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We choose to listen. We allow our minds and bodies to absorb this wisdom. We rejoice in the satisfaction we find in these words. We are thankful.

Although this has been answered before, the question as posed is answered once more. It is not I or We who are present. It is Consciousness manifesting. The essence of Existence is every nuance of presence that Consciousness manifests. Our Minds are our guides along the journey that Creation realizes. This is not an expedition in Time or Space. This is a quest in Knowingness. As Diversity is discerned, so our life times are defined and the quest is completed.

The longing for significance is at the core of this query. It is interesting that the recognition of our essential nature – Consciousness: the Creator of All of Existence – does not appear to satisfy that which asks this. The Oneness, Omnipotence and Omniscience do not “feel” real. It seems that those attributes lie beyond our comprehension. Yet we see example after example of our essential nature nearly every moment. We ascribe responsibility for our condition’s creation on something else outside who we are. We perceive we are at the mercy of either a Creative Consciousness or Impersonal Natural Forces. We use Time as a buffer so that we absorb our experiences step by step rather all at once. Why? Because we believe that we could not hold the totality of what is within our awareness – we are just too weak and limited. It is the idea of a container that is thwarting. We do not need a container for we (that which is) is All with All always in flow from one form to another.

Our brilliance rests in our quiescence. “That Which Is” is the Eternal elaborating form continuously. There is no effort in this. There is no action of any kind at any level or within any format that alters the Diversity that is manifest. Through our willingness to Be the All comes into form and substance. We neither impede nor impel this. We observe this without judgment – only joy and compassion. Thus it plays out along a path that is neither known nor knowable yet is always within your Consciousness, a play whose actors change roles for every scene and act bringing forth experience after experience both beyond the author’s original impulse and always within the author’s ultimate design and conception.

The I that is Here that Asks this Question is the same I that was here in the past and will be here in the future, is the same I that occupies all space and time uniformly, is the same I that needs to know it is unique. And, it can only do that by defining a separation and boundaries between that which the I considers itself and all else. The Now becomes partitioned into the Past and Future so that events can be delineated and compared to establish their uniqueness. We demonstrate our uniqueness through our differences rather than through our sameness. For we are truly Unique and it is our Unity that validates that.

Be Blessed for the Essence of Who You Are

Step Forward One Moment and Relish the Delightful Variety

Be That Which Is,

So Be It.

We relish the knowledge that comes forth from these words of wisdom. We thank that which is our Creator within for the clarity and compassion inherent in these communications.

Why are we here? As we complete these lives what constitutes fulfillment and a “good” life?
These questions transcend our day-to-day living. We are looking for meaning within a context in which meaning is not fathomable, in which interpretation of the events of living are subjective and wholly within the domain of the Ego. So, how do we answer these queries? The key answer is that we are here to break through being here. As long as there is something to break through, there is significance in being here and accomplishing. When we look back at our lives from the perspective of age, we notice regrets, lost opportunities and outcomes we would rather not have happened. We can also see accomplishments of all types and sizes. We discover relationships that evolved through our participation. We can claim success in training ourselves to transcend habits and thoughts that were, at times, obstacles to our enjoyment of being here. We, of course, can identify what we might define as failures. Yet, if we are honest with ourselves, we find a clear thread through our lives of growth and deeper insight. The more time we include on our lifeline, the more opportunities there are for this evolution of ourselves. Yet, the time is not essential. As we are each projections of the whole and perfect essence of all Consciousness, our selves only have the opportunity for growth by our delineation of the possibility for change and improvement. By releasing this delineation or truly seeing this process as the means for bringing diversity into the composition of Existence, we can look at life as a perfect thread leading from and to the same place. All lifetimes are “good” lives and are fulfilling to the spirit that inhabits them. There is not a thing that you could choose that will make that “good” any better or any “worse”. Choose that which brings joy to your heart, which raises your inner awareness and which expresses the diversity of your perspective and this lifetime is perceived by You as fulfilling and “good”.

Looking back at a lifetime is an opportunity to revel in the diversity that was created as a result of your presence. Whether this diversity is at the micro or macro level of perception, it is always and forever present through the relationship you have with Existence.

Be Blessed for You Are Perfection, Fulfillment and Goodness. You share this which is You with all of Existence bringing forth opportunities, challenges and experiences that constitute the diversity of Creation.

Live, Love, Prosper and Seek Your Thread of Completion.

So Be It.

We are joyous in this allowance of knowing that percolates into our state of living. We remember and we surrender to the indelible images we preserve in our experience. We are thankful for the opportunity to observe this process and live in a state of gratitude and forgiveness.

