Since the writings have been so abundant since the beginning of the year, I thought it might be interesting to take some time and highlight some of the key quotes that have come through in May and June this year.  ENJOY!
 

This expression has become a staple in my life.  It is how I confront, process, and integrate all that I experience.  Everyday, new connections are made.  Everyday, I become something more than I was the day before.  I am very blessed indeed, and very grateful for all that spirit bestows on me.  No, my life is not the easiest to fathom.  But, it is my life, and I take it for the precious gift that I experience it to be.

I play with discovering the connections between things that have never been connected before as far as I know.  I do it because it is natural for me, and more importantly because I find joy in doing so.

I believe that is the name of a book.  My sense is that this is indeed true.  Abundance enters our lives when we start doing those things that we love on a regular basis.  However, this requires the establishment of new habits, and going beyond the status quo.  In a similar vein, on a church billboard close to my daily residence, the recent message was:

That indeed is a very empower idea.  We must remember to be grateful for all that we experience in our lives.

I take guidance from the universe seriously.  There is some reason that it comes into my life in the manner that it does.  I don't even have to seek it out anymore.  It just seems to flow to me naturally.

At some level, the manifestation that is all life is perfect in each moment, at least, as perfect as it can be in each moment.  That can be a bit difficult to take ... especially given how much suffering exists in the world.  Yet, by its very nature, spirit can express in no other way.

It is our exercise of our freedom that results in much or the lack of wellness or "illness" that we see in the world.  We create it all ... the good as well as the bad, and everything in between.  It is time for us to take responsibility for this and clean up our mess.

Reality creation is a game that we play ... an engaging one, but a game nonetheless.  As such, it should be something that we have fun playing.

Life is a very precious gift that we give to ourselves.  It is for us to make the most of it, not just for ourselves, but in the way that we impact others as well.  We do this by being true to whom that we are ... and by sharing this with others as intimately as we can.  However, to do this, we must feel that we have something worth sharing - or more precisely that we are something worth sharing; for the very thing we seek to share is whom that we are.

We need to be able to go to the inner well to fill the bucket with the water of spirit.  But then we need to allow others to drink of this water by experiencing the works that are done through us as a result.  It all comes down to what works we do.  That is our ultimate contribution to society and to our world.  However, we are more than what we do.  Not only do our works continue to have impact even long after we have departed this plane ... our consciousness itself continues on to other adventures and experiences in other domains.

My belief is that we continue to live lifetime after lifetime until we have learned and experienced everything that we need to ... and even then, the sense is that there is no ending, only another major transformation into something greater and grander than we have experienced before.

There is purpose in every existence.  We learn and experience as individuals, but consciousness is learning and experiencing as the collective as well.  Every event, every action, every thought is known.  Further, it seems consciousness is orchestrating how ideas are communicated across the social fabric so that they can enthuse the appropriate minds to take action to manifest those ideas.  History is not so much about events as it is about the march of ideas and their hold over mankind over the course of time.

Reality creation is about manifesting ideas, about making thoughts real.  The plan of spirit involves the manifestation of ideals over time.  That is, the realization of ideals in physical existence.  The first step in this process is that of the visionaries who paint the pictures of what the world could be ... including how each individual fits within the context of the whole.  My paints just happen to be words.  And my pictures, these very expressions.

That is it, imagination is the key.  We are ever in the process of becoming whatever we can truly imagine ourselves to be.  To imagine is to make an image of.  Indeed, we can be whatever we can imagine ourselves to be.

But, this expression has always been called Beyond Imagination for a reason.  I don't want to limit my expression to what I can imagine.  I know that there is far more to spirit, far more to consciousness than that.

It is not my intent to create anything in accord with any image.  I'm here to facilitate the expression of spirit in flesh in whatever manner that I can by providing those services which I am blessed with the abilities to provide, wherever I see they are needed.

I've known since I was a teen that my children would come from my mind rather than my loins.  I will have no biological progeny.  There has been a sense that I am a visitor to this world.  It is OK to leave my mark in terms of ideas and works, but there is to be no strong attraction to the world or the things of the world.  This is a directive to me, personally.  I don't expect it to apply to others.  I must live my life as I believe ... in the manner that I know to be right for me.   I must march to the beat of my own drummer, perhaps even to no beat at all if consciousness so moves me.

I believe that I am a wayshower ... and that what works for me may indeed work for others.  You may have to adapt the methods a bit to suit you personally, but that is always easier than finding ones way through the unknown.  I am an explorer of consciousness.  The unknown attracts and excites me.  It is where I choose to live, where I choose to apply my skills.  But, I am also moved to come back and share what I have found primarily in the form of written expression.  Actually, this expression is my means of documenting my explorations of consciousness even as I experience them.

Each of us is a unique expression of consciousness.  Each of us is experiencing life in a manner that has never occurred before, nor will ever occur again.  As a result, each of us is special and necessary in our own way.  This has always been true.  Though most have never realized this ... they have never realized just how special they are.

My opinion of myself may be a bit, OK, a lot, higher than it truly deserves to be.  In this area, I have thrown all objectivity to the wind.  At this point it seems that confidence and a hightened sense of self are not only warranted but are necessary.  I could not be whom that I AM, and express in this manner, without this.

It will take a herculean effort to change the world.  But, that, is exactly what I came to do.  And, everything within me tells me that I have exactly what it takes to accomplish what I came to do ... to assist in the birth of a new age, to build the foundations for a new world.

There are other modalities of knowing that operate beyond the realms in which rationality is effective.

In a very real way, this expression helps me to feel whole and complete.  It is my way of encountering and coming to terms with parts of myself of which I am not yet consciously aware ... except in terms of the works they produce in my life.  My hope is that I serve as an example, a shining one, of what spirit can do in flesh.  This is my way of giving of whom that I AM to my society and my world.

Good and evil have no practical place in my world.  The are conflicting forces that manifest in a world of duality.  As such, one can never fully triumph over the other.  Love and fear are similar duals.  What is, is.  Further, it is there by our choices regarding what we desire and expect to experience.  If we want a different experience, we need to make different choices.  This we can do consciously ... but often we allow subconscious beliefs to govern our experience.

It is for us to become Masters, masters of ourselves, and definitely masters of our belief systems.  Beliefs are the playground in which we create the structures that attract and define what we will experience.  As such, they are the most powerful tools that we have in our arsenal for creating the reality that we would prefer.

This is where I directly experience the unknown.  It is where I stand on the edge between the manifest and the unmanifest and allow the creative spark to turn into a blaze.  At times, it is where I stand on the very edge between sanity and madness.  Our poets do this as well.  Though they employ far fewer words in their expressions.

Creative expression is what life is all about.  How we do this will be unique for each of us.  However, we each must find what it takes for us to be all that we can be, in all of our true grandeur ... for indeed we are grand beings by our very nature.

It is also important to live our lives in a manner that makes a difference that extends beyond ourself.  Sometimes it is not enough simply to express.  We must go the next step ... determine the impact of our expression, and then make adjustments to make our expression more effective.  It is this later feedback loop that fosters our spiritual growth and enables us to more fully express, for the very things that lead to more effective expression, permit more expression.

This is the key that creates abundance.  If all of us abide by this, the net result is always a surplus.  This too, we can choose to abide by in our lives at any time.  This is how we create prosperity consciousness.  There is an inner source which knows when we are giving and when we are taking.  It keeps track of and knows the balance or lack thereof at all times.  Operating subconsciously, it attracts into our lives what is needed for us to experience what we believe we are worthy of.  Worthiness is a key issue that we must deal with if we are to ever get our economic system functioning in a manner that creates true abundance for all.  This is true for us as individuals as well as for our collective economy.

We have the ability to produce all the goods and services that we could possibly need.  Note, I didn't say desire ... it is not clear that spiritual economy works off of desires.  However, reality creation does.  It allows us to create anything in our life that we care to experience and consume.  The directive above applies however.  Whatever credit we invoke by taking in advance of giving will have to be repaid ... and with interest.  It definitely pays to give ... of our time ... of our talents ... and especially of ourselves.

There is something wonderful that happens when we allow the unknown to enter and express in our lives.  It is such an easy step to take.  It simply requires a bold initiative and a deep faith in the nature of spirit and how she expresses in our lives.  OK, perhaps it is not so easy ... if it were, many more would be doing it.

The key is to give imagination and intuition a wide berth.  They are crucial elements of our self ... and, in particular, our creative self.  These are the tools through which we know and through which we create our reality.  It helps to become masters at using these tools, for then we can truly make our lives the masterpieces that they should rightly be.  This takes dedication and practice.  It also takes awareness of whom that we are and of what we are here to express in this world.  We each have a mission that we came to perform along with learning and growing to the degree that we can.  Self-knowledge is critical to this.  It is the key that unleashes whom that we are.

I've said before ... who we are counts for a lot, but what we do makes all the difference.  It is in how we use the gifts we are given to do the works of spirit that determines our ultimate value to the world.  It is the works that matter.  Ye shall know them by their works.  In the end, when our physical lives have been extinguished ... it is only in our works and in the memories of others that the impact of our lives continue to exist.

At some point, we realize that there is more to life than this, and more to us than we know ourselves to be.  At that point, the magic appears, and the unseen portions of consciousness get enlisted to assist in a more active manner in our lives.  We become the vessels through which spirit expresses in our world.  We are always this.  However, with awareness, this is stepped up by several levels.

The unseen and the unknown are highly important to me.  It is in this realm where I do my true work.  I am a wayshower.  Part of my job is to make the unseen seen and the unknown known.  This is the work that excites me most.  It is the work that I volunteer to do, freely and wholeheartedly, engaging all that I am in the process.

I know there are other wayshowers.  I've encountered several on the internet ... it is obvious from the very nature of their expressions that they have delved into the depths of the unknown realms of consciousness and have come back to share of what they found to the degree that they could.  Some use poetry or prose, others art or imagery.  Regardless of the medium, the source is obvious ... it is consciousness herself.

Interesting ... inspiration contains the letters of the word spirit, almost in order.  If we double up on the "t", we have spirit nation.

I know my individual nature is a suit of clothes that I wear.  Behind the clothes is the ONE consciousness that animates us all.  This is the source that we tap directly through our intuition.  How do we get beyond individualism.  Hmm ... this comes across as "not divided into dual".  Perhaps this is something that we need to get to rather than beyond.

Independence, dependence, interdependence.  Interesting, if we reverse the order of the first two, each is contained in the next.

Interdependence is a whole other level of operating.  We realize that we are part of one whole, that there is no way to isolate ourselves from this whole, that our lives are connected in many ways to others within the society in which we live, and that because of this, we have an obligation to that society ... a personal obligation to do our part and contribute what we can to the betterment of all.

Whatever we do to others including the animals, we ultimately do to ourselves.  Chief Seattle had a famous speach that spoke of this.

Peace is not "the lack of war" ... it is the opposite of war, and of the mentality that believes that violence is a viable way of addressing grievances or of achieving desires.  Peace exists in a domain in which war simply does not exist.  How do we find that domain, and institute it on Earth?  Yes, that is the trillion plus dollar question.

Spiritual awareness and spiritual awakening are indeed worth everything that we put into them ... everything that it costs to experience them.  What the individual experiences, the whole experiences.  Consciousness learns from each and every experience, each and every breakthrough.  We are all the arms, the fingers, the feet, the brain cells, and the mouth of consciousness.  She experiences and expresses through each and every one of us ... even more if we are consciously aware and choose to be an active participant in the dance of life, in the dance of consciousness through us.

As individuals we are the creator, the created, and the witness to the process.  It is very important that we not forget this.  Many of us are so wrapped up in being the created, the creatures that we are, that we forget that we create it all and that we are the awareness that observes and experiences what everything means.

The value of beliefs is solely determined by their utility.  If we like the reality we experience, then our beliefs are serving us.  If we don't, that is the place to start to make powerful changes.  Our reality conforms with our beliefs, and not just hidden ones ... but conscious ones.  Nothing is hidden unless we allow it to remain so.

We need to be careful.  Beliefs are walls that we create around ourselves.  They filter what we choose to see and experience.  When used properly, they can empower us to do great things, focussing our attention on those things relevent to our mission ... and in the process freeing us to be whom that we can be.  However, they can also limit, enchain, and imprison us if we allow them to.

Yes, as such, beliefs are a two-edged sword.  That makes them an important weapon in the arsenal of the spiritual warrior.  We've said before that belief systems are playgrounds where we learn the art of reality creation.  It is through thought forms that forms are made manifest.  The thought forms always come first.  Beliefs are one type of thought form.

It is helpful to keep a very open belief system ... one that allows for the miraculous, one that facilitates the expression of spirit, one that keeps our potential unlimited.

Remember, all limits are self-imposed.  They are there only so long as we choose to accept them.

Per Seth, all time is simultaneous ... it is all NOW.  It is only our perception of it that is limited, linear, and unidirectional for the most part.  It takes incredible amounts of focus to experience our reality in the way that we do.  This is not the only way to experience.  It just happens to be our way as humans on this planet we call Earth.  Not only do we do this with time ... we do it with space as well, and the frequencies that we experience as physical in the world.  Included in this are the emotional, mental, and spiritual vibrations that we experience.

Everything is vibration.  The reality that we experience is all a matter of how we interpret the meaning of these vibrations.

We are attempting to use the experience of the mind and of the self to explain the nature of the mind and the self.  And, we are not doing it based on examining a representative example of the population ... we are doing it based on the experiences of a single person, namely me.  What makes me think this will be useful?  I simply don't know.  What I do know is that I am moved to do it, and do it in this particular way.

What can we expect to gain through this endeavor of self-analysis?  The answer that comes to mind is the world.  How interesting.

That is how we make the world a better place for everyone, by doing our part, by finding our particular role and doing it to the best of our abilities.  In the end, this is all that we truly control - what we do, and how we do it.  As this happens, we come to know that we are the entity who does the works that we see done through us.  Our awareness is the key that unlocks the door to our cells, freeing us to be all that we can be.

It is obvious that I have a high regard for awareness and self-knowledge.  Neither of these come from books, or from courses.  They are things that we must discover by our own experience ... by applying our selves in the search for our self and for the source within.

Awareness is an inside job.  But, once it is achieved, it colors everything that we do on the outside.  Having awakened, we are never the same as we were before.  We have made a one way jump toward the realization of our spiritual nature.  This is one thing that can never be taken away from us.  Our level of awareness moves with us from existence to existence.  It is our spiritual inheritance.  As with other inheritances, it may take awhile for it to come to us ... but come it will, and with dividends and interest accrued.

Inevitably, we find what we seek ... if we are sincere in our search.  Also, we are given whatever we need to know, when we need to know it.  Similarly, we are given whatever we need.  Spirit ensures that needs are met.  Looking at the world, it is not clear that this is true for everyone.  Hunger, poverty, and suffering exist on scales that are almost beyond imagining ... especially given the prosperity of this country.

We each experience the reality that we deserve, that we draw into our life.  We are the creators of everything that we experience ... everything.  Yes, we are that powerful, whether we realize it or not.  It helps to believe strongly that this is so, and to prove it by acting "as if".  As we do so, we will be surprised by what we draw into our life and how quickly what we desire becomes manifest.

The whole process of life is one of spirit expressing in flesh as fully as she can through us based on our awareness and our capacity to allow the energy of spirit to flow through us into the world.  It is important to remember that it is always spirit that does the work.  Because of this, nothing is too difficult to overcome ... everything that is meant to happen will happen.

