Magick? What's with the k?

Magick?

Magic?

From Google dictionary:

mag·ic

/ˈmajik/

noun

noun: magic

1. the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

   
   
2. mysterious tricks, such as making things disappear and appear again, performed as entertainment.

One is real. One is as real as Disney, yet with the power of the other, for they both operate on the same principles. Both require belief to become. Both require devotion to persist. Both create a vibration and a field that needs to be fed to manifest.

So back to the original question... 

what is it?

"Magick with a k" implies the ancient core spiritual practices and systems of understanding that link to every religion and spiritual organization in the world at their foundations.

The most evolved and powerful vibrational beings to have existed on Earth have all been practitioners of high magick. It is at the core roots of all systems of belief and spirituality across all cultures. Abraham, Enoch and Moses were masters of the Kabbalah, Jesus practiced ascension magick as an Essene, Buddha had the Dzogchen, Muhammad immersed in the Sufi as he built his inner and outer empire. The Vedas are the ancient core text of Hinduism explaining how the universe works through magickal processes. All tribal shamanic and spiritual practices around the world operate under and with these same principles as well. 

The foundation for the ideas and practices of magick are found at the crossroads of all of the spiritual teachings in the world and has been overlapping with science at every point in its emergent growth as a new form of concrete alchemical explanation over the past 700 years. Science comes into play when we achieve the permanent understanding of processes of beings defining objectivity as dimensionality while negating aspects of subjectivity. Science is merely descriptions of understood magickal operations of the universe in a common form and context. 

So what is magick?

Finding such an answer is like explaining the word wind or love or infinity, for it requires its own definitions and ways of understanding to truly get it.

In order to even be able to understand, you have to deconstruct what you believe to be true and real at many different fundamental levels in your mind and be able to fully accept non-ordinary states of consciousness and being.

So to truly grok it, you have to let go of who you think you are...

Our culturally created self is our most fierce defender of the norms, and it holds the role of ego/gatekeeper. The norms being those aspects of reality that are to be trusted and counted on regardless of their scientific truths. This applies to cultural upbringing, morals and values as much as it does just being in the human morphogenic field and having limits to your body or perceiving gravity. 

So to begin to understand magick, you have to deconstruct yourself and what you believe is real.

For example, let's look at the overwhelmingly validating aspect of the placebo effect. 

“Placebos are extraordinary drugs. They seem to have some effect on almost every symptom known to mankind, and work in at least a third of patients and sometimes in up to 60 percent."☆ 

This example shows us the amazing power of mind as the creator running on conscious and unconscious aspects to create and heal the physical body. Often in medical studies, the goal is to beat the percentage of the placebo to show a medication's effectiveness. A placebo in a medical study is a sugar pill or a medication that will have no effect on the participant, but the amazing part about it, is that very often, just the suggestion and idea that the pill or medication will produce the desired effect makes it actually happen. So the idea essentially is to beat the power of the mind to show that the medication is effective, almost treating the aspect of mind being the creator as an anomaly or as a problem to be overcome instead of a strength to be harnessed.

Science seeks to dispel magical thinking and giving belief to something without understanding by harnessing reason and creating logic to give it a firmament to spring from. In reality, science perpetually seeks to define magick in mundane terms. This concrescence of logic has given science to the conservation of magick and alchemical processes by defining reality into an accepted construct of definite shape and form.

So after I deconstruct my culturally  created self, what is magick?

Magick is the basis for spiritually understanding the way the holographic interconnected universe moves at all levels of our understanding with principles, laws, and structures of our total reality that function at the quantum/micro realms to the universal/macro realms interchangeably. The ability to use this information to co-create reality with the All is the application of magick.

All high magick is intended towards the great work, which is the aim of all religions and spiritual organizations, known in other forms as enlightenment. This is seen as the total perfection of self, the clearing of all parts of self to completely actualize one's life to it's fullest.

Seems easy enough...  

Seriously though, it is all around us at all times, co-creating the world around us with each belief, every breath, and every step.

How would the world be if we all treated each moment as magickal as it truly is?

It would change instantly.

And so it begins and ends with each of us, with every thought and every construct of mind, we create with and as the all.

As we allow this now, it becomes, and so it is.

Find the eternal magick of each instant. 

It is our destiny.

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☆from the article/website: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306437#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPlacebos%20are%20extraordinary%20drugs.,in%20up%20to%2060%20percent.

Past lives ripple into now... (past life reading meditation)

Past lives ripple into now...

This is to be read as a guided meditation to bring you to a past life experience.


Now we begin...

Find yourself in a quiet, comfortable place, away from distractions and disruptions which affect your concentration to your now.  Now being this state of consciousness you are now in where you can feel the sensations and stimulations on a physical level, if you permit that, for all reality's perceptions are based on permissions.  You must give yourself permission to relax.  Find your attention on these words as they flow across your mind.  Give your blessing as you feel yourself slowly relax into your now, there may be some slight discomfort, so as you notice discomfort, breath in and out slowly and feel it soften and become easier, just notice the sensations and feelings in your body now. 

