Nature of Reality

Ghost Story

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Originally published on 5/18/2016. Revision published on 10/31/2025

“We are the ghost in the machine.”

Something Wicked This Way Comes…

Society is a dark world in which billions of human beings fall prey to their own shadows.  Our collective fear has become so encompassing, we have anesthetized ourselves with our anxiety, conditions, drama, indoctrination, oblivion and uncertainty.  Our interpretation of reality is so confronting, intense and threatening, we enact a self-induced slumber, within which we simply survive.  In our illusory lives, we are haunted with the nightmare of what is and the dream of what may have been.  It is excruciating for us to accept, identify or even be with the insidiously wicked nature of the virtuality in which we engage.

The Nightmare of a Dream

Our nightmares are filled with the horrors of our broken commitments, destiny, potential and purpose.  These are the virtues that allow us to create a thriving life for ourselves and our families.  Our experiences are littered with the shards of our unfulfilled dreams to manifest a better tomorrow for ourselves and future generations.  Our actions, intentions and visions have been thwarted by a globalized and propagandized vortex of social media.  A matrix proliferated for the sole intention of enabling our assimilation, deception, dependence, disempowerment, enslavement and oppression.

The Darkness Without

It lurks within the shadows, just beyond our hyperactive sensibilities, taunting us with the mere possibility of its arrival and impact.  The impending doom of its presence and the suspense of its approach preys upon our nerves as an archaic violin down a darkened alley.  The gravity of its dread imposes a trepidation, provoking us to run for our lives.  Our hearts race, as the intensity of our fear heightens to a fever pitch.  It renders us paralyzed within the agonizing buzz of our endorphins, to supplement our waning confidence, courage, reason and strength.

The Darkness Within

Evil is not what, or how it is so commonly interpreted in our contemporary era.  It is not an ancient and malevolent entity that defiles, haunts, hunts or stalks us.  It is not a presence that eternally defies and opposes our every endeavor and intention.  Evil is a subjective figment of our darkest conjuring.  We give our power over to our own shadows when we allow our perceptions to become more powerful than our vision.  The nature of our personal observation most often is erroneous and does not serve our optimal benefit.  We favor our selective narrative, much as we may cling to our dying breath.

A Knife to the Throat

We grow accustomed to the insanity around us, attempting to deceive ourselves into denying that what occurs in social reality is not a part of us, or even beneath us.  We conform, desensitize and integrate ourselves into the virtual role the societal matrix provides.  We adopt a conviction that success and survival will be found in competing with others to become something we were never destined.  Eventually, we succumb to authority, institutionalization and propaganda.  We are pushed and pulled from one circumstance to another, until we are assimilated into the persona we have always feared.

Shadow of a Demon

As smart rats, we are so clever with our existence.  We devise personal rackets, to which we are unaware and by which we are ruled.  We invent our own demons to avoid our soul expressions of our authenticity, integrity, purpose and transcendence.  This justifies and sanctions our cruelty, destruction, errancy and inhumanity.  We desperately seek to distance ourselves from the monsters we become in our selfish quest to advance and survive in an artificial and violent society.  The greatest darkness we will ever encounter is not the one that shadows us from without.  It is the evil we enable within.

“All left unseen and untended is what enslaves us with our very own fear.”

Creature Feature

We indoctrinate ourselves with instinct and intellect for conformity into society.  This pales in comparison to the cunning prowess of our egocentricity and its insatiable desire for dominance over our soul.  Conflict rages within us all, a timeless battle between the transcendent expressions of our heart and soul and the terrestrial professions of our mind and body.  We are conditioned into creatures of habit, existing in vicious cycles of emulation.  Our predatory ancestry enslaves us within a virtual duality, diminishing our instincts, thoughts, emotions, intuition and relativity.

The Walking Dead

We view our existence through selectively interpretive filters, fabricating our lives and performing our fantasies within the superficiality of our social reality.  We enact our apathy, fear, indifference and unwillingness to evade our destiny.  We believe we cannot survive under the gravity of our accountability, authenticity and integrity to embody our possibility, purpose and power.  We allow ourselves to become a projection of the social norm, bred for accumulation, amusement, diversion, narrative and oblivion.  We become the antithesis of life, condemned to exist en masse with the walking dead.

Ghosts of our Lives

We rarely live as cause in our lives.  We settle on surviving the outcomes of our seemingly random circumstances via our reactivity to ordinary occurrence.  As we become habituated to a coincidental lifestyle, we engage deeper into a dualistic existence within the three-dimensional hologram-projection we interpret as reality.  With every unconscious breath, we acquiesce our personal power.  Our obedience to authoritarian entities and organizations is our evasion, excusing us from the choices we all must make.  We sever our relativity with our heart and soul, as we become ghosts of our lives.

Egocentric Evil

The perceptions we adopt and impose in our desperation to be accepted and adopted into a virtual simulation segregates us from relativity with our soul.  We are driven to seek our worth in others, instead of establishing our own through our being, expression, and universality.  We have existed outside of ourselves for so long, we mistake our delusion, ideology, narrative and propaganda as truth.  We are mere shadows of our younger selves, who once inspired and empowered us. We are seduced by the egocentric evils of our desire, entitlement, fear, intelligence, self-righteousness and vanity.

Ghost Story

We are all ghosts of our lives.  We haunt the empty halls of our oblivion in a futile attempt to find a forbidden treasure that has always been within us.  We live a ghost story when we conduct our consciousness away from being an expression of our soul.  It is our universal destiny to transform, transcend, express and embody universality.  We are an expression of empowerment, relativity, transformation and transcendence.  It is our collective destiny to be an extraordinary difference in our life, for others and the world.  The universal expression of our being is the embodiment of our soul.

“Our unfulfilled destiny is our ghost story.”

Universal Vision

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“Perception is deception.”

Virtual Reality

Reality does not exist.  It is a projected simulation, a holographic computer program.  Our collective interpretation of actuality is often erroneous.  Given that our critical mass, human awareness is consigned to instinct and intellect, we fail to comprehend everything beyond our conditioning, programming and proselytization.  Our ignorance may diminish our universal vision, but our collective/selective oblivion blinds our perception.  Institutionalized indoctrination assimilates us into a human vortex of consumption.  We wager our proficiency for consciousness with our voluntary engagement in virtuality.

