Human Interest

The Blind Spot

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“Truth is a daydream in the illusion of reality.”

No Men in No Man’s Land

Integrity: “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness: the state of being whole and undivided.”  When we read this definition, the opening quote rings true.  We can feign it all we want.  However, when we contemplate our authenticity, it is as foreign to us as our soul.  We have an excess of bias, concepts, filters, interpretations, judgements, perspectives and programming.  So many perceptual preoccupations that manufacture our personal delusion.  We cannot see reality, nor truth for that matter.  Instead, we stumble around in the darkness of our individual oblivion.  We are enslaved by the stimuli of society; trapped in infinite, vicious cycles until our inevitable demise. 

The Tail of the Coyote

The coyote is a trickster who revels at pulling pranks on others.  Occasionally, he will chase his own tail and bite it.  Momentarily, it shocks him, then he attempts to solve the enigma of this abuse.  Eventually he realizes that it was indeed him that bit his own tail.  In time, the coyote chases his tail until he bites it again.  This happens over and over.  Until nature intervenes and interrupts his hysteria.  This is us! We are the tail, and our ego is the coyote.  Although this by no means is a flattering fable, it is a true portrayal of humanity.  There is only one difference between the coyote and us: we have severed our connection with the natural world.  We neglect to exercise oversight and free ourselves from the patterns of our egocentricity.

Cheaters and Lest

Instead of learning lessons from our setbacks and revealing insights to shift into a new way of being, we often strategize for an angle, looking up the answers instead of establishing our own.  We are socially conditioned for instant gratification.  We call this “success,” then move onto the next achievement.  Recently, a college football team in my area won a championship.  However, a few weeks into the season, they were caught in an elaborate cheating scandal.  The league levied multiple violations on the program.  When I mentioned this fact to some of my friends who are fans, they dismissed it as “fake news.”  I observed how strong their delusion was in defense of their team.  This is the equivalent of Trump supporters insisting the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen.

The Power of Narrative

Alternative and mainstream media reports biased, agenda-driven opinions about current events.  Our information sources are no longer factual, they are editorial.  Narrative has been distorted by agendas to influence the ideologies and perceptions of society.  To whichever side we may gravitate: Democrat/Republican, Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Palestine, religious/spiritual, vaccinated/unvaccinated or this team/that team, we are pawns upon a global chessboard of control, power and profit.  Believing our vote, faith, politics, vaccination status or sports fandom bears any social authority is our personal delusion, within the illusion we misinterpret as “reality.”  The power of narrative deceives the world.

“Disingenuity is our social disease.”

The Cult of Society

Every day, we engage in social addictions via entertainment, media, politics, religion, sports and otherwise.  When we sacrifice our conscience, empathy, intelligence, morality, relativity and understanding for superficial fellowship, we subscribe to the cult of society.  Corporations, entities and organizations broadcast ideology, indoctrination, rhetoric and propaganda.  They proliferate synthetic information, intelligence, faith, health, spirituality, success and wealth, all within the social conformity of a congregational environment.  Those who pander a “one truth for all” program are simply pyramid schemes exploiting popular belief as a cover for their cult.    

Badge of Honor

Through our personal and social institutionalization, we are conditioned to sacrifice our dignity upon society’s altar of ego. We desensitize ourselves from the horrific realism in which we are enslaved.  It is a human standard to sever our relativity with our heart, soul and the universe, as we engage in and endure social reality.  Our individual oblivion sustains the customized bubble in which we defend our ignorance, pride and prejudice.  We justify ourselves with our repressed malevolence in the toxic environment of a violent, hierarchical society.  Then we lionize and patriotize our inhumane behavior as our badge of honor, with our arrogance, entitlement and self-righteousness.

The Real World

In The Matrix, Morpheus reveals to Neo the illusion in which he was enslaved.  He shows him the “real world,” a wasteland of destruction, where machines harvest energy from millions of humans encased in pods.  We do not want to be introduced to the real world.  We see, hear, feel and sense only what indulges our dependencies.  What we most desire is the illusion.  Quite literally, we are “living the dream.”  Our denial is so paramount, we defend sinister corporations, entities, governments and organizations who control, enslave and manipulate us.  The real world is consumption, disease, delusion, failure, pain, violence and war.  For all the truth we could express, illusion is what we enable.

Wake Up!

Since adolescence, I had always felt as though there was something severely wrong with society.  When I became aware of the smoke and mirror show that is “reality,” I was enraged.  Over the last few decades, I have become more present to its deception.  I learned how to transform my anger into creativity, and ultimately consciousness.  I awakened from my daydream, clarified the nature of reality and became an expression of my truth.  This transformation has taken longer than my institutional, personal and social programming.  We have lived our whole lives in our delusion, within the illusion of society.  Before we free ourselves from the simulation, we must wake up to the reality of our truth.

The Reality of Truth

There are over seven billion truths in the world.  Our personal truth is meant for us alone to embody and express.  We will never discover it in the congregational domains of amusement, education, media, politics, religion or science.  These are all just social vortices that divert us from our destiny.  The greatest truth we will ever experience is our soul.  It is our relativity with the universe.  Our prosaic personality is the blasphemy of our universal being.  When we delude ourselves into seeking our truth in reality, we exile ourselves from universality.  It is a unique path we must pioneer with consciousness, creativity, purpose, transformation, will and understanding.  The reality of our truth transcends our triviality.

