Life’s Puzzle Pieces walks you through the tasty tidbits of tactical and strategic transformation from decades of in-depth empathic and self-development tools discovered, learned and practiced through a lifetime of contact, consideration and confluence of and with the One. I’ve learned about spooky action at a distance up close. We can create our own Unified Field.
Life’s Puzzle Pieces takes you deep into your own process and offers you the ability to consider many points of view, challenging you to change on a moment to moment basis. Life is a process. Solving puzzles is a process – utilizing the Law of Attraction. This material is perfect for spiritual beings in process of becoming, too.
The most exciting puzzle is one of your own design that you haven’t discovered yet. That’s the one that is latent within you, just waiting for you to ask the right questions so it can burst forth with answers to lead you toward your perfected form, fit and function in the world. It’s a simple step-by-step process.
As a transformational life coach, having a life of varied professional accomplishments, life events and opportunities, I first had to learn about this process and protocols of epistemological and ontological confluence. In other words, I had to learn what made sense beyond the mundane and programmed lifestyles many of us lead.
It took decades to discover and demonstrate proficiency as an educator and practitioner, let alone a transformational life coach. The talk doesn’t matter if you aren’t walking it. Anyone can make money, it’s HOW you align with self, others and Earth that creates fulfillment and true success in your lifetime.
Life’s Puzzle Pieces – The Art and Science of Assembly
Orphaned at birth with an early adoption brought about enough challenges, yet a near-death experience as a teenager launched a life-long quest for learning the secrets of finding balance between inner and outer realities. I considered the notion of living in quantum entanglement with the unified field, a heightened sense of connectedness.
Zen Benefiel, literally, takes us with him on his journey from drums to conundrums. His mind is facile as he weaves a narrative ranging from deep within the esoteric/ufology subculture to lessons of marriage, family, and business life. He draws upon archetypal psychology with a particular appreciation for the creative godhead archetype. If you read this book with an open heart, you may find yourself discovering new vistas of your own.
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD
Host, New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel
I’d produced and hosted a TV show in Phoenix that began in 1990, with the hope of someday being worthy of an interview with one of two hosts I wanted to emulate – Dr. Jeffery Mishlove and Bill Moyers. In June of 2018, a serendipitous moment brought Dr. Mishlove’s attention and contact for anther matter that evolved into three conversations for his YouTube Channel – New Thinking Allowed and nearly 17,000 views total.
I don’t just talk about the journey… I show you how you can take your own. Start with this and perhaps we can explore further possibilities. You’ll get a download link for your gift with jus a little information:
You might think the title indicates a laborious attempt at describing some kind of utopian ideal with a new age twist. You’ll be disappointed, or perhaps pleasantly surprised. What I intend to share are some notions of very practical and pragmatic practices that will certainly set you up for a better experience now and in the future. You are co-creating a new world order of experience.
In writing Stubbing My T.O.E. on Purpose, I wanted a catchy title that referenced brilliance and humor in a double entendre. However, it’s the subtitle that really has the meat: A Seminal View of Consciousness, Cosmology and the Congruence of Science and Spirituality. Sure, most of us don’t go so deep into exploring our inner environment, let alone look for references in the outer world. We just don’t think that deep most of the time.
I’m a thinker; the deep the better at times. My early childhood set me up. Being orphaned and adopted, still an infant, turned into a quest for connection shortly after my adopted sister arrived a few month after my fourth birthday. I had a sense for exploring inside even then, developing a relationship with a ‘voice’ that’s been with me since. Ally, guide, mentor, teacher or unseen helper are many names I’ve heard the voice called; confidant and trainer work for me.
In my humble opinion and with more than just conjecture, I believe we all have such a voice within. It has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with character and conscience in our personal development. In a world where it’s customary to compete and win at all costs, that voice has been diminish by the fear of failure or loss or rejection. Success has been about acquisition and dominance of the market, with very little concern for the real human side of things.
Impostor to Real Deal
We’ve all been in a place where we’ve had to ‘fake it to make it’ until our confidence and skills developed in negotiating life, work and relationships. Many entrepreneurs feel inadequate, insecure and even a little insane in the face of their high expectations for performance and success. It’s great to set the bar high, though thrashing oneself repeatedly for not meeting a goal on time is a bit unnecessary. You don’t realize you’re being an impostor, a lesser self; denying your own inherent ability and innovation.
