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#100 The End is the Beginning

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:19:32 GMT

"Every new beginning comes from another beginning's end." – Seneca

As I sit here on this day, a melancholy feeling drapes my being. I really feel this will be my last blog post. It’s been a real fun and inspiring ride for me, and I so appreciate the opportunity I’ve had to share with whomever my come upon these short posts. I’ve struggled with this decision for some time, but all good things must come to an end, or so they say. However, as was quoted by Seneca, new beginnings await. I still feel strongly that I have more yet to do in this field. I will trust the guidance of my higher self.

On September 8, 2018, I introduced my very first blog post. It was entitled, AWARENESS. It seemed appropriate to me at that time as the purpose behind my blogs was to introduce the readers to what I considered the most important topic. To become aware of who you really are as well as the nature of reality and your place in it. Hence, over the last 7 years and 5 months every month, sometimes twice a month, I’d write on a topic I thought poignant to share that may be of value to someone. Often it would reflect a situation in my own life that showed me a life lesson, and just how I navigated that lesson that was often disguised as a personal trauma. I published the first 70 blogs in two separate books, titled “Down the Rabbit Hole, Volume I & Volume II.” It is my hope and plan to publish blogs 71-100 in a final Volume III soon.

So, what now? What has gotten to the end of this road done for me? What parting wisdom may I share with you? Well, for one thing, it’s shown me that there is no end to the road, because there are always more roads. We just must choose to make a left or right turn. It doesn’t matter which. There are lessons to be had no matter the direction. Just follow your heart. If you’re unsure, like I once was, take heart to know that you’re being lovingly and silently guided. Life still unfolds as you step into the abyss of the unknown.

My abyss of the unknown came for me forty-nine years ago, disguised as the death of a wife. I got hurled in really quickly as a 26-year-old with a 3-year-old son. This was a crash course in not only survival, but reality 101. It led me to the study of death. Then I had to know about life. I had a million questions. As I sought answers, I noticed that little by little that what I was looking for was also looking for me. Self-development and personal enlightenment made my soul light up. The right books and teachers showed up in my life to introduce me to myself over time. From 1977 to 1990 I soaked up everything that came my way relative to life, death and the mysteries of our relationship with a God. I balanced my day-to-day life with my studies that I had become so passionate about. I just knew something exciting was lurking.

This was no past-time hobby. This was a full-blown personal evolution. It matriculated into a 5-year study for a doctorate in metaphysics from 1990 to 1995. This being the study and understanding of Universal and Natural Law. I later took an adjunct course in spiritual metaphysics. I came into life with a religious foundation but became spiritually attuned. I couldn’t get enough. It became an insatiable appetite. I was being guided by unseen, but loving forces. The trail led to opening a private practice in behavioral modification utilizing hypnotherapy in 1994 as well as interpersonal and spiritual counseling. For 18 years I was in harmony with my soul’s purpose.

Eventually, it was time to turn from the highway to a side road. This led me to writing. It took a while, but I got my first book published on the last day of 2016. Within a couple of years silent guidance took me to my 2nd book in 2020. Then, to my 3rd and eventually 4th books which were the content from this blog which will end with my 5th book in good time. Which reminds me that this is a blog and not a book, so on to my consensus.

To reiterate the purpose of these blog posts, it was to introduce the concept of awakening humanity to their true identity of self. That of a spiritual being having a human experience, rather than a human being who may eventually have a spiritual experience. This has since become my true essence path. Understand that I started my life just like everyone else, a physical being on earth doing life in what was perceived as “reality.” I absorbed and adopted the belief systems that I was born into just like most people do. And all that worked… until it didn’t. Until something happened that made me ask questions. Questions about life and death. Questions about who I was and what was the purpose of life. What was my purpose? All that was my starting block prior to making a left turn into the abyss.

It was a new road. A road with unknown twists and turns ahead. Sometimes even a dark and lonely road, as others in my life just didn’t get my change of mindset because they were just not ready. And that’s okay, because we’re never really alone. I’ve learned that we all have guidance just beyond the veil, the thin wall between this 3rd dimension and the astral realm. This is our real home, where we came from and where we’re headed. This life is no more than a sliver of space & time designed for our souls learning. To come to the realization of who we really are. We each are God incarnate. God or Source experiencing itself through us. There is no separation between us and God, save our level of consciousness or vibrational frequency that matches it. It’s our job to become One with All that Is as humanity prepares to Ascend closer to Source in a 5th-dimensional earth reality known as Tera. There is so much more you need to be introduced to. It’s here now, if you can learn to tune into it. All roads lead to “heaven.” No one is left alone… ever.

#99* The Aquarium

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:15:05 GMT

“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul.” -Rumi

For Christmas I received a Roku box that plugs into my TV, allowing me to receive a wide variety of channels, such as Netflix, YouTube, and several others, should I choose to subscribe.

My Roku screen shows a very life-like aquarium with several different fish swimming back and forth within the confines of the tank. While watching this scene I couldn’t help but see a comparison to my own life’s spiritual journey.

I was born and raised in a particular Christian religion which I continued to practice into my mid 40’s. I was content for many years to swim along with the other “fish of the aquarium” so to speak. But then during mid-life, or mid-stream, as I like to think of it, something changed. I felt that there had to be greater spiritual fulfillment and deeper awakening outside the confines of the tank. This coming from the restrictions of my religion I had been following for so many years felt for me, with its structure, doctrines, rules and regulations.

While following that religion served my spiritual needs for many years, as it lent a sense of security, community, guidance, and identity, I also found it quite confining when it came to my spiritual growth and journey towards awakening. I also began to feel disconnected and detached from these religious practices, which led me on a quest for something else, something deeper that would give me a sense of greater spiritual fulfillment and inner peace.

So I began reading a plethora of books on spiritual awakening and enlightenment, along with attending several seminars on these same topics, led by various authors and spiritual gurus. Before I knew it, I began re-evaluating my former religious core beliefs. I no longer felt as though I was living through the dark night of the soul. As I was led to begin practicing daily meditation, mindfulness , yoga, and journaling , I began to sense greater feelings of inner peace, joy, and contentment. Plus, I was experiencing increased synchronicities, heightened intuition, increased empathy, and sensitivity. And so it happened that I chose to become spiritual, but not religious.

As I continued to flourish in my newly-found spiritual freedom, I became aware that I was no less divine than a cup of ocean water is any less the ocean than the entire ocean. That I was not only composed of human DNA from my parents, but more importantly, I also had Divine DNA from my Source Energy. I was a spiritual being having a human experience, or as I like to think of myself, as a Godling in training.

And so as we begin this brand-new year of 2026, I shall not fear whatever changes it may bring either wanted or unwanted. For as the Serenity Prayer teaches us, if we can accept the things we cannot change, and have the courage to change those we can, we will be granted the wisdom to discern the difference… and therein lies the path to our awakening.

* Written and submitted by my longtime very dear friend and supporter, Nancy Pearson from Rochester, NY. It has been my honor and privilege to have been witness to her spiritual transformation over many years. She is in the true sense of the word, a soulmate, part of my soul family.

#98 A Time For Awakening

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:45:37 GMT

“Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Jung

I’ve looked back over many of my past blog posts and found that I have eluded to this particular topic in many different ways. Now I know that there’s those old sayings about “beating a dead horse,” or “playing the same tune.” But the reality is that within the context of all of my blogs from day one has been to drive the point across about inching your way to self-realization, otherwise known as awakening to who you really are.

Awakening is a natural spiritual process, similar to coming of age in your physical life experience. You just see things differently. It happens naturally at the right time for each soul. We are hearing a lot about it these days as we are becoming more aware of the state of the world we live in. The disharmony, corruption, and fear that is more openly displayed for everyone to see brings more and more people to seek meaning and a sense of peace for themselves. We don’t want to be caught up in the turmoil and noise of what’s being termed WW3. It’s not a good place to spend our time anymore.

Here's the thing… there are a good percentage of people like yourself, who are ready to awaken and raise their consciousness to higher frequencies. To continue to live and grow in love and harmony as well as embracing unity and a oneness with Creator/Source, or God. This being found in the warmth and glow of the 5th dimensional version of Earth, known as Tara. Conversely, there are others, who just aren’t ready on a soul level and are content to continue to live and grow within the background of what’s going on in this 3rd-dimensional Earth realm. They seek the challenges that this world is now presenting and will continue to incarnate right here. Meanwhile, as I said, many are not choosing to play along because they’ve had enough on a soul level. It’s something you just feel, like an inner knowing.

When one awakens, we tend to look at day-to-day life so much differently than we used to prior. Our fundamental beliefs and values change. We start to see or understand that everything and everyone that comes into our awareness has a purpose and is there right on time. We’re looking for the lesson… “what is this showing me?” We have more compassion and are more ready to forgive rather than hold on to hate. And most importantly, we’ve come to an inner peace about death. It’s not an ending, but a spiritual transition. One that we’ve experienced hundreds of times before. We celebrate all aspects of this life experience. These are all signs of 4th dimensional consciousness, a prerequisite of 5th dimensional incarnations.

Masses are awakening as we, as a species of human angelic souls sit on the precipice of a Galactic shift. A massive energetic wave that includes not only our solar system, but our galaxy as well. This cycle happens approximately every 260,000 earth years. It started in the early 1900’s and will come to fullness in approximately 2050. Many changes are afoot. There’s nothing to fear. It’s just time for awakening.

#97 Self Discovery

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:21:19 GMT

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" - Marcel Proust.

This month finds me in yet another new location. Still in South Carolina, but about 40 miles east of where I lived for the last 3 years. As many may be able to attest to, physically moving provides a dichotomy of emotions, difficult but exciting. On top of being exhausting especially in one’s senior years. Before I left my previous location, just for fun I reached back in my past and counted the amount of homes and places I’ve experienced in this incarnation at this point in my life. I believe this is the 15 ^th dwelling I’ve experienced so far. And, by the grace of God, I’ll be doing it one final time next year. This time across the country to Phoenix Arizona. Hence, my earthly sojourn can come to a peaceful close.

Actually, the introspection of reaching back into my past opened a plethora of memories as I watched my growth both physically, mentally and emotionally. So many experiences, so many people coming and going in and out of my awareness. Each one is a teacher of some kind, leaving breadcrumbs of lessons for me to garnish at some point of readiness. We don’t often realize it at the time of impact, that even the troubling and difficult times had a purpose and meaning. Our job is to find the lesson and learn from it. That’s called soul growth.

Life isn’t just a race to get to point A or point B, but rather a journey that gives us a variety of experiences that provide nourishment for soul growth. We don’t see this in the early years of life, but hopefully, over time, this concept becomes clearer to us. When you come to see your life from a deeper perspective, something interesting is also taking place. You are raising your consciousness and vibrating at a higher frequency bringing you more in line with your cosmic or spiritual roots. We can now see our individual lives from both the physical and spiritual viewpoints. A spiritual being, experiencing a slice of life from an earthly dense setting that may seem to comes to a close, but yet continues to flourish just beyond that mysterious veil. Personally, I find this so much more comforting, especially in later life.

The most rewarding aspect of all this is that through this self-discovery we can actually see that it is happening not only to us, but to so many others as well. We, as a species are collectively becoming aware of our connection to All That Is, or God. Everything, and everyone is rapidly evolving in consciousness. Time and space as we know it is also vibrating at a higher rate, so much so that the days seem to blend into one another as we ask ourselves, where did the time go? Infeed, time does fly.

So, no matter how many times you have “moved” physically in life, take heart that you’ve also moved spiritually as well. Your soul has collected thousands of earthly experiences and you as a third-dimensional being, have already gained fourth- dimensional insight as we as collectives prepare to ascend into fifth-dimensional reality in coming incarnations. Everything is changing and evolving, from your very soul, to the planet it chooses to occupy. There’s not anything in particular one needs to do for this transition beyond expanding your awareness of life and being in a state of gratitude for all you’ve experienced. Relish your life. It’s all good.

#96 Onward Into The Unknown

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:32:44 GMT

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” …… Walt Disney

As I sit here this day piecing together this month’s post, it’s bittersweet. A little over 3 years ago, after an emotional life altering event, I left my hometown in Upstate NY for a beautiful and peaceful place in Upstate South Carolina. It’s been awesome and I have been a blessed man. In that time, I have been further blessed, and my life has given me yet another opportunity to experience even more. More in love, and more in opportunity. So, at 74 I am moving yet again. Still in South Carolina, but with new surroundings and a soulmate to share it with. Who would have thought? Life can still be an adventure.

While packing for this move, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on the trail I’ve blazed since childhood. Not only in physical moves, but in relationships, trials and tribulations, victories, and celebrations. So many memories. So many people, and so many experiences! And you know what? Everything and everyone that has graced my life has done so in a synchronistical and timely fashion. From a spiritual perspective, there have been no mistakes, and I have no regrets. It’s all about the experiences and the soul lessons I’ve come to understand and accept.

With that being said, why should I fear moving onward into the unknown? If I have been blessed to live another day, there’s no reason why I can’t trust the universe with this next chapter of my life. I’d have to say it’s done a pretty good job thus far. Sure, at my age I’d like to sit back and relax with my reading, writing and a little traveling. But it looks like I may have a little more exploring and learning ahead of me yet that looks like work, but with a partner it truly is an adventure.

I’ve learned so much in my 74 earth years in this incarnation. I’ve learned that unless and until you awaken to who you really are, you don’t really know what you don’t know. Life is a literal unfolding of a pathway you designed before you even set foot on the planet. By “you” I mean your higher self, your soul. As I have taught you before, you are a multi-dimensional spiritual being experiencing physical life in the 3rd of 12 dimensions of reality. And each of those dimensions include 12 sub-dimensions. Holy moly… what a surprise! We are literally cosmic co-creators. We are immortal beings who are guided, divinely loved and never, I mean never alone. We are God particles. Fragments of All That Is. We don’t even die for heaven sakes… not really. We’re spirit, energy actually, and energy can only be transformed. I’ve transformed; that’s a fact. I’m more heart centered.

I’ve learned that life as we know it here on earth is for all intense and purpose an opportunity to learn and experience from a perspective called physicality. We use duality and separation as tools in the experience. We use time and space as a playground for that experience. We share that time and space with others who come and go in a timely fashion to add texture and flavor to our mission and purpose. And most importantly, what I’ve learned is to be grateful for it all. Even the seemingly “bad” or “hurtful” times. Because if you really look at it, you’re still here and you’ve grown to live another day. Not only that, but if you’ve awakened, you’ll realize that it’s all good. Because it’s all God! Just stop and think on that.

With that, I will move onward into my unknown, unafraid and trusting the universe and a loving God for adventures that will enhance my soul. It is my birthright and privilege to expand my own earthly sojourn. Always with soulful gratitude.

….And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:20

#95 Traversing The Mysteries of Your Cosmic Roots

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:45:15 GMT

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” --- Aristotle

What is it about this obsessive need to seek answers about the self, life, and our connection to all that is? Now I realize that these topics aren’t on everyone’s mind in their day-to-day lives, but rest assured, even the busiest person asks themselves one or more of these fundamental questions now and again.

Truth be told, humanity has been evolving cosmically for quite a while now. More so since the late 1980’s. It’s an evolution in consciousness that is changing our thought patterns beyond the stimuli of our five senses. We’re thinking deeper about things that aren’t normally talked about or even taught to us in schools or colleges. We’re crossing the Rubicon to unchartered waters. But, when we do, it somehow feels right, almost natural and comfortable.

Unfortunately, in many cases something in our life has to go awry, putting us in a place of vulnerability before we begin to wake up and start asking questions. I know this happened to me almost 50 years ago. It’s been a quest that has no end in this physical incarnation. It’s like you’ve been silently starving for years, and you stumbled on a banquet of nourishment. Your appetite becomes insatiable.

There is a union of body, spirit and mind happening. This awareness is paramount in setting a new foundation for the remainder of your current life experience. It may even transcend current religious beliefs that have served you up to now. Afterall, you’re not wearing the same shoes you were wearing 10 years ago… they wear out, as do personal beliefs. They work until they don’t. Explore the possibilities.

Take it from me, there’s nothing more refreshing than to wake up and understand without a doubt that you are so much more than the image that bounces back from the mirror! That you are actually a spiritual being who’s experiencing a physical life. And not only that, but you’re taking responsibility for everything that’s going on in this life. You chose it all. Believe me, that’s the biggest pill to swallow. Now you’re looking for the lessons in all that you’ve experienced, good, bad or indifferent.

You’re a multi-dimensional human angelic soul. You are immortal, living, growing, experiencing intentionally. You are a creator because you are a fragment of all that is… Creator/Source or God if that feels right. All that you have going on in your life right now is there because you brought it to you. What’s the lesson? There’s no one else to blame. And the bonus… you don’t even die! You lie this body down when it’s done with its earthly sojourn, but the essence of who you are keeps on, fully alive in a glorious version of beingness vibrating at an even higher level of consciousness. How cool is that?!

Exploring the mysteries of your cosmic roots will bring you to a new sense of peace within that you’ve never thought possible. Please don’t be afraid to sail on the uncharted waters of life. It’s all good. I promise you. Our earth is evolving and ascending, and so are you!

#94 Spiritual Power

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:17:59 GMT

“You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet… ---Psalm 8:6

If your life is not what you want it to be, do not despair. Just take your discontent as a signal it’s time to make some changes. The power to choose your life experience lies within you!

For those that have gotten to know me, you know I’m not a “religious” person, but rather a spiritual being having a human experience. I live in that deep space that explores the nature of reality. That being said however, our Bible, one of many references relative to the mysteries of life shares a truth that you may or may not have come across. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus said, “all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” This statement isn’t exclusive to Jesus the man … it is relevant to the consciousness of everyone, everywhere.

The authority has been given to you over the “heaven” of your inborn divine potential and the “earth” of your manifest world. Your mind has access to the one presence and power that is Creator/Source, or God. The deepest valleys, the widest horizons, and the highest peaks of human potential are within your reach. You own the power to change your outlook, your behaviors, or anything else you choose if you first claim your dominion and authority.

Your life is a literal reflection of the choices you’ve made because you incarnated into this physical reality as a creator, be those choices good, bad or indifferent. God is not responsible since you were endowed with the power of free will. You can turn right, or you can turn left. Each turn has something for you to see and learn. You can even turn around and go backwards, but that’s not were the light of life is. Go forward with the knowledge of your spiritual power. Your might is beyond your belief.

Today is my 74th birthday. As I reflect on my journey to now, with all the trials, tribulations, victories and losses, I own them all. I am thankful for them all because I see the lesson and growth in the experiences. I have been marvelously blessed throughout. It amazes me to no end as my road continues to move forward. I believe with my whole heart that the good that I have now as come as a result of my daily gratitude for everything and everyone who has graced my path. Such beauty and love from so many. I am a spiritual being and this incarnation has been awesome!

#93 The Illusion of Duality

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:32:37 GMT

"He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed." ~ Ramana Maharshi

As a physical human being doing life in this 3 ^rd dimensional incarnation, we all accept without hesitation the concept of separation and duality. We all look different, sound different, have different likes, talents and tastes. We have different beliefs, ideas and ideals. Even our religious and spiritual guidelines are different. It’s pretty plain to see and for the most part, we can’t really disagree. This difference between beings rings of separatism. However, there are things in our physical world that we all feel. They include the emotions of love, happiness, hate and fear to name a few. We also know without a doubt that we experience the dualities of day and night, hot and cold, wet and dry, empty and full, and yes and no. Again, to name a few. This is the world we’ve chosen to explore. It’s designed specifically for our learning and growth. It also shows itself as being linear and sequential in space and time.

This is all well and good, but it’s not the whole truth. I think it might be time to open the blinds a bit more. All beings, all dimensions and all time periods are interconnected. Nothing is independent, and it should be understood that all things are related to each other. Segmentation of history, of events, of lifetimes or of anything else, is a device that is used to keep people alienated from the Truth… their Truth. Linking history and lifetimes together to show the interconnection of events, beings and Souls over thousands and even millions of years provides an understanding of how everything, ultimately, is related. Understanding the multidimensional nature of such a universe, inclusive of your Soul’s journey and its projection into the many lifetimes, including you, that it experiences, brings you closer to Truth just as it brings you to the awareness that from a certain perspective, there are no accidents.

The universe is multidimensional and consists of twelve what we shall call “universal dimensions.” Each universal dimension vibrates at a specific frequency, and what is visible in one dimension may not be apparent or visible in another dimension. This is particularly true in that higher dimensional levels, in general, can see and experience lower dimensional levels, but lower levels have great difficulty “seeing” higher dimensional realms. Thus you personally might exist as a certain level of the third universal dimension, but you may not have direct awareness of fourth, fifth, sixth or higher universal dimensional beings living their lives in a timeline and dimension outside of your own, though be assured that they are generally aware of you, even if they are not fully engaged with you or your reality. Similarly, you have awareness, to an extent, of the first and second universal dimensions, limited though it is into its projection into your reality in the form of the plant and mineral kingdom. You see these beings, but you have no concept that in addition to having a limited physical presence in your third universal dimension reality, they may be existing in other dimensions as well, leading full lives in a manner unknown to you presently.

This is where our concept of duality and separation begins to look a little murky. I can almost hear your wheels spinning with a fog of doubt hanging or just maybe, a sliver of well… what if?

Okay, so I just stuck your toe in the pool of possibilities for your human imagination to ponder on. It’s barely the tip of the iceberg in the nature of reality. There is so much more, but I firmly believe that so many of you who have been following any of my blogs or books, are ripe for more. Coming into your own Truth, the Truth of who you really are and your place in the cosmic mix is most relevant at this point in time. This includes the all-important concept of a God, or higher power that superimposes itself over it all.

Since this is just a simple blog, and not a book, I will leave it here. Perhaps the next blog will expand a bit deeper… if you’re ready. Remember, there are no accidents. And like your wonderful mind with its thirst for more, your soul has an appetite too.

#92 Let Go of Your Desires

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:23:15 GMT

“He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”….. John Milton

One of the fundamental tenets of physical life is all about success. It seems to be pressed into us from early childhood and only escalates as we reach adulthood. We all want to be successful in some form, it’s only natural. Accepting the mindset of chasing success cultivates our desires. And, like a squirrel gathering nuts on the ground, we go from one desire to another without skipping a beat.

The will to succeed at anything can get you to a certain point. You can use motivation, willpower, and determination to accomplish tasks and goals and to put yourself in places where you have desired to be. We use our minds and our will to take ourselves down a particular path, and we believe that there will be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

We’ve taken steps to push ourselves in order to get to some desired outcome, and you should know that you can accomplish what you want using those strategies and those tools. Will and determination have always been key players in personal achievement. However, what you are seeking is something that ultimately can only come from letting go! Yes, you heard that right. Letting go of your desire to be anyone or anywhere other than who you are and where you are will give you what you are seeking in the accomplishment of a task or a goal.

And when you find that what you seek comes to you so easily and effortlessly by simply letting yourselves off the hook, then you open the floodgates, then that which seemed so far out of reach that you would even call it impossible is right on the verge of being a part of your existence. You determine the rate at which everything that is coming to you comes. And the only way to really speed up the process is to completely let go of any desire for anything to come to you in a predetermined timeframe.

The accelerant to this cosmic process is your emotion of already seeing its existence in your life and your gratitude in advance. Everything already is… you’re just lining up with the harmony of manifesting. When you fall into timelessness, then there is no waiting. There is no distance to be traveled because you are aware that your are in the middle of it all.

Experiencing desires and emotionalizing with them is all part of human experience and should be celebrated. However, it's also so very important to come to understand that we can depend on more than physical laws and limitations. We are spiritual beings, people. We are limitless, timeless and immortal God particles.

#91 Self Awareness

Fri, 09 May 2025 16:54:12 GMT

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than mere survival.” ….. Aristotle

Relax… take in 3 deep breaths. Bring in the stillness. Feel your heartbeat. Here you begin to build your own oasis in the busyness around you. Each breath allows you to drink in a peace that stills your very being. As a blissful communion settles in give thanks for your many blessings. Be thankful from the cells of your body outward to everything and everyone in your world. Listen to the gentle whispers of indwelling Spirit’s guidance.

You’ve now established a sacred spot within. Here is where you come to center, let go, and reflect. To pray, talk to God, your angels, guides or that higher part of you, your very essence. Be still and listen. Every being needs to neutralize each day. Shake off the noise, confusion, negativity and just be. Become fully present to life. You are awake and aware from the inside, outward.

In time this awareness will deepen. You will begin to understand that you are on a spiritual journey of self-awareness. Your soul yearns for this. It seeks recognition and attention. It wants you to get to know who you really are. The world around you is changing more rapidly than you know. A spiritual evolution is in full gear and you’re a part of it, whether you know it or not. These are exciting times amid the seemingly chaotic backdrop. Don’t let the outside world fool you.

Developing your self-awareness can introduce you the part of you that has been asleep and just reacting to your outside stimuli. You’re not just a physical being with a name, a job, and responsibilities. Yes, you’re doing life, but you can now realize that you’re creating it as you go along. Your thoughts, emotions and actions as a spiritual being first, draw to you what you focus on the most, good, or bad.

Self-awareness shows you your power. A creator being with unbounding abilities to fully engage in a life that harmonizes with everything that makes your heart sing. It is your birthright. Don’t waist another day. Explore and be amazed. Seek and you will find. You’ll be surprised at the expansiveness of life with the perspective of a spiritual being having a human experience. Multi-dimensionality brings a sense of unlimited possibilities to your life.

#90 Soft Heart

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:03:17 GMT

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” ---Luke 6:37

I thought it pertinent to follow up from my last blog post on unconditional love with these thoughts relative to forgiveness. I realize that we’ve all heard these themes hundreds of times in our lifetime, from the pulpits of our churches to various self-improvement books. And, no doubt, you’ve said the same thing to yourselves after hearing them; ‘easier said than done.’ However, I’d like to address this from a little deeper perspective.

I would like to appeal to your spiritual self, your soul… the real you. When you chose to come here to experience physical life, you left behind your origin. The all-encompassing love that you really are. Physical life is tough. We let go of our oneness with all things and plunged into a world of not only linear time, but of separation and duality. On top of that we have to deal with each other’s personalities, some of which can be challenging to say the least.

With that in mind, we often times hold on to hurt caused by someone’s words or actions. This is harmful to mental, physical and emotional health. And, if you stew over these negative feelings, it’s likely you’ll feel worse. It’s not until you’re willing to let go of these troubling emotions that the healing begins.

Forgiveness is healing. If you stop to think a minute that what was said or done may have been unintentional, or the one who hurt you may even be unaware of your pain, you open the door to compassion. There is nothing more soothing to the soul than compassion for another person because when you give to one, you are also giving to yourself.

Don’t forget to put the shoe on the other foot. Haven’t you caused either intentional or unintentional harm to another at one point or another? Would you not want forgiveness? Of course you would. Everyone makes mistakes because that’s how we learn in this physical realm. Mistakes aren’t a bad thing; they are simply growth opportunities.

Remember that you are a spiritual being, having a human experience. You are also divine love. It is part of our purpose to express it during our time on earth. Some might say that the practice of a soft heart opens one up to more hurt and pain. To that I would say not necessarily. The reason is that in living with a soft heart, you are displaying peace, contentment and harmony in your own life, and because of the law of reciprocity, what you put out, you tend to get back.

#89 Unconditional Love

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:57:54 GMT

“When you love someone unconditionally, you accept them for who they are, flaws and all.”– Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection (2010)

As we’ve ushered in spring for 2025, not unlike New Years day, it seems to bring with it a freshness, like the spring air itself. It gives us a boost emotionally and psychologically. There are more smiles on the faces of the masses all over the world, at least for a brief time anyway.

Perhaps we should add a smile to our hearts as well. I’m talking about looking at the advantages of unconditional love. It is my belief that it very well could be a fundamental life lesson that we’ve all come here to learn. I know it certainly has been for me anyway. I’ve spent the last 40+ years studying spiritual metaphysics and the nature of reality, and the one concept that seems to scream the loudest is this unconditional love. I’ve had multiple opportunities to implement it more than one personal relationship.

I’m here to share that there isn’t anything more freeing than the feeling of owning this all-encompassing love in your heart. If you own a dog you see it all the time. Is it easy for us? Oh hell no! Especially if someone has broken your heart or bruised your ego in some way. Right away we want to hurt them back or inflict some sort of hate in their direction. Our egos are a double-edged sword. They are there to protect us in a way, but they can bring long term damage to us by preventing our innate ability to forgive. Ego stands for Edging God Out… EGO.

Remember, we are multi-dimensional spiritual beings. We are God particles… literal pieces of the Creator which is all consuming love! We are, literally, love incarnate. It’s more natural for us to love than to hate. Because our species has evolved to life in this 3rd dimension, the dimension of separation, duality, and individualism, it’s hard for us to see the unity of love that we are. The vast majority of us are born in love with family and relatives around us. As we mature, we find love for ourselves outside of our own circle. But life comes with ups and downs which are our life lessons and karmic balancing opportunities. Not all physical relationships are destined to last forever, despite our best intentions.

If we could only adopt the concept of unconditional love from the beginning, accepting them for who they really are, flaws and all as was stated in our beginning quote, it would be so much easier for us to let go and move on, should a relationship expire in some fashion. You may not “love” them physically anymore, but you sure would spiritually, because you would understand that they are still a part of your soul family. I will dive into that concept in a future blog post.

In the meantime, know that your life can become so much more harmonious once you grow into becoming one with unconditional love. It takes some time breaking away from ego, but it will be time well spent indeed. It doesn’t shield you from initially being hurt, because there’s a lesson there, but the recovery time is minimal when you can let go in both love and gratitude.

#88 The Spiritual Value Of Fortitude

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:54:13 GMT

“The necessity of the times, more than ever, call for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.”
---- Samuel Adams

When our souls choose to experience life in human physical form, they did so because of the plethora of opportunities for growth that exists in this 3rd dimension. Nowhere else in the cosmos can we gain so much unique wisdom as this dense existence can offer. The dichotomy of course is that once here, our perception is that life is hard because we forget who we are, and why we’re here.

If you stop and reflect on your life for a few minutes, no doubt you’ll find numerous times where you just wanted to give up, be it on a project, a relationship, or life in general. We get pushed to the max and can’t see our way to a harmonious resolution. This is not to say that there is of course a “shelf life” on everything. A natural closure.

I remember the days when I had my own private practice in complimentary health care. I did this for 18 years and really loved the work. I didn’t make much money, but my rewards were more from just helping people. On the other hand, there were plenty of times where I felt frustrated by cancelled appointments, or clients that were non-compliant when it came to following my suggested pathways. I was on the verge of closing shop a number of times over the years, but there was always something that encouraged me to continue. The fortitude that I displayed in those low moments always carried me to new heights. I pushed on because so many people did appreciate what I had shared with them, and others did seek me out, even if it was slower than I’d like. I endeavored to persevere with fortitude.

What I learned was that if you’re involved in something that gives you meaning and purpose, there will always be bumps in the road. Just keep focused on the prize of a life experience. The universe will always back you up. I think what we sometimes fail to see is that we look at our lives more one dimensionally when we should be zooming out to a more cosmic or spiritual point of view. We are, after all, spiritual beings first and foremost.

We came here with an essence path already set in place with opportunities and lessons in place for our growth. Our free will gives us the options to go left or right as we choose, but no matter which direction we pick, there will be mountains to climb. We have to keep going. Fortitude is just one attribute of the beautiful human spirit. It’s necessary in the game of life, especially here on earth in this dimension.

Be thankful for your adversities in your life journey. There are great lessons laced throughout if you take the time to examine them. Fortitude is like 4-wheel drive when you get stuck. It gives you the capability to get on smoother pavement.

The human spirit is unmatched in power and ability. It’s evolution into higher dimensions of reality is accelerating at breakneck speed. We chose to be here; we chose life with all its adornments. Giving up on anything before its time is not an option. That’s why we have fortitude.