The Blind Spot of Oblivion

Oblivion to our soul abolishes our energetic flow with the universe.  Social manipulation is the watermark of our progression.  Evolution does not exist in society.  Only the simulated procession of time that passes as maturity beneath the gravity of age.  The artificiality of our social reality is the bane of our existence.  It consumes our consciousness with the singular purpose of soul extinction.  We are overwhelmed with social stimuli, which enslaves us with our own anxiety, disease, fear, insecurity, pain and trauma.  We adopt our victimization by investing in an illusion, and engaging in a society that distorts, exploits and extracts our energy.  Our personal delusion is the blind spot of our oblivion.

“Transcending our oblivion is the origin of our awakening.”

Any Color You Like

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“Gender identity is only a facet of who we are.”

Gender Bender

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 are an expression beyond imagination.”

A Simple Choice

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“There is a vital distinction between being human and human being.”

Across the Great Divide

Ample evidence exists in the alternative, mainstream and social mediums to reflect the cruelty, deception, manipulation, prejudice, supremacy and violence within contemporary society.  These characteristics can be best observed in the societal conditioning of belief, heredity, ideology, lifestyle, opinion, politics and theory.  The social reality we enable with our engagement is a dream within an illusion, within a nightmare.  One from which most never awaken.  The duplicity of our daily encounters and our linear awareness, perception and understanding enslaves us into the sophisticated matrix of social reality.

The Cost of Oblivion

Some say oblivion is bliss.  Until the escapism in which we enroll is overpowered by the reality we attempt to avoid.  Whether it is amusement, education, entertainment, media, politics or religion, we cannot evade the truth of ourselves, even amidst the mayhem of the current reality.  Oblivion has become our pastime.  We embody obscurity to desensitize ourselves from our traumatic encounters in society.  It is our evasion of accountability and authenticity with our actions, behaviors, emotions, thoughts and words.  Ultimately, we detach from our heart and soul, allowing ourselves to invoke and project the toxicity of our unconscious malevolence.   

Something Wicked This Way Comes

We need to look no further than current events to take a pulse of humanity.  With the extremity of radical interpretations and perceptions, it is evident society is in a dark age of arrogance, competition, control, entitlement, fear, judgment, negligence, superficiality and vanity.  The selective lifestyles we enact, be they preoccupied with the trivialities of career, consumption, disease, domesticity, routine, wealth, tradition and toxicity, bring us closer to our premature demise.  Every morning we awaken to the possibility of a new experience.  Yet, we tend to hop on the human treadmill headed for oblivion.    

Viral Information

We do not “know” anything.  Our selective perceptions and realities blind us to what is really happening in the world.  Institutionalized information via education, history, media, politics, religion and science, conditions us to abide by what authoritarian entities and organizations enforce and impose.  When someone challenges these societal programs, the indoctrinated cry “conspiracy theory!” and demean, discredit and destroy all who deviate from the social norm.  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.

“Truth is a foreign language, spoken by few and dismissed by many.”

Reality Colored Vision

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.  We choose to deny the existence of abuse, death, disease, hate, genocide, inequality, injustice and war in defense of our superficiality to safeguard ourselves and our family.  With our conditioned perceptions, we invent fairy tales to whitewash the malevolence of social reality, then impose them on our children to avoid the trials and tribulations of the truth.  Our self-righteousness supersedes our conscience.  

The Dream Within the Dream

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.  Our belief in the charade makes it our personal delusion.  Our inauthenticity, irresponsibility, and self-righteousness enable our linear captivity.  Wealth and vanity are the dangling carrots to ensure our engagement, and the proliferation of social reality.  Every day, we sacrifice our souls upon the altar of society for a fantasy of fame and fortune.    

The Stand We Feign

Whatever reaction we select to focus our contempt upon the numerous social injustices we encounter, our protests wane with the absence of our vision, devotion, intention and expression.  We may stoke the fires of our feelings and thoughts on social media to project our fleeting disdain with a variety of global inequities.  Yet, the fulfillment we desire and the difference we intend always misses the mark.  In essence, we fail to land our purpose, simply because the longevity of our commitment is compromised by our desire for instant gratification.  The stand we feign is diminished and distorted by our personal agenda, ego and vanity.  

Vicious Cycles of Reality

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 confined in a digital, interactive network defined as society.  Our oblivion to the full scope of its artificiality enables its existence, as well as our enslavement in its virtual program.  It is what we choose to believe is “real.”  Everything we encounter in social reality is stimuli designed to provoke our reactivity.  Our personal power is acquiesced when we engage.  We focus our attention (energy) on the dream to evade reality at the cost of our truth.    

The Entitlement of Life

We are born into a three-dimensional construct and conditioned with a two-dimensional awareness.  We are an expression of universal energy.  Yet, our relativity with our soul is wagered for social conformity.  As we mature, we learn all the nuances of how to distort and manipulate the societal system to serve our selective desire.  We call this success, massaging our egos and pride while the world burns down around us.  We could not care less about what happens to the rest of humanity.  We simply want to be amused, deluded, exalted and gratified.  The watermark of our madness is the exhibition of our entitlement.  

A Simple Choice

Generations of social enslavement have brought us to this vital era of vision, epiphany, revelation and transformation.  Relativity, truth and understanding are more prevalent than ever.  The current universal energetic shift is our opportunity to empower and embody our unique expression.  Within the domains of business, finance, health, media, politics, religion, science and war, we are conditioned to be victims of society.  Social reality is a simulation of artificiality.  Our oblivion to its influence seals our inevitable fate.  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.”