Ability and innovation? True, if you didn’t have the ability you’d have chosen something else. Meeting the challenges takes innovation; discovering that the way you think about the patterns and processes that are mandatory for achievements can evolve. There is a growing congruence of science and spirituality, method and mortality. The way we achieve real success requires a different kind of attention, intention and interaction than in the past.
Real success has taken on a much different meaning in the last few decades, as Cultural Creatives have grown up and become grandparents. The drive for dollars has been replaced by conscious capitalism and social entrepreneurialism where community and planetary needs are more important profit. Now that we’re in a time of what seems to be a complete restructuring of how we do business, agility with a conscience and being comfortable with ambiguity is critical. Covid caused an explosion in remote working, which had the side-effect of less pollution, just one of the benefits of the restructuring.
Another side-effect with the obsession on self-hygiene and forced sequestration was the opportunity to look in the mirror, the inner one, and question everything about self. How do we feel about the narrative? What do we truly believe in? What are we willing to die for, in the case of facing both vaccine and virus? How are we going to move forward and restore our lives, relationships and work? What changes are we going to have to make personally and professionally? Is there something else in process? Are we co-creating a new world order of natural design, one we’ve been missing, appearing through our experience?
What IS in Process?
Regardless of the cosmological consideration, religious prophecies, theories about population control or world domination; we still have to work together as human beings living on one planet. Perhaps it’s time we looked at a bigger picture, the larger puzzle and stop bickering about the corner pieces. Things will move forward. It’s the how that will make the difference and THAT happens beginning at an individual level, then a local level and beyond.
What appears to be in process is a great ‘weset’ in the ‘upwising’ of our notions about what we have in common and what we can do together as a result. A wise friend once told me, “There’s no ego without wego.” I use that statement for my partnering sessions when talking about teamwork. It’s not the elimination of ego, it’s the redirection of it from self to the needs of the job, project or program. We’ve tried to separate things for far too long, categorizing and specializing taking us further apart from acting as ONE.
That notion of acting as ONE has folks really perplexed, even though the basic understanding of the concept is present. The fear of loss of individuality and giving up freedoms is central to the reticence of exploring how it might happen. The trending of talk about complex systems is accompanied by the sense making trends in leadership and organizational development which further obfuscates simple solutions at the personal level.
The truth is we cannot change others or the world until we focus our attention, intention and interaction on changing self and, contrary to the thinking crowd, learn how to sense our way through our circumstances, situations and events in our lives. There’s a call and response happening across socio-economic conditions. How do we answer the question: Why are we here? Perhaps the notion of a perfected form, fit and function in the world needs consideration. That is an experience-able process in co-creating a new world order.
Perfected Form, Fit and Function
That phrase probably evokes the question of personal mission or purpose in life. Do we even ask that question now? What if we did? Perhaps we’re looking at all wrong or making it way too complex. In reality, even with the major changes in how we do business now there is no real change in the division of labor. It’s attitude. We all know the phrase, ‘your attitude determines your altitude,’ in career development and in life.
Finding your perfected form, fit and function doesn’t mean you have to stop what your doing and completely change your life. That’s where I come in as a transformational life coach. Of course, re-creating your life is possible if you feel disconnected or unfulfilled in the career or work you are doing currently. However, just changing your attitude about what you are doing and why can make all the difference in the world, no matter your vocation. What you do does make a difference to others, even if you cannot see it immediately or think you’re doing something menial.
The knowledge garnered from my early spiritual awakening let me know we are cosmic consciousness condensed into form. Even with that knowledge, the practical application of it evaded me for decades as I explored the nature of my own being and how I related to the world. That relationship included personal and professional realms, family, community and work. Being secure in myself and not because of a job or relationship, I had a little wiggle room for exploration and moving on when necessary.
A wise man and Taoist rector, Khigh Dhiegh, once told me there are two ways to interpret circumstances – desirable and undesirable. That comes from our senses, not our thinking, the nature of the circumstance affects how we feel. In the notion of quantum physics and the knowledge that everything is vibration alludes to the fact that we cannot think our way through a system built on vibrations, we have to sense our way through it. Does this not assist in co-creating a new world order?
