Cognitive science

Personal Ethics in Times of Duress and Progress

December 10, 2020 By Zen

People over Profit

I’ve always been an idealist, a change agent with the ability to challenge the status quo with intelligence and practicality. It hasn’t always been pleasant in my experience. Boat rockers are generally thrown overboard. That happened to me in the 80s while working for an aerospace company and being a top performer in our production control department. The aptitude and attitude brought accolades and inquiries, yet had the opposite effect on my peers. My success was solely based on interpersonal skills and treating people with care, honesty and respect.

As you might guess, or even experienced yourself, most businesses (and especially DOD funded ones) operate with a command and control complex. Don’t ever question the status quo, but if you can show a better way by providing results, then management might listen. The problem is, the behavior that provided great success was the opposite of how the company was actually ran at the time. Several years after I left I ran into the Purchasing Director’s secretary while grocery shopping. She was pleased to let me know the company finally instituted interpersonal skills classes company-wide.

In my short tenure of success and as a result of having the ear of management, I suggested interpersonal skills classes. I did so in a departmental meeting and got shunned by nearly everyone in the 35-person department for a week or so. A year later, another departmental meeting took place and the request for a consultant was given to me. I found one with credentials and recommendations that were impeccable, brought them in for a meeting and found myself demoted a few weeks later; the same week my divorce was final. I’d given my best effort in both worlds and in my church; within a three-month period all three became disappointments.

The tumultuous transformation was replete with a new living awareness that I chose to engage and never to look back. I’d attempted to live on the advice of Elders, friends, family and management with miserable results. My personal ethics questioned the integrity of those around me in church and work, let alone in my marriage. They were tough lessons, though in choosing not to let my own integrity suffer I grew stronger than I’d ever realized I could be in spite of the trials and tribulations.

A few years later I’d completed an MBA program and earned the letters. I went on to get a Secondary Teaching certification and taught school for nearly a decade, finding the same kind of environment I’d experienced in the corporate world. Customers and students were secondary, it was the fiefdoms that mattered. I decided to get a second Masters in Organizational Management. I was going to find my way, learn the ropes and change the world. In the process, we had to write a personal ethics statement.

I will to do good for all, desiring to serve humanity in the highest and best use of my mind/body/spirit complex, in the facilitation of a new world order of harmony among people and planet through the development of a state-of-the-art model community and website that promotes this endeavor.

Early Development

Expressing one’s personal take on ethics and life may not always be understood in the context of the world at large. Belief systems are established early on though environments of home, church, school, and social gatherings, which help to form these beliefs. Most of these beliefs and patterns of behavior are established through the unconscious observations and experiences of childhood in the aforementioned environments. These I refer to as ‘outer’ experiences. For me, I knew that I was adopted by the time I was five.

My adoptive parents were ideal by some standards, demonstrating honesty, integrity, and willingness to address conflict with style and grace, even in the most difficult of situations. Dad was a tool and die machinist, building plastic injection molds for General Motors optical division, and a 32^nd Degree Mason. Mom was an educator, with masters in Music and English, and taught middle school English and Literature. They were a formidable team for an adolescent with growing pains. My adoptive parents taught me that honesty was the best policy, even when the details may not be too favorable.

I became aware of my adoption just before I met my sister, who also was adopted. I also began having metaphysical experiences just around my 5^th birthday. I refer to these as ‘inner’ experiences. For most, the internal experience is often ignored because of the lack external acceptance or validation. There was a disparity with my parents due to no frame of reference for them regarding my metaphysical meanderings, which often caused me to question my own reality, by the way. Consequently, the balance toward trusting others was often weighted by desire rather than discernment. The discernment came later as I began to understand that not all people were like my parents and especially not like me.

Others’ motives were not always utilitarian. They were often misplaced personal libertarian expressions of selfishness without regard to personal boundaries. What I learned was that the inner life I was leading provided more concrete understanding of the nature of the outer reality and the actions of others. Whether it changed those actions or not varied from situation to situation depending on my ability to question congruency, the awareness of connectivity, verbally. That, too, changed, as I got older and more experienced with introducing interrogatives.

In my teens, the greatest influence came through the Order of DeMolay. I was Master Councilor at fifteen and at 17, competed at the State Conclave through a speech on filial love and in one-meter springboard diving. I was a lifeguard during he summers and thought the diving competition was going to be from a 3-meter board, so I practiced during breaks as well as between afternoon and evening sessions. I had to completely change my routine for the one-meter event. I came in third against several AAU divers which gave me a great sense of accomplishment and realization of being able to shift on the fly and still do well.

Receiving the International DeMolay Medal for Saving a Human Life was another significant emotional event at the Conclave. I’d witnessed an event that put a swimmer in peril and immediately responded, another swimmer had gone off the diving board before the area cleared underneath them. He landed on top of a young girl and knocked her unconscious. I was in the water before he landed and reached her in time before she inhaled much water and got her to safety. Her parents petitioned the local newspaper to praise my efforts. I was just attentive and responsive to the event, I thought, and it was no big deal. It reached the ears of our Chapter Dad and, unbeknownst to me he submitted my name for the award.