Written in the Stars

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“Writing is my expression of streaming the universe.”

The Heart of It All

The content I write about in these articles is not popular, nor does it fit the engineered storylines aggressively broadcast by mainstream entities and organizations.  Their strategic narratives are biased, perceptual interpretations “based” on fact, yet very distinct from truth.  Social reality is not “reality” at all.  It is simply a virtual analysis of events analyzed by “experts.” (Those who are indoctrinated into societal institutionalization to the “degree” they are unable to create their own unique observation.)  What I am inspired to write may often be read as trivial by the standards of elementary social survival.  For many, the articles simply are not relevant. 

Alternative Propaganda

My friend Elva recently asked me why I thought more people were not reading our articles, and did those who “like” them on social media actually read them?  I pondered this and realized, what we choose to write is so diverse from the narratives of society, it falls on blind eyes.  In my humble observation, even alternative media networks are steeped in the dualistic paradigm of social reality.  Otherwise, they probably would not have as many people clicking, following, liking and sharing their content.  Such as it is, for all who promote themselves at the expense of their authenticity, consciousness, ethics, experience and integrity.

Social Impressions

Before I had the cognizance of awareness, reality and society always rubbed me the wrong way.  It is disempowering, oppressive and superficial.  Whatever justification we feign to accept, adopt and assimilate into reality, it will always be a social vortex, prodding us into the oblivion of action, thought and egocentricity.  To me, it is all about acknowledging we have been swindled into solitary, selfish and trivial lifestyles, enabling a dream for the few, and a nightmare for the many.  I feel some people may read these articles and identify me as a conspiracy theorist, radical or even an extremist.  Believe what you want, you will anyway!

Beyond Reason

I have always endured a degree of criticism, judgement and ridicule.  Most of us have.  Fortunately, I have become accustomed to the social backlash in response to my controversial and diverse observations and perspectives.  They have become a watermark for me to measure their impressions.  Yet, society marches on to the beat of its arrogance, entitlement, politics, religion and self-righteousness.  I do not begrudge these aspects of human nature.  I simply choose not to give them my attention, energy, listening or reaction.  We cannot enforce, impose or even inspire others to shift.  They must create this for themselves.  

“I am not interested in knowing anything.  I am empowered by understanding everything.”

From the Inside Out

My method of writing is intuitively extensive.  It is an intimate experience that brings great insight and understanding.  It usually takes a week, sometimes two, to write, re-write, edit, revise and publish an article.  I am not paid for this.  Yet, I do experience a personal fulfillment that transcends monetary return.  I take great risk in sharing my observations and perspectives, especially now.  Some may classify me as a revolutionary or even a terrorist, simply because I express viewpoints most would choose to ignore.  I do not have attachments or expectations of how they will be received.  This brings me an abundance of awareness, energy, freedom and inspiration.        

The Progression of Composition

With every article, there are initial sparks of insight, creating a momentum of conscious empowerment, and an expansive environment for understanding and literary expression.  I become present to all beyond my own experience, observation and interpretation.  My greatest challenge when writing is choosing the ideal prose to convey universal being, energy and understanding.  I encourage anyone who visits the website to always read between the lines.  The words provide an intellectual link, yet their understanding is contingent upon the reader’s personal discovery.  Finally, I choose a clear and concise vernacular, to best express the universal.  

The Task at Hand

Writing against the habituation of the institutionalized mind is an incredible endeavor.  We are programmed everyday by a multitude of medium, intent on conditioning and controlling our feelings, thoughts and actions.  If we perceive this observation as conspiracy theory, then we are simply unwilling to exercise awareness.  This paradox of reason is eventually transformed with our consciousness.  To me, it is about shifting the indoctrinated many from being mired in the mind to empowered by intuition.  My intention is to inspire others to create this for themselves.  Yet, the expanse between doing and being is as vast as the journey from our head to our heart.   

Universal Opportunity

In my humble observation, we demean, devalue and procrastinate the extraordinary experience and personal power found in relating with our soul.  Given the strict parameters of social reality, our spiritual relativity is nearly impossible.  There are infinite dimensions within us, our environments and our experiences, empowered by our choices, creative expression and who we are being.  We all have the potential to embody and express the energy of the universe.  Writing is my personal opportunity to share in words all that inspires me to make a difference by being an expression of creative consciousness.  

The Rhythm of Resonance

As I have mentioned before, I do not believe I write these articles.  I choose to imagine they are empowered by the universe.  Observing, understanding and applying these insights requires the intention to temper my ego, allowing me the vision and personal power to center, focus and ground my being.  Through the practices of creativity, meditation, prayer and yoga, I become present to my intuition and soul.  These daily rituals help me to stream the universe.  We all have a unique energetic resonance.  It is the vibration of our relativity with our soul, empowering our epiphany, evolution and transformation.

As I Stand

My literary method is intensive spiritually, intuitively, emotionally, mentally and instinctually.  Often, I have contemplated shifting my creative expression from writing.  For all the energy, effort and time I devote, the apparent response to the articles pale in comparison.  Whenever I find myself in this space, I remember what my friend Elva once told me.  “If we reach one person, it was all worth it.”  When writing articles, my experience is like standing in the center of a sphere with a multi-faceted mirror surface, reflecting every dimension of my being.  Thank you for choosing to share in the experience!   

“Writing with the universe has revealed who I am.”

The Artificiality of Social Reality

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“Social reality is the invention of our enslavement.”

