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Move Your Attention - Be God

This is my response to an email from a friend complaining about her life. Nothing was right, nothing was good enough, the past was awful, and she was pinning all her hopes on a glorious new future that would redeem her and free her from all her limitations.

Hi [Correspondent]

Thanks for your messages. I feel a powerful desire in you to move forward in your life, and this impetus is creating a surge of energy and awareness that is helping you to identify and sort through some limiting ideas about yourself. This is all good news, even though what comes up sometimes is not very pretty. [Never mind, it’s all good!]

When you think about it, all we really have for sure is our ability to move our attention. Never mind all the other magical powers we’re supposed to have. We often cry about all the things in our lives we cannot control, meanwhile not bothering even to try to control this one thing that is always in our power. Our attention.

Yes, you cannot change your hair color, or the weather, or the job market, or the economy, or your past, or other people, or even yourself! None of these things can be changed in the outside world. This present moment is a done deal, in so many words, a fait accompli. It cannot be changed in any way, only experienced [and transformed into the next present moment - but that’s another story.]

Where you focus your attention though, is completely in your control at all times. Even if you are being dismembered by an angry mob, you still have the ability to move your attention. This is the god power inside us that so often we squander on contradictory, limiting and even self-destructive thoughts, words and imagery.

Of course, the big secret is that by controlling our attention, we CAN change our hair color, the weather, the job market, the economy, our past, other people and even ourselves. But all this comes only when we have taken responsibility for and start controlling, what we are focusing on. Because what we focus on creates all of those other things.

How sad and even funny it is sometimes, to see someone railing against the outside world without paying any attention to what they focus on inwardly. This only perpetuates all the things we don’t want! It is like the person who looks in the mirror and seeing that their hair is messy, tries to comb the mirror! And gets more and more irritated at not achieving anything!

What do I mean by controlling our attention? This is simple and in actuality everybody does it all the time. Stop reading this right now and close your eyes for a moment.

That is moving your attention. Now think about what your left hand is doing. Now think about what you had for dinner last night. In these examples you moved your attention because I told you to. But you are actually the one in control. You can move your attention ANYwhere, ANYtime, and nobody can interfere with this unique power of yours.

You might say, "So what! How does this help me in my difficult situation?" The answer is that your reality creation mechanisms automatically form your reality, based on - you guessed it - what you are focusing on! Our attention turns out to be an incredibly powerful reality creation tool. [This is rooted in our Divinity. We create universes by perceiving them.]

Think of your attention like a magic wand, or the replicator on Star Trek. Whatever you desire, simply place your attention on it long enough and it becomes real. The reason it takes a while for these things to manifest is purposeful in this dimension.

We designed it this way to give ourselves more opportunities to learn about this astonishing process, and also refine our desired outcomes along the way towards manifesting them. [If we all got exactly what we were thinking about instantly, there would be a lot of unnecessary confusion, to say the least.]

Where you focus your attention is where you are directing your divine creative energies to flow. And as they flow in the direction you have decreed, they leave in their wake actual realities for us to experience and explore.

This is our power, to autonomically create a dynamic pathway of possible and probable realities in whatever direction we choose to focus the creative beam of our attention. [see labyrinth]

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Example - The Sore Foot

As an illustration of moving our attention, imagine you have a sore foot, or pick some physical ailment actually bothering you right now.

Because we didn’t know any better, in the past we may have focused our attention simply on the pain in our foot and on feeling bad about the situation. [Or irritated, cowed, shamed, frightened, or any number of other feelings we don’t like.]

Because of the creative power of our attention described above, this movement of our attention automatically produces a huge array of pathways towards more pain in that foot. Our neo-conscious self is sent off to busily summon up a bunch of likelihoods for manifesting exactly what we are pointing at with our attention.

Our new way of understanding this gives a different meaning to a pain in the foot. This is a signal from our body consciousness alerting us to something needing our attention. [‘Attention’ seems to be the ‘lingua franca’ within consciousness, you can’t leave home without it.]

Responsively and purposefully, we move our attention to our foot and engage the energy being expressed in this pain. “What is this signal exactly? Where is the pain, what size, shape, texture?” And moving on, “What is the message behind this signal?”

Understanding that the body consciousness speaks metaphorically, how does the image ‘sore foot’ figure in this message. Are we entertaining ‘lame’ ideas, not putting our ‘best foot forward’, or are we perhaps about to ‘put our foot in it’? There is literally no limit to where these ideas can lead us, and our best strategy is usually to follow-up on wherever these explorations lead. [Can’t hurt!]

As we engage in these absorbing inner explorations, we cannot help but marvel at the intricacies of our reality creation mechanisms. Our sore foot is the result of truly spectacular autonomic reality creation processes that we direct with our conscious mind! The foot in question is a miracle comprised of trillions of unique individual cells, all acting seamlessly together to create our experience of a foot. [it’s all alive and fresh, and created by us anew in every nano-second, which is what freedom is really all about.]

Add to this, from the focal perspective, the fact that the pain in the foot is a message from our neo-conscious telling us something meaningful - allegorically meaningful! - in relation to the wider realms of our expressions in this focus. This built-in feedback in our reality creation mechanisms is extremely valuable, and proves, in execution, to be nothing short of pure genius!

As we marvel at the glory of ourselves [no joke!], it may occur to us to put that miraculous foot into action, just to see such magnificence ‘on the hoof’ so to speak. In fact we might resolve to ‘step out’ at the next opportunity, or take that fated 'first step', or the necessary 'next step' towards some dream, or even that ‘final step’ that releases something unneeded or unwanted. [And on the metaphors go...]

But back to our theme, where are we focusing our creative attention in these kinds of explorations? And how does this compare to what we were focusing on before?

Everyday Divinity

Imagine living our days as a being with Divinity at our core...

Just picture arising eagerly from a sound sleep and immediately going into contemplation to review and anchor the insights from the dream journey.

A delicious breakfast followed by a half hour in the spa-like bathroom relishing every moment as its own fulfillment, beyond space and time.