Bring your awareness to your toes and feel it begin to slowly fill you up like a ripple begins at your toes and echoes into your feet relaxing and making smooth and easy all the little muscles in your feet as it gently spreads through your ankles and up your calves, with a wave of peace it flows around your knees, unraveling the muscles there as it flows up your thighs into your waist and hips releasing held tension and tightness in these areas, relaxing you more and more.

Now slowly your lower abdomen fills with this liquid ripple of relaxation, flowing through your stomach, unraveling all the muscles around your spine as it moves up your back and into your chest and shoulders, feeling them loosen and begin to melt away tension with each breath that you take moving you further into stillness. This ripple begins through your throat and up your neck into your jaw. You feel your jaw gently release as this flow goes up around your eyes letting all the little muscles around your eyes reading this to get just a little more relaxed and gently focused on the words.

And now follow your imagination as you go down a staircase of ten steps, each step bringing your body and mind into deeper and deeper stillness, ten times deeper with each step that you go down, through the first step to the second. Now feeling the depths of thirty times deeper as you take the third step and on to the fourth. Letting all of the worries and fears clouding your experience to just fade out as you take the fifth and sixth steps. Feeling yourself in that open detached state of peace as you take the seventh and then eighth steps.  As you take the last two steps you feel yourself in this deep rhythmic flow of relaxation, one hundred times more relaxed. 

At the base of the steps you find yourself in a room with a door at the opposite end of it.  This place feels familiar and safe to you as you cross the room and come to the door. There is a sign on the door. It has the words, "Door of Time," written on it.  You open the door and see a swirling mist floating out beyond the doorway, almost like you are looking off a ledge out into a deep space of clouds.

Now before you step out into the mist, I want you to ask your subconscious mind to bring up a current issue you are working on in your life, something you would like help with resolving, and I want you to hold this vision of this situation in your mind.  Now envision that issue flying out of your mind and into the open doorway. This will set up your experience to place you in a former existence where you handled or dealt with a similar issue or problem so that you may learn how it was resolved.

Standing at the doorway now you step out into the mist and feel yourself with the sensation of flying through clouds.  You feel the cool mist flowing through and around you and there is a chill in the air of the swirling air moving around you.  As you are floating there safely you feel the winds move faster and you feel yourself drifting through your timeline back through your past, before your birth, bringing you to another lifetime, another experience of living.  You feel yourself begin to descend back towards the world coming down from the clouds moving into the body of another life that you have lived.

You find yourself a reflection and see what you looked like, smelling the smells of the place, checking in with how this entity feels about their situation and what they are doing.  Noticing your clothing and the decorations of the place you can have an idea of the time period. You know what this person's job or work is, you can feel their family connections and perhaps see similar ones to your own current life.  You can now feel the connection to this entity's life situation and how it corresponds to the life issues you are working on. 

Connecting inside this entity's life record by focusing inside of their body, you ask it to bring you to the point of resolution to the issue or problem so that you may learn and make the connection to your now.  You feel yourself shift through this being's life, flowing into their future which has already happened.  You then find yourself at another point and time in the entity's life where the resolution was brought to a close and you can feel the joy of moving forward in this entity's experience.  You connect with how this will help your current situation understanding how and why things played out the way they did. 

You feel the closure in this being's life and thank it immensely for sharing their experience and learning with you now.  You feel the completion and disconnect as you begin to float up out the body up into the sky and back to the flowing field of clouds.  You feel the coolness and dampness from the clouds move through you clearing attachments to that previous life and you look out through the clouds and notice the doorway still there in the sky out in the distance.  You begin to float towards it and you feel yourself shift forward in time to your present timeline.

As you step back into the room with the stairs, you can feel the understanding of the visit to a previous lifetime echo through your mind.  You feel a deep sense of gratitude for yourself on your healing journey and know that this experience was there to show you how to clarify your experiences in the present world.  You gently make your way back to the steps knowing that you are coming back into the regular world with new insight and focus.

As you come up each of the ten steps you begin to feel yourself fully engage with the room or space you are in as you read this, feeling supported and safe, refreshed and relaxed.  Bringing your attention back to your fingers and toes, your arms and legs, flowing into your body and head, finding yourself behind your eyes as you are alert and refocused, wide awake and wonderful.


Now reflect on what you have gained from this experience.

Please leave some comments or some of your experiences below as you experiment with reading through this past life regression reading meditation and getting different results.  Each time you do it, you will connect with what you are seeking answers to.

Safe travels as we explore the endless boundaries of our consciousness together!


Find your light.


Just be.



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Indra's Interconnections

Like echoes through time

spreading out in both directions,

past and future, 

this now spirals you into all possibilities...