Faith, Love and Trust – Co-Creating A New World Order
You probably think I’m going to talk about God with that subtitle. I’m not. The faith, love and trust in religious frameworks gives your power away. I believe, and that true religion supports, is the faith, love and trust in yourself. Your religion, or even if you have one, doesn’t matter. If God dwells within, then it is still the faith, love and trust in yourself that builds upon that notion.
How I see that faith, love and trust transforming into a practical and pragmatic framework (maybe even science) is in the focus of our attention, intention and interaction. According to modern quantum theory, our ability to be aware and observe affects our reality and quite probably produces it. In my opinion, the nature of quantum entanglement for humans is the acquiescing to the natural order in creation as an experience.
When we can cognate that and learn how to be present in the moment with it, the faith, love and trust converts into our direct experience. After all, that is truly the only thing we can trust is our direct experience. Theories don’t matter if they are not experience-able. We each have an individually unique experience, yet it is so close to others at times that improvisational moments produce break-through events in personal, professional and even technological realms. It’s a real new world order of being.
We are collectively in one of those moments, a bit prolonged with the nature of our ‘great weset‘ (better than ‘reset’) and an upwising of humanity toward a greater reality that bridges science and spirituality in a wonderful kaleidoscope of experiences with the same intent – to learn how to work together better and thrive, not just survive. My work helps some of those folks (hey, I’m only one guy) accelerate their understanding and capacity for self-expression and manifestation of their dreams and goals.
So co-creating a New World Order that I propose is one that is a naturally emergent quality of our evolutionary process toward harmony with self, others and Mother Earth.
I implore you to look up the original definition of the word – apocalypse. Just like Bloom states in his book, The Lucifer Principle, a few have used it to connote something opposite and pummeled the public with it for millennia to the point of it producing those catastrophic notions in the minds of millions, if not billions. The ability we have to think and the encouragement of critical thinking seems to be diminished on purpose. Why?
Okay, I’m not going to make you look it up, though I still urge you to just so you don’t take my word for it. Apocalypse: (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis, from of/from: ἀπό and cover: κάλυψις, literally meaning “from cover”) is a disclosure or revelation of great knowledge. Many do know the difference and recently I decided, with the help of my lovely wife, to explore conversations that matter in defining our future.
Decades Ago
It feels like I’m coming off a 30-year hiatus since first hosting One World beginning in 1990. One World television show aired on cable public access in the Phoenix, Arizona area from May of 1990 to August of 1992 with over 120 shows recorded, only a few of which are on YouTube. Many of the tapes did not fair well over the years. Beyond the initial interview, where Rodger Schnellenberger interviewed me on the vision of the show, the direction got much more practical in probing the local scene and people across many personal and professional arenas.
The show’s general line of questions for each guest was this:
*How do you get where you are at now; what prompted you to do what you are doing from both inner and outer perspectives?
*What fears did you encounter and, more importantly, how did you overcome them?
*How do you see that reflected in the common human experience around you now?
*How do you see that [transcending fears] reflected in the local communities, cities, states and nations of the world?
*Do you see the barriers to a global community coming down and, if so, can you cite evidence of it?
*What practical advice can you offer our audience for everyday living?
Discussions included the premise of harmony among people and planet, personal perspectives and hopeful outcomes for the types of guests and material to be covered. Within the first half-dozen shows, one of the crew started calling me, ‘Zen.’ I was using ‘Zendor’ as a subtitle, a kind of ‘door to what is’ inference. Zen stuck, evidently, and everyone else on the set followed suit.
One World in a New World
Now, 30 years later, as a coach, educator and facilitator I’m good at creating conversations and asking deeper questions to bring out patterns and processes we, as human beings, go through and yet rarely talk about to others. Each of us have a process we go through to arise from the ashes, in some cases, and proceed toward achieving dreams and goals in business and life.
In just a couple of months I have guest episodes scheduled through the next two months and already have had apocalyptic chats with the likes of Jim Britt (success coach who trained Tony Robbins), Fyodor Ovchinnikov (co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership) Dr. Robert Gilman (founder of Context Institute), Dennis Pitocco (publisher) Dr. Erica Miller (holocaust survivor) and one my favorites, Swami Beyondananda (new age comedian). Each offers new perspectives and edifies ancient wisdom in new ways as they describe their journeys in life.
