BEYOND
IMAGINATION
Best
Passages from 2002 Musings
As you’ll soon see, 2002 was a very productive year for Beyond Imagination. A lot of material came forth, and overall it was quite good, making it difficult to select the “best” from what was expressed. But, we did so anyway, resulting in the following. The passages are presented in the order that they came forth, with separators for each month to provide a rough indication of time.
I don’t know
how to
prepare you for this expression. It
comes forth as a stream of consciousness through me.
As such, there is no planning or organization
of the material. It has been coming
forth in this manner for nearly a decade … but the pace stepped up
tremendously
at the beginning of 2002 and continues to this day.
As I write this, it is nearing the middle of
February of 2003. I am pleased by what
we have achieved here. This is my
spiritual work, and it truly is a labor of love.
I hope you
enjoy what you
find. Even more, I hope it challenges
what you believe yourself to be and encourages and enables you to be
more of
whom that you truly are. You will find
that this is far more than you have ever dreamed.
Who am I to
say
this? Just a guy through whom spirit
happens to speak. I’ll let the words
speak for themselves. Judge them by
their utility in your life. My hope is
that they allow you to walk in my shoes, in my consciousness, for
awhile. It makes for some interesting,
challenging,
and perhaps even strange walking at times.
But, don’t let that discourage you.
It is the most fascinating of adventures. Consciousness
is one of the great unknowns,
the great unexplored territories. Oh,
some have ventured into this territory … but far too few.
It is time that we opened up the way for many.
And, it seems that we are on the verge of
being able to do so in ways that we have never been able to do before. It is all a matter of timing.
NAMASTE! I AM THAT I AM THAT YOU ARE!
In Peace,
Love, and Light,
http://www.redshift.com/~beyond/mainpage.htm
JANUARY
I do not have the inner sight to allow me to see what is to be. What I do have is an inner knowingness that spirit can be trusted to express in the manner that is right in each moment. It does this of its own, through moving us to do what we must do. In this way spirit expresses through flesh, in the only expression that truly matters in this world.
God has always been troublesome to me ... a masculine energy/figure to whom I could not personally relate. Spirit/Source has always been feminine to me.
Our belief systems form effective filters that limit what we experience as reality.
Yes, that is what it takes, self work; first to identify what our beliefs are and how they are related to one another, and then to remove the foundations from those we no longer choose to be governed by.
Reality is created not so much by what happens as by what meaning we assign to what happens.
We can desire that certain things occur, and we can take action and do things that might facilitate them occurring. However, it always seems that there is an unknown that is part of the equation that we cannot control, try as we might. It is this unknown that keeps life challenging and interesting.
We are gods in becoming ... but we are not gods in fact yet. As such, we have some creative powers, but it is best if we use these in service to spirit and to others to the degree that we can.
For many people, belief systems are effectively their masters. The rightful role of belief systems is as servants.
We fix belief systems by examining the core beliefs and their supporting "facts" and then questioning the validity and usefulness of what we find. Utility is the key for beliefs. They either serve us or they don't. Those that do not serve should be eliminated and replaced with more empowering ones.
If there is one area of your life that is most worth examining ... that will cause the biggest difference in your life and the reality that you experience, this is it, BELIEFS! This is where the greatest benefit results from the effort expended. This is where we attack the cause directly, rather than only dealing with the symptoms.
Awareness is the most important thing in the world. It is the only thing that we carry forward from one lifetime to the next.
We are ONE people on ONE planet. Further, we are all spawned from and connected to the same ONE consciousness.
It seems that our spiritual job is something that we must volunteer for, something that we choose to do because we must, because we are driven to do it as the very expression of whom that we are.
This has been a key approach in my spiritual growth ... observing what I am able to express and then attempting to come up with a framework for how reality and reality creation work that accounts for this expression/experience.
Thought forms are entities with lives of their own. It is thought forms that create physical forms. If we want to change society, that is the place to start, with more empowering thought forms.
It is this later directive, never take more than you give, that generates surplus in society. If everyone takes, the supply is insufficient, resulting in lack and poverty. The key is to realize that through cooperation, our collective giving generates abundance ... more than we could ever need.
When we come from a sense of awareness that we are all ONE, everyones troubles are our collective troubles. As such, we are responsible to do something to make things better. If we choose to neglect our responsibility ... we must suffer the consequences. In many cases, we don't see these as consequences. We simply accept them as the way that the world is, and hence do not feel empowered to correct them. However, no matter how the world is, it is within our power to change it into what we would choose for it to be.
"God helps those who help themselves" comes to mind. But, as ONE, whenever we help another we are helping another part of our greater SELF. Further, it is through us that God provides this help.
It is amazing how much difference a person can make when they commit to making a difference with their life.
A society is an organization that we collectively build of our own free will. It is something that we should choose to be part of ... not just are part of because of where we happen to be born.
It helps to have an unconditional trust in spirit, and the inherent spiritual nature of everything.
Each of us is a unique aspect of the one consciousness ... a unique facet of the same diamond. What we experience and how we experience it are fresh and new.
Spirit learns from every experience, every success and every failure.
Look around, nearly everything in nature undergoes many failures for each success. The trick is to keep on going and to keep on trying new things. If these are coming from spirit, success is assured maybe sooner than one might think.
It is important to engage both sides of ones brain in any endeavor, to see things from a more balanced whole.
The big picture is not contained in what we experience as objective reality. Similarly, subjective experience does not necessarily provide insight into the objective world that is the common background and setting for experience. Both logic and feeling/ intuition have their roles in life. Both need their avenues of expression. Further, it helps if this can be done in an integrated manner. After all, we are ONE individual, not just a collection of independent parts.
The world may be a big place, but our self is a much smaller domain, in which we have the authority to do what we will and be whom we are and become what we are capable of becoming. This is not hard work. It is a natural process.
The acorn knows exactly what it takes to become a mighty oak tree ... all it takes is the right environment to nurture its growth. Similarly the seed of spirit or consciousness that sparked us, knows exactly what we are meant to grow to be and how to get us there. It is a matter of trusting in the process.
We are wasteful of our most important natural resource; the talents, abilities, and creative energies of our people. This is the area where the most improvement is needed ... yet, it is not clear that much effort or focus is being expended in this area.
Where everyone gets what they need ... by definition, there is no lack and no one living in poverty. At the highest level, it is indeed that simple. It is the implementation that creates the difficulty. To begin with, how do we as a society and as individuals enter into such a contract?
Water is often related to consciousness. It flows smoothly to wherever it is needed, and it takes the form of whatever container is made available to it. Hmm ... interesting that the next age would be that of the water bearer.
Knowledge seems to grow best where it is open and free. This minimizes unneeded replication of effort allowing more resources to be focused on doing new things, creating new products and services, or improving things.
Everything is known by the collective consciousness, and it will ensure that what needs to be revealed is revealed to those with a need to know. This is not something that it is our call to make, it is spirits.
I am still amazed at what spontaneously came through in 1993 and 1994. I still go back to revisit the expressions and accompanying states of consciousness that I experienced then. Each time, I am blown away that such material could just start coming forth.
Original thought is that powerful. It takes us to places that bring shivers down our spines, and surges of energy through our bodies.
Being whom that you are, expressing spirit in flesh to the best of ones abilities, and becoming all that you can be are the directives of spirit. These are the things which truly matter in life. All else is the illusion of the play. And oh, what a wonderful and engaging illusion it is.
I desire to start relating to others deeply, spirit to spirit. This goes far beyond an interest in one anothers life. It involves being mutually supportive of one another, facilitating the expression of spirit in one another, and fostering spiritual growth and awareness.
Am I crazy? Perhaps, but then you have to wonder how these ideas and observations could come forth as they do. There is an organization that cannot be denied. There is a purpose and a meaning in what is expressed. Further, at times it can be quite moving to the spirit.
We are the generation that chose to exist at this time when the transition to a new social order would occur. At some level, we know this. It is a matter of being true to ourselves and taking responsibility for doing our part to facilitate the transition. Actually, it seems we are talking of generation(s), since the people on the planet span nearly 5 generations; though this is skewed sharply toward the younger two of these.
See a need and fill it ... that is the key to economic success. Hmm ... that seems to be what the spiritual directive calls for as well, to provide ones services to help fill the needs of society.
I'm a writer and a scribe ... but it is not clear that I am a communicator. This requires that a message be conveyed. It generally involves intent to make a point. That is not the purpose of these musings. My only intent is to express what I am moved by spirit to express as faithfully as I can.
Clearly, I live in a world of my own making. In very real ways my world conforms to the structures that I have imagined. Yes, imagined ... because they did not exist before I started to believe in them. At the same time, it seems that I am discovering the structures and nature of a spiritual world that is already there, embedded in every aspect of the consensus world. I do this by choosing to spend time listening to what would come forth from inside of me. I believe the source to be spirit, the ONE consciousness that animates us all.
As far back as I can remember, I have always had the ability to know the truth when I saw it ... actually, read it for the most part. These writings provide a means of reading what spirit would have me know. It is still strange to be reading the truths revealed in this manner. There is something special about being able to rely on an inner source to unveil such information.
Being actively involved in the reality creation process results in a real natural high. You might say that I am intoxicated by spirit. It is interesting that I have always avoided the consumption of spirits ... I can't stand the taste and smell of alcohol. Part of this comes from a knowingness that I am to experience altered states of consciousness naturally, and alcohol would just get in the way.
The saying "I'll believe it when I see it" comes to mind. But reality creation reverses this: you will see it when you believe it.
When I see myself doing new things in new ways, that is a sure sign that another part has awakened. Then comes the task of discovering what it can do, and ultimately integrating it into my conceptual framework of self so that I can operate as the new whole that I am. Interesting, the former Army slogan be all that you can be comes to mind. As the self expands by finding more of its parts and integrating them, this becomes all the more important. At any moment, this is indeed the best that we can do. But, we must keep in mind that what we know ourselves to be is only a fraction of what we truly are ... and probably a small fraction at that. It is amazing what we can do when we open ourselves, and fully apply our talents to whatever spirit would have us do.
Spirit does not force us to do anything. She prods us gently to do those things that are not only for our own good but the good of all concerned. Actually, all concerned is somewhat misleading, when in reality there is only ONE!
This communication is still highly a matter of trust. In particular, trust in unseen processes, and in the inner workings of consciousness herself in my life.
I accept the world as it is in ways that I never have before. It is the perfect expression of spirit here and now; no matter how much to the contrary this may appear to be in the world at large. This does not mean that it does not have its dramas, and plays of good versus evil, challenges of love versus fear, and expressions of many types of limitations. This is a playground and a schoolhouse for spirit after all. It is here that we express and learn of whom that we are through our experiences. It is here that we advance in awareness so that we can more fully serve as the channels for spiritual expression that we are.
I've been blown away by my experiences starting in 1993, even to the point of losing touch with consensus reality a couple of times, yet I have been able to recover and integrate my experiences into whom and what I am. In the process, I have become a much more aware individual and have been able to bring forth vast amounts of information from the connection to source inside of me. Yet, there is a sense that this is only the beginning. It is as if we have been riding a bicycle on training wheels ... the time has come to truly soar in new ways. My spirit rejoices in this communication. It sings what consciousness would have it sing, loudly and joyously.
Differences will always exist between people. The color of ones skin should definitely not be a major difference in a country where nearly every nationality and ethnicity in the world is represented. As King said, it is the quality or content of one's character, which should be a driving force as to how one is accepted in the world. This, and ones innate talents and abilities as they are applied to the good of society.
As a society, we can do anything that we want to do. The question, however, is what should we do. The sense is that we need to build the infrastructure necessary to allow individuals to grow and thrive and apply themselves creatively in service to society. For this, it seems that we need to establish a social contract ... defining what the individual must do as a member of society and in return what the individual can expect from society. This is more than an agreement to abide by laws. This is an enabling contract that nurtures the individual in return for getting the goods and services that various parts of society need.
At this moment, I AM THAT I AM, spirit expressing in flesh to the greatest degree possible in this moment. This is true in every moment for everyone. I am not unique in that regard. Yes, we are all unique expressions of spirit. But, the point is that we are all expressions of spirit.
So long as we are satisfied with our chains, and freely choose to bear them, we will do exactly that. It is for us to recognize that we are in bondage before we can remove the shackles that hold us back from being all that we could be. It is amazing how used to our shackles we can become ... even interpreting them as the fruits of liberty at times. Seeing them in this light may make them easier to bear, but in the long run makes it far more difficult to shed them; primarily for fear of what alternatives might take their place.
The workings of consciousness are indeed mysterious, and rightly so. Consciousness springs from the unknown, and perhaps the unknowable. It seems that no matter how far we expand, and how many awakenings we undergo, there is always more.
Questions are one of the tools we consciously use to focus our awareness on what we most need to know.
My focus has been on the ideal for nearly all of my life. However, it seems that the time has come to change this ... and to learn what it takes to truly manifest form in this world.
Foundations are being built, if only in my mind. Actually, it seems more that foundations are being revealed. I am simply uncovering what is already there, what has been right under my nose and right in front of my eyes. There are no accidents. The synchronicities that I am discovering are real ... they are the proof that there is a spiritual basis underlying our reality.
It seems that every branch of science and technology has direct spiritual counterparts. This is how we transform the world in a heartbeat. Extensive resources (time and money) have gone into developing the tree of knowledge to the degree that we have. We need to leverage off of all of that work by appropriately adding the spiritual component. Much of our knowledge deals with what and how. It seem that spirit adds the key component why.
I am a wayshower. As such, I must live as I believe and demonstrate this in all of my actions in the world. My works are my legacy. They provide a living example of how I would like to see individuals share and act within society. They show what I mean by expressing spirit in flesh, and to the degree that I can ... explain how I experience consciousness and reality.
To be a Sun or Star, one must have reached the critical mass where ones output is more than ones input. That is, one must live by the principle never take more than you give. This is how abundance is created in the world ... individually we must create more than we consume in terms of goods and services.
One of the key behaviors that becomes more conscious with awakening is cooperation. We find that we cooperate to co-create the reality that we choose to experience. Aggressive tendencies and the competitiveness are replaced by a sincere desire to help others wherever we can, and to ensure that our efforts are done in a manner consistent with overall good ... not because this is required, but simply because this is the nature of spirit. Win-win becomes the natural way in which we interact in the world.
This is clearly a hidden world embedded in the symbol systems of our world. There are triggers everywhere that can lead us to a more conscious awareness of our reality as spirit in flesh.
There is a grand plan being orchestrated by consciousness. Typically we cooperate subconsciously in carrying out our role in this plan. We do things without fully knowing why. Even if we think we know why, our reasons are usually not complete or sound. There is always an element of the unknown present in everything we do. This makes life the wonder and mystery that it is.
Expressing spirit in flesh. That is the sole theme of my life. Doing this as an individual is one thing, but for me it is not enough. My purpose involves finding ways that enable society to do this on a massive scale. Yes, this is a big task. What makes me think that I, as one person, can really make a difference? My answer is that ideas are that powerful. The right ideas expressed in the right way at the right time can indeed change the world.
Intuition is like that ... it ever seeks new paths of expressing. Doing the same old things in the same old ways can only take you so far. In exploring the unknown, we have to be willing to see things differently, make connections in new ways, and interpret things using new methods involving our whole brain and whole Self.
If it were simple, repetitive, and objective ... science would have found out about it already. Intuition, by its very nature does not perform in that manner. Spirit ever seeks to express as consciousness in fresh and new ways. However, there are aspects about our reality that are objective ... that are the same to all observers. The laws of physics, chemistry, and various other scientific disciplines come to mind.
It seems that the real can be whatever we choose to make it both individually and collectively. However, it will only be what we choose to make it. To be able to choose, however, we need alternatives ... these the philosophers and visionaries can provide us.
The sense is that if we can imagine it, if we can create an ideal, then we can take action to manifest it in flesh. It is all a matter of focus, attention, belief, and action in accord with our beliefs.
My expression is an example of what one person can do. I shudder to think of what a group cooperating together would be able to achieve. The power of cooperative effort is truly exponential.
Trust that there is a place inside of you that knows whom that you are, what you are capable of, and how you can allow spirit to express through you to help others in your society and your world. This is not hard ... it is innate and natural. Once you tap into it, you will find it easy, you will find that it gives you joy in ways that nothing else in your life does.
When we are doing what spirit would have us do, we find that we are more satisfied with our lives. Making a difference does that to us. The best way to make a difference is to engage spirit. When we do this, we truly operate on all cylinders as the saying goes.
Caught a brief moment of President Bush's State of the Union address. In it, he was calling for every American to give two years, 4000 hours, of the remainder of their life in service to their fellow citizens and the people of the world. I found this remarkable. It is not quite a tithe of time, but it is a good start toward reaching that. 4000 divided by 40 years is 100 hours per year or roughly 2 hours per week. That's half of what I have suggested as the right amount of time for us to give in voluntary service to society.
As citizens, we owe something to our fellow citizens. This comes close to being a contract, except it doesn't have any reciprocal terms. It asks that each of us gives and does good works but doesn't explicitly state what we get in turn. Clearly, this is a kinder, gentler, safer society.
It is time that we collectively take responsibility for our society and our world. These are, after all, what we jointly and cooperatively make them to be. Yes, we create our reality. We are individually and collectively responsible for everything that we experience.
Everywhere around me is a synchronistic order that defies explanation other than that it is the very nature of spirit expressing in flesh. In many ways, the symbol systems around me and the meaning that I apply to them, are the world in which I live. Not by natural law as in the physical but by choice. I have to actively see the world through a unique set of filters to perceive it as I do.
We each see and experience the world in a manner that provides the impetus and environment for our growth as human beings and as spiritual beings expressing in flesh.
There is a sense that everyone is doing their best, given their understanding, abilities, and the circumstances in which they find themselves. This does not mean that they are being the best they can be ... only the best they can be in the moment.
The bottom line is that the power of love is far greater than that of fear if only we allow ourselves the freedom to express it.
Being different takes extensive work and an innate trust in self to express in a manner that is right for us, regardless of how it appears to the world. It is not something to be taken lightly. Though, once we start doing it ... it seems to be the most natural thing in the world. We simply do what we are moved to do, not constrained by expectations or demands that others may place on us.
Our truth requires that we live up to the image of ourselves that we have inside of us and that we take action to be the best that we can be in all that we choose to do. That doesn't mean that we don't have obligations ... in fact we have many: to spirit, to our self, to others in our lives, to our society, and to our world. As we become more aware, it seems that we take on more and more obligations ... not because they are forced on us, but because we freely choose to recognize our responsibilities. In a very real way, we see these as sacred. They are a natural part of our existence as spiritual beings.
I do not advocate the loss of individuality, the merging of individuals into a society that makes no distinctions. Far from it ... I believe what makes society great is the expression of individuality. A true society should develop the unique gifts and talents of its individuals and encourage their expression in ways that provide benefit to society.
There is an intelligence designing and creating the events in our world including the thoughts that are experienced by each individual. There is a grand plan for the unfoldment of consciousness and each of us have roles in executing this plan.
It still amazes me to see how the symbols that relate to me personally can have so much meaning not only in a context limited to my self, but in a context that applies directly to society and the world as well. It is as if my life is somehow a miniature representation of the world. Yes, as above, so below again.
Anytime people choose to be of service to others, the net effect on the world is positive. The greater the service, the more the benefit.
My hope is that by sharing my experiences, thoughts, feelings, and states of mind; I can allow you to walk in my shoes so to speak ... and thereby sample something of what I experienced and perhaps even undergo an awakening or two of your own.
I have seen what can happen when one combines intuition and reason. The combination does far more than either can do alone, or both can do alone for that matter. Further, I have seen what happens when conscious, subconscious, and superconscious work together ones life. The creativity that is unleashed is truly phenomenal.