We seek to know without fear, 

to pluck from the ether this impermanent invocation,

fleeting moments fill the voids,

or was that what you wanted?

Of course...

Fractalated holograms...

part - whole - whole - part

See the eternity in your eyes,

gaze into the beyond hiding 

there in the corner of your eye...

a mind is a terrible thing

to waste not, want not.

Step away from the mind with your soul out,

check in with the silent witness,

forever present,

ride the connections 

to the interwebs of each strand,

all things interconnect 

as Indra casts her net 

of holophonic jewels...

Did you hear that?

Echoes of the soul reverberate through your life,

joy to trauma, peace to chaos,

in all ways one,

pierce the veil with presence,

transcend into NOW.

Just be.

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Interconnection Now!

Let's take a brief journey together...

Wait!

Watch out!

Did you see that?

That was a close one...

What was it?

It was this momentary illumination hiding just behind the atoms...

What is all that supposed to mean?

This place, where we are now, because we are always here, is that underlying current of binding and blinding light, moving just at the edge of our view co-creating it with us.  It is that force of which you speak, that super glue holding together the universe, or as Carl puts it, "star stuff."  

This is truly what we are right now in this moment.

How is that even possible? 

If I cut myself blood comes out. 

If I dig through my body, I will not find this hiding light, just my guts...

So where is it hiding? 

How can it even hide?

Do fish understand the water they swim in? 

If they did, it would change everything, just as with us...

Each breath, each inhalation is the creation and destruction of countless molecular interconnections happening every instant of an instant, and we continue to breath and just exist, thinking there is nothing more...

It does not need us to be so, and yet it does...

When we delve into what collectively we know, we can step into our interconnected inner self, where all of these connections are as infinite as science deems it to be.

So why is Now important?

What is its relevance?  It is relevance.  It is attention, pure awareness without corruption, it is swimming in the zero state, that field of the all in which we are now moving, where all things are possible and there are no limits, baggage or memories weighing on your soul, but only if you look for it.

Awareness needs awareness to find it and know how to use it constructively...

Being a tautology is going to be the new prerequisite for this paradigm of understanding, so be ready for circles and find where they connect. 

As we understand the endless cycles and possibilities of now we can choose our own illusions that we are electing to meander through in this lifetime. 

What we align with and give our attention to is what we become and are.

So how do we find this light hidden in our atomic structure?

The breath. 

This point of connection that is the creation of our sustained life, it goes on without our permission and continues without our awareness, yet we can harness it.  We can grow in our use of the power within it. It is that illumined feeling of warmth, emotion, joy filling your being as you harness it simply by paying attention to your breathing, gently and easily controlling that which we are interconnected through. 

Holding the light, it grows within. Holding the breath, the power of presence and awareness grows within. 

It is that same brilliance that powers the sun and cosmos.

All this is contained here in this moment, just beyond our view, countless doorways to infinite realms of magic and mystery await us as we become this moment. 

As we interconnect our feeling of presence with our goals and dreams, they will come flooding towards us.

And so it is.

Just be.

The presents of presence...

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Elect Love and Peace!

What is really on the election ballot this year? 

Is our soul as a country really under this much constant combat that we are lost in the words as we miss the forest for the trees? How can we combat the incessant pull of idiocracy that is marring the image of our system across the world's theater?

What will it take for us to overcome this frightening image of what is to come for our country?  How many more moments of sheer racism and ignorance will we let manifest in our collective consciousness before we finally stand up and say enough is enough?


So what can you do now?  Who are you to be able to make a difference?

How can your voice be heard?  Does the election really matter?  Do we even have a voice?  The answer is yes, we do, and the election does matter, but our voice can only be heard and we can only make a difference if we stand up and stand together in love and peace.

This entire facade of an election process has created more fear, hatred, anger and shame than any of the past elections up until this point.  Just when we think it can't get any worse, it does and we see even more of how fragile this system is and how it is so mismanaged that those in charge most likely shouldn't be.  Yet we don't stand up together with one voice when they have so carefully marginalized our positions and our voices into sound bytes and scripted memes designed to distract us from the truth just behind the curtains...


Love and peace can save us?  


How so?  Are you just some wishy-washy hippy?  Well I am, but that is beside the point...

Love is one of the strongest attractors of the present moment of any of the emotions.  This means that it brings you into the present moment simply by focusing on it.  The heart chakra is the center of the plane of existence we call the present moment where the spiritual plane intermingles and blends with the physical world.  That which we hold in our heart center becomes real that much more quickly...

Peace is just as powerful so long as it is realized as its own process, and not the absence of war which reflects its energy out in a negative way as a polarity, which it need not be.  Peace should be seen as gratitude, or joy for simply being and gratefulness for what is in all its forms.


