A New Humanity

         There is a higher frequency of consciousness that is seeking expression through every human being.  It is the force behind everything we do.  If it is directed through a false self, it will result in unhappiness and a sense of lack.  If it is allowed to flow through a channel that is not encumbered by false identification, the results are inevitably healing and empowering for everyone.  When enough people live their lives in alignment with a higher consciousness, we will have birthed a new humanity in which love, compassion, wisdom, joy, abundance and creativity will simply be the way it is. 

Head vs heart

           Our bodies can be seen to have two minds, one with a center in the brain, and the other centered in the heart.    The brain-mind is responsible for the endless chatter and thinking that goes on in our heads.  The heart-mind broadcasts its thoughts on another frequency and sees its loving reflection everywhere.  The voice of higher self is simply the thoughts of our heart/mind.  The question is, what frequency are we tuned in to?

The new human potential

We have become new beings.  What we have been taught about ourselves and the world are thoroughly outdated.  We now have the potential to find what we have always wanted, an end to suffering and doorway to inner peace.  We can do it now.  We have the tools. We are ready.

the potential in fundamentalism

An experience of the infinite field, often described as Source or God, is independent of the level of consciousness of the individual.  When the individual’s level of consciousness is low, Spirit has a tendency to be expressed in violent, fundamentalist ideologies.  As consciousness reaches higher levels, Source Energy resonates with and is expressed by a belief system based on love and the recognition of the oneness of all beings.  As humans evolve into higher levels of awareness, those very people who are now the most violent, have the potential to lead us all into a global awakening where the rule of love takes root in each human heart.

the philosophy of "two-at-once"

 Until now, traditional psychology has focused exclusively on the mind, emotions and the physical body.   These are all objects of consciousness and arise in the infinite, unchanging  field of pure being.  Objects of consciousness continually change and therefore cannot offer any solid ground for identification or comfort.  When we look to that which changes (which is everything) for meaning , we live with the inevitable fear that comes from uncertaintly.  To know the true Self and to transcend fear is to discover the timeless, eternally unchanging  nature of what we really are.  To be an awakened being is to live fully with the recognition of both aspects of human nature, the eternal and the temporary.

Higher Consciousness Living Now

Higher consciousness is not a future state to be achieved.  It cannot be found in the world’s teachings, workshops, spiritual experiences, drug trips, etc  And the reason It cannot be found anywhere is because It (consciousness) is what is doing the looking.  All our attempts to find this True Self must fail because who we really are cannot be found.

Does knowing  this assist us on our spiritual path?  Yes. It shows us where not to look.  

call to awaken now

It’s not about letting go of our attachments,

It’s about realising that we are already free.

It’s time to stop the folly of seeking, of trying to awaken.

We are here, now.

There is no problem

Life is unfolding exactly as it should but the ego thinks it knows best what we should do or accomplish.  Ego tells us what our goals should be and when we don’t accomplish these goals we think we have an inner problem or some kind of unconscious avoidance of success.  This is not true.  What is happening in our lives should be happening, based on all that has come before. The problem is not that we are not achieving our goals; it is the false belief that reality should be different than it is.  Goals are deceptive because they give false authority to the ego.  The “unaimed arrow never misses” means that when we stop judging we realize that what we are doing is already hitting the bull’s eye.

remember

Let us remember who we are.
We are the bringers of Light.
We are the Awakeners.

We are the focal points of a new age.
We are the soothers of fear,
Bringing eternal love to a level the body’s eyes can see.
We are here to speak spirit’s gentle commandments,
We are here to show the way Home,
“on a journey without distance to a place we have never left”

The Illusion of Free Will

        What we choose to do is determined by factors over which we have no control, namely our genetics and our past life experiences.  The sense of having a choice makes the existence of a separate self seem real, but on closer observation we see only the play of impersonal, universal forces.  These forces “decide” what is, and we delude ourselves into thinking we are in control by taking responsibility for what is simply happening.  Without our inner commentary, it can be seen that everything is happening totally by itself, just as the body breathes, the sun shines and the birds sing.  Despite all our effort and worry, things are always just as they are.  There is no separate self that can do anything.

relationship turmoil

This is a hard time for couples.  Each of us is evolving so quickly that the old ways of being together no longer satisfy.  It’s understandable to take these changes personally even though they are connected to, and part of, a universal transformation.  Our relationships are being called to rise to a new level of consciousness where we come together offering our love rather than seeking it; where our choice for being together  comes from the joy of each other’s company and not to fill a lack that we imagine we have inside.  We are learning that relationships based on ego (who we thought we were) lead only to suffering.  We are learning, sometimes the hard way, to let our past and expectations go, leave our guilt, anger and blame behind us, and find at last, that we, are who we are looking for.

our church

This is
our church,
It has no boundaries,
It has no dogma
And no rules.
It is a place of celebration
And remembrance,
A place where we can leave
ourselves behind.

