Most of us, most of the time, go through life, clinging to what we are afraid to lose. While we do this, most of us wonder why we have so many challenges experiencing more of what we want in our lives.

Check out this video for a little more perspective on why we must let go in order to receive what we truly desire.

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Today is All Saints’ Day, and it feels appropriate to share a bit of my perspective with you on this day.

I’m not going to relate my perspective to the historical developments related to this day or to any particular theological or religious traditions. I’m just going to share a few thoughts that are occurring to me today.

To me, All Saints’ Day can help us to remember those people that have touched our lives in ways that have helped us to connect to more of who we really are as Children of God. These could people we know directly or that we are aware of their influence more indirectly. We may not even be aware of their influence or existence at all!

These people could still be incarnate, or may have moved onto another phase of existence. Actually, many of these people we may have never known in the flesh, only knowing that spirit beings have been assisting us as we have been working through the challenges of our lives.

To me a saint is someone who in their own unique way helps us to connect to the Power of Love which makes life worth living. Some saints are hard and crusty and not a whole lot of fun.Some are serious. Others are soft and fuzzy and warm and cuddly. Others make us laugh, while others are good at making us think. Each of these souls are helping us to experience and discover the power of love in their own unique ways.

All Saints’ Day (for me) is a special time to remember who we really are to each other despite the trappings and illusions that might help us to forget what is real and meaningful.

People are people with their bodies and without them. Saints come in a wonderful variety of forms. Not that I tend to think of things in this way, but who is to say that animals, plants and minerals may not also be manifestations of love that also help us to experience more of the truth as well?

Every moment of our lives is a fresh opportunity to experience greater love and therefore express even greater gratitude for those who have helped us expand our perspective.

I am very aware that there have been a multitude of souls seeking to help and support me on my trek. For a long time I thought many of them were crazy, foolish, or even non-existent. I have actually come to recognize that I would not be where I am today if it were not for the love, faith, and prayers of a great multitude of souls in the flesh and beyond the flesh who chose to support me despite my great and many shortcomings and limitations.

I’m so grateful for the many people who believed in me when I could not believe in myself. I would not be alive today if it were not for their love and faith. Of this I am certain.

During this All Saints’ Day may we take a moment to express our gratitude in joyful ways for those who have helped, supported, guided, and loved is us in our journeys. There is not a single one of us who does anything worthwhile by ourselves. We are supported in visible and invisible ways with the thoughts, prayers, love, and faith of many, many others, whether we are consciously aware of it or not.

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I don’t know whether there are really creatures that are like the vampires of myth and legend. The point of this post is to help you recognize the vampires in your life so you can move toward living a vampire-free lifestyle.

There are two basic types of vampires: internal and external. Both of these types of vampires do not drink our blood (most of the time!) What these vampires are good at is draining our energy, our very life force. Blood is one of the universal symbols of human life energy. When a people lose enough blood, they die. Internal and external vampires drain us of our essential life force and thus hasten our demise as well.

External vampires are people who drain our energy in a multitude of ways: manipulation, blackmail, addiction, extortion, guilt, shame, blame, anger, fear, passive-aggressive behavior patterns, physical abuse, ad infinitum.

Internal vampires are those fear-based programs that have us focused on what we do not want. And these programs lead us into disempowered ways of being and doing. These vampires block us from fully-connecting to our magnificence and also cause energy to leave our bodies in unproductive ways.

For most people, most of the time, both of these kinds of energy vampires are draining us of our life force constantly without our being conscious of what is really going on. Usually things have to get pretty bad before we do something about either of these vampires. The kinds of phrases that come up at times like these are: “That’s the final straw,” “I’ve hit rock bottom,” “I’ve had enough,” etc.

I’m going to give away a major secret of what it takes to rid ourselves of the many vampires that drain us of our vital live force. While we are usually more aware of the external vampires in our lives, the fastest and most effective way to set ourselves free from the tyranny of vampires is to clear out the internal ones first and foremost.

The truth is that nothing outside of ourselves can drain our energy without our permission. And the only way that external vampires succeed in draining our energy is because we have internal vampires that are already draining our energy in ways that work in harmony with the tactics of external vampires.