Then bouncing out to meet the day, confident that everything in our universe is working perfectly on our behalf, so that everyone we meet, everything we do, everything that happens to us is meaningful and potent with fulfilling possibilities.

Problems and difficulties are seen for what they really are and are met halfway as we eagerly engage their energies to discover the treasure they are offering.

Loved ones are cherished as if we hadn't seen them in eons, and will never see them again... And the many projects we work on / play with during the day are an astonishing display of our fullest potentials being stretched even further by our playful imagination.

And let's not even talk about sex!

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The description above was in responds to a discussion about recent sessions with Kris, [Aug 24, 08 - Kris Chronicles.com] where he describes Church history in quite disparaging terms. The discussion was about how powerful it was to release those pernicious ideas about original sin and needing to be redeemed.

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Hi Gang

Yes... that was a great session... or pair of sessions on Sunday...

So wonderful to have you guys talking about how it affected you... my own feeling is that Kris is on a roll here that he's been on basically since he got back from Arizona...

He is offering us the opportunity to 'step up' and start putting these ideas to work in our everyday lives...

I also notice a new tone in his voice, attributable to another aspect... And yes this voice is passionate about church history and the limitations we have been indoctrinated into creating for ourselves...

But this voice is also passionate about who we really are, and our potential to experience that right now in our present focal awareness... What was that phrase... we are to relish, as he does, the nectar of our being...

So what is thrilling me in addition to not being flawed or in need of redemption, is my whole divine self that I seem to have ready access too... The possibilities of experiencing this in everyday life, even modestly expressed, are breathtaking... [see above]

What Is Being Valued Here?

What Is Being Valued Here?

Kris, as he is wont to do, recently made a startling statement which upon examination, turns out to be almost self-evident.

“Every belief and behavior has positive intentions at its source”

What is startling is to think that even my most limiting beliefs and egregious behaviors are rooted in positive intentions. [Back in a moment on the self-evident part.]

First some background information. Kris has upped the ante recently and is apparently expecting us to step up and actually do something in our lives in line with this material.

Perhaps as a result of this kind of provocative behavior on our part, our various universes, and Kris too, have responded with wider awareness, new perspectives, and even more amazing and useful ideas.

For instance Kris said at one point recently that value fulfillment was a done deal, no options. Whether we like it or not, we will fulfill our values, no matter what we choose in each moment.

This seems to fly in the face of our freedom. Can’t we decide we’re not going to fulfill a value? Apparently not, with a caveat tossed to our creativity...

We have the power to pretend that we are not fulfilling a value. We can even perceive that we are not fulfilling a value, thus causing some pretty paradoxical whimsies to be mirrored in outer experience.

The juggernaut of value fulfillment, is not fazed by this in any way. It simply incorporates any ‘negative’ choices or experiences into a broader, richer, more thorough-going fulfillment. [how often have you heard, ‘it was hell, but I’m a better person for having gone through it’]

Kris suggests we observe ourselves and notice when we are resisting something. What is our inner dialog? Can we identify the value behind this thing we are resisting? What is the positive intent at it’s source?

There is no escaping our value fulfillment, just as there is no escaping the immense self-healing processes continually rising up from source within us and informing our reality creation mechanisms. [This is why there is always a perfect solution hiding inside every problem. You can’t negate something with any effectiveness without having a pretty good fix on it first.]

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A friend suggested this reformulation of these ideas over lunch on Thursday...

“What is being valued here?”

This is sometimes a better question to ask instead of, “What is the positive intent behind this belief?” I have found this question to be very powerful. Often what is being valued will jump out as almost a feeling, rather than having to think about it.

For instance if your parents taught you the world was dangerous and you needed to be constantly on your guard, ‘what was being valued here’ was our ability to make choices to ensure our safety, health and well-being. Our parents attempted to teach us how to fulfill this value for ourselves, using the best understanding they had at the time.

As we connect to the intent behind this old belief, instead of continuing to react with chronic anxiety and protective behavior, we can join our energies with the valuing of safety, health and well-being and skip, if we choose, the habitual emotional influence and indicated behaviors of this belief.

The old ways of fulfilling this value are no longer helpful in our present lives. By aligning with the value being expressed, we can offer ourselves new ways to fulfill this value that don’t involve continual tension and negative expectations.

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Today I was thinking about my teeth. They are much better than a year ago, but they still bother me a little bit. Since my teeth were on my mind, I asked myself, “What is being valued here, in this gum irritation?"

The answer was immediate. This experience brings into sharp focus the value of healthy teeth and gums. Moving on to the next layer, I asked myself, “What is being valued in healthy teeth and gums?”

Here my understanding started to grope a little bit, but the answer was still almost immediate, what is being valued here is the power to eat things, which really means nourishing myself!

This was an ‘ah-ha’ moment for me and my teeth. Of course I value nourishing myself and have given lip service to this idea a million times, but my teeth are telling me I am resisting fulfilling this value. I am not nourishing myself properly. My imperative now becomes figuring out new ways to nourish myself. [thanks teeth, for being the willing messenger]

Just for fun, I asked again, “What is being valued here, in nourishing myself?"

Again the answer was immediate, so that I can grow and be strong, heal and repair myself, romp and play tirelessly, help others, and be fruitful and multiply... ;-)

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Recognizing the positive intent behind every behavior and belief...

Instead of being influenced by the particulars of an unwanted belief, align your energy with the values being expressed behind the belief, meanwhile appreciating this particular manifestation of your divine reality creation abilities. This only requires noticing and being willing to move your attention.

As you move your focus away from unwanted automatic responses, to recognizing and affirming the intent behind this belief, hitherto unseen choices will appear that allow you to fulfill this value in new ways more aligned with who you are becoming.

We’re ALL Safe!

We’re ALL Safe!

I was thinking about how we have to really cultivate ideas for them to grow. It is not accidental that Kris talks about cultivating an inner garden and Elias talks about inner landscapes. Our outer gardens (the seeds we have planted to create the blossoms we want in our lives) need to be cultivated too!

