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As a genus branches and becomes a species, so the unseen reaches here. It is a constant natural process, but you my child want to be sweet talked into connection! It would be better if a spirit-king slapped you awake!(Rumi) Any day is a good day, any moment the right moment to start! Your body, your choices, it is never too late my love, Don't avoid discipline, you have learned ways to make a living for your body,now learn how to support your soul . You wear fine clothing, how do you dress your spirit? Change one habit and grow up a hundred fold in maturity and grace! This world is but a playground where children pretend to have shops. Some times when they wrestle, it may look like sex, but NONE OF IT IS REAL! My child, learn to discipline the body's never tiring wants and habitual ways, and in doing so, dress your beautiful spirit in robes of light from THE SOURCE! VOILA! There is peace, serenity, and flow HERE, right NOW, ON EARTH!! Simply because you chose to act awakened

Kids, let me tell you about the "state of being consciously aware" OK? Imagine the most out there twilight zone you can feel the molecules moving, feeling you've ever had and then multiply that by ahh ohhh, say a million, yeah to start!! there is not one consciously aware human, not a single one! For at the very moment of that water drop fading into THE OCEAN of its essence, the mind of a mere human would not be present to "maintain" its existence. Total madness! Where the dancing fools frolic and are joyous, the intellectuals linger in self made mazes! p.s. note, the sidewalk art picture? The artist is not sitting at the edge of any hole, it is a painting of a a hole on a flat sidewalk! Hence the "sidewalk art" ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY

Omar Khayyam wrote some 600 years ago; "Some are deep in thoughts pondering religion, Some in their own minds have found certainty, I fear the day when a thundering voice comes saying, Fools! the way is neither this nor the other". My wonderful children, may this find you in a most allowing, accepting state. May every thing you distress over be your medicine in the end. May love find you saying "no more, mine cup runneth over, no more!". May you come to see that where there is only GOD, the lover is a veil, religion a mere tool, sin the bitter taste of our choices, heaven a state of being free of all dualities, in peace! As the infant cries out for milk, the mother's breasts burst open with flowing milk. Take your case my children in whatever language/form you wish and are comfortable with, to THE ONE who bears the milk of love and grace for you at all times. Cry out in thunderous voice, no letting go, milk is coming my child! NAMASTE' (I bow to the place

Whenever we are being challenged as the results of an interaction with another life form to maintain a GRACEFUL PRESENCE and PEACEFUL HEART, how beautiful! Where does the conversation go next? I have a way of testing you my children and it is only to reveal to you what you may not see. If I push your sensitive "buttons" you will not feel malice or angry energy from me, but you will be forced to face why mere words/presence of another can generate resentment, offended attitudes, anxiety, fear, and more? Can you say "Thank you!" I will consider your thought? Then let the occasion be an exercise in acceptance and allowing? THE ONLY WAY TO CHANGE THE WORLD IS TO CHANGE THE WAY I LOOK AT THE WORLD. Can you stop a war by feeling anger? Let that feeling be your guide to what you need to learn about peacefulness! When interactions with a lover, a friend, a family member, governments, forces, (your self?) leaves you feeling offended, put down, made to feel not equal with, in

Remember my wonderful children, the I-MAGE gets the validity of its stuff from you. It presents a scenario, and you by saying yes to that have now made the imaginary situation as real as you wish. the I-MAGE is now feeding and in control. Why must we suffer needlessly if we can avoid it? The tool of chanting I offered in part (1) of this talk is only one way of avoiding the negative results of allowing the I-MAGE feeding activities. Whatever means works to bring you into an awaken/conscience state of being will work. In some Psychology schools the use of a rubber band on the wrist has been used successfully. You snap the rubber band as hard as you can, causing the brain to release the negative process of the I-MAGE feeding and help in realizing that you were somewhere else indeed. That then and there which, is not here and now, is what we want to avoid. OK? The what ifs, the I wish I could's, the who the heck she thinks she is.......the oh my God all is lost, who is to blame, wor