Stepping into an attitude of gratitude and love isn't the easiest process especially with all of the endless barrage of angry memes and perversions of what we call media and the news.  The easiest start to this process is to think of that which you hold most dear, a loved one, a pet, a happy memory that warms your soul when you think of it.  Calling in such an image evokes that joyful, loving feeling that can help you elevate your intentions and elevate your manifestations towards something more.  It will help you to guide your potential reality towards its highest good even in times such as these.  


How can we be grateful for such a debacle of our political system?  Let us find the silver lining hiding in this very dark and large storm cloud hanging over our country at the moment.  


What did we hope would happen?  Obviously it didn't play out how we liked, so what is the potential good in these developments?  What positivity can come from such horrid defacement of our governmental structure?  Even in the darkest night we can find stars to illumine our path, for light needs darkness to be fully appreciated...

We can let be what is, and send light and love and positive thoughts and energy to those places in the world that need our attention or help so that it can grow and flourish and facilitate new changes in the future.  We can look forward to what may still come in a loving and peaceful world in hopes that we can be catalysts for real change...

Holding our highest good for the universe and higher powers to protect us and keep us away from the negativity and evil that exists knowing that all is as it should be and that all will work out for the betterment of everyone.  Staying with these thought patterns and sending out feelings of gratitude and love for all that is and that all that is will create the highest good for all involved.  


Thoughts are energy and have power! 


Do not play into the fear and anger surrounding our nation. 

Let us "Face Everything And Rise" up as one people, for the future of our world!



Light for your path...


Just be.


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Momentary Illumination

Momentary Illumination

Feel the pulse of the flow as it courses through your veins…

Do you even know your own silence?  Do you appreciate your faults?

Do you want to see how the darkness illuminates the light? 

There is no now without here,

just as there is no dark without light,

this pulsation of truth eminates from the night

just as the light of the stars brings out the depths of the infinite vast void of space

as the galaxies swirl into existence around the destruction of the endlessly swirling black holes we fall into

as we expect an outcome from no effort

or a change without a preceding event to push it into being,

but being of what?

How do we become the nothing contained within the everything giving form to the formless, giving structure to the ethereal? 

How do we embrace the moment of uncertainty with total awareness without giving all of our vulnerability and trust to that which is fleeting, to that which has no shape? 

How can we know that this is it?  Do you?

Now.

This light that bursts forth from the deepest recesses of your soul

brings you back to this ever present moment,

this instant where all things are interconnected,

where the past falls away and the future doesn’t matter,

to the time where you simply are, and that is always enough,

Be in your moment,

it is always fleeting,

yet always there. 

Know that you are the infinity in that grain of sand, and that eternity in an hour and

revel in the chance to embrace the gratitude of all that is.

Just be.

Light for your path...

Connect to the divine...

Take a deep breath... close your eyes... Now exhale and let yourself drift slowly into this moment.

Envelope yourself in the presence that we are now in.

Find the nuances of each glance, each step, each breath...

Sit in the stillness you find in between each word or each musical note...

Realize that all is one, the spaces and the cacophony of the collective all talking at once and this peace is a piece of the divine, this knowing, this spiraling effervescence of our divinity is contained in those spaces between these atoms,
the ones you are contained in,
the ones you accept as your reality, as your reason for being, as your presence...

Be present in this instant, know that it is eternal, it will never not be right now. 

Embrace the feeling of interconnection as you gaze into the eyes of those around you and experience the depth of your soul.

Revel in the expanding universe as you peer into the depths of the universe with the twinkling stars dancing through your view in the endless night sky above.

Even the most unassuming of times can extend outward revealing the infinite, this perpetual dream we flow in and out of interweaves our destinies. 

There is a reason you were in my dreams...

Just be in the stillness,

and know you are divine.

Light for your path...

Just be.

A candle amidst the shadow...

"Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

-Stephen King 
(The Shawkshank Redemption)

This flicker, this flame of hope, spark of divinity casting away shadows into the light of reason and rebirth to be renewed and revisited once again.  

Hope can do this for us just as renewing our faith and spirit can do...  

Can we still be with ourselves and with that phoenix who rises from those ashes?  What comes with this rebirth?  Is it always peaceful?  What if it's not?

Sometimes and often as we find that candle in our dark times, that innocent flame of peace and renewal will ignite with the delicate shell of our current state of the ego to prepare us for major growth.  Now not all major change and growth is painful or earth shattering  or a bonfire of the psyche, but this has been known to happen from time to time...

It is as though we have surrounded ourselves in the kindling of our old way of being and thinking and interacting and this kindling catches fire and gets set ablaze into our being, purifying that which is holding us back from our truest and most sacred self.  

There is always beauty in these moments of utter clarity, though often it is almost impossible to find it amidst the chaos that ensues in our lives.  Room has to made to handle and acquire the proper energetic reception that is occuring.  We are forging a new skin, a new template of our being and at first it is terrifying.