This includes our actions of course, but also the thoughts we entertain, the choices we make and the influences we act upon. All of these categories of expression can be ‘cultivated’ to very good effect.

Without cultivation, a passing idea or idle thought, however dramatic in the moment, easily slides away from our attention and fades into forgetfulness. Particularly if we accept it with equanimity for what it is and let it go.

It’s only when we energetically seize upon an idea that it becomes magnetized and begins to attract related ideas, which then coalesce into a world view that eventually becomes more or less fully articulated. Only at this point do our earlier convictions start to have an influence in our everyday lives.

[It’s almost as though our material creation energies don’t respond until our expressions reach a certain level of coherence and conviction around a particular issue. Let’s call it a reality creation ‘buffer zone’ based on our level of commitment to any one of the many, many ideas we are always flirting with.]

This design allows us ample time to explore options and follow many different probabilities right up to the moment when we finally decide just exactly what kind of ice cream, or mixture of ice creams :), we’re going to have for dessert tonight.

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Chatting with myself a few moments ago, I was pondering the idea that you can’t create in someone else’s reality. This is a sobering thought for someone who is becoming an Aspect Therapist. However good our intentions might be, we simply cannot create someone else’s reality for them - everybody has to ‘roll their own’, so to speak.

It’s not that essences, and other even wider beings one presumes, benevolently refrain from creating in our realities out of the virtues they have acquired in their ‘exalted’ state. The truth is that it just can’t be done!

Think about it. Each of us experiences reality by the use of our unique perceptive mechanisms.

Perception is interesting. The idea implies two distinct and necessary things. The first is a unique point of awareness within consciousness. Perception implies an “I”.

The second thing is continual input of some kind from the ‘rest’ of consciousness, that part of the ultimate unity of consciousness that is not pretending to be this particular point of awareness. Since it’s all a process, one could say that perception is the natural consequence of establishing a unique point of view which then necessitates the movement of all of consciousness around itself.

Someone trying to create our reality for us would have to be manipulating our perceptual mechanism in some way, since that is how we create our reality.

The problem is that while it may be possible to influence the second aspect of perception - the outward parade of experiences we flowing past us - it remains impossible, by definition, to create any kind of reasonable approximation of the first requirement for perception - that unique point of awareness that does the perceiving.

This is more a quality of consciousness than any kind of moral imperative. Let’s put it this way, our unique identity, the “I” of “me”, is inviolate and unlimited in its scope.

No one else can ‘be’ us, so no one can perceive the exact and unique way we do. Ipso facto, no one else can create within our reality because they cannot contrive to perceive as we do without actually becoming us!

So we’re ALL safe!

The Dead Guys

The Dead Guys

The actual secret of The Secret is that most of the wonderful information being offered in this movie comes from ‘dead guys’ but the producers don’t ever tell you that! It’s still a secret, you see!

So let’s come out of the closet around this issue already! Who are these ‘dead guys’ and why do they matter?

Well, in the case of The Secret the dead guy was mainly ‘Abraham’, channeled by Ester Hicks, along with several other sources. So what we’re talking about here are channel sources, non-physically focused ‘essence personalities’ speaking through a medium or channel.

And what these guys [there are feminine ‘dead guys’ of course, let’s call them ‘dead gals’.] have to say is fascinating and life changing. I remarked to a friend once, "I don't care if these turn out to be old Johnny Carson monologues, the content speaks for itself!"

The original idea, of course, was that these were ancestors, or other people who had passed on, hence the ‘dead’ guys. But our understanding has grown and this is too simple a distinction for us now. As Seth says, “you’re as dead now as you’ll ever be!”

But some of us continue to call these sources ‘dead guys’ out of a sense of affectionate irreverence and perhaps a little teasing of these gentle intelligences, who are by and large earnest, and respectful to a fault.

Of course, we all realize that this kind of communication has been going on forever in the human race. Only its name and the meanings ascribed to it have changed; shaman, prophet, seer, medicine woman, inspired poet, mesmerizing singer/storyteller, blessed religious leader, messiah, honored ancestor, and on and on...

Something changed though, at the beginning of the last century, or perhaps ‘came to a head’ is better because there are clear antecedents for all this material in the eighteenth century too. But certainly in the early 1900’s, perhaps because of emerging mass media, suddenly there were many channels speaking for many sources.

[Draft list of seminal writers - all wingnuts and crackpots from the perspective of official reality - from this time period, such as Earnest Holmes, Alice Baily, Catherine Pounder, Norman Vincent Peal, the ‘think and grow rich’ guy. All these great early manuscripts on topics that presage the New Age; will and imagination, consciousness, psychic energy, power of the mind, triumph over conditions and circumstances, non-physical source and essence, and on and on.]

This climaxed in the 60’s when Jane and Rob started speaking for Seth and publishing their sessions together. Seth Speaks becomes THE example of a source speaking through a channel. [Of course Jane, bless her, would vehemently dispute all of these labels, and demand total artistic freedom in her unique relationship with Seth, as well as in all her other writings!]

With the publication of the Seth material, millions of people came into contact with these ideas, and the phrase “you create your own reality” entered our lexicon, along with “channel” and “energy personality essence.”

In some ways you could say this was a tipping point in our species’ consciousness reflected in our culture. We openly examined the ideas that we were not ultimately physical beings, and we could access a vast, non-physical part of ourselves - in essence becoming the ‘greater’ part of ourselves.

Whatever a particular source might say through a particular channel, the very fact of what is going on in front of us speaks silent volumes about our potential as human beings. With the prevalence of channeling of all types, we must assume that this is an inherent, though underutilized, capacity of every human being. [So who have you been channeling lately?]

Now that we know this, why not just channel our own source and get rid of all these middle-men and women? [Oops! turns out that’s what we’ve been doing all along! The outside world and what anybody else has to say, can only appear in conjunction with our inner actions, feelings and assumptions.]

