is it..

The mind has gone bank and the fingers again begin to move...


what will they type, who are "they" that are typing...


is it you that is typing...


it is you that is love that writes...


it is you that is love that shares...


is it us as one...


peace is upon us as we are one...

The end of attack..

All attack exists in our illusion of separation...

All attack ends beyond it...


It is only in our perception of separation that there is someone who could hurt us, or be hurt by us...


The us that we make is small, separate, will attack, and be attacked...




The "us" that was created and extended by God can never be attacked...


For we are eternally one with everything in a reality beyond time...


This is a state that is beyond attack, for there is nothing that exists outside of us to attack or be attacked...




Asking the Holy Spirit to guide you to experience this state, is asking to know truth...


Every illusion we let go of, brings us closer to that "real us" beyond all illusions...


It is then, that "attack" will cease to exist...

Not a bad trade...

An eternal peace is what we can experience beyond the dream of our separateness...



Yet, we attempt a jiggling act when we try to hold onto our individuality or indivi-duality...and to experience God at the same time...


Individuality is the dream of us being separate form God to begin with...


the dream of us running off to play by ourself...


Now does it make sense why to hold onto to our dream of separateness, and to experience oneness with God at the same time is not possible...


One keeps us dreaming of being away form God...


One awakens us to the eternal peace and joy as we experience God extended though us - as this where we have never left...




We must choose between an illusionary dream of being away from God - or - letting go of the littleness that we are not and awakening to eternal peace that we are as spirit...



Where there is no more need for time...our eyes will have opened to experience sharing unconditional love, peace and joy for an eternity....


Whether we awaken from the dream of separation of sooner or later, does not really matter...


Do we choose peace now, or later is the question...


I release my individuality that kept me dreaming of being away...I give it to the dove that flies in the night...

for it takes away the darkness and loneliness of our perception of separation from God...



It brings in the golden light of love, the awakening to God...



We have given up a nightmare, for an eternity of love...



Not a bad trade...

The ride home...

The wheels of our vehicle turn...


the magic flows...


Every little twinkling light brings such joy to Morgan...


Daddy look another Ho, Ho...


Daddy look a candy cane...


Her joy is a warmth that fills my heart...


Its like a golden light that shines in soft beams, caressing everything it touches...


I begin to see with a new sight inspired by this joy, and love that she bring out in me...


Though the eyes of a child, its as if I am seeing everything for the first time...


We stare in wonder as the wheels of our vehicle continue to turn...


It is our magical ride though this kingdom of lights...


As we travel along...


Each corner we turn another house with more joy to share...


We laugh and point, and laugh some more...



Each string extending out with many little lights that come together to make a shape, and form, making a object that brings smiles to our faces, and joy to our hearts...


How many more smiles will we add when those catch lights in our eyes are shared by others?


Who will you brighten up this holiday season with the joy in your heart, and the twinkle in your eyes?

The painting of our thoughts...

I watch as Morgan pulls her rainbow plastic slinky out the soapy water...


The water flies into the air, as if each drop is racing to touch the sky...


The orchestra of laughter comes from one tiny musician of joy...


One larger musician joins in with deeper laugher...


The audience of Barbie dolls are speechless as they watch the performance...


She plunges the rainbow slinky into the water again...


She pulls it with both hands and the rainbow colors of it remind me of life...


There are many colors, none more important than another...


All in harmony, as everywhere we see one color touches another...


As you look down at the colors you're touching, all the sudden you don't feel so alone...


If you were to continue along the colors you would eventually touch the colors beneath my hands...


Our hands would touch...


And I would smile, as I would call you my friend...


All that we experience in this moment is a painting of our thoughts...


What will you paint next?

Bed Time Angel

Morgan looks down at the angel in her hands. She was homemade and had eyes, but did not have a nose or mouth.

"Daddy why does this angel not have a mouth?" says Morgan.

"Well maybe she does not need a mouth to tell you that she loves you. Maybe she just loves you without saying so" I say

"I don't think so, can you please draw a mouth on her" says Morgan


So I take the angel into the office get a marker and draw a nose and a smiley face on her. I hand her back to Morgan.

"That's much better dad!" she says

We say prayers together and I pet her head (her term) and we talk for a while.

As we are first time parents, I ask her how we are doing often.

"Your doing a pretty good job dad. I love you and mommy both!" she says

With a smile I say good night...

The faith of release...

I am silent right now...

Soreness in the throat, ear hurts inside, and the voice has faded...


Yet it is only the voice of the body that has faded...


The real me is still unchanged...

No matter what happens to the body, the real you always remains unchanged...


Yes, God is perfect, and extended you in Gods own image as the timeless, eternal, unchanging, unconditional love, peace, eternal joy and bliss that the "spirit you" as alway been...


The real you was created though a pure extension of God, and is thus timeless and eternal...

It is forever unchanging as it extends eternally in all directions, without limitation...




Look around were you believe your body self to be, and you will notice nothing but limitations...

For the body you is very small, and very limited...

It is limited in knowledge...

Limited in abilities...

Limited for it seems to be separate from everything...


It even has an expiration date just like food does...even though you are not told what this expiration date is...



Yet though all these limitations so many of you insist in placing all of your identity in this little body...

Why is that?

Because that "little you" is familiar to you...


Thus it feels safe and secure to you on some level...

Because you know it...


Fear often arises when you even think or consider what is outside of this little you...



This is not amusing, as peace, love and eternal joy are what awaits...




Yet just as a first time diver - you stand, and jump up and down on the board...

Will you take the plunge?


Will you release what you have made, to embrace what God has created...that timeless eternal you that is pure unconditional love...


Deep faith is about letting go of what your not "judged, judging, just a body, not connected, conditionally loved, conditionally loving, fear, hurt, sadness, pain, suffering, loss..."



To embrace what you are - a wonderful timeless, eternal spirit that is unchanging, unconditional love, peace, eternal joy and bliss...


To give up a dream of separation - to awaken to an eternity of joy...


I want nothing more than for you to experience who you are in the deepest level...


for you to experience complete peace...complete and total love...


So will you continue to dream...

For as long as you hold onto the "nothing of separation from the unconditional love that you are..."

you will continue your dream of being away from God...you will have and lose all that you love, and then do it again - in a "groundhog day" - till you decide you will make another choice...






Where do you want to root your identity next?


or will you choose to awaken...


Do you want to choose that you that is timeless and eternal joy and bliss?


You have the power to choose joy or pain in every moment of your life...


Where do you put your faith in this moment?


Will you give up nothing, to gain everything?


Know peace, know unconditional love, know the real you...


You can chose to know this NOW...


What lies beyond the limited is the eternal you...


To experience the eternal in every moment of now...

To know God within and without in the eternal bliss of you...

The Lords Prayer - repost

Friday, June 22, 2007

What's you view of the Lord's prayer?

This wonderful prayer is shared weekly by millions and millions of people from all over the globe. For many it is shared daily.

Lets first look that the prayer in its entirety, and then we will brake it down as we share it together.


Our Father, who art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy Name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses,

As we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom,

and the power,

and the glory,

for ever and ever.

