“Resistance is futile.” This is what the Borg in the Star Trek universe are always telling the people of the civilizations that they are seeking to assimilate into their collective. I love this phrase because I feels true to me, but not in the sense that the Borg mean it, which is basically, “Stop fighting because we are superior to you and we are going to assimilate (absorb) your species into our collective organism through overwhelming numbers, advanced technology, and intellectual superiority.

What I mean by the phrase is a bit different. What I am talking about is the recognition that I am one with everything and everyone throughout the cosmos, and all of its dimensions and aspects. If there is no gap or separation between who I really am and who everyone else really is and what everything else really is, then it really is futile for me to resist anyone or anything because it is like looking in a mirror and denying and resisting the image that I see reflected back to me as not me, or as unreal in a fundamental way. It is insane to deny that there is any truth to my perceptions whatsoever.

I am very excited about the “occupy” movement that has swept around the world. It is powerful sign of the massive and unforeseen changes that are sweeping the planet and that will continue to grow and accelerate over the coming years.

One thing that I would like to share with everyone, no matter what percentage of the world’s population they think they represent, that we are all part of the 100% of cosmic life. There is no gap or separation between what we identify as being ourselves and what we perceive as any kind of separate other. Separateness is an illusion of particular interpretations of sensory inputs. It has very little to do with what is ultimately true and real.

What does being part of the 100% of all life mean to me? I am responsible for everything I perceive, because for me to perceive it, makes me one with it. If I were not one with it, I would not be able to perceive it. And so I am responsible for every single percentage that exists. What is would not be if I were not able to perceive it as I perceive it. In some interpretations of quantum mechanics the “observer” causes what is called the “collapse of the wave function,” meaning that it may be human decisions that cause things to appear as they do, and this means everything, including any perceptions of problems that come into our awareness.

Whether we see it yet or not, we are not separate. We are not at war. There is no real conflict. There is only the illusion of these things. The pain and suffering caused by these incomplete perceptions of conflict will eventually lead us to perceive more and more clearly.

We are one. If I perceive a problem, there is no one to blame. Yet I choose to perceive that I am responsible, even if I do not fall within certain percentages quoted by people to differentiate themselves from other people. I am one with Life in all of its forms, including humanity. In my experience accepting anything less than this will lead to suffering not only for me but to further infliction of pain upon everyone and everything else through indulging in the illusion of the reality of my false or incomplete perceptions.

Let us recognize our deep unity. Let us perceive what is not being perceived right now and what has not been perceived very well for a very long time. As we do so, everything will be transformed. As we do so, peace will be the norm, life will flourish, and the deep unhappiness that has taken possession of so many people will be erased like a virus-infested computer file that has possessed  our species and caused us to to repeatedly crash our civilizations over and over again throughout recorded and unrecorded history. When we accept what is real and lasting, what is false and temporary will fade away.

I am the 100%. I am 100% responsible. I am the I am.

Peace.

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I had a revelation recently. I haven’t really put a lot of time, thought, or energy into Halloween since I was a kid. I had pretty much chalked up Halloween to a day when people get to put on masks and costumes and pretend whatever they want to pretend.

My thinking has really taken a change recently, and I want to share a few of those thoughts with you here.

For one thing, there is a lot of resistance around Halloween from religious fundamentalists and other people who are afraid of the so-called “Powers of Darkness.” If you fall into this camp, “For the Love of God, let it go!” You’re giving way too much power to things that will not last. Resisting anything just makes it stronger and gives it more power. Instead, let’s choose to love Halloween for its potential gifts.

Here are a few of those gifts that I believe Halloween can give us if we choose to celebrate it intentionally:

1. Halloween is the most popular holiday dedicated to things like darkness, death, evil, fear, and other such things that people would rather not think about most of the time. Let’s really milk this season for everything it’s got. Instead of just playing around with the images of these deep dark shadows, let’s really explore them. Are they real? Are they powerful? Are they lasting? Where do they come from? What are the deeper messages and truths behind these things? What are the power and messages of love behind the scary masks of fear, evil, and death? What are the deeper and higher truths available to us on the other side of darkness?

2. Instead of playing at the whole fear thing and mostly avoiding it, let’s really go there-all the way. Let’s spend some time entertaining our darkest nightmares related to annihilation, abandonment, condemnation, despair, hopelessness, chaos, meaninglessness, absurdity, existential anxiety, and other such perceptions. Most of our persistent thoughts, feelings, and behaviors have been specifically developed unconsciously to help us avoid facing these kinds of fears. These patterns are commonly called addictions, distractions, or drama to name a few. Living out these unconscious patterns keeps us from facing the deeper and darker things we would rather not look upon. Until we really face them and bring them into the light, we will continue to be dominated by them whether we want to or not.

