Written in the Stars

December 16, 2022 / Iam Saums / 2 Comments

“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.”

A Source of Creation

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

“Universality is the origin of our creativity.”

Sleight of Social Reality

The common reality we adopt and accept is an illusion. It is a perceptual projection driven by our engagement and interaction. The more we invest our focus and energy, the more we manifest it into our experience. It is a hacked simulation to distract and preoccupy us with the trivialities of “life.” This is the ultimate conspiracy theory, because the collective, cognitive dissonance of humanity refuses to accept the truth. We are enslaved by social reality.

My friend Elva Thompson recently wrote an article, “You Will Own Nothing.” She writes about how we are all programs of artificial intelligence. Everything we are, do and achieve is an orchestrated replication. Our beliefs, instincts, thoughts and emotions are conditioned, behavioral patterns sustaining our artificiality. We sacrifice our soul upon the altar of knowledge. Knowing this is one thing. Understanding it is the beginning of our freedom.

Signature Watermark

Our unique creativity cannot be truly observed, experienced, expressed or made manifest within the imposed domains of education, media, occupation, politics, religion and society. We are not taught how to transcend the design of our enslavement. We are influenced to adopt, enable, enforce and maintain the status quo of authoritarian indoctrination. Now more than ever, we need to stand for, empower and express our creativity and imagination.

Each of us has a unique perception of the universe, ourselves and society. The social reality in which we exist is contrary to our conscious understanding. Creating in the wake of its currents is a common practice for artists dedicated to their personal expression. When the tides of humanity ebb and flow with global circumstances and events, conscious beings align with the universe, establish their equilibrium, focus their expression and embody universality.

The Art of Understanding

In the previous article, “From Vision to Being,” I drew the distinction between knowing and understanding our experience. Knowing is a declaration of our intellect. Whereas understanding is an expression of our soul. It is the difference between thinking our way through life and being a personification of the universe. There are many things we will never know, at least in the ways we believe, desire or expect. Understanding provides us the opportunity to be.

To fulfill our understanding, it is essential to establish equilibrium between the domains of our being. This empowers our ability to align ourselves with our universality. Understanding is a multidimensional experience, requiring the balance of our body, mind and heart to relate with our soul. When we shift the focus of our intention from knowing to understanding, an extraordinary expansion of consciousness occurs. Understanding is the cornerstone of our awareness.

“Conscious being is creativity.”

Common Tones

All of us have unique elements of our being to express our originality. For all the diversities that define our personality, there are vital qualities we all share. Regardless of belief, experience, heredity, ideology, interpretation, perception, politics, race and religion, we all have a soul. Our soul synergizes with the universe, providing us an abundance of empowerment and energy. This is true for all of us, no matter what personal or socially induced filters we apply to our experience.

We all have an intuition which functions as an avenue through which our universality relates with the rest of our being. Our heart center is a powerful, electromagnetic torus of energy, expressing itself beyond the acuity of our awareness. Our mind is an app we use to interpret and apply all we are into the three-dimensional domain of human existence. Our body is our vehicle, driven primarily by action, desire and instinct.

Creative Dynamics

Creativity is the expression of our universality. We are not artists, simply observers, interpreters and ambassadors of universal experience. Our soul is one with the universe. When we are aligned and related, we discover, experience and express the source of creation. Insight, inspiration and manifestation begins when we release our instinct, intellect and toxic emotionality to embrace the energy of universality. Our relativity with being is the expression of our creativity.

Our soul emanates universality. Our intuition receives and transmits this energy to the centers of our being. Our heart center is the focal point of how we synergize our multidimensionality. When we are balanced, our intuition, heart and mind transform universal epiphanies into inspiration, sending empowerment and energy for its expression. Whether we are conveying art or life, our creative dynamic is empowered by our consciousness.

Source of Being

In social reality, spiritual experience is commonly perceived as delusion, fantasy or imaginary. Relativity with the universe is almost impossible to encounter; let alone create, establish and sustain. Artificiality is the existential ego of social reality. Fear, insecurity and self-righteousness annihilates our creative expression. Every moment is an opportunity to align, focus, ground, center and shift our experience. We are only as eloquent as our relativity with the universe.