Time management has become a critical skill.  Time has become one of the most, if not the most important resources in our lives.  Yet, from a different perspective, we have all the time in the world.  It is simply a matter of making the most of the time that we have.

It is not enough that we apply ourselves and do our work to the best of our abilities.  That is compensated for by the experiences we gain and the salary and benefits that we receive.  The spiritual job is a volunteer one.  Typically, it offers no payment, though it may bring greater abundance into our lives on several levels.

Our belief systems are elaborate constructions of vibrations through which we establish what kinds of things, information, and events we consider meaningful to us and worthy of our time and attention.  In a very real way, all that we are is an elaborate thoughtform existing within a world that is itself a thoughtform that we choose to experience as physical and governed by the physical laws through which nature creatively expresses in the world.

It helps to be passionate about what we believe and about what we choose to do.  Passion is contagious.  The flame that others see burning in us, is often sufficient to ignite or rekindle a flame in them.  This is what being a wayshower is all about ... we demonstrate our truths in the very way we live our lives.  We walk our talk, and talk our walk.  Interesting, it seems the later is exactly what I do here ... talk my walk along the path that consciousness leads me to tread.

Life is meant to be an adventure ... as such, it should encourage us to be all that we can be and to express that as fully as we can.  This requires a high degree of confidence, a deep trust in the very nature of whom that we are.  It requires that we grant ourselves the freedom to be ourselves, that we remove as many of the restrictions as we can.

One question stirs my soul ... why am I here, what is it that I came to do?  Note how this is phrased.  I didn't ask what am I here to learn, or what I am here to experience, or what am I here to realize ... I asked what did I come to do.

Everything that I need to know to do what I need to do is already within me.

Life is to be lived in the here and now.  It should be spontaneous.  That doesn't mean that we should ignore our reasoning abilities.  Rather, they should be integrated ... and developed to the point where they can be applied quickly.  Inside, we know what to do and how best to do it.  It is only out of fear and self-imposed restriction that we prevent ourselves from doing it.

That is the key, being open to new monitions of consciousness, and allowing myself to do what I am moved to do even if it takes me out of my comfort zone.  There is nothing to say that life should be comfortable all the time.  We need challenges to motivate us to ever greater expression of whom that we are.

When we allow spirit to engage in our tasks and do her work through us, it is amazing how much energy and even how much time we seem to have.

There is nothing that can stop an idea whose time has come.  I don't know who said that, but it is a very deep truth.  In the game of reality creation, we are operating in precisely this area, in the area of realizing those ideas whose time has come.  In fact, this is much of what we are here to do ... to manifest those very ideas of this type that resonate with us.  We do this because that is what humans do, we manifest ideas not only individually, but on collective levels as well.

The whole topic of the game of reality creation is indeed an interesting one.  We are active participants in this game whether we know it yet or not.  It is not clear that very many people experience this as the game that it is.  Further, it is not clear that many people have been taught the rules by which the game is played.  This is not something taught by either the traditional educational system or by most religious institutions.  One must go outside of the mainstream channels of information and training to find out about such things as whom that we are, what reality is, and how we create reality through our beliefs and our actions in line with these beliefs.

We are not taught that we choose it all, everything that we experience ... and therefore, that we are responsible for it all.  We are not taught whom that we are, and what abilities we possess.  We are not taught why we are here, for what purpose we have come.  We are not taught what obligations we have to ourselves, our society, our world, and to spirit herself.  Yes, through individual effort, we can find the right materials and right teachers through which to learn all of this.  However, it requires going against convention and finding our own path in the world.

Who we are is not measured by what we have ... it is measured by what we can do.

Ultimately, whom that we are, and when we depart ... whom that we were, is measured by the works that we have left behind, including whatever impacts we have had on others.  Interesting.  This makes the statement ye shall know them by their works all the more important and meaningful.  It is through our works that we impact not only our personal reality but that of the world.

Indeed ... it is my works that distinguish me, and in a very real way define me.  Hmm, that is an interesting way of putting it.  Yet, it is true, we find out whom that we are and what we are capable of by doingand observing what we do.  Both are important.  However, it is the later process of observing that leads to awareness.

While we are focussed on the doing, often our attention is so engaged that we don't take the time to step back as see what is happening.  The observer part of ourself is always there, the silent witness to everything that we do ... and everything that we think ... and everything that we choose not to do.  It also witnesses the degree to which we apply ourselves to what we do.

Since our time is such a critical resource, we must constantly make decisions on where to best apply it for not only our benefit, but for the collective benefit of all those whom our life touches.  Time management is another critical skill that is typically not taught in school ... at least not in any formal schools that I've attended from grade school though graduate school at Stanford.

What is it that brings me back day after day to allow this expression to manifest?  The sheer joy of expressing whom that I AM is the answer that I would give.  Here, my inner self is given a voice in my life.  Here, consciousness is listened to and respected for all the wisdom that she has to offer.

Whenever I start to question whether something is possible ... the means to make it happen seems to arrive as if it were a gift from heaven.  It happens so often that I have come to expect it as the very way that the world works.

While we create our own reality completely ... it seems that there are some things within our control and others that are outside of our control.  Wisdom lies in knowing the difference so that we can focus our forces, energy, and resources on those things that we have the power to impact and change.  Many things simply happen ... some as a result of the collective mind manifesting, others as a result of other than conscious parts of ourselves operating behind the scenes to draw them into our lives.

Our primary conscious control point is our beliefs.  Our reality is created in conformance with our beliefs.  Experience is filtered by beliefs, and often meaning is assigned via beliefs.  It is prudent that we take the time to examine this area of our being and determine what we have growing in the garden of our mind.  My suspicion is that many will find their gardens overrun with weeds ... assuming that they can find their way to the garden at all.  Further, they will find that many of their beliefs lie on shaky ground with the only foundation being that someone in authority said it ... be it a teacher, clergy, parent, or some other figure of authority.  As adults, it is up to us to explore, revalidate, and assess what we believe.  The chief criteria by which beliefs should be judged is utility.  Do the beliefs serve us, and serve the society in which we live.  If so, great.  If not, find others that do provide such service and adopt them.

There is still a sense that my abilities are as they are for a reason.  And, further, abilities are only given where they are needed.  What matters is finding a way to be of service.  What matters is being all that we can be.  We do this by wholeheartedly applying ourselves to everything that we face in life.  Where we can, we remember whom that we are and infuse this into all that we do.  When we do this, life becomes magical ... the very forces of the universe come to do our bidding.

Life is meant to be our greatest masterpiece ... yet few seem to realize they are artists, creating the very reality they experience.  Even fewer do this in a manner that is masterful.  To be a master, we must believe ourselves to be, and then act as if it is so.

We know what we know ... and we know what we do not know.  Hmm, the later expression is interesting.  One interpretation is that at some level we know what we do not know, as if the not knowing is simply an illusion that we are choosing to experience.  The other interpretation is that we have an innate compass that tells us what is known versus what is not known.  However, it seems that this is not wholly true either.  It seems that there is also an unknown unknown of which we know nothing about ... other than that it exists.

Here, on these pages, my consciousness is as an open book, revealing new facets at each turn.  Yes, we are all as precious stones on the inside.  It is up to us to find the stone that we are, clean it, polish it, and even cut it into shape ... and then share the brilliance of our light with the world.

Yes, that is what life is all about.  The ultimate meaning comes from sharing whom that we are ... from giving of whom that we are to the greater whole of which we are part.

As always, the place to start to create any sort of change in one's life is with oneself.  It is in this arena that we have full control.  We can be anything that we choose to be.  Jerod, on the show The Pretender comes to mind.   He literally has the ability to be anything he chooses to be, and changes this completely from one episode to the next.  The show makes you wonder whether their are such pretenders among us and whether their is such a thing as the Centre.  In this case, as in many others, the truth may be far stranger than the fiction portrayed.  We have a lot of money going into black programs.  These are run on a strict need to know basis ... so even the knowledge of their existence and their purpose is highly guarded.  It seems that a free society shouldn't need to expend so many resources on such endeavors. Yet, such seems to be demanded by the nature of the world in which we live.

At some level, we know what is going on ... nothing can be hidden.  On other levels, it is not clear that we even want to know.

Seek and ye shall find comes to mind ... and ask and it shall be answered.  Asking questions is another powerful tool in the spiritual warriors arsenal.  In earlier musings, we spoke of belief management as being another powerful tool.   Though, I'm not sure we called it belief management.  Yet, that indeed is what it is ... providing control over the belief process to ensure that our beliefs serve us and serve others, even our society and the world.

We are creators, responsible for all that we experience ... everything, the good and the bad.  There are no victims except those who choose to be such.  This seems to be harsh to those who are harmed by others.  But everything is spirit ... and spirit is ONE.  So everything experienced is OK somehow and agreed to by the parts involved ... actually, more than agreed to, co-created.

We are spirit living life in the physical form.  When we cease to be this form, we will still be spirit, and we will take on whatever form is appropriate.

There is a basic law of reality creation.  We get what we focus upon.  The more the focus, the more force with which the necessary reality is manifest to conform with the beliefs.  In a very real way, we see what we wish to see; we hear what we wish to hear; we feel what we wish to feel; we experience what we wish to experience; and more importantly, we know what we wish to know.

There are things that I can do that literally no one else can do, at least not in the same manner.  Does this make me special?  Indeed it does ... it makes me a unique expression of spirit, of consciousness.  However, when you get down to it, we are all unique expressions of source, the one consciousness that animates us all.

No one is better than anyone else.  Everyone is different from everyone else.  Some have particular skills that are more developed than others.  However, these gifts or lack thereof are not meant to exalt or condemn thereof.  Gifts are what they are ... they are meant to be used in service that goes beyond our selfish interests.  Sometimes they are used in this manner, however, far less often than they could be.  We can change this collectively.  It is a matter of where we place our priorities, and what we consider to be right behavior within society.

How do we organize things so that we can be more effective, so that we can get more done with fewer resources expended.  This requires optimization of processes ... and coming up with new ones where the current ones are either not working or are inefficient.  A line from the movie Contact comes to mind about advanced beings communicating in multiple dimensions.  How do we organize our information infrastructure so that we do this?  The webs we construct in our minds to link various pieces of information do not operate within a single plane.  They create a very contorted space of which it is not clear can even be represented in three dimensions.

Our minds are capable of much greater tasks than we have given them to date.  Further, our collective mind is capable of creating a world infrastructure and associated collective reality far greater than any of us have ever dreamed.

Knowing is beyond both mind and heart ... it exists in another realm entirely, though this realm strongly impacts the reality we experience in every other dimension.

I speak in a tongue that is not mine, allowing words to come forth that I know not from whence nor where they come.  My standard answer is that they come from source.  But what is this thing that I call source?  It is located somewhere deep within me.  It is a state of consciousness.  It is an awareness of tapping into something, of finding and expressing that which is called intuition.

What matters is not the destination ... it is the path, and the enjoyment thereof.  The journey is everything.  It is all that counts.

There will always be an unknown realm of possibility that exceeds anything that I have done to date.  It is at the edge of this unknown where I do the dance of consciousness ... where I exchange energy between the seen and the unseen, between the known and the unknown.  It is in this dance that I engage the energies of my life.  It is here where I find the things that matter to me most.

We create our reality through our beliefs.  The stronger the belief the more quickly the manifestation appears in our life.  However, the beliefs must be consistent.  Further, it is not enough to think something strongly.  We must follow up and take action consistent with what we say that we believe.  Otherwise, they are just mere words, mere ideas.  We must be consistent with whom and what we say that we are.  Then, the very forces of the universe, join in to do our bidding.

Desire and discipline seem to be crucial to making changes ... along with an openness as to what is possible and a willingness to try new things.

Remember, that what is possible is often far more than we have dreamed or imagined.

Is all of the separation that we experience truly an illusion of our own making?  Why is it that we have to experience it at all?  Wouldn't it be so much simpler to cooperate and graduate as the saying goes?  Yet, there is a reason for everything.  There is something to be gained, something to be learned, from every experience.  Life collectively seeks to express ever more and more of whom that it is.  It does this through every avenue that it has available ... through every resource it is given.  It is given resources by the choices that we make to offer our very selves in service to something greater than us ... to the society and the world in which we exist, or even to spirit herself.

I would be whom that I AM.  I can be nothing else.  However, I would do what I am moved by spirit to do ... not as I would move myself to do.

I accept full responsibility for everything that I experience ... no fine print, no exceptions.

 It definitely pays to do the necessary selfwork to become the master of your beliefs.  Have I done this?  More than most, but less than some.  After awhile, I found that beliefs were a playground that I no longer wanted to play in.  Creating for the sake of creating did not appeal to me.  There was no desire to will something into being.  I found that true freedom for me laid in simply allowing my life to unfold as it will rather than attempting to fashion it to be something that I consciously direct.

My life is truly blessed.  It could be more fulfilling, and more abundant ... but I am truly for grateful for all that I AM and all that I have.  Yes, an attitude of gratitude is extremely important.  How can we expect to draw more into our life if we do not appreciate all that we have been given already.

How do I open myself up in a manner that allows me to relate deeply with others?  Perhaps I need to stop focusing on them being others ... when the truth is that they are other aspects and other facets of the one source from which we spring.

New perspectives are generally helpful, they shed new light on the matter at hand.

This is my opportunity to be a part of something greater than I am ... and literally to do so on a daily basis.  At least, such it has been since the beginning of the year.  That is the key, becoming a part of something greater than us.  This requires first of all that we recognize that there is something greater than us; and secondly, that we can do something to be a part of whatever this is.

What is created here comes from a cooperative endeavor, in which whom that I AM combines with something greater, something that I call spirit, source or the one consciousness.  The fact that I have names for this greater whole does not mean that I understand it other than my personal experience of interacting with it.  The first thing that comes across is a sense of the feminine.  I always experience spirit and consciousness as she.

I am the eyes of spirit, the arms of spirit, the ears of spirit, the mouth of spirit ... all that I AM is of spirit, and all that I DO is for spirit.

There is something gratifying about knowing one's place in the scheme of things.  It helps if what we think we know conforms to reality, but this is not a necessary clause for experience.  We will experience what we believe, whether it is correct or not.

From within the illusion, we may not be able to tell what is correct versus what we have only imagined or believed to be so.  However, that is only the case so long as we rely on the outside for verification.  Our inner reality is not so constrained.  There is a source within that knows.  This source can serve as a compass to help keep us headed in the right direction.  However, we must not impose our direction on others.  What is right for us may or may not be right for others.

Each "reality" seems to have its own specific rules, though there are also common rules that apply to related sets of realities.  Within the reality, there are hard rules which are absolute, and soft rules which can be broken given appropriate training and the proper circumstances.  Many people are not aware of the soft rules.  They falsely assume everything is absolute.  This makes living easier to some degree.  However, it greatly limits freedom.  The movie The Matrix comes to mind.  To get beyond the soft rules, we must get beyond the limits that we have accepted in our minds.

Our mental structures can be very rigid indeed.  This is not their nature, however.  It is simply how we have chosen to employ them.  We can just as easily choose structures that are more open and free.  When we do this, however, we sacrifice predictability.  For many, this is not an acceptable trade ... the unknown can be scary.  Most seem to avoid it as if it were a plague.  Yet, it is there, in the unknown, that we find the ultimate mirror for ourselves.

Indeed, there are parts within us of which we know not ... except via the effect they have in our lives, and whatever they may be able to express.

