“Mama, Mama many worlds I’ve come since I first left home.” – Hunter/Garcia
Fare Thee Well
A few weeks ago, I heard from my friend Dave, one of our own from our Leelanau Family had passed away. The first thing I did was play some music for him, as he was one of the drummers in our music group. I sung “Sing Me Back Home,” an old Merle Haggard song we had heard the Grateful Dead cover in our infinite encounters with the Dead as a tribe of firebrands in Leelanau County. As I sang the song, I knew I had to go to his funeral. A few days later, I received a call from my brother that our departed friend’s family wanted us to sing a song for him. I asked him what song. He replied, “Sing Me Back Home.”
On My Hands and My Knees
I chose to head up north for the visitation and funeral service the day before, as my brother was flying in from Florida the next morning. While I drove north, I was not particularly reflecting on where I was going and who I might see, just feeling in every fiber of my being I needed to be there. When I arrived, I visited a little with my parents, then had a video chat with a dear friend of mine from Leelanau County. She asked me how I was being there, probably knowing way more of what would transpire than I did at the time. Soon after, I went to bed, having woken up that day at a quarter to four in the morning, unable to sleep due to the coming weekend.
In My Time
The next morning, I headed to the Traverse City Airport to pick up my brother. On the way, I scanned through the radio dial to find a Grateful Dead channel out of Petosky, Michigan. It would become the soundtrack of our weekend. My brother was a bit stressed when I saw him due to the rough landing of his plane, as he felt it could have resulted in a crash. We headed to our parent’s house and visited, then sang the song we were to sing at the funeral. We went to Good Harbor beach along Lake Michigan and reminisced about our friend, his family and the current events of our home County.
Sing Me Sweet and Sleepy
Both my brother and I shifted into a reflective silence as we approached Suttons Bay, where the visitation and funeral were to occur. These moments were the most we had spent together in many years. We crossed the threshold of the funeral home, greeted by several friends from our youth, many we had not seen for 20 or 30 years. We visited in the company of the open casket, sharing our cherished memories. As the visitation ended, my brother and I joined our friend Dave and our sister Rah for dinner down the street. An animated history of epic hijinks and hilarity filled the bar with laughter for hours until we bid our farewells.
“Going home…going home, by the water side I will rest my bones.” – Hunter/Garcia
A Far-Gone Lullaby
On the morning of the funeral, we sang through the song a few times. It had been almost 30 years since we sung in front of anyone together. Time flew by, and we were once again headed toward Suttons Bay, turning north on a corner where our departed friend used to live. I was moved to sing a song for him on our way. We once again crossed the threshold of the funeral home into the embrace of many more from our Leelanau circle of friends. For the half hour before the service, it was a flurry of reminiscent reunion. Soon, my brother and I sat with our friend Dave in the pew as the Funeral Director began the proceedings.
River Going to Take Me
The funeral home was packed with family and friends. Our friend Dudley took the podium for the eulogy, offering his heartfelt tribute. When he was finished, he called up my brother and I. Mark expressed his sentiments, and we both gave hugs in condolence to our departed friend’s brother Shawn, his wife and their children. As I walked to where we would sing, I felt Shawn’s tears on my cheek. For all the times we practiced the song, it would not prepare me for the emotion in the room and singing in front of our circle of friends for the first time in decades. When we finished, we returned to our seats to the warm applause of our family and friends.
Going to Plant a Weeping Willow
While we were visiting after the service, our friend Dudley rushed up to ask my brother and I to be pall bearers. We gathered around the casket and lined up together on one side. Dudley in the front, me in the middle and Mark in the back. It was a powerful bonding of brotherhood. Mark and I followed the procession to the gravesite, a family cemetery on a country road a mile from Lake Michigan. The early spring sun was beginning to set, and we joined the gathering of people around the grave to bid our farewells. As we laid our flowers on the casket, the Funeral Director declared, “Today, we bury a Son of Leelanau.”
I Love You More Than Words Can Tell
Mark and I headed to the Town Hall in Cedar to share in fellowship with our family of friends. We jumped back in the car, racing to see the sunset at the one place both of us had yet to visit during the weekend, Leland…home. We walked onto Van’s Beach as though the decades of absence had never existed. The sun was setting between the Manitou Islands in a cradle of distant clouds. We reunited with our circle of friends in a celebration of homecoming against the backdrop of Lake Michigan. As the stars began to shine, we returned to the car. The Grateful Dead channel played, “Loose Lucy,” as Mark and I sang, “thank you, for a real, good time.”
Going to Leave this Brokedown Palace
The next morning, I said my farewells to my Mom, my Step Father and my brother and headed south. As I left Traverse City, I was listening to the Dead’s “Brokedown Palace.” I could feel the strong pull of Leelanau County as I had decades before, singing through my tears, “Mama, Mama many worlds I’ve come since I first left home.” All the memories with our departed friend emerged from the shadows of our history. I could not recall the person I was just days before, as I was reuniting with the person I had been and the one I would soon become. I was simply left with the understanding; I am and will always be a Son of Leelanau County.
“Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.” – Hunter/Garcia
I had the idea to revisit the articles I published in 2023. Perhaps for the purpose of completing on the year of compositional expression. As I was putting this together, I observed unique and noteworthy progressions and trends of illumination. I highlighted excerpts I felt were most expressive of this extraordinary new era.
To all who made the time to read the articles over the course of this last year, thank you!
I appreciate and am grateful for the comments, dialogue and insights!
All the best for the coming year! -Iam
The Experiential Awareness of Being (Published: 2/10/2023)
We instinctually and intellectually adopt and enact perceptual filters to insulate our solitary lifestyles. Our desire to be right supersedes our need to express our truth. Through our exposure and interaction with social reality, we eventually devolve into a vortex of egotism. All who succumb to the selfishness of their desire are the vacuum of a black hole. Social reality constantly distorts our focus of awareness from establishing an equilibrium between our instincts, thoughts and feelings.
Our bodies and minds are cluttered with artificial sensation and thought, enslaving us with virtual reactivity to social reality’s engineered exploitation. The contemporary standard of living is to be born, deceived, enslaved, manipulated, programmed and inevitably die. No matter how we may elect to perceive these human conditions, they are the result of the social reality we cling to for credence, meaning, reference and relevance.
Experiencing relativity in our environment and society begins with understanding ourselves. Self-awareness is transcending our environment, transforming our relations and empowering our being with our intuition and soul. Once we establish and sustain our awareness of self, we can apply and express consciousness in our social engagement. The most important practice in all our relations is to listen. The greatest gift we can give to another is the experience of being heard; appreciated, recognized and validated.
Shifting our paradigm of perception from surviving to thriving may be the best way to embody existentialism. Our intuition conveys our soul’s empowerment through our heart center, into our mind, body and environment. Living life in the simulation of social reality may seem like a gratifying encounter for some. Experiencing being in the eternity of universality creates awareness for all.
