Is your intuition leaving or leading you?
Certainly, an important distinction depending on if you are willing to live your life to the fullest.
Today I chatted with Iam Saums on what we feel is a very important topic.
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Cheers!
Lorenzo
“When we release the illusion of reality, we experience the truth of being.”
Four years ago, I published an article, “A History of Mystery.” I recommend reading this first.
Rude Awakening
In this piece, I shared a few of my personal experiences shifting into and exploring diverse dimensions. One I am most present to in this moment happened twenty-five years ago. Right after falling asleep, I found myself in a vast domain, standing before a massive wall of energy resembling the illumination and movement of fire. Everything else around me was white space. All I recall was stepping into this energy and shifting into the beyond. Mere moments passed before I returned to my body, awakened by my girlfriend.
The Boundary of Being
Since this experience, I observe this energetic barrier to be a boundary. In my understanding, when we cross this threshold, everything we encounter of this world remains in a vortex of what we perceive as “reality.” All we experience beyond this boundary is the energy of the universe, and its synergy with our soul. When we return to sensory awareness, we are unable to recall our transitory, universal experiences. Our body and mind are incapable of comprehending multidimensionality. Terrestrial existence is primarily instinctual and intellectual, with periodic emotions and rare epiphanies of intuition.
In the Darkness of Oblivion
27 years ago, I was in a musical group and living the party life. One Summer afternoon, I was taking a nap, prior to a performance that evening. After falling asleep, 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. As they drew closer to me, I was immobilized by negative energy. In sheer horror, I found a focus of will power to break the vicious cycle and escape the ominous doom seeping into my soul. Eventually, I pulled myself out of this wicked realm, gasping with terror, as the residual dark energy surged through my body.
Duppy Conqueror
For over half of my life, I have encountered these entities more times than I would choose to recall, in many diverse dimensions, environments and incarnations. Each time, they became craftier at entrapping me. A year ago, I had what I believed to be my final experience with them:
I found myself in the backyard of my childhood home, playing with neighborhood friends. I suddenly shifted to the family room of the same house and heard thunderous footfalls approaching down the hallway toward me. A dark spirit, unlike any I had confronted, held me down on the ground and proceeded to lash me with its fists. Three entities circled me (the same ones from the pit), crawling like legless slugs. I found my will power, and for the first time, released a powerful, vocal roar, stunning the entities into fear and annihilating them for good. The dark spirit vanished, and I awoke empowered with the sense the entities had been defeated.
“The darkness empowers our light.”
The Shadow of Empowerment
What I experience is frightening to my core. It disrupts my equilibrium, intensifies my emotions, scatters my thoughts, frays my instincts and occasionally leaves me physically wounded. Yet, in all my experiences, my awareness, confidence, courage, energy, insight, prayer, strength and understanding has expanded beyond my imagination. In reflection, I realize the experiences inspire a unique, personal empowerment. Howsoever my instincts, thoughts or emotions interpret them, they are all universal. The duality of social reality programs us to believe in the black and white of dark and light. Yet, there is so much more…
Revenge of the Duppy
A few months after my experience in my childhood home, I drifted off one night and instantly shifted into another dimension of my bedroom. 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. Its eyes were blazing with a fiery glee. It had a silver, white aura, and a black form like the vacuum of a starless sky. I rose to face it, (which was the first time I recall moving in another dimension.) As I stood, it thrust its hand into my chest. I could feel its darkness pulsing through my being, viciously and violently seizing my energy. My focused will power severed the dark tether and I returned to my body, gasping for life with every breath.
The Cost of Consciousness
Many may believe consciousness is an illuminating experience of empowerment, enlightenment and ecstasy, an adventure of discovery, exploration and fulfillment. In some ways it can be, yet in most ways it is not. My personal experiences with consciousness have been extraordinary, insightful and powerful, as well as arduous, horrific and perilous. Beyond the energy, focus, intention, balance and expression it requires to establish and sustain awareness, there is a darkness we all must face, our own. This is the most terrifying experience we will ever encounter. It is the cost of our consciousness.
