An Earth Day Reflection on the Time and the Choices Available to Terran Humanity

Currently, there are a number of alternate timelines playing about a Central Timeline that the majority of Terran-birthed Humans have chosen. That Central Timeline is centered around resolving the Age-old dramas that have resulted in the current constellation of potentialities within which we live our daily lives. It reflects the collective choice of all of us here regarding whether to proceed in a direction of nurturance and sustainability or one of continuing limitation and exploitation. The manifestation of these Timelines that are opening up the future of Terran Humanity to both negative and positive eventualities are equally distant – yet currently trended toward the negative – from the main timeline which is what we are all collectively co-creating and experiencing at the current Now moment and place across Time and through Space.

As things currently stand, Humanity is choosing to experience the reckoning that has been prophecied and mathematically predicted based upon past choices and directions made by individuals and the collectives they comprise. This is primarily based upon individual soul choices that have complied with the group soul choices made upon incarnating within specific bodies in specific times in specific places. What this means is that the dramas that are currently engulfing the planet are co-created entities of very particular psychic and extra-dimensional orientation and that these choices have aligned the planetary collective with certain ultra and extra-dimensional forces that are actively playing a role in making sure that these potentialities play out in real time.

The Moabite Centrix has held material control and maximum sway over collective orientation and technological advancement for centuries. Because of their firm hand and unbending direction toward the co-optation of Terran humanity toward the psychopathic and self-centric, the mainstream media and cultural orientation of the majority of the Western nations have chosen to follow the path of material accumulation and spiritual disslution. This meme has been spread across the planet and has now engulfed a large proportion of the Earth’s population, resulting in a planetary decision to experience negatively oriented realities to the exclusion of positive oriented realities in the near and distant Future.

Under the auspices of the New World Order, the collusion of the Earth’s population has been coaxed into following directives inimical to Gaia and to Life itself. These choices are exemplified by individual decisions each day toward a consumptive and dissolute lifestyle, material glorification and self-aggrandizement. Because of these individual choices, group choices have resulted in a toxic planet where the oceans are threatened by pollution, as is the Earth itself, the plants and animals and the atmosphere. These choices are not irreversible, but this path has reached a stage where Gaia herself, filled with love for her children of all persuasions and orientations, must soon make a decision that will determine once and for all the future of this planet and its accumulated populations.

Because of the nature of the Earth Garden and agreements made by the representatives of collective Humanity in the form of their political and military leadership, certain agreements were made with extra-terrestrial and demonic forces that bolstered their power and access to this plane of existence, this planets full spectrum of life, including plant, animal, mineral, etheric and crystalline. These conscious choices made with the sub-conscious collusion and trust of the planetary population have resulted in a Harvest Scenario, where Terran Humanity is now faced with potential Extinction Level Events that will leave the planet in the full control of extra-terrestrial and Dimensional powers and principalities.

While these negative external forces have been, to a large extent, given a mandate by the Elite, who represent the Earth’s population, to do what they will with the planet and its inhabitants, there remain certain strictures upon their rape of the planet that are in alignment with the Greater Laws of the Cosmos and Creation itself. Free Will remains paramount and societal and cultural memes that work generally at an unconscious level that require agreement are coming to the surface for more and more people to examine and choose to implement in their own lives or not. The influx of Cosmic Energy within the solar system during the current and past solar maximums and minimums have increased the consciousness level of Humanity as a whole which has allowed this potentiality to manifest. Still, the collective choice remains enslaved to the agenda of the Elite, which remains the primary timeline wherein their nefarious agenda is slated to play out to the detriment of Terran Humanity, the Solar System, the Galaxy and the Universe itself.

Everything is connected. Nothing in Creation exists in Isolation. Because this is so, the agreements made by Earth collectives that involve Extraterrestrial and Dimensional interlopers have tended toward the Negative expression of this visitation and assistance, rather than the Positive. As a result, those Extraterrestrial and Dimensional forces that seek to assist Earth humanity currently find it difficult if not impossible to impact the occurrences happening on the planet or to combat those negative forces currently engaged on the planet directly, or to land their ships on Earth in order to facilitate the Awakening Process through the revelation of Galactic Society and Terran Humanity’s inevitable inclusion within it.

Currently, Gaia and Earth Humanity do not support the assistance of Positive Extraterrestrial and Dimensional forces upon the surface of the planet. This is in part the decision of Terran Humanity, but it is also the decision of Gaia herself. It is a choice based upon decades of negative indoctrination. Since Humans on Earth are making the Free Will decision to maintain and support the fear-based memes of the Elite factions that control the economics and politics of the planet, Gaia has assented to its playing out upon her surface. This is not fully Earth Mother’s choice – in that she wishes only the best and highest of destinies for all of her children – but it is representative of her love for her children that she supports their decisions, to include all forms of life currently inhabiting and native to this planet. As a result, she is currently not allowing Positive ETs to land upon Earth. Also, she has limited the ability of Negative ETs to influence the direction the Earth shall take in any way further than the influences they have already had upon the Elite and their goals.

In essence, what it will come down to is a clear choice on the part of each and every conscious entity on the face of the Earth. There will come a moment, a point in time, when every single creature that lives on this planet will have to make a conscious and undeniable choice whether to implement the directives of the Elite, or to proceed according to Life-centric systems that nurture a space of Love that will engulf the planet and transform it into a paradise, relegating the Prison Planet meme to history. This moment may come when the Elite plans for Global War are on the cusp of fruition. It may come when the climate and environmental destruction reaches a stage where life on this planet is threatened with an Extinction Level Event. Or it may come at a point when the weight of sorrow, grief and terror give way to the transcendence of joy and peace that inevitably transforms that individual and collective emotional and psychic state into something never seen or experienced before in this reality or any other.

To reach that point, Terran Humanity will have to share a collective moment and experience where emotional connectivity crests, creating a super-wave of psychic potential that irrefutably represents the full will and desire of the majority of the planet. The strength and power of differential emotional states stand equal to their corresponding psychic potentiality, with positively-oriented emotions producing correspondingly tranquil and smoothly flowing energy patterns and negatively-oriented emotions producing correspondingly fractured and disrupted energy patterns.

The tendency of positive emotivity to overwhelm negatively-oriented emotivity plays its part as well, requiring fewer originating conscious participants than its oppositional emotional and psychic counterpart. If fear and hatred decide the day, then the future that so many have envisioned will manifest.  If love and empathy decide the day, then the future that less have envisioned, but that represents the most sustainable and evolutionarily positive potentiality possible will manifest, given the full weight of where we currently are and where we have come from.