All we desire, think, say or do is irrelevant in relation to who we are. Many believe our instincts, thoughts and actions are the key elements of our existence. However sensible this may seem; it is furthest from the truth. Our vision, observation, focus, experience, expression and being is the omnidimensional progression of how to shift and transform social reality. We fulfill our universality when we manifest the unique expression of our being.

“Universality is the source of our creation.”

From Vision to Being

July 1, 2022 / Iam Saums / 2 Comments

“Many may know, few will understand.”

Traditional Medicinal

For over 20 years, I have participated in ceremonial community. When I reflect on my experiences, one of the greatest insights I have had is that they are not “mine.” My interpretation of them is irrelevant. Even their benefit and the roles that have come to me from my commitments are insignificant. Another epiphany I had and continue to express to the best of my ability, is being of service to community. I simply hold a space for others to have their experience, however it may manifest, without attachment, control, expectation and influence. It takes everything from me to be true to the tradition and express who I am called to be. When one gives all and becomes nothing, it creates opportunity for everything.

The Human Gene

One of the most heartbreaking experiences I have witnessed on this path is observing when participants fall victim to their ego. It is a delicate and intricate balance to maintain an equilibrium between the prayer we make, and the society in which we live. Many falter in their pursuits to gain personal advancement, power, recognition and status at the cost of their experience and those of the people whom they desire to lead. It is more about manipulation and less about tradition. Many interpret leadership as the quantity of their followers and the control they impose, rather than their service to community. It becomes dangerous when they are insensitive or oblivious to the impacts their personal agendas and strategies cause.

“Spiritualized”

Whenever a tradition becomes congregational or institutionalized, it is only a matter of time before it manifests as social dysfunction, harm, oppression and destruction. Last year, I published “Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.” It expresses clarity into the influence and impact our egos have on our experience and those of others. Many forms of religion have established, enacted and profited by controlling and manipulating parishioners into fear, guilt, obligation and uncertainty to uphold their authority over the many. The propaganda they proselytize is a scheme to prohibit the individual soul-intimation experience. Personal discernment and distinction are vital in creating and preserving our alignment with the universe.

Invention of Programming

All of us are indoctrinated into institutional structures of selective reality. Long before we learn to express consciousness and conscience, we are programmed to emulate a common, condensed interpretation of all with which we identify and relate. This is a social control technique to maintain our enslavement. Most “intelligent” people are cast into a vicious cycle of existence. They choose not to acknowledge the truth that they are imprisoned by their ego with their own denial, doubt, fear and self-righteousness. We have been conditioned by education, mainstream media, religion and society to be right instead of true to our experience. This is what motivates people who believe themselves to be leaders to control others.

“Knowing is an invention of the mind. Understanding is an expression of the soul.”

Knowing and Understanding

Knowing tethers us to thought. Understanding inspires us to be. I would not choose to “know” anything. In my opinion, knowing is too intellectual. Just facts and figures ricocheting in my mind. Knowing is a diversion from observing, understanding and applying what I experience into who I am. Social reality imposes the duality of thought and action into our lifestyles. We are energetic beings with multidimensional potentialities. Our heart and intuition relate us with our soul and the universe. Knowing is merely a fraction of our experience in the universality of our existence. Understanding empowers us to align our body and mind with our heart, intuition, soul and the universe.

Focus of Vision

Epiphanies and insights are occurring in every moment of our present. When we happen upon them, they occur to us as fleeting glimpses, existing beyond our purview. We simply do not dedicate the necessary focus to cultivate our experience. We must express a purpose of awareness and observation to create a sustainable environment in which our consciousness resonates with the frequency of our vision. My initiation into this experience was terrifying, as it was so diverse from the reality in which I had been indoctrinated. It annihilated my adolescent belief, perception, thought and understanding. After I found my balance amidst the fluctuating currents of my experiences, I grew accustomed to the shifts and eventually chose to flow with them.

Observation of Experience

Our experiences are only as conscious as we live them. We exist in a social reality that imposes oblivion as a control mechanism. Our focus of vision kindles our observation to hone our awareness and its expression. Though we are programmed to exercise acuity through a filter of a selfishness, being present to the circumstances and events transpiring around us empowers us to establish how they exist within. Eventually, we create the opportunity to transform ourselves, our existence and our perception of reality. Our observation is the expression of our relativity with the present. The current challenges of the new era are an ideal opportunity to shift and align with the universe and our soul, guided by our intuition, while being conscious of our heart, mind and body.