A Solar Return
24 years ago, I met a healer who practiced an East Indian ceremonial tradition. She performed an ancient healing ritual on me, and I instantly shifted consciousness:
I was walking down an octangular, glass corridor surrounded by brilliant light and flaring fire. When I focused my vision, I realized I was on the Sun. I came to a door at the center of a solar flare and crossed its threshold into a large octagonal room. The only illumination were fire embers moving through the grains of its wood-paneled walls. In the center was a massive, uprooted tree, stripped of its bark, with its gleaming roots sprawling throughout the space. There was an altar at its heart, and I was drawn to lie down upon it. I shifted again and returned to my body on the healer’s table. Later, I discovered this was my soul’s ritual of being born.
Our Common Experience
I feel to the roots of my soul we all have these experiences, uniquely sourced by our resonance with the universe. Our only distinction: some of us recall them, while others are unable, or unwilling. Our engagement in social reality inhibits our natural ability to intend and fulfill their eventuality. Personal consciousness creates and empowers our experience. We all have a soul existing omnidimensionally in the universe, which empowers our potential to explore beyond the boundaries of our being. Our absolute question remains: Are we willing to release the illusion of our persona to embrace the truth of our soul?
“Conscious experience synergizes our soul with the universe.”
“We are as conscious as we are present.”
Soul Sacrifice
We are born into physical reality with the feelings, thoughts and behaviors of our ancestors. Existence in social reality is inhibited by the programming of our education, engagement, heredity, intelligence and religion. 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. We are defensive when we encounter anything distinct from our individual and socially adopted narratives. We sacrifice our personal power, becoming victims of addiction, exploitation, fear, influence and insecurity. We eagerly chase peer affirmation for a superficial existence.
The Vortex of Our Oblivion
We settle for a life of anonymity, as it seems the easier way. Yet, surrendering our personal power to entities and organizations, reliant upon our acquiescence for the imposition of their control, is the cause of society’s current conundrum. We are born an eternal being into a physical form. Yet, we are afraid to acknowledge, become and express our unique soul. 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. All who choose to express from their soul are an emanation of the universe.
Against All Odds
We are conditioned to preoccupy our lives with trivial amusements, obligations, pastimes and pursuits. Social reality constantly distorts our focus of awareness from establishing an equilibrium between our instincts, thoughts and feelings. This essential balance brings us into alignment with our intuition, soul and the universe. Our apathy, fear, insecurity, institutionalization, perceptual filters and self-righteousness prevent us from experiencing and becoming the fulfilled expression of our being. Our bodies and minds are cluttered with artificial sensation and thought, enslaving us with virtual reactivity to social reality’s engineered exploitation.
An Act of Will
At any moment, we can shift our experience. 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. Awareness of these probable outcomes are opportunities to break the antiquated patterns of our instincts, thoughts, feelings and behaviors, to align with our heart center, intuition and soul. Conscious experience is an expression of our focused will. A spark that lights the fire we kindle with our vision and intention.
“It is our birthright to create and empower our awareness.”
Self-Awareness
Experiencing relativity in our environment and society begins with understanding ourselves. Not the function, history or knowledge of what we do, yet who we are being. We are all victims of collapsing and compounding our profession with our identity. How we sustain ourselves financially is not an expression of being. Making this vital distinction frees us from becoming prisoners of our programming. We cannot be self-aware until we are related with the universe. Self-awareness is transcending our environment, transforming our relations and empowering our being with our intuition and soul.
Social Consciousness
Once we establish and sustain our awareness of self, we can apply and express consciousness in our social engagement. Our soul, intuition and heart center empower us to be as present as possible in our relativity with society. The most important practice in all our relations is to listen. When we provide an authentic environment of listening, we are expressing our being. The greatest gift we can give to another is the experience of being heard; appreciated, recognized and validated. We inspire personal power with our listening and acceptance of who they are, beyond their expression, emotion and intelligence.