#87 Mind Your Direction

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:43:09 GMT

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

- Carl Rogers

A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to have had an opportunity to take a much-needed vacation to Phoenix Arizona. I hadn’t been on a plane in years and all of sudden I had to deal with the absolute busyness of not one, but two international airports. I felt like I was thrust into an ant colony with people going every which way in all manner of haste that was incessant to say the least. I still find it unbelievable that people actually work in and around that environment day in and day out. How does anyone do that? Maybe it’s my age. I don’t even like expressways anymore. Everything is so fast-paced. Our world appears so hurry up, let’s get going.

Now I do realize that the way of the world is a busy place. No matter where you go on this globe at any given time, it is filled with people doing their jobs that require various forms of travel and transportation. There are also many who are on vacation, like I was and are just in a hurry to get to where they can hopefully relax and have fun… which I did as well. But I couldn’t help but think about each individual I saw buzzing forward seemingly unaware of their present moment. I found myself detached from the melee, thinking surely each one must have their own hopes and dreams. Do they stop long enough to marinate in the direction of those dreams?

No doubt I was being hyper-critical simply because I was thrust into a craziness of humanity that is uncomfortable for me. Of course, each person I witnessed has hopes and dreams. Hopefully, they also have some semblance of direction for their lives and may very well have been on it at these busy airports. I suppose the reality is that being in that collection of humanity running about was simply the means to keep them on their direction or life path.

So, my point in all this is that from the vantage point of my uncomfortable surroundings I was able to access my own life multidimensionally. I’m a spiritual being expressed in a physical form. That form is experiencing life in it’s many facets in a reality that vibrates at a frequency that is known to us as the 3rd dimension. This dimension, or density as it’s better known as is literally a “school for the soul,” not unlike any of the other 11 densities in the cosmic makeup. On a soul level, I chose to be here at this point in time for experiences that are designed to help me grow on a soul level and eventually expand my essence to higher dimensions.

Is it important for you to know all this? No, not really. But maybe what might serve you is whenever you find yourself in some uncomfortable situation, physically or emotionally, you could just stop, take a breath and realize that on some higher level that you may not even be familiar with, you put yourself in it for the experience that has some value to your own soul growth. Consciously, you probably don’t want to believe it, but it is a truth that you will eventually come to understand. It’s called self-realization, and it’s amazing.

My take-away from the experience of crazy airports… being in the world, but not of it. I walked the fence line of life. It’s part of my direction. My human got an uncomfortable experience while my spiritual self, enjoyed the lesson. Plus, I enjoyed Arizona!

#86 New Awareness

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 04:26:16 GMT

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” - Eckhart Tolle

The spiritual revolution in human consciousness has begun. No, not because it just turned 2025. It actually became noticeable back in the 1960’s and has steadily evolved and grown throughout mankind. Now, because of the speed at which it’s progressing, it almost seems more of a revolution than an evolution.

So, what exactly am I eluding to with this New Awareness? Awareness to what? It simply points to the consciousness of our human collective, the masses if you will, which is rising, it’s heating up. There is a vaster number of our human race who are awakening to who they really are, and it’s raising the vibrations of enough of the population that cosmic changes are afoot.

Even though we’ve been through several troubling years in our recent history, last year being very difficult, it really isn’t a bad thing. It’s actually necessary to usher forth new beginnings, which are for our betterment on both a global and personal scale. Good things are most definitely coming. Let’s not forget, we all chose to be here at this time to give witness and play integral parts in this growth spirt of consciousness.

What is important to focus on here is this; New Awareness today focuses upon gaining inner knowing through self-realization and self-development. It fosters spiritual self-reliance without the imposition of standards or duties by an external authority. Mind, body and spirit has become the new mantra of holistic living. If something is good for your mind, body and spirit, then it is, by definition, good for the whole you. We need to be mindful to the fact that in order to change our own experience of the outside world, we have to start from within. As a wise man once said, “if you don’t go within, you will go without.”

The exploration of the self from the inside outward and recognizing its connection to a Creator/Source is the first step in answering our basic fundamental questions about life itself. It seems time to really access our old beliefs and values in this arena. What really serves us at this point on our journey? Do we need to change gears?

There was a time when serious life questions may arise after we’ve encountered a life altering event such as a near death experience, the death of a loved one, a chronic illness or extreme emotional pain. Now, the trigger points for exploration into the meaning of life come knocking simply by being a part of the chaos and turmoil of everyday life. Trying to make ends meet in a world full of corruption, deceit, and fear mongering. It’s hard to play by the rules anymore. It’s not easy to love your neighbor as we were always taught from the bible. Separateness and division has really accelerated over the last several years. It’s just not natural. And there’s a part of us that knows it. It’s time to recognize our fellow man for who they really are. We are all One.

This New Awareness I speak of here is more of a calling to let you know that your curiosity in seeking answers to the fundamental questions of self and life are timely. Civilization has evolved to a point of transformation. We are in the process of ascending as a species, and that’s a really big deal right now. But we must understand that it starts as an inside job. Individually, we can’t change the outside world until you first change your inside world. It’s not what you see, but how you see it.

Become the peace you seek. You are the co-creator of your life. You always have been. You are spirit, you always have been. You are Creator/Source, Divine Being, God itself, you always have been! Allow your curiosity to lead you to transformation. Seek… and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened unto you. It is, after all, your birthright.

#85 A Life of Spirit

jomel.jo@engageyourbiz.com (Jomel Jo) — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:13:14 GMT

For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.” - Psalm 36:9

The month of December brings with it a mixture of emotions. I believe that most of us feel both an excitement and joy of the upcoming holiday season, plus the anticipation of another new year a few short weeks away. However, we can’t deny the last eleven months and all we’ve endured in our personal lives, and of course, nationwide and globally as well.

There is no doubt that 2024 has been a rough year for everyone as we glance back in the rear-view mirrors of our minds. So much turmoil, trauma and drama on so many fronts. I’m sure many people lost themselves emotionally in the noise of all our outside world. To survive these times we need daily injections of positive reinforcement. Re-inflate your life raft to float above the surging distractions that can take you from your precious inner peace.

For me, I liked a simple mantra that reminded me of my real power. “I am aglow with the life of Spirit!” The unlimited life of God flows through me. It does not matter how old I am or how my worldly circumstances may appear. I am an expression of the purity and perfection of God.

This awareness refreshes me and keeps me young at heart. Even as my youth fades, even as I keep moving toward new phases of living, I remain wondrously, gloriously alive. Through my experiences and perspectives gained through my years on the planet, my life has deepened, and my understanding has become more nuanced. From my successes and triumphs to my failures and frustrations, I have learned what truly matters. I am a spiritual being, uniquely expressing divine life. This was the greatest gift I could ever receive and the greatest gift I have to share.

Coming to an understanding that you are Spirit, moving through a life experience of your own choosing is the most powerful awakening you could ever have. It can smooth out the jagged edges of those not so nice times. Zooming outward to view your life from a macrocosm perspective rather than the microcosm of day to day gives you breathing space to understand how all of your experiences help you grow.

As we march into 2025 it’s imperative to understand that our timeline is rapidly changing here on earth. Time as we know it really does “fly by.” It seems that you awaken on Monday and before you know it, it’s the weekend again. What’s important is how you live those moments, those fleeting seven days a week, those thirty days a month to those twelve months a year. Every moment of NOW is a gift you’ve given yourself. Acknowledge it daily by reciting “I am aglow with the life of Spirit.” It can be the gift that keeps on giving.

#84 Can of Worms

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:12:29 GMT

“My inner self was a house divided against itself.” - St. Augustine

Back in my hometown in Upstate/Western NY, there was a section of our expressway system in the downtown area that was dubbed, “the can of worms.” I don’t know who the designer was, but one needed to have eyes in the back of one’s head to successfully navigate that stretch during the two rush hours, or any time for that matter. It was the epidemy of confusion as I recall. It’s since been modified, but it left a permanent impression on me for sure.

The whole mental picture and idea of a can of worms can only conjure up a confused mess. As a result of that idea we’ve learned to attach that concept to many things in our daily lives. It relates from individual challenges to more complex scenarios beyond our immediate scope.

A case in point… today is election day here in the US. No doubt, every single adult from 18-90+ has been party to the craziness that started a year ago, as the powers that be vie to either retain or regain power over the masses. And that is not even including what may take place when the smoke clears. Our outside world has become a crazy confused mess. A classic can of worms on a global scale.

Much like that old expressway I spoke of, there are times when we have to go through it to get to the other side. As I recall, there was always a sigh of relief when the road opened up to clear sailing from the “can.” That shows us that the concept of a “can of worms,” no matter how it’s applied, has a defined time span. We always overcome the confusion.

We all certainly experience our own versions of confusion and chaos. It isn’t so much the craziness itself, but how we deal with it, how we sail through it to a semblance of normalcy. Small personal bouts of this confusion are one thing. Generally, we can and do handle them, but how many of us are swept up in the turmoil of the country, or the world for that matter? How do we deal with that? The collective consciousness seems to just feed on the turmoil sucking many of us into it. If you’re a part of the world, it’s hard to avoid it these days.

One way that I’ve found that works in times like these is to establish a daily practice of meditation. A few minutes daily to go within and build yourself a platform or foundation of inner peace and harmony. A safe space where the outside world and all it’s problems aren’t allowed in. A place to breath, feel your heartbeat, and listen to the stillness. A place to connect to your God, and to remember who you really are. In just a few minutes a day, you can build your own “get-a-way” from any can of worms that leaks into your daily life.

I’ve always called this being in the world, but not of it. I wrote two prior blogs on this topic in the past. It just may be the life raft that can save you from all the challenges and changes that are afoot in our future. It takes time to become accustomed to a different world. Remember, what you fight weakens you, but what you’re for, empowers you. Be for peace.

#83 Consciousness of All That is

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:47:48 GMT

“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” ---- Lao Tzu

So, first off let us look at, and define consciousness. Trust me, this is huge, and we’re only going to dance around the rim of this rabbit hole for now. Emmet Fox once stated that life is a state of consciousness. My studies have maintained that consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. I honestly feel that it is in fact just that, and so much more. And that “so much more” seems to expand in our awareness as we grow from the inside, outward. As we touch the truth of our being through self-realization, this new awareness automatically raises the frequency of your souls vibration. It does so only if we are ready to embrace what we find, and it harmonizes with us on the deepest levels of our being. This is raising our consciousness. This is soul growth.

The primary purpose of experiencing life on Earth is to discover what is real. We must start with ourselves first in relation to our outside world. From micro to macro. However, when you go even deeper than this, you reach the underlying basis of all consciousness, the awareness that, simply, you exist. Now you seek your relationship to the rest of what you exist in. And this is not even addressing the concept of the creative process itself, or even a Creator itself.

This is soul evolution. We each come to this discovery in the appropriate time via literally thousands of physical life incarnations both on this planet and elsewhere in the cosmos. Our reality tells us that we each are separate from each other and in this dimension, that concept is most prevalent . However as we grow and raise our vibration/consciousness, we find that it is not so.

What we find as we evolve is that outside of this reality there is no linear time as we know it, where everything is happening simultaneously, and we are all connected to a Oneness that translates to “All That Is”, or God for short. We are literally fragments of this Creator Source, experiencing itself in billions of lifeforms over a timeless space. What a phenomenal concept! To place ourselves on the same level as God… to know that we are creating our own world as we go along. That we are responsible for it all.

We, as a collective consciousness in human form are slowly, yet steadily evolving to this cosmic realization as more and more of us begin to awaken to claim our place in this vast Oneness. This beautiful dance of consciousness that we call life. And it is all coming about more rapidly now amidst the world turmoil which is a catalyst to bring change which in turn will be the backdrop for future generations of souls yet to come who will need the challenges for their growth. The vast majority of us at this time will more than likely ascend to a higher dimension of reality for our next incarnations, which will be more quasi-physical, and more peaceful, balanced and loving than we can even imagine now.

Let us bask in the knowing that despite our outside circumstances & conditions, all is well, and that we are a part of the consciousness of ALL THAT IS!

#82 REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

jomel.jo@engageyourbiz.com (Jomel Jo) — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:05:41 GMT

“We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life.” - Earnest Holmes

Last month I turned another year older, and one thing these senior years are showing me is just how lost some of our society has become, not only here, but globally. Amid the rapidly advancing technology, and the mass chaos, confusion, and corruption, many of us seem like we are walking in a thick fog, unable to read the signs pointing to home. We manage to do our day to day, and even do our best to be available for fun here and there. But there is an undercurrent of fear that we can feel relative to our long-term future. Our outside world is a mess right now. A blind man can see it. So much is happening so fast it is impossible to keep up with it.

What are we to do? Well, there is an old saying I have mentioned in the past. “If you don’t go within, you’ll go without.” So, what does that mean for you? We need to take stock at who you really are in all this mess. It just may give you a reprieve for a unique perspective.

You have a name, but you are not your name. You have a body, but you are not your body. You have a story, but you are not your story. Who, then, are you? Take some time now and reflect on this question. What is most essentially and fundamentally true about you?

The truth about you is that you are a center of God-consciousness. You are part of the wholeness of Infinite Life. You are a spark of the Divine, a radiance of Universal Intelligence, an emanation of the One Mind. You are an incarnation of Spirit. Your life is the life of God. As a divine expression, you have access within your being to the qualities of God.

You are peace. You are joy. You are wisdom. You are love. These qualities and more are your true nature. Peace, joy, wisdom, and love are ever present and available within you. You can choose to express these qualities, to be who you truly are. In so choosing, you live from your center. You live from an abiding awareness of the infinite Life, which is your source and essence.

Circumstance change, but the divine Presence within you remains unchanging and unchanged, perfect, and timeless, unaffected by the external conditions that come and go. What is most essentially true about you is eternal wholeness, which is never broken, lost, fearful or wounded. Embrace this awareness of your true self. In remembering who you truly are, you release your imprisoned splendor.

Now, if you can gravitate to this, even a little, you just may be able to float slightly above the turmoil of the times. All the while knowing nothing can really harm you.

#81 SOLITUDE vs ISOLATION

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:47:08 GMT

“Solitude is not a private therapeutic place. Rather, it is the place of conversion, the place where the old self dies, and the new self is born” -Henri Nouwen

There are two types of being alone. The first is isolation. In isolation one feels totally cut off from everyone and everything. Feeling utterly alone and disconnected. You would feel outside of life, and outside of the universal flow and not yourself. There is nothing lonelier than isolation.

One can feel isolated when we hold too tightly to the need to be right. You feel it when you act in blame and judgement. This feeling is not exclusive to being physically alone but can follow you even in a room full of people. It can become your persona. The proverbial “black cloud.”

Then there is solitude, the second type of being alone. Solitude can be the most surefire way to realize and feel that you are never alone. Solitude offers utter connection to all of life. True solitude is when God announces Itself in your soul.

It is my belief that one can experience solitude by letting go of the busy world and turning inward. It can be a spiritual practice, in nature or in creative work. Rather than disconnecting yourself, solitude makes you aware of your best connections.

Isolation detracts. Solitude enriches. In isolation, we lose ourselves. In solitude, we find ourselves again and again. We should all indoctrinate pieces of solitude every day and cherish them. They show that your inner life takes precedence over your busy life. Look for the moments of awareness that you are connected with something Infinite, the place where the Creative Muse gets to work through you. Solitude can be as healing as our best friends.

#80 About God

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:21:49 GMT

“Between God and me there is no between.” – Meister Eckhart.

Okay, let’s step on the big stage. In all my blogs prior to this, I have no doubt mentioned God in several. Most of us mention God daily in one fashion or another, be it intentional or in vain. A good portion of humanity worships the “God” of their choosing at least once a week, some, daily. I really must believe that there are not too many people of sound mind walking the planet that have never heard of God, whether they believe in a God or not is irrelevant.

I am thinking that if you were to ask 10 people what their idea of God was, you would get 10 different answers. Many keep God behind closed doors in their lives unless it is Sunday, then “he,” “she,” “it,” comes out for an hour. But what is it that comes out? An idea? A concept? A being? Just what is God anyway? Since God is pretty much “center stage” in most of life as we know it, how about we take a deeper look into this concept of God? I may be a bit bold here, but none the less, let us do this, because the New Thought concept of God desperately needs an upgrade.

It is my opinion that at this stage of our human evolution we should begin to shy away from the separate “male” image that we seem to automatically bring forth when God is mentioned, surrounded by singing angels. Not that there are not angels, because they certainly are abounding throughout the unseen world. And, they are singing praise and worship to God (Creator/Source), among many other duties. If I just wanted to cut to the chase here and tell you that God is All There Is, would that do it for you? I doubt it. Even though that is the “bottom line” answer, we need a little more than that to explain a concept as big as God, right?

How about we eliminate what God is not? That will get a point across. God is not a man but is androgynous. God is not a separate being. God is beingness. God is not a judge and jury. Man alone captures that title. God is not vengeful, that again is man, for God is only love. God does not command. God allows. God does not take away. God brings forth. God is not distant. God is a constant presence. One does not pray to a God. God embodies you. I could go on, but I think you have gotten my drift here.

We should begin to speak of God in more expansive ways. Speak of God as all of us. You and all creation are God individualizing Itself. When we really understand this and embody this, we will become more committed to equity and justice because we will understand that the life of all is God, and none are free until all are free.

I will end this post with a quote from one of my mentors, Ernest Holmes. “God is all there is. When we use the word God, we mean the Cause, the invisible Intelligence, the Divinity, that omnipresent Knowingness; Spirit, Life, Truth, Reality… that is what we mean by God. And when we say that God is everywhere, we mean that God is in us, in each other, in this flower, in the interspaces of the universe. There is nothing but God.”

Oh, and do you want to see God? Just look in the mirror for starters.

#79 “SOUL” KARMA

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:16:41 GMT

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer.

In my last blog post I talked about the basics of karma relative to your thoughts and actions in day-to-day life. I also mentioned that reincarnation and karma went hand in hand. Let’s take another step and look a little deeper at this mysterious cosmic force that plays a vital role in the world as we think we know it.

What’s important to understand right out of the gate is that karma, for all intensity and purposes is a construct that is primarily fixed to this third universal dimension. It is a “tool” for us to learn from on a soul level. Again, a universal law of action. We get back what we put out. I think we can all agree and accept that.

Now, as I eluded to in my prior blog, “instant” karma can and does come around, giving us corresponding results within short time frames in our current life experience. However it is the exception, not the rule. What you’ve got to remember is that there is no set time frame relative to repercussions from your thoughts or actions on your part towards another person. Karma is a balancing of those thoughts and actions. Often times they may not appear in your awareness until a different life experience, tens or even hundreds of years in either the future or past.

Yes, I said past. Linear time only exists in this dimension. You are actually experiencing several lives simultaneously in your current now. What you do now has a ripple effect and can touch in on any or all of the parallel lives you’re living, some in what we know as future and some in what we understand as past, depending on the timeline that your higher- self places you on.

When your current life is done and your soul fragment returns to the astral realm, and after it reacclimates itself to the spiritual world, your essence along with your higher self (soul complex), and your guides and close soul mates “gather” to map out your next life experience. Every soul has a plan and mission for its growth into oneness with All That Is. Based on what you need to experience, plans are formulated taking into consideration any karmic balancing that needs to take place.

That’s all well and good, however, two hitches come into play once you have incarnated into a new life experience. The first is the veil of forgetfulness, which shrouds us from remembering anything from our astral/spiritual home and the plans we set in motion. This in itself seems counterproductive, but from a higher perspective it just allows us to be fully engaged with our current now and its lessons for our growth. Just think how confusing it would be if we came here remembering everything we’ve done and experienced over hundreds or even thousands of lifetimes. We’d be too mentally exhausted to focus on our now.

The second hitch is free will. This we will always have, through the 7th universal dimension anyway. When we design each life experience which would include karmic balancing, by the time we get to the probability point in that lifetime where it could play out, we could choose to go into another direction and avoid a circumstance that would play out the karma. This would push it to either a different point in the timeline, or another lifetime altogether.

There’s one other point to make relative to karma. As we advance and grow on a soul level and upon ascending into life experiences in the 5th universal dimension and higher, there is no longer any need for this karmic balancing per se as we do here in 3rd dimension. In planning out our lives in the higher dimensions we can choose something called self-karma. This simply means that we’re choosing to give ourselves certain situations that may be more difficult than we necessarily need, but our dealings with it can empower us more and add to our wisdom as we continue our spiritual sojourn.

Ascension and life in the 5th dimension is a pretty fascinating topic. Perhaps we’ll chat about that at some point down the road.

#78 “INSTANT” KARMA

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:40:26 GMT

Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun.” Who isn’t familiar with that John Lennon smash hit “Instant Karma” from 1970? Most of us who were around then certainly do. I know for myself, that is when I heard and inquired about karma for the first time. What does that even mean? What I learned was that you got back what you put out in some fashion. Okay, that sounds plausible I suppose. Then, I didn’t think much more about it… at least until I became a metaphysician.

I think now might be a good time to take another look at karma with a little more depth. What I didn’t know back in 1970 was that karma is really one of the major universal laws of life. It was better known as the law of cause and effect, or the law of action. But was it in fact “instant”… did it really bounce back that quickly? Well, yes and no actually. While “instant karma” certainly does happen, in the scheme of things, it’s the exception, and not the rule.

So, what is karma and how does it work? Let’s take a look at the talents you were born with, and the good things that have happened in your life. Let’s not forget to consider the challenges that have come your way, and the limitations that you may be faced with as well. Most would casually chalk them off to luck or fate. That’s because our mass consciousness hasn’t bothered to look beyond their own noses for the real answers and reasons. Accepting luck or fate isn’t necessarily wrong by any means if it works for you. But there is more to it if you’re the least bit interested.

The law of karma is foundational in Hinduism and Buddhism and is taught in many cultures around the globe. Even our own Christian Bible states; “Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” So why wouldn’t one think that what’s going on in his or her life isn’t a result of something from either a recent thought, word or deed? Or, to stretch the question further, possibly even a very distant past in another lifetime?

Karma is our greatest benefactor, returning to us the good we have sent to others. It is also our greatest teacher, providing us the opportunity to understand the consequences of our actions or our inactions so that we can learn from our mistakes and our soul can grow. It gives us hope for overcoming by helping us to see that good promotes more good. Love promotes more love and forgiveness promotes more forgiveness. Who among us wouldn’t like that?

Reincarnation goes hand in hand with karma. While karma teaches us and makes us accountable, reincarnation gives us the opportunity to reap positive blessings and repay our karmic debts. Both karma and reincarnation also help us make sense out of the many questions of life. Why do I have so much trouble attracting money into my life? Why did I have a brother that died so early in life? Why do I feel so unloved and unaccepted? Why did I get the job and she didn’t?

Both positive and negative karma continues to unfold from birth throughout our lives, which helps explain the differing circumstances and situations that we all face every day. While we don’t know all the reasons for everything in our life, the understanding of karma and reincarnation gives us a deeper view of the process of why and how things happen to us.

#77 DYNAMIC PRAYER

Sun, 05 May 2024 23:50:59 GMT

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

---Soren Kierkegaard

I was born into and brought up in the Catholic Church and spent my first six years of schooling in their school system. Not unlike any other Christian based religious organization, prayer was a big part of the teachings. It’s been my observation over the years that the vast majority of our society does in fact recognize and utilize prayer in some form, which in turn recognizes a God or a higher cosmic power. A supreme being that sits above all the goings on of not only our little blue marble of a planet, but the collective of the entire cosmos.

Our prayers that are uttered both silently and aloud go out to this all encompassing presents generally in supplication … asking or pleading for some type of intervention, healing, blessing, or deliverance from trauma and strife. We’re not always sure if our prayers will be answered in the affirmative, but faith tells us that if it’s “God’s will”, then it will be so. But what if your prayer isn’t answered, at least to your satisfaction? Does that mean that God doesn’t think you’re worthy of the request? Or perhaps you weren’t sincere enough. Let’s dive a little deeper here relative to this prayer practice and this collector of prayers in the heavens.

First of all God is in and through all things. God is not a singular being on high taking in each and every individual prayer request and determining to grant or dismiss the request. There is simply no need to go outside of yourself to some intermediary to act on your behalf. God is literally Life Force and is omnipresence, again, in and through all things including YOU. To be sure, you are literally spirit, wrapped in a soul that is God (Life Force) experiencing life in physical manifestation. Therefore you are that which you are “praying” to. When you were created by this Life Force, all that it is was automatically a part of you.

So how does this affect our prayers? Well, in this unified sense of your God self, you need to speak affirmative words of divine realization. In other words, rather than words of supplication, asking for something that you don’t have, you need to come to the knowing that you will get just what you believe you already have. Meaning, knowing, and seeing that which you pray for is already so and you are praying now in thanksgiving for the end result. Instead of pleading to be delivered from a negative by something outside of yourself, go within and acknowledge the positive end result with gratitude. Instead of “I’ll believe it when I see it”, first believe it, then you’ll see it. There is really only one dynamic prayer that fits all. It is simply, “Thank You.” Now, let it go.

And just as an aside here, should what you pray thank you for doesn’t make itself manifest, it isn’t necessarily a NO, but simply NOT YET. As a spiritual being in a physical reality, you are here for the growth of your soul through experiences. We see these experiences as either good or bad. The reality is that they are neither. They are simply experiences. Our job is to ask ourselves what this experience is trying to teach us, and trust that the outcome will strengthen you from the core of your very being.

In addition, Paul’s command in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to “pray without ceasing,” is confusing at best. Metaphysically speaking, it refers to an attitude of God consciousness and God surrender along with thankfulness. Dynamic prayer couldn’t be simpler.

#76 RISING UP

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:27:43 GMT

“If we are incarnations of God, then our spirit is God individualized, and as such it must be eternal”…. Ernest Holmes

As I write this months blog post, it is a bright and sunny Easter Sunday. Of course I realize Easter has different meanings to many, or maybe no meaning at all based on their culture and any religious affiliations they may be a part of. Speaking for the Christians around the world it is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus after he was put to death 3 days prior.

The resurrection or rising up of the master teacher we know as Jesus the Christ has an even deeper meaning to me and many others who are awakening to their true self. Jesus was a 9th dimensional being who incarnated on our 3rd dimensional Earth to inspire humanity of the time. He led by example telling people that what he did, they could do also. In the act of rising from the dead, he showed that life was eternal. After life on this Earth, life continues as the consciousness is freed from the body to express itself in another realms of existence.

Earnest Holmes, the author of today’s quote, encouraged people to focus on this life, connecting with the kingdom of heaven within themselves to express their highest and best, letting go of any worries of what might come next. This current life experience is but a small part of a grander picture, and we as seeming individuals are connected to all that is which is God incarnate. The divine spark is within all life and never goes out. It only transforms.

On another level, the resurrection of Jesus offers the lesson that, just as the stone was rolled away from the entrance of Jesus’ tomb, we, too, can roll away the stone of our small selves to let our true selves express a higher and deeper level of consciousness… in essence, living from the Christ within us.

Regardless of our current circumstances, afflictions, inconsistencies, and trials from both a personal and global perspective, we are perfect just as we are. For in the illusion of imperfection lies perfection. So rise up and claim your divinity. Walk tall and lead by example.

#75 Spiritual Inclusion

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:38:20 GMT

“Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists; it is making a new space, a better space for everyone.”

----- George Dei

To what extent do I present this month’s topic? Well, to be fair, I asked one of my guides a few days ago in meditation to provide me with an idea for my next blog post. I got… “Inclusion”. So, I had to sit with that for a while. Right away my head went to its current social definition, and with today’s geo-political and social climate being what they are, I wasn’t going to touch that with a ten-foot pole.

Since I didn’t like my head’s idea, I decided to switch to my heart. Then there should be no doubt. Going back to August and September’s blogs #’s 68 & 69 I talked about being in the world, but not of it. Therein lies the concept relative to this blog post. But wait, there was something else… there was something about inclusion that was nagging me. Did I write about this before? Indeed I did. Going back to October of 2022, my blog post #57! After I read it, I recognized that I had to go a little deeper into it. Hence, this post. My guides were right after all.

Actually, the context of the subject spiritual inclusion here ties in seamlessly with the meaning that I expounded on relative to being in the world, but not of it. And not only that, but it will also be the underlying theme in the next book I’m writing, called “Walking the Fenceline”. It’s about bringing a new awareness into focus and balancing it with your day-to-day life and activities. Here is what I mean.

I feel that it is imperative now more than ever that we tune into the concept of who we really are, as a spiritual being in a human experience. If we can gravitate to even a fraction of what this means for us it can lighten the load emotionally for us on our life journey. Not only that, but it would counter-balance the social definition. That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with that definition. I just look to give it more depth, and maybe a little more of a wholesome twist.

Inclusion isn’t just an action we can take in our physical connection with other beings with different beliefs, ideals, cultures, or religions. It’s a mindset that brings us a sense of freedom by knowing that our divine power supersedes anything that can happen to us while we’re doing life. It’s a safety net, an insurance policy that never expires and doesn’t cost us a dime.

I would challenge you to find a tougher suit of armor than that of being a God Particle. You are, we are all a fractal of the Creator/Source. All that it is, we are. We are here in this physical reality of this third dimension acting out our individual lives. Each of which we designed for the express purpose of giving a vast variety of experiences to our souls. Some of those are what we perceive as good, and some perhaps, not so good. Hills and valleys, ups and downs. Trials, tribulations, challenges, and heartbreaks. Eventually, we experience them all, and despite how we process them, our souls grow through the sheer experiences. It’s precisely during these more difficult times that the mindset of spiritual inclusion shows it’s full meaning.

Because we are spiritual beings, because we are Gods in our own right, we can see and understand that it’s all good in the end. We come through unscathed even as we pass from physical beingness, and we go on living in our next venture beyond this reality. So walk your life with the inner knowing that you are divine and immortal. It feels wonderful.

Walk and do life with confidence and an inner sense of peace. You are so much more than the image that bounces back from the mirror. Adopt this concept we call spiritual inclusion. Remember who you really are.

#74 Goals and Outcomes

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:55:32 GMT

“If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if the probable outcome is failure.” ------- Elon Musk

Ever since I can remember, each new year that we celebrated, it was always a custom to create new goals to reach for over the upcoming months of that year. We’d start out like a house on fire, but the luster seemed to die out before we got to the 3rd month. This isn’t to say that goals aren’t important. On the contrary, they are very important in our development and for our self-worth. We establish them to guide us to do better and become better, and to stretch our imagination and creativeness.

The hard part is seeing the goals through in what are oftentimes tedious exercises, either physically if you’re working on your body image, or emotional if you’re striving for your professional or economical change relative to your financial picture. Not to mention a relationship improvement. Everyone looks to something better as we go down the road of life. That’s only natural. It’s part of growing and evolving. Goals stretch us and give us purpose. They fuel us.

Here's the deal… those goals that you set in the beginning that sort of dropped away, well they were probably just wishes and you didn’t have enough steam to keep at them alive anyway. It probably wasn’t time for those just yet. You’ll get another swing at them down the road. Or not, and that’s okay too.

Now, those ones that you really, really want to achieve, the ones that get you excited when you think about them… well you’ve already got the most important ingredient working for you. I’m talking about e-motion. Energy plus motion. One of the magical parts of manifestation. Seeing yourself with the desired goal achieved is vital. And, you have to do that despite what your senses may tell you. Even though your reality says, ‘no you don’t’. Absolutely, positively know that it’s yours. Now, trust. Trust that the universe is bringing everything together for the outcome you “see”. Act as if it was already yours. You will see them manifest in their right time.