Webs of Deception

There is a bitter pill we all must swallow.  We exist in a social simulation, sustained by our reactivity and replicated by our engagement.  It does not matter where we may rank in the seemingly hierarchical, pyramid scheme of human society, we are all enslaved into a network of institutionally programmed existence.  There is no escape. Whether we are a billionaire with six houses and twelve cars, or living in poverty, we are all victimized by an elaborate social matrix designed to imprison and oppress. When we adopt and engage in social reality, it is inevitable we will acquiesce our personal experience and power to our collective conformity. 

The Echo of Life

Most of us eagerly relinquish our aspirations, creativity, inspiration, potential and vision in a misguided quest to claim our meager portion of artificiality.  This has become human nature, a maturation process to cast aside what empowers for what enslaves.  Once this transference is complete, we drift into the echo of life.  We meet our mate, have children, hold a career and preoccupy ourselves with the amusement of our desire, entertainment, media, politics, religion, sports and social events in a vain attempt to belong and be fulfilled.  Then we retire and die.  For many, this is a favorable outcome.  Yet, for some, it is the epitome of hell.

Entitlement and Expectation

We do not deserve anything.  Just because we are born into this experience does not give us the right or reason to dominate, manipulate and propagate.  We seize and decimate the natural world with the consequences of our addictions, appetites, civilizations, conditions, lifestyles and technologies.  We are programmed to believe the world is ours to conquer, control, influence and destroy, all with arrogant abandon.  It is our oblivion to the extremity of our entitlement and expectation which causes the gravest destruction both within and without.  These two inherent qualities are what leads to our eventual decline and extinction.

Decision or Choice

The vital element in the human experience is the distinction between what we decide and what we choose.  In my perspective, decisions are often accidental and unconscious reactions to the circumstances we encounter. They encourage us to minimize the impact of an uncontrollable result, while enabling our fear and insecurity.  When we survive, we believe we grow from it, yet it often provokes further personal and social evasion and exclusivity.  Whereas choice is a conscious expression made before challenges arise, creating empowering and fulfilling outcomes.  Choice inspires us to transcend reality and thrive, aligning us with ourselves and the universe.

“We cannot discover truth within reality.”

Behind the Mask

When the world went sideways over two years ago, we were instructed to wear masks for prevention and protection.  I noticed how our identity, humanity, individuality and value was erased via a health strategy, which proved to yield a low rate of efficacy.  I found it fascinating how people responded to this directive.  There were those who eagerly adopted the mask mandate, and those who defiantly refused.  In my observation, there is an interesting correlation between the two.  It appeared all whom chose to comply tended to be institutionalized, narrow-minded and private.  Whereas all whom chose not to obey were diversified, open-minded and self-expressive. 

The Vanity of Self-Righteousness

Any alternative perception can be analyzed, condemned, refuted and vilified.  There is a massive audience of people feigning “fact,” “intelligence” and “science” to discredit anything contrary to mainstream media propaganda.  It is one thing to believe in rhetoric.  It is another to impose it upon others, thus preserving our personal fears, insecurities and self-righteousness.  Being right is an inherent trait we adopt to safeguard the bubble of reality in which we imprison ourselves.  In a world rife with authoritarian sociopaths wielding control, influence, manipulation and power, it is beneficial to find the vein of truth in the illusion of reality.

The Virus of Society

In the movie “The Matrix,” Agent Smith explains to Morpheus, “I’d like to share a revelation I had during my time here.  It came to me when I tried to classify your species.  I realized you’re not actually mammals.  Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops an equilibrium with its surrounding environment.  But you humans do not.  You move to an area, and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed.  The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.  There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.  A virus.  Human beings are a disease, the cancer of this planet.  You are a plague.”

The Cure of Humanity

Sometimes the most powerful truth comes from the villain.  Unfortunately, our common social perception demonizes who we identify as the antagonist.  Yet, when we observe history with a discerning vision, we will see how often the adversary made a difference and shifted the world.  Humanity is its own virus and cure.  The outcome is based upon who we choose to be.  When we succumb to inclinations of consumption, mimicry, oblivion, toxicity and self-righteousness, we perpetuate a virus.  When we evolve, transform and transcend our inherent social natures, we empower ourselves and others as a cure.

The Black Hole

We all live within the vacuum of social reality.  It is a vortex which seizes our attention, creativity, energy, expression, focus, intention, passion, possibility and potential.  Yet, it is not sustained by some covert, authoritarian entity or organization.  Under the influence of social conditioning and programming, our personal power has been diminished, distorted, manipulated and transferred to maintain the black hole of social reality.  All whom have dark intentions cajole, hijack and utilize the energy, effort and resources of others to impose their agendas, strategies and endgames. All the while, we bury our empowerment and enlightenment in the rotten soil of our ego, fear and self-righteousness.

The Bitter Truth

Beyond the familial and social bubbles of our existence, we simply do not care.  We delude ourselves to believe we do.  The bitter truth?  Our focus is on our self and our immediate circle of family and friends.  (The latter can most certainly be debated!) We feign amity, appreciation, belonging, gratitude, relativity and respect for others because we do not express these qualities for ourselves.  The last few years have been an opportunity for us to go within and embrace the extraordinary natures of our heart, intuition and soul, to align with the universe and become its expression.  Severing our tether to social reality empowers us to break its vicious cycle and embody universal truth.

“We are free from social reality when we become an expression of truth.”

“In Love’s Power” Interview with Lorenzo Malowane of The New Agora for The New Now

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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.