Expression of Being

In no other tradition have I experienced such an extraordinary symmetry between the personal and community experience. When balance is established, one can have their individual discoveries within the circle. Whether or not this happens is empowered by our unique expression of being. When the shared focus is for the benefit of the people, personal transformation is possible. It simply requires us to shift our focus from our self alone to the needs of all. Being willing to release the social conditioning of our selfishness empowers us to be proactively empowered by community consciousness. When we choose to embody this way of being, our personal and collective visions manifest.

Full Circle

“One insight I would share with those at the crossroads of their soul; be present to your ego and its influence, or you will never have a spiritual experience.” (“Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.”) The primary element to our social programming is believing and engaging in linear reality. Personal transformation is a multidimensional encounter with infinite facets of vision, observation, experience, expression and being. The optimal way to discover who, how and why we are is our relativity within community. We sacrifice our greatest potential with our social obsessions for selfish inclinations. Community offers us the opportunity to create ourselves with our commitment to all our relations.

“Unity is the soul of community” – (“Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.”)

“Community is our commitment to unity.”

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

June 1, 2022 / Iam Saums / 4 Comments

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/

Are We Experienced?

April 15, 2022 / Iam Saums / 6 Comments

“Perception is the deceiver of experience.”

A Fleeting Glimpse

We believe, hear and see only what we desire. It is human entitlement to gratify our wants instead of satisfy our needs. Life is perceived through a filter of our selective reality. Therefore, we are merely surviving instead of thriving. It is impossible to fulfill our experience when we build a personal fortress of imaginary interpretation, perception and understanding around us. We rarely “experience” life, we simply surrender to the constant oppression of social reality. For example, we react with oblivion instead of proact with creation. The distinction between perception and experience is consciousness.

The Perception Deception

The proverbial wool is pulled over our eyes well before we begin to develop our personal acumen for diverse and transcendent understanding. Institutional “intelligence” via education, media, politics and religion processes our experience into perceptual duality. Entertainment, economics, information, social media, sports and world events enable the common illusion we all accept and apply. Our minds are preoccupied with authoritarian programming, while we congratulate ourselves for our social mimicry and reiteration. We deceive ourselves with virtuality to avoid being with the truth. We allow ourselves to be conditioned as projections of artificial intelligence.

Once Upon a Time

Social reality is a fairy tale written by royalty and sustained by peasants. This is an excruciating observation and realization. When I became aware of its actors, storyline and endgame, I was angry, apathetic, hopeless and resigned. As I awakened, I became empowered and inspired by the possibility reality’s antiquated plot could be transformed. However, I realized the greatest obstruction to this transformation was my own social conditioning and programmed perception. There are billions of emulations of interpretation enslaving humanity into the digital matrix of reality. Within its paradigm, we are captive to our ego, oblivion and self-righteousness.

The Silent Surrender

Perception is developed when what is without becomes who is within. This is the imposition of social reality. Most of us inevitably acquiesce to dysfunctional behaviors, habits, impulses and thoughts because we are not empowered or inspired to fulfill our personal destiny. Well before adolescence, we are lured away from who we truly are and may become. We submit to and establish our ego as the core of our identity. As we engage and integrate with the simulation of society, we give all our possibility and power to our ego. This severs our relations with our soul and the universe.

“Perception is what we adopt. Experience is how we create.”

Origin of Experience

One of my most innovative introductions into experience was when I took hallucinogens in High School. It expanded my vision, creativity, expression, perception and understanding in ways I would have never imagined. I remember returning from these extraordinary journeys wondering why so many people chose to define and perceive themselves within the narrow parameters of reality. It opened a doorway to my experience with “universality;” the multidimensionality of being relating us with everything that ever was, is and will be. Though I have not partaken since, I acknowledge and appreciate the benefits they inspired in my awareness, creativity, expression, imagination and relativity.

Beyond the Rainbow

When I was 18, I had an encounter that transformed my vision from perception to experience. (Ref. the article “A History of Mystery.”) For over 30 years, I have continued to have these extraordinary, multidimensional journeys. Some are amazing and enlightening, some dangerous and terrifying, while others are cryptic and profound. These experiences gradually shifted my perception, eventually empowering my existence, insight and understanding. The intention and practice of personal observation allows us to transcend our enslavement to duality. Beyond our reflection is the focal point of our awareness and the origin of our consciousness.