Beyond the personal achievements, I learned the value of teamwork in school through clubs, group projects and sports – football (varsity team 4 years) and individual participation in support of the team through baseball, golf, and track. I played third base as well as any, was medalist (golf) my senior year and ran sprints and hurdles in track (11.1 second 100-yard dash). I graduated 10th in my class of 300, though my classroom shenanigans in my freshman year cost me salutatorian status. On dares I filled the shop class with smoke from putting too much oil on a lathe and stuck a piece of gum between a substitute teachers glasses and eyebrow from the back of the room in Biology class. A bit mischievous, I was bored in school.

College Prep to Personal Plight

I entered college on a Pre-Med program, testing out of 5 quarters of general education studies. My second quarter in college started off with a real bang. I’d been dating a girl since my sophomore year in high school, ‘breaking up’ with her upon entering college because I was not sure I would be able to maintain monogamy. Well, after the first quarter I went back to ask her to marry me only to find out she was already married. My heart sunk and I returned to school determined to give my life to something with meaning. In respect of this, I knelt in prayer and asked to know truth, and was willing to die for it if necessary. It was the most intense prayer I’d ever made.

A week later, while in meditation listening to Journey’s first album, I heard a voice after the lyrics of the song. It said, “Bruce, are you willing to die for what you believe in?” I paused for a moment, checking my beliefs. My first thought was Christ Consciousness, though it felt a little empty still. My second was Cosmic Consciousness and I replied, “Yes.” Immediately I felt a tug at my solar plexus. It felt like I let go of my body, rose up and turned to see my body as I was moving away from it. O.B.Es were not unfamiliar, as I’d been having them for some time. This felt different, yet familiar enough to have no fear.

Before I could fully turn to look where I was going, I was engulfed by white light. It was only missing tactile sensations, and as an impetuous teen, I asked if there was more. I felt another sensation of movement and found myself in the center of a sphere of pinpoints of light. After recognizing them as points of consciousness, whether in body or not I was not sure as I sure as heck was not, the voice resumed. I got my marching orders, so to speak. I returned to my body with a rush of energy and a gasp for air, leaving my eyes closed temporarily. Returning to my body was in itself a significant emotional event, let alone the previous few moments.

I felt my question was answered and I wanted to shout it from the rooftops, told my parents, and found myself talking with a psychiatrist a week later. A blessing in disguise, my tenure with the psychiatrist helped me to begin to balance my inner and outer experiences, and to find order in my life. After a brief conversation on my third visit, he let expressed his concern, though he stated I wasn’t crazy and had gone through a ‘spiritual awakening’ at a young age. He said most people go through [it] in their mid-40s, if they ever do. We adjourned to the second story of his converted historic home. I had my first tarot card reading, which edified all we had discussed and more. HIs advice was not to talk about it until much older. It would be too much for people to handle.

Forty years later, I delivered a couple of signed copies of my books. He didn’t remember me. We had a peer to peer conversation, though, that was quite rewarding. What plagued me then and does to this day – How was this ‘facilitation’ all going to come to fruition? What did I need to do to prepare? I moved to Phoenix from a rural Indiana town four years later and within a year found myself working at the aerospace company I mentioned earlier, only as a machinist. I carried on my quest and over the next few years, as professional opportunities presented themselves and we got involved with church for our children I still felt empty inside. It wasn’t until I could read the writing on the walls that I realized how things were going to work, outside of my control.

Rising Above the Situation

The only thing I could control was my response to betrayal, fallacious remarks and an immature workforce, and use it to transform my life toward fulfillment. I was finishing my Bachelor’s degree and in the midst of using a business case at work for a final project. We spent a weekend in northern Arizona during the Harmonic Convergence, where another, night-long, experience gave me direction. I knew I had to change my project. I began to conceptualize an environment that would demonstrate leading edge technologies in all fields and how they would work together in harmony with people and planet. It had to include every best practice and element of a global community on a micro community scale.

There were no existing financials for such a community, and only a few even remotely close in the world at the time. Eventually, the plan began to develop with enough detail that I could at least write an overview of the project. It was just under 60 pages and received a D. Four years later (1991) I had a conference with a founder of Valley National Bank, as I’d refined the plan and knew he’d be a straight shooter. He was 91 and still had an office. He loved the plan and told me my next step was to find all the pieces, which he encouraged me to do so. Then, the conversation took an unexpected twist and the importance of trusting, what I’ve grown to call psychospiritual technologies, was edified.