Each of us has our own way of approaching life ... of being whom that we are.  This comes out as the things that are natural for us and as the approach toward understanding ourself and our reality that is right for us.  Here, we are individuals.  Some techniques may apply to groups of people, but even then, we need to tailor them to our unique dispositions.

I don't remember what occurs during the time that I am asleep,  I am sure that I am active ... that I dream, though I have very limited direct conscious experience with this.  I don't know why that is.  That it is so, seems to indicate that such is what is meant to be.  Can this change.  You bet, in a heartbeat.  However, the fact that it can change does not necessarily mean that it will change.  Often choice and personal effort is required to manifest the change.

Old habits can be hard to break.  Yet, break them we must, if we are to proceed to the next phase, the next adventure.

Yes, life is meant to be an adventure, and a bold and daring one at that.  All that it takes is courage and faith.  A faith in the nature of the world, the nature of reality, the process of reality creation, and most of all in ourself and spirit as she expresses through us.

Consciousness ever seeks to actualize more of itself ... to make actual, to make real, to make manifest in the world more of whom that it is through us.  This is the only means available to her.  For something to be real, it has to be expressed through us.  We have to create it, to bring it into being.

Life is already a highly cooperative endeavor, more so than any have ever imagined.  It is just that this cooperation primarily occurs behind the scenes, where it often goes unnoticed.

There is an overall plan for the unfoldment of consciousness in this grand play that we call life.  Earth, and the world that we know is but one playground in which spirit can express and explore whom that it is.  And what a splendid and wonderful playground it is.  However, at some point it seems that we tire of play and need some task in which to engage whom that we are in a challenging, meaningful, and fulfilling manner.  Yes, it seems that we need work .. or at least some way to expend our energies and talents in a manner that makes a difference.

How can I know such things?  Why do I believe that any of this is true?  ... and especially true universally?  These are the kinds of questions that one who is still sane asks.  I know that I operate on the edge of what most people would consider sanity or reality.  However, that does not bother me.  I am comfortable facing the unknown, knowing that I live in a world that is driven by spirit, that is spiritual expression made manifest to the degree that it can be given the collective and individual awareness of the world at this time.

Another day ... as always, they come one after the next, until we free ourself from time and return no longer.  Yes, this existence in space and time will someday end ... and we will return to the source from whence we came.

Each day is a precious gift.  To the degree we can, we need to be grateful for this gift and in turn give of ourselves in a way that makes a difference.  There is always a way to do this.  We just need to be open to allowing it to manifest in our lives.  This requires a degree of trust, and a willingness to allow something great and wonderful to express through us.  Ours are not meant to be ordinary lives.  Every one of us has greatness looking to shine forth from within us.  We are all special beings, unique expressions of the one consciousness.  We all have something to share and something to give to our fellow beings.

We have an obligation to be whom that we are as fully as we can, and to share whom we are with the world.

We accept limitations because they serve us in some manner ... or at least because we believe that they do.  To remove them, we need to understand them for what they are, and replace them with something that is less restrictive and more empowering.

This is how we manifest things in our life.  We believe that we are more than we knew ourselves to be.  Further, we believe that spirit is far more than we can imagine her to be.  The combination of the two expressing together is like dynamite ... possessing a power that is beyond imagination.

All life is the result of spirit expressing in flesh.  Further, this expression is perfect ... unfolding in accord with spiritual laws and with an overall plan for ever increasing individual and collective awareness and creative expression.

I bank on spirit, and my inner self connection to source, to lead me to exactly where I need to be, and to move me to do exactly what I need to do, and to move me to be exactly what I am meant to be.

When we function as the whole beings that we are, it is much like driving a car.  We only need a few controls to get all of the forces and parts of the car to do our bidding.  Conscious intent and beliefs are our key controls over the reality that we experience.

We tend to create exactly what we believe that we deserve.

It is up to us to manifest the abundance we desire.  We do this by priming the  pump ... by giving of ourselves in service.  The more the service, the more the abundance.  It is as simple as that, and as complicated as that.  We serve by doing those things that we love to do in a manner that benefits not only ourselves, but others, society, and even the whole world.

That is what we are here to do ... to live in a manner that makes a difference.

The past ten years have been a training ground for me to explore and express my own connections to consciousness.  I have expressed a lot during that time.  But have I truly explored all that I am meant to learn from all of this?  Have I taken the time to study the expression and synthesize everything that it offers unto me?  The immediate answer to both of these is no, I have not integrated what has been expressed fully into whom that I am.  I thought I was further along than this, but perhaps I overestimated myself.

Why do I need such a special destiny?  Why is it that I must see myself as unique and different than others?  There is just an inner sense that there is greatness within me and that this will somehow see the light of day in my life.

There is still a strong sense that major change is on the drawing board, that any day I may be moved, or even forced, to find new ways to express and to interact with others.  I see this as a challenge and an opportunity, one that encourages me to learn more of whom that I AM, and be more of whom that I AM.  The two go hand and hand.  We learn best by doing.  Often this requires being more than we knew ourselves to be before.

The reality that we experience often conforms to our expectations.  We see what we expect to see.  We hear what we expect to hear.  We do what we expect to do.  That is how it is, but not how it needs to be.  We are free to change our expectations at any time.

One never knows when something meaningful will enter our lives.  Often this happens when we are in the midst of doing something else.

Spiritual expression in flesh is what life is all about.  At least, this is true for me, and my sense is that it is true universally ... even if many are not consciously aware of this fact.

The relentless march of time, moving ever forward, and as it does opening up new possibilities for expression and new vistas from which to see the world in whole new ways.

We need to reassert our freedom and remove the chains of those elements of our lives and our world that shackle us.  This does not mean shedding our legitimate responsibilities ... for these we must bear or reap the consequences.  It is easier if we shoulder these willingly rather than consider them to be a burden.  We are not meant to be beasts of burden.  There are other animals that fill that role willingly and even gratefully.

I allow this expression to freely wander where it will.  It is truly stream of consciousness stuff.  When I am engaged in it, I feel no need and no right to govern its direction.  I am performing a service.  It is the customers needs that matter as one provides services.  Since I don't know who the audience is for this communication ... it is not for the audience that I am doing this.  I am performing a service for spirit, allowing her to express through me in whatever manner she, not I, chooses.

I continue to do as I am moved to do, trusting in the very processes of life itself, and of spirit expressing in flesh.  That is one of the things that distinguishes me from others ... a deep faith in consciousness, and how she expresses in us and through us.  This is not a blind faith ... though it is a faith in processes which are unseen except for their products in our lives.

 When we believe that we can do whatever we put our minds to, we open up a wide berth in which to express and to do our works.

In the end, utility is the only factor by which beliefs should be judged.  Do they serve us and the society of which we are part, or do they not?  If not, it is time to replace them with something far more useful to us and to others.

We are here to be of service in some way that uses our special abilities and talents in a manner that helps others.  We are to live by the sacred code ... never take more than you give.  What we give is ourselves, our time, and the services that we can provide.  This code isn't forced upon us, it is voluntary.  However, it accurately depicts spiritual law.

If we find ourselves in need, the place to start is not by finding how we can fill the need ... rather, it is by determining what it is that we can give that is of most utility and value to others, then by providing this as a service voluntarily.  The universe will ensure that we reap what we sow.  You cannot give without return.  Though, giving with expectation of return defeats the purpose as well.  This is not a trade or a negotiation.  We are priming the pump for spirit to operate in our lives.  When we do so, she ensures that we get all that we need and more.  Spirits abundance is unlimited.  Ours can be as well ... for what are we but spirit experiencing life in flesh.

The body is an elaborate vehicle for the brain, its primary occupant ... which in turn is a vessel for the mind to interface with, and to create and experience the game that we call reality.

Words are the clay through which I sculpt the creations that can be expressed through me.

I trust the very process of life as it unfolds through me.  Everything is planned, everything is necessary, everything is unfolding perfectly ... regardless of any appearances to the contrary.  It is a matter of finding a viewpoint or set of viewpoints from which this is true.  Such is within our reach at any time.  It is simply a matter of looking in the right direction through an appropriate set of glasses (or set of beliefs).

Here is where the unknown becomes the known, where the unmanifest becomes the manifest, where the creative thrust brings forth whatever creations it is capable of producing.  Through it all, I have no direct sense of being the author, the originator of this creation.  Yes, it is through me that it comes forth.  I am actively involved in its creation ... but in a very real way, it comes through me not from me.  At the same time, there is a sense that without me it would not come forth at all.   This makes me necessary but not sufficient.

In reading and studying this expression, you gain insight into whom that I AM.  However, this does not allow you to know whom that I AM.  You only know me as the one through whom such works as these can come.  This may or may not give you an accurate picture of me.  It depends on how complete and comprehensive the works are ... and further your understanding of these works.  It is not clear how much one can deduce of what the creator is by examining the creations.  Yet, the saying ye shall know them by their works keeps popping into my mind.

If we are ever going to learn what makes us tick as individuals, we need detailed records of what consciousness does.  This is one such record.

I am a guinea pig of sorts ... with a blend of DNA, hereditary, and environmental traits and conditions ... that has become aware enough to express via works of consciousness.   There are many things that I do in my day to day life that are instantly forgotten, that will never have much of an impact on anything or anyone.  However, this expression provides a snapshot of consciousness in action.

Effectively, everything that I have known and experienced to date has been me, and aspects of me reflected by the world.  This is no longer enough.  I desire to take a step beyond.  Actually, desire does not adequately convey the urgency that I feel.  There is a strong need within me to find something more ... something beyond what I AM.  Prior to this, I have been content in the pursuit to know thyself.  But, it seems that I am starting to reach some of the limits of this container.  To be more, I have to open to others in ways that I have not done before.  I have to stretch beyond what I know myself to be.  In one way this is easy ... I have no goals or plans for my life that get in the way of doing what needs to be done here and now.

The only thing it is fair to measure anyone against is what they are versus what they could be.  How much of their innate potential is realized and is being actively used and expressed?

We do far too little collectively to teach people the nature of whom that they are and their part in the creation of the reality they experience.  One reason for this is that the collective is not yet open to beliefs that could truly empower individuals.  The fear is that if individuals became more powerful, there would be no way to control them.  This fear creates many of the chains and restrictions that imprison us.

Acceptance is the first step towards making any change.  When we fight or resist something, it stays in our life, by the very act of our engaging with it.  When we accept what is for what it is, we are free to move on to whatever we would become.

This is the record of consciousness expressing in flesh as freely as she can through me at this time.  It offers insights about the nature of consciousness, reality, and reality creation that can point to expanded freedom and enhanced awareness.  Yes, insights is the correct term to use.  This expression provides sight or visibility into what is within.  The very fact that it even exists as it does opens up many questions regarding what we as individuals are capable of ... especially as instruments of spirit.

I operate out of faith, with a deep trust in the sanctity of life as it expresses through me.  I need nothing else.  There is no authority that I bow to ... other than spirit herself.  My firsthand experience is that this is an effective way to live.  Then again, I have only my life to go by.

The giants of the world are such because they stand high on the shoulders of others.  Whether it is on the wings of their thoughts, or their experiences, or their examples matters not.  We can only go so far and do so much on our own.  Through others, we can get a running start to whatever path we choose as our own.

My sense is that we have only played with reality creation to date.  It is time to get serious and do this in earnest.  The works that we can do collectively and individually will be miraculous.  It is simply a matter of focus, and a conscious decision as to what we choose to create.

Life to me is a highly subjective experience.  We cannot stand back and look at it objectively.  To explore the domains of consciousness, one must be an active participant.  What we experience is a direct reflection of what we are, and what we are is in turn changed by the very act of our experience.  No matter how hard we try, we cannot escape this fact.

To me, home is not a place ... it is a state of consciousness.  In particular, a state that I can reach anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances.  All it took was going within to find it, and practicing enough to master it.  This expression is my practice.  Hmm ... that is an interesting way of looking at things.  We don't typically expose others to our practice sessions.  But, in this endeavor, it seems appropriate somehow.  This is more than practice.  This is the chronicle of an adventure in consciousness.  As such it is as important as any record or journal of an expedition or exploration of discovery.

Not everything is meant for everyone.  Use whatever resonates with you.  Let utility be your guide

Walk awhile in my footsteps or mindsteps and observe how it feels to you.  Don't accept things a true based on my say so.  But, be willing to believe long enough and strongly enough to see whether something works for you.  Meditate, still the chatter of your mind so that something within can find its voice through you.  We all have an inner connection to source.  However, it takes effort to connect with it.  And then, if we don't pay attention to it, trust it, and act upon the information it provides we might just as well not have found it at all.

I am committed to be of service to whomever spirit cares to serve through me.  As the instrument, I know not how I am being played, or to what audience.  Interesting analogy.  But that is indeed how I feel.  I am the aware instrument through which spirit expresses.

The primary tool we have for experiencing awareness is our mind.

There is something about being on the edge between the manifest and the unmanifest that is addictive.  Once one finds ones rightful place, it becomes home ... it becomes the center from which we explore and express whom that we are.

I am being what I was created to be as accurately as I can given my level of awareness.  Interesting ... was created to be.  I am not used to thinking in those terms.  He who created me, immediately comes to mind.  That would be God.  I don't think of she who created me ... however, I do think of consciousness and spirit as she who expresses through me.  I never think of he who expresses through me.

My only desire is for spirit to more fully express in flesh.  My whole purpose is to build the foundation necessary to allow this, and in the process to serve as a midwife to the birth of a new age ... an age whose very characteristics are as utopian as we can presently dream possible.  Yes, I still live in this world ... but my mind and soul rest in other domains.  Actually they do far more than rest.  They bring forth as much information as they can carry to express here through me.  However, it is up to me to establish a resonance by exploring whom that I am in the unknown realms of consciousness.

My sense it is the same one consciousness that animates us all.  Everything is the expression of this one consciousness ... everything, no exceptions.  Many people think that good is responsible for the good and that the devil or some dark force is responsible for the bad and especially the evil in the world.  However, there is nothing else except spirit expressing.  Evil and darkness is simply a lack of light due to walls or barriers that have been set up to block the light.  One overcomes darkness by shining light upon it.  When one does so, darkness simply vanishes.

My life is not meant to be like that of others.  I am a wayshower.  I see things as no one else has seen them, and express things as no one else has expressed them.  This is not unique to me ... each of us is a wayshower in our own way, or could be if we chose to be so.  Spirit expresses through each and every one of us to the degree that she can, to the degree that we allow her to in our lives.  She does not force her way ... she waits patiently for us to choose to allow her to express.  We do this by searching for and finding a way to be all that we can be.

I agree that my mind can do some strange things, making transformations that are not logical ... following intuition in a manner that can be confusing at times.  However, for me it all makes sense somehow.  I am finding connections that are already there, just hidden from the normal techniques we use to reveal information.  I don't mind that the connections are intuitive.  I don't mind that they may only be meaningful to me.  I am still moved to express and share what I find.  Hopefully, this encourages you to more actively pursue whatever path is right for you.

I have found it useful to give my mind a wide berth, and to be open to allowing consciousness to express as she will.  This has yielded a richness to my inner experience that fascinates me even more than ever before.

There is much that is expressed through me, but I feel as if I am more the observer of what is being expressed that the creator.  At least, that is my present awareness.  At some level, I know that the creator is a part of me.  It is just that there seems to be a wall that keeps me from seeing this part of myself other than from the works that it throws over the wall so to speak.  Interesting analogy.  Yet, this is very much how I experience it.  These words come forth via an inner source.  I know that this source exists, because I see all the words that flow forth.

