The machine of illusions

The mind and imagination work in conjunction to produce either hope or despairing thoughts. Moving into the future the mind and imagination create images of either positive or negative possibilities. Neither of these are real, but they promise results or conclusions within the imagination.

In the moment, the mind and the imagination do not exist. In the moment the mind and imagination do not influence you. It is awareness that works in conjunction with the universe and not the imagination. The imagination is a machine of illusions that creates false hopes and exaggerated despair.

Its all in the feeling

Awareness is not viewed from within the mind, it is experienced within your consciousness as an expanded sense of being. It is your feeling nature or awareness of self expanding into the totality of your consciousness. It is abandoning all ideas of spirituality and being dissolved into a grander conscious knowing. It is like the drop of water that drips into the ocean and becomes one with it. It loses its identity within the whole of the ocean and no longer is just a drop. Words fail to adequately describe the true nature of awareness as they tend to limit, define, and explain what must be felt to be understood. To remember who you are is the mind's way of attempting to explain what can only be understood within your feeling nature. In reality you do not remember yourself, you feel with greater awareness who you are within your being.

Cleaning out the closet

Sometimes you have to go into your closet and throw away old clothing. They may have sentimental value for you, but they are most likely torn, dust coated, smelly and the fabric is worn out. Beliefs are like that, they have a time in our lives where they mentally create a bridge between ignorance and awareness. They act as incomplete truths until a time comes when we are forced to toss them away because they are outdated, worn and useless. Our understanding has come to a point where the beliefs no longer hold up against new realizations about the nature of things. We have come to the point of knowing and no longer have a need for beliefs to hold us up mentally; we found the new life in awareness through a new reality that was hidden in our feelings.

The point of surrender

The silence speaks through telepathic knowing. No words, ideas or concepts are needed. Language is not necessary. The silence contains all knowledge, wisdom and love. They are revealed to you when you are ready to receive them, when you realize the limitations of mind and thought. You cannot seek them because they were never lost, you will know them at the point of surrender.

Teaching is not knowing

Teaching is not knowing. The idea that teaching leads to knowing is incorrect. Teaching is an attempt by the mind and ego to convince others that what you have to say is important to them, it is also an attempt by the mind and ego to convince you to believe in the teaching being offered. Awareness and knowing cannot be taught. They are not ideas or concepts. You are born with them and the purpose of awareness is to reveal what is within you, not teach you anything.

Self Esteem

Self Esteem is not piling on honors, achievements, and awards to inflate an already insecure ego. It is not adding titles and affiliations to your name or your business card and resume. It is becoming aware of your true identity within the wholeness of your being. It is knowing yourself and not hiding behind outer appearances. It is honoring yourself as the unique being that you are and expressing your personal truth within a lifetime. It is coming from the heart of your awareness and not from a falsely created image within your imagination.

Guilt and the ego

Guilt is a trick of the ego. Because the ego thinks it knows what is right or wrong it places values of such on our decisions, thoughts and opinions. When we do or think something that is contrary to our perceived values of right or wrong it punishes us. The ego is responsible for all judgement within us and also without by others. There is no bigger trick of the ego then ideas on spirituality and God. The idea of God is a creation of man's ego. The aware person knows their is no God made physically in the image of man or man made physically in the image of the ego God. Man, woman and God are all consciousness, unity and oneness.

The distraction of living

Forget your dreams and become aware. All of your ideas about what you think you need and want are mostly false. Live in the moment each day, accepting what life offers and allow it to reveal the life you were meant to live and experience. Life for most people is a distraction down many side roads that make the trip interesting but unfulfilled. You go in circles only to get back to you where it all begins and where it must end, if you are to truly have lived.

Awareness is remembered, not taught

The aware person does not learn truth , they remember it. It is like you recover from amnesia. Suddenly you know and certainty is recognized within you. Your higher self does not teach you anything. Through your understanding in awareness you remember your truth in awareness. It is like you knew it all along, but your distractions , created by the mind and thought diverted your attention from it.