Now we’ll talk about those outcomes, because there’s always an outcome. Here’s where we can do a serious disservice to ourselves if we don’t happen to achieve a particular goal that we set for ourselves. Before you give yourself the label of failure, just stop. Here is where we need to get back to the basics of your beingness. By understanding who you really are, you’ll realize that there are no failures in life. Only experiences with outcomes. Those outcomes aren’t necessarily good or bad, they just are what they are. If you achieved your goal, that’s an outcome. If you didn’t achieve your goal, that too is an outcome. It’s the end of a planned experience. Not achieving isn’t a bad thing. It promoted an outcome. What did that outcome teach you? What did you learn from that outcome? What can you do better the next time to change that outcome to one that may be more harmonious to your original desire? You’re not a failure. You can never be a failure. You are a divine creator of experiences and outcomes. Some outcomes bring you closer to your dreams, some further from them. Either way, you’ve accumulated valuable growth for your soul. Job well done.

#73 Know Thyself

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:41:31 GMT

“Being myself allows the wholeness of my unique magnificence to draw me in those directions most beneficial to me and to all others. This is really the only thing I have to do. Within that framework, everything that is truly mine comes into my life effortlessly, in the most magical and unexpected ways imaginable, demonstrating every day the power and love of who I truly am.” — Anita Moorjani

Happy New Year to you all. As we usher in this new year in these rapidly changing and uncertain times, I thought that it might be most beneficial to our overall well-being to zero in on what I consider a prime concept for inner growth before we look to hopes and dreams for a more peaceful future in our outside world. And to reflect on a famous quote by Neal Donald Walsch; “if you don’t go within, you’ll go without.”

Self-discovery is the key to spiritual growth. All spiritual law relates to how we perceive ourselves within the context of our world of form and function. Going back to the ancient Greeks, the words “Know Thyself” were inscribed above the entrance to the temple of Apollo. This I’m told is where they came to learn from the great Oracle of Delphi. Quite a welcoming, I’d say. So, what were those words meant to convey?

Well, for me, even before I realized what self-discovery even was, there was a feeling of unrest deep within. It was like something that was trying to breathe and grow inside of me, but I didn’t know what it was. I almost felt like a part of me was confined and was seeking recognition. I seemed to know intuitively that there was something more to life and about me, but what? It was like an insatiable hunger. I couldn’t deny this unrest.

Over time I sought out answers through the wisdom of countless teachers, ancient scribes, and my own inner guidance. Little by little this relentless seeking effected my own personal outside world, but I endeavored to persevere if for nothing else but for my own self-preservation. Truth be told, that was all of 40 years ago. And do you know what… as of this writing, I am proud to admit that I am still learning.

One thing I know for sure is that I’m more than the image that bounces back from the mirror. That being said, I definitely know that I am not my body. I am not my thoughts. Nor am I my emotions, words or actions. I am, however, one who expresses into life and creates every one of my experiences. I am the absolute presence of the Divine as only I can be. I am more powerful than any problem or challenge than comes my way, and my mission is to become ever more aware of the oneness of us all.

It is my fervent belief at the beginning of this new year that if we look to a path of inner discovery of self, and embrace and embody these ideas, the more meaningful and magical your life may become. Focusing on the light always shrinks the darkness.

I will end this post with an affirmation:

I know myself as the wholeness of Divine Presence.

I always have everything I need.

#72 Reflections

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:39:27 GMT

“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” — Wayne Dyer

We have 12 months to our year. The number twelve is significant in many ways. Many of which are elusive and unknown to most of us because they are both cosmic and mystical. However for the sake of this post, we will focus on our 12th month, December.

I think you would agree that if you stopped to think about it, each month has it’s own feeling or flavor if you will. Almost akin to a texture or signature. Just looking at this country, the USA, we find ourselves between holidays. As I flipped my desk calendar today, I felt a sense of quiet. Almost like a tired person after a long run. A time to stop and reflect on what we’ve achieved and experienced over the previous 11 months, and marvel over the strength and blessings we’ve enjoyed. Even if there were trials and tribulations in the trail behind us, we’re here now.

As we step forward into this month and the busyness that awaits the hectic Christmas season, let yourself sit for a few moments and reflect on whatever good you can find amid any noise, disappointments, fears, illnesses or even heart aches. Your memory holds every feeling and emotion you’ve experienced since you took your first breath.

December for me always promoted happiness and joy for the expectations of the most fun holiday of the year. Even though it was the month that saw the death of my first wife 46 years ago, it was the same month that my son was born, 49 years ago. I live with this “little guy” now, and to see him and be with him brings me more joy than the sadness of loosing his mom. Because I know, without a doubt that there are no accidents, and that despite all that I’ve been through in all the years since then, I am right where I need to be… right on time.

I choose to reflect on all my blessings and am thankful for all my trials and tribulations because they made me a stronger and wiser man than I was even 1 month ago. The perceived good always outweighs the perceived bad if you really allow yourself to really look deeply at it.

Today I chose to do a little Christmas decorating to enhance my reflection for the month of December. Truthfully, I’m not sure I would have done it if it weren’t for my son. To see him smile when he got home from work at the sight of me stringing lights on the tree, was reward enough. He helped with that cumbersome chore, then he sat back and watched me hang the few ornaments one by one. As I did, I was able to reflect yet again as the ornaments themselves brough pleasant memories from Christmas’s past with my two daughters who both live up north. Rather than the sadness of not having them here, the blessings of sharing sacred times with each of them and their moms as well.

Our lives can be complex and chaotic during these difficult times, but this 12th month of our year affords us an opportunity to stop and count our blessings, before we push on to our various celebrations. And remember, the older we get, the more we have to reflect on, but make certain that you just allow the happy memories to surface and feel the joy within your very soul. You are a magnificent reflection of God doing life.

Bottom line here for the twelfth month of this 2023… you all have had and are having literally thousands of life experiences over eons of what we perceive as time. It isn’t the number of life experiences that are important. It is the quality of those experiences that allows for your soul growth and collective wisdom. So reflecting is acknowledging your reception of that quality.

#71 The Isness of Being

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 21:47:27 GMT

“When we say, ‘Yes’ to the ‘isness’ of life, when you accept this moment

as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply

peaceful.” ----Eckhart Tolle

Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed that I’ve come to a place of what may appear to be complacency to the casual observer. More often than not I find myself saying, ‘it is what it is’, and just leave it there. This comes out more often relative to the outside world, and the turmoil in every facet of our inter-social relationships, our geo-political climate to even our own family dynamics. I could feel anger and dismay arising within.

So, the question is, have I just been burying my head in the sand refusing to get emotionally involved with the global changing times, and going into my mental safe haven for self-preservation? I would probably have to say yes. In essence though, I was subjectively beginning to practice the isness of being. I was removing myself from the negative emotional charge of the changing times and admitting that it would be futile to fight something where there is no winner. Neutrality after all is taking a stand. It is what it is. Allowing it to play itself out and letting the Universe handle the details. I could feel that spaciousness and peace that Eckhart Tolle spoke about.

For me, this seemed to work well on my outside world viewpoint. If it looks like a cop out from anyone else’s perspective, oh well. We all do what we must. In so doing, I found myself taking it to yet another level. My inside world.

I’ve been in the field of metaphysics for over 30 years. Studying, speaking and writing about laws and concepts that can’t always be verified by science as we know it, and tends to be quite controversial to say the least. It is the study of the nature of reality, and it’s connection to the self or the very essence of being. It’s a very deep subject matter that one really needs to feel even before they totally understand it.

As our awareness expands, there is a part of us that literally shouts, “YES” upon encountering a new concept. It is our soul that recognizes a truth that we have always known but didn’t know we knew. As we begin to accept these new ideas and concepts they tend to fly in the face of lifelong belief systems. Here is where you have to come to terms with the higher part of you verses the outside world at large.

Admitting to becoming more spiritual than religious takes you further from the heard and can sometimes make you feel more like an outcast in your own domain. Part of your spiritual path includes allowing others to be who they are despite different beliefs. Here, practicing isness becomes your saving grace. The truth of your inner world understanding won’t necessarily be for everyone. Therefore, it is what it is. Until it changes for one or the other. But even still, it is what it is!

There’s something to be said about removing oneself from conflict, be it your outside world, or your inside world. Reality can be whatever you choose it to be. I have found that walking softly with peace in my heart brings more harmony into my life. The path I’ve chosen to walk has given me a fresh pair of eyes. I understand that there’s a reason and an order for everything, and if I don’t agree with it, I allow it to be what it is. If you want to call it living in a fantasy world, well that’s your option. It just seems right to me. It is what it is.

#70 Unity

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:44:35 GMT

“I am one with the light of God which never fails.” -Dr. George King

We come from the non-duel, the One, and take a body in the land of Two (the us and them)… and our mis-remembering begins. We buy into the idea that we are separate, because all of our outside stimuli makes it appear that way. On top of that a “vail of forgetfulness” clouds our consciousness from our origin and all other prior life experiences, so that we may focus on the life at hand.

As an infant, it is natural to grasp duality. It’s all we’ve got. Chances are very good that our physical parents, even at their age, don’t know that there’s anything but separateness. They had been taken in and hypnotized to the “norm” years before. A cycle that’s gone pretty much unbroken for generations.

Well, there’s good news. We, as a species are evolving quicker now than ever before. The vibration of the earth and our whole galaxy is increasing due to our awakening to our true selves thus raising our consciousness higher which in turn raises the frequency of the collective. More and more souls are stirring and seeking. Asking deep seated questions relative to who they really are, where they came from and why they’re here. The whole “what’s this all about” mentality is escalating.

Hopefully, in another few generations the truth of being will be known and accepted within our culture in this 3rd dimension. With that, we will be able to teach our children at very early stages so they don’t get lost in separateness and duality even though they must be in it to survive.

Unity is more than what we now define it as; ‘the state or fact of being united into one, as of the parts of a whole’. As our consciousness raises and or vibrational frequency increases through awareness, so must the concept of unity. Parts of a whole. We are parts of a whole. That whole is Creator Source, Infinite Being, God. Each and every one of us is a part of that Source. We all carry the Divine Spark. We are to Source as our cells are to our bodies. We are here experiencing life, learning and evolving slowly back to Source, from where we came.

We are One with the Oneness of all things. We are all connected with everything and everyone. That’s real Unity. That’s very difficult for us to wrap our brain around here in the land of two, but there’s a part of you that already knows this. When you hear something or read something that just resonates with a definite YES within, well then that was a soul acknowledging its truth. An instant awakening. A satori.

We’ve got a lot of work yet to do. This concept must be spread far and wide despite the distractions and confusion in our outside world today. Grab hold of this truth to whatever degree your consciousness will allow you to, even if it’s just a “what if” right now. It’s a seed that will grow and I guarantee that once germinated, it will change your life. You will be the walking epidemy of my last two blog posts where I discussed the concept of ‘being in the world, but not of it’.

If humanity can know from an early earthly age that they are really spiritual beings, evolving and moving back toward their own Oneness with Source God, it will be a smoother ride through life experiences here in this 3rd dimension. We’ll have broken the cycle of ignorance and let in the light of our majesty.

#69 Being in The World, But Not of It (Part 2)

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:30:10 GMT

“Three words I understand about life; It goes on.” -Robert Frost

Being in the world… well, for those of us that are in fact here now, that’s pretty easy. We’ve got that down pat. But not of it? What does that even mean?

Well, I am of the opinion that we as a society have evolved to a point of understanding that we are so much more than the image that bounces back from the mirror. Even with that awareness, I’m sure most don’t give it too much thought on a day-to-day basis. We’ve all got things to do, places to go and people to see. We’ve got family, friends, relationships and a boatload of responsibilities to say the least. We also have to contend with our daily feelings, and emotions, not to mention various problems and traumas as they show up. All of these and more are woven into the fabric of our everyday lives that consume us at least 16 hours a day. Then we put them on hold while we rest our bodies, only to awaken and find that they are all there waiting for us, plus whatever the new day may bring.

All of that is apart of being in the world, and it’s why we were so excited to come here from the beginning. To experience as much as we can in a physical incarnation. It’s all about the growth of our soul. That my friend, is the catch that we seem to miss. The common denominator of physical life. The dichotomy of being human. We’re here doing what we need to do, experiencing a plethora of things to experience, but we’re not from here, not really. And the funny thing is, you know that, but many don’t know you know it.

We are all spiritual beings having this wonderful human experience, and even though our physical life experience is vital, and we should be paying attention to it for many reasons, it’s also vital to understand not only who you really are, but what you are apart of on a grander scale and where you’re going after your physical life expires. It’s our basic tenant to live our lives the best we can, enjoy the fruits of our labors, multiply our numbers, and pray that we can get through it with as little trauma as possible. However, our physical complex depletes over time, and we die. Some, sooner than later, but none the less, there is an ending to physicality. There is no escaping it, and so many are afraid of this unknown void of “forever”. Yet, how many of us remember where we were before our physical birth? The very same void.

As was stated in the quote by Robert Frost, life goes on. There really is no death, but rather an expansiveness that few of us can even begin to realize. Your soul, of which you are but a fragment, has so much more to share with you on so many levels or dimensions of reality. You will still have all you have now and so much more, but in a different frequency. You will venture into an existence that feels more like home than anything you’ve experienced here, or you can now imagine.

So, to summarize what I feel ‘Being in the world… but not of it’ means; Live your daily life and enjoy as much as you can because you signed up to be here now. Be grateful, be loving, be passionate, forgiving and in awe of it all, but don’t forget who you really are and where you’re going from here when your job is done. Walk the fence line between two worlds. It’s not easy, but it will ease the pain of the difficult times you may face. You are magnificent!

#68 Being in The World, But Not of It

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:41:05 GMT

“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.”

The title of this month’s blog post has been my personal credo for quite some time now. It is what I do my best to model every day. Some days although the intent is there, I may fall short of living up to it’s standard. Recently, I was guided to dissect this small phrase and really look at it. That’s why I chose to present this blog as part 1 and follow up with part 2 in the next blog. So, let’s see where this guidance is taking us, shall we?

As you all should know by now, I’ve been on a spiritual path for many years. As I reflect on that from this vantage point, it’s been a marvelous adventure, slowly evolving with the shifting sands of time. As I am ready, it takes me deeper and deeper, allowing me to understand who I really am. Not only that, but the feeling of harmony and love coming from that place within can sometimes be indescribable in our English language. When I’m tuned in to the fullness of this concept, all is right with the world that I inhabit.

We are all spiritual beings, having a human experience. You’ve heard me say this time and time again in my blogs, in my books and in speeches. I heard it years ago from one of my many mentors, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and it so resonated with me that I couldn’t let it go. So it is only natural that it is with this concept that I will proceed to dissect the first part of our title.

Being in the world… our divine beingness has evolved to this physical state in what is understood as the 3rd universal dimension or density of reality. It is not my intention here to go into the cosmology of the soul itself of which you are a part of but suffice it to say that within each of the 12 universal dimensions, there are yet 12 sub-levels of each dimension. Your physical self, at this moment is experiencing your physical world in the 3rd sub-level of this 3rd universal dimension. That’s where we sit.

As a spirit entity incarnated as a human, you have chosen a unique personality that fits your needs for this lifetime experience. You see and interact with the world whatever way that works for you. Your world is comprised of others similar, yet different than you. You have feelings and emotions unique to you in every conceivable circumstance and condition in your life. You have free will choice as you navigate through one decision after another. None of your choices are wrong as they are all designed to give growth to the larger part of you… the soul.

Basically, the world you are in is a construct of your own thoughts and actions. You are a collection of everything you’ve ever been from birth and beyond, and you keep changing. Our physical world is also evolving right along with us. Change is in a constant state of flux, regardless of our ability to see it. The only thing that doesn’t change is change itself.

Every morning we awaken to a new day. A new view of our world, complete with new opportunities to experience it. We focus mainly on our day-to-day life, dealing with the responsibilities that we deem important. That’s exactly what we’re supposed to do because we are in the world. We have the construct of time and space which helps us divide and separate our world in bite size frames for learning.

#67 The Medicine of Laughter

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 12:01:14 GMT

“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

I have come to a point in both my life and in my studies on the nature of reality and the self, that I am very aware of being multi-dimensional. It will actually be the subject matter of my next book. It is certainly a different awareness to carry in everyday life, being in the world, but not of it. It’s a constant balance between being here now, and living as the spiritual being observing it, and seeing that perspective at the same time.

Our physical life is obviously of utmost importance, as that’s pretty much what we’ve got to experience life with. It comes with all the necessary feelings and emotions that are essential to process all stimuli, both internal and external. Unfortunately, the external stimuli we’ve been subjected to globally has been pretty rough over the last several years, not to mention our own individual story lines of stress and heartbreak that are piled on as well. That bleeds through to our internal.

The most natural remedy to combat the darkness of negative stimuli is laughter. Temporary though it may be laughter is a way to give our hearts delight. A delightful heart is an open channel for all the good that can flow into everyone in its path.

Laughter truly is a medicine. Science has documented the health benefits of a good belly laugh. Letting it rip to the point of tears effects your whole inner being, from your emotional body to your physical biological complex. Laughter is just plain good for us. You’re never too old to enjoy these natural benefits and heaven knows, it’s probably been too long for many of you.

Whatever tickles your funny bone is different for everyone, no doubt. Personally, I grew up with the likes of the 3 Stooges, the Marx Brothers, and even Our Gang Comedy. You’ll probably have to look those up, but for me they still carry enough goofiness to make me laugh. I have also several comedies on DVD that I like to put on just to let myself step away from the seriousness of the world and put a smile in my heart. Not only that, but the best part… no prescription needed!

The reality is that we are really spiritual beings that are literally immortal, and all the stimuli that we encounter while in physical incarnation is designed to either balance karma, or just plain help our soul growth. However, once again these physical bodies that we use to navigate this dimension take a lot of abuse both physically and emotionally. We have to be pro-active in keeping them in the best shape possible. They truly are designed to last a very long time. There will be a time when the essence that is you won’t need physical bodies any longer to experience life, but for now, you do.

So take a little time and find your funny bone and give it nourishment. Bring in the clowns and let the tears flow if you can.

#66 Matters of The Heart

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:05:24 GMT

“Your heart is powering the show. It doesn’t mean the heart is superior or can work in isolation from all the other parts of you, but it is your sun”.

- The Z’s

I seriously doubt that there is anyone out there reading or hearing this blog that wouldn’t agree with the fact that the most difficult hurdle we encounter in being human is dealing with heartbreak. I mean we can go on for years doing life, but sooner or later, we all feel the effects of a broken heart. Some, more often than others, and you’ve got to wonder, just how do they get through it? There are various degrees of heartbreak for sure, but no matter the cause, it pretty much hurts the same. It normally shows up as a result of a loss of some kind in our lives. It almost seems cruel, don’t you think? I mean the loss in and of itself is bad enough, now you’ve got this heartbreak that can literally stop you from wanting to go on living. And why the heart anyway?

Well, this is what I’ve learned from my share of this dreaded byproduct of life. We have to zoom out to the macrocosm to understand it properly. Besides, from there it doesn’t hurt so bad. The hard part for me is only being able to give you the “Reader’s Digest” version of it in this blog post.

Now, about that heartbreak, shall I be so bold as to say, you ordered it… all of it! Of course the “you” that ordered it certainly didn’t do it consciously. Nor is it the image that bounces back from the mirror that represents you with a personality and an ego, but rather the essence of you. The soul fragment or God Particle.

We are spiritual beings first and foremost on a long journey of discovery and becoming that goes far beyond our little third dimensional interplay with emotions in just one of our life experiences. We are part of a greater whole known as Soul, which is a part of an even greater whole known as God, or Source, or Creator or All That Is.

All of what we deal with is by design prior to our physical birth where we (our essence) along with our spiritual guides, masters and soulmates, agree upon various scenarios that will provide the best opportunities for the lessons we need at our stage of soul growth. We have “agreements” with various souls who take the roles of everyone you’ll need at the right time in your life for the right purpose. Of course there is always free will which we utilize quite readily, which can take us closer to or further from our learned lessons.

So far we as a society on the Earth plane have evolved to this third dimension, and within that dimension we are poised at the third sub-level of that dimension. Here in physical density, creation gives us not only the biological components for life, but also it brings in emotions to feel life. These emotions are tied directly to our bodies in one form or another. Our biological heart is by far the most powerful organ we own. It is the part of you that is cosmically guiding you and leading your forward. The heart knows everything. It truly does. This doesn’t mean it can explain everything to you in words, but it knows everything about your future path, but less about your past.

The mistake we make when we are in heartbreak mode is that it’s coming from your heart. It’s more coming from the mind replaying past low vibrations. The mind has a direct connection to your emotions. The mind pulls up an emotionally charged memory that creates a lower vibration in your body so that you can play through and clear and heal some of that past energy in your energy field and continue to open to the future. The heart is very much about the future.

What’s important to know here is that when you’re in heartbreak, the heart has shut down its light, which means the heart has shut down its future. So, when these periods appear, they are not necessarily the wrong choice. It very well may be an opportunity to clear and heal ancient grief. Notice the space you’re in at the time. When your heart is closed down, does your mind only tell you a doom-and-gloom story, or is your higher mind allowed to creep in every now and then and remind you not only that “this too shall pass”, but that on the other side of this, you are going to open up in a more powerful way?

#65 Vulnerability

Wed, 03 May 2023 12:11:33 GMT

“The emperor has no clothes.”

- Hans Christian Anderson

Here is a word most of us try hard to shy away from. It has multiple meanings, which pretty much encircle being undefended. What I want to focus on here is emotional openness which leads to self-understanding. This process calls for balance for sure, because having personal boundaries is obviously important.

Let’s start with the concept of manifesting because if you’re following this blog, I know that you’re more than interested in that subject. The key to manifesting anything, ranging from the material to the experiential, is to know why we want what we want. Just thinking about that is going to bring about a particular feeling. Are you going to give yourself permission to have that feeling once you achieve that desired outcome? Which feelings do we associate with whatever we call success in life? Then we have to ask if we’re willing to have those feelings now, even before anything changes in the landscape of our experience. And if not, what do we believe would happen if we did feel those ways at this moment?

An example might be if you aspire to a better career, one that will make you feel stimulated, competent, productive, relied on and more in charge of your own destiny. Right this minute, are you able to bring up those inner sensations, surround yourself with them and feel at home? If you are, you’re basically ready for the new situation. As a matter of fact, it’s already flying toward you from the unseen because as you should know, when you visualize with the emotion of already experiencing the outcome, the ingredients for that fulfillment are already coming together. On the other hand, if you’re not ready, then getting acquainted with the general feeling of yes will become your assignment.

Another common example would be of course relationships. If for instance you are looking for a new love in your life, but are harboring the loss of your previous relationship due to natural occurrences or otherwise, can you allow yourself to feel the good feelings of once again being in love? Or would those ugly feelings of the previous loss overpower the possibility of something new? You have to be vulnerable here.

When you invite your feelings to speak, a lot of information comes forward, not all of it serene. I believe that we need to be open to knowing why we made various decisions or how we handled random occurrences. We need to befriend our own emotional world instead of hiding from parts of it.

Vulnerability, then, is really embracing the uncomfortable, just as an aspect of love is becoming susceptible to grief. Emotional vulnerability allows us to see how we have attached inner meaning to outer circumstances.

Dissecting the self like this is a good beginning to go even deeper into the multi-dimensionality of who you really are. Once you awaken to that, vulnerability loses not only its meaning, but its grip on your life.

#64 The See-Saw Syndrome

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 12:24:12 GMT

“To be holy is to be natural, to befriend the worlds that come to balance in you”.

- John O’Donohue, A book of Celtic Wisdom

I recently saw a YouTube video about life in America in the 1950’s and 60’s. It just happened to be the years I grew up in, and many happy memories came flooding in, just like it was yesterday. One clip was kids playing on a see-saw. It was hard to believe that such a simple device could bring so much joy to youngsters back then. Although some mean-spirited kids would like to hop off real quick while the other side was up in the air, causing them to come crashing to the ground, I always thought the object was to try and get it perfectly balanced between two groups of riders, or to simply enjoy the up and down of it all.

It just reflected to me the whole idea about life in general. It’s all about balance isn’t it? Although the balance has shifted more toward our own emotions rather than another group of people sitting on a beam over a fulcrum . It’s tricky, to say the least as we have to be on guard more often as our emotions seem to be running the show more than ever these days. This is what I call the see-saw syndrome.

You could leave the house some morning feeling wonderful, on a bit of a “high”, smiling and enjoying your drive to work, then something that you feel is serious happens at work that brings your emotions crashing to the ground, while at the same time, co-workers find amusement in it. Seemingly non-caring, almost callus.

Where does this put you? Do you give in to your emotions at the time, remaining authentic to yourself, or do you rally quickly and join gaiety of the co-workers, denying your sensitivity? Are you right and they wrong? Are you weak and they are strong?

If you’ve awakened to any sense of self, you should quickly come to balance. The stimuli, or the event is the fulcrum. Some will be on one side, and some on the other, and neither is wrong. If your emotions are pointing you in one direction, be genuine and follow it, humble yourself if that’s what it takes, because others will see your authenticity and when it’s all said and done, you’ll be respected first by your own self, then by others.

Our current world situation is giving us all plenty of opportunities to become unbalanced, that’s for sure. Not to mention our various high stress jobs, relationships and financial trials. Our participation in day-to-day life helps us realize that there is real truth in the old adage of “being in the world, but not of it.” If we can learn to rise just a little above all the stuff in our personal world, and being more the observer than the player, with one foot on one side of the fulcrum, and one on the other; well then when there is a crash, it softens the blow. We need the ride as a conscious observer.

The bottom line is this; what is it that we all want? Beyond money or things of the flesh as they say. I’d say it would be health and well being. And how would you get that? Again, I’d say the fundamental component would be peace and harmony. Now, just how do you get peace and harmony? By being aware of and being able to balance your emotions. Because emotions are how we process our life experiences. And the see-saw syndrome provides the opportunities. We need to recognize both sides and be okay with which we choose as long as it’s authentically you.

#63 Authenticity

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 12:27:06 GMT

“The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are… without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are”.

- Debbie Ford

Over the last several years, one of the activities I really enjoy is antiquing. There’s just something about walking around in an antique mall or small-town antique shop that brings out that nostalgic feeling from times past that seems to sooth my soul. I’ve bought several items over time that I love having around my home. There seems to be this invisible energy type connection to certain things, be it something you had or recognized from your childhood, or in my case even beyond that to a more primitive era. I really love old authentic furniture, anything wood really. There’s a hidden story in all of it and it seemingly speaks to me on some level.

Although I don’t buy much anymore, I still can’t resist an antique shop, and there are plenty of them where I now reside. Some of them actually call to me like there’s a part of me in there somewhere. A quiet mysterious part of my being that comes alive with the stimulation through sight, touch, and even smell of something long ago. To be in touch with those parts of the self is such a blessing when you think about it.

Our world these days has been so filled with stimuli from the social medias to global unrest, to disinformation to misinformation and on and on. A virtual merry-go-round that never sleeps. We get sucked into various narratives, forcing so many to wear false faces just to get along. Being someone you’re not. Accepting everything that comes down the pipeline just to fit in. Is it a wonder that so many don’t know what they want or even who they are anymore? We’ve slowly allowed our authenticity to dissipate, if we even had it at all, depending on how old you are.

When I speak of authenticity I mean it right down to the very core of your being. I mean it from the part of you that actually feels your true essence. I realize that may sounds more than obscure, but there is such a place. Not literally, but figuratively, and we all have access to it. It’s your natural state. It’s a state of complete peace and safety. It’s a state that should be recognized as your foundation. From this place, go forth and live your life. This place of the true self really has no beginning, nor does it end. It’s where you came from before you became your present you. It’s where you will go after you’ve completed being you. It is all loving and it’s just beyond your next breath.

When you are ready to awaken to who you really are, as a spiritual being having a human experience, it will feel like you’re truly home and you’re allowing yourself to experience all the various facets of life. The perceived good with the perceived bad. You’ll understand that it’s really all good, because there’s learning and growing taking place on a soul level. You can’t fail at this. That part of you that’s been sleeping so long is stirring and when it awakens it will be hungry. The nourishment it craves is your attention to it. Acceptance of your true Divinity.

You are a multi-dimensional and multi-faceted being, hiding in a dusty old shop with so much history. Wouldn’t it be nice to touch in with it from time to time? I think you’ll be surprised at what you may find. Not only that, but it’s a safe haven from the noise of our crazy outside world. To be in the world, but not of it.

#62 Freedom

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:39:09 GMT

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, and rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. -----Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Last month, on January 15th our country celebrated what’s become known as MLK Day. I remember reading the above quote at that time which was taken from his famous “I have a dream” speech.

As stirring and powerful as that speech was in August of 1963, I got to wondering just how deeply those that heard it really took it. Of course back then our country was plagued with so much unrest and civil strife. The oppression of this country’s minority race was coming to a head and these folks were shouting for both freedom and equality. They wanted the same freedoms that everyone else enjoyed and to be treated as equals. It had been a long hard road for the Black community since the Emancipation Proclamation just 100 years earlier.

Today, 60 years later we’re still hearing the words FREEDOM being shouted not only here, but globally. There is more turmoil and fear afoot that ever before. Now the oppression is coming from governments all over the world and its peoples are feeling lost and sometimes hopeless. Basic human freedoms like freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom to move about unopposed are what’s on everyone’s hearts right now.

No doubt that these are paramount for us all and need to be delt with, but there is another kind of freedom that most people don’t even consider. That my friends is the freedom that comes from knowing who you really are. I mean that from the depths of self. You are so awesomely powerful. You are true love incarnate.

I have found that that freedom, is by far the freedom that can erase all fears that come from the outside world. I remember at the height of the turmoil we were all facing in 2020, I had never felt such anger and fear in all my years on the planet in this lifetime experience. No doubt it mirrored the same kind of fear that the Black race had been feeling for well over 200 years since they were forcefully brought to this country as slaves and being thought of as expendable.

In order for me to “free myself” from the jaws of a system that was going haywire and oppressing the masses in every conceivable way, I had to go deep. Fortunately, I already had a pretty solid spiritual foundation, but had been shaken off of it with the radical events that were taking place in my outside world. So much so that I hardly recognized myself. Actually, I didn’t even like myself for a while there. I had been sucked in by the masses who were confused and scared and turning violent.

That’s when the proverbial light bulb came on. Wait a minute, stop the presses! I’m a spiritual being having this human experience. Nothing can really hurt me, I remembered. Yes, my physical self may be subjected to changes and things that may be uncomfortable or that I didn’t like, but I’m more than that. I’m spirit! My essence is of God. No outside force can hurt that.

I’m most certain that being the spiritual man that Dr. King was, this was the message he was doing his best to convey to the masses back in 1963. It was more than civil liberties and equality in the physical world that he taught. Yes, they were important, but he knew that for those that could really hear him, the most important part of his message was to know and be your true self, where the real freedom lives. God shows its face in us all. Let that part shine through and you will know a freedom beyond freedom.

#61 One

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:05:14 GMT

In our version of things, God is not a commanding officer nor even a presence apart from Its own creation. It is aware of all things because It is all things, as the intelligence that permeates and the form that out-pictures.

- Debbie Ford

We all began at a point, not in time but in consciousness, as cells. Heart cells produce heart cells, brain cells produce and multiply more brain cells and so on.

Cantaloupe seeds produce cantaloupes, not broccoli. The heart cells know to reproduce heart cells only.

We began as loving consciousness created from Itself, each having its own variety, color and size. Yet we are all from the same original, loving God-consciousness.

We continue to be that loving consciousness even though many of us are unaware. We may act in a non-loving way, not realizing who we really are or what we can experience. We might see others as separate from ourselves.

When two dogs meet in a park, they will most likely sniff each other, but their tails keep wagging and, with agreement, they play, dance together and run circles around the park. Unfortunately, it may take humans a bit longer to recognize friend from foe, as we have a tendency to come from a place of judgement or fear.