After acknowledging the validity of the project, he spent the next hour talking about the psychic gifts that his wife had used to help him in his business career. He said he relied on her ‘readings’ as a critical part of his decision-making process. I was completely taken by surprise that one at his station in life would rely on the psychospiritual technologies his wife used. Cards and readings were a small part of them. Carl and his two brothers were responsible for bringing nearly 70% of the business to the Phoenix area through the Valley National Bank, which they had founded. Carl was 91 at the time and still had an office in the VNB building downtown. He died a few years later.

I began my MBA in 1994 to begin the process of finding the pieces and knowing what to do with them when I did. Now, in my second masters program, I seek to continue the plan and assemble an organizational plan, including all necessary policy development, organizational duties and responsibilities, and management philosophy that will empower the assemblage of a team of dedicated professionals to take the plan to the next level of development. I realized early on it was too big for the time I had for the program. I’d been teaching high school and saw how a model community and school could emulate the essence of the larger scope and provide a duplicable model.

The concept became Spectrum Academy. It included a variety of leading-edge philosophies for holistic education (mind, body, spirit) as well as critical education that I had not found in public or charter schools – understanding natural rhythms and cycles of personal and planetary design. It included a 13-moon process for achieving goals and objectives tied to their housing arrangement; moving every new-moon through 13 dwellings and, upon achievement, became voting members of a peer community council designed to manage the on-going responsibilities of administration, with help from adult advisors. The areas of study included educational, environmental and social development.

The business plan met all the criteria for the program as well as serving as a working document to go for support in the community. My first stop was the Director of Education for Arizona Child Protective Services. Again, loved the plan though he couldn’t see how the state would ever grow to that level of educational environment. He though it was years, perhaps decades, ahead of its time. Although we were not able to move it forward then, I built a website that housed the basics, concept and rationale, with the option of requesting the business plan. The information needed to be made available for those who might find ways to implement even parts of it in their own programs. A few have reached out and some have found some worth over the years.

Nature’s Way of Refinement

In spite of the ability to materialize the concept as of yet, the tenacity of the idea has once again come to the surface. At the beginning of the ‘transcendent event’ the world is experiencing with the threat of a virus and social distancing making business as usual nearly impossible, I paused and reflected on the progress of my good in the world. I was ready to step up to a different role after cohosting a small business radio show, building a transformational coaching practice, facilitating pre-construction team building sessions, building a number of website and writing a bunch of books – all but the cohosting is still in play. I prayed for an opening in the non-profit sector and serving the community better, with little detail as to the specifics.

Within a month and through a series of synchronous events, an old friend reached out with a story that was just too horrific to ignore. Over 70% of youth aging our of foster care in Arizona are homeless, incarcerated, sex trafficked or chronically jobless. That is just unacceptable to me. He had an idea to change that after working with a non-profit for nearly a year and now fundraising events were saddled by the lockdowns and social distancing mandates.

The timing for me was impeccable and we’ll be launching the effort officially in January 2021. Perhaps others will see opportunity in participating in Arizona and, if elsewhere, either participating in their own state’s programs or initiating legislation to get tax credits approved if none are available. The effort addresses the ineffective distribution of funds through State authorities and will greatly impact the lives of thousands of youth aging our of foster care across the country in the next few years.

Different Lenses for the Interpretation of Relationships

August 18, 2020 By Zen

How do we interpret the different lenses for the interpretation of relationships? Exploring the theories of cosmology, whether reading or listening to those much more educated than I in them, has also given me ways to compare and contrast what I’ve experienced in relation to them. As an evolving civilization, the need to continue the exploration of our relationships is imperative.

I know there are more things under heaven than our minds can imagine still, yet this at least gets us on the same page, or at least a similar one. I was gradually made aware of the need to consider a holistic view after so many varied contact modality experiences throughout my life, there has to be a holistic view of reality that indeed address the relationships of consciousness, our cosmology and contact with non-human intelligence.

My premise was that if we are ONE, then how does that appear to our senses? Each aspect or expression [intelligence] of the contact modalities was a completely subjective experience, even though I was able to be aware enough in them to ask questions about them. In each there was a component of my consciousness that was ‘present’ as a participant and yet I was also able to observe and report (even if only in my own mind).

Dr. Mishlove commented that he was impressed with my ability to observe and report on the subjective experiences, which added a dynamic to my writing that many experiencers seem to lack. We are challenged to move beyond the emotion of the experience and question it as an outside observer with an existing knowledge base. The real opportunities come, in my opinion, when we suspend our belief systems and knowledge base to ask questions the take us into new territory.

In a moment of contemplation regarding writing this chapter and being able to offer something unique, my mind found its way to reflecting on a few authors from the late 19^th and early 20^th century. Perhaps the reflection isn’t unique, but the interpolation was.

Interpretation of Relationships

There are several that come to mind immediately, all having an impact on the lenses I developed. Helena Blavatsky described Theosophy as “the synthesis of science, religion and philosophy”, proclaiming that it was reviving an “Ancient Wisdom” which underlay all the world’s religions.