Existential Understanding
Everything exists in some way. Yet, it is not how we exist; it is who we are being. Shifting our paradigm of perception from surviving to thriving may be the best way to embody existentialism. Our institutionalization conditions us to endure the positive, negative and neutral elements of our experience. When we are motivated to simply live through our challenges, we are not really living, we are evading. We misinterpret these powerful opportunities as problems. When we are empowered to consciously progress through these experiences, we are evolving. Our understanding of existence expands, inspiring us to become solutions.
Experiential Awareness
We are multidimensional beings with the potentiality to have omnidimensional experiences. This is our universality, sourced by our soul’s synchronicity with the universe. Our intuition conveys our soul’s empowerment through our heart center, into our mind, body and environment. It is our personal destiny to become aligned, balanced and empowered with our unique experiential equilibrium. Our omnidimensionality creates, expresses and manifests our fulfilled experience. 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.”
The Article Collection of Iam Saums has been active for six years with over a hundred articles published. As a token of my appreciation for your readership, below is a quote from every article on the website. Please click on the article title below each quote to read the article.
Thank you!
Iam
2016
“I never knew who I could become until I freed myself from who I am.”
“Our personal power can only be claimed and expressed upon a foundation of authenticity and integrity.”
“The greatest element of our existence is all that is unseen, unheard, unfelt and unknown.”
“All that is left unseen and untended shall forever be that which enslaves us with our very own fear.”
“Only when we read between the lines of reality will our truth be found.”
“It is extraordinary to create and live a destiny that is an expression of our love.”
“The greatest lie is that reality is “real.””
“The greatest illusion is that we are separate from our souls.”
“The traditional medicine way is not something one may choose to become; it chooses the ceremonial healer.”
“Our truth can only be found beyond the intimidating silence within.”
“Where we once stood with consciousness, we now kneel at the altar of acquiescence.”
“We are in everything, and everything we experience is in us.”
“It is only when we recognize our contribution to the evil in the world, we may begin to transform its existence.”
“We have the right to transform our lives and the world toward a convergence of energetic evolution.”
A Universal Instrument of Energy
“Only with our conscious breath are we truly alive.”
From Assimilation to Transformation…In a Single Breath
“When one of us becomes free, we are all free.”
“Fear cannot exist without being empowered by our belief.”
“Politics is an elite club from which the people are excluded.”
“The true power of experience is not in how it is seen; it is in how it is felt.”
“Our soul is what empowers our being to thrive to our greatest potential and possibility.”
“It is our soul’s destiny to stand in the face of death and choose to live in the name of life.”
“If our consciousness relates us with our true personality, then authenticity unites us with our soul.”
“Most will take, and few will give. Most die daily, while few truly live.”
“It is our entitlement to being entertained that keeps us from living the lives we love.”
“Our eyes are windows which not only focus our gaze, yet also our awareness.”
“All that we give is all that we live. All that we love is all that we are.”
“We must stand for something, or we live for nothing.”
“We are the only ones who can claim the leadership we were born to be.”
“The more we give of ourselves, the more we relate and connect with our spiritual experience.”
“We will never transform the world around us, only the world within us.”
“Community is our living truth as human beings.”
“Dismantling reality, one truth at a time.”
What is Real Beyond What is Real.
“We are not meant to be slaves to our identity; we are created to be champions for our freedom.”
“It is the veil we pull over our eyes that hides us from the truth of ourselves.”
“444 Hertz provides a natural energy of life, growth, progression, consciousness, awareness and truth.“
“Being present allows us to experience the best of our lives.”
“Until we choose our own experience of life, we will never truly live.”
“There is nothing more destructive than an illusion believed to be true.”
“Transformation is becoming conscious to the creativity of human being.”
“The difference we make begins with our ability to accept all for who they are and who they are not.”