It’s time for a new realization in this new year. We all have come from the same original seed in beautiful, perfect varieties. With acceptance of each variation, there are new colors, tastes, sizes and ideas. How about we start to accept all as the loving presence of the One Creator Source/God? Let us be kind, caring, humans we are meant to be. It may not be an easy task, but with this awareness and a little practice we may be able to disarm some of the fear that’s out there.

This year, accept the love that you are and share it openly.

#60 God In Everything

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 18:31:51 GMT

“The Manifest universe, then, is the Body of God”

- Ernest Holmes

Happy New Year to you wherever you are, either physically, mentally or spiritually.

How many times have we heard, “I’m glad that year is over” or “Maybe this one will be better”? Many said that at the beginning of 2022 and think back on all that’s transpired. We can barely keep up with the changes, advances and the noise from world governments. What are we to do? Who do we believe? The good ole happy days are history. There’s some serious situations happening globally that’s taking us off our center and promoting way too much fear. There’s a way to neutralize any unsettledness we may encounter that I’ve found works well.

I was watching a stand-up comedian the other night on Netflix. No, the answer is not watching stand-up comedy. There was a shot of him on stage from behind looking out to this massive crowd of beings who seemed so transfixed on his every move and the story he was conveying. I saw this mass of humanity not as individuals but as one entire whole. It was like each individual person had become a cell in a body, vibrating with perfection.

It was a surreal experience. It was a realization that the collective consciousness is like that…a body. And the beauty is that we get to choose as a collective what kind of body we want to become by each individual cell doing its unique part, making its unique contribution to the whole.

This body that is mine, that is ours, that is the entirety of all of creation is set out before us each and every day. A power and a gift we rarely even acknowledge.

Today, I see that there is not either/or in this body. By its very nature, there is only the Alness. That includes the challenges and the turmoil which are necessary for balance. The ebb and flow if you will. Nature does not make mistakes. It cleanses at it needs to. Even our human bodies are equipped to cleanse the toxins that the body cannot avoid.

The yin/yang symbol of the Tao illustrates this beautifully, with the contrast of light and dark, with the concept of flow. Each is contained within the circle that is the All of life itself.

So what I am saying here is that our current outside world is in a state of serious change and it’s imperative for us now more than ever, that we as seemingly individual beings need to change our perception of it by looking at ourselves as part of the collective, the wholeness of humanity itself. Most of us I dare say probably don’t like what we see. It’s like the whole body of humanity is unwell. However, we as “cells” of that very body have the power to make changes. First for ourselves which will ultimately meld into the collective.

Everyone wants to feel good. In our world of duality, there is nothing like feeling bad to make you appreciate feeling good! Totally a third dimensional construct.

We are composed of four bodies - spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Spiritual teachings say that what you do to one of these bodies affects the other bodies. For instance, frequent meditation brings harmony to your other bodies - to your emotional, mental and physical bodies as well as your spiritual body.

When you change your spiritual body it changes your physical, emotional and mental bodies. When you change your physical body it changes your emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. In fact, you cannot change one without changing the others, as well.

Change one body and you change the others. We are apart of that which created us. You are a collective unto yourself as the microcosm is of the macrocosm.

Knowing this tiny bit of wisdom helps us realize the importance of making wise choices for all four of our bodies:

Choose a healthy diet and exercise plan for the physical body.
Choose peace for the emotional body.
Choose clarity and positive thoughts for the mental body.
Choose meditation and acts of loving kindness for the spiritual body.

As a spiritual being, use your power to change both your inside world and the outside world we inhabit. It is both the least and the most you can do as we step forward in our evolution. I call it Divine Balance or dancing with God.

Best wishes for 2023 and dance like no one’s looking. It’s ours to experience. But don’t forget who you really are.

#59 On Being Human

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:12:06 GMT

“Because we’re human, we’re always going to experience disappointment”.

- Seth Buechley

Although this particular quote is true, I would maintain that it can be a wake-up call for us all. Let’s take a look at what it means to be human, or to put it more succinctly, doing human. Slip on your boots as this has the propensity to get a little deep. Keep in mind that I’m only scratching the surface here.

The truth of the matter is, and I’ve stated this many times before, we are really spiritual beings having a human experience. So being human really equates to our spiritual essence gathering countless experiences in a physical realm, some of which will have positive effects and some, not so positive. Albeit both effects having within them, lessons for our growth as a soul/spiritual entity.

Unfortunately, we don’t always see it that way simply because we don’t remember who we really are and the purpose of our life journey, which is to re-member, or re-join to the wholeness of our very essence to our Source or God. Often times we (our ego), takes the negative experiences to heart and focuses on them with the e-motions (energy in motion) that accompany them such as anger, heartbreak, or disappointment. This can leave us stuck and blind us from the hidden value of the experience itself.

Being human means that we have agreed on a soul level to take on a temporary individual identity. Complete with a specific personality all wrapped up into a physical form of our choosing for the express purpose of experiencing physical life and the plethora of e-motions that go with them. Opportunities are virtually endless. We were meant to be here as there are no mistakes. We are co-creators of our own experiences and need to take responsibility for that. But we began this sojourn in spirit form, our real self.

Being human and experiencing life in this third dimension of reality affords us an opportunity far beyond any college or university that we could attend. With every experience we encounter if we look wide enough, we can grow spiritually regardless of the polarity from which it shows itself. It’s all good. It needs to be read and understood at a higher level. When you look at your life from a higher perspective it widens your view by removing the blinders of your tunnel vision. It projects what you perceive as a negative experience and makes it smaller affording you an opportunity to see the lesson you placed before yourself and grow from it as long as you are able to leave the egoic effect behind.

Being human isn’t necessarily easy. In most cases it isn’t supposed to be. The lessons we encountered growing up in school weren’t easy at first until after time we began to understand. Life lessons are larger in scope, but instead of just growing your individual knowledge base, you’re able to grow spiritually as well. Life goes on beyond this current reality and as a spiritual entity with an expanded consciousness from your experiences here, you will evolve to realities you can’t yet imagine.

To make the remainder of your “being human” journey a bit easier and let’s just say profitable for your spiritual growth, I will share a couple of suggestions. First be fully involved in your life no matter what. Your life is a beautiful dance where the music is always changing. Where you find yourself is where you put yourself for reasons you probably don’t yet see so stop complaining and ask yourself why. What is all of this trying to show me? What lessons am I supposed to see? Love that face that bounces back from the mirror. Love the people in your life no matter what because they all bare gifts of some kind. Gifts for your growth.

Secondly, appreciate the ability of your senses. To hear sounds, see your surroundings, touch, smell and taste in your environment. Don’t take them for granted. It’s all part of the human picture. Will you experience disappointment? Oh for sure! Squeeze out the lesson and move on. There are other experiences waiting in line, but if you are aware of your true nature as spirit, none of them can hurt you.

And lastly my friend, believe it or not, like it or not, your free will chose all of who you are and all of what you are experiencing. You want to blame fate or karma or even a “God” for where you are? Then we need to talk more about free will choice.

Being human just got bigger now didn’t it?

#58 Is It Time To Repot?

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:19:56 GMT

“When we cease growing, a part of us begins to slowly die. This is inherently true physically, emotionally, and spiritually.”

- The Art of Abundance

Many of us have had or do have house plants. Have you ever seen a root-bound potted plant? You’d know it because it’s withering and slowly dying. When the plant becomes too big for it’s pot there’s nowhere to expand. The roots turn inward, entangling and clumping together, slowly choking off the life-force that sustains the plant. Obviously the only way to save the plant is to repot it, giving it a larger growing area so that the roots can expand to unexplored areas, experiencing new life. This push comes when the divine creative urge that permeates and propels an expanding universe naturally surges through the entire plant, restoring its vitality and wholeness.

Let’s look at this as an important metaphor for our own life. Not unlike all life around us this tells us that if you’re not growing, well you’ll stagnate and eventually could die before your time. Sometimes we’re too busy being busy to notice. We’ve become robotic in our daily routines and responsibilities. It will ultimately sneak up on you. We’ve all felt it at one time or another. That feeling like, ‘there’s got to be more to life’ or ‘my life feels meaningless’. The unmistakable feeling of dread that gets thicker and thicker.

When you cease spiritually and emotionally growing, when your relationships become stagnant, when the job no longer offers positive opportunities to expand, it may be time to metaphorically repot yourself. If this scenario sounds familiar, random actions to change may do more harm than good. As I’ve mentioned many times previously, change is the only constant, but you need to take control of it from a higher perspective. Let’s take a look at what I mean.

When you stagnate, growth ceases, and you unconsciously emit a message to the universe that says, “I am complete here. There is no reason for me to linger on the planet. Just pluck me out and bring me home.” The best course of action of course, is to repot yourself by embracing new thoughts and expansive ideas grounded in the awareness of your oneness with something larger than yourself---an expanding universe, a loving God. Just think of yourself as a spiritual gardener growing a new life, beginning with your next thought seed. What will that be?

I know even from where I’m sitting that that sounds quite cosmic and you’re thinking…what, wait, there has to be more to this. How do I get out of this ick that I’m in? Well, remember the question, how do you eat an elephant? Of course the answer was and still is, one bite at a time. Our daily issues are no different. They may seem as big as an elephant, and you can’t deal with it. But you really can.

Take the issue down to it’s lowest common denominator. Remember, one issue at a time. Close your eyes, take a couple deep breaths and sit. Focus on the issue and ask for guidance to resolve it. Be patient. It may take a few minutes, or even days, but if you have the intent, your higher self will not leave you stranded. Listen to your heart. Thought seeds come into the brain through mind to be processed via the feelings of the heart. Feelings is the answer. If those feelings bring enthusiasm, that is your direction.

Remember, just as a plant will droop and wilt if it is neglected, you will lose your luster if you do not tend to your needs. When a plant takes in enough nourishment in abundant soil, soaking up sufficient sunlight and water, it perks up. It’s leaves become bright and healthy, and it stands taller and stronger. It all starts from its foundation, from within.

#57 Inclusion

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 16:37:00 GMT

If it’s possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”

- Romans 12:18

As of this writing it’s been just six weeks since I’ve been living here in South Carolina. The one stand out characteristic I’ve noticed about my new environment is the genuine friendliness of the people. I mean even the folks that I don’t even necessarily talk to just at least acknowledge you with a nod and a smile. I’ve even experienced sitting at a red light and a car pulled up next to me and this guy smiled nodded and waved. I was taken back but thankfully I had the reflex and the time to wave back before the light turned green. It’s been very welcoming and truthfully not something I was used to back in New York. This is not to say that there aren’t nice friendly folks in New York, I know there are, but they sometimes seem far and few between. People down here just seem much more laid back, not as uptight. I guess you could say it's the tone of the community.

There is something to say about culture shock. I never thought much about it until recently. There is something called a collective consciousness. I think the best way to describe it is it’s like an energy transference generated by a collective, in this case a community or larger. Since we’re all energy beings the thoughts you think, the attitude you carry as well as the feelings and emotions contribute to the energy you put out on top of everyone else’s. It becomes apart of the “air” if you will. It equates to the fact that the culture here is just a bit more easy going or vibrating on a lower collective frequency. Every part of the country has it’s own brand I suppose.

All in all what does this tell us? That we’re all connected. Like it or not it speaks to the Spirit of you in that invisible world we don’t take time to consider. The Spirit of God within all people, uniting us as members of the human family inclusive of the individuality and diversity that we love to claim, worldwide.

No one can be separate from God. As I am a spiritual being living a human experience, so are all the others. We detect minor differences with each other but they’re really very minor in the scheme of it all. In the spirit of harmony open your mind and heart to those whose backgrounds and places of origin may be different than your own. Just remember too that at the level of Spirit, we are more similar than we could ever be different.

I recently came across this prayer of inclusion, and I’d like to share it. Perhaps you could include it in your daily thoughts.

“I bless the world’s people with welcoming and wholehearted acceptance. I honor your uniqueness and behold your sacred worth as children of God. I want for you what I want for myself, a world of safety and respect. We are one in spirit. Amen.

#56 Toot Your Own Horn

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:42:35 GMT

“Man is beginning to realize that he has life within himself as the great gift of God to him”

- Ernest Holmes

Over the last four years I’ve been a member of Toastmasters International. This is a worldwide organization designed to help people improve and master their speaking and presentation skills. The club I joined has meetings twice a month and each meeting generally has a theme as a suggested guideline for topics and speeches that are shared that evening. I usually find these themes a bit silly, but they’ve been doing it longer than I’ve been with them so as they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

At the end of each meeting either the Toastmaster or the President glances over the next upcoming meeting to get volunteers to fill various roles that are required and to prepare our mindset with the next theme. Well I just found out that our next meeting’s theme is International Toot Your Own Horn Day. I don’t even know if that is a real thing, but it caught my attention. I thought about it and before I volunteered to give a speech for that meeting, I figured it would make a good subject for my monthly blog post.

A powerful realization that can help increase our overall quality of life is understanding that it is not a requirement to move through life holding onto stress, burdens and a sense of overwhelm. We are not required to continuously recall unpleasant experiences in our lives day after day, cultivating feeling of shame, guilt or anger. In fact, being that we are that which assists in directing our daily lives, we can at any moment choose to release the unnecessary. Now, when I say unnecessary, please do not discount the wisdom found in those challenging and disturbing situations that have occurred in our life. We can grasp the wisdom contained within a given experience without being attached to the feelings associated with that experience.

As we make a conscious choice to release the unnecessary, we begin to make room for the extraordinary to unfold in our lives. After all, how can we expect to bring something wonderful into our experience if we do not have the internal space for something wonderful to develop?

This is a great day to venture into those caverns of our minds and hearts, looking at the thoughts, feelings and memories we hold near and dear. Let us be courageous enough to release what no longer serves us, knowing that as we do, we make space for something magnificent to happen through us right now.

That being said, how about a challenge? Take some time and sit with yourself and look back at your life. List all the accomplishments and the good things you’ve done up to this point. It’s okay. You’ve done some pretty extraordinary things and you need to acknowledge them at least to yourself and also to whomever you want. Toot that horn! It’s not being egocentric. It’s acknowledging your God given talents and abilities. It’s recognizing all of your good traits. It’s shining the spotlight on all the positive things about you. Say YES! You are awesome!

Now that I think about it, I think I’ll toot my own horn and do that speech at our next Toastmasters meeting.

#55 Keep On Keeping On

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:47:15 GMT

“Go forward with the belief that a greater power is working through us.”

- Ernest Holmes

What would our lives be like if not for the changes we encounter over time? Sure we get comfortable with routine and sameness, and the slightest shift in that comfort zone sends most of us into a tailspin at the least or outright fear at most. But think about it for a moment. The same thing over and over could get seriously boring. Like sitting in your car and the scenery never changing. Nothing new to focus on. No challenge to figure out. No new experiences or the excitement of not knowing just how something will turn out. That’s not living. It’s mere existence.

Like it or not we all need some degree of change for many reasons, most importantly for the very growth of our soul. We came here with a plan and a mission on a soul level even though many of us don’t stop to realize that. Our life paths include many twists and turns that may appear to us as turmoil, sadness, heartbreak, illnesses and the like. All of these seemingly negative events that take us off our track of comfort are apart of a plan we, that is the essence of us or spirit, put into the mix either through our current thoughts or actions, or as a karmic balancing from prior life experiences.

I understand that this is a tough pill to swallow, and even if you know and believe in this concept it doesn’t make it any easier to deal with it at the time it arrives at your awareness. We just would rather not go through any of it but alas, it’s here and we must. We either made a conscious decision for a particular change or it appeared unwanted, out of nowhere like a tsunami. What’s happening is we’re finding ourselves balancing between the physical and spiritual aspects of life.

If we could just grasp the concept that there is something greater guiding us while we plod along in our little world we call our life and that everything, every twist and turn, every event, every relationship and yes, every hardship has a purpose geared to our growth as spiritual beings in a human experience, maybe, just maybe it’s all good despite its appearance. Now more than ever we must look within to our own divine power to overcome all obstacles. What’s the biblical saying from Matthew 17:20? “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”

That something greater is your higher self or the God within you. There is nowhere you can go, where it is not. There is nothing that can happen to you where you are without it. There is a Divine Spark in all facets of life, despite our limited 3rd dimensional perspective. Try to reach higher in looking at radical change that appears in your life. You will be surprised at how much smaller these earthly bumps look from your natural spiritual viewpoint.

If you’ve followed my previous blogs I’m sure you’ve realized that I’ve been going through some radical change of my own over the last several months. It hasn’t been easy, and I’ve hurt emotionally because of it. I still hurt. But the fact is I’m still here on this earth which means I’ve still got work to do, and a purpose to fulfil. I’ve moved 800 miles away from the only hometown I’ve known for over 70 years and away from people I love and that love me. Thankfully I’m still with family in this new environment and there’s that part of me that still questions my decision. However, in what very well may be the last chapter of this incarnation I’m choosing unconditional love as my foundation to keep on keeping on. Always thankful for what I’ve had and all the people that I’ve shared it with. I will do my best to look at each new day that I am blessed to experience with an anticipation of something great because I know that it’s all good and timely for the growth of my very soul. It is after all, all God.

#54 Behind the Next Door

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:51:29 GMT

“When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding and leads you to freedom”

- Elizabeth Lesser

There’s an old adage that we’ve all heard at some point. It says that when one door closes, another opens. Of course, depending on the size of the “door” that just closed, we may not totally buy into that old wise saying. We become blinded to the fact that another door is beckoning as you go through grief or sadness when a familiar door closes.

It's only natural to feel bitter, scared and unsure of what comes next. One may hesitate to open any new door, and that is natural as well. However, our survival depends on being courageous enough to step forward and embrace what the Universe has in store for us.

In my own life, as I look back in retrospect I can see several doors that were shut, not necessarily by me, but on me. These were harder to accept as I wasn’t prepared mentally or emotionally. If you’re planning to close a door in your life, generally you would make a plan ahead of time. Not so when the wind of change blows it shut!

What I have found is that sometimes we don’t feel the “nudges” to make a change. Understanding that change is the only constant in life as I alluded to in my previous blog post, we know that it is ultimately necessary for our growth. The Universe or our Higher Self is the wind that blows it shut. Now sink or swim. And as harsh as that sounds, know that we are a part of an all-loving Universe (God Source) that already knows what we need to survive and thrive so that we may complete our earthly sojourn in harmony.

I saw wondrous and enriching opportunities appear that wouldn’t have been able to show up had I been holding the previous door open. All the cumulative life experiences were the necessary building blocks I needed to get to the next level of my life mission and purpose or essence path as it’s more commonly referred to. This only proves another old adage; everything happens for a reason!

Now, I find myself at yet another new doorway. It wasn’t my plan by any means at this juncture but, apparently my Higher Self knew differently. Regardless of my past experiences with this phenomenon of life, I have to let myself feel the necessary emotions that go with this closing door, but at the same time put my faith and trust in a benevolent Universe. My bravery is enhanced when I trust and see the results that will play out in magical ways. God is good!

I don’t for one minute believe that there is any living human soul out there now who hasn’t experienced a door closing episode or two. I would agree that initially it feels like the end of the world as you know it, and the fear of what’s next seems insurmountable. However, if you still have a heartbeat and air in your lungs, rest assured that there will be new doors to open and the mystery behind them will unveil to you new opportunities for you to choose from. You’re not done yet, so go ahead and open them. There is life there!

#52 No Regrets

Tue, 31 May 2022 16:54:06 GMT

“If I had my life to live over again, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I’d limber up. I’d be sillier than I’ve been this trip.”

- Nadine Stair, poet

If you’ve learned anything from my last post on introspection, you may plainly see that one of the benefits of utilizing this practice would be that you could very well look at your life and say, ‘I have no regrets’.

I know that this is a pretty tall order for most people as we are taught that there is right and wrong in everything about our lives and that when there is what we perceive as wrong being displayed by us to someone, well there is regret. Or we may feel we’ve made the wrong decision in some instance that may not have been the best decision. Quickly our sense of morality steps in to justify these feelings and many would simply succumb and “own” this feeling bad feeling. Carrying it around our neck like the proverbial millstone.

The common definition for regret means to feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over something that has happened or been done, especially a loss or missed opportunity. Or a feeling of sadness about something sad or wrong or about a mistake that you have made.

Believe me you would have to search far and wide to find a person that will admit to you that they don’t have at least one regret. More than likely it would be several. I’ve not conducted such a search and have only my own life to look upon for content to this subject matter. On top of that at my current age there are a lot more life experiences to reflect on and furrow out those old hidden regrets.

Just over these last several months alone I have had the opportunity to put my life under the microscope big time as I’ve endured some life altering experiences. My mere survival was dependent on my understanding of introspection first and foremost. Asking myself what the lesson was here. Why was this happening? What was I supposed to learn by this? In the interim of this I could feel the regret and then the guilt crept in. This is like handing a drowning man ankle weights.

Going back to the basic tenet that everything happens for a reason, which we’ve all heard but few believe especially when it has to do with them, I’ve now had to apply it to myself. And now since I’ve moved into the “higher rent district” of metaphysical and spiritual principles relative to all life, I also understand there really is no right or wrong…spiritually speaking from a higher perspective. There are just experiences. Some take us closer to our soul purpose where others take us further from it’s fulfillment because we always have free will. Of course, morally speaking from the physical human perspective that is a very thin line.

So, what to do, that is the question. For me, the regrets I’ve encountered just as a result of reassessing the last few months alone were like a paper tiger. They seemed real and had I hurt people, never intentionally mind you, but by default. I started to feel those teeth sink deeper and deeper into my soul. But my truth became my salvation, and I was released from the jaws of the tiger.

I saw my life from a wider perspective, as a soul entity choosing and having experiences in a physical arena. Could I have made more healthy or wiser choices at certain times? Yes of course I could have, and the results would have been different as well I’m sure. But I needed to learn something going down the road I chose and in doing so regardless of the seeming negative outcome, I saw myself as growing in ways I never thought of before as were the others involved in the experience. For the first time I could see the “reason” something happened in my life. I like to think that I’m a stronger and better person as a result.

As you transverse through life others come into it at various times. Some stay for a long time, where for others it’s a shorter stay and that is by design for specific reasons. The challenge is to see the reasons and be grateful for what you experienced. All in all, I’ve had a good life. Mistakes? Not really, just choices that took me the longer way around. But, have no regrets.

#51 Introspection

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:57:33 GMT

“As you go through life you may learn many lessons. But remember: all true wisdom comes from within. Experience isn’t always the best teacher. A greater wisdom lies waiting on your discovery just underneath the surface of your conscious awareness.”

- Chris Michaels

Introspection is not a word we hear very often. Google defines it as the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.

Characteristically, most people utilize it at least in part after doing or saying something stupid that may bring a quick reaction in kind from the unsuspecting target. We might think to ourselves, that wasn’t good…why did I even do that? Unfortunately, there is no re-wind and we’re stuck with it having to apologize up and down.

The meatier version of introspection however is reserved for dealing with your emotions after a personal trauma of some kind. It’s a sacred space you create to commune with your higher self or spirit to ask the deeper questions relative to what just transpired in your experience. It can be very revealing due to the fact that the most important question you’re looking for answers for is, “what was this trying to teach me?”

Now there is no right or wrong way to approach introspection. The important thing is to let yourself go there in some fashion. A research study at the University of Iowa showed that journaling as a therapy was most effective when subjects not only recorded their emotions following a trauma but when they also took the time to think about and write down what they learned from the event. The focus on understanding their own reactions to what happened, in addition to the emotional impact of the experience helped them recover faster.

From a spiritual perspective, this makes perfect sense. Life is a series of lessons, courtesy of our most faithful teacher, the Spirit within, otherwise known as your Higher Self. All our experiences are designed to help us discover and live the truth of who we are. However, attendance at this school of life is not mandatory. It requires a willingness on our part to engage in introspection and explore the meaning behind our experiences.

Not everyone is up to it. Some want to avoid thinking about it altogether; others want to wallow in the story to develop the “poor me” syndrome. The brave, however, bring themselves around to asking the question, “What is the gift in this for me?” Discovering this gift can bring a person out of victim consciousness into a space of receptivity and teahability. This is when spirit rushes in, excited that we’ve accepted the invitation to grow.

Being able to center yourself and look for the gift in any difficult situation sooner rather than later demonstrates spiritual growth. It is without shame that I can confess to utilizing this valuable concept on more than one occasion over the course of my lifetime. The lessons have been many and sometimes hard and fast to say the least. I have been hurt to the core in some cases even most recently, but upon closer examination it wasn’t me that was hurt, rather it was my ego. Fortunately for me at this juncture of my spiritual walk I’ve learned to separate myself from the ego and claim my oneness with the God within me. This puts a whole new spin on the trauma itself. It’s all a part of my soul growth.

Oh, there’s hurt there, and that’s no joke for sure and we have to not just recognize it, but then forgive it and let it go. That’s all part of being incarnated in physical life which makes these lessons “real”, at least seemingly.

To be clear, there is a vast difference between ruminating, which is what most people automatically do verses introspection. In ruminating, a person is simply replaying the event, thinking about the wrongness of it, wishing for a different action or outcome, and just generally considering all the bad or frustrating aspects of a situation. In introspection, a person asks the Higher Self what lesson the event offers and what tools can apply to grow spiritually from the situation. Introspection then plants the seeds for a different experience in the future.

Our life experiences are as unique as our fingerprints or personalities. Fundamentally however if we can understand that every experience is a valuable lesson, some positive, some negative. The fruit of introspection is in our ability to look into the seemingly negative ones and grow in a positive direction. And just so you know, you signed up for this life experience and everything that goes with it. There are no accidents, and there is no blame.

#50 Divine Perception

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:59:55 GMT

"There is a point in the supreme moment of realization where the individual merges with the Universe, but not to the loss of his individuality; where a sense of the Oneness of all Life so enters his being that there is no sense of otherness."

- Ernest Holmes

I recently read a story that I’d like to share with you.

Kambel Smith of Philadelphia, an individual with autism, could not stop painting. When his father, Lonnie, ran out of money for canvases, Smith turned to cardboard, building elaborate sculptures. Lonnie knew his son had a gift, if he could only get others to recognize it.

By chance, a well-connected neighbor saw Kambel in his front yard creating one of his sculptures. She shared photos on Facebook and introduced him to an art curator who presented Kambel to the art world. Now his works are exhibited in prominent museums, galleries and private collections, selling for thousands of dollars.

Why did it take so long for Kambel Smith to be recognized as an artist? Because people weren’t expecting a person with autism to demonstrate his talent. Autism is labeled as a disability, but it is an extreme ability. The Smith family calls people with autism “Autisarians” with superhuman abilities. They’ve set out to change peoples perceptions by creating a nonprofit to help other people with autism discover their own gifts.

Kambel’s story provides an important lesson. The truth is, all of us come from the same Divine Source, but that Source is individuated in each of us, expressing Itself in vastly different ways. When we look at another, we can choose to first perceive the Divine and then look for how It manifests through the person before us. When we look for the Divine, there is never a misperception.

As beautiful of a story as this is, I can almost hear you thinking, “it just seems too hard to look at others and see a Divine being”. And that may be so, especially with so much ugliness and fear in our current world. However, I’m thinking that perhaps you could start with yourself first. I know, I know, that may sound even harder, but consider the word “gentle”. It’s a nice soft word that brings an easiness to your demeanor. So, let’s bring this idea of Divine Perception to the self now.

Repeat this statement and see how it feels to you. “I am a gentle spirit and a blessing to the world”. Now that doesn’t feel so bad does it? No doubt there will be times when you may not feel or be as gentle with yourself as you could be. You may be too self-critical or too quick to focus on your faults. This is when it’s important to be gentle with yourself, peaceful in mind and tender in your heart. Value your uniqueness. After all, there is no one else like you, no one who fills your particular place in the world.

Embrace a new mindset and deepen your perception with yourself and others. Honor your truth as a spiritual being and express the goodness and grace of God as only you can.

#49 Forgiveness

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:35:12 GMT

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

- Mark Twain

The bumpy road of life can often times play havoc with our emotional shock absorbers, shaking us to the core of unrest and disarray. We don’t often think of them until that unexpected “ bang” that we didn’t see coming. All of a sudden your comfortable ride is no longer.

The “shock absorber” of your life should be the foundation of inner peace you’ve managed to cultivate for yourself on a day-to-day basis. Again, something we don’t think about usually until something happens.

Sometimes we get blind-sided, and that “bang” alters your reality. Your world may change unexpectedly especially in these modern days. Hopefully, the main anchor in life should always be the light within your inner being and your inner peace. This, provided you take the time to tune into it, will provide you with a true perspective of the important issues of life.

As you know, it's not what you accumulate materially that makes a truly successful life. Once people eventually pass on from this realm, they leave behind their material accumulations. The real treasure that you take with you is the experience you've gained and, more importantly, the spiritual advancement you have achieved in the process.

If you have issues which need to be healed at a heart level, finding a way to heal those issues will free you to move deeper into heart and soul consciousness.

Sometimes, our souls choose a challenging life in order to trigger transformation into greater strength and wisdom. After all, it is the strongest steel that is forged in fire. No matter what negative experiences you may have endured in this life, there will have been life-experience reasons behind all of them.

The most powerful tool for gaining advancement from negative experiences is that of forgiveness. Whether you yourself need to gain freedom from the chains forged by bad memories or you want to help another person to achieve this, the principle remains the same.

Once a person realizes that they can forgive another, for no matter what, they become free! Free to move on to a better life and free of the regret and the hardship that the memories that such hardship brought. Sure, it's hard to do, but it works like a charm! You just have to disengage from the lower emotions long enough to grasp that key to the freedom of higher consciousness.

The key to freedom from the memory of a bad experience is to first forgive the experience. The big challenge is to forgive the perpetrator and, if necessary, any guilt that you feel yourself. But, first, you have to own the experience as part of your reality and start by forgiving that experience.

Such an experience came your way because of a decision in your past. A bad experience doesn't mean that you were bad. It means that you chose, at a super-conscious level, a wake-up call to trigger your own transformation into attaining greater wisdom. The people with the greatest compassion are often the ones who have seen and lived through the most tragic events that were full of the need for compassion.

Remember this vital principle - anger does nothing against the one who hurt you. Anger and resentment serve only to trap you in the lower frequencies of consciousness at a time when you should be able to fly as free as a bird into the higher realms of spiritual consciousness.

If the experience is so bitter and painful that you find it impossible to forgive, this is how you can climb right over that barrier. Start by pretending to forgive. Over and over, pretend to forgive and the breakthrough you seek will soon occur.

The exit point from limitation lies just above you, through a door marked, "Forgiveness."

With serious cases, the help of a skilled professional may well be necessary. In lesser cases, calling upon a higher power can be a huge help in letting go of the hurt from past experiences. There's always a way to gain help from a higher spiritual power. According to your preference, you can call on God, Jesus or other great spiritual figures to ask for the power to transform the dark into light.

You can also connect with your soul consciousness, which is connected to the Divine, and ask that higher part of yourself to heal your inner issues.

If you need to let go of past hurts, let them go now using the magic key of forgiveness and you will be free to soar even higher into the sacred space which exists within your soul consciousness.

#48 Ground Zero

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:34:37 GMT

“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.”

- Peter A. Levine

This may be one of the hardest blogs I’ve ever had to write. I wasn’t even sure if I’d actually write one this month, or ever again for that matter. Life has a way of pulling the rug out from under you when you least expect it. And it did it to me just a few weeks ago. I was hit with some news that practically paralyzed me. Stunned and unable to speak, I was immediately cast into a void of emptiness that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. You know, one of those times when you want to shake your head thinking it’s just a dream and you’ll wake up with a sigh of relief realizing that’s exactly what it was.