From Empowerment to Energy

Social reality does not empower or inspire us. It takes all we are willing to give, refining it into a dense energy to sustain the artificiality of society. We are eager to accept this as “reality” because we dismiss and neglect our common destiny of creative expression. When we choose to observe, envision, focus and intend our unique purpose, we receive an abundance of energy from the universe. As we exercise our legacy of being, we connect and relate with its flow. Eventually, we occupy this space within ourselves, becoming the expression of our soul.

Symmetry of Experience

Occasionally, we have epiphanies and insights to kindle our authenticity, creativity, possibility and transformation. It is not our perceptions; it is our experiences that inspire us to relate and resonate with our being. The universe empowers vision upon our soul, expressing it through our intuition and heart center, into our mind and body. This exchange happens more often than we consciously acknowledge. However, the primal desires of our thoughts and senses distort and manipulate them into perceptions. Experiencing them to the fullest involves the alignment and balance of our body, mind and heart with our intuition, soul and the universe.

The Dawn of Being

For centuries, we have exalted and prided ourselves on human doing instead of human being. The daily watermark of our worth is valued by monetary prosperity. Being has become “spiritualized.” (Ref. the article “Spiritualized: The Ego of Spirituality.”) It intrigues us. Yet, when it comes to fulfilling a daily intention, we often preoccupy ourselves with mindless and heartless endeavors. We are in an extraordinary era of enlightenment, evolution and transcendence. One humanity has never encountered. This dawn of being is an opportunity to transform our focus from the perceptions we emulate to the experiences we become.

“Experience is our relativity with being.”

“Loving Through Challenging Times” Interview with Lorenzo Malowane of “The New Agora” on “The New Now.”

February 17, 2022 / Iam Saums / 6 Comments

Video Interview with Lorenzo Malowane of “The New Agora” presented by “The New Now.”

“Love is an experience of being related.”

Being the Love We Are

We all need to be loved, even when we are not being loving to ourselves or others. One of the most challenging aspects in practicing love is our ability to see how often we are not loving ourselves. When we neglect to grant ourselves this necessity, we cannot express it towards others. Our self-loathing compromises our genuine ability to share love with all. My experience with loving is accepting others for who they are and who they are not. Authentic relativity is observing the uniqueness each of us offer and understanding the blessing it brings to the world.

The Universality of Love

Most often in society, love is as an instinctual desire. It is often misinterpreted and misrepresented as sexual attraction. Once this itch is scratched, many move on to satiate the next one. This is the lowest level of relativity. If a connection is made between the individuals, an intellectual encounter occurs. Though, this experience is one steeped in duality where many reside here to relate primarily with their minds and bodies.

When we allow ourselves to open and be vulnerable, we enter the emotionality of relationships. For many this takes years of relation for it to begin, and even this may be an instinctual form of feeling. However, some do choose to connect on an emotional level and develop and nurture their heart center. This is where the magic begins. Given the heart is the gateway to the soul, when two people choose this experience, their intuitions guide them to the universality of love.

Acceptance and Understanding

The two most absent qualities in the last couple of years has been acceptance and understanding. In a society where communication, relativity and workability have broken down, it is plain to see how detrimental their absence has been in regard to our collective evolution. Acceptance is a cornerstone of love and understanding its foundation. In these times of isolation in the interest of health and well-being (someone explain that one to me!), it isn’t the distance we have with others, it is the separation from ourselves and more accurately our souls.

The Freedom Within

We are separated from ourselves. Most are not able to accept let alone understand this reality. Being in the experience of love calls us to be related and in love with ourselves so we may share it with others. Each of our journeys is unique. We will not find love for ourselves when we seek it in those around us. We can only experience it within. Given that most of us do not know who we are, this makes being in love impossible. We may believe we are, yet belief and being are very different things. Creating and becoming love empowers us to share in its experience.

“Love is being in the moment so much that nothing else matters.”

Down to Earth

February 11, 2022 / Iam Saums / 8 Comments

“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.

Binary Being

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

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

Eye of the Beholder

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

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

“Evading our soul is a crime against humanity.”

Know Thyself

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

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

Up on the Downstroke

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

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

Circle of Life

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

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

Ground Zero

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

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

“Experience is the gravity of grounded existence.”

The Art of Equilibrium

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

“We are diamonds with infinite facets of existence.”

