Recently, I had a revelationary experience of reunion. My brother and I were asked to sing a song at our late friend’s memorial in our home county. (Refer article: “A Son of Leelanau.”) When I returned from this reacquaintance with my youth, I realized how damaging it is to cast aside our childhood and adolescence in our eagerness to age into adulthood. When we sacrifice our youth in a desperate plea to conform to social reality, we are incomplete as human beings. Every moment is an opportunity to experience our younger selves, that is when we choose to be present to this era of our lives. Most may see this as living in the past, while some understand it as an opportunity for fulfillment.
An Act of Severance
When I was in my mid-20’s, I severed relations with my youth. I was not a terrible person, and I did not commit offenses against others. It was at this age I began my personal awakening. During this time, I adopted an inaccurate and unhealthy perception of myself, others and the world. As I embraced temperance, I stepped into the egocentricity of spirituality, with all its foibles of arrogance, ignorance, superiority and self-righteousness. I broke ties with my family and friends and began the unique path that has led me here. A friend recently reminded me this was something I had to do to become who I am. As I recently discovered, this severance was bittersweet.
A Vision of Reflection
After being reunited with my youth, I was inspired to reflect on who I had been, and why I would have felt impelled to dissociate from my younger self. I recalled being adventurous, creative, imaginative, musical, poetic and revolutionary. And though I reveled in imbibing with my fair share of substances, I certainly was not evil. In hindsight, I observed that I had been impassioned by awareness, being, community, creativity, devotion, equality, justice, music and purpose. In my haste to sever ties with my “wild child”, I had become seduced by what I would later understand to be “spiritual elitism,” which is simply a practice of intellectualizing the soul. It would take me years to shed this self-stigmatism.
The Proof of the Truth
There is no “one” truth. There are over seven billion, even if they remain unmanifest. Each of us has the universal birthright to envision and embrace what resonates with our being. Establishing the foundation of our truth and becoming its expression is our human destiny. It is a solitary path, rife with relentless, social contempt, debate, fear, insecurity, ridicule and resistance. Our choice is either to stand for our truth or enlist in the ranks of all who institutionalize themselves into the mimicry of social reality. We are most present to our truth during our adolescence; before education, heredity, media, politics, religion, science and society manipulated our experience, perception, personality and understanding. Our truth is found in our transcendence.
“Personal truth is our path least travelled.”
The Birth of Truth
Before we are born, we are an omnidimensional expression of the universe. How we empower this into our life experience is the manifestation of our being. In utero, we are profoundly intimated with our mother; physically, mentally, emotionally, intuitively and spiritually. As much as we are influenced and impressed upon by our mother’s experience, we too express the universe in a convergence of energetic mutuality. Both the mother and child share their experiences in a synergistic resonance of being. This is the most powerful human bond. The unique truth the mother bestows upon her child synthesizes with the one the child carries into her womb. In infancy and childhood, we are the incarnation of this universality.
Side Effects of Social Reality
Living in social reality is a traumatic encounter, on multiple levels. Many to which we remain unconscious. Its influences and impacts are accelerating, intensifying, manipulating and toxifying us with our every reaction to its hostility. As we progress from infancy to childhood, we are besieged by a barrage of social institutionalization in the guise of amusement, education, heredity, media, politics, religion and science. Before we are aware enough to nurture our consciousness, discernment, expression, individuation, lifestyle, relativity and understanding, we are programmed into an emulation of inauthenticity. Social reality provokes our reactivity to transmute our experience from universality to virtuality.
The “Rebellion” of Adolescence
By the time we become teenagers, our personality emerges from the passing of childhood into the advent of adulthood. We begin to distinguish between our social conditioning and personal evolution. We become present to all that resonates with and ultimately empowers us. It is the seminal era of our lives when our truth is born. As our youth begins to fade, our perceptions define our experience. We begin to establish the foundation of our being via our relativity to our environment, though most vitally with our soul. Our progression of individuation during adolescence is perceived by society as “rebellion,” yet it is the origin of our personal power. The strategy of society is to discredit, distort and destroy our truth with reality.
