Atom and Eve

Each of us is an Atom in the cosmic body upon the Eve of reconciliation.

Breaking Out of the Drain Suck Into the Radiant Sun

Consciousness is formed by life turning back upon itself, producing a reflection. A seemingly endless series of "selfies" begins. This is what is called the formation of the ego, of a separate self so sweet and so fragile, so self-condemnatory and self-justifying. If this is all that happens, the continuously reverberating self-gaze, this Narcissus, falls into a hypnotic trance and is bypassed by the ongoing flow of Life. All spiritual practices are designed to break one out of this drain suck, form a non-suck center, a center of balance and openness that radiates outward in all directions with simultaneous outflow and inflow. This "sun" that we become shines its light on everything without prejudice and simultaneously gives and receives with no or little effort on its part. We become an interflow, an interflow with a firm and open center.

spiritual energy

Spiritual energy is powerful. The spiritual energies of Moses, of Jesus, of Buddha, of Khidr who lived so long ago continue to reverberate, to circulate, to influence this very moment. We all have and are spiritual energy. What is spirit? Spirit is the Life Force itself, that which moves through and as all living things. And every "thing" is alive -- from the metagalactic to the subatomic. We humans appear to be the ones most aware of the energy we are, with the ability to transform its quality, to direct it. We have and are spiritual energy. We are embodyings of the Life Force itself. We are spheres of influence with the power to change all around us with the quality of our radiance. This is what we do. This is who we are. This is how we transform the world.

Evolve or die

We are somewhat intelligent apes who are conquering the earth and in so doing are destroying it. We must evolve or die. Either way we will not stay the same as we are now. Evolve how? Evolve a greater awareness of our interflow with all that is. And more than that, evolve a greater skill of relationship, of actively relating with all that is while doing no harm. A tall order for the crude consciousnesses of today. I see it in individuals, in neighborhoods, in communities here and there: this transformation of awareness and skill. Tough times ahead while those who refuse or are incapable die off and the ones of greater awareness move on.

Uprising

The uprising of the energies of Life have been in play for longer than any of us can remember or precast, beyond our scope, beyond our comprehension. The errant strivings of a relatively small number of fleshy bipeds will not divert its course. Life has birthed consciousness and consciousness will prevail. The humans that are the bearers and the radiance of this consciousness have the powers of Life with them and cannot be dissuaded, discouraged, or defeated. A silent evolution / revolution behind and above the clamor of the world. Awareness rising upward and outward grounded in the Origin.

On Christianity

Jesus is the bell star sounding the way for those lost at sea in the great flotational unfolding of the cosmos, of this universe which began its slow motion explosion some 15 billion years ago. Little blips having forgotten that we are the Origin originating, the Source sourcing, the Wellspring springing, turn to him, to his sounding. We shed all doctrinal clothing. He pulls open his chest and reveals his heart. We dive in, dive in to the heart of the cosmos. Ah! Now we remember, re-member. We are the community, the communal, one of the infinite number of centers re-presenting the Father, the Mother. We are the Father furthering, the Mother mothering. We swoop and dive like porpoises in the Infinite Bliss. We are the Bliss Itself.

Everything is Possibility!

Everything is possibility! Whether we dilute this to meaninglessness or amp it up to highest meaning is up to us. Everything is possibility!

our destiny is here

A prophet from yesteryear spoke it clearly: The medium is the message. The medium IS the message. And what is the medium, as we approach and are in the flashpoint of civilization, but direct access of all to all, of instant communication of every human on Earth who can gain access to one of the various forms of computer, whether in private possession or at local libraries. The medium, instant communication of all with all, is the message, the message to all humankind. We are in increasingly strong connection. Whether we use this connection to post photos of cats, salve our ego selves, delight in each other's accomplishments and very existence, spear perceived ignorance, post apocalyptic doom, or create a shared vision of possibility is up to us. The point is: the medium, this medium of instant shared communication IS the message. We are in communication. And at one of the most exciting and fearful and awe-full times on Earth. Our destiny is here, not even waiting to knock on the door or ring the doorbell, but is here, in this room, with us now.