In the 1920s Guy Ballard wrote of Ascended Masters and an ‘I Am Presence’ that unified human consciousness with a higher realm of oneness accessible through his training with one known as Saint Germain. They first met on the side of Mount Shasta, a common place for CE-5 activity today (contacting extraterrestrials, weird, eh?). I think many of the great experiencers and thinkers had some form of contact, perhaps just unrecognizable as such.

Alice Bailey’s vision of a unified society included a global “spirit of religion” different from traditional religious forms and including the concept of the Age of Aquarius. Baird Spalding wrote of his discoveries on a scientific expedition to Southeast Asia in Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East. During that same time period, the Urantia Book was being recorded, but wasn’t published until 1955.

These early authors who explored the unknown with some voracity, yet only addressed semi-terrestrial circumstances and their interpretation of relationships. It wasn’t until much later that the UFO phenomenon was introduced in the mid-1940s. Now, if you were able to grok (from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land) all that, I’ll elaborate more of what I think may be possible in answering the final question. I’ll attempt to supply an adhoc unifying theory of everything that may hold some advantages and perhaps correlative factors for the reader.

The preceding was an excerpt from ZERO to ONE – Making Our Way Toward a Conscious Civilization. I’ll share a bit more in the next post.

Inner Fortitude and Appropriate Action

July 14, 2020 By Zen

Addressing the Metademic

The topic of inner fortitude and appropriate action is a major challenge for us all. I’m part of a Near-Death Experience forum on Facebook and conversation threads cover a lot of territory, sometimes on the fringe and yet valid for those who participate. We really have a metademic on our hands, one that spans not just the physical and emotional state of affairs. The balance of this piece is a response to a post on good vs evil. It felt like it deserves singularity and perhaps more engagement from a different perspective. Here goes:

I live in a world where choices matter, the most significant one is whether I choose to live inside or outside. What do I mean by that? Inside is where the point of light in each of us is connected to the Great Light and holds a fearless view of the outer world, no matter what appears. Good or evil is a matter of how we think about things. We have an entire sphere of points of view, yet the event itself is just an event. We only have a perpendicular view no matter how we look at the physical world, the eyes being the base of an extremely narrow isosceles triangle.

If we choose not to polarize to either eye and simply view ‘what is’ then we can actually do something about where we’re going and how we’ll get there. It’s disappointing to see so many get caught up in the outer world still, even knowing what we do about the Law of Attraction and other spiritual-based knowings of how interconnected things are in the many mansions. It’s encouraging to witness the gradual acceptance and transcendence of attitudes toward the pandemic and whatever else is happening as a result.

This doesn’t deny the facts of how we’ve been treating each other for thousands of years, through coercion and fear generated by a few to manipulate the masses. It does give us a better foundation from which to change the conditions of anger, fear, ignorance and immobility. I had a friend ask me what I though the ‘essence’ of this current time is about, while we were playing golf in a tournament recently. My reply was simple, “Inner fortitude.” For a moment I saw a spark and then his eyes glossed over, even though he understood precisely what I said.

Inner Fortitude and Appropriate Action

Fortitude refers to strength in the face of adversity or difficulty. … When someone has fortitude it means that they have emotional power or reserves and the ability to withstand adversity. Most of us, including me, are challenged by our strength in the face of adversity, especially in these crazy times. Most of us also do not seek help, we want to rely on our own ability. Sometimes our ability just isn’t enough and we become depressed, disoriented and experience dis-ease of the spirit within us, still not asking for help. Chaos brings the question once we realize we cannot control the circumstances.

The fortunate few who have learned to ask for help can only offer advice. They know that trying to give someone direction when you know they need, when they haven’t asked for it, is like trying to give advice to a teenager who knows everything. It falls on deaf and often unappreciative ears. It doesn’t change the truth of the message that help is available for the asking. It may not come in the form we expect, though it will assuredly come. That much we know by experience and until or unless one has the direct experience, trust in the process is hard to come by.

My wife and I have conversations about this topic. Growing up in Russia and seeing what happened there in the 80s, she sees through that lens regarding the current situation and the atrocities being inflicted upon Americans now. Although bread lines aren’t present, the intentional social distancing and mask wearing holds the same charge for her. I get it! She’s got a tremendous amount of inner fortitude, yet the temptation to get caught up in the mayhem and the fear of a disastrous future looms.

I suppose the best and most faith-filled response is, “[This], too, shall pass.” We know there is a way out, just not sure how that will look yet as we stumble around for solid footing in a world that’s shaking us up considerably. Instead of distancing ourselves, we need to hold on to each other and practice the faith, love and trust we have in our Creator. Having some ability to live in that space requires certain habits, which the 5 Ps certainly apply – Patience, Perseverance, Persistence, Passion and Purpose.