Now and Zen: To Whom It May Concern
“The only truth about the truth is that there is no truth.”
“Spirituality is an illusion of being.”
“Voting is an illusion of power to deceive us into believing we are making a difference.”
“Wake from reality. Wake from your dream. Wake from the fear, that is tearing at the seams of the world.”
“Our opportunity to fulfill on our destiny is as vital as the air we breathe.”
“Giving is the greatest gift we will ever receive.”
2017
“Entitlement is the shadow of enlightenment.”
“Fear is what happens to us when we deny our love.”
“There is nothing more powerful than creating our life.”
“We live our lives through the eyes of others.”
“Our vision is the gateway to our consciousness.”
“Energy is not produced from what we do, it is created by who we are.”
“Truth has all been stigmatized, a societal syndrome.”
“Experience is only as limited as we live.”
“Who we are being is the life we are living.”
2018
“We must claim our lives to truly live.”
“Eternity is our soul’s expression.”
“Reflections of adoration and gratitude sustained my bliss till the morning came.”
“We are only as universal as we live ourselves to be.”
“At the heart of every storm there is stillness.”
“Creativity is the expression to our brilliance.”
“Our power is in the stillness beyond its strength.”
“When we create our purpose, the universe aligns with our intention and our soul becomes the source of our being.”
2019
“Energy is the currency of consciousness.”
“Service is the nature of the universe.”
“Light shines brightest in the darkness.”
“Without mystery, life would merely be history.”
“Being is the essence of the universe.”
“Music is the sound of our soul.”
2020
“Creativity is the art of streaming the universe.”
“Alone we may survive, together we will thrive.”
“Every moment is an opportunity to transform our experience.”
“Truth thrives in the absence of reality.”
“Knowledge may give us the world; awareness gives us the universe.”
“Until we discover who we are, we can never be who we need.”
“Enlightenment is being sourced by our soul.”
2021
“Being is believing.”
“Healing is an everyday need that must be as aggressive as our greed.”
“Creativity is awareness in action.”
“Experience is the entrance to enlightenment.”
“We either bury our heads in the sand or choose to make our stand.”
“The death of self is the birth of power.”
“There are over seven billion truths in the world, and one gigantic lie.”
“Reality is a virus.”
“I am no one, and I am everyone…”
“Just because we do not believe in something, does not mean it does not exist.”
“Our center is the compass of our soul.”
“Unity is the soul of community.”
“Spiritualized” The Ego of Spirituality
“Universality is the energy of being.”
“Universality” The Soul of Spirituality
“Awareness begins with the choice to be conscious.”
2022
“We are diamonds with infinite facets of existence.”
“Experience is the gravity of grounded existence.”
“Institutional intelligence is programmed ignorance.”
“Experience is our relativity with being.”
“Our soul is the cost for defying our consciousness.”
The Consequence of Consciousness
“Within every downfall is an opportunity for ascension.”
“Universality is the origin of our creativity.”
“I don’t write articles, they write me.”
“Universality is the expression of our soul.”
“Society is a reflection of how far we are from ourselves.”
“Our energetic resonance is our universal signature.”
“We cannot discover truth within reality.”
The Artificiality of Social Reality
“There is darkness…then there is light.”
Plight of the Afterlife
Centuries of extraordinary experiences have been documented about what we encounter when our soul leaves our body. All who witness these events are empowered to recall their journey. Yet, their personal revelations are often met with social anxiety, denial, dismissal, doubt, fear, insecurity and ridicule. For the experienced few, these encounters are more real than reality itself, regardless of public reaction. Many eagerly refute their remarkable experiences in a quest to discredit and scrutinize all that is contrary to the dogmas in which they are conditioned, or the artificial reality in which we are enslaved.
Experience to Remember
For over 30 years I have had these encounters. They are distinct from being awake or asleep. In my experience, it takes over 45 minutes for me to have lucid dreams, feedback from my mind releasing the past, daily events and unnecessary thought forms. As we drift off to sleep, something happens to us which transcends the REM dream state. The residual impacts of our conditioning and programming constantly impose their influence and deaden our senses. Yet, what happens in that window between awareness and slumber? And why do we fail to remember?