My passion for transformational life coaching also requires a constant upgrading of my own experience in order to best serve clients with relevant and simple ways to shift their view of self and engage a larger aspect of their being as part of the process. If you are reading this, please check out the new podcast and subscribe. You’ll find One World in a New World on YouTube for now, with more locations to come soon.
It appears to me that the ancient spiritual teachings, modern though leaders and quantum sciences are saying the same things just a little differently and the combination provides a solid foundation for experiencing what some call ‘living in Spirit’ as the experience of quantum entanglement in a new living awareness.
What Is In It For You?
I love Goethe’s quote, “Whatever you believe or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness had genius, power and magic in it.” Whether or not that is the correct translation or whether Goethe actually said or wrote it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you take the step forward toward your vision… NOW if possible. If you need help, I’m here.
In mid-1990, a public access show called One World began production, to talk to people about the process of overcoming obstacles, spiritual connections and building community as thought leaders with passion. Over 120 shows were produced through the end of 1992 and had around 4,000 weekly viewers at its close.
We were sponsored by the Christown Lions Club, had a dedicated crew of a half dozen, and it was a most rewarding experience for all of us. The focus was on peering into the depths of personal processes, professional career challenges and choices, how a global village was developing, and a personal insight or process shared by the guests for the benefit of folks going through similar challenges.
As with many volunteer efforts, it feel by the wayside when a commercial opportunity became available. Alas, looking back, it wasn’t the best choice, though I certainly gained experience producing 4 shows and directing challenging talent, plus producing my own show, ‘Who?’ which was focused on community activism. We only had two weeks of all the shows in the can before the plug got pulled as a result of misrepresentation of the station’s reach and a cancelled contract. I hoped someday to return.
Coming out of Covid and the challenges many face in business, personal endeavors and life in general gave me the opportunity to restore a passion. My wife, Luba, suggested I find a way to do what I love most, talking to people with empathy and generative listening, and finding that same golden thread of positive patterns in the choices we have available. Now the subtitle of my book, Stubbing My T.O.E. on Purpose offers a new opportunity for expression: A Seminal View of Consciousness, Cosmology and the Congruence of Science and Spirituality.
Inspiration, Manifestation and Support
The congruence of science and spirituality spiraled into a beautiful display of opportunity with people, places and things made available for, as a dear friend called it, an evo-leap in the conversations and advancement in thought leaders accessiblity. Now, 30 plus years later, One World in a New World seemed a cosmic conspiracy for thought leadership.
It’s much like the one that brought Luba and I together through a series of random (synchronistic, to be recognized later), yet serendipitous, events that included dreams, impressions and visions. I’ve lived my life like this and, without the experience, I’m sure it’s really hard to fathom that life can be lived in such a state by using practical hard and soft skillsets.
What I hope this series offers is a deepening of conversations that reveal a new living awareness that is bubbling up in humanity just in time to transcend a fallacious narrative that has nearly a global population believing in fake science. We cannot think our way through a system built on vibration, we have to sense our way through it.
Co-sensing and co-presencing are buzz words in the organizational development world. I was introduced to them through an MIT series I took with Otto Scharmer, called ‘Transforming Business, Society and Self,’ along with 32,000 others worldwide.
I love to dig deep, interrogate and uncover stuff; revealing a deeper awareness of self, others and our connectedness to the Earth and stars by design. I also love to restore order and understanding when necessary. Referring to the conversations as ‘apocalyptic chats’ addresses one of the greatest misunderstandings of all time. Apocalyptic doesn’t mean destruction, it means ‘uncovering.’
In each and through all of the apocalyptic chats, we’ll find a place to explore and reveal something new in each other in recognizing our own natural design and thereby an opportunity for a new shared living awareness. When we can find that is a small quantity, perhaps it can ripple through the thoughtmosphere and help us re-align the existing systems for the service to humanity and Earth through thought leadership and sense-making.