Are we communicating with god, with another being, or with some remote aspect of ourselves? Perhaps a future self? Often the temptation is to attribute divine powers to this voice and locate the source outside of ourselves, even though the thrust of the 'dead guy's' message is always to locate divinity, truth and power within ourselves.

The more I experience and understand channeling, the harder it is to draw a line between channeling and non-channeling, and the richer and more varied the options become for experiencing this most useful capacity in my own everyday life.

Indeed the basic message being offered by the ‘dead guys’ might be that we are vastly more than we have been thinking of ourselves, and that the world we’re living in ain’t so bad either... quite the achievement in fact, and worthy of our exploration and appreciation.

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Illustration: This wonderful poster is entitled Dia de los Muertos, artist unknown.

Most Vivid Imagination Wins!

Is there something spooky about these long, quiet days in early August? I am in downtown Toronto, Canada and this summer of 2008 is a doozy! Or is it only me? This is not an idle thought because, as you may be aware, the outer world is entirely a reflection, a confirmation, of our inner maps of the various realities we are choosing to energize and inhabit. So the weather outside is all about what we are focusing on inwardly.

[Our reality creation energies continuously project, as best they can, the moving average, so to speak, of our present inner maps or energetic representations, out into the world we experience around us. This outward manifestation of our inner maps is one of our autonomic functions, like breathing or digesting. None of this is the concern of the conscious mind whose job it is to express its passions and reach for the stars.]

As I was perusing my blog somewhat aimlessly I noticed that I had not yet written two pages under the "About" menu; “Who am I [Who are You], and “The ‘Dead Guys’”. I decided the dead guys could wait and tackled the ‘Who am I’ page, with the following results...

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Who am I - Who are you?

I have begun to understand something about writing and that is the idea of gaining ‘traction’. After a few years of writing you start to get some traction going, and once you’re in the groove - some may say you’re in it from the start - but once you hit your pace, it’s all gravy after that. So something I wrote five years ago is utterly as relevant today as it was then. If not more so!

This is why I offer a quote from my Metaphysician’s Handbook, a site I created several years ago, at the bottom of this post. I am starting to mine my own previous output and this is the perspective about writing I wanted to share. [all perceived aspects of ourselves are legitimate and have something unique and revelatory to offer - why would they be in our awareness otherwise?]

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Anyway, I decided as I set out on my errands this afternoon I wanted a wine spritzer. So I get home with the wine all right, but no soda water - bummer! Especially since when I realized this, I had already taken off my sweaty outdoor clothes and put on my indoor pants. I didn’t want to go out again!

Another part of me recalled the earlier plan for white wine spritzers on the deck. A very compelling and almost seductive point of view, very cogently presented! So we have at least three ‘me’s’ in this picture; the me that wants to stay home, the me that wants to go to the corner store for some soda, and the me that is observing all of us.

It was fun to watch this little contest, partly because ‘me’ as the observer didn’t really care which way the game went. Putting your pants back on and going around the corner is no big deal. On the other hand, you can always use lots of ice and a little fruit juice - you don’t really need soda.

Each camp spun out powerful images in support of their side... [see Disney’s ‘Battle of the Sorcerers’ in “Fantasia”] Seductive visions of cold fizzy drinks on the deck were projected into sharp focus by one side.

This was simultaneously countered with tempting relief about not having to go out again, and just sitting down right now! Along with the easy option of using lots of ice and maybe some juice with the wine later.

What was fascinating was to watch the negotiations going on. It was enchanting to see how brutally honest I was with myself, and yet simultaneously open to cooperation. The ‘stay home’ part of me offered the recipe described above - pseudo-wine spritzers, almost sangria-type drinks.

The other aspect immediately countered, not by opposing the slippery slope to sangria, but by clarifying it’s heartfelt need for fizziness. It was all about the refreshing feeling of that first fizzy sip!

There was no answer for this and the ‘put your pants on’ side won. I have only just returned with the soda water, and am enjoying a delicious and refreshing spritzer as we speak, indoors as it turns out because it’s a brutally hot day out there.

Can it be true that the most vividly imagined thing wins the day?

So who won, and who lost? It was all me, even though it was very closely argued on both sides! One side won and it really doesn’t matter which, but what IS interesting is how it won!

The winning aspect focused on a quality of the desired experience that it was just not willing to give up! In doing this, a powerful image of me reveling in the desired fizziness was generated. All the rest is just details as the universe re-arranged itself around this thoroughly resonant intent.

So whichever aspect has the best image[ination] wins! Just like in the sorcerer movie!

If you can imagine things more adroitly than your so-called opponents, everybody wins!

What follows is the first chapter of The Metaphysician’s Handbook, circa 2003.

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Self - 1

‘Who am I’ at first seems self-evident. This is me. The guy who got out of bed this morning, the guy who is writing this now is myself.

I am also though, the infant born 53 years ago and every ‘me’ in between then and now. A huge succession of nows within which I was always me. The me now is the same in some essential way as all the other me’s that have gone before.

But each me is different too. I am not the same me that I was as a child or a teenager. In fact I am not the same as I was when I got out of bed this morning.

We have a paradox. Every now brings a new me and yet somehow the same me. Accepting this seeming contradiction allows me to sense and explore the ‘spacious present’ when all of my selves collect into here and now.

This is Self. The totality of all of my awarenesses focused in this moment of life. Self is a given. I have done nothing to be worthy of it, and can do nothing to avoid it. Self in the Now is not simply the grandest power in the universe, it is the only power in the universe!

Plant Consciousness Proved! + Three Focal Timeframes

Plant Consciousness Proved! - And Three Focal Timeframes

I was just pondering one of my plants sitting in the back window of my apartment here in downtown Toronto. This little vine was transplanted when it broke off a gift from a lover, now hanging in the bathroom. [the plant, not the lover!]