The Bane of Maturity
As we “mature” into adulthood, we abandon ourselves, and our truth. For most, it is inevitable. Our attention, energy and focus drift into our external activities, environment and reality. In essence, we become a contemporary version of our parents, inherently emulating elements of our hereditary lineage. We have existed in an evolutionary shift from infancy to childhood and into adolescence. It is in early adulthood when we begin to build our individual bubble of reality, formed by our anxiety, defenses, desire, entitlement, expectation, insecurity, interpretation and uncertainty. Eventually, we condition ourselves to discredit, distort and destroy our own truth, engaging deeper into the simulation of society. We feed our existence with our fear.
Echoes of Awakening
When we are young, we are intuitively proactive (positive). As we mature, we are instinctually reactive (negative). We establish our personal delusion, defined by our social reactivity. Over time, we adopt beliefs, filters, interpretations, narratives and prejudice with all outside of the proverbial box of our linear existence. Occasionally, we encounter visions of our soul as an expression of being. Yet, within the paradigm of social reality, our universality cannot exist. With little to no focus on the source of our being, spirituality is simply a superficial endeavor; existing as a projection of intelligence and confined to the parameters of our mind. The expression of the universe is being. Therefore, our universality is our truth.
The Truth of Our Youth
We are offered infinite opportunities to cross the threshold of our humanity to experience universality. Social reality terrifies and traumatizes us into a constant state of fear. Maturity is an evolutionary regression, conditioning us into an unbearable relativity with our body, heart, intuition and soul. We are existentially adrift, enslaved into the singularity of our mind. The source of our universal energy is severed when we succumb to institutionalized intelligence. Recently, I completed my experience of retrieving my youth. In the spirit of fulfillment, I reclaimed the part of myself I severed. The truth of our youth inspires us to transcend our virtuality, empowering our relativity with universality.
“Our truth is the expression of our universal being.”
“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
Much has been made about how we identify with ourselves. This person is a man, and that person is a woman. Anything outside of the socio-physio realities of our masculinity or femininity is often condemned, discouraged, judged, mistaken and ridiculed. The fear and insecurity of humanity exhibits feigned attempts at acceptance, love, peace and understanding. Even when it has no direct impact or influence on the antagonist(s), we strive to degrade gender diversity out of existence. Society may never be ready to acknowledge, approve or empower a transcendent experience with its sexuality. Being is much more than just identifying as a man, woman or otherwise.
The Era of Balance
During the pandemic, I chose the opportunity available for all of us to go within and align, center, ground and relate with universality. In my experiences, I discovered and embraced the multidimensionality of being to bring equilibrium within and fulfill a profound relativity with my soul. This is not to declare I shifted into a different gender. It is to articulate we all have male, female and transcendental elements of our being, regardless of our physical manifestation. Whether or not society chooses to accept the recent revelations of gender diversity, we are in the evolutionary progression of the Age of Aquarius. The era of universal balance.
Archaic Existence
Patriarchal men need not fear that women will rule the world. Yet, this is probably a good idea, given the destruction mankind manifests in its quest for egocentricity, supremacy and worth. Primarily, men are aggressive, brutal, competitive, primeval and obtuse. These masculine qualities have oppressed women into amity, empathy, nativity and passivity. Toxic masculinity and femininity are instinctual, intellectual and emotional epidemics, condemning men and women into a one-dimensional existence within the social paradigm of duality. We sever our relativity with our soul when we sentence ourselves to the singularity of gender identity.
Unfulfilled Intimacy
Our relativity is not only expressed in how we connect with others, but in how we relate with ourselves. Engaging in personal and social intimacy is often a material and peripheral encounter. When we consider all the physical, mental and emotional conditions we bring to our relationships, rarely is it ever a fulfilling experience. Given the lackadaisical awareness many express in their relations, it is not surprising that contemporary sexuality results in toxicity. When we attempt to fill our personal void vicariously through another, we become a vortex. The loneliness we feel with our significant other is often far worse than the one we endure alone.
“Embodying our soul empowers our relations.”