There is a difference between knowing something and having an awareness of something.  When we are aware of a part of ourself, we experience being that part.  Knowing can be a secondary phenomena, a mental understanding of something.  As such, it is less than awareness.  The difference is that between the mental realm and the realm of consciousness.  The mental realm is the lower of the two.  We have to go beyond mind to experience awareness.  This is not so easy to do.  In fact, it seems that many do not experience this in their entire life and perhaps many lifetimes.

How do I know that what is being expressed has any value ... or, more specifically, is worth the effort that I put into it?  All that I can say is that I feel that it does.  In many ways, I feel that it is the most important thing that I could be doing.  Further, I am the sole judge of what is worthy of my time and effort.  This expression is my choice ... it is an investment that I make of my self to something greater than I am.

It is enough to know that I am a WE and that my highest functioning is achieved when I accept the parts for what they are, allowing each part to do what is natural for it to do, and trusting that the whole is functioning in a cooperatively interdependent way because that is how it is designed to operate.

Finding and removing limitations becomes a way of life.  It is a matter of perception.  Limitation always involves darkness and shadow.  We remove it by shining whatever light we can upon it.  However, we must learn to recognize the shackles that bind us, before we can take the actions necessary to remove them.

We are incredibly powerful.  We are creators, responsible for all that we experience.  This includes not only the day to day experiences of life ... but all of the excursions into the realms of consciousness that we take.  These later can be as real or more real than what we experience in out day to day life.

Our imaginations are wonderful places.  They allow us to play and dream of things that have never been ... and from these dreams to create the very conditions necessary to bring our dreams to life, to manifest them, to make them physical.

We are dreamers, yes, but more than that, we are creators ... manifesting the reality we choose to experience both individually and en masse.

Our collective reality is in the process of massive change.  Many don't yet see it, but the signs are there.  The is no stopping the actualization of the plan that consciousness has laid out for the expression of spirit in flesh.  We each have out roles to play in that grand plan.  More and more, we will be moved to express personally in a manner that resonates with this plan.  It is as if the vibrations of the age feed us.  Those who are not attuned will wither and die.  Those who are attuned will thrive and flourish ... all that they touch will turn to gold as the saying goes.  That is how the age takes hold.  It touches us inside, and moves us.  We'll see it first in the works of the most creative among us.  And, what they do will move us deeply ... though we may not be aware of exactly why.  Popular songs are one place where this is happening.

It seems that the level at which we live is highly dependent on what we expect of ourselves and feel we are worthy of receiving.  Spiritual law is operative here.  We reap what we sow.  We must live by the code ... never take more than you give.  That is not a law subject to choice.  Spiritual laws apply to us all whether we believe in them or not.  Note that the only limit imposed by this law is whatever limit we apply to what we give.  We can give of our money, our time, or both in service to other individuals, our society, or even our world.  How we give is our choice.  That we give is not an option.

As a society, we are responsible for all aspects of our collective experience.  It is time to take conscious responsibility for this and do what it takes to help those in need.  Those living below the poverty level are suffering needlessly as well ... because we as a society have not choosen to make it our responsibility to fix this.  We can fix this.  Whether we do or not is a matter of choice.  When will we choose to make better choices?

Our world can be improved rapidly.  However, we as individual need to make the jump from a ME to a WE perspective.  We need to understand how we fit within the larger whole, and what responsibility we have therein.  It is not for another to dictate this to us.  Deep within, we already know our rightful role.  It is simply a matter of accepting this and doing whatever is required whole-heartedly and with all our soul.  In doing so, we are doing our part.  In doing so collectively, we transform our world.

This expression is my baby as it were.  It is where I allow the creative thrust to give birth to something new.  This is where I express whom that I am in ways that I cannot do anywhere else.  At some point, my life will be such that this is my outer expression as well.  It seems here, it is betwixt the two.  It is one step removed from inner expression since it is here on these pages.  But it is also one step removed from outer expression since it is not in the hands or minds of those who would consume and utilize what is expressed.

From one standpoint, we have everything we need to change the world.  Everything except the commitment to do it.

Life is what happens when you start paying attention to the little things.  When you do this ... it is amazing how the big things seem to take care of themselves.  Perhaps it is because all of the big things are planned out by consciousness herself through incredible levels of cooperation that form the foundation for reality creation.

Beliefs are the playground for reality creation.  Utility is the only test for their validity.  It is up to us to choose what we will believe.  Beliefs by their very nature lie in the nether region between what is true and what is false.  If something is already known to be true or false, there is no room for belief.

For me, the most fascinating part of the playground is the unknown, the edge of the abyss, the very frontiers of consciousness.  It is there that I stand excited about life as it unfolds ... enthusiastic about what is to come forth.

How can I know whether I've truly reached the edge of the unknown versus the edge of what is unknown to me.  The later is a much larger domain.  However, the works of others can be useful for exploring the delta between these two.  What is truly unknown will not be addressed anywhere that we look.  However, we also need to count on our intuition and curiosity to take us to to where we are meant to be.

There is plenty of time to do the tasks which are ours to do.  It is simply a matter of  going within to find the tasks which are ours to do and focusing our efforts and talents on doing these.

What we see collectively is a result of our collective choices.  Until we take responsibility for all that WE experience, we are not doing are part.

We have a collective responsibility to one another.  We live in a cooperative interdependent society now.  Most of us just don't realize it yet.  Incredible cooperation already goes on behind the scenes to manifest all that we experience.  The new age brings forth the need to make this far more conscious.  We need to do this by choice rather than chance, and by conscious choice at that.

Step back and observe.  Take the time to really see how everything that you are, everything that you experienced is mirrored in your beliefs.  We draw reality to us via these beliefs.  Actually, we create our reality to conform with them.  We do this automatically.  It is part of our nature as creators.  In many parts of the world, beliefs have stayed relatively stagnant for hundreds to thousands of years.  As a result, life is well-defined ... it is the same from one generation to the next, seemingly for aeons.  In this country, however, things are much more dynamic.  We are a young country ... only 226 years since our Declaration of Independence, and fewer than that since the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution were generated.  For over half of that time, we have been in the midst of revolutionary changes that started with the industrial age, and have been growing more and more rapid throughout the information age.

What I see does indeed seem to be something that only I could see.  This begs the question of whether I can show others what it is that I see.  Is this not what creative people do?  Artists convey what they see in paint on canvas.  Writers convey what they see in words ... mainly on word processors these days, but also in printed form.

Our contract with spirit is that in exchange for being whom that we are and giving all that we can give in service to spirit, we get our needs met ... all of them, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.  This contract is offered to all who would care to enter into it.  It is not forced on anyone.  It is up to us to choose to make it valid in our life.

My means of escape is to watch movies.  Chariots of Fire plays in the background as I write this.  I remember being deeply stirred by this years ago, and still whenever the theme song plays it sends a chill down my spine and moves my soul.

Wow, why have I never been challenged such.  Then again, perhaps I have ... just not by anyone else.  This statement was made to the freshman class at Cambridge in around 1922.  It is very likely that such a speech was indeed given.  Further, it is likely that this still goes on ... even in this country.  But what does it take to be among the elite, the select few who are given the keys to the leadership of the country?  How does one rise to one's rightful position within society?  How does one even discover what this is?  As an introvert, and an extreme one at that; I naturally go within, and seek this for myself.  Yet, there is a sense that in doing this, I may be missing out on some opportunities that are rightly mine.  I'm not looking for opportunities from the standpoint of what I can get.  Rather, I am searching for where I can most fully use all of my abilities in service to spirit and to my fellow man.

How do I find my role in the world ... my true chance in greatness?  Why is it that there is such a strong inner drive within me to achieve greatness?  And, what constitutes greatness for one such as me?  It is to express that which is grand within me.  Right now, this is whatever consciousness is able to express through me.

When we allow ourselves to be all of whom that we are ... we allow our magnificence to shine forth in a way that it cannot otherwise do.  Yes, that is the key.  We don't need anything outside of us to tell us what we can and cannot be.  Deep inside, we already know this.  It is a matter of unleashing whom that we are ... and trusting that there is a part of ourself that knows exactly what it is that we came to do.

I am looking for something I can be passionate about, for something that can kindle my fire and turn it into a massive flame.  Experience must be embued with spirit ... that is the only thing that makes it attractive to me.

One can speak, and one can act.  It is important that the actions conform to the words.  Yet, there is still the admonition to be a man of action.  Further, actions speak louder than words. I don't know that I have truly been this on all the fronts of my life in the past.  I have said before,

The strength of one's character is demonstrated in what we do and how we do it.  As we do this, we are in the process of creating a masterpiece of our life.

Every moment I am carrying out my destiny ... whether I know it or not.  We often overlook this when in the midst of our day to day experience.  But, every moment or everyday counts.  How much it counts is literally up to us.  It can count a lot or it can count a little.  It all depends on how much we go with the flow of spirit or go against that flow.

I don't ask what would spirit do here as some do?  Rather, I ask what am I moved by spirit to do?  When I ask this, I don't need a reason.  I have been able to trust that by going within, I will simply know.  It even seems that there is no way to avoid doing what I am meant to do.  In many ways it is as if my life is predestined ... down to minute levels, even to what words flow forth and when they flow forth.  It just happens.  I observe it all, but don't have an overall sense that I control it all.  Yes, I firmly believe that I create and am responsible for all that I experience.  I take ownership for my life.  But, I am slow to evaluate what I experience and choose to change it.  There is a sense that before things can change, we must accept then for what they are.

This is a very powerful prayer.  It is this later part where my focus has been.  Though it seems that I am starting to explore the middle path of finding the courage to change those things that are mine to change.  However, to motivate change, we either need to come from a place where the hurt is so great that we can tolerate it no longer or from a place where the vision of what could be is so much better than what is that we have no choice but to work to manifest it.  The later is preferable, but the former seems to be the more common motivator.  Pain can be so much more powerful that pleasure.

Why is it that so many live lives of quiet desperation?  Why can't more people see the rare jewels and gems of spirit that they are.  We are truly multifaceted and we shine with a brilliance that is greater than that of diamonds ... reflecting the inner spark of spirit from within.

How do we increase the amount of spirit that can shine through us?  We find a way to tap the source within, and allow it to express through us as freely as we can.  For some this is easier than for others.  Also, the mechanism by which spirit expresses through us is distinct for each and every one of us.  We must find what works for us.  We must find what makes our heart sing and our spirit soar.

Interesting, I speak of an impact on an audience that I do not know even exists.  Yet, is that not how all written expression works, including all books.  There have been many books that have had major impacts on my life: the Seth books, the Conversations With God books, and the Dialogues of Plato to name a few.  I would not be whom that I AM without these works, yet none of the authors have any clue that I exist.  They have no direct feedback of how important their works were to me.  Are my works any different?  Are they of a similar quality in their own right?  How would I know?  From firsthand experience, I know that these words move me in ways that nothing else has done.  Part of that comes from them being created through me.  It is as if they are speaking directly to me.  There is still no purpose in this writing other than to convey what consciousness will express through me.  That is part of its appeal ... that is what fuels my enthusiasm ... that is what connects me to a source far greater than I AM.

The principles on which the Aquarian Age will be founded need the air to thrive.  This is where they are free to do their works.  Planted in the ground, or submerged in the ocean, they smoother and die.  It is the air that gives them sustenance, just as the breathe gives the body sustenance.  We can live weeks without food (the stuff of the ground), days without water, but only minutes without air ... and not one second without the fire of spirit that animates us.

I like the idea of having something to show for each day that I exist.  A physical record of consciousness expressing.  There is something about writing it down that makes it real for me.  If it were merely conversation, or worse yet simply thoughts passing through my mind ... it would not be real, it would not be physically manifest, at least not in the same way.

In a way, I am the word made flesh, and I come to spread my seed, my words, to wherever they may flow ... perhaps even to the whole world.

There is a source that flows through me, a source that I only know via the works that she does and the words and ideas that she brings forth.  I am not unique in this respect, however.  This same source flowed through Emerson and Thoreau and all of the transcendentalists.  I count myself among their numbers though I was born a century or more later.

Right now, this expression is what I am moved to do.  I'll continue to do it as long as spirit so moves me.  And then, I'll do whatever comes next.  I am not meant to see more than one step at a time.  Others may have more distant visions. But, this is not my gift or my way.  That makes planning for anything challenging and difficult.  It does not come naturally for me ... and for the most part, I avoid doing it.  Yes, that means that I live my life without goals ... and without doing any practical planning to achieve those goals.

Is it for me to dictate how I will serve ... by volunteering my services in a particular manner, as I do here?  Or, is it spirits call as to where I can best be utilized?  After all, nothing is hidden from her.  She knows my every move, my every tendency, my every talent and ability, my every desire, my every emotion, my every thought ...yes, to her, my life is an open book.  There are no secrets of which consciousness is not aware.

How is it that these words, and these works, can flow forth as they do?  What does that say about whom that I AM?

Every action we take to allow spirit to more fully express in our lives make a real difference not only here and now ... but to a distant end.  Small changes in the moment result in dramatically different outcomes in the long term.  However, we are not given the foresight to know what changes will have what long term impacts.  Here we have to trust our inner voice, our connection to source to move us in the direction that is beneficial not only to us but to all who grace our lives with their presence.

In our lives, often logic does not rule.  That is not to say that it does not have a place ... just that it does not have a supreme position.  Logic is a useful servant as the saying goes, but not a very good master.  Here, we need to go to a higher authority ... for me that is source expressed via intuition.

I need to see whom that I am in the eyes of others.  Not as a sign of whom that I AM necessarily.  Rather, as an input by which to gauge whether the face that I provide to the world is consistent with whom that I need to be in the world.
 

When I start each day, I never know what is going to flow forth.  Even as I am in the process of writing, there is no sense of what is to come next.  It just flows, word and word, sentence after sentence, page after page, musing after musing.

Everything starts with the desire to do something.

What goals are worthy of my pursuit?  It seems that it is about time that I found some ... and committed to do what it takes to achieve them.  This does not mean they will necessarily be my goals.  There is nothing that prevents them from being spirits goals.  They will be mine to the extent that my destiny is tied to them.  Yes, it does indeed seem to be time to engage my talents and efforts toward more defined pursuits.  It is time to start looking for what these might be.  It is time to live a life of purpose ... in a more direct manner than I have done before.  It is as if I've been a candle blowing in the wind.  That is what this stream of consciousness is.  However, the candle seems to be my light and the wind seems to be generated by consciousness herself.  As a result, consciousness controls the direction in which the flame of the candle blows.

Goals are our way of telling the universe what it is that we want, what it is that we are willing to work towards.

We create plans of action to do what it takes to accomplish our goals.  However, we need to leave room for the universe to pitch in and help via spiritual laws.  Goethe said something to the effect ... Boldness has genius inside it!  I also remember something to the effect that when we decide on something we unleash a host of universal forces to do our bidding.

What am I willing to do what it takes to achieve?  The only thing that seems worthy of such effort is to carry out my mission of building the foundations for a new age and being the midwife for the birth of a new age.  These are worthy of the best effort that I can apply.  These are worthy of engaging all of me: heart, mind, and soul to achieve what can be achieved through me.

The line from Contact in answer to the question of whether there is life out there in the universe ... if not, it would be an awful waste of space.  The universe is a big place.  Consciousness is even far greater ... occupying not only the universe but many dimensions that science does not choose to recognize.

