. The negative effects of these actions hurt, destroy, maim, and displace all manner of healthy life, including our planetary ecology… is that really a good intention? I ask myself… do they really intend to protect, and value the sanctity of life for humans as well as the planet as they report? I know they have completely overridden the waters here in Hawaii with the testing of sonar, even when there are hundreds of whales in our waters and our nature specialists have reported the damaging effects this places on these amazing beings. This is only one tiny example of many many ones.

The Energetic View of Negative Intent

The vested amount of emotional, monetary, mental, social, technological energy that is negatively based yet reported on the surface as good….. is literally staggering. As a person who sees energies… I see the amount of negative, dark, muddy, gross vibratory energy surrounding objects, buildings, and people in this way and it is horrific. Were more people able to actually see the aura’s of these things I am certain many situations would begin to change.

There is an actual energetic component outside the ordinary awareness of people in the physical world. This exists in the finer spectrum’s of light which are expressed as intention, this energetic component fills our skies, moves thru our streets, surrounds our buildings, and permeates the human beings everywhere.

It is a dark greyish brownish greenish sludge of negative energy that is lacking in light and full of darkness of all kinds. It is very unnerving to see and feel on this level and it exists in our physical world. Just because one cannot see it does not mean it does not exist. If we didn’t have microscopes would we still believe in germs? Learning to see the vibrational aspect of our intentions is possible. This is very common in my healing practice where I see the exact same sludge like clouds of energy inside and around the physical body. This exists also in our environment almost everywhere. While living in Hawaii I am surrounded primarily with nature, and that energetic picture looks totally different. It is full of light and design of all kinds. The contrast is gob smacking.

As individuals, as a human family we are on the verge of a massive clean up of our intentions and the darker components of this have not even fully been revealed or realized. As each individual takes into account their own intentions and clarifies where needed the collective clean up will become much easier to withstand. As dark intentions are continuing to be revealed our intention to hold a positive intention is needed. We need to find and ground our own sense of positive intention every day in every way and cultivate this in our own circles. As we do this we bring greater space to experience real joy, and we clear away the hubris of past negative intent in our environments. We can take a loving approach to intention that has a transformable result and this brings to us harmony even as disharmony may go on around us. For me I have a garden, and in this little place I experience all the magic, harmony, growth, and wonder this world has to offer, just as my neighbor next door, who I think is a drug addict is screaming in agony and fighting all the time.

Testing Out Positive Intent

Testing out a new positive intent is a grand experience as each day unfolds and we can learn about how our own intentions do actually create the world we each live and the one we all live within. We need to learn to open to more and more positive intentions in our daily lives by clearing away our old ideas, and notions and learning to “plant” new intentions and stick to them. By practicing this regularly we encourage ourselves towards more and we replicate and make stronger and grow our positive intentions just as we do our bank accounts. I find that whenever I do have to face a negative situation, or feeling, even if I can hold a positive intention around it I make it better for myself. The overall effects of learning to live with positive intentions is unlimited, valuable, and truly contributes to our species and our living planet. How nature responds to this intent in a human being is most enjoyable and we can see this in a plant, or a pet, or any animal we encounter when we act intentionally positive towards it.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

KNOW YOUR INTENTIONS, KNOW YOURSELF

 

Translating Into Soul Essence, Redefining What It Means to Be Human….core spirituality, my personal journey

Translating Into Soul Essence, Redefining What It Means to Be Human….core spirituality, my personal journey

Life is about experiences and the expressions of this are unlimited as is the source of all of us, our creative impulses, and the cosmic mind from which we spring forth.

Soul expression is indeed unlimited and the journey that each individual takes in translating these aspects are varied and may be found thru any religious path, mind path, or no path.

Soul itself is far beyond our very limited human ideas. The universal background that supports the soul incarnating here is known as hermetic law, or universal laws, or natural law. Regardless of the name we call it, the structures of human lives do exist and they do not depend on our belief, or knowledge of them to be active.

These life structures include but are not limited to : vibration, resonance, reflection, action and reaction, polarity, rhythm, and gender.

Life without awareness.

Living an entire lifetime without the consideration of these basic laws which are the constructs of life leaves a human being open to many forces that may deceive, distract, oppress, violate, withhold, detain, misinform, misdirect, confuse and cause all manner of suffering to the life form. Many forces dominant of this planet have known this and used this knowledge to suppress, and control the human potential for generation. How and what we believe shapes what we see and learn and discover about our true nature and life herself. Conscious awareness is valuable for this reason.

The Stabilizing Forces Within Nature

When we begin to translate our soul into ourselves these laws of life act as a ground of strength from which we can depend. The human being goes thru many phases of translating self into soul essence as the awakening process is usually a long one that may be initiated in a flash of an instant. How quickly that instant may be it is the beginning of many such AHAA’S and other mystical, universal, heart opening experiences that are the harbingers of the soul’s translation into the human self. And the many changes to come.

For many these initiations are often painful ones, perhaps thru loss, tragedy, or painful realizations of which we are feeling less than our best. These signals lead the human into the realms of the soul where the parameters of life have far wider borders with amazing interconnectedness. Meaning takes on significant new dimension as compared to what once held a significance… no longer or just the opposite.

Redefining what is meaningful is a very profound exercise as the human comes to grip with new awareness. We are designed to learn, to grow, to evolve. The deepest most meaningful experiences can arise from the tremendous depth of our own personal growth. Growth in infinite ways.

Personal Growth Holds Many Keys to Life

These periods of growth may be very uncomfortable or may be ecstatic, either way they do signal something of tremendous meaning that is understood universally to all human beings regardless of origin of birth, religious training, belief or thought.

Growth is the entire reason we exist and this growth produces many outcomes. We learn to make better balance and to correct imbalance. That we learn something brings meaning to the most horrible of experiences. I have heard this expressed many times from people who have made it thru their difficulties, their struggles. The more we grow and evolve our awareness about the nature of life, beyond merely intellectual growth the more we encounter the finer components of the soul. Usually this will be the result of our heart, for the mind alone is simply incapable of holding the vastness of what we truly are as soul beings.

The heart of each of us is always promoting love in its infinite expressions so as to bring the human condition into alignment with the larger life presence of something beyond mere human intellect. We can see how this is true because the urge to love and be loved is behind every hurt, every pain, and each disharmonious memory. As a therapist I have witnessed the layers of painful memories inside people fall away and always love is waiting there. Always it is the final stage of healing and it is the beginning of life from within the soul essence.

When We Learn to Pay Attention to the Heart Mind

When we realize how the heart messages are differentiated from intellectual messages a significant new level of growth occurs and we develop heart intel…. or heart intelligence.

Our Heart Intelligence

As the capacity of our heart mind sees farther, reaches deeper, and urges further than the intellect alone. With this messaging we are redirected in a kind of guidance that has a consideration that is inclusive and may also hold many factors left out of any intellectually conceived problem solving. Our hearts have amazing capcities to reach out past our intellects, to guide us with protection, and open us when we need our shells cracked shattered.

The heart mind feels, and with this we may be guided by a sense, intuition, or feeling that is not yet identifiable in words to the thinking mind. By placing attention in this way we start to map out pathways in our own neurological systems that create new synapse possibilities for engaging information left outside the intellect.

The more we use this ability the more we are able to come to new awareness about any subject.

Translating the Soul Into Human Form

In this way we use both hemispheres of our brains and teach our biology ( our human body) how to integrate knowledge that is of different designs.

Our conscious thinking mind has the job of recognizing the new information ( paying attention) so that we are able to take action based on it. Plus we integrate the life knowledge from our hearts that is seeking to get into the game of our lives. Thru integrating and being familiar with our heart level of existence, I mean beyond the mere notion of romantic love, we are able to suspend our attention long enough to glimpse the actual presence of the soul. The soul being the very creative essence in ourselves, in each other, in animals and plants, and the cosmos.

This soul presence has always existed to us, however because of our limiting beliefs and intellectual development thru the last 100 years it has not appeared to even exist…. yet it does and always has.This is the translation of the soul into the human form.

This translation of soul into ourselves brings to every thing in our lives a new perspective from which to draw from and to create choices. Choices that are coming from our soul essence have very different outcomes as compared to the intellectually based choices we are all raised to have learned. We continuously stretch, we open further, we expand and we redefine whenever we are making soul choices. Our individual souls move us to be challenged so we may unlock our own conundrums, oppressions, pain and suffering, and discover what joy lies dormant within each person.

The Source of Soul

Beyond the soul expression within us is the authentic core source, the original impulse of life, and in this place we can experience even more of what the soul is all about as we intake the qualities of pure source in its original pure state. This kind of experience far surpasses the human one as the source just simply IS, and this state of presence and all that it contains reaches further that anything my human mind has ever conceived.

The SOURCE self is the life seed of the soul and it too has tremendous regenerative and transforming nature. The source seed of the soul is eternally connected, and is available to discover whenever we make ourselves ready to move beyond the limitations of our intellectual mind and into the vast interior of our soul. The pure vibrant presence of the original consciousness that is us is what truly gives life in any form whatsoever and exists in every dimension of being. This contains the soul history with every single detail of experience ever produced within that soul expression. the soul has its original identity as this expression of what could be called Prime Creator, it is simply the purest expression of originality from the start to the present moment. The absolute nature of this source self in universally recognized, understood without any processing, recalled as familiar, and is loving beyond any human words. Whenever we encounter this within ourselves these are a few of the qualities that i have seen that are universally expressed in a human being upon contact. These components of our souls become everyday experiences that translate the human experience in knowledgeable, clear, and illuminating ways.

The Direction the Soul Reveals

The soul qualities provide understanding where there was none. Purpose when we absolutely thought there was not purpose, Organization where chaos appeared to be the mode. Direction when we least see ahead of ourselves, it goes on and on and on. The creative capacity of the soul self in human form is simply unending.

Many of the beliefs we have been trained do not apply to the soul, nor do they feel as good as the soul places. Often as a result of a soul opening experience human beings drop man made beliefs and trade them in for much more inclusive, and expanded ones.

Life as a human soul expression takes on a completely trans-formative quality as the many thoughts and ideas of the human begin to drop away and are replaced.

Ego Deflation

This can feel awful to the ego based identity within us and at first is very disconcerting, however this is only to the ego centered self. The smaller self. In time this self learns that it is not truly endangered and realizes the larger picture of what is translating into life for the human being. AS we pull away our emotional investments into our ego based identifications compassion arises to love the self. This self compassion develops as a seed inside the heart to heal the hurt and pain of separation within the human being from the spiritual reality that is actually the ground of being for every human.  Very significant in the entire process is COMPASSION.

Compassion grows to gargantuan levels and pervades every decision and direction with self and whenever that direction includes another person, or group.

These new levels of compassion hold the little self, the ego based identity in check and acts as a form of protection.

Protection for self, protection for others.

As compassion develops and translates more and more its intentions are understood and better able to be acted upon by the little human being. As we see the tremendous benefits that compassion brings to every situation our hearts grow even more and the cycles of our experience take on even greater depth and meaning. I have noticed how quiet this process may be in my life and I have learned it does not have to showy, or loud or even acknowledged by others. Compassion is enough on its own… generating new fertile ground for human beings to resolve painful issues and to heal.