Amen.



Now lets take this line by line and break it down so that it makes even more sense!



Our Father, who art in heaven,

Our father - the creator of our timeless eternal spirit of unconditional love - who is in our true home in this very moment of now...

Hallowed be thy Name.

Most holy father, you are but one God - no matter what name you are called in what religion, or country we perceive you, you are our love, our life, and we praise you...

Thy kingdom come.

When we awaken from the dream of being separate from you...yes the kingdom of your love will we share eternally...

Thy will be done,

We will awaken father...

awaken to the our singular purpose for that which we were extended from you...

awaken to share unconditional love for all eternity...

On earth as it is in heaven.

This dream of separation from you "known as earth" will no longer be a dream of separation...

we will awaken to remember we never left you, we have been so safe...

safe in our real reality, only ever harmed in a dream of separation...

Give us this day our daily bread.

Help us to hear the voice of the holy spirit in our minds....

The holy spirit is our guide sent by you, to help us to awaken from this nightmare of being separate from you...

Help us to hear the holy spirit's voice - the voice that only leads to thoughts, and acts based on unconditional love...

Help us to forgive and release any ego thoughts that are of judgment and harm to others...

Daily intention

It is our intention today, and every day to hear the voice of unconditional love, to embrace love, and share that voice...

And forgive us our trespasses,

Forgive us for dreaming of being away from you...for all our unkind actions in this dream are based on fear...

As we forgive those who trespass against us.

every moment we forgive we are listening to your guide the holy spirit...

Help us to hear your guide in every moment...

And lead us not into temptation,

The other voice in your mind that says God is a punishing, vengeful, wrathful, fearful God and you better hide from him...

this is a fake voice...

it is the voice of your own pretend individuality...

this is the fake voice of the ego...

how long will you continue to listen to a voice that keeps you from remembering unconditional love?

Forgive it, and release it, for it is not of God, and thus is not now, nor will it ever be, real...

You must let go of what is not real, to remember what is...

But deliver us from evil.

Deliver us from this ego voice that says your everything bad...

That you should be feared...

Unconditional love never judges, nor will it ever have the capacity to judge...

- So quit running away from God -

and turn around, smile, and

run to God...

run with your arms spread wide,

tears of joy running down your face,

and jump into God's love...its forever eternal, it's for ever yours, take it now...

For thine is the kingdom,

God's kingdom is our birthright,

It is our kingdom to share...

God who is perfect love, extended "it self" as "you" who as spirit are also perfect love...

you were extended for the sole purpose of sharing unconditional love - eternally...

heaven is the only real home we will ever have...

as spirit we extend the kingdom of God as a timeless sharing of unconditional love...

When we do this on earth though acts of unselfish sharing, we begin to awaken and remember who we really are...

and the power,

The power sharing unconditional love...

and the glory,

Living and sharing love with God eternally, it is a reality, it is our true reality, you have but to embrace it...

for ever and ever.

Eternally...

Amen.

We believe...

Thanksgiving eve...I am thankful!

It is the smell of nan champa incense is floating though the air...


as sharing with one more client is soon to be here...


I am thankful for all the people who have open their lives to me over this past year...


I am thankful for their courage in asking for healing and guidance...


I am thankful for the answers that we have alway found within them...


I am thankful for the deep unconditional love that is found within them at the end of our search...


I am thankful for their tears of joy as they experience this love...


I am thankful for all the friends and family in my life...


I am thankful for my wife who I adore...


I am thankful that I experience every moment with her as a treasure to share...


I am thankful to always uplift my wife, as she does so with me...


I am thankful for our hearts that rise and sing the joyful song of passionate love...


I am thankful for our daughter Morgan who's personality is such a joy to share...


I am thankful for her blue eyes that are a deep as the ocean and as full of life and love...


I am thankful for her innocence that reminds me of our true nature as spirit...


I am thankful for her hugs, her snuggling the wonderful affection that she always shares with us...


I am thankful for her wants to to share with us everything that is meaningful to her...


I am thankful for all our friends, both new friends that we share with just this year...


I am thankful for all our old friends that we share with over the years...


I am thankful for all the learning, growing and laughter that this sharing has allowed...


I am thankful for our family that is supportive though every up and down of life...


I am thankful for the sharing, caring, and love of this family...


I am thankful for our Course in Miracles group that we share in the knowledge and love of our true selves beyond the physical...


I am thankful for every stranger that I meet...for they are a "smile and hello" away from being a friend...


I am thankful for our father God...scroll down to read this post again...it begins "I am grateful"


I am thankful for you reading this...for we are sharing the paths to love and peace...Thank you for sharing with us...

The smell of rain...the e-mail

Hello everyone,

Today I received an e-mail which was forward from a friend/client of mine. She received the e-mail from one of her co-workers.

In the e-mail was a lot of posts from both my blogs put into a Microsoft Word doc.


When my friend/client forwarded it to me she had no idea that it was from my blogs.


OK, so maybe I am wrong in my assumption that not many people getting to read that which I am writing.



I already got my writing forwarded back to me though forwarded e-mails.


Here's to sharing positive writing!


I have one more big thing to be thankful about this thanksgiving!

A hug...

I am always amazed at how wonderful hugs are...

It is such a way of saying "I accept you as you are"

I hug just about everyone I meet...the only ones I don't are those who would be upset to get a hug..

Anyone who knows me knows this about me...

Why?

Because I do accept you all...

I accept you just as you are...

Should you want to change who you are and ask me for help I will be there helping you...

I will accept the new you, just as I accepted the old you...

You deserve all of my acceptance, and all of it you shall have with every breath I take...

I love to hug strangers too...

They deserve my acceptance too, I give it to them as I share a hug...

Who will you share a hug with?

Here is my favorite hug video!

The world we live in...

Monday, November 19, 2007

I Am Angry (probably not at you)

Lately, I have started to notice just how angry of a person I am. If you know me either personally or through my writing you may be shocked to find out that I am riddled with anger.

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Anger is an easy emotion to find.

It comes from our perception of unfairness.

From our expectation that people are going to be a certain way.

If you expect that people some are not going to "think their way is the only way" then you will be disappointed and angry.

With many people that is just the way that it is.


Our world has a perceived population of over 6.5 billion people with each and every person seeing life from a different point of view, and we wonder why our opinions and actions differ?

I wonder why they don't differ more often (smiling)



There are as many paths as their are snowflakes...


Many lead to anger...


Others lead to other emotions...


Which ones should you take?


What do you wish to experience?


It's your choice, you choose to experience everything you see, hear, touch, taste, smell and more...


I have learned one very important thing which is this:



Choosing individuality holds us to experiencing what is here...

Letting it go frees you to experience what is beyond here...



Observing and experiencing it seems to be that way for everyone.


Not everyone wants to experience what is beyond here.


For it is what is not familiar to them.



Your all in the drivers seat...you are in complete control over where you go next...



I gave up on trying to change the world a long time ago, I decided to change my mind about it instead.


Through my blog I try to share some paths to peace for those who wish to walk them...they are not the only paths but ones that some will relate to.