Impression of Idealism

Social reality is the collective paradigm in which we are all enslaved.  Many may refute this claim, simply because they cannot admit or accept that they were duped into linear existence.  Egocentricity is the most influential force in society, deceiving us with our own delusion.  We defend ourselves and offend others with our selective ideologies to compensate for our failure, fear, fraud, insecurity and self-righteousness.  We con ourselves with solitary gratification, concealing our misery, while feigning an impression of idealism.  All the while, we emulate our social environment to evade our accountability, integrity and originality.

Perception Deception

The distortion, manipulation and transmutation of how we interpret reality is being executed in the extreme by an onslaught of fabricated narratives.  Education, entertainment, politics, religion and science proliferate undefined, unfounded and unproven propaganda via a vast array of medium.  They exploit convenient and controversial opinion into consumable fiction.  We adopt our personal delusion to interact with their social illusion.  This is our perception deception, which is the adaptation of our ideologies.  We would rather die for our feigned convictions to preserve our egos than live for our destiny to embody our souls.    

All in a Narrative

“Narrative is a story or tale, an account of a series of related events or experiences.”  There are rare occurrences of realism in society.  Yet, the line between fact and fiction is altered, blurred and convoluted into weaponized deception, inducing a dependency upon provocative and violent propaganda.  When we descend into social anarchy, we raise our voices, beat our chests and exchange our empathy for vanity to coerce the opposition with our viewpoint.  We are not simply endeavoring to convert our adversaries to our ideology. We demand social agreement and credence, all for the validation of our selective narratives.

“Our narrative is the declaration of our egocentricity.”

Artificial Power

We are a soul expressing the resonance of universality into social reality. Our collective destiny is to transform and transcend our simulated existence.  However, when we encounter universality, we react from our institutional programming with hostile resistance, which is the self-defense response of our social mimicry.  Society is teeming with an excess of individuals and organizations who discredit, distort, manipulate and seize each other’s power.  Most are deficient in energy awareness and expression. In essence, they lack the ability to inflict real harm upon others, as the authority they wage, weaponize and wield is artificial. 

A Violent Dynamic

Our life is a simulation.  Primary, secondary and auxiliary routines tandemly operate virtual cycles of causality, eventuality and potentiality.  All programs run in a sequence of ones and zeros, thus the paradigm in which we exist is a duality.  This defines our identity as a male or female, conservative or liberal, atheist or religious, intelligent or ignorant, gay or straight and authentic or artificial.  Authoritarian entities employ administrations to stimulate our sensibilities with explicit, malicious and violent propaganda to provoke our reactivity.  Once we engage in social combat, we abandon our soul for our egocentricity.  

The Con is On

Whether in our sleep state or our daily delusion, much of our life is spent dreaming.  The same can be claimed for our encounters in social reality.  Though we are anesthetized, traumatized and victimized by our lives, we fail to truly live them.  The simulation in which we occupy is an interactive virtuality.  When we direct our awareness, engagement and focus into this hologram, we profile, but we do not exist.  The identity we assume and present to society is an avatar of superficiality.  The collective con we run on ourselves is to transmute our personal power into social compliance, all while concealing our deficiencies with our vanity.               

The Art of Extraction

Before we can escape the social matrix, we must acknowledge we are enslaved.  The greatest obstacle we encounter when cultivating, establishing and embodying our consciousness is navigating our egocentricity.  Egotism is a neurological-programming psychosis, integrating us into a three-dimensional simulation and isolating us within an insular delusion of duality.  This paradigm enables our solitary oblivion, which is the personification of our enslavement.  Our exodus begins when we withdraw our attention, energy and engagement from virtuality and shift our consciousness into convergence with universality.   

Soul Relativity

During our conception, we all endure a schism from our soul.  In the womb, we are intimately related with our mother, in body, mind, heart and intuition.  We share behaviors, instincts, thoughts and feelings, which encodes our false personality.  Institutionalization programs us into a virtual existence, whereas our transcendence inspires our universal experience.  Universality is an omnidimensional energy, empowered by the synergy between our soul and the universe.  The equilibrium between our instincts, intellect, emotions and intuition establishes the foundation for our soul relativity to source our universal vision.

Universal Vision

The revolving kaleidoscope of interpretive narrative, propagandized perception, selective realism and social indoctrination corrupts, distorts and exploits our consciousness, expression and vision.  Interference and manipulation in the algorithm of virtuality enslaves us into vicious cycles of anxiety, conflict, egocentricity, fear, insecurity and uncertainty.  Being human condemns us into a linear singularity, existing as a silhouette of our soul.  We are an eternal and infinite expression of universality.  Transforming our delusion and transcending the illusion empowers our shift from egocentric perception into universal vision.  

“Existence is a simulation of perception.”

“Experience is a transcendence of vision.”

The Light in the Darkness

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“Our soul is an expression of the universe.”

In My Time

I have practiced sobriety for over 16 years.  Before that, it was a decade since I had altered my experience with substances.  In fact, most of my life has been lived in abstinence.  Over the last 30 years, partaking in alcohol or drugs was not extreme enough for me to identify as a personal issue.  When I was 24, I woke up one morning wrecked from the night before and chose to have a different experience.  Yet, it was not precipitated by circumstance, guilt or shame, rather a need for clarity.  I had my time as a professional from my teens into my mid-twenties.  It was then I shifted into being, consciousness, creativity, evolution and transformation.    

From the Darkness

I was 9 when my parents separated.  Divorce was not a common occurrence, nor was it in my purview of understanding.  Though I rolled with it the best a young person could, it altered the course of my life and had its evident adversities.  Beyond the broken pieces of what family was to me then, I was not aware enough for the darkness I would encounter with an emotionally, mentally and physically abusive stepfather.  However, it was not the fear, pain and suffering I endured with him; it was the malevolence that distorted and manipulated his feelings, thoughts and actions.  My initial introduction to evil occurred when I was 13.

Into Shadow

Being under the influence into my early adulthood fostered a personal, internal and external environment rife with obscenity and obscurity, one which enabled my dark odyssey.  More than I could comprehend, let alone recall, I was confronted by numerous denizens of darkness.  At first, I was energetically powerless in the diverse, various dimensions of my experiences, victimized by my deficiency to exist beyond the terrestrial.  Over the years, I established my proficiency to transform spiritual abuse into universal experience.  Until one evening, I faced the evil that had stalked me all my life; the part of my soul I enabled with my oblivion.