What is remarkable about this plant is that recently I noticed it was weaving rather unsteadily in the occasional breeze blowing through the summer window, and I inserted a long thin stick to support it. The remarkable part is that all the leaves that have developed since then have been about three times the size of the preceding leaves! [see pic]

It seems to me that this indicates a pretty fair degree of consciousness in this plant. I had no idea its leaves could be that big. All I had ever seen were the little leaves, and the plant was at least a year old at this point.

I noticed that this was a limiting way to think about the age of the plant. This plant came from the one in the bathroom, which came from some other plant years ago, and on and on. In a way of thinking, you could imagine one huge ivy plant stretching throughout space and time with many discrete focal expressions that all bear the exact same genetics as the big one and each other. Spooky!

It must be the consciousness at this vast layer of the plant, that notices that I have stuck an old art-brush into the soil to firmly support it just behind one of the leaves. All the tiny sensors and chemical reactions one presumes are being used by this outer version of the plant, are also a reflection and confirmation of consciousness being configured and expressed inwardly by the ‘whole’ plant.

As is usually the case in a holonic universe, if we continue to extend the identity of this plant into all the multi-dimensional probabilities of this and all other dimensions, we eventually find ourselves swept up into Unity Consciousness as we approach the Zenith of All That Is.

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I see three different timeframes for our focal attention to span, so to speak, time-contexts within which we notice our actions. How much ‘time’ do you customarily straddle with your beliefs, frameworks and expectations.?

[Or 'maps’ as Kris has been calling the changeable, gelatinous worldviews we crystalize into experiences through the use of sympathetically resonant imagery, directing our material creation energies to 'ring forth' with what we want to manifest.]

Historic Viewpoint on Change

If our viewpoint is the long sad decades of our lives, and the lives of our forefathers and mothers, we will mostly allow and notice change at only that slow and lugubrious pace.

Practical Daily Viewpoint on Change

If we are looking at our days as unique and filled with opportunity, we will allow and notice change that happens in days, or even hours.

Now Viewpoint on Change

If we have found our balance in the Now, and don’t deny our heritage in consciousness either, we can allow and notice change in this moment, and again in this moment... and again...

Out to Sea with The Triple A

This is my e-mail response to a someone wanting clarification on just exactly what we were Triple A’ing when we Triple A’ed.

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Hi [correspondent]

I like how your understanding has evolved on the Triple A. Very nice progression.

My understanding has gone through similar permutations as Kris offers more and more information about who we really are and how, in fact, we literally create ourselves and our experiences.

Out to Sea with the Triple A

Let’s look at Triple A from the perspective of the ship’s captain that Kris talked about on a recent radio show. For the purposes of our example, let’s say that an iceberg is coming towards us, and we have been ignoring the crew’s more and more insistent messages about this looming problem.

Reality Intrudes on a State of Denial

Already, even before the iceberg hits our boat, we have an opportunity to acknowledge, not the eventual catastrophe, but the messages from the crew before it happens, representing the various aspects of our neo-conscious mind alerting us to the probabilities we are entertaining for ourselves.

So the Acknowledge part of Triple A could be said to begin even before the potential problem manifests in our lives. And in fact, if we are noticing and responding to the bad feelings, premonitions, intuitions, flashes of insight, dreams, and etc., we can often neatly sidestep the actual, full-blown problem by changing course. [So acknowledging is powerful medicine, akin to noticing but more responsive somehow]

Failing this more subtle level of acknowledging, we can certainly acknowledge the problem when the ship runs into the iceberg. [although it’s amazing to me how I can go around for decades not even acknowledging that a problem exists! Sort of like ‘and the band played on’, or Nero fiddling...]

Ok, so we have acknowledged that an ‘iceberg’ has crashed into our life, and there may be some damage. At the same time we find ourselves acknowledging that we created all of it, and it has meaning. This attitude of introspection invariably produces several very fruitful lines of inquiry for us to explore.

Addressing to the issue has many, many possibilities. Often the first thing we need to do is assess any damages and make emergency repairs as needed to keep our ship afloat. A captain has certain priorities and responsibilities.

In practical terms this means looking realistically at the problem that has appeared in our life, and responding with whatever adjustments we believe will be helpful in the short term, to allow us to carry on with everyday life.

Continuing to address, we can begin to explore the nature of our situation. “What exactly happened here? Why did it happen? Are there more ‘icebergs’ bearing down on us? Could this have been prevented?”

Changing our tack, we could also ask, “What is the challenge here, and what is the loving and nurturing intent behind it? What am I opposing?”

"Where can I simply relax my energy and just accept something I have been resisting?"

There is often an issue on the front burner of our lives, where all we have to do is stop pushing and defending, and everything will resolve effortlessly in our favor.

A Tiger by the Tail

After all this, it becomes easy to Accept the reality and dynamics of our situation, now that we understand ourselves and our feelings so much better. And it becomes easy to accept our own hand in all this too. We have reverse engineered this whole process backwards from the glorious fulfillment that is now at hand. All we have to do is Allow it to unfold as we intend[ed].

When we Accept ourselves as open-ended, multi-dimensional, immortal beings, we allow the possibility of the miraculous occasionally intruding upon our lives, always with the utmost respect for our own constructions of course, often to confirm for us the deep yearning and knowing we feel within, about our true nature and capabilities. Acceptance.

To directly address your question, I think you are right at the end when you suggest that it is both. We are Acknowledging, Addressing and Accepting both the problem and ourselves as creators and interpreters of the meaning of the problem.

But it is more than that. It is a lovely counterpoint of intentions and realizations that instigates a sort of dance in consciousness, between Ourselves as the conscious ego, and ourSelves as the neo-conscious self.

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Meanwhile, let’s keep in mind that to the degree we have created a separation, the neo-conscious is almost certainly Triple A’ing us right back, on whatever issues we are dealing with. It would be silly not to assume that the Triple A in our tool box, is an outer reflection of some awesome version of it we all use at the level of essence.

Just imagine Acknowledging, Addressing and Accepting ourselves as Essence!