No trespassing

With all the evolutionary changes continuing at a faster and faster rate, raising a child today is like raising a new  species of being, unlike any previously existing.  We have no idea how this species will manifest when mature and if we  allow  our children to proceed with respect and encouragement,  they will grow to their fullest potential.  The ideal  parent has no desire to change or improve their child.  Acceptance and love are the only requirements 

road less travelled

There is a way to treat a child that will ensure that she grows up to be all she can be. This way requires that the parents want, more than anything  that their child be exactly as  she is, just as she was created.   This way, is the road less travelled. .  A path that can only be  traversed without the use of power, anger or criticism.   A path  based on the  utmost love, respect and devotion for our child’s  deepest Self.  And when we succeed, we discover that we are that same divine Self and we live in peace.                   

child's inborn potential

Every child now being born has the potential for Self Realization, but only those who are encouraged to remain in touch with their inborn gifts will be able to do so.  It is never a question of teaching anything to the child, but one of allowing child to know Himself.  This knowledge comes from within and only the child that has access to his inner world can reach this Knowing.

attention deficit disorder

There is no such thing as a child having an attention deficit disorder since the child is always attending to something. It is only when we want him to attend to what he is not attending to that a problem seems to arise.  But it is our problem.  It is not the child’s problem that he is not interested in what his parents and teachers want him to be.  Is it a disorder to not pay attention to what doesn’t interest you?  In school, the answer to this question is “yes.”  Instead of schools taking responsibility for their irrelevance to their student’s lives, they blame the students by creating an imaginary illness called ADHD.

ego as nothingness

      I was  just thinking about the digital world of 1's and 0's that seem to be able to become just about everything through the magic of our computers.  I then realized that digital technology is really about only one digit, the one.  There really is no zero;  it is merely empty space, the absence of one;  nothingness that we give the name zero to.  The idea of zero is analogous to the the story of ego.  It too seemsto be a co-creator of reality but does not really exist except as a concept;  ego is just another word for nothingness.

 Reality is the expression of the One, there is nothing else.  We are all one.  One is all there is.

     

bondage

     When we accept the ego's notion of who we are, we have accepted the seeds of suffering.  When we believe we are a body and are separate from the rest of the universe, we must be in fear; of death, loneliness, failure and loss.  This fear, and the fruitless attempts to relieve it (as suggested by ego) is known as bondage.  As we begin to notice that the ego's voice in our head is not to be trusted, we withdraw our identification with it and begin to look elsewhere for the truth of our being.  This is the beginning of sanity.

no inherent meaning

      Since the world has no meaning in itself, it is only our interpretations that gives it meaning.   If our interpretations are positive and forgiving, then life will be experienced as joyful and rich.  If they are negative, life will be full of conflict and loss.  Thankfully,  we can always choose again when we realise that it is only our negative thoughts that are showing us a painful reality.

Home

        In the ego’s view, happiness will be sometime in the future when certain conditions are met (when the work is done, there is enough money, when the war is over, etc.)   The secret the ego cannot know is that the feeling we imagine having in the future, when the conditions are met, exists already, right now.  It's only because we have been looking for our treasure outside ourselves, where it is not, that we cannot find it.  The ego’s motto is “seek but do not find" but we no longer have to  listen to "the lies of the serpent." We can remember that it is right now, that what we are seeking can be found, never in the future as the ego insists it must be.  Let us celebrate the Awareness that we are already Home, that in fact Home is what we Are.

power of choice

It’s a dream
A dream we create by
extension of our minds.
Our mind is an object that we can observe, and
As we watch the “world” our thoughts create,
We are seeing nothing, an illusion.
We can choose between happy and unhappy dreams,
And that is the extent of our choice in this world.

rapid changes

We can see it everywhere.  Rapid, transformative change, on our planet, in our technology, world political structure, and the economy, to name just a few.  In conjunction with these external changes there are powerful internal changes that may sometimes seem overwhelming.  Our basic sense of self is changing and with it are many of the beliefs we've created to make the world seem to make sense.  We may feel out of control and desperate to try and find peace, but the old ways of coping no longer seem to work.  What we need is a transformation of consciousness, an entirely new way of perceiving and thinking about the world that is not based on differences but on the recognition of oneness.

 The opportunity for this inner transformation is here and now; being supported by both our inner longing and the momentum of the entire universe.  This is the time of Great Change. Now is when we have been waiting for all of our lives and where we have always been.

It's all good

      Everything that happens (and doesn't happen) is for our own good;  to teach the lessons needed to be free; lessons required to accept a new understanding of who we really are.   These lessons can at first seems to  be a threat, like the light that comes to gently awaken us from a dream seems to be a threat to the dreamer.

        The truth is that the light (where we are stuck or being challenged in our life) is our ally, even if our egos don't recognise the gift.  The purpose of everything is to wake up the dreamer so that the dream of death, loneliness and loss may finally come to an end.

therapy

       In my old life as a gestalt therapist, I continually asked my clients "what are you aware of?"  The answer was usually something like "I'm aware of my sore back," or "I'm aware of my sadness," or "I'm aware of  thinking about my mother,"  Often the content of the session would follow from what the client said, so for example we might explore the sore back, the sadness or the relationship with mother.   What we did not focus on, was the awareness itself.    The  client was learning to focus on everything he was not.  And that's what we focus on when we tell the story that we call our life, everything that we are not. 
        It is only when we realise that we are subject and not object, that we are conscious awareness Itself,  that we discover that we have no problems.  Awareness can have no problems since it's  nature is complete emptiness and it is in this that an entire universe seems to arise.

the search

The eye can see everything but itself.

The “I” can see everything but itself.

The subject can never see itself.

The subject (I) can only see what is other than itself.

Therefore, searching and trying to find what we are, is impossible.

We are what is doing the looking.