salvational campaign

I figure if we are going to launch a campaign to save something (whatever our favorite salvational target of interest), we may as well go all the way and Save Everything. Better still, how about a campaign to Destroy That Which Is Destroying What We Want To Save. I guess that would be humans and the natural course of the universe itself. In order to Save Everything, we would have to Destroy Everything. But wait! Isn't that what is already going on every nanosecond?

once upon a time

Once upon a time there was a man who lived in stark reality. Black and white. Up was up and down was down and by god don't give him any of the all is relative stuff because he had trouble with his relations anyway and he prided himself in his hardheaded stubbornness and believed that once fooled, always a fool and he had fooled himself too many times, made a fool of himself over other people mostly and got hurt and so he closed his heart and said what heart? the head is where it's at and kept strict accounting of everything and lived in ledger domain thanking god except he knew there wasn't one that he wasn't foolish anymore like all those others until a chevy pickup almost ran him down one day and the startle sent a lightning flash unbolting his pent upness and he fell to the ground weeping and sobbing and couldn't hold himself together anymore, see him over there? wearing rainbows, his head all exploded into a cloud of glory and the vast unseen, wondering why people took life so seriously, making things so grave and he thought about starting a church of the eternal chevy pickup but said nah! too black and white, everybody has to get run down by their own vehicle

consciousness states

We live both AS a consciousness state and WITHIN a state of consciousness. When I say that we are living AS a consciousness state, I mean that we are unaware of our state of consciousness. We have not separated ourselves from our state of consciousness. We cannot look at the state we are in. There is no we, no I. We are “caught up” in our consciousness state. The consciousness state is us.

When I say that we are living WITHIN a state of consciousness, I mean that we are aware of our state of consciousness. We feel that we exist independently of our state of consciousness. We move around within it and look at its components and marvel at its mystery. The consciousness state is both us and not us. We are an observer and are aware that we are an observer.

When I live AS a state of consciousness, there is no subject-object split. I am neither subjective nor objective. I AM. When I live WITHIN a state of consciousness, I am the subject and all else is object. When WITHIN, I am not aware that I am both subject and object. When WITHIN, it seems clear to me that I am the operating factor and all else is operated upon.

As soon as I say that I live AS a state of consciousness, I am no longer living AS a state of consciousness. As soon as I say that I live AS a state of consciousness, I live WITHIN a state of consciousness. As soon as I say that I live AS a state of consciousness, I have cast myself out of that Garden of Eden into exile. I am outside looking in. This is why “those who know do not speak and those who speak do not know.”

When I live AS a state of consciousness, I am a flow of knowing, of gnosis. When I live WITHIN a state of consciousness, I have removed myself from the flow of knowing. I live in ig-gnosis, in ignore-ance. I ignite myself with my own being. A certain darkness settles, an ig-night.

A holo-archy of states of consciousness exist. This holoarchy is similar to but different from a hierarchy. In a hierarchy, one is on a rung of a ladder. One is separate from the ladder and from all the other rungs. One has one’s state of consciousness and aspires to the states on higher rungs (or slips and falls to a lower state). A holoarchy is a set of nested states of consciousness. One can open to wider consciousness. The opening to wider consciousness has no end.

When one lives AS a state of consciousness, one lives holoarchically. One is an ever-widening sphere of consciousness, a sphere with no surface, no bounds. Information flow is immediate and certain. One lives in im-mediacy. No mediation is needed. One lives as certainty, an inclusive certainty.

The reverse is true when one lives WITHIN a state of consciousness. One lives hierarchically. Information flow is mediated. One needs a mediator and is either in a search for one or has found one. The mediator tells one what is real and what is not. Mediators who live AS a state of consciousness differ from mediators who live WITHIN a state of consciousness.

Let us call living WITHIN a state of consciousness Exclusive. Let us call living AS a state of consciousness Inclusive. Exclusive consciousness sets up barriers and excludes. One becomes objective (and even objectionable). Inclusive consciousness can be thought of as surrounded by a semipermeable membrane allowing free informational energy interflow. When there is no membrane, inclusive consciousness becomes a state of ecstasy.

living in the world of soul

We know that we are made in the fashion of creatures. We have teeth and claws, genitalia, and a voracious mouth. Out of this animal base, something more is struggling to awareness. We call this, soul.

We make a distinction between the creature world and the world of soul. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" -- Jesus (Mark 8:36). What is soul but that which aspires beyond the world and its satisfactions?

We live in the land of the visible, afraid of the Dark, the Invisible which surrounds us and is True Light. We love our little creaturely ways, and snack and snark on our sensual pacifiers. Standing in a pool of dark we take for light, we live in a blazingly yet softly lit universe of Radiance, Mercy, and Compassion. Our awareness grows and we see this. We are this. We become this.

We leave the pool of darkness we take for light and open to the Darkness of the Mystery which births us. We drop the dark known and open to the Radiant Unknown. We laugh. We are still creature but no longer creature. We live in the world of soul.

standing on nothing

The highest teaching is that we stand on nothing, and this nothing is everything.

The highest understanding is that there is no "under" standing.

As soon as we stand on something, the whole universe concretizes like Kurt Vonnegut's Ice Nine.

When we stand on nothing, the whole cosmos springs to life.

Standing on nothing is not the same as standing for nothing.