I dream of a better world; one that functions far more efficiently; one that expresses a social contract of the nature of pure communism in which each individual receives what they need physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually in exchange for providing their services to society.

Both government and the economy are systems that should serve society.  When they stop doing this they need to change or be abolished and replaced with something better.  We won't necessarily know what is better until we try it.  Because of this, we should experiment and build prototypes of new governments and new economies to see what will work best for the various kinds of communities that we have not only in this country but on the planet.

How do we create a new social system?  How do individuals and families choose to become members?  Where do the funds and the resources required to make the system work come from?  Who would choose to invest in such things?  Who has the insight and the foresight to by into a dream?  Indeed that is what we are asking for.  Hmm ... it seems that we need to more fully define the dream before we can get financiers or benefactors to buy into it.  Perhaps that is worthy of setting a goal.  Within 1 year from today, we have a goal of generating a practical plan for the generation of one or more alternative communities that provide better infrastructures for the expression of spirit in flesh.

There is no one in my world expecting more from me.  It is strictly me expecting more of myself ... primarily because I know what I am capable of ... and there is a driving need to live up to my potential.  This driving need comes from within.  I needed to prove something to myself.  In many cases, I am the only witness to much of what I do ... and no one else is aware of all that I do.  Because of this, I am the only one in a position to judge whether I am being true to myself, and doing everything that is within my power to do.  It is more than that.  Many things are within my power to do ... but are not within my responsibility to do.  I must decide where, when, and how to apply my services to get the maximal results to all concerned.

I can think of nothing more fun that being fully engaged in doing something that truly requires my abilities.  It is at these times when I feel most in tune with the universe, when I feel that I am being whom that I AM as fully as I can in the moment.

Right now, the sense is that I am indeed coming close to doing all that I can do at work ... at least within the constraints that I've accepted to date.  Challenging the constraints is the next step.  Unnecessary contraints restrict us needlessly, dramatically decreasing our effectiveness.  It is up to us to evaluate the constraints to determine those which must bind us from those which do not.

Beliefs operate in exactly this fashion as well.  And, indeed, most of the constraints that we accept are beliefs about the world or about the work environment.

It still amazes me as to how little we collectively know about consciousness.  This is something primary to us all that we experience all of the time.  Yet, how few of us distinguish between the states of consciousness that we experience.  How few of us have learned how to engage in particular states on demand.

In over 18 years of formal education from kindergarten through a MSEE, I did not have a single course that dealt with the nature of consciousness, or the fact that we have a variety of states of consciousness.  Why is this?  Why should something so fundamental to our being be absent from our training?  It doesn't make any sense to me.  How do we empower people to operate effectively if we don't teach them to use one of the most precious gifts that they possess?

We train people to use their minds in various ways, be they intuitive and artistic right brain skills or spatial and logical left brain skills.  Even then, from my experience, the training is more by chance than by design. We are given a curriculum that forces us to learn to use a variety of tools and methods to solve a variety of problems.  At least, that is what my math and engineering education provided.

Expression in the Aquarian Age will be substantially different than that of the past two millenia.  We need whole individuals operating with their whole minds in full consciousness.  For this to happen, however, we need an appropriate infrastructure that facilitates such development and expression.  Individuals need to be taught of the natural potential that they have.  They need to be shown how to discover whom that they are.  Then, they need to be encouraged to be whom that they are and to apply their abilities and energy in a manner that serves others and society.

Inner states of consciousness are a bit more difficult to deal with.  For one thing they are far more subjective.  For another, it is not clear how to characterize and distinguish between states.  Perhaps that is because I have not applied sufficient discipline and committed to sufficient study in this realm.  You might say that the very state I enter when I generate these musings is an altered state of consciousness.  However, it is not that straightforward.  It is not like I turn it on and off and am solely in a particular state at a time.  My awareness is a concurrent process.

It is curious that business communication, at least in an engineering oriented organization, is heavily written information.  One reason for this is that the only record of the communication is often a document of some type.  Does this mean that we are communicating inefficiently?  Yes and no, it seems that much of the subtleties of oral communication are lost on most males ... and in engineering work, this still has a high predominance of males.  What is interesting, though, is that many males do not write effectively either.  Yet, the work manages to get done, albeit far from effectively.  Another area that is weak is the partitioning of labor.  There are far too many meetings involving far too many people.  In many cases, it seems to be because no one has the big picture in mind and has appropriate control to task the parts to do well-defined tasks.  There I go, the philosopher king coming out trying to assess the whole and organize the parts to get the job done efficiently and effectively, and ensuring that the right resources are applied to each task.

The three worlds in which I exist are my personal world, my home world, and my work world.  These are all still very distinct.  The only thing common to all three is me, personally.  I've introduced some of the people I work with to Beyond Imagination ... but this has not led to close personal ties that would allow them to enter my personal world.

Find your place in the drama and do what is necessary to fill that role.  You will know that it is right by how it feels to you.  You will know how well you are doing by how happy you are in playing your role.  If you don't like the role that you happen to be playing, there are two alternatives:

    (1)  Change your attitude.
    (2)  Change your role.

Both of these are completely within your power to do.  Both are a matter of choice.

Feedback is something that is far more rare than it should be.  I don't understand why that is.  Without good assessment and feedback mechanisms there is no means for continuous improvement.  To some degree we can provide this for ourselves.  But, it seems that many have blinders on that restrict them from being able to see how effective or ineffective they are.

If we partition the workload properly, we will always find that there are sufficient resources to do the overall job good enough.  The trick is to making good enough as near to as good as can be within the resource constraints that apply.

Whose job is it to ensure that an organization functions effectively?  An organization is a complex system ... a very complex one.  It seems that this is the rightful domain of systems engineers, except here we are talking about a social system not a machine.  In a social system, the members have talents, skills, and abilities; assigned roles and responsibilities; and psychological predispositions and needs that must be accommodated.  Many social systems are loosely organized, with no clear roles and responsibilities defined.

Most of us see ourselves as one being that we refer to as "I", even though we may have virtually no understanding of how the parts function.  Even basic functions such as respiration, circulation, temperature management, nourishment and waste management are understood only by the fraction of people who choose to study anatomy and the overall functioning of the physical body.  The body is an incredibly complex machine which is the home for an incredibly complex symbol processing system that constitutes the brain ... which in turn seems to be the home in which the mind dwells.  It remains to be seen to what degree the mind has an existence of its own versus what part is dependent on the brain.  There is a sense that some part of what I consider my mind to be will live on somehow.

It is not for me to judge whether it is right or not.  All that truly matters is that I am moved to bring it forth and that I find it to have some utility in my life.  Whether it has utility for you ... only you can judge.  It is not my responsibility to educate anyone, or even to motivate anyone.  These are things that we must assume responsibility for on our own.  If by means of our interaction you learn something, or are motivated to do something that enables  the greater expression of spirit through you ... that is wonderful.  All that I really advocate is for you to (1) discover whom that you are and (2) be and express whom that you are.  In doing so, you become one of the legion of spiritual workers doing their part to change the world in beneficial ways.  This is all that I ask of you or anyone ... be whom that you truly are, whatever that is.

We discover what we came to do by following our passion.  It is in those things that we are passionate about where we find that our most powerful and beneficial expression lies.  The title of a book comes to mind ... Do what you love and the money will follow.   I would adjust this a bit.  Do what you love and abundance will follow, where by abundance we mean all that we need and more on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.  This is a trick answer, however, since all that we need, by definition, is whatever we get.

In this country, we take pride in our Declaration of Independence in 1776.  We have not as a society taken it upon ourselves to realize and declare our Interdependence.  This does not seem to be something that a select few can do for all of us and our Founding Fathers did.  Our world is far more complex than theirs and our population is orders of magnitude larger.  It is unclear how we would even begin to go about rallying people around such an action.  This gets to the core idea of needing to establish a social contract.  The shift required to permit this is one of moving from an I to an US, or a ME to a WE focus.

We either live in a spiritual world or we do not.  You can't have it both ways.  At some level, everything is spirit in expression ... everything, no exceptions.  Both light and shadow are the manifestation of spirit in expression.

It is in some of our darkest moments that we learn some of our greatest lessons.

It is up to us to accept what is for what it is, and to take responsibility and choose to change the things we do not like.  Some of this we can do individually, and irradicate it from our experience.  However, for many things it takes a societal choice to make the change.  Governments have been the typical arms through which we do this.  That may not be sufficient in the times ahead for many of the changes that are necessary to create our Utopia on Earth.  Note that a Utopia is not necessarily a heaven full of people with wings in robes playing harps in jewel encrusted cities of gold.  It can be manifest as a world where all have the opportunity to develop whom that they are and apply this in service to society while pursuing whatever they are passionate about.

My sense is that if we were all doing this, there is a higher level organization that the collective consciousness is actively manifesting in which we all have our roles to play.  The organization doesn't need to come from outside.  It can reach each of us, or at least many of us via inner pathways.  All we need is a critical mass to foster sufficient change to catch fire and enflame the whole world with spirit.  What constitutes a critical mass?  How many people did it take to create the Declaration of Independence?  We're literally talking dozens.  However, it may take many more than that in this day and age.  Perhaps we are talking hundreds, maybe even thousands.  But even that is a small fraction.

Independence required breaking away from the established order.  Interdependence can be a realization that occurs within the present order.  It doesn't necessarily require a revolution.  Rather, it requires a recognition of that which many disciplines have already shown us exists.  We are interdependent now in many ways.  Our lives will improve greatly when we accept this fact and align our actions in accord with this.

The plan of consciousness unfolds in its own timing.  Yet, at the same time we are consciousness in expression ... so, however we are moved to express is part of the plan of consciousness too.  That means our will as well is the will of consciousness expressing through us.

People are trying to do a good job.  They may not have the right knowledge, skills, training, or talents ... but they are trying nonetheless.

We find whatever we seek, maybe not right away, but eventually.

There is a sense that I am developing the very skills that will be required for me to carry out my mission.  No, I do not seem to be doing that yet.  However ... with each day, I take another step forward to when that time will be.  At any moment, that time could become now.  I feel ready to play whatever role I am needed and destined to play.  Yes, play is the operative word here.  Our spiritual work, our mission, is indeed our play ... or, at least, it should be.

My sense is that at some level we intuitively know what we are here to do and when we are doing it well.  It is something that we feel directly.  We don't have to think about it.  We don't have to examine and evaluate our life.  We simply have to quiet ourselves and see how we feel.  Do we feel complete?  Do we feel a sense of satisfaction with whom that we are and how we express?  Are we happy?  Are we fulfilled?  Are we doing what we know to be right?  Are we even aware of what is right for us under whatever situations we find ourselves within?

Our lives are meant to be masterpieces.  However, that requires us to be masters in the art of reality creation.  For, our reality constitutes our life ... that is, it is the life that we experience.  Though, we do more than this.  We are also aware of being the awareness that experiences this reality.

Being aware of being aware is an advanced state to experience.  It is subtle, requiring only a slight shift.  At the same time, it is highly profound.  How do we use this awareness to more fully express whom that we are?  How do we know when we have arrived at this level of awareness?  When we have reached it we will know.  It is so profoundly different from normal awareness that the distinction is obvious.

How many things happen in the course of each and every day that are beyond our understanding and ability to explain?  The very process of speech itself is like this. We don't know how we are going to end a sentence when we begin speaking.  We simply trust the basic communication process will work properly.  We have a long history of engaging in communication where this process has worked.  If we were overly concerned about it, we would halt the spontaneous flow.  Many life processes are like this ... spontaneous.  They work without the need for us to direct them consciously.  The stream of consciousness is like that as well.  It just flows on and on and on.

 There is no one out there to judge what I do or how I do it.  I accomplish this quite well on my own.  Looking back, I have always been far more judgemental of myself than I experienced from anyone else.  Yet, somehow, there was a fear of being less than and unworthy.

The past does not equal the future.  It is the choices in the present that manifest the future.  There is still a lingering thought of the need to step lightly in order to avoid the grandiosity that seems to come forth so naturally for me.  This does not mean that I am not a grand being ... rather, it indicates an overattachment to needing to be grand.  Yet, being ordinary and being average ... is simply not an acceptable option for me.  Living my life out quietly ... without having a substantial impact on the world is unthinkable to me.  It would be such an incredible waste that I do not even consider it to be a possibility.

Yet, how can I ... one person among 6 billion, make a substantial impact on the world?  The answer that comes to mind is: by being whom that I AM, and doing what I am moved by spirit to do.  It's as simple as that ... and as complex as that.  My fulfillment comes in being of service.

In the end it is the services that we provide, the works that we do that define us and that are our gifts to the world.

When you think about it ... we consume a lot, just to live as we do in a free society.  To balance the scale, we should be giving back a lot.  We do this by providing services to others.  It is not enough simply to do our jobs at work and take care of our family.  We need to extend this to serving the family of man.  That means taking on a level of responsibility in society that many have not thought about, much less chosen to accept.  This is what the social contract is all about.  If we want to take the next step in evolution, we need to start thinking as a society composed of individuals rather than as individuals joined together into social groupings.

We are one family ... we are one world.

Just as in the body, it is that small lump of gray matter inside the skull that seems to control the world of the self ... there is a small portion of the population of the world that seems to control the world.  That is OK so long as it is understood that wielding this control must be done responsibly as a service to the world ... not for personal gain and aggrandisement.

Much of human history has been the story of competition playing itself out among individuals, among tribes, among companies, among countries, among political ideologies, and among religions.  Even science has advocated evolution as being driven by the competition for survival. However, cooperation has found some expression ... generally bringing great benefits along with it.  The sense is that as the Aquarian Age unfolds, we will see far more cooperation and far less competition.  For one thing, cooperation is generally win-win while competition is win-lose.  Competition does have its place however, providing an environment that motivates excellence and innovation.  However, in its present implementation, the lessons learned by the loser are not fed back in a manner that benefits the whole.  Win-win behavior will be encouraged and rewarded more and more.  Our systems have become so complex that we cannot afford anything other than this.

Once again we start with a blank slate and allow consciousness to come forth and express as she will.  We do this freely without any mental reservation.  We do it because we can ... and moreover because we must.  This expression in a very real way is a part of whom that we are.  We speak word upon word, in hopes that something great will come forth.  While what has come forth to date does not seem to qualify for such a distinction ... there is always hope.  Then again, the works that have come forth are great to me.  They are by far the most important important works of my life.  There is something special about this expression.  It is a bit on the wild side.  It is where I touch the unknown.  It is where the unmanifest becomes manifest in my life.  It is in the realm of ideas that I shine.  In the Aquarian Age, ideas will be extremely important ... especially fixed ideas.  That seems particularly relevant. Fixed ideas form a solid foundation around which a new reality and correspondingly a new world can be created.

We live in a time when we can conform reality to our bidding.  We are magicians that can create whatever reality we so choose.

What we think, what we believe ... we manifest in our lives.

Life is meant to have meaning.  It is meant to be an adventure.  We are meant to encounter the unknown, explore it, and integrate it into our lives.  Life is the expression of spirit if flesh.  As such, it is perfect ... at least to the degree that it can be in the moment.

How can this be with all the suffering and poverty that exist in the world.  Buddha asked this very question ... why must there be suffering in the world?  I'm not sure he ever figured out an answer.  My sense is that it is there to motivate us to achieve something better, and to have compassion for our fellow beings.  When our body is suffering, it affects the entire function of our being.  Similarly when significant parts of the body of humanity are suffering ... it seems shameful that other parts can live at high levels of abundance.  It seems so unfair.  Yet, at some level, things are as they are meant to be.  Things are as they are to show us something of whom that we are as individuals, as society, and as the whole human race.