“Being present in the present is experiential awareness.”
A History of Mystery Continued…. (Published: 2/23/2023)
I found myself in a vast domain, standing before a massive wall of energy resembling the illumination and movement of fire. In my understanding, when we cross this threshold, everything we encounter of this world remains in a vortex of what we perceive as “reality.” I found myself in a domain of utter darkness. I was in a deep pit, and I sensed the disturbing presence of entities all around me. I pulled myself out of this wicked realm, gasping with terror, as the residual dark energy surged through my body.
A dark spirit held me down on the ground and proceeded to lash me with its fists. Three entities circled me (the same ones from the pit). I found my willpower, and for the first time, released a powerful, vocal roar, stunning the entities into fear and annihilating them for good. What I experience is frightening to my core. The duality of social reality programs us to believe in the black and white of dark and light. Yet, there is so much more…
I looked up to see the dark spirit that had been attacking me in my previous encounter, standing over my bed with a wicked grin of malicious intent. I could feel its darkness pulsing through my being, viciously and violently seizing my energy. My personal experiences with consciousness have been extraordinary, insightful and powerful, as well as arduous, horrific and perilous. There is a darkness we all must face, our own. It is the cost of our consciousness. I feel to the roots of my soul we all have these experiences.
“When we release the illusion of reality, we experience the truth of being.”
Ghosting the Soul: The Virtuality of Life (Published 3/17/2023)
“Many of us know how we exist, few of us understand who we are.”
We assume the role of a qualified, respectable and responsible member of society. All the while, our soul, intuition and heart were dissected, oppressed and abandoned, sacrificed for namesake, status and wealth. Our arrogance and ignorance defensively flex in a feigned attempt to appease our pursuits for an artificial sense of security. With all social reality’s narratives, manipulation, prejudice, propaganda and rhetoric, it is nearly impossible to distinguish one’s unique, personal truth from society’s chaotic symphony of lunacy.
Whether or not we choose to observe that entities, governments and organizations impose a virtual matrix to enslave humanity is irrelevant. If we do not see it now, then we simply are not paying attention. The exploitation of amusement, education, media, politics and religion corners us into delusion, diversion, indifference and uncertainty, as we spiral out of consciousness into the vortex of existence. Social programming desensitizes us to the influence and impacts of our oblivious proliferation of greed.
We are an idiom of reactivity, yielding our power to everyone and everything, beneath the veiled, social threat of being held accountable, authentic and benevolent. It does not matter how educated we are, our ideology, politics, religion or status. We cannot transcend our enslavement without being free from the simulation. Every moment is an opportunity to transform our being. Choosing to shift our experience is the key to our freedom.
“Virtuality is how we exist. Universality is who we are.”
“Our soul expresses the energetic flow of empowerment.”
Whether or not we are conscious in this exciting new era, we have crossed the threshold of a universal, energetic shift humanity has yet to experience. Identifying as “woke” in relation to being “awakened” is the distinction between those armed with ego and all expressing their soul. Social existence is the greatest distraction to human experience. In society, we do not have genuine belonging, only superficial relativity.
Every organization in society is a cult, seizing our personal power, as they enslave us with social reality. We are spectators of its virtuality and consumers of our own enslavement. All who choose to pursue their destined path are labeled fanatics, ever confronted by the simulated orthodoxy of an engineered society.
The universe is an energetic field of infinite opportunity and possibility. It is our soul’s relativity with our intuition and heart which empowers us to express it into our experience. The energy of universality is a multidimensional force of being, consciousness, creativity, empowerment, expression, fulfillment, illumination, inspiration and transformation. Becoming one with and expressing the universe’s empowerment is our greatest opportunity for all lifetimes. Flowing with the energetic shift is the event horizon of our universality.
“Discovery is releasing all we know to experience all we are.”
The universe is in a constant state of transformation. Its energetic movements on our day of birth source the unique roots of our being. Eventually, we yield our universality, initiating a schism
with our soul, while condemning ourselves to ordinary existence. Maturity conditions us to devolve from creation to emulation, shifting our experience from awareness to obedience. Within the toxicity of social reality, our bodies decay, our minds encode and our hearts contract, resulting in the distortion, decline and destruction of our intuition.
When we differentiate the external influences from our inner being, transforming our conditioning into consciousness is exponential. Our choice is to either draw the instinctual gasp of oblivion, or the conscious breath of the universe. Conscious breath empowers our energetic flow with universality. Silence is the language of the universe. Silence is a transcendental experience which empowers our relativity with our soul.
Our universality streams creation through our intuition, empowers our heart, enlightens our mind and inspires our body to express our unique vision. When we are aligned with universality to create our experience, the equilibrium of our being resonates with the energetic frequency of our soul. This is our flow with the universe. It is this omni-dimensional energy which empowers our flow and expression with the infinite stream of the universe.
“Our destiny in the New Era is being universality.”
In March 2020, we were given a remarkable opportunity to shift the paradigm of human being, expression and existence. A manmade virus infected us with widespread fear, driving us deeper into social and political anxiety, division, enslavement, judgement and isolation. When the chaotic fervor of the pandemic settled, we regressed and acquiesced to the virtuality of social reality. The webs of a new matrix were woven, enabling the dependency of its subscribers. We wielded our fear and insecurity like a weapon against the opportunity of a lifetime.
We all convince ourselves we are kind, loving and peaceful, though our thoughts and actions often exhibit our personal malevolence. We believe we are a part of community, yet how can we exist as such when we cannot even be with ourselves? Our oblivion to the projection of our anxieties, fears, hatred, insecurities and judgement is what deceives us away from our soul and into the self-centric snare of our ego. We are programmed to interpret it as an expression of intelligence.
Community is a gathering of people empowering and inspiring each other with support and sustenance. The origin of authentic relatedness is our relativity with our soul. Our universal being enlightens and enhances our earthly experience. Transcending the neuroses of the mind and the habituation of the body empowers us to center our being into our heart and experience universality. Our soul sources consciousness to express the flow of the universe.
“Empowering our truth is our soul’s expression.”
Under the Sun: Ceremonial Awareness (Published 9/12/2023)
“For some, it is a way to pray. For others, it is a way to prey.”
Contemporary prayer has become something often motivated by our external wants rather than empowered by our internal needs. When we are honest, our prayers are often self-centered. We spend much of our lives constructing artificial securities, defense mechanisms, financial wealth, professional positions, selective realities and social vanities with little to no regard for those beyond our individual peripheral of existence. We either intentionally or obliviously bring the vanity and violence of society into ceremony.
In many communities, there are some who observe others receiving admiration, distinction and leadership. Their egos are attracted to this, which causes their exodus from prayer. All who truly need to read these words will likely succumb to their cognitive dissonance, ego, pride and vanity. They will claim it is not “them,” as they accuse, discredit and vilify the authenticity of others. We exist in an egocentric society. Our personal survival, success, health and wealth supersedes that of community. Many carry this social conditioning into ceremony and prayer. In this tradition, many of the ceremonies are a community prayer experienced in a circle.