FEBRUARY
At this moment I am addicted to sitting on the edge and allowing consciousness to express what she will in free form ... or free of form, as she will. There is something exciting about living on the edge of the unknown. There is a powerful feeling that comes from being able to harness consciousness in this manner.
We live in an information age. The ability to generate information and make it freely available electronically to others is one of the main benefits of living in this day and age.
Yet, in many ways, being in formation is exactly opposite of what I want to be. I am an individual and a freethinker. I consider the ideas of others, but am much more content and at home with what is able to be expressed through me.
There is still a sense that there is much more that can be expressed, that I have only scratched the surface of what I can be ... and more important, what we can be cooperating together to create the reality that we would prefer.
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to be social just to be social, I want to interact with others to create a society unlike any that has ever existed on this planet. This we can choose to do collectively. All it takes is a trust in our selves, our Selves, and one another. This may not be such an easy thing to establish ... but as with all great endeavors, we have to be willing to risk in order to see a return. This works for investments in the economy. Why should it be any different for spiritual investments, for that is exactly what these collective choices constitute ... spiritual investments in ourselves and in one another.
Collectively, we have a great deal of resources at our disposal ... the greatest of these being the talents and abilities of the individuals in society. We need to find a way to apply these far more effectively than we do today. That is how we generate abundance ... we develop peoples talents and then use them in a manner that provides maximum benefit to society.
We need to see a shift from ME to WE, in how individuals express in the world. Selfish interests need to be replaced by selfless service. In this process, the intent is not to exterminate the individual; rather it is to emphasize what both the individual and group can gain if individuals cooperate in larger endeavors.
Jointly, we have a Brave New World to face ... better yet to create. In this world, no one is better than another. One may have more skills, or more education, or more income, or more things ... but if one isn't fully applying oneself in service to society, then all that you have and more may be taken from you. In a spiritual economy, there is always a balance exacted. Spirit doesn't care how much you acquire and consume so long as you balance this with service so that you have effectively earned the abundance with which you have been blessed.
We have needs which must be met, and the key thing we have to offer in exchange for meeting these needs is ourselves, our talents, and our time in service to employers and ultimately to our fellow man.
This is what the economy should do for us in society ... provide the means for exchanging our time and talents for the goods and services that we need to live creative, productive, useful, meaningful, abundant, fulfilling, and happy lives.
How do we get people to operate for the greatest good of all concerned rather than out of limited self-interest alone? No, we are not advocating that individuals give up on their dreams and goals. We are simply asking that the means they employ to achieve these ends are considerate of the whole. This does not mean that we must sacrifice whom that we are for others; rather we must be whom that we are and apply ourselves in service to others.
When we tap source, we also tap into the great reservoir of cooperative effort that lies beneath everything that we experience. Because of this, things are orchestrated without us having to even try to make them so. This doesn't mean they can't be improved by conscious assistance. We can volunteer to do the works of spirit. We can volunteer to do what we are here in flesh on this planet to do. In doing so, we do our part in the overall plan of the expression of spirit in flesh.
There is something wonderful about creative expression. It involves every aspect of ones being, allowing us to express whom that we truly are in ways that no other endeavor allows.
What does it mean to be a Spiritual Warrior? With what and whom do I battle? My fight is with the self and its habits, including its habitual way of looking at the world. I am ever in search of the higher Self and in finding ways for it to more fully express in my life. My weapons are my mind, my perception, and my awareness. I seek to know the real from the illusion and to know the purpose for the illusion and methods for its creation.
We get what we focus our energy, attention, and resources on. It is that simple. To make progress in any area of knowledge, we must choose to apply extensive effort in that area. In general, the more effort and resources, the more progress.
Being whom that we are, and expressing this in service is what we are meant to do. All that is within us seeks to find our place and express in this manner.
So, where do we start to change our world? We start by thinking and believing differently as individuals. Where possible we conduct our affairs with other individuals, with society, and with the organizations in society in a WIN-WIN manner.
From my perspective, the most important things that we can learn are not taught in traditional schools. How can this be? I can only state what I have observed. Over 90 percent of what I consider to be the most important things that I have learned, including all the metaphysics, came outside of any school environment, or any class for that matter.
There is no fee charged or price placed on this material. All that I ask is that people live by the principle never take more than you give and look within to place a value on what they get from the works and find a way to repay that value to society by giving of themselves in some way. This is how we change the world. This is how we create abundance! Yes, it is that simple. It truly is.
Everything is spirit. Everything is godstuff.
If spirit is pulling the strings from the inside, and cooperation is the basic mode employed by spirit ... then why do individuals find it so important to be independent and autonomous? Why do we resist doing our part to help society and the world? Why do we not see our responsibilities to our selves, our families, our communities, our organizations, our societies, and our world?
We intuitively know what we are here to do, and what rules we need to play by as we express.
There is a wealth of ideas on ways to make things better and ways to improve society. We just need to collectively decide which of these to put in practice and then commit the appropriate resources to make them so in our society and our world. There is a sense that we are closer to manifesting a utopia or heaven on Earth than we have ever been. It is a matter of realizing this and choosing to do what it takes to make it so.
We either believe that there is a grand plan for the unfoldment of spirit or we do not. Personally, I've seen so many signs that this is something I simply do not doubt. I accept it on faith ... a deep and abiding faith in spirit or consciousness herself.
Beliefs are the playground for reality creation. They are not absolute. The test of whether they are right is utility ... do they serve not only you, but all concerned?
When it comes down to the bottom line, service is all that truly matters. I was going to say love, but that alone is not enough ... love needs to be expressed and applied in some manner.
Ultimately it is what we give of ourselves that makes the difference in the world. However, we must remember that what we give comes not from us but through us.
So long as we believe that we are the source, the supply is limited ... we only have so much that we can give, there is only so much that we can do. But when we expand our awareness and realize it is source or spirit that expresses through us, the supply becomes infinite. The limit becomes our capacity to accommodate the flow of spirit through us.
So, how do we change the world? We start by changing ourselves ... by finding whom that we are, and more fully expressing our authentic selves in our actions and interactions in our world.
We either adopt new ways and learn to go with the flow ... or we fight the tides in whatever way we can. Going with the flow is always the easier road to travel. But, the shift may be so radical that it is difficult for people to see this. This is why we need wayshowers, people who can venture out into the new, into the unknown, and report of their travels. In particular, they need to share what works and what doesn't work in this new wilderness of spirit. For it is indeed just that, a wilderness, a new frontier in which consciousness can express.
There is great challenge and great promise in this. Oh, there will still be limits ... but they will be more clearly seen for what they are, self-imposed. The goodwill of the people will shine in a way that it has never done before. The light of spirit will shine not as candlelights, but as floodlights throughout the land. Kindness and generosity, caring for and helping one another will be the order of the day.
You can never do too much or be too much, especially if you maintain the awareness that it is spirit doing the works through you, and her supplies are inexhaustible.
We create our own reality ... everyone of us, all of the time, no exceptions, no fine print.
We are each powerful souls, regardless of what our present physical form may indicate.
We chose our parents, our countries of origin, all of the key events and experiences of our lives, and the meaning of those events and experiences. Of course, we did not do this consciously. There are many subconscious and superconscious elements operating behind the scenes to create the play that we experience. But these are parts of ourselves, whether we are consciously aware of them or not.
Spirit ensures that we get what we need ... ALWAYS. That is how the game works. That is how the process of manifesting in flesh works. Needs are always met, no matter what they are.
There is a joyous exuberance that comes through when we are living the life we are meant to live. So, where do we start? We find out where our natural abilities and interests lie. We then apply the effort necessary to develop our talents into skills that we can use in the world. At the same time, we follow our interests to wherever they may lead trusting that this is exactly right for us. It also helps to connect to the source consciousness within and give that consciousness voice in our life.
Following our bliss is an active choice that we make. It requires not being content with second best ... not being content until we are being whom that we truly are and expressing this in our lives as fully as we can ... not being content with circumstances as they are but fashioning them to what we would have them be ... not being content with an average life but searching for the extraordinary, that which allows us to make our life the masterpiece that it can be.
This is the key, we are all artists creating what we will on the canvas of our life. Unfortunately, it seems that many haven't even discovered the paints or the brushes or even realized that they are artists. Also, while some are natural artists ... others need to be trained ... yet others seem to have no artistic talent at all. Further, some don't even seem to have the eye to be able to recognize the beauty of art, even masterpieces, when they see it.
I have found it very useful to stay open to all sources of wisdom ... from wherever they might come. We must give spirit ways of speaking to us ... the more, the better. Yet, the most important of these is the source inside of us. This source is the most knowing and the most reliable. It knows us intimately. It knows exactly what we need at all times ... even when we may not consciously have a clue. Finding this source and learning to listen to it and trust it is the most important thing that we can do in life. I can't say that strongly enough. This source is the inner Master Teacher within us all.
We are here as individuals, and the sense is that we are here to express as individuals; though there is nothing against collectively choosing to participate as groups to achieve greater objectives that we can achieve alone. Hmm ... we speak of greater objectives, yet the one through whom these words pass does not live his life by objectives. Objectives are part of a way of living that says we desire the future to be different than the present, and we choose to take actions consistent with making the objectives so. The other way to approach this is to realize that what we desire to be is already so, we simply have to act consistent with this and so allow it to manifest in our lives.
At some level, I've already lived in worlds whose foundations are built on the kinds of principles we have expressed in these works. No, that doesn't mean that these have been physically realized ... at least not yet. That is why I am here now, to do what it takes to allow these foundations to be built in this world, here and now on this planet we call Earth.
Together we can do far more than the sum of what we can do individually. That is the secret power of synergy. Wherever two or more are gathered and work together ... great things can result from the union.
Ultimately giving of ourselves and sharing whom that we are is what truly matters in the world. This is how we live up to the maxim be all that you can be. This is the only thing truly worth living for.
How can we make the ideal real? Yes, that indeed is the billion dollar question. Further, it is the only question really worth asking. We start by realizing that one, this is possible; two, this is desirable; three, this is indeed worth doing; four, this is ultimately what spirit is doing through us.
We are creators bringing the stuff of our dreams and imagination down to Earth.
We are the consciousness of the Earth; evolved into human form over many millennia, or even millions of years. The recipe is there, in our very DNA. It is curious that the Human Genome project nears completion. It has mapped the very pattern that constitutes our ability to express in physical form. It is hard to foresee what science will be able to do with this knowledge; and what moral issues will arise from our ability to create in our own image.
I believe that as souls, we pick our parents, and our genetic makeup from the raw material available in their genes. We create the natural abilities and talents that we will discover and develop in the course of our lives. Yes, we have that much control over the process. Of course, none of this is done consciously. We must rely on inner, other than conscious parts of us to work their magic.
In a world of unity, things simply unfold as the opening of a flower to the Sun.
This expression of spirit is so important to me that I can't imagine my life without it. It is as important to me as the air that I breathe. In a very real way, it is what sustains the spirit in me; just as food, water, and air sustain this physical body.
I would be whom that I AM! Yes, AM in capitals, because that is what seems appropriate.
One cannot be exemplary without being willing to take on some risk, and greater responsibility. It goes with the territory. This is what leaders do. And yes, I consider myself to be a leader. No, not in terms of leading a group of people or followers ... though typically that is what leaders are asked to do.
I am open to whatever consciousness has in store for me. I embrace my experience, whatsoever it may be, with open arms. I can do this because I know that my life is divinely guided. It has always been. But, now it is consciously so as well. I am aware of the guidance on an everyday basis, not just occasionally as in times past.
In many games, one must adapt ones strategy to embrace a new set of rules when one reaches the next level. These may be similar, or may be completely different. Part of the challenge is to find out what the new rules are and how to overcome the opposing forces through employing these rules. Rules are not strictly of the "thou shalt not" variety. They can also be expressed in terms of new abilities or powers one has to counter the opposition at the new level.
This expression of consciousness directly to web pages is first by far. It provides a permanent record of consciousness creatively expressing in flesh, bringing forth whatever it is capable of expressing ... a record that is readily available to share with the world.
We live in an information age. To be effective in this age, we must develop sophisticated communications skills that allow us to access, collect, process, filter, make connections between, generate, and disseminate information. We truly are information processing machines in flesh. This is one of our primary tasks in life. It is a big part of whom that we are. It needs to be a bigger part of how we express in the world. However, it will only be so if we choose to make it so and do what it takes to develop the appropriate skills.
Yes, the information web that I have built over my lifetime is what distinguishes me from all others ... it is what makes me a unique expression of consciousness.
I'm here to help demonstrate how to express the ideal individual within the context of a utopia or ideal society ... even if that was to be a society of one. For, eventually I knew that someday it would be a society of everyone.
There is no organization in thought before the material is expressed, at least not consciously. Literally, it just comes forth out of nothingness ... out of thin air so to speak. This is my means of making the unknown known, to whatever degree I am able. I do it because it is what I have been designed and trained to do. I do it because it is what I am moved to do.
For me, being moved to do something is the most compelling reason for doing it. For me, that is because I believe that it is spirit herself that moves me.
It helps to operate from an attitude of gratitude. It makes a world of difference in our lives. There is always something for which to be grateful, even if it is only for life itself.
The past is history ... his story. The future is her story, the story of consciousness in expression in the world. Interesting. Why do I say this? Simply because it feels right to the core of my being. Perhaps this is why spirit, source, and consciousness have always had a feminine nature for me.
What matters most is here and now, what is right in front of us, and what is within our reach and grasp. That is where we can make a difference.
I think in terms of the mind being a chalkboard or a slate. When it is blank, it provides an opportunity for creative expression to fill the emptiness. When it is full, there is no room for further expression.
This expression is exactly what it is, no more and no less. It is the expression of an aware being, attempting to relate whom that he is in the only way that he knows how. This alone makes it worthy and valuable. Consciousness benefits from this manifestation ... if only in that it has been allowed to express in a bold new way.
Consciously I choose to be open to new modes of expression in my life. I need new and different experiences to allow me see the limits of my present concepts, beliefs, and understanding. Ever increasing awareness is the name of the game. We do this by finding our limits and breaking through them into a new awareness of reality.
Music is definitely one of the vehicles through which consciousness sings her song.
Everything is spirit and its expression. Yes, everything ... there literally is nothing else save spirit.
My experiences and positions within society have allowed me to expend a lot of time and effort in developing my natural abilities and in learning about whom that I am and how I function. Here, I stand on the shoulders of giants who have come before me. But even more important, I stand on the fountain of spirit that pours forth from within. This gives me a vantage point that is unique and different from any other in the world. Yes, that does allow me to see things that others do not see. That only makes it that much more important that I find ways to express that benefit others ... preferable many others, and perhaps, in time, the entire world. Yes, that is a substantial burden to place on anyone. But, I accept it willingly as my duty to spirit. I know that gifts are only given where they are needed. They are meant to be used ... freely for the good of all.
The goal is to intentionally create an order that allows synergy to manifest ... that allows the collective to create and express more than the sum of the individuals operating alone can do ... preferably far more.
Currently we spend a lot of the time and energy of our best and brightest in support of Defense and the creation of better weapons and machines of destruction. Just imagine what could be if we applied even a fraction of this effort to more beneficial endeavors. Then take this to another level ... that is what Beyond Imagination is all about.
Many of the details of the events in the play that we experience do not ultimately matter. They are just scenes in the play, the backdrop on which the stuff of life is lived.
There is a faculty within me that is able to discern what is true, not true, and unknown ... at least for me personally. I have no experience to know whether others have this same faculty within them. My sense is that we all must, as the expression of spirit in flesh, but for many it may be blocked or hidden by a number of factors, the primary one being the belief systems.
I consider myself an adventurer, an explorer of the unknown frontiers of consciousness, and a wayshower. These musings and the other works at this site are the markers that I have left along the way in my journey. My hope is that they are sufficient to guide you to states of mind and states of consciousness that you may not have experienced before.
My only guide came from inside of me ... so the path was quite treacherous and challenging, enough to require two vacations to the local mental hospital. I wouldn't wish that upon anyone. It is a severe shock to ones sense of being; one that can take a long time to recover from.
From what I have seen, increased awareness brings increased conscious responsibility into ones life. Along with seeing more and being more, comes the responsibility to share and express more.
Being open to light from whatever source it may come, and finding that oracle within of which Channing speaks are extremely important. I cannot stress that enough. If I would have to name the two most important things to my development as a more aware being through which spirit can express as she does ... these would be the two things.
There is a sense that I have discovered some very important keys, but that I haven't found the doors which they unlock. Not to worry. All in good time. What can be revealed to and through me, is being revealed.
This is not gospel. It is the wanderings of a consciousness in search of understanding itself, its reality, and the nature of spirit and its expression in flesh. We may follow a few dead ends along the way ... or seeming dead ends. In many cases, these are only dead because we haven't found their connections to other parts of the web.
We are the eyes and ears of God, the arms and legs of God, and the brain and heart of God, yes all 5 billion plus of us humans, but also every other lifeform, and non-lifeform that exists.
Without us, there would be no means of experiencing the limitation of the illusion of reality ... of the creation.
All limitations are partitions, parts of the whole. Because they are parts, they are separate from other parts. This separation permits the parts to observe, sense, and interact with one another ... thus allowing God or All That Is to experience this as well. In truth, we are whole, and ONE ... there is no separation. But, in our experience as individuals, we can only catch brief glimpses of this ultimate nature of our reality.
It seems that each day more and more pieces of information are discovered and connected to appropriate places in the web that constitutes my knowledge base.
My wife commented at lunch that my numbers were very much like John Nash's clippings and connections in the movie last night. I responded that the one difference was that John was looking for meaning embedded in ordinary material by other humans in coded form ... while I was looking for the meaning embedded by spirit via numbers. For me, this is a big difference, but I can see how others might not see it so. The behavior is indeed very similar ... except for seeing people that did not exist. There John Nash's imagination was working far differently than mine.
The world is moving to where consciousness is taking it, and this is happening through the collective expression of individuals. It has to happen in this manner. It has to be made physical through individual expressions of consciousness for the one to learn of the many and the many to learn of the ONE. Some of us are here to express the out breath ... to experience reality primarily as individuals. Others of us are here to realize that this is indeed a cycle and that the in breath always follows the out breath ... ever into eternity.
All creation is the breath of God, the sound, the Word of God made physical and flesh.
My job is to enable the expression ... to facilitate it and to participate in it. In a very real way, the expression is created through me ... but not by me. I am the instrument, but I am in spirits hands. She is the ultimate author of the expression ... though, without me, she could not express in this particular manner.
Consciousness happens in a domain that exists beyond the physical. All of life is a highly orchestrated and cooperative endeavor ... despite what it appears to be on the outside alone.
There is a reason people have become part of my world ... and I part of theirs. The usual reason is that we have something to share with one another.
That is what physical expression truly is, the expression of spirit in flesh.
My belief is that spirit never gives us gifts unless there is a task for which the gifts are needed. Along with the gifts comes a sacred responsibility to use them in the service of spirit, and ultimately of all humankind ... or better yet, all life.
What we love to do will be those things that allow us to elegantly engage our gifts and talents in ways that make a difference in our world.
Whatever moves you is right for you ... engage in it and pursue it to your hearts desire so long as it harms no one. Do as ye will, so long as ye harm none. This be the whole of the law - comes to mind from Wicca. I'm not sure that is the only law needed, but it is definitely a powerful one that assures safety for individuals while permitting the maximum degree of freedom.
Yes, there is a very strong sense that a new day has indeed come. It is not something in the distant future. It is here and now, at least in consciousness. It is only a matter of delay time before it is manifest physically. And it seems that the time between idea and manifestation is decreasing rapidly even as we speak.
Spirit has descended one more step into matter, a very major step. It is as if the entire Major Arcana can express in the world now ... not just in the dream world.