Dear People of the Earth

Dear People of the Earth,

We have tried the world view where everything is seen as a product to be bought and sold. Everything. In this world view we chomp up the Earth and turn it into money. The trouble with money is that it is either almost indiscernible electronic blips or a form of paper that cannot be eaten and is even totally useless for wiping one's ass.

It is time we open to a different world view. One in which we see that we proud humans are not isolated protoplasmic blobs (IPBs) but are interwoven in the fabric and the destiny of all that exists. All. From the subatomic to the metagalactic.

Sincerely,
Your Pal
George

Two Consciousness States

Two consciousness states: Formational and Transformational. Formational consciousness is the continuous forming of self and world through self-talk (thoughts). Transformational consciousness is opening to the vastness, mystery, and ongoing Dance of That-Which-Breathes-Us. The first is for doing busy-ness as an isolated protoplasmic blob (IPB) with other IPBs. The second is becoming and being the Dance Itself.

consciousness transformation

The only way out of our predicament is through spiritual development or, in terms more palatable to some, consciousness transformation. First, you have to acknowledge, claim, own who you are. No hiding. Ruthless acceptance. Bare ass naked awareness. Notice your thoughts. As long as you keep thinking the same old thoughts, you will be the same old you. (Hence the old Zen saying I made up: How many times must you jump on a pogo stick?) Notice what your hands are doing during the day. As long as your hands keep doing the same old things, you will be the same old you. Notice your breath, your breathing in, the pause, the breathing out, the pause, the breathing in. Breathe out to the far horizon. Breathe in to your core infinity. As long as your breath goes unnoticed, you will be the same old you. Notice your attitude toward others, toward the day, toward life, toward this moment. As long as your attitude is negative, you will stay negative. As long as your attitude stays the same, you will stay the same. Notice the tightness of your jaws. Open and close and open your jaws. Make ludicrous expressions with all the muscles of your face. As long as your jaws stay tight and your facial expression rigid, you will be the same old you. Notice where you put your attention. Whatever you attend to, you become. If you keep attending to the same old things, you will be the same old you. There! If you want consciousness transformation, that should be plenty enough to start. 

Embodying

Run it up the chakra ladder: Hara - Heart - Head - Beyond. Then run it back down into your embodying. Be the whole ladder and move through the day.

Split Land and the Seamless Whole

The rules that apply in Split Land, the land of duality, of me versus you, of us versus them, and so on, do not apply in the Seamless Whole, the realm of the nondual, of the nonduel. But the principles of the Seamless Whole do apply in Split Land. Split Land is a subset of the Seamless Whole. Our physical bodies are residents of Split Land. Look at your opposing sides, your two hands clapping, your jaws aflapping. The Seamless Whole births Split Land. Split Land, no matter how much it stands on its hind legs and howls, is the lesser domain.

the truth shall make you free

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," says Jesus. What is the truth? The truth is that we are Awareness. Awareness is grounded in the continuous Unknown, is a continuous unfolding. The Unknown longs to be known. The extent of its known-ness depends upon my and your Awareness. Or rather, the realm of our Awareness with which we identify.

For example, thoughts arise. When I identify, make myself identical with the thoughts, I restrict Awareness. With no clinging to thoughts, Awareness opens.

Awareness is composed of the dark and the light. Light arises out of the dark. Known arises out of the Unknown. We are the Unknown knowing, becoming known.

We are the light of Awareness arising out of the dark Unknown. The Unknown is closer to us than our very breath. We are the Unknown knowing. We are this Mystery endlessly repeating itself yet never the same. Jesus embodied this and told us this: "You are the light of the world."

We are the light of Awareness. The ways to dim it are well known. So are the ways to let it shine. "Deep calls to deep."

the monastic order of the cosmos seeing itself

Going by various names (scientists, seers, diviners, mystics, gnostics, shaman, priests), we are members of the Monastic Order of the Cosmos Seeing Itself. Why monastic? Because seeing requires a stepping aside from the usual preoccupations of humankind, a stepping outside of ordinary consciousness into vaster realms. 