For example, someone else can only “make” us feel guilty if we already have a guilt vampire operating within us. If we didn’t have an internal guilt vampire, we would not tend to attract guilt vampires. If we did happen to encounter a guilt vampire, we would not buy into their particular energy addictions or psycho-emotional control dramas. And not getting their fixfrom us, they would move on to other victims. In this way we would remain powerful in the presence of various energy addicts as we release/heal more and more of our internal energy vampires.

Vampires are not bad. They are just addicts (external) and addictions (internal) that are looking for their next fix because they have become disconnected from the true Source of Life Energy. These dysfunctional patterns are based on the false assumption that people must manipulate and control other people to get the energy they need to survive. Let us have compassion upon ourselves and others afflicted by these debilitating patterns. And in so doing, we will begin to experience a whole new life of freedom, love, peace, and joy.

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Everybody has skeletons in their closets. We tend to think that there are some people with skeletons in their closets and other people who don’t have any.

Everyone has them. Actually, most of our life closets are so full of skeletons that if we open the door, we will be buried in an avalanche of bones. If you are consciously aware of many of your skeletons, you’re ahead of the game! Congratulations! If you’re not aware of your skeletons, here are a few hints on how to become more conscious of our skeletons this Halloween season.

If there are any circumstances in our lives that we don’t feel good about, every single one counts as a skeleton. If it is something that haunts us from the past, that’s a skeleton. If something is happening right now that has us troubled, that’s an indicator that there are skeletons in our closets that we have been afraid to face. If we fear anything in the future that we do not want, these are all unconscious projections of skeletons that are still stinking up our inner life closets.

Here are a few thoughts that might inspire us to clear up some of our skeletons. (It’s not pretty, but it’s the truth from my perspective!)

We only have skeletons in our closets because we took a corpse of a past experience that we interpreted from a fear-based point of view. To locked the dead body of our fears in a small dark place “out of sight.” And yet, it is not out of mind. It is there, putting this stench in our inner houses. We now have storage spaces that are not available for anything (except maybe storing more corpses). Plus we will either never let other people in our homes (hearts and lives). And if we do we will have to burn all kinds of incense and lock the closet door to keep our guests from discovering the truth. If we do allow people into the home of our lives, we will live in fear that people will discover our skeletons. We won’t be able to enjoy our guests. We will be on our guard, wondering who is going to discover our deep, dark secrets.

When we have an opportunity to move into a gorgeous mansion that has been gifted to us, we turn down the opportunity to live the life of our dreams. Why? We don’t want to disturb those skeletons in our closets. If we leave our old house behind, someone may discover what we don’t want them to know about our past. (By the way each and every moment is pregnant with these kinds of opportunities!)

And so this is how most of us live our lives. Afraid to accept the gift, the mansion, the inheritance, the money, the job, the relationship, et cetera, et cetera. And we wonder why things don’t get much better for us over time. It’s because we would rather clinging to moldy old bones out of fear. We are fully capable of letting go of the corpses to embrace more and more love and life.

And remember, we all have skeletons. No one in this world can stand in judgment of us without condemning themselves. This goes for us as well as for others. So if someone actually does condemn you for your skeletons, know that they will only do so because they are afraid of people discovering their own bone collections.

And in case anyone is wondering, The Divine Source has no interest in judging or condemning us for our skeletons. The Source’s main desire is that we accept enough Love to let our skeletons go so that we can be free to live and love without limit.

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Again, this is some information I shared with a local non-profit as part of a compasssion fatigue workshop:

In life, we receive in response to our giving. So when we ask a question, we are giving a question, and so will receive a response to that question, always. To ask more empowering questions, here are a few principles:

Ask open-ended questions based on the assumption of infinite possibilities, not limitations. These kinds of questions usually begin with a “What…?” or a “How…?”