The Fire of Youth
As children, we can. We experience these encounters to their fullest, yet we lack the capacity to articulate, retain, apply and understand them. Eventually, the conditioning and programming of social reality compromises and diminishes our intuitive acumen and awareness. In addition, our exposure to ordinary life destroys our creativity and consciousness, severing our relatedness with the universe. The virtuality in which we exist is designed to stimulate and preoccupy our instincts and intellect, scramble our emotional being, disrupt our connection with our intuition and separate us from our soul.
The Age of Truth
As adults, we gradually surrender our intuition and evade our emotions. We are addicted and obsessed with the artificiality of society. Our social environment is not sustainable to nurture multidimensionality. However, we have the potential and possibility to experience what exists beyond three-dimensional reality. It requires observation, focus, balance, intention, expression and being to align and relate with our soul and the universe. This is the essential equilibrium between our intuition, emotion, intellect and instinct, to ground and center ourselves into the resonance of universal experience.
“We experience only a fraction of the universe.”
The Grand Illusion
Experience, relation and understanding begins with observing, accepting and transcending the greatest lie ever invented. “Reality” is real. None of this is real, at least in the way we are led to believe. It is a simulated illusion. We are born, conditioned, developed and trained to exist similar to a computer program. We interpret it as real because we are seemingly experiencing its commonalities within the paradigm of social reality. Yet, our engagement and investment in this societal matrix is the very energy enabling its existence. In essence, our life force is highjacked and manipulated by the few to enslave the many.
Sacred Space
All life empowered by the universe requires personal space for conception, evolution, existence, expression and being. For us to receive the energy of universality, we need to constantly align, center, ground, express and transform ourselves. There are energetic ebbs and flows in the universe, as there are personal shifts we must frequently experience to fulfill on our destiny. This involves our unique investment in creating, establishing and maintaining our sacred space, a personal energetic environment to cultivate our relatedness with our soul and the universe. This is our true purpose on Earth.
Who Feels It Becomes It
Our lives are lived through our perceptions. Yet, this is merely a figment of social reality. The personal power we acquiesce to our instinct and intellect imprisons us into the linear existence of duality. The body and mind are the dominating elements of our being, often overpowering our heart, intuition and soul. Each one of us emanates the energy to be creative, conscious, empowered, enlightened, intuitive and transcendent. Our choice to be all that we are expresses a universal shift relative to the birth of a star. The torus of energy in our heart center is the gateway for our soul to express universality into social reality.
The Soul Journey
The essential experience we all encounter in the moments between being awake and asleep is when our soul travels. It leaves our body and mind to journey beyond the electromagnetic barrier of the Earth’s atmosphere and known human existence. When we cross this threshold, we leave behind everything of this world to embody multidimensionality. However, when we return through this boundary to our body, we forget everything we experience while our spirit explores the universe. Our instincts and intellect are unable to comprehend our soul’s journey. Therefore, we are incapable of universal recall.
“Our energetic resonance is our universal signature.”
Are You Experienced?
It has taken me over thirty years of experiences to accept, remember, translate, integrate and understand their nature and purpose. They transpire in various ways with infinite possibilities and outcomes. Every time I return, there is an electromagnetic resonance throughout my being, in my body, mind, heart and intuition. I feel these are the remnants of universality empowering me with its multidimensional impression. This essential energy is received and synthesized with my personal consciousness, evolution and transformation.
Beyond the Veil
For the first time in three decades, I consciously experienced this transcendental shift. I was sequestered in a sacred space for days without food, water and, for the most part, light. At some point, I was able to transcend the boundaries and inclinations of my body and mind and cross the threshold into universal being. In this experience, I saw light in the darkness, heard sound in the silence, found clarity in the chaos and felt who I am and how I exist beyond my personal perception. I recalled where I travelled and the experience of progressively shifting and returning to my body.