All of a sudden my life seemed meaningless. I could focus on nothing but what I had just encountered. A literal flood of emotions came forth. And naturally under such circumstances, all negative. Total disbelief, denial, fear, anger, sorrow and some I have no words for. I could hardly walk and when I did everything was numb. My bodily functions ceased to exist. My world, the world I thought I knew, was no more. This was real and I had to face it.

What I was left with was a seemingly endless amount of time and the elusive answer to the question, why. The reason that I initially heard seemed weak and porous. Something that was so important to me right now was lacking. That being a truthful answer. Without that, this experience seemed a bottomless pit, and I was falling fast.

When we encounter such personal and emotional trauma it’s like a disease or a deep wound to the body and self-preservation and healing are a part of the natural response. I actually felt my physical body go into shock and felt its paralyzing effects immediately. Fight or flight is almost always our first reaction as the shock waves seem to blind clear thinking for a way out of this.

For me there was no immediate answer. I seemed to be in a holding cell of a timeless vacuum just letting each inhalation and exhalation settle me down to assess and put this together in some semblance that I could digest. I never felt so alone and empty to deal with this life altering moment. What did I do so wrong to deserve this? Where is the rewind button to go back to just prior? Maybe I could do something to prevent it? Just how am I supposed to handle this? I was quickly becoming an island unto myself with a storm of unanswered questions on all sides of me.

Within a few days notified family members were shocked and speechless with the same comments of it not making much sense. It didn’t seem right. Again, that elusive why was making its presents known. I had to have more clarity if I was to survive this with my sanity intact. I chose the only place to go that I knew I was safe, and that was within.

My saving grace was my knowing that I was first and foremost a spiritual being and as such was having this human experience. So, I had to handle this from two fronts. The human/emotional front that was demanding answers and healing for my damaged heart, and from the spiritual front knowing that this experience that was seemingly being directed at “me” the physical was more for the essence of me as the observer/spirit as an opportunity to choose a more loving response.

Now I realize that the “why” of all this matters only to the ego part of us which is in place to protect us from anything that spikes a negative reaction or could potentially take us out of the “norm”. But if you can put yourself in spirit mode in times of trauma or distress it’s like first sinking into deep water and then coming up to the surface for a breath of air. Thankfully I was able to do that after a few days but I’m still in the physical as well, and my pain sure seemed real enough and needed attention. It’s a constant balance in perception as we have to be in the world yet not of it. Emotions that are in our face need to be dealt with. Embraced, felt, forgiven and released. Running from them doesn’t work.

I’m not trying to sell this concept as an easy fix to personal traumatic experiences by any means. And I’m a far cry from being totally healed right now, but it has brought more of a calmness to my being, where a clarity of the” why” was able to be shown to me. Together with love and support of family and friends it can shorten the time element to wellness. Still however, the alone time is brutal. Think of it as walking on ground zero. You can’t see anything but destruction and mayhem all around. You don’t know where to go or what to do. But if you just somehow rise above it all you will be in a better position to see beyond it and decide which route out is best for you.

Life lessons, or should I say soul lessons can certainly come across as cruel to the point of being over the top, that’s for sure. And the only ones we seem to recognize are the ones that hurt, but they are a part of the growth and expansion of our very essence. So, we need to be able to look differently at these traumas that pop up in our lives and if you stand back far enough for the best view, you can ask, “what is all this showing or teaching me”? Chances are you’ll need to stop and really go deep with that question. But believe me, it’s important to address.

Every personal trauma is different and every individual experiences it differently as well. One thing for sure though, you will come out of it at some point. And if you can do your best to bring your spirit self into the equation by rising above ground zero, you will not only live through this storm, but come out of it stronger both mentally and spiritually than you’ve ever been before.

#19 This You in the Mirror

kim.tablac@engageyourbiz.com (Kim .) — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:38:28 GMT

Happy New Year everyone! I don't know about you, but thinking back to when I was just a young school boy thinking about the future, no way did I ever go out as far as 2020! It just seems crazy how quickly life can fly by us. Of course I also found out that the older you get, the quicker time moves. Add retirement into the mix and not even realizing what day it is can really put a different perspective on life in general. Having time to really ponder about life, what you've done, where you came from, to where and what you are now is like reading your own autobiography. I'm sure most people would have quite a story should they endeavor to write about it.

Actually, I started writing my second book just before the end of this last year. It's a book I was inspired to write just after my first book was published the end of 2016. The new book is titled "The God Particle", and it's about my personal journey to know God. I knew at the onset what I wanted to write about, but I had no idea just how I was going to introduce the subject matter itself. I trusted that inspiration would show up when it was time.

Well, show up it did, and I started writing. As I was writing it unfolded my personal story from childhood to current. Albeit, the Reader's Digest version, but there I am, being transparent with all who will read it. Although I'm not yet finished with the manuscript, I got to reflect on what I did write in the first 11 chapters, the where I came from and what I've done part of the story. It reminded me of what I used to say in autographing any of my first books that I sold at book signings or gave away to friends and family; "You are so much more than the image that bounces back from the mirror".

The contents of my next book will certainly expand on that concept. In essence, that is what I want to convey to you here as you stand on the first few weeks of a new year. Take a good look at that person in your mirror. Do you really know you? You are really worth that investment of time because you are awesome!

#47 God Told Me

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:37:56 GMT

“God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?”

- Neale Donald Walsch

Well, happy 2022 to you all! So far, we’re a week into it and nothing earth shattering has come about, at least in my part of the globe. As we all keep moving the absolute best we can amidst this cyber war that has the population soaked in fear and immersed in lies, deceit and corruption, not to mention severe whether challenges, it seems like there’s nowhere to go where it isn’t. I can easily see how some people might see all this as God’s cruel joke on humanity. People are losing faith as our fundamental rights and freedoms are being seriously curtailed or in some cases, stripped away completely. It’s all really serious for sure.

Since we really can’t stop time, or bury our heads in the sand, we put those heads down and march headlong into either the fray, or the joy of our future. We will try our best to minimize the banter and babble from our outside world adding to the confusion from a mass psychoses. As we start the second year of a radically changed world where no one is offering a fix-all solution to any of it, just how excited are you for this new year?

Actually, I’ve heard it mentioned on more than one occasion that this is a wonderful time to be alive experiencing life. I actually signed up to be here now. God told me this. God also told me to spread the word because amidst the turmoil of our current reality and despite our perceptions of current events, there is a mass awakening afoot. And it’s cosmic in scope. Everything that is going on in our outside world is by design and timely. Now I know what you’re thinking. Especially those who may be suffering in some fashion, physically, emotionally, or financially. Are you kidding me? Just look around. The world is a mess!

Okay, I get it, I really do and making a bold and broad statement like “God told me” I’m sure would raise a few eyebrows. Just let me share with you how I’ve come to this truth. I’ve made mention of this in prior blogs. Two years ago, when we were first being immersed into this world madness, I got sucked into it big time. I never before had given in to such anger, rage, and a feeling of hopelessness. It began to affect me to the point of hardly recognizing who I was, totally abandoning all that I’d come to learn about this thing called Me.

As time went on my self-preservation mechanism started to kick in thanks to my meditation practice every morning. I relied on this as my daily foundation of inner peace. It’s always worked for me in the past and more so now that I’ve been retired for over 4 years and encounter much less daily stress. I had surrendered the remainder of my life to listening to my higher self or God as I would seek guidance and clarity to fulfill my earthly mission in this incarnation. In fact, my second book, “The God Particle” was written entirely by inspiration. God talking to me, or actually, talking as me. It was for me a symbiotic experience.

That quiet peaceful self that I had come to know and appreciate was being violently taken over and I knew then that this was not where I needed to be. Outside stimuli had breached my sanctuary and the message I was consistently getting was to minimize and eventually eliminate that outside noise. Where do I go when things get a little dicey in my outside world? A little deeper into the rabbit hole. I certainly wasn’t getting any answers from outside sources, so the only place left is within. Everything in our world seemed upside down so I had to go to a place and ask the hard question; is what’s happening now apart of a cosmic plan? Now I know without a doubt that the “powers that be” in our world have a plan or agenda that’s now being played out, but is that too apart of the even larger picture?

Well guess what? That answer is a resounding yes! My studies have taken me deeper and deeper into the nature of reality and how the self is connected to it all. It’s similar to walking in the woods and getting disoriented as far as direction and where you are. You can’t see the forest for the trees kind of thing. If you rise above the trees you can easily see a way out. The further out you pull back, the more you can see of what makes up the whole. To understand the micro, you need to see the macro in all its splendor.

Here’s the deal though. First of all, if we can grasp the concept that we’re all really spiritual beings in human form, it automatically changes the playing field. Now most people have heard that before and, can agree, but do they really understand it? I think not. They’re too wrapped up in the human physical part of the program, too involved in doing human. Many have bought into the smoke screen of what’s being projected in the world we live in. Don’t get me wrong, I live in it too and it affects me like it does everyone, but it’s too easy to miss the big picture. The so-called agenda that is behind the goings on in our global community that’s got everyone in turmoil is not really where the fire is. Yes, it’s important and needs to be rectified in some form for the well-being of all. And it will be, I can promise you that.

So here is my bottom line on this at least for this post. What’s going on in the world we now inhabit is of real concern, at least from a physical perspective, no argument there. Our individual well-being is of utmost importance not only for ourselves, but our loved ones as well. Again, a physical perspective. Remember, we agreed that we were actually spiritual beings in a physical world, or is it? And what about this God that I claim to hear from within? It’s not physical as it comes through what I perceive as thought which is non-physical. This God that most of us would agree created the world and everything it includes. This non-physical entity that guides me in a direction to not only know who I really am but expand my awareness of “reality” and the way of things. The more I listen, study, and remember the more I totally understand that although we are in this world, we are certainly not of it. That is my saving grace. I will see this trial through to the best of my ability trusting totally in the fact that it is all being guided with unconditional love by powers greater than man, and for a purpose we don’t yet grasp.

There is a great awakening currently taking place that involves us all on a scale far beyond our meager ability to totally comprehend, and everything that is happening now is apart of all of it. The good, the bad and the ugly all have parts to play. The truth is out there, and God is talking. Are you listening? Rise higher in thought. The air is fresher, there is no noise, and you can see forever. I am that I am!

#53 Walking Into The Cave

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:51:30 GMT

“We are all living in a world of continual change, a world in which thought, thing and experience are all in a constant state of flux. It is the very nature of the universe.”

- Ernest Holmes

Despite all that we’ve been through over the last two and a half years worldwide, it is for us here in America our 4th of July or Independence Day! This needs to mean something for us all in the “free” world. We must hold fast to our freedoms and be forever grateful for whatever bounties we manage to enjoy, giving thanks to all who sacrificed to make it so. This as a collective, a community, a society or a family. Rise above the noise and confusion and see what we still have.

No less important a need is to take it down to its lowest common denominator, us as individuals. As stated in the above quote by Ernest Holmes, we are all in a constant state of flux. Change is all around us every day and most of the time it’s thrust upon us, and we need to address it. Be it in the way of the world outside or our own personal world within. And as much as we’d sometimes like to bury our heads in the sand and hope it goes away, well it doesn’t, and we must “walk into the cave”.

In my recent readings I came across something that address this in fine fashion, and I thought I’d share it with you in this blog post. It’s not my work and to be honest I’m not sure who to credit, as it was a story within a story. But it’s too important not to share. It’s title is “Walk Into the Cave Unreluctant”. No one escapes change, so take a moment and think on this.

You must walk into the cave unreluctant. As you enter, your eyes momentarily entertain the vapid darkness, yet it is your heart that will see. It is your heart that will beat with signals of illumination, shedding light for your steps.

You must walk into the cave unreluctant. At first you doubt your ability to navigate the jagged twists and unknown turns. Still, by the simple act of entering, your instincts reawaken, and you are welcomed home to the ancient wisdom nestled within your own mind.

You must walk into the cave unreluctant. And for those beginning moments, you feel tense and fearful about the perceived losses awaiting you. Do you turn around and go back to what is familiar, or do you challenge that fearful impulse and align with the inward will, that cannot cease its calling?

You must walk into the cave unreluctant. And in those initial steps you are weighed by all the life-long evidence you’ve accumulated as to why you cannot succeed. But the deeper you travel into the cave, the further removed those stories become. A new story is established, one that demonstrates how you are far more capable than you’ve ever given yourself credit for.

You must walk into the cave unreluctant, if for no other reason than that you don’t want to. You must walk into the resistance. You must walk into the discomfort. You must lean into the darkness, the doubt, the mystery, for this is where you come to find that the true realization of infinite life, real infinite life---your resurrection---only happens when you walk into the cave unreluctant.

I found this both stimulating and thought provoking. Independence doesn’t come easy as history and any free country can attest. So how could our own personal freedom be any different? As important as it is for each of us to be a free and independent society, that can’t possibly be complete unless we are free within ourselves. To do and be whatever we desire at any given time. We are each spirit, a conscious creative energy bound here by the density of a physical form, but the essence of who we are is both immortal and multidimensional.

Express your freedom from the inside out. It is God given.

#46 Rear View Mirror

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:42:00 GMT

“Wisdom is looking back at your life and realizing that every single event, person, place, and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.”

- John Frederick Demartini

I tore November off of my large desk calendar the other day which revealed December of 2021. All of a sudden, I was struck with a feeling of ‘where did the year go?’ Then automatically, like driving a car and taking a glance into the rear-view mirror, I had to reflect back for another glance at the previous 11 months. All those minutes that turned into hours that turned into days and on to weeks which led to tearing off another month from my calendar.

I had to ask myself, ‘how did I do?’ My first thought was wondering how productive I’ve been. I suppose that may sound like a silly concern coming from a retiree of 4 years, but it’s important to me every day that I contribute something to someone in some fashion before I lay down to sleep each night. The way I figure it is that if you awake in the morning with breath and a beating heart it’s your responsibility to contribute to the collective in a positive way. It needn’t be monumental, because a simple smile or a kind word to a random person can do more that we’ll ever know.

Have I been kind and loving to those that love me? We so often forget about those that are the closest to us. We tend to take them for granted. Did I acknowledge my wife and tell her I love her every day? Was there enough quality time to share together? If not, was I aware enough to work on that? How about my grown children and my grandchildren? Did we touch bases enough? My siblings, was there meaningful contact? How about my small circle of friends? Did I see or talk to them enough?

While I’m at it, did I uphold my values over the last 11 months? Was I kind and considerate? Did I show compassion if and when it may have been needed? And most importantly, was I grateful every day for the multitude of blessings that have been bestowed on me? That list alone is endless.

Now that may seem like a long time to glance into your rear-view mirror, and if you were actually driving your car, you may have a problem. However, your “car” is in this case your life and yes, it is always moving forward, but with that forward motion we leave a trail. That trail is littered with other beings, all important and significant components to your journey. This includes those that pop in even for a short time that leave a disruptive or negative mark on us.

This leads me to the real point of this post. Aside from an awareness of being in a state of gratitude more often, it’s your relationship to yourself and others. You see one of the fundamental reasons that you’re even here in this life is to learn first of all who you really are as a spiritual being having a human experience and to come into full expression of the best version of yourself.

For all that to happen is a process of evolution of your soul which is the very essence of you that is directly apart of God the Absolute, our Creator. We are all part of what is known as a soul group. Literally hundreds of entities who all vibrate at a particular frequency based on their learning and evolution. It is from this group that we choose all the characters we need in each of our incarnations that agree to “play” specific parts that will provide us with the necessary lessons and experiences that we need to expand in some form from lifetime to lifetime. This starts with the parents we choose as portals into this physical life to our siblings, extended family members, co-workers, spouses, friends and even what we perceive as unwelcome acquaintances. Everyone has a purpose, good, bad, or indifferent. We are in agreement with these entities prior to our birth in physical because we all have something to learn and to grow from. Unfortunately, we don’t remember this after coming into physical form, but it is something that when the time is right, we’ll understand as Truth.

Now if you’re at a place on your journey that would allow you to at least accept this concept as a possibility even with a bit of skepticism, you are already growing toward higher awareness. If none of it resonates with you now, no worries. When it’s your time, you’ll know it and begin your exploration. In either case the lesson is still wholesome. Every time from now on when you do look in the rear-view mirror of your car, to see what’s behind you, may you be reminded that it is also where you came from on so many levels. And I might add that wherever you find yourself now is a direct result of the choices you’ve made and how you’ve responded or reacted to the experiences that you’ve called forth. By owning it all, without blame or guilt, you’ve expanded your awareness and heightened your consciousness. Here you will find a peace that sustains the trials of the outside world. Your current life experience is your lesson. Learn it well as you proceed forward from the rear-view mirror.

#45 Inner Guidance

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:45:28 GMT

“True Guidance is like a small torch in a dark forest. It does not show everything at once, but it gives enough light for the next step to be safe.”

- Swami Vivekananda

I have become more and more mindful of my own inner guidance over the last few years. Especially since I was “told” that I would be writing another book just as my first one was being released the end of 2016. That was hard to forget and even though it took a few years before I actually started writing the second book, as I was awaiting further “instructions”, I just remained confident that I’d be shown both when and how to begin.

I believe that my daily meditation time has helped in grooming me to listen and be receptive to that still small voice. Remembering what one of my early mentors, Dr. Wayne Dyer used to repeat silently prior to going on stage to talk, “how may I serve?” I adopted that mantra to end my meditations.

Now as I look at how this part of my life has unfolded since I retired over 4 years ago and have dedicated the remainder of my life to serving God and my fellow man in whatever ways I’m directed; it has been kind of amazing. Although things don’t normally happen overnight, the idea of setting the intention and just doing your day to day and being thankful all while letting go in faith that everything is synchronous, one tends to really feel peaceful and balanced.

Recently a sequence of events took place that of course at the time I didn’t think much of, but from this present point I can’t help but be amazed and thankful. The first week of October a group of guys I worked with had one of our many gatherings. Although I don’t work there any longer, I’m still included in the sometimes-zany activities mainly for camaraderie and laughs. I was talking with one of my former co-workers and he happened to mention in a conversation that he had become an ordained minister and had married his son last year. I was kind of taken back as although he’s certainly a nice enough guy, a minister type he was not. He told me it was an online thing through a church that has been around since 1977 and for a small fee would certify you to be an ordained minister and you could legally marry anyone of any denomination in all 50 states. Of course, you could also provide other services as well if you were so inclined. I know what it must sound like as I had the same initial reaction but yet there was something intriguing about it. I checked it out a couple days later and sure enough, they were legit with many testimonies and stories from those who had come on board.

As you may know by now if you’ve followed any of my prior blogs and the information on my website, I’ve already accumulated a fist full of degrees and certifications through course work and studies in metaphysics, spiritual counseling, hypnotherapy, past-life regression, EFT, and life coaching going back to 1995. I never ever really thought about ministry in any form before other than the fact that I’ve done a lot of counseling over the years. All of a sudden, I felt prompted to go for this idea of adding ordained minister to my resume of services. I didn’t know where it was going to go but I did just recently give my youngest daughter away in marriage in a lovely ceremony that was conducted by an officiant. Basically, the same thing, a lay person who offers this service on the side. My inner guidance was telling me it was right for me at this time. In short order I received my certification of ministry.

Within a months’ time, my very best friend’s wife passed away rather suddenly. He is also an integral part of this group of co-workers that I still associate with. He asked if I’d please consider doing the eulogy for his wife’s funeral, not because I had just become an ordained minister, but because we were such good friends. Of course, amid the sadness of the situation I felt it an honor to accept. I would have done it regardless but again it all just felt a little better being able to look at this honorable job of delivering a eulogy with my new ministers hat on.

I said all that because as I sat and talked about this with my wife and looking back on this whole chain of events that took place in a little less than a month, we both agreed that it was timely and divinely guided. And that my following through with it was a testimony to trusting my higher self, regarding my desire in service to mankind. I don’t know where this will go in the future, but even if it ends up being the only “official” service I provide as an ordained minister, I’m content because I listened and acted in faith. On top of that, I was honored to honor a beautiful woman we called a friend of the highest order.

This being yet another reminder that we are multi-dimensional spiritual beings that are innately connected to our Source, God and through our higher self are whisperings that if we train ourselves to hear and trust will reward us in countless ways. I started calling mine, “call to action”. Every time I hear it, I smile and say, Thank You!

As you grow on your spiritual journey know that you are balancing between dimensions of reality and with the shift in consciousness that is happening on the earth at this time it’s becoming easier to sense the inner world and the higher part of you. The awakening to our true self and our connection to all that is brings unbounded joy.

#44 Autumn Lessons

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:55:38 GMT

As October closed out and November rolled in, I had to put together a few of my thoughts relative to my next blog post. Before I got too far with where I thought I was going to go, something else was nagging at me that I felt maybe needed to be shared here. I always try to stay tuned in to my inner guidance and so here is what is coming from me to you.

It’s certainly no secret in my family that I’ve always been a summer type guy. Being a “Leo” with an August birthday, I so enjoy the long hot and hopefully sunny days and warm evenings. I start looking forward to it in early spring. But alas, it comes to an end all too soon as mid-September comes along with the advent of fall and October blows in. I tend to cringe, looking only at the upcoming dreaded winter along with the stressful holiday season. One might think that after all the summers I’ve been blessed to enjoy, that I’d get over it and just enjoy the change. Well, I’m trying that approach this time around. I had a little help with 3 upcoming events plus one surprise that snuck in.

First, was my wife’s birthday 6 days into October. She loves Fall and I really wanted to see her enjoy her special day in every way, so I did my best to make that happen. Next was a surprise on the 11th when I received my Credentials of Ministry. Being an ordained minister wasn’t on my long-range radar but listening to inner guidance can do surprising things if you’re open to it. On top of everything else, I’m looking forward to seeing how I can be of service in this arena as well. October 15th was next, and that day was my youngest daughter’s wedding. Without a doubt she was more stressed than I was since all I had to do was hand her over to her future husband with my blessing. And I might add, she was a sight to behold! Now I have two great son-in-laws! It was a glorious event. Two days after the wedding and some quality family time my wife and I left for a weeks’ vacation in New England to enjoy the fall foliage before it disappeared under a blanket of snow. We traveled with my brother and his wife from South Carolina to give us a little extra quality time together tooling through Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont, not to mention the Adirondacks of New York. It was beautiful and my wife couldn’t take enough pictures. Great memories.

Now I’ve shared all that just to share with you my autumn lessons learned. The first I’d say was flexibility. I really had something else in mind for this blog, something a little more esoteric and spiritual I suppose since that’s pretty much where I’m focused at this juncture of my life. But a detour can be a good thing if you just allow it. As a result of this however, I’ll probably slip in another blog this month just so I can feel fulfilled in giving you something spiritually inspiring.

My next and probably greatest lesson would have to be gratitude. I’ve written about this before in a blog or two, but it hits home when I experience it firsthand with so much in a short time. Gratitude for my wife and all she is and has shared with me. My heart swells seeing her enjoy herself and life around her. Gratitude for an opportunity for me to be of service in a different capacity to someone in need down the road. Gratitude for the blessing of family coming together to celebrate the wedding of my youngest daughter, many from out of state that I don’t get a chance to see regularly. Even gratitude for my ex-wife and her family who have always been kind to me over the years and supported my daughter with love and caring. Gratitude for my children who again are not often in one place at the same time. My brothers and sister and their families for the same reason. I also reflected even deeper for a loving gratitude for those family members who have passed on and were there in spirit. My mother and father who were the conduits for me into physical life so many years ago, along with others who were instrumental in shaping me into the man I am. Grateful for my health at this age and the ability to fully enjoy all that this past month of October has given me and finally grateful for my One True Father, Creator of All that is, knowing that He is expressed in me.

So, we now move into the month of November. Where we here in the US celebrate Thanksgiving, a one- day family and food fest that goes back to the early settlers of this country who were thankful for the bounty of the harvest and the opportunity in a new land. I sincerely feel that with all the turmoil and fear that is abound globally many of us don’t take the time to look deeper into what we all have to be thankful for, not just for one day out of one month a year, but for at least once a day, every day of the year. Just this one simple action can not only bring a smile to your heart, but help you focus on the love and good in this world.

#43 A Hero's Journey

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:58:41 GMT

“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know.”

- Joseph Campbell

In the last four blog posts I took you on a deep dive into the cosmic reality of self. My purpose in what may have been difficult for some was to help you see from a much wider perspective not only who you really are as a being, but what you are a part of and the vastness of this universe. Uni-verse, meaning one song. We are all really one in unison with the Creator God, the Absolute. It’s hard to grasp that concept since we are so immersed in the illusion of separateness and individuality.

For now, that’s okay. After all we came into this life as expressions of our Source to experience life from all different perspectives. We came from all different beginnings, and we all have different paths and purposes in this third density reality. We all have different talents, skills and dreams and it is our job to follow our hearts desires. So, you could say we are on a journey of discovery of not only life, but of self.

The final stage of the hero’s journey is the return to the beginning, to Source, our origin. In your time here now though it’s not so much about the completion of the journey as much as it is in fully connecting in the adventure of it. Knowing through a new awareness that it continues beyond this physical incarnation and the essence of who your really are in spirit, keeps evolving as the life force is never extinguished. Much like a movie with sequels. Each with a different threshold, different death and rebirth moments, and different returns, all before a new call to adventure comes from higher consciousness, a higher level on the spiral.

Remember when you looked forward to finishing school, be it high school or college? You would get a job and somehow that was the end of something. The end of learning? The end of struggling? Or getting that one right job would be the end of lack and scarcity. Or getting that one right relationship would be the end of loneliness. Was it so? Probably not.

One meal ending eventually becomes a new meal beginning. One breath ending becomes the next breath beginning. Life (Spirit) is ever expanding and what It is we all are. That being the case, does it not make sense that our lives are an ever-expanding hero’s journey to higher and more expansive ways of being alive?

Look at your life today, right now, where on your hero’s journey are you? What we are invited to learn, to release, to realize and to embody as we continue to live, laugh and love is that we’re eternal, infinite divinely magnificent beings who are experiencing just one chapter in our saga of life.

#42 Deep Dive Part 4

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:27:40 GMT

Well, here we are, hoping that since my last post you’ve come up for some air for a few weeks and have enough within you to take another deep breath and lunge back down for one more deep dive. I realize that this mega dive into a world that most probably never even knew about is a bit much for some, but I am thankful that you’re here as I attempt to help you re-configure the foundation of yourself. I will be getting back to more digestible topics soon enough, but just considering these concepts will widen your perspective of your place in this thing called life and the sheer vastness of the wholeness we belong to. Ultimately, this knowledge if you can accept it on some level can also help you see the bumps in your road need not be as intense as you make them. We are all an integral part of a loving consciousness called God and are loved unconditionally.

My thought was that I was only going to discuss the next three realms, stopping at nine. I’ve now decided that since there are to my knowledge, twelve levels of existence, that it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t shine a little light on all of them. Besides, for my borderline OCD it would be like walking away from a half-made bed. So, as Larry the Cable Guy says, Let’s Get ‘er done.

The Cosmic Group of Densities:

Seventh Density—Planetary Consciousness, Cosmic Realm

There is much more to our home planet Earth, also known as Gaia, than meets our eye. In our 3D physical realm, she is a home to humanity. Her spiritual heart, however, resides in this nonphysical, seventh density realm of spiritual light.

This is the first density layer devoted to the cosmic scale of consciousness. A human being can visit seventh density during a period of cosmic consciousness, but they cannot reside there permanently for the sheer size and power of it.

Eighth Density—Solar Consciousness, Eternity Realm

The spiritual heart of the Sun is in eighth density consciousness. From our 3D view of its physical body, it is actually a faint reflection of its spiritual radiance.

As well as living within its third-density heliosphere, we are connected, at the eighth-density level of consciousness, with the spiritual being we call the Sun. You cannot be born within its sphere without first becoming a part of it energetically. We are, as stated correctly by ancient cultures, Children of the Sun.

Ninth Density—The Galaxies and their Central Suns, God Realm

A Galaxy is a living cell within the consciousness of the universe. Like the Sun, which later gave birth to its planets, each galaxy give birth to the suns within its massive body.

To appreciate the scale of Creation of which you are a part, radio astronomy has given us some idea of the total count of galaxies in existence. Currently, there are believed to be between 100 and 125 billion galaxies in existence in the universe.

The Divine Group of Densities:

Tenth Density—The Central Sun of the Universe, Multi-verse Realm

This is the manifestation of the original stage of the Creation. It is the expression of divine consciousness as the energetic hub of the created universe. Like the central suns of the galaxies, this source of all like in the universe is unmanifest in the physical realm.

Eleventh Density—The Watchers, Omni-verse Realm

These are the guardians of all of Creation. The Watchers, or Lords of Karma, ceaselessly observe and adjust the universe to keep it in perfect balance in accordance with the all-pervasive law of action and reaction.

The function of the Watchers is to protect all life in the universe. When necessary, they immerse themselves into the deeper densities in order to manage details or to initiate new projects within the universe. One such project has been ours: The creation of human consciousness and its gradual immersion into deeper, and therefore more sharply focused, layers of density.

Like all layers of consciousness, we are directly connected to the Watchers. They are part of the spiritual lineage which connects us to the ultimate state from which we all came, that of Infinite Being.

Twelfth Density—The Founders, Love Realm

The Founders of life in the universe, the Lords of Creation, exist within the highest density layer of the universe. It is from here that consciousness is loaded with energetic potential and cascades throughout all densities within Creation, distributing its potential as needed within each density along the way.

This cascade of the energy of consciousness passes through the Central Sun of the universe, then to the solar systems via the central suns of the galaxies. As it reaches the lower densities, it is also transformed into the energies that are required to maintain the existence of physical and etheric matter. As etheric energy, it sustains physical life and maintains the orbits of the planets and the electric particles within each atom.

Beyond the Twelfth Density—Infinite Being, God, Source, The Absolute

Infinite Being is the indivisible One, the origin of All That Is. The twelve densities of this universe are held within its consciousness.

** Sourced from “Stairway to Heaven” by Owen Waters

#41 Deep Dive Part 3

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:06:31 GMT

This month I found myself procrastinating to sit down and put this entry together. I’m a bit embarrassed to even admit that, but there’s that little voice within that questions whether or not anyone who may happen on it would even be interested to venture into this depth at this stage of their spiritual evolution.

That being said I am choosing to go ahead and write it anyway. My decision was based in part on a recent article I read relative to the one cardinal rule that authors should remember. And that is, that we should never write for everyone, but instead write for someone. I thought that was pretty profound and spoke volumes.

Now I have really no idea just how many people read my blog posts at any given time or even if by intention or happenstance. However, I do happen to know of at least one person that does read it and even looks forward to each entry. She even goes so far as to reach out over thousands of miles to discuss it with me. I know that she is a young person who is advanced beyond her physical years and very devoted to her Creator and the spiritual path she is exploring at this time.

Naturally it is my desire that others who are ready will find their way to this post as well as prior and future posts. I do believe that this information, as deep as it may seem at the onset is fundamental wisdom that one should be aware of in exploring the self and your relationship to Infinite Being, Creator God.

Okay, we left off covering the 3 material world densities which include the “reality” that we all are playing in right now. I use the term “reality” lightly here because as we go along you may understand it differently. So, let’s move onward shall we.

The Spiritual Group of Densities

The next layers of density are the spiritual group. The gateway to spiritual consciousness is through the level of consciousness to which mankind is currently awakening – that of heart-centered consciousness. For humanity, this is where the adventure really begins!

Fourth Density – Integration (Spirit Level)

In fourth-density consciousness, the heart awakens to a natural unrestricted flow of unconditional love. In third-density consciousness, humans develop themes of separation from each other. In fourth density, they develop integration, or the healing of separation.

After our physical death we (our soul) moves to the fourth density where the spirit realm, or afterlife, is located. Here, people resolve and integrate the emotional experiences that they gained during their physical lives. When today’s massive Shift in consciousness has played through sufficiently, fourth density will also become the new location for physical human consciousness. In this density, the qualities of balance and unconditional love are developed, which lead to the development of inner joy. This density is a quasi-physical realm.