I am the awareness that experiences what I experience and that applies meaning to this experience. Literally anything can mean anything that I choose for it to mean. It helps if the meanings that I apply have some basis in reality, but there is nothing that either forces or ensures this.
We need to decide what is acceptable and what is unacceptable in our world. We have the right to expect organizations within society to serve us in a manner that is acceptable. Those unwilling to step up and abide by our expectations and the rules and laws established to ensure these expectations are met, have no right to participate in our market. You either agree to serve society ... or you cannot participate in the abundance created by society. Yes, it is that simple.
There is something fascinating to me about operating at the edge between the known and unknown. As you've no doubt noticed, this is not a scholarly endeavor. There are no connections to a body of works which have come before. There are few quotes and no footnotes. There is no planning evident for what will come forth. Each day is fresh and new. Yes, there are common themes running through the material ... the most common being the expression of spirit in flesh.
My sense is that here on these pages, we get to experience consciousness expressing physically in a manner that is unique, in a manner that has not been experienced before.
There is something about stream of consciousness expression that is natural, yet in a wild and unpredictable way. That is part of what makes it so fun and interesting. But, I can only judge that for myself.
Yes, consciousness is still an unknown frontier for the most part. And, those of us who are its explorers have a responsibility to others to share of what we discover and leave markers of our journey for those who are to come after us. We don't need everyone to be an explorer ... we only need a sufficient number of explorers to allow the job to be done effectively.
The realm of consciousness has its own character, its mountains, forests, canyons, valleys, rivers, lakes, oceans ... There are many ways to approach it, some traditional, but many untraditional. It is not clear that scientific means are adequate in this realm. That doesn't mean they won't be able to assist at some point. It just seems that the intuitive abilities are better suited for uncovering the nature of the reality that is consciousness.
There is ONE consciousness expressing through us all. Each of us is doing exactly what we need to do to express what we are meant to express and to learn and experience what we need to learn and experience. And, everyone is doing this to the best of their abilities, under the circumstances in which they find themselves.
At some level, there is no duality, there is no good and evil, there is just spirit expressing in flesh. Yes, I understand that in the world we see many atrocious things happening, but this is a judgment coming from a limited perspective.
The edge of the unknown is the domain of explorers. This is what attracts and excites us, to the core of our being. We are attracted as a moth to a light source. We may not even know why we do what we do, it is simply a natural expression of whom that we are.
In a very real way, I'm a miniature version of the world. My life reflects where spiritual expression is moving on a grander scale in the world. There is a sense that the more that I am able to express, the more fully and deeply ... the more spirit will be able to express in the world. Yes, the sense is that it is conditional in this manner; that my life is indeed one of the keys through which spirit is unlocking the doors to a new world.
My obligation is to do what I know to be right for me, and to do it fully, with all my heart and to the best of my abilities. Yes, that was meant to be emphasized. It is the heart, not the mind that needs to be the star by which we steer the course of our life.
I don't know how to describe intuition. It is just there, an inner connection to source. I distinguish source from my self. It is part of what is not me, at least part of what is not consciously me. I don't know how it functions, or how it gets the information that it is able to tap. It just does. My sense is that there must be a receptiveness and affinity, that the faucet of intuition can only tap information that fits within the overall constructs of the self somehow, albeit, this includes the hidden and subconscious parts as well as any superconscious parts that have been developed. Then we have to learn how to consciously turn on the faucet or open up the channel that allows the information to flow forth.
That is the trouble with living in ones mind. One bases what one believes on the foundations of ideas from others without necessarily experiencing firsthand whether the ideas are truly valid. It matters not how many people believe something ... if it is wrong, it is simply wrong.
Looking back, there is not one of the hundred things that I consider most important to my existence as a spiritual being in flesh that I learned in school, from my family or social environment, or in church. I could just as easily have said "thousand" things or "ten thousand" things. Yes, I have picked up a lot of things from books ... particularly metaphysical books, but none of these were required or even suggested reading in any classes that I took.
I've read over a thousand metaphysical books. Further, I've probably generated over two thousand single spaced typed pages of material. Yet, out of all of this, I would be hard pressed to come up with a single quote that I remember. That, even though I've gone through and selected many pages of best quotes from the Beyond Imagination material, and I've read many of these quotes over two dozen times.
We possess the talents that we do for a reason. They are the primary tools that we have for making our way in the world. They are the gifts that we have been given through which to offer our services to our fellow man. It is our responsibility as sentient beings to discover them, to develop them, and to apply them as best we can.
I write not for any entity, and not even for myself, but for what I can only describe as an energy or a consciousness that comes forth from within me.
The sense is that life is not something one needs to work at. It is something that simply unfolds naturally like a flower to the sun -- sometimes even when we are focused on doing something else like growing or being involved in relationships.
Spirit is far greater than any concepts of her that we have as well. One of our biggest problems overall is in overly constraining how she expresses in our life. Nothing is too great for her. Nothing is too great for us when we are expressing spirit fully through us to the degree that we are able.
More and more, there are signs that things are opening up, that spirit is finding new and more powerful ways of expressing in our lives and in our world.
Change happens when individuals choose to make a difference, and choose to take a chance at expressing something new; such as in Celine Dion's new song. Yes, a New Day has Come, indeed.
Time for a spiritual break that renews and refreshes. Indeed, that is what this is ... a spark of sunshine to light up my life, only in this case, the source is from within. And rightfully so, for that is where the only true light is ... the light of spirit itself.
She (source) is majestic, so much so that my concept of self pales by comparison ... and I have a pretty exalted concept of self. But then, there is self, and there is Self ... and even greater there is SELF, the ONE consciousness that animates us all.
This is the one thing that matters most in all existence. It is the one thing that we take from lifetime to lifetime. The level of awareness that we have achieved is ours to keep.
Abundance is assured when we operate by the principle from the Lion King - the secret to life is to never take more than you give. And, that is the goal, abundance for all ensuring that physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs are met. This can be achieved, and in our lifetime. It is all a matter of taking responsibility and choosing to make it so in our world.
Talents and abilities are varied for a reason. It makes for a much more interesting variety of expression and experience in the world.
What do we do about the lack of education on the part of large portions of the population? What do we do about lack of health care or sanitary conditions? What do we do about lack of suitable shelter, lack of work, and insufficient food? These are real problems in the world. What does it take to make them our challenges rather than their problems? If the world is to change, this is what it will take. It is not clear that world circumstances allow such problems to be fixed locally. I guess it is fair to ask should these problems even be fixed? My sense is yet, for the alternative is nearly unthinkable ... basically, to write off a large portion of the population as undeserving of an abundant life. I'm not willing accept this.
The middle road is generally the one that is most beneficial. This would require giving up some of our autonomy as individuals to participate in a structure greater than ourselves that constitutes society. Not a society that we live in by chance, because we happen to be born into it. Rather, a society that we create and empower by choice. It is how society is empowered that enables it to ultimately produce a greater expression, a greater reality that benefits its constituents.
It is time for the lifeforms that constitute societies to be born, grow, multiply, and evolve at rates that have not occurred before. Yes, this is much of what the new age is all about. We are to experiment with how we can express as groups in bold new ways. We have had teams, companies, orchestras, musical groups, congregations, social clubs, and even government agencies. But, that is just scratching the surface of what can be.
Consciousness creating what she will can work wonders in our lives, if only we will give her the opportunity to express through us.
We can share in many ways ... with family, friends, co-workers, or simply with goodwill to others including strangers. Then again, in a world that is ONE, there can be no strangers. We are all connected, we have simply forgotten how much so.
Actually, we all create the worlds that we experience. Yes, there are some aspects that are created en masse. But, in reality there are many worlds embedded in the fabric of the physical universe. In particular, there are spiritual and symbolic worlds that are definitely tailored to individual and collective needs for experience.
Many of the things that I do and think about may be strange but they are OK for me. I don't force my beliefs and opinions on others but I freely offer what I know and discover as a gift to the world ... because I have experienced it to be a gift from spirit, the greatest gift that I could be given. I am ever grateful for the active role that spirit plays in my life. She has become such a part of what I consider to be me that there is no separation anymore. There is no real way to distinguish what I do from what she does through me. It is as if they are two sides of the same coin.
What does this material have to offer the reader? My hope is that it offers the perspective of a fellow traveler ... a wayshower who has explored some of the frontiers of consciousness and attempts to bring back a sample of what he has found. Perhaps by allowing you to walk a ways in my shoes, some of my experiences and resulting awareness will somehow rub off and assist you in having your own experiences and alterations in awareness.
Spirit seems to work with conscious information on a need-to-know basis, much as industry, government, and even private citizens. There is something powerful about making information freely available without restrictions. For our own personal information, and information expressed by spirit through us, we have the luxury of being able to make it freely available. In other areas of our life: our employment is contingent on accepting responsibility to treat information in accordance with the rules; and our friendships and relationships may be dependent on maintaining confidentiality of private information. One of the signs of a need to know, is being moved to ask. Questions are one of the primary means for demonstrating that we are ready to know something.
I am curious to know how my conceptions and perceptions of the world and of reality compare with those of others. Right now, I have no basis to know what is common versus what is unique to me. Yet, I desire to know the difference.
The goal of enabling spirit to more fully express in flesh is achieved by making what is unique into what is commonplace. At least, that is one practical way of pursuing the goal. I'm sure there are others.
For your eyes only ... only for you ... That is the feeling that comes across now, that much of this expression has indeed been for my eyes. In particular, it has come through in a manner that was natural for me to understand. I still feel that it has much to offer to others as well, if only to serve as an intimate example of where one consciousness has been. What does it mean about spirit, and about the nature of reality, that all of this would be done for my eyes only? What does it mean about the importance of one individual that such resources and effort would be expended in allowing me to see and experience the world as I do? And if spirit does all this for my eyes ... what does she do on an equivalent scale for you in your life?
Life will unfold as it will. What must be will indeed happen. There is nothing that I have to do to make it happen, rather it is more of an acceptance and allowing of it to happen in the manner that is appropriate.
Our beliefs do play a major role in attracting what we experience. It doesn't matter whether we know this to be true or not. This is simply how reality creation works. We experience reality in accordance with our beliefs. This is not simply what we think that we believe or what we pay lip service to. This is what we truly believe, strongly enough that we act in accord with them. If we want to change our reality, this is the place to start ... with beliefs and belief systems.
MARCH
So, what is the message in all this musing? What is it that I would convey to you individually and to the world at large? First, we are spirit expressing in flesh and my whole purpose is to facilitate allowing spirit to more fully express through each of us in flesh. On a larger scale, this involves building the foundations and the infrastructure for a new society and a new world in which this expression is far more easy and commonplace. Second, awareness that comes from knowing thyself is instrumental to the building of these foundations and to the expression of the I AM that we are. Third, we are all connected, there is ONE consciousness from which we are spring forth. Our intuition is our connection to that source within us. Fourth, we are literally gods who create the reality that we experience ... by attracting it through our belief systems, and then by choosing what meaning we apply to the experiences.
I am a voice for a source that I do not know, other than that I experience it coming through me. How do I know that it is right? My only answer is that I just do. It is like asking how do I know that I exist? The answer is the same, I just do ... it is obvious, not something that is even subject to question.
My sense is that we all have this place within us, this place that simply knows what is right for us. It does not rely on reason, rather on direct knowing. It is as if we already know the truth within us, and that we are simply comparing what we find on the outside with what we know on the inside.
Education first and foremost should teach us of whom that we are, and what we are happens to be spiritual beings having a physical experience. This is clearly not taught in our schools at any level. There is something grossly wrong in this ... something that needs to be remedied, and soon.
There is something thrilling about starting anew each day ... trusting that life is unfolding exactly as it needs to be, and doing the work that reveals that it needs to be done. Yes, living in the moment is important. However, it takes a lot of bravery, and a faith that if we take care of the things immediately in front of us, the future will take care of itself. One day at a time. One moment after another after another. The moment is where life is truly lived. It is the only place that we can do anything, the only place where we can take action and make a difference. And is that not what life is all about ... making a difference in some way with our lives?
In some way there should be a unique difference made because spirit has graced us with her presence in our life ... and has graced the lives of others through this expression.
Why is it so important to make a statement, to make a difference with our lives? Simply because life is such a precious gift, and it needs to be the gift that keeps on giving, as the saying goes.
Consciousness is always there, residing within us, our key for unlocking all the doors to the universe. However, to use this key, we must first find it, and then find the doors that it can unlock, and then put the key in and turn the lock to open it. This is not an easy process ... if it were, the world would be a much better place already.
Patience, we must have patience and simply allow spirit to unfold as she will. Spiritual expression will not be forced. It will do what it can when it can. We must accept that this is enough. What needs to be done is being done.
However, for me, it is this expression in words that is my "handiwork" as it were. Hopefully it comes across as a work of art in its own right. For, all creative expression that comes from consciousness is art.
I don't believe in link exchanges. They come across to me as conditional, and my preference is to do things unconditionally where I can. In particular, as a manifestation of the unconditional expression of love.
How much is it my responsibility to get the word out? After all, it came through me. It seems only natural that as its parent, I'm responsible for its upbringing and development. I wonder what that means for creative work. Is it the responsibility of a painter to find buyers for his paintings, especially if they are a bold new expression of consciousness? My sense is that no, it isn't ... this is what we have art dealers for. However, like such artists, my works may be ahead of their time. It may take years, decades, or longer to reach a substantial audience that is able to understand and appreciate them. It doesn't matter. I express in this manner because I can and because I must.
I have likened myself to a scribe, for this is the primary function that I provide to spirit. I offer all that I AM in her service. In return, it seems that I get to know firsthand more of whom that I AM. That is the fairest of all trades. It seems that was expressed as a condition. However, it is more of a statement of fact of my experience. For the nearly nine years that I have been engaged in this expression ... I have been expanding and growing in ways that I did not even know were possible before. This expression is without question, the most important activity of my life to date. So much so, that I cannot imagine what life would have been like without it.
Movies play extremely important roles in our lives. They allow large numbers of people to have the same powerful experiences.
As always, the place to start is with the self. We have control over how we choose to express, what we allow to flow, and what we block and hide from others. In a very real way, my life must be an open book. Given that I have been a very private person ... keeping to myself to an extreme, this may be a bit of a challenge. But, I also have nine years of expression here, in which I have shared what I think, what I feel, what I believe, what I intuit, what I sense, and what I know. Yes, all of these modes are different. They use different parts of the self to experience and interpret reality.
From this standpoint, I have shared more of whom that I am on these pages than others generally do. Except, I do it in the blind ... not knowing with whom I am communicating, unless I receive a return communication in the form of an e-mail. For instance, I know that the main page of the Beyond Imagination site has been hit over 10,000 times in about 7 years. Yet, I doubt if I've been in communication with even 100 people during that same timeframe.
In the moment, I am only aware of what is to be expressed now, in this moment. Further, that is only revealed to me as it is expressed. The sense is that the very act of expressing it makes room for what is to come next. Without the expression, the channel is blocked, causing an interruption in the flow.
Spirit doesn't "take over" us, rather she operates through us by our willingness to act in this capacity and allow ourselves to be used in her service ... and ultimately in the service of our fellow man and our world.
I can say that I am God, in the same way that any cell or organ of my body can claim the right to say it is Wayne. No, it is not all of Wayne, but it has no separate existence outside of the context of Wayne. Similarly, I truly am God stuff ... in every aspect of my being.
There can be no separation other that that which we choose to create and experience. Much of the richness of our experience, however, comes from our willingness to explore separation and limitation. This provides for a focus and opportunities of expression and experience that could not otherwise be manifest.
Interesting, I've taken pride in being a hermit, effectively independent of others. And here, it seems that needing another ... or more importantly needing spirit is the very act that brings her into our life.
All relationships with spirit are cooperative and interdependent. They are also unconditional, since this is really the only way that the love from spirit can be expressed. This is its only nature ... it will not be molded by any restriction or conditions.
There are many kinds of people in the world, with many different talents and abilities. Some are more outgoing and gregarious. This is perfectly fine. It takes all kinds as the saying goes, to make the world go round. One question that comes to mind is: how do we use these differences effectively for the good of all. First, we create the infrastructures that allow all of these types to grow and express in the world naturally. If we can trust the natural expression of spirit, we will be amazed by what it is able to create and how fast. Next, we create a means for capturing what is learned from each of these perspectives so that the knowledge can be shared in a manner that allows it to benefit any who may need it. This is how we accelerate the rate of spiritual growth. We SHARE! We share what we have, we share what we feel, we share what we know, we share what we experience, we share whom that we are, as much as we can. Why? Simply because such is how spirit expresses ... she shares of herself. In reality, she shares of herself with the parts of her Self. Interesting. That is a key realization. Sharing is not something that involves others, it is something that involves multiple parts of the same entity ... the same ONE consciousness.
Being aware makes a tremendous difference in ones attitude towards things. It makes one more caring about self and about others and the world, more allowing, and far less judgmental. These are very good things that ultimately lead to a far kinder and gentler world, a world that we would all like to live in someday.
The trick is how to make "someday" now. This is where the art of reality creation comes into play. We change our individual reality by changing our beliefs and expectations about the world. For, in the reality game, these are what tend to manifest ... unless the beliefs conflict.
Many of the key ideas regarding society that I express here are in conflict with the fundamental principals of freedom and free enterprise and rugged individualism on which this country is founded. From my perspective, that does matter. If the ideas are better ... in particular, if they have greater utility, then they will have their day in the Sun as the saying goes. There will be nothing on Earth that can stop them when the time is right.
That does not mean it is necessary to fight for what I believe to be right. It does mean that I should do what I can to work for what I believe to be right. There is a big difference. The first involves an enemy against which one is aggressively laboring. The second can be far more peaceful and patient, allowing what spirit would manifest in her own time. Remember, it is through us that spirit is able to express and experience in the world.
People show as much concern and attention to me as I pay to them. In my personal world, this has been highly limited to date. The sense is that this definitely needs to change and soon.
To what degree does it matter what I personally desire to change? It seems that my desire provides the impetus that allows the forces of change to manifest in my life. However, there is a sense that I am not to dictate what this is to be ...
There is some reason that these communications, this expression of spirit comes under the umbrella of BEYOND IMAGINATION. The sense is that this going beyond imagination is the process of making what was only imagined ... the ideal, manifest in the world. Tall order? You bet it is. But what else is worthy of spiritual expression in flesh if not this.
The internet provides an effective medium through which such a society can interact, communicate, and share on a massive scale. At no time in the history of the world has it been so easy to freely communicate.
My sense is that whatever skills are needed for any task ... we will find that somewhere within the population not only do they exist in potential, they have been developed in practice, awaiting the day when they could be harnessed for the good of society.
We have said before that service is the only thing that truly has value. And, those services that we give freely to others, that employ our greatest skills and talents, are of the most value. We have also said that our spiritual job is something that is not thrust upon us ... rather, it is something we must volunteer for based on a knowingness of our purpose that comes from deep within us.
Once again, a new day has come. Interesting ... this happens everyday, but how many of us stop and experience the wonder of it all. Life is a very precious gift bestowed on us each and every moment. By whom you might ask ... but there is no entity, no whom sufficient to manifest this. Rather, it is spirit herself, the ONE consciousness that animates us all.
Yes, spirit uses all of the avenues available to her to do her works. It is amazing to see how many highly creative people are being moved to express spiritual themes and messages.
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull comes to mind. While most gulls were consumed with eating and the mundane aspects of life in the society of gulls, Jonathan became obsessed with flying to the point where nothing else in his life mattered. My obsession with metaphysics was very similar ... though I did have to do some of the normal things, in particular hold down a job and work for a living. In a very real way, exploring states of consciousness is much like flying. We soar to new levels of awareness ... and find ways to bring back what we learn and experience.