The Toxicity of Gender
Many tend to camouflage themselves with the social shield of their physical gender. As we mature, we till our personal roots deeper into man or womanhood, accepting a life sentence of one-dimensionality. Our oblivion to the universal nature of our complimentary sexualities becomes suppressed, further complicating the fulfillment of our being and our relations. An unbalanced male may project the aggression of anger, competition, judgement, machismo and strategy, while an imbalanced female may retreat into the passivity of drama, helplessness, hopelessness, oversensitivity and resignation. Embodying a singular gender identification is a suppression of transcendental being.
Over the Rainbow
Gender diversity has exploded throughout society. Many may feign acceptance, empathy and understanding with alternative communities to be “socially correct.” For others, declaring sexual diversity is an evolutionary expression of being. Though these discoveries are ringing in a global revolution of sexuality, our destiny is to establish our unique balance, and transcend the boundaries of gender to become a universal being. Both men and women have masculinity, femininity and divinity. Equilibrium within creates the foundation upon which our relativity with the universe is experienced through our heart and intuition. We are not one delineation, we are all.
A Balanced Being
When men accept their femininity and women embrace their masculinity, universal balance is established in our heart center. This allows us to be present to our intuition and soul. Without this symmetry, we cannot become an expression of universality. The energy of the universe is ever transforming, empowering us to evolve, expand and progress. We are universal beings having human experiences. The universe empowers us to embody our omnidimensionality. When we are related with our soul, in flow with our intuition and centered in our heart, we are a balanced being of universality.
A Personal Shift
For the last few years, I have become more intimated with universality. This relativity is very distinct from gender identification. The experience transcends masculinity, femininity and sexuality. The balance of all creates a being within to express universal energy. As a man, I observe my anger, bias, negativity, reactivity and violence. When my expression is universal being, I experience calm, clarity, positivity, proactivity and tranquility. By no means is this a profession of perfection. For me, it is a personal shift of balancing all elements of my being to create relativity with my soul and be in the energetic flow of universality. This transcends the boundaries of gender identity.
Any Color You Like
Human perception is steeped in black and white. In the wake of this duality, our perceptions often turn gray. The patriarchy vilifies the rainbow as a representation of deviant sexuality. In the eyes of society, transcendent expressions of being are exiled beneath the gravity of social transgression. The toxicity of gender one-dimensionality projects fear and insecurity, condemning us to the enslavement of identity singularity. This new era is our opportunity to release our personal and social programming to express our totality. A balanced being is not about identifying as a singular gender. It is the empowerment and embodiment of our soul.
We exist within a holographic projection, primarily exhibiting a two-dimensional perception. This enables the cause and effect of social reality. We make decisions in a paradigm of duality. Our minds are relentlessly stimulated by our selective preoccupations to deceive, delude and distort us, while our primitive instincts imprison us into a dense, vibrational, energetic frequency. We are lost. Artificiality is transmuting our existence into virtuality. Our air, food, water, drugs, devices, behaviors, desires, thoughts and social environments segregate us from our heart, intuition, soul and the universe. Day after day, we acquiesce our souls to a digital labyrinth of artificial simulation.
An Inconvenient Truth
When articles like this are published, the cognitive dissonance, denial and resistance in society triggers reactions of “conspiracy theory!” “fake news!” “lunacy!” and my personal favorite, “truther!” I get it, we do not want to acknowledge any of this. Beyond our collusion, doubt and uproar, we tremble with fear and insecurity because we feel it to be true. Not believing in alternative viewpoints does not make them false. It simply expresses our unwillingness to accept, relate, understand and transform the social reality in which we are enslaved. We receive a pittance of payback from our investment in amusement, money, possession, status and vanity. We are human vortices; devoid of charity, empathy, kindness, love, relativity and understanding.
The Greatest Lie
Social reality is a simulation projected into a three-dimensional construct. Given we often opt for a dualistic perception, we cannot observe the boundaries of our confinement. When the credibility of our reality is challenged, we vehemently defend our enslavement with the institutionalized data of our intelligence. “Facts” originating from the very source that wardens our captivity. We are all incarcerated in an elaborate, perceptual mirage we indolently relate with as reality. Yet, it is not realistic in any sense of the term. In fact, it is not “real.” Reality does not exist. It is an illusion. For us to engage in social reality, we must adopt our personal delusion to interact in the artificiality we enable and interpret as society.