How many will?


Maybe a handful at most.


Thats fine with me.


Even if I only touch one person in a positive way, then all the writing I do is worth it.


My goal is to be positive with every person I meet in person, or don't meet though my writing.


But that's just my gig.


It doesn't have to be yours.


You choose where you are right now, and where you will be tomorrow...


If you want to be angry, then it's your right to be angry.


If you don't want to be angry then drop your expectation of people to zero.


The number of total acceptance and be free of the anger.


I am telling you nothing you don't already know.

Fun with shopping!

While I was grocery shopping I focused on the love in the hearts of each and every person my eyes fell upon.

I felt sadness and hurt with some people, others were very guarded...


I focus deeper beyond that hurt, beyond those wall and shields...


I focus deep inside their hearts to a love that is beyond all hurts...beyond all need for protection, for this love is timeless and eternal, and can never be taken away...



Then I met their eyes and smiled at them...

As this store was very big, and very crowded their were many people who I did this with.

People smiled back...


Some said "Hi"...


Some even stopped and talked to me as if they have known me all their life...


Some seemed busy and upset, till our eyes met...


Then they seemed to forget what they were upset about, and started smiling...


how simple it is to see the beauty in each and every person on a walk though a store...


How simple it is to bring joy by seeing the love in everyone...


Will your next shopping trip be boring, or will it be an experience to remember?


Will you experience the joy as you recognize it in others?


Will you share it with a stranger?


Will you experience that they are not really a stranger after all...


Will you smile today?

The path to one...

IN the November 17th post of Shards of Conscoiusness

If We Were One

November 17th, 2007 by Richard Cockrum

If I gave you love,
spoke the secret of my heart
would you share my dreams?
Would you...

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Rick, you do not have to do a thing,

by you simply being who you are, that is enough to awaken our one soul...


I do love your poem though (big smile)



The path to one...



If we were one I would smile right now - as I am smiling...


If we were one in this dream of life I could;


feel a tree rooted and grounded, yet who's branches sway with the caress of wind... a tree silently observing what we call life...


think of someone water skiing and feel all the sensations of water skiing...


think of someone racing a car and feel all those sensations too...


think of a mother and child and experience the love of birth...


know that I need for nothing material, as someone somewhere that we are one with has it...


take my attention to the wind flow, gently caressing all that I touch, swirling and flowing... stopping to take a breath, and flowing again...


walk down into a pyramid in Egypt...see the hieroglyphics of communication of that time...feel connected to them...


meditate with monks in Tibet...




These are all things that I have experienced on the path to peace...



These all show our connectedness, but still are but a step on your path to true oneness...



Oneness with separation, or oneness with a dream of being separate from God, is the first big experience on your path to knowing peace...


although a place of greater peace than where you perceive you currently are...it is not the final answer...do not settle till you know God within...


Till you are able to see God in every "Shard of Consciousness" or person if you will...



I could take my attention to your heart...I could go beyond all the hurt to find a love that is timeless and eternal as the very spirit that it represents...I do...Do this with every person you meet...experience what you discover...


A wise monk once said "If you can't see God in the next person you meet, you need not look any further..."


Let this be your goal...


For truth of these words is yours now...

Sunday's TSO concert!

The snow flakes were falling...but we were indoors...

Lasers were beaming in lines that intersected as they pulsed to the beat...

Waling guitars jamming the wonderful energy of the Celebration of Christmas...

Fire shooting up...in time with the music...

fireworks blazing...

Orchestra musicians with the bows buzzing to the huge energy of this sharing of music...

softer now...

Echo's of a booming, deep, caring voice of a narrator telling a Christmas story...



Amazing songs intertwined around this beautiful story...

some soft, and touching...

some in high energy of the celebration of sharing...


This is an amazing sensory sharing in the love of celebration...

A celebration of joy...

A sharing of profound music by a band of women and men known as Trans Siberian Orchestra or TSO.

If you get the chance to see them in concert do not miss it!

Here are some videos of TSO here, here, here and here

Many people have made their home outdoor Christmas displays around TSO's music. here

Movie Review - Beowulf in digital 3D

OK that spear is coming and I'm moving out of the way!

A digital 3D CG movie...


Wow, Wow and Wow again!

The Digital 3D in this movie was so amazing, I was completely blown away!

It was the coolest movie watching experience ever! Everything had such amazing depth and clarity.

I am now a big fan of Digital 3D!



"Beowulf" is one of the oldest folk stories.




The spiritual meaning I got from the movie was this...


In land of physical we can have gold riches and lust...

We think it will make us happy...

We grow to find out this is not true...

We start over again...




We are back again with gold riches and lust....

We think it will make us happy...

We grow to find out this is not true...

We start over again...


That is where the movie ends...



Will this be where your movie ends?



When will you decide to make a new choice?

When will you look within, to find the love that you already have is eternal?

When will you learn that unconditional love never judges?

When will you realize that this love that never judges is within you?

When will I be patient till you find this?

As long as it takes...

One...

Stillness of the heart...

One beat...

One breath...

One brother...

One son...

One is the sound of an eternal heart...

One is the love of all...

One is the fire of all hopes and dreams...

One is the extension of the father...

One level...

One love...

One God...

Books? Yea baby!

Can You Spell Bibliophile?

November 13th, 2007 by Richard Cockrum

Do you like books. I like books. I like the smell of old paper. I like the feel of the binding as it rests in my hand while I (click here to read the rest of Ricks post)

My wife, daughter and I all love books.

My reading started when I was very young. I read mostly books on science and human behavior. Eventually my interest shifted to spirituality.

I never knew the fun and adventure you can have in fiction books. My wife turned me onto reading sci-fi and fantasy. It was a wonderful escape into a world of imagination. I read some of David Eddings books which I enjoyed.

My wife and I read the whole Harry Potter series together. Awesome character development there. Get you to care about the characters as if they were your own kids. Very enjoyable reading!

Here is my replies to Rick's Questions:

How many books do I have?

We have just over a thousand books in our home.

What’s the last book I read?

"The Biology of Belief" by Bruce Lipton on Audio book. This is a fantastic book that bridges the science of biology and our thoughts, beliefs and outer world (signals) that choose which DNA blueprints will be not only be selected, but how they will be read.

It blows the old gene theory of predetermination by our inherited genes right out of the water!

If you have ever asked the question why is the body the way that it is?

Buy, and listen to this book! This is one you really want on audio book.

What’s the last book I bought?

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel. I have not had the chance to read it yet. So no reviews yet.

Five (plus one) Meaningful Books

1. The Celestine Prophecy - by James Redfield - This is the great adventure into beginning spiritual concepts in an Indiana Jones style of fun

2. The Power of NOW - On audio book - I highly suggest getting the audio book of this book. This is a wonderful beginning into deeper spiritual concepts. I have now recommended this book to over a thousand different people and only one out of all of them did not finish it because they did not like it.

3. The Disappearance of the Universe - by Gary Renard - If you have ever said just give me the answers. Just hit me over the head with them. Then this book is for you. Read it to the very end without judgment then go back and read it again. Then buy the audio book and listen to that too. I have recommended this book to hundreds of people who have loved it. It is a very profound - but easy read.