Fear dissolves into awareness

The first cousin of the ego is fear. Fear alerts the ego that it is losing control and the mind and imagination begin a publicity campaign within your consciousness to support all the imaginary reasons why the worst can happen if you allow any surrender of the ego. Your awareness rests on the underside of this campaign of the mind and ego and as the witness of all your being it permits you to accept all fear without judgment. It separates the mind and ego from identifying with all manner of imaginary demons and dark outcomes. As you surrender within your awareness the ability of the mind and ego to identity with fear and the imagination lessons. Your knowing identity overpowers the identity associated with the mind and ego and thus fear is overpowered by truth.

Thought is not enough

Your mind creates false realities built upon the imagination. It has no substance or reality other than thought, idea or concept to build with. You can manipulate objects outside it and with language you can label what it observes, but it still stands outside the reality of existence. It is secondary to being aware and learning to feel with awareness the nature of all things. Thought cannot experience the reality of anything, it must be felt to be known or understood as truth or reality.

The price of believing

Beliefs exist for the sole purpose of allowing people to deal with and confront the fear within them. It is a way to avoid dealing with feelings and self discovery. It is the way people have been manipulated and controlled for centuries. People choose to believe because of a deep lack of trust of self brought mainly by organizations dedicated to the idea that they know God's will and him or her personally. Today beliefs are more cunning, they promise much more and offer fairy tales endings that please people like children's stories did when they were young. They offer freedom, powers, healing and unique gifts if you will simply believe. They appeal to the imagination and the ignorance within people who have no practical understanding of their inner life. Any belief that you accept or buy into is a forgery of the real awareness you are seeking. Only knowing can set you free from the hucksters, the cons and the users that prey on people determined to be victims rather than free to know their truth.

Life is only in the moment

Moments are alive, memories are dead in a sense. One is the feeling of life in the now and the other are simply thoughts and emotions that rise from the mist of the past. The future is also dead in a sense as it contains hopes and dreams yet to be fulfilled, but currently are not and may never be. Your life is now or it is not. Your awareness reveals life in the now on a grander unseen scale or your mind creates from dead memories or hopes that may never be achieved in this lifetime. Either you are becoming more aware of the truth within you or you are sinking into a dead past of memories or a future of hopes and dreams that are not guaranteed to fulfill you. Your life is lived moment to moment always and true life does not exist outside of them.

The school of awareness

Life is not a chaotic mess, it is a reflection of either what we believe or what we know. For the believer and those who choose to speculate, judge, question, and offer opinions life is either fair or unfair according their ego's perspective. What the ego call's justice is often another word for revenge. The knower or the aware person understands that everything is perfect in its time and place. You do not experience anything that is not an opportunity for your growth in awareness. What you do experience is a choice in the moment between mind and emotion or awareness and feelings. The school of awareness is a choice between these two extremes. One leads to a desperate attempt to control outcomes and the other is a door into the deepest aspects of your being and the classroom of the higher self. One defends your deepest fears and the other exposes them with compassion, caring and guidance that reveals their nature and how to transmute them into courage and more awareness of the light within you.

It is your truth

It is up to us individually to know the truth within us and share it. No God or savior is going to do it for us or give it to us. No religious organization or priest has it, no metaphysical teacher or healer has it. Nobody has the truth as their exclusive power to give anybody. All must discover it within their self. The truth is not a dogma or a creed to live by. You do not learn it in a class or hear it from a guru or a minister. What you hear from others is their experience of the truth or what they think it is. Truth is very personal and unique and it echoes deep within your consciousness as a long forgotten memory of who you really are and are meant to be. Till you have the courage to know this truth you will either keep searching or try and emulate the truth of others. As long as you do this, the truth is never yours, but someone else's and you are borrowing theirs for awhile. To be aware is to know your truth , not the truth of another. 

Not an escape

People love to escape. Each week millions go to the movies, get drunk, use drugs and do anything to take their minds off their problems. Some will even escape into religions, sports or even role playing games online. There is no end to the torture of the mind or the demands it makes on our perceptions. Always seeking more, wanting more and never arriving at the destination. Awareness is not an escape from you. It is the result of facing yourself and allowing your feeling awareness to guide you through the maze of beliefs, ideas and concepts about you that have nothing to do with the true you. It is getting off the merry go round of the mind and planting your feet firmly within. It is allowing life to teach you that you have much to learn and remember, but also much more to gain within.