An Era of Epiphany
As I write this, we are in the four-day progression of the Winter Solstice. We are also in the Universal Energetic Shift that has been occurring since 2012. This New Era is an opportunity for us to calm our body, silence our mind, embrace our heart and be empowered by our soul through our intuition. It is a time to flow with the universe in a way we have never experienced, aligning, balancing, centering, grounding and transforming our being. No matter what triviality in society rears its fearsome head to compromise the fulfillment of our experience, the universe is empowering us to manifest our soul purpose. The expression of our universality streams beyond our belief, comprehension, identity, knowledge, perception, profession and reality.
“We alone prohibit our universal progression.”
The Dynamics of Being
All of us are souls. We are universal energy expressing creativity, empowerment, illumination, manifestation, relativity, transcendence and understanding. Our soul empowers our intuition to conduct our universality into the energy centers of our being. Our heart center is a torus revolving omnidimensional energy from the universe, which inspires our mind, body and environment. When we are resonating with universality, we are expressing the fulfillment of our being. Our relatedness with others reflects the communion we have with our soul. When we are out of synch, we are chaotic, dysfunctional, trivial and simply surviving. When we are in synergy with our soul, we are conscious, expressive, present, progressive and truly thriving.
The Lure of Polarity
It does not require a great effort to observe the impact and influence of contemporary duality. Society is rife with pitfalls of polarity in the guise of gender, ideology, race, religion, politics, sports and war. We are pitted against each other in a vicious matrix of competition and survival. Yet, most importantly, we are programmed to turn against ourselves, mired in our instincts and intellect at the cost of our emotionality, intuition and universality. Observing, accepting and understanding the totalitarian engineering of our enslavement is vital in releasing ourselves from the social attachments to which we subscribe. Living is our decision to integrate into artificiality. Being is our choice to become an expression of universality.
The Gravity of Reality
Given our conditioning and the complexities within social reality, our transcendence necessitates an extraordinary shift from mere existence to fulfilled experience. Even the people, things and traditions we hold most dear are ultimately catastrophic to our universal evolution. Social dependence is the soul killer, seizing universality from all who exist in its oblivion. As our desperation, envy, fear, insecurity and misery crave violence, our consciousness evaporates when exposed to the brutality of an egocentric society. The artificial belonging of socialization annihilates our authentic relativity with the universe, our soul, our being and all our relations. There is no other way to say it. We need to pull our heads out of our asses, and that of society!
All That Is True
Nothing is ever as it seems. Every time we enable our dependence on social reality, we are discarding our personal truth. Anyone who professes the arrogance to know another’s truth, either through congregational education, ideology, religion, politics, science or spirituality, is the personification of social tyranny. Aligning, relating and becoming our unique truth is a path we alone must pioneer, empowered by the universe though our soul, intuition and heart. When we shift into our unique energetic flow, we become an expression of its transcendent resonance. We must sever our tether with society and cross the threshold of what we believe or think we know, to become and experience all we are as an expression of universal truth.
The Ties That Blind
Social reality is about achievement, advancement, competition, domination, success and wealth. The universe, spirit, intuition and heart have little to no value in society. They are all interpreted as weaknesses to be exploited for egocentricity. Social reality casts its spell to anchor us into the dense, vibrational frequencies of conflict, cruelty, fear, insecurity, limitation and oppression. Our hopelessness, neglect, oblivion and reluctance build the security bubble of our individualized existence. When we dismiss the empowerment of the universe and our soul, our energy wanes and is transmuted into involuntary projections of our personal malevolence. These are the ties that bind us to social reality, preventing our universal progression.
Universal Progression
Being is a universal movement, the evolution of our energetic resonance. The natural sequence of existence commonly involves the programming of the mind and the toxification of the body. Our universal progression is an experience distinct from mere existence. The relativity of our soul with the universe (universality) emanates an omnidimensional energy, expressed through our intuition, into our energy centers and empowered by our heart. We either subscribe to the social procession of living to survive, or we choose to become a universal progression of being and thrive. The Winter Solstice and the Universal Energetic Shift are opportunities for us to flow with universality. This New Era is the quickening of our universal progression.