Spiritual leadership is not a dictatorial endeavor. It is holding the space for others to make and experience their prayer in ceremony. When our ego influences and impacts our prayer, we experience only a fraction of the ceremony. Every prayer is an intention to experience the natural progression of the ceremony. Our commitment to pray must transcend our desire for personal convenience. This empowers us with the ceremonial awareness to transform our experience and hold a space for others to do the same.
“Communication in unity is the heart of community.”
Society is not a community. It is an engineered system designed to produce human reactivity, employing multiple control mechanisms to extract our personal power. Social reality is a complex matrix of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical traumatization. When we conform to society, we sacrifice our relativity with our soul and the universe, repress our emotionality and fully integrate ourselves into the mind and body.
We do not express universal awareness to the social impacts of our egocentric lifestyles. We justify it with a necessity for survival, and “patriotize” it is an essential strategy to provide a better life for our children. Our encounters with sense-based reality activate our mental endorphins to habituate us with dependency upon simulated, external gratification.
Community is not about the quantity of people, but rather the quality of its relations. All who stand to profit financially are the furthest from the spirit of communion. Community originates from our soul’s relativity with the universe. The more we experience ourselves, the best we experience others. Our soul is empowered by the universe. Its energy resonates with a unique vibrational frequency, transmitting universality through our intuition, into the centers of our being and empowering our heart.
There is a vital distinction between the ideology and reality of “unity.” Social interaction is primarily a peripheral encounter. Community is empowered by the relation between our soul and the universe. In a circle, there are no leaders. Simply, unique beings who share their universality to the best of their ability. The shift is each person embodying their unique energetic flow, collectively.
“Communion with the universe is the soul of community.”
“Interpretation is perception without observation.”
Beyond our institutional and social conditioning, we have our own personal programming. Whether it is our defense mechanisms, individuation, societal integration or self-righteousness, our selective conditions inhibit our interpretation and perception. When we decide not to practice awareness of our thoughts, they wander into obscure oblivion, composing assumption, criticism, judgement and interpretation. When relationships become personalized and uncomfortable, we tend to talk with everyone but the person with whom we are in dispute. Not all diversities of interpretation are “conflict.” Most are merely differences in perception.
One of the greatest crimes against humanity occurs when we give our listening (power) to erroneous narratives about others; approving with our engagement, even though we disagree. Many go the extra mile, and later feign empathy with the targeted individuals in a plea for clemency and conscience. We do not observe social reality for what it is, we see it for what we desire. Our perceptions are distorted; influenced and manipulated by all to whom we acquiesce our personal power. Living in a three-dimensional paradigm is a paradox of being. It confines us within the duality of thought and instinct. In essence, society is the antithesis of universal being.
Authentic relatedness does not exist in social reality. Before it exists in society, it must thrive within us all. This is the human schism between what we perceive and who we choose to be. In this age of social media and artificiality, we opt for a multitude of virtual communication. The personal conditioning we enact with our self-righteousness and vanity simulates our artificial contentment and security. In social reality, our conscious behavior empowers us, and ultimately others, to fulfill our universal purpose. Being an expression of our soul in every moment empowers us to embody universality; so that others may empower their own.
“Truth is a foreign language, spoken by few and dismissed by many.”
Ample evidence exists in the alternative, mainstream and social mediums to reflect the cruelty, deception, manipulation, prejudice, supremacy and violence within contemporary society. Oblivion has become our pastime. We embody obscurity to desensitize ourselves from our traumatic encounters in society. Every morning we awaken to the possibility of a new experience. Yet, we tend to hop on the human treadmill headed for oblivion. The information we consume is like a virus, infecting our instincts, thoughts, perspectives and emotions. It is our weapon to defend our fear, insecurity, obsession and vanity.
We invest only in what supplements our selective agendas, comforts, narratives and realities. Amidst the numerous horrors and tragedies occurring in society, we engage in the “busy-ness” of our lives, as if nothing is happening. Reality, as we experience it, is a holographic projection. Its primary purpose is to discourage, disempower and distract us from the truth. We engage in a societal simulation. Everything in our daily encounters is an illusion, engineered to enslave us into a matrix of social psychoses.
We may stoke the fires of our feelings and thoughts on social media to project our fleeting disdain with a variety of global inequities. The stand we feign is diminished and distorted by our personal agenda, ego and vanity. With the influences of our social conditioning and selective perceptions, our unconscious engagement in the paradigm of reality establishes the vicious cycles of our individualized matrix. We are an expression of universal energy. Yet, our relativity with our soul is wagered for social conformity. The watermark of our madness is the exhibition of our entitlement. The choice is to remain enslaved by our artificiality or create freedom by empowering our universality. The former ends in finality, while the latter begins in eternity.
“Choosing not to choose is a choice to live in oblivion.”
“We succumb to our fear because we fail to relate with our soul.”
Comments, likes and shares dictate what is heard, read and seen. Popular culture destroys creativity, consciousness, transcendence and transformation. Truth is a foreign language we dismiss due to its incompatibility with social reality. We deny it out of existence with our selective beliefs, information, narratives and perceptions. The superficial security blanket of social reality imprisons us into virtuality. Our anxieties, fears and insecurities are embellished and internalized until they become our psychosis.
We seek God in the direst of times. For most of us, it takes an accident, deficit, harm, loss, scarcity or death to become present to experiences that transcend the triviality of social reality. We are instinctually and intellectually tethered in duality to a three-dimensional paradigm. Creating freedom from societal devices requires us to sever our engagement with the vicious cycles of virtuality. In the simulation of society, we exist in a waking slumber, stumbling in the darkness of our selective oblivion; ever deluded, devalued, fearful, insecure and traumatized.
Our body and mind are simply applications our soul sources through our intuition and heart to navigate our way through the chaos, madness, narratives and psychoses of social reality. The less we engage in social reality, the more we experience the universe and become an expression of our soul. In this new era, we are either an emulation in the simulation or in relativity with universality. Our universal path does not unfurl before us, it resonates within. The path of the soul is empowering our human being with universality.
“Community is present when we are in relation with our soul.”
Conditioned to Artificiality
Society is not a community. It is an engineered system designed to produce human reactivity, employing multiple control mechanisms to extract our personal power. Our personal power is universality. It is sourced from the relativity between our soul and the universe. This is why institutional entities and organizations do not encourage or empower guidance or practices in universality. Under the guises of civilization, industry and technology, our social environment is being converted into a virtual reality. As are we. In this new era, the greatest threat to the evolution of our collective consciousness is artificiality.