4. Your Immortal Reality - by Gary Renard - Go deeper into the practice of the first book. Both books are a wonderful foundation to the next book on my list of must reads. They are all about this next book.

5. A Course in Miracles - published by a Foundation for Inner Peace - Just as the bible was a spiritual guide for people many, many generations back when it was first wrote. It was of course, wrote for people of that time period in their spiritual evolution.


You know when people where young in their spirituality and thought God can be perfect and judging at the same time.


When they thought that God could be unconditionally loving yet judging and wrathful at the same time.


When you think about how God is described in the Bible its as if he was a toddler. Happy one moment, and throwing a temper tantrum the next. Jealous because he did not get his way and acting out as a result of this.


It was wrote for the people of that time period. Like most books written in the past. It still has some good things to say that apply now too.


A Course in Miracles is written for our generation. Was it divinely inspired? Just read a few pages and you be the judge.


It is the most profound spiritual work of art that I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing.


Yes, it is an actual experience in discovering who you are as spirit. It is a systematic stripping away of who you are not. To embrace who you really are and discover the true meaning of the word peace.


It addresses who your not, (your ego mind) in attempt to bring you to who you are - That timeless eternal spirit created by God in all your glory.


It is a path to awakening now.


It is by far the best book I have ever read.


I am currently sharing and teaching a class in A Course in Miracles - It is a wonderful experience beyond words.

Daddy who is God?

Our three year old Morgan asked me "Daddy who's God"

I replied "Honey you know how you snuggle with daddy and mommy and you hold us tight?"

(She nods)

"You know that feeling of love inside that is so deep that it just feels so warm and wonderful as you hug us?"

(she nods again)

"That love that we share is God in your heart..."

"That love will be there in every moment of your life..."

"Allow it to grow in you, and it will blossom as you do..."



"OK, daddy I will" she says


"Everyone has that same love within them, as everyone has God within. Only most don't know he's there yet...but they will..." I say

And with a big smile on her face I know she gets it.

I smile back...as we share this smile of peace...

Smile - as your starting to get it :-)

The laryngitis has lifted...

Whats it like not to know what your going to write as you fingers are moving?

Freedom...

Trust in the voice that knows no judgment...

Allow that voice to be yours...



For in fact, beyond all illusions...

That really is your voice...

Aren't you glad to have it back?

I am gratful...

As I was reading Shards of Consciousness Sunday Reading 11 Nov 2007. (Which BTW I really love reading)

I read about Nneka running a Season of Gratitude



The fingers begin to type as my mind goes blank...

I am grateful for my father - God...

I am thankful to be an extension of God...

Created for the purpose of sharing love, creating, and extending that love in an infinite kingdom that is beyond time...

When I am not dreaming of being away, I experience that love that is beyond words...

I experience the full meaning of my creation in infinite bliss...

I am thankful for my role as a guide in the dream of separation...

I am thankful that it is only in a nightmare that we could be separate from God...

I am thankful that only in a nightmare could we hurt one another...

In a nightmare where we forgot to laugh...

In a nightmare where we forgot who we are...

In a nightmare where we forgot God...

I am thankful for your voice gently calling...

It's OK, you were just dreaming...You've never left me...I could never forsake you...you are my extension and my love...

Peace be it that which knows "only love is real..."

I am thankful for your voice, as it is my voice...as "our voice" is but one...

I rejoice as each part of one mind finds the truth of love and awakens...

I am thankful to see Christ in each and every person, no matter how deeply they try to hide who they really are...

I am thankful for most powerful word in our language...

Surrender...

To surrender the attachment of an individual dream identity, to know the eternal spirit that you are...

I am thankful to be able to give up what is nothing, to gain what is everything...

I am thankful for this eternal moment of NOW in which peace knows no end...

I am thankful for you reading this...for as you do - Christ's eyes are reading these words, and smiling deeply within...

Great fun with Neuroplasticity!

Neuroplasticity, Neuroplasticity - gettin down - with the Neuroplasticity...

Oh, sorry about that, was just having fun with the Neuroplasticity rap...

Come on sing it, it's fun!


On Wednesday, Nov 7th on the Craig Photography blog John asked for replies on if we felt photography affected the Neuroplasticity of the brain.

As this subject can get as complicated as it's name is, I am going to shoot for just the basics, to just barely touch on how photography can affect the brain.



First off lets define what "Neuroplasticity" is for those who are going Neuro-what?

I really like this definition found on this page

Plasticity, or neuroplasticity: is the lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences.


So can photography help the neuroplasticity of the brain?

Yes, it can.

Does it always do this?

No, it does not.

Ever look at a photograph and go "that does nothing for me?"

You feel no emotion evoked when viewing the photograph, it's just there.

Sure you have.



In contrast when you see a photograph that is very moving to you, you feel captivated by it. You feel it deeply inside you. It is a rush of emotion, many chemical shifts are happening in the brain as this happens.

"I have never see an innocence captured that way before..."

"Wow, there is so much warmth, I can really feel the love between those people, never seen that captured on film that way before..."


"New" is the experience of the viewing of these two different kinds of photographs.

The profound evoking of emotion, and the "New" of the experience of the photograph invokes the reorganization neural pathways.



How about impressionistic photographs?

Photographs that force your imagination to be invoked...

Force you to see and imagine something brand new...

OK lets go back to the definition again...

Lets see here...

Plasticity, or neuroplasticity: is the lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences.

Hmmm "new experiences"

Check!

Impressionism would fall into that category.


"A picture is worth a thousand words..."

Sound familiar to you?

Why have you head this phrase before? Because in many cases it is true.

So...

When photographing...

do you want to take a 2D flat photo that says nothing or -

maybe you could...

move...

shift as you look at things from different angles / /

change the lighting...

change the ____-------=====> composition...

change your depth of field...

feel your creativity flowing as you...

do what ever it takes to make it -

a work of art...

when you are happy with it...

press the button and just smile...

Share in the neuroplasticity that will be invoked by your photographic art!

Could it be that healing is just a click away?

The infinite step...

We see our foot on the ground as we take a step...

We have taken many steps though out what we call life...


Which of these has been forward?

Which has been in reverse?



We think we know where life begins and ends...



If you think you know, then you are wrong...

For "thinking" is of the mind, and the mind has no idea where real life begins and ends...


Your spirit however, knows this well...

It knows its beginning as a "spark of extension" of a love so pure it defines the word "unconditional"...

It knows not it's ending...for it has no ending...


It is forever infinite...

Who you really are can never die...

Endings are only for dreams...


For "God" is your beginning, and your continuation...



Aren't you glad to know you can choose to be who you really are?

Daddy, its grandma Ferrari!

Morgan was so excited to see her grandma on the computer screen!

Morgan will usually not talk on the phone, she just listens.

But seeing her grandma on the screen, she talked and was very excited about it!



I just have to get all the grandparents up and running so they can all see and talk to her though the computer.

There is even a button to record the video/conversation and e-mail it to friends and family.