I’m not a prophet or soothsayer, but I can and do see a process of transcendence taking place. It feels arduous and slow, yet in our historical timeline it’s been but a moment. Our challenge is an invitation to rise above outer conditions and learn how to work together to change them. We cannot do it by remaining free of it and just observing, though that is a prudent place to begin. Attention, intention and appropriate actions are key. How we think is key, tossing tender tomes in the thoughtmosphere that ripple throughout the connected network of human beings who truly will to do good.

Near-Death and Spiritually Transformative Experiences (NDE, STE)

So what does inner fortitude and appropriate action have to do with them? I don’t know about others specifically, though many have offered that there is a certain knowing they return with, a connected part of themselves they might not have known existed beforehand. In that ‘other’ place we are free of the constraints of the world, yet we return to it. Sometimes retaining a new living awareness of the connectedness of worlds and sometimes feeling angry and trapped in a world so cruel and disturbed at present. The bridge between worlds is evident and maybe obvious to some, just rarely connected inside with complete submission. I suggest we do that more often, especially now.

“During these times, it would seem only logical that these ‘experiencers’ would have a better handle on how to find transcendence in this event. Although many of their experiences were spontaneous, the feeling of trepidation was nevertheless present, just like many now, creating an overall sense of dread. In a counterpoint to the trepidation, the sense of connectedness could and would generate a magnetic effect on others in a coalescence of cohesion. In a sense, it raises the awareness slightly and creates a subtle shift in the overarching consciousness of humanity.

I know that last paragraph was pretty ‘out there’ and yet there are scientific reference points in particle physics and quantum mechanics. Another bridge we can be thankful for is the one between science and spirituality that is most notably illustrated in how intention affects energy (entanglement) and that what you observe you affect (Los Alamos). I know it’s a tall order, but just for a moment imagine feeling safe, secure and sustainable in your life right now in this moment. Right… work on that one and notice the difference in your life in a week or two. Don’t believe or disbelieve until you attempt it for a while. Enjoy!

Find Some Joy In Service

Going back to the inner fortitude and appropriate action plan, here’s a novel idea: spend as much time as you do on responding to social media posts on creating a relationship and doing some kind of service for a non-profit in your community. We all know how over-burdened service organizations are and no doubt you’ve got a lot of time on your hands now, right? You’d be surprised what you can do remotely, let alone getting involved personally even if you have to maintain the social distancing for a time.

How difficult could that be? Your time would be spent so much more productively as you offer attention to things you actually can do something about instead of being overwhelmed with the pandemic and able to do nothing about it. Just imagine how your attitude will change knowing you’ve done something good for the community. It certainly is much more fulfilling that the current ‘distanced’ attitude that seems to be keeping us away from each other.

My example, which is still in the beginning stages, is working toward ending homelessness for youth aging out of foster care in Arizona. We Can Do Better Arizona brings business acumen and best practices to assist Qualified Foster Care Charitable Organizations by raising public awareness about using state tax credits. Dollar for dollar deductions are still available, it’s just a different way of paying state taxes through your employer or directly through qualified donation portals. Only about 1% of Arizonans took advantage of that in 2018. Imagine an increase in market penetration there and the service to the community it will provide. That’s just one example.

Choices in Finding Self – How Do We Move Forward in a Conflicted World?

June 24, 2020 By Zen

Choices in Finding Self

We generally look at that world through a lens that inhibits the choices in finding self. There is another binary connection that, through the choice of ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ molds our reality on a moment to moment basis. It, too, is an emotion and logic driven system. The two are nearly inseparable and often in conflict.

We ask questions and ponder paths, imagining possibilities for creating a sustainable world. Current quantum theory indicates we have more capacity for becoming self-aware and managing our reality better; individually influencing a collective consciousness.

On the theme of destiny or fate, or even just making better choices, does synchronicity have anything to do with it? How do we access a clearer path toward self-actualization and self-realization that benefits us all? What are those better choices in finding self?

If we consider the notion of creating our reality, does that eliminate determinism or is it complementary? How specific is the form, fit and function for us and a prudent path in the world?

Does this commitment take free will away or refine it with discernment and wisdom? Will knowing more have an effect on our activity in the future? Is your shift in awareness going to impact the world around you? How do you know?

Making Better Choices Given Current Awareness

Information feeds the growth of intelligence and choices in finding self. How much information do we really have about our human form, fit and function in this reality? Wouldn’t it make sense for advanced races, non-human intelligence, to perhaps have more information as a result of their prior evolution long before us?

Just consider the thousands and perhaps millions of years they are ahead of us. It gives us pause for a moment to consider our tenure in the universe, looking at our current information curve and state of affairs, noticing a similar curve of awareness leading up to 2012 and recognizing that there are civilizations thousands, perhaps millions, of years ahead of us.

How might we understand non-human intelligence? Are we trying to mix apples and oranges? Perhaps it’s just a riddle and we forget the option of juicing.

Throughout the ‘Contact Modalities’ we have examples of how non-human intelligence has interacted with people from all cultures, religions and walks of life for quite some time.