That feeling of letting go and releasing  is usually accompanied by strife and struggle, for the ego's grasp on our reality is a very real and powerful thing.  

This growth and renewal we are experiencing is a trial by fire and the wrong mental attitude and stance will most definitely spiral out to let the ego back in and let it regain its comfortable spot where it is in control of your life.  Therefore this growth is typically accompanied by pains and difficulties.  We must push forward to realize that in this gutter of an experience, there are still stars in the cosmos stretching out into the infinity of space.

It is at times called a healing crisis for the illness or state of dis-ease we are in is one that must flare up and create panic and trauma in order to shake our spiritual and physical state to its core foundations.  This unfortunately can even extinguish that candle which started the process of growth.

Find your candle in the darkness of the char that remains when such a dark night of the soul occurs.  

Find the message.  Step back from yourself and your sorrow and pain and just be a silent witness to what is and to what can be.  Find the peace in each moment, the joy of releasing the old and embracing the new.  You may like what you find there.  It may bring back that once lost playful spirit from childhood, or you may discover that dream of this life you put up on the shelf until the next lifetime.  See the opportunity in your darkness, become your own flashlight by looking for the message, for the blessing hidden in the curse.  There is a silver lining in the cloudiest of days...

Keep hope in your despair and let the sun warm you in the ashes so that you may find those phoenix feathers of every color that had been dulled or sullied by the barrage of suffering in this experience.

May you find the brilliance hidden in the darkest of times...

Know that you are a being of light.

A light for your path...

Just be.

Visualize, mesmerize, materialize!!!

'Tis the season!

                 Don't wait!  

                             Do this now. 

                                           Let's begin...

Now follow along and visualize this to yourself, picture it in your mind, as you read along with me. First take a deep, full breath in, all the way down to your belly and let it out slowly now, and spend a few moments just focusing on your breath as it comes in and out slowly and calmly.  Now picture the sky up above you with the bright sun high up overhead.  Feel the warmth of the sun on your face as you continue to take deep full centering breaths calming and relaxing you now as you bask in the light of the sun.  Just be still in this moment.
  
Now as you are quiet and still notice as thoughts about your day, worries about deadlines or any of life's difficulties just spill out into your stillness, almost as though you are holding back a levee of thoughts and its slowly seeping out.  Now see in your mind these repetitive thoughts, some negative, some not, these thoughts you have about who you are and what you are, how you feel and what you think of your surroundings.  You know those thoughts that play like a tape recording throughout your day.
  
Watch now as the thoughts transform in your mind into clouds as they fill up the sky and block the warmth from the sun.  So now picture yourself safely rising up into the sky through those clouds of busy and negatively patterned thoughts.  Seeing them separate from oneself now you know in this moment, you are more than your thoughts...

Realize that as you are coming out of the cloud cover up back into the brilliance and warmth of the sun that you are moving beyond these limiting thoughts back to the you that is eternal.  You are transcending to the witness, that infinite part of you that is not attached to any emotions or preconceived notions of what the world is like.  It is being in that childlike innocence.  This is where you are now.  See the clouds below you now as they drift past and feel the powerful connection from the warmth of the sun revitalizing your true self.  Feel the textures of the clouds, realizing again that you are more than these senses.  You are the still small scribe to this infinite sea of experiences.  Know that you are beyond your emotions.  You are connected to your source, aware, alert.  Now slowly bring yourself back into this space, the room you are in, feeling comfortable and relaxed in your body, knowing in a deep place that you are better for this, and it is so...

Are you presently present now?  

If not, take a second to remember who you are, where you are and why you are... 

Do you have goals?  

What is it you truly want?  

What is keeping you from being there now?  

Will you save yourself in time?  

There is only one lifetime we are currently aware of  so we must capitalize on our experience of the present in order to harness the full potentiality in every instant of our perception...

Presence can be experienced in a great number of ways from some deep breaths to simply being in your body.  

Create a mantra consisting of a few things you are working to create for oneself...

Here's how you do it:

Simplify whatever your goal is into a few words and just keep the saying or phrase that you can run in the background noise of your mind, repeating on autopilot while you are mentally focused on the outside world, being aware of one's own body as such is a difficult undertaking...

Create now in this new year whatever it is you can envision with all of your senses.  See yourself presently in perfect awareness of your consciousness, being in the flow.

Happy 2016!!!!

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Light for your path...

Just be.

Rebirth... part 1

Renaissance means rebirth... 

A rebirth is a revival of the beginning, a bringing back of that time before, of that being when  we were in that child-like state, where all things were possible. It makes me think of the allegory of the movie, "the Neverending Story."

The tale's big underlying theme is about regaining or in the main character's position, retaining that child-like innocence. Saving the child-like empress in the ivory tower of pure unbridled spirit in each of us from the terror that is the nothing. This nothing being the loss of imagination or open ended awareness. It represents the complacency and loss of our ability to be aware and awake to the possibilities of the infinite.  