• Let’s do our best to believe, trust, know, expect that the person we are asking the question of actually has access to good responses to those questions. (This includes those questions we ask ourselves and our Divine Source!)
• When seeking to empower others through asking questions, let’s “hold the space” for the other person to respond. We empower others to the extent that we allow them to come up with their own responses to the questions that we ask. And if a response doesn’t make sense, let’s keep asking questions for the sake of clarity until things do make sense to us and to the other person.
• If we cannot ask a question from a genuine place of love, respect, and curiosity, let’s not ask it. Sometimes people have no interest in being coached or mentored. Sometimes we aren’t in a good space to offer assistance without attachments. It’s all good. And it’s all good enough for now.

I sincerely believe that the quality of our lives is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions that we ask and our openness to receiving the responses to those questions. The more empowering the question, the more empowering the response.  Just because we ask a question believing that it relates to some kind of objective reality, does not mean that it actually does. So an apparent non-response to a question could mean that we anre not dealing with reality at all, only the projections of our emotional addictions.

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Here’s part of a talk I gave recently on how we accumulate teh fear-based programming that unconsciously rules our lives. I also talk about the cure for this kind of programming as well! Enjoy!

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The other day, I heard the humorist, Trina Hess www.yourshiningexample.com. We had a great conversation about the relationship between humor and detachment. In order to find the humorous in the most challenging circumstances, we must achieve a certain level of detachment.

When it comes to our interpretations of our own lives. Most of us are way too serious most of the time. We are so hard on ourselves and other people. Judging ourselves and others does nothing but show us that we are not accepting things as they come to us. Seriousness about ourselves shows us that we are filtering our internal and external perceptions through outdated, automatic fear-based programs and habits.

Most people most of the time approach life from a fear-based perspective, and from that perspective seek to control people and circumstances to reinforce their unconscious control addictions. Whenever we are dealing with addictions, things get really serious. When we release our fears, we can release our unnecessary seriousness and experience reality as it presents itself to us. This is much more fun than having uncsconsious programs running our lives that are bent upon seeking out our next fix in a vain attempt to satisfy a deeper need.

There is a wonderful richness to our experience when we accept everything as it is instead of resisting what we perceive and imagine. Being serious has its place in the world. I am not a fan of continuous silliness and frivolity, because sometimes taking something seriously helps people to better focus their energies.

Whether our lives in any moment appear to be  a comedy, drama, adventure, tragedy, or action story, is up to us. It all depends on where we put our focus. Look within for the interpretive frameworks that are making your life appear to be whatever it is. May you comes to experience live to be abundant in all of the best things!

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Even wondered why people (including ourselves) wander from addiction to addiction? People will move from a smoking addiction to a food addiction to a video game addiction to an exercise addiction to being addicted to behavior patterns in their romantic relationships in an endless progression. Many times these people, while deeply in the middle of the next addiction, will triumphantly proclaim that they beat the previous addiction.

If you haven’t figured it out already, specific types of addictions are just manifestations of a single underlying root cause that is unconscious for most people. Addictions are maladaptive strategies for handling the issues coming from the one root.

Okay, so what’s the one root? It’s FEAR. Yep. Once again, fear is at the root. And what is the remedy for fear? How do we overcome fear? Since fear is the experience of disconnection from the Love which is the Gound of Being or the Creative Source of All Being, allowing this Love into our lives is the cure.

Just as in the human world right now, fear or disconnection from love is as readily available as the air, so too is the Love of which I write. This Love is an energetic frequency that is like the zero-point energy photons that permeate every single nook and cranny of space-time. All we have to do is ask and receive it. For the adepts, it is more like simply allowing it to permeate one’s being. It’s that abundant and available. And as we allow this love to flood our beings, we are ever-more empowered to let go of the maladaptive patterns of addiction that keep us stuck in ruts and endless cycles of control, suffering, abuse, neglect, and imprisonment.

Allow the Love that is flooding the universe to flood your entire being, and you will eventually see the end of addiction and end of recovery and the beginning of a new life of freedom, peace, and bliss. Enjoy!

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WARNING: IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOWING IT, DON’T READ THIS POST!!!

Every single problem that any individual person, any group of people, or any aggregation of people has can be traced back to a single root cause. This has been true from the very beginning of the human race until the present moment. This single root cause will also be behind every future challenge that the human race will create in the future as well.

