It has been awhile since I last allowed SPIRIT to speak through this vessel in this manner. Much has happened since the breakthroughs and intense activity of Apr 98. However, much of this was of such a nature to fit into the "you had to be there" category.

So, let's express as we always do ... in the moment from the present state of awareness.

On all fronts, the world appears to be moving at an unprecedented pace in a direction that more fully permits the expression of spirit. Government, entertainment, industry, the ecology, and even the weather all are experiencing massive change that is for the positive from a spiritual perspective.

Each day I am amazed by how many positive indications and connections get made in my mind. It is as if I have become a walking instrument through which to measure the amount of spirit that is being expressed in everything that I am moved to notice.

Everything is incredibly rich with meaning. I have no sense of time. The moment is where reality is experienced. It is the only place where spirit can express. For that matter, it is the only place where creative expression can occur. Even further, all creative expression is SPIRITUAL. It cannot by its very nature be anything else. Nothing else exists.

Has the world really changed that much in two months. YES! Though, it is not clear that anyone else is truly aware of this and aware of how much. I have this sense that we were on a path that was leading to a future point some 20 plus years into the future. Then, as if all of a sudden, we moved to a new place that has us on a path that is much different than what was there before. However, it's as if there is a conspiracy in the mass media that is exposing everyone to this new world very rapidly.

Further, there seems to be limited memory of what was there before. The context switches are permitting a fluidity of mind that in turn permits corresponding fluidity in consciousness and its expression.

In computer science terms, we have context switches. Reality is a sequence of contexts that may or may not have logical (or anything other than a temporal) connection between them. There is a sense that we are being re-programmed to experience reality in a new way. The re-programming is taking place on a major scale. Further, most of it is being done in the context of entertainment, which we chose of our own free well to consume or apply attention to. The programming is occurring through the most creative people on the planet doing what they most LOVE to do, expressing their creativity ... and in so doing expression SPIRIT in flesh. This in turn ripples into how everyone experiences their lives.

When you think about it, the past exists primarily in memories that we relive in the moment. We have little control over how this memory is accessed and played back ... at least such has been my personal experience. Yet, we believe this past experience to a large degree made us what we are today. But, is this really so? Books capture very limited perspectives on things. Audio and video doesn't do much more due to the limited snapshots of life that they capture.

I'm noticing a lot of information content in television programs and commercials, even in the newspapers that I never knew was there before. In some cases, it is not clear that the people creating the material are consciously aware of what they have done. The messages that I see are not related to the theme, or context of the programs in which I see them. This is a strong sign that the Aquarian Age is indeed in the throws of being born. In some ways, it is as if the birth is already accomplished ... we have only to await its' physical manifestation.

I sit here as the Hermit, watching it all. Looking up at the picture on the wall, what I fail to see is that what I see is my minds creation being reflected back to me.

The philosophy question -- does a tree falling in a forest make any sound if no one is there to hear it.

Similarly, reality does not exist until someone is there to notice it ... to make the connections needed to give it meaning. Everyone can capture the basic meaning in a show or in a commercial. The subtle meaning is hidden however. Also, one must really pay attention to catch the details. Further, since SPIRIT took care of the details, these are hidden very well and may be impossible to see if one does not have the appropriate resonance.

Everything is vibration and resonance. Food and pills change the resonance of our bodies. Images and sounds and scents involve mental and emotional vibrations.  Multimedia is the latest means of feeding our awareness with multiple channels concurrently. It is pervasive in television now. In the past two days, I've truly realized just how pervasive. There is incredible depth of detail in most programming. Foreground, background, movement, multiple focus, shapes, detail, color, sound, sharpness, intensity, perspective ... there are an amazing variety of factors out of which the details can be created.

I observed a few weeks my world conforms to my map of what I believe reality to be. Much of my experience 5 years ago dealt with weeding through all the information I had thought about to find what I truly believed. The past several months have been about weeding through what I believed to find the subset that was REAL for me, that were consistent with my personal experience and innate awareness. In some ways, this was a more difficult journey, though it's duration in time was far less.

Back to the topic. The bottom line is that the State of the Union is QUITE WELL. What is being experienced by the entity Wayne mirrors what is being experienced by the World that Wayne sees. This is true for each and every one of us. The key is to notice where your attention is being drawn and ask what meaning is there for you to see. The outer is the mirror of the inner and vice versa as it has always been. Also, do what you are moved to do. For, it is our ACTIONS here and now that truly make a difference in our world. Further, whatever you do, do it with LOVE!