In standing on nothing, a great open heart beats for all.

the merciful lifeflow

Only that which is nonexistent exerts influence, and not that which is existent. If the latter seems to exert an influence, it is only by the authority of that which is nonexistent. Ibn Al'Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom

In my workshops, I focus often on Energy Flow and upon our conscious opening to this LifeForce that brings us into being and sustains us. This Energy is neither an onrush of emotion nor the focused calculation of intellect.

While these two (feeling and thinking) are necessary components of a human, they can also get in the way of the flow of Spirit, of the LifeForce. This is why I teach centering and opening. Centering and opening allow a conduit for the flow of this vital Energy. One moves in accord with the continuous unfolding of Life Itself.

That great visionary Ibn Al'Arabi, in one of his writings, speaks of this LifeForce as Mercy:

The Mercy of God flows in all created beings,
and courses through the selves and essences.

We humans generally move through our day riding the waves of emotion and thought and societal demand. We give rare place to this Energetic Mercy which we are. We may take a few moments in our prayer closet or meditation chamber to acknowledge Its existence, then firmly slam the door and go on our way.

Energy Flow teaching focuses on living as a conduit of the LifeForce, an embodying of Spirit, a taoing of the Tao, a surging of the Source. It is more fun, less stressful, and leads to great unexpected adventure.

energy knots

Each of us is an energy knot in this vast and infinite multidimensional web of energy extending in all "directions." We call this knot ourselves. We love the knot we are.

Lately (within the past several hundred years), we have developed great admiration for being tightly knotted. More recently, a knot-help industry has arisen for assisting us in "finding our true knot." We develop knot-esteem.

We polish and furbish our knot and insist on its instant gratification. We pour stuff into our knot holes, somehow feeling we are not whole. And we are right about that.

Wholeness comes from loosening of the knot we are. Opening to the wider web. Allowing interflow. Soon we realize we have strong connections. Energy pours through the loosened knot. We become less and less knotty. We relax. No longer are we a knot. We are a wave (a waving) of an infinite sea of energy. All is well.

the crusted scab of rigid thought

Pull off the crusted scab of rigid thought and let the blood of your woundedness flow! You there, thinking you know what it is all about, stand down! Step out of your thin-skinned certitude and keep stepping, raw nerve endings blazing with life!

We cannot bring to heel our healing, which is always advancing beyond any certitude of thought. The instant we think we've got it, it's gone, leaving us sitting behind in a kiddie pool of thought and vain imagination.

Giddyup and go! Snap out of that trance dance! Come on, admit it! The shit you know is not the Eternal Shit! Step out here naked and foolish with the rest of creation. Throw off those clothes and stomp them beneath your feet!

let me get this straight

Let me get this straight. Two views are prevalent these days.

View 1. Consciousness stems from brain. No brain, no consciousness. When brain dies, all dies. No afterlife.

View 2. Consciousness produces brain. Brain is temporary stopping place for consciousness. When brain dies, consciousness continues.

I like and open to View 3. Something more vast than View 1 or View 2 is holding these views.

new species emerging

Even as we are destroying this planet, even as we face, perhaps even because we face, potential annihilation, a new species is emerging. Homo sapien is being replaced by Homo Noetica.

Forerunners of this species have been around for some time according to human clock time, but only for less than the blink of an eye from the viewpoint of the cosmos.

Sapiens deliberately killed many Noetica, instinctively realizing the threat and danger of their replacement.

Even now, the two species walk the earth, mortal enemies. Enemies because of differing (perhaps orthogonal) agendas. Enemies, because though they walk the same planet, they live in different worlds.

Sapiens live in separative consciousness. As a result they seek power “over.” Sapiens feel the world is a place of scarcity and of competition. Sapiens want to own the world. Sapiens are fearful and hostile.

Sapiens are both slaves and masters, having invented and brought to life a social system based on hierarchy. Hierarchical participation makes one simultaneously slave and master. Unless one is at the “top” (wherever that is) as Absolute Master or at the “bottom” as Absolute Slave. Those at the “top” get all the goodies; those at the “bottom” get whatever trickles down, usually little or nothing.

Noetica live in unitive consciousness. As a result, they naturally comprehend power “with.” Noetica know the universe as a place of abundance and plenty. Noetica know that nothing can be owned, that “property” relies on theft and greed, an action and a quality of separative consciousness.

Noetica are at home in the universe. Noetica know they are star material. Noetica know they are earth walking.

Noetica are loving and open with fierce intent — the fierceness and the gentleness of the universe unfolding. Noetica know they are the universe manifesting.

Noetica have trouble with the triviality of the sapien world.
Noetica do not fit in a world based on greed, hostility, and stupor. Noetica live in a larger realm.

Noetica cannot abide a hierarchy. The social system of Noetica is based upon holoarchy — systems within systems within systems. Everything is in relation. No slaves. No masters. Holoarchy is the way the universe operates.

Noetica are appearing on earth in two ways. Some are born as Noetica. Some are born as sapiens and become Noetica.

Any sapiens can become Noetica. Any sapiens can shift from separative to unitive consciousness. This transmutation is the Happening of the Day.

Awareness

The evolution of human consciousness requires opening to the powers and energies of the Origin, our Source, while letting go of concrete systems of conceptual thought designed by our ancestors to explain and contain those energies. (The one who said the old wine bags cannot contain new wine has himself been thrust into an old wine bag.) This is both a painful and exhilarating process. We continue being born, letting go of past consciousness structures in our birthing. We are being born into new Awareness -- forming conscious partnership with The-One-Who-Breathes-Us. We are Earth walking. We are the Cosmos embodying. We see and we are seen.