What’s the first cause of all of our troubles? It is choosing to believe that there is real separateness. The first cause of all problems is believing the lie that there are separate subjects and objects in the cosmos and not a unity of being. What flows from this belief are perceptions and interpretations leading to the most basic fear. This parent of all fears is the fear that one can cease to exist. It is the fear of complete and utter annihilation (AKA:non-being). This fear is the root fear that multiplies itself into innumerable fears and step-children of fear like addictions, abuse, neglect, and other maladaptive patterns of behavior.

Since separateness need not be true (despite interpretations of bio-body sensory inputs to the contrary) it leads to erroneous choices from the start. If the foundation is not sound, then everything built upon it will be subject to the weaknesses inherent in the flawed foundation.

So what is the solution? The answer is to allow the energy that belongs to the Source of all Being into the core of our very own selves. We are made in the invisible image of the Creative Source. To overcome the illusion of separation and the fears that flow from buying into that illusion, we need to consciously participate in the Power that flows from The Source.

The human race (for the most part) has shut itself off from the flow of this energy that belongs to the Ground or Source of All Being. It is the experience of this energetic poverty that leads people to experience erroneous perceptions and interpretations that cause suffering.

This Source Energy is ready and waiting for each and every one of us to allow it into or lives. As we allow more and more of it to permeate our beings, we are thus transformed from fearful creatures into inheritors of immortality and the peace and bliss that flow from the absolute certainty that we will continue to live richly for all of eternity.

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Sometimes people ask me how I have gotten to this place in my life of absolute certainty about the coming of wonderful things that have not yet occurred, wonderful things that I fully and completely affirm to be true, even when most other people would look at a certain set of current circumstances and say that there is no evidence for what I affirm to be real. I’ll leave the specifics to your imagination.

I’ll tell you some of how I know what I know and will continue to affirm until others perceive what I do.

1. When it comes to my quest for personal transformation I have never given up. The reason I have never given up is because I received some extraordinary experiences that showed me very dramatically that what people call the real world is not the real world. And that has forever placed doubts into my very being about the reality of everything associated with the so-called real world. There are worlds that permeate and transcend the so-called real world that are infinitely more lasting than the so-called real world. I would that everyone had such experiences so that they too could have that which urges them to always press on toward the next horizon of experience and perception. In many ways I believe that all people have had or will have these kinds of experiences. I chose to take mine seriously and followed it where it has led thus far.

2. I have continuously experienced things on my journey that are infinitely better than what I hoped, expected, or imagined they would be. This has been a powerful aid in my transformation. To be constantly surprised by how much better thing really are than I thought they would be has helped me to distrust the thoughts and feelings that have bubbled up out of my fear-based way of being. I have come to question everything that is perceived through a fear-based lens. I have been wrong so often about how bad things will be that there is no point in focusing on fear-based possibilities anymore. Only unlimited possibilities are justified by my experiences, so to engage in fear-based addictions and patterns is a complete waste of my time and energy since they have been disproven way too many times to have any reality except as I have chosen to give them in any particular moment.

3. I have desired personal transformation more than anything else in my life. I have made it a priority for almost two decades. I have been blessed with the understanding that to experience the world I desire I must become the kind of person worthy of experiencing that world. In other words I must become the kind of person who can exert his influence and authority and power in such as way that the world bends itself to my will, desires, intentions, and very being. I have had to become a ruler of reality instead of a slave to fear. Certainty and absolute confidence in unlimited possibilities are what the world needs now as humanity struggles to free itself from the accretions of the past several millennia. I am happy to stand with all who desire to fashion the world according to their highest and best intentions.

And yes, I occasionally slip out of this kind of knowing and being. I am not a master at all times. I occasionally choose to indulge in a victim mentality as those injured aspects of my false self rise to the surface for healing and release. In the past I used to beat myself up for eac hof my failures to meansure up to some standard of perfection. Now I recognize that it is all part of the journey toward ever-expanding horizons.

The world is begging for us to get clear, focused, congruent and coherent in our thoughts, feelings, intentions and actions.

As we increasingly gain clarity, we will look back and wonder what took us so long to wake up. The truth is that we had to experience enough of our nightmares long enough so that we could believe in much better dreams.

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