Sacrificial Existence
Social reality is a complex matrix of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical traumatization. It happens to us every day in many ways, more than we can comprehend. When we conform to society, we sacrifice our relativity with our soul and the universe, repress our emotionality and fully integrate ourselves into the mind and body. The extent of our conformity yields the degree of our “success.” As we endeavor to climb the social ladder of prominence, we sever our connection with our heart, intuition and soul. Every day, we casually commit acts of treason upon our being. With each personal transgression against our soul, we drift closer to enslavement and further from freedom.
Socialization of Egocentricity
We all have an ego. Therefore, we are all egotistical. This is inevitable. Our initial interests and priorities are for ourselves and our immediate family. Beyond these domains, we show little to no regard. We do not express the universal awareness to the social impacts of our egocentric lifestyles. We justify it with a necessity for survival, and “patriotize” it is an essential strategy to provide a better life for our children. But are we? Or is it that we simply sacrifice our universal purpose, as we concede to social conformity? Socialization is a badge of honor we wield to defend our egocentricity at the cost of our universality.
Instinctual Imprisonment
Once we have allowed social conditioning to segregate us from our heart, soul and the universe, our mind highjacks our universal energy to govern our body. Our encounters with sense-based reality activate our mental endorphins to habituate us with dependency upon simulated, external gratification. We are initiated into reactivity, tethered to an engineered illusion. Over time, our egocentric observations and perspectives transmute this fantasy into delusion. Millions of social stimuli program our senses to receive synthetic intelligence, imprisoning us into instinctual existence. We establish our enslavement in artificiality with our selective encounters in social reality.
“Communication in unity is the heart of community.”
The Commune Paradox
Whether a community is local, global, religious, or spiritual, there is always codependency, control, conflict, dysfunction, manipulation, politics and powerplays. When a group of people assemble who exhibit egocentricity, it is only a matter of time until there is a breakdown in relatedness. Some even attempt to recycle the “commune” paradigm to foster community; offering a patchwork of activities, events, rituals and traditions to attract the greatest number of followers. Community is not about the quantity of people, rather the quality of its relations. All who stand to profit financially are the furthest from the spirit of communion.
Soul Reunion
Society separates us from our soul. Reuniting with our essence is experienced in the resonance of conscious emotionality. The heart is the center of our being. It aligns us with our intuition and soul. Community originates from our soul’s relativity with the universe. Being related with universality is essential in communal experiences. The fullest we experience ourselves, the best we experience others. When we embody this omnidimensionality, we accept, appreciate and understand the unique expression each person brings with their contribution.
The Art of Transcendance
Our soul is empowered by the universe. Its energy resonates with a unique vibrational frequency; transmitting universality through our intuition, into the centers of our being and empowering our heart. Our heart center is an omnidimensional sphere of energy expressing our universality. This energetic torus evolves and expands six feet and beyond our being. Its expression is defined by the nature of our focus and intention. Our mind is merely an instrument, translating universality into human expression for the purposes of embodiment, relativity and understanding. Its momentum empowers our physicality.
Embodying Unity
Unity is to become one. There is a vital distinction between the ideology and reality of “unity.” Social interaction is primarily a peripheral encounter, reliant upon what transpires around us instead of who we are within. Community is empowered by the relation between our soul and the universe. Our universal nature is to synergize with our soul. The purpose of community is to embody the unity between our soul and the universe as an expression of being. In our being, we convey the resonance of universal relativity. When we center ourselves in the flow of universality, we express the energy of unity empowering community.
The “Unity” of Community
Equilibrium is essential when empowering community. There is a unique, energetic flow expressed with every contribution from each member. Society’s hierarchical paradigm is contrary to the universal empowerment of community. In a circle, there are no leaders. Simply, unique beings who share their universality to the best of their ability. Our purpose is to transcend the social reality designed to enslave us into physicality. The energetic shift is giving us the opportunity to experience relativity in its universal expression. The shift is each person embodying their unique energetic flow, collectively.
“Communion with the universe is the soul of community.”
Disclaimer: These are my personal observations and perspectives and do not necessarily represent the community to which I belong.
“Prayer is a way of life.”
A Calling
I have participated in ceremonies for 20 years. For the purpose of this article, knowing which tradition is not essential. I recall my first experience like it was yesterday; being in a room with a group of people I had not met, the specifics of the ceremony I attended and singing along with songs I had never heard. The facilitator of the ceremony asked me where I had learned the songs. I told him I didn’t know them, and he immediately invited me to another ceremony. In all my traditional experiences, I could have never imagined how these last 20 years would transpire, in all their extraordinary ways.
A Way to Pray
I have been told ceremony is all about prayer. This is truer than can be “known.” In my experience, the intention within the prayer is not expressed for what we may receive, yet in how we may give. Contemporary prayer has become something often motivated by our external wants rather than empowered by our internal needs. When we are honest, our prayers are often self-centered. Perhaps this is why our practice of prayer can be ineffective, given our fixation on ourselves and our desires. However, when we are empowered from within to pray, it is a universal calling. An intention expressed for health, healing and support, for all who are in need.
Comfort Zone
We spend much of our lives constructing artificial securities, defense mechanisms, financial wealth, professional positions, selective realities and social vanities with little to no regard for those beyond our individual peripheral of existence. We tell ourselves we will be, give, listen and understand others more, as soon as we have established our private comfort zones. All the while, we allow our egos to diminish and eventually destroy our spirituality, distorting our perceptions of the very people in need of prayer. This malaise we enable, with our personal oblivion, disrupts and severs the flow of empowerment, energy and epiphany we receive from the universe as we pray.
The Nature of Prayer
We have a tendency to habituate our prayer as a selfish endeavor. The conditioned egocentricity of our social environment influences us to demean, manipulate and harm others in community. This is done in compensation for our veiled inadequacies, insecurities and tribulation. We either intentionally or obliviously bring the vanity and violence of society into ceremony. This inhibits and ultimately destroys our prayer. We may even be so bold as to wield our prayer in condemnation of others. We all have the potential for creation or destruction. The nature of our prayer, be it shared with conscious empowerment or deliberate demoralization, manifests the nature of our experience.
“For some, it is a way to pray. For others, it is a way to prey.”
Broken Circle
In many communities, there are some who observe others receiving admiration, distinction and leadership. Their egos are attracted to this, which causes their exodus from prayer. With entitlement and expectation, they desire this acknowledgement, and strive to control and manipulate others to gain a similar role for themselves. When this strategy fails, they attempt to sabotage and/or destroy the existing community so they may influence events in a way to present themselves as the savior of the very destruction they caused. When others observe and address their behavior, they project narcissism to deflect and avoid responsibility for their thoughts, words and actions. In retaliation, they defend their toxicity by pointing fingers of blame and shame upon those who stand to hold them accountable.