More of what we do… https://newagora.ca/

Inside Out

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“Self-righteousness is the epitome of being wrong.”

Against the Current

Over the last few years, we have been inundated with personal opinions and mainstream media agendas, narratives, politics, virus strains and vaccinations.  Yet, we have also been in a universal energetic shift providing us an extraordinary opportunity to align, connect, relate and become one with all.  For some, this was a clear choice.  For many, it was a defining moment on how tethered to social reality, and distant people are with themselves.  The autocratic strategy worked once again.  We turned against each other; our ego our sword and our self-righteousness our shield.  How clever we are to destroy far more often than we create in our quest for status and validity.  Nothing represents our power more than arrogance.

Social Crucible

Conceit and deceit are the most toxic elements in contemporary society.  We all have duplicity. Those who don’t believe they do have more than most! Events of the last couple years have transpired for the purpose of revealing our concealed deficiencies we all disguise from ourselves and others.  We either defend our personal issues or release them and become fulfilled.  Recently, I have witnessed family and friends blame, guilt and shame each other to satiate their fears, insecurities and uncertainties regarding the current climate of social reality.  Lifetime relations willingly sacrificed in defense of their biased criticism, judgement, opinion and self-righteousness.  All to protect their inadequacies, from which we all yearn to be free.

Throwing Shade

The last two years have not been a time to merely survive, they have been an era to thrive. While we attempted to bring normality to the authoritarian agendas of control, deception, enslavement and manipulation, our greatest fears embedded their influence deeper into our frazzled nerves. No matter how we analyze, believe, interpret or think about the events we have all endured, our understanding of them is often misinterpreted.  We feed our senses with biased, agenda-laden information, customized to our desired narrative to debate, demean, discredit and prove our adversaries erroneous.  This is the societal psychosis we have enabled with our apathy, denial, negligence, oblivion and self-righteousness.  

Being Right

Before our acumen is developed, we are conditioned to be right at all costs.  This is the social standard.  We close the avenues of our listening when we stake the lines of our hypocrisy.  This applies to others, yet most importantly in our relation to ourselves and the universe.  We are blinded by our addiction to the rush of synthetic gratification we receive when we impose our sanctimonies, be they internal or expressed.  They are the idioms of our inauthenticity; in other words, “false power.”  Society prospers on the adrenaline of superficiality.  Those who express empowerment and inspiration are often chastised, exiled and, in extreme circumstances, murdered.  Our personal and collective evolution is wagered for our egocentric quest to be right.       

“Institutional intelligence is programmed ignorance.”

The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold

Six global corporations own the world’s media sources.  It is apparent these outlets broadcast programmed information, thus inventing and promoting narratives to manipulate society’s existence, experience and perception.  The mainstream media proliferates corporate, economic, political and social propaganda to execute and maintain its agendas for control, power and profit.  To awakened individuals, the endgame is evident.  Unfortunately, most of humanity invests in the engineered narratives because we are unable and/or unwilling to accept the truth.  The network information we analyze, believe, interpret or think is manufactured delusion.  Humanity craves to be right and refuses to admit when they are swindled.  How true has this been over the last few years?  

One Ego to Rule Them All

Our egos are neurological satellites, constantly receiving and projecting signals within us and ultimately influencing society.  We are mired in the duality of our programmed instinct and intellect; therefore, reality exists and is enabled by our collective oblivion.  The global authoritarian banks, corporations, governments and other elite organizations are aware of this.  They use fear to its fullest efficacy to maintain control, power and wealth over the majority of the world’s population.  Their imposed systems of rule amuse, confuse, disempower and enslave society into an elaborate web of deception.  Our ego keeps us captive, engaged and tethered to a social simulation we identify, interpret and accept as reality.

The Naked Truth

We are not who we believe ourselves to be.  We drift in the darkness of self-subscribed obscurity, terrified to discover, express and live our truth against the scrutiny of a cruel and violent society.  Eventually, we all acquiesce to the collective fate of inauthentic belonging, reality and social obligation.  Adulthood is a superficial security we “mature” into rife with excuses, failures, inadequacies, oblivion, struggle and surrender.  No matter how much we attempt to make something out of the illusion of social reality, we are inevitably burdened with the gravity of our wasted opportunities to create, empower, inspire and transform.  The naked truth we all seek to evade is that we live to die, instead of dying to live.  

Seeing the Unseen

We are victims, servants of all we do not know that we do not know about ourselves.  This statement can be confusing to those unaware of fundamental ontology (the nature of being.)  All we know and do not know is often clear.  It is what we do not know about what we do not know where we lose our vision, focus, intention and power.  It controls us through our personal indoctrination.  Institutional education, economics, religion and society programs us to enable our cooperative enslavement.  Yet, our personal observation, consciousness, progression and purpose empowers our freedom.  These are the essential elements of our being, inspiring our awareness, evolution and transformation.         

Balance Beam

The last few years have revealed how essential it is to establish and maintain our personal equilibrium.  Existing in a social reality built and sustained by conflict, disease, duality, toxicity and war has compromised the core of our being.  It is not a surprise how many people do not know who they are, let alone envision, experience and fulfill their destiny.  We are multidimensional beings composed of instincts, intellect, emotions and insights.  Our existence is created by who we are being.  The balance of our body, mind, and heart with our intuition and soul is vital to manifesting the universal energetic shift into our experience.  Our attuned equilibrium is an expression of our resonance with the universe.