Being aware of being aware is powerful. Being aware of being awareness itself is even more powerful. It completely changes ones focus from the outer to the inner.
Seek awareness first and all else that you need will come unto you. That is spiritual law ... except that seeking is not enough. We must apply what we learn through our actions and share of whom that we are in service to spirit and to society in some way.
In the area of spiritual development, I haven't had any physical teachers in this existence. For this, I have always had to rely on direct guidance from within. This guidance has always been there as far back as I can remember, but the faucet was turned on in full force for the first time in 1993. Don't get me wrong ... the words of many individuals in over 1000 metaphysical books were instrumental in my education. They provided the programming necessary to create concepts and frameworks that would ultimately allow me to go beyond and leap off the edge of sanity into the unknown dimensions of consciousness (at least, unknown to me in terms of experience). However, it is one thing to establish elaborate constructs in one's mind based on standing on the shoulders of others. It is quite another thing to truly experience reality in a unique way ... as I believe that we are all meant to do. This requires awareness, and awareness does not reside in the mind. It has nothing to do with thinking. It is beyond reason, beyond mind. It simply is. And, once the experience of awareness comes, it is as if there are invisible reigns on the mind.
There is something special about bringing forth these words out of the unknown. Here is where we make the unmanifest manifest. This is where the creative spark is fanned into a full blown fire.
Fire is spirit. It is my home. It is where I am most comfortable expressing. In a very real way, it is through fire that I am able to live as I do. It is through fire that my consciousness is able to soar. What I feel most is not a physical, mental or an emotional high ... it is a spiritual high.
I trust spirit to guide me via my intuition to where I need to be, whom I need to meet, and what I need to do. When the time to do something has arrived, it will be clear exactly what I am meant to do.
My experience is that there are no real choices. The right choice is always obvious. I simply have to allow it to happen, and allow my actions to be consistent with making it happen.
Trust, I cannot say that enough. You must trust in the basic nature of spiritual expression and the integrity of your self / Self / and SELF. There is nothing that you will be forced to face that is beyond your ability to handle, nothing.
You are creating your own reality in each and every moment of each and every day.
I sit in amazement as I watch it unfold. The light grows stronger and the shadows retreat into the nothingness from which they sprang. There is no room for them when the light shines forth. Spirit is that strong ... and shadows are but mere illusions.
My job is to express as best I can what spirit would express through me. I trust that any who are meant to find and benefit from these writings will indeed find them and read them ... and thereby gain whatever is to be conveyed via these words.
Service involves giving of oneself to something greater than oneself.
As souls, we are ancient beings ... some would say eternal beings. When we take on a new mortal form, we forget whom that we are for awhile, and go about the business of living in physical reality. We develop our bodies, our emotions, and our minds; and we develop our natural talents and abilities.
Spirit shines its light and shares its love wherever it can and to whomever will ask and seek for it.
Our souls are powerful entities in their own right. They are parts of the ONE consciousness. They are sparks of spirit ... literally godstuff. However, the expression may be far more blocked for some than for others. It seems that we have to find our connection to source either inside or outside of us, depending on our nature and preferred method of observing the world.
My preferred mode of operating has been to seek within and then look for verification on the outside. Even then, I look in strange places. I don't look to others for verification.
There is some importance that this record has been created. It is a marker left by consciousness of a continuing voyage into the far country and beyond.
By their works shall thou know them. Yes, such is a great truth. It is via our works that we share of whom that we are with the world. This is not generally the works that we do to make a living, through it may include these. Primarily, it is the works that we choose to do with our free time in service to others ... or in service to something greater than ourselves.
There is a sense that there is a part of me of which I am not consciously aware that is orchestrating all that I experience to the point of actually co-creating it. Actually, I am consciously aware of the results of this part of me. I just don't experience performing this function consciously. My sense is that I will someday, but that day has not yet come.
Over the years I have expressed a deep concern for society, and, in particular, for the greater expression of spirit in flesh. This is what I am here to help bring about. It is why I exist in this incarnation at this time.
As always, I must find a way to be more so that I can do more ... remembering that it is spirit that is actually doing the work through me. That is a key realization.
Awareness, allowance, and acceptance can go a long way in the world. Spirit by its very nature seeks to express and unfold whom that it is in whatever way it can. We are the limiting factors in this expression, by the restrictions that we place on our connection to source, and on how we allow that source to express and manifest in our lives. Many go through their whole lifetime ... and perhaps many lifetimes, without realizing this connection on a firsthand basis.
In the only way that really matters, the expression of spirit is unfolding perfectly in accordance with a grand plan for the evolution of the expression of consciousness.
While much that is to happen is controlled by fate, how we experience it, what meaning we assign to it, and what we learn from it is all for us to decide.
My personal destiny seems to be intertwined with the destiny of the world and in very intricate ways. I find this both curious and comforting. Yes, this is grandiose thinking. I know that. However, that doesn't necessarily make it wrong.
The question of sanity deserves more attention. How do I know that I have not gone over the edge? When one is an explorer of the unknown realms of consciousness, this is a very real issue that one must deal with on a regular basis. How far can we venture into the unknown, before we lose our way ... and potentially are unable to come back?
Without spirit, neither my experiences, nor my expression would be what they have been. It is through my connection to source that I am able to exist as I do and express as I do. This connection is something that is unique to all of us. How we find this source, how we tap it, and how we fashion the channel through which it can flow into our lives and the lives of others are extremely important.
While we are on the path, it is not the destination that truly matters, it is the enjoyment of the journey.
Spirit ever seeks to be of service. Her primary operating mode is to find needs and fill them, whatever they might be.
In a true society, no need is allowed to go unmet ... but desires and wishes may or may not come true. When we allow needs to go unmet, we force people to live at a level of poverty in some area of their lives. This may be in physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual areas. My sense is that the society should have a collective responsibility to ensure that no one is forced to live in poverty by circumstances beyond their control.
The Lion King expresses the golden rule for the exchange of energy ... the secret to life, is to never take more than you give. This principle, simply stated, assures abundance by ensuring that the supply always exceeds the demand.
This expression continues to roll on ... word after word, phrase after phrase, thought after thought, paragraph after paragraph, page after page, and musing after musing. It still amazes me that creative expression can work in this manner, and be so effortless. It simply flows as it will. I tap a source inside that seems to have no end.
My mind has developed in a manner that gives it a utility that is different than most. It allows me to naturally see things, realize things, and make connections between things in ways that are different than for others. Different is not necessarily better ... it is just different. It is the differences between us that make us the unique individuals that we are.
It takes extreme courage to be unique and authentic, and to live the life of spirit that we are meant to live.
We are God expressing and experiencing through us. Without God, we would not exist. But without the creation, without us, there would be no experience of limitation and the nature of the various parts.
I take pride in delivering more than anyone can rightfully expect. This is not something that comes from outside. It is something that I demand of myself. I have said that spirit is a stern taskmaster. But, it seems, even she pales in comparison with what I expect of myself. There is a sense that one can never do too much. However, this needs to be balanced by a sense that one has done ones fair share, which by definition is enough.
Being the very best needs to be qualified, it needs to be assessed not as a comparison of oneself to others, but of ones present performance against ones innate potential.
It seems that the only true freedom is spiritual freedom. In all other forms we are simply unaware of our shackles. Sometimes they are even looked upon as gifts or blessings.
We experience what we experience in whatever manner is appropriate to us. This is not a game of trying to make ones experience similar to another. It is for each of us to find the path and way that is right for us. We can learn from one anothers methods and experiences, but ultimately we must evaluate, judge, and select what works best in our lives.
The subjective and the intuitive deserve their proper place as esteemed parts of our being, our expression, and our reality. In a very real way these are far more important to the meaning of our reality and the quality of our expression than logic and subjective knowledge. By its very nature, the I AM experience is subjective. Awareness is subjective. Creativity in general is far more intuitive than logical.
As Christ said, “in my Father's house are many mansions, I go to prepare a way for you.” Hmm ... could each mansion be the framework in which an ideal social system is manifest? My sense is that yes, this is the case. Further, it seems that spirit has already brought forth many of the concepts and key beliefs necessary to create these foundations. Each religion seems to have it's own. Actually, perhaps several because of differences between sects. However, there is a sense that religions are shackles in and of their own ... shackles we bear because it is more convenient to accept someone else as the authority in this area of our life than it is to discover and develop appropriate beliefs and constructs of our own.
The vibrations are different somehow, allowing and encouraging this expression to occur. And here I sit, as the happy and proud father, observing what I am bringing forth into manifestation, and concerned that my offspring are given the chance they need to grow into whom that they are and have their impact, whatever that might be, on the world. Yes, ultimately, some of the key concepts presented here will indeed have such an impact. I know this from the depths of my being.
Creative expression is one of the highest, if not the highest endeavors of spirit. It is here that we make the unknown known and the unmanifest manifest.
Sometimes it feels as if what is to be expressed is destined ... it already exists in finished form. It is only the linear nature of experience in this world that causes it to come forth letter by letter, word by word, thought by thought, ...
If we had to rely on traditional approaches to bring about a New World in a New Age ... our hopes might be dim. However, spirit does not accept such limitations. And, it seems that more and more people are starting to realize that they are far more than they ever thought themselves to be. With this realization, they will growingly become unwilling to tolerate the status quo and will seek to build the social foundations and infrastructure necessary for them to more fully express whom that they are.
I want to ensure via my actions that the world is a better place for my having lived.
There is something addicting about spiritual expression. The more one does it, the more one longs to do it ... literally to the point where it becomes all consuming.
In a very real way, increasing awareness is about increasing our concept of I to include more than we formerly knew ourselves to be. This too is not something that is taught in our schools and universities. How is it that some of the things most important to functioning as the spiritual being in flesh that we are ... are not taught to us.
The operative law has always been SEEK and ye shall FIND. Yet, how few of us truly seek. For many, this is understandable. Living in the world is so consuming of ones time and energy that there is little left over to going within and seeking for something more ... in particular, for whom that we are.
We live in an information age ... but there is so much information that it is hard to find the few gems of wisdom amidst the mountains of garbage that are our there. OK, garbage may have been a bit strong and judgmental.
Since there is only ONE consciousness, anything that anyone has ever realized and expressed in flesh is available to me to learn from, and to use and express in my life. It is a matter of being open and establishing the appropriate resonance that will attract it into my life. Of course, it will be colored by my individual consciousness ... but this adds to rather than diminishes it, since it adds a new viewpoint to the collective experience of the ONE consciousness.
Each of us is a unique spark of the one consciousness ... or more correctly, possess such a spark within us. It is for us to seek and find it, and to develop our gifts and talents to the fullest so that this spark, this spirit may express more fully in our lives. For then, we are truly living, and being the best that we can be. That is all that can be asked of anyone.
How do we know when we are operating at our best? One, we find a sense of true fulfillment, of a nature that cannot be found in any other way. Two, we simply know that we are operating efficiently and effectively. Three, we are happy with whom that we are and what we are expressing and experiencing. Four, we experience new states of expanded consciousness. No matter how far we go, or how good we get at something, there is always a next step in our unfoldment and evolution.
One of the best ways to learn anything is by doing it.
My experience continues to be that there are no real choices for me. The right choice is always obvious and I am always moved from inside to make it ... as if it were an automatic process. Clearly, not everyone sees things like this. Free will is a very coveted form of freedom.
In a very real way, this expression is my way of sharing whom that I AM with the world in the most intimate way that I can in the moment. Since I have no other examples to go by, I cannot tell how successful I am in doing this.
Remember that utility is the key for beliefs. Most of what I share is in the area of beliefs ... here we are free to choose as we will. Also, remember that the difference between an idea and a belief is the willingness to act in accord with. It is not a belief until you back it with actions in your life.
It seems the more that I express, the more I am able to discover whom that I AM and how the world and consciousness seems to work. This provides a springboard from which I can jump to new heights and dive into the depths of consciousness once again. This is where I swim and where I soar. This is where I am most at home. Yes, home to me is indeed a state of consciousness.
Awareness makes all the difference in the world. Yes, it is that powerful. Further, it seems the level of awareness we reach is the only thing that we get to keep from one lifetime to the next. This is what reality games are all about ... they are opportunities for becoming more aware of the I AM that we are.
And yes, we are playing in a reality game. Remember, games are meant to be fun ... so do what it takes to make it so. Games also have rules. If we want to play the game, we need to learn the rules and abide by them. The main rule of the reality game is that you create your own reality, no fine print, no exceptions; and you do it primarily through your belief system. So, it makes sense to develop the skills needed to find out what your beliefs are, to evaluate whether they serve you or not, to prune those that result in experience you do not like, and plant new ones to attract the reality you desire.
It seems that it is time for the dawn to finally arise ... that the dark may be dispelled once and for all and that we may see the light in such an intensity as the world has never known before, not even during the Renaissance.
A new age calls for a new mode of expression, and an accompanying new mode of being. It asks that we come to know ourselves to a greater degree than we thought possible so that we can more fully manifest whom that we truly are in flesh. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. It is for us to know this, and live in accord with this knowingness.
Each of us has a part to play in the coming drama ... a part that we selected and auditioned for, a part that is specifically suited to whom that we are, a part that allows us to share whom that we are and learn what we came to this existence to learn. There is a sense that we have no choice but to play these parts. It is as if these are our jobs ... our means of earning our living; not necessary our means of earning our income, however.
In our lives, we have those things we owe to our government and society, and those things we owe to spirit. We are not relieved from either. Obligations are part of life. They are necessary for society to function. They ask that we act responsibly and take responsibility for our actions. How many willingly choose to do this versus how many do this only to the degree that the laws require? This seems to be one of the noticeable differences in the awakened ones. There is an inner sense of obligation that extends beyond our self and a knowledge of what is right action under whatever circumstances one finds oneself in. One is knowingly subject to a higher tribunal than mans, as Channing said.
I can see no more worthy endeavor than exploring its nature and allowing it to express in my life to the fullest degree possible. Further, I hope that my actions and expression enables others to see both consciousness and themselves in a new light ... one that empowers them to be more of whom that they are, the I AM, part of the ONE consciousness.
My will is a tool, just as any other ability that I have ... a tool that can be used to serve spirit. By not imposing my will, yes, I allow spirit to control the reigns of what is expressed. However, there is a sense that I am limiting my utility somehow by not exercising my will in her service as well.
Yes, while much has been expressed, the sense is that there is far more from where that came from. Further, there is an even greater abundance from other sources that I have not even begun to tap yet. Hmm ... that one sent a shiver from my head through my body. I have always considered there to be one source that is our direct connection to the one consciousness. But, the preceding sentence suggests that there are other sources (plural) that can be tapped. Why does that not surprise me? The analogy of oil wells comes to mind. There are many deposits of oil that can be tapped and that have been tapped.
We collectively embody spirit. What we are able to learn and express in our thoughts and actions, fills the wells so to speak ... providing a supply that any may tap who can resonate with the material. However, the fundamental principle never take more than you give comes into play. What we take must be replenished by what we generate and share so that the well does not run dry.
Abilities are the gifts that we give ourselves so that we can carry out our mission and destiny.
The creativity that we see expressed in the world is a mirror reflection of the creativity of spirit.
When we express spirit, we express whom that we are more clearly and more fully than we can in any other manner. Whenever we fully engage our talents and abilities in service, we are being all that we can be. This is all that can be asked of anyone. Actually, given that we are human, perhaps it is more than we can ask of anyone.
It is important that we do a self-assessment on a regular basis. Only we know what we can do and when we are fully engaged. Others may see a part of this, but they are not truly in a position to judge what we do and how we do it.
If we allow "free will" to operate ... and allow individuals to do what they are moved by spirit to do, then everything that needs to happen will indeed occur and in a manner that is elegant. Such is the nature of spirit. She makes the most of each resource.
At some point, we must realize that we are ONE consciousness expressed through ONE people occupying ONE world, this blue-green jewel that we call Earth. Yes, that means that collectively we are responsible for all of us. The heart does not say that I am not going to pump blood to the foot ... it freely pumps blood to all the parts of the body that need it. Similarly, the brain does not think for itself alone, but for the whole self. Every system within the body supports the collective. However, as the body of humankind on this planet, we have not established such relationships.
There is a sense that this expression is changing somehow ... that I have tapped deeper into the bedrock and found a much larger reserve of source than I had known before.
Is it possible that there is a discontinuity in the play ... where one scene comes to a close, and a whole new scene begins, potentially with a whole new setting and set of characters? What makes us believe in the strict continuity of time? What prevents major change in the period of one breath or one heartbeat? The inner answer is nothing.
Is the change of an Age such an event? Or, is it simply that the vibrations express differently. Those vibrations that resonate with the character of the new age reach fruition and are able to manifest. Those that do not resonate, whither and die from lack of the energy needed to sustain them. Hmm ... this results in a fairly simple control mechanism. It doesn't force change, it simply sets up the vibrations that control what expressions are able to yield fruit in the new age.
I desire friendships, partnerships, and cooperatively interdependent relationships with strong spiritual counterparts. In particular, I seek ways to work closely with others to co-create things that we cannot create alone. The primary things that I desire to create are new foundations that permit greater expression of spirit in flesh.
I am a unique expression of consciousness. What I experience and how I experience it are peculiar to me, and me alone ... though they may bear some similarity to others. My sense is that the varieties of spiritual experience are numbered in some way. Yes, there are nuances that make each path unique, but overall there are only so many roads and trails that lead to the top of the mountain. Actually, this assumes there is only one mountain, which may not be the case at all. Perhaps each religion and spiritual path has its own. What is common is that all lead to the high country of spirit. I like that analogy. One must have the equivalent of spiritual stamina to reach the high country and live in the rarefied atmosphere. This is obtained by intense training over many years. It is not something to be taken lightly.
However, in this world of duality ... it is up to us to stretch ourselves, to tackle challenges, so that we can become more than we knew ourselves to be.
When I operate in the service of spirit, what I desire is what she desires to manifest through me. There is no separation.
We need to know when there is a purpose for having the information in our life that is tied to carrying out our mission.
My sense is that we all have missions in this existence, often multiple missions that operate on many levels. One key mission is know thyself. Another is to be whom that you are. There are others that involve family, work, neighborhood, society, country, and world.
In the very process of discovering whom that we are, we learn that to know whom that we are, we must be whom that we are. This is in line with something recently expressed to the effect that the best way to learn something is simply to do it.
Nothing happens by chance. We and everyone around us are where we are by mutual choice.
I've said before that there should be a labor tax ... a tithe of 10 percent equals four hours per week that should be used in providing ones services in some way that benefits society. Such a tax would unleash 200 million people x 10 percent = 20 million person years of effort each year in the United States alone. When you think about what could be accomplished by such an organization, it is simply staggering. The amount of good that could be done, the amount of help that could be provided, the amount of creative works that could be generated and made available publicly ... just think of it. One problem is how do we collect such a tithe, and what kind of infrastructure is needed to effectively organize all of this effort?
Yet, how do we empower the collective to take responsibility? The collective is an organization. For the organization to do anything ... individuals within the organization must do something.
The change of an age is a radical discontinuity. Any plans that use the precedent of history as a basis for future activity will be sorely lacking. A new age requires new thinking, new ways of organizing, new ways of expressing, new responsibilities, and completely new services. Further, it requires rethinking how we function as an individual and a collective. We need to shift the focus from the individual to the collective. However, in a way that that promotes greater individual expression and greater fulfillment of individual needs.
One shares by being whom that one is with others to the greatest degree possible. This requires a high degree of trust, and a no holding back attitude. We place our trust in others ... but more importantly, we place our trust in the highest expression of our authentic self, as spirit in flesh. There is nothing to fear. There is no judgment from the outside that matters.