Something Wicked…

My first encounter with my darkness transpired in a dreamscape of my childhood home.  I was walking through the yard with other children when suddenly I found myself inside the living room.  There was a force pounding on the door, as I peered through a window to see what it was.  The next instant, I was laying on the floor in the family room, as an entity relentlessly thrashed me; while its crawling minions circled, awaiting my demise.  With all the energy I could muster, I projected my personal power upon them.  The minions shrieked in horror as they evaporated into oblivion, and the entity disappeared in the wake of my expression.    

“Our evil is empowered by our oblivion.”

Existential Slavery

How we perceive darkness is a figment of our denial.  We simply cannot be with the realization and trauma of our malevolence; since we fail to accept, comprehend and identify our capacity for malice.  Our personal evil abides in the shadows of our being, pulling our strings, pushing our buttons and altering our universal resonance with its agenda to control, distort, dominate, manipulate and pervert.  Given our preoccupation with egocentricity, we engage and invest our attention, energy and focus into the simulation of social reality.  We do not fulfill a life; we serve a sentence of existential enslavement.

Human Malevolence

Evil is an efficient, innovative and optimizing force in the universe.  However, it cannot source its own power, so it employs devices of deception, illusion and oblivion to provoke us into acquiescing our own through our reactivity.  It mines our hostile and toxic expressions, converting them into an applicable and palatable energy; leaving us depleted, disempowered and diminished.  We are conditioned into a vicious cycle of victimization.  This seizure of our personal power syphons the energy from our soul, corrupting it into a dense and primal force, transmuting our universality into virtuality.

Black Fire

My latest encounter with my darkness occurred last year.  After I drifted from awareness, I shifted into a diverse dimension of my bedroom.  I could sense something sinister emerging from the shadows.  I stood to meet the entity, as it materialized from the void.  It glared at me with pure malice, smirking with eyes aflame in sheer disdain.  A black fire accented its ominous shape amidst the entrancing and pulsating evanescence of evil in the space.  Its fiery fist pierced my heart with its aim to plunge my soul into oblivion.  In a retaliatory expression of resistance, I broke its control over me, as it vanished into shadow.

The Greatest Evil

Universality is powerful, purposeful and truthful.  By its very nature, it is all encompassing, empowering our being with universal energy.  It is the embodiment of our soul.  We primarily exist in a stasis of density.  When we experience universality, we often misinterpret its distinct resonance with fear.  Given our conditioning to the gravity of human existence, everything beyond the terrestrial is blindly observed as impending peril.  Fear is a racket we run on ourselves to evade our universality.  Our egocentricity deceives us into believing we are merely blood, bone and flesh.  Our greatest evil is sacrificing our soul to enable our fear.

In the Mouths of Madness

Five years ago, I was camping in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  Laying in my tent, I drifted from awareness and found myself in a darkened room.  An electrical current was resonating through the crown of my head, spreading peculiar sensations throughout my being.  I attempted to move my hand through the wall yet could not escape.  In the distance, I heard people laughing and talking around the campfire.  Following their voices, I found a door in the room.  As my hand passed through, countless claws reached out to wrench me into the darkness.  After freeing myself from their grasp, numerous teeth bit into my arms and hands.  With a focused expression of willpower, I shifted out of the melee and returned to my tent.   

The Light in the Darkness

As much as we misinterpret universality, we misunderstand evil.  Our personal and social stigmas establish our erroneous perceptions, accelerating our fear into a fever pitch of anxiety, delusion and lunacy.  Evil appears to be omnipresent in social reality, since we enable it with our egocentricity, ignorance, obsession and oblivion.  Absolute light is kindled from extreme darkness. In essence, from the darkest evil, comes the brightest light.  This transcendental shift empowers our universality.  Evil is not a force to fear.  It is an enigmatic vibration to be transformed into a resonant frequency.  Our common destiny is to embody our soul as an expression of the universe.  Everything else is simply evil.

“Universality is the light in the darkness.”

The Rhythm of Resonance

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“Dissonance is the essence of our existence.”

Artificial Identity

We are programmed to identify and interpret ourselves as a human being.  Our social conditioning is our personal compass for our sense of belonging, purpose, relevance and worth.  As we mature, we drift from who we truly are as a universal being and assimilate ourselves into a social simulation.  Our daily behaviors, lifestyles and routines cast us into a virtual existence.  Decades of institutional conversion, indoctrination and integration segregates and severs us from our self, as well as our soul.  There are numerous, extraordinary expressions of humanity, yet there are equal or more incarnations of brutality.  

Vicious Cycles

Our lives are defined by familiarity.  Most everything we encounter is known.  On the rare occasion we discover something new, our experiential fulfillment is diminished due to our lack of attention, focus, imagination and understanding.  Many of our novel encounters are accidental, aimless, incomplete and superficial.  Our habitual existence is a vicious cycle of desire, obligation and routine.  Much as a computer program, we are defined by patterns of behavior, which provide simulated outcomes lacking authentic achievement, contentment and purpose.  Eventually, we return to the solace of our vicious cycles for constancy in a virtual society. 

History of Chaos

There has always been an undercurrent of chaos throughout the history of humanity.  Most call it life, some perceive it as its mystery, while others identify it as the human enigma.  Institutionalized and propagandized anarchy is viral in the organized existential and perceptual programming that thrives in the domains of amusement, business, education, media, politics and science.  If we fail to see it in contemporary society, we are not paying attention.  However much we deceive ourselves with our own personal and social delusion, the clandestine, authoritarian agenda is all encompassing, malevolent and omnipresent in its totalitarianism.  

Torrential Toxicity

Our bodies are bombarded with artificial electromagnetic energy.  Our minds are conditioned with narratives steeped in controversy, indoctrination and prejudice.  Our hearts are driven beyond their capacities with our hostile and impulsive reactivity.  Our intuitions are distorted and diminished into nonexistence, causing a critical mass schism between our humanity and our soul.  Even our sensibilities have been stripped to the bone of their sensitivity.  A torrent of social toxicity has poisoned the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat.  Our instincts, intellect and emotions have all been corrupted, spiraling us into a vortex of oblivion.

“Oblivion is the gravity of our existence.”