Inside Out

We have all experienced extreme anxiety, fear, loss and trauma.  Many of us are still nursing proverbial wounds that have never fully healed, current ones notwithstanding. Opportunities arise for us when we choose to lay down our fears, failures, histories, obligations, pain, self-righteousness and suffering to embrace everything available to us during this extraordinary era of being.  Once we have committed to release all which does not enlighten, inspire and transform us, we can begin to heal.  We are all fractured beings drifting upon the ocean of time, seeking an elusive fulfillment.  Society imposes it’s will, conditioning us to survive from the outside in.  Our universality empowers our soul to thrive from the inside out.                           

“Feel to heal, be to see.”

Down to Earth

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“We are present only when we are grounded.”

Social Influence

We are not taught how to have the greatest experience of life, or even how to optimally live.  We are conditioned through the institutions of education, entertainment, genetics, politics, religion and society.  Engagement in social reality overshadows the empowerment of the universe.  Spirituality, intuition and enlightened emotion and intelligence are all extracurricular activities, chosen by the few yet abandoned by the many. 

Within the egocentric, social parameters of accumulation, achievement, advancement, security and status, all things universal are forsaken, even our very souls.  All of us have infinite opportunities throughout the course of our lives to create our unique path.  When the direction of our course in life drifts one degree from its center, we eventually find ourselves arriving many miles removed from our intended destination. This is when social reality hacks our experience. 

The Bane of Banality

For those who have read the articles I post, it is evident I am not a fan of social reality.  I am mainly inspired by creativity, community, consciousness, empowerment, evolution, imagination, multidimensionality and transformation.  In my observation, these are the foundations of universal experience.  I choose my words wisely when representing the universality I aspire to embody. However, they pale in comparison to the essence I attempt to articulate. 

It is not just the phrases and terms assembled to express what it is I experience.  It is the energy between the lines that encourage diverse levels of understanding.  One that has taken me decades of personal evolution, observation and transformation.  I do not perceive myself as “enlightened.”  When we interpret ourselves in this light, we often wager our vision, intention, purpose and destiny for artificial power, recognition, self-righteousness, significance and vanity. 

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Binary Being

Transposing the universal into the terrestrial for the sake of application, manifestation and transformation is my intention in translating the omnidimensional into the literal.  This is my purpose.  It is evident we live in a three-dimensional construct, existing as two-dimensional beings.  What does this mean?  Our reality is a domain with three dimensions, length, width and depth.  This is how animate and inanimate objects appear to us as “real.” 

As human beings we experience our lives through two dimensions of interpretation, our instincts and intellect.  Yes, we all have emotions, and occasionally we have intuitive epiphanies and insights.  However, our mind and body hold the reigns of our being.  As we experience our lives through these filters, we are enslaved into duality.  Therefore, conflict and division rages between us.  Yet, the battle and distance within us is far more hostile and vast.      

Eye of the Beholder

Our experiences are defined by our perception.  However simplistic this may seem; we make it more complex.  Our perspective often lacks three essentials: discernment, evolution and observation.  When we observe our experience, it is an expression of consciousness.  When we practice distinction, we create a transcendent vision, progression and understanding.  This elevates our perception and empowers the evolution of our being. 

These practices cultivate our transformation.  However, experience is greater than perception.  Our perspective is simply a filter.  Our senses have been socially distorted, highjacked and manipulated for the purpose of diversion, preoccupation and oppression.  The triviality of society is in stark contrast to the embodiment of our soul.  It is the social beast we feed with our fear and engagement. If this is not evident in current events, then we are in conflict, denial or oblivion.

“Evading our soul is a crime against humanity.”

Know Thyself

We exist in the vacuum of a virtual reality transpiring as a tragic fantasy.  We are more engaged in interacting superficially in our relations with others, we have neglected our relativity with ourselves.  Most of us don’t even know ourselves.  Who we believe ourselves to be is almost entirely dependent on how we are perceived by others.  Our inner criticism, judgement and reticence traumatizes us to the point of non-existence.

We are shadows of who we are destined to be.  The truth is, we are the cause of our unfulfilled experiences.  Our obsession with amusement, distraction and information is our avoidance of being present to our personal dilemmas and social crises.  Whether it is our career, family, politics, religion or social life, we often evade authentic belonging to sustain artificial, conditional relations.  This is most evident in how we conceal and defend our personal deficiencies.   

Up on the Downstroke

We are all now challenged in ways we have never experienced.  We have been driven well beyond the boundaries of our conditioned tolerance.  Most of us are overwhelmed with despair, depression, isolation and sadness.  It is one thing to be aware of the impacts these social elements impose. It is another matter entirely to observe their effects, focus our attention, shift our intention and expression and transform our experience. 

We must transition from programmed causality to create something new amidst the antiquated patterns of our personal captivity.  The common design of reality is one of enslavement, no matter what the nature of our engagement.  In essence, we are anesthetized, desensitized and traumatized into the quandary of human existence, it is as water to the fish.  In essence, we are unable to see the personal prison to which we sentence ourselves. Our social conditioning has condemned us to a life of death.

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Circle of Life

We tend to believe the burden of personal and social transformation is solely on our shoulders.  Yet, the more we stand to hold a space for others to evolve and transcend, the greater energy we generate to empower the circle of life.  Breaking the chains of our conditions, entitlement, expectations, judgement, insecurities and self-righteousness inspires the awareness and freedom necessary to manifest our personal and mutual destiny.