Translating the soul into everyday life is “behind the curtain” of what ever we are seeing going on in our human species right now. As forces of darkness collide with light in our humanity the translation of our soul essence is stepped up and we are learning how this feels, and what this truly means.

When we choose to reexamine our lives from soul perspectives we shift the human equation out of the very limiting states of over demanding, over developed, over controlling intellectual bias and patterns are shattered. As darkness and light play out we can actually step thru and live in soulful ways because many of the conditions of these dark and light forces are still stuck inside polarities and are subject to limitations that the awakened soul has learned to walk away, to bypass for a more evolved and loving state of living conditions. Simultaneously as these forces play out all around us. We do have choices here, and one of those choices is to translate our soul self into human form. And this is what core spirituality is all about, a spiritual being having a human experience, and not the other way around, a human being having a spiritual experience. The entire paradigm is flipped.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

Every Experience Counts… core spirituality, my personal journey

Every Experience Counts… core spirituality, my personal journey

A follow up to the slave mentality and entrapment issue I have previously written.

Soul…. the spiritual source for each incarnation, every embodiment, and all experiences I have ever had as a spiritual being having this human experience exists in the eternal now / moment of creation and may have a different perspective from that of myself as a human being.

This occurs as my own personality, my human self grows thru each lifetime gathering the experiences that add to itself. Each embodiment has its own specific areas of personal development, natural growth and direction. This may include experiences of the mind, the body physical, the emotions, feelings and the spiritual aspects of the self. Along the way new and different life scenarios arise as opportunities to evolve.

From the perspective of my soul ALL EXPERIENCE COUNTS.

There is no one aspect greater than another as every experience add to the whole of the soul’s journey thru physicality. The possibilities from the creative perspective always exist and serve the soul in some kind of way. Thus whether it is a negative or a positive, a wise or an unwise, a logical or an illogical, a happy or a sad, an intelligent or an unintelligent experience, to my soul…. every experience counts.

I feel a sense of unconditional love inside the soul of myself as I navigate the journey in a physical body. I regularly have a soft kind of intuition where I receive the murmurs of my soul guiding me in a very purposeful way that feels completely loving.

The agenda is completely different inside the soul self as there is the total connection to the purity of source and the infinite mind of that source.

The judgmental thoughts we generate here in life actualize out of a higher dimension of self that is simply a form of discernment. They are a step down from the purer version.

We are able to elevate this (judgmental thoughts) within ourselves as we make choices in our discernment towards judgments we may experience within ourselves, and one another.

We are all able to choose to elevate our awareness out of the labeling, the hurtful, the limited ideas of judgmental thinking when we strive towards discernment and leave out the hurtful judging practice so prevalent in the human species.

Striving towards leaving this aside we free all our senses and abilities and move into creative versions of every kind of experience. The soul is most natural in this place as creativity is at the core of what creation, creator really is. The words are all formed from the same basic word.

The root word for create is CREA which comes from the Latin CRARE which means to CREATE.

Create : bring into existence; produce; as, create a song

Creation : the act of creating

Creative: Having the power to produce as , creative ability

Creator : One who creates: maker

Creature : Anything created; a creation

Re-create : Bring to existence again : refresh, revive

Recreational : Having the nature of refreshing

Procreate : To beget offspring: to generate

When we have experiences we are actually having the experiences of creation, our creativity, our creations, our recreations, our procreation in life. This is about the creative impulse within ourselves as we experience the creator, and our own creative impulses. We can create a very negative situation, or the opposite. However it is, this is the soul inside me showing me that these situations are ones for which I am learning and evolving the creator inside me and this adds to all the creations, and little creators everywhere all leading back to source creator.

When I am able to apply this awareness to my human life I elevate whatever experience I am having and this brings a natural component of personal freedom. It does not necessarily change the circumstances, however it does shift how those circumstances are framed. I can hold a situation from the perspective of that of a limited intellectually based linear logical human being with feelings of hurtful judgments or I can hold a perspective of the soul and bring a loving, accepting, and open minded feeling and the outcome will be according to how and what I choose at that moment. This is up to me in any situation.

When I do encounter old programs, old patterns, old beliefs, old judgments within my self and my day to day experience I stop and consider how it is I may elevate these previously made decisions and I strive to release, let go, and elevate how it is I am now holding onto these things. It is now a kind of game that I am used to as I realize the power of , the creative impulse of the soul in choosing to elevate any thought, idea, belief, or previous experience I have had and bring into my life the shift from that of the limited human being to that of the soul. The soul or spirit having the human experience. Thus identity continues to evolve and my self script constantly changes.

For example this is particularly applicable with regard to the human experience of slave mentality, as I wrote about in my last 2 essays. Once I learned to discover slavery in modern day terms and how I have engaged myself, once I began to describe all the ways I have found myself in these slave scenarios I began to realize how it is I had created myself into them without even realizing I was doing this to myself. I had not fully understood my own sadist behavior towards myself. The hurts I was experiencing were, at the roots, of my own accord. I was unconsciously in agreement, and participating in hurting myself regularly. I am still working on this today. I am working on this by elevating my awareness out of judgmental styles of thinking and acting and learning to convert into purer forms of simple discernment.

As discernment has grown larger and larger into my life I have replaced the judgmental thoughts I have found myself in and I then have the broader life experiences of personal freedom. This is no accident! This is the natural outcome of living out something and learning to bring it into a purer state.

Freedom is the natural state of the soul as there are no slave masters or slaves in the pure states of soul consciousness, these are the outcomes of a lower vibratory nature and closely related to the 3^rd and 4^th dimensions of life here on planet earth. Where we still have limitations based on and arising thru the choices we make inside the physicality of our lives. We are all making choices and learning how our choices shape the earthly reality for each of us. Awakening to this is monumental, practicing this is life changing, leaving the old ways is freedom.

So for these reasons I am shown how every experience counts as ultimately, even when it has been lifetime after lifetime, I have been learning all about this. I have been learning how to go down into physicality and live a human life and learn to go thru all the stages of that, including returning my awareness to the pure state of the soul.

As I have been shown, this is the natural direction of any soul that has felt entrapped in the earth by circumstances. And there are many here on this planet doing this same work right now… freeing themselves from the tyrannical circumstances and slave mentalities of history.

Simultaneously there are other souls here in the physical form less constrained by karma, and the long history of this planet in the oppressive states, these souls show us how we can live thru their example. We are able to tap into that creative urge that is the longstanding earmark of the soul expressing itself. This is inspirational to our humanity. We become uplifted by the remarkable talent and creativity of these souls who gift us with their talented expressions.

Whenever I have returned back into my soul state, having left the physical body and lifetime I recall that we have a marvelous time looking at all the experiences of being human and the choices I made and how this created the outcomes.

In each instance in between lifetimes I have had this experience and I can honestly report that it is true, every experience does count.

And we do not have to judge ourselves so harshly, we do not have to hurt ourselves in the process of living, and we do not have to hurt one another.

All of that is a choice we make. We forget, we remember, we reawaken and we learn.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

Slave Mentality and Secondary Gain… core spirituality, my personal journey PART 2

Slave Mentality and Secondary Gain… core spirituality, my personal journey PART 2

In Slave Mentality (PART 1) I briefly went over what the slave mentality looks like and how it is prevalent all thru the world in the human species. Describing something is a way to deepen and learn about any subject and because I happen to have discovered within myself these traits and I know individuals who are caught up in this I have looked at it to see how I may better understand how anyone could spend an entire adult life stuck in this mode of living.

Why slave mentality persists in spite of everything to the contrary is largely due to many different factors, one of which is secondary gain.

What is secondary gain?

Secondary gain is a term that originates from the work of Freud, when he was wanting to label a form of attitudinal behavior from a psychological understanding. The concept of this is a compliment to primary gain. These concepts have grown in meaning outside the field of psychoanalysis so it is valuable to be very clear here. Freud was interested in learning about resistance to getting better, the malingering aspects of illness and how to treat this condition. Within this context he was viewing both the conscious and the unconscious mind and how they influence the person seeking to heal.

Secondary gain is the benefit one receives thru suffering.

For example if I am sick I do not always have to go to work. I can take a day off. The sickness provides the avenue for time away from the job of the slave. This attitude may be both a conscious and unconscious one where the person operates willingly yet still does not fully comprehend the nature of what they are doing. Secondary gain provides many avenues for receiving all kinds of benefits. Here are some that come to mind.

Time off from work, when this is a pattern and goes on for years.

Avoid responsibilities. You don’t have to make decisions or think for yourself, the slave master ( boss, company, government etc.) does it for you. Bypassing risk, or mistakes, or having to resolve for self, the slave hires someone else to do all these decisions for them.  The benefit is that someone else can do all this for them. The slave does what the slave masters tells them without having to think thru any of the details of their day. Someone else provides the structure and framework for daily life.

Sympathy is something that an individual derives from others that do not have an understanding of the longstanding pattern of secondary gain, and usually do not recognize the negative reasons for the benefits are actually self generated, and repeated as a life style pattern.

Gifts are something that a sick person, or a defeated person may receive as those around them attempt to give them a feeling of upliftment from their struggle and suffering.

Psychological justification and mutual agreement are also sought from secondary pain when the person feels the effects of the toxic situation, reaching to others they may gain a psychological crutch of support for their behavior and the suffering they perceive is the result of circumstances outside them. This deepens the pattern of malingering as the benefit of the negative camaraderie replaces and the unhealthy feelings from the situation replace truly healthy ones. The cycle is repeated. The pay off arrives again.

Emotional patterns of negativity are secured as the victim states, and are strengthened and justified and deepened. It is always the situation, another person, the timing, and endless other reasons /excuses for the emotional condition the person is experiencing. The securing of these negative emotional states lead to more benefits as the individual finds new people with whom to share their difficulties. The victimization allows the person to restrain themselves from ultimately coming to grips with the actual source of the situations and allows them to remain in a somewhat stifled sense of personal responsibility. All the while claiming to be responsible while not actually, as the victim recreates situations over and over without ever any real break thru. Frequently this person is encouraged by this behavior and repeats it. They may receive more “caring” as a result, however it is all negatively based and created.

Slaves do not have to process fear and look so deeply into it that they become completely accountable. ( bypassing genuine accountability for self )

Fear is kept at a distance thru secondary gain as the individual no longer has to succeed.

When truly they are afraid of success as well as failure.

By never pushing past the internalized fears the return of anxiety builds again, and the entire cycle repeats itself.

Not having to succeed in a genuinely authentic way by taking the actions within self that resolve them are avoided so as to artificially generate short ended periods of security. (bypassing true self accountability)

True inner security never arrives because the actual issues are not processed and lived out, rather the benefits of the secondary gain overtake the situations by providing the basis for life experience.

Fear is simply one of the most insidious, debilitating causes underlying the person who has succumbed to the slave mentality.

This results is the agreements they make with other individuals on both a conscious and unconscious levels to act as their slave masters.

Slave masters are disguised as the boss, the company, the government, etc. as that list is endless.

On the outside of the individual is a constant cycle that repeats a layer or impression of anxiety, while more truthfully inside them is their fear, for which they have not pushed all the way through.

While these are not all the scenarios that arise out of secondary gain, they are a few to illustrate how we as human beings will often invest ourselves emotionally and in our attitudes in various degrees of slave mentalities.