Soul Return Experience
One reason we cannot remember when our soul travels is due to the intense process of re-integrating into our body and mind. In spirit, we are related with the universe as a multidimensional expression of energy. The best word to illustrate this is “universality.” When we return from our experience, the progression from being one with essence to existing in a three-dimensional reality with a two-dimensional existence is equivalent to condensing an ocean into a stream. This “reality” we adopt and emulate is the dream. We simply fail to nurture the necessary, energetic containment and expression to empower and inspire universality.
Afterglow
Reintegrating into social reality is not the most challenging experience when our soul journeys beyond the veil. It is the return to our self and who we have become that presents the greatest adversity. In my recent encounter, I recalled most of my experience, yet little of who I had been. Though I have become accustomed to these energetic shifts, I am not fully present to or related with the person I am now. I am in transition. As mentioned in previous articles, I am not inspired to simply know about these explorations. Knowing is an interpretation based on instinct and intellect. I am empowered by the experience of understanding my soul’s relation and resonance with the universe.
“Our soul is a sacred space of the universe.”
“I don’t write articles, they write me.”
All the Words Combine
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.”
“Many may know, few will understand.”
Traditional Medicinal
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.”)
“Community is our commitment to unity.”
Video Interview with Lorenzo Malowane of “The New Agora” presented by “The New Now.”
In Love’s Power. Please join us today as we chat about love, power and relationships.
Out of the box, and perhaps, out of your comfort zone, the real purpose of love’s journey, could be seen as a means to clear up all the fears we have created that could be blocking our ‘Happy Destiny’.
Not the ‘sappy-happy’ kind of love but a potential life path of honest integrity and serious challenge towards the ultimate goal of living ‘In Love Unlimited.
Iam Saums has been writing articles, poetry, short stories and songs for over twenty years. He is a student of the Fourth Way School and practices Mantra Meditation and Lakota Ceremony. He uses intuition and emotion as conduits for creativity. His inspirations for writing are consciousness, ontology, self-expression, truth and transformation.
Iam is also a musical artist and multi-instrumentalist. He plays guitar, piano, bass guitar, percussion, drums and sings. He has written, performed and recorded original music in many diverse genres including blues, bluegrass, country, folk, fusion, jazz, improvisation, latin, ragtime, reggae, ska, spiritual and soul. The subject matter of his music is akin to that of his articles.
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“We are an imitation of our original being.”
The Art of Deprogramming
Our choices, experiences, identities and perceptions are hacked well before we become aware. Some may opt to debunk this observation, defending their virtual enslavement instead of being with its truth. It is our conditioning that defines the selective reality we adopt, enabling our self-gratification and establishing our artificial freedom. None of us are immune to these social influences. Our assimilation into the digital matrix is inevitable. Until we observe our individual captivity, experience our personal universality and transform the dynamics of our being, we will always be victims of duality.
The Dream Life
We are born, grow up, go to school, church, onto university, find a career, date, get married, buy a house and a car or two, have children, take vacations, mark time, retire, decline into old age and die. This is the probable future for humanity. It is our common fate. An obligatory rite of passage to sustain a system of authority, control, influence and societal slavery. Our unbridled ego becomes our weapon, impelling us to live isolated from our soul and the universe. We have allowed ourselves to be programmed, proudly bearing the badge of social reality in the bliss of its oblivion. We measure our lives by the accumulation of materiality instead of the fulfillment of our universality.
A Perfect Crime
Social reality is a construct of co-dependency, breeding simulations of advancement, conformity, programming, reliance and triviality. We surrender our personal power to authoritarian organizations for fear of being accountable and honest. Elitist oppressors exploit our deficiencies against us. We amuse, distract and preoccupy ourselves with avoidance, cynicism, indifference and resignation, fortifying our personal prison. This racket is more insidious than any autocratic system in society. It is our self-induced captivity that sentences us to social reality.