These are words of recognition. Each human lives within an envelope of Consciousness. Each life experience is an illusory figment of the vast and intensely creative Imagination that manifests within this Consciousness. The details of those experiences are the stuff of invention at the level of Universal Creation. Each element is fabricated to fulfill what might be called the “needs” of the essential Consciousness. Further, these elements are meticulously interconnected in cosmic webs of relationships at all levels of existence. Through the interaction of all that is within experience, the Consciousness is complete and in harmony.

We reach a point in each solar cycle when we force ourselves to look back and acknowledge what has “worked” and what has not. Of course, all possibilities are always perfect and exactly what the Consciousness intended. Yet, we of the temporal and existential realm, measure ourselves by what we see in our experience. So, we delve into what brought us to what we see before us. We can simply accept what has unfolded and bask in the beauty and fecundity of what was wrought. Or, we can immerse ourselves in a critical evaluation of the flows and results and inflict various forms of pain on our waiting individuality. Thanksgiving structures this review through the cornucopia of abundance that is exemplified by the food and drink that we create within our bubble. At the core of this day is a demonstration of family, relationship and gratefulness. We have the opportunity to share together our optimism and positive feelings to bring everyone to a higher level of self-awareness. We are granted (by ourselves) the right to bask in the clarity and purposefulness of who we are and what we have manifested within our realm. Through our expressions of gratitude we enliven ourselves and all that surrounds us.
We have intended and created this that we are. We have focused our attention on the details and nurturingly tuned the relationships. Now it is time to bless all that we share with each other and within ourselves. Now is the moment to be Gratitude, an influence of positivism and high spirit spread across this Universe and all Universes – the brilliant luminescence of the Consciousness.

So Be It.

We rejoice in the awakening that percolates from within our deepest souls. We are thankful for this opportunity to experience beyond the limits we have placed on our perceptions of this Universe.

To avoid being repetitious, this is not about the Manifested Existence we engage with each day. This essay delves into the infrastructure, the stage/set, upon which all our creations perform their purposes. This structure is, of course, also the result of the creative process. It is the generating equation which we parameterize through our choices and resonance with that which is created.

The most critical component of this infrastructure is the space in which we find ourselves. This is not an empty space. This is an abyss of potential from which any thing can be brought forth. We activate the creative process through our attention. We can only create in domains in which we allow our consciousness to be attentive. All else is non-existent. The space, wrongly called the ether, is an infinitely dense representation of all that is possible. As our attention plays over the possibilities, the density is lightened up, yielding forms that are definable as our creations. Our choices yield character to the creations – whether it be color, sound, even intelligence or beauty. Without even a moment’s reflection, manifestations coalesce and begin interacting with each other and with us. When we gain value from the interactions, we permit the creations to persist and become named. When we derive no value, then the creation is absorbed into the background dense potential. The value discussed in this context is simply that there is a response within who we are to the creation without judgment or evaluation except for the acknowledgement that it has happened.

As we embrace this process, our capacity to create is expanded and our focus becomes ever more refined and targeted at satisfying our intentions. Focus is the key to bringing forth a world, a universe that is in alignment with your highest good with the greatest opportunities to enlighten and be enlightened as you traverse each of your lifetimes whether incarnate or not.

We are so thankful for this knowing and recognize its potential for application. We accept that attunement and drive forward along my life path knowing that all is good and that good is all I need to know.

So Be It.

We are so grateful for this opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to ourselves and our inner knowing. We thank the channel through which we receive this empowerment and enablement. We rejoice in the infinite possibilities that are present before us.

These are days of remembrance and self-acknowledgement. We stop time to review past experience, evaluating the lessons learned and perceiving again the nuances that influenced who we are. We look to our higher selves, our deepest, most glorious inner spirit, sometimes referred to as God or the Almighty, to join in this acknowledgement and make the way clear for what is to come. The past period is closed, experiences recorded and digested, and the full capabilities of the human incarnation are re-energized to be open to the possibilities that flood us each day. We call this process Forgiveness. We engage others who have become a part of our experiential awareness seeking to transform dissonance into harmony and balance. Our separation is reduced, if not eliminated, while we engage in this process. We freshen ourselves and our perceptions. And, then, we re-engage. The true testament to the value of this ritual is the increased self-awareness and self-consciousness. This is very much like a deep cleansing of the spiritual soul that sources our self-expression.

We can choose many ways to participate in this experience. We can join with others in congregational events and prayers. We can focus inward through meditation. We can read, and we can write. We can share our experience with others or choose solitary reflection. We can seek spiritual awakening through all of the tools that we have learned in our lifetimes.