Ceremonial Mirrors
All who truly need to read these words will likely succumb to their cognitive dissonance, ego, pride and vanity. They will claim it is not “them,” as they accuse, discredit and vilify the authenticity of others. They cannot observe let alone understand their toxic patterns, driven by their fears, insecurities, trauma and woundedness. Their personal rackets are steeped in mirroring the experiences, prayers, practices and visions of others, in a vain attempt to gain power. They separate themselves from the source and mimic the genuine prayers spoken by those who have earnestly served the community. They “ghost” prayer with agendas of arrogance, domination, influence and manipulation. They know who they are. Most importantly, so do we!
The Personal Encounter
We exist in an egocentric society. Our personal survival, success, health and wealth supersedes that of community. Many carry this social conditioning into ceremony and prayer. They desire to acquire their individual wants, often at the expense of the community’s experience. Their ego blinds them to the influence and impacts their personal agendas have upon themselves and others. While engaged in vain strategies, they will never fulfill an authentic prayer. They are preoccupied with what is favorable for them, and oblivious to the needs of the community. Therefore, they cannot observe, understand or transform the behavior inhibiting their experience.
The Community Experience
In this tradition, many of the ceremonies are a community prayer experienced in a circle. One person(s) is no more or less important than another. There is a listening and regard from the community empowering, encouraging and sustaining the prayer. Personal experiences occur within the circle. However, the focus is on the health, vitality and wellbeing of all. In the community experience, acceptance, belonging and healing thrives, manifesting in empathy, kindness, love, purpose, transformation and understanding. This creates a sacred space of relativity and safety for the community to express the essential vulnerability to empower and support their prayer.
Spiritual Leadership
It is inevitable that people who participate in spirituality will desire leadership. This is pure ego. Some attempt to push their way ahead of others and promote themselves in pursuit of this role. Some will even compromise or threaten the existence, health and wellbeing of the community to achieve this personal agenda. Traditionally, one does not pursue leadership for themselves, it is a role one accepts when one is called into it by the community they serve. Spiritual leadership is not a dictatorial endeavor. It is holding the space for others to make and experience their prayer in ceremony. True leaders are those who would not choose it, when given the opportunity.
Consciousness, Empowerment and Transformation
Our eyes see only an infinitesimal range of the visible light spectrum. Relative to this, when our ego influences and impacts our prayer, we experience only a fraction of the ceremony. Shifting our experience requires us to express our prayer with conscious purpose. Our prayer is a call to the universe; not for what we want, yet all we need. The force that responds to our call is universal empowerment. Within the sacred space of our prayer, we can observe and shift our behavior, thus transforming our experience. Every prayer is an intention to experience the natural progression of the ceremony.
Ceremonial Awareness
Prayer creates a space of community, empathy, humility, service and understanding. It is not a spiritual event to attend, it is a way of life. Prayer frees us from the egocentricity of society, so we may be present to and fulfill the purpose of the ceremony. If one makes their prayer and returns as the same person to the same life, it may be best if they had never participated. Our commitment to pray must transcend our desire for personal convenience. Our prayer is a covenant we make with the universe. This empowers us with the ceremonial awareness to transform our experience and hold a space for others to do the same.
In March 2020, we were given a remarkable opportunity to shift the paradigm of human being, expression and existence. A manmade virus infected us with widespread fear, driving us deeper into social and political anxiety, division, enslavement, judgement and isolation. We took the bait; hook, line and sinker, never questioning the artificiality besieging us. Amidst it all, the opportunity was to observe, distinguish and sever our conditioned dependence upon social reality. Alignment and relativity with our heart, intuition and soul was ever-present, expressed within the resonance of a universal energetic shift humanity had ever experienced.
Social Reversion
As with all things in society, the majority clung desperately to the simulation of social reality, unable and unwilling to break the vicious cycles enslaving us. We had the opportunity to experience and shift with the universal energy of this new era, transcending the duality of existence by becoming an expression of our soul. For many, the neurological dependence on the structure of artificiality proved insurmountable. When the chaotic fervor of the pandemic settled, we regressed and acquiesced to the virtuality of social reality. The webs of a new matrix were woven, enabling the dependency of its subscribers.
All That Was Lost
I spent the last three years creating and experiencing all I could to align with my heart, intuition, soul and the universe. I observed the abundance of transformation society dismissed and negated like weekly refuse. We wielded our fear and insecurity like a weapon against the opportunity of a lifetime. Over the last few years, universal possibility was so omnipresent, we could feel it in every experience. Each of us has the potential to become an expression of the universe. Yet, the seduction of the artificial security social reality provides proved irresistible to a deluded and susceptible society. Once again, we submitted to the totalitarian deception.
An Ordinary Life
We invest more energy and effort into financial wealth than physical health. Many people disregard wellbeing, but incessantly check the progress or decline of their assets, balances and investments. Career becomes the foundation upon which our delusionary lives are built. Though it may be an amazing experience having children, billions of lives are dictated by school and family functions, practices, social events, sports and daily activities and encounters. Social reality fills in the blank spaces of free time with amusement, media, politics and religion. The meager moments left to us are spent escaping the artificial reality to which we eagerly tether.
“Empowering our truth is our soul’s expression.”
Observations and Outlooks
After 52 years, I have observed the numerous nuances of oblivion in social reality. It is primal survival at its elementary core. The cruelty people commit to themselves and each other as they attempt to push their way ahead to what and where they “believe” they are entitled is at the root of our social violence. We all convince ourselves we are kind, loving and peaceful, though our thoughts and actions often exhibit our personal malevolence. We believe we are a part of community, yet how can we exist as such when we cannot even be with ourselves? However positive we project our outlooks; our eventuality is quite the contrary.
Personal Existence
We build a bubble between ourselves and the world with a strategic focus on personal survival. This is so endemic and inherent, we fail to observe the internal and external violence of our own egocentricity, pride and vanity. Our oblivion to the projection of our anxieties, fears, hatred, insecurities and judgement is what deceives us away from our soul and into the self-centric snare of our ego. We are programmed to interpret it as an expression of intelligence. The ego, as it exists in social reality, is a cerebral weapon, enslaving us into the duality of the mind and body. It inhibits our personal fulfillment, as well as our communal experience.
The Origin of Community
Just because we exist in an area with a group of people does not equate to community. My view on contemporary “unity” is akin to how democracy exists. Once in the history of humanity, there was a vision. Yet, the relative manifestation pales in comparison. Given its fragility within social reality, the last few years have shown us how swiftly our selective delusions destroy unity with the vanity and violence of self and familial survival. Community is a gathering of people empowering and inspiring each other with support and sustenance. The origin of authentic relatedness is our relativity with our soul.
Ancestral Universality
Social reality separates us from our soul and the universe. Our institutional conditioning indoctrinates us into a prison of private existence. Our primary motivation is what we gain instead of what we give. We are unable to transcend our inherent egocentricity. There is a stark distinction between community and society. Where the former empowers relatedness and belonging, the latter imposes isolation and singularity. We are all related. Our soul is the essence of our relativity. Our universal being enlightens and enhances our earthly experience. Being is the expression of our ancestral universality.