Technology is really amazing!



We bought a Philips - Pixel Plus Web Cam Model SPC900 NC/00

It is one of a few that will work well with Windows Vista.

If you happen to get one ignore the instructions on the CD pull off the red tape and plug it into the USB port on your machine. Windows update will download the correct drivers with no problem.

The Fireside Inn...

Bodies moving to vibrations of sound...

Many different voices singing to many styles of music...

Friends laughing, sharing and uplifting and supporting one another...

smiles a crossed the room...

toasts of celebration...

Old passions still unsaid - on faces to behold...


The new - sharing - who were briefly strangers...

Who are now friends...


This is Saturday night fun at a place known as the Fireside Inn...

What if...The game of life

What if...

What if for the next seven days you challenged yourself...

Do you have what it takes?

What if you do?

What if you decided that you would say or do something nice to each and every person as soon as you see them...?

Strangers, family and friends are all included...

What if you see that person many times a day?

Yes, the rules are each time you see them you come up with something to say or do...

What if you asked your family and friends to play too?

What might you discover about people you know?

What might people learn about you?

Might people discover things that you appreciate about them that they did not know?

What if this game was very fun and up lifting to play?

What if this game was contagious and people decided to tell people about it?


How many smiles will you bring?

How many hearts can you warm?

How many can warm your heart?


What if you began to play this game on your very next breath...

The friendship of communication...

Trista is much happier today...

Her and her best friend Jen made time to have a heart to heart talk and all misconceptions were laid to rest...

That strong bond that is known as a single word called - friendship...

Yes, they share that bond well...



It comes to mind that finding the balance between lives that are filled with busy schedules, that are often conflicting, is not as easy as it once was...


That fact that is not easy, does not mean it is not important to do.


I find myself often wishing that I had more time to share with my friends.

Even doing my blog posts are often in the middle of the night.


However busy you are, scheduling time to communicate is so important.


To let our friends know that we very much love them.

Have you taken the time to let your friends know that they are very much loved and needed?

You can't take for granted it is just something that they know, for just like a foreign language you used to speak but now never use, it is starts to be forgotten...

But have you noticed that sharing new moments with a friend, the time you spent away from each other is almost as if it was never there?


For gaps in time of a friendship have no meaning when you allow the "C" word word to blossom once again...

Communication is that which brings together - that which only appears to be separate...

Communication is what forges friendships - it is the fire that keeps them strong...




On a larger level we in America spent trillions of dollars on defense. How much of that money could be saved if we spent just a little money on great communicators?

Why not hire Tony Robbins to be an ambassador for America? Can you imagine how many friendships we could be forging in the world?

Instead of sending professional communicators we send our children with guns - and we call ourself a higher, more advanced society...

We've traded the club and the rock for an M-16...

How far have we really come?

Is it not blatantly apparent that the need for communication needs to be taken to a larger level?

OK, let me turn on Fox news...OK, apparently no one in charge realizes this...


You can't speak to a terrorist they are beyond communicating with you argue...

Well, yes when you can't speak very intelligently to your own country how exactly is that going to work talking to someone who is not all that rational?



The walk way in front of our house looks beautiful...

Why?

Because I did not do it, a professional did it...



Professional NLP based communicators are needed as ambassadors!

Lives, money, and face would be saved if this were in practice...


Ever talk to an M16?

Very dull interaction there...

I did not feel heard, or understood and all after the conversation...



I fought a lot when I was young...You know what I learned from all that fighting?

I got absolutely no where...


In contrast, everytime I have talked with people, and really listened and heard their needs, and did my best to share my own...a bond was formed...

No you could not see it with your eyes, you just knew it was there...



Kind of like Gods unconditional love...you can't see it, but you know it's there...



Communication strengths that bond, it renews that sharing...it builds up the "F" word...

Friendship...

Who will you share with today?

Last night's Loreena McKennitt Concert

Last night Trista (my wife) and I went to see Loreena McKennitt in concert at the A.J Polumbo Center.



As we walk from the parking garage to the center where the concert was we are holding hands and swinging them. As I look over Trista has a big smile. That same smile that I never get tired of seeing. My wife is fun, every moment with her is magical...

We walk though the security and in front of us is the booth were they sell the merchandise. I am scanning the merchandise quickly with my eyes. I spy a shirt that I know she will like. I point it out to her. She does like it, and we hand the cash to the vendor. Lots of ones...

I smile as I remember recently being at Costco with Trista, we paid the whole bill with ones (the change we had got from a recent garage sale) The check out clerk looks at all the ones and

I say excitedly "We're exotic dancers" - and then I bust out laughing.

The clerks says "You're bad" as she is laughing very hard too.
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We walk into the concert find where are seats are and are way up at the very top, of the top of the concert hall. We did not expect much better seats - as we just got tickets a few days before the concert. We are very spontaneous like that.

One of the ushers walks up to us and says "how would you like better seats?"

We say "that would be great!"


So we move down out of "peanut heaven" to seats that are very good. We can actually see the people on the stage and know who is who :-)

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Two rows from me is a wonderful person from our new "Course in Miracles" group. I say hello to her. A few moments later three more people from our course in miracles group show up and their seats are two rows in front of us. We say hello to them too.

Out of all those people at the concert - those people who focus on spiritually, love and lack of judgment are nearest us.

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Much further away we see more friends. We see a group of friends that are mad at us for not condemning an ex-husband - who we are also very good friends with.

To expect either Trista or myself to judge or condemn anyone - is to first: not really know us - and second: to be very disappointed because it's never going to happen.

We will not judge or condemn anyone, not because it's the right thing to do.

But because it is simply who we are...

We love everyone and that is that...

We are not sorry we are this way...

We will not ever pretend to be different...

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In case you're not familiar with Loreena's music go here
to view some videos.

Loreena has never been to Pittsburgh, PA before.

It was such a wonder to have her share the beauty of the gift of music with all of us.



As the concert begins - her voice is what you would imagine an angel would sound like...

Her skin looked like it was bathed in a golden light as her blond hair reflected the stage lights...it was as if she was an angel on stage...

She had a amazing purity about her...

I watched in amazement - as her voice gently caressed each and every person at the the concert...

The first time she spoke and explained how she got interested in this type of music - you could tell you were in the presence of a person that was so soft, so gentle, a deep and genuine caring and love was expressed in every word...

You could tell she lived this caring...

She lived this love...

She was sharing from the bottom of her heart in each breath...

The group of musicians that make the music were all equally amazing...

Each totally passionate about the music...each outstanding in not only their abilities but how they worked together as one wonderful expression...

From fast and exciting solo duals - to slow expressions of love...

Every moment was filled with a wonder that was ethereal....

From envisioning mountains with trees grounded in the observation of life....

To a single breath of love...



It was a wonderful sharing of love...

After the concert we were talking with Renee and Blake (good friends who we have not talked to since the beginning of the summer) Renee and Blake are some of the nicest people you could ever meet. Renee introduced me to Trista 10 and half years ago. Renee is one of the worlds top fantasy artists you can see here work here

While we were talking Loreena came out and started meeting people and signing autographs.