Land of the Lost

It is not our intention to live in the delusion of oblivion, we simply fail to choose consciousness.  Our fleeting moments of enlightenment are dismissed for the gratification of our involuntary egocentricity.  In our desire to be comfortable, intelligent, right, secure and wealthy, we sacrifice our universal legacy to conform and engage in virtual triviality.  We are omnidimensional beings with all possibility and potential to express and relate with our soul and the universe.  Yet, we wager our universality for artificiality, satisfying our wants instead of fulfilling our needs.  Our social anxiety and vanity impels us to demean, devalue and ridicule all who challenge authority.

In the Crosshairs

We have all been deceived into believing we are the false personality of our institutionalization.  Eventually, we accept, integrate and personify the social avatar we have selected to portray in our pursuit to conform, diminish and enslave ourselves into the digital matrix of virtuality.  Our egocentricity endorses our cognitive dissonance, biased ideologies, subjective narratives and self-righteousness.  When we encounter a belief contrary to our own, we personalize and victimize ourselves with our own fear, insecurity, oblivion and uncertainty.  In our campaign to discredit, diminish and destroy our opposition, we abandon our universality. 

To Exist or To Experience

One of the essential distinctions of our contemporary age is between existence and experience.  To exist is to endure, whereas to experience is to evolve.  When we engage merely with instinct and intellect, we exist in a vacuum of linear duality, surviving within the paradigm of our personal simulation.  When we are related with our intuition and soul, centered in our heart, and conscious of our mind and body, we thrive in our experience and our being is fulfilled.  Social and personal institutionalization enslaves our mind and body into a virtual existence.  Universality empowers our heart and intuition to experience and embody our soul.

The Experience of Being

Every moment of our lives is an opportunity to be.  Yet, a plethora of amusements, distractions, obligations and preoccupations disrupt, distort and destroy the essential environment in which our being can thrive.  Universality flows in the equilibrium between our soul, intuition, heart, mind and body.  When we establish our unique balance within, this synergy empowers us to transcend the gravity of social reality and transform our existence into experience.  Being is the embodiment of universal synthesis, a resonance distinct from the density of terrestrial virtuality.  Only in our relativity with our soul will we experience the fulfillment of our being.

A Frequency of Energy

As we are deficient in our awareness, relation and understanding of our self and soul, we are also inefficient with the potentiality of our energy.  Our collective perception is often equated with how many daily tasks we can achieve, and in our fatigue when our reserves are depleted.  Given we apply a fraction of our mind, the same can be observed in our acuity with our energy.  We all radiate a distinctive frequency of universality, which resonates on the wavelength of our soul.  An eternal wellspring of vitality, which empowers our momentum to consciously fulfill our universal experience.  We are not human.  We are an infinite frequency of energy.   

The Rhythm of Resonance

When we are born, breath is our first, essential expression of life.  The transformative flow of our conscious breath restores our relativity with our soul.  The synergy between our soul and the universe, in concert with our intuition, heart, mind and body, empowers our expression and embodiment of universality.  As we synchronize the equilibrium of our being, the Torus in our heart center emanates the unique energy signature of our soul.  This transcendental shift synthesizes universality into every dimension of our being.  The rhythm of our universal resonance empowers the convergence of our being.    

 “Universality is the signature of our soul.”

Vision of Transcendence

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“Narrative is a delusion of our perception.”

The Cult of Perception

Perception has mutated into narrative.  Truth cannot exist in the toxic environment of contemporary social reality.  When we are exposed to shocking world events, our astute and equitable observation is wagered for peripheral and personal propaganda.  The global spin factor is in full swing; distorting, inverting, manipulating and transmuting fact into fiction.  Combine this with the critical-mass, human hysteria of our emotional, intellectual and instinctual immaturity, and we have the current, socio-political shit storm.  In essence, our mass indoctrination into a hyper-reactive cult of perception.  A collective psychosis of interpretive duality, eagerly adopted and enacted by all who are victimized and traumatized by totalitarian-provoked egocentricity.   

Perception Deception

Calamity occurring in the world is real because we have invested our energy and personal power into its simulated entrapment, sealing the fate of our personal enslavement.  Humanity is malevolent, since we fail to manage our emotions, thoughts and actions.  Millions of people are inebriated with postulation, projecting their unconscious adolescence upon authority. Perhaps what is most needed for all of us is to be accountable, authentic and truthful.  If we want to blame someone for what is happening in the world, we should begin with ourselves.  What difference does it make to be in a constant state of anger, fear, frustration, insecurity, trauma, turmoil and uncertainty?  The perception deception is our delusion we enable within the illusion we interpret as reality.

The Nature of Egocentricity

It should be apparent to us what has caused our current circumstances.  We want to be right, and we are consumed with proving all who disagree with us wrong.  Congratulations! You are right! Does it really make a difference? Does it shift anything in our selective reality?  Will we wake up tomorrow to our idyllic world?  Will we be happy, fulfilled and peaceful?  Chances are, we will not.  We want to be right about how and why everything is fucked up.  The superficial power of our self-righteousness enslaves us into a vicious cycle of egocentricity.  We conceal and evade our failure to make a difference by wielding our repressed inadequacies, insecurities and uncertainties upon the world. We refuse to be accountable for the everyday atrocities we commit against humanity.

The Webs We Weave

Given the magnitude of individual, environmental and social toxicity, perception has been deluded. It is distorted, inverted, manipulated and transmuted into the dense energies of conflict, despair, fear, insecurity, hate and vanity.  The false narratives we invent about ourselves and others intensifies our confusion, collusion and delusion, devastating our lives in a wake of destruction.  As much as we impose our arrogance to proliferate, propagandize and project our malice and malaise upon others, we can also empower ourselves to transform and transcend.  Yet, the web of deception we weave is the evasion of our authenticity, destiny, integrity and relativity.  We invoke the artificial power of our egocentricity when we weaponize our personal agenda, propaganda and pain. 

“Vision sources the experience of transcendence.”

Divine Comedy

I have been publishing articles for over 15 years.  Translating universal empowerment, in unison with my soul, through my intuition and heart center and into my thoughts and instincts, necessitates all my being.  Observing, listening, experiencing and relating is essential in aspiring to embody universality.  Egocentricity has little to do with my literary endeavors.  The divine comedy is realizing that the words on the page are only a linguistic reflection of the revelations I encounter in my moments of experiential vision.  The energy between the lines supersedes its vernacular.  Perhaps I write within the vicious cycle of my own existential paradox; striving to articulate with words what can only be experienced in essence, expressed with silence and embodied in transcendence.