These alternate Timelines, both positive and negative, are currently options that play about the subconscious level of awareness for most, influencing each moment and space of Becoming as a multidimensional collusion of consciousness involving each and every sentient being on the planet. As we traverse the days of our lives, each and every choice we make falls down on one side of this spectrum of opposites or the other, resulting in the often confusing and intimately byzantine and fractal-like meanderings of Fate and Free Will, determined and yet decided in each and every moment.

The combined burden of pain, guilt, suffering, love, compassion and empathy deserve a human-solution and a higher form of Justice beyond the levels of material incarnation and knowing, thereby resulting in a self-imposed planetary orientation of shared culpability and shared resolution.

The decision is ours and ours alone. What we manifest will be what we choose. And we will all know the moment when it arrives.

The Moabites, the Pope and the Cypriot Model for World Domination

Despite the continued elevation of consciousness the world across, the Moabite Centrix continues its depredations in regards to the world’s wealth and complete, Geo-political, full-spectrum dominance of every aspect of human activity. The increasing coalescence of overt power in the hands of the German nation, as the central and most hegemonic representative of the so-called European Union, has shown its hand as well as what it has planned for the Unite States and the rest of the world as soon as it has brought its constellation of satellite nations fully under the economic and political control of the potential daughter of the 3rd Reich Führer, Adolph Hitler, Angela Merkel, and the unabashedly awakened home of Nazi International – also known as the 4th Reich – Deutschland. A full understanding of the current events at the level of geopolitics must delve into numerous topics of a seemingly unrelated nature, but that are all tied together by the unseen influence of the Moabite Centrix, an ancient evil manifest and unrepentant, wielding unrestrained power in the modern day.

Following WWII and the exodus of important scientists from Germany into both the West and East by pre-agreement with the Allied Powers, the technological sophistication that Nazi Germany had acquired during their world-wide search for ancient technology and their dealings with extraterrestrial/dimensional entities was disseminated into the governmental, intelligence and military communities of the United States and Russia. In the US, this process was implemented through Operation Paperclip, which seeded nascent American intelligence and space organizations with former Nazis who retained their Eugenicist belief systems but who contributed their knowledge of certain then-innovative technologies that would propel the United States to the forefront of the public technological arena. In the East, Russia received a large number of German Scientists who were involved in paranormal and psychic research in an agreement hammered out between the allied forces and what would become the phalanx of German Industrialists who would take the war in a new direction following the formal ending of hostilities.

It is important to note – again and again, as I do often in this series – that the Nazis never surrendered at the end of WWII. As the historical and modern-day representatives of the ancient Moabite imperative, which is anti-God, anti-morality, upon realizing that the war could not be won militarily, the Nazis abdicated power in Germany proper as the war came to an end – under the guise of internecine coups and the establishment of a new, non-or-reformed Nazi leadership for Germany -  instead concentrating their efforts upon moving their bases of operation to Antarctica and South America, in particular, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and other countries. With their primary bases located under ice domes in Antarctica, from which their Foo Fighters could traverse the globe and take advantage of the energetic properties of that region of the Earth as well as continue their technological research and probable relationship with otherworldly Others that alternately take on the guise of alien or demon, depending upon perspective.

The importance of the recently retired Pope Benedict, AKA Joseph Ratzinger, having a Nazi past and sympathies cannot be overstated. While he spent a later lifetime denying the perceived ills of Nazi visions of world domination and their ideological and eugenicist leanings, it is well known and documented that the Catholic Church heavily supported the Nazi agenda before and during WWII. While some Apologists will say that it was necessary for the Church to seem to comply with the Nazi agenda – as the Nazis comprised the ruling party of Germany – the fact that the secret military order of the Nazis was founded upon the exact model and principles of the Jesuit order of Catholicism – as laid out clearly in the preceding link – and included in its highest ranks people who were priests of that order and Catholicism in general speaks volumes. That the new Pope, former Cardinal, Jorge Borgolio, under the name of Francis I, is an ethnic Italian (born of 2 Italian immigrants to Argentina) from one of the primary countries the Nazis retreated to following WWII is also no coincidence. Pope Francis capitulation to his Nazi controllers includes his potential collusion in child-trafficking charges, and who, for political reasons related to national stability and support of the government forces then in charge, potentially sacrificed priests of his own order to those selfsame forces.

That the new Pope is a Jesuit, and that the Jesuits have been the fomenters of hideous orgies of pain and bloodshed throughout the developed world and are in fact currently leading the way in the heralding of a new religious order with the soon to occur disclosure of the alien presence on and around the Earth, goes hand in hand with the end-time prophecies foreseen by so many as occurring in these days and times. Petrus Romanus, the Last Pope, the abdication of Pope Benedict, an event of such rarity it has not occurred in centuries. increasing energetic shifts in space weather, which is drastically affecting the atmosphere and weather of Earth as well as other planets in the Solar System, all lead to the realization that fundamental change  is nigh upon the world. The elite powers of the world, under the direction of the Moabite Centrix, are well aware of this and the mainstream media (MSM) is heavily involved in keeping these truths away from as many people as possible until it is too late for anyone to do anything about it or inquire into the plans and nature of those who profess to rule humanity but who are, instead, hell-bent upon its enslavement and destruction.

The final piece to the current puzzle involves the recent goings-on on the tiny isle of Cyprus, a haven for Russian-money that was in possession of a financial sector heavily over-sized in comparison to its natural population. That financial sector was targeted by the leader of the European Union, Germany which is under the control of the Moabite Centrix, for destruction, the monies of that Russian cohort of “investors” appropriated under the guise of repayment of the bailout given to Cyprus to save it from an exit from the Euro monetary system and the European Union itself. Cyprus, which had been considered a relatively stable nation surrounded by the unstable nations of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, lying as a jewel of the Mediterranean, became the test model and warning for the rest of Southern Europe. A warning that was sent loud and clear, with the threat of personal wealth confiscation in the form of bank account taxing in order to eviscerate these nations at the individual level in response to the ongoing Austerity raiding that has overcome the resistance most of these countries had been fomenting against German/Moabite hegemonic and economic control.

This model of economic control stemming from the premier power in Europe, and the premier economic and political power on the face of the earth, Germany, is slated for North America in the very near future. Already, the winds of Austerity are blowing through the political corridors of the United States and Canada and have been for a while. The agendas of the Neo-Cons and Nazi International, i.e. the Moabites are one in the evisceration of the economic might of the West and the United States in particular in fulfillment of their age-old plan of total world hegemony. It has become very clear that the election and installment of Barack Obama has only been a continuation of policies well in place for over a decade now and continuing an agenda that is decades, centuries and millennia in the making. Once Europe is fully under the control of the Moabite agenda, the United States, Canada and the rest of the Americas are next in line for full-spectrum political and economic domination and the final stage of New World Order implementation. That total control of the immediate neighborhood and hinterlands is finally within the sight of Hitler’s tochter and those who control her.