One World in a New World
In this first episode we introduce the Institute of Evolutionary Leadership, and follow with a series of thought leaders featured in their recent program. Zen explores a multinational journey and personal passions for getting people, places and things to work together better with Fyodor Ovchinnikov, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership. Fyodor designed and produced a series of World Café style gatherings for thinkers, called Thought Leadership for Systems Transformation. I found him through the Global Regeneration Co-Lab and a mention of the series in one of the conversation threads.
What I love about this project is I get to talk to some of the world’s thought leaders at various levels of activity in the world of change across the gamut of business, education, industry organizational development and outright transformers of the way an agile business performs in the new normal. I feel right at home, present and vulnerable to whatever might happen because I trust it will always reveal something new and wonderful. Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t ask for your comments, sharing and, of course, subscription to our new channel if you find value. Just open the video in YouTube. Thanks in advance and hope you enjoy the conversation.
The Institute for Evolutionary Leadership is a California-based social enterprise that develops leaders for systems transformation through educational programs, advising, strategic initiatives, and community building. It was co-founded in 2014 by Manuel Manga and Fyodor Ovchinnikov. Fyodor’s network of thought leaders is quite extensive.
Fyodor shares his circuitous journey through various universities for undergrad and graduate work, his mentors and their suggestions for assisting business development that eventually became IEL. The multidimensional path to meeting Manuel Manga and co-founding IEL is particularly interesting for those who have a passion for changing the way we approach business in the 21st Century.
He speaks of developing relationships around the world and the impact of a dream he had as a teen that had a profound connection to the reality he experienced years later. The reality of the attention, intention and interactions Fyodor gave to his passion demonstrates how many worlds work together simultaneously even though we may not be aware at the moment.
From Fyodor: Zen is very knowledgeable about a variety of topics related to transformational leadership and group dynamics. As a contributor to collective narratives co-created by the participants of the Thought Leadership for Systems Transformation Program, he added great value with his passion and experience. Zen is also a talented network weaver and a skilled podcast host. If you are looking for a coach or facilitator who has a deep commitment to transcending division and separation or if you are looking for a thought partner or connector in the field of change, engaging Zen would be a great choice!
Business agility is the ability of an organization to: Adapt quickly to market changes – internally and externally. Respond rapidly and flexibly to customer demands. Adapt and lead change in a productive and cost-effective way without compromising quality.
I like to look for the best in things, or at least to take what is given and look at it from a greater perspective in relationship to the whole. We tend to be pretty narrow-focused when in the midst of a crisis or challenged when we feel we don’t have answers.
Taking all the bias away from who or what Klaus Schwab is, he’s in a position of power and authority to help shape our future. That is unquestionable as the Executive Director of the World Economic Forum. Let’s go a little deeper into the transcendence he offers in his book COVID-19: The Great Reset.
In speaking toward business challenges, he states that companies and corporations need to be agile. Those who cannot or hold to ‘old’ ways of doing business will more than likely fail. Let’s look at the word he uses – AGILE. It’s a buzz term in corporate philosophy.
It would seem that AGILE ought to include our current evolving knowledge of how connected our lives and the planet are, business needs to consider the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standards on a go-forward basis. Like B-Corps, the ISO 26000 is intentional, where all other ISO certifications are quality-driven with documentation of ‘system’ adherence as proof. Imagine the agility of a workforce with common beneficial goals.
Intentionality
Don’t we need to be more intentional? Aren’t we being asked to look at a greater order? Even the recent reveals of Military videos of unidentified aerial phenomena means there is a bigger picture than we might have thought possible. This also, on a deeper level, speaks to the possibility of a greater order as well, one that we haven’t recognized because of our obsession with patterned behavior and desire to get ahead.
On a personal level, then, we also need to be AGILE in all the best ways possible. We deserve to be all that we are, right? Agility means that we are able to navigate the ocean of emotion together and find safe harbor as a global villagers who’ve learned how to play together better. Imagine the joy in that and the increase in all the right things for us all.
Isn’t it obvious that all the discordant patterns and ill-be-gotten agendas are surfacing for acknowledgement (many have been in denial) and transcendence? Whether it’s your own ignorance and misbehavior or our international leaders, corporate, government and military. Life is precious. We’ve got abundance, just not good management of it. Controlling a population isn’t the answer; empowering it is. That AGILITY in the 21st Century.