The nothing creeps into so many of our lives early on and robs us of our innate wonder of our pure connection to the divine and to the potential to be anything. It keeps us from pondering our personal dimensionality and if we are truly a 3 dimensional being living in a four dimensional universe or are we more than that?

So has "The Nothing" conquered your life presently?  Here are some easy signs: (but don't worry, it's not too late!)

1.You are complacent with where you are in your life.  Complacent here doesn't mean happy, it means content enough not to change things you know you could, and it kind of means you have given up on your potential, things are good enough.

2. Does television or the internet occupy most of your time, distracting you from what is really happening in your life? 

3. Do you avoid difficult situations often because you are afraid of change or what might happen so you endure misery?

4. Do you often feel bored and listless where things just don't have that same luster or excitement?

5. Do you feel stuck in your path, but can't think of a new way to solve it?

Just as we feel like things can't be changed and that we are powerless, so it is.  Think of the famous Ford quote, "whether you think you can or you can't, you're right."  if we accept our fates to be tied to complacency and mediocrity then that is all we can be.  If this is all you accept as being your reality, then your cutting yourself off at your own knees. 

The box you have created from your beliefs is the one you can't get out of...

Our limits are those which we have learned to accept.  It reminds me of the old gorilla from the film Instinct, which is based off the wonderful novel, "Ishmael,"where they offer the gorilla his freedom and he doesn't bother to go.  He has accepted his fate, he has been broken. "The nothing" has consumed his wild, untamed soul.  So it is with us. 

This experience of being consumed by our cages leaves us in a listless droll state of fearful perception.  Some of us are able to retain some of our power and potential, but unfortunately those are among the very few.  Many people let it reconstruct their psyche in such a way that they lose that feeling of joy and even the simpler form of happiness. 

Leonardo DaVinci, who, oddly synchronous enough, is considered the first and most prominent person associated with the renaissance time period, was a major advocate for maintaining the child-like empress in our lives.  He reveled in his child-like wonder.  He fought against his loss of innocence with creativity and innovation as his guides.  One of my most favorite quotes by him is where he describes using the imagination to find pictures in the cracks and imperfections of a wall.  He kept himself sharp intellectually by exercising the most important mental muscle we have and that is our imagination.  To draw in another epically famous mind, this time from the 20th century, 

Albert Einstein emphasized the fact that the imagination is more important than knowledge.  He understood that the freedom of the mind to wander and explore was something we needed to grow so that even further innovations and advancements in our society and thereby consciousness are able to come to fruition.

So how do we rediscover our old core being, our essence we showed up on Earth with?  How can we defeat our "Nothings?"

Having our own renaissance may not be as hard as it sounds.  All it takes is reflection and some reteaching so we can unlearn the programming we have been force fed by societal structures.  Call back into your mind that time of your innocence if you still can,those feelings of gentle building excitement where things are boundless. 

If this proves too difficult try this, stare at a spot that looks broken and cluttered or find a spot in the sky on a cloudy day.  Now just gently look at this spot and just for a moment try to connect what is there into something.  Make it into an object you are familiar with in your mind. Can that cloud look like a bee if you turn your head, or can those cracks or splotch of paint on the wall or in the sidewalk look like the body of a dragon? 

Take a brief moment here or there throughout your day to reconnect with your own wonderment and see where it takes you! 

We are as young or as old or as open or closed off as we accept.  Don't be afraid of the mystery of the unknown you enjoyed as a child.  Conquer your nothing, climb on Falcor and become the something you truly know you are!!!  

Light for your path...

Being...

What is this catch phrase in our society? 

Can we really be in the now?  

What does it mean to just be? 

 "To be, or not to be, that is the question." -Shakespeare, Hamlet

So I have to ask myself, did Shakespeare understand this in the way that we now can view it?  Perhaps to a degree when he thought about it in context with Hamlet's dilemma in the epic play.  It was important for Hamlet to embody his full self and take control over his destiny, so in that sense, be the person he was meant to.  To be in the full expression of yourself is indeed a major undertaking and most definitely a life goal if ever there could be one.  How does one even know what their "fullest" or "highest" expression could be? 

How do we know if we have self actualized?

Looking at our being-ness in this light we can examine Maslow's study of the hierarchy of needs and his analysis of peak experiences marking this point of self actualization.  He described a peak experience as being in a state of bliss, almost effortless joy and success as things happen for you because you are totally aware and awakened to all aspects of oneself.  It is being in that child-like state of wonder and open perception where things flow and happen because you are putting forth the fullness of yourself. 

So...  Where does one go to find such a place anyway? 

And how can we make it so we never leave there once we find it? 

Maslow did say that a person can be on multiple levels of his hierarchy of being simultaneously, which makes sense and also validates the idea that we can experience these euphoric states of oneness and then the next moment be back in the hum-drum banter of life. With so many avenues of experience and dimensions to our interconnection with this world it goes without saying that we can be on multiple levels a the same time.