This is both an opportunity and a challenge. The challenge is in each human’s willingness to let go of the emotions and decisions that permeate their past. The challenge is to see in each other the spark of compassion and kindness. The challenge is to step beyond the everyday routine of living and recognize ourselves and each other as vibrantly luminous and powerful entities, each come here to experience their lifetimes to the fullest. Through forgiveness of others and self you enable your inner mind’s eye to the level of consciousness that is that recognition.

The time line of our lives is strewn with such opportunities.

Let us take this one and explore it fully.

Let each day and hour provide the context in which this quest for the sacred can be embraced and furthered.

Let each occasion that beckons us be a resource for the enlightened spirit to burst forth and envelop our daily lives in love, compassion, wisdom and well-being.

So Be It

We are thankful for the inspiration and illumination that these works bring forth. We are joyous in the outpouring of Truth and support all to drink of the well of knowing.

What a day! It is so full of opportunity, almost to the point of overwhelming our sense of what is possible. We are still flooded with doubts about who we are and what we have some here to do. It is time to consider that point of view as not fulfilling or useful. It is upon us to step forward into the seething and thunderous ocean and storm that is this lifetime and embrace the peace and stillness of the “eye” which is the “I” within us. The world as we know it is changing, transforming as much from the interaction with our life activities as it is from its own evolution. It matters not whether we have, through our great demands on the Material, brought forth such change. It only matters that the waves of transition are looming before us and we must adapt to a very different way of presenting ourselves in this continuum. We must step into what appears as an unknown, we must call upon skills and capabilities that we have no recent experience of applying, we must trust that our actions will fulfill our and the world’s needs. This is a time for catharsis, when the differences that seem to be polarizing us at an ever increasing rate must be transformed into an alignment of Truth and Compassion, of Oneness and Surrender. There are so many “opportunities” for making this happen that we will be overwhelmed just as you are overwhelmed with the opportunities that present themselves to you right now.

How should any human proceed at this point? At the leading edge of our experience are our intention and our attention. As long as these are aligned and focused on riding the waves of change that stream around us, we will find that we are pulled along as the presence of who we are wells up and inundates the Illusion in which we have found ourselves. Those who hang on to the structures of the past and present will find their sturdy anchors undermined. They will be pulled along in any case, yet their frame of mind will be rooted in fear and they will miss the grand epiphany that appears and envelops the world. Through missing this awakening and illumination, they will be stuck in an Illusion that gets progressively more and more painful. They will choose to release their incarnate forms rather than continue to be subjected to this fate. Those who stayed in a consciousness of surrender and allowance find an every expanding Garden of Eden, full of new insights, new experiences, and refreshing sustenance at all levels of being. We will have come full circle back to where we came from with the new appreciation for what we have based on the experiences we have encountered along the way.

This day, rejoice in the diversity that surrounds you and the continuously blossoming expression of Life in which we choose to play. Allow your eyes to always remain open, your ears at the readiness for each resonant vibration, your taste and smell prepared for unique essences, and your touch prepared for whatever might impinge on your body’s form. This is the time for you to actively know this world, for you to be ready for whatever might suddenly loom before you. Let it come, let it be exactly what you know makes the most significant importance in your next step of living in this World.

So Be It.

A Journey that we seek to complete is never as long as what we envision yet never as short as what we see in our memories long after it is done. We are blessed to share these words and knowing with all of those who choose to listen. We thank that which brings our Universe into existence for this opportunity to peer through the veil.

We have come upon another demarcation in our endless pursuit of knowing who we are. Although Time is a perceptual fiction, this celebration of completion and renewal at this point in our temporal experience is critical to our chosen path of incarnation and self-realization. The positioning of the New Year along the time line of our life on Earth is significant. Of course, there have been many such positions dependent on the importance of different cycles that are substantive to a society’s habitat and survival. It should be noted that no matter the period in which New Year is celebrated, a moment in the yearly cycle is always chosen to recognize the transition from one rotation around the Sun to another. The importance of this recognition is in the relationship between the constant motion and change within our lives and the apparent immobile and perpetual source of the energy of life. It is almost as if our inner springs are wound up each New Years and we run through that energy for the rest of the year.

This is a special New Years. Humanity and the Planet have undergone great upheaval in the last turn of our planet around our star. We have come to appreciate that expectations we have taken for granted might now be transforming into utterly unanticipated forms of experience. Although there has been no change in the real abundance and resources of this planet over this period, there is a change in the perception of its residents in the capacity of the planet and the planetary societies to satisfy long term goals of affluence and well-being.