I did not tell my heart to start beating! I did not ask my lungs to breathe! I had nothing to do with my eyes seeing what they see. Yet and still, here it is a force of life flowing which beats my heart, breathes my life in and out of my lungs, and has vision to witness my life. The same force which is in the trees that provide me the oxygen by taking in the same air I breathe! All working together with myriads of other activities which, sustains the life within me and this Earth-sphere on which I temporarily reside. Tell me my beloved children, where is the sustainer's hands? For all our knowledge we have yet to have the wisdom to see THE FORCE within our circle! THE DESIGNER CANNOT BE IGNORED! telling the fish about the ocean that sustains it is not so easy a task for a mere intellectual. LIVE IT! Because words won't deliver, only a hint to the place. ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY

Sala'm(peace) my children! There seem to be so many "guides, seers, telepathics, readers,....) that its getting harder to tell the real thing from the fake ones. I mean folks are selling "how to find yourself" books and cd's left and right which, is nice in a most basic way. But as I have said before my love, if you have to pay for your inner peace or be coached while paying the money, then I'm afraid you'll stay lost. Look, if we just undrstand the basics my chidren, the rest is a walk! You know that your entire body stores memories and associations through a network of pathways, chemicals, electrical pulses, brain waves, and neuro activities. So, you are not what you own, know, percieve, or what others say that you are or not! Next time someone tells you that you are this or that, or are not this or that, remeber if you can, that when you react with negative thoughts of being offended, hurt, shamed, feeling guilty, or any of these kinds of emotional rea

In the past few days I have had to face my "black dog" the "doppelganger" and partake in "his" journey. What fascinates me the most is how much some of us "professionals" assume as exact knowledge. If the pain of feeling like a bad flu virus has hit you, takes you to a place that is needed for your journey to a more serene and harmonious life, then why the added pain of expressing resistance to the events leading to the awakening? Some colleagues in the mental health and "spiritual arena" with all their wonderful insights still remain under the illusion that a substance (no matter what form it takes) or an experience which we have lived with for many years is valid to continue to be, even if its fruits are no more than confusion and dis-synchronicity! When is enough, enough? How will you recognize the ONE who will click on the light within you? If I am truly walking the walk of oneness with GOD, The SOURCE, then I cannot accept the part

SALA'M(Peace) children! About 5 am today as I lay awake in my bed the most beautiful feeling of gratitude hit my heart and held me captive for hours. I am so eternally grateful for my life! I live in an old Mobile home that at best can bring 6-to 7 thousand dollars in the home market. It is a good home, sturdy, clean, every thing works and I even have a wood stove which keeps the place romantically warm! The home is in this working class neighborhood, good hard working folks with all that goes with it. They drink their beers, have the usual weekend loudness, but they are HAPPY! Content with their lives, you hear laughter and kids run around on their bikes and off roads, go to school and always say "hi" to me (the old odd medicine-man with his plants). I also know a family(well, many families) in the nicer part of our world (Sedona,AZ.). A mother, a daughter, a somewhat slow witted son and an old aunt who live in this million dollar home! The home is always dimly lit, hard

THERE ARE MANY LINKS IN THIS POST PLEASE FOLLOW THEM, FOR LOVE'S SAKE come back and read part 2 , this one is the longest post for understanding! First thank you Guy Finley for being a blessed wordsmith! If I-mage is your crafted/gifted word then let me spread the word. DO READ PART-2 PLEASE! My beloved children; There is a part of you that feeds on anxiety, depression, low self esteem, negativity ! And its meals of choice are fear, anger, hate, greed, and doubt(even in the face of positive proof!). No matter how you try to reason with this I-MAGE (that is what we'll call that part of you, OK?) it cannot and will not on and of its own accord stop looking for those things I mentioned above. Look my love, that is what it feeds on! If it cannot find anything in the here time of your head, it will go deeper into the back windmills of your mind, your old fears and concerns (what is it for you? The one thing, the one thought you just can't shake loose for all your life, is

We must learn my good children to be, act as if, pretend if needed that which, we wish to produce and see. Every occasion is a possible pool of how to be that which we aspire to. May this day find you all looking in the mirror of GRACE and PEACE even as you are faced with pity matters around you or having a pain of life with its fang at the ready to dig even deeper. Remember my love, where there is only GOD, all is purposeful and perfect as it appears (though it never is as it appears). Namaste' (I bow to the place within you that is GOD). ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY

THE HOUSE OF THE FRIEND It was predawn Or somewhere in between the two lights The rider on destiny’s horse asked “Where is the house of the friend?” Skies paused a moment; As the passerby answered thusly Whilst giving the spark of light upon his lips to the darkness. Pointing to the source of the white light dawning He said; “Just before you reach that tree Look for a narrow garden way greener than God’s dreams Where love is the color of the feathers upon the bird of truth and sincerity. Go further yet to the end of that garden walk It comes out on the other side of maturity. Turn then to the flower of loneliness just ahead. Two steps before you reach that flower There with its majesty is the fountain of the wisdom of all ages. A clear and colorless fear overtakes you then And in the innocent grace of that moment in space You will hear a crackling sound Turn and you will see a child Who has climbed the highest pine tree there To rea

How do we know about our progress in spiritual matters? How do we know about keeping peaceful disposition unless we are tested by circumstances? Indeed my children, we must accept all occasions of our lives as dear guests in our homes who have much to teach us about "who we are"! A frustrating situation at work, an issue with my landlord, a loud neighbor, the policeman who just stopped me and seems to have a bad day, my children not respecting my wishes, my government's lack of common sense, the drunks and the child molesters~~~~~~ These are all occasions where we are tested and given chances to display a harmonious peaceful front that says "God bless this occasion, let there be a peaceful way to work through this for all concerned" No ego trips or offense taking attitude will result in higher spiritual growth or harmony on our precious planet Earth, nor do solutions come that way! Learn then my children as I am, to welcome occasions of joy and sorrow, hardship

I am working with a colleague, a brilliant mind who is going through some issues of her own even as she is helping others deal with theirs. Our main subject; "what is addiction?" So I decided to make my point here to share with all you wonderful children of our addictive ways. Let us first and foremost agree on the definition. "ADDICTION IS THAT WHICH YOU CANNOT SEEMINGLY DO WITHOUT OR THINK IT HARD TO LET GO OF" To that end my love as we understand our brains better we see that for nearly every thought/emotion there is a corresponding PEPTIDE created by the brain which then goes into the blood stream same as any external substance we may take/ingest/inhale/inject. Pay attention now my beautiful ones, If I have to have my dose of the bad news about the world daily(news junkies) as an intelligent human I need to know what it is that I "have to have" about receiving the news that makes me say "oh it'll be hard to not do this"? What peptide(

I had a dream, a vision maybe of how to put words onto pages of history. The hands of the beloved at work, where does the man begin where God is not? Simmering stews of all manners of wholesome ingredients given to me to add the seasoning and to deliver the final healing food to the masses~~~~~~~~~ My daughter too, had a dream of my humble mobile home having become a home with a corridor that had no end and as she walked the corridor she saw all manners of animals, birds, ferrets(new born ones!) all being cared for in their individual room like cages that had only curtains for doors . The Healing Center where all were serene and healing. "The living room was a big fish tank dad!" She said, and there were fish in it with us! We have mastered "matter" in human form, this most seemingly ordinary fact just brought to me the realization of a life time. If I were GOD, seeing my creation mastering matter and form (and to some degree energies), how would I declare that whic

The beloved is as close as the skin which covers your flesh! Yet why is it my children that we look for PEACE out side our selves? You should not have to pay an arm and a leg to hear God's words or learn about enlightenment. You will not find it in better jobs, more money, prestige, bigger home, longer titles, or, or, or, or...by blaming others for your lack of serenity and peace. Listen my precious ones, where there is only GOD the rest is illusive details; If you know somewhere deep inside you that there is a higher power, then know this clearly my love "YOU NEED ONLY SIT QUIETLY LONG ENOUGH TO FEEL THE LOVE AND PEACE" Even if you do not know how to sit quietly, sit and yell at the face of creation, talk to this higher power and demand your serenity! You see my children, what matters most is that you take the time and sit with the SOURCE OF ALL LIFE KNOWING THAT YOU CAN MAKE A CONNECTION(you'll quiet down soon enough)! Then watch the mystery unfold... ONLY GOD ALWAY