I have a very high opinion of myself and my abilities.  Perhaps this is higher than it should be, perhaps not.  It is what it is.  It is for me to live with.  It allows me to have the courage to express in this manner.  It allows me to believe enough in myself and in the nature of spirit expressing through me to allow this stream of consciousness to come forth as it will.  I trust that consciousness knows exactly what she is doing even if I do not.  Faith is a powerful thing.  Not necessarily faith in the religious sense, though that has its utility.  But, faith in the very process of life unfolding.

The universe is a very benign place if we allow it to be and expect it to be.  It is amazing how often people live up to our expectations.  It is amazing how reality lives up to our expectations.  So, what do I expect of life?  I expect it to challenge me to be all that that I can be.  I expect it to provide me with the experiences necessary to come to know myself and the nature of the one consciousness to which I am connected ... of which I am part.  I expect it to move me to express all that I am as necessary to carry out my mission.

Limitations are self imposed ... they always are.  They can only exist as long as we accept them as real.  My chief limits are emotional.  I feel many things deeply, but I don't have the courage to express what I feel in many cases.  Sometimes it is out of a concern for others.  However, often it is out of a fear of being hurt if I get too involved or allow myself to be too vulnerable.

Why should this be a concern for me?  I don't have any experiences of being involved with others and getting hurt ... ever.

I truly consider this to be a precious gift ... first from consciousness to me, but also from consciousness through me to you.  At this point in my life, my sense is that this is indeed the greatest gift that I can give to the world.  That makes it worthy of my attention, and of my time and effort.  It matters not to how many this gift is given.  It will be found and will touch those whom it is meant to touch.

There is incredible cooperation that takes place behind the scenes to ensure that necessary connections are made in the world.  These connections are between individuals and ideas ... and between individuals and other individuals.  We find whatever we seek.  However, it is something deep within us that moves us to seek in the first place.

We go through our lives from one situation to the next mostly reacting to what we encounter.  At some point we realize that we are responsible for our lives.  Being responsible means being able to respond.  This involves having choices as to how we respond.  Just last week someone told me that the difference between being reactive and proactive is a matter of time.  We react in the moment, generally without thinking about what we are doing.  To be proactive, we have to take the time to think about alternatives and choose what is best under the circumstances.  This requires slowing down a little bit, and allowing some time to evaluate situations so that we can give ourselves the freedom to choose what we will.  This doesn't have to take a lot of time.  And, when we get good at it, the right choice is usually so obvious that we don't even have to think about it.

One of my own quotes this time.  I have it on my wall at work.  I don't remember when it came forth.  It doesn't matter anyway.  The bottom line comes down to what we do.  Who we are supplies the potential.  However, what we do is how we apply that potential.  For me, service is what counts.  In particular, the service that we provide to others and to society.

A new age demands new concepts and new ways of living.  Cooperation is a keystone for this age.  In particular, conscious cooperation freely chosen.

The very choice to be open and invite change, is the step necessary to allow it comes forth.  That is one of the tricks to reality creation ... it is not so much a matter of making things happen, but rather to simply allow them to happen.

We may find that spirit has far better things in store for us than we could imagine for ourselves.  Then again, our imagination is one of the tools that we've been given through which spirit manifests such things in our lives.

There is a sense that we need to take responsibility for manifesting our own reality ... both individual and en masse.  There is much that we can do.  Further, some things can only be done by us.  The saying God helps those who help themselves comes to mind.  We are gods eyes and gods hands.  We are the instruments through which spirit does its work in our lives and in the world.  Our works are spirits works through us.

We create our reality whether we believe that we do or not.  One key result from this is that there is no one but us to blame for anything that happens to us.  This is a powerful pill to swallow, and many live their entire lifetimes without realizing this truth.  That doesn't make it any less true.  The laws of physics apply to us whether we believe that they do or not.  Further, they apply equally to each of us.  Spiritual laws are no different.  They just operate in a different domain.

We are all allotted our time on the planet.  We come back existence after existence until we learn what we are meant to learn.  In particular, until we learn whom that we are and why we are here.  But that is not enough ... we need to do something with what we learn.  We need to be whom that we are and express that in the world.  Being the best that we can be is all that is asked of anyone.  However, that is asking a lot.  It is not an easy task.

Ultimately, we get the most by giving the most ... by serving in whatever way we are moved to serve.  This is how we get what we need.  We employ the laws of spirit that say as ye sow, so shall ye reap and never take more than you give.  We prime the spiritual pump of abundance by giving.  In giving, we create a void, a vacuum that nature ensures gets filled.  Whatever we need to draw into our life, that is the key ... to create a void for it.  Hmm, that is how this very expression occurs.  My mind becomes blank, and I allow it to fill with whatever would come through.  By writing it down ... or typing it, I empty the container allowing more to come forth.  If I simply observed what came through as passing thoughts in my head, the impact would not be the same.

In expressing in this manner, I perform a service.  At the very least, it is a service to myself and a service to consciousness.  Hopefully, it is a service to others as well.  If not today ... maybe some day.  That is one of the nice things about expression, it provides a record that lasts through some period of time.  I was going to say that is permanent ... but it struck me that this is never the case.  In this world anyway, all things are temporary.

This moment is special ... as is every moment, if only we choose to make it so.

It is amazing how combinations of 26 letters, a space, and a few punctuation marks can be sufficient to create untold works from the mundane to the extraordinary.  Among our most gifted writers and poetics ... these symbols are as paints in the hands of a master artist.  Actually, given their power, it is amazing how few seem to be involved as creators in this area.

We can make things happen ... but, it is usually better to allow spirit to do her works in our lives.  Consciousness knows what needs to be done and through whom.  We know this as well ... just not consciously.

Everything that consciousness knows is open to us when we can get to the right vibration from which to ask.  Jesus said it clearly ... seek and ye shall find, ask and ye shall be answered, knock and the door shall be opened unto thee. Or something to that effect.

My sense is that all that I need to do is continue in this manner ... allowing consciousness to express through me as she will.  She is what animates my life.  She is what gives me purpose and direction.  By her grace, I live the very life that I live.  Why her?  Because spirit/consciousness has always expressed in the feminine for me.  I only know what I have personally experienced in this domain.  I am aware that others experience this differently.  However we experience this is right for us.

It is not for us to compare what we experience with another ... though it doesn't hurt to get a different perspective from time to time.

I speak with a voice that seems ancient somehow.  It is definitely beyond my mere 44 years in this existence.  How is it that I can know what I know?  How is it that I can speak with authority on such issues as the nature of being, consciousness, and reality creation?  I simply don't know how it is possible ... I just observe that it is so.  Much of my challenge over the past decade has involved integrating my experiences and coming up with concepts that are congruent with these experiences.

This is where the unmanifest becomes manifest.  This is where words and ideas are given birth.  The parents seem to be my own consciousness plus an equally important unseen that appears as a voice within ... she is spirit or consciousness herself to me.  She has always been a separate part of me ... one that I can tap within.  I only know her through her works in my life

Yes, I must do my part for the expression to happen.  But, much of the labor seems to be born by spirit herself.  I am the proud father of these works ... but in many ways they are only partly mine.  I'm not sure how else to express this.  Many concepts seem to gestate within for long periods of time before hatching ideas of their own.

There is something important about stream of consciousness expression.  It reveals a lot about the nature of consciousness ... about it's organization, or lack thereof; but most importantly, about its immediacy.  Here we find expression occurring in realtime.  There is no thought about what is to be covered or how it is to be covered.  There is no planning.  There is only now, and expressing what comes forth in this precious moment.

Between movies, videos, music, and TV ... we have the opportunity to influence many quickly in ways that we have never had before.

What does it take to move others to believe differently, and even more important, to act differently as a result of the new beliefs?  After all, that is the true test of whether we really believe something or not.  Beliefs require the willingness to act in accord with.  This is where the power of beliefs truly come into play.

I am but a drop of water in the ocean ... a grain of sand upon the beach.  I am one amidst a large multitude.  In many ways I am the same as all the others.  Yet, Jonathan Livingston Seagull comes to mind.  My interests are not like those of the other gulls, focused on eating and meeting the basic needs for existence and survival.  My focus is on flying ... soaring in consciousness to the degree that I can.  Just as Jonathan so loved to fly that it consumed his attention and focus, even to the point of forgetting to take care of basic physical needs .... so, I love the expression of consciousness.  I too, have gone overboard in this ... enough to be considered crazy, or at least highly manic.

Where do I go to learn more at a far more rapid pace?  How do I tap into the collective experience of all those who have come before me?  I don't have to learn everything myself.  I can stand on the shoulders of giants.  However, one problem with that is that the structures that are built are only as sound as the foundations.  Those who have made their discoveries in consciousness in the past did so based on the times in which they lived and the prevalent belief systems of their time.  Actually, prevalent may be far too strong.  The most developed among us have always been out of step with the mainstream and walked to the beat of our own drummer.

Life itself, is the expression of consciousness in flesh.  One question that comes to mind is what about the expression of consciousness outside of flesh?  The sense is that while we are in this existence, unless it is expressed in flesh it doesn't count.

We can be the creators of our reality, and the masters of our fate.  Perhaps we are this whether we consciously know it or not.

Within, there is a source that knows everything that we could possibly need to know, either directly ... or via an ability to access and/or bring into our lives whatever we need to know.  The operative term is need to know.  In particular, I did not say want to know.  Though, there is a sense that when we desire to know something, we are near to the threshold of having a need to know as well.  However, this depends on how sincere the desire to know is ... and on the purpose for which we plan to use the knowledge.

Does what I have to say have any ultimate utility and value?  Is it meant to impact more than me?  Or, is it for my eyes only?  Does it truly matter?  There is a sense that yes, it does.  That it would be a waste if this expression were not to reach an audience of some type.  It is not clear that an audience of one is sufficient.  Then again ... what does it say about the nature of consciousness and of reality creation if all of this is indeed for me and me alone?  What does it say of the value of each individual that the universe is willing and able to go to such an extent to meet my needs ... even needs of which I am not consciously aware?  It says a lot ... it says that each of us as individuals is precious.  It says that each of us is worthy of herculean efforts on the part of consciousness.  It says that each of us will experience exactly what we need to develop into the beings that we need to be to know and carry out our missions.

Many people find it difficult to look deeply into their own eyes in a mirror.  Similarly, they find it difficult to look deeply into the eyes of anothers.  There is a reason that the eyes have been called the windows to the soul.  Similarly, the heart has been called the seat of the soul.  Seeing the reflection that comes to us from the heart of another is extremely powerful.  This is what love is all about.  What we see in our beloved is a glimmer of the love that is inside of us.

So let it be written, so let it be done.  Is that the secret to reality creation?  Is it all a matter of declaring what we desire to be in writing so that the forces of the universe can be marshalled to do our bidding?

This expression could not see the light of day without me.  Nor could it see the light of day without consciousness.  This is not the consciousness that I possess, rather it is the one consciousness that animates us all.  I experience this as an inner source that I tap into.  I don't experience being this source, simply connecting to it.  However, neither does this inner source seem to be other.  The sense is that I am a part of this source but at the same time this source seems to be indivisible. Perhaps this is simply a problem with experiencing life in a world of duality.  Consciousness does not seem to be subject to this in the manner that we seem to be.

Is it not sufficient for each individual to live the best life they can under whatever circumstances they find themselves within ... albeit knowing that these very circumstances are chosen by us at the deepest levels of our awareness?  We can dream of life as we would prefer it to be ... and we can take this a step further and manifest our dreams.  However, there are some restrictions.  Where these dreams involve others, reality must be co-created.

I am curious as to how others perceive this.  Does it allow others to enter into altered states of awareness or at least point the way towards doing so?  Why should this concern me?  Simply because one desires that ones children grow up to make a difference in the world.  Indeed, and the ideas expressed here are my children ... the only ones that I ever expect to have.  My works are my children, especially my spiritual works.  It is through these works that whom that I AM will live on in the world ... while whom that I truly am moves on to other realms.

No regrets.  If I were to die tomorrow, I want to know that I fulfilled my mission as fully as I could in my life to date.  That is the key, no regrets.

Don't delay until tomorrow what can be completed today.  This is a very demanding way to live ones life.  However, we need to be careful about what we deem important.  Busily doing things is not necessarily the most productive way to live our lives.  It is amazing what some quiet time can do for the mind and for the soul.

What do I have to offer the world?  The key thing is whom that I AM.  This is completely mine to give of as I will.  It is the only thing that I truly own.  It is the only thing that I truly have control over.  The more that I know of whom that I AM, the more that I have to give.  So, know thyself, is a key directive in my life.  It is where I focus a great deal of my attention ... or so I have to date anyway.  Now, it seems it is time to start giving back some of what I have been so blessed to receive.  Indeed, I have been blessed.  So much so, that I am exceedingly grateful.  This expression is one way that I have of giving back.  At this point in my life, it is the primary way.

Indeed this is a powerful truth.  It is the very key that primes the abundance pump.  It is what allows us to create the goods and services to meet the needs of all of all of us.  However, this will not happen until we collectively take responsible for meeting the needs of each individual.  We have never done this before.  Yes, we have some amount of social security, and there are a variety of charities that do good works and help many.  But, we have not taken the step to assert our cooperative interdependence and establish a binding contract among us ... in particular, a contract between each individual and the collective society of which we are part.  We have spoken of this many times.  The contract I have in mind is best expressed as:

Yes, this is the very heart of pure communism.  However, we are not applying it here as a government, rather as a social contract.  The individual is responsible for the "from each" part and the society is responsible for the "to each" part.  One is only entitled to receive what one needs if one gives what they can give to society.   Why would individuals choose to enter into such a contract?  Because it is empowering.  Because it facilitates getting needs met and in so doing frees us to express and experience more of life and what spirit has to offer us.

At present, we don't really have an infrastructure in place to effect the social contract.  That doesn't mean that we can't create something suitable.  Where there is a will, there is a way.  It is a matter of finding what will work.  Perhaps some prototyping is needed to discover this.  If we look hard enough, the sense is that we will find that the mental constructs necessary for this have already been revealed somewhere.

The new age offers great hope for completely new manifestations of utopian ideals.  It is time to build the foundations necessary to bring the stuff of our imaginations down to Earth.  Utopias don't have to be out there beyond our grasp.  We can manifest them here and now.

We may have to start with prototype communities.  However, as soon as we find things that work, there is no reason these can't be spread like wildfire ... for the fire of spirit will be behind them.

There is always the difficult choice of coming here and giving voice to the flow of consciousness or spending my time selecting from and repackaging some of what has come before.  The best of musings pages are important in that regard.  They provide a sampling of the finest material that has been brought forth in this expression.  Albeit, I choose the sample in a somewhat altered state of awareness based on criteria that I do not even know.  I quickly scan through file after file and cut and paste the best of what I find, then do the formating to turn it into a web page.  This is a somewhat automatic process.  It is as if inwardly I know what I am looking for.  It is not something I have to think about.  I don't judge each idea, or each passage.  It is as if I allow the words themselves to rise up out of the page to distinguish themselves.  To that extent, it is obvious as to what to choose and what not to choose.  In making my selections, I don't reword or change the chronological order of passages.  Though it occurred to me before I began this musing that perhaps it is time to consider generating works organized in that fashion.  This could be done by searching for adequate ideas and passages by topic, and then by ordering these packages in a manner that brings related ideas together in threads.