Following links on the web earlier today led me to discover an interesting page that offered many definitions of intentional communities. I'd like to share one that I found particularly meaningful.

Linda Woodrow, Black Horse Creek

Kyogle, Australia

This may seem like a frivolous answer, but I think it works as a definition. When I try to think what all "communities" -- intentional, traditional, tribal, neighborhood ... have in common, the only one I can put a finger on is gossip -- in a positive sense ...

Communities are groups of people who

care enough about each other to constantly monitor each other's lives,

find them interesting, want to know and help and support.

10/1/93

Note the date! Exactly the day I went into the hospital the first time. This definition is perfect, except for the word "constantly" in front of monitor. Though, there needs to be sufficient "caring" that this is a FREQUENT activity or at least one that one chooses to focus attention on.

Thanks Linda! Namaste.

It is particularly curious that out of dozens of definitions that were on the page, this was the only one that I found that came close to expressing what I mean when I use the term community. Nearly every other definition included a spatial proximity as a requirement ... whereas this definition focuses on the attention aspect. "Constantly monitor" means that we find it worthy of placing our attention on the others life to the degree of knowing, helping, and supporting them. Is this not how LOVE is expressed in practical terms between people?

Further, this definition is the most open, permitting us to create communities of people who may never be in physical proximity with one another. Is this not what we do via e-mail and the internet. We can communicate and care and share and support each other, coming to know one another in ways that can be more intimate than we can express through the shells that are our bodies.

The pages that I create are the rooms of my psyche, the places and states where my psyche and spirit has wandered. I create pictures of how the World and how my Self look through my eyes, knowing that the WORLD and the ONE SELF are mirror reflections of which I am only aware of pieces. In sharing our pieces, we each grow to embrace more. Our worlds expand to accommodate our experiences with one another. It is through relationships that we embrace more of what is NOT I. This is the very process that is key to experiencing NO TIME = NOT I | ME. Where we are simultaneously aware of Not I and Me, we have escaped the limits of "time".

Curious. This is also coming through as "not I" | ME. In numerology, this is not 9, 45. There is a deeper meaning in this.

9 is 3 times 3. Me | World | Unknown expressed in Conscious | Subconscious | Superconscious.

This is what the masses of humanity experience as reality. Note that the mirror reflection of "I" is "I".

45 is 5 times 9. This requires that we experience the I as the 5 parts that it is.

"I" = Ego, "not I" = ME

Self = "I" + "Not I"

Note that the reflection of ME is WE! We've realised this before. This tells us where to look for the ME. The reflection of I in the world are the things that are mine in the world. The reflection of ME in the world is the World that I live in that I do not own. It is the World that I see and experience. This is why our worlds are truly unique yet it is why our world is also the same.

There is only one ME! It is the ONE consciousness. It is the same one consciousness for each of us. Though this may be for each of us in the same family. There is a sense that sparks of consciousness are arranged in functional groupings. This permits additional diversity in the expression of consciousness.

Ego | ME | WE | ONE

As a Hermit, my focus is at the extreme of Self, at the difference between Ego | ME. This is discovered through finding ones connection to the ONE CONSCIOUSNESS and developing that connection so that spirit can express as fully as possible.

The above realizations just gave me a new suite of tools to apply toward understanding myself by exploring the world that is "not I". I have been noticing the new detail in my world because I have another microscope for further revealing Self.

I am very close to a breakthough that makes my world part of my "self" to a degree that I had not imagined possible. It can be done in an instant. The only difference is a change in the filter or lens through which I view the world.

SPIRIT to me is LIGHT. I find more about lights subtleties by looking for more reflecting surfaces and understanding the basic principles about how light is combined, reflected, manipulated, etc ...

Movies, television shows, commercials, multimedia all involve the expression of light. We know how to construct nearly any scene with any physical, emotional, mental, and even metaphysical content. Further, we know how to use these constructions to educate the world so that we can employ this medium to change the world. We have only to create the right programming and move individuals to experience that programming that they need.

The Aquarian Age is indeed forthcoming and it will take the world by storm, much as El Nino has. Then, there is no coincidence that the condition is named El Nino nor that it has had the intense effects it has in this year.

The WORLD is a better place already, INDEED!

NAMASTE

Wayne