I hold an image of peaceful living in my mind's eye. I practice the ways of those who did so before me. I write about it, I print out the words of my peaceful intentions and hang them around my home. VOILA! I am a peacful man to all who know me. May this be the journey for every single one of you my wonderful children. Let this living example of a man you know be a guiding light to help you achieve the same in your own lives. Because I guarantee this my love, that, whatever you think about the most, you'll bring about the most of. WHAT DO YOU WANT? Give the universe the order, and worry not about the how. Just keep the dream and the image constant, let no other thought to the contrary sway your attention and intentions. YOU ARE A PIECE OF THE CREATIVE DIVINE, WHY NOT HAVE ABUNDANT FULFILLMENT? Let that creative divine power show all possibilities to you. As you believe and sow, so shall you reap and grow! This power made you and all the universe, and it says

The conversation was on God and Heaven and Hell(energies moving). We had started from a mutual place, a quote from the Bible (Had ye faith the size of a mustard seed, ye could move mountains). We were working on a detailed computer imaging software gone haywire. Now imagine my absolute delight when my friend says "do you believe in heaven and hell?" "oh..don't get me started on this" I said. 4 hours later, here we are..... If and where there is only ONE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS, if dark and light are the two sides of ONE IMAGE, then how can we not see that separating the two as if one came from an elsewhere in ANOTHER SOURCE is the main reason we have the warped notions of heaven and hell, and human sufferings? WHERE THERE IS ONLY GOD, WHERE IS THIS PLACE? WHERE IT IS ALL GOD , WHAT IS THIS AND THAT? GOOD AND EVIL? SIN? The very notion of a sin, heaven, and hell has only been around for about 2-4 thousand years, how did we lose all we knew for nearly 3000

A book is being written accompanied by a lotion for ages 44 and over which, will come out when it is due(I am pushing the limits here, never assuming). It will guide beautiful men and women over 44(you) to let go of what hinders the experience of life when most of the moisture has gone out of the skin and the courage to be bold is hard to come by. It will ease the transition from scared to love again, to why not now, if not now when? Exploring through experiments all we need to be whole again and find elasticity~~~~~Forget the sex, feel first! The lotion is already made(totally organic Aloe/Rose,made by this humbled shaman; Took him 11 years to perfect it.) and tested by many 44's and over(most 55 and over), clearly waiting for its mate the book to come out so that the sharing may begin internationally. The book however, can only manifest once the mates have joined forces. A how to be in love again manual~~~~ May this day find all of you over 44, in a blissful way, not accepting th

Dance, as though no one is watching, Love, as though you've never been hurt before, LET THE PAST GO! Sing, as though no one can hear you, Work, as though you don't need the money, Live, as though heaven is on earth. ~Rumi~ ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY

In the last few days many friends and readers of this blog have commented on the "black dog" mention, and shared their own experiences. I thought it was important enough to say it again that "the black dogs must ultimately be tamed,in order to play their vital role in our journey towards ONENESS". It is one thing to recognize our nemesis, it is quite another to keep the vigilant meditative relation with all the energies of our lives as we mature. If I put you down or myself down for having a problem with excess sugar intake(just another example), then I have only added one extra negative factor to the mix. ACCEPTING, ALLOWING, and the deep desire for service in serenity flow~~~~~ Addiction then is whatever I cannot do without or that which controls my way of walking this Earth. If I am suffering on a daily basis, if I am angry on a daily basis, if I have to be orally gratified constantly, if I am complaining on a daily basis, these are then the peptides (chemical

What separates me from you my beloved is the veil separating you from your creation. I can melt as an ice cube in the water, I can vanish as a drop of water in the vast ocean of your existence my beloved, yet and still, until you desire it so, none can see beyond the veil. So many good men have died trying, given up living in order to devote their whole beingness to have a glimpse of your ESSENCE, all in such foolish effort. I AM THAT I AM! ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY!! wHAT part of this don't you get? I guarantee you my children, if you but accept this notion of unity for a short time and with due diligence show up to affirm it daily, ALL YOUR "PROBLEMS" WILL CEASE TO EXIT!

