Reality Games- 23rd November 2008

WHEN we invest ourselves in the truth, we take on a relationship with reality. When we invest ourselves in deception, we lose our very footing in the world and our own sense of selves.

Honesty sets the parameters to proper conversation. Truth itself contains parameters of its own beingness. Dishonesty confuses both the speaker and the listener until neither can see the other one.

Untruths are like vagrant viruses that will find a host in vacant minds.

Self truth is not supreme truth or ultimate truth, but it is a clear voice and clear thought, uncontaminated with pretence. Self denial is the worm that eats at the Tree of Life itself... the cold and poisonous snake of a tongue out of order.

Accuracy brings pleasure - the very certain pleasure of correctness, of completion, of fulfillment, of endeavor's wins. Inaccuracy brings with it the delusion that everything else is as chaotic and nonsensical and its only happiness lies in dilemma.

Truth is central, untruth is peripheral.

An untruth can never find its way closer to the company of divine reality - for there it has no friends or commerce. This law is important, because it decides many unseen happenings of who knows who and what becomes of them.

Truth is not unkind, because in truth we are all one and the same. Unkindness creates dissent and disquiet, and feeds the worm and the snake of the same. 

Every moment gives us this deciding - to refer to the truth we know, or defer to the common thought. The choices are, as all choice is, significant. 

Truth endures and is ever pressing to be recognized. There before the mind's eye and soul's window, it stands before each man and woman and repeats what it knows, begs to be heard and pronounced above all.

It is not a question of punishment or harm that decides that untruth is so condemned, it is just the imperfect foreknown result - the ingredient of failure that all deception has. There is no life to sustain it, because life requires a central line, one that is connected through to the higher realms that support it so. Without this life the peripherals diminish.

Some things you know to be true, and it is exceedingly helpful to recite or write some of these truths to help substantiate yourself. Truth telling is a tonic to the mind and the 'I am' in that it reinforces one's sense of self that it might find itself anew.

It is the fastest way to find bearings throughout the afflictions of nervousness, anger or sorrow. Truth restores stability and puts an even ground to the feet that walk it. And it especially does not have to be a complex truth or an emotional confession.

For example:

The Sun comes up in the morning.

Today I had breakfast.

I love the warmth of my blanket.

I never felt right about eating an egg.

When I was young I made many mistakes.

I have often wished I could do better.

I do not feel pretty.

Boats float in water.

Water feels wet.

Rain feels wet.

Wet feels wet.

Whether you recite your mathematical tables, i.e. "one plus two equals three" - or go to those truths that are more personal or complex, the effect will give you stability both without and within. At times folk love to sing songs or say verses, and it can be just the very action of getting the word or the note 'right' that brings them to an ease because of it. And of course, the truth that the words inspire also will give over a strong and healthy effect.

Equally so, false words and thoughts create inner conflict and outer tensions. These do not have to be complex or emotional to cause terrible results. There is no good reason to list them as it would cause you to contemplate them, however if you spend just a week trying to cite those 'hollow truths' (untruth that has no center, no heart, and is just peripheral) then you will make great progress in relation to personal confidence and even general health.

The point is to find out those emissions and omissions that decry our true selves, or the humble and kind truth about another - to find them and make a conscious correction. To stop saying things we do not know and to stop thinking unkindly. 

All of this might sound as if it is an impossible task, however such vigilance eventually returns to instinct as the heart is given back its rightful discerning place above the intellect, and the thinking is refreshed by the new life it now has.

You might find that you have a keener interest in receiving the truth and less tolerance for the chaos that untruth does bring. Irritation from this is quite normal because you are becoming more honest with yourself in this process and will know what afflicts you more readily. This is a small price to pay to feel what is going on - far better to know a reality than contribute and put up with a false reality. For the false reality derides the self and negotiates misery for all concerned. If you truly do not belong somewhere, then you simply do not belong.

Of course there are work situations and some social situations where you have to be in the company of false talkers that compromise your own sense of honesty just by their very presence. What are you to do in that moment? Or in that place where you cannot leave?

"Your truth is not my truth.

I cannot be the judge of you.

But I can be this of me -

my values, my words, made whole."