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. It has always been thus though it seems that we have related far more to our physical and animal nature than our true spiritual nature. This does not affect the validity of the truth of the situation. It simply shows that we have chosen to live under some pretty severe limitations. As with all limitations, these too are self imposed either on an individual or a collective level.
One must allow people to be whom they are, and express appropriately for their level and circumstances. One expects different things from people at different levels. Per Michael, there are seven levels of expression for each of the soul levels as well. At each level, the nature of expression and need for experiences is different. It has been awhile, so I don't recall what these are at present. I was only interested enough to identify where I was in the scheme of things and where I might be headed. My investigations confirmed what I already knew, that I was an old soul, near the end of the path to the transcendental. Money and possessions don't mean much to me, they are necessary and helpful props in the play; however the real meaning is found in spiritual expression.
In a very real way, the works at Beyond Imagination are an extension of me. They are a part of my memory, a part that I make freely available to any who find it and care to share it.
The WWW is an extension of me. It is where a part of my memory is housed. In particular, the part that has been expressed in these writings. Without these web pages, I would have virtually no recollection of what has been expressed through me.
At no time in history have people had such free access to information and the ability to interact with and interchange information with one another so quickly and on such a global scale. Ideas can literally be shared within minutes with no filters, barriers, or censors. Along with this information freedom, however, there needs to be information responsibility. As a society, it is not clear we have reached a point where individuals realize their responsibilities in this area. We are still in a let the reader beware mode of operating.
The idea that the WWW is a collective extension of our brains into silicon and light is fascinating. I had not thought of it in this way before. But, this expression is me, or a part of me. I revisit it often to keep it in mind so to speak. I've chosen to freely share this material since I first started posting things at the Beyond Imagination site in 1995. In fact, in 1997, I was moved to declare that everything at the site was a Gift from Spirit to the World.
I know that there is nothing that reality can throw at me that I am not capable of handling and learning from. After all, I am pulling this reality to me as a magnet ... I am creating everything that I experience, without exception. Not just me, we all are.
It is clear to me that my destiny is extraordinary ... it must be, for spirit to have graced me with the gifts I possess and the awareness that I have reached to date. I know that such gifts are only given to be of service. I've already realized that service is the only thing that truly has value, especially those services we perform out of love.
My destiny will unfold, one way or another. My sense is that my awareness is the very key that allows it to unfold one way versus another. In a very real way, it is as if I have no choice in the matter. I must be whom that I AM and express as fully as I can what would be expressed through me. That is all that spirit asks of anyone.
Yes, I am the writer and director of my life even as I am the actor and observer. We all are, though it seems there are different levels of conscious awareness and competance in each of these aspects. That's OK. As individual expressions of the ONE consciousness, we each see things through unique eyes. The reality we experience is different. That doesn't make it right or wrong. That doesn't make it better or worse. That simply makes it different, unique for each of us.
What makes freedom work is an openness that allows individuals and groups to be and do as they will so long as it hurts no one. At least this should be the key condition imposed. We also need to ensure our animal friends and the environment are safeguarded as well.
For your eyes only ... comes to mind again. Perhaps that is indeed what this expression is ... something that only I am meant to see. Then, why am I so moved to share it with others? Primarily, because I am moved to share myself with others ... and this is the most intimate expression of whom that I AM that I have.
Words are the song that spirit sings through me, the thoughtforms that spirit weaves through me. It is through words that what I AM can be expressed. In the beginning was the word. All forms are manifestations of the word ... thoughts congealed into physical form.
Limitation enables us to focus in a particular way so that we can experience life as we do. Without the limitations, none of what we call reality could exist as it does. This is an important realization. There is purpose to everything. There is an underlying meaning to everything. It is but for us to see it and experience it. This is not difficult to do ... but we need to step back and experience life as the observer to truly see it.
We create out own reality, every bit of it. I guess this could be good news or bad news depending on how you like what you experience. The bottom line is that there is no one else to blame if we don't like our experience. There is nothing left to chance, and nothing imposed on us by others.
Our belief systems are the key sieve through which we draw experience to us. If we want to change our experience, that is the place to work, with our beliefs. These beliefs are all accessible to us consciously, if we desire to do the self work to find them. We are free to change them in anyway we choose. The key is utility. Choose beliefs that empower you to be all that you can be, and that attract the experiences, people, and things into your life that you desire.
Remember, in the end, our level of consciousness ... our level of awareness, is the only thing that we take with us from one lifetime to the next. So, it helps to spend some amount of time in this pursuit. Knowing thyself is where the spiral of evolution starts. This is what propels us to ever greater expression of spirit in flesh. And, that after all, is what the reality game is all about.
Symbol systems and intuition play a big role in how spirit expresses. I've revealed much of that here at this site many times. At times, I am blown away by the nature of what I am able to find in seemingly ordinary things. There is a spiritual world embedded in the physical one, primarily in the symbol systems. It is right there, before our eyes. All we have to do is awaken to see it. Yet, it seems that this is easier said than done. Awakening still seems to be a relative rare occurrence.
At no time in history has the potential for the collective creativity of us all to be expressed and applied to the benefit of all been so great. The information age gives us freedom in ways that we have never known before. In particular, freedom of association; and freedom to access, generate, and share information. This is a monumental change in the way people throughout the world are able to communicate. It will take some time to get used to the benefits and the challenges of this newfound freedom. Though many of us are already hooked ... there is no going back.
One thing that seems to be missing overall is meaningful organization of information. How do we tell what is true? How do we determine what is connected to what? How do we find what we are looking for with a reasonable amount of time and energy? There are people good at organizing things, we should be employing their skills to do some of this for us all. At present, some volunteer there time and services to catalog various specific areas. Others apply their skills in a manner that allows them to sell information services and reports to their clients. It is amazing how much information is out there, and who is in a position to benefit from the use of that information.
What do I ask of the world ... nothing. Hmm, I didn't really expect that answer, and definitely not that quickly. I ask a lot of myself, but the world I allow to be as it will.
The bottom line is that the world will be as it is, a mirror reflection of the collective state of consciousness. It can be no more or no less. For, this is exactly how it is created, as the manifestation of the collective consciousness, or more correctly unconsciousness in most cases.
It seems that much of what is changing is occurring at spiritual frequencies, and deals with our ability to express whom that we are as spirit in flesh more fully. As with a radio or TV, it takes a certain ability to tune into these frequencies, pull in the messages being broadcast, and apply these in our lives. The spiritual programming is there, it is all around us, and it will have a profound impact on how society is structured, as well as on our individual freedoms and responsibilities to society and to one another. It is for each of us to find our role in the new order that is being established. It seems this will come from the inside out. Though , there are already signs that it is affecting many from the outside in ... 9/11 being a case in point.
I express what can be expressed through me, based on what I observe and how this connects to a world view that has been developed over 30 years of metaphysical study. Actually, this also included extensive training in mathematics and engineering, and many years of work in systems engineering. Through this, I have come to know that there is a spiritual reality, and a spiritual destiny that is unfolding.
Making what is not I, me is a big part of getting to know myself. This is how we expand our concept of self, we incorporate more and more what is outside of us into what is inside of us. This is a never ending process. There is always more of whom that we are to find. No matter how aware we become, there is always a next step, always another degree of realization that we can reach. So long as we remain individuals, this is true. I don't know when this ends ... so I can't even speak of what will be when we finally join into the ONE in an undifferentiated manner. My sense is that such is where we are headed eventually, but that may be a very long while away ... actually, it may occur when not I me = no time is reached.
The expansion of consciousness within us and through us is a hallmark of this existence. It is what we are here for, in a very real way, it is why we exist.
The evolution of lifeforms happens according to natural laws ... both physical and spiritual. Life as we know it is encoded in our DNA. These hold the key to physical expression. As humans, we employ reason and imagination to find and create tools that allow us to extend what we are capable of doing. All of our electronic equipment, including computers and there associated software are tools that extend out ability to do things. Radios, stereos and CD's, TV, DVDs and VCRs, video games and computers all convey information to us or allow us to observe and interact with information. When you think about it, much of our lives center around the many types of information that we consume, play, and interact with.
Do what comes natural to you. Do what you are moved to do by the spirit within you. The expression of spirit in flesh is not difficult. In fact, it is the most easy and natural thing in the world if we simply allow it to flow as it will. That requires holding back any judgments we may have over what is expressed or how it is expressed.
Not everyone is ready to be aware. This is OK. There is no set agenda or set of goals that we all must follow or reach. We each tailor our existence to be the showcase for our unique abilities.
Time represents the state of consciousness and the level of spiritual expression in the world.
The unknown offers a tremendous challenge to use all of whom that I AM to explore and make more of the unknown known. After all, this is what explorers do, they boldly go where no man or at least few men have gone before.
It is through the sharing of ourselves in ways that benefit others, that we create a society among us.
If we are to grow into greater collective creative expression we have to find ways to interact with each other in cooperatively interdependent ways. This requires working together in ways that facilitate greater expression of spirit than can occur from individuals acting alone.
In the Aquarian Age, service to ones fellow beings is a key characteristic. This doesn't have to be service to humankind. Service to animals, and to the environment are valued endeavors as well. The greatest service seems to be service to spirit herself. This seems to be the service that allows us to maximize the benefit of our endeavors to all concerned.
How do we know that our illusion is not much the same as depicted in The Matrix? After all, our senses are quite restricted. Our eyes see only a small part of the spectrum. Our ears hear only a small part of the frequency spectrum. Actually, everything is vibration, is numbers. Understanding how these vibrations interplay in our lives is a big part of understanding reality and reality creation. How do we tell what is real versus what is illusion? How do we tell what rules can be bent and which can be broken? One way is by testing them to determine how valid they are.
I am choosing to expend my time on this endeavor, each and every day. I am moved to bring up the blank screen and allow consciousness to pour herself onto it as she will clothed in whatever words I am able to supply and convey. This expression has a very high priority in my life. It is how I learn of what I have become as a result of my experiences. It is where I come into contact with the unknown. It is my way of allowing spirit to flow through me to do her works. It is my way of giving back some of what spirit has been so kind to give to me.
I have limited experience listening to and interacting with others verbally. Yes, I know that communications classes teach that over 75 percent of the meaning of verbal communications is not in the words themselves. Yet here, I must rely on everything to be conveyed in the words. They are the only thing that I can record for you to see. How well I do this can only be determined by you.
There are many paths to the ONE. Each of us must ultimately find the path that is right for us, and follow it to where it leads. This may be a freeway that many travel, or a winding trail into the unknown that few have ventured, or even a completely new trail that you cut through the wilderness.
As words and pages at a web site, this expression only has the potential to change the way people think and express, and thus change the world. It is when the words are read, studied, and applied in ones life that the true impact occurs.
Yes, this is what I need to do ... follow the leads that I am given to wherever they take me. If my reality is to change, my methods of being and my beliefs must change. This requires doing things that are new to me, things that may even be uncomfortable at first.
We are the players in the drama of life, in the drama of spirit expressing in flesh on this planet at this time. Each of us chose to be here. Each of us chose what talents to be born with. It is up to us to find out what these are, to develop them, and to find a way to use them for the benefit of not only ourselves but for the good of society.
The greatest collective good is not achieved when each individual acts selfishly for their own benefit, but when the individuals consider the collective good as well in their decisions.
One sure way of getting something is to create a vacuum for it in your life. As in the physical world, natural law will do everything it can to fill it. You may say, easier said than done ... and if that is what you believe, so it will be for you. One area to focus on is beliefs of worthiness. If you don't feel worthy of receiving something, in all likelihood you won't pull it into your life no matter what you do or try.
We are all worthy of the unlimited abundance that spirit would bestow on us. However, there is a catch, we must contribute and do our part to create the abundance.
Everyone deserves to have their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs met in exchange for applying themselves in service to society.
Something comes to mind ... many lead lives of quiet desperation. My sense is that this may indeed be true. There seems to be much more hardship, sorrow, and pain than there really needs to be. Many seem to be stuck in a grind with no way out. Yet, each has created the circumstances of their own life. And, each chooses how to feel about what they experience. However, these choices are made within an overall social fabric that we create collectively. Change this fabric, and we free people to make entire new ranges of choices that simply did not exist before. We will be amazed at the collective creative freedom that will be unleashed as we do this.
We are not aware of how this communication occurs. We only knows that it comes forth from a place inside that I call source. There seems to be some type of a resonance process that allows me to reach across the void from the unconscious to the conscious, and from the unknown to the known. My state of consciousness seems to be the key factor in tuning the receiver and bringing in the channel from source.
Einstein worked on a unified field theory sufficient to account for the disparate viewpoints of different branches of science for a good portion of his life. Similarly, I am working on a unified spiritual theory or unified metaphysical theory to account for how spirit expresses in flesh, and the spiritual destiny that seems to be unfolding before our very eyes. I have no formal language or set of notations with which to work in this area. I have only words, and whatever meaning they can convey.
As a spiritual warrior, my battle is of the Self with the self. It is primarily conducted in the world of ideas. Yes, I have my share of them and I am moved to freely and regularly share them. As a voice for the ONE consciousness ... I speak with a knowingness that is beyond my Earthly years. Yet, there is a strong sense that what I speak is true. At least, it resonates deeply within me - one of the sure signs that I have found to indicate that something is close to truth.
As I loner, my choice has always been never to walk in anyone's shadow. I would be whom that I AM, all by myself ... though I do walk on the shoulders of giants who have come before, and in particular on the words that they were able to express.
I am ever amazed that this expression proceeds as it does, and ever grateful that spirit engages directly in my life in this manner.
To the degree that I can, I've lived my life in accordance with a higher set of standards than that of man. I've done this because I have known inside what is right for me ... as far back as I can remember. I do not have a personal relationship with any God. My inner relationship is with source, spirit herself, as she is able to express in my life.
My direct experience is that spirit is found within and reflected in the manifested world. The correct way to live ones life is from the inside out. Then again ... this may be appropriate for introverts. I'm sure extroverts see things quite differently, but I have no firsthand experience of this.
The clash between religion and science is one of domain and worldview. There is a sense that we need to see things from a higher spiritual point of view that embraces the best of what both of these have to offer. There is an objective world and there is a subjective world. Both should be the domain of both religion and science. We need spirituality to guide science into doing the things that are right for individuals, society, and the world. We need science to apply discipline to our pursuits into metaphysical domains.
The objective remains objective only for so long until we reach a point where our very observation impacts what we are observing in unpredictable ways. Similarly, the subjective can easily take us into never never land if we don't test the utility of what we are exploring and discovering.
In every endeavor, we make great progress when we apply our best and brightest to the task. To do this, we need to apply resources ... we need to be willing to make this exploration a worthy occupation for those with the right skills. This means establishing jobs and paying people to work in this area, towards the advancement of metaphysical knowledge, towards finding ways for spirit to be more fully expressed in flesh. This is, after all, what life is all about. It is only appropriate that this pursuit would be worthy of our time, effort, and resources.
Weave me a peaceful world is the message of the spider card in the Animal Cards deck. Indeed, it seems that this is exactly what I am here to weave ... or at least help to weave since this is an endeavor that it seems will take many. Of course, I weave my web of words. You see the threads here on these pages.
We are the vehicles through which spirit does her works in the world. As such, we are literally god incarnate ... or spirit incarnate if like me you find it difficult to relate to a concept of god.
We each do what we can with what we are given and with the circumstances that we find ourselves in. However, there is a wrinkle ... the circumstances we find ourselves in are there precisely because we create them.
Within us lie all the answers to any questions we might ask.
Seek within and ye shall find all that ye need to know and more.
It is the awakened ones that will lead the way in the times ahead to a whole new way of being. They do this by demonstrating what any may do - if they apply suitable effort to knowing themselves.
Each of us have within us great gifts that are meant to be applied in service to others. It matters not what these talents are ... whatever they are they can be developed and used to serve. This takes a broadened sense of what it means to serve. Scientists serve by using their skills to pursue scientific truth and apply this for the good of mankind and the Earth. Artists serve by applying their creative skills to generate works that move people and stir their souls. Farmers serve by producing food to feed the multitudes. Craftsmen serve by creating things that people need and value: homes, furniture, cars, appliances, etc ... Health care professional serve by healing the ailments and diseases of people.
Yes, there is always a way to use ones talents to serve others. We just have to be open to what spirit moves us to do, and be creative and flexible in finding the appropriate ways. Yet it is worth the effort. There is a powerful spiritual law at work. What you give is returned unto you manyfold. It is the very act of giving that primes the pump for abundance to enter our lives.
Yes, service is the only thing that ultimately has value. This is what the expression of spirit is all about. It serves by seeing where there is need and then finding a way to fill the need. It does this everywhere at once. And it uses us as its instruments for filling the needs that it finds.
Something from the movie Contact comes to mind. Something to the effect, that in all of our journeys the only thing that we have found to combat the emptiness is one another.
"You are God's torch, that lights the way to freedom" ... hmm, that is an interesting line near the end of The Ten Commandments.
Go proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof.
That was Moses final line in the movie. The sense was that both of these lines were speaking directly to me personally. This brings up the issue of whether and to what degree we as individuals within society are enslaved by the institutions within society. My sense is that we are far more enslaved than we know ourselves to be. For one thing, we are slaves to habits ... many of which we perform without even questioning why. Further, in many respects, we are slaves to an economic system that consumes much of our time and energy without really satisfying our needs in return. Something comes to mind, none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. How true this is. If we don't even know that there are chains that bind us, we don't see any need to take action to remove the chains, even if it is within our power to do ... which indeed it is in this case. We blindly go through life unaware of what could be, accepting life for what it is, not even thinking about challenging the status quo. Am I indeed a torch for spirit, that lights the way to freedom? That is indeed a fitting image for one who would show the way to the expression of spirit in a new age.
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I am compelled to come here to write by a force that I simply cannot resist ... or more precisely, choose not to resist. And, while here, it is simply a matter of going with the flow and following consciousness wheresoever she would take me. This is clearly the most important endeavor of my life. It is my path and my journey. I can't imagine what life would be like without it.
Consciousness ever grows and evolves and we ever become more than we thought ourselves to be. This makes for a constant challenge. Being all that we can be requires effort on our part. Yet, when we are in the groove and doing it, it is the most natural thing in the world.
It is amazing how fluidly are lives flow when we are doing what we are meant to do. It is as if all of nature conspires to help us achieve what must be done. Of course this would be the case ... for it is spirit herself expressing through us that is resulting in the manifestation. There is nothing too great for her, nor anything too small. It is but for us to follow the dictates of or souls to express whom that we are in a way that is of service not only to ourselves but also to others.
What always matters is here and now, doing in the moment what can be done in the moment, and making each day count as much as we can. If we focus on taking care of the moments, one after another, the end will take care of itself, and will be far better than we have ever dreamed or imagined.
I have always been partial to great thoughts ... the greatest thoughts that have been able to come forth. My hope is that my works and the thoughts that I capture may someday be considered in this light. Probably not within my lifetime, but then again, we are living in a new age where the time delay between thought and manifestation is greatly accelerated.
Make each and every day count to its fullest. We never know how many days we are granted in this existence. They are always sufficient to do what needs to be done, but are not necessarily excessive. The bottom line is that we can't afford to waste the time we are given.
Life is a very precious gift. The most important thing we can do in our life is to find a way to be whom we truly are and give of ourselves and our abilities to the greatest degree that we can.
I expect much of myself, primarily because I know what I am capable of, and I know great gifts and talents are only given in order to be of use. I feel a deep obligation to serve my fellow man and my world.
Spirit expressing in flesh ... we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
We can experience the creative sparks of spirit that we are and even light flames with these sparks that serve as guideposts and shining examples for others. In a very real way, this is what we are meant to do with our lives, first find that spark within, then allow it to shine its light and do its work in service to others and the world.
Life is meant to be an adventure, at least in some aspects of our lives. Life is also meant to be a challenge, one that forces us to find ways to go beyond our concepts of ourselves.