Greetings children! I have been working through something which seemed appropriate to share no matter how personal or private in nature, because, where there is ONly SouRcE..............!!!??? This requires more than consideration for being honest and plain speaking, There is always the learning to remember! There is this duality you see, by law of the "FIRMAMENT" Earth's " CLOSED ATMOSPHERE" but it goes deeper than that. Where most see " good " and " evil " the wise only see polarity as a necessary part of the whole . In fact it is not just in our "firmament" that this holds true, it is so in all of life's big expanse in all directions. In order for the "WHOLE" to be manifested without a need to know the beginning and the end of it, two poles of opposite charges are needed just the same. In a human way I would like to demonstrate that. The negatively charged side of my being I call "my black dog" who when i

What form do your doubts take each time you are close to resolving it all? What makes you hesitate when a change is right at hand and all seems to point to the need for the change to accrue? If SOURCE is all there is, what is all the fuss about how or where "YOUR" life will end up a years from now? What connects and disconnects you from that SOURCE of all things? Look my children; When we see or feel separation from the air we breathe, the Sun that warms us, the Water that sustains the body, when we feel separated from the place and the field of energy we originated from and are still very much a part of, confusion and despair sets in. We are much like the parts of our own body and psyche that makes up "who and what" we are, a part of a yet larger living organism which in turn itself is yet a part of a larger one! I am my cells, I am also my mind, my circulation system. I am my submolecular parts too, each of these parts of me is like a world unto itself. Yet even t

I have always advocated the "Experimental Sciences" because the poor bastards involved are bound by the "prove it" syndrome which does not leave much room for mistakes. We can think about an idea of unity, but the unifying field itself won't stand still long enough to be measured, even then the very act of measurement changes the nature of it. So like every thing else in the universe; ALL IS ONLY THE MANIFESTATION OF THE DEVINE SOURCE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE REST OF ALL THAT THERE IS, "IS KNOWABLE" TO MOST PARTS OF THE WHOLE. NO SECRETS IN THE UNIVERSE, ONLY MORE OF THE BELOVED TO EXPERIENCE! WHAT IS DARK MATTER? (Then one must let it all go)! The one who forgets THIS unity, experiences only manifestations in reactive modes. There is only source. Entanglement is a mere word explaining the way of our connectivity. Of the oneness that is not separated at all. All is entangled sub-sub-particles or waves with one constant, TH

So does the drunken man has anything to pontificate? Oh yes! Said I "who else but the drunken man utters the truth so helplessly innocent"? Let the drunken poet too have a word, let the dogs bark and children scream! Let life be today my love as we embrace the joyful pain of the illusive image of you and me, me and you, YOU EMBRACING YOU!

Any time my children, any time at all, when you can sit still long enough to see the ONENESS of it all you will have the essence of LOVE in your cup! Any thought of separateness at any given moment, is what keeps us separate. God, in whatever language and form, IS SEMPITERNAL! ALL ONE, ALONE!

SO..Let us pick up where we were yesterday. Accepting that every thing is ENERGY, we then come to understand that thoughts are energy. Every thought produces energy with which we build the days of our lives. Every object which we surround ourselves with has energy , and like a scented candle all objects in our lives will help in shaping the days of our lives. I don't wish to sound repetitive, but it helps I believe in getting the point home. Sounds have energy too, right? So what do you listen to, the sounds of your music, the sounds of your words, the sounds of your own thoughts will make the days of your lives as they are. Imagine if you will, a giant container of liquid (many thousands of gallons), now put a drop of red dye at one corner of it, just one drop! This red dye may take a while to get to the other side of this giant bowl of liquid, but no doubt it will, in fact in a very short time we can measure the amount and the distance of its travel(the red dye) into the liquid b

ONE of the oldest arguments in philosophy and religion has been to make sense of our place as humans in God's "plans". Of course for those who do not even wish to acknowledge the possibility of an Omnipotent Creator, this is doubly troubling because like the rest of us, they see their own so called "free will" or that of their fellow humans get us in more trouble and create more problems as time goes on. More so now than ever before in our common history. In that we all come from a field of energy there is no arguments however. Even for the atheists, if they are scientifically somewhat indoctrinated that FIELD OF ENERGY is a reality that for now just does not have a name because as close as science has gotten to explaining its aspects, nonetheless we don' know what it is! I mean, look at your life, you were an embryo first, before that a two part ready to be mixed bunch of cells in separate containers. Before that the containers containing your essence of be