We are all related.  What happens to one of us impacts all.  Not being our true self inhibits our unique expression. Our greatest opportunity is to create, empower and transform how experience exists for all.  This shifts our social inclination from personal greed to community need. Understanding and practicing acceptance, empathy, encouragement, listening and sponsorship is our collective rite of passage.  It is a declaration of our commitment to make a difference.

Ground Zero

However spiritual we perceive ourselves to be, it is futile unless we apply, express, intend and manifest it into our experience.  As impossible as it may seem to transform reality with our chosen practice, the fullest expression of its empowerment is best established collectively.  Personally, I challenge the objectives of all who proclaim, wield and weaponize their spirituality in the wake of our present global circumstances. 

As difficult as it may seem to intimate with our personal and social encounters, grounding ourselves into our experience is the only way we will transform.  Beyond the fantasies we invent to escape the harsh reality in which we exist is our opportunity to inspire universality for all.  Our observation, focus, balance and intention empower our potential to relate with others and ourselves.  Experience becomes wisdom when we bring the universe down to earth. 

“Experience is the gravity of grounded existence.”

“Spiritualized” The Ego of Spirituality

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“Ego is the destroyer of the soul.”

Dysfunction Junction:

We all have personal agendas, conflicts, crises, egos, faults and strategies.  We all have afflictions and conditions which impair our perceptions, senses, instincts, thoughts and feelings.  This is the daily reality we all accept, adopt and navigate in our experiences.  Some of us nurture practices to keep ourselves balanced, conscious, present and transformed, while some of us front oblivion to deny, dismiss, deflect and project our inner challenges and deficiencies upon others.  This happens in all communities.  The ego transmits a dense, low-vibrational energy not only impacting the people engaging in deception, yet also the spiritual community with which they pray and relate. 

Observational Hazards:

For half of my life, I have participated in spiritual communities.  I learned and earned a degree of focus, consciousness, effort, energy, intention and prayer to manage my own ego, agendas, challenges, deficiencies, instincts, thoughts and feelings detrimental to my experience.  It is clear to all whom have chosen to walk a spiritual path, there is a necessity to practice observation, awareness, accountability, integrity and transformation.  For me, it is a commitment of holding a space for all to have their experience, and the choice to make a positive difference in the lives of all their relations.  Unfortunately for some, the “ego of spirituality” establishes a schism between perception and experience. 

Best of Intentions:

When our experience begins, we are mystified by the energy and power of spirituality.  As human beings, we are prone to heap our belief, hope, energy and lives onto the mystery.  It seems much easier to fully sacrifice ourselves upon the altar of blind faith, than delve into the rotten soil of our personal challenges and deficiencies which brought us to it.  As our awareness of our soul and the universe evolves, our ego grows in tandem.  Most of us decide to abandon observation of our ego, giving it as much power over us than whatever spiritual relation we believe we are cultivating.  We instinctively collapse the voice we interpret as spirit with our ego.  We listen more to this inner voice than the universe because it tells us what we “want” to hear, never what we “need” to hear. 

Identity of Importance:

When the ego takes root in our experience, a desire to be acknowledged and significant arises.  As we deepen our spirituality, inevitably we crave importance.  Our personal experiences often require the validation of others to exhibit them as being more meaningful and powerful.  This is “artificial power,” which negates whatever sincere effort and energy we are investing.  It is contrary to our evolution when we fall into virtual spirituality.  All the focus, intention, energy, adversity, challenge and pain our experience may bring, offered intentionally and obliviously to our ego in pursuit of false power and importance.  Therefore, our spirituality fails.  However, it is not the tradition we practice which falters.  It is our spiritual superiority which empowers our ego. 

“Vulnerability is the greatest strength we can express.”

Trail of Tears:

All of us have personal woundedness.  We have been hurt by circumstances and others, yet primarily by ourselves.  Our suffering is self-inflicted, whether we choose to believe, observe or claim it.  We conceal and covet our pain and insecurity because we believe our ego when it tells us it is weakness.  We repress our deficiencies in desperation and present a “brave face” to our community, while we break down with every spiritual step we take.  As we stumble down our path, our anger, anxiety, doubt and fear rise to be released from our experience.  When this occurs, we have three options.  1. We continue to deny and repress its existence.  2. We project it upon others as their responsibility, thus deflecting our own.  3. We choose to be with and manage our own issues and eventually resolve them. 

Self Alone:

Spirituality is not about “our” experience.  This is a selfish fantasy we devise to appease our ego and sustain our artificial power, ultimately limiting our conscious evolution.  The cornerstone of our commitment to the traditions we walk is our service to the people in our communities and beyond.  Occasionally, I have observed people step into spiritual experiences for the sole purpose of receiving something for themselves alone.  This has been and is heartbreaking for me to witness, all their potential for making a difference, wagered for control, ego and importance.  The most disturbing reality in this dynamic; most have little awareness of the impacts it has on them, and none it has on others.      

Power Play:

Many who step into a spiritual experience often have deficiencies or lack personal power.  When they see others who are developing and expressing their own, they too yearn to establish theirs.  Yet, their ego emphasizes their neglected anger, anxiety, fear, insecurity, pain and woundedness.  Out of their desire, desperation, entitlement and self-righteousness, they aim to steal power from others to fabricate their own.  They use other people’s reactions to their behavior to distort and manipulate experience and perception.  When they are exposed, they present themselves as victims of the circumstance they have caused, using their drama, trauma and tears as a weapon to divert the attention from themselves onto others to achieve their agenda.   