Sitting around the Metacosmic campfire

Each of us is born into a story, a story that is told and taught to us directly or indirectly by the culture into which we are born. We are taught the significance of being a lump of meat wandering the surface of a beautiful but insignificant planet of a solar system which is a tiny part of a galaxy among countless galaxies in a cosmos which can be seen as one cosmos among who knows how many in a Metacosmos beyond our understanding.

We are coming out of an age of fooling ourselves into thinking that we ditched all such stories (which is just another story). We began telling ourselves that only matter matters, that if the meat senses and their extension through machines did not pick up on it, it does not exist. “I, meat, am the determiner that this is so!”

Most found (or are finding) that the meat story is way too small. So where to now? Many say tell me the old old story, meaning the one they were born into. We can never however slide into the skin of our previousness. Our consciousness is bigger than that now.

We have options. We can continue with looking to satisfy the meat, filling its orifices with pleasures, extending its protrusions into delights. Yet the meat gets old, decays, and dies. No matter, says the meat matter, we will ride this horse down to its bitter end. Stoic with as much jism as possible.

We can open to our tribe’s cosmic story, proclaim that one as the only true one, and ignore or actively denigrate the stories of all other tribes. We see that happening, even among those who pride themselves on being “scientific” or “atheistic” or “humanistic” and so on. Our tribe’s story is the correct story and if only we could get those other bozos to admit that. But we can’t, so we damn them to their misguided hell, wrap ourselves in our own sanctimony and go on our way.

The option I prefer, being the starry-eyed dreamer that I am, is for us to honor all the stories, to sit around the Metacosmic campfire and listen, truly listen, to each other’s stories. Listen as you would be listened to. We all spring from, are springing from, the same Source. When we listen to each other, we hear the Source sourcing. We hear a Metacosmic story that sounds so familiar, so family-iar.

we have moved

We have moved from "God out there"
to "God nowhere"
to "God in here"
to "God in here expanding outward"
to "God out there in here expanding outward."
More to come.

thought helmets

Each sociolinguistic community weaves a conceptual matrix. This web of words, of concepts, is a strong determinant of what we see as Reality. This can readily be seen when learning a new language. For example, the matrix or thought domain of English is different from that of Chinese. English divides the world into subjects and objects with subjects doing things to objects and objects objecting. Chinese regards the world as more of an interflow.

Each sociolinguistic community provides us with a thought helmet that puts bounds on our perception. We wear our thought helmets happily and do not understand why folk do not see the world as we do. We can even feel quite righteous about it.

Can we step outside the sociolinguistic community? Yes. A more relevant question is do we want to? We seem to love our hive mentality. Strong social pressures exist to stay within the community, to fit in.  This brings up other questions. Do we dare? Do we dare step outside? Take a fresh look around? Can we even do so? Is it possible?

Fortunately (from my point of view), stepping outside our thought community is a natural process. When we go to nature, we can let go of words. A walk in the forest, for example, can allow one to take off one's thought helmet. (Unless of course, you are yakking on your cell phone the entire time or checking your text messages.) A similar process can occur with sitting quietly, letting go.

We return to our sociolinguistic community with fresh perspective, new vision. Our conceptual matrix, our thought helmet is not so confining. We may even from time to time ride helmet free.

Vision

For the Great Imagination produces All That Is and we, being smaller downloadings of our Source, also possess imaginative powers. Our current civilization is a product of both the creativeness and the limitations of these powers.  Our vision, our imagination is both our downfall and our salvation. "Without vision, the people perish" is the message from our ancestors." When in doubt, go higher" is another old saw. I add to this: When in doubt, go deeper and wider. 

slam not another's story

What those who rail against the Bible may not understand is that the Bible provides and has provided over the centuries an understanding of who one is, the Tanakh (Old Testament) for the Jewish people and the New Testament for the Christian folk. This provision of a Psychology, of words and imagery that point to layer upon layer of understanding of one’s psyche, of one’s soul, is no mean feat. While superficial or crass understandings of its surface meanings led and continues to lead to hardhearted cruelties and ridiculousness, deep study combined with openness of heart produces marvelous radiance of thought, of heart, of action.