Agility commands our best and demands performance beyond words. Unfortunately people are usually unappreciated, underpaid and overworked to meet goals. It’s a drive for production that nearly eliminates any joy in the workplace, it’s all too serious. Leaders and owners forget about their internal customers – their suppliers, vendors and workforce. Change has been seen as too hard and a laborious process with way too much resistance.
I don’t know about you, though I get the sense that self-fulfilling prophecies abound as a result of that style of unconscious leadership and management. We get lost ‘in’ the business and neglect to work ‘on’ it from a human capital standpoint. People are PRICELESS! Both employee and management MUST agree on that fact and act accordingly. We call that interpersonal and emotional intelligence in learning organizations and holistic systems thinking.
For many years as a coach and consultant for business affairs, the truth is revealed of happy people getting more done with less supervision and exceeding expectations given the power to do so. Any critical thinking and deductive logic reveals that fact. It’s repeatable across the gamut of industry, government and military. Of course, happy people don’t tend to go to war, either. Everybody has what they need and the ability to perform to their potential. Our collective potential is harmony among people and planet. Why not give that a try?
Can we turn what’s being called the ‘great reset’ into a ‘great awakening’ that is beneficial? We’ve all been affected by the last year’s chaos and confusion over a pandemic that has the world in it’s grip, right? Businesses across industries and sizes have been saddled with the challenges of agility, perseverance and transformation to incorporate new demands and a shifting marketplace. Much of what was once done face-to-face has transformed into virtual encounters and/or organizational meetings.
I turned to a world-renowned leader for some additional perspectives, possible guidance and world view. Klaus Schwab is the Executive Director of the World Economic Forum, an organization that features global leaders and shapes economic policies that trickle down to you and me. Beyond the bi-polar views of the organization and its function, he notes some critical issues we face. Whether we like it or not, we’ve become a global village made up of people like you and me, as well as local, regional, national and global organizations struggling to meet the demands of this new 21st Century outlook.
Klaus’ questions about ‘can we be caring and compassion toward each other coming out of COVID?’ and ‘will businesses be agile enough to meet the demands and survive, let alone thrive?’ are certainly important questions we all need to consider; if not personally then for our businesses or companies. We simply must find a way to work together better and offer solutions that allow us to remain free and unencumbered by medical or political restrictions. Healthy people, and humanity in general, need options that don’t prohibit the evolution of our specie toward a Type 1 Civilization, our next step in our planetary civilization’s evolution toward the stars.
My life experience is one that has allowed me to consider other aspects of our reality, our interconnectedness across many fields of play. I say play because we are all actors who determine our own scripts, whether we realize it or not. The notion of cosmic consciousness condensed into form, which was the core understanding I received in a near-death experience as a teen in college in 1975, gives us pause to consider just how powerful our choices, our feelings and our thoughts are and how they affect our reality. Larry Dossey, MD, in his book One Mind (highly recommended), brings ancient and current understanding into view and illustrates, through examples of extraordinary abilities, that we are inexperienced and vastly under-educated in the knowledge of self, let alone others.
Can we turn the great reset into the great awakening? My transformational life coaching practice echoes this understanding as I work with clients who have dreams and aspirations and a loosely developed skillset that allows them to at least begin the journey of moving their dreams to reality. Several clients have come, some after consulting other business coaches who give them data dumps but no ‘how to’ hand-holding, only to find out that through careful and considerate questions the path for them opens as we craft action plans for them to do so. Whether they realize it or not there are spiritual practices that support their journey. The most simple is the old adage paraphrased, ‘where two or more are gathered, there I am also.’ Here’s an interesting question: Who are you?
Turning the Great Reset into the Great Awakening
For at least a couple of decades I made regular visits to discussion groups and workshops on self-improvement and self-development. The question I closed the last paragraph with was asked quite often, which drew out all kinds of answers. Some referred to what their jobs were, some were spiritual like ‘I am a divine being’ and some were focused on family relationships. Those were all good answers and relevant to the individuals, though the deeper truth seemed illusive, and all-encompassing answer that worked for everyone. I was first asked the question in the early 80s in Jim Tolleson’s Empire Builders weekend intensive held at the Francisco Grande in Casa Grande, Arizona.