We got to meet her in person. She talked to Trista's and signed her program.

She was such a sweetheart. I gave her a hug :-)

and we were off...it was such a wonderful evening!

The peace of movement...

Rick Cockrum had an interesting post on EFT and The Placebo Effect which you can read here.

This post is dedicated to why the placebo effect occurs. It is due to a movement of stuck emotion (energy)




You leave a car in your yard for years without moving it, the car will rust in place...

When a person is bed ridden sores are common - lack of movement know as "circulation"...

When exposed the cold, hands and feet are cold when there is not enough circulation...

Once again lack of movement...

Muscles become weak and small with lack of movement...



Everyone knows these are true...

Now lets look deeper...


Lack of movement of emotion in the body is even more unhealthy....

Stuck emotion is a block of the flow of energy...

Sometimes this is a lack of oxygen to the muscles - This oxygen depervation of the muscles is often the real cause of physical pain...


Has anyone ever said "You've got to let it go" "You need to forgive and move on" ?

What are they really saying?

They are saying you have trapped emotions (trapped energy) and it's effecting you emotionally, physically or both...

Once again it is a lack of movement...


What makes you so different from an old truck rusting in a junk yard?


Your ability to allow that energy to start to move right now in this very moment...




How?

Feel where you feel that in your body more than anywhere else...

Now begin to soften it from the edges... Soften it and allow it be a liquid that is flowing...

What direction does it want to flow?

Allow it to do just this. Follow it till it exists. Now think of that situation again and feel it in your body and shrink it down faster each time you flow it out...



How peaceful do you feel in this very moment?



This is the peace of movement...



Read the book "Oceans of Energy" for much more on this...Enjoy!

The Halloween Massacre...

It is a party at Halloween...

A gathering of friends...

A time to dress up and pretend you're something that you're not...

For the other 364 days a year we usually wear a different costume...

Still pretending to be who we are not...



For if your thoughts, words, and actions are not based from the unconditional love that is in your heart...

You are wearing a costume...

You may even judge people who dress up for Halloween...

A "hypocrite" is not who you really are either...

It too, is just pretend...



When will you decide to know "who you are" beyond your costume?

When will you decide to know peace?


At Halloween dress up and party - for realizing that you are in costume all the time allows for time to ask "What is
beyond my outfit?"



For love begins when you ask "who I'm I?"

The person you see in the mirror is so small compared to the real you, it's like the very tip of a needle...





Let this Halloween be a massacre of the "need" to judge others, or yourself...

The sharing of laugher with friends is what is left - when judgment is no more...

Which teacher will you choose?

There are teachers of love, and teachers of hate...

Which you will be a student of - says a lot about who you feel you are...


We you learn peace of unity, or more pain of separation?



Which teacher will you choose?

Why will you choose them?


Know peace or know judgment...

For there is no in between...

To judge is to instantly be judged for it is a mirror that stands in front of you...

Whether you see Christ standing in front of you - or a "lonely person" depends on which teacher you have learned from...

Which teacher will you choose?

The smile of Christ is yours...

To meet one - where they feel they are...

To share in what they feel...

They are not alone...

You are there...

Christ is there - as one - in both of you...

To look into the eyes of another is to see the face of God in you...

For what you feel is "separate" is but an illusion...

What you feel as "one" - is truth...



Walk in this moment...

Two hands - with fingers intertwined...

Two palms touching with the warmth of embrace...


Love...

Union...

To know this "union" is to know truth...

For love is truth...

What is in your heart is truth...

Share the union of palms touching...

The smile of Christ is yours...

ACIM Group!

This past Wednesday night I was able to start teaching and sharing at a new "A Course in Miracles" (ACIM) Group.

It is a wonderful collection of people!

They are genuine in their search for truth of who they really are, and how to achieve eternal peace.

I am very please to share these teaching with this group.

I will post a short post on the teachings that are being shared as we go along. Next meeting is two Wednesdays from now.

Before starting ACIM - I suggest reading "The Disappearance of the Universe" by Gary Renard. Then "Your Immortal Reality" by Gary Renard

Then the course will make much more sense when you read it.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Expression of freedom...

I have ten minutes to write this post so here goes...


Expression of freedom is in your heart...


Passion to share...

For your heart knows that sharing is its purpose...

To hold prisoner your thoughts, feelings and desires, is to suffer...

To share them is to shine...

To glow the golden light of God...

How many moments will you share?

How much happiness do you desire?

To share is to grow; to grow is to love...

Love is you glowing though sharing...


But I'm not sure what this person will think about what I have to share...

Your judgment of your self is far greater than anything you will receive from another...

To punish you is to suffer needlessly...

God seeks not to punish you...

Unconditional love sees no guilt...

For guilt is of ego in a dream of separation from God...

It is just mis perception...

to release this mis perception is to experience the true expression of freedom...

only you hold yourself prisoner...

Sharing love is you're "Key" to freedom...

Will you use your Key?

An eternal smile...

Reflection...

I used to awaken in the morning to find that I had begun to daydream the moment I opened my eyes...

I would dream there were other people who did not accept me...

I would dream I was alone, different then everyone else...

I would dream that there were people arguing and fighting all around the world...

I would dream that "here was a subject and a separate object"...

I would dream that I was "off playing by my myself" - separate from God...

I would dream I was alone in this world separate from God...

all my days and nights were spent dreaming...


Till one day I woke from this dream...

I saw and felt everything as one...

Nothing was separate...

Vibrate are the colors...

Crisp are the sounds...

A love so profound that sharing is it's movement...

Eternity is it's direction...

Joy is it's voice...


All this happened on that day that I awoke...


Now I pretend to be part of this dream of separation...

So that through sharing of knowledge - all part of the mind may awaken to know the eternal peace and love within...

To know God from within...

To see God in every face...

When within and without become one...

An eternal smile is extended - as the kingdom without end...

Are you ready to begin smiling?

The power of release...

As I watch the swing go out so high it nearly become even with the ground...

"Higher daddy!" Our three year old daughter (Morgan) says...

I watch as her blond hair blows back with the gentle breeze...

the temperature is as flawless as the ocean blue of Morgan's eyes...



She says - I'm not supposed to say "what the heck" at school anymore. They said that was a bad word."

I say "are you sure it was not the context you used it in?"

(This does not seem like something you would say to a three year old, but then you have not met Morgan. She completely understands this sentence)

"Maybe" she says

"Daddy, I cried today at school" she adds (she's in preschool)

"Why did you cry today?" I ask

"Because I was in time out" she says (head down now)

"What did you do that you were in timeout?" I ask

"I pushed Ore into the blue house" she admits

"Why did you push her?" I ask

"I don't know" she says

"Are you sure you don't know why?" I ask

"Yes, I don't know why I did it. I just did it." she says

"Do you understand that what you did was wrong?"

"Yes, I know" she says with her head down

" I will not do it again." She says

I am not going to add more to compound her own "self punishment" for what she did. You can see on her face that she was really sorry for what she did.

She is a very good child who rarely gets into any trouble at all.

We are doing out best to teach her to share and get along with all people...