In my practice of massage therapy I have encountered this with clients numerous times thru out my career as people simply did not get better even though the prescribed kinds of treatments were given. Decades ago I learned about my own unconscious issues tied into various forms of secondary gain, and as I started to clear them out. I became aware of this with clients.

For example a common situation is one where a person has an injury and is seeking relief. Not until I learned that there was a pending court case where sums of money were anticipated to be received did I realize how prevalent this can be. This has happened many times and I have watched how no progress or healing occurs until the case is resolved and suddenly they get better. Amazing.

We humans derive all kinds of benefits thru our suffering where our own toxic behaviors are deeply embedded inside ourselves without clear observation by ourselves. I find this to be a common pattern.

It is differentiated by the fact that some people do take extended long periods of time to get better, yet they do so from their own efforts and the stages of personal growth that accompany their physical symptoms. This is a natural process of evolving and feels quite different from the feelings of malingering pain from secondary gains.

I often reflect on the state of our congress and the endless litanies of reports about negatively described issues in the government. The surface reports look one way, under the surface are the other factors where there are built in numerous benefits of secondary gain. For example financial interests, political influence and power. These are not reported on yet are existing just below the surface of the behaviors of our representatives and are the driving forces we see on the surface.

Secondary gain is so common that we deceive ourselves for years.

I know there is a problem with this when my situation does not change.

I know I must look deeper at my own motivations, my own feelings, and my own repetitive patterns. It is easy to unlock this toxic stuff in our lives when we choose to be truthful and take time to be reflective with ourselves. Too much busy – ness, repeated periods of fatigue, the continuous use of substances that depress, numb, and distance us from ourselves thru the repeated use of alcohol, prescription drugs, food, obsessive behaviors, all are good signalers that we are hiding from our own feelings, hiding from ourselves.

I feel like secondary gain is such an insidious behavior in humanity that it is easy to engage into it because we are in a silent agreement and hardly discuss our issues from this standpoint. Our silent agreement to go along with each other, and the society itself shows me how we become so invested in this that we perpetrate it amongst ourselves. We do this. We do this to self. We do this to one another.

There is a feeling of self sadism in it all. The feeling of self hurt, the injury to the body, the mind, the feeling nature and all that is intrinsically good inside us. Just the one fact of the use of prescription drugs and the use of alcohol alone in the world is so staggering and to me it all looks like self sadism. We hurt ourselves over and over.

When we have the courage to take a look at this by examining our patterns and life experiences we can stop the growth of this toxic behavior. When we have the courage to admit our own secondary gains we begin the development of new solutions that are actually healthy.

We can stop the cycles of secondary gain by becoming vigilant to our own self sadistic patterns.

Truthfulness, honesty, authenticity, and genuine self expression become the real tools of our lives and create real solutions that are long lasting, and provide a deep inner sense of personal fulfillment that replace all the benefits of the secondary gain.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

Modern Day Slave Mentalities….. Is this a Form of Entrapment?… core spirituality, my personal journey

Modern Day Slave Mentalities….. Is this a Form of Entrapment?… core spirituality, my personal journey

Yes, it is especially when I do not recognize what a slave mentality really is.

Earlier today I was having a conversation with a  loved one near and dear to my heart. The conversation abruptly clicked off without warning, as if the connection was lost. This has happened with this person before. At first I did believe it was a lost connection, it has occurred enough times now, that if it is, well it always occurs at the moment of overload in our conversation.  There was no follow up call from this person, as is the usual case when there really is a lost connection. I decided to look at this more completely and see what I could learn. The mention of slave mentality seemed to be upsetting. I sat down to write what I have learned about slave mentality and the story of this person who was so upset and lamenting to me.

The beginning of the slave mentality story line.

It arises out of perception, is a mental state within a person and not only the scenario being described.

This person was sharing with me an episode of several days of headaches and expressing the conditions at her job along with the overloaded workload. The discomfort of the job situation was so severe that not only were there the headaches, she had to take a day off and call in sick. If that was not enough she also expressed that the situation was so overwhelming, with so much work being piled onto her day after day, that she was beginning to make mistakes in her job. Even talking about this was disconcerting and she had already had more than a day away. I observed how deeply this was effecting her sense of well being, completely causing a miserable situation with no obvious solution being addressed from her superiors. And the scenario was infiltrating her state of mind well away from the job and she was emotionally still upset about it all. I thought this was a terrible situation and felt awful for her.

However, this is not the first time I have heard this theme from this person, other positions with other jobs also have had a similar pattern. Overloads of work assignments, with less than the number of people to adequately and successfully achieve work goals. Long hours, painful body symptoms like the headaches, stomach aches, and excessive fatigue combined with a tarnished sense of joy and happiness. The part of my personality that is the therapist / healer immediately is alerted and comes forth within me as I listen to the repetition of the pattern, details of the situation.

As I observe it, this is a common situation that happens to lots of people. I thought I would put my thoughts in writing to gain an overview of how it is I see this situation and why it is I originally brought it up. For I did not intend any form of offense, I feel certain the person I was speaking with took this in a hurtful way. I immediately text-ed a message back with apologies with no response returned to me. This happens all the time in human relationships, and even more the reason to take it apart to learn what I can learn.

As a licensed massage therapist ( now in active practice in my 38^th year) who sees people on a daily basis primarily to address the negative effects of stress, whether it be mental, emotional, physical as in athletics I am very finely tuned to paying attention to negative body symptoms and asking myself what do they truly mean, and what can I do? I am very sensitized to how the body is truthful and does not usually lie and that the signals of pain always have a significant message to the person inside it. However frequently that person is clueless and mostly wants quick relief. I also have education and certifications in other fields that address thoughts, feelings, and emotions, I have even more capacity to listen.

I have learned that when people subscribe to the slave mentality of work, and are unconscious about it it is very common to suffer.

How slaves suffer.

Headaches, stomach aches and viruses, fatigue on a gargantuan level, are repeating patterns. Leading to a loss of joy, and deflated enthusiasm that must always be rebuilt by the next possible good thing to happen. There is the lack of longstanding genuine harmony and joy that is the earmark of the soul here expressing itself with purposeful attention to the true gifts of the individual. Often there is work time away that is missed because of these patterns, and for many people the jobs last until the next one, they always think will be better comes along. It is a common pattern, it is a cycle, and it is repetitive.

When I reflect on how many people in this world live like this and subscribe to the thought that “i have to do this to pay the bills” and they do it for a lifetime, I am very disheartened. To me it is a difficult and sad story to invest into and yet so many do. I find it astounding. And I understand, however I do not always agree this is actually the truth of our lives. Far from it.

How does being a slave look?

The slave mentality is a form of thinking that engages the life force of human beings in ways that cause them to subvert their natural gifts and talents for the sake of their sense of a false sense of security.

The slave mentality redirects the spirit of a person away from their natural desires to fulfill another person’s or company desires.

The slave mentality causes a person to forget their own innate needs for fulfillment in exchange for that of the company, the job, the paycheck, the security.

The slave mentality sees only the short view of life, the paycheck, the job security, and not the long picture of life where one develops talents and skills that provide a life long sense of authentic inner joy, personal growth, and abundance extending into old age.

The slave mentality uses up most of the time of a person so that they must work long hours, and usually for much less pay than they feel they are truly worth.

The slave mentality limits not only a person’s sense of free individual time to live, but also lessens the quality of that time by virtue of the suffering that causes the sicknesses, illnesses, and other unfavorable conditions in a person’s life.

The slave mentality lacks a certain spontaneous growth and excitement in daily life by focusing on the same or similar tasks over and over and over again. Spontaneous discovery and true deep personal growth is diminished.

The slave mentality sees everything and everyone as separate pieces of life and minimally discovers the larger context of how everything is actually connected. Lots of compartmentalization resists how the fundamental life force is connecting via action and reaction, vibration, reflection, and purposefulness.

The slave mentality believes what they believe and will justify it all by their circumstances of lack, and insecurity. This arises from the mental state they apply themselves day after day, deepening the justifications and outcomes. Usually they are very “right” as to their defenses about their repetitive story. The thinking is closed and not open minded unless it is more of the same slave story line only dressed differently. There is a larger feeling and experience of victim hood and perpetration of victim scenarios towards people. This mentality engenders fear based decisions and leads to a lack of control. Slaves are easily controlled into thinking and thus have less personal freedom, more fear, and a much harder time with their sense of personal power and freedom. The control factors they suffer under always generate the frustrations of powerlessness, and lead to the fact it is always another person who is responsible for how they feel. It is victim consciousness supreme. Rarely do slaves see themselves as able to take hold of these situations and so the cycle is repeated with new people, circumstances over and over again.

This is the common state I call OPPRESSION.

Oppression is easily defined as prolonged cruel or unjust treatment, or control. It is also defined as the state of being subject to that unjust treatment and or control, thru some outward form of authority or power in burdensome manners, and it is also defined as mental pressure or distress.

Distress seems to be a reoccurring pattern with the slave mentality and underlies the majority people who hold a genuine lack of happiness in the slave environments.

The condition of slavery across the entire world.

Slave mentality runs all through the current world society on every level.

From the fast food workers to the CEO’s of multinational corporations, from politicians to religious leaders, from military officers to banking officials.

People in governments impose slave mentality with adherence to many laws, and social themes, police-ing, loyalties and programs.

People in Banking institutions impose slave mentality on finances thru profit driven prices that fill the pockets of only a few and take from the vast majority their hard earned incomes.

People in Religions impose belief systems that oppress and impose beliefs that are completely man made and have the effect of controlling outcomes they prefer.

Certainly People in military installations globally impose slave mentality as soon as they strip the individual of all their individuality and impose their commands and loyalties even to the degree of justified murder.

People in Advertising imposes ideals that are exclusive, hard to achieve, and perpetrates a slave mentality of social adherence and acceptance of what is normal.

People in the medical community in America imposes a slave mentality thru ridiculous profit margins that charge exorbitant fees without regard to genuine circumstances and perpetrate the knowledge of pharmaceuticals as the only solution to medical issues, along with claiming to be the supreme authority on dis-ease!

When I consider how many people invest themselves into these slave based institutions, I feel like we need to wake up to the truthfulness of what is really happening to us as a species.

Is this a trap?

I say yes it is because once inside the insidious thinking it is very hard to get out, to see beyond the reality of the slave world and the gargantuan degree of oppression that is all around us that is considered to be normal.

Yes, considered to be normal.

So many do not experience the genuine freedom of spirit, the abundance of creativity, the unending solutions to problems, and the greater harmony that life herself really has to offer.

Oppression as normality! No wonder we need so many drugs, no wonder pharmaceutical medicine is the largest supplier of drugs on the planet. No wonder there is a drug war. No wonder people want to scream, fight, lash out, hurt one another, are sick and tired all the time. No wonder there is constantly war ongoing here on earth, no wonder people cant see solutions to their problems. No wonder people are so unhappy, no wonder there is no much suicide, whether it is instant or a long slow death from a life of less then, a life of unhappiness leading to some kind of disease at the end and then dieing. No wonder! When oppression is viewed as normal then I call this the slave mentality.