Soul Burst
The universe empowers our soul to express epiphany and insight with our intuition. This is our universality. Its omnidimensional emanations are received through our heart. Our heart center transposes universal energy into electromagnetic currents, illuminating our neural pathways for their translation and application. Our mind relays the momentum of this energy to our body. During this descension, most of our universality is lost. Transcending the neuroses of the mind and the habituation of the body empowers us to center our being into our heart and experience universality. Our soul sources consciousness to express the flow of the universe.
Being in Flow
The energy we experience reflects how related we are with our heart, intuition, soul and the universe. How it manifests in our present is established with our universal alignment, balance, focus and expression. The energetic shift of universality is available to all who choose to transcend the enslavement of egocentric existence within social reality. When we center our consciousness into our heart and heed our soul with our intuition, we are empowered by the infinite energy in the universe. We feel the resonance of universality synergize in every element of our being. It is the frequency of being one with the universal flow.
Communication is key to everything in life, I would say. Especially the communications we have with ourselves. It does one no good to lie to themselves about anything for any reason. Unless or course your intent is to live in delusion, in which case, by all means, you should continue to exist in a fug of lies. Going within, though, to discover what Freedom means for you would be essential to finding your ‘Life’s Lost Purpose’. – Lorenzo Malowane
I have been publishing articles on this and other websites for over ten years. It was brought to my attention years ago many of the articles I post are translated into different languages. This is the greatest compliment. I have even had opportunities to be interviewed by akin-spirited people intending to make a difference. I am empowered by the expanding community I discover and encounter with every article I write. Yet, there is something missing in my experience, and perhaps those of others. A transcendent relativity to equal the articles’ purpose.
Truth into Illusion
One observation I have made is the limited understanding, dialogue and application of the social awareness and listening into which I write. I will be the first to acknowledge the complexities and intricacies of the subject matter and vernacular I often choose, and the arrogance and pretentious tones my expression may convey. Perhaps I have lost the attention and interest of readers in the process. It is what it is, in a social reality rife with predominately negative images and information broadcast like advertisements for oblivious consumption. Perhaps what I write about may occur as offensive to many, as much as the mainstream media is to me.
Against the Grain
All who intend to express the truth they resonate with, into an artificial, callous and immoral society always face the greatest adversity, criticism, judgement and ridicule. Humanity is and perhaps has always been inverted and regressive in nature. The masses tend to lash out at those who stand for the truth and praise those who manipulate perception. At no time in my fifty years of life have I felt this to the gravest degree than over the last few years. When I offered an alternative or diverse perspective on what has been happening in contemporary society, I encountered social anger, blame, condemnation, shame and vitriol, losing acquaintances and friends along the way.
Defying Gravity
I am grateful to be a part of communities who accept and understand me for who I am and who I am not. When the gravity of society imposes its weight upon us, we usually dance and laugh our way through with conscious abandon. This is essential in a chaotic and challenging age. The window to awareness seems to be narrowing for many. Being an expression of the universe in an artificial world is a daunting endeavor. When the tides of humanity are ebbing toward madness and mayhem, our purpose is to flow with acceptance, balance, compassion, consciousness, equality, love and transformation.
“For the energy of the universe.”
Media Manipulation
Over the last decade, I have observed the declining state of journalism spiral into dis-, mis- and no information, social exploitation and partisan opinion. Authors, bloggers and columnists spar for expanded readership at the cost of their personal and professional authenticity, integrity and veracity. Even to the extent of arguing over nuance in a blind quest to be first, renown and right. The impacts to their audiences have been devastating. It is one thing to bend reality to benefit one’s career or company. Something entirely different to abuse the attention, reliance and trust readers have in an author or publication for the purposes of prestige and profit.
Selective Perception
I understand and accept the design of social reality, even when it has no acknowledgement or regard for the truth. I do not need to accredit, compel or solidify what I experience for it to exist for others. That is up to them to choose to discover for themselves, or not. I understand humanity is primarily conditioned and programmed into authoritarian-driven narratives, engineered to provide a social environment of artificial belonging. In which people have the platform to defend their insecurities behind the institutions of education, lifestyle, politics and religion. To the majority, it often seems easier to abide in fear than embrace love.
Ceiling of Consciousness
When I wrote on topics like consciousness, creativity, imagination, multidimensionality, transformation and universality, I used to wonder why there was a lack of response from the world wide web. Why proactive and positive expressions were excluded into non-existence in a society addicted to vicious cycles of negative and regressive repetition. Even why there was a social dependence on toxicity. Then it occurred to me, emulation has highjacked our opportunity for creation. We are artificial beings enslaved in a digital simulation, reacting to social stimuli projected into our existence.
All in Resonance
Every article I compose is inspired by what resonates with me in the moment. The writing process is intuitively guided. Even the editing and revision methods are empowered by insight. When they are published, they are as universally expressed as humanly possible. One of the only unfortunate elements in the progression of an article is attempting to convey in words all that is beyond instinctual and intellectual understanding. Yet, the opportunity to hone my ability for universal expression supersedes the inevitability that most of the universality is lost once they are completed. The energy between the lines is essential.
Universal Expression
What I choose to write about may not mean much to most if anything at all. If it did, there would be more of a watermark in the world when the tides of the articles recede. I have never had an intention for profit or recognition from what I publish. The website is free to all who choose to visit. I do not benefit, except for exposure from my articles being published on other websites or for interviews in which I participate. This is my commitment to the universe for sharing its creativity, empowerment, energy, insight and understanding with me. I am only an expression of its presence through my experience.
“Empowering and inspiring community through creativity.”
For over 20 years, I have participated in ceremonial community. When I reflect on my experiences, one of the greatest insights I have had is that they are not “mine.” My interpretation of them is irrelevant. Even their benefit and the roles that have come to me from my commitments are insignificant. Another epiphany I had and continue to express to the best of my ability, is being of service to community. I simply hold a space for others to have their experience, however it may manifest, without attachment, control, expectation and influence. It takes everything from me to be true to the tradition and express who I am called to be. When one gives all and becomes nothing, it creates opportunity for everything.
The Human Gene
One of the most heartbreaking experiences I have witnessed on this path is observing when participants fall victim to their ego. It is a delicate and intricate balance to maintain an equilibrium between the prayer we make, and the society in which we live. Many falter in their pursuits to gain personal advancement, power, recognition and status at the cost of their experience and those of the people whom they desire to lead. It is more about manipulation and less about tradition. Many interpret leadership as the quantity of their followers and the control they impose, rather than their service to community. It becomes dangerous when they are insensitive or oblivious to the impacts their personal agendas and strategies cause.