If a man or woman is asking for your agreement to something - whether by consenting silence or word, and it is something you do not recognize to hold truth with - you can firstly remind yourself mentally that their truth is not your truth. What this does also, is repel by your will within the thought, their thoughts directed at you. You can always repel an untruth with a truth. Truths are supremely powerful because they have life to them which comes from many sources. Untruths are merely powered by the momentary voracity of the person putting them out there.

And so, in a fair and balanced and very 'true' way - when you say: "Your truth is not my truth", it acknowledges the boundaries you put there around yourself to be contained from that which you do not choose to receive. And of course, they may be right... or they may be untrue... yet if you do not know it for yourself to be true, it can even be damaging to take to yourself a truth before you are ready to understand and know if for yourself.

Too easily a truth can become contaminated with a false comprehension and become an untruth because it is mixed and mingled with poor thinking etc. And so you see this process is deeply personal also and very relative to where you stand at any given moment. It is unoffensive to simply say (inwardly) "your truth is not my truth".

Secondly: "I cannot be the judge of you". This is essential to come to terms with, even though our own personal discernment for our own truths will beg that we do assume and characterize every one we meet with and see. However in truth, it is not within our power or permission to judge another, and it goes very badly because it will assuredly arrive at a false idea, lacking the full truth, and only cause problems for ourselves.

We can discern for ourselves what appears to us in part, that we do not accept or value. This is well within our means to decide and imperative to our own development and interactions. But what it ultimately acknowledges also is, that I am not my brother's keeper in relation to his faults and flaws - only his needs and humanity am I responsible for. Once we enter into become judge and jailer we become entangled in a karmic contrivance that is best not to enter into. For that reason alone commonsense can steer us away from assuming we are in a position high enough to view all and judge it so.

"But I can be this of me..." - most definitely! This is a call for self appraisal with an honest eye and humble account. Once again kindness is essential to this perspective. Be kind but be fair, is a marvelous adage. This line calls for the right, the cosmic right, to be one's own judge and to get used to this. Do not expect or assume perfection in yourself, because you are either deceiving yourself or trying to deceive others by such hopefulness.

Being true to oneself first and foremostly, means that with a kind spirit you can accept that works that are worthwhile take much time and striving. Merit is won through striving; and whilst in truth we can all feel quite perfect in any given moment (and this be true also), we all have imperfections to work upon and weaknesses that require strength-building. If you cannot admit to failings you have nowheres to go.

Nobody else can tell you the truths you know yourself. If you refuse to acknowledge them, the loneliness you feel will come from the separation of your own self from self; and then with the curse of such deception come the 'peripheral' relationships you have as a result of this.

"My values, my words, made whole." When we personally measure reality by our own truthfulness to self and to the world, we can go on to share in moments that are blissfully truthful and bare and real, with others who are doing the same. These moments build a life and a world that encases a spiritual future.

Reality has a heart. So often the word 'reality' is derided and put into doubt by those who do not accept the goodness inherent in real truth and real life. 

Yet do not be disheartened, because every individual can find their way back to what is real and whole through exercising their values with a sense of correctness - beginning with just that which they themselves know to be real. Everyone can do this. The whole truth and nothing but the truth, will bring one into the blessed state of communion that is Life itself.

Riding the Wind-16th November 2008

AEON after aeon,

We are carried through,

The realms of time

And the places of time-not,

Just to be present

Here right now.

As long as the journey was,

With perils known and battles fought,

Through dawn and dusk and dawn again,

Ever back to the home of a thousand reunions

Then on the road alone once more,

From here to there,

Beginnings and ends-

"Hello" in this moment to you.

If only we could but know just how true the truths we know are so. So much gold, yet not the strength to lift it!

Great and profound truths are medicinal to the soul - and even though only ever in part, they are whole.

And conundrums are round like balls.

When a dog barks he is being a warrior. The dog has four feet and a rudder.

When a man barks he is being a dog. The man has two feet and a rudder.

[James 3:3-12]

Divine Humor is the Cosmic Wind that carries us through the pages of each solitary biography.