Bringing it all together, the political and economic hegemonic dominance of the Moabites through Nazi International and their modern homeland, Germany, is the sign that the global consolidation of control under a One World Government is on the verge of being completed. The Vatican and the Catholic Church, as the vehicles of popular religious control of the spiritual meta-narrative and their preparation to introduce an “extraterrestrial savior” to the human family plays into the larger goal of the Moabite Centrix to supplant the worship of the natural deity of the multiverse, known under many names and guises all of which serve only as markers of the All, or Source, with the worship of a lesser entity who, of necessity, is a reflection of their propensity toward demonic and external cooptation by forces in some ways higher than human-kind, but in other ways lesser. These forces can be considered extra-terrestrial or ultra-dimensional even though they have been involved in human affairs for millennia and potentially have been upon and surrounding this planet before the birth of humanity under the guise of the Archons of Gnostic Christianity fame.

And yet, despite the appearance of their overwhelming victory, it shall not be. These are the times of trials and tribulation for many in the human family as we are bombarded from space by energetic inputs that awaken bouts of emotional excoriation that typify the experiences of the ensouled during these trying days. As the Earth itself is changing, humanity is changing. The shifts in DNA, as reflected by the recent findings of quadruple helix DNA, the entry of our solar system into a new region of space, the undeniable elevation of consciousness reflected in the world wide revolutionary movements and the changes being manifest at the individual level of life as lived, for many, are irrefutable evidences reflecting the new state of being. The tide has turned and the impetus has shifted as the Earth has completed the 25,000 year procession of the equinox and now finds itself on the upswing from a negativity-ruled period of 12,500 years to a more positively-oriented time-frame of equal length.  The current period of tribulation is only the necessary cleansing period, the time of the Apocalypse, which really means, revelation or disclosure, when parsed in the original Greek.

It is indeed a time of revelation as our inner truths are laid bare and all that has been done in the Dark is revealed to the Light. The Moabite Centrix, despite their ancient war against God, cannot and will not win.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. ~ Isaiah 54:17

RIP Joseph Ehrlich. Your wisdom and brilliance are missed.

The Moabite Series

1. Who are the Moabites: The modern context

2. Connecting the Moabite Dots and other Sundry Articles of Faith and Disbelief

3. Japan, Germany and the shifting Moabite Reality

4. Moabite Moves: Setbacks, retrenchment and false-flag realities

5. Endgame or False flag? Moabite positioning on the global chess board

6. The Moabites, the Pope and the Cypriot Model for World Domination

Be The Change: Are you a part of the problem or the solution?

I’m no fan of pie-in-the-sky dreaming.

Of reductionist thought that answers the real problems of real people in the real world with deeper truth platitudes that end discussion and leave people foundering, sullen and silently fuming as their issues are relegated to meaninglessness in the face of the absolute. This is not to say that being aware of the absolute truth of reality is problematic. Rather, it is to say that confronting the limited and material truths of our reality with the Absolute is not a solution, but is instead a communicative, verbal and vibratory weapon often designed to overwhelm less eternal truths.

An example of this is saying that race does not matter because we are all human. Most people do believe this is true. But bringing this truth up in a conversation about the Israeli/Palestinian problem, or the issue of black incarceration in the Prison Industrial Complex in the United States does not forward the discussion, nor does it offer any practical solutions that can be implemented in the resolution of the problem.

Solutions are what are needed. Heart-centered solutions that speak to the necessity of all people to have their sovereign rights as incarnate souls respected. This is  a basic human right of existence that cannot be gainsayed by any political ideology, philosophical treaties or religious creed.

The good news is that hearts and minds are opening daily. That consciousness is spreading like wildfire across the world as the inter connectivity provided by the internet becomes the ubiquitous mode of communication for the majority of the world’s citizens. Seeking solutions and salvation beyond the self in groups and institutions must be accompanied by a search for solutions within each of us for our own problems and issues. There can be no real movement for peace and unity when we do not each individually possess those qualities within ourselves.

A slight qualification of the above statement is in order: there can be such movements and have been and probably will be, but those movements will be corrupted at their heart and soul if those who comprise the movement are corrupted in their hearts and souls. The body of membership of any organization is the sum of that membership, inculcating their dreams and desires, which then become the mission and purpose of the group. No matter what their stated principles are, the words and actions of the group will reflect the collective will of their membership, manifesting even their unconscious dreams and desires, masked beneath an rhetorical facade that usually only pays lip service to the ideology publically espoused.

This is why politicians are always caught with their pants down and their bank accounts open, their integrity compromised. This is why corporate raiders and profiteers are concerned primarily with the bottom line, lining their pockets with obscene bonuses and wondering why anybody would complain. This is why preachers and priests do terrible things to children and the emotionally compromised. This is why we hate ourselves, secretly in our inner hearts and souls, desperately seeking salavation outside of ourselves because to look within and actually do something about what we find there is too painful to work with directly.

It’s all well and good to speak words of wisdom or quote the spiritual and philosophical masters and enlightened ones when that sharing is done in the spirit of giving and not in the spirit of taking. In this sense, taking praise from others, likes from the multitude, the verbal praise of having something that others lack, of being able to see into the heart of  situations and to share what is seen there in an empathic and seemingly loving manner is a gift of the spirit and can be easily recognized for its resonance factor and embodiment of higher energetic frequencies. Conversely, doing such in the context of a personal battle of wills or in the making of points that emphasize an individual and egoistic attachment to self-gratification through the adulation of the hoi polloi serve to densify and further stratify personality in a hierarchical and energetically vampiric structure of vanity and egoism. Differentiating between these two types of expression is a stark but necessary maneuver for those who seek to recognize the real from the facade. Platitudes and truisms used as weapons in order to win an argument or in response to a perceived slight on the part of others are platitudes and truisms used in vain.

They are indicative of BEingness that is self-centered and ego-centric. Granted, that consciousness may be and probably is on the road of spiritual and philosophical enlightenment, but in that particular instance they have been waylaid by the intellect of ego and the densification of anger, affront or judgement, which renders their judgement faulty. This is a condition of creation and material incarnation and there is no fault in living in the real and being cognizant of the process of gradual evolution, which is indeed a process, meaning, it does not happen instantaneously for most people. It takes a while to grow and learn through experience how to truly become wise instead of just appearing so.