It is becoming more and more important for me to seek and do those tasks that are mine to do ... and not take on those tasks that rightfully should be done by others.  Sometimes it can be difficult to know the difference.  However, since we are all resource constrained in the area of time ... this distinction is important.  There simply is not enough time to do our own work as well as that of others.  Nor should we be expected to do so.

Beyond Imagination is effectively an organization of one.  The sense that I just got was and rightly so for it deals primarily with the greater expression of the one consciousness in flesh through all of us collectively.

In some areas, cause and effect are fully operative.  In other areas they are not.  It helps greatly if we know the difference.  Similarly, logic and reasoning have their utility ... however, so does intuition, and sometimes both need to be applied cooperatively.  The more we engage our whole brain in the endeavors that we undertake ... the better the results overall.

To whom are these words expressed?  Clearly to me.  But, also to an audience that is unseen.  The very fact that this expression could come forth in this manner, could be manifest in flesh is a major breakthrough for consciousness.  Literally, this is a process by which consciousness is breaking through into flesh, and hence into the world.  Yes, it is done through me.  But note the emphasis, through me, not by me.

As beings in flesh, we make choices as to what we believe and where we focus our attention and efforts.  When we choose to listen to the voice of consciousness within, and act in a manner that is congruent with that voice ... we allow spirit to do her works through us.  We are free to choose to operate on our own and choose the works that we do.  However, we do this, we are responsible for the consequences.

Along with free will comes complete responsibility ... which gets enforced via spiritual law regardless of what we believe.  This does not necessarily happen within a single lifetime.  The karmic bank accounts seem to span far beyond that.  Eventually a balance must be achieved ... or a surplus.  However, forgiveness may come into play as well under the appropriate conditions.

I am still the chief consumer of the works that have come forth through me.  Perhaps this will always be so.  Perhaps not.  In the end, it doesn't really matter.   I will have the impact that I am meant to have by being whom that I AM as fully as I can, and by doing that which I am moved to do to the best of my abilities.  What this impact will be is ultimately in the hands of consciousness, not me.  Not that I am relinquishing any responsibility.  Rather, I am acknowledging that the one consciousness from which we spring holds the strings and runs the show.

We simply play our roles as assigned to the best of our abilities.  We are magnificent actors, indeed.  Though it seems that some are more talented, or at least more educated in this, than others.  We are also gods and goddesses, creators of reality in our own rights, though most are not aware of their powers in this area.

As little as one generation ago, there were no metaphysical bestsellers.  In fact, in many parts of the country, such materials were labelled occult, and associated with witchcraft and the like.  Now, however, books such as Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch, and The Celistine Prophecy by James Redfield, and a number of books by Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, ... have reached large audiences and rightfully so.  The Seth books have seen a resurgence as well.  These are what started me on the path that I have been following since 1974.  They are still among the best channelled works that have ever been produced.  Jane Roberts passed away many years ago, but her works ... and Seth's works provide us with a rich legacy, one that has had a major effect on many.

As an explorer of consciousness, it is not necessary for me to know who benefits from my reports of my journeys.  At some point there may be others whom I work with in this endeavor, but right now, I do not know who these might be.  They may be there, lying dormant in my life already, waiting to be activated.  Or, they may be out there ... awaiting the right moment for us to enter into an appropriate relationship.  To me, appropriate translates into cooperatively interdependent.  These are the only right relationships in a new age.

Interesting ... we see the elephant from different sides, not realizing that all that has changed is our point of view.  And this, we have complete control over.  We are free to observe things from any point of view.  However, it may take some training to be able to reach the states of consciousness from which these points of view are seen.

Writing is important to me.  It is like eating, drinking, breathing, and exercising.  It is my way of releasing tension ... of providing a relief valve for all that is bottled within me.  This expression is where I allow myself full reign to be whom that I AM, and to express that as fully as consciousness will allow.  This is also where I discover whom that I AM, as I venture out and explore the unknown realms of consciousness.  The unknown is not such a scary place ... it can be challenging, and even invigorating.  Then again, my destiny seems to involve being an explorer of consciousness.

A phrase from the show playing on TV right now just caught my attention.

I am blessed to have been given much indeed.  Yet, I realize that along with this come a great responsibility, a sacred responsibility.  I believe that what I do here is part of carrying out that responsibility.  Though, there is a sense that there is much more in store in the years ahead.

We are cooperatively interdependent now.  However, we can take this to a whole new level.  It is a matter of choice.  When will we make that choice?  When will we realize how much we are missing?  When will we realize how inefficiently we operate collectively?

There is a sense that answers lie within the very process of questioning.  Something Einstein said come to mind ... Problems cannot be solved at the level responsible for creating the problem.  We must rise above this to find solutions.  This requires being open to new possibilities.

You will know me more from reading these works than anyone in the world knows me ... with the possible exception of my wife.

We are only beginning to see the power and the freedom of an information age.  One area that we are struggling with is access to information, and the ease by which digital information can be replicated and disseminated.  This goes against all of our concepts of copywrite and ownership of information.

In a free market economy, all of the costs are born by the consumers ... plus any profits that companies make above and beyond the costs involved in providing the goods and services.

 There seems to be a high overhead associated with doing business.  Yes, it is competitive within various markets ... but it is not clear that any thought is going into how the economy as a whole functions and if we are truly providing the goods and services that are needed in efficient and effective ways to those in need of them.  My sense is that there is room for great improvements.  But, these won't come from the parts acting in isolation in their own best interest.

This is a fundamental flaw in capitalism and the free market economy.  John Nash, the main character on which the move A Beautiful Mind was based, proved that the greatest good comes not when individuals act solely in their best interest but rather when individuals consider the collective good and well as their own best interest when they make their choices.  Yet, even now, over 40 years later, we have yet to teach individuals that this is so and further, how to apply this in their daily lives.

It seems that anyone operating in our markets needs to be operating fairly, honestly, and in a win-win manner ... or they shouldn't be allowed to play the game.  It is that simple.  We have moved from an era of let the buyer beware to let the seller be responsible.  This is a major change in the rules.  Yet, it is not clear that we have announced that the rules have changed ... nor set up the infrastructure to monitor behavior and enforce the new rules.

I follow my intuition and my stream of consciousness wherever she takes me.  I have been doing this for over nine years, so I know that I can trust it to lead me to something interesting.  I never know what I am going to find when I start making the connections.  It is much like doing proofs in geometry, except that there is no end point that guides the endeavor, and hence no way to know when we are done other than through an inner sense that the current avenue has been followed as far as it can be.

My life is primarily a spiritual one.  No, not in the religious sense.  I've chosen not to pay much attention to religion since my early teens.  Yet, I consider myself highly spiritual nonetheless.  I would have it my way as the saying goes and follow the path that is right for me.  For the most part, it seems to be a path that I have to create for myself.  I do not expect others to follow it.  I invite others to join me ... but, it is not clear whether anyone ever will.

We have a lot to do in whatever time remains for us.  Many have lived and worked sufficiently to have earned a nice retirement.  The sense is that they have built their heavens on Earth and they will be allowed to live out their lives peacefully and comfortable.  In the area that I live, there are many retirement communities ... designed precisely for this.  They are of the Piscean Age, and have done their parts.  However, those of us who came to be part of the new age, the Aquarian Age, have chosen a different path.  We still have much to do.  Though, building a utopia on Earth seems to be a major part of this as well.  Presently, a relatively minor percentage have reached the point of having the resources for a comfortable retirement.  As a society, it seems we should provide the infrastructure that allows far more of us to do this.

My sense is that there must be a better way ... that if we were operating as a society, we wouldn't tolerate all the waste and inefficiency.  Further, we wouldn't tolerate all of the pain and suffering.  Yes, there is individual responsibility at play as well. However, this does not diminish the responsibility of the whole for taking care of the whole ... including each individual.

Where we have people living at or below the poverty level, we are saying that it is OK for people to suffer and for people to receive less than they need to live a decent life.  This is a measure of the level of responsibility that we have accepted both individually and collectively.

There is something about this expression that is special.  It seems far more organized than normal stream of consciousness stuff.  Then again, I haven't had much experience reading such material from others, so I have no basis of comparison.  The expression is what it is.  I would have it no other way.  It reveals to me aspects of whom that I AM, and how various parts of me function ... in firsthand ways that nothing else that I have ever read has been able to do.  Yes, grandiosity again.  I have a very high opinion of myself and my abilities.  I would consider myself great.  Yet, because of this, I consider my responsibilities to be great as well.  It is not sufficient for me to live and ordinary life in and ordinary way.  That may be acceptable for others ... but even then, I would question this, as it seems to me that each of us has greatness within us, if only we will seek and find it.

I am ready to boldly go where no one has gone before, if that is necessary.  I trust consciousness so deeply that I have no fear of losing my mind ... as if I had something to say in the matter.  It seems that I will experience exactly what I need to experience.  Similarly, I will express what I can and must express.  I live a life of destiny now, even more so than I ever have before.  It is not for me to decide how I will expend my energy.  It is for me to allow ... and be the active vessel through which spirit does her work in the world.

But, what about my responsibility for my own choices?  I take complete responsibility.  However, I actively choose not to invoke my will in those areas where the will of spirit knows better.

There is a sense that people are doing the best that they can under the circumstances in which they find themselves.  In general, people try to make the right choice and do the right thing.  They don't always succeed, but they try.

I demand a lot from myself, more than anyone has a right to demand.  But, I take the directive be all that you can be to heart.  Because of this, I am not satisfied with less.  However, I don't impose this standard upon others.  I don't know who they are or what they've experienced, so I have no right to pass judgment.  Ultimately, this is something each must do for themselves.  Though, we need to be gentle with ourselves in this area.

This expression continuously amazes me.  In particular, that it could go on and on, seemingly without end.  There is something about free creative expression that is special.  It truly is a gift from the gods, or perhaps more correctly, the Goddess ... as this source has always been feminine to me.

In others, I have the opportunity to see reflections of parts of myself that I have not yet experienced.  This is a whole new frontier for me.  Yet, it seems to be one that I am destiny bound to enter.  That is OK.  The sense is that it is time.  There is also a sense that I am ready.  Anyway, I am open to whatever it is that must be done.

Life is about the expression of spirit in flesh.  We are the instruments of consciousness.  She orchestrates all that is expressed.

Is it true that I see what no one else can see?  Am I that unique of an expression of consciousness?

I have been in this world as a stranger in a strange land.  I don't know how many others like me are in the world.  I can't believe that I am alone.  Surely, not in a country of over 300 million and a world over 6 billion.  Yet, how do I find my place in the world?  Simply by following my inner guidance and doing what I am moved to do.  Right now, this is expressing as I am doing here.  This is how I give spirit voice in my life.  At this point, this is extremely important to me.  How long this will last is unknown.  The urge is to make the most of it however long that is.

This endeavor is a bold new expression of consciousness.  It results in the creation of something that has never been expressed in this manner before.  Each of us is a unique expression of consciousness.  Never before has spirit expressed in the manner it does both personally and collectively.

There are opportunities to excel everywhere.  We just have to be open to them and take advantage of them when they come.  Opportunities are often challenges and sometimes even problems.  I think it was Richard Bach who said "you seek problems because you need their gifts."

Indeed, challenges make life interesting.  There force us to confront whom that we are.  They allow us to discover what we are capable of.

I have no desire to have followers.  Except, perhaps, in the sense of follow me so that ye can see as I see, go where I go, and do as I do.

My experiences provide a jumping off point by demonstrating how spirit can express in one life anyway.  And, what works for me, just may work for you too.  Whether it does or not is up to you to assess for yourself.  Not everything works for everyone.  But, if we follow our inner source, we will find exactly what is right for us.

Operating at a spiritual level requires some commitment.  It takes observation, awareness, and lots of practice.  The later is required because we have to exercise our spiritual muscles to develop them.  To stretch our consciousness, we must stretch our minds.  We must learn to think in new ways, ways that go beyond reasoning and rational thinking.

My hope is that this stream of consciousness allows you to walk in my shoes so to speak ... and in doing so allows you to experience life differently as a result.  This is my way of sharing what I see, feel, and know in the most intimate manner that I can.

The sense is that I am meant to lead an extraordinary life.  Nothing less than this is acceptable to me. I have been blessed with many gifts.  These gifts are to be used in service to others in some manner.  Not in traditional ways ... for many can serve in this manner, but in ways that fully employ whom that I am in ways that make a real difference.  I must lead a life of meaning, a life which demonstrates what we can be and what we can do when we open ourselves and allow spirit to express through us.

I write on and on and on, grateful to serve as a vessel through which consciousness can express as she will.  There is something magical about this process, about tapping into this stream of consciousness in this manner.  This is where I get to play and to soar as high as the wings of awareness can take me.

The words continue to flow forth coming from a source within.  There is no stimulus that triggers them.  They are not a reaction, rather more of a spontaneous expression.  Yet, there is some structure here ... one that I am not consciously applying or even recognizing.  There is simply the sense that these are not the musings of a madman.  Though many, including doctors, might consider this expression as suspect at best and definitely outside the realm of the normal.

It is time to express more of what is locked within me.  This is my choice to make.  The locks are of my own making.  I hold all the keys.  It is simply a matter of deciding which locks to open and trying the keys until I find the ones that work.  There is a sense that the keys are beliefs.  That is the playground where the work of reality creation is done.  That is the garden where I must plant to reap new fruits in my life.

We can transform the world.  And, we can literally do it overnight.  It is a matter of choice, and of releasing the right information to get people motivated to cooperate and work together to achieve what none can achieve alone.

At an inner level, we already know that reality creation operates through incredible cooperation.  To take this further, we need to consciously choose to cooperate and do our parts to make the world a better place for all of us.

Each of us have a role to play.  Further, that role is tailored to our unique talents and abilities.  We will know what is ours to do.  We will gravitate to it naturally.  All that it takes is to listen inside and follow source wheresoever she leads us ... and when we get there, to be whom that we truly are, and to express that as fully as we can in each and every moment.

We are grand beings, each and every one of us.  However, it is only through choice and actions that we can express this in the world.  It is not enough to simply be whom that we are ... we must take the next step and act in accord with this.  When we do that, we share our light with the world, and we live a life of greatness.  Further, we are entitled to all the abundance that is our due ... to the degree that we are worthy of it anyway

That is what you get from stream of consciousness material.  Any organization comes from hidden parts of ourselves.  It is interesting to see what flows forth ... and to contemplate what kinds of intelligence were necessary for the expression to take place in the manner that it did.

There is a female rock group called Destiny's Child.  That is an appropriate name for how I feel at this moment.  It is clear that destiny's hand is at play in my life.  It has been from the beginning.  It is just that I seem so much more aware of it now.

Spirit helps those who help themselves ... comes to mind.  We need to cooperate and do what we can do, not only for ourselves, but for others, for our society, and for our world.  This is a choice that we must make.  For most, it doesn't just happen automatically.  We have free will.  Spirit doesn't force us to do anything.  However, she does provide sage guidance if we are open to it.  Even then, it is up to us to find the source, develop the ears to hear, choose to listen to what she says, interpret what this means to us, then take action based on this understanding.

Service to others is all that truly matters in this world.  In all other modes of operation we take.  In providing service, we give.

One of the guiding principles from the Lion King is to never take more than you give.  That is how we create abundance in society.  If each gives more that they take, there is always a surplus.  We need to ensure that this surplus occurs on all levels ... physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.  For then, our society can truly soar to new heights that have only been imagined before.