The “Woke” Epidemic
In this new era of awareness, it is easy to be manipulated by the influential tides of false consciousness. Society is littered with the kaleidoscopic pantheon of contemporary “wokeness.” Reactive instinct, interpretive intellectualism and volatile emotionality enables and establishes our artificial lifestyle and understanding. Mass emulation triggers our vicious cycles of emotional, perceptual and sensual fantasy. Many of us mistake intelligence with awareness when we allow society to highjack our personal truth. Our unique expression is not found from without. It is sourced only from within.
“Our soul is the cost for defying our consciousness.”
Cornerstone of Truth
Each of us has a destiny to become an expression of universal energy, originating from the synthesis of our soul with the universe. The source of our being resonates with our intuition, empowers our heart center and inspires our mind and body. It transforms our experience, perception and understanding. Our truth is not established with our belief, education, ideology, knowledge, politics or religion. It transcends all social mechanisms, manifesting in our way of being. The universe is unbiased in nature, expressing itself through us when we choose to transcend social reality.
Water to the Fish
Our indoctrination into the “reality” of life is absolute. No matter how aware we perceive ourselves to be with our instinct, intellect and emotion, the social bubbles we build are the barriers of our captivity. Our oblivion is the invisible gravity we sense, confining us into a three-dimensional construct of existence. We acquiesce our personal power as a daily practice to avoid the shocking truth. We would rather be enslaved in a simulation than pioneer the path to our destiny. Even to the degree we defend the egocentric honor of our intelligence, pride and self-righteousness, dismissing every opportunity to experience freedom of being.
A Solitary Way
When I became present to my personal truth, I realized how lonely it can be. At first, I envisioned it through a filter of my ego. Eventually, I shifted my experience with service to community. This is greater than who I believe myself to be. I grew accustomed to accepting myself for who I was and who I was not, and extended others the same courtesy. Releasing my attachment to outcomes empowered me to embrace all I was, am and would become. There is an extraordinary freedom in being ourselves and honoring others in theirs. Being related with our soul and the universe is our destined purpose.
An Essential Choice
In this new era of empowered being, the choice most of us avoid every day of our lives is now a necessity. Consciousness is always available to us. Choosing anything but awareness is proving to have dire consequences. Whether it relates to our personal experience, evolution, freedom, health and quality of life. Social reality distorts and destroys our relationship with our soul and the universe. Understanding this dynamic is our focus to enrich and empower our relations with others, yet most importantly with ourselves. Consciousness is universal energy that transforms oblivion into being.
Consciousness and Consequence
In my early twenties, I was arrogant and ignorant. I perceived the universe as a vast, empty space of darkness. This was symbolic of how I lived at the time. I was a social vortex of ego, satiating myself in every possible way. Social reality anesthetizes us to the impacts of our personal oblivion. For every unconscious endeavor there is a consequence to our universality. When I observed my experience with an equilibrium of my senses, thoughts, feelings and intuition, I began having insights that related me with my soul. Our soul is our expression of universal consciousness, transforming the experience of life for all.
“The consequence of consciousness is universal being.”
“Perception is the deceiver of experience.”
A Fleeting Glimpse
We believe, hear and see only what we desire. It is human entitlement to gratify our wants instead of satisfy our needs. Life is perceived through a filter of our selective reality. Therefore, we are merely surviving instead of thriving. It is impossible to fulfill our experience when we build a personal fortress of imaginary interpretation, perception and understanding around us. We rarely “experience” life, we simply surrender to the constant oppression of social reality. For example, we react with oblivion instead of proact with creation. The distinction between perception and experience is consciousness.