The Paradigm of a Simulation

Before our social programming distorts, manipulates and destroys our consciousness with the imposition of our voluntary institutionalization, we are expressions of the universe.  Yet, we adopt, adapt and acquiesce into a simulated virtuality.  Many of us pride ourselves on how brainwashed, deluded and enslaved we are in social reality.  Our deficiency with personal observation condemns us to a fixed perception of chronic fury and reactivity.  We emulate the beliefs, ideologies and viewpoints of indoctrinated “experts,” as we proclaim their dogma, opinion, propaganda and rhetoric as our truth.  Without awareness, equilibrium and understanding, we are a human program, a vortex of exploitation, existing in the paradigm of a simulation.

Perception of Existence

Perception is deception.  However challenging it is to distinguish ourselves from our fixed interpretations, it is as essential to free ourselves from our self-imposed sentence of social dependency.  In the oblivion of our egocentricity, we are not even present to what we think we are right about! When we observe this in ourselves, we realize our desire to be right is driven by the illusion we interpret as reality.  This is the quintessential triviality of humanity, enabling our preoccupation with popular irrelevance to conceal, deny and evade our personal deficiencies and insecurities.  We are estranged from ourselves because we are not in relativity with our soul.  Our perception of existence is based on selective lies we convince ourselves are true.

All We Are

Beyond our arrogance, entitlement, self-righteousness and vanity, our greatest exhibition of egocentricity is believing we know what is best for us.  Yet, how can we, when we are primarily alienated from our soul, intuition and heart?  It is our personal defense mechanism to insulate ourselves from our embellishment to perceptual threats, inhibiting our human experience.  We do not know what is best for us, only what is advantageous, comfortable, convenient, relative and safe.  Our existence is enslaved in the duality of intellect and instinct.  Maturity is a social rite of passage, severing our relativity with our heart, intuition and soul.  For many, universality is a futile triviality that fails to gratify our egocentricity.  Yet, as universal beings, it is all we are.

From Perception to Vision

How we perceive our existence is an interpretation of our thoughts and instincts.  Experiencing vision is the synchronicity of our soul, intuition, heart, mind and body.  Our current personal and social environment does not empower or endorse the equilibrium of our being; considering the accelerated and intensified toxicity present in contemporary society.  We eagerly dismiss the necessity for the experience of fulfillment, simply because it does not deliver the instant gratification our egocentricity demands.  Yet, observing, expressing and shifting our being empowers us to transform and transcend our perception, thus experiencing and embodying our vision.  Perception is to know, whereas vision is to understand.

Vision of Transcendence

Knowing is existing in the mind.  Understanding is experiencing the soul.  Many of us think we know everything, yet we understand nothing.  Egocentricity thrives in the institutionalized “knowledge” of business, education, media, politics, religion, science and technology.  These are the domains of our enslavement in virtuality.  We exist in a vicious cycle of toxicity, engaged in a simulation of egocentricity, in which we obliviously abide.  Universality is the transcendence of our being; sourced by our soul, guided by our intuition and empowered by our heart.  Freedom from egocentricity is discovered when we transform and transcend our delusion within the illusion of social reality.  Only then will we experience the vision of transcendence.

“Transcendence is the embodiment our soul.”

“Be with it all.”

From Engagement to Empowerment

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“Existence is not experience.”

Founded on Fear

We are enslaved in a three-dimensional existence, programmed to project reality (illusion) instead of embody universality (being).  For the institutionalized mind, this statement evokes conspiracy theory, fantasy, lunacy, volatility and uncertainty.  What is present for those of us who cast disdain, judgement and ridicule at diversity is our fear and insecurity.  Instead of observing our opportunity to be an expression of our soul, we cling to our delusion within the illusion of “reality.”  Our egocentricity imposes our agenda for self-relevance, righteousness and vanity.  Fear is a force that influences us all.  Yet, it is our choice for consciousness we all trivialize. 

Defending the Indefensible

Reality is the most powerful force in society.  It is even greater than “God.”  The absolute totality of our belief, engagement, investment and interaction certainly proves this bold statement.  It supersedes all social nuances, simply because it is human nature to exist within its mainframe; illustrated by our oblivion to the sheer scale of its assimilation, indoctrination and manipulation.  When we encounter diverse concepts, ideologies, observations and perceptions that challenge our reality, we fervently defend it with reckless abandon.  We are simply too terrified to admit we were deceived, mistaken, naïve and victimized.  Our egocentricity enables our enslavement.

The Con of Egocentricity

None of us want to be told what to do.  Yet, every day we depend on authoritarian entities and organizations for leadership.  It is an enigmatic and oxymoronic paradox to which we all subscribe.  In essence, a personal delusion we condition ourselves to emulate as a defense mechanism against ourselves.  Our self-centered oblivion enables our susceptibility to our ego, as does our emotional immaturity.  We allow our egocentricity to control us with our own arrogance, cognitive dissonance, doubt, fear, insecurity, oblivion and self-righteousness.  We are conned by our own egos, simply because we live in the triviality of our vanity.

The Vortex of Reality

Reality is a control matrix, designed and enforced to segregate us from our soul and the universe.  Our engagement in its virtual domain establishes our integration into its social operating system.  Our dependence upon its artificiality sustains our existential slavery.  When we invest ourselves into its matrix, we acquiesce our energy, thus our soul.  Reality is a black hole, ever distorting and devouring our life force.  It diminishes universality into a lower frequency, energy resonance, provoking negativity via an onslaught of virtual stimulation.  We enable our enslavement with our dependence, engagement, oblivion and reactivity.

“We are energetic vortices in the matrix of social reality.”

Within the Lines

We engage in personal and social conformity for ideology, intelligence, security, stability and wealth.  Without these standards of existence, the fragility of our artificiality inevitably spirals into chaos, destruction and even death.  Though we have a fundamental conception and knowledge of our enslavement, we forfeit our choice to be free.  Much like a computer, we are programmed with our every encounter in sociality.  The biological virtuality in which we are integrated is not a program, it is a virus, encoding the neural pathways of our mind.  We are enslaved into an existentially linear paradigm.  Our lives are simply simulations running within its lines.