Obama Plays the Race Card, Finally!

This comment was originally posted on The Huffington Post. Barack Obama has pointed out he looks nothing like the pictures of presidents on our money. Strong reaction to this from McCain, that Obama had ‘played the race card’, all followed up with some fairly specious explanations from the Obama camp. “No, no. He wasn’t talking about being black, No, no, no!”

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OK, kids, can we talk?

First let's be honest, Barack DID play the race card! In the sense that he raised the perfectly reasonable point of view that honestly notices that a black man has NEVER in history even been considered for this office, let alone being put on our money.

Noticing this fact though, is informative and provocative rather than being "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong," as McCain campaign manager Rick Davis says.

It is honest and open to engage the obvious fact that race is an integral part of the American mindset and experience. It is attempting NOT to play the race card, which is to say, attempting to ignore the facts of race in America that causes so much regretful ignorance in our engagement of each other.

Well, this has just been plain silliness, so we look forward to a frank and open airing of ALL the issues of race in America, and the world, for that matter. Don't be faint of heart! There is much to discuss!

But also, dear Obama camp, please do not pretend that this is about the difference in age between Barack and the men on our money, or that it's all about him being new to Washington so he doesn't see himself in these engravings.

Please! He's intelligent, we're intelligent, you're intelligent...! No more waffling around this issue! Onward!

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"Sweet thang... When you call a 'spade a spade', stick with it!” At least we know you're coming from an honest place!

 

Falling Into the Precipice of Our Being

“Falling Into the Precipice of Our Being!” —Brahm => Kris => Serge & Mark

With these words, Brahm stole my metaphysical heart the other night, on the radio show I co-host with Mark Bukator and Serge Grandbois [and Kris, of course]. I so very much want to ‘fall into the precipice of my being’ and would pay money to do it!

Let me explain a few details before getting into the good bits of this amazing show. [There’s always a back-story!]

Usually it is Kris who comes through and we have a wonderful discussion about the nitty-gritty of how we work with our energies within consciousness. Brahm has only come through on the radio show once before, and it’s always a distinct change in vibration when he does.

He followed up on Kris’ earlier discussion about everything being a process, not a state. Essence, like everything else in consciousness, is not a ‘thing’ but a ‘process’. So people who are frantically searching everywhere for that one last thing, that last little bit of understanding that will allow them to graduate from being merely human, to the exalted state of Essence-hood, are limiting themselves fairly drastically. [There is nothing to attain, only re-engagement of a vast and continuing process.]

Brahm almost seemed to be using the ‘should’ word, when he said that in the context of “The Shift”, we must change our paradigm of ourselves in order to allow a larger paradigm of ‘who and what we are’ to emerge. He pointed out that this was not a ‘should’ but simply a requirement for the expanded state of beingness we have chosen to explore. It is our idea of ourselves that is the most limiting factor in our lives and, not surprisingly, from my perspective this is also the most challenging thing for us to change.

Brahm then launched into an extended metaphor about the young eagle being kicked out of the nest. Our little eaglet will certainly find this a shocking development, and feel like it’s going to smack it’s little birdy-ass on the cold, hard ground below - and probably die! Or at least lose money, be embarrassed, or default on a credit card payment, to put this kind of precipitous disaster into human terms.

But something else happens and our darling little chick automatically opens her wings and starts to ‘go with the flow’. Suddenly air is much more than an invisible constant taken for granted. It becomes a medium for new categories of movement and exploration that give glorious new meaning to wings that had been awkward, floppy impediments until now.

Our little chick instantly accesses potentials she didn’t even know she had, in a process we humans call ‘learning to fly’. All this without one iota of understanding of the aerodynamics involved. [Take that Wright brothers!]

We understand, with the most pro-active compassion, that for every individual chick it must still be a pretty amazing experience! Jumping out of that warm and comfortable nest, and falling into the Abyss! And then... soaring safely in the air currents. And then... flying freely as high as we want!

Soaring eventually to heights unimaginable from the confines of our dear nest! [to which we can return whenever we want, by the way! We are now in the ‘neo-nest’ that includes the nest we leapt from, and a whole lot more!]

Now, dear reader, imagine you’re that eagle chick! [So that means ALL the dramas in your life have been about learning to fly!]

It was fairly amazing in these moments on the radio, to be discussing this with Brahm, coming as he is from the Entity layer of consciousness and all. My inner vision opened up wide and I saw walls dissolving before my eyes, allowing the ‘winds of change’ to blow gently but firmly, through everything I had been thinking about who I was and how the world worked.

Vast universes drifted by, each filled with uncounted trillions of everything conceivable. All this spreading to the outer-most reaches of whatever else might be conceivable, and expanding from there. And then all this somehow folding inwards upon itself, compounding itself, to produce even more evolved understandings of many, many composite and inter-related layers of our amazing selves and our unlimited potentials.

I have to tell you, in all frankness, Brahm blows my headlights every single time. In some ways it’s a blessing he doesn’t come that often, because replacing all those bulbs can run into real money!

Identity turns out to be something we use to express our current, and ever-changing, idea of ‘who and what we are’. In other words our identity is a process too, not the ‘thing’ we might have been assuming was somewhere within us, waiting to finally be exposed.

This really highlights any kind of rigidness we might notice inside ourselves. If something is always ‘right or wrong’, ‘black or white’, or ‘go - no go’, then we might benefit from some connectedness thinking... [Let’s try to soften the boundaries within, and re-energize the openness of our engagement with the multi-various energies we find in ourselves!]

“And” is Always the Answer [even though there are very few absolutes]

If we want to move forward, our steadfast and stalwart response to our dilemmas, paradoxes and conundrums must always be ‘and’. The sooner we open our understanding to accept this Principle of Consciousness, the sooner we begin harvesting the conscious creation benefits of straddling these dichotomous perspectives.

We can use these challenges as we intended, to vault us into even more subtle and heartfelt understanding and appreciation of the dynamics of our consciousness.