The solutions to all of the world’s problems are already known. The way to get there has already been laid out. The world’s problems are the same as each of our individual problems, just magnified and fractalized at a larger scale of macrocosmic occurrence. It is in the application of this knowledge to ourselves that we fail to apply the solutions that the world needs. And it will only be when we begin as a collective to recognize our individual failings and the interconnectivity of all consciousness that we will understand that by helping ourselves we are indeed helping the world.

The change begins with each of us. It has already begun and is well in progress. Are you a part of the solutions? Or a part of the problem?

Make a difference. Beyond the platitudes and quotes, we must indeed be the change we want to see in the world. Words must lead to actions in order for the shift to be actualized and manifest for us and our children and our children’s children to enjoy a world based upon a very different paradigm than the one that is failing around us in this very moment.

Realms of Reality: The dangers of reductionism

Reductionism: An attempt or tendency to explain a complex set of facts, entities, phenomena, or structures by another, simpler set.

Along the path to knowledge there comes a point at which the individual determines that there are certain underlying Truths that support the complex array of truths that comprise material and immaterial existence. The years and decades of study and exploration of the Realms of Reality cascade into a rushing stream of information, all of the disparate bubbles and currents of complex datum coalesce and achieve a form of unity and cohesion through which deeper, more abiding trends of Truth can be discerned. The tendency in this instance is toward reducing the infinitely complex to the infinitely simple, examples of which might include:

1) We are One
2) As Above, so Below
3) The System is Evil
4) We are born to die

All of these generalizations, on their face, are true to the extent that they describe general trends conditioned upon the nature of material reality and the individual and collective perception and response to such. The problem comes, when, in the course of living, these truisms are adapted and applied to the variegated issues, problems, trials and tribulations of life to the extent that direct action is scorned in favor of the cynical attitudes of incessant intellectual dissection, non-action and non-participation. When emotionally colored, these strategies also include scorn, sarcasm, irony, egoistic densification and personal identification with alternative viewpoints guaranteed to create division and disharmony when tendered amidst diverse groupings of otherwise tolerant and forward-thinking individuals.

The tendency of reductionist thought to seek ever the simplest explanation of complex phenomenon results in a glossing over of important considerations that span the gamut of human existence and expression. Reducing expression to its utmost basal components minimizes and trivializes the trends, mores and paradigms that the multitudes of humanity live and die by daily. While for those of an inherently spiritualized bent, doing so serves their personal evolution, by proselytizing reductionism and coloring it by emotional linguistic tropes the higher state of being implicit within the spiritual search is apparently absent, resulting in the inevitable conclusion that those utilizing such strategies are instead bent upon denying the ultimate validity of all human aspiration in favor of a studied attitude of non-action and non-participation.

The transparency of such strategies is absolute. The act of hijacking a conversation by engaging in reductionist polemics is a tactic of disinformation-oriented shills and those seeking to apply their understanding of the nature of reality to the exclusion of all others. The ploys and stratagems utilized by such are ingenious to the extent that they stifle discussion and mute participation through an appeal to an incontrivertible “Greater Truth” that, on its face, invalidates the “lesser truth” being discussed, thereby indemnifying those supporting said truth in favor of non-action and non-participation. When employed within a group format of individuals mired within the diverse paradigms of spiritual or political polemics reductionist strategies discount all considered and proven modalities grounded in direct action.

As an example, the unity of creation is proven through the revelations of quantum physics. The unity of consciousness is the state of greater humanity, and yet, it cannot be denied that there are differences in the qualitative expression of human wants and needs at the planetary level. Individuals and groups have different wants and needs that necessitate different strategies in order to satisfy. Levels of consciousness contribute to the expression of these wants and needs at the individual and collective levels. At the level of mass humanity, all of these wants and needs are valid as expressions of the underlying totality and the drive toward infinite manifestation of all potentiality. The Earth as a realm of diversity reflects this underlying, reductionist Truth. From the most heinous evil to the most transcendent good all are valid, all deserve expression; all require manifestation in some form or another.

Language, as the primary mode of human expression, is limited in its ability to encompass and express the totality of Truth as it is related to the truths that bound our perceptive realities. Therefore, it becomes necessary, for those who seek to communicate to the broadest array of individuals and groups possible, to moderate their expression of truth in full awareness of these limitations, allowing for differences of opinion and subjective understandings. This moderation must occur primarily in the realm of emotivity, as the expression of such reveals the egoistic underpinnings of discursive intent. Argumentation, petty sarcasm, boorish solidarity and condescending intellectualism point to communicative limitations that contribute to even greater discord and ideological differentiation.

In the end, and beyond the material realms of incarnation, this experience of diverse incarnative potentiality is designed to reveal the limitations of materiality and points the way to a greater harmonic resonance and unity with the ultimate source of Creation. But within the holographic matrix of this reality, as individuals and soul groups of differing purpose and expression, these experiential modalities are indicative of the beauty and perfection of life and the living process, revealed to be the crucible of purification upon which we are all transfixed, awaiting our own moment of gnosis.

But until then, perhaps it is wiser to be tolerant and understanding, rather than intolerant, base or crass. Rather than reducing our understandings ever to their basest components, perhaps there is validity in broadening our understandings in order to encompass the perspectives of those who have not yet achieved a deeper knowledge of the nature of the world and what lies beyond. The compassionate resonation of a truly spiritual viewpoint is more sympathetic in nature and not overtly disparaging to the extent that all other viewpoints are considered meaningless and pointless. Everything has a point. Everything has meaning.

Our synchronistic interactions are multidimensional and expressive of causative factors beyond our limited ability to understand. There are no coincidences or accidents, the cacaphonic and tumultuous symphony of life – in all of its chaotic simplicity – is perfectly aligned with our highest intent but can also be, simultaneously, in line with our lowest, most emotional desires. Engaging and embracing each other with this understanding can result in the inculcation of greater understanding and lead the way through the mental morass to that higher destiny shared by all who enter this Vale of Tears, intent upon consciously achieving reunification with Source.

The Voice from Nowhere

The pleasures of a life are many and fleeting but are as nothing compared to the ecstasy of life. The sublime experiences of the spirit are able to lift one from the midst of the daily grind, eliciting wonder and joy, giving a higher context to the purpose of living consciously and in search of the higher aspects of self versus the gratification of the lower. The juxtaposition of the physical and the spiritual is the cauldron of happiness and sadness we traverse through our experiences, the fixation of our attention and perspective alternating between the higher and the lower aspects of our lives. Navigating the Path between the two extremes requires discipline and dedication, mind control and emotional stability.

Life is both sweet and sour and it is designed to be that way. The Earth experience is not a garden of peace nor is it a war planet. It is both and neither, it is something more and something less. The more is the sum of its parts, the objective manifestation of all potentiality within a holographic material matrix of sensual inundation and psycho-spiritual bombardment that satiates the multidimensional requirements of evolving souls. The less is its relative and subjective nature, its tendency to overwhelm the senses and the mind, resulting in crass debauchery and physical enjoyment to the detriment of the higher senses.