The same is true for those whose Book consists of Buddhist sutras, of the Qur’an, of the Tao Te Ching, of the Upanishads, of the Bhagavad Gita, of the writings of Rumi, of the Gnostics, of the Essenes, of all Great Poets, of those of Oral Tradition, and so on.

The point is that writings have been provided that help sketch out one’s place in the Cosmos. These writings come from our spiritual ancestors, those who gave attention to the realm of mind-body-spirit interflow, cosmic scientists, knowers, explorers, comprehenders of the spiritual world and worlds. It is difficult, if not impossible, to understand where we would be without these templates. One enters these realms and finds oneself to be more than a cipher in an economic system or a chunk of meat wandering the earth until death.

We are creatures who create story. Story tells us who we are, what is going on. Slam not another’s story. Bow and bless and fulfill your own.

salvation not required

Christianity, as a doctrinal system, falls prey to belief in a separate self. This is coupled with a belief in birth and death (rather than a broader and deeper understanding of continuous generation and extinction, an ongoing birthing-dying applying to all existing, not just humans). The doctrinal system of Christianity thus creates a problem: a separate self that is born and dies, a problem that must be solved.  Salvation is required. The separate self must be saved from death, must go on to a more fruitful existence (or else be damned).

When one does not posit a separate self (something hard to do in the dominant thought system of our nation, where divide and conquer is the rule, where individual units are given social security numbers and held accountable, where a separate self is considered basic common sense, where birth certificates and death certificates are the order of the day), salvation is not required. Here is no birth and death, only birth-and-death, ongoing continuous generation and extinction, rise and fall, exile and return. The Flow and the Flowers. No problem.

important

Feelings are a quality of imagery, of images.
If you wish to change your feelings, change your imagery.
This is important.

Dreams are a series of images
with an emoto-track accompanying the images.
When the images shift, the emotions shift.

Emotions are a quality of imagery.
A mage knows this. A mage is a master of i-mage-ry.
Control the images, control the emotions.

me

All is interflow. When “I” speak of “me,” the “me” is that part of the interflow that “I” claim. I stake my claim on this particular area of interflow and solidify it with the words and experience of I, me, and mine. This claim stake has been given legal rights and we can sue claim jumpers.

The interflow is different within each claim. Yet some claims have worked out a common agreement of overlap. This overlap has bounds however and if violated a me can accuse another of claim jumping. 

All is interflow. That which is beyond the bounds of the standard me has been called God, Mystery, the Absolute, the Wellspring and many other names. Some me’s are satisfied with this separation and live existence as an isolated me, relatively secure within their me-dom. Others seek to leap beyond the me-bounds and claim jump God.

In more gentle terms, at times the me-bounds dissolve and me opens to a wider, deeper, vaster experience with no thought of me at all.

our consciousness state

Some jeer at any idea of heaven or hell, but heaven and hell are right inside us, are our interior state, the state we are when relaxed, when no one is looking, when we are not putting on a show.

The body will pass away, but our interior state will not pass away. The so-called final judgment which is referred to in many cultures and civilizations across time is the simple, yet painful and humbling recognition of our interior state in exquisite detail. This is heaven. This is hell.

Yet it is not such a simple thing as one or the other. The realm of Consciousness is vast. The consciousness we are, the consciousness we even now continue forming, is but one hologram in this vast Holography, a dimensionality which ranges from brute insensitivity to active malice, from the dawning of awareness and self-love to Full Awareness and Full Love, from segregated exclusiveness to open radiance.

We place ourselves through our actions, our thoughts, our will in a certain consciousness state. This state of consciousness is our heaven and our hell. When the body drops, it continues. To elaborate on Mister Pogo’s wise saying, “We have met the Enemy and he is us,” I add, “We have met the Angel and s/he is us.”