Fifth Density – Soul Consciousness (Soul Level)

Fifth density brings with it the ability to create powerful realities and to transcend space and time. Once spirits in the afterlife have integrated their emotions and resolved their conflicts, they can pass on into fifth density. Fifth density is a nonphysical realm of the soul, of the “higher self” or inner being. Your inner being is your complete consciousness, and therefore includes the subconscious and super-conscious aspects of mind.

Your inner being has a clear connection to the higher densities and to Infinite Being. Therefore, developing a clear connection to your inner being provides you with a direct source of spiritual empowerment.

Sixth Density – Group Souls (Angelic Level)

While your immediate soul mates may number, typically, seven other souls, your soul family is much larger. It is closer to two thousand individuals, grouped together in a huge family of people with common likes and interests.

You share a similar energetic background, history, and many preferences as to the kinds of experiences that you enjoy. These are the people with whom you share the most empathy. To your inner being, they are “Home.”

Of the other members of your soul family, less than half will typically be in physical incarnation at any given time. Many will live in other countries and in other parts of your country. When you meet them, you recognize them as people whom you feel are special in some way. There is a resonance within your own consciousness that is quite different to how you would react to a total stranger.

Sixth density is where fields of consciousness grow larger in preparation for an eventual quantum leap into the cosmic scale of seventh-density existence. Although a soul family is comprised of many individuals, it is also a large field of consciousness within its own right. Other examples of sixth-density consciousness include angels, saints, world teachers, and members of the Association of Light. It is also the source of the light of the universal Spirit, which can be contacted during deep meditation.

Sixth density is home to some of the greatest souls who have ever graced the earth with their presence. The field of consciousness of a world spiritual teacher, for example, is enormous in comparison to the field of consciousness of one typical human. It is because of this great capacity of consciousness, along with their ability to divide their attention into many parts at one time, which allows world teachers to service the needs of all those who call upon them in their times of need.

Archangels are based in upper sixth density so that their awareness can encompass the entire planet in all its manifestations in fifth, fourth, and third densities. In this way, these global spirits are capable of detecting and responding to multiple calls for assistance all at once.

The presence people know as Mother Nature is also based in upper sixth density so that she and her nature spirits may be present in all places where life is to be nurtured.

The Association of Light consists of many thousands of spiritual beings who, having mastered cosmic consciousness, then passed through the initiation of full ascension. Their function today is to balance the energy of humanity. By attracting, conditioning and transmitting spiritual light into the world, they hold the balance of light for humanity so that we may continue our experience upon earth, uninterrupted by what would otherwise be the automatic, karmic reflections of the worst of humanity’s actions.

Their example of giving service by attracting, conditioning and transmitting spiritual light into the world is one which we will all grow to follow as we develop spiritually.

** Much of the information in within the context of my “Deep Dive” posts comes from continual research of many mystical metaphysical scholars that I’ve read and studied for years. Most of this sharing is credited to my Spiritual Metaphysics teacher, Owen Waters and his many publications at the Spiritual Dynamics Academy.

#40 Deep Dive Part 2

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 10:12:00 GMT

“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

- 2 Corinthians 4:18

“To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates

In every persons life a point of awakening occurs. Something happens to wake us up and cause us to realize there is more going on in life than just what meets the eye. It is the souls appointment with destiny.

I’m not sure how they do it these days, but back when I was in grade school and when math, my not so favorite subject was being taught we had to learn fractions. I think what stuck in my head more than anything else was the terminology of finding the lowest common denominator. It was supposed to simplify the process. Well, I still wasn’t particularly good at that when it came to math, but I’d like to use it as a starting block to look at life so that you may see a different perspective relative to the confusion and mayhem, we find ourselves in. The outside world and what may appear as radical changes can be daunting if not downright scary.

In order to make sense of it I’m recommending starting at the lowest common denominator, you! So may I suggest you leave your current beliefs at the door while we take this deep dive into the cosmic realm or what some may term mysticism. Now before you run away screaming of witches and demons, consider how English writer Evelyn Underhill defined it. “the hunger for reality, the unwillingness to be satisfied with the purely animal or the purely social level of consciousness.” The mystic way is simply the road less traveled to understand the relationship of the self with the universe to higher levels than our ordinary states of awareness.

Human beings question everything. It’s a natural response to our outside world and environment. Evolution has brought us to a point now where more and more people are beginning to look deeper within themselves and asking questions such as “Who am I really?” “Why am I here?” “What about God and what is the true connection?” “What happens when we die?” “Have I lived before?” Answers to questions like these and many more lie in the exploration of mysticism.

You’ve heard me say on more than one occasion that we are really spiritual beings having a human experience rather than a human being who may sometimes have a spiritual experience. I heard that phrase many years ago by one of my early mentors, Dr. Wayne Dyer. It was one of the many concepts that I’ve encountered that just rang of truth for me and I now own it without question.

What I continued to question from that point was reality itself, or should I say what we perceive as reality. In my never-ending quest to find the lowest common denominator relative to life, I needed to know just what my newly adopted concept of self actually is. The following will be what I’ve come to not only understand, but passionately believe and known as truth after many years of study and reading material that I was inspired to literally feel deep within. All of which have been a part of my awakening. I will share this monumental concept with you in parts so as to be easily digested. Eventually, you may begin see how small your problems really are in retrospect to just how big and powerful you really are.

There are twelve density layers of creation. The Twelve Densities of Creation are divided into four groups of three densities. These four groups contain the material, spiritual, cosmic and divine density layers of existence. A density is a layer of compressed consciousness. Life itself is pure consciousness in various frequencies. It’s important to note also that each density has twelve sub-layers or overtones.

The Material Group of Densities

The three most dense layers are the material group. These relate to basic physical existence.

First Density – Matter (Rudimentary Level)

First density consciousness is the realm of the atoms and molecules of physical matter as well as the basic sense of survival. This is the home density of the consciousness of the elements which form the basis of physical matter, including the physical bodies employed by plants, animals and humans.

Second Density – Biology (Instinctual Level)

Second density supports the consciousness of plant and animal life as well as the urge to grow. Plant life, for example, reproduces and spreads until it reaches the limits provided by its environment. Second density is also the density of the basic emotions, such as anger and fear.

Third Density – Individuality (Humanity Level)

Third density is the current realm of existence for the combined consciousness of physical humanity. It is where the consciousness of individuality and self-awareness is developed. Humanity’s experience of separation from its inner source is a deliberate experiment whereby the illusion of physical existence becomes very real.

The game of human physicality began long ago. As curious spirits, we progressed into a desire for maximum effect and then went on to discover how to create total immersion within the game. It is this total immersion within physicality which makes life on earth seem so real, so full of passion, so disconnected from our spiritual source and, yet, full of so much potential for self-discovery.

The experience of humanity’s separation from its inner source is achieved through using a physical brain which focuses on the five senses. These senses feed information to the brain from a universe which appears to be external. Our brains are wired to perceive space and to experience time. The turning of our attention away from inner, spiritually connected information provides a sharply defined sense of individuality, one which would not have been possible were our brains designed differently.

Third-density consciousness also supports other qualities for an evolving consciousness, such as the discovery of courage and optimism, and the development of intellect and reason.

We will stop there for now and continue on starting with the Spiritual Group Densities in my next entry. I realize that this material is much deeper than any of my past blog posts, so I urge you that if you have any questions up to this point, feel free to contact me via email and I will do my best to clarify.

Believe it or not there is a part of you that already knows all this!

#39 Deep Dive Part 1

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 10:17:27 GMT

I believe that I’ve come to a point in my current incarnation, or as some mystics would phrase it, incarceration that after this last year and a half I feel more at “home” living in the rabbit hole of what I deem as ultimate reality. Now the definition of that is as wide as the cosmos itself and is as personal as any individual may perceive it. In other words, within it is my truth or what harmonizes with me on a deep soul level. My consciousness has been undergoing a slow and steady expansion over the last 30 plus years since I was so powerfully moved into the study and understanding of metaphysics and spirituality. At the time I didn’t really know why I was so moved and intrigued by it, but I sure see it now.

The outside world as we’ve known it seems to have been turned upside down and the Biblical prophecy of the “end times” appear to be upon us. Although not necessarily as quick and radical as we may have first imagined it being, much of humanity is confused and living in fear. We don’t know what to make of it all. Our governments globally are corrupt and promote lies and cover-ups for financial gains and power. Governments are supposed to be working for the people, not the other way around. Even our media is compromised worldwide. Where do or can we get our truth?

I got sucked in from the get-go. Starting after the so-called Presidential election here in the US to the smoke screen known as the global pandemic or Covid 19 and the way too quick breakout of a “vaccine” cure-all. I just knew something was not quite right and I wanted to know everything I could before I’d buy into a herd mentality. Something inside of me was rattled like never before and I became obsessed with knowing the truth. To be honest, it’s been exhausting. Not to mention frustrating. I quickly learned that we’ll probably never get the real truth from the outside world. The sad part is that I knew better, but the world I live in is hurting and I wanted to try to understand it.

Now I’ve mentioned this in a prior blog, and it needs repeating. This isn’t a platform for a political stance. I never belonged to any political party or even followed politics at all, nor am I any kind of activist outside of being a patriot for truth. Hell, the simple fact is I’ve been seeking out truth for over 30 years in my studies relative to life and the self. Going deep didn’t scare me. I questioned my own inherited belief system in my thirties and became an island unto myself as most of my family didn’t quite get where I was coming from. I just didn’t feel comfortable with what I was being fed spiritually. The point to all this is that in these helter- skelter mixed up times, and despite my incessant search for answers and truth in my outside world, along with my mixed and sometimes rebellious emotions, I’m waving the white flag. It’s not because I don’t care about my country or the people in it. On the contrary, I really want to help in some fashion. And the only way that can happen is if I go where the truth and peace really resides…within, or my inside world.

I’m reminded of the story of a little boy who was home alone with his dad on a Saturday and desperately wanted to go outside and play catch with him. Unfortunately, dad had a project to finish for his work first and told his son that after he finished, he’d join him outside. Well, the young lad was a bit impatient and interrupted his working father a couple of times within a short period. Dad was running short on patients with his young son, and he grabbed a magazine from his desk, thumbed through it and found a picture of the world. He ripped it out of the binding and tore it into several pieces. He proceeded to hand the boy the torn pieces of the world together with a roll of scotch tape. “Go into the other room and tape together this picture of the world and when you’re done, I should be done with my work”, said the father. Well, ten minutes later the little boy knocked on his dads office door. “You can’t be done already”, said dad. The boy proudly held up the picture. “How did you do that so fast?” asked dad. “It was easy”, replied the boy. “You see on the other side of the picture of the world, was a picture of a man. So, all I had to do is to put the man together and then the world came together”.

I feel that I can best help others navigate the tumultuous waters of our changing times by first retreating to your inside world. We will begin to look at and understand just who you really are and once you can grasp that, you stand a better chance to rise above the noise and confusion of your outside world. It’s time for a transformation.

I will bring this to you in probably three parts. I intend to write the next entry mid-month to get things going. In the meantime, close your eyes, take a deep breath and begin to let go of the outside ruckus.

#37 What's In Your Cup?

Sat, 05 Jun 2021 10:28:58 GMT

My wife gets home from work just before midnight. As per my normal routine I am still up waiting on her safe return home. Sometimes I’m just reading, trying hard to stay awake and sometimes I’m in my office on the computer. Last night I was just sitting and waiting. When she came in, the first thing she said after “hi” was, “so did you hear the good news”? Since I don’t pay attention to mainstream media, I said, “no, what news”? Well, apparently the CDC lifted the mask mandate nationwide for those fully “vaccinated” individuals. A few exceptions are planes and buses. I said, “wow, that’s great!” She knows how much I really hate those things and make no bones about making sure everyone around me knows it.

Of course, early this morning I checked on the story and low and behold, she was right last night. But wait, what’s this that I’m reading? Oh, it’s our illustrious New York State governor saying no, not our state. So, once she awoke and with her eyes barely opened, she came into my office to say good morning, I presented her with the headlines. She immediately said, “no, not yet it’s too early”! She needed coffee first. I feel her pain.

Anyway, I could go on about all this in my usual fashion, as it can make my blood boil, but it isn’t my platform for this blog post or any blog post for that matter. But what is my platform today is what I was inspired with from my morning meditation and inspirational reading time. It kind of plays into my lead in story by way of our responses to each other’s news from the outside world.

You’re holding a cup of coffee and someone bumps into you, causing you to spill your coffee all over everything around you. Here’s the trick question. Why did you spill the coffee? I suppose you would think the answer is obvious, right? Because someone bumped into you. Nope, wrong! You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in the cup. Had there been tea in the cup you would have spilled tea. Whatever is in the cup is what spills out.

In life there is always going to be someone who “bumps into you”. So, whatever is inside of you will come out. These are particularly difficult and emotional times to say the least. We all harbor some kind of feeling, opinion or emotion simply because we are in the world and have to respond or react to the stimuli in our face, (or on it). And when we get shaken, our truth will spill out and be known.

So, you’ve got to ask yourself, “what’s inside of me”? When you get roughed up what comes out of you? Is it rage or disgust or some other nasty negative display? Or do you become casually unmoved maintaining your peace and composure? Chances are most of us react with cat like reflexes and spout before we think. You may even believe it’s natural. No, it’s easier but it sure shouldn’t be natural.

Now more than ever the world situation is giving us all a golden opportunity to reset ourselves from the inside, outward. The only way that happens is by shoring up your foundation with daily meditation and introspection. Cultivate your inner peace and don’t be afraid to have a dialog with the Creator of all life, however you envision that. Just a few minutes at the beginning of your day to start. With time and commitment, you will, as Gandhi said, “become the change you want to see”. I’m not saying it’s easy. I’ve been practicing for years and I still have a long way to go but to my credit, I am aware and do think before I spout. Well, most of the time.

What’s in your cup?

#38 Order Up

kim.tablac@engageyourbiz.com (Kim .) — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 10:20:35 GMT

"All things are produced by thought. The thing produced from mind is first formed in thought; thought molds mind into form."

- Ernest Holmes, "Creative Mind

Imagine going into a sandwich shop and asking for a submarine sandwich. With so many options, you have no idea what you will receive. You just might get the unwanted, low-quality leftovers. Maybe not--but why take a chance when any type of sandwich you can imagine is waiting behind the counter to be handcrafted for you?

You want all veggies? No problem. Maybe you want a sub on Italian bread with some protein, mustard and pickles. Coming right up! The choices are almost infinite. The whole realm of sandwich possibilities is just waiting for you to call into creation your own choice. But, you've got to be specific or there is a strong possibility you'll get whatever is left.

The Universe is delighted to fill your order. The whole Infinite realm of possibilities is waiting behind the cosmic counter for you to give your directive. You do this by speaking your thoughts into the receptive medium. You take the inner picture you have and make it known. There is then a corresponding effect in the outer world. It is the inner realization taking form. You take what you want to experience and declare it. You don't go in saying I don't want this and I don't want that. This kind of approach doesn't bring what you desire from the other side of the counter.

You have to make known what you want from life as clearly as what you want on that sandwich. Otherwise, you'll keep the Infinite guessing, just like that sandwich maker.

How great is it to realize we are co-creators. We have the ability to experience something for our physical use, from nowhere to now here. We all do it pretty much everyday but rarely ever give it a thought. Of course there a little more to understanding the process of intentional manifesting than "think and have", but a gift from God for us all none the less. And we are so much more. We're actually multidimensional cosmic beings.

This opens the door for further exploration. Are you up for a deeper dive? Stay tuned.

#36 From Chaos to Serenity

Sun, 02 May 2021 10:30:47 GMT

If you’re like most humans living on this planet at this time, there is at least a small interest in knowing what’s going on either around the world or at least locally each day at some point after awakening. Some people click on the news in some format before their eyes are fully open or even before coffee. For the love of God, I don’t quite get that but, to each their own.

Depending upon how you look at it these times we’re living in can be perceived as either a blessing or a curse. I say that because some may see a wide scope awakening and a cleansing from an old paradigm to a new one, where others may just be in total fear mode seeing the smaller picture of restrictions and radical change. Either way, humans are a naturally curious lot and there is certainly a plethora of information to be privy to. And, coming from someone who never really cared much in my younger years, it can be captivating to me now just because there is so much that affects us all on a global scale. We’re all at a different place with our ideals, values and beliefs, not to mention allegiances, and that’s to be respected. We gather our information and no matter how or where we compartmentalize it, it will affect us in some form or fashion.

My point here is this. Sometimes when I tune into the “news”, it seems like the whole world has gone mad. And honestly, it can feel fearful at first sight. Here is where I have to remind myself that this is the world of appearances and there is a whole rich amazing life within me that has nothing to do with that. There is a place inside of me that is untouched by the chaos of the world, a part entirely centered in the awareness of the divine love and unlimited possibilities of our Creator God.

For me, this is a place from which I must start my day. A day of inspiration from within and balance to be able to live in the world we have but not be of the world we see. By anchoring my consciousness first thing in the morning I can find calm in discord. Within turmoil, I sense serenity. Feeling lost, I am suddenly found. I remind myself that I have powerful unseen resources that provide for me and keep me safe. I remind myself how much God loves all of us and that a great healing is taking place that we are all part of just because we were born in this time and place. Lastly, I remind myself how important it is for me to keep my consciousness high, no matter the degree of insanity that shows up in the outer world.

Right in the center of who and what you really are is a guiding light. Every possible solution is already known. Feel soothed as you allow yourself to feel the empowerment that is so vitally alive within you. Feel your strength, your clarity, your focus and your conviction. Remember how much you are loved and the power of that love. Turn down the outside chaos and turn up the inner serenity. Be reminded that you are a spiritual being having a human experience thereby having the advantage of stepping outside of yourself and becoming the observer of the experience and choosing harmonious input verses input that upsets your world.

#35 Metaphysical Resurrection

kim.tablac@engageyourbiz.com (Kim .) — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:33:28 GMT

Ye are the light of the world… Matthew 5:14

This is Easter week of 2021. Easter Sunday will be two days from this writing. For a large portion of our world, it has always been recognized as the resurrection of Jesus the Christ after a physical death on a cross over 2000 years ago. A sign of re-birth or new life, that death holds no power over righteousness. We’ve also associated it with the season of Spring in this hemisphere, where nature blossoms into her magnificent display of life after a winters sleep.

Over the last year we’ve all lived through the changing of our outer world in some capacity or another and it’s been hard and scary to say the least. We scarcely notice however the only thing that is not changing and will never change, and that is the sacred and holy place within you. It remains that silent still spot that is the home of your very essence that is your Creator God, or whatever label you choose to call it.

So, to define metaphysical resurrection at least from my perspective is to awaken now to a new outlook on life starting from the inside, outward. I believe that the concepts of right and wrong are constructed by man. We have to search inside ourselves to find “the way, the truth and the life.” In that place, you will find the answers to all your questions and the clarity you need at this time. It is in that place that we can reconnect to the oneness of all life and the unity of our humanity. Within, you raise your consciousness to gain both the power to rise above any outside circumstance and the peace that enables you to endure any outward condition.

You see it is that very essence within you that is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, which has been there since the beginning of time. All the answers lie within you. The message of Easter is the gift of life. Resurrecting to a new awareness to your very being. The recognition of your true spiritual self that never really dies. It just lies quietly within awaiting to be recognized and accepted.

You will find it and use it through inner exploration, meditation, quiet walks in nature and simply being still with the Self and listening. It can be an answer for these times we find ourselves in because we can’t count on the outside world to give us what we seek. Our job then is to realize our oneness with all of life and the peace and harmony that comes from that awareness.

#34 Spring Into the Unseen

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:37:10 GMT

Well, I don’t know about you but I’m more than ready. In just a bit over three weeks we will be ushering in Spring, 2021. Of course, just because the calendar says it begins doesn’t certainly mean that the switch will flip, and we’ll be in flowers and sunshine. Typically, in this part of the country March is probably the most unpredictable month we have. But the anticipation into the unseen is welcome.

Unpredictable too is unfortunately the current state of our outside world. It’s been a whole year. Can you believe it? And I only feel it from our country. I can only imagine the misery and uncertainty from people throughout the world. I remember an old saying that said something like; if the outlook doesn’t seem good, try the up look… I always liked the sounds of that, but for me it seems an oxymoron in that it’s more inward. If it’s noisy outside, you close the door and go inside.

My previous post spoke of Divine order and that concept does really bring a peace to my heart so that I may better deal with being in the world, but not of the world. With that I feel that I’d like to share that my retreat to this mindset has brought me into another level of the rabbit hole of our unseen self. It’s a glorious place and really nothing to be afraid of. It lies quietly waiting for our readiness to touch it and hopefully embrace it. I can’t seem to get enough of it. I feel like I’ve been starving, and I walked into a banquet of truth, love and wholeness that has always been available to each of us.

Before I go any further, I wish to reiterate the purpose of this blog. It’s to bring awareness to those of you that find yourself reading it. I don’t want to assume you are totally at a place to accept all these concepts that have become a part of who I am, but the fact is that you’re reading it, so you’re at least on the road. I’m going to touch on some deeper concepts of self here and upcoming posts that have become pivotal for me at this time, making the chaos and uncertainty of the outside world more digestible. After all, we still have to live in this physical dimension.

You have a life plan. I’m not talking about your conscious plans for the future. I’m alluding to the unseen life plan. One that you may be on if your life seems to be going along smoothly and you are in harmony, or conversely if you’ve slipped off THE life plan, and things seem out of sorts and you may be depressed, lost or lonely.

Let’s define Life Plan. A series of experiences that encompasses your entire life in the earth-plane. A life plan is designed by you with the mentorship of your higher self and spirit guides before your birth while you’re in spirit form. The purpose is to decide what knowledge and wisdom you want to gain from the experiences you choose, thereby contributing to your advancement and evolution in consciousness. The knowledge and wisdom to be gained are designed in the form of learning lessons within the experience you’ve chosen.

Your life plan includes the era of history you are born into, the parents you will have, your family of siblings and relatives, and all the people you will meet and experience as an infant, youngster, teenager, and adult.

Accomplishing your life plan is where you can find motivation, purpose, and meaning in your life. It sounds like pre-destiny, and it is—you have programed your journey in the earth-plane, but you don’t have to be bound by your life plan. You have the choice to change it if you want. The life plan you chose was based on what you wanted to learn in order to advance in knowledge and wisdom in your evolution of consciousness. However, since you have freewill, you do have the choice of changing it.

Wow. I bet that opened a door or two, or at least a window. My suggestion is to read it again and chew on it, sleep on it and accept what you can or not. If you really think about your life as it is now and you allow yourself to think, well, what if? The unseen will show you a whole new world of who you really are. Remember the analogy of the iceberg. There is more of it in the unseen depths than is visible to the physical eye.

#33 Divine Order

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:39:08 GMT

I don’t know about you, but after all we’ve been through since March of 2020 through the end of January 2021, I for one feel like I’ve been on the longest roller coaster ride of my life. Not only that but it hasn’t really even stopped yet.

For a guy who for all of my adult years never really got overly involved or excited about the goings on with the government, politics or world affairs outside of keeping abreast of the headlines in a local newspaper, these last 10 months have knocked me for a loop emotionally and consequently physically. To endure so many radical changes in such a short period of time is not something most of us are too familiar with. No one really likes to change from the comfort of familiarity, but when it is thrust upon us it takes some doing to get used to. One thing I’ve always known though is that change is the only constant that directly affects everyone. The only thing that doesn’t change is change itself.

It’s times like this that I’m thankful for the over 30 years I’ve spent in the study of metaphysics, cultivating an understanding of not only the reality of self, but what life is all about and our place in it. Getting a view from a higher awareness puts a whole new perspective on things, like watching a play from the balcony.

Since mid-January I decided to step back away from the flames and emotions that are seemingly taking over society here in our country, not to mention the rest of our planet and its people and, fall back on a guiding principle that I’ve always known but seemed to have forgotten amidst the noise and confusion. It’s called Divine Order. Everything from our biology to the cosmology of the universe is a part of it.

Lately, for me it’s been a saving grace. A cosmic letting go and allowing the real higher power, God, the Absolute or whatever label you want to use to drive this ship. Granted, it doesn’t mean total and complete passivity and burying ones head in the sand and not playing an active part in life, but when one gets to the point of emotional overload where it can overtake your physical being, you just have to stop and reassess. I’m not advocating that this is easy or even for everyone but just stop a minute and hear me out.

Just start with taking a deep dive into your own life story. Recall a few times that you were confronted with a radical change or even a traumatic incident for that matter. Now, here’s where you may have to stretch some. At the time it was the worst thing ever and you would have done anything to not have to go through that, but you couldn’t do anything about it. Now look at you. You’re still alive and it’s behind you. What did that do for the broader picture of who you now have come to be. What did you learn? How did you grow? What did that wrinkle in your life path provide you at this juncture? As bad as it may have been, and I’m not trying to come off insensitive here but there was some growth. There had to be. You may have to pull away from the personal part you played and become the observer of it to see the value, but you should see it.

Let’s take it one step further and look at the history of the world as we know it. How many wars has mankind endured? How many millions of lives have been destroyed as a result? How many countries have been effectively destroyed to the point of near annihilation? Just look at Japan from the second world war. Was it worse than bad? Was it inhuman? Absolutely! But look at them now. What does all this show us? How did we as a civilization benefit in the long run. What did we learn? Did we not grow and learn a few valuable lessons about living together and sharing to improve the well-being of others? Of course, we did. All that stuff had to happen to bring us to a better place on a global scale. All was good until it wasn’t again. Then another cycle of rooting out the bad for the emergence of the good.

We are in the “end times”, no doubt. There is turmoil, unrest, mass corruption, and all kinds of blackness that is clouding our very lives and ability to see with any clarity any kind of bright future. It’s not the end of the world per se, but the end of the world as we knew it, not unlike what it’s seen before. The only difference is that for many of us, it’s in our face for the first time and damn uncomfortable.

Besides taking any active role that can help the process in a positive light and those in need who are suffering, this is where we need to acknowledge that God has got this. There is always a reason for everything that happens despite the fact that we can’t see it at this moment. Let go and just learn to trust in the one and only power that has been here from the beginning with nothing but love for us all.

Take a deep breath or three and repeat this affirmation aloud or to yourself; “my life and my world are in Divine Order now and always”. It starts with you. We have more to be thankful for than we have to complain about if you look deep enough. Allow this shift in global consciousness to play out. Evolution takes time and it is happening whether we know it or not. There is more love than hate, more good than evil, more honest hardworking people than corrupt politicians and by far, more hopeful, grateful and responsible human beings than those who want to take advantage of the masses. We will survive and prevail. As Gandhi said, “be the change you want to see in the world”. Be one with Divine Order.

#32 Close One Door Open Another

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 10:41:56 GMT

You have arrived. Welcome to 2021. Each new year the general consensus is always one of optimism for the next 12 months of our lives as we bid farewell to the previous year. I don’t think there are all that many people who would feel all that sorry to see 2020 go by the wayside. It was sure more than anyone bargained for as they cheered it in last December 31st. Who would have thought we’d experience all we did on a global, national and personal level? What do we do with all that? Well, I propose two things we can do.

The first is to evaluate last year. It is true that it is most beneficial to live in and focus on the present as it is where we are all the time. However, like driving your car forward, an occasional glance in the rear-view mirror is necessary. It is appropriate for us to reflect on the past year, especially this last one. Take a few moments today to look back on the year that was and, as you do so, be soothing with yourself, mindful of being as gentle as you would be with an infant.

Think about the birthdays, anniversaries, memorials, weddings, graduations, vacations and family gatherings that could not take place or be honored like they ordinarily would be. Reflect on the areas you have grown into that you ordinarily would have not thought possible. Consider the shifts in societal awareness that have emerged, bringing us important and necessary conversations that might not have risen into our group awareness had we not been sheltering in place. Reflect on the successes, disappointments, losses gains, adaptations and decisions you have made.

It is essential to face life just as it is and just as it is not, and to do so from a place of gentle power, acknowledging the whole range of emotions that come with this reflection. You have been tempered beyond what you would have normally allowed yourself to be and have come out on the other end of this past year completely different.

Now, the second thing is to ask yourself, who will you be? As important as it is to evaluate the past, it is equally important to look to the future by thinking of how you would like to be in this new year. Without a mental road map, it is challenging to know if you are staying on the path that you may set for yourself, and it’s easy to stray and lose focus. Let’s face it, you’ve had a lot more opportunity than normal to put thought into your life under the various circumstances we found ourselves in. Difficult times and unexpected changes in life tend to initiate fear of the unknown at first, but it also can open the door to the inner self. I’m betting you found yourself resolving to prayer in one form or another more often than you did prior to our global mess.

At this point, even though we’re still not quite “out of the woods” with what’s going on and we are still adjusting to a new normal, you are a survivor. That is something to celebrate. You still have life to live and more to give. Did you happen to experience a feeling of being repressed in some form last year? A feeling that you were limited to do what you wanted when you wanted. I know I did and it’s not a nice feeling. It served to intensify my personal drive to do and be more while my heart still beats and there is air in my lungs. I want to do more of what makes me feel alive. What about you?

Instead of a silly New Year’s resolution for the same old goals that fade away within a month, might I suggest you cultivate a quiet space in your day, every day to just be and listen. Listen to you higher self through your heart. What really defines you? What would you like to experience or accomplish before you exit this dimension? I’ve got good news for you. You are an immensely powerful creator. You can visualize and emotionalize. Two dynamic and divine ingredients necessary to craft and experience pretty much anything you desire.

One last note. As of this past December 21st, the first day of the winter solstice, we’ve moved into the Age of Aquarius. Our species is evolving and we’re becoming more powerful heart-centered beings. Our consciousness and awareness is heightened. Harmonize with the power around and through you. You need not be afraid. Step out. You’re not done yet. Make your mark. Go forth and always be grateful no matter what because everything has a purpose, including you.

#31 Compassion

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 10:44:18 GMT

“If you want to be happy, practice compassion”.

- Dalai Lama

We are all familiar with this word compassion. Thankfully, it is alive and well in today’s world despite the turmoil and confusion we are all witness to. For the sake of this post, I chose to Google the definition. It read, “sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others”. Personally, I’m not sure I like the word pity so much. I prefer deep sympathy myself.

Since I semi-retired from my private practice several years ago, I’ve managed to keep my passion alive by doing my own thing in a different direction, like writing. Not unlike a lot of other authors who self-publish, it was never my dream to write a book, let alone two with two more in the embryo stage. It was more a result of wanting to share a message that was the result of personal experiences. One of those experiences was in fact the springboard to my going into private practice to begin with. I had experienced a life altering tragedy at a relatively early age and had to find my way through it. In doing so, I also found my strength and purpose and that was to help others from what I learned.

Over the eighteen years of my practice, I learned so much, and I continued to grow as a result of that learning. I wanted to not just help others with their challenges, but more importantly I wanted to bring an awareness to people about what they were as a spiritual being in human form. Not to mention the power they had to do and be what they wanted once they got the garbage out of the way. My compassion for their pain became my passion. Hence, my passion became my happiness.

After retiring from one-on-one contact in an office, I did for a time become content with sitting in my home office to write and continue my studies in ultimate reality but kept myself available for those who may search me out for service of any kind. I could never not help. These were far and few, or should I say too far and too few.

Something has been gnawing at me for a while causing a restlessness and even though I really didn’t think I wanted to open another office again, and I was still writing with frequent inspirational guidance, I still kept feeling a sense of incompleteness if you know what I mean. Somehow, I didn’t feel I was totally filling my purpose.