Our minds are capable of some incredible things, if we free them from the shackles that bind them.
We must learn to harness our minds or the power is wasted on endless diversions
We must realize that our minds are far more than the conscious parts that engage in reason. Equally important, if not more important, is intuition. Reason and intuition are dual sides of the same coin. To operate from one without the other is to go through life with heavy blinders on. Without intuition, we have no compass and vehicle for creative expression. Without reason, we have no follow through and means for evaluating the relative utility of things. However, even then reason has its components. There is an objective reasoning and there is a subjective reasoning. In my experience the later is the more important of the two ... even in my position as an engineer.
Everything that happens is meant to happen; and happens by choice not by chance. Yes, the choices are made at other than conscious levels for the most part. However, they are choices nonetheless.
We get what we focus upon. In many ways, we get what we believe that we will get ... what we expect that we will get ... what we believe that we deserve to get. It is very important to feel worthy of the best that life has to offer. In particular, abundant things, relationships, challenges, and experiences.
Our responsibility is simple, to be whom that we are, and to express that as fully as we can.
Why is it that violence and war are considered to be acceptable behavior for nations of for groups of people? The whole issue of terrorism is one that throws a major wrench in the workings of international relations. When a group of people choose not to play by "the rules", what recourse does a country, society, or even the world have. What does it say about our world that fear has such power to move and affect us?
Taking a more spiritual point of view, mass reality is created by the collective beliefs of societies in the world. We are in the midst of playing out some power games that point to the need to re-evaluate how we view power in the world, and what we do to prevent the abuse of power. Terrorists do just this, they abuse power to make their point and to cause harm to their enemies or targets. They do this because they see it to be right, and feel justified in their cause. How do we change this? How do we demonstrate that such behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our world? One way, is to declare war on terrorism and all terrorists. This seems to be the choice we are making. However, is it a good choice in the long term? It seems that it only treats the symptoms ... particular terrorists committing their acts. It doesn't fix the conditions that allow people to reach the extremes of belief where such behavior becomes an acceptable option. This requires dealing with more deep routed issues.
The very nature of the Aquarian Age demands more acceptance of differences and allowing of people to be whom they are.
The bottom line is that no terrorist can commit any act without an accompanying cast who agree to create and play their parts in the event. Nothing happens to any of us without an inner agreement on our part to participate. Yes, I mean nothing, no exceptions. We either create our reality or we don't. It is that black and white. My knowingness is that we co-create everything that we experience. Yes, everything.
There are no victims. At some level, we choose everything. This is extremely empowering. However, we only benefit consciously if we truly believe it. Regardless of what we believe, this is indeed how reality creation works. When it comes down to it, something Seth said comes to mind, something to the effect: it helps if your beliefs are aligned with truth, but that in no way impacts the veracity of what is true.
Our belief system is very much a garden. Some people have a lot of weeds in their garden, so many that the desired plants are choked out and have no way to grow. Other people fail to plant seeds at all, so their gardens contain no useful plants. Still others plant seeds but forget to water them. Then others fail to apply fertilizer and appropriate nutrients. If we want to live a rich and full life, we must tend to our belief garden and make sure the beliefs therein are empowering ones that truly are of service in our lives and the lives of all those whom we touch.
Abundance is our birthright. But, it does not come by itself. We have to earn it or enable it by what we believe and by how we use the gifts and talents that we have been blessed to receive. Actually, more than receive ... we chose these gifts and talents - so in a very real way, we gave them to ourselves.
The bottom line is that we are responsible for what we do and for what we experience. Further, we are responsible whether we believe that we are or not. It helps to make this responsibility conscious ... for then it gives us the opportunity to make better choices not only for the benefit of ourselves, but for the greater good of all concerned.
While I am aware that many dramas are being played out, they are not being manifest in a way that directly touches my life. In many ways, I lead a very sheltered life. As a result, many areas of the illusion we call reality simply aren't contained in my world. They are as childrens toys that I have outgrown as an adult. I have no use for them anymore.
I can only assess things based on what I have experienced and based on how this expression compares with the expression of others. I compare not from a standpoint of judging whether something is better or worse, rather from whether there is a similarity or a resonance.
We truly live in an information age. At no time in history have we had such ready access to so much information. The challenge becomes how to filter the information into a manageable set that is directly relevant and important to our lives. If we don't filter enough ... we become subject to information overload. If we filter too much, we base our decisions on less than a full deck, so to speak.
Information processing is a major activity in our lives. The more skills we develop in this area, the more powerful we are in the information age and the more useful we are to ourselves, our society, and our world. Some of us are information generators. Others categorize and classify information to make it more readily available. Still others analyze information to find the depths of its meaning.
Spirit is ever present in my expression. She guides all that I do. She leads me to exactly where I need to be, and moves me to do what it is that she needs done. In a manner, I am her servant. I speak of being the her-mit, the mit of her, the glove that she wears. I am the means through which she can do her works in the world. These very pages are part of her works. It is a mystery to me as to how they are generated.
What you see here is consciousness expressing through me to whatever degree that she can based on my ability to serve as a conduit for her energy. That is not to say that I don't have a life of my own. However, this expression is a major part of that life by conscious choice. I choose to make myself available for this communication, one because it brings me great joy and I feel fulfilled in doing it, and two because I feel that it will ultimately make a difference in the world. And, for life to have real meaning, it must make a statement or make a difference.
I must lead a life of purpose ... in fact, of great purpose. There I go again, grandiosity rearing its head. But, what and how am I supposed to think given what I know of whom that I AM? How can I be other than grandiose? At least I am not selfish about it, and have a strong desire to use my gifts to serve society and the world as best I can.
Each of us have our unique gifts and talents, and a purpose that makes use of these in some way that serves. It matters not how many we serve. It only matters that we serve to the best of our abilities. In return, we should live an abundant life in which all of our needs are met. This does not mean there won't be dramas and challenges to overcome. In all likelihood, there will. However, when we maintain a spiritual focus, all such challenges bring their own gifts. There is always something to learn from every experience. It is for us to choose to learn our lesson in joy.
The more aware we become, the more we are able to behave as the true spiritual beings that we are.
There are hard rules and soft rules. Hard rules apply to everyone incarnate and simply cannot be broken while we are in flesh. Soft rules, however, can be bent and even broken if necessary. It is for us to discover what the rules are, and which are hard versus which are soft. Further, it may take a good deal of training to develop the abilities necessary to allow us to break the soft rules.
In a very real way, all of existence is played out as dreams in the mind of God.
We spend our time in the dream world of daily reality. We spend our no time, in the realm of sleep ... and the unconscious frontier of spirit. This communication is my bridge between the two, between an inner world that simply knows, and this outer dream, this illusion we call reality. Perhaps that is why I find this communication so fascinating. It offers a glimpse of the real that lies in the heart of the unknown.
I've said before that I come to create community ... common unity within society.
Spirit is all around us at all times. There is nothing private, or secret, or hidden. She knows our every thought and action. She moves us and inspires us ... or can do so, if we are open to allowing her active presence in our lives.
I cannot imagine living anything but a live of spirit, a life of service to consciousness and ultimately to the society in which I live. However, the service needs to be on my terms, or more precisely on spirits terms, since she is crucial to this expression that I AM.
There is a natural progression from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence to conscious competence to unconscious competence. Though, it seems the first step may be far more competent than we know. Our souls know exactly what they are doing. However, what counts in this existence is making it physical. We are here to express spirit in flesh to the degree that we can, but it has to be in flesh.
Some of us lose sight of that fact and become far too engrossed in our mental creations. However, these too are in flesh. Ideas are physical, they have their counterparts in brain cells and neural firings. Yet, if that is all they do ... they are not having the world impact that they could. Ideas should ultimately excite us to action, to building the foundations necessary for the greater expression of spirit both individual and collectively, and to moving us to more fully express whom that we are. Society always benefits from such expression. It seems crucial that we do what it takes to encourage and facilitate such expression.
The greatest gift we can give to the world is to fully share whom that we are in whatever manner we find appropriate for us.
I still firmly believe that the basic principle of communism,
from each in accord with their abilities, to each in accord with their need
is the most succinct statement of spiritual economics ever pronounced. The fact that the infrastructure has never been established that permits this social contract to be realized does not deter from its power and its validity. What this does suggest is that perhaps it is time to turn the tides and make spirituality an integral component of every aspect of our lives including the state and the economy. No, I am not arguing for a state religion. In fact, I am not arguing for religion at all. From what I have seen, most religions are too exclusive to embrace our individual liberties and freedoms. Spirituality has nothing to do with religion ... though when operating at their finest, religions do facilitate the individual and collective expression of spirit.
My hope is that the world will be a better place because I have lived. A noble hope, and yes an audacious one. However, what is life if not a place to realize dreams. The bigger the dream the better.
Someone once told me, if you see a task that need to be done, and you have the skills to do it, then it is yours to do. However, this is not quite right, since the task may not fully engage us, and there may be others with the necessary skills as well. Buckminster Fuller said something to the effect that the tasks that are yours to do are the ones that you see need to be done that no one else seems to see need doing. What an interesting challenge.
It seems that no matter how big I make my concept of self, it is not sufficient to contain what is able to be expressed next. However, it is the very process of coming to know myself that allows this expression to occur. My hope is that this record will light the way for others as well. But, even if it is only for me ... for my eyes only ... how wonderful and personal spiritual expression can be.
I am whom that I AM for a purpose. I have a destiny to fulfill. My works to date are simply the starting point, a mere sample of what is to come. There is a sense that I am entering an outward cycle of expression. This started when the writings began. That was the beginning of the outward flow. Actually, it may have been two years later when the Beyond Imagination web site was created and the works were made available to others.
There is something to learn from all that the empirical sciences have given us ... especially over the past century. There is nothing to stop us from applying the techniques that work in this domain to the occult sciences and the study of the mind and spirit. It doesn't take long to reach the unknowns in the occult sciences.
I explore what I am moved to explore. Spirit guides me every step of the way. I believe that I am finding things that no one has found before. I am definitely experiencing and expressing consciousness in a bold new way. I do it because I enjoy it and find it fascinating. What value it will have in the long run remains to be seen. My hope is that I have done my part to make the world a better place because I have lived. My life will run its course as it will. My destiny will be manifest.
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose. That came from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. Indeed, it speaks a very profound truth. However, it is up to us to find that purpose. It is unique for each one of us. Further, it requires that we use the unique gifts and talents that we have in the service of others.
What good is it to be free if you don't explore what could be. The status quo may be good enough for the masses. But, it is not good enough for me. I know there is a better way to live, a way imbued with spirit.
As a nation, we have accomplished a lot in the 226 years since we declared our independence. However, we have yet to take the next step and declare our cooperative interdependence. This is just as revolutionary of a step ... though it will not take a war to get us there. It takes an awakening, a collective realization that in a complex world, the only way we can truly thrive is to choose to cooperate fully with one another and to recognize just how interdependent that we are on one another and on the collective whole.
Society is an entity, one that is just as real as any individual; one that is born, learns, grows, experiences, and creates. We need to start seeing ourselves in the context of how we fit into that society, that larger whole of which we are part. Our actions need to consider not only our own interests but the interest of others and the common good.
This is not meant to be oppressive to individual freedom, it is merely to ensure that we act in a manner that fulfills our obligation. By being born into a society, and being entitled to the blessing that society offers ... we also inherit a spiritual obligation to apply ourselves in service to that society in some manner that uses our special abilities and talents. Many people don't recognize that there is a spiritual component to our existence hence do not see that such an obligation exists. However, this does not matter. It exists whether we believe that it does or not.
Knowing thyself involves being able to explain whom and what I AM. The best place to start on this path is through metaphysical books. They point to the answers that have been found by all those who have walked before us. They are the physical, written record, of where some of the greatest beings that have expressed in flesh have ventured. I consider my works in this august company ... though I am still young by Earth standards. Yes, the egotism pops through again, but how else do I account for what has been able to be expressed through me in the past 9 years?
When the Beyond Imagination writings started in 1993, the experience was Beyond Mind ... beyond any part of my mind that I was conscious of anyway. I don't know how else I can explain it. In the course of several months, I awoke as if from a deep sleep and was suddenly aware in a way that I had never been before. That awareness has remained with me ever since. It allows me to experience consciousness, above and beyond what the mind itself knows. Now, this awareness is integrated into nearly every aspect of my life. It is as if a light has been turned on, allowing me to see things that were formerly in the darkness or in the shadows. The light came from deep within ... not from any outside source. I realized it to be my connection to the ONE consciousness that animates us all.
There is a collective consciousness that is the source of all the sparks of consciousness that are expressing in the world. The sparks see themselves as separated and isolated from one another. Most don't realize the source from which they spring ... the source which sustains them at all times. However, lack of knowledge of the truth, does not change the nature of the truth one iota. It helps if our beliefs are aligned with spiritual truth, but that is not a necessity for living ... it is a necessity for right living in which we strive to fulfill the purposes for which we came.
Living is a process, a journey, not a destination. It is good to remember that and to find ways to smell the roses and enjoy the journey. Further, it helps to make it an adventure. Your life after all is your most important masterpiece. Yes, masterpiece ... you are creating every aspect of it. If you don't like what you are experiencing, then claim your responsibility and do what it takes to change it.
You may argue that you don't have time ... that your days and weeks are far too busy already. However, take a hard look at how you expend the 24 hours per day and 168 hours per week that you are allotted. No one gets any more or any less than anyone else when it comes to time. To begin with, start to treat every moment as precious. One never knows when that moment will be ones last. Make every moment of every day count. Examine where you are spending your time. In many ways this is more important than how you are spending your money. Are you doing things that you love to do? Are you making a difference in your world via your actions. Are you happy and fulfilled and enjoying the journey. If not, then step back and take a look from a higher perspective. What are the things that truly matter in your life? How can you find way to engage in them more, or in a better, more productive way? This does not mean spend every free moment working. It does mean be aware of what you are doing and not doing, and the consequences of both your action and inaction. Yes, your reality is shaped as much by what you choose not to do as by what you do.
Information is that way. Sometimes it is correct, sometimes it is wrong, sometimes it is simply unknown as to whether it is correct or wrong. Hmm ... yes, no, unknown. It seems that we live in at least a three state world ... even more if we allow shades of gray in place of unknown. It is in this later state where most of our life is lived. Truth is black and white. Something is true or it is false. However, the unknown is the playground of beliefs. It is here that we engage our creative energies in search of meaning and purpose, and in activities aligned with that purpose.
We need to establish infrastructures that allow people to discover, develop, and be whom that they truly are. This is what results in the greatest individual contribution to society, and collectively what results in the greatest spiritual expression in the world.
By giving each individual what they need to be whom that they truly are, society as a whole reaches levels unimagined.
We are truly creating a new world order, a body in which individuals are the cells. They have always been, however the organization wasn't there to permit higher level spiritual functions to manifest. Just as the human brain permitted a higher level of self consciousness to manifest, the collective mind will permit a higher level of social consciousness to manifest ... not at the cost of individual liberty, rather by truly freeing individuals to be all that they can be in service to something greater than themselves.
The collective consciousness has found ways to leak through over the ages. There have always been lightbearers among us who have awakened to whom that they are and found the source within. No, there numbers have not been great, but they have given us the best spiritual teachings that could be expressed at the time. The Aquarian Age is a whole new chapter in the story. It is a chapter in which spiritual expression reaches a whole new level in this world. Note that I did not say religious expression. I have no place for that in my life. Though some of the New Thought churches express themes that are very metaphysical, ... inclusive and tolerant of the beliefs and paths of others.
There is only so much that I can do as a lone wolf in the wilderness. Yet, it seems that there is still a lot that I can do as the mit of her (the her-mit), the glove that consciousness wears. In a very real way, this is my experience. It is as if I am simply one of the gloves on the hand of consciousness through which she is able to touch, express, and impact the world.
You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Someday I hope you'll join us, and the world will be as ONE.
Yes, I am a dreamer ... dreaming of a utopia that I believe we are ready to build, one in which every individual has their rightful place, performing the mission that they came forth from the depths of consciousness to perform, one in which every individual is given the opportunity of having their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs met.
We have not even taken responsibility for ensuring that physical needs are met and that no one lives below the "poverty line". This is something that we choose to do. It doesn't just happen. God doesn't just take care of it. After all, why should God do what is fully within our power to do for ourselves ... perhaps not individually, but definitely collectively. Besides, that is how spirit does her work anyway ... by expressing through us.
There is one consciousness that animates us all. We all spring forth from that same source. This consciousness learns as we learn, expresses as we express, experiences as we experience. Yet as the collective consciousness, it is far more than any of these parts.
Each of us contains a spark of that consciousness within us. For some, this spark is hidden under untold layers of clothes whose fabric is our very belief systems. For others, this spark is as a candle, partially lighting the way. For still others, this spark is as a torch lighting not only their way, but the way of many others that come into their circle as well. Whatever state you are in, self work and service is the way to take it to a whole new level. And in the end, what truly matters is who we have become and how we have shared this with others in our world.
These notes allow you to experience what this mind has thought and what this awareness has experienced as reality. It is probably not very similar to your own ... but that does not mean that it is invalid in any way. One thing that it has done for me is to continually force me to expand my concepts of self, reality, consciousness, and spirit to account for all that I have experienced. Through it all, there has remained one big mystery ... namely how any of this could come forth and be expressed in this manner at all.
It is appropriate that this would be a stream of consciousness endeavor. This requires that I exert no control over it and simply allow it to flow where it will. I anxiously await what comes forth, trusting that the process of consciousness expressing is the most natural process that there is. I feel no need to go back and organize, edit, or prune what has come forth.
The computer serves to augment my memory ... allowing me to re-experience specific sequences of words and the ideas they convey whenever I choose to do so. Further, the WWW allows me to extend this "memory" to others and in effect to share of whom that I AM in as intimate of a way as I can at the moment. There is something powerful about this expression for me. It reveals that I know things beyond what my years on the planet would seem to indicate.
There is a sense that this is not home to me. I am a traveler on a specific mission, tasting of earthly delights, but not consumed by them. My mission lies in the spiritual domain, building the foundations for a new world in a new age. Venus in Pisces suggests that I have a general love for all the world, but that this rarely manifests as a specific love for particular individuals.
I share freely here ... but I have found personal relationships far less than satisfying. There is too much time spent on things that simply aren't important to me personally. Yes, that may be selfish, but if something doesn't contribute to allowing me to better understand my self and the nature of spirit expressing in flesh ... it simply doesn't pass my interest filters. Just noticed for the first time that self is embedded in fles-h in reverse. The meaning seems to be that from flesh we have to look within to find "self". Interesting.
We are all in some sense leading the lives we are meant to lead ... living under the circumstances that we have called unto us via our beliefs, our choices, and our actions. That does not mean that as a society we can't choose to make this better for everyone. Indeed, we can, such is clearly within our collective power especially in the new age.
In general, I am not interested in how something affects others, except perhaps for the things that I do and for the few others in my circle of acquaintances. My sense is that by understanding my self ... I will understand the world. It is curious that I am highly concerned about society, and building the infrastructures that better support individuals in finding and being whom that they are. It is as if I take personal responsibility for my world, not just for my life. There is a sense that if I don't do it, who will? There is a sense that in some way, this is what I came to do; this is my purpose: to facilitate the expression of spirit in flesh. My primary means of doing this is by being whom that I AM as completely as I can; demonstrating by example what living a spiritual life is all about.
Ideas have power, great power when we understand them and base our actions upon them.
I discovered this weekend, the real power of books, or the written word. They are conducive to deep study. We can readily go over them again and again to ferret out the meaning relevant to us. Tapes and videos do not strike us in the same manner. Yes, we can listen to or watch them again and again. But, somehow it is not the same as the written word. One benefit of the electronic media of the WWW is the power to search quickly for material of interest. Physical books are not as conducive to this.