Most of the time we’ve chosen to categorize and separate, a very human-centric left-brained trait, instead of looking at them as a holistic system. The very idea of everything being connected, which many know to be true, is muddled by the reticence to expand the view, most likely because humans feel like they have to have answers in hand before approaching a subject.

Choices in Ignorance

What if we didn’t have the answers? What if we didn’t even have the right questions? What kinds of choices in finding self might there be? By all accounts, with rare exceptions, this non-human intelligence seems to operate above and beyond the notion of any human control or understanding. Heck, we’re suspended in space on a planet (perhaps with its own consciousness) hurtling through space at breakneck speeds circling a star that gives us life.

This same solar system is also in a far arm of a galaxy, moving around its center all the while moving around the universe with other galaxies. All of this is happening with relative harmony; rarely does anything collide. Think about the magnificence of that reality for just a moment and let it sink in.

If we look at many of the modern scientists there is a consistent notion that consciousness, that which occupies the space between the proton, neutron and electron on a very basic level, manages the whole show. We don’t know exactly how humans fit in, yet the mathematical precision becomes evident. We tend to reverse-engineer everything.

We’re great at taking things apart and developing equations that explain how things are put together. For instance, did you know that the equation that was discovered to reveal the creation of the carbon atom has 32 decimal places in its variable, the number that actually makes the equation work? What if there was that kind of precision within a different state of consciousness and, over time, this same consciousness is not only understood, it is accessible for interaction.

In ZERO to ONE – Making Our Way Toward a Conscious Civilization is a chapter on Frequency and how it might relate to the contact modalities. At least for the moment, let’s just consider what we already know and expand on it: everything is vibration. This means it has a frequency. In your quietest moments, away from the din of civilization, what do you hear?

Trusting Your Gut or Buying Into the BS – Where is Your Future?

May 21, 2020 By Zen

Onward Through the Fog

I remember that saying from Mr. Natural… an Oat Willie production. That is SO exciting! Penetrating the fog with faith and trust – trusting your gut. The moment we let go, we get lighter. The mind wants to hold us back with its fears of uncertainty. A leap of faith, into a state of love and trust begins all journeys.

I see folks making statements that are self-deprecating and I cringe, knowing the opposite is true. You can have everything – IF you give up your life to create it. We want, we want, we want… We don’t consider what we need to BE in order to get it. Trusting your gut is a first step in the prudent path to your soul’s design and genetic predisposition, the perfected body, mind and heart.

Most think they have to become hardened or manipulative when the opposite is actually true. We have so many who’ve gone before us and held out a hand of help, expressing the need to ‘just let go.’ There is no division or religious separation or separation from you and creation in that place. It doesn’t take away your individuality, it empowers it to work at peak functionality.

I had the experience of being gifted the awareness of ascending back into cosmic consciousness (the light) when I prayed to know what truth was and was willing to die for it if necessary. I did and was told a story about us, then given an experience of that same cosmic consciousness condensing back into form. I trusted my gut when it happened, actually feeling the gentle tug lifting me upward.

What I learned is that we are far more capable of manifesting what we once thought were miracles, simply by realigning ourselves. You have three brains – your HEAD brain, your HEART brain, and your GUT brain. The three brains are like an orchestra, with billions of neurons cooperating to produce a harmonic symphony – harnessing together an ever-changing network of neurons that work in synchrony. Isn’t it time we played a better tune?

The First brain is you Gut, according to the aboriginal traditions from long ago. Trusting your gut is where we connect with the vibratory fields of all creation. We now know scientifically that all matter and substance is made up of vibrating strings of energy. We all have a connection to those fields, NATURALLY. We ignore our intuition more often than not. It’s time we changed that and reverse the order of what we’ve been doing – Thinking first, then trying to convince ourselves we are thinking the right things.

We’ve heard of the One Mind, right? What do you really think that is? It is the Great Light. We are each individual points of light from it, with our own built in inner truth looking place where we can learn about our perfected form, fit and function in the world, yet still not be ‘of’ it. It’s a amazing and awe-filled journey for those who take it. I did.

Trusting Your Gut

We’re in the times of our lives today, facing things we never dreamed possible in a world with so much possibility. We need a soular revolution, a movement inside that fuels a change toward a better future, not the dystopian one we’re headed toward now.

I trusted my gut in defiance of early ‘authorities’ and the exposure of government science along with shenanigans of the CDC and WHO seem to validate that Scientists at the top of their field from around the world are calling shenanigans and they certainly can’t all be wrong. Just ponder that for a moment. How do you feel?

That defiance I felt in my gut also led to discovering why I had the gut feeling. Expert virologists and immunologists around the world are agreeing that 1) masks do more harm than good and 2) social distancing is not an effective measure in controlling the spread. The dumb and numb, those who still believe in ‘trusted authorities’ of our leadership, are stifling their voice with masks; a true metaphor if there ever was one.