The slave mentality is a mental way of viewing ourselves and each other that is inherently full of oppression and is the underbelly of much of the unsolved problems within our species. It has been running rampant for many generations and is deep inside the psyche of millions of individuals, families and institutions.

When does slavery stop?

It stops when we decide not to buy into and invest ourselves into all this craziness and to find our own way responsibly toward authentic self honesty.

It stops when we make choices that are intrinsic to our free nature as spiritual beings having a human experience. Freedoms are a clear signal that we are dropping our slave mentalities.

When we risk security from outside ourselves and invest inwardly we ignite the inner powers we need to grow ourselves into open ended free and joyous life choices that generate positive outcomes not only for ourselves but for each other.

I have always had a lean towards personal freedom thus I have spent my entire life walking away from, running away from, thinking about how, and then finding ways to get away from people and circumstances that would entrap me and cause me to be some one’s slave. I do not like it, it does not feel right to me and my body always tells me when it is time to stop, get out, or leave a person or situation and I do that.

I go for my dreams, inspirations, personal joy, and I have successfully lived out many many dreams. I have a lifetime of dreams coming true.

I have worked as hard as a slave if not harder yet I am fueled by my own passions, my own desires, my own personal sense of direction and my own interpretations of reality, not another person’s.

I know what it is like to walk away alone, to have to find my way, to dig deeper inside myself for my own solutions. Many instances of this I have been thru and found myself arriving into new circumstances, people and opportunities which better match me own need for self reliance and independence. I have been surprised my whole life how this happens as I have gone out on a limb, walked the lonely mile, and resolved myself to stay in my integrity regardless of how any one likes it, or approves, or leaves me. I valued my own integrity more. This has led me to the deeper self where I have learned how I am a spiritual being having a human experience and not just a human having a spiritual one. This has shown me how there is truly a way when I see none, a purpose when I did not recognize one yet, and a resolve I had not understood yet. Life, to me is wise if only we dare to live it.

Living life by going out on a limb has opened my capacity to perceive, to understand, and I utilize this in my relationships. I find tremendous empathy in others trials and tribulations, I know all about it.

Core spirituality is the continuous discovery of life thru direct experiences that evolve and grow a person .

And this generates a presence in life that is fully supportive, even as it appears to be the opposite. I know to endure, sustain, and make peace with whatever arises.

This is the opposite of slaves who are always in states of reaction. Always reacting to what other are doing. These reactions are endless and useless until the seed of oppression is awakened.

For the value of experiencing oppression I have found is ; HOW NOT TO OPPRESS…. HOW NOT TO OPPRESS SELF , HOW NOT TO OPPRESS OTHERS!

I have found no other value in that experience yet that alone is enough. As we break our bonds of oppression we free what awaits inside us, our potentials, and as we do this we also support the same in all others.

This is the nature of the wake up call to oppression as it is a vile experience to the pure spiritual being that is who we truly are. This is how the human experience has been encoded, repeated, and disliked by souls because of the lack of spiritual based self expression that is free, talented, long lasting, and full of many many other qualities.

Slave mentality… is this one of your own forms of entrapment ? You decide!

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

The Collective Impulse for Self Acceptance… core spirituality, my personal journey

The Collective Impulse for Self Acceptance… core spirituality, my personal journey

The immediate and massive messages of self acceptance in our humanity at this time have far reaching consequences for everyone now… and in the future.

The “inside places” of the human being require acceptance as we learn and evolve our consciousness as a species.

As our consciousness evolves so too do our social behaviors transform.

As our social behaviors transform our world society generates and creates environments that become capable of providing all of life with a safer, better interconnected life experience.

When individuals let go of phobic, fear based beliefs and stop acting on those beliefs, harmonies of all kinds are generated for this world.

There is a monumental shift occurring here and one by one individuals are awakening out of the deep slumber of ignorance and suffering.

Authenticity and truthful dialogues, conversations… arise that spark new possibility.

The advent of the spiritual nature of the human condition is steadily pressing forward thru us all.

And it is surprising.

Nothing is more surprising than people of the transgender tribe of our humanity (to the largest group of the heterosexual identified ) and yet these individuals provide us with many fantastic avenues of new awareness about ourselves… all of us.

I ask myself… “how much do we truly understand and embrace gender as people of the world, I mean really, do we understand it all ?” “ How do we actually understand gender in nature?”

Gender is just one of the primary laws of the cosmos and like it or not, accept it or not, believe it or not gender is in everything. Gender is a natural occurrence in every aspect of life with it’s full spectrum of diversity and expression. The polarity of existence is within all of creation as male and female. Gender is expressed in us, in animals, in plants, in architecture, in engineering principles, in science observations and so on.

That a single life form has a polarity of gender specific identity and expression is a very natural aspect of life.

However far to either side of that polarity it still exists as a primary component of life. We are learning about this now. Gender may be specific to one side of the polarity exclusively for some life forms, yet for others it may not, and still in others it may be a balance of both male and female. This is thru out all of the natural world, and as we are learning in the human being as well.

Self acceptance increases our capacity to learn more about our basic nature and how we are more capable of thinking and acting in ways that are aligned in the most basic of spiritual laws. As we deepen beyond partial understanding, limited and misunderstood notions about reality we create more possibility of all kinds.

Self acceptance leads each one of us to a fundamental spiritual place that encourages each individual to actualize themselves.

When the fundamental power of self acceptance is denied ,ignored, oppressed in any individual…. just about any kind of external force has greater CONTROL over that person.

(read that last sentence again )

That kind of control inhibits the natural evolution of consciousness and as such delays the greater life of choices and co creation that are innately possible always awaiting activation. That kind of control fosters confusion, disharmony, disconnection, leaving open ended systems,and people in myriads of conundrums. These incomplete states of awareness are what have been used to generate fear and control all over this planet for many many generations and it appears it is about to stop. We are on the path of a giant learning curve. This is not just about one individual, or a few, it is about us all. (as is referenced in the video posted here)

Evolution / growth is also a fundamental law of the cosmos and when we align with this force we bring to our lives discovery and creativity beyond anything in the present moment. For example we learn how we as spiritual beings having this human experience have a broader capacity within ourselves to love all of life, with all of life’s differences ! And we recognize with much greater awareness the universal nature of which we are all a part of!

The expansion of the human condition thru self acceptance and the possibility of a better life for more individuals of all kinds is the natural outcome of this. Our struggle to understand and accept differences is only part of that whole story line. We each have far to go in this awareness. The fear mongering, the phobic attacks, the hate filled discourses are but a very small sideline ( though for some a matter of life and death… as in murder!) a sideline to the larger unfolding taking place in our species.

I decided to post this speech today as a grand example for anyone who has not listened and watched it. That a super human man with a lifetime of honorable courageous and world record breaking athletic achievements also can transform himself into another more authentic expression of self in this manner and speak publicly with such genuine soulful eyes and gracefulness is worth a few minutes of pondering.

Core spirituality is ignited whenever we are confronted with genuine self expression, truthfulness, honest, bravery, and loving regard for one another. Core spirituality is the ongoing discovery that I am not a human being having a human experience… I am a spiritual being having my human experience! Self acceptance is how it all goes down!

Core spirituality… my personal journey of self investigation and discovery

Adapting… withholding communications as a testing of adapting…

Adapting… withholding communications as a testing of adapting…

core spirituality, my personal journey

One of the simplest of outcomes from adapting in life is that it shows me how NOT to run away!

Adapting is the ability to change to suit different conditions.

To adapt is a simple response to complexity. To adapt is to stay present with what is showing up in my life.

To adapt is to learn to cultivate openness in the face of closedness.

To adapt shows me ways to accept without having to shut down.

To adapt maintains fluidity in situations where there may be an influx of new information, disorganized information, unacceptable information.

To adapt maintains my capacity to overcome and transcend circumstances that, to me, are difficult, or challenging.

To adapt is to replace rigidity with softness so that possibilities may arise.

To adapt opens up life to show me new and different outcomes, outcomes for which I have had no conscious idea exist at the moment.

To adapt shows me how to suspend denial, and the tendency to ignore any subject, person, circumstance that at that moment seems unacceptable or impossible.

The capacity to resolve conundrums increases with my willingness to adapt in some way. Often it is not until I have adapted some component of my point of view, my belief, my own personal history that I find new solutions which are better suited to my own deeper heart space at that moment.

Adapting myself rather than the circumstances that I do not enjoy, like, or prefer has shown me how much more fluid and capable my own nature really is. And flexibility with regard to circumstances that I find myself confronting, and are not my particular preference at that moment has shown me how there is WISDOM, in learning how to maintain an adapting outlook in my personal life.

Shifting the hardship of difficult scenarios off of individuals around me struggling with negative situations to myself where I truly have the capacity to turn something around.

Even if it is only in my own actions, I have learned I feel better and new possibilities always show up. There is a congruent aspect to the natural laws of life where one thing leads to another. To adapt to something when it is right to do so leads to very different outcomes. (whether other people choose not to!)

There are infinite ways in which any one person can adapt to any situation. INFINITE!

A RECENT MASSAGE & BODYWORK SESSION

Recently I encountered an individual seeking my attention for massage and bodywork specifically with regard to a painful neck condition that was starting to create awful headaches.

This person shared with me, upon just a few minutes of reflection and questioning, a very difficult situation ( a life and death one) where they could not speak the words that they were feeling because the person to whom they needed to communicate was not open to listening. Gulp! The swallowing of the words, the shutting down of the vocalization of what was so very meaningful to say required a tremendous amount of energy. Sustaining this silence for over 3 weeks had caused this painful neck situation to develop into one where headaches were being activated.

We discussed for a few minutes the different possibilities the client could act upon without having to disregard their own deep need to vocalize the meaningful words still inside them. Exploring various ways to “adapt” to the situation so that the neck would stay open after the treatment of massage therapy.

This included some options the client had not thought of as they were in a shut down mode after realizing the person to whom she needed to speak was not in willingness to listen. For example vocalizing without the person present would open the neck and throat and allow the natural vitality forces of the body to flow.

I presented the idea that this person did not actually have to have the other person present to express what obviously was deep and meaningful to say. I encouraged them to use private time to allow all the words to come out into the world and to release the grip of withholding from the body physical,mental, emotional depth of expression anyway. In this way the adaption would be to allow self to express without the intended person in front of them.

By adapting in this situation we could begin to observe that the issue was shifted away from the “resistant to listen individual” to the actual person who was needing to express and having a painful problem about it. This will lead to further new observational possibilities and later provide new circumstances. For the present time alleviating the grip of self control and negative effects of withholding words and sublimating the action of communications so vitally important to this client.

By adapting in this situation we could see how we do not need others in the way we think we do to give us permission to have our feelings and express them, we need our own self to do this.

Ultimately the outcome may develop exactly as the client originally imagined in the best case scenario, or it may develop totally differently.

The valuable component is the capacity to adapt.

This is what will maintain some kind of fluidity in life experience that will show the client new details, and possible new time lines and directions to go with the words they need to express. This will release the original adaptation to swallow their words, tighten their neck, and then suffer headaches while the situation develops. This immediately began to take effect, as the client shared a bit of what they were feeling. I noticed a shift of expression, an immediate sense of relief that came over the body. Simply by having 15 minutes to share and start to let out what had been withheld. And this was only the start of that process.