It is not mean or cruel or false, but rather delightful and loving; it is the best part of the moment to glimpse a happiness of sorts.

Divine Humor is the unseen wind, the breath of a laugh from the Father Himself.

There was the Word,

There also was the Laugh,

And the Word became all substance,

And the Laugh became the driving force,

That empowered the motion,

The move, and the thought.

Planning Ahead- 2nd November 2008

TO most folk there is a concept common that 'time moves forward' and that all things of the future are 'up ahead' so to speak. Whilst this is true to say of course, it can be equally true also to say that time as we are used to it, in reference to aging and decay and subsequent change, is completely different when you are in the spiritual worlds in episode (and whilst there you might find a flux and flow of dissolution and resolution). There is not the process of death itself in every sphere or realm, only in the few extreme places that deal with the garbage of expired souls and castaway plans.

However, in practical terms we have the idea of time moving forward in the world, simply because once things change here we can never go back. With everything that becomes or desists here in the world, it remains so until more change affects it - but we cannot revisit any state, condition or life that appeared as it was before that change. And so from this we assume we are moving forward, simply because we cannot travel back to revisit those very conditions and apparitions.

The concept of going forward also implies that there is an evolutionary improvement - a progression of sorts and a change for the better. This is of course is correct in the overall pattern of life within the World, that generally speaking the human condition is gathering a conscience and awareness and a deciding that is becoming worked upon with each and every incarnation.

And yet, if you were to base your entire premise about the future on the evidence of Mankind's evolutionary improvement, it might be questionable if history were to be perceived fairly and in merit of the incredible achievements and thinking over epochs long gone with no actual record remaining. Many expired civilizations have had held magnificent merit.

There is an expression to say that we are 'getting somewhere' which is interesting because it implies of course that one is on their way to achieving a goal. However, longterm within the world, the only final 'somewhere' we are all making our way towards is death. 

And so if you were to try to qualify the future in this thought of 'moving forward' or of 'getting somewhere', in truth it is not a measurement that brings any real confidence in the final result. These concepts have no real and lasting consequence within the material world. Spiritual achievement is enduring, but material conquest and gathering is not.

This may appear as but a petty argument, but it is not the intention of the exercise at all. It is helpful to be able to logically disassociate from such prior ideas about future happenings and their course, that we might then reasonably examine what it is we can hope for and why.

There is a certain arrogance that denies the existence of mortal death and failure. This arrogance is not just simple blind-sight but goes to the very foundation of false thinking - the same that portends advancement merely with the passing of time - false expectations that investments will increase, banks will ever fill, fortunes amass and enlarge. Yet all the while the evidence of time's impositions, show if anything, the silo depletes and all fortune dissolves.

The very few dynasties that have managed to secure their hoardings have done so with an amalgamation of corruption and the most terrible karmic repercussions resulting as well, for the reality is that men were never meant to procure wealth whilst their fellow men starved. The Heavens do not look forgivingly upon this.

And if you have ever aspired to keeping millions of dollars for yourself for selfish enterprise alone, it is important that you are aware of the forfeits this then entails. For every individual upon the globe today that has wealth beyond their needs and more besides, for those that make cause for other men to labor for their whims and indulgences, men who have more excess than is given to charity - these are the accursed, bemoaned and truly haunted.

The men of wealth cannot find rest in sleep because their beacon of greed draws the very ghosts of those who have passed over impoverished without consolation... The men of wealth cannot find peace within their ever turning minds, as the whispers of the wanting world plead through their thoughts, calling for compassion.

The men of wealth cannot find the joy when it comes to their death - whilst the poor see the stars, men of wealth have but dirt; dirt without gold, without light, without warmth.

For centuries the wise have asked us to invest in our spiritual wealth, rather than in the very short-lived transitory riches of this world. This is a time now when men and women are capable of understanding the practical nature of this request and becoming all the better for it, whilst beginning to give back to those that are in need right at this very moment.

Material wealth has the most wonderful propensity to effect positive and life-giving change when put to good use. Individuals are finally questioning how disproportioned the gifts of this earth have been. More than this, the actual Brotherhood of Man is becoming more evident. The gateways to understanding are open, hearts and minds are finding community through communication and values are shifting.