David Hawkins' work, Power vs. Force, is filled with explanations of the varying levels of experience we are exposed to and how it is never just black and white.  His ranking of awareness he complied through his research breaks up the states of being and what emotional patterns we express the more or less we are conscious or aware.

A popular Buddhist saying goes something like, " Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.  After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."  This just illustrating that even with all of the amazing energy and power one may exude when in that state of all-being, there is still the part of us that chooses to come back to help others out of Plato's cave, or to come back into the cave to pay our bills.  It also acknowledges that we can still revert back away from our enlightened state even when we are at our greatest growth and expression of our energy...

Let's take a journey then and see how we can get ourselves there in an easy, stress-free way...

Noticing our place in the universe is a start, for it gives us our first three dimensions of experience,length, width, and depth. The difficulty lies in finding our awareness of the illusive fourth dimension we all know is a part of our reality.  This dimension I am referring to is time.  We all sense time as it is a driving force in our lives, calling us to action or requiring that we wait. 

Can we access it from a fifth dimensional perspective?

The best way to reword this question more simply would be to ask, "Can I step outside the traditional way we look at the world in order to affect change to all parts of myself in order to free my experience from this dimensional prison we lock ourselves in?"  Well that didn't quite get any more simple did it?  I hope that description helped clarify it a little though at least.  It is a pretty intricately deep idea though which requires that we suspend our understanding of the universe and our entire perception of reality.  So let's try to see what it feels like and maybe we'll revisit this concept again soon in another post in more depth.

P.D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher/mystic and student of G.I. Gurdjieff, defined this feeling with a thought experiment he describes in his book Tertium Organum.  In the book he invites us to visualize what it would be like to be in and to fully perceive that 4th dimensional state.

He has the reader close their eyes and see themselves in a room and to picture a cube floating in the middle of the room.  Now the trick of it is to close your eyes and be there and then to see the cube floating in the air from all sides simultaneously.

This perspective he is trying to get the participant to be a part of is that ubiquitous feeling of being everywhere at once, of being in the moment by being the moment. 

The simple act of noticing and being in a quiet stillness is an easy way we can be in our now without having to become time.  In previous posts I have detailed the practice of noticing as well as a visualization to perceive our stillness away from the clouds of our thoughts from our ego mind.

Stepping away from the controls of our perception periodically other than when asleep can help you to regain that quiet stillness and will help you to be in your true state of being...

A light for your path...

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Timeless awareness

To create healing now we must be in this presence to embody our past in order to move through it...

This awareness of now is the key to release, the key to peace and moving away from a life lived in the past or for the future.  So what does that truly mean, being in the now, living for today, or staying fully present? 

Being present isn't just about being aware of where you are physically, although that is a factor. A main secret to it's mastery is in the embodiment of being in the now emotionally as well.  So what does that mean?  It means being beyond the emotions, knowing that they are but passing states caused by events in the past or future oncoming events we are focusing on.  The release of this pent up storage of feeling puts you beyond hurt or worry, to a place where it is easy to see that everything will work out in the right and perfect way.  We will see things as Thom Yorke from Radiohead put it with, "everything in its right place."

So just as I have been bringing back in over and over in these posts, a major part of emotional presence lies in embracing or acknowledging these feelings or emotions so that they can be let go of.  This isn't just referring to the negative feelings either, for good must be released as well.  When we let go of them we do not enter into some emotionless state though, if that is where your thoughts were taking you.  No, rather the opposite takes place really.  We go into a hyper-emotive state where we can more objectively see others emotions clearly as well as understand our own motivations for our feelings as well. 

It's like stepping back and pulling the wool off of our emotional eyes so that we can understand all the "Whys" to our emotive experiences.  

It gives us a clear picture of who we are without all of our emotional baggage that everyone gets buried under whether through suppression or from over expression.  Remember, suppression of emotions doesn't make them go away, they only fester and well up.

So let me give you a shovel so you can start to dig yourself out of this emotional grave...

An easy mental exercise to help you identify these aberrant emotions we are working to be beyond lies in seeing the emotions as detached from your highest self.  So how do we check in with this true self, with our "silent witness," as Deepak Chopra would call it?

Taking about ten minutes each day on your own to do this visualization will help to become more aware of yourself and your emotional states so that you can work to transcend.