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.
What I choose to write about is not popular. The readership for the subject matter is few and far between. I am aware of this, and I embrace it. For the majority, personal awareness, evolution and understanding is irrelevant amidst the chaos, mania, narratives and psychoses of social reality. Amusement, entertainment, alternative, mainstream and social media, politics, religion, science and sports reign supreme in the clouded minds of the masses. Comments, likes and shares dictate what is heard, read and seen. Popular culture destroys creativity, consciousness, transcendence and transformation.
The Gravity of Truth
We frequently seek to discredit all that is true. 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. We emulate generational conditioning, enabling society’s profane paradigm. How we exist in social reality is not “real.” We simply construct personal delusions within its illusion to satiate our programmed appetites for social advancement. This is the vortex of society, transmuting our existence into virtuality. We cannot transcend the human aquarium when we refuse to believe it exists.
The Dark Arts
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. By premeditated design, we are victimized in every way. Authoritarian entities and organizations weaponize information with alternative, mainstream and social media via entertainment, news, politics, religion, science and sports. Our inherent human penance is to endure a perpetual state of delusion, fear and trauma. As we focus our attention upon the endless negativity in social reality, we sacrifice our universality.
The Lie of Belief
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. When unbearable events transpire, we race to religion in supplication for the deficiencies of our being. We offer our personal power as payment to be saved from our self-subscribed fate. This is the lie we inherit from previous generations who brandish oblivion in the face of consciousness. However, congregational belief pales in comparison to pioneering our universal path with evolution, revelation and transformation.
“We succumb to our fear because we fail to relate with our soul.”
Social Enslavement
We all have a desire to shift our experience in social reality. Yet, we are instinctually and intellectually tethered in duality to a three-dimensional paradigm. In the Matrix movies, we are shown a powerful example of our social oppression. Human beings are kept in stasis, connected to wires ported into multiple locations of their bodies. They exist in a digital simulation, imprisoned in individual pods designed to harvest their energy. This enables artificial intelligence to keep them enslaved. Seem familiar? Creating freedom from societal devices requires us to sever our engagement with the vicious cycles of virtuality.
Rude Awakening
When we engage in social reality, we remain in our personal pods, tethered to the technology that separates us from our heart, intuition, soul and the universe. 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. We are in the wake of a universal energetic shift to empower our creativity, consciousness, transcendence and transformation. Before we can become a unique expression of universal flow, we must detach from the simulation of social reality and free ourselves from the enslavement of its virtuality. The sleeper must awaken!
Find Your Flow
Each one of us is a unique being of universal energy. The shift is our opportunity to align, balance, center and express our universality. We are omnidimensional beings empowered by the universe. 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 equilibrium of our being is essential for our soul to express the resonance of universality. Our collective destiny is allowing our soul to empower our human experience.
Face the Music
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. We observe and experience .0005% of the known universe, even less through our filters of belief, delusion, interpretation and selective reality. We all must face the music of our social malevolence. No matter the measure of our egocentricity; arrogance, denial, desire, entitlement, greed and self-righteousness, our greatest opportunity in transcending social reality is to embody our soul.
The Path of the Soul
When we are born, we are in flow with universal energy. Most of us live our whole lives in social oblivion. In rare occurrences, we experience universality. However, due to our institutional, hereditary and social conditioning, we dismiss our universal experiences before they manifest. We misinterpret them as a flight of fancy and denigrate them with our egocentricity. We fail to shift our linear existence into omnidimensional experience. In this new era, our universal path does not unfurl before us, it resonates within. The path of the soul is empowering our human being with universality.
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. The common element in these human behaviors is ego. The mind is a complex organism with conscious, intuitive and subliminal activity. It is a dense forest within which we often lose ourselves. Yet, it is not the thoughts we conjure, it is the point of perception we adopt and apply to navigate our way through the nuances of social reality.