Divisive Intentions:

One of the primary expressions of “artificial power” in spiritual communities happens when the “spiritualized” attempt to divide and conquer.  They invent narratives about others, most often leaders, to distort and manipulate perception, compromising the image, role and trust leaders have earned with their communities.  Once the seeds of speculation are planted, the provocateurs enroll others in their orchestrated plots, gathering numbers and imposing their agendas.  They initiate division between members of the community to efficiently control information and outcomes.  Essentially, it is a hostile takeover predicated by their belief they are better than the people who are given roles of responsibility.   

“Spiritualized”:

For years, I have attempted to identify the behaviors of people who use spirituality as a strategy to bolster their ego, execute their agenda and obtain power.  The term that best classifies this behavior is “spiritualized.”  By definition, “someone who perceives themselves to be spiritually superior to others, using ageism, experience, history and self-righteousness to prove and impose their spiritual status and worth.”  Being “spiritualized” is a social psychosis and metaphysical stigma running rampant throughout most if not all domains of spirituality.  Yet it is not only the actions, words or behaviors of “spiritualized” individuals, it is the malicious intent in the name of spirituality which invokes the greatest harm, influence and devastation.

For the Benefit of All:

Some may be offended when reading this article.  Some may believe what is written does not apply to them.  Whether my observations about the ego of spirituality empowers, inspires, enrages, irritates or simply does not move the needle of recognition is telling.  Whatever reaction we choose in response to these observations is a clarification of our willingness to acknowledge and accept we ALL have egos.  Like it or not, its influence DOES impact our spiritual experience and those of others.  Understanding this gives us all the opportunity to shift our focus and energy away from our ego and align with our soul.  If we are going to give all of ourselves for our spiritual experience, it needs to be for the benefit of all.   

Believer Beware:

Practicing tradition is a powerful experience.  It is a humbling opportunity often mistaken as an attainment of individual advancement.  When we charge into our spirituality with agenda, ego, entitlement and expectation, it will become destructive to us and others in ways we cannot begin to imagine.  However, when we step into our experience with consciousness, humility and prayer, it empowers our lives and those of others.  “Spiritualized” people do not like to be told what to do, and often tend to alter traditions, feign understanding or even make them up to suit their agenda.  After all my experiences, 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.                   

“Unity is the soul of community.”

“Transforming the Listening” Interview with Lorenzo Malowane of “The New Agora” on “The New Now.”

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“Listening is offering others the experience of being heard.” – Iam Saums

Video Interview with Lorenzo Malowane of “The New Agora” presented by “The New Now” inspired by my new article, “An Ear to Hear.”

To Transform Listening

“Changing how we hear things. Maybe a clearer way of understanding this is simply ‘learning to listen’. One of the hardest skills I’ve ever had to master is the skill of listening to others, striving to listen, to truly hear what’s being shared with me beyond my own thoughts.

As I recapitulate my time here in this life, from my childhood schooling to my adulthood, I can see, in all honesty, that I was barely ever really listening to others in a conversation.

Mostly I was thinking of my ‘agenda’, whatever that was at the time, and wondering how to get what I wanted. It started with ‘candy and toys’ as a little boy, and grew towards, well I guess you could say, adult versions of ‘candy’ and ‘toys’.

Having an agenda in a conversation, I feel, is perhaps one of the rudest things anyone can take into such interactions. If you are thinking of an outcome, no matter how loving or sweet you may feel it is, you are probably not hearing what is being shared. I was instead seeking to maneuver the moment towards what I wanted it to be, or what I wanted to get out of it, sometimes just wanting to get out of the conversation itself.

How utterly selfish and egotistical I was. if I’m not very careful in my communications I can still fall into any number of bad habits.  It seems obvious now that if you are not ‘hearing’ what the other is attempting to communicate, you are not really being ‘loving’ and present in that moment. And by loving, I mean taking the other into consideration. Obvious, now, and yet it still takes a constant effort and attention, caring if you will

Not with just words, either. We all communicate in many different ways on many different levels, many we remain unaware of throughout. Body language, hidden emotions or feelings, unknown tendencies all come into play, whether we are conscious of them or not, during our day to day interactions with others.

Even alone in a room, it has become important to me to be clear with my hearing and listening. Enhancing my communication skills has been one of the best gifts I have ever given myself.  Hard to beat self-knowledge.

In fact, it’s taken me years and years to determine the differences between my heart’s communication and my ‘head born’ fears. Emotions, beliefs, shadows, desires and old habits all influenced my attempts to share clearly with myself and with others. Figuring my way through these ‘traps of clarity’ have made me a much better person.

Much more to explore here.  Attention and consciousness are interlinked.

In the following video, Iam Saums and I, go deeply into this topic. Perhaps it comes down to feeling something in your life that requires transformation, changing, and your instincts tell you some that parts of your life are crying out for attention, healing, change; well, a perfect place to begin would be to examine how you communicate, with yourself, with others, keeping a close ‘ear’ on your listening skills, or lack thereof.

After all, who doesn’t wish for love, abundance and happy relationships and such. Maybe if you feel any of these are somewhat lacking, an effort to ‘transform your listening’ may help you out. Couldn’t hurt. I’ve found that to honestly hear what the other is sharing can transform worlds. No matter the circumstances, becoming a better listener, for me anyways, has made me a better person.”

Hark! Heed! Hear! Attention. Be aware.

With much Love, Lorenzo