What to do with this conundrum? Well along came 2020 with Covid-19, social distancing and a whole new normal. Not to mention a boat load of fear and confusion. I found myself becoming a victim of mixed emotions like everyone else. Where was my happiness? My sense of purpose? I couldn’t help people even if I wanted to. At least not like I used to face to face. Do I just put my feet up and try to enjoy retirement the best I could and just read and write? Sounds good, but there was still that sliver of emptiness that I couldn’t shake.

In 2019 my wife helped me put on a live full day workshop. It was something I hadn’t done in years since my practice. It was on vision boarding and it was awesome. I love to teach and share and with her help I found that spark that wasn’t quite ready to die out yet. I knew I wanted to do more workshops to coordinate around the material in my books, but that possibility went by the wayside with the social restrictions. Everything was beginning to go virtual and to be honest, I wasn’t comfortable with that idea. Where was the personal touch?

She tried to convince me to reach out on Facebook live and although it was a good idea, for some reason I resisted that. Time to let go and let God I guess if my work isn’t done yet. There is something to be said for letting go even though the waiting can be painful.

Not too long ago I received an email from a company that connects all kinds of professional services with people in need of those services. The biggest selling point of this idea is that those in need are willing to hire services remotely as well as locally. Now I’m face to face with a decision to offer what I once did one-on-one, to get knee deep in someone’s personal challenge on a Zoom screen. Could this possibly work? Well, I filled out a profile and submitted it and they began to send me leads of people who were looking for help in all the areas I listed. I was blown away! So many people from all over the country reaching out for help in all areas of their lives. So many hurting people! I’m filled with compassion for them all. Guess what I’ll be doing.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion!

#30 Seek Ye First, The Kingdom of God...

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:47:31 GMT

Matthew 6:33 in the New Testament of the Christian Bible reads in full; “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” It was a part of the Sermon on the Mount.

I was recently completing my morning meditation ritual when this verse, in part came to me. I’ve learned not to question these random inspirations, so I quickly jotted it down. For some reason I seem to recall hearing a faint voice afterwards. Just two words; blog post. This coming just days after my last blog entry which was the second entry in the month of October. It just so happened that I had metaphysically dissected another Bible verse in that blog and shared my interpretation for whatever it may have been worth.

Please understand that the main purpose of my blog is to bring awareness and empowerment to the readers relative to who they really are and the power they come into this incarnation with. As I eluded to before, I am a metaphysician who studies the depths of life and what we as spiritual beings perceive as reality. I teach universal law, focusing heavily upon the co-creation, or manifesting our desires using several universal principles that coordinate with the law of attraction.

Metaphysical Bible interpretation was a course I had to take in my doctoral program many years ago, and to be fair, until recently I’ve never ventured into these waters. I understand that it is a sticky area, and it is never my intention to rile up those who follow the word of the Bible verbatim. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs and it isn’t my job to try to change them. The spectrum is wide enough for all.

It is my job however, and mission to help and guide those individuals who have been touched by the shift in consciousness worldwide and are ready for a deeper dive into reality. There is a global awakening happening whether we like it or not and people are looking to grow more spiritually from within. They need more choices to assess truth for their own sake. So, taking a closer look at one of the most read sacred texts and really examining what is being said is important now more than ever. It boils down to how to live our lives as a God particle.

We are all spiritual beings, conscious intelligence infused with the power of God, experiencing endless opportunities in a physical dimension reality to serve one another and grow as one. The Bible is supposed to direct us to know God, and to know God is to know ourselves. Opening up to the concepts of this truth is exhilarating and all consuming.

Being spiritual in nature, we came from a higher dimension of consciousness before we even got here, and in that transition, we’ve forgotten that origin and naturally adhere to the way it is in mass consciousness for our own survival. We take what is downloaded into us and for the most part, live without question, often falling off the path of righteousness through sheer ignorance of self.

Humanity has needed teachers and way-showers throughout its history. Self-realized masters and adepts that heard the word of God the loudest and were led to teach and guide the masses. Jesus the Christ was and is one of those we look to for guidance and growth through his teachings in our Bible and from our priests, pastors and ministers. What we fail to consider is a wider perspective of his teaching since he taught in allegories’.

One of the more well-known teachings of which there are numerous references is “the spirit of God is within you”. In other words, the essence of what is God or Father is your higher self which makes you that which created you. Did you ever take the time to really let that saturate your whole being? Therein lies the master key to your salvation on the spiritual level and your worldly success on the physical level.

We all want to experience all the blessings physical life. We want to be loved, happy, healthy, and enjoy financial abundance. Free from worry and anxiety, fear and heartache. These things and more we can have because we are both the cause and the effect. We are the creator and the creation. Yet, we perpetually go on wanting changes in our conditions, conditions we created, and more “stuff” to adorn our lives. Although this is natural and good, we’re missing just how to go about it. The road to succeeding in realizing your hearts desires as they come along is Seek ye first, the Kingdom of God… the Higher Self, and his righteousness…right thinking, and all these things will be added unto you…desires.

Start your journey getting to know and understand your relationship to God first. As I have already said, to know God is to know yourself. Then on to see now from a higher perspective the very laws of life that are always in play at your very command.

When you can reclaim your seat and become one with Source, there is nothing you can ever really need because you already have it. You just have to bring it in from its 4th dimensional home to your 3rd dimensional reality, by acknowledging that it is already yours and be stalwart in your belief of it. Immerse yourself and all your senses into this assumption, and it will solidify in your reality in its time by law.

So that’s what that particular Biblical quote equates to me. I’m not selling it to you, but maybe just think on it some because after all, you are a creator.

#29 You Die in Your Sins

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:03:54 GMT

It has come to my attention recently from a good friend and faithful follower of my blog, that I should consider more frequent entries rather than the once a month routine that I’ve been doing. Well, for anyone that knows me, starting with my wife and children, they would be quick to tell you that I can be somewhat “regimented” in pretty much most of what I do. It takes me a while to let go, switch gears and try something new or different from my norm. So, I decided to listen to the guidance from my higher self this morning and here we are…the second blog post for October of this abnormal year of 2020.

I assume the title of this post grabbed you because it did me in the midst of my studies today. I was reading a lecture from my favorite modern-day mystic, Neville Goddard, given in 1952, just a year after I made my entrance in the physical realm.

It is of course a biblical verse. John 8:24 to be exact. I had to look it up since there was no reference to it in the lecture I was digesting. It’s real meaning differs from the biblical interpretation, which didn’t really surprise me. You see I’ve been a Metaphysician for over 30 years now, and again as those who know me will attest, I just see and understand the world and life differently.

To dissect this verse, you need to understand the meaning of “sin”. It’s really not as dark and gloomy as we’ve been led to believe. It simply means “missing the mark”. Not a sentence to a fiery hell, or a slap in the face of a loving God. It means simply not getting the best or most harmonious outcome from a life lesson or opportunity, based primarily on your thoughts and beliefs.

The whole verse, “you die in your sins…” is relative to ones inability to see or experience a desire of the heart. It’s about feeling failure to achieve something for yourself that you’ve seemingly “prayed” for and didn’t get.

The real reason one doesn’t get what they desire and pray for isn’t because God doesn’t want you to have it. No! It’s because you failed yourself. That’s right. Take it on the chin. You failed to totally embrace the feeling of already having, doing or being that which you really desire. You failed to allow yourself to become a vibrational match to the thing realized. You failed to realize that once you recognize a desire for something and imagine it, it’s already done. It’s yours already.

When you pray in supplication rather than gratitude, you are believing in the lack of the thing desired and that it is hopefully going to bestowed upon you by a power outside of yourself. You only plain missed the mark and therefore, unless you wake up to the fact that you are a spiritual being with the power and will of God within you, you will “die in your sins”.

The Universal Law of Assumption, which is an aspect of the Law of Attraction, is very clear. Assume that you already are or have what you desire and embrace the feeling as so with your imagination and it must solidify in your physical reality.

So many want to create change in their personal lives. So many are burned out, frustrated and confused, now more so than any other time in history due to the radical changes in world society that have been thrust upon us without our consent. The only way to fight back is to get quiet, go within and listen to the guidance from your higher self for clarity and direction. Then feel the excitement from desire itself, because it's the real self (God) talking.

#28 An Echo From Within

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:03:54 GMT

If life made you out of itself, which It most certainly did, and if you are an individual just a little different from all other individuals who ever lived, then Life not only created you as an independent being, It also implanted a unique something within you. It will never be duplicated. The spirit that accompanies you through your life is just a little different from the spirit of any other person--not different in that it is isolated, because all are rooted in one being, but different in that it is individual.

Think of it this way: There is a spirit in me and this spirit is God as His own son. Whether or not I understand it, there is a real Me that forever exists in pure spirit. I had nothing to do with this. I merely awoke and discovered it. I did not give it to myself, and I cannot withdraw myself from it. I can only accept it.

Since you are an individual, you can either accept or reject your own spirit. Of course, no one can take it away from you. Somewhere along the line you will be compelled to accept it. However, you can procrastinate, you can divert, you can sidestep or delay this divine event.

If you knew beyond question that this is true, your greatest search would be after your own spirit. Well, you do know this. Every desire you have for betterment in life is some echo from that deep within which forevermore proclaims, "Behold, I make all things new."

from "This Thing Called You"

Ernest Holmes 1948

My daily morning routine consists of about a 40-60 minute meditation, followed by readings from a couple of daily devotionals before I do anything else that day. A few days ago, the above was one of my readings and I felt that I had to include it in this months blog post. I realize that it may be a bit deep for some, but truth often is. It is important to me at this stage of my life to bring an awareness to mankind about not only who you really are, but just how powerful and magnificent your very being is. We've all been apart of some pretty serious global changes and disruptions in our daily worlds and many are in a confused, lost and even scary state of mind. Many are realizing how important it is to go within and touch our spirituality. There is so much more of you that you can't see, but with desire and faith you can and will bring to light that part of you that has been asleep. Once you see even a part of this, you'll realize that it's actually a good time to be alive!

#27 Thank You For...

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:03:56 GMT

I think it’s fair to say that the vast majority of us grew up with, at the very least the basic morals and values which would have included the courtesy of saying “thank you” to anyone for giving us something or expressing a kindness toward us. In other words, GRATITUDE. In fact, most would find it downright rude if someone would neglect even a simple thank you for anything that is either done for us or given to us.

With this embedded moral, we almost unconsciously express thanks pretty much every day and really don’t give it much thought. It’s become almost a robotic response for most civilized beings. Notice however that this common courtesy is expressed after something has been done for our behalf. Rightfully so, however I would like to take this time to bring a more rounded view of gratitude itself and bring to your awareness the power of “thank you” before we receive.

GRATITUDE has much more depth than the shallow and almost rote response we give it. There is a higher concept of gratitude that we need to consciously learn to employ for our well-being. In my first book, Genesis 101, The Metaphysical Cosmology in the Process of Creation, I included Gratitude in the eight universal laws that were responsible for manifesting or co-creating something into your life.

A quick peek down the rabbit hole to reveal the truth of something we take so lightly may surprise you. Scripture has many references to “by their works, ye shall know them”. I believe that this truth applies most aptly to Gratitude. For gratitude expresses itself in works. In other words, the higher the concept of gratitude, the greater the works of the individual expressing that gratitude. The act of expressing gratitude is in truth the act of acknowledging (within yourself) the source of all your good…which is God. Also, it is impossible to express gratitude without expressing Love, as they are both components of God, and therefore, inseparable from God.

That being said, gratitude is really is a form of God activity or God expression. So, when we express gratitude, we are really the vehicles through which God pours Itself as Love or as Gratitude.

For the context of this brief discussion we will confine the subject of gratitude to its relationship to supply. What we want or what fulfills us in our daily lives. As a universal law gratitude is an extremely powerful tool. In fact, I remember reading about prayer, and it was said that should you not know much about how to pray or what to say, the most powerful prayer is simply, “thank you”. When Jesus talked about praying without ceasing, He actually meant to be in a state of thanksgiving or gratitude all the time.

I know that most people would say that this just isn’t feasible, given all the negative and disrupting people and circumstances that come our way every day. Let’s just come up for air here. For now, let us just start practicing this thing called gratitude for making improvements in your life. After a time, we will better understand its application in other areas of life. When I say this there are no limits. Whatever you really, really want to have, do or be. Before I go further you need to realize that everything is already created. That truth alone is enough to be thankful for. You’re not really starting from scratch. God had done the work. Your job is to acknowledge it.

Close your eyes and see what it is you desire. New job, loving relationship, perfect health, fat bank account. The list is endless as we are all different and have varied wants and desires. Don’t be shy, put it out there. God has created it all and you are a part of that creation, therefore you are already a part of that which you think you don’t have. See yourself doing being and having. Thank you for my perfect job opportunity. Thank you for my loving mate. Thank you for my total health. Thank you for the influx of cash in my bank account. All this in the face of seemingly the opposite of these affirmations. You must be thankful ahead of receiving, acknowledging that it is already yours and you are so grateful that you can feel the excitement. These are your “works”. As you think it, you create it.

Practicing being grateful for what you desire will lead you to be thankful for what you already know that you have. Even if your life isn’t what you’d consider ideal by many standards you will find something to be thankful for even if it’s just the air you breath or whatever food you have for nourishment. It’s really not that hard to find something that you’re thankful for. Small things lead to bigger things.

Being grateful for experiencing a desire just mentally and emotionally accelerates the actual physical experience toward you. Creating by intention in this way is so divinely satisfying.

Now the elephant in the room. What about being thankful and expressing gratitude for the “not so good” things in your life. I’m sure some may agree that there is more of that than good. By going in this direction, it forces one into what I call introspection. Here, by being grateful you seek the lesson that is in front of you and you’ll become aware of your growth as a result of it. Now the God within you pours itself out as both Love and Gratitude.

Thank you for…

#22 Let Go and Let God

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 11:21:42 GMT

I thought I'd take the opportunity this month to announce that my latest book, "The God Particle", is due out hopefully sometime this month. The latest update from my publisher is that it's being prepared at the printers and should be live and available soon. I'm very excited as it's been kind of a long road since I submitted my manuscript back in March. Unfortunately, it got caught up in our global pandemic as the publishing company, like the majority of businesses was forced to work with a skeleton crew which slowed down the process all the way around. All in all though for anyone thinking about writing and working with a self-publishing firm, Stratton Press is aces from top to bottom. Very caring and professional people. They made me feel that both me, and my book were special.

I must also say that I found it particularly synchronous that I ended up going through this submission process during a time when there was so much uncertainty and fear in our world. Of course I questioned my timing and even had doubts that it may never end up getting published at all. Then it dawned on me that I had the same doubts about how I was even going to write the book in the first place, despite the fact that I was inspired to write it shortly after my first book came out four years prior. I knew what the title of the book was supposed to be and even knew what the primary color of the cover was supposed to be, but how I was going to put it together, I hadn't a clue.

The lesson is that I wrote this book, my personal story of my relationship to God totally trusting that I'd be guided on what to say, how to say it and when it had to be written. I had never allowed myself to be guided quite like that before, but I must say it was quite an awakening. So, once I stopped and realized that, I just decided to continue to let go and let God take it the rest of the way which obviously included the publishing part, no matter how long it was to take. I recalled hearing a wise saying many years ago; "you can't make a flower open before its time". It gave me a whole new perspective on the old saying "let go and let God".

When we can come to a point in our lives when we understand that we are a part of a greater whole that has our best interest in mind, and there is no such thing as failing or making a wrong move, suddenly you become so much more at ease. It is what it is, and it's all good. Somehow, putting your trust in something you can't see, touch or control is quite liberating. It kind of reminds me of the day that the training wheels came off of my bike and my dad finally let go after running behind me. Suddenly balancing just happened. Now, it's a natural thing and you can't unlearn it. Give it a shot. Let go and see where life takes you.

#24 A Bright Tomorrow

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:21:43 GMT

Every morning, usually quite early, I start my day with a sitting meditation that may last anywhere from three quarters of an hour to an hour. Then, I have a few minutes of inspirational reading from 3 sources I've been using for some time. This morning prior to meditation I was aware that I needed to make this blog entry. One of my readings was a short article by Rev. Dr. Arthur Chang. It starts out; "A bright tomorrow awaits our today. Secretly packaged in this day is a clean sheet of possibilities to spread across a wide swath of time, enchanting the landscape of our minds. Wisely, we the mavericks, will choose and create what this new dawning reveals. Yet to realize the deeper meaning of our lives, our soul's inmost wish is to free us from this slumbering, grey neutrality and release a world of glorious forms and colors, making life miraculous".

Obviously, I was inspired to share this here because I really didn't know where I wanted to go with this months entry. It's also obvious that everyone on the planet spends so much time focusing on the world crisis we all share in right now and outlooks can tend to be bleak to say the least.

It's important for me to emphasize that we must curb all the negative input and start focusing on our lives and dreams. We're all such powerful creators that we sometimes don't realize that what we focus on expands. The Universe doesn't care what you want to bring into your life, it just responds to the vibration you are sending out and that correlates directly with what you are letting in. It's a double edged sword. It can be good or not so good.

Let's face it. We are seeing the beginnings of a new "normal". I know that may seem scary because of so much unknown, but we have to realize that the world has gone through thousands of changes since it's inception and thousands more since man has stepped in to the mix. We are seeing the results of a collective consciousness over time. With the awareness of our individual power of co-creation, we can contribute to better, more peaceful times by simply focusing on our individual dreams and desires. I know that we all want pretty much the same thing, peace, love and whatever success means to you.

It doesn't have to be that hard. Use your wonderful God given imagination and create your "happy place" with all the trimmings. See it, feel it and accept it. Let that be your bright tomorrow. Water it daily and watch it grow. Do your part and contribute to a better collective consciousness by simply embracing the best you can see for yourself and your family. Change happens one person at a time. Be the change.

#23 So, Now What?

Fri, 01 May 2020 11:21:44 GMT

I recently recalled a silly saying from my early childhood that was both a question and a statement. It went something like this; Did February March? No, but April May! Now for the life of me I cannot tell you if and when I first heard that, or even if I made it up, but it doesn’t matter. The fact is that April this year in particular didn’t seem to “March” at all. Outside of the obvious, the 31st looked and felt much like the 1st with all of us being in a perpetual limbo. There was certainly nothing outstanding in my world being as confined as I found myself.

So, now what? Here we are, another new month and still facing the uncertainties of our future. There are so many of us being held captive by our fears of the great unknown. We are relying on sources outside of us to feed us information and tell us which way to go or even if we can go. Theories and speculations abound. Heaven knows I have mine, and if I were to express them here, I would only be adding fuel to the fire. Besides, it’s not the agenda of this post.

The agenda is to offer constructive options for your empowerment and well-being. I will put this question to you. How are you really feeling at this point of 2020? Typically, on January 1st, we look to the New Year to bring us hope and promise for something better than the previous year. We’re now a full 4 months into it and starting the 5th. I know a few folks that would love to start a 5th of something else right about now if you know what I mean. And, those same people would say to me, well, it is a “solution”! Well, yeah, technically it is but, no! It’s not.

There are many “solutions” to your salvation in this current difficult and strangely foreign global condition we find ourselves in. Fortunately, the human species is amazingly creative and as the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. We all seem to have an innate need to be occupied with something all the time to keep our brains active. We can’t just sit quietly and do nothing. We need stimulation and human interaction for healthy survival. Although those of you with a house full of kids probably have more of that than you’d like right about now. God bless you and you have my respect.

At this point, speculation aside, none of us really knows just how long we will be having to deal with this global restructure that is being forced upon us. One thing for sure though, no matter what you choose to occupy yourself with in the neutral zone we’re in, you do need peace of mind first and foremost. I’ve always found that cultivating a “slice” of peace first thing in the morning was always the best platform to step into my world from. I am able to greet the world on my terms and mindset rather than being subjected to the turmoil around me, before my first cup of coffee.

Now more than ever with fear running amuck, it would be wise to initiate the start of your day in the quiet repose of your inner sanctuary, if only for 10 or 15 minutes. To be still and connect with your source, whatever you feel that is. Let that energy envelop you. Listen as it allows you to deposit your fears and encourages you to trust that you and yours are loved and protected from whatever demons may come knocking.

Learn stillness of body. Move not. Learn stillness of heart. Let not the lake of peace be ruffled by violent emotion. Learn stillness of mind, as peace will not come while you move with mental restlessness.

None of us have experienced anything like this before and it is scary for sure. Going within is not only a powerful defense, but an equally powerful offense to visualize a peaceful and healthy future on the other end of all this. Above all, “May” your month be peaceful.

#22 It's No Joke

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:21:45 GMT

#21 March Forth

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:21:46 GMT

Hello everyone. I noticed today's date and thought, I can do something with that. Here's what I was inspired to write.

For those that feel that they are besieged with trials and challenges that give way to stress, which gives way to anxiety, and ultimately to depression, take heed. When we were born into this physical space and time there was no guarantee that it would be a cakewalk. We came here with a pre-planned agenda for our spiritual growth, but we have no real conscious memory of it. I will expand on that concept in another article.

Our main focus is to experience life. Life in all its forms and textures. Our human emotions alone provide a plethora of possibilities. Love, joy, excitement, happiness and fulfillment to name just a few on the plus side. Sadness, loneliness, anger, frustration and more on the downside. We can be any of these and more at anytime because, life can get complicated and crazy very quickly. It is unpredictable at the very least because of our varied perceptions of incoming stimuli. No matter what platform you chose to come into this life on, be it wholesome and loving or turbulent and isolated but, if you have a functioning brain, you have more control than you're giving yourself credit for.

Over the years in private practice, many clients sought relief from anxiety. Although anxiety is real to anyone who suffers from it, it really is an overload of wrong thinking. With enough of it and not understanding how to neutralize it, we feel depressed and immobile. Nothing is fun anymore.

After working with them and releasing root causes, I would teach them a technique that was self-applicable, that they could use themselves whenever they felt anxious. As powerful as this is, I also guided them to begin a meditation practice. A daily ritual of only a few minutes to stimulate a center of inner peace. I preached that if you can give yourself an atmosphere of peace before you wandered out into your daily world, you would be better prepared to respond to your outside stimuli rather than reacting to it. That equals less accumulated stress. Of course this works best with consistent daily practice. It needn't be complicated and laborious. Start out short and simple.

Life can be rich and exciting, or dull and boring. We signed up to be here so which option sounds better to you? Which ever area you find yourself in now, you can gain much more control over your life with a center of inner peace.

So, march forth stout warrior on your chosen pathway. Enjoy life and choose peace. If you start from there, the benefits will surprise you.

#20 If You Don't go Within, You'll go Without

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:38:27 GMT

The title of this blog was a quote I read many years ago. To be honest, with the volumes of books and material I've read and studied over the years, I don't actually remember who it was that said it. All I do know is that it was profound then and it speaks of a powerful truth more than ever in my life now.

To go within requires you to carve out some time and close off distractions, sit in the silence and bring into metal focus that which you are seeking answers or guidance to.

The hard part is that many of us are too busy being busy to bother, but we all are looking for some kind of answer or direction at some point or another to improve a piece of our life. We seem to always start looking to outside sources for help, and although there is value there to be had, the truth is that we'll end up being more confused with the opinions of others. We're missing the mark by not going within as you already have the answer you're looking for.

Let's just look at one example from a question I have gotten on more than one occasion in my coaching practice. "How do I discover my passion or purpose"? The only thing I can say to them is that they have to go within to find it. I certainly don't know what it is, but I can help them reveal it. I give them the following exercise.

Here’s the condensed version…

Go Within And Discover your Passion or Purpose

If you don’t have a clearly defined goal or even a hint concerning what you would like to accomplish, take 10-15 minutes a day to get by yourself, away from any distractions and quiet your mind. Search within and really dig for any hint of what might inspire you to take action toward a task, goal, or passion that your little inner voice has been prodding you to do. If nothing comes to mind ask yourself these questions and be completely honest with yourself.

What are you afraid of admitting?
What is it that you love about yourself?
What passion, desire, interest do you keep buried or hidden?
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
What would you do if you were financially secure and money were not a concern?
What would you look back on and regret not having done if you were dying?

Have you come up with a few possibilities?

Is it something that you feel truly passionate about?

Great Let’s Move On….

Allow Yourself To Be There

Allow yourself a few minutes to ponder on what it would be like to actually be experiencing whatever it is that you came up with. Really let yourself go and allow yourself to see the end result of your endeavor. Allow yourself to feel what it will feel like, see what it will look like, and hear what it will sound like to reach that place.

Be Thankful For Receiving It

Are your emotions stirred? Great, that’s exactly where you want to be. Now thank God, or your Higher Power, the Universe, or whatever you perceive it to be, for receiving what you envisioned. Express sincere gratitude for attaining whatever your desire is.

Take Baby Steps

Now, it’s time to take action as thoughts, emotions, feelings and situations arise that are in alignment with what it is that you are working toward. When they arise, take some form of action as they arise or as soon as you possibly can. Avoid putting off till tomorrow what can be done right now. Skip a TV show if you have to. Replace the normal time you spend absorbing the negativity of the front page news with working toward your desire. Make time each day and begin to take baby steps toward realizing your dream.

Be Persistent

Make it a habit to do some small thing each day that will contribute to accomplishing your desired outcome, regardless of how petty it may seem. Allow as much time as possible to accomplish as much as possible, but do something to bring you one step closer. Do it every day. Every day!

Be Kind To Yourself

If for whatever reason you do miss a day, don’t beat yourself up. Forgive yourself and get back on track. Tomorrow’s gone and today is another opportunity to move one step closer. Be here now. Forget about yesterday and don’t worry about tomorrow. Do something right now!

There you have it. Make the above steps a daily part of your routine and you will be moving in the direction of fulfilling your desires, whatever they might be.

Develop the discipline to do something each day, regardless of how petty it may seem. Take the time to experience the outcome. Be thankful for the outcome. Take one small step every day. Be persistent. Be kind to yourself. Develop a prosperity mindset.

Your dreams, desires and passions are attainable and are waiting for you to discover them.

Begin it now. Don’t allow the meaningless and petty things in life to keep you from unveiling, discovering and enjoying the important things. Let go of what happened yesterday and stop worrying about what might happen in the future. Tomorrow will be here sooner than you think. Do something now that will allow you to experience and enjoy it.

Don’t allow yourself to fall into the mindset of the majority waiting and thinking that you might be the 1 in 50,000,000 that hit’s the big lottery. Don’t wait for the day that you “feel a little more like it” or “when the kids are a little older” or “when the weather gets a little nicer.”

Develop the mindset that you can, and do it Right Now!

#18 The Gift of Self

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:38:29 GMT

Once again it is the season of gift giving. It is the season to recognize and acknowledge all those who you not only love, but are meaningful in your life. Just stop and think about all those who you are planning to or would like to acknowledge with a gift of some kind. Mother, father, wife, husband, children perhaps? Maybe sister, or brother, girlfriend or boyfriend, co-worker or just your best friend? The list can be long or short depending on the extent of either your love or your wallet.

Now think again. Did you forget anyone? Maybe the one person you should love the most? How about yourself? Selfish, you say? No, not really. Try selfless, because you can't really love anyone unless you first love yourself. Don't you suppose you deserve the first gift?

I'm not necessarily talking about something material that you can go out and get anytime. I'm talking about the gift that costs no money and yet is invaluable. The gift of SELF. This means giving yourself the permission to imagine that you are already the best version of who you really want to be and what you really want to experience or express.

How would you feel if, using your wonderful imagination, this were so? Despite the seeming reality of what your present senses are telling you. Be honest and step beyond if only for a minute or two. Give yourself that gift and touch that feeling. Emotionalize with that feeling!

Now, do you know what you just did? You leveled the ground and poured the footings to a new reality in the 4th dimension. This is very real and very powerful stuff. With a little more effort and a good measure of belief, this will solidify and you will walk into a new beginning. It is law.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.

#15 Peace Be With You

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:56:30 GMT

Someone told me once that I'm always reaching for more. She said that I should always be happy with what I had. It weighed heavy on me for years, probably more subjectively than consciously. Then I discovered metaphysics. Something in me came alive as I peered into this seemingly bottomless pit of possibilities and new truths to my awareness. My soul danced with joy because it knew, even if I didn't, that the more I reached, the more God expanded within me.

What are we collectively dreaming of or yearning for? A day without the media streams of corrupt politicians and fighting somewhere in the world? Maybe a day without another storm, tsunami, hurricane or tornado? Domestic violence? Children living in poverty? Cancer?

The great teacher Jesus said that the poor will always be with us. There will always be wars or rumors of war. But, he says that his peace will be with us too. We can dream of a world we desire, or we can continue to hold the vision of our present world. Together we can see the vision and live our world to a better place.

When we dream of things and ask why not, we are allowing the divine urges within each of us to soar. Our dreams are our divine urges, and we are responsible for putting legs under them. We make changes to the world at large by first creating those changes within ourselves. Don't be fooled by what your mere senses show you. Instead, be the change. We will never get peace or happiness from life. Rather we must bring them to life. Peace be with you.

#17 Quiet Mind

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:38:29 GMT

I recently had a client share with me on how hard it is for her to quiet her mind for a few minutes a day that I had asked her to do. In the process of deliberate creation it is imperative to be able to focus and visualize on that which you intend to bring into your life. When an idea or a desire pops into your conscious awareness and you think about it, even for a short while, the etheric version of it has already been created. Whether or not the solidified version of that comes into your 3D reality or not depends on a couple of factors. The first being the belief you have in having, doing or being it in the first place and your ability to focus and see yourself already in possession of it. This requires at least a few minutes a day to both visualize and emotionalize with this idea or dream. One needs to get in touch with their feelings and their higher self for both confirmation and guidance. The only place you're going to hear it is in a quiet space. A mental sanctuary if you will.

Call it meditation or prayer, it doesn't really matter. The fact remains that you need to train your conscious mind to take a break, even if it's for 10 minutes a day so that you can fertilize the seeds of your idea with focus attention and emotion. I understand it isn't easy for some folks to just shut it off, because I'm one of those who struggled with the monkey mind. The fact is that the conscious mind can be trained. The neropathways can be rewired with practice. Much like training a dog to "go on the paper" if you will. Keep bring it back to the paper. You keep bringing your mind back to your breathing. Focusing on your breath, and feeling your heart beat. That's why meditation is called a practice. Eventually, the body/mind understands that when you sit in this space with the intention to connect with the Divine, you do just let go and outside stimuli minimizes and eventually dissipates. Then you've set the stage to bring in the visual imagery of your dream or goal and feel yourself emotionalize with it as already realized.

There was a Native American story that fits this idea. A young brave was troubled and struggling with his inability to do what he knew he needed to do as a young brave and test himself with new lessons that were being taught. He went to the chief for counsel on this matter. The chief told him that inside of him were both a bear and an eagle who were in conflict. The bear wanted to hibernate and the eagle wanted to soar. He asked the chief which one would win. The chief told him, "the one you feed".

If you want what you want bad enough, you'll do what you have to do to bring it to you. Feed your eagle!

#16 Pushing Through

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:56:28 GMT

I love to walk. Since I'm a fair weather walker, and the summer has slipped away, and we're into our fall season, I know my walking outdoors will be curtailed. I live in a village within a small township about 10 miles south of Rochester, NY. My trek took me outside the village into the countryside of the town just west of my town. Quiet country roads with lush greenery and cornfields. It was a beautiful way to start my day. As I reflect further into my 19 plus weeks of daily walks that covered over 5 miles a day, I remember seeing something that really inspired me.

I was walking in the road, as there are no sidewalks in this area, heading down to a dead end cul-de-sac, which was my half way point. I try to take in everything of the vista before me including the sounds of nature. I happened to look down onto the road itself, a blacktopped surface and there it was. A small green sprig of what may be a weed or flower, actually erupting through the thick blacktop. I've certainly seen this before, as I'm sure you have as well, but this day I just had to stop. For some reason it totally amazed me. How is it that this delicate little blossom could literally push through this seemingly impenetrable surface?