Mortal Metamorphosis:

At birth, our soul transitions from the source of all creation, embodying elemental and planetary properties before manifesting as an embryo. What is occurring in the universe in these moments has significance to who, how, why and what we are to become. The sequence of events leading to our arrival is unique on a soul level, as we choose the progression of our terrestrial evolution. This metamorphosis is so powerful, we often fail to retain any recollection of our experience. Our everyday collective conditioning further obscures our universal understanding, as does the absence of universality in social reality. In essence, our being is diminished and enslaved energetically, intuitively and emotionally for assimilation into an instinctual and intellectual existence.

Solar Origins:

For thirty years, I have had multidimensional experiences. When I was younger, I participated in a ceremony that activated a powerful, soul memory. I recalled moving through a glass corridor surrounded in light. I realized I was on the surface of the Sun. I observed its solar flares and winds dancing like waves on the ocean. At the end of the passage, I crossed a threshold into an octangular-sided room. It was darker than the corridor yet illuminated with flames moving through its wood walls like the blaze of a campfire. On the far side, an upended tree’s roots flared out encompassing half the room. I was guided to climb into the center of the tree and lay down on an altar. Soon after, I returned to my body and realized this experience was a universal recall of my soul’s journey to earth.

The Greatest Deception:

Nothing is as it seems. Most of what we believe, know, think and do is perceived through our filters of instinct and intellect. Therefore, we do not create, we merely react to recurring events, situations and outcomes. Our existence is confiscated from us long before we have an awareness or comprehension of its universal potentiality. In essence, we live in an artificial reality invented to serve an invisible authority with the sole purpose of enabling our enslavement. Society prohibits and restricts emotion, intuition and spirituality. It takes the greatest elements of our personal power and weaponizes it against us, making all that is sacred sacrilege and all that is profane revered. We instinctually and intellectually engage and exist in a virtual program, tethering ourselves to social reality.

Tapestry of Trauma:

Our lives are riddled with suffering. We associate this with our conditions, leading us to apathy, despair and remorse. We disempower ourselves with the mere threat of pain, building personal bubbles to defend our programmed beliefs, fears and insecurities. This is our strategy to avoid the agony of experiencing our chronic negligence and resistance to evolve. It seems much easier to sacrifice our personal power upon the digital altar of society. When we choose to exercise self-observation, the realization of our self-deception is infinitely more traumatizing. We believe our survival from suffering is a badge of honor we carry with distinction and pride, perceiving ourselves as better, stronger and wiser than others. This is the delusion we endorse to evade our pain. We employ duplicity to conceal our deficiencies from the world and ourselves.

“Our pain is a reminder of our purpose.”

Opportunity for Awareness:

We are all programs integrated into a holographic projection, existing in the matrix of social reality. We accept this paradigm because we neglect to sever our tether from its imposition and influence. It is all we experience of life. Our acquiescence is established, justified and satiated on a daily basis. Every day, we awaken and accept a simulated dream enabled by our compliance, engagement and fear. Every day, we relinquish our personal power to an external force, as we gather a meager existence within reality’s virtual parameters in our desire for self-gratification. Again and again and again…ad infinitum. This is the “dream” we live more often than we care to admit. We are the key to the evolution and freedom we deny ourselves every time we pass on our opportunity for consciousness.

The Forest for the Trees:

We are multidimensional beings of energy, yet we have achieved a fraction of our potentiality. In the space of all possibility, we opt to exclusively personify ourselves in our mind and body. Though we perceive this as attainment, our encounters with instinct and intellect are superficial. We all have a choice to be proactive or reactive. Proactive people create, empower and transform their experience to enrich their lives and those of others. Reactive people often avoid, defer and procrastinate until their circumstances elicit rash decisions, leaving them disempowered and victimized. Destiny is created by vision, focus, intention and purpose. Fate occurs when we refuse to choose, wagering our transformation for our defenses, fears and self-righteousness. Establishing and expressing our personal power is the vital distinction between surviving and thriving.