When we make the decision to dig our feet into the ground with our ideas, with our opinions, and with our emotional investments without considering ways of adapting we shut down, shut off, and mitigate circumstances in ways that prove our point. Becoming right becomes more important than becoming good. Becoming right overtakes the natural innocence innate in a developing situation. Thwarting all manner of possibility to learn,grow, and transcend difficulty. When we refuse to adapt, the rigidness of our bodies express this in some form of uncomfortable sensations which if led to deepen, undermine the integrity of our natural state of aliveness.

Life is vibrational, reflective, and interconnected at every single quantum second of existence. By nature whatever we do inside ourselves will be vibrated out into the world, reflected in our experiences, and because we are all interconnected with cause an effect relative to our choice.

Adapting engages many levels of natural law within our circumstances and we grow.

Growth is also a natural law of life that exists whether one agrees, believes, or ignores it. Life herself has set up all of circumstances to naturally grow. Growth will be the most likely outcome of learning to adapt. This is so hard wired into existence I have learned to count on it. Adapting may not be what our ego’s always want to do, however we have the choice to allow our egotistical self to run our life, or not to run it. In core spirituality I keep learning about how the endless presence of spirituality is who I really am, and that is what is having the human experience. Adapting is a very natural reflection of the innate presence of spirituality within myself. I have learned to love this aspect of my nature and to respect the needs I have to adapt as the situations arises.

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Thoughts on Healing & The Power of Truthfulness… core spirituality, my personal journey

Thoughts on Healing & The Power of Truthfulness… core spirituality, my personal journey

Truth as a basis to heal our pain ? Is this a joke? A western mind may have difficulty in accepting this idea, however when we open our awareness to this idea it becomes one of the main, if not most central understandings of life everyone eventually discovers.

Truth is by far one of the most powerful natural medicines we can take.

When we take this medicine willingly we engage and deepen the full meaning of what it is like to become completely filled with truthfulness! And this will create an entire spectrum of amazing new life experiences beyond the painfully filled mind of suffering! A suffering person filled with pain has limited perception, limited possibilities, and limited outcomes to those painful scenarios.

I began to realize how truth could heal as a result of tremendous pain and suffering I took on to myself arising from the toxic emotional environment I was born into. Not until I was a teenager did I start to take a deeper look into how on earth I could feel better. I had suffered everyday living in an alcoholic household.

As I began to question everything and everyone around me I soon realized many adults had no idea about this subject. I was living in a life of lost souls who purported to know what truth was but seemed only to point me otherwise. Fortunately I was born with a disposition which leaned heavily towards “truthfulness”. This was an agonizing issue for me as I began to grow up and feel and observe the behavior all around me, including the religious teachings of the grade school I attended. I look back now in reflection and remember many a time when I confronted adults about the truthfulness of something, I was always in a state of disharmony as a result. It took years for me to finally come to terms with truthfulness in an emotional way.

Yet the mental/emotional component of truthfulness is indeed an actual key to healing, and healing the body of many symptoms, and sicknesses I learned.

The humans have much pain and do not understand simple principles about healing that can alleviate this pain and even remove it permanently. The confusion around this one notion is rampant. The messages being perpetrated by media, by television, by medical systems, pharmaceutical companies, all based in capitalist propaganda’s designed to bring profit to share holders… is just one such example of how lost our truthfulness has become. There is no mention about our internal relationship with our bodies and whether we are in genuine congruent truthfulness in the way we live.

To begin with the physical body we are born has certain messages encoded inside it, this is genetic, behavioral, ancestral, and as we develop into our bodies we experience all that this will bring to us. So everyone has a slightly different interior coding inside the body, yet everyone shares the same field of life, or basis for the physical body.

How we live with our circumstances is by far more valuable to realize, even more than the circumstances themselves!

“How” we live generates future cell growth, metabolism, and development. The physical body is also bound by the brain inside it. The brain tells the body what the body will do as it grows and develops.

When we use our brain to repeatedly think about pain, or not to seek beyond our painful situations this message is sent thru out the glandular messages, cell biology, nervous system, the skin and so on. What we refuse to open towards as possible solution assures the fact that our brains never get the messages that could heal.

When we ignore information, we do not see it, thus to us, those possibilities do not exist.

Even though they do!

Ignorance is a word that originates as.. “to ignore”.

The absence of information is as meaningful as the actual info itself. Positive or negative mental thoughts generate to the brain, the brain tells the body.

The physical body is not just a vehicle, or container for our spirit to live within while we live out our embodiments, it is also the expression of that spirit, or that mentality, and ALL feelings of the person inside it. This is how and why pain can be healed by truthfulness with ourselves. We have an innate connection to the state or condition of the life force all around us and inside us.

As physical Human beings!

This connection is deeply effected by the thoughts and feelings of every person living on this planet.

The connection of the mental, emotional aspects of ourselves is also moving thru our body, as every physical form is composed of atoms and subatomic particles that are vibrating with one another.

Thoughts and feelings determine much, not all, but much of the vibrational sensation of our bodies.

When we hold these negative or painful things inside us we vibrate this thru out our physical interiors.

The physical body is subject to what the brain tells it.

This is so both consciously, and unconsciously.

This is real whether one believes it or not, accepts it or not, is open to it or not open to the idea.

We, every single person on this Earth, vibrate what is inside ourselves because this is an inherent component of nature and we are expressions of a natural form that is within a larger field or form called LIFE.

Back to my story about healing pain thru truthfulness. As I grew older and found myself increasingly drawn to knowledge of this sort I began to integrate new ideas and I felt better.

Thru many years of healing the thoughts inside my mind, by unlearning what I learned was supposed the be the Truth, I let go of many notions that were making me ill.

The result was less pain.

Which encouraged me to seek further and deeper. I found myself deeply interested in natural healing and one day I had a dream which showed me to approach the path of MASSAGE THERAPY, I was in my early twenties. Now having been in practice for over 35 years I can share what I have learned.

Having massaged over 100.000 sessions by now I have felt a lot of human emotion, and mental thought in people’s bodies and I know that what our brains tell our bodies is a fact.

When we are suffering our cells definitely feel this and they have to respond.

Our pain is actually a valuable signal about “how” we are currently thinking and feeling.

This is why truthfulness plays such a large part in the healing of the human being.

Pain being a message, is a feedback to the person telling the brain what to think and feel this way. (consciously or unconsciously)

I have experienced the release of worry, anxiety, distressful thinking, emotional duress, fear, and much more in clients and witnessed how the physical body transforms immediately.

Until the client runs the same thoughts and feelings again thru their brain, telling the body and it all returns to the cells. Over time this becomes complex, and deepens, and to my awareness literally cuts off the body from true healing. Amazing.

When we discover the power of truthfulness in ourselves with ourselves the pain actually can increase and become overwhelming and cause a break down. Which to my awareness is in reality, a break thru.

How often after the big fight, the cry, the lament, the release of anger and pain do we actually come to a whole new level of perception that begins a process of new discovery? Truthfulness literally alters life experience especially when we are deeply invested in self-deception, ignorance as a way of life, or numbness as in complacency.

Truthfulness redirects attention.

And changes are imminent, if not already in motion as a result.

The actions I took with regard to truthfulness about how I felt caused me to undo much of what my mind had learned as a result of negative childhood developmental experiences. As I allowed myself to engage my feelings and emotions in a safe and therapeutic setting I began to notice I had much less tension, and more room inside myself. It is hard to describe “more room” inside myself, yet it felt as if there was more space within me, and my physical body started to change. Originally I was diagnosed with allergies of every kind and now those allergies were leaving me. I noticed more and more that I had an acidic nature to my tears, to my stomach, and as I allowed this painful acid body sensation to leave me thru emotional releases my body recapitulated and found whole new levels of stabilization that left me feeling even better and better. I stopped being miserable and began to discover life without depressions, and that weighty feeling of doom and gloom I was so used to living under.

I eventually began an in-depth program of certifications into Alchemical Hypnotherapy. In this process I learned further about the deeper unconsciously held thoughts and feelings and how they were effecting the quality of my life and my clients. Thru hundreds of hours of learning labs in sessions with individuals as well as group therapy sessions I experienced dramatic instant healing in many individuals. The differences were astounding. The effects of these mental and emotional releases I observed continued permanently long after each session. I was required to take notes so I verified this many times, including the remission of many sicknesses, and problems I saw people were suffering.

How our body will adjust to truthfulness is quite remarkable once the brain stops sending messages thru out all the systems inside us. Without the programming of unhappiness, feelings of all kinds that were very negative absent the body restarts itself using the biological programming that is inherently well, and regeneration of all kinds begins. Including the immune system.

As wellness messages flood the physical body instead of sickening messages, the immune system automatically revs up and increases its own capacity to manage other aspects of our equilibrium. Balanced messages of well-being integrate the cells, systems, brain in whole new ways which lead me to seek out new experiences that were befitting my improved state of being. Truthfulness was proving to be an amazing natural elixir that I could manage and develop as a tool for healing for myself, and those around me.

As harmonious brain messages grow, body messages become harmonious and new levels of personal inner stabilization are generated thru all levels of the self. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and so on. I was amazed how people looked so much younger without the damaging effects of the distress of all their negative mental and emotional messages.

For this reason I have learned to address my own interior mental / emotional states whenever I am not feeling physically well. There could be a reason internally why my immunity is responding without as much fortitude, it is always evident that our inner states are reflected in our outer conditions. There is no separation here, to think, or believe this is absolutely a falsehood about how Truth functions in life.

The separation of our mental /emotional conditions and our bodies is purely one of the mind, it is only a thought. It is not valid at all in the reality of the body.

There is not separation between our mental thoughts, emotional feelings and our physical body!

They are innately connected naturally.

The capacity to embrace larger and large elements of personal truthfulness increases in natural stages as we learn and this allows for a tempering of the process. Too much truthfulness at one time for too long can just about kill a person, it is so powerful. Therefore in each person’s path there is a timing to this, and a growing development to live and abide in truthfulness that to my experience is infinite. Each layer of the person that heals leads to another layer for healing. This is why we find ourselves bumping into the uncomfortable truthfulness again and again.

Truthfulness is one of the elixirs of life that naturally heals a person on many levels especially the physical body. It will drive us to make changes in our lifestyle and redirect the momentum of our lives. It will address any and all difficulties that need our attention by rewriting the scripts we life by and developing the relationships that sustain and nurture our wellness.

 

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The Peace full 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 – PEACE -FULL WARRIOR inside my life ?

How do we as men ( and women too) 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 WARRIORS.

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 s me.

Blind men leading more blind men.

Many still carry on this way, many are blinded by the thoughts of their aggression’s.

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.”

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Reality… “Man made” and “Natural” ! (How and Which One Do I Choose?) Core spirituality, my personal journey PART 1

Core spirituality, my personal journey

I want to take apart the two most basic kinds of reality I observe in life by looking at natural reality and man-made reality.

I want to define the differences here so that my left hemisphere brain, the logical, thinking mind can sort out what my creative, right hemisphere brain, the holistic, spatial, intuitive mind gets and can be more readily integrated into my choices. So that I can unlearn what I have learned and have the kinds of life experiences which bring the greatest meaning and satisfaction. I use both sides of my brain to open my perceptions to larger concepts, possibilities and the ultimate reality in nature and the man-made realities.