We operate daily on this vast continuum of ourselves, from Enemy to Angel, from enemy to ourselves and all else to a radiant interflow of openness. Our choices each moment as to our consciousness state while in the body create, produce our consciousness state hereafter.

this life

As soon as one births a sound, a movement, or an image, a world is born in which one must live. Habits of thought are our prison. The only escape is through the birthing of new sounds, new movements, new images. Sharks forever swimming. Unless. Unless we open our hearts, our souls, allowing the continuous flowthrough of the Eternal Now. Embodyings of the everchanging Life Force.

learning how to die

"Keep one-point" is the most powerful and most essential practice taught me by a martial art teacher (Koichi Tohei). Keeping one-point has served me through my life and is now serving me as I continue learning how to die.

The one-point or center in the body is two to three inches below the navel and deep inside. One moves from one-point. This allows one to get out of the head chatter, out of entangling emotion, out of fabricated illusion and move with full attentiveness and clarity through life.

But how about through death? One does not want to stay attached to one's body. Where then shall one keep one's one-point? Where shall one center oneself?

I practice the answer to this question even now. I center in the Formless that is producing this form. Rather than being a body that is embodying the Life Force, I practice being the Life Force that is embodying. In other words, I am practicing dying before I die. I identify with the Formless rather than the form.

Where is my one-point? I center in the vastness that produces all that is. I hear comforting laughter and feel warmth and peace. Centering and opening. No attachment. Boundless capaciousness. As Stephen Levine put it, a spiritual being having physical experiences rather than a physical being having spiritual experiences.

awareness

Do you know what is true and real? Our Awareness. Not that with which we fill our Awareness. That comes and goes. Not our shrewd efforts to establish our ego stance as right and righteous and all else and all others as wrong. Awareness persists. All else flows in and out. Awareness is true and real. When we take our stance on what comes in and out of Awareness, we stand upon self-chosen illusion. Awareness is not even "our" Awareness. Awareness has no our. Awareness is.

bubble heads

Every individual thought structure produces and is produced by a potpourri of imagery.

Each thought community shares a common imagery.

Differences in thought communities are differences in imagery.

Each thought community believes its imagery to be the most accurate depiction of Reality.

Religions, philosophies, political persuasions, ideologies, science theories, and common sense are thought communities. Subdivisions exist within each.

Each thought community has its own criteria of proof.

Each thought community is both predator and victim of its imagery.

In other words,

Every human is a bubble head.

Every bubble head community shares a common set of bubbles.

Differences in bubble head communities are differences in sets of bubbles.

Each bubble head community believes its set of bubbles to be Reality.

Religions, philosophies, political persuasions, ideologies, science theories, and common sense are bubble head communities. Subdivisions of bubble heads exist within each.

Each bubble head community has its own criteria of proof of the Reality of its bubbles.

Each bubble head community both devours others with its imagery and is devoured by its imagery.

talking with my Doc

I went to see my Doc yesterday, a solid M.D. with an additional strong interest in the realm of the Invisible. We always yak a little about the cosmophilotheosophical before attending to the physical business.

He spoke today of the situation of humanity.

He then said, "I want to get a copy of a manuscript to you that someone gave me. It speaks of the Inner and the Outer, of our having an inner life and an outer life, and that the two are different realms. What do you think about that?"

I said that makes sense to me and that many folk seem to live in that dualistic state with its dissonance, troubles, and problems. Many folk seem to have that split consciousness, feeling themselves to be isolated protoplasmic blobs from the rest of All That Is.

He wondered if it had to be that way.

I said no, in addition to living in the Inner and living in the Outer, there is a third way.

The consulting room was silent as he waited to hear.

"One IS the Inner emerging into the Outer. One comes from deep within the All and emerges outward as the All. No separation. This is a state of consciousness that is Whole."

"How does this happen?" he asked with deep interest.