Yin and Yang:

We are unbalanced. Men are predominately male and women primarily female. Yet, we have both masculine and feminine qualities. Society conditions us to be one or the other. This causes gender conflicts within us and ultimately in society. Men may mistake their femininity as homosexuality, gravitating towards aggression, insensitivity and violence to compensate. While women may embrace masculinity at the expense of their femininity to compete and excel in a patriarchal society. We have been conditioned to repress the alternative virtues of our gender for fear of defamation, embarrassment and ridicule. This has divided our being and our relations. Gender equality begins within. Observing and embracing our diverse natures offers us the opportunity to create our balance and transform how relativity exists for all.

Consciousness Rising:

One of the greatest societal deceptions imposed upon us is the belief we are human beings. We are all souls manifesting ourselves with our intuition, heart, mind and body. How we exist in social reality is defined by who we choose to be. Most dwell in the dense, energetic vibrations of instinct and intellect. However, now more than ever, a rising tide of conscious beings are emerging from the simulation, whose sheer presence compromises its agenda, control and influence. Many are caught in the social crossfire, taking up arms against their family members, friends and acquaintances to protect their duplicity. For all who choose to experience universality by balancing their soul with their intuition, heart, mind and body, it is beyond the choice. It is our realization of who we are destined to be.

The Boundary of Being:

Twenty-Five years ago, I was staying with family in Northern Michigan. I drifted off and instantly found myself standing on a threshold. It was a massive, vertical wall of living energy. I was in between the realm of social reality and something beyond imagination. Curiosity inspired me to move through the barrier, and I lost consciousness of this realm. Years later, I received an insight. There is a boundary of being related to the Earth’s electro magnetosphere. When we cross it, everything of this world disappears. When we return to this reality, we fail to recall who we become and where we travel. We are omnidimensional beings existing in numerous realms. Our ability to journey beyond the boundaries of existence is empowered and sustained by our personal equilibrium.

The Art of Equilibrium:

We are in a new era of being. One encouraging us to observe our vision, hone our focus, establish our balance, express our intention, embody our purpose and create our experience. Our lives are a labor of love, inspired by our originality, relativity and truth. Our exodus from the simulation of social reality into the progression of universal being is omnipresent. We are in the shift of experiencing the synergy of our creation. Everything familiar, known, thought or understood stands to negate this evolution. The equilibrium we empower, enhance and establish expresses our universality. It is our signature, the unique impression we inspire within ourselves and others. When we are in the flow or our experience, the resonance of our energy is the declaration and manifestation of our being.

“Omnidimensionality is our universal destiny.”

“Universality” The Soul of Spirituality

December 11, 2021December 11, 2021 / Iam Saums / 2 Comments

“We are not as spiritual as we “believe.””

The Invisible All:

We are conditioned with an institutionalized interpretation of the universe. To the indoctrinated, more than 99% of what exists in the universe does not. Social reality averts our focus to the less than 1%, preoccupying us with the material and trivial affairs of duality. Science has hypothesized itself into an academic coma concerning our relativity with the universe. As most scientific fields employ instinct and intellect for analysis, examination and conclusion, this approach fosters ignorance in our quest to experience universal mystery. All which does not fit into the proverbial box of knowledge is ultimately denounced and debated into irrelevance and nonexistence. Human nature is to debunk rather than be. Even the most “intelligent” people front arrogance in the face of enlightenment.

Against the Grain:

The universe is the essence of our existence. Given our society discredits and ridicules all unseen and unheard as fantasy and fiction, it is almost impossible for us to nurture an awareness of and relativity with the universe. Its fundamental nature is energy, the essential element of our daily experience. Everything begins with an energetic resonance. However, many of us instinctively expend all the vitality we receive without a conscious practice of regeneration and sustenance. Our longevity eventually wanes as we mature into adulthood. Every aspect of our physical and mental existence eventually becomes antiquated. For most, aging is a vicious cycle of energetic oblivion. Empowerment is the presence of universal energy in our experience. This manifests in who we are being.

The Frequency of Flow:

We all emit an energetic signature. Its frequency is a synthesis of our awareness, creativity and purpose. When we align our centers, our energy resonance elevates and synergizes with the universe. This relativity is always transforming, established by our equilibrium, environment and expression of being. It is a multidimensional experience involving frequent shifts in our focus, consciousness and intention. Often, we fail to preserve this balance to enrich our relativity with the universal stream. Social reality further complicates our ability to connect and relate with the flow against the gravity of three-dimensional existence. At any moment, we all have the potential to receive an abundance of energy. Our energetic oblivion and recklessness inhibit our universal enlightenment and empowerment.