Mirages of Interpretation
When we decide not to practice awareness of our thoughts, they wander into obscure oblivion, composing assumption, criticism, judgement and interpretation. Whether it is of ourselves or others, the absence of our communication results in our perceptual dissonance. Eventually, this spirals out of control, and we lose our compass of understanding. Social reality is rife with collusion, delusion and illusion, fabricating a plethora of personal narratives which induce infinite mirages of interpretation. Our egos proliferate the stories we invent of ourselves and others, distorting and inhibiting our experience and relativity.
Peripheral Contact
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. It is evident that all who were not present in our exchange(s) will be unable to provide accuracy, empathy and neutrality. Yet, we race to the first available sounding board who will quench our desire for consensus and conspiracy, regardless of our errant objectives. Our impulse is to blame and shame our opposition. In a quest to relieve ourselves of our anger, hurt and upset, we invest in malevolent actions, thoughts and feelings. Our personal toxicity becomes viral, as our venom metabolizes into our disease.
Once Upon a Time…
Our universal nature is to be creative, energetic and kind. As we “mature,” this natural expression devolves into adopting and inventing narratives and storylines of ourselves and others to occupy lapses in our communication. This becomes a justifiable practice, particularly when we lose touch with our relations and vice versa. We harbor pre-conceived delusions, believing them into existence as truth. 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.
“Interpretation is perception without observation.”
Perceptual Reality
How we perceive our experiences is not how they occur. Before we establish our consciousness, institutionalization imposes intolerant filters of interpretation. We do not observe social reality for what it is, we see it for what we desire. The driving force of our interaction is based on our personal fears, guilt, insecurities and self-invalidation. Most of us don’t even exist, let alone evolve and thrive. Our engagement is often reactionary to the nuances of our environment. Therefore, our perceptions are distorted; influenced and manipulated by all to whom we acquiesce our personal power. Social perception is an energetic vortex, seizing every ounce of our attention, inspiration and motivation. It is the hostile takeover of our being, destroying our relativity with universality.
The Virtuality of Society
Reality, as we are conditioned to interpret, is contrary to our heart, intuition, soul and the universe. Living in a three-dimensional paradigm is a paradox of being. It confines us within the duality of thought and instinct. We have fleeting moments of epiphany, insight and transformation. However, the watermark of our extraordinary experiences vanishes, much as the impression of an ebbing wave on a beach. We may even opt to chase them, or place ourselves in environments of spirituality, though the dynamics of social reality annihilate our universality with its very existence. In essence, society is the antithesis of universal being.
The Relativity of Universality
Authentic relatedness does not exist in social reality. Our current, collective awareness simply lacks the acumen to comprehend the omnidimensionality of universal being. Universality is present in our every experience, available to all who synergize with its resonance. However, society stigmatizes the adoption, expression and embodiment of universality. Who we are being establishes what we manifest. Relativity is about being empowering and supportive of ourselves and others. 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.
Incommunicado
In this age of social media and artificiality, we opt for a multitude of virtual communication. Perhaps it is our amusement, indolence, obsessions, pre-occupation and routines which sentence us to the self-imposed isolation we now exhibit as contemporary, human nature. The personal conditioning we enact with our self-righteousness and vanity simulates our artificial contentment and security. It is an evasion of our opportunity to authentically relate with ourselves and others. Yet, it is our relationship with our heart, soul and the universe which empowers the experience we equate with belonging, and its eventuality as community.
The Embodiment of Soul
The deeper we spiral down the vortices of misinterpretation, misrepresentation and misunderstanding, the further we are from ourselves, others and the universe. The energetic shift now available is to observe, understand and transform the feelings, thoughts, words and actions we express as a universal way of being. In social reality, our conscious behavior empowers us, and ultimately others, to fulfill our universal purpose. It is who we are and why we exist in this paradigm. Being an expression of our soul in every moment empowers us to embody universality; so that others may empower their own.
Universal Relativity
Relatedness with each other is essential. The source of our social interaction is the unique relativity we experience with the universe. When we observe, understand and express our universality, we shift from the endless nuances of contemporary artificiality into the infinite possibility of universality. Releasing the social deficiencies of interpretive filters, judgements, opinions and prejudice empowers us to accept and embrace each other as we are, and as we are not. Our opportunity for community is in our listening. This transforms social reality. Being universality collectively is how we experience universal relativity.
“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.
Iam Saums 