Once you have experienced Oneness, the Godhead/Trinity, Unity, Source, directly and unequivocally, you are forever connected to it from that moment on. It lies behind every thought, it informs every relative truth, it denies all separation. It is the futility of living false lives, of telling lies, of being greedy, of serving the needs of self over others. It is pressing the internal button to turn on the omniversal multimedia presentation called Creation, to connect to it consciously, with the intent and purpose of complying with its directives, which represent the laws of energy conservation and movement at all levels of being. In all actuality, we are never disconnected from it – as it is our Home – but the inculcation of an egoistic personality complex and the mental structures of time and space navigation combine to obscure the deeper currents of mind, where the still and placid immensity of All That Is flow unendingly, ever available to those willing to let go and let God.

The pleasures of life lived for the senses are a mere distraction from the deeper pleasures of spiritual awakening. Going beyond pleasure, beyond happiness, beyond the need for any sort of material gratification or emotional intoxication is the reward of the spiritual quest. Food, sex, violence and all variations and associated modalities satiate the sensual, those whose highest aspirations are material gratification and that is as it should be, as life takes all types and we all co-exist at different levels of understanding and experience. But for those traversing these dales of lustful travails they pale quickly, the call ever heard to seek higher, go deeper, expand vision and experience wider. The quiet whisper of Truth promising something more, something amazing, something lasting, something real. And yet, paradoxically, it is the moderate experience of both sides that reveals the true meaning of life.

Complying with the directives of Creation is following the voice from nowhere, the one that speaks without sound. Learning to still the mind and cultivate the quietude of inner peace. Existing in the Now when necessary, recognizing the Crossroads moments and embodying purest Self in response, thereby fulfilling destiny and the highest potentiality of each and ever moment.

As humans on the journey of self-discovery it is necessary for us to be gentle with ourselves along the path. We will fail. We will backslide, meander, digress for a time, it is the nature of consciousness co-opted to alternate between sleeping and awakening for a time. But there will come another time when you will suddenly realize that you are awake more than you are asleep, that you are conscious of your path and purpose and you are actively manifesting the actions necessary to embody your truest expression of Self as only you can.

But to get to this space of Being one has first to begin the journey.

The gratifying reality of real spiritual advancement is that as you initiate your conscious and directed journey to realization you become aware of the existence of certain markers and signposts along the way. There are traditions that inform the seeker about roadblocks ahead or pratfalls to be traversed. Holy books filled with the wisdom of the ages and oral traditions cached with the truth of eternity. Continued immersion within spiritual themes contributes to control of the mind as contemplative practices such as meditation and prayer rarefy the mental space, making it a fitting abode for the Divine. As the mind purifies, the thoughts purify, as the thoughts purify so do the words and, as a result, the actions.

Jesus can get you there, as can Buddha, as can Muhammad, as can Eckhart as can Blavatsky as can so many others. The understanding that surpasses sectarian subjectivity and cultural relativity is the realization that all speak of the same underlying reality by way of differing perspectives. We each take on the perspectives that are comfortable to us. All who follow the path sincerely and with dedication will arrive at the same goal eventually. The path is an inner one and the religious traditions all possess the keys that will unlock the gate. Choosing to unlock the gate is choosing to integrate the higher and lower natures and to accept life as it comes, forgoing the dependency upon the physical nature to solve our problems and determine our goals in life. Getting past impatience and anger, jealousy and greed. Cultivating patience and tolerance, compassion and altruism. Becoming a complete human being, squaring the circle and enlightening the consciousness.

Making a Change: The personal choice to combat ignorance

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ~George Orwell

There is no expiration date for ignorance. As the expression of a manifest desire not to know, ignorance stands as one of the most confounding illnesses that the Awakened have to deal with during this  time of intense energetic shifting and the manifestation of a new world-wide paradigm.

Ignorance is expressed at the individual level and at the collective level. Ignorance is a part of many personal choices in how to live a life. Whether to become apprised of a certain body of knowledge, let’s say, politics. Or, economics. Or even culture. Stubbornly refusing to learn about both sides of any political argument or how money is created or even how to get along with a neighbor of a different religion.

Ingrained belief systems are often to blame. Being raised in environments where diversity is low or not growing up within an environment where life-long learning is emphasized. Sometimes, ignorance is an expression of a perception of superiority. The belief that one’s own understanding and perception of the world is so right that everyone else’s must be wrong and, therefore, unworthy of the attempt at understanding.

Ignorance is also unavoidable. It is inevitable that every single person is ignorant about something, since it is not possible to know everything about everything. Since some amount of ignorance is unavoidable, the state of humility is an excellent space from which to relate to the world. Understanding that our ability to be apprised of all of the variables that comprise a situation is limited, so remaining open to new knowledge is the paramount perspective from which to view and interact with the world.

Being open to new information allows the brain to function at a higher capacity. The neural net can build new synapses, connecting old information to new, creating more complex networks that allow the individual to function beyond the abilities of those who rely upon old, static information and knowledge. Being open to new experiences allows an individual to grow in ways beyond their ability to predict or even to understand. While it is true that it is impossible to hide from life or to cover one’s head in sand and allow the winds of change to blow over with no personal effects, standing straight up and staring change in the eye is a much more preferable way to deal with the world and take charge of your perception of it.

Too many people are living under someone else’s ideas about what the world is, what it is about and why we are all here. Too many people don’t go out and find out for themselves, instead they rely upon the perceptions and opinions of others, which is fine, to an extent. If those opinions and perceptions are relied upon to the detriment of one’s individual initiative and if those opinions and perceptions form the basis of decision-making, becoming dependent upon another’s perspectives without being fully apprised of their intentions or the perspective in opposition to the one in question can represent the heights of ignorance and lead to dangerous and unwanted consequences.

Making the decision to become personally responsible for our own understanding of the world is making the decision to become a sovereign soul. Making the effort to understand both sides of any political argument, how the world in which we live works and why people different from you believe the way they do is making the decision to become an informed individual who is then qualified to make wise decisions in relation to the world around them. Learning how to navigate the informational highways in all of their personal and impersonal varieties contributes to the educational process as all of the institutional traps and dead-ends also become apparent for what they are.

The world is what it is, our perceptions of it do not necessarily match what’s really going on out there. The extent to which our understanding is limited is the extent to which we have relied upon external input or no input at all in navigating our lives. Living life on auto-pilot only works for a short time. If you encounter a bump or an air-pocket along the way it quickly becomes clear that course-correction is in order. To then return to auto-pilot is the height of ignorance. Unfortunately, that is what most people do. Follow the courses of action laid out by others, responding to emergencies and then returning to the previously unworkable course of action, washing, rinsing and then repeating, again and again and then wondering why life didn’t turn out the way you wanted it.