3. We could really look at the evils in the world and our lives and instead of bemoaning them, fearing them, resisting them, or other such unproductive activities, we could actually develop and implement plans for becoming better people, doing better things, telling more truth, giving more love, healing more people and realtionships, etc. During this season, we could recommit ourselves to do our best to serve the interests of light, love and goodness instead of the hungry shadows of fear and its many ugly stepchildren: sadness, anger, jealousy, lust, greed, despair, etc.

If we really face these kinds of issues directly during the Halloween season, we might discover that on the other side of these things we resist, avoid, deny, and suppress is a brighter more constant light, a more lasting tone of beauty, and a stronger and sweeter fragrance, than those of darkness, fear, and death.

Perhaps if we allowed ourselves to more fully explore the dark side of our individual and collective souls, even if for just one season each year, we could move that much closer to releasing the visible and invisible fears that keep us in chains, holding us back from the destinies for which our souls were created. In a world that is currently and temporarily ruled by fear, perhaps celebrating Halloween in this way could help us to dethrone this particular tyrant, leading us into a glorious and peaceful transition to a world where love reigns mightily within the hearts of all people.

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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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Lately, I’ve gotten a little stuck. Honestly, I don’t like admitting this. I still would like to be this perfect example for people, and yet that is still an ego-based, fear-based program running on statements and feelings like, “I’m not good enough.” “If people know the truth, they won’t like me, or accept me, or hire me, or respect me.” On and on. It’s all B.S. (Being Silly). 

So, as I’m in the process of letting more of this stuff go, here are some of my thoughts on being real as I continue to work toward being more and more real with myself and with other people.

As  I think about it, if people can’t accept me as I am, with all of my wonderful imperfections, that’s really their problem. The truth is the only people who won’t accept us as we are are people who do not accept themselves as they are. The judgement they heap upon us is nothing compared to the self-hatred, self-disgust, self-loathing, self-judgement they are currently buried under. We need to seek other people’s approval and acceptance much less than we need to give our own to those people who are especially challenging for us to love. They are in our lives to help us learn to love those aspects of ourselves that we have not allowed ourselves to fall in love with yet.

And, really, without the challenges that I am currently attracting, how can I expect myself to learn and grow? If I had no challenges, it would be a state of death. There would be nothing to work on, to grow, to develop, to expand, to clarify. I might as well not exist at that point! Our challenges, no matter how challenging, are great gifts that give us the opportunity (when we choose to see them this way) to change the way we are playing.

Being in the kinda stuck place I am right now has also caused me to ask very different questions than I was asking before. Before this little phase, my  questions were of a tweaking nature, making small adjustments in my approach to improve results. Now I am beginning to ask paradigm-shifting questions that are going much more to the root issues that I need to deal with. For example, “how could I approach something from a completely different point of view? How can I give more? How can I trust more? What is right in front of my face that I’m not seeing? How much am I trusting myself, the universe, God? What deeper fears is it now time for me to become conscious of and release?

I don’t know if this post will be of any value to you, but it’s been incredibly helpful for me!

Thanks for taking the journey with me! You honor me with your attention! May your awareness continue to expand and your journey continue to deepen in love and it’s many blessings!

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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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Perceptions and Patterns

 Related to Fear:

Contraction

Protection

Defensiveness

Separation

Lack

Relying upon rules and programs

Conflict

Hardness

Coldness

Deadness

Doubt

Stupidity

Ignorance

Anger for self and at self

Self-hatred and hatred of others

Anxiety

Pride and Arrogance

Perceptions and Patterns Related to Love:

Expansion

Growth

Acceptance

Relying upon Spiritual Power and Guidance

Knowing in one’s heart

Unity

Warmth

Cooperation

Wisdom

Generosity

Anger for others

Self-love and love for others

Peace

Humility

These lists are not meant to be inclusive in any way. These are just some quick markers to consider as you are either reacting fearfullyto your experience of life or responding lovingly to it. The truth is, since our true nature is love, we already know, deep within our core whether we are living from fear or love. Fear is only the symptom of a temporary disconnection from our true nature. Let’s become more conscious of those moments when we are choosing to react out of fear instead of responding out of love. In this way we become ever-more able to transform our unconscious, fear-based, programmed reacting into conscious, love-based, spontaneous responding.