I believe everyone has their own truth meter in their First Brain… gut feelings. We often second guess our gut with our third brain, how and what we are told to think. Step back and distance yourself from the situation, not the people. Do your own investigations of the censored and non-censored information from those who are stepping up and offering their life-long experience and expertise now – countering the BS we are being fed by the so-called ‘authorities.’

The second brain is the heart. That’s the one that is being damaged because the third brain, your head, refuses to think for itself and do the opposite of what a natural process would promote. Developing and maintaining healthy immune systems doesn’t happen from wearing masks and social distancing. We were never meant to operate in a socially-distance dystopian environment. It’s time we had a soular revolution, allowing the First Brain to lead us through this transformation into a true new world order.

As a transformational life coach I deal with the First Brain and help others to engage it more, with phenomenal results. Just read my Google reviews if you don’t believe me. Let those who’ve engaged me and experienced the difference in their lives guide you. Perhaps you’ll want to experience it for yourself.

Concerned with the nature of deception, I wrote this article in the not too distant past. Discernment is crucial.

Social Isolation – Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect

April 30, 2020 By Zen

Beyond Religious Confinement and Social Isolation

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” has been misunderstood for too long. Shall we close the gap a bit, especially during times of social isolation? HOW is our challenge today. Looking for a piece of text that encapsulates the understanding life-long inner work has inspired and permitted in my own growth, one source stood out in answer to questions of relating the information to others and is featured below and comes from the Urantia Book. It is replete with conveyed awareness and resonance in our built-in truth meter. [God] is a term and only a term to express an incomprehensible concept to humans. There is a ‘supreme’ consciousness that all advanced or enlightened humans, other races even, embrace as a guiding force and lifestyle to aspire toward. Their actions demonstrate it across the gamut of ancient and present spiritual texts as well.

In the quest for enlightenment, embracing social isolation, self-empowerment and a fulfilling life there are certain ‘protocols’ one learns over time and often with great trials and tribulations. Today, the human race is faced with the notion of travesty and triumph; recognizing a present truth and preparing the way for a transcendent event that offers a brighter future. Individual clarity, integrity and understanding is imperative. Transformational Life Coaching helps to align and/or restore one’s direction toward fulfillment. However we can express the unification of body/mind/spirit integration, there are deeply embedded truths of our soul’s journey toward enlightenment.

One of the books that captured my attention many years ago is call The Urantia Book. It’s got a very expanded view of the material and spiritual hierarchies of creation, an arduous journey through elaborately explained ‘papers’ on various topics. The text introduces the word “Urantia” as the name of the planet Earth and states that its intent is to “present enlarged concepts and advanced truth.” The book aims to unite religion, science and philosophy, and its enormous amount of material about science is unique among literature claimed to be presented by celestial beings. Among other topics, the book discusses the origin and meaning of life, mankind’s place in the universe, the relationship between God and people, and the life of Jesus. The following is an excerpt:

The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder o f all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent good of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father, God-knowing creatures as they are in their spheres, like him as his is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, “Be You perfect, eve as I am perfect.” In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortations down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Earth.
This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity in the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress.
Earth mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve the destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in the sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness.
This is the true meaning of the divine command, “Be ye perfect, even as I am perfect, ” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the world of time and space.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect doesn’t separate individuals, nations or races at all. Now this may be hard to comprehend; that advanced humans and races all have this understanding that is, to date, incomprehensible to man in any ubiquitous sense. FEAR pushes the individual into confinement and isolation, real or imagined. Fearlessness creates freedom of choice and direction, revealing a deeper sense of being in humanity even during social isolation.

In fact, it is one of the prerequisites to advance toward a Type I civilization; a comprehension of at least some universal laws and principles built in to the natural order of things and specifically to our evolution. It’s in our genes, literally. If we step back and look at the essence of the great philosophers of all time as well as messages received through various channels and/or ‘sources’ we find [this] to be true. Many sources, including the Urantia Book, offer truths to discover yet may not be completely true. I think it is an invitation for us to test the information and find the inner resonance of truth.

Adjusting Our Thinking Toward Harmony

Another opportunity during social isolation is the potential direction or movement toward better living is adjusting how we think, becoming quieter, asking better questions and listening deeper. Frequency-response, the ability of the mind to reflect the individuated source code, is the central component of communication with infinite intelligence as it resides within the individual. As in the above, the individuated sphere reflects the supreme sphere; that indwelling aspect of God that is replete within the individual learns how to reflect the divine perfection in the outer world. In a most real sense, we find our perfected form, fit and function in the world as a natural evolution of self.

There are experiential examples strewn across the Net from those who’ve ‘raised’ their consciousness or vibration and chose to share their story. Creation is interactive to the extreme, we just haven’t accepted that it also reflects our unconscious activity as well, as in the transcendent event we are facing now. As a Transformational Life Coach I live these principles daily and, because of fastidious attention paid to the process, it can be shared through experiential learning curves. Simply put, individual action plans become more refined and laser-targeted movement toward goals is more effective, even sublime in some cases. Momentum toward mayhem is diminishing now. We must begin again with a new passion for living and purpose for being.