Empowerment Assured

I have a great deal of compassion for people who are victimized by their conditioned oblivion; proliferated by extreme authoritarianism in social reality.  That is until I observe them pulling the wool over their own eyes, in an evasion of their truth, with the brazen arrogance of their egocentricity.  For years, I have written articles with the purpose of expressing clarity, distinction, insight and understanding.  However, I am aware, empathic and present enough to sense the biased, inhibited and selective comprehension of an indoctrinated populus.  In a dynamic as complex, distorted, manipulated and toxic, empowerment is essential.

Universal Origins

The Sun is the center of our galaxy.  The solar flare activity we have recently been observing in the temperature shifts of the Earth and the presence of the Aurora Borealis is not “climate change,” at least in the ways it has been scientifically reported.  Beyond the intellectual interpretations, hypothesized to impose and project reason onto universal mystery, the truth abides.  Our relativity with the universal energetic shift of the new era is empowered by the Sun.  Hence, it is the source of our transformational shift into transcendental being.  Our soul and the universe are one, synergized in an expression of universality.  

Transcendental Shift

We have been in the era of transcendence since the Winter Solstice 2012.  It is essential we sever the infinite tethers we enact with our engagement in social reality, to fulfill our universal evolution.  We first need to acknowledge the slavery of our soul, enabled by our dependence on and obsession with artificiality.  When we are present to our soul, we can observe the cost of feigning our life with egocentricity.  In the face of universal opportunity, it is an evasion of our authenticity, integrity and universality.  The vital expressions of our evolution are empowering and embodying our transcendental shift.

From Engagement to Empowerment

For the last 12 years, I have practiced daily exercises to be aligned, centered, focused, grounded and related with my soul and the universe.  In transforming my behaviors, I experienced an extraordinary, transitional shift.  Its progression empowered my transcendence from artificiality.  Not with egocentricity, yet with universality.  Our universal evolution begins when we withdraw our engagement from social reality and embody the empowerment of our soul.  Each of us express a unique, energetic resonance.  Our soul sources our transcendence.  It shifts us from existence to experience, transforming our artificial engagement into universal empowerment.

“Empowerment is universality.”

From Reality to Universality

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“Our enslavement in sociality exists as reality.”

Exodus of Existence

Annually, I participate in a week-long event.  For most, it may be just a week out of the year.  For some, preparations for the next year begin when the current one ends.  In my experience, one observation I have discovered is how much deprogramming from reality we must fulfill to be present to each other, nature and our prayer.  Every day, we expose ourselves to endless social influence, imposition and impact, tethering us to a carnal, hostile and toxic social reality.  Most of us adapt to this cooperative violence, patting ourselves on the back as we survive.  While some of us distinguish ourselves from this vicious cycle in our quest to thrive.

Decrypting the Script

Whether it is an event, retreat, seminar or vacation, freeing ourselves from the daily routines of social reality empowers us to become present to how much bearing it has on our experience.  We may encounter withdrawals from our personal dependencies on alternative, mainstream and social media, our devices, our lifestyles and our habitual and hereditary patterns of behavior.  Beyond the comfort, convenience, familiarity and safety of our individual and social artificiality, we can observe, experience and transcend the commonalities of our fear, insecurity and oblivion.  Decrypting our conditioning from this paradigm is essential for our transcendence.  

Inherent Oblivion

All of us enable, engender and embody our share of oblivion.  This is not to declare everyone is “oblivious.”  The vital distinction of being is consciousness.  Living devoid of awareness is oblivion.  This statement is not new age, metaphysics or spirituality.  It is an expression and understanding of universality.  The accumulation of an unconscious existence, our enslavement in linear time and our personal and social exploitation has engineered humanity into egocentric automatons.  When we refuse to acknowledge and accept that we are victims of cognitive fear manipulation, we can never hold ourselves accountable for our voluntary engagement in a cooperative, sociopathic existence. 

The TranscenDance

Being present to and experiencing the extraordinary requires us to observe, transform and transcend our institutionalized programming, thus enslaving us into a fixed, perceptual filter of existing as ordinary.  There is nothing of value in being human, and everything of essence in human being.  Being human is to acquiesce our universality for the egocentricity of artificiality:  heredity, ideology, media, politics, religion, science, self-righteousness, vanity and wealth.  Human being is our opportunity to shift from egocentricity into universality with charity, community, empowerment, experience, relativity, transformation, transcendence and understanding. 

“Our social enslavement is our failure to be an expression of our soul.”

Environmental Empowerment

Once we have withdrawn from the routines of social reality, we begin to become present to the resonance of universality.  This transition can be inspiring, intimidating and terrifying.  In my recent experience, I observed that being in community, having a focus of intent and performing physical labor shifted me into an essential awareness, balance and relativity to express, embody and resonate with my soul.  I also observed this within the community, occurring uniquely with each person.  Environmental empowerment collectively evolved as our week together progressed.  Each year, we all establish a synchronicity of relativity.  That is until our event ends.

Returning to Reality

As there are over seven billion unique truths, there are as many or more exclusive realities.  Most misinterpret reality as their truth, yet the two are significantly distinct.  Reality is a simulation, based on our personal and social engagement.  It is a perceptual defense narrative we invent to endure and survive the chaos, cruelty, inequality, injustice and violence of society.  Our truth is the expression of our soul’s resonance.  In essence, universality.  It manifests as our unique, energetic frequency when we transcend reality.  Truth can never be discovered or established in a social paradigm.  It thrives in our personal intimacy and relativity with our soul and the universe. 

Source of Experience

Existence is our commonality of living in oblivion.  It is a vortex that consumes our universality.  Experience is our unique expression of being.  In social reality, experience exists primarily in a vacuum of artificiality.  In other words, it is an enigma many associate with belief, ideology, religion or spirituality.  When we are in flow with the resonance of our soul, our perception of and interaction with social reality collapses, simply because our experience transforms our existence.  During the week of our annual event, this paradox ceases to exist, as our collective focus and purpose transcends our individual fear and insecurity.  Universality sources our experience.

Bittersweet Medicine

The personal reality we invent tethers us to the social reality in which we engage. It is all an illusion.  Our relativity with this simulation is our individual delusion.  Whenever we happen to transcend this matrix, we eventually return to its enslavement.  Our dependency upon its artificiality is beyond addiction. In the vicious cycles of sociality, there is a personal payoff we receive, justifying our obedient and oblivious engagement.  We can preoccupy ourselves with the diversions of reality to evade our soul.  Yet, when our personal and social “busy-ness” settles, our common truth remains.  We are a universal, energetic being.  Our soul purpose is to observe, empower, express, relate, transform and transcend.