I do this to bring a sense of grounded being to myself as I witness the ungrounded behavior of humans moving into massive levels of chaos, violence, destruction of one another, pain and suffering, new forms of self-expression and new developments in our perception along with the greater overall changing and shifting of the mass consciousness as it is happening to our species at the moment. I see tremendous polarizing of humanity now as belief and perception shape the differing realities. This difference in the polarity of human experience is subject to our own responses via our life choices and this creates new outcomes. I ask myself , “ Self… how and what do I choose here ? ”

MY OBSERVATIONS OF NATURAL REALITY

Reality based in nature is constant, cannot be changed by a person…is immutable, was here before mankind, IS STILL HERE AFTER WE LEAVE and is interconnected thru out the cosmos with all matter, all living things, and all space, and no-thing. Everywhere, inside, outside, above, below, in front, in back. Natural reality exists…. it is the creative expression of Source that can be observed as a constant so it is verifiable , and is verifiable from all angles of perception.

The Taoist explain it as that which cannot be spoken, or explained.

It is such that it is completely impossible to fully express in words alone, yet can be pointed to thru the word.

It is both definable and indefinable as it is full and empty. Paradox describes the polarity of its actual expression in our world.

The “laws of nature” as we have come to word it are our way of attempting to name and to understand what it is.

Natural reality is functioning regardless of one’s opinions, beliefs, and denials.

Our lives are subject to it and defined by it, whether we embrace it or not. Natural reality exists even to the hidden, unspoken, or denied in all of us 100% of our lives.

Natural reality has cohesiveness as well as randomness as it is here thru the polarity of opposites thus we are able to rely upon the effects of actions based in their causes as well as be surprised and learn thru order that is both constant and random in expression.

Reality based in nature holds the design of life together, while also providing a way to take it apart, this is economical and creates a place for all beings, for all things. While holding the design of life together it also repeats itself in many ways, from the design of a little seashell to a plant out into a cosmos where we observe the very same pattens. We can observe patterns and designs that repeat themselves from the micro to the macro versions of life.

Natural reality has direction which is known and unknown. This direction is knowable when we learn to embrace and accept the order that is inherent. Inherent in natural design, in natural function, in actions which arise out of that which is pure and natural. It is even more unknowable when we ignore, deny, and hide our attention to it.

Natural reality has deep, and infinite rhythm to it. These rhythms are repeated and contain a plan that is for the benefit of life herself as she unfolds into expression.

We can find ourselves in any situation and ask, “ what kind of rhythm do I find myself today, what is the larger rhythm unfolding?” Thus define many characteristics about our reality and learn to make wiser choices. Observing rhythm in nature, by feeling, can connect us to the larger plan currently unfolding thru us, around us.

I have listened to many, many indigenous people in my life who were completely uneducated to man-made forms of reality, yet were brilliantly and deeply insightful about what is going on around them and their place in it.

Natural reality has a gender and so we can learn to awaken to the inherent order that is expressing and learn to blend and harmonize with it.

Gender here as I am referring is not sexuality all by itself, but the energetic signature of expression.

Male and female genders have s broad energetic spectrum of expression thru out all life

Understanding the “Ying / Yang” polarity (as it is named in the Eastern understandings ) brings much wisdom to anyone seeking to embrace life. I have studied, witnessed and felt energy in my healing work my entire career as a massage therapist and there is a definite flow that energy follows based in whether that energy is qualified… as male – Ying, or female _ Yang. I observe the pure nature of male is outgoing, the pure nature of female is in going, for example. When we learn to embrace our human nature as containing both of these qualities much confusion ceases to exist.

A woman may have a balance of more Yang expression, this makes a side of her nature to be inclined to take action, to go for it, to seek outwardly. She may go as far as acting manly, or even masculine. A man may have a balance of more Yin expression, this makes a side of his nature to be inclined to nurture, not to take action but to be soft, to seek inwardly. He may go as far as acting womanly, or even feminine. The spectrum of behavior has many different combinations and I find it has helped me tremendously to observe this not as male female alone but as energetic qualities, inherent in natural reality. Everyone on this planet… everyone is having a creative life experience in their own expression of gender. We as a species do not even fully understand the nature of gender, nor do we embrace it. Evident in the painful expressions of many individuals world-wide who are fighting about this in just about every possible way they can !

In natural reality for every cause there is an effect and I find this very stabilizing to observe. For every effect there was a cause!

When I learn to find out about cause and effect my entire life shifted and still does. I continue to find more and more of my own behaviors resulting and being formed by this one simple aspect of the natural reality. Now I do stop and consider consequences for my actions, my inner thoughts. I also look backwards into my past to learn what caused a current situation I find myself. Cause and effect is so reliable that the entire cosmos is subject to it. Differently thru the dimensions, however my experience is that it is happening everywhere all the time.

Natural reality is composed of a vibrational form, this refers to the awareness that “every-thing” is in a constant state of movement with itself and non space. As a little wee boy child I remember looking down from the side of my bed onto the floor and seeing all these swirling little dots. I did not recognize what they were. Were they ants? I recall leaning way over the edge of my bed, almost catapulting myself down, to look at the carpet. After close inspection I realized they were not ants at all, they looked like protons and neutrons that I had learned about at school, in fact they even had little tails and they were everywhere. Once I saw this it happened again at the beach. I was lying in the hot sun, and opened my eyes to look at the sky and again I saw millions of these swirling dots with tails, I closed my eyes and opened them. They were still there. It is then I realized that I was seeing on an atomic level… perhaps? I learned to squint my eyes anytime under any conditions to see them. To this day I see them and I have pretty much decided they are light photons. However I am still not sure.

This observation opened up my mind to learning how nothing is really as solid as I originally thought, even as a little 9-year-old boy. I began to find that everything contained some kind of movement inside it. Around it. I saw these things my entire childhood and never said a word. Yet now I apply this awareness as I have developed my senses to observe the reality of vibrations. I then progressed to learning how thoughts are things. Indeed I could see them. And they moved, interacted with the thoughts of others. I noticed this in the cafeteria one day. As I was moving thru the line and found myself drooling over a dish of food ahead in the line. Suddenly I saw a shoot of light move down to the dish. I looked up and I could see a person ahead of me who, I discovered, was coveting the dish before I got further along. Amazing. I began to see how thoughts around people would actually swirl, search out, travel and mingle with other people. I watched this riding the train, no one speaking… however the thoughts of the people were intermingling. Very interesting.

When I realized that life is vibrational I determined to be more sensitive and open to what this would show me. And I did not tell anyone. This has been a gigantic life of AHAA’S , as I have seen so much of what most people “think” they are hiding, or are ignoring.

Beyond seeing vibration there is the experience of feeling it. Not seeing anything at all, yet feeling something coming over me, or reaching into me. This has happened millions of times with my children, as I learn to recognize their energetic signatures and their thoughts of me actually reach me, regardless of the distance.

In fact it is the feeling of vibration that I am most sensitive to now, as I find that we live in a water-like field of vibrations that completely engages and interconnects. There is no separation.

Separation is a total and complete false idea of natural reality.

There is an energetic pathway that travels via the vibrational fields, and there are many such fields overlapping depending on the dimension or frequency. When I realized that vibration is actually a structure in life I began to edit, and diminish any forms of deception on my part as I could see how the fact that I “thought” I was hiding a thought really was not true. Only to my thinking mind. I have had many a belly laugh at my own expense as I uncovered my own deceptions to my self.

Vibrational awareness informs all the senses, both the outward ones, and the inner ones with valuable information that serves the possibility for a better life. I realized that I cannot always rely only on my five physical senses to know something. Relying only on the five senses holds many, many back from the greater knowledge available to them and creates tremendous frustration.

The misuse of vibrational awareness in nature is rampant on this planet. I have witnessed that there are those on our planet who use this kind of knowledge in dark ways, to deceive others knowingly, to rob people, to avoid responsibility. The list is endless of how crooks and darkened individuals use this to their advantage to successfully carry out their schemes. They pay attention to the vibrational nature to signal them when to take advantage of others!

I find it comforting in natural law that anything I find in a small way that is real (reality) I can also find reflected, or projected or mirror in a larger way elsewhere in the universe. This has solidified my comprehension and observation many times when my logical thinking mind was unwilling to accept what i was perceiving. To see patterns repeatedly in nature, in math, in so many ways from the microcosm to the macrocosm is very reliable when accessing TRUTH. For it will always correspond in more than one place and repeat over and over again. This is how and why we bump into the same things again. We are discovering how one thing is mirrored in another. This is natural law. That is the bigger picture here.

Next I will address the second part of this essay as man-made reality and then combine them for an overall look.

TO BE CONTINUED

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ALOHA SPIRIT… core spirituality, my personal journey

ALOHA SPIRIT… core spirituality, my personal journey

A first time local client requested a massage for her elderly dad on his birthday and he had suffered with a stroke which left lasting effects on one side of his body. He appeared grateful and enjoyed this gift I was able to deliver on behalf of his loving daughter.

When I left she handed me her payment for the services rendered in an envelope. Once home I opened this envelope and inside she had printed the following page and inside this page was the payment plus gratuity.

Her enduring aloha was evident in the happiness, as she was glowing with joy when I arrived with my table and set up, preparing the background music, and placing the pillows for her dad’s comfort onto the table.

Here is what this message said….

“Aloha Spirit”

“Aloha spirit” is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It brings each person to the self. Each person will think and emote good feelings to others. In the contmplation and presence of the life force, “aloha”, the following unuhi laula loa may be used:

Akahai, meaning kindness to be expressed with tenderness;

Lokahi, meaning unity, to be expressed with harmony;

Oluolu, meaning agreeable, to be expressed with pleasantness;

Haahaa, meaning humility, to be expressed with modesty;

Ahonui, meaning patience, to be expressed with perseverance.

These are traits of character that express the charm, warmth and sincerity of Hawaii’s people. It was the working philosophy of native Hawaiians and was presented as a gift to the people of Hawaii.

Aloha is more that a word of greeting or farewell or salutation. Aloha means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return.

Aloha is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence.

Aloha MEANS TO HEAR WHAT IS NOT SAID, TO SEE WHAT CANNOT BE SEEN AND TO KNOW THE UNKOWABLE.

Chapter 5 – 7, Hawaii Revised Statues

I was stopped right in my tracks as I stood, then sat, and deepened into the message I had received which was far more valuable than the money in the envelope. I reflected on the practice of the discipline of Hula now for 3 years, and the many conversations with my ohana, their words lingering in my heart and mind. I am reminded of this every week in our sometimes grueling dance classes.

However that may be, I feel fortunate to be reminded again and …

and for this I am deeply grateful for this message. I had not ever met this person in my life, and yet she embodied this message to me starting with the very first phone contact.

There are people all over the world who bless us with their presence, their messages, and here in Hawaii, their ALOHA.

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation and discovery.