It was life, seeking fulfillment by nourishment from the elements of creation itself. It's will to become was more powerful than the obstacle before it. What an amazing lesson I received from Mother Nature this fine morning. The ability to become who you are despite what your sense reality is showing you. That little blossom didn't see the thick blacktop. It saw only life on the other side and pushed through to grasp it. Yet here we are, these big strong, smart human beings who think we're so superior, but at the same time fail in our ability to change our lives for the better and claim our hearts desires, because our senses tell us that for whatever reason, it's just not possible.

This day only verified for me that the concepts I teach others about realizing their dreams and desires by focusing only on the end results is absolutely true. Denying our senses is not easy. It's the way we've been hardwired, as senses tell us only what is, not what could be. Sometimes you have to color outside the lines. It can create a whole different picture. That my friend, is your wonderful imagination, coupled with faith. Remember this, "possibility" lies within the word "impossibility". God, (creation) lies within you. Push through!

#14 Perspective

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:56:31 GMT

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 68 by most standards. So, let's say 5 months from now, someone asks me how old I am. What would I tell them? 68 or in my 69th year? Trick question? Not really, at least from my perspective. My wife laughs every time I bring this up. I really don't think she believes my philosophy on this. I contend that when one is "born" until their 1st birthday, they have lived 1 year. Does that sound right? Now we say they are 1 year old. They have completed 1 year of physical life. The day after their birthday they have entered into their 2nd year of breathing air. Technically they are no longer 1 but we tell everyone for that whole year that the child is 1 year old. Semantics you say? Perhaps, but just reflect on what we have held onto for ages. There is no real wrong or right here because after you tell someone your age, whatever it may be, they'll probably forget an hour later anyway.

When you think about it, most folks see a lot of things differently than we do. I guess that's what diversity is all about. If someones view on something makes them comfortable, who are we to tell them that they are wrong? We should simply smile and move on, leaving them to what they believe at that moment. Who knows, they may very well change their perspective at some juncture down the road. Life has a funny way of giving us opportunities to shift gears on a belief system that has seen better days.

The challenge I've had working with people who come to me to initiate some kind of change in their lives, is first meeting them in a neutral zone of where they are with their beliefs. Beliefs are precious and they've served us sometimes from the time we were old enough to understand the language we were brought up in. Some beliefs are sewn into the fabric of their family values. I have to respect that and carefully and lovingly show them how it no longer serves them based on where they intend to go. Then introduce new ideas and concepts that better synchronize with their intention for an outcome in their favor. Before long they will have adopted a new belief they can hold onto for as long as they choose to.

For the most part we find it difficult to accept change, especially if it's thrust upon us. That can happen because we've failed to heed the signs that have shown up telling us that we need to yield, or move or stop. If you listen as you go along on your life path you will encounter times where you recognize that a change is needed. Take your time, and before you consult your family, friends or co-workers, consult with your emotional guidance system. Look at the possibilities first from your old perspective, then from the new one. Now feel. What does your heart say? If you choose the new one and you need help, trust it will show up from the right source for you.

#13 Awaken to a New Beginning

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:56:32 GMT

I believe it is my life's purpose to help individuals understand their behaviors that detrimentally affect their day to day living. As we worked together, it led us to identify and release a variety of negative emotions, anxieties and low self esteem issues. I discovered that many of my clients had no idea that they could have, do or be anything they desired. In fact, it was their birth right and their divine right to claim it without any doubt or fear. This was their new beginning.

I understood over time that the biggest issue was a lack of awareness of who they really are and the power they have over what they allow in their lives. Yes, life can definitely be hard, and even cruel at times. Once they understood the bigger picture which presented a fresher perspective of the reason behind what they were experiencing, things became easier to grasp. It was never my job to change someone's belief system, but instead to offer concepts that gave them options to change their own beliefs relative to how life works, and what their responsibilities were, if they so chose.

The main theme with every one of my clients was pretty much the same thing. Everyone wanted love, good health, rewarding jobs and a good measure of financial freedom. However, the questions always remained as to how to experience that and why does it seem so elusive?

Several years ago, this term called the Law of Attraction was making it's debut in books and movies everywhere. People became excited with the possibility that they could think themselves into their hearts desires. Unfortunately, many were not having the success they thought they should be having after reading all those books and watching the movie, "The Secret". Truthfully, many ended up calling the Law of Attraction, HOGWASH.

The reason for this is that many of the books and the movie left out important and life changing information about the roadblocks they would encounter on the road to manifest change. Nor did they mention any ways to neutralize their roadblocks.

This was the missing piece of "The Secret". I knew immediately what was wrong and how they could fill in this missing formula with options and methods to eradicate emotional and mental issues that contradicted the image of themselves that they wanted. Creating what you want is a process, but you must be a clear vessel for the best and quickest results.

Seeing as you are reading this from my blog, you are already at a stage of your evolution that is stretching and seeking the "moreness" to your life and are hungry for answers. I used to tell my clients that we mostly walk through life with blinders on, giving us a very narrow and limited view of reality. My job was to pull those blinders off and give them more of a peripheral view of what life can be. Changing one's perception of their life is a daunting task, but this change always led to big "ah-ha" moments. Every human knows a higher level of truth instinctively. When a truth is presented, all of a sudden clarity sets in and a new way of thinking or remembering occurs. This is life changing and thrilling! Just imagine the possibility of someone taking you by the hand to re-introduce you to yourself from a higher perspective.

#12 We Are What We Believe (Part 2)

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:56:33 GMT

#11 We Are What We Believe (Part 1)

Sun, 02 Jun 2019 11:56:34 GMT

You want to manifest, so you look at the Law of Attraction. Then you want to make changes in your life, some major and some minor, but ALL significant. We all want good health, a loving relationship, financial stability or just the ability to be in a place of peace and harmony. Everyone on the planet, no matter from what country or stature, would agree with this. It's just the natural desire of "being" human.

Many have spent countless hours, days, months and even years searching and researching ways to bring these desires into their life, and are now finally grasping that the Law of Attraction is responsible for what you have or what you don't have. After all, the Law of Attraction says that whatever we place or dominant thoughts on with enthusiasm, will be attracted to us, right? Well, yes...thoughts do become things.

One of the most important ingredients in manifesting is how we think. This puts us in the drivers seat to design the life that we have been dreaming about. It certainly seems easy enough. So, why haven't we learned about this concept back in school? It would have made life so much easier up to this point. To answer the age old question, "Is this all there is to my life"?, we must begin to realize that co-creation takes a little work on our part. It's important to note that first, this law is a Universal that has been in existence since the very beginning of time. It's always working, whether you know it or not, and whether you believe it or not.

You create a life in one of two distinct ways; either by intention, or by default. Take an assessment of your life for a moment. Look around at what you have and what's going on in your life. From the house you live in to the car you drive, to the work you do for a living and to the relationships that you're involved in. Don't forget your current state of health or your bank account. Really look at them and determine if you are an active participant in bringing any of them into what you call reality, or they just kind of happened. To be objective you must take ownership. It's certainly easy to say, "I worked for that", but often, when bad stuff happens, we don't like to blame ourselves for bringing it into our lives. It's so much easier to blame outside circumstances or people, isn't it?

Here is the honest truth that we need to be reminded of often; we attract everything, either consciously or unconsciously. Now stop and ask yourself how many times you thought, "why would I want something bad to happen"? Consciously it doesn't make any sense that we would purposely bring something bad into our world. In fact it's been my experience that while helping people overcome adversities, I had to tip-toe into this area for fear that someone would get downright upset at my suggestion that they brought it on themselves! Victim mentality has been the downfall of many and the reason why people get stuck in their misery.

Surprisingly, you should know that there are other Universal Laws in play designed to harmonize with the Law of Attraction. As I explain in detail in my book, Genesis 101, The Metaphysical Cosmology in the Process of Creation, the whole idea of transformation and co-creation depends on harmonizing with many Universal Laws that dovetail one another to produce a particular result. Looking back to the definition of the Law of Attraction, I left something out intentionally, to introduce this law. Maybe you caught it? Whatever we place our dominant thought on with enthusiasm and belief, we attract into our lives. Enter the Universal Law of Belief.

#10 The Gift

kim.tablac@engageyourbiz.com (Kim .) — Fri, 03 May 2019 12:25:19 GMT

The great Sufi mystic Rumi once said, “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life”?

We all have many gifts, extraordinary gifts. Gifts of perception, insight, and creativity. Gifts of preferences, leanings, and inclinations.

But there is one, just one, that while often overlooked is the most sublime and profound of all, availing you of wonders beyond wonder, and the power to wonder some more.

It is, of course, to think. To choose a focus. To see the world however you like... and to experience it accordingly.

I have devoted over 30 years in the pursuit and study of the nature of reality, the Science of Mind and the Science of Deliberate Creation. Looking into the complexities of metaphysical concepts and universal law. Working at unraveling the various theories and techniques coupled to the Law of Attraction to understand the process of manifestation. I even wrote a book on the topic of co-creation. For me it has been an intoxicating field of study to say the least. A field I soon learned that had within it the proverbial rabbit hole lurking. Well, I didn’t find it, it found me, and I fell in. It’s a deep subject full of mystery and intrigue, but the thought of understanding more of not only who we really are, but just how things we sometimes don’t pay any attention to actually work, has made that fall a thrill ride.

I’ve learned and am still leaning, much more than I have time to share here. However, one important truth I learned was that we humans create our world in one of two ways, by intention or by default. By being conscious of your gift of thought and using it to build your life, or by being unconscious of your thinking, not realizing the power your thoughts wield, as you live your life by random happenstance.

Right now, my work as a transformational life coach is to help people manifest their dreams and desires. To literally create their world, or at least a part of it by intention if you will. It sounds like a tall order but really, they do all the work. It starts with them using their gift of thought. The very gift we all use, mostly unconsciously from the time we open our eyes in the morning until we let go to fall asleep each night. Their first exercise now, is to think about what they’re thinking about because what you think about expands.

By becoming aware of what you’re thinking about helps you see why you are experiencing what you’re experiencing and if what you’re experiencing is inconsistent with what you want in your life well, guess what? Something has to change.

The people I work with have these desires. We all have desires really, but these folks really want to bring them into the light of day. Now I could tell you where these desires come from and why we get them, but I’d be putting one foot into that rabbit hole and we don’t have time for that now.

Suffice to say that these desires bring on a little more intense or focused thinking. We call this imagination. Imagination is the gemstone we harvest with focused thinking. Once you’ve engaged the power of your imagination toward a goal or desire, something else magically appears that becomes the next ingredient necessary to realize your dream. That is e-motion, or energy in motion.

Once your wonderful imagination has built the picture of what you want, the emotion you feel actually experiencing the realized desire in thought, becomes the accelerate that brings it to you from nowhere to now here. As wonderful as this all sounds, it is a double-edged sword because if you’re not thinking about what you want, you very well may be thinking about what you don’t want which will still produce emotion, unfortunately negative emotions. Creating by default.

Now I’m not revealing any secrets here because you’ve all been doing it in one form or another for years. You’ve all heard the saying, be careful what you think about, because you just might get it. Truer words were never spoken.

May I suggest you examine your gift, get your intentions in order, and hand them over to your imagination? Your desires are a focused thought away.

#09 Painting the Canvas

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:25:20 GMT

Without even realizing it, your mind is creating, designing and following through with some map, plan, or idea of who you are right now. The mind has a tendency to constantly paint old pictures on the canvas, and yet the future is blank so, there is always room for more! If you believe that the past creates the future, how could you possibly give life to any of your desires? What if who you become tomorrow has nothing to do with who you thought you were yesterday? In order to become a conscious co-creator , you must learn to continuously live in this FREE creative space where you are always choosing the pictures you want to paint about your tomorrow, instead of leaving it up to the whimsical design created by yesterday’s memories. When the mind is truly free from ANY limiting thoughts or beliefs, you will realize that ANYTHING in this Universe is possible for you to attain. This is when your life gets really exciting!

It’s important to understand that living as if the future is a blank canvas also means trusting the great unknown and the infinite possibilities it contains. Something miraculous happens when you take on this mission. Stress leaves your body, you relax deeper inside about everything, and you experience an infinite supply of energy inside you that you may not have realized was there. Trusting life’s unfolding process is the foundation for a powerful manifesting vibration.

Something very powerful and divine ignites inside you when you release your attachment to the mind’s illusions of your past, present and future. The constant struggle for attaining what you want suddenly becomes a big letting go game. The borders on your blank canvas disappear, and you realize that what you can create happens first on the inside, in your imagination. Now, your life is about embracing the unknown instead of avoiding it. Those challenging parts of yourself become a place of curiosity and source of creativity, giving you a palette of paints and paintbrushes, with a divine inner direction to explore.

Beware that your mind will always try to get ahead of you and re-establish its old concepts about the past and future. It feels comfortable being attached to ideas and struggling to attain its desires. Your mind likes to think it’s in charge of everything. Yet, the more enforcing it is the more struggling you experience, and the less inspired creativity flows through. To discover what you really want, no struggle is needed. The only requirement is a deep relaxation into the realization of the infinite unbounded being you already are.

The mind cannot grasp this. It can only comprehend specific techniques, strategies, tools, and formulas. It is very demanding and wants to know HOW I can have what I want NOW! It believes that there is only one magical formula that will work every time. The mind is a constantly searching mechanism that doesn’t know anything about SEARCHING. It’s always crazily looking for something substantial to help it reach the top of its magnificent dream. This perpetual desperate searcher is exactly what gets in the way of receiving the desired outcome you want! So, let’s free your mind from the stress it’s creating in your life and give it the real purpose it has been searching lifetimes for. Let’s start this inner journey by exploring the ultimate question. “Just what do I want to experience”? Listen to your heart.

#08 The Blank Canvas

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 12:25:22 GMT

Are you having a difficult day today? Hey, life happens to all of us and even though we like to try our best to start out each day on the right foot, by the days end, we may be in disarray. The outside world wields a lot of power against our best attempts a cultivating peace, harmony and optimism after opening our eyes. It’s okay. Time now to take stock in the good that you either produced or received today and let go of whatever you need to. Please don’t take the bad stuff to bed with you. Think for a moment, would you not wash your hands before bedtime if you had just worked in the garden or pumped gas in your car? A clean physical body is no more important than a clean emotional body. Now you can get some much-deserved rest and, you will have before you tomorrow morning, a blank canvas to paint your plans, desires and intentions on.

Good Morning! Let’s look at the possibilities here. This canvas can be a pretty intimidating space to create on. Sometimes people are blocked from knowing what they really want because they are afraid of making a commitment. They just think of the word commitment or hear it and freeze inside. They feel if they commit to doing ONE thing, they will be stuck with it forever, and cannot do anything else enjoyable that may come along. People are afraid of being imprisoned. However, what they may fail to realize is they are already trapped in the greatest prison there is…those uncontrollable illusions created by the mind.

If this is you, you are operating under the false pretense that you are without free will and that your future is someone set in stone. The truth is that right now your future is a blank canvas. It is bright, flawless, and totally free! You can become anyone you want to tomorrow. Who you are tomorrow is NOT tainted by what you did in the past or even who you are being in the present. It always contains the realm of infinite possibilities. The future is virgin-like, free from any concept, experience, or belief about who you were or think you are. These are the natural inherent qualities of everyone’s future and the future of this world.

Living as the future is a blank canvas can be a dramatic shift for anyone. Yet, the instant you realize that the experiences you can have tomorrow are unbounded and limitless, you stop trying to manage and control your life and start enjoying the ride! If we are attached to who we think we’ll be tomorrow, our life will eventually become an imprisoning experience. This is because we are always experiencing new things and changing our identity. On the contrary, if we are not attached to who we are, your life becomes an awesome exploration and adventure! It all depends on how much you can let go of who you think you are and trust in this amazing Universe. The greater you can feel the freedom to become ANYONE or anything, the higher your manifesting vibration will rise to assist you in bringing your dreams into your reality.

Your current design on the canvas contains all the images you have painted about who you were in the past, who you are today, and who you will be tomorrow. This is all a creative expression from your mind’s imagination which is perfectly divine and can ALL change in an instant. They are merely thoughts about who you are and have no real substance to them. You can reinvent your past by simply creating a new perception and interpretation of it and visualize that NEW person you want to be tomorrow. Again, your future is alive, fresh and FREE!

PAINTING THE CANVAS coming next post

#07 Interpretation

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:25:23 GMT

Each morning I start my day with a deep meditation. Be it to seek guidance, visualize an accomplished goal, or just to listen. Then I follow up with my inspirational reading time. I'm currently reading 7 different books. Five of them on my Kindle, and two soft covers. Of course, they’re all in the Spiritual Metaphysical genre. It’s gotten to be an insatiable appetite. I mean I’ve been in that field of study now for over 30 years but, now that I’ve retired from outside stimuli, if you will, I can spend so much more time on reading than I used to.

One of my favorite authors is Neville Goddard. I have several of his works in both Kindle and soft cover format. This particular title I’m immersed in is “Interpretation of Scripture”. This is a compilation from several of Neville’s books and lectures. He was noted for his prowess in decoding the Bible in such a light that the truth of it can finally be known. It sure resonates with me, that much I know.

This morning, the quote “For God calleth these things be not as though they were”, from Romans 4:17, was the target for interpretation. He equated this verse to raising or ascending the level of consciousness. Now you’ve got to know that Neville was a firm believer that “God”, as we interpret God is actually consciousness. Plain and simple. Now read it again with that concept in mind. He said, “Things that are not now seen, will be seen the moment you become conscious of being that which is not now seen”.

What? Wow! That stopped me cold! Now that’s pretty deep. Had to read it again. So, considering that we’re talking about ascending levels of consciousness, let’s do this. Things that are not now seen, (your desires), will be seen the moment you become conscious, (aware), of being that which is not now seen, (your desire). In other words, you appropriate the consciousness of the level you desire to express, by claiming you are now expressing such a level. See the end result of achieving your desire in the face of not seeing or experiencing it yet. Doing that you’ve raised your own level of consciousness. No one else can do it to or for you.

I will leave you with this quote, “Far greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world”. 1 John 4:4. I know what it means to me. What about you?

#06 Resolutions?

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:25:25 GMT

I will leave you with this quote, “Far greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world”. 1 John 4:4. I know what it means to me. What about you?

#05 The Greatest Creation

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:25:27 GMT

All life, throughout this great universe, is a creation. From no-where to now-here. (notice both are the same word, just spaced different) From a single cell, to the brightest star in the night sky. All of it, is the expression of one Creator. What you call it, doesn’t really matter. Most call this God, some, Source, others, First Cause, Universal Intelligence and the list goes on. For the sake of this article, I’m choosing God.

The wonders of life in all its forms is really breathless when you take the time to look at it. We’ve even come to understand that there are even higher forms of intelligence from unexplored regions outside our universe that some have encountered. At this point in our evolution however, that has been kept “secret”, and we don’t know much about it. So, based on our perspective as human beings, actually spiritual beings having a human experience, we are considered God’s greatest creation.

This by no means is meant to downplay all other life forms. It’s just that we possess the distinct traits of both intellect and inspiration. Most animals, insects to mammals possess intellect in the form of instinct which serves them to survive for sure. They certainly create living places, develop skills to hunt food, and procreate to insure the survival of their respective species. Everything has its place.

What we have and what I want to focus on here is inspiration. We all have it. It’s what rises us up above the rest. Some say the “top of the food chain.” What is it really? I’m sure science could give us all a cleaver answer that would satisfy most, but not me so much.

It has been said that praying is talking to God. It has also been said, and this is what I buy into, that inspiration is God talking to us. The inner whispering of the Divine. Inspiration is the birthplace of desire, another exclusive human quality which gives rise to an idea. That idea now comes in contact with an emotion, yet another human trait. If that emotion is negative, the idea will be left to die away. If, on the other hand the emotion is positive, then it is put on the assembly line in the 4th dimension. Kind of like 3-D printing, only we can’t see it… yet.

Hence, what we do from here is totally up to us. There is a distinct process that brings a desire or idea into being. It happens in two possible ways. By default, or not on purpose, or the preferred road, by intention. I could go on and explain the fine art of manifestation, but it is not the “intention” of this article.

The true intention of this writing is to bring the spotlight onto you! You are God’s greatest creation! Why? I could count many reasons, but most importantly, because you are a co-creator. Through inspiration, God is seeking expression through you, the physical vessel. So, you see, desire is never a selfish thing. It is a gift that you need to pay attention to and do whatever you can to breathe life into it.

Don’t hide your light under a bushel. Thoughts are indeed things. See it, feel it, own it and then share it. You are so much more than the image that bounces back from the mirror. Tag… you’re it!

#04 Purpose

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:25:28 GMT

Just a few days ago I was working in my home office. I was preparing for a workshop I will be facilitating in January. A glancing thought danced across my awareness. What would I be doing if I didn't know what my purpose was at this stage of my life? You see, I've recently retired from a day to day work environment. Normally, I suspect it takes some getting used to, not having to hustle out of the house in the early morning, complaining that you either hate your job or you're not getting enough time to pursue what you really want to do, or both. Not that I didn't feel something, because I did, being that I've worked since I was 12 years old. I still "go to it" in a sense every day. It's just that now I have the time to totally focus on my passion and purpose. Actually, I'm very fortunate in that I've known what my purpose was for some time now and have had some part of me involved in it for some 30 plus years.

So now I'm working for myself, and for those I will be blessed to serve. For my last birthday my youngest daughter gave me a sign that sits in my office. It reads, "I didn't retire. I'm just under new management." My wife tells me that this job I've now undertaken will probably be the hardest job I've ever had. I think she's right, but you know what..? It's what I've loved and believed in for so long and I'm fortunate to finally be able to be absorbed in it all day if I choose. The way I see it, it's one of the main reasons I'm on the planet.

At the same time, I can't help but wonder about folks who don't really know what their purpose is, or even care for that matter. If you're happy living day to day, enjoying what you can, that's all well and good. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. However, you just may find yourself at some point of, "now what?" Sleeping until noon and watching re-runs and movies gets old fast, and may I say, so does your body.

Whether you know it or not, you came into this life on purpose with a purpose as well as value. You need to identify and harmonize with that purpose, so that others may grow from your life experiences, wisdom and passion. Not to mention, extending the quality of your own life.

Purpose is not something you find. It's something you uncover as it sleeps within you. If you need to wake it up may I suggest a couple of ideas? Find a quiet place to sit with a pen and paper. Close your eyes after a couple deep breaths and ask yourself these 3 questions; What experiences do I want? How do I want to grow? How can I give back? Now listen for answers, and look for signs that may appear throughout your day. One more optional question might be; if you could do anything in the world that you really, really enjoyed, so much so you may consider actually doing it for free, what would it be? Let your imagination run with that. Your passion or purpose may just be hiding there.

Live your uniqueness. You are a valuable being with talents and gifts. Unwrap them and share!

#03 Foundations

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:25:29 GMT

Did you ever give thought to the foundation of the structures you enter in and out of all day? More than likely not because we just don't see it and take it for granted that since the building is standing and appears sound, that there must be a foundation that is properly in place. If you've ever driven by a lot where there is a new structure being erected, you'll notice that much time is spent in preparing the ground for the foundation. No rocks, tree stumps or sandy soil. Not to mention very level ground. Then, they can confidently build the new structure.

How about your personal foundation? No matter who you are or what you do, we live very busy lifestyles in a fast paced world. Even if you're retired, you've probably got a lot to keep you occupied and your days can fill as quickly as they did when you worked. I'm willing to bet that when you finally go to bed at the end of your day, your mind is already loaded with tomorrows schedule of activities. It's crazy! We're always thinking outside of ourselves; gotta go here, get that done, meet so and so for lunch, pick up the kids, and the list goes on and on.

I'm a firm believer in starting my day on a foundation of peace. It just seems to make sense to me to be able to leave the house more balanced and in harmony before the world and all its stuff hits you in the face. I find that I'm more prone to respond to situations and circumstances rather than react to them. It's really a very small investment with a great ROI for those of you in the business world. Like a solidly built home, you can weather the storms of the daily activity with a little lower blood pressure, and when you get home, there is some of you left for the family.

Introducing a meditation practice into your life before the beginning of your day wouldn't take as much as you may think. Not only are there great health benefits, but we're talking only what, five to ten minutes at first, maybe. Once you do that, I can almost guarantee you'll want more. Just to enter into a stillness and touch a place you seldom pay any mind to. There's a lot of power there. Just breathe, let go and listen at first. It's not that hard and there is no wrong way to do it. Eventually, if nothing else, you can go there and "pre-pave" your day. See everything you have to do for the day going smoothly with you in total control and at peace.

I will say this in closing. As a transformational life coach, I teach all my clients to use this life enhancing tool daily. Especially since they are looking to initiate change in their lives, they need to envision and feel the target desire before they can realize it. Going within is a natural baseline. After all, everything was first a thought, before it was a thing. Now there's food for thought. Peace.

#02 A Time to Bloom

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:25:30 GMT

Anais Nin was an essayist who was once quoted as saying, "and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

We all know about change. First, it's inevitable. In fact, the only thing that doesn't change, is change itself. Secondly, we have two choices. We can resist it and suffer, or go with it and grow.

Resisting it comes from the natural human emotion of fear of the unknown. After all, we've feathered our nests with routine, even people, things and circumstances we've outgrown seem to be still a part of our comfort zone. However, not unlike a worn-out pair of shoes, there comes a time for something new.

Dr. Michael Beckwith is among the pioneers in the self-awareness movement. He introduced the practice of visioning. He often said, "the pain pushes until the vision pulls." When we think about that, it's a great way to express your need to move forward, to grow, and to explore new possibilities.

As a matter of fact, have you ever resisted change and remained content? I mean especially those of us over 50. Remember when cell phones broke into the market? How many of us said something like, "I don't need one of those new-fangled gadgets!"? Look at you now... where's your phone?

All of life blooms. Everything in its own time. As human beings we are part of and one with all life. Our need to bloom is internal and eternal. It is our birth right, and our soul duty to do so. You'll know when it's time when you feel off or unfulfilled and you STOP... become still, evaluate your current station and listen to your heart. If something is suggesting change somewhere in your life, start envisioning the possibilities. Then feel the corresponding emotions, and if it feels right, opportunities will begin to parade by for your consideration. Now you get to co-create a piece of your life by intention, rather than by default.

Remember, sometimes change is thrust upon us when we least expect it and its effects appear traumatic, and you've got to deal. If you practice "blossoming" from time to time, even if the changes are small, you'll have an easier time dealing with the unexpected.

#26 The Choice of Peace

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:21:41 GMT

God gave me life 69 years ago today. I have a gift for you in return.

Australian psychiatrist Victor Frankl was quoted as saying, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom". It's now been six months since our world has been turned upside down and everywhere you look it doesn't appear to be getting a whole lot better. There is so much fear out there that we're becoming blind to the light that still shines. Our faces are covered and we can't see smiles anymore. There is anger, frustration, depression and a whole lot of confusion under those ugly masks that are doing us more harm than good. If this sounds a little like you, I'm telling you now that there is a way out of this black hole. We weren't meant to live like this.

I admit that at first I was one of the angry ones when this whole situation started and conforming to new "rules and regulations' isn't my strong suit. It was getting to me to the point that was inconsistent with my nature. I really know better but sometimes the doctor is his own worst patient. In this process there was only one place to start. I was going to choose to take my peace back because I was giving it away. So, to help myself and humanity this is what I've chosen.

Peace resides in the human heart. Inner peace creates outer peace in your relationships and in the effect that you have upon the global consciousness.

Peace is a choice. It respects your boundaries and it respects the boundaries of others. When you set your boundaries and stop others from intruding into your space, when you respect other people's boundaries and do not intrude into their personal space, then it is possible to move on to the next step, a state of mutual cooperation. Mutual cooperation means that you support each other in ways that come from your heart. You help people because you love the spirit within them. Their outer personality is not the important focus here; it is their inner light, their inner spirit that you can always love, regardless of their outward actions. This, then, is the foundation for unconditional love.

The best model for unconditional love is right above you in the daytime sky. The Sun shines on everyone alike, without any judgment. It is a blazing symbol of the Creator's bounty and a constant guarantee of the energy you need for the experience of life.

When faced with each choice between love and fear, focus on your heart as the source of uplifting love and inspiration. Our mere survival during this tumultuous time depends upon us turning away from the dark negative of our outside world and step into that inner sanctuary and still space. Close your eyes and let your very breath take you to the peace of all understanding. If you cultivate it, it will grow and you will become it. By becoming it, others will feed from you. Choose peace.

#01 Awareness

Sat, 08 Sep 2018 12:25:31 GMT

Anais Nin was an essayist who was once quoted as saying, "and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

We all know about change. First, it's inevitable. In fact, the only thing that doesn't change, is change itself. Secondly, we have two choices. We can resist it and suffer, or go with it and grow.

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#100 The End is the Beginning

"Every new beginning comes from another beginning's end." – Seneca

#99* The Aquarium

“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul.” -Rumi

#98 A Time For Awakening

“Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Jung

#97 Self Discovery

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" - Marcel Proust.

#96 Onward Into The Unknown

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” …… Walt Disney

#95 Traversing The Mysteries of Your Cosmic Roots

#94 Spiritual Power

“You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet… ---Psalm 8:6

#93 The Illusion of Duality

#92 Let Go of Your Desires

“He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”….. John Milton

#91 Self Awareness

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than mere survival.” ….. Aristotle

#90 Soft Heart

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” ---Luke 6:37

#89 Unconditional Love

#88 The Spiritual Value Of Fortitude

“The necessity of the times, more than ever, call for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.” ---- Samuel Adams

#87 Mind Your Direction

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

- Carl Rogers

#86 New Awareness

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” - Eckhart Tolle ﻿

#85 A Life of Spirit

For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.” - Psalm 36:9

#84 Can of Worms

“My inner self was a house divided against itself.” - St. Augustine

#83 Consciousness of All That is

“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” ---- Lao Tzu

#82 REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

“We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life.” - Earnest Holmes

#81 SOLITUDE vs ISOLATION

“Solitude is not a private therapeutic place. Rather, it is the place of conversion, the place where the old self dies, and the new self is born” -Henri Nouwen

#80 About God

“Between God and me there is no between.” – Meister Eckhart.

#79 “SOUL” KARMA

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer.

#78 “INSTANT” KARMA

Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

#77 DYNAMIC PRAYER

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

---Soren Kierkegaard ﻿

#76 RISING UP

“If we are incarnations of God, then our spirit is God individualized, and as such it must be eternal”…. Ernest Holmes

#75 Spiritual Inclusion

“Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists; it is making a new space, a better space for everyone.”

----- George Dei

#74 Goals and Outcomes

“If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if the probable outcome is failure.” ------- Elon Musk

#73 Know Thyself

#72 Reflections

“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” — Wayne Dyer

#71 The Isness of Being

“When we say, ‘Yes’ to the ‘isness’ of life, when you accept this moment

as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply

peaceful.” ----Eckhart Tolle

#70 Unity

“I am one with the light of God which never fails.” -Dr. George King

#69 Being in The World, But Not of It (Part 2)

“Three words I understand about life; It goes on.” -Robert Frost

#68 Being in The World, But Not of It

“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.”

#67 The Medicine of Laughter

“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

#66 Matters of The Heart

“Your heart is powering the show. It doesn’t mean the heart is superior or can work in isolation from all the other parts of you, but it is your sun”.

#65 Vulnerability

“The emperor has no clothes.”

#64 The See-Saw Syndrome

“To be holy is to be natural, to befriend the worlds that come to balance in you”.

#63 Authenticity

“The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are… without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are”.

#62 Freedom

#61 One

“The necessity of the times, more than ever, call for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.”
---- Samuel Adams

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” - Eckhart Tolle

---Soren Kierkegaard