“Spiritualized”
Whenever a tradition becomes congregational or institutionalized, it is only a matter of time before it manifests as social dysfunction, harm, oppression and destruction. Last year, I published “Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.” It expresses clarity into the influence and impact our egos have on our experience and those of others. Many forms of religion have established, enacted and profited by controlling and manipulating parishioners into fear, guilt, obligation and uncertainty to uphold their authority over the many. The propaganda they proselytize is a scheme to prohibit the individual soul-intimation experience. Personal discernment and distinction are vital in creating and preserving our alignment with the universe.
Invention of Programming
All of us are indoctrinated into institutional structures of selective reality. Long before we learn to express consciousness and conscience, we are programmed to emulate a common, condensed interpretation of all with which we identify and relate. This is a social control technique to maintain our enslavement. Most “intelligent” people are cast into a vicious cycle of existence. They choose not to acknowledge the truth that they are imprisoned by their ego with their own denial, doubt, fear and self-righteousness. We have been conditioned by education, mainstream media, religion and society to be right instead of true to our experience. This is what motivates people who believe themselves to be leaders to control others.
“Knowing is an invention of the mind. Understanding is an expression of the soul.”
Knowing and Understanding
Knowing tethers us to thought. Understanding inspires us to be. I would not choose to “know” anything. In my opinion, knowing is too intellectual. Just facts and figures ricocheting in my mind. Knowing is a diversion from observing, understanding and applying what I experience into who I am. Social reality imposes the duality of thought and action into our lifestyles. We are energetic beings with multidimensional potentialities. Our heart and intuition relate us with our soul and the universe. Knowing is merely a fraction of our experience in the universality of our existence. Understanding empowers us to align our body and mind with our heart, intuition, soul and the universe.
Focus of Vision
Epiphanies and insights are occurring in every moment of our present. When we happen upon them, they occur to us as fleeting glimpses, existing beyond our purview. We simply do not dedicate the necessary focus to cultivate our experience. We must express a purpose of awareness and observation to create a sustainable environment in which our consciousness resonates with the frequency of our vision. My initiation into this experience was terrifying, as it was so diverse from the reality in which I had been indoctrinated. It annihilated my adolescent belief, perception, thought and understanding. After I found my balance amidst the fluctuating currents of my experiences, I grew accustomed to the shifts and eventually chose to flow with them.
Observation of Experience
Our experiences are only as conscious as we live them. We exist in a social reality that imposes oblivion as a control mechanism. Our focus of vision kindles our observation to hone our awareness and its expression. Though we are programmed to exercise acuity through a filter of a selfishness, being present to the circumstances and events transpiring around us empowers us to establish how they exist within. Eventually, we create the opportunity to transform ourselves, our existence and our perception of reality. Our observation is the expression of our relativity with the present. The current challenges of the new era are an ideal opportunity to shift and align with the universe and our soul, guided by our intuition, while being conscious of our heart, mind and body.
Expression of Being
In no other tradition have I experienced such an extraordinary symmetry between the personal and community experience. When balance is established, one can have their individual discoveries within the circle. Whether or not this happens is empowered by our unique expression of being. When the shared focus is for the benefit of the people, personal transformation is possible. It simply requires us to shift our focus from our self alone to the needs of all. Being willing to release the social conditioning of our selfishness empowers us to be proactively empowered by community consciousness. When we choose to embody this way of being, our personal and collective visions manifest.
Full Circle
“One insight I would share with those at the crossroads of their soul; be present to your ego and its influence, or you will never have a spiritual experience.” (“Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.”) The primary element to our social programming is believing and engaging in linear reality. Personal transformation is a multidimensional encounter with infinite facets of vision, observation, experience, expression and being. The optimal way to discover who, how and why we are is our relativity within community. We sacrifice our greatest potential with our social obsessions for selfish inclinations. Community offers us the opportunity to create ourselves with our commitment to all our relations.
“Unity is the soul of community” – (“Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.”)
We are not taught how to have the greatest experience of life, or even how to optimally live. We are conditioned through the institutions of education, entertainment, genetics, politics, religion and society. Engagement in social reality overshadows the empowerment of the universe. Spirituality, intuition and enlightened emotion and intelligence are all extracurricular activities, chosen by the few yet abandoned by the many.
Within the egocentric, social parameters of accumulation, achievement, advancement, security and status, all things universal are forsaken, even our very souls. All of us have infinite opportunities throughout the course of our lives to create our unique path. When the direction of our course in life drifts one degree from its center, we eventually find ourselves arriving many miles removed from our intended destination. This is when social reality hacks our experience.
The Bane of Banality
For those who have read the articles I post, it is evident I am not a fan of social reality. I am mainly inspired by creativity, community, consciousness, empowerment, evolution, imagination, multidimensionality and transformation. In my observation, these are the foundations of universal experience. I choose my words wisely when representing the universality I aspire to embody. However, they pale in comparison to the essence I attempt to articulate.
It is not just the phrases and terms assembled to express what it is I experience. It is the energy between the lines that encourage diverse levels of understanding. One that has taken me decades of personal evolution, observation and transformation. I do not perceive myself as “enlightened.” When we interpret ourselves in this light, we often wager our vision, intention, purpose and destiny for artificial power, recognition, self-righteousness, significance and vanity.
Binary Being
Transposing the universal into the terrestrial for the sake of application, manifestation and transformation is my intention in translating the omnidimensional into the literal. This is my purpose. It is evident we live in a three-dimensional construct, existing as two-dimensional beings. What does this mean? Our reality is a domain with three dimensions, length, width and depth. This is how animate and inanimate objects appear to us as “real.”
As human beings we experience our lives through two dimensions of interpretation, our instincts and intellect. Yes, we all have emotions, and occasionally we have intuitive epiphanies and insights. However, our mind and body hold the reigns of our being. As we experience our lives through these filters, we are enslaved into duality. Therefore, conflict and division rages between us. Yet, the battle and distance within us is far more hostile and vast.
Eye of the Beholder
Our experiences are defined by our perception. However simplistic this may seem; we make it more complex. Our perspective often lacks three essentials: discernment, evolution and observation. When we observe our experience, it is an expression of consciousness. When we practice distinction, we create a transcendent vision, progression and understanding. This elevates our perception and empowers the evolution of our being.
These practices cultivate our transformation. However, experience is greater than perception. Our perspective is simply a filter. Our senses have been socially distorted, highjacked and manipulated for the purpose of diversion, preoccupation and oppression. The triviality of society is in stark contrast to the embodiment of our soul. It is the social beast we feed with our fear and engagement. If this is not evident in current events, then we are in conflict, denial or oblivion.
“Evading our soul is a crime against humanity.”
Know Thyself
We exist in the vacuum of a virtual reality transpiring as a tragic fantasy. We are more engaged in interacting superficially in our relations with others, we have neglected our relativity with ourselves. Most of us don’t even know ourselves. Who we believe ourselves to be is almost entirely dependent on how we are perceived by others. Our inner criticism, judgement and reticence traumatizes us to the point of non-existence.