Shared with aloha

Perception and Reality…core spirituality, my personal journey PART 2

Perception and Reality…core spirituality, my personal journey PART 2

In the previous essay entitled the same as above PART 1, I was sharing about the nature and origin of the word perception and how and what my own understanding of this means and the consequences of this in my life. Perception is only an aspect of life, AND without reality,…. of some kind ….our perception could be subject only to that which exists in the unlimited mind field, or worse… the unending ramblings of the thinking or intellectual mind, or the unbounded space of creative thought alone.

Reality on this planet is a topic of wide discussion today amongst mankind and the subjectivity of this word is debated, fought over, unified, and shared by everyone here with tremendous passion. The endless ideas about what reality is and how we are effected by it is a common discussion and is also the subject of tremendous hidden power for many. The kind of reality we live inside may clash with the reality of another person, and whole nations of people find themselves in group reality clashes with other groups everyday.

Sometimes I have the thought while listening or watching someone that there is very little reality to what they are caught up. Besides their own drama and rambling! ( I am not the only person who has had this thought ! )

The physical reality has many layers to it with tremendous breadth of diversity and subject. I love watching the shows of different species of animals…for example all those penguins who huddle together in the arctic regions to stay alive and propagate their kind while freezing winds swirl about the huddled mass. Or the dry and hot desserts where the small insects bury into the sands and wait for a single drop of morning dew to materialize out of the air onto their tiny little bodies. It is simply magnificent all the different realities of animals, plants and insects.

Scientific, musical, social, economical, work, relationship, political, military, home, medical, spiritual, educational, artistic, mystical, historical, individual and collective realities abound. I am fascinated by them all.

How many of these realities are there actually based in something that is truthful and real?

( is why we have what I call “reality checks” show up and smack us in the face, catch us off guard or suddenly and totally redirect us )

The nature of reality is also another aspect, what is the real nature of reality? Which leads my mind to ask many questions.

How did we get into this reality?

Where does this reality come from?

Can I change my reality?

Is there a unified reality, where there is less conflict and everyone and everything truly exist without so much pain and suffering?

Does reality come to us, or do we go to it? Or is it both?

Can a mass reality actually shift and change?

Is reality broken?

Can I destroy a reality, can we destroy reality?

Oh dear… the questions of a deep thinker can go on and on. And for me they have ever since I was a young boy. I still wonder, and I still find new answers that illuminate my perception.

Yet perception does effect our reality and this is reason I put the two words together into one essay.

They are inextricably linked together as long as there is a consciousness.

Before I go further into these two words together I want to take reality, or the word apart for the benefit of further understanding.

Reality as a noun refers to the world or state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them, “the harsh reality of homelessness” for example.

It can refer to some thing that exists in fact, having previously only existed in the mind, “the free energy technologies may become a reality in the near future”.

Reality also refers to the state of quality of having existence or substance, existence that is absolute and not subject to human decisions. “The reality of being born precedes old age” for example.

An interesting observation is about the etymology, the root of the word is “real” as in “real-ity”.

It’s origins in Latin res, meaning thing, or matter. A reference indicating res may have been derived from the (20^th) Hebrew letter resh. The Hebrew letter resh, was derived from an image of a man’s head. ( does this imply a perception?)

The classic derivation is dated in the 1540s, as the “quality of being real”, form French realite, and directly Medieval Latin realitatem from realitas, and from the Late Latin realis, meaning “real existence, all that is real” from the 1640s.

We have all this and then we have Reality TV, the latest version of reality, yet is that real?

When we speak to one another and say “the reality of the situation is…” for example we are stating an irrefutable fact and we start to align in our perceptions.

One time in my life a doctor said to me, “the fact of the matter is your daughter’s reality is she has a brain tumor.” Indeed my, our reality completely shifted.

Perception does shift how we experience this reality!

Initially there appears to be many realities around us, inside us.

This is only a subjective view… a perception and not actually REALITY, as I have come to find out.

I have learned to recognize that reality is SO BIG, that my little human mind separated it into pieces. Reality is separated into pieces thru my perceptions so that I could observe and learn and be connected to it. Otherwise I would simply explode.

As I learned that it was only in the mind that I had separated reality, I came to view reality as a unified field. As one gigantic, endless, infinite thing. A reality that exists with a structure, a direction, a purpose.

We are all discovering this for ourselves as we “put the pieces together”.

I began to notice how our collective perceptions have shifted from the early 1950s, when I was born and the time of parents, to now. We have been “putting together the pieces” of our reality all along and our perceptions continue to seem to grow. Yet it is only the perception that is growing and that we are discovering, the reality has been here all along. The one reality, which is all things together, simultaneously.

A tremendous awakening in our perceptions is occurring anytime we “put together the pieces” of something and recognize how it is all connected as really something much larger than we had previously seen. This happens all the time to human beings.

This is where the faculty of INTUITON arises and informs me beyond my analytical, thinking, logical mind. It is essential to remember that our brains are actually wired 2 ways. One of which holds the creative, holistic perceptions which often are real and beyond our logical thinking brain.

As I have learned to adapt to using more of my brain, integrating information using my intuitive brain I have learned to stagger my logical deducting thinking long enough to catch those intuitions and add to my discovery of a much, much, larger REALITY.

It is a fact of my own life… I experience on a regular basis, the intuitive nature of my own perceptions from the right brain part of whole brain. I do see auras, I do see non physical beings, I do receive telepathic messages, I do observe the life imagery of the animals as they think in their own ways, I do get informed by my orchid collection and so on. Add to this the continual discovery of an underlying reality of life, one that is behind the “created reality” of human thought. A human intellectually generated reality that in many ways is out of alignment with the larger “natural reality” of the cosmos. There exists a reality that is so astoundingly magnificent, right here, right now based in unalterable natural law. The earth, the stars in their orbits, gravity and light coexisting as a physicality and I a marvelous “symphony of creation”. I perceive the divine order that holds this planet together while we take it all apart. While we learn. While we discover what reality truly is.

I have learned that I can live in this natural reality, or I can choose to deny it, to resist it, and the consequences are always the same. Always! MISERY.

So I come full circle here thru sharing about perceptions and reality, and how I have shifted my consciousness from that of a human being having a spiritual experience to a spiritual being having a human experience and my life has never been the same.

When I allow my perceptional senses to open, when I allow my mind to withhold deduction too early, when I choose to unlearn what I previously held as real I always discover that larger reality.

I have taken into account the framework of how I use perception in my life to see and experience reality. I know now that perception is a key to discovering more and more of what the larger natural reality of life looks like, and it is truly a wonderful thing.

I have accustomed myself to question perception and learn.

I have expanded all of my senses, both physically and inwardly to accommodate a broader perceptual field of observation.

I am learning that how REALITY appears is largely shaped by my own PERCEPTIONS.

This discovery has taken significant importance to me as my life has become enriched, not easier, enriched and filled with more wonder…. continuous states of wonder beyond anything my thinking mind could even muster up.

Truly fantastic!

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

shared with aloha

(photo taken by me from our garden)

 

Perception and Reality… core spirituality, my personal journey PART 1

Perception and Reality… core spirituality, my personal journey PART 1

“How” we perceive “reality” is a significant design element in all the outcomes of our human experience. Because our perceptions will direct our energies (actions and reactions on a variety of different levels inside us) and thus lead into life scenarios based on how we either consciously or unconsciously “choose” to view life and into actions with consequences of all kinds.

In other words what we see arises from our perceptions at any given moment.

Everyone has had the experience of missing something while in plain sight of them, for example bypassing a sign on the highway, or not hearing something that was said to them. Everyone seems to have a bias to their own perceptions, so how do we come to greater harmony with all the different ways to see life?

What occurs between two people can also occur between millions of people, (and does so every day) The purpose of learning to deepen into our perceptions is we are looking into how it is we create… what and where we find ourselves… personally and collectively… as a species.

The nature of PERCEPTION is such that we are free to dismiss, or rearrange, or make up any form of perception about what reality really is at any given moment and / or see exactly what is before us.

What does perception mean?

The word Perception derives from the Latin word percipio. Which means to take COMPLETELY, seize entirely, take possession of, occupy. To take to oneself, assume. To get, contain, obtain. To observe, to feel, to learn, to know, to conceive, comprehend, understand to perceive.

In English it is considered to refer to the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. A way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something… a mental impression.

Synonyms to perception are recognition, awareness, consciousness, realization, understanding, an impression or idea, concept, notion or thought, an estimation.

Note worthy at this point is to embrace that regardless of the reality of something we can see whatever we want to see or we cannot see what we do not want to see.

This is a very essential component of inner work and discernment. Noteworthy because when we do not want to see something, for us it appears not to exist.

Our perceptions are very capable of editing out any information we do not want to see thus we shape our perceptions and “mental impressions” thru our particular perceptions, or biases.

I love the “elephant in the room” expression which points us to this fact, so commonly it has become a part of the English language vernacular and is widely understood and used to describe perception, that does not see what is there.

Then there is the expression “ blind spot” also denoting missing a perception . While we see all the time with our eyes we often speak in the vernacular that we are ‘blind” to seeing even when we are seeing and even when we are looking to see.

So we can see and be blind in our perceptions all at the same time. Interesting to note.

Perception may refer to an object which is physical, yet also to an idea or thought, yet may also be an action. We frequently use our perceptions to validate ourselves, our beliefs. Yet we also only perceive within the limits of our beliefs, or thoughts, as we unconsciously edit out whatever does not fit our view. I find this interesting as I encounter this often in my interactions with people, and within my own self.

We do not see, or perceive, that which lies outside our own conceptions of reality. We are constantly learning more about life as we open up our attention, our acceptance, and our experiences thru perceptions.

There is a story here in the islands about first contact that I have heard many times. It goes that when the first ships arrived here people did not, could not even see them just off shore as they had never seen, nor even conceived the idea of a ship as was approaching shore. I find this story about perception simply fascinating as it illustrates so clearly how we are unconsciously always editing out information all around us, and of course, inside us. Based on our own thoughts, concepts and ideas.

We have also the fact that we have visible and invisible spectrum’s of light, directly in front of our eyes may be something that we literally do not see, until we use a powerful tool such as a magnifying lens, or night vision goggles for example. That we do not see it , “perceive it” does mean it does not exist.

There are the illusions of perception which distort reality and trick us into having a real experience when something is not real at all.

I have had this happen while watching a 3-D movie and I felt my stomach flop as the viewpoint went over the edge of a cliff. Yet there was no cliff actually only the imagery of it and yet my body reacted as if this was a real cliff “i” was going over. Incredible how the senses can inform yet distort, inform yet trick, the self. Do we ever question our senses fully? For example when we watch television and see an acting out of a scene, totally acting, no real, do we ever stop to question how the physical body is feeling / reacting? The feelings we have are real, what we are watching is not.

The same is true for dreaming. Many times in my life I have had a vivid dream of flying, interacting, encountering something scary, or highly emotional. My physical body is sleeping in the bed, while in my dreams I am all over different landscapes, with different people. I have awakened and my physical body is filled with the feelings, both emotional and physical of the dream… like the flying, the running, in other words my heart rate is up, my stomach is upset and yet my body was sleeping the whole time. Does my body actually discern the difference in what is real? Is the dream real, it appears to be so from the way my body feels, yet it is actually sleeping… not running down the hall as in the dream-scape.

Perception arises out of what appears and there are levels and dimensions that are not even physical, and the body resonates, processes, and reacts in a physical way.

