saboteur

Saboteur: one who commits sabotage, the throwing of a sabot, a wooden shoe, into the machinery. We have our own personal Saboteur, an aspect of ourselves, that keeps us from transforming. The Saboteur can operate at a physical level, but I speak here of consciousness change.

sui-cision

We are surrounded by mystery. Yet we each have de-cided, made de-cisions (made mystery smaller via in-cisions, incisiveness) to carve out portions of mystery into recognizable THINGS and live within this narrow world. We create, as individuals and as a society, a tomb in which we dwell. (To de-cide, in this sense, is a form of sui-cide.)

Most others around us agree that the world created by this de-cisive process is Reality, so we blithely continue in this self-hypnotic state supported by our culture and our local thought community.  Mystery dwells within the outer and the inner infinity which we are. And not just within. We ARE this mystery.

When we know this, the world transforms.

meta

Languages consist of words, images, and emotions. Each word produces imagery and emotion. This is true for both written and spoken language. A metalanguage is a linguistic attempt to describe IT ALL. 

When one zooms back far enough, one sees the existence of many metalanguages. Some are called religious, some scientific. Some are called spiritual, some material. Regardless of what they are called, they are a metalanguage.

In looking at the planet from the cosmos, one sees that each human is fond of a particular metalanguage. Humans group themselves accordingly, generally stay within their own language bounds. and if pushed become fierce defenders of their particular metalanguage.

From whence and where do these metalanguages arise? From the cosmos Itself. The cosmos births the Earth which births the humans who give rise to metalanguages. Metalanguages are the humans singing to the cosmos. In essence, metalanguages are the cosmos singing to Itself.

preparation for ejection

Since this vehicle is temporary, we may well prepare for ejection. Some say that the brain produces consciousness; end of brain, end of story. I say consciousness produces brain. The habitual thought patterns of the mind will continue. Now is the time to rearrange or discard furniture. Clear open awareness is the aim and the practice. Galeropsis: clear and cheerful vision. We galerope down the road without end.

banana

The culmination of all meditative practices: B.A.N.A.N.A. -- Bare Ass Naked Awareness Now Abiding.

death-and-life

We tend to think we are life and that death is our enemy. No, no. We are death and life together, as one. We are life-and-death. We are death-and-life. When we know that, we have died before we die. Now we fully live.

the other side

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.” (1 Corinthians 13:12)

We are already on the other side. The other side is here now. We live in this side, are enthralled by (made a thrall to) this side. Embodying produces this effect. We thrill to the body, as a body. A great journey, this embodying. Pain and suffering. Joy and bliss.

We are already on the other side. Attention, like a narrow beam of light in a vast room with no walls, does not let us see this. We attend to bodily existence. We joy in our attending. We PAY attention. Attention has a price. The price of not seeing.

We are already on the other side. We stop our narrow attending and open Awareness. Something is breathing us. We do not breathe ourselves. Something is giving us mouth to mouth resuscitation. This Something is the other side. When it withdraws, we withdraw with it. Even now, our every exhalation is Its inhalation. Our every inhalation, Its inbreathing breath. We are breathed by the other side.

We are already on the other side. The other side is as close as our very breath. Closer.

Face to face. The faces merge.

out of this quiet space all emerges

Images arise and disappear within our consciousness. Images of this person, of that person. Images of dream. Images of future hopes and past regrets. Images of personal triumphs and of failures. And so on. Images arise and disappear.

One form of consciousness is image attachment consciousness. Rather than let the images that arise disappear, we cling to them, to certain ones in particular. At those times we are effectively dead to the world around us. We ruminate like cows, belching up what was once chewed and swallowed, standing with unseeing eyes, chewing our cud. Velcro’d to our vomit, we are only partially here, if at all. Image attachment consciousness.

For clear seeing, non-attachment is needed. The images rise and fall, appear and disappear. We are aware of the images but do not get caught up in them. The images arise, give us their juice, their energy, their emotional surge that passes through us like an electric current, They move on. Non-attachment consciousness.

Yet a third form of consciousness exists. No images arise at all. One simply is. Right here. Right now. Now is all there is. No time-space. Fully functioning, wide awake, alert, aware. No bounds. The Silence out of which all arises. Silent consciousness.

Out of this quiet space all emerges.

fourth dimension

We cannot solve the problems produced by three-dimensional consciousness by staying in three-dimensional consciousness. We must open beyond space-time.

palingenesis

Our Fate on Earth is unfolding out of who we Were (and many still Are). Our Salvation and Redemption (two honorable words) unfold out of our moving to and unfolding from Higher Ground. Palingenesis, Born Again (three honorable words).

spheres of awareness

Rather than using the old ladder model of consciousness, in which the subconscious is below and the supraconscious above, you may wish to see yourself as a sphere of awareness with Awareness (the supraconscious) all around you. The semi-permeable membrane of the sphere you are allows Awareness to flow in, blocked only by membrane opaqueness which you have learned to produce so well. The greater the membrane transparency (diaphaneity), the greater the Awareness.

calling

I was born a sensitive, an empath.
Psychology called it hyper-vigilant.
The Marines called it necessary.
I call it capaciousness.

confluent

Reality is what we say it is. I say it is spiritual -- though that very word throw some (they throw themselves) into discombobulation. Spiritual: operating as a sphere of energetic energy radiating outward from a core, from a center beneath and beyond "I-me-mine" and its emotional slingings and graspings. Reality is that we are spheres of radiant energy within a vast arena that knows no bounds. All spheres interconnect, interflow like stars and galaxies in the cosmos. We are confluent, influencing the nature, the quality of It All.

consciousness mutation

A mutation in consciousness is going on. Human consciousness has been generally split into three sections which interbleed: past, present, and future. This three dimensional awareness results in humans often not being present, but entertaining themselves in non-existent realms they call into being.

This “entertainment” is both anxiety provoking and pleasure inducing. The physical body fluctuates in this self-induced pain-pleasure cycle as a result, not knowing that this sad and painful memory or this anxious future are not real. This is the old tri-state awareness that we as a species are leaving behind. 

The consciousness that is emerging, that has been emerging for centuries, first in a few individuals, then in an increasing flow, is fourth dimensional, beyond past and future, beyond space and time: the eternal Now. To live in (and more importantly, as) the Now is to live with full vigor with no self-induced hindrance.

Make no mistake. This is not the smug little three-dimensional self sitting snugly in the fourth dimension and looking to work the controls for 3D-self explorations. This is a radical shift in consciousness, called by some an orthogonal rotation in consciousness. One actually lives beyond space-time. One joins the new beings walking the earth.

One finds that there is no past, no future. Here is only Now. One has released all the baggage one has so carefully dragged around. Transparency occurs. Diaphaneity. One’s consciousness has no space-time bounds. Here is the Eternal Flow forever coming into being. One lives one’s life within a human society created by three dimensional consciousness while establishing by one’s very being a human society continuously being born through the Eternal Flow of Now.

One has become what I call a cosmic citizen.