Spirit thrives on the diversity of experience and expression.  Do that which feels right and natural for you.  But don't get too attached on any one way.  Allow some flexibility and be open to experiencing and expressing differently should the opportunity present itself.  Sage advice.  It seems that it always is when it comes from inner sources.  But it is not right because I say so.  Find that space within you which knows whether what I say applies to you or not.  Use whatever you find to be useful.  Ignore the rest, or save it for a later time in your life when it may apply.

The bulk of what we experience as reality is the direct result of our beliefs.  If we don't like what we experience, that is the place to make the necessary changes ... with the beliefs.  These determine what we experience and to a large degree how we experience, and how we interpret what the experience means.  Of these, it seems what matter most is the interpretation, the meaning that we apply to what we experience.  This above all else is under our control.  Here is one area where free will doth apply.

We find the puzzle pieces, and we make connections to the degree that we can ... awaiting the day when the whole picture will gel, and we will know what it all means.  Until then, we need to be content with what is revealed in the moment and let that carry us to the next moment and the next after that.  One step at a time ... in whatever direction seems appropriate is all that is necessary.

There is something magical about this expression.  It is soothing and healing to me, and is definitely beneficial.  But, is it so to others.  Perhaps this is the output of a troubled or disturbed mind?  If so, we should all be so troubled ... it would make the world a far better place.

Every day is a new adventure.  Every day brings new opportunities for expression.  It is for us to be the adventurer and to take advantage of the opportunities that come our way ... knowing that at some level we are the very creator that is manifesting the opportunities.

I find it curious that I have so much to say here in this stream of consciousness ... yet, realtime, I have little to communicate with others.

Cooperative interdependence is the banner sign for the new age.  Independence is the way of the past.  It had its utility ... but only as a stepping stone.  The world is interdependent.  The human family and our animal friends are interdependent.  There is a hoop, a circle that never ends that connects everything to everything.  What we do to one, we do to all.  We cannot tolerate war, hate, and aggression any longer.  It is time to weave a peaceful world.

It's amazing how fast time goes by ... and how little we really have to show for it.  This expression is an exception.  It is a record that this year anyway, documents where I have spent approximately 10% of my time.  Interesting, I consider this to be my spiritual work.  And here, we've reached the level of applying a tithe not just of our working time, but of our whole life ... or "clock time".   This includes both sleeping and waking time ... an average of 10% of 24 hours per day.  There is a sense that when this level of devotion is given to spiritual expression, we reach a whole new level of functioning and thespiritual law of abundance kicks in.

I've been looking at the world through a different set of eyes lately.  It seems that I've been far more judgmental than I need to be.  Overall, there are many things working well in our society for the vast majority of people, at least in this country and in many of the developed countries.  People are enjoying their lives.  For the most part, they are happy with their circumstances and are having a good time.  They are learning and growing at a rate that is appropriate for them ... and they will continue to do so.  Yes, the jump from independence to interdependence needs to happen.  However, this does not have to be a radical change ... it can be gradual.  It can be a matter people being reminded in a manner that allows them to realize how connected they are to others, to society, and to the world as a whole.

People are being trained for the roles they are meant to play in the new age.  No, this is not happening in the conventional way, through specific training.  Rather, it is happening naturally by where people are choosing and being moved to apply their attention, time, and energy.

My forte is evaluating how spirit is flowing within a system ... where it flows freely and where it is blocked; and then finding ways to increase the overall flow.  I had been focussing so much on what was wrong that needed to be fixed ... that I was blind to what is working well.  Observe without attachment and without expectation.  It is important to be open to seeing what is there, as well as what could be.  We can trust source to come up with the means of getting us from what is there to what could be.  However, source needs us as her eyes and her hands.  This gets back to the reality that there is only ONE Consciousness ... and we are all parts of that, individual cells within the same one whole.

The ONE can only experience limitation through us.  It can only know what we know by the very process of our knowingness.  It can only experience the varieties of awareness through our awareness.  We literally are spirit incarnate.  Our awareness is spirits awareness.  Our experience is spirits experience.  Our expression is spirits expression.  Everything is spirit ... no fine print, no exceptions.  We are gods/goddesses in flesh.

The more sophisticated and complicated our organizations, the higher the vibrations of spirit that can be embodied in flesh.

I don't know how many people are aware of where they fit within the overall scheme of things, and have reached a point where they consciously decide where to expend their energies for maximal impact.  This is a sign of enlightened behavior.

There are many common themes that come up repeatedly in this expression.  The sense is that repetition is like practice, driving the ideas home until they take root and become an automatic part of our being.  Practice is important in increasing our competence in the areas and skills involved.  We learn best by doing.  Often this requires stepping beyond fear ... and allowing ourselves to be whom that we truly are, and to express this.

From one standpoint, we are indeed beautiful peacocks ... some of us on the outside, others on the inside, and many a combination of both.  We have an inner reality and an outer reality.  Further, we have a natural disposition that has us prefer one of the to the other.  The preference may be anywhere on the spectrum from the inner extreme to no preference to the to the outer extreme.  This preference may change over time as we come to know ourselves and find it necessary to express in new ways.  There is no position that is ultimately better or worse.  It is for us to find what works best for us.  This may require some experimentation and discovery.  In addition, it may require that we grow in new ways.

Ultimately we must find a way first to know whom that we are and then to be whom that we are.  This requires expressing in a manner that is congruent ... that is consistent with the energies of spirit that are flowing through us.  We are the vessels and channels through which spirit expresses.  We are spirit enfleshed.  Everything is spirit ... there simply is nothing else.  However, this doesn't mean that everything is the same.  Equality amidst incredible diversity is a cornerstone of spiritual expression.  We all have our differences, different abilities and talents, different preferences, different likes and dislikes ...  Yet, in some manner we are all created equal.

 We consider this country a land of equal opportunity.  However, this does not imply that the opportunities are the same for everyone.  Equal does not mean identical, nor should it be.  Opportunity is matched to our needs for experience and expression.  In a very real way, we create our own opportunity and our own fate for that matter.  However, many put blinders on and don't see the role they personally play in this.

I trust that there is always room to safely take the next step.  However, I have no visibility of the path beyond that.  There is no foresight that allows me to see the endpoint or even some intermediate point that lies ahead on the path.  Because of this, I cannot plan for what lies ahead.  It seems that I am being forced to live more and more in the moment ... and to do what I moved to do in that moment.  The art of living for me involves maximizing my output and service to the world.  At this point in my life, recording this stream of consciousness seems to be a major part of this.  It provides a means for me to make a difference while allowing me to be and express whom that I AM.

There is only ONE consciousness.  It is not necessary for others to experience what I have experienced.  However, it may be helpful for others to be exposed to the stream of consciousness that has been expressed as a result of all of this.  There is a sense that my experience provides a valuable lesson that may be of service to others.  Also, there is a sense that we can't rest on our past laurels.  Each day is a new day.  Each day offers a new opportunity for expression and for being of service.  We need to be grateful for all that we are given.  The best way of showing our gratitude is by finding a way to use what we are given in service to others, to society, and to our world.

Yes, I have asked from where this flow originates.  The only answer I have found acceptable is that it comes from source within me ... a source that links me to the ONE consciousness that animates us all.  Clearly, it does not originate from outside of me.  Yet, I am not consciously aware of the exact place from which it comes.  I only know that it is inward and that it is somehow a part of whom that I AM

I choose to expend a significant fraction of my time engaged in this expression.  Partly, because I am moved to do it.  Partly, because I am addicted to expressing in this manner.  Partly, because I believe that what is coming through is new and different ... a unique expression of consciousness.  Partly, because this seems to be instrumental in carrying out my mission.  I'm sure there are many other reasons as well.  However, the bottom line is that I need no reasons.  It is enough to express for the sheer joy of creative expression.

There is some part of us that knows what we need in order to develop into whom that we truly are.  Further, it has the power to attract exactly what we need into our lives.  It is for us to recognize that this is indeed what is happening, to learn what we can from each experience, and to express what we can to the best of our abilities.  This is a natural process if we allow it to be.  That doesn't mean that it is without its challenges and obstacles.  Though, there may be times of smooth sailing as well.  The key is to be and to express whom that we are ... with as little holding back as we can muster.  Yes, this takes courage.  Much of whom that we are is unknown to us consciously.  We know of the existence of parts of ourselves because of their products and impacts in our lives.  But, we know virtually nothing about how these parts function.

Direct knowingness is a faculty that lies within us all.  It comes from a deep connection to source, the ONE consciousness which is omniscient.  It knows everything, because it is EVERYTHING.  Hmm ... everything that is known at that point in time.  This changes in each moment, as new discoveries are made and the sum of the collective knowledge increases.

There is something about soaring in consciousness that allows me to see and experience reality in a different manner than most.  I can tell this even from my limited experience with others.  You can tell this from the nature of this expression.  There is something immediate about it.  There is something that strikes chords deep within.  What is being conveyed has a richness and depth that goes beyond casual conversation.  At least, it comes across like this to me.  It is up to you to judge what it does and means to you.

At what point have we done our fair share?  First, our "fair share" is dependent on our gifts and abilities.  There is a graduated scale that applies.   To those whom much has been given, much is expected.  How do we know when we are doing enough?  We will know because we will feel fulfilled and our life will be abundant in whatever manners are meaningful to us.

We are meant to be physical while we are here, even though our true nature is spiritual.  Be in this world but not of this world comes to mind.  The trick lies in how we do this.  It is easy to say ... but the world is a very enticing place.  We can become locked within a reality of our own creation.

This is how we personally experience being ONE consciousness.  We connect with others in ways that allow us to blend and merge our energies, interrelate, and enter into cooperatively interdependent relationships.  We do this because we are so moved, and because it enhances the work environment by making us more efficient and happier in carrying out our assigned tasks and duties.

Each of us take one path through life.  In the course of this path, it appears that we have choices.  Whether we do or not is another matter.  We are never given the opportunity to go back to a previous point and make a different choice.  There is nothing in our experience that allows us to detect whether we truly have a choice, or whether we simply experience a predestined choice.  We may argue that there is a reason or set of reasons why we made a particular choice ... however, we simply cannot rule out that we are an actor following a script that a playwright other than our conscious self was responsible for.

What makes me think in such a fashion?  The issue of free will has been bothersome for me since the beginning of these writings.  Prior to that, I didn't really think much about it.  I believed Seth ...

However, I assumed that most of this happened behind the scenes on other than conscious levels.  I still strongly believe this, however my sense is that reality creation is more a matter of how we interpret what we experience that it is about what we experience.

Throughout my life, it never felt as if I had alternatives.  It was always obvious what the right "choice" was ... and I was by nature moved to make the right choice.  This applies to the big choices anyway.  The little choices like what to eat, what to wear, what show or movie to watch, what radio station or albums/tapes to listen to didn't really seem to matter much.  What books to read were a different matter.  Here, I was guided to the books that I needed to read, when I needed to read them.  Looking back, it is as if I was being programmed.  The books provided a stream of ideas, just as we feed information into artificial intelligence systems.  These books were far more sophisticated than anything that we normally feed into a conscious mind.  And, in my case, there were over a thousand metaphysical books.  That's literally hundreds of thousands of pages of metaphysical material ... or millions of ideas.

I believe that everything we read, hear, and experience is recorded and captured somehow.  For some, the process is nearly photographic.  For others, like me, the process is nearly opposite of photographic ... I forget most things almost as quickly as I see them.  They pass through my consciousness, and somehow the appropriate connections get made so they can be recalled when needed.  I believe that everything that enters my awareness triggers something ... activates something within me.  In most cases, it is a realization of something that I already know within, but that I am now becoming consciously aware of.

There is something about spiritual expression that brings out the best in us and in all those whose lives we touch.  There is something miraculous about engaging with consciousness in this manner.  Here, we are engaged directly in the process of co-creation, involving creativity of a very high order.  We express what can be expressed through us because we must ... because in a real way, that is whom that we are.

ONE consciousness ... there is ONE consciousness animating us all.  We are ONE, in more ways then we might consider possible.  What we do to one, we do to all.  What any one of us experience, all of us experience.  What any one of us know, the whole knows ... and that knowingness can be shared with anyone else at any time.  That doesn't mean that we can't help the process by facilitating this awareness and consciously sharing more with others.  Sharing is not something that can be done unilaterally, even though I try to do that here.  Sharing involves a give and take.  Where none consume, the sharing has not really occurred.  Yet, there is always at least one party to any sharing that is done ... namely, the ONE consciousness herself.

Though cooperation we can manifest incredible things in the world.

Spirit has lain dormant for many centuries, even millenia, awaiting a time when her forces could be unleashed to do their works in the world.  Now is that time.  If this expression is any indication, something shifted around the beginning of this year.

I believe the children are our future.  Teach them well, and let them lead the way.  Show them all the beauty the possess inside.  Give them a sense of pride ... Let the childrens laughter remind us how we used to be.  I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadow ... If I fail, if I succeed, at least I'll live as I believe.  No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my liberty ... I found the greatest love of all, inside of me.  The greatest love of all is easy to achieve.  Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

One foot in front of the other, one step at a time is how we get from where we are to where we need to be.  We will know in which direction to move, because we will be directed by spirit herself, or will follow the lead of others who are so directed.  And, if this takes us to the edge of the cliff and beyond ... then that is exactly where we need to be.

We can trust that there is a spiritual destiny that is manifesting ... and that each of us have a role in that destiny.  We simply have to go within to find it.  That can be scary if we have not done the self work necessary to gain an understanding of whom that we are sufficient to know that what we find within can indeed be trusted.  However, fear should not keep us from doing the things that we know we must do.

I am to be a wayshower ... but it is not clear to whom I am showing the way.  It just may be to consciousness herself so that she can learn what is necessary to guide others to awaken more fully.  Hmm ... I've never thought of it in that way before.  That is where the for your eyes only, only for you idea comes into play.  This may indeed be an experiment in which the ONE consciousness is finding out what energies can be expressed through one entity ... namely me.

How much evidence do we need that spirit is expressing in our world in more powerful ways than she has ever done before?  The mass consciousness is being prepared for something.  There are massive changes in store ahead ... yet it only requires subtle shifts of awareness to be ready for them and to be able to deal with them effectively.

The road to the future can be easy or it can be difficult ... it is our choice.  Each of us decides how we will experience this primarily by how we embrace change and new ways of seeing things and doing things.  If we are set in our ways, the going may be pretty tough for awhile.  However, if we are flexible and open minded, we will be lead down the optimal path for us.  That doesn't mean there won't be hardships and challenges.  There may be or may not be depending on what we envision that we need to experience.

Time has definitely accelerated.  It is amazing how fast the weeks and months go by.  The sense is that this pace of change is here to stay.  And, if anything, it will continue to accelerate.

But can we handle it?  When do we stop and smell the roses?  There is only so much time each day.  There is only so much that we can do with that time.  However, the challenge is to make the most of that time; and, in particular, to do the things that have the most meaning.  This we have to constantly choose for ourselves.  Though it seems that we also have the opportunity to gather together in ways that allow us to collectively do a whole lot more.  This requires a commitment, and a willingness to risk.  To risk our lives, our property, and our sacred honor ... for a cause that is greater than anyone of us.  Yes, such is what we will be asked to do, much as the founding fathers of our country did.  We are brethren ... brothers and sisters all.  We are meant to help one another.  We are meant to be responsible for one another.  That does not relieve our responsibility for ourselves.  However, it puts self in a larger context, the context of society.