Integrity

Integrity is living your truth without compromise. It is not selling out to anything or anyone who is unreal and untrue. It is coming from the heart with clarity and wisdom. It is not hiding behind beliefs and pretending to be what you are not. It is speaking about what you know and not what you think you know. It is living life within the school of your higher self and not playing hooky with the mind. It is connecting with the source of all existence and making peace with yourself within the silence. It is speaking the truth in love and allowing others to be true to their own truth without manipulation or coercion. It is standing in the aloneness of your truth while others run in circles with beliefs seeking answers they will never find.

Don't give YOUR life away

Never let anyone define who you are. Don’t allow anyone to influence you or take your eyes off the life you are living and experiencing. To be true to yourself means that you have to recognize where you are and who you are. To do this you have to pay attention to yourself and what is happening to you. What are you doing and why? It is knowing that this is your life, these are your thoughts and feelings, unless you have sold out to another or others beliefs. Your life is your own and no one else’s, but so cheaply we give it away because of insecurity and the desire of acceptance. The moment that you give it away and turn outward you leave behind the most precious freedom that you have. It is the freedom to be and discover the real you.

True healing is a service to humanity, not a business

Donations allow the client to determine the value of a service offered. Those who charge fee's may control the business end of what they are doing, but they don't control results. Donations are a more honest way of being paid by allowing the client to decide the value of the service.

For those who abuse this privilege you can always refuse to serve them. Those who say that they could not live off donations only should consider bartering or not being in business. There are far too many people advertising themselves as healers in business that should not be doing it.

If you are the real deal, people will come to you and if you are not you may need to keep your day job. True spiritual healing is not a business, it is a service to humanity.

Discernment

Discernment is a gift of knowing and your higher self. It is an awareness of the truth of something or the untruth. It is not an opinion or a belief, but a quality of feeling that rises into your awareness from your soul. Many feel that the truth is a one blanket statement of reality and that one size fits all and to go against a group belief or opinion is being judgmental and unspiritual. You have to know what is true for you or follow others. You have to be certain in your truth or live in doubts about yourself and it. Many feel that you should be able to live in doubt and still know the truth, if so what is truth for then, a personal amusement? To be true to yourself and what you know you have to make a stand for it, live it and become more deeply aware within it. This requires discerning yourself as well as others. Sometimes it challenges others to speak or hold their peace.

It's all in vain, but awareness

Everything changes over time, nothing stays the same. What you thought was important and critical one day becomes old news within a week. We worry, argue and fret over the simplest of things and in the end it seems nothing matters. Goals are achieved and then lose their value. Medals are won at sporting events and over time their memory fades. You strive to be a better you only to realize that the old you is still there. Nothing in this world that the mind can perceive lasts and what exists is impermanent. It is hopeless to expect fulfillment if you live in the mind only. It is only through awareness that you can become conscious of that which lasts. It is only through awareness that you will know that which is true.

Politically correct or aware?

You cannot be political and be aware. You have to use tact skillfully at times, but what good is truth if you dare not call a spade a spade. Are we not seeking to know and not guess? Do we want more questions or straight answers? People at times get upset with the whispers because they challenge beliefs or ideas, but without the challenge you never discover the underlying truth. All beliefs, ideas and thoughts need to be challenged for the truth that hides within them. They can't be the truth or people would stop defending them. To know is to rest in your awareness and allow the inner teacher to guide and instruct you. Do you think that your inner teacher is just a computer simulated animation that pops out information at will or a dynamic knowing consciousness that see's deeply into purpose and intent and can call a spade a spade. If you want to become aware and be free then you have to stop hiding in your beliefs and what you have been told and not be afraid of being politically incorrect with everyone.

There is a big difference between discernment and being abusive with those who worship their beliefs. What they call abusive is the light of consciousness shining onto their superficial ideas on reality.