Now follow along and visualize this to yourself, picture it in your mind, as you read along with me. First take a deep, full breath in, all the way down to your belly and let it out slowly now, and spend a few moments just focusing on your breath as it comes in and out slowly and calmly.  Now picture the sky up above you with the bright sun high up overhead.  Feel the warmth of the sun on your face as you continue to take deep full centering breaths calming and relaxing you now as you bask in the light of the sun.  Just be still in this moment.  Now as you are quiet and still notice as thoughts about your day, worries about deadlines or any of life's difficulties just spill out into your stillness, almost as though you are holding back a levee of thoughts and its slowly seeping out.  Now see in your mind these repetitive thoughts, some negative, some not, these thoughts you have about who you are and what you are, how you feel and what you think of your surroundings.  You know those thoughts that play like a tape recording throughout your day.  Watch now as the thoughts transform in your mind into clouds as they fill up the sky and block the warmth from the sun.  So now picture yourself safely rising up into the sky through those clouds of busy and negatively patterned thoughts. 

Realize that as you are coming out of the cloud cover up back into the brilliance and warmth of the sun that you are moving beyond these limiting thoughts back to the you that is eternal.  You are transcending to the witness, that infinite part of you that is not attached to any emotions or preconceived notions of what the world is like. It is being in that childlike innocence.  This is where you are now.  See the clouds below you now as they drift past and feel the powerful connection from the warmth of the sun revitalizing your true self.  Know that you are beyond your emotions.  Now slowly bring yourself back into this space, the room you are in feeling comfortable and relaxed in your body, knowing in a deep place that you are better for this, and it is so.

Being beyond is its own state of perception, apart from our normal waking consciousness for the simple yet deeply significant fact that we become self aware and fully conscious in a metaphysically open state.  

In other words, there is nothing binding us to our ego.  This is the hyper-conscious state that athletes describe when they are having their best performance or game and are in the flow state where everything seems effortless.

Keep practicing with the visualization and comment below on how it is helping you move to the timelessness of now.

Light for your path

Mirroring our truths out in all directions

What are we but mirrors...

If it is indeed true what science as well as the quantum gurus of our time have come to recognize and indemnify, then we are indeed mirrors of the reality around us under the assertion of the idea that this is definitely a holographic universe. 

A hologram is a three dimensional projection coming from a specially designed plate with light being sent through it.  The essence of this is that the holographic plate is a mirror of the whole in both directions from the micro to the macro extending out in fractal patterns. This is saying that in every piece of this echo of reality therein contains all aspects of itself.

So how does this fit into our mirror?

Our perception is looking out at this mirror of infinity only to see itself, so then the bigger question is, "How then do we not all see ourselves as this infinite, beautiful, magnificent perfection?"

This calls into the idea that our mirrors we are shining out to reflect back are dirty and blemished by our experiences and thoughts and views on the world.  This causes us to see just that, a world sullied and damaged by our own perceptions.  The clarity of the whole is marred by our picture of it.  Our perception, as the buddha said, is our reality.  So our reality is, in effect, as though we are looking through a shattered splintered mirror of ourselves.  What we are seeing is this vision of who we perceive ourselves to be as we project that system of judgments on someone else, someone outside of ourselves.

So everyone we see and interact with is never seen as they are truly, they are merely seen as we are and judged accordingly. 

We are our worst critic whether we admit it or not.  Take a second to recall your past session of self talk.  Were you encouraging yourself or berating yourself for doing something that made you upset or experience difficulty?  Now think back to the last time you said something positive to yourself, not just pride for an accomplishment, but expressing gratitude for efforts or just a happy sense of well-being about who you are as a person.  Most of us really have to search for such a moment if we can indeed find one at all.

So how do we shine up our mirror so it can show all that there is?

An often difficult first step to this goal lies in cleaning out our inner potty mouths.  We almost have to think of it like washing our mental mouths out with soap.  The negative thought we have form our negative words and this spiral extends outward as it affects each person we interact with and so on and so forth.  These words repeated enough form our actions which is what people base our character and personality on. 

It is not that we are what we have said or done, it is that our actions reflect out to the world our true nature.

So let's clean up those dirty mental mouths...

An easy but arduous task to accomplishing this soaping of our mind is a simple method called noticing.  Noticing involves just that, noticing or focusing on our internal monologue as it is happening by creating a conscious effort to pay attention to it.  Building this awareness of your own mental process will help you to free your thought patterns of the same negative degrading thoughts. 

The trick to making it work and not getting drawn into the thought patterns themselves involves two aspects, intention and detachment. 

For it to be effective one must strive to see it in an objective or detached way, to just see the thoughts as things and nothing more.  The intentional aspect of it comes before, when you decide on how you will do it.  Creating an intention to do it sets your ego mind up to be ready to be observed.  Once you have this intention in place being able to separate yourself from your mental chatter and your tape of thoughts you play over and over again will be just that much easier.

Realize that you are not your thoughts, and that you are not your feelings attached to them.

You are but the observer in this reality, just looking at the moving pictures as they dance by as shadow's in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave."  Step back from the chains in the cave and realize they are but illusions to soil your mirror.

Realize that the mirror points out of the top of the cave, to the stars shining so brilliantly in the sky.

Let's go for a walk now, out of our caves...


Light for your path...


Just be.

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by Tara Shaffer