My experience has been that regardless of how difficult the process, indeed I am better off as a result of going through it. The end result is that my concept of Self is expanded in ways I never dreamed possible ... and the person I become is more capable of expressing whom that I AM. There is a sense that each awakening unlocks a new door within me, allowing me to find another room or set of rooms within the mansion that is my greater Self.
The mansion of Self is a great analogy. For indeed, that is what it is, a mansion of many rooms that we are here to explore and use in service to our fellow man, to our world, and to all life.
Such is how life works best, we operate in the now, taking whatever step is most appropriate at this instance ... then take one step after another, until we get to wherever we are headed. Actually, it is not clear that the destination is important at all. What counts is that we follow the path that seems right to us, and that we enjoy the journey as much as we can.
As a wayshower, I am here to blaze the trail ... hopefully in a manner that lights the way for others. Exactly who follows in my footsteps, I may never need to know. And to some degree, it is not for me to care. Those who are meant to follow will find the way to the markers that I have left and will follow them to whatever degree feels right to them.
There is something appealing about operating open loop in the realm of the unknown. There is a great pleasure to it, at least for me.
One thing about being special, however, along with the gifts comes the responsibility to use them in service to all mankind, and moreover, all the world. My sense is that my expression to date demonstrates my sincere desire to be of service ... to assist as much as I can in allowing spirit to be more fully expressed in flesh.
At this point what matters is here and now, in this very place and moment. This is the only place that I exist. It is the only place that I can express. It is the only place where I can make a difference in this world. And, making a great difference is clearly in the cards, so to speak.
As Celine Dion says in her new song ... A New Day Has Come! My first reaction is finally.
I was waiting for so long, for a miracle to come.
That covers it very well indeed ... for a new age is definitely the equivalent of a miracle. It is a major shift in consciousness and in the manner in which spirit is able to express. We'll see soon enough just how powerful of a shift, and we'll see it on a number of fronts simultaneously. It may seem as if the foundations of the world are starting to crumble, which indeed they are. It is up to us to step in and create new ones to replace them ... foundations that are far more supportive in allowing us to be whom that we truly are as individuals, and that facilitate the greater collective expression of spirit in flesh as well.
It is an exciting time to be alive ... it truly is. The potential is simply awesome. The nature of the vibrations that are expressing is extremely powerful. Manifestation is about to become child's play, in ways that are Beyond Imagination.
We are becoming more than we have ever been before. The question is, how will we use what we have become? In particular, how will we apply ourselves in service to our society and our world? It is perfectly fine to consider our own needs as we do this. However, the greatest good comes when we consider the benefit to society along with the benefit to us as individuals when we make our decisions and take action.
We are part of the collective, no matter how individual we may think ourselves to be. As such, we have an obligation. We should see this not as a damper on our freedom ... rather, it is the collective that provides the infrastructure in which we can experience the very freedoms that we enjoy.
I choose to unencumber my self from the chains which bind me ... chains which I have chosen to bear of my own free will in the past, but which I no longer desire to be subject to. As I desire, so be it. This is my reality. It is both my right and my responsibility to create it as I will. Yes, as I will. It is time for this to be a conscious endeavor.
In a very real way, my family is the family of man ... actually more than this, the circle of life, the hoop that never ends. Yes, I firmly believe that my life is to have world impact. It is not clear that it is really doing this yet. However, I only started expressing a little over 9 years ago ... so, in many respects, I am still very much a youth.
These are either the musings of a madman, or of one who has awakened. My sense is that it is the later. It is obvious to me that there is a high degree of spiritual content to this expression. It is also obvious that things are expressed beyond what I should rightly know from this existence alone. They reveal that there is indeed an ancient soul expressing through this body and this mind. Not that I don't have my own challenges and lessons to learn. However, most of these seem to be spiritual in nature.
I am more than willing to apply myself in service to spirit and society ... however, I desire that this be in a manner that I freely choose, a manner that allows me to be all that I AM, and use all of my skills and talents.
I believe that there is a spiritual economy operating behind and beyond the present world economy. In the spiritual economy, we are given everything that we need physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually in return for the services that we provide. Our service is what primes the prosperity pump. The more service, the more prosperity ... it is that simple.
The optimum social contract is:
from each in accord with their abilities, to each in accord with their needs.
Yes, this is one of the key tenets of communism. However, it is also one of the basic principles of right living within any community. What does it take to get people to realize this? ... to realize that we are interdependent on one another, no matter how independent we might like to be ... to realize that cooperative interdependence is the optimum expression of spirit for the whole, as well as for each individual.
I come across as highly egotistical and full of myself. And, perhaps that is true. However, I am forced to deal with a reality that few have experienced. Without a solid knowledge of self and a strong confidence in whom that I AM, it is not clear that I could handle this.
The measure of a person however is not meant to be in comparison to another. What is important is how what we are measures up to what we could be. That is, how close we are to living up to our full potential.
In a world that is ONE, there can be no true separation and independence. Interdependence is a fact of life. In this, it doesn't matter what we believe. We are connected to one another and to all life for that matter. It helps if we act from a knowingness that this is so ... choosing to be cooperatively interdependent and consciously contributing and doing our fair share by applying whom that we are in service in some way.
I barely have memory of this existence, and clearly not the details. This expression is my way of capturing and sharing a memory of this existence. It is an extended snapshot of where one consciousness has been. It is unlike anything else that I have read. It definitely touches me deeply. My hope is that it does this to you as well ... resonating with you and perhaps even lighting a spark within. That is all I can ask ... to show you a bit of whom that you are as well.
Each moment lost can never be recovered. Yet, at the same time, there needs to be a sense of spontaneity and an everpresent element of fun. Life is not meant to be taken too serious. It is a game that we are playing. And games are meant to be enjoyed.
No matter where we look, what we see is the expression of spirit in flesh.
Spirit already knows how to remedy or make any situation flow more easily and readily. We have only to follow her lead and do what she moves us to do.
It is interesting how life unfolds. It definitely reveals that there is a higher level plan in motion operating behind the scenes. Yes, scenes ... this is a play after all, a very complex and convoluted one, but a play nonetheless.
Our beliefs set the framework for what thoughts we will experience. From there, it is our choice which thoughts we pay attention to; and even more important, which thoughts we base our actions on.
No one person is sufficient to manifest what spirit would express in our world in this new age. So, instead we will see the rise of a set of world servers who come to be the wayshowers and teachers among us that guide us through the transition period into the new age. The prime characteristic of such servers will be the absence of ego in their expression. Their level of awareness will be such that the very sense of identity is blurred by a sense of unity and oneness with all.
There is never anything beyond what I can cope with and handle. Though I have been pushed to the very edge of sanity on far more than one occasion. But then, what is sanity anyway? Most people presented with what I believe would probably judge me to be a lunatic already.
My sole goal is to enable the greater expression of spirit in flesh both on an individual as well as a collective basis. Nothing else matters. I do this by maximizing the flow of spirit through me, by walking my talk and serving as a living example for others, and by doing what I can to facilitate building the foundations for a new world.
It is always great to encounter knowledge from new sources, especially when they are sources that many do not accept as valid. One judges information by how it feels inside, and by utility. We use whatsoever we find useful so long as it remains useful ... and we stay open to all sources that may come into our lives.
Spirit does her works through us. She expresses what needs to express through us. She moves us to do what needs to be done. She asks us to answer the call of spirit within us to be all that we can be. However, it is up to us to answer the call ... and to do those tasks that are ours to do.
Our lives are meant to be challenging to us ... providing us with the opportunities to be the best that we can be.
Making a difference in a manner that uses all that I AM is what counts in life. One open issue is whether in blazing the trail I am even meant to see those who would follow. Perhaps the real impact that I have on the world will come after rather than during my journey on this planet. Something said through me in 1993 comes to mind ... something to the effect that I would not be here to see the fruits of my efforts. That is indeed a possibility? After all, how many before me have been said to be ahead of their time.
It is far easier to get things done by working together than by working apart, potentially at odds to one another.
So, how do we decide what is worth giving our life and our time to? How do we decide where we can get the most bang for the buck both individually and collectively? For the individually, the answer is clearly look within. For the collective, it seems the answer may be the same, except that it requires the skills of individuals who can look within to find the needs of organizations or even society as a whole.
I was reading part of A Course in Miracles yesterday. One thing that struck me as significant was the statement to the effect that this is a mandatory course for everyone ... only where and when we take the course is left to choice. This is an interesting way of looking at the agenda of our life. What other events are on the agenda? Can we find out about these before they come up? Can we choose the timing of when we experience events so that the energies of the universe are at our disposal and aid?
In my own life ... it is my metaphysical education that has mattered the most. This came by following the urge from spirit within to those books that I needed to read to be exposed to the ideas necessary to open my mind to new possibilities. It seems that spirit knew exactly what I needed when to further my growth as a sentient spiritual being. I still have most of the books that I was moved to read. They serve as constant reminders of where my mind and consciousness has been. Some go as far back as the early 70's when my journey started to move into the metaphysical domain. I have not had any physical teachers in this domain, nor any inner teachers that come across as separate entities. Spirit herself has been my direct source of inspiration and guidance. She speaks to me and through me as no other in my life. Further, she speaks both as a voice within, and as messages embedded in the symbols that I see in the world.
Our beliefs need to be tested and challenged on occasion to allow us to determine whether they are truly useful to our lives. This is especially true for beliefs that restrict whom that we are and what responses we can take to the circumstances and events of our lives.
We create our reality ... every moment of it, primarily through our belief systems. To change our reality, that is the place to start, with our beliefs. We are always free to believe whatever we choose to believe. However, to effectively use this freedom, we must realize that we have it by virtue of the very nature of whom that we are as a spiritual being expressing and experiencing in flesh.
The freedom of belief is far more powerful than the freedom of speech.
What you do is far more powerful than what you say.
Ultimately, it is our actions which define us; and, in particular, determine if we are living up to whom that we are and being all that we can be. Thoughts count, beliefs count even more, but actions are where we truly make a difference.
My realizations are the realizations of consciousness as she manifests through me.
That is all that is asked of anyone and everyone ... simply to be the best that we can be, whatever that might be. We do this by finding and doing that which we love to do. Yes, it is that simple ... and that difficult. If it were not difficult, far more people would be doing it.
Each day provides its opportunities and its challenges. We can choose to accept them and the gifts that they offer, or avoid them and thus put them off for another day.
To create a masterpiece of our lives, we must work with the paints of beliefs. These are the building blocks that result in everything that we see and experience.
Ideas are powerful ... especially ideas that move us to act in a new way. My hope is that I have shared ideas that impact you in this way, that cause you to see things in a different light and do things in a different way.
Reality creation is a process that we are constantly engaged in ... not only as experiencers, but as observers and creators.
Be bold and decide, and then the forces of the universe will come to your aid. What must be done ultimately will be done. There is a destiny that is unfolding ... a spiritual destiny as well as our individual destinies.
At least twice now, I've emerged from cocoons of consciousness and spread my wings and flew. Each time there was an intense sense of freedom and an ability to soar to new realms of experience.
If we are not learning and growing, creating and expressing, and being of service to one another and to the society in which we live ... we might as well not be alive at all.
To live life without regrets, we need to make each moment of each day count, we need to make sure that the world is a better place as a result of our presence and our life.
Never take more than you give is one of the prime spiritual directives. We need to make sure that this sacred balance is maintained. Every generosity, every act of kindness, every act of service is like making a deposit into the account. Each time we take something, we make a withdrawal. The goal is to have a positive balance at all times, and a highly positive balance to the degree that we can. That doesn't mean that every minute and every action has to be expended in service. Though some do choose that extreme and lead happy fulfilling lives. However, it does mean we have to make an effort. Living a spiritual life is natural, or it should be ... in fact, the most natural thing in the world. After all, we are spiritual beings first and foremost, no matter how much we may have lost sight of this fact.
Service is the key ingredient out of which abundance is manifest ... an abundance that encompasses the whole world, and abundance that operates on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.
The musings provide a day by day record of where one consciousness has gone. Hopefully, it is interesting enough to captivate you as it has me. If not, oh well ... it has done what it needs to do anyway. I cannot be concerned about the ultimate impact of this expression. It will be whatever it is. It is but for me to trust enough in the nature of spirit to allow it to flow forth as it will.
"So let it be written, so let it be done" is a powerful phrase from that time, at least as expressed in the movie The Ten Commandments. It was enough to send shivers down my spine when I heard it. This points to the power of the written word to impact the reality that is created for a society.
All answers to anything I could possibly ask are there within me. Sometimes it is very deep within me, so it may take awhile to find. However, when I am ready to ask, that is generally the sign that the answer is needed and is near. It is simply a matter of paying attention and allowing it to appear.
We are meant to be and express whom that we are, in our full glory. We are grand beings, we truly are. We are gods in flesh, creating the very reality that we experience. No, most do not believe this yet, preferring to see the many limitations they perceive as real. However, this does not make them so. When our beliefs are in error, the reality we experience is illusion ... and, in particular does not conform to our true nature. We fix this by working with our beliefs, eliminating those that limit rather than serve us, and replacing them with more empowering beliefs.
My concern is for society as a whole, and how to facilitate the expression of spirit in flesh on a collective basis. Ultimately, this will benefit each individual as well. It just seems more effective to deal with the core infrastructures so that large groups can be freed to express more fully and have the opportunities for getting all of their needs met, on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.
I sit here in the middle, at the juncture between the world that lies within me and the world that lies outside of me. My focus is still on the inner. That is where the dreams are real ... the dreams of an ideal society, an ideal world, an ideal economy; a place where individuals can be whom that they are and can willingly enter into cooperative interdependent relationships and organizations that foster the greatest good of all. Note, this is not the greatest good for the most, or for the majority ... it is for all.
We are the cells of an entity far greater than any of us as individuals. Actually it may not even be necessary for us to make physical contact to allow us to work together. Simply being aware of one anothers work and being moved by it may be enough.
Why is the flow of consciousness through me so much more important than the flow of consciousness through others? It is not necessarily more important, it is simply different because so much more effort goes into recording it and making it available to the world.
I am moving toward a destiny that is inescapable. It is what my whole life has prepared me for. It is why I came into this existence. No, there is no one that is telling me this. It is an internal sense ... a feeling that my life is on a course that was laid out well before I was born. I knew coming in what I would be up against. I knew what hurdles, obstacles, and challenges I would have to face. I knew what talents I would be given and what skills and abilities I would have to develop. And, I knew that I was up to facing all that my life would have to offer. However, I forgot what I knew as a condition for entering this existence.
My life is meant to be an example. I chose the path of the seeker and wayshower, venturing into the unknowns of consciousness and bringing back and sharing whatever I find. As you can tell, I've been moved to do a lot of sharing ... but in my own way. In fact, for the most part, I don't even know with whom I have shared.
So who am I that I should have such an important mission? Who am I to think that my life is somehow more important than that of others? Who am I to think that I am my aware than others? Why is it that I must believe that my life will have such great benefit to society? Who am I to be so full of myself? Who am I to think that I may be more spiritual or more capable than others? How can I have the audacity to believe such things? All that I can say is that I have expended great effort for nearly three decades to come to know myself, and to express whom that I AM as fully as I can. These very words, this very expression attests to that.
My beliefs are extreme, to the point where my very sanity might be questioned. I have allowed metaphysics to become an obsession in my life ... something that consumes large portions of my attention and my time. Yet, if one is to be obsessed, one could do far worse than to be obsessed by expressing spirit in flesh. I have spent untold hours allowing an unknown portion of me to express as it will in this stream of consciousness fashion. What makes me think that there is anything of ultimate value? I only know that the expression moves me.
Special abilities generally mean one is responsible to use those abilities effectively in service to society in some way. It doesn't matter what specific talents and abilities one has. There is always a way to develop them and apply them in a manner that serves oneself and others.
The words flow forth ... that which was unseen becomes seen ... the unmanifested becomes manifest. Out of nothing, comes a creative expression of consciousness. The process is magical. I am engaged in the dance of consciousness. She animates and moves me. She restoreth my soul. She leads me to exactly where I need to be. She moves me to be all that I can be ... to awaken before there is light, and to express well into the night. She touches me deeply. She allows me to see and feel as I have never seen and felt before. She has had more impact on my life than anyone or anything. Who is she? Good question. She is the muse, the source of all inspiration. She is my very soul, the spark of consciousness that connects me to the ONE. Her beauty is everywhere, both in the manifest and the unmanifest. Her ways are subtle yet she has great strength. She is creativity personified. I have complete trust in her and would follow her guidance anywhere.
Reality is unfolding in my life exactly as it is meant to be experienced. I have no right to second guess any of it. Rather there is a deep trust in the very nature of consciousness and its expression. At the same time, there is a recognition, and an awareness that it is within my power to do things differently and to manifest new experiences and thereby create a new reality.
Many writers have an intent and a message to convey. Their craft has taught them how to structure words to convey the intended message and meaning to the audience they have targeted. These words are not like that. I don't know that I would consider myself to be a writer ... though many words are indeed expressed through me.
Why is that line ... for your eyes only ... so haunting to me? Why does it send shivers through my body? Why is there a sense that it is meant to convey something important to me? Can I truly be so special that consciousness would express to me in the manner that she does? How much of what I see and experience is unique to me? All the synchronicities, and all the meanings embedded in symbol systems ... how much of these are for my eyes only?
My happiness depends on expressing whom that I AM fully and openly and in the process doing what I came here to do. I have a general understanding of what that is ... but the specifics are hidden, to be unveiled as my life unfolds.
It is amazing what we can do when we are committed to something.
I am animated in a way that is fresh and new. I am a man with a mission. There is passion in my life ... something I care deeply about even if it is somewhat nebulous; being and expressing whom that I AM and helping others to do the same, so that we can jointly cocreate the foundations for a New World.
Cooperative interdependent relationships are the means for generating synergy that can be used to create truly great things. This is how we build a better world. We find those whom we are meant to work with, we enter into mutually supportive relationships, and we collectively do what we are moved by spirit to do.
Our world is far too complex for any form of centralized control to work. Responsibility is distributed to the furthest reaches where decisions can be made effectively.
Spirit already has organizational structure in place. The mass media, films, television, radio, music, the internet, and even magazines and newspapers allow communications to reach the populace. Further, there is a direct inner connection to source that moves each of us whether we are conscious of it or not.
We are ONE! One world, one race, one people, one entity, one civilization, one consciousness ... There must be a recognition, a realization of this simple yet great truth. What we do to another, we ultimately do to ourselves, for others are only another aspect of us.
The sooner we recognize that there is an intricate web in which we are all part and via which we are all interconnected to others, the sooner we will be able to fix some of the dire problems experienced by many on this planet.
We never experience anything that we are not meant to experience. Every experience bears its gifts ... though it may be a challenge to find them.
Every challenge has a gift for you in its hands. Great challenges bring great rewards.
What needs to be realized will be realized when the time is right. It will be unveiled in a manner that leaves no doubt. The sense is that there is no hurry. There is plenty of time to do everything that needs to be done. Though, on the other hand, it seems that there is a limit ... and that time should not be wasted. Then again, what is wasteful to one can easily be helpful or beneficial to another. This we have to judge on our own.
We know when we are doing our best, and when we are being our best. This is what we need to be concerned about ... expressing whom that we are as best we can. In the end, that is all that matters ... whom that we are, and more importantly, what we do. Yes, it is what we do that makes all the difference in the world.
Everything has its place and its purpose in our lives. Everything is there for a reason. Everything contributes to whom that we are and what we can express in the world. We are meant to lead extraordinary lives. We truly are. Settling for any less than this is selling not only ourselves short, but those whom our lives touch as well.