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Here’s a bit of a talk I gave recently on the main problem with the world and how to identify it when it is operating in our lives. 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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So why are we here? Why do we exist? What is the point of it all?

For as long as I can remember I have struggled with questions such as these. For the longest time, I did not think I knew the purpose of my life. I wondered about it as if it wasn’t already permanently imprinted upon the very core of my being.

Even now I occasionally choose not to remember why I’m really here. I’m guessing that most of the people reading this are choosing to forget the simple fundamental truth that forms the foundation of every life on this planet. Even I succumb to the seductions of lies like: “Making money is the most important thing.” Or “Creating things is the most important thing.” “ Or “Controlling perceptions is the most important thing.” The world is as screwed up as it is, not because people don’t know the truth, but because we persistently choose to ignore what we know to be true in the depths of our being.

We exist to make manifest the fullness of love in our receiving of all of the love we can possibly receive and in the giving of our love to the fullest possible extent.

This may sound soft, shallow, naïve, or foolish to some of you reading this. I don’t care. I have struggled through my own bullsh*t for way too long to uncover this truth in my own life to try to dress up something simple, good, beautiful, and true so that others will be impressed by it.

And in case anyone thinks that living a life of reckless unconditional love is too soft a target, I know instantly that those people haven’t actually given it a shot. There is no more challenging goal in this world-apparently and temporarily ruled by fear and its many ugly stepchildren.

Love isn’t about being nice. Love isn’t about being a doormat for bullies. Love isn’t about looking the other way when fearful people do their business all over each other.

Love is about speaking the truth, even when it isn’t what people want to hear. Love is about standing up for others and for what is good and true and beautiful, especially when it is not popular. Love is about staring bullies down and taking their blows, even to the point of death if that is what it takes to help people wake up from their walking comas. Love is about helping people who are acting out of fear to see what seeds they are planting and what crops they will be harvesting if they do not change their habitual patterns. We’ve seen, heard about, and read examples of people doing these very things. We are being called to do the same in the name of True Love-Love that never, ever gives up.

To love with reckless abandon is to risk losing everything while hoping and trusting that all will end up winning in the end. And the winning in the end is not a some kind of hollow victory over others. It is not the raising of a shiny trophy. The victories that matter are the daily triumphs over our fears. We are to seek victory over living lives of commiseration and mediocrity. Greatness is available to each and everyone one of us, not necessarily in the ways that  most people would recognize, and yet those of us who are now waking up to the repercussions of choosing to focus on our fears instead of our loves need to start playing a much bigger game in the cosmic arena if we are to help ourselves and others to risk everything they think they have in order to experience everything worth living for.

Let us play all-out at life. Let us play for lasting victory over our lesser selves. It is these kinds victories that bring true and lasting rewards-our true and permanent ownership of absolute and infinite worth.

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I do a tranformational communication talk and workshop call “Word Power.” I know, it sounds like a vocabulary-building program for gradeschoolers. So be it.

Anyway, through developing that program and seeing it’s power, I have come to appreciate even more the power of our spoken and unspoken words in attracting, creating, co-creating our worlds (however you like to think about it).

We are creators. We are made in the image of the creative Cource of Being. Everything about us is designed to create reality. Science is showing this to be true.

So, how about we speak and think with a bit more awareness?

Here’s one to get us started. How often do we hear people say, “No problem!” When someone thanks them for something they did? I hear it all of the time. Listen and see if it’s true for you as well. Chances are you say it yourself.

This would be fine except for the fact that repeating this phrase over and over again, actually creates more problems. I’m not going to go into all of the science that backs me up on this. Let’s just be open to the possibility that when you say a word your mind is focused on it. When you say the word “problem” your subconscious mind says, ‘OK, lets look for and create as many problems as we can.” You may be saying, “But I said, “No.” 

That’s great except for one thing, your subconscoius doesn’t do anything with “no.” It can’t form an image of it in such a way as to negate the images of problems that the second word creates. Even if you could visualize a “no” within your mind the second word is still spoken for your subconscious to manifest.

Whenever you find your self speaking of anything you don’t want, remember, you can make a new choice. You can say, “You’re welcome.” (There’s a revolutionary idea!) The possibilities are infinite. “My pleasure” is nice to use too. Go easy onyourself if you actually seek to change this particular habit. Enjoy the process. Find a buddy to play along with in changing this unconscious pattern. I know that you will discover some unanticipated positive changes if you take me up on this particular challenge.

Think and speak about what you want (instead of what you don’t want), and you will greatly increase your chances of experiencing it.

Go forth and create the world you desire! Your words have much more power than you realize!

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