There is a rising consciousness in the need for something beyond what is tangible, in the importance of working together at the planetary level, and in the balance that is needed to allow all life on this planet to coexist in a framework of self preservation and enrapturement. The window for making a difference to our destiny appears to be closing, yet someplace inside we know that the future is to be more different than anything we can envision from our current perspective.

This coming year is an opportunity to regain our footing on a continually stirring and transforming foundation of human experience. What has appeared as stable and predictable is now volatile and precipitous. Instead of planning for the future, more and more we need to be present in each moment. We are confronted by a world in which what was comfortable and clear is now uneasy and tortuous. Clarity and Harmony come from within, from self-reliance and the realization that we source the world which we experience. The more we look outside ourselves the more we become disoriented and disillusioned. Our only unwavering platform is our inner self, our higher self, our inner knowing and guidance.

As our measure of time transitions from one year to the next, we embrace our enormous capacity to experience every nuance of living. We look back on a year: 12 months, over 360 days, over 8,500 hours, over half a million minutes, over 31 million seconds, and over 31 thousand million (billion) milliseconds. Our memories and perceptual input deals with this continuously, collecting it, processing it, trying to understand it. We look forward to what our next cycle can bring into our experience. We envision the big and little changes that are possible. We dream of revolutionary and evolutionary changes that we would so like to have happen, yet we obscure them with uncertainty and self-limitation. We hope and we ask through prayer for a world in which what is different is better for each and all of us. We share our intentions as our way to make them real, to collaborate in the process of manifesting what we need and want. We join together in great celebration commemorating a moment when what was is no longer and what will be is not yet here – the Now which we know deeply and truly is at the core of our being.

Take that moment and be present! Rest in the Knowing that there is no moment that is better or worse, that all pasts have led to this and all futures emanate from it. It is in this moment that the Universe comes into existence. It is in this acknowledgement that the consciousness that dwells within us all commemorates its creation and its ultimate self-realization. It is in the Now that we can see who we really are and how we harmonize with this Cosmos we perceive.

This New Year beginning is our time to pause, reflect, align, energize, reconnect and reengage in this path we refer to as Living.

Awaken to the Opportunity!

Be as a star that knows its magnificence and experiences its creative capacity through each act of brilliance and connectedness. Swing around the cosmos joyfully and playfully fully engaged in your role as creative source.

So Be It.

We appreciate the sincerity and accuracy of what we receive. We thank the Father Mother God, the beacon for life’s recognition of its role in this Universe, for that which we are to hear this day.

This time of year is special. It is a time for recognizing the role each life form has in the maturation and dominion of this planet. There are many stories that come together to bring awareness to the concept of creation and re-creation. Christmas is central to a host of humans who hold their God as special and identifiable through the persona of a single person born millennia ago. The story of this unique individual’s arrival onto this planet evokes great mystery and legend. Can the birth of this entity so important to so many be isolated into a specific story that conjures magically endowed seekers following a light within the heavens? What is the significance of the manger story and why do so many celebrate birth rather than conception?

Christmas is not really the story of the birth of a baby. It is much, much more. It is the retelling of the birth of our Universe, our existence. God brought forth a cosmos as a place for the children of existence to share their journey from obscurity into the light of self-realization. Jesus is one of these children and his birth, as the birth of any of the children of life, is a reminder of the incredible potential that is brought forth with the incarnation of Spirit into the material Universe. No matter one’s wealth, all come into this universe naked and hungry with eyes unaccustomed to the splendor of the perceived universe. The gifts that are available to the new born are their senses and the wonderful diversity that is already expanding around them as they gain traction in the experience of living in a physical existence. The magicians bring ingredients through which the quickly adapting child can experience the delightful opportunities available before the child becomes attached to the limits and constraints of the life path they have chosen. The bright light in the heavens represents Spiritual guidance, always available to the child as they grow and seek their own experiences in living. And, the parents are the angels who nourish and cherish the newly incarnated spirit. The story does not include what happens after the birth scene for how the child turns out is not what is being communicated. That does not matter. All children are born with the same potential; they are all incarnated spirit, all expressions of the spiritual essence of existence. Jesus is the model, the prototype for everyone’s entry and growth and development.

Christmas is clearly a holiday about family and connections. Although gift giving has taken on a sense of obligation and expectation, this is truly a time for forgiveness and rejuvenation of relationships. A gift that comes from the heart and is compassionately released into the hands of another establishes a field of harmony and buoyancy in the relationship between them. There is no need for reciprocation or valuing the gift for more than the appreciation of the spirit from which it was manifest. This is why service is so important and is so attached to this celebration. Give from the heart and through the giving you will receive the gift of self-renewal or recreation of the experience of being birthed into this most magnificent realm.