Transcendental Shift

When we experience transcendence from social reality, we discover and explore the energetic flow of universality.  It is our true expression of being.  Everything that existed as “real” vanishes within the vortex of the social matrix. When we shift into this experience, we release who we were and become present to who we are.  Our vision, energy, heart, intuition and relativity evolve exponentially beyond the boundaries of our creativity, imagination, sensibility and understanding.  We are sourced by our soul, empowered by the momentum of universality.  This is the energetic flow of our transcendental shift.  Once we cross this threshold, there is no return.

From Reality to Universality

Shifting from social reality to universality is the essential progression of the new era.  Where we focus our attention (awareness) and engagement (experience) is where our energy flows (expression).  Being human is to sacrifice our personal power (empowerment), inverting universality (soul) into density (egocentricity); to impose, influence and impact our environment (artificiality) for authority (supremacy).  Our engagement in social reality is our enslavement.  Our relativity with our soul is our empowerment.  We are now in the era of transcendence.  Human being is our opportunity to transform, transcend and shift with the energy of universality.   

“Freedom from reality is becoming an expression of universality.”

The Experience of Transcendence

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“Life is the lie we delude ourselves with to evade our soul.”

A Vision of Transcendence

We are eternal beings.  Yet, we rarely embody our existence as a soul, or as an expression of the universe.  Beyond our body and mind is our heart center, a torus of universality resonating omnidimensional energy.  It synergizes with our intuition, our soul and the universe.  Our soul and the universe are one.  We chose to be born into this three-dimensional paradigm for the purpose of intimating and relating with our soul as a human being.  Becoming its fulfilled expression is our common destiny.  We all have the opportunity for universality.  However, transcendence is often feigned as a spiritual fantasy.    

Dream a Little Dream

In the phases of our maturity, well before we establish our universal acuity for awareness, consciousness, experience, expression, transformation and transcendence, we are institutionalized with amusement, education, ideology, heredity, politics, religion and science.  In adulthood, our exodus from our soul is complete.  We get a degree, a job, a spouse, kids, houses and cars; then we socialize, work, vacation, retire, age and die. Inevitably, we lay on our death bed regretting all the things we have not achieved.  This is the vicious cycle of humanity.  Being a victim of social reality instead of an expression of universality.

Humanity Knows Best

We believe we know what is best for us.  Yet, our intentions are focused more on our comfortability and convenience rather than our evolution and fulfillment.  We are always endorsing our limitations to ourselves and others, instead of crossing the self-imposed boundaries of our fear, indifference, insecurity and self-righteousness.  We execute our ordinary lifestyles with apathy, dread and obligation; thus, invoking our existence with the gravity of our controlled, selective reality.  We live our fixed way of life with entitled defiance, proliferating our suffering like a badge of honor to anyone who will enable the vanity of our agony.

The Reality of Artificiality

Social reality is not excruciating to endure.  It is our individual interpretation of and relativity with its “realism” that provokes our deepest fears.  We are programmed, via our institutionalization, to adopt and enact filters of perception, based on external opinion, which establishes our personal deception.  We do not trust ourselves. Therefore, we do not trust others, our soul or the universe.  Many “profess” to be spiritual, yet few choose to fulfill their unique destiny as the embodiment of its expression.  The true watermark of this is how we empower ourselves with our soul, thus transforming our environment.  The reality in which we exist is an elaborate virtuality of artificiality. 

“We are automatons in a projected simulation.”

The Slavery of Social Reality

The universal energy empowering us to evolve, transform and transcend is always leaving us.  We constantly sacrifice our universality when the focus of our attention is engaged in external circumstances and environments beyond our control.  Eventually, it becomes a daily ritual to surrender our personal power to others because we have adopted an erroneous understanding that personal accountability, integrity and vulnerability are equivalent to death.  The lie we live is not one imposed on us by authoritarian sociopaths, it is of our own device.  Only we have the power to sentence ourselves to enslavement in social reality.

The Social Vortex

Social reality is a simulation, a holographic film projected onto a three-dimensional screen.  Most of us are seated in the audience, watching the action, comedy, drama, horror, narratives, politics, opinions, science fiction and war transpire like a weekly documentary.  Often, we walk away from it as empty as the engineered storylines provoking our emotionality.  Then, we debate each other to prove our intelligence, priding ourselves on our proficiency in banter and banality.  We transmute ourselves from omnidimensional souls into social vortices, stealing artificial power from each other to bolster our selective oblivion with our egocentric vanity. 

Reclamation Project

We all sacrifice our souls upon the social altars of accumulation, amusement, apathy, conflict, conformity, consumption, excess, ideology, materiality, oblivion, security, success and vanity.  We all acquiesce our personal power to authoritarian entities and organizations because we fail to evolve, transform and transcend.  Our engagement in our environment is our enslavement.  For most, our dependence on society is near absolute, tethering us to the vicious cycles of our individual oblivion.  Withdrawing our engagement from the projection of reality is essential in reclaiming our relativity with our soul and the universe.

An Age of Awakening

We all get lost in the expectations and possibilities of how our awakening may evolve.  Universality transcends the triviality of our virtuality.  Each person has their own unique experience and expression with their soul.  The articles I have written on this topic have been intentionally obscure and vague. I do not know or understand what your awakening will be.  This is something we all need to establish for ourselves.  I have expressed clever ways to empower creativity, consciousness, evolution, transformation, transcendence and universality.  Yet, as the last quote in the previous article declared, “WAKE UP!”

The Stand for Consciousness

Information is not consciousness.  Neither is life.  They are finite statistics that confirm or deny our human existence.  Consciousness is a profoundly intimate experience, empowered by our expression of being.  It flows through us as universality, creating our unique, energetic resonance.  Much as perception and truth, no two souls are the same.  When we are influenced and impacted by the malevolent imposition of social reality, we will never become an expression of universality.  In this hostile paradigm of endless toxicity, our stand for personal transcendence empowers our universal experience.

The Experience of Transcendence

We are not even present to reality, let alone our truth.  We exist within a fantasy, engineered to segregate us from our soul.  Our engagement in social reality severs our relativity with the universe.  Universality is the omnidimensional energy our soul conveys to empower our transcendence.  Our intuition receives and conducts it through the centers of our being, into the energetic torus of our heart.  The mind and body are merely instruments to express universality as our unique way of being.  When we align, balance and center within, this equilibrium creates the energetic resonance essential to experience transcendence.