We are shadows of who we are destined to be. The truth is, we are the cause of our unfulfilled experiences. Our obsession with amusement, distraction and information is our avoidance of being present to our personal dilemmas and social crises. Whether it is our career, family, politics, religion or social life, we often evade authentic belonging to sustain artificial, conditional relations. This is most evident in how we conceal and defend our personal deficiencies.
Up on the Downstroke
We are all now challenged in ways we have never experienced. We have been driven well beyond the boundaries of our conditioned tolerance. Most of us are overwhelmed with despair, depression, isolation and sadness. It is one thing to be aware of the impacts these social elements impose. It is another matter entirely to observe their effects, focus our attention, shift our intention and expression and transform our experience.
We must transition from programmed causality to create something new amidst the antiquated patterns of our personal captivity. The common design of reality is one of enslavement, no matter what the nature of our engagement. In essence, we are anesthetized, desensitized and traumatized into the quandary of human existence, it is as water to the fish. In essence, we are unable to see the personal prison to which we sentence ourselves. Our social conditioning has condemned us to a life of death.
Circle of Life
We tend to believe the burden of personal and social transformation is solely on our shoulders. Yet, the more we stand to hold a space for others to evolve and transcend, the greater energy we generate to empower the circle of life. Breaking the chains of our conditions, entitlement, expectations, judgement, insecurities and self-righteousness inspires the awareness and freedom necessary to manifest our personal and mutual destiny.
We are all related. What happens to one of us impacts all. Not being our true self inhibits our unique expression. Our greatest opportunity is to create, empower and transform how experience exists for all. This shifts our social inclination from personal greed to community need. Understanding and practicing acceptance, empathy, encouragement, listening and sponsorship is our collective rite of passage. It is a declaration of our commitment to make a difference.
Ground Zero
However spiritual we perceive ourselves to be, it is futile unless we apply, express, intend and manifest it into our experience. As impossible as it may seem to transform reality with our chosen practice, the fullest expression of its empowerment is best established collectively. Personally, I challenge the objectives of all who proclaim, wield and weaponize their spirituality in the wake of our present global circumstances.
As difficult as it may seem to intimate with our personal and social encounters, grounding ourselves into our experience is the only way we will transform. Beyond the fantasies we invent to escape the harsh reality in which we exist is our opportunity to inspire universality for all. Our observation, focus, balance and intention empower our potential to relate with others and ourselves. Experience becomes wisdom when we bring the universe down to earth.
“Experience is the gravity of grounded existence.”
We cannot blame ourselves. It happens to us before we even understand what awareness is, let alone how it is best practiced. As children, we are programmed by our parents, family, teachers, ministers and society before we can draw distinctions of what is and is not social conditioning. We are told it is for our own good, so we learn to cling to it as a lifeline. Our individual reality is our center of importance. Selfishness becomes our way of life. It cuts us off from society, nature, experience, relativity, each other and ourselves. Yet the perceptual filter of egoism never provides a healthy vision of who we are beyond who we see in the mirror. We are merely a phantom of ourselves.
Common Illusion:
Our focus is our power. The measure of its existence is defined by how it is expressed. No matter how much attention we may intend, it exists within the vacuum of social reality. The intricate design of human experience is riddled with amusements and mirages to constantly seize whatever focus we may muster in any given moment. Our engagement is what sustains the delusion. Therefore, the war on perception for our interest wages forward, intensifying with every view. Consciousness is sacrificed upon the altar of social media for a superficial sense of belonging, purpose and worth. The image becomes more present and powerful than its source. We inevitably become an illusion of ourselves.
Social Vacancy:
Recent events with the virus have not only crippled and compromised the confidence, immunity, tolerance and understanding of the world. It has also isolated, separated and terrified humanity en masse, breaking the foundations of community, compassion and good will. Given time, most things of this nature will ultimately pit us against each other in a race for entitled, self-righteous supremacy over our fellow human beings to defend and protect our anxiety and fear with our own egotistical projections of animosity, contempt and envy. We are clever like that. Able to exploit and strategize with the best of them to uphold our social standing in a decaying society hellbent on measuring success with money and power instead of belonging and love.
Democracy Trumps Narcissism:
Survival of the fittest, such as it is in the US, especially now, is why sociopathic egomaniacs have highjacked and manipulated what we experience and perceive as democracy. Its very nature does not sustain the intricate systems of control, power and profit established and maintained in the business, educational, political and religious arenas. Yet, for the first time in 12 years, we saw democracy in the US come alive, gain momentum, express its power and thrive in the midst of a global pandemic. As remarkable as the last few weeks have been, it is only the advent of a momentous shift in human evolution, community, consciousness and transformation. The real work of manifesting new possibilities begins now.
“It is in dire times when we discover who we truly are.”
Burden to Bear:
There is no doubt that 2020 has been one of the most challenging years. A perfect storm of disease, delusion, misinformation, social civil war and tragedy most of us have never experienced. Though our probable future looks as bleak as the last nine months, there is an evident, stark symbolism. In many ways, we are being birthed into a new era of existence. It may be difficult to see amidst the chaos and trauma that wreaks havoc upon our senses. The structures of social reality are transforming with the momentum of the current universal shift. We all have the unique opportunity to go with the flow of this movement. Now is the time to rise to the occasion and empower our global destiny.
Focal Point:
To where, who and what we guide our attention sets the course of our existence. Our focus determines the realization of our being, energy and intention. When we are impelled to react to circumstances and people, we become a product of the reality to which we subscribe. When we are inspired to be proactive, we become creators of our reality. Our personal power begins with the intention of our focus, the expression of our energy and the unique purpose we manifest. All of us have, are and will always be centers of possibility for transforming any experience we may choose to empower. Collectively, we can revolutionize social reality by being the source of our transformation.
Origin of Being:
Recently, we have witnessed multiple examples of what, how and who not to be. When we turn on our devices, radios or televisions the archaically corrupt models of leadership let alone civility are well represented. In fact, social reality holds little space for authenticity, humility and honesty. The birthplace of being is in our breath. Seems simple. Yet it is always leaving us far more often than consciously taken. In the heat of the moment, when we cross the threshold of inner peace, patience and tolerance, breathing is the best practice we can choose. It brings awareness, being, focus, observation and serenity. Whether it is the life-sustaining oxygen, the vital reprieve from reality or shifting our experience, it is the source of our personal power.
Center as Self:
Whether we choose to acknowledge it, we are inclined to make ourselves the center of attention. It is a default, fixed way of emulation motivated by societal structures to enforce acquiescence, conflict, division and oblivion. Shifting our intention away from our individual experience to serve others in the spirit of community empowers us to transform our focus, way of being and ultimately social reality. The most powerful expression of transformation occurs when we transcend living self-centered by being a centered self. We establish our center by aligning with the universe through our intuition. This inspires us to be centered in our soul. True being thrives when it is experienced by all.
Iam Saums 