My answer: “I Am… and the rest is up to your perception.” How or why did I answer that way? The simple answer is that my NDE allowed me to reference what appeared to be the fact that even as a cosmically conscious individual, others were bereft of the experience and therefore could only see me through their own lenses of perception. Every time we encounter another, those lenses apply whether we are cognizant of them or not. We see people, places and things through our own lens, developed or not. So how to we develop a better, more expansive lens, or do we? Perhaps a more well-developed lens will assist the process of converting the great reset into the great awakening.
I had a recent conversation with a business leader and philanthropist who mentioned Marianne Williamson’s quote in part. I’ll include the whole quote here as you will see how powerful it could be for you:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
In the growth to self-awareness and success we have to address the fears we encounter, and we all encounter fears. An old friend, Willy Whitefeather [RIP], in an interview I had with him for One World so many years ago, offered an interpretation that I’ve seen repeated over and over for decades. ‘FEAR is only False Evidence Appearing Real. What we seek to do is Free Every Anxious Reaction.’ The young whippersnapper in me piped up with, ‘and what we usually do is F.. Everything And Run.’ It’s quite interesting how the latter is absolutely true. We avoid rather than lean into our fears. Let’s turn this great reset into a great awakening of the human spirit of transcendence.
Embracing Your Own Creative Power
Imagine if you embraced the notion that you were powerful beyond measure. How would that look? Probably pretty scary at first. As a transformational life coach I start with that premise and work with clients to extend and integrate that awareness into their lives, their personal experience system beyond the beliefs they may have been entertaining for most of their lives. Their lives truly transform.
One client recently came to me with a dream of having her own TV show, among other things. The pandemic had severely dampened her work; doing live performances as an artist painting icons on the fly. No events meant no work. Sound familiar?
That all changed in a matter of months. Her faith in God played a huge part, though she didn’t realize it really turned into faith in herself. Our agreement (where two or more…) of her dream-come-true fueled the thoughtmospheric action that allowed it to come forth, first as a single show in an ongoing series that features a pay-it-forward theme. It worked so well that the producers began discussing the potentials of her own show and were going to pitch it to their network of over 75 million viewers. I don’t want to reveal much more, though you’ll find her in my testimonials, as the events are still unfolding. So, what is your dream or dreams?
Certainly I cannot take credit for the entire flow of events. I was merely a player in them, knowing the right script in order to engage the spectacle of transforming dreams into reality. How do I do that? Can it be learned? How can you take advantage of your own brilliance, skillset and talent? I’m able to do it through decades of practice, trial and error and learning the depths of cognitive science in order to apply the principles on a regular, if not on-demand, basis. Of course you can learn it, too, and with the help of a coach/mentor it is certainly much easier and truncates the timeframe you’d experience just doing it on your own. Taking advantage of your brilliance, skillset and talent means you lift yourself out of the self-deprecation and self-doubt you’ve no doubt included in your internal dialog with self for years.
Is This for YOU?
This workbook is set up for a 30-day process. It will change your life for the better.
My program isn’t or everyone. It’s demanding of your intelligence, your ability to suspend beliefs and learning how to read the signs that are all around you at any given moment that you’ve been dismissing or missing altogether. It’s a kind of science of mind, an application of cognitive science, though there is really no religion or spirituality to it. It’s built in to every one of us by design. Like Larry Dossey offers in One Mind, and I can deliver to you as an experience over time…
Imagine a united consciousness, an awareness of which all of our minds are a part . . . and a potential way out of the division, greed, and destruction that threaten to engulf our world.
Most of the books about our connectedness offer examples of others who’ve managed to perform beyond the imagination and, consequently, have become objects of reference and study. Some offer methods to experiment and explore your own natural abilities, gifts and talents. After a decade or so of coaching and consulting, I put together a guide of my own, called Transformation: A Guide for Change. It’s got many of the exercises I learned and some that I found on my own through experimentation, trial and error, that worked really well. Since you are here, I’ll offer you a free download, without requiring your email or name, so you can test it for yourself and perhaps follow up with me.
A Kind of Revolution That Elevates instead of desimates