All We Are:

We are souls. At birth, we experience a schism in our being further amplified by the social reality we endure. Our societal conditions are unfavorable in sustaining a fulfilling environment in which our souls can thrive. Eventually, we become distant relatives to our spirit, diminishing our intuitive potential by repressing our emotionality and taking residence in our mind and body. We are multidimensional beings personifying creativity, possibility and relativity beyond the periphery of our human experience. Our soul expresses its universality through our intuition into our energy centers. Our heart emanates a massive electromagnetic field which expands through us and into our environment. We are universal energy expressing our soul into a holographic reality.

“Being is the manifestation of our soul.”

Soul Purpose:

Our soul is one with the universe. This union sources our universality. The only exclusions that exist are ones we allow or enable with an imbalance of our instincts, thoughts, feelings and intuition. The body, mind and heart are all vital facets of our being. However, they are not who we are. They are mere tools birth provides us to experience life on earth. Our intuition is the pathway through which our soul empowers our existence. Our heart center receives, transforms and emanates universal energy. For us to receive, transpose and express it, we must cultivate equilibrium between the dimensions of our being. Our purpose is establishing and sustaining this essential balance to manifest universality into reality. By frequently transforming, we become an expression of the universe.

Existential Enigma:

By nature, our everyday existence conflicts with our soul’s purpose. Our experience in social reality is the ultimate irony, as it is the antithesis of universality. As human beings, we are incapable of preserving the essential balance to be an expression of the universe. All the energy we invest in our individual experience is primarily siphoned into a static, two-dimensional perception within a three-dimensional, virtual reality. Our daily practice to relate with and embody universality is vital to align with the energy and expression of our soul. We will never fully comprehend the multiplicity of our universal experience against the grain of terrestrial existence. This is the existential enigma of spirituality. However, our commitment to our soul and heart center with our prayer invokes universality.

The Path of Prayer:

Beyond the social stigma prayer may receive when associated with religion, it is not just a recitation of ritualistic words and phrases. It is the nature of our intention which conveys its power. The greatest manifestation of our being is our relativity with and expression of the universe. When we send our prayer, it is a call for relation with all. A universal stream of consciousness we align with to empower our awareness, focus, and energy. Yet, it is not just its expression, it is how we hold our prayer in our daily experiences. Occasionally, we become it, and in so being, it transforms us, our experience and our environment. Prayer empowers our being. It is the pathway which connects us with creation and kindles the relatedness between our soul and the universe.

The Medicine of Mystery:

Healing is the primary focus of any spiritual path. We cannot seek to hold a space for people to have their experience when we are overcome with our personal histories of drama, trauma and woundedness. When we attempt to quantify universality so our mind can understand, we diminish our energy and experience. Our spiritual encounters are multidimensional. Their vision and insight happen in the moments they are meant. When we force their manifestation, we will never receive their optimal benefit. The preservation of the mystery present in our experiences is the medicine. Holding a space for the universe to exist in our reality empowers us to transcend the ordinary and embrace the extraordinary. This is our purpose. It is who we are.

The Soul of Spirituality:

There is a space within us beyond time and place and all we believe we know. It is who we are before we are born. In essence, we are universal energy resonating beyond imagination. Our creative expression brings us closest to acknowledging, embracing and becoming universality. Merely living as a human being only segregates us from our soul’s expression. There is an energetic frequency present in every moment of our experience. Every breath brings an opportunity for us to balance our being and align with the flow of the universe. It empowers, inspires and transforms who we are as a sacred space of being. The soul of spirituality is enlightening our instincts, intellect, emotions and intuition to embody our essence and be an expression of the universe.

Solstice Shift:

Since before the Winter Solstice 2020, a remarkable energetic shift has been occurring in the universe. Being unified with its flow amidst the chaos, conflict and intensity of social reality is our collective purpose. It is an opportunity to establish our equilibrium, align with our soul and express universality. This shift is available to all who choose to resonate with the universe. We are being empowered beyond the boundaries of ordinary existence to embrace evolution, transformation and transcendence. As we progress toward this Winter Solstice, all the feelings, thoughts, behaviors and realities no longer beneficial to us and others are emerging to be released. Freedom is letting go of everything. This is the essential distinction between pursuing “artificial power” and “being” empowered. It is our destiny to transform social reality with universality.

“Universality is the energy of being.”