From another perspective, to make it a bit more understandable, an NDE story often includes a view of the Light and sometimes even entering it… absorbed completely yet still individuated in the ability to think and respond. Extrapolate that to the notion of the Light condensing into form and residing as a point within individual beings, each body on Earth. Each of us, without exception, is connected to [God] or Source. It is a PRESENCE in our lives, not a personage. We have the choice whether to activate that connection or not. How we connect, our ability to completely and totally ‘let go’ of human beliefs and acquire higher-ordered knowledge, is up to us.

We have that choice in all activity, including social isolation, to build better health care systems to technology development to planetary administration and distribution systems to meet the needs for individual care and survival. Attention, intention and action toward life-enhancing goals puts us on the path to perfection. Perfection isn’t a destination or place, it is an experience. The experience moves us even more toward the awareness of each thread in the tapestry of Earth-human relations. Everyone has a spot on the team, there are no cuts from the roster. In other words, the activity of universal consciousness with humans is replete in the non-human [divine] intelligence that is attempting to guide us through our transition.

What Transition Are We Really In?

We’re on a cosmic time-table and it’s perfect for self-reflection in social isolation; to answer at least one of the big questions. How would “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your. Father which is in heaven is perfect” reflect our current situation? The Earth itself is changing; for example, poles are shifting. The world is on lock down for now. Ask yourself, “Why?” That is a very basic awareness and question we all have now. What else is happening simultaneously? We’re moving from one epoch to another, from Piscean (divided) to Aquarian (united) ages. Wouldn’t this also be accompanied by major shifts in consciousness and human activity? The old patterns and programs of ego-centric and fear-laden belief systems are being uprooted. Chaos in world affairs is evidence now. Many have been anticipating this process, not knowing exactly how it would happen, only that, indeed, it would happen.

How we proceed is a matter of acknowledging this internal communication and connection that exists with a higher-nature of humanity; a move toward oneness or at least a greater level of care and concern for life-friendly activities. This move does not take away personal choices or individual rights, it simply invites the individual to be more focused and purposeful, perhaps even fulfilling a ‘destiny’ yet uncovered. The activity of non-human intelligence is in support of this behavioral change within the consciousness of humanity, individually and collectively, toward our next step in universe affairs; the acts of aligning attention, intention and action with universal understanding that enables us to work collaboratively toward harmony among people and planet.

Everyone, even those we believe to be evil power-hungry controllers, has a role in this next act of humanity’s play. It is essential, imperative, that aberrant emotional responses [violent acts and/or unending rants lacking common sense] are minimized or mitigated. This allows the awareness of observation and conscious-choice action to evolve. Consider the indwelling advisory is like a third-party neutral, always focused on the goal, not the distractions. The result empowers the engagement of individual activity and support of supra-human intelligence toward the gradual shift in planetary systems toward a higher order of service to humanity.

Cultural Creatives, label given by Drs. Anderson and Ray, are perhaps one of the best examples – Just under half of the CC population comprises the more educated, leading-edge thinkers. They have a clearer, perhaps, understanding of ‘Be ye therefore perfect.’ This includes many writers, artists, musicians, psychotherapists, alternative health care providers and other professionals. They combine a serious focus on their spirituality with a strong passion for social activism. We are faced with the challenges of righting a listing ship. Historically, empires rise and fall. It seems obvious we’re on the precipice of a fall. Sound familiar?

Be Ye Perfect – Making Sense Common

We often think common sense ought to win out, right? Are there common sense answers to our questions beyond the social isolation? One would think so. Too often common sense is obfuscated or skewed by confusion and disinformation, let alone the chaos in our heads already. What do we do? We make sense common based on practical and pragmatic assertions, such as the above – Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness. Be ye therefore perfect.

Perhaps we need to move from binary to tertiary thinking, become aware of the observer that sees things as they are, not how we are programmed by our beliefs encased in polarized spectrum. Instead of a rise or fall, is there a balance that creates a kind of clarity in the chaos? If we were to be so powerful, could we acknowledge the obvious challenges without being polarized by them? Might it be possible to focus attention on what matters; common items to all cultures, races and nations? Beyond the push and pull of the polarity, is it possible to find and engage the perfection in learning how to work together to make sense common?

Attention, intention and action are the ultimate theme in advancing consciousness in humanity, in ourselves, and across the cosmos. If we are going to thrive, let alone survive, the internal nature of our existence must emerge. We need to move past the petty differences, even the ones in our minds that are self-deprecating, and recognize that we all have a goal – to learn to get along in harmony with creation. That may sound impossible, yet it is the most probably answer to: “Why are we here?” It would seem that is the greatest sense made common for today. The greatest battle we face is aligning with purposeful action now, directed toward effective solutions as team players.

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