The Perception Deception
The proverbial wool is pulled over our eyes well before we begin to develop our personal acumen for diverse and transcendent understanding. Institutional “intelligence” via education, media, politics and religion processes our experience into perceptual duality. Entertainment, economics, information, social media, sports and world events enable the common illusion we all accept and apply. Our minds are preoccupied with authoritarian programming, while we congratulate ourselves for our social mimicry and reiteration. We deceive ourselves with virtuality to avoid being with the truth. We allow ourselves to be conditioned as projections of artificial intelligence.
Once Upon a Time
Social reality is a fairy tale written by royalty and sustained by peasants. This is an excruciating observation and realization. When I became aware of its actors, storyline and endgame, I was angry, apathetic, hopeless and resigned. As I awakened, I became empowered and inspired by the possibility reality’s antiquated plot could be transformed. However, I realized the greatest obstruction to this transformation was my own social conditioning and programmed perception. There are billions of emulations of interpretation enslaving humanity into the digital matrix of reality. Within its paradigm, we are captive to our ego, oblivion and self-righteousness.
The Silent Surrender
Perception is developed when what is without becomes who is within. This is the imposition of social reality. Most of us inevitably acquiesce to dysfunctional behaviors, habits, impulses and thoughts because we are not empowered or inspired to fulfill our personal destiny. Well before adolescence, we are lured away from who we truly are and may become. We submit to and establish our ego as the core of our identity. As we engage and integrate with the simulation of society, we give all our possibility and power to our ego. This severs our relations with our soul and the universe.
“Perception is what we adopt. Experience is how we create.”
Origin of Experience
One of my most innovative introductions into experience was when I took hallucinogens in High School. It expanded my vision, creativity, expression, perception and understanding in ways I would have never imagined. I remember returning from these extraordinary journeys wondering why so many people chose to define and perceive themselves within the narrow parameters of reality. It opened a doorway to my experience with “universality;” the multidimensionality of being relating us with everything that ever was, is and will be. Though I have not partaken since, I acknowledge and appreciate the benefits they inspired in my awareness, creativity, expression, imagination and relativity.
Beyond the Rainbow
When I was 18, I had an encounter that transformed my vision from perception to experience. (Ref. the article “A History of Mystery.”) For over 30 years, I have continued to have these extraordinary, multidimensional journeys. Some are amazing and enlightening, some dangerous and terrifying, while others are cryptic and profound. These experiences gradually shifted my perception, eventually empowering my existence, insight and understanding. The intention and practice of personal observation allows us to transcend our enslavement to duality. Beyond our reflection is the focal point of our awareness and the origin of our consciousness.
From Empowerment to Energy
Social reality does not empower or inspire us. It takes all we are willing to give, refining it into a dense energy to sustain the artificiality of society. We are eager to accept this as “reality” because we dismiss and neglect our common destiny of creative expression. When we choose to observe, envision, focus and intend our unique purpose, we receive an abundance of energy from the universe. As we exercise our legacy of being, we connect and relate with its flow. Eventually, we occupy this space within ourselves, becoming the expression of our soul.
Symmetry of Experience
Occasionally, we have epiphanies and insights to kindle our authenticity, creativity, possibility and transformation. It is not our perceptions; it is our experiences that inspire us to relate and resonate with our being. The universe empowers vision upon our soul, expressing it through our intuition and heart center, into our mind and body. This exchange happens more often than we consciously acknowledge. However, the primal desires of our thoughts and senses distort and manipulate them into perceptions. Experiencing them to the fullest involves the alignment and balance of our body, mind and heart with our intuition, soul and the universe.
The Dawn of Being
For centuries, we have exalted and prided ourselves on human doing instead of human being. The daily watermark of our worth is valued by monetary prosperity. Being has become “spiritualized.” (Ref. the article “Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.”) It intrigues us. Yet, when it comes to fulfilling a daily intention, we often preoccupy ourselves with mindless and heartless endeavors. We are in an extraordinary era of enlightenment, evolution and transcendence. One humanity has never encountered. This dawn of being is an opportunity to transform our focus from the perceptions we emulate to the experiences we become.
“Experience is our relativity with being.”
Iam Saums 