Not every moment will be perfect...



You can but show positive examples of peace by your actions...

even this is no guarantee that your child will follow them...



My wife and I show her unconditional love...

as we show this to each other...

she has never seen us argue...as in ten years of being together, we have not found a reason to argue...



Morgan is getting this at home...


But we have no control what she will learn from society...

Think for a moment that you do have control of this, and you are causing yourself great stress...



You can but be that change that you want to see in the world...

and release your need to control the end result...

releasing your need to control what already is - is more powerful than you can imagine...

it is the first step in your path to peace...

This is my day job...

Daily sharing of love...

To set free the trapped anger, sadness and guilt...

To guide one to know God within...

To embrace the unconditional love that one discovers they have had all along...

To glimpse peace of a love so profound that tears of joy flow...

To shift one's identity from illusion to the truth of love...

This is my day job...

the puzzle of life...

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle...

At first it seems like there are so many pieces...

so many colors and shapes...

you ask the question - where do I begin?

you match like colors as people of like color and shape hang out together...

yet as these tribes are formed there is much of the puzzle that is still incomplete..

so you reevaluate the puzzle and you notice that these shapes and colors that seemed different,
really fit too...

so you accept them too...

and their pieces fit perfectly too...

you notice that each piece fits closely to each other piece...

its a harmony of shape, color and closeness...

you place more and more pieces together...

they all fit, at times it make take some time to find out how they fit, but they all do...

until you learn to fit them all the puzzle will remain incomplete...

so you step back and observe as much of the whole puzzle as you can, now the remaining piece fall into place...

as you place them into place...

no one is excluded...

each and every piece was needed to make the "one" whole again...

you go to see what the puzzle is a picture of...

but you can not...

as the whole is a picture of you...

experiencing that picture is beyond all perception...

it is to know God from within...

the unconditional love, and acceptance of all - in one picture...

in one moment...

this moment begins now...

where will you place this next piece of the puzzle standing before you?

The rain of acceptance

What today have you accepted?

What today have you stopped though rejection?


Which action leads to peace?


The eyes in which I see in all others - are very familiar to me...

To see though another's eyes is to know their perception...



To feel their heart is to know their truth...

every beat like a rain drop falling in slow motion...


Can you accept this person in front of you for whom they perceive they are?

Or will you judge them based on how you wish they were?


Will you experience freedom?

Or will you know pain even deeper?


With every beat of your heart comes another moment to accept and love what is in front of you...

What will you do with this next beat of your heart?

Repost interveiw

This is a repost from Tuesday, June 12, 2007 John Craig's interview with me.

I am going to start posting all the interviews with me on this personal blog - which is a sharing of love...

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Craig Photography – Five Question Interview

Long time friend John Craig, is the owner of Craig Photography located in Pittsburgh, PA

Besides doing wonderful photography, John is also the author of a very popular, internationally read Blog called "Craig Photography"

Very interesting reading can be found cradled by the beautiful photographs that you will find on John's blog. Check it out now.

Among the reading you will find that John does five question interviews with people. These interviews make for some very interesting reading.

John recently interviewed me.

Here are his five questions and the five answers.

This is the beginning of the interactive blog - You R Infinite

Feel free to ask your questions now...

1. When did you get a first glimpse of reality?

A: I was eight years old. I can remember it as if it was is happening right now - at this very moment;

I am standing on a blacktop back road in front of my grandmother's house.

As the heat from the sun rises from the blacktop underneath my feet, I feel my hand wipe a crossed my eyebrows gently taking some of the salty sweat away before it stings my eyes.

I have the basketball in hand, I hold it against my side as I wipe the sweat from my hand, and then the other hand.

I’m now holding the ball with both hands, I bounce it off the blacktop, once, twice, and a third time. I look up at the rusty hoop that has some old red paint barely clinging to it. What is left of the net is tattered and torn. I notice backstop is a very weathered homemade board that is attached to the wooden telephone pole with rusty nails.

I can feel my legs bend and then I push up I feel the ball as is floats upward from my fingertips and it goes and goes and then it hits the front of the metal ring and come bouncing back to earth. I had missed the shot, just as I had many times before. Sometimes making it and sometimes missing it. Kind of like life;

Sometimes we hear the voice of GOD,

more often though, we hear the voice of our own individuality.

I walked over to the top of my grandmothers steps and stopped to talk a break.

At that very moment I made a statement;

A statement that would forever change my life…

I said “I will know everything there is to know about GOD, life, and why are we here, what is here? I will accept nothing less than this.”

I felt a shudder deep inside me, a shiver run down my spine, and then a sense of peace that I never felt before.

I also had a knowing that this path was not going to happen overnight but rather;

this was to be a walk...

a walk of wonderment...

a walk of peace...

a walk of a love so deep, so unconditional...

that every part of me knew GOD was our true reality…

2. How do you accept your own self honesty of what you know?

A: I know there is no individual self knowing, but a sharing that is eternal love.

Love is a meaningless word - until it is shared,

Then it is simply you…

When you choose to release “all” that you’re not,

All that remains is unconditional love…

When will you choose to awaken...to forever remember...who you truly are?

3. How do you guide somebody who is looking for answers but not sure of the question?

Excellent question!

So many want answers till they are allowed to have them.

Then they draw a blank.

For in that very moment they draw that blank, they have briefly observed their mind, and it went quiet.

Enjoy this peace of mind, for each moment you observe your mind, "the peace eternity" will you be holding…

The you that is observing your mind - is who you really are "as spirit"…

For questions to come,

Allow yourself to first watch your mind and patiently wait for your next thought to come, and shift all your attention from your thoughts to feelings, place a hand on the middle of your chest and breath into the center of your chest deeply, continue this breathing deeply into the center of your chest;

then simply allow the questions to float to the surface, and then ask them…

4. Hypnotherapy, photography, bi-polar disorder, what gifts have they given you?

A: Hey now, that's (three) more questions - you said just five!

Just messing with you! Ask as many as you want.

Hypnotherapy - 21 years as a regression Hypnotherapist,

in working with people from all over the world,

of all different spiritual, and religious beliefs, or no religious beliefs,

This work has reinforced my knowing...that we are "but love"…this is an eternal - priceless gift…

In life we are pretending to be separate from “who” we really are…

From this - does all pain come…

Photography – Symbolism of light – I know you’re not too fond of long answers, but give me some leeway on this one.

It will be worth it - I promise - (grinning)

Walk with me – as the light cradles us…sharing light has been a gift…

Light...

Light can be very symbolic.

The passion of the red light as the sun rises and spills light, erasing darkness and confusion,

Illuminating togetherness, as everything your eye sees-touches everything else,

Perfection of the dream, as the symbolism of oneness touched by the light,

The symbolism is shared by everything, as sharing is who you are as spirit,

Spirit sees only love, for love is all that is true...