How we learn to navigate life using our senses of perception, and how we grow the awareness of how our perceptions develop, and lead us into our experiences is a monumental aspect of physical embodiment.

What we do with these perceptions to harm or not to harm ourselves, each other, life around us, the planet. How we use our perceptions to nurture, cure, assist, and care for ourselves, each other, and life around us. One example of this is murder. How often in listening to the stories of individuals who have murdered others have they been under the influence of their own fear, or drug induced illusion, and their perceptions lead them to act in a harmful way in which afterwords they regret! This is often the outcome of these story lines as I have listened to people tell their stories.

On a larger scale involving millions of people, I question the perception of threat, of the enemy, as it is created by our world military and governments. How frequent has it been in outrageous violent military action that the threat has been created by ourselves to another ( and our planet) and thus justifies the solution of continuous military actions thru destruction and violence? From all sides one to the other repeatedly. I am certain that history will prove how this is an actuality. This all arises from a perception, real or imagined. Everyone is familiar with the recent justification of the threat of WMD’s in this country as perpetrated here.

Perception was used as a basis for action.

The action of perceiving is in its pure form the action of seizing something, we take to ourselves something of life. This is the Latin version of the word perceive. We take on wholly.

In the context of inner work, in the context of conscious awareness, in the context of how we shape our experiences we take on life thru perception and then act. Deepening into the our actions thru retrospect we can always see how we came to our conclusions by re tracking our perceptions. This action of watching and learning to self-aware as well as free to choose is what core spirituality is all about as we navigate the our lives. As spiritual beings having a human experience in a physical reality where every thought, action, has a consequence, is part of some rhythm, is formed in the mental plane of thought, and reflects either a harmonious or disharmonious perception. We can use our life experience to learn and evolve our actions and eliminate our own personal suffering. We humans have this capacity and are each having some kind of life experience in these ways, whether we choose to perceive this or we choose not to perceive this.

TO BE CONTINUED

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My “Inner Work”… Core spirituality, my personal journey

(This photo reminds me…. “as I stand in the darkness all around me I am capable of living in the light that is within me !”)

The significant aspect of cultivating and growing my awareness is my open mindedness along with willingness and commitment on a regular basis to be self aware which has lead me to self responsibility and the many forms of non ordinary states of awareness with which I am informed each day.

The open minded willingness to face both negative and positive interior thoughts, feelings, and intuitions and the work of discernment.

The inner work entails much discernment as I slow down my outer responses originating from pure reaction within me. Now do not get me wrong here, if I am feeling a huge belly laugh coming I let it rip and I do not slow down. However in all other matters otherwise, I find myself hesitating to take action and discerning my true place in relation to my thoughts and feelings and intuitions. I find this cuts down on many regrets, and re-do’s in my life. As in the past I was quick to jump into whatever I was going thru with little notion about consequence.

It is the inner work which truly develops the individual character and life direction. It is the inner work I find many people have yet to deepen or to accept unless pressed thru the pain and agony of suffering. However to willingly choose to do inner work gives me a sense of sovereignty, a feeling of spiritual will about my interior self, my interior world that I like. This leads me to be less victimized, powerless, and completely reactionary in my life style.

The inner work of discernment involves really getting clear, understanding and recognizing the many layers of thinking, feeling and consciousness I have on any one thing. It is a sort of taking apart a puzzle. Only the puzzle is my life and what may be currently engaging my attention. Self honesty is major and this work requires the willingness to be uncomfortable while examining thoughts and feelings.

I find it helps to separate out the fact that I am not my thoughts or feelings!

I am simply having them.

This will assist the ego to allow the flow of uncomfortable perceptions much easier and allow for more credible, objective self reflection.

Objectivity is something I have learned is possible and becomes much easier thru practice. Objectivity with my own self has lent to me the wonderful possibility to experience this much more completely whenever I am listening to another person, a news program, or witnessing something very uncomfortable. If not at first, then afterwords I make it a point to review and make a secondary point of objectivity about the subject matter.

Following the consequence of what I learn to observe is next in discernment as this also allows me to assimilate possibilities and outcomes that I may or may not want or had seen coming. Consequence is a natural law of existence and is always in operation, thus I find that learning about consequence cultivates wisdom.

Re- deciding or making corrections, changing my mind on anything is my personal guideline in my inner work. I know that I may choose and choose again, even differently in the event that I have discovered meaningful new information…insight… or an intuition about something.

I allow myself to change my stand, my mind, and my angle of perception whenever it fits for me to do so.

I do not seek permission from anyone else, any outside authority, religious institution, social network, etc..

This is a very valuable inner work habit to learn to develop. And then when it comes to my relationships I realize it is my self responsibility to explain, or teach others how it is I choose to change myself. Not everyone is on board with this at the same time and it makes life much easier as we cross into relationship with each other.

I have noticed many many times how changing my mind changes how my body feels, and this is wonderful, because I can use my physical body like an antennae to monitor what my choices are doing to me. I have experienced this in both negative and positive ways all my life.

Our physical bodies are intimately communicating with our thoughts and feelings 24/7.

Our cells, and systems immediately respond to whatever it is we are thinking, feeling, or trying not to think or feel. Either way there is a communication about this inside each of our bodies and we can discern our place with truth thru paying attention in this way.

Quiet and stillness are environments that cultivate inner work. Noticing “busy-ness” and over doing, as well as laziness, not doing… or any forms of complacency are vital to inner work.

Over activity, or under activity are each signals that I may be avoiding something I do not want to accept that I am thinking or feeling.

Inner work is ultimately a spiritual journey that widens as we traverse the many people and situations of our lives and is the actual purpose behind all activity here. Physical embodiment is a kind of experiment to the spiritual being that we are as we utilize life experiences to discover our greater knowledge of life. Each physical embodiment has different circumstance connected to it, and thus each person is a little different, yet we share the exact same field, and same natural law as everyone else here. Our inner work has tremendous outcome to how our lives unfold for better or worse. It is wise to always remember that it is not as important what happens to us as is how we choose to view what happens to us, how we choose to respond, and what action we take. This is the vital aspect of the inner work. Which ultimately does lead to inner peace… regardless of circumstance. Which leads to joy… regardless of circumstance. For this reason we can learn to come to the wisdom of life no matter the circumstance we find and this creates the inner life of the spiritual being having a human experience versus the opposite world view, that we are humans having spiritual experiences. I find that any mundane event, thought, or feeling actually becomes a spiritual one as I learn to develop wisdom as a result of inner work. As I have learned that my entire life is a spiritual one, I have learned to take life circumstance with a more objective stride and enjoy myself, no matter how I feel. It is somewhat of a paradox, to feel negative, yet experience somewhere inside me a deep place of joy. This becomes so because I am simultaneously connecting to spirituality as I pass thru human conditions. Spiritual presence is naturally joyful with everything.

I find myself less likely to lose my connection on a feeling level with my joyful spirituality and not as dependent on circumstance to shape how I feel each day.

This is a remarkable outcome of inner work, because it is so difficult, and agonizing, and uncomfortable there is not the dependency on circumstance to feel joy anyway. Life continues as a joyful expression…. sometimes it is more negative, sometimes it is more positive and sometimes it is simply what it is. Ultimately the under current of joy persists no matter what. As I have observed this happening to me I have come to realize how life is generous, and loving regardless of circumstance, and that I do not have to depend on my circumstances to feel real joy. This is my experience of core spirituality… and real living.

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The 7 Natural Laws Governing Existence, core spirituality… my personal journey

The 7 Natural Laws Governing Existence, core spirituality… my personal journey

Here are the names of the 7 laws of existence, they are immutable, everlasting, transcendent, and do not care whether you believe them or not.

They exist like gravity.

They are impersonal and life, for the moment, is subject to them.

I find great solace in the knowledge that there is a natural order to our lives, and this order sustains the billions upon billions of life forms, and all terrains for these life forms in our physical reality.

1. Mental-ism
2. Correspondence
3. Vibration
4. Polarity
5. Rhythm
6. Cause and effect
7. Gender

While these are structures that put order into life, they are certainly not all that exist.

However, that order is innate is valuable to ponder, to learn, to know. Compare these laws to laws that humans make and then believe and then look all around you to see how closely we align or do not align with these laws. We can see quite easily the resulting outcomes all around us.

Mental-ism is All is mind, the universe is mental in its nature.

Correspondence is reflection, as above, so below, microcosm and macrocosm. Everything is a mirror component.

Vibration is that nothing actually rests, everything moves and vibrates.

Polarity is everything is dual, has poles and has its pair of opposites. Like and unlike are the same, opposites are identical in nature – yet different in degree. All paradoxes can be reconciled.

Rhythm is everything flows, out and in. has its tides thru rise and fall, everthing manifiests in the pendulum swing, the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left and rhythm compensates.

Cause and effect is every cause has its effect, every effect has its cause, everything that occurs does so according to this organized law, chance is but a name for a law not recognized, there are many planes of causation, nothing escapes the law of cause and effect.

Gender is everything, as everything has its masculine and feminine principles and manifests on all planes.

Now take every conundrum, every condition, all unanswered questions, look at any patterns and filter them thru the knowledge and awareness of these laws and we can begin to see a grand order thru which our lives are made manifest.

We can learn to see and unravel the origins of behaviors, thoughts and to unravel circumstances of which we still are in misunderstanding.

We can learn to decode ourselves and the conditions of our lives once we apply the awareness of natural law.

We can make choices that align with natural order and thus avoid damaging ourselves, depleting ourselves, hurting others, and increase our true authentic, intrinsic nature and self expression.

To act out of alignment in any single way, thru ignorance ( ignorance meaning in its true form.. to ignore ) with only one of these laws …. say, cause and effect leads to dire circumstances that cause disorder. Cause disorder on every level. Mind, body, emotions, so it only behooves us to actualize,and live with this knowledge of how nature actually manifests thru every condition of life.

When I look around me at the state of the human field of life filled with the billions of people making decisions around me I am impressed with the perception that most of us do not even have an idea of how life truly is structured. We have tremendous ignorance (ignoring) of the laws of life and we”think” we can build happiness in seeing, acting, believing, and creating according to our wants, likes, and desires without any authentic consideration of life itself as it is set up.

Pondering this is fantastic and will shift your entire paradigm for life once you become consciously aware and apply these knowledge’s to your personal behavior, decision making, and way of perceiving life around you.

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Suddenly my heart is beating faster and I am feeling a tremendous love inside me, the deep inner voice of my heart beckons me with the following words…

“Oh human, how you abide in life is simple.

Look at the laws of your world and see what it is you have created for yourself, for each other.

Wake up precious ones and learn to become alive with your deeper spiritual selves.

Anchor your human expressions in knowledge, and understanding and alignment with life herself and then watch how your entire existence will transform and become so much happier, so much better, so much more peaceful.

This is up to each of you.

This is your daily work, behind the goings on of the details of your lives.

For you to wake up and infuse your humanity with the spiritual awareness of the harmonics of living.

This is core spirituality, where we bring the spiritual self, into the humanity of self and blend the two to realize we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are actually spiritual beings having the human one. “

Core spirituality, my personal journey of self investigation

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. “

Lord Byron, in the Bride of Abydos (1814) Cantos 11,St.20

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.