"For some, it happens to them," I said. "For others, it has to be sought and opened into."

"How do they do that?"

"The same method exists across cultures and across time. Sit down, shut up, let all drop away, all chit-chat of the mind. Become empty, quiet, and open. Awareness expands. Consciousness opens."

We sat quietly for a bit. Aware. Open.

We then attended to my physical manifestation.

I love my Doc.

the angel of your being

“And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them”
(Jeremiah 23:4)

“For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
(Psalms 91:11)

The cross is an intersection of the above - below (vertical) and the past - future (horizontal). We are both on the cross and we ARE the cross, our heart at the intersection.

The horizontal is the plane of history, the endless treadmill upon which we walk our daily walk, the future coming at us and the past receding while we appear to stay at more or less the same position. The horizontal is the realm of society, of governments, of politics, of wars, and of trying to “get somewhere.”

The vertical is the realm of infusion of energies, of radiance which downloads and uploads from our Source; a radiance which not only calls us into being but which contains powerful information which we can receive according to our capacity for reception.

It is in this vertical realm that the “shepherds” and the “angels” dwell, energetic spheres of radiance proceeding from the Source of all Being, ever ready to feed us, to keep us in all our ways. Always ready to spring forth our independent two-year-old, we squirm away announcing we would rather do it ourselves. The perhaps startling news is that this is our self, our higher, wider, deeper self which, as long as we insist upon the exclusive reality of the horizontal world, we refuse to claim.

Each of us has an angel or a heavenly twin. “Has” is not the correct word. We “are” this heavenly earthly being. The angel of our being is in direct resonance with the Source of all Being. When this conduit is open, we are the Source sourcing.

A stepdown of energies occurs from realm to realm (the Kabbalah and Jacob’s Ladder are relevant here for imagery and depiction) so we don’t get fried to a crisp. (A fail safe mechanism also exists here: we cannot receive beyond our capacity to receive. And most of us are too stubborn to allow much.)

And what is the upshot of all this? Here is the entirety of the Jeremiah verse: “And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.”

Not too shabby. How does one access the vertical realm? By taking time to deliberately get off the horizontal treadmill. Find or create a quiet space and walk or sit, relax, breathe, and open. Your capacity to receive will enlarge.

the ledge of know

While most folk simply (or complexly) lead their lives, I want to know
1. How we know what we know,
2. Is what we know the Truth or Reality?

An interesting phrase "lead our lives" -- as if we are in charge, leading our lives around. Evidence shows otherwise. The brain knows what is going on before we do. The cosmos in which "we" are immersed interflows with the brain. "We" are the last to "know" what is going on. What we "know" is the story we create from the interflow of the Mystery which we both are and in which we are embedded / embedding (making our bed in).

How do we know what we know? We create story. Science story. Religion story. Melodrama story. Political story.

Is our story the Truth or Reality? Yes and no. A story is an overlay on Mystery, so no. Mystery creates story, so yes.

now is the time

Now that many of us have real-ized (made real) that all is interconnected / interconnecting, a next step is realizing that we ARE this interflow, that each of us (in addition to being a particulate running around playing our particle games) opens our awareness to the comprehension that we ARE what we perceive. Our consciousness takes an immediate leap of expansion. 

We are not sitting inside some kind of little robo-box trying to gain ascendance, power, superiority and security through manipulating our way through the herd of other robo-boxes. We are the Life Force, the Cosmos Itself embodying as this ever-changing form. If there is ever a Big Gulp, this is it.

We are the Cosmos with a social security number.

vision

Waking Dream: Vision of expansive Cosmos, no bounds. Soft golden glow. Cosmos flooded with information and understandings. Each of us receives and transmits within the range that we allow.

kinesthesia

We have two major kinesthetic senses. Gravity (.) and motion =>.

This is what we look like symbolically: (.)=>
Sometimes we become too (.) We call this depression.
Sometimes we become too => We call this anxiety or mania.
Health is the balance of the two.
Gravity in motion. Weight underside while on the move.
(.)=>