The greatest good we can do is to fully express whom that we are, openly and wholeheartedly. Yes, that is the key ... living with our whole heart.
This is what my life has come to ... following trails of connections between symbols in hope of discovering the gifts of meaning that they have to offer me. I don't know anyone else who does this, so there is no one with whom to compare notes and share techniques. Surely, I cannot be the only one to see things in this manner. Surely, there are others in the midst of such discoveries who speak similar languages. Perhaps it is time to learn something of the more traditional metaphysical languages and find a way to relate these to my own understanding. Perhaps I can contribute something by approaching these disciplines from a new perspective.
We have our own experience, but that is subject to the quirks of memory. That is one valuable thing about this expression. It records much about my inner world and inner life that is not generally recorded in such a fashion. As such, I have over eight years of records of a consciousness experiencing major transitions. Yes, for a few of those years, the record is somewhat sparse. However, for several of these years, there is a wealth of information to pull from and analyze. I knew there was a reason that I was compelled to express in this manner. In a very real way it is whom that I AM. The whole purpose of many metaphysical disciplines is simply this ... to help us to know whom that we are and to express that effectively. We have our own experience, but that is subject to the quirks of memory. That is one valuable thing about this expression. It records much about my inner world and inner life that is not generally recorded in such a fashion. As such, I have over eight years of records of a consciousness experiencing major transitions. Yes, for a few of those years, the record is somewhat sparse. However, for several of these years, there is a wealth of information to pull from and analyze. I knew there was a reason that I was compelled to express in this manner. In a very real way it is whom that I AM. The whole purpose of many metaphysical disciplines is simply this ... to help us to know whom that we are and to express that effectively.
So, it seems that my own life is my laboratory. It is where I explore the very fabric of consciousness.
I have come to accept myself as I am, in all my glory, and with all my faults. I am spirit expressing in flesh as fully as I can in this moment, given my talents and my level of awareness. This is not true only for me, it is true of everyone. We are all doing the best we can under the present circumstances that we find ourselves within. It helps if we take responsibility for these circumstances. Further, it helps greatly if we understand that we attract and create the very circumstances that we experience.
We are powerful creators, albeit for the most part at other than conscious levels. However, that doesn't change the facts ... we create our own reality, in many cases as much by what we choose not to do as by what we do.
Numerology is a significant tool in how I discover meaning in my world. Yes, my world, because the place where I spend much of my time and focus most of my attention is indeed a world of my own imagination. Yes, it is representative of the real world, at least as close as it can be given my present state of awareness.
I am meant to be a trailblazer. That is my nature. I find the unknown, go forth and experience, and bring back and express whatever I find to the degree that I can. I do this because this is what I am called and moved to do. It is how I express and come to know whom that I AM.
It is interesting to watch the plan of consciousness unfold. Indeed, there is such a plan ... and it is manifesting at all levels from the individual to the whole world, and perhaps even to multiple worlds that extend far into the galaxy and beyond.
Consciousness exists everywhere. It composes and animates everything. It gives us life and awareness.
Further, much of the freedom is exerted at other than conscious levels ... so that while we have free will technically, we do not necessarily experience it consciously. In believing otherwise, we deceive ourselves and further limit our experience of reality.
I am on the verge of being out of control. I'm not there yet, but the sense is that it is definitely close. Something has to give ... something has to change. As always, for me, that something means me.
My entire world is focused on me, on expanding my awareness, and on maximizing what I can do for the world. That does not mean that such a focus is right, it just means that it happens to be appropriate for me at this time and to this point in my life. There is a sense that this may change ... but there is also a sense that I need to be ready even if it should never change. Regardless of how I express, there is still an overall mission and purpose for my life, and that needs to be achieved. This is not imposed on me by any external force. It comes directly from within. It is something that I know to be right for me. I don't know how else to explain it. It is not something anyone has told me. I don't belong to any groups or organizations, so it does not come from any rules or regulations imposed by such. It is simply something that I know.
There is a sense that I am meant to work with others in purposeful endeavors that achieve spiritual missions that we collectively came to carry out. This will not happen by individuals operating alone. The Manhattan Project as depicted in the movie Fat Man and Little Boy came to mind. There was an example of a cooperatively interdependent effort on a large scale, involving the best and brightest to achieve something of which the imagination had only dreamed possible. Collectively harnessing the work of many to unleash the power of the atom was a monumental achievement. It makes one wonder if there are other such projects that have existed since then, or even that exist now ... and what they are trying to achieve. Surely after experiencing the productivity of such a synergistic environment there have been other projects on which the pattern was implemented. Yet, if they are happening, it is under the dark cloak of secrecy. If only we could find ways to harness such energy in the endeavors that more directly benefit us ... just imagine what the world might be. Yes, if only ...
Who knows how long any of us have in this existence? All that we can do is be the best that we can be in every moment, and express whom we are with others in the world in whatever manner we are moved to express. This is a lot to ask. It takes commitment to make each moment count ... to make each hour 60 minutes worth of distance run.
From each in accord with their ability, to each in accord with their needs.
14 simple words, the largest of which has 7 letters; a total of 60 letters split into two parts of 32 letters and 28 letters, 13 spaces, and 2 punctuation marks expressing a very powerful and profound contract for living in society. I don't know how to state it any more elegantly.
Awareness involves being and realizing whom that one is. Realizing is the process of making something real for I. Its very meaning is embedded directly in the word. There are many words that are like this. Understand is the process of standing under an idea or set of ideas.
In fact, to awaken and become aware we must find a way beyond the restrictions that bind us. We can only be bound so long as we tolerate and accept the chains. We may think that such restrictions are the price that we pay to be part of society. I can tell you from firsthand experience that such is not the case. Some restrictions may be necessary, but many are self-imposed by what we believe of what is expected of us ... not by what is actually expected of us.
There is a purpose to my life, a great purpose. Further, each of us has the potential to live a life of greatness in our own way, using the unique gifts that we brought into this world. It is simply a matter of discovering whom that we are, and expressing that authentically in our lives.
The answers have always been within us to everything we could possibly want to know. It is a matter of finding our intuition, learning to trust it, and taking action to follow where it leads us and to do what it moves us to do. Within us, we instinctively know what is right and what is not. It is only our belief systems that get in the way and prevent us from accessing what we naturally know.
Facts simply are. Beliefs operate in areas where there are insufficient facts to prove something one way or another. That leaves open to decision which way we prefer to believe. The only real measure of the value of beliefs is their utility. Do they empower us to act in ways which benefit both ourselves and our society.
The key measure of a man is whether he leaves the world in a better state than that in which he found it.
Respect is a very powerful tool, especially when based on integrity.
I have learned what I can about myself to allow me to maximize my effect as an individual contributor. The next step is to learn what it takes to operate in a manner that allows me to improve the collective contributions of a group or an entire organization. This requires interacting with people in a different manner than I have before and focusing my attention on a different level of problems. There is a sense that innately I know how to do this. I come from a world where conscious cooperative interdependence is the natural way of life ... where the alternatives would not even be considered because they are so much less effective. The obvious conclusion from this is that Earth is not my native home. It is where I live. But, I am very much a visitor here. No, I didn't arrive on a spaceship. I am not an alien. But, I am very much a stranger in a strange world. I spend much of my time doing things that others do not seem to do in ways that others do not seem to use.
Growth is a natural process. We take it one step at a time when we are ready.
In the end, only kindness matters ... a phrase from a song by Jewel playing on the radio ... god’s hands ... god’s hands ... god’s hands ... god’s hands ...
I have spoke of being the her-mit ... the mit of her, the glove that she wears. This is connected to what was playing on the radio. Gloves are typically worn on hands. I don't feel myself to be the hands of god ... but I do feel myself to be the gloves that her hands have worn and expressed through. It seems that it is time for a breakthrough ... it is time for me to realize that I am indeed the hands of god as well, not just a separate outer shell that protects these hands. My hands are literally god’s hands expressing through me. My very self is god’s self expressing through me. These works are god’s works.
I am living the life that I am meant to live. I am expressing whom that I AM, and unfolding whom that I AM even as I speak. It is definitely an exciting time in which to live. Clearly, that is an understatement!
There is an inner guide moving me along the path that constitutes my destiny. I have only to allow it to speak to me, and to follow through and do as it bids me to do.
Deep within, I already know everything that I could possibly need to know. There is a direct connection to source within me, a source that I can trust with my very life. In fact, such is exactly what I do, I trust this source to guide me to exactly where I need to be and move me to do exactly what I need to do, and move me to be aware of exactly what I need to see and know. Spirit is expressing through me as fully as she can given the resources that I have freely offered and the commitment to her service that I have made.
I have two jobs, a physical one and a spiritual one. Both demand my time and my attention. Until I find a way to combine these into one, I will continue to work in two worlds, in two domains ... one for which I am paid, that allows many of my material needs to be met; and one for which the "pay" is in the abundance that only spirit can provide. The later of these has my priority. But, as a responsible individual, I will fully meet the obligations of the former to the best of my abilities.
Life is a journey, we take it one step at a time. But, you say, most journeys involve a path to reach a known desired destination. That is not my life however. It seems that my journey is to venture into the unknown realms. Here there are no paths, and no known destinations. The desire is simply to explore and experience and then to describe and share what I find to the best of my ability. I do that via words. These are the tools through which I communicate. Interesting, I've never noticed that communicate and community have the same root. Interesting indeed.
It seems that we establish community by getting people to truly communicate - not just at the surface day to day levels, but deeply. I hope this very expression provides an example of what I mean be this. It is the best example that I can offer. Here I communicate with spirit and with my self in ways that are far deeper than any of my outer communications with others. Yet, this expression is an outer expression ... available to any who are moved to search and find it.
It seems that I am on purpose now, in a way that I have not been before. Interesting. There is a sense of urgency that as not been this intense before. There is a sense that my true destiny is finally starting to unfold.
Yes, this is another wake up call of a massive order. It seems that it is time to reinvent myself ... to shed the clothes that I have worn most of my life and express to the world in a whole new way. What was inside, needs to be expressed outside. It is as if I literally need to turn myself inside out. The image that comes to mind is that of a plastic bag. Turning it inside out is a simple process. One just pushes or pulls the bag through its own opening. The end shape of the bag doesn't change ... though it goes through many intermediate states in the transformation. My experience of my self to date has always been from the inside. It is time to go through the opening and allow this to become an outer experience in a way that it has not been before.
Ever expanding awareness, that has been virtually my sole interest. It didn't matter whether I shared this with others, it was enough to share this with consciousness herself. That is not quite right. It has been important that I record my experiences here on these pages, and share them with any in the world who were moved to find them. Now, it seems that this is no longer enough. I must share more than my words. I must share my very self. Of course, I will do this in Uranian, Neptunian, and Plutonian ways. These are the planets that convey the higher vibrational energy of spirit into our lives. It is not for me to express as anyone else. I came to be a wayshower. I must be whom that I AM, a unique expression of All That Is. I definitely follow the beat of my own drum.
To experience the outer, I need to focus my attention on different things ... in particular, on people, in a way that I have not done before. This is a matter of trying new things, and observing what results, both in the outer world and within me.
Finding ways to be more efficient and more productive are at the forefront of my mind these days. There is so much to be done. It is as if there is not a moment to waste. Each moment lost vanishes forever. It is for us to make the best of the time we are allotted. However, we can only do that if our bodies, our minds, and our spirits are healthy.
This is an exciting time in which to live. We are indeed at the beginning of a new age ... with possibilities for manifestation of which we have only dreamed. Now is the time to make those dreams real ... to establish the foundations needed to bring them down to Earth. The sense is that such can indeed happen now, via our collective and cooperative endeavors.
Ye shall know them by their works.
I don't know where I picked that up ... but I use that expression often. In the end, it is only the works, and the remembrance thereof that survive. Here, at Beyond Imagination, we are doing just that ... creating a body of works that have not existed or been expressed in this manner before. As to what will become of them, that remains to be seen. My hope is that they somehow move others to come to know whom that they are and enable them to more fully express that in society and in their worlds. I say their worlds because each of us indeed lives in a world that we construct.
ach of us see things that others do not see, and sense things that others do not sense, and know things that others do not know. It is for us to find a way to share our worlds with others in manners that benefit each of us in the exchange.
At this point there is nothing that I desire to make happen or that I desire to manifest. Rather, I allow spirit to move me to do what it is that is necessary in each moment. I still have no goals, no specific objectives. My only desire is to express whom that I AM as fully as I can ... and to do the work that spirit moves me to do. That is a lot to ask of anyone. Yet, also, it is the simplest thing in the world. The first part is simply a matter of being me. The second part is a matter of allowing myself to serve as a vehicle for something greater than myself. This requires some degree of surrender of individual freedom. However, the surrender is really an investment in something far greater. The dividend is abundance.
There is something that I am here to do that literally no one else in the entire world can do. I suspect this is true of everyone, but I know that my unique abilities are such that this is clearly true for me. Grandiosity again. Yes, it is getting so that I can detect this. It is a natural part of what I need to live with and handle on a daily basis. I do believe that my gifts are many and relatively rare. This makes me, and the role I am here to play, special. Such gifts are only manifest when and where they are needed. My time, my day in the Sun, will come.
Self knowledge is extremely empowering. If we don't know whom that we are, how can we express this in society to do the works that are ours to do?
Once again, we'll see where the stream of consciousness carries us. I have no topic or specific message that I consciously wish to convey. I don't really know if there is one at other than conscious levels. I choose to freely allow whatever will come forth to be manifest. It is here where we make what was unseen, seen ... at least in the form of words on the screen.
Words are the fabric, the material, though which consciousness creates forms through me. Yes, they are only thoughtforms at this point in time. But thoughtforms are the first step toward material manifestation. Whatever we can dream, whatever we can think of, we can create if we so choose. However, it is the ideas which must come forth first.
You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Someday I hope you'll join us, and the world will be as ONE.
These lines from Imagine by John Lennon are particularly meaningful to me. In fact, this is as close as one can get to a theme song for Beyond Imagination. Clearly I am among the dreamers of the world ... even though I rarely recall any of the actual dreams that occur during my sleep. My life is a waking dream in many ways. I already live in the world that I have imagined. This world is already evidenced in my personal reality. It is only a matter of time before it becomes the consensus reality.
The plan of consciousness is unfolding perfectly. There is nothing I nor anyone else can do to slow it down or speed it up. Patience is called for, along with an optimistic anticipation. Trust the process. Spirit animates all life. She has been doing so since the very beginning of all that is manifest. She did not create it all. But it is through her and out of her that everything was created. That makes us all God stuff or perhaps Goddess stuff would be more appropriate.
What is it that I am moved to do next? It is time to change my mode of expression in relationships. I have discovered about as much of my own nature as I can on my own. The context of society allows me to experience how my expression interacts with that of others, providing a different mirror for me to observe whole new areas of my self and my expression. Yes, I still have a focus on the nature of self. The shift is in the context and the domain of expression in which I engage. It is through relationships that I define and know whom that I AM through the eyes of others. And we all know that deep down we are all ONE, so these eyes of others, are really my eyes as well.
We have objective reality and subjective reality. Both are important ... neither is superior to the other. Integrated beings operate with a balance of both ... though the mix in that balance may vary greatly from one individual to another. Some people like a very even balance with little oscillation, others need the variability of a cyclic balance. For some, this can be quite extreme. Being bipolar, I have a direct experience of the cycling of mental states. Unlike many with this condition, I don't cycle between depression and mania, rather between low mania and moderate mania ... even with medications. I have learned to handle this and even to use the energy that the higher manic states bring. My analogy is with flying. I clearly allow my consciousness to soar to places beyond where others seem to go.
This is what my life seems to be all about. Breaking through to new levels of awareness, and expressing what I have learned, and more importantly, what I have become, as fully as I can. You might say that my life is all about being me, where me is the largest concept of self that I can make real in this life. Interesting. The focus is on being not on doing, though in the very process of being, one is moved to do the works that one came to do. Once again, the saying "ye shall know them by their works" comes to mind. There is another quote on my wall pertaining to this ...
WHO YOU ARE counts for a lot, but
WHAT YOU DO makes
all the
difference
We must find ways to use our awareness that result in real benefits in our world, here and now. Remember, that a even a small deviation or change in the present, makes a great difference in the long term. It is for us to see what is needed and to plant the appropriate seeds to foster the required changes. Not that we can accurately predict the long term outcome ... though there may be far more to this than I know. After all, in nature, the seed for each lifeform knows exactly what it takes to grow into the adult version of that lifeform. The instructions for the manifestation of the mighty oak are contained in the acorn. The instructions for the manifestation of a human being are contained within the egg fertilized by the sperm. Yes, in the case of a human, the environment has a major role to play as well. The equivalent of the software must be programmed. This is no easy task. In fact, you might even say the entire society plays a role in this to some extent. At the very least, key organizations and people within those organizations do.
I just noticed that the editor in Netscape is called Composer. That much more accurately describes the process that I use the tool for. Here, I compose what spirit would have me express. Only, I compose with words rather than with notes. I am not a musician per se. I don't know what the equivalent term is for one who composes in words. The three terms that most closely seem to describe this are author, writer, and poet. I definitely wouldn't consider myself the later of these ... primarily since I am prone to using far too many words. I have also described my role in this process as being that of scribe. However, that seems to neglect my role as a creator of what is expressed through me. Yes, expressed through me. I still don't experience being the creator of what is being expressed through me. I know that it comes forth from deep within me. I watch it happen for literally hours every day. It literally takes over 1/8 of my life, over 1/6 of my waking life. Yes, that is a big investment. However, it is an investment that I feel obliged to make. An investment in what you might ask? An investment in spirit and in consciousness expressing and coming to an understanding of itself. To me, that is more than sufficient.
There is a sense that my will and my conscious mind are tools that are meant to be used is service to spirit. I have been reluctant to fully engage ... primarily out of fear of going overboard and having my will get in the way. I am starting to see that such a fear while useful to a point, is also a limit that I impose on what and how I am able to express. It is time to overcome this fear and break through this limit.
Life is a process
of
discovering our fears, encountering them,
and overcoming them with love.
That was powerful enough to allow it to stand on its own. I don't believe I have stated anything close to that before.
I know what I can do when I am operating at peak efficiency. I long to see what we can do collectively when we choose to work together in interdependent ways. Inefficiency and other than win-win behavior have always had a strong distaste for me. It seems so obvious how to make things better, yet very few seem to notice this. Cooperative interdependence is the wave of the future. In such an environment, we are responsible for one another ... as a matter of choice.
MAY 2002
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.
Do what you love and the money will follow!
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:
Take this job and love it!
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 heightened 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.
You should never take more than you give!
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.
dependence => in dependence => in ter dependence
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 speech 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, focusing our attention on those things relevant 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 doing and observing what we do. Both are important. However, it is the later process of observing that leads to awareness.
While we are focused 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 self work 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 chosen 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 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 eons. 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.
"Let each of you discover where your true chance in greatness lies."
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 imbued 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,
Whom that we are counts for a lot,
but what we do makes all the difference.
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.
God grant me the
serenity to accept
the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can change,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
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.
JUNE 2002
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 constraints 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 millennia. 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 eradicate 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 judgmental 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 over attachment 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 aggrandizement.
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 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.
Whom you are counts for a lot, but what you do makes all of the difference.
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 god’s eyes and god’s hands. We are the instruments through which spirit does its work in our lives and in the world. Our works are spirit’s 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 another. 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 marshaled 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.
The secret to life is to never take more than you give!
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:
From each in accord with their abilities, to each in accord with their needs.
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 formatting 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 labeled occult, and associated with witchcraft and the like. Now, however, books such as Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch, and The Celestine 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 channeled 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.
For those to whom much is given, much is required. Remember this always.
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 copyright 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 wrote "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 int