Abundance of Lack

This email is in response to a friend who wants very, very much to have abundance in his life. He is doing everything he can think of to create this abundance according to conscious creation methodologies, but is anxious that he might be missing something crucial.

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Dear Abundance Seeker

I feel a big push in your energy towards having more abundance, and this is wonderful, powerful energy. But as you mentioned this may also indicate a focus on NOT being abundant.

It is a big step to realize that where we are, here and now, is not the enemy! In fact where we are, here and now, IS the abundance we are seeking if we can only relax our energy and accept ourselves and our potentials. Here and now, from an expanded viewpoint, is really all we've got! [And there's lots of it!]

Here and now is everything we could ever dream of, and when we reject our here and now as not enough, we reject ourselves and our potential! So in your passion to create abundance, to have something other than what you have in this moment, you are literally rejecting your own abundance! We are such marvelous beings that out of our unlimited abundance, we can even produce lack if we choose to focus on it!

[In the same way, our freedom is so unlimited that by carefully and vigilantly controlling the focus of our attention, we can even create powerlessness and victimhood. Such is our power.]

I know this sounds a bit silly, but only by accepting our present self and our present now as an expression of our unlimited abundance, can we start to allow the universe (which is US) to offer ourselves more, perhaps in a configuration that better suits who we are becoming. As long as we reject ourselves and our nows, we have tied our own hands, so to speak, and cannot then allow the universe to offer us more of what we want.

The practical way to do this is to start choosing, in our here and nows, to appreciate the abundance we find in and around ourselves, and stop rejecting all of this as not enough. This change in our energy will slowly transform our experience and show us ways to allow more of what we want.

The pathway to more abundance is paved with noticing and appreciating the abundance we already have in our heres and nows, not by building frustration and anxiety by continually rejecting our heres and nows, and focusing on the absence of what we want.

How does this look in everyday terms? Make it a point several times in a day to take a deep breath and appreciate the abundance of air and the sweetness of filling your lungs with it. Notice and revel in the experience of enough air - way more than enough air! - for ourselves and everyone on the planet.

Notice how sweetly and gently we provide ourselves with all the necessities of beingness. We have an abundance of desire, an abundance of feeling, an abundance of potential, and an abundance of time and space to create whatever we want.

Notice especially that there is more than enough YOU! As you begin to appreciate yourself, you will find that the amount of ‘you’ that rises up to be appreciated too, is literally endless and extremely revelatory!

From these new perspectives, notice and appreciate all of your feelings of lack too, honoring the fact that your potentials and resources are so unlimited that you can even produce an abundance of lack!

Letting the Universal Manager Do Her Part!

This e-mail was in response to a friend having problems trying to finish a book. He had a dream in which he struggled to create a store display by packing books (!) into a display case. This proved to be very difficult and as no one offered to help, he gave up and walked away in frustration. Immediately his manager, working with another employee, and breaking union rules, filled the rest of the display with big red apples.

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I agree that your dream was about your book project, among other things...

We have all been taught that pushing our energy (that is to say attempting to force things to go our way even when they don't seem to want to) is an appropriate response to sorting things out in the world to better suit us. This turns out to be unsupportable nonsense.

As we begin to know and experience the fact that the World is a confirmation of our energetic expressions, we realize that pushing the world results in the world pushing back! It's just the physics of consciousness. So our experience becomes that of always attempting to fit into a world that doesn't seem to have a place for us.

Pushing ourselves is simply another variation of pushing the world. Except when we push ourselves it gets up close and personal and the push back can get very close to home. When we try to make the world be what we want, the world reflects that by increasing demands on us that we measure up to the world's expectations. When we try to force ourselves to be what we perceive we are not, ourSelves reflect that by seeming to force us, against our will, to deal with personal aspects that are difficult and that we don't want to acknowledge.

As illustrated beautifully in your dream, the solution is so simple and easy that it takes your breath away to experience it. Just let go of pushing or forcing your energy, or will, or intentions on ANYthing! Do the best you can with any situation and then relax and allow your whole self, which includes the World, to be what it naturally is - a divine force moving inexorably towards Self fulfillment.

The reflection of this in our relationship with the world is conditions and circumstances that are relaxed and easy and allow us to have the experiences we want, in the most serendipitous and practical way. The reflection of this in our relationship with ourselves is a civilization of aspects that smoothly appear and disappear in each moment, in an orchestration of traits and abilities that spontaneously unfolds within us, as unending open-ended opportunities to explore our potential and fulfill ourselves.

In your dream, after you have done your best with the 'information' available to you (the books) and when you accept that you cannot do any more and 'walk away' (crucial) the Universal Manager takes over and cheerfully fills the gap with 'knowledge' (apples) which is even better than information.

A particularly nice aspect of your dream is that when we walk away from an issue after doing our best, the Universal Manager will sometimes even break the rules of official reality as we understand them, to fulfill our intent, because this aspect of ourselves is not limited by our focal belief systems. This is the hidden back door through which the miraculous can sneak onto our stage, if we allow it!

‘Yes, and…’ Lessons from Improv

“Yes, and...” - Life Lessons from Improv

I was struck the other day while watching The View when Canadian Mike Myers, was talking to Whoopi about his movie, “The Love Guru”. He mentioned that being a good collaborator was about always saying “Yes, and...” to whatever was being offered by a colleague.

Intrigued by how this related to recent insights I have been having about the importance of allowance and acceptance, I found this description on Wikipedia...

[please bear with me through this lengthy quote, note the emphasis, and be attuned to parallels to Conscious Creation...]