“Transcendence is the pathway to universality.”   

The Truth of Our Youth

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“Maturity destroys our truth and our youth.”

Youth Revival

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.”

On The Threshold

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“Every moment is an opportunity to be an expression of truth.”

All Things Considered

There is an intensity to the subject matter and style of the articles I publish.  For many, it may be read as critical and pessimistic.  To others, there is an undeniable resonance with the energy between the lines.  I do not take offense when I hear from family, friends and others if the articles land for them as societal cynicism.  I have chosen to walk the path of my personal truth.  However, being an intuitive person, I sense the responses in comments, likes, shares, etc., or lack thereof.  My intentions have never been for profit, and I am not delusional enough to be seduced by popularity.  When people experience insights with these articles, even those interpreted as negative, I am fulfilled in my expression.

Delusion, Illusion and Oblivion

We each exist within our personal security bubble.  It is almost impossible to differentiate ourselves from our defenses, given our institutional assimilation via our social conditioning and programming.  It is our enslavement; imposed by our ambiguity, denial, egocentricity, fear, insecurity and self-righteousness.  We are all creators of our experience.  In every moment, we have the opportunity for universality.  Yet, we dismiss our universal birthright to conform to society.  We design our personal delusion to interact with the illusion of reality.  Our engagement in this dynamic establishes our oblivion.  We satiate ourselves with instinct and intellect, discrediting and refuting everything in opposition of our personal and social bias, narrative and reality.

Duped From the Truth

Personal truth is a social inconvenience.  It flies in the face of everything we are conditioned to believe through the enforced programming of education, entertainment, media, politics, religion and science.  From the moment we are born, we are conned into a lifestyle of enslavement.  We adopt and endorse our external dependence, because we fail to empower ourselves with our soul and the universe.  Perhaps the most difficult realization we all face is acknowledging and accepting that we were all duped.  Our egos enact an elaborate ruse to spare us from the dreaded culpability, humiliation and suffering we may encounter when we clarify and embody the truth.  Howsoever we endeavor to evade our awakening, it is inevitable.  

An Awakening

When I was an adolescent, I was confronted with the harsh reality of becoming an adult in society.  There was always a gravity of density, conformity and restriction I encountered at every turn.  It is extremely emasculating to transition from an eternal expression of being to a finite emulation of humanity.  The disturbing truth for me was understanding I would have to sacrifice too much of my soul for the gratification of egocentric “success” in social reality.  We may react defensively to this statement in justification of our own personal dependence on egoism, pride, prominence and worth.  When we choose to free ourselves from our oblivion, the resonance of our personal truth is all that remains.

“We are not an emulation of existence; we are an expression of experience.“

Recollection of Revelation

As a teenage poet and musical artist, I experienced a unique fluency with creativity and imagination.  This empowered me to observe, clarify, understand and embody emotionality, intuition, relativity and universality.  What started as an act of adolescent rebellion gradually progressed into a declaration of being.  As I aged, it became a daily practice of soul preservation against the imposing elements of social reality.  I am fascinated by the energetic, experiential and transformative empowerment of universality.  The further I synthesize with my unique progression, the greater experience I encounter as a universal expression.  Social revolution does not exist without personal revelation.

The Rub of Relativity

We all have personal experiences in our social engagements.  It is almost impossible to find the equilibrium of our being amidst the constant stream of chaos, conflict, density, illusion, intensity, manipulation and programming. These elements modify us from the outside in.  We exist in a reality of artificiality, yet we are oblivious to the intricate nuances of its impacts and influence.  Our desire for superficial acceptance and belonging with our peripheral relations lures us away from our soul and the universe.  There is a limitation to the fulfillment we may share with others because we are segregated from ourselves.  No matter how much we invest our energy into our external encounters, the deficiency of our internal experience is the rub of our relativity.

I Am Who Iam

It is illuminating to experience ourselves through the eyes of others.  When we can observe ourselves outside of our permanence, it gives us a unique insight into how we occur.  It is an existential experience of transcendence, even from our selves.  I recall the first time I witnessed another’s fixed perception of me.  It was a transformational revelation in which I clarified who I was not.  A family member was speaking to me through an interpretive filter of who I was years before.  I realized they were unable to see me for who I had become, only with whom they felt most comfortable.  I shifted from reacting with aggravation to accepting their perception of me, even though it conflicted with who I truly am.

Life on a Limb

We fail at thriving when overwhelmed with the gravity of surviving.  We do not experience life.  We merely exist within the engineered parameters of a holographic simulation we collectively accept and adopt as society.  This concept is nearly impossible for the assimilated mind to comprehend.  Our cognitive dissonance casts stones of “conspiracy theory” in our malevolent quest to discredit, debunk and destroy all things beyond the proverbial box of social reality.  Our institutional programming revises our history and annihilates our mystery; accelerating the conflict, disease, fear and insecurity that enacts our enslavement.  We live life upon a fragile limb, clinging to social dependence in a desperate plea to proliferate our egocentricity.

Transcendent Sponsorship

Over twenty years ago, I met a woman who helped shift my programmed perception from knowledge to understanding.  I have learned that knowing is an intellectual encounter, whereas understanding is a multidimensional experience.  For decades, she has expressed her unbridled passion for conscious transcendence with anyone who lent her their listening.  Mine happened to be open at the time of our first encounter.  Elva Thompson is an author of articles and books, yet these pale in comparison to the awareness and inspiration that transpires in the eternal moments of her conversations.  It is ordinary to engage in relativity with others.  Yet, extraordinary to be empowered by the resonance of the energy beyond the words.

On the Threshold

We all stand upon the threshold of our unique experience with the universal energetic shift.  One humanity has yet to encounter.  For many, it may be interpreted as an apocalypse of our existence.  For some, it is the manifestation of our transcendence.  Howsoever we may choose (or not) to experience this extraordinary new era, our lives are best expressed in who we choose to be.  It is either the convenience of artificiality (fear) or the empowerment of universality (love).  Whether or not we consider ourselves conscious beings, our personal delusion with the illusion of social reality is the oblivion enabling our virtuality.  The truth we embody is the expression of our universality.                    

“Our personal truth is the resonance of our soul.”