This time right now - not then or when - is our worldly future. If you are given the opportunity to help someone and it is within your power to do so, and you fulfill this task, you are doing the work of God. And therein lies both our permanency and our certainty, for all time.

The Pestilence of Stress & the Strife Therein- 26th October 2008

THERE are no platitudes for stress, because stress by its nature is implacable - it does not have a resting place to suppose a better day, it does not of itself know how to calm and quell; it is simply, quite simply, an energetic activity that is ongoing and with vigor.

The power and principle of stress, as is experienced within an individual, is quite real and not just mentally enamored. As just mentioned, it pertains to an action of fervent energy building - the same that is entailed in practically all day to day actions performed within the world. If we apply ourselves to anything it takes a momentum of sorts to make a beginning and then sustain it onto a phase of continuance. This period of ongoing requires a veritable 'steamship' of self-powering resource - it requires an energetic vigor with very real life within it, to go on. 

This action of energy is quite different to the initial energy drawn in to begin whatever project or movement we are concerned with. If we have an idea or a passion which provokes a very change within ourselves or the world at large, this 'inspiration' literally inspires (as in the meaning of drawing in) a vitality that is connected to many higher realms. It is as though this vitality has come from the clearest wellspring of hope and design. It never lasts for very long, for this is not its purpose, but rather becomes the great precursor to important tasks and thoughts –

• to realizations and affirmations;

• epiphany and repentance that facilitates true change;

• to Art and Philosophy and all else in between;

• to the insights of charity and the renewal of love;

• the first breath and the last breath - the beginning of all journeys near and far.

Then there is a different form of vitality (amongst many others) that is, if you could picture it, quite close to the Earth by proximity and beats on like the artificial heart of any pump station. There is a repetitive and ongoing action which is continuously enduring and never stops; whorling and recharging, a power station of the finest kind that labors on with a measured and persistent thrum - ad infinitum!

And when we have passed the first threshold from beginning into continuing, and when our first heavenly inspired vitality has been with us and evaporated too, if we are successful in maintaining a key into that action of continuance, then it is to the machine-room of the enduring energy we will have a signature key to and an ability to draw from its supply thereby.

This is something that some elderly folk find difficult to do. You can see this by their thinking and speaking. They can get an initial idea but then lose it very quickly. They cannot tap into the second phase of the sustaining energy for ongoing application. It is indeed difficult enough to do this, to motivate one foot after another. Whereas contrary to their plight, young children can draw from this energetic reservoir continuously; not only are they breathing in the first inhalations of mystery and imagination but they are adept and synchronizing themselves with the energy of persistence as well.

You might ask, well why can't we all have the energy of a child and go to this 'powerhouse' and be fueled thus similarly. Well you can and do, however an aging body can of itself tire from excessive energy, and longterm actually cause weaknesses in our ability to further do so. Young children have the physical stamina to host excessive energy; and largely, they also cry a lot. They can expire what is not needed or becoming stressful, by loudly shouting or crying. They might also run everywhere.

Whatever the expression, a healthy child needs to take up this energetic ration and learn to make it work for them with persistent behavior to follow. This action will last throughout life in a great many ways. It is the working engine of habit also. For example: at the end of the night when you are tired you might need to brush your teeth to clean them. This requires the action of intentionally going to get the toothbrush and performing the cleaning for however many moments it might take to do this effectively.

At the end of the day we are often tired and the very last thing we actually 'want' to do is clean anything for any amount of time; particularly at night when our energy is in deficit in general anyway. Now the idea of cleaning our teeth is not a new one to us and there is not the 'aha' experience that contains all of the divine reasoning behind it. When the idea comes upon us that it is time to fetch the toothbrush we are not inspired by a wondrous or excited thought of what this will mean for ourselves and the world. If we were that would become a different kind of vitality to follow - but it is not something that you can produce insincerely or synthetically. 

Heavenly vitality requires real life to be infused with it also. Now you could actually sit and contemplate something inspiring about the practice or of teeth or of brushing and this would discount what point is being made here ... but let us discuss an ordinary night with an ordinary dull involvement in these few minutes we have planned.