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“In order for an improvised scene to be successful, the actors involved must work together responsively to define the parameters and action of the scene, in a process of co-creation. With each spoken word or action in the scene, an actor makes an offer, meaning that he or she defines some element of the reality of the scene. This might include giving another character a name, identifying a relationship, location, or using mime to define the physical environment. These activities are also known as endowment. It is the responsibility of the other actors to accept the offers that their fellow performers make; to not do so is known as blocking, or negation, which usually prevents the scene from developing. Some performers may deliberately block (or otherwise break out of character) for comedic effect -- this is known as gagging -- but this generally prevents the scene from advancing and is frowned upon by many improvisers. Accepting an offer is usually accompanied by adding a new offer, often building on the earlier one; this is a process improvisers refer to as "Yes, And..." and is considered the cornerstone of improvisational technique. Every new piece of information added helps the actors to refine their characters and progress the action of the scene.” [all emphasis mine]

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These improv techniques are startlingly similar to what I have been learning about improvising my own everyday life - surely this is what ‘creating your own reality’ is all about. So many of us respond, to so many of life’s moments, with “No, but...” instead of “Yes, and...”, and thereby block the development of whatever our issues might be. [It’s not that any position or situation is right or wrong, but that was the situation a year ago wasn’t it?, and the rest of us have moved on!]

The ‘yes’ part is accepting whatever Life offers us. This is allowance and accepting whatever reality we find ourselves in, as the first step to orienting ourselves, and understanding how we are expressing our energies.

The ‘and’ part is expressing ourSelves and taking the next step in this particular ‘morality play' - in the best possible sense of that phrase - as we act nobly in the world, make choices, and otherwise express our feelings and ideas to advance our plans by exploring and engaging the astonishing new prospects we see just around the corner... [like a friend once said, the Internet [and life] is not about where you are, it’s about where you’re going!]

We recall that, while the motive for these wonderfully insightful improv players, is entertainment, and there may be a lesson here too!, perhaps our own lofty goals of ‘wisdom, love and freedom’ could be best served by faithfully responding to everything life offers with, “Yes, and...”

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I think these improv guys better watch out though, because what they are doing is creating actual probabilities. And one night... perhaps we are up late and have a couple too many, various conditions may contribute, but suddenly it becomes possible to slip between probabilities... Spooky!

This may be where the old saying ‘watch what you ask for’ comes from.

Top Ten Tips for Easy Shifting

I have been using these lazy, hazy days of summer to update my website. So today I find myself writing the Page that a few months back I originally entitled, in a moment of whimsy one assumes, “Top Ten Tips for Easy Shifting”.

After a number of years reading and digesting the information being offered by various channeled sources, I have come up with the top ten things I have learned, over the last thirty years. This stuff really works, for me anyway, and here I offer you my condensed version, suitable for both novices and aficionados.

Top Ten Tips for Easy Shifting

1 - Acknowledge that you exist and have a place in the world - that you are ‘amongst those present’ as the lovely old English phrase goes. So, be present, to yourself and to the moment. [It’s not as hard as it might seem, and the rewards are, well... Whatever they are!]

2 - Accept - and appreciate wherever possible - the world as it presents itself to you. And accept the various aspects of yourself in the same way. Oppose nothing outwardly or inwardly. [Expressing opposing energy results in... experiencing opposing conditions and circumstances. That’s what physical reality is... an outer reflection and confirmation of our inner representations.]

3 - Celebrate joy, pleasure, loving feelings, communion, giving and receiving, and all of this without boundaries or limitations. Don’t just smell that rose 'sweet thang', grab it and get up close and personal with it! [Have your way with that rose, and take the rest home for rosehip tea!]

4 - Create and share ideas freely and express whatever you are moved to. [Nothing is lost and everything is gained when you express yourself in ANY circumstance!]

5 - Allow regenerative change as indicated, while honoring memory and history [You can’t go anywhere unless you’re coming from somewhere!] Learn to act with the strength of your intentions as well as your convictions. [When in doubt though, just do it!]

5b - Let’s not be so darn quick sometimes, to label these changing things and judge them and react to things, simply as they may appear in any given moment, or series of moments. [A good question to ask is how we feel about the direction of these changes.]

The Now is not always such a bad thing that we need to deny it and look elsewhere! Let's allow ourselves to change our mind sometimes - without comment! - and sometimes even open a door to compromise, allowance and cooperation! Why not expand our understanding, and reverse the probabilities around an unpromising course of action. [Freedom is not about choice, it's about choosing again!]

The tone of the game changes dramatically when we learn to be gentle with ourselves, because soon we find ourselves being more allowing and compassionate with all the whole world around us. [...and shortly after that the Whole World starts being more gentle and accommodating with us! Go figure!]

Let’s accept ourselves as we try one thing and then choose something else, and then change our minds again to something else entirely! [This is freedom! Who cares what we choose? What’s it matter anyway? We can choose again and again, and everybody else is free to make their own choices too!]

6 - Within every fleeting moment of this Now, when we pause for a moment’s reflection about something, anything... In this slightly detached and observational moment, lie extraordinarily rich and fertile opportunities, rolling out before us in all directions and times, fruitful and ripe with choices deliciously aligned with our personal preferences. We only have to take a moment to look, to see all this.

7 - And let’s be clear! We can choose to be anything in such a moment! And often do!

8 - There is always MORE than whatever the current ‘container’ for consciousness might be, be it thoughts, ideas, beliefs, choices, behavior, concepts, or whatever physical actions or perceived circumstances might be making up our present conception of ourselves and the world [that is to say, our current Worldview expressed through our current Ego Construction].

9 - Feelings are our most meaningful guide through this fantastic labyrinth of our selves as expressed in our daily adventures. Follow the feelings of spine tingling, thrilling delight, and you won’t ever be far off.

10 - All the other people in our lives are ‘comrades in arms’ who are joining us in this endeavor we call physical reality for one reason, and one reason only. They love to be with us, in any and all capacities, and we love to be with them!

Thus everyone we meet is a much loved ancestor, sibling and/or descendant to whom we owe the deepest gratitude and appreciation. We’re all in this together... for a reason!

Info Diagram Page

[FYI - a copy of our new “Information Diagram” page] - - - - - As I begin to understand something, I start making a picture of the ideas involved to help me sort it out. What follows is a number of these images created over the last few years. [There are many, many others.] And so above [...]