The noon sun light casts harsh shadows, and raccoon eyes,

The darkness of the eyes, is symbolic of the confusion of separation,

Symbolic of living inside of the rat race of the dream,

Yet, get close to a white object and the light reflects and lightens the raccoon eyes to a beautiful blend of tone,

This is symbolic of walking the path of forgiveness and love,

This is an illuminated path to awakening,

Hold out your hand so that another can share it and remember who you are,

You are what you have always been,

You have tried to hide from who you are,

You have tried to forget who you are,

Then you have tried to remember who you are,

When you have forgotten for so long it makes remembering difficult,

So let you, help you,

You are love,

You are sharing that love that you are,

You are peace,

You are that golden light as that end of the day,

That golden glow softly caresses your skin,

It illuminates you in all your beautiful radiance,

Yes, this is symbolic of who you really are,

That warmth, that glow, that love that is you,

Remove your belief in who you’re not,

Who you are is all that is left,

That all that you are is amazing,

Just be you...


Am I really the bi polar archer?

No, I am but a spirit,

The same spirit that is you,

For we are but love, and we are one...

Bi Polar Disorder

This is symbolic of duality;

- up/ down – left /right –forward/ back- ying /yang- heads/tails - you get the picture.

Duality- a “me” here / and a “you” there.

A subject and an object.

I felt a need to experience the pain of feeling completely and totally separate from GOD for half a year.

I have repeated this exercise for many years in succession.

Understanding and feeling the pain of man, woman, child does not healing make –

I have experienced the deepest and the darkest fears that we can experience, and this too does not healing make…

Healing only comes from letting go of what you’re not,

to then embrace what you are…

All perception of separation from the unconditional love of GOD is a nightmare,

All true sharing - is a walk toward awakening from this nightmare perception of separation…

You can choose to turn on the world news right now to see evidence of this nightmare,

or choose to look eyes of a child and see the innocence of that child - to remember that the real you as spirit is “now” and will be, forever innocent…

Choose to remember that you are eternally - GOD’s only child…

You are not this small little individual self that really is away from unconditional love…

but rather the perfect spirit that you have been since before time ever seemed to be…

All bad dreams end when you awaken from them…

Love is that which is waiting for you now…

Knowing the deep pain of our perception of separation from GOD is not real – Yes, this has been a precious gift…

5. Have you transcended the illusion?

Since we have never really left the unconditional love of GOD - from which we are but an extension – eternally created, for the purpose of sharing unconditional love…

In true reality - Hasn’t “everyone” - “as one” transcended the illusion?

Time - is the buffer that “seems to exist”- but is really just there to allow you not to be startled by awakening from this “ individual separation (EGO) illusion” too fast…

So your answer is yes "you" have transcended the illusion...

Bonus Question

*. How do you live with “that everything is ok accepted what is going on around you”?

(Poverty, African, ect,ect..)

Like everything, you can look at this two ways;

The EGO way is “Finding someone to blame”

Example of projection and passing blame:

What’s wrong with the government spending billions of dollars on defense, when you can’t go into any major American city without seeing homeless people starving right here in our own country!

Here’s another EGO judgment for you;

What’s wrong with the President who says he’s a Christian but is quick to start a war and push, and push, and push even when most of a county has said enough already.

Christ taught - love your neighbor as yourself

Forgive everyone for anything they have ever done to you

EGO is that part of your mind who’s thoughts are only of the individual, but pretends to care about others – really it is focused on who you can blame for all the injustices in the world…

" If I (individual I) was in charge things would be different…If I did this, If I did that, If I….things would be better…I would be a better parent than…." - all EGO thoughts

EGO is the part of the mind that has, and wants nothing to do with GOD.

What many hear from the EGO part of their mind is something along these lines;

Since EGO has completely forgot the fact that God “is unconditional love” -

The EGO feels like GOD is a punishing tyrant – who’s wrath will smite you for all your sins, you no good sinning bastard, you undeserving low life, right now you should bow down before the white haired creator of all, and beg for forgiveness, even though your chances are slim to none you will get forgiveness because you are so bad!

The EGO is not at all sane, yet it is the voice that us usually strongest in our minds.

In truth, you are none of those above things that the EGO tells you that you are.

GOD is unconditional love –

Anything that you love in life is but a symbol of that which is true love…

It is but a symbol of GOD…

So, if you love the peace you have in your country, and feel someone is trying to take it away.

What are they really trying to take away from you?

Yes, that’s right GOD.

EGO mind’s purpose for People is for you to have someone other than your individual self to blame.

What good does this do you?

It helps you not to feel guilty.

You can’t feel guilty if it’s not your fault something bad just happening.

There are just small life plays about the real issue.

You incorrectly perceive you have really left unconditional love of GOD and are now an individual identity.

All sadness comes from this feeling of loosing unconditional love.

That guilty feeling that you have left it and now are an individual separate from GOD is so great that;

You do not want to look at it…

You do not want to feel it…

You want it gone forever, but you not sure how to do it…

So usually we project it onto a perceived someone else.

Now I am innocent because of the fact that you’re guilty.

The Holy Spirit way of looking at life

The Holy Spirit is the other voice you hear in your mind…

It is the voice that always leads to thoughts, feelings,

and actions that based on unconditional love...

The voice the always leads to sharing…

The voice that leads to caring and acting unselfishly...

The voice that leads to forgiveness - for all whom you felt had wronged you, yourself included...

This is the voice that leads you on the path to awaken to the unconditional love of GOD…

To awaken to eternal peace love and joy…

To awaken to an eternal kingdom – a kingdom that you have only left only in a dream…

The love that awaits you in this very moment is as timeless and eternal as you are…

You are a perfect spirit, dreaming of exile from perfection…

Awaken and remember who you are…Smile, the eternal smile of joy…

I will always love you… as I have always loved you…for we are one…

“When you hold onto your thoughts by believing them - you suffer…

when you question them, forgive, and release them you don’t…”

The practice is this;

Observe any and all thoughts you have in every waking moment.

Forgive any thoughts that are not of complete and total unconditional love…

Forgive those thoughts, and then simply release them from your mind - as if letting go of a dove.

Imagine those negative thoughts gently being carried away from you by a large dove.

Act upon;

Any thoughts that are of a wonderful sharing;

A simple smile at a stranger…

Saying ‘Hi”…

Letting go of being too busy to listen…

Hugging someone…and feeling the love of sharing as you do…

Making love to someone, and feeling “as if” the two of you are becoming one…

Helping someone who needs help, just because you can…

Giving away something that someone else needs more…all receiving, is done though giving…

Watching children play…then joining in the fun and feeling the freedom of the innocence… an innocence that seems familiar to you, as it’s who you really are as spirit…

Dancing…closing your eyes and letting the music into your heart…letting the beat of the music move your body…setting your inhabitations free, yes watching as you let that dove go…

Playing music…feel your spirit talking as you are making music…allow the words to flow into notes…notes that are shared…

Talking to a homeless person…sharing of thoughts…feeling your soul…

Feeling your connection to everything around you…flowing in the peace that you are connected to all that you see…

Thoughts of loving - just to love… completely and totally absent of all fear…For the real you fears nothing…

These thoughts and actions are but some of the steps to the real you…to that timeless eternal you that you are in this very moment…

if you have ever said;

“Please guide me.”

then take my hand, and walk with me…

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