Take the chance to make a change. Become responsible for your perception of the world by finding things out for yourself instead of relying on others opinions. Go see for yourself. Step out of your comfort zone. Go talk to a Republican or Democrat, see why they think the way they do. Watch a movie that informs you about Modern Money Mechanics. Go talk to the Muslim or Jew or African-American down the street.

Combat ignorance with curiosity and reap the benefits of participating in your world instead of being carried along by it.

Belief, Knowledge and Truth: Can you tell the difference?

Who are you?

What do you believe is true?

What do you know is true?

Is there a difference between belief and knowledge?

If you say no, there is no difference, what are you basing that belief on?

If you say yes, there is a difference, what are you basing that belief on?

Do you sense the inherent contradiction here?

The limitations of language?

How many times have you noticed how people make their belief systems their lived reality and shaped their own personal experience of the world to reflect that belief? How believers surround themselves with other believers and therefore everything in their environment reinforces their beliefs. If someone believes something with all of their heart and mind, does that make it knowledge? If I believe with all my heart and mind that the world is flat, does that make it true? If I believe with all my heart and mind that God lives in Heaven above and the Devil in Hell below does that make it true? If I believe with all my heart and mind that there is no God at all and that individual consciousness ends at death does that make it true? Are truth and belief equivalent? Are truth and knowledge equivalent?

So what, then, is the difference between belief and knowledge? And what do either of them have to do with truth?

One online dictionary says:

Belief:

An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. Something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction.

Knowledge:

Information and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. What is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information.

Truth:

The quality or state of being true: “the truth of her accusation”. That which is true or in accordance with fact or reality: “tell me the truth”.

1. Belief: Acceptance. Opinion. Existence.

2. Knowledge: Acquiring. Experience. Practical.

3. Truth: Fact. Reality.

Each of these terms has a subjective and an objective side to them. Each of these terms can mean different things to different people. Each of these terms can be debated endlessly.

Therefore, the only thing the first two terms share in common is their inability to fully encompass all perspectives pertaining to the third term.

As language inherently obfuscates rather than clarifies  the attendant difficulties in determining what is a belief vs knowledge and whether either category encompasses truth is a difficult if not impossible task.

The ability of humans to create lives and live them in communities based upon what are later found to be false beliefs, mistaken knowledge or untruths are rife across the span of history. What was true yesterday might be found to be untrue tomorrow. Human understanding of the world and each other evolves seemingly by the microsecond. Ignorance is the common state of everyone, as there is always something we don’t know that can and often does change our entire perspective about any subject whatsoever.

Disparate brain wiring inhibits understanding, different chemical makeups and the ability to control brain chemistry make some of us more or less compassionate and others more or less detached from the considerations and opinions of others.

Whether one believes or knows that Creation is either purposeful or purposeless does nothing to minimize the acknowledged fact of existence. We exist. Our experiences exist. Our perspectives exist. The double slit experiment proves beyond a doubt that the observer affects the observed. At the level of quarks and mesons, at the level of thoughts, the very presence of consciousness affects the material reality that it perceives. Quantum entanglement proves that everything is connected, also at the sub-atomic level. A split atom sent to the other side of the universe will turn simultaneous to the original remaining in the scientist’s lab.

Belief and Knowledge seem to be filters for experience. The less experience we have, the closer we are to belief. The more experience we have, the closer we are to knowledge. The quality of that experience determines how close our beliefs and knowledge are to truth. Whether a truth is a “little t” truth or a “big T” Truth is determined by how close experience approaches the multiversal in nature. Whether that truth is ephemeral, subjective and dependent upon shifting conditions or whether that Truth is an objective and fundamental expression of some multiversal constant.

The constant in all cases is experience. Personal expression. Therefore, our ability to perceive and express beyond the ephemeral, the subjective, the ego and personality-driven and approach the fundamental, the objective, the Higher Self and Avatarically-driven determines the extent to which our beliefs and knowledge reflect a greater rather than lesser Truth.

Who are you?

How closely do you associate with the truths you believe?

How accurately do you reflect the greater Truths of existence?

Are your truths local or universal?

Is there a difference  between local truths and universal Truths?

If you say no, there is no difference, what are you basing that belief on?

If you say yes, there is a difference, what are you basing that belief on?

Do you sense, here, the perceptual contradiction that, in reality, is no contradiction at all?

The necessity of going beyond language?

Spirituality is Personal …

… and intimate. How is it possible to argue with another about such a thing?

A belief is solidified in the mind to become subjective knowledge. That is why everyone’s beliefs are different in some facets. Our neural networks are linked up differently. Our synapses fire to different locations, connecting different pieces of information. Memory, education, experience differs, so how we interpret the same events is dependent utterly upon how we have wired our brains during the course of our lifetimes. That is why what we understand about something is never exactly the same as what someone else understands about it.

In the realm of spirituality this is exacerbated by the inherent unknowability of the process of gnosis. The intimate, personal experience of the inner world. This is why the best spiritual teachers teach in parables. People are thereby guided in the right direction but the destination is not defined succinctly. It is up to the Seeker to have the experience her or himself.

This is a cause of contention. This is a cause of conflict. This is a cause of drama. All of it unnecessary. Unnecessary because there is no ultimate description of spiritual attainment that can be encapsulated in words. How can you describe the indescribable?

For teaching purposes, those who have experienced certain states can employ tactics in order to impress upon students certain lessons that may lead the student in the right direction. The teacher does so from a place of understanding. He is playing upon the students emotions in order to bring about a desired result. If someone who has not experienced a certain state attempts to teach about it that person is not teaching from a place of knowing but instead a place of belief. Two different places. Incomparably so.

This is where conflict comes in and rightfully so. Listening to someone who barely has any idea of what they are talking about is a sure recipe for disaster. Such discussions must inevitably lead to conflict as the teacher is barely beyond the level of the student. When the Buddha was asked how people were supposed to know he was enlightened, he reached down and touched the ground with his fingers and answered, “The Earth is my witness”.

In a discussion with his disciples, Jesus told them that his Father’s house had many mansions. When Thomas expressed his doubts Jesus replied, “No one comes to the Father except through me”.  Building upon his original metaphoric description of the path to spiritual salvation Jesus deepens it, his meaning clear. His life, his state of perception, outlook and actions were to be the template for others to follow. He led by example. But the common misperception of those verses to be literal in nature sadly obscure this deeper, gnostic truth. More argumentation.