In the past couple of days, while working through what appeared to be a sinus cold (heavy pressure, watery eyes, coughing) I had occasions to remember my teacher's advice "All your experiences whether in pain or joy are guests in your home(body), welcome them one and all as dear guests because each one has a gift for you in new learning and awakening". Heed my words now my children, any time you commence to blame another as the cause your unhappiness let the awakened soul within you shout NO! It is not your addicted partner, it is not your overwhelming job, it is not the neighbor's kids, it is not the family member who is a blabbermouth...NO, NO, NO! Most emphatically NO! It is the unhappiness within you that seeks to put the blame on another. It is you unhappy with you! Has it ever helped you or your serenity when you blame or find fault with any other? Has it made life any easier or made you feel any better when you sit in judgment of the shortcoming of others? Does

There are no accidents! To see the depth of this reality one must first be an objective viewer of the flow of life's daily energies through the movements of waves. The waves are as the circles created when one drops a pebble in a pond, they do not just appear and move a leaf on water, they are set in motion by the hand of the one who threw the stone!Can I say this again without being too redundant? Have faith above all that, THE FORCE which created the universe from total nothingness, is very much willing to share that force! You can be the one carrying the stone if you go to where the stone quarry is!

So much of what we learn is through relationships in our lives that if we do not value them and honor the experience we indeed are the losers we don't want to think we are. It is specially beautiful when the learning is through an intimate relationship with another human. A family member, a lover, a very close friend, a neighbor, a co-worker. I tell you children, we must always see only THE SOURCE unfolding and not harbor any negativity about any experience. I am not saying my love to stay in a relationship where there is abuse or, stay at a job where you are not at all happy with,but that if you stay aware and awake, get out of the relationship peacefully enough to say I learned . But to learn my children we must ourselves come from a place inside that is centered and in harmony with the energies around us. If certain charateristics of a loved one is not "pleasing" to me or I think I need more to be " satisfied " then it is not their shortcoming I need to see,

Hello love! Thank you for being in my life! the many forms you take! My humble gratitude much like the essence of your being does not fit in these meager words. Words can only point to that direction where there is only you! The annihilated "me" can only be here now because of your graceful presence. Ahhh! If you should but for a moment take your attention off of the flow of TAO, all shall cease to exist! Grateful I am, Ab Ovo so for the gentle touch of your love and grace that abounds. When in meditation i have no needs, no thoughts, no desires, BUT YOU MY LOVE! Only you! Solomenthe tu! Tanha~to'! Who else could love as you? NONE!

For LOVE if it finds you worthy will lead the way without any effort on your part. Without EGO love moves! It is not a "DOING" that makes meditation work, It is instead being preset! Just sitting with the INTENTION to connect to the SOURCE of all things, to quiet the mind from its churning, but in intending so my children, all I have to "DO" is show up daily, sit down and let the breath which sustains me keep me PRESENT IN THE HERE AND NOW, RECEIVING THE FLOW OF TAO THAT IS EVERYWHERE! Namaste', Namaste'

We need to have a measuring rod it seems so as to not get dishearten about our progress in most endeavors in life. Even in spiritual matters which, tend to be so subtle and alone in their nature. GOD is alone! How does a true seeker get his/her mind around this? How can we know this and still go on being arrogant about what intelligent/beautiful/handsome/rich/successful/.......... People we are? And arrogance/EGO has a very subtle and sneaky way of showing up nearly every day for those who stay "awake" enough to notice. When I judge a certain group or behavior as so abhorring and horrible, that it "bothers me", tell me love if it is not my EGO speaking? When we regard any matter as separate, and can look upon its nature without compassion my children, we have succumbed to the HAUGHTY and have fallen from GRACE! Grace; Is a tough act to keep up if that's all it is "an act"! Tough state of mind to keep if we are not consistent with watchful eyes on the