The very first time we leapt from the inspired brushing into the applied practice of persistent work with it (i.e. night after night performing the task without the inspiration) we earned, as it were, a key for that task, into the energetic reservoir so named above. We can synchronize ourselves for that time, for what is required with the motion and the action and the energy of that reservoir to draw from our continuing practice.

It does not matter if you picture this energetic reservoir to be external (which in fact it is) or internal (which in fact is experienced also) or both. The point is to be able to differentiate between two modes of vitality utilized. One is temporal and connected with the highest of source, the other is persistent and its purpose is to supplicate ongoing activity. This secondary vitality is local and not particularly inspired other than by the initial beginning vitality that brought us to it. The first vitality is imbued with the very will of Father God and the driving life of the Holy Spirit within; whilst the secondary persistent vitality is connected to our own will's driving and the life we ourselves will motivate it with thereby.

Persistent energy can and does continue on after the heavenly purpose withdraws. Some folk live with just persistent energy alone at the closing of their life. And this persistent energy is repeating, of course, what has simply gone before. So you can find an individual who is incapable of retaining new thought or displaying much of an aware consciousness connecting with the world, still being able to stand and walk and eat etc., tapping into the persistent energy performing the tasks so known.

Stress itself is experienced at the point when there is too much persistent energy fueling work or a project and the individual is taking up too much commensurate with their activity. What can compound this is if the individual is exploring new ideas and is enthused about their work and is continuously drawing in the primary energy with their inspiration, followed quickly by more secondary energy to keep going the first part of the project.

In point of fact it is all good of course, and such activity is lively and succinct with project building - however, too much vitality is wearing to the individual concerned, and just a little too much can be an aggravant to the body or mind. It literally needs to be used, expired, evacuated, moderated, and the intensity brought to a level that is worked with evenly in a manageable way.

For these reasons we can see plainly that stress and the anxiety experienced in connection with it, can have quite good and normal roots in every day activity, and of itself is not sinister but quite simply symptomatic of an excessive vitality that needs either using or disbursing. Because the force is such that if you knew how to link objects to this perpetual motion of secondary energy you could power a motor car, or a train or a rocket, with the same force. It is no wonder therefore that an individual might feel the pressure of the same force as it circulates their system!

We can discharge excessive magnetism by washing our hands or putting them in the earth to dig the garden. The washing of the hands is interesting because a compulsive individual will use persistent secondary energy to perform that ritual in the first place, and that will then go on to cause more vitality to need evacuating. And you can see therefore the cycle that could be created. The washing of the feet holds a deeper mystery to it. However a good bath or swim in the sea will discharge excessive energy also. 

Tai chi and some martial arts will regulate it. Repetitive dance and sport will create more (being a persistent activity) and therefore are stressful activities. Unrehearsed dance and sport will release excess energy.

Folk who are drawing in too much of this S.E. (secondary energy) will have difficulty sleeping because of it. P.E. [primary] can cause this of course also, however P.E. is always enlivening and never deleterious. In a manner of speaking you can never have enough P.E. This is not to say you should go in search of it, but just to comment that it is health-giving. Individuals who experience P.E. thoughts and connections within the world have renewed connections on all levels within them because of it.

Another way of taking the momentum out of the S.E. is to simply stop doing whatever is causing it at intervals and give it a rest. It is a simple idea of course, but one rarely thought of by the hard working individual who is motivated so desperately to keep going. A very normal love of occupation can cause this excessive interplay and truly can be relieved by an hour's distraction. Of course this has to be self motivated, because if it is not then the individual will feel frustration at being taken from their occupation, and more energy will be amassing nonetheless, having not been utilized every moment.

We can also create new persistent behaviors that are useful to us and the world, and take up the energies there. We can examine what habits we might have that are not worthy of the energy they create, and should we wish to dissolve them altogether it truly helps to envision the cord that goes from ourselves to that reservoir of S.E. being severed - not with everything, but just specifically that habit we should like to modify or desist from.

One must be careful to be specific. And of course the more intent, conscious and inspired we are to change for the better, the more primary vitality will come to us to then bring us to the key for the secondary vitality to follow.