Respecting the personal aspect of spirituality means that people must be allowed to be where they are at. We are all here as free will entities and to harangue and harass someone about their understanding of the world and their place in it is to totally misunderstand one’s own place in the world.

It is true that samsara is a place of confusion and illusion with the blind leading the blind. So in this world it is normal for such insane practices to be commonplace. It is normal for people to misunderstand. It is normal for people to argue and fight.

But as one comes to a greater understanding, but even more importantly, as one gains experience by accessing certain states of perception and attainment, it becomes easier to let other people be. To let them alone with their illusions. To listen to the “I’s” and “me’s” and “my’s” and “mines” and to understand what is really being said.

Experience trumps book knowledge all day every day. There’s an old saying that those who know don’t tell and those who tell don’t know.

There was a reason esoteric knowledge was kept secret for so long. A reason why the Church, the Mosque, the Temple were able to limit people’s knowledge for centuries. A reason why the secretive higher orders of the monotheistic religions held knowledge in thrall. Knowledge is power. And the reason why esoteric knowledge is so accessible now is indicative of the times and who you are who are seeking it. Even today, what the Seeker finds easily accessible on Internet remains inscrutable mystery to the masses.

Be thankful for your propitious situation and being born into a Time such as this to achieve a destiny such as yours. Now let everyone else walk the Path towards theirs in peace.

Practical Enlightenment: Living in the World

As must always be stated at the outset, kenshō is a stop along the path, it is not a final destination. There are shades and variegations in the hue of enlightenment, ranging from the ultimate enlightenment of a sage such as Siddhartha Guatama, that experienced by 84,000 that were enlightened in a day in one ancient Buddhist tale and the many others that are spoken of in countless parables.

There are many enlightened individuals out there today, including people such as Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Adyashanti and others. Experiencing the state of oneness and unity and experiencing the perception of an all-encompassing love reveals the illusory aspect of material reality; it is an experience of the underlying and pervading reality upon which our daily lives are perched rather precariously, it must be said.

The popular perception of enlightenment as some unreachable goal that it takes many lifetimes to achieve is only partly accurate. It does take many lifetimes for some souls to go though the experiences of materiality. To get their fill of the love, the hate, the passion, the food, the sex and the habits. Or, it could just take one. It can happen over many lifetimes or it can happen instantly. In the greater context it might even be said that both are required in order for enlightenment to happen at all.

The search obscures the goal and yet to not search can take the Seeker even further away from it. The Seeker cannot seek after the unknown, since we cannot search for what we do not know.  A search implies a journey through time but to find enlightenment one must go deeper into the Now, or no-time. Therefore, the decision to seek after a goal sensed if not fully known must become a lived process and not an intellectual problem. The journey must end before it even begins.

That is the paradox of realization and a large part of the problem in describing the state as well as the journey to that state to others. It has been at issue for millennia. Just look at all of the different sects and systems of Buddhism. It serves institutions to hold enlightenment up as a lofty goal that is only realized by some inhuman avatar, out of the reach of normal people. And while this is generally true, enlightenment is not an unrealizable goal. It is the natural state of every BEing.

Realization, enlightenment, is both an achievement and a gift. It is the liberation of the senses. The ability to perceive the world through the thought processes and all of the senses without the filter of the ego intervening. The absolute, lived knowledge of the nature of creation and that which lies beyond all perception.

When living in a monastery or alone upon a mountain with all of nature surrounding you it is a relatively peaceful task to enjoy the state of non-BEing in tune with the silence of a worshipful space, be it a temple or natural area.  When an enlightened BEing must co-exist within the world and the influence of other BEings, certain choices must be made.

It is said that, upon enlightenment, there’s no predicting how that BEing might then act in response. Some get up and leave their lives without looking back. Others remain and seem the same. No matter the choice, the shift in the newly enlightened BEing is unmistakable to those around them.

The emotional patterns and personality template that previously defined the enlightened BEing are no longer applicable. Those patterns were dependent upon an identification with the body and its history. Once kenshō has occurred and the experience of the totality of existence has revealed the truth of lived reality the personality slate is virtually wiped clean. It then becomes the choice of the enlightened BEing regarding which aspects of her previous personality traits to retain and which to discard.

There is a danger here, though. The danger has to do with the expectations of others and the potentiality of retaining certain personality traits to please other BEings. The enlightened BEing can pretend to be unenlightened. But, since enlightenment is the core state of all incarnate BEings, once it is known it cannot then be unknown. The consciously enlightened cannot then become unenlightened.

In the teachings of Don Juan the great Yaqui Indian and Toltec Sorcerer there is the concept of Controlled Folly:

A warrior must know first that his acts are useless, and yet, he must proceed as if he didn’t know it. In other words, a warrior must know he is unimportant, but act as if he is important. That’s a shaman’s controlled folly. Nothing being more important than anything else, a warrior chooses any act, and acts it out as if it mattered to him.

In the Toltec tradition as expressed by Don Juan, enlightenment is known as seeing. Accordingly,

You think about your acts, therefore you have to believe your acts are as important as you think they are, when in reality nothing of what one does is important. Nothing! But then if nothing really matters, as you ask me, how can I go on living? It would be simple to die; that’s what you say and believe, because you’re thinking about life, just as you’re thinking now what seeing would be like. You want me to describe it to you so you can begin to think about it, the way you do with everything else. In the case of seeing, however, thinking is not the issue at all, so I cannot tell you what it is like to see. Now you want me to describe the reasons for my controlled folly and I can only tell you that controlled folly is very much like seeing; it is something you cannot think about.

Don Juan and the many enlightened sages of the Buddhist tradition are describing essentially the same process of perception and resultant actions taken in the world of humanity once a certain level of attainment has been reached by the practitioner, no matter the spiritual system.

Many enlightened Teachers utilize controlled folly in order to teach their followers. They act in outrageous ways to show their students the drawbacks of expectations and holding on tightly to preconceived notions about anything or anybody. Some enlightened BEings currently co-existing with their fellow humans do so without drawing attention to their state of spiritual realization. In this manner they travel through their lifetimes affecting the lives of others directly and indirectly without drawing too much attention to themselves.

Both paths have a heart. For the enlightened BEing of the Buddhist tradition, taking on the Bodhisattva role and forgoing one’s own transcension of the physical in order to help all other sentient BEings achieve enlightenment is a valid and laudable choice. For those, like Don Juan, who choose to follow the spiritual path to its ultimate goal, however they might define that process, the compassion of the Bodhisattva is considered to be one of the last affectations of the ego:

Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless. For a warrior everything begins and ends with himself. However, his contact with the abstract causes him to overcome his feeling of self-importance. Then the self becomes abstract and impersonal.