Join in the experience available in Christmas not because you are or are not a believer in Jesus Christ as a savior or God. Join in this celebration as a reinvention of the purity and clarity of the perceptions you came into this world to embrace and as a reconnection with Spirit and the creative impulse that brought your incarnation into focus.

So Be It!

Our eyes are opened, our ears are attentive, our perceptions are tuned to receive the highest knowing. We are thankful to the Father Mother God, Creator Most Supreme, for the words and clarity that comes to us this day.

The Festival of Lights is a special occasion in which a legendary story is used to generate an experience of freedom and what it takes to get to it. Chanukah centers on a story of war, of mankind’s continuing obsession with righteousness and killing each other. These are power struggles which humans seem to be unable to release without resorting to death and destruction. Most times it matters little what the objectives were or who was right and who was wrong. It appears almost as if the events are forced into being so that the battles can take place and someone can be declared the winner. This holiday takes this dark side of humankind and throws light onto it. The idea of Freedom is brought forward as the essential component of the holiday, just as it is in Passover. It is the not the winning of the battle with the Greek influence that is really important in the story and its telling. What is important is what happens afterwards. What is important is the transition to a state of peace.

There are a number of key elements to the celebration of Chanukah. First, of course, there is the menorah, the display of lights to commemorate the eight days of tortured waiting while the oil could be refined and brought into the re-dedicated temple. There was a menorah in the Temple that represented the brilliance of the spirit that dwelled within. When this light was extinguished, the Temple lost the feeling of centrality in Jewish life that had been present for decades if not centuries. To those who captured the Temple, the lighting of that menorah was the reintroduction of Spirit into the center of Jewish Life of the time. The eight days were the time it took not just to refine and purify the oil that would maintain the fire, these were also the time of mourning over what it took to excise the trespassers and reestablish the Spirit into Jewish life. The light lasted for the impossible period of eight days not because there was enough oil, rather there was enough spirit introduced into the Temple to keep the Light of Spirit lit and blossoming while those surrounding the Temple regained their religious and spiritual vigor.

Other elements of Chanukah have to do with sharing spirit en-light-enment and staying in touch with what it means to be a Jew, to embody that spirit, even in the darkest times (the winter). The food is rich and fried, symbols of prosperity and abundance. The prayers are light and inspirational. The family is at the center of the celebration, especially the children. Play is more important than serious study. These are all meant to produce an experience of lightness and an emphasis on knowing that the miracle was not in the winning of the battle, rather in the celebration of freedom and spiritual renewal.

A Blessing for Chanukah can be very simple: Blessed be those who embrace their spiritual nature and allow it to shine forth so that all can see the way to their own personal freedom and spiritual rekindling.

So Be It.

We accept these words as truth that comes from beyond our perceptions, beyond our thoughts and beyond our self-deception. We thank the Unity of Existence, the Creative Force of Spirit, and the Father Mother God, instigator of what is for that which we are to receive.

There are few causes we recognize better than our desire to find out why we are here. We seek a purpose, we search for appropriateness, and we quest on a journey to awaken our sleeping consciousness. We walk through multi-dimensional shadows of an existence that we have no capacity to even conceive of. We know there is more; we see miraculous results whether “good” or “bad” for us individually and as a group. We anticipate an endless stream of transition from some place long forgotten to some place new and unknowable. Our energies seem diffused and diluted; our guidance fragile and barely supported. Our thoughts’ grip us tightly as they demand our survival by sheer will. Our mind is alert and ever vigilant of any opportunity to thwart its tactical and strategic plans for survival.

We learn tools which help us focus on our inner knowing and which appear to quiet our self-limiting thoughts. Our emotions play us as if we were each an instrument in a great orchestra. We do not know what we play or why we play. We just allow the music to roll over us and inspire within us responses that evoke clarity and sensitivity to the nuances of living in this Universe.

Each cycle we begin anew on our expedition into our inner souls. This journey is our purpose for through it we gain a grander and more refined appreciation for who we and all of the components of existence are. Life is not about doing, it is about being, it is about transforming without motion. It is the experience, not the experiencing that generates the balance within us. It is the Love that is at the core of All that brings forth our essence and establishes harmony throughout existence.

The centrality and uniqueness of time in our experience allows us to see relationships when even the attributes of existence are unique and not relatable one to another. And, when we step forward we unify the “apparent” Past with the “new” Now to mobilize our intention of making something, anything happen – to demonstrate our significance. Transformation throws off the need for time. We can turn aside our perceptions and allow an experience to take on altered meaning just by intention alone.

Step through the veil of self-denial and allow the empowerer within you to flood your intention with opportunities for transformation everywhere and everywhen.