Judgment is a foible of the ego. It is forming conclusions based upon limited input. Outside of the context of a dichotomous reality construct, within the realm of the abstract, where everything is one and differentiation is thereby meaningless in the everyday understanding of the term, good and evil are non-existent. Service-to-Self or Service-to-Others, both paths are valid. What is, is, and occurs regardless of the moral context. Awareness, energetic conservation and perpetual motion are the only true laws.

The Enlightenment Series

The Great Gathering

Practical Enlightenment: The aftermath of Kenshō

The End of Forever

Practical Enlightenment: Living in the World

Practical Enlightenment: Processing the emotions of other people

Practical Enlightenment: The vale of tears

Practical Enlightenment: Dealing with instant karma

True Awakening: The conservation of energy

Practical Enlightenment: The aftermath of Kenshō

The common expectation among Seekers is that once you have a satori experience your life is supposed to change. And it does. But not always in ways that are as dramatic as you might have been led to believe.

I write very few personal articles. Which may seem contradictory to my regular readers as all of my articles are very intimate insofar as personal mental, emotional and spiritual development is concerned. What I mean, is that I try very hard not to use the first person singular, “I”, very often in my articles. So I am reticent to share this experience but somehow feel it imperative, if only as a diary of sorts kept to clarify my own process in comparison to the traditions of the Ages.

Ever since the Great Gathering a process of recapitulation has accompanied the personality reconstruction that I have been engaged in. Enlightenment is a process it does not occur suddenly. Cultivating Awareness, Being and the Heart are stages along the journey of Ultimate Enlightenment. But since the evolutionary journey is never-ending, the term “ultimate” when referring to Enlightenment is actually a misnomer in the common understanding and probably stems from the Buddha’s exemplification of the overall process and his followers many and often obfuscating interpretations of his teachings.

The experience of kenshō is a form of Enlightenment, an experience that gives the experiencer an awareness of alternate and deeper states of Being, but it is by no means an end, in and of itself. Nor is it indicative of some instantaneous process of Enlightenment beyond which lies only emptiness or some other inscrutable and penultimate destination. The belief that it is a sudden experience actually hinders progression more than it helps as people waste time seeking when it can only actually happen when you stop seeking. The egoistic tricks and traps that maintain the primacy of the personality construct actively hinder the activation of the satori experience as it is only when the quiescence of the deeper states of spiritual BEingness is pierced by the ego at the behest of the greater awareness that kenshō can occur.

My recent satori experience left me foundering for context as my immersion in Buddhist tradition has been relegated to Shambhala training alone and not the deeper aspects of Buddhism as a religion where such events and how to incorporate them into your life are well documented. To put it bluntly, I didn’t get that far in my training. A few books, a summer at a meditation center, a heart opening and then, back to life as lived, incorporating those events into my daily grind.

Lo Jong mind training and Tonglen, sending and taking, were powerful consciousness practices that came naturally to me and incorporating them into my life was not difficult. In the intervening year and a half since then, occasional yet powerful practice in these and other meditations in addition to my studies and shifts in personal behavior created the spiritual opening necessary in order to achieve the next step. But it was the progress of my unusual life that prepared me for what was to come.

Although I was raised in a Christian home and find validity in its deeper teachings it is the Buddhist tradition that I find most clearly expresses the details of spiritual progress. From this standpoint, I have lived multiple lifetimes in search of Enlightenment. I entered this lifetime with a path designed to achieve that aim which included a relatively peaceful and stable upbringing with all of my basic needs met. A lifetime of travel, which allowed me to discover that people are the same wherever you go. That no place is essentially any different from any other outside of the vagaries of the physical environment. Educational opportunities that gave me access to the cultural treasures and wisdom of the Ages. Everything necessary to awaken my spirit of inquiry.

Basic goodness has been one of the principle expressions of my personality. This aspect has been marred by personal psychological and emotional deviations self-imposed upon my mental and spiritual awareness by familial and racial tropes common to the Age and my incarnative situation of being born into a black body in what is currently a white-dominated world. Being completely different from even those who looked like me on the outside. Emotions and experiences of Otherness, of rejection, of alienation, of aloneness occasioned the deeper exploration of mental and spiritual space at an early age, resulting in my first kenshō at the age of 12 after a particularly traumatic series of experiences at the hands of my peer group.

Experiential living, incarnate within a particular form at a particular time in a particular cultural context determines the details of a life. The choices are then between inner nature and environment. The choice towards inner nature leads invariably to enlightenment. The choice towards environment leads to more and harder lessons. Life as lived in the world as it currently is tends toward the material environment and mental and emotional immersion within it.

Relationships, marriage, children, jobs. Success, failure, loss. The dark night of the soul. Dedication to spiritual progress once the realization that material success is empty and meaningless is internalized. Then, the gradual recapitulation of a lifetime and its lessons. Self-forgiveness and the forgiveness of others. The alignment of inner values with outer expression. Living life in this manner gradually produces clarity in intention and lifestyle.

Basic goodness becomes the outer expression of the inner state of BEing. Life becomes simple. Spiritual practice becomes second-nature and a lifestyle rather than a weekly or holiday-centered obligation. Losing the “I” in the greater sense of the “We”, humility becomes the natural expression of Self. Truly listening to others, cultivating silence within leads to a steady-state resonance with one’s inner-nature which is also human nature in general.

After the kenshō experience, the realization that social obligation demands the molding of the personality to one’s environment must be weighed against the impetus to embody a more malleable and formless state of BEing. Changing the personality construct totally can traumatize those in immediate proximity who may not fully understand what just occurred. It then becomes a question of prioritization that loses its immediacy as the realization that the higher states of BEing are available at any time sinks in.

But something inside has indeed shifted irrevocably. Further spiritual evolution and experience is now inevitable and a byproduct of what has become a proven and natural process of self-realization.  Synchronicities increase as awareness also increases. The state of slumber that typifies the unawakened consciousness lessens gradually as more and deeper lessons accrue.

The ego remains. It becomes apparent that the ego is actually a necessary component of Enlightenment. It is the lens directed inward toward deeper consciousness at the behest of the yearnings of the soul. It is designed to be a tool and once utilized as such accepts its role as the silence of the Awakened mind becomes the normative state of awareness.

Experience trumps hearsay in every case. Once gained, it can never be lost.

The Enlightenment Series

The Great Gathering

Practical Enlightenment: The aftermath of Kenshō

The End of Forever

Practical Enlightenment: Living in the World

Practical Enlightenment: Processing the emotions of other people

Practical Enlightenment: The vale of tears

Practical Enlightenment: Dealing with instant karma

True Awakening: The conservation of energy