“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.”
Much has been made about how we identify with ourselves. This person is a man, and that person is a woman. Anything outside of the socio-physio realities of our masculinity or femininity is often condemned, discouraged, judged, mistaken and ridiculed. The fear and insecurity of humanity exhibits feigned attempts at acceptance, love, peace and understanding. Even when it has no direct impact or influence on the antagonist(s), we strive to degrade gender diversity out of existence. Society may never be ready to acknowledge, approve or empower a transcendent experience with its sexuality. Being is much more than just identifying as a man, woman or otherwise.
The Era of Balance
During the pandemic, I chose the opportunity available for all of us to go within and align, center, ground and relate with universality. In my experiences, I discovered and embraced the multidimensionality of being to bring equilibrium within and fulfill a profound relativity with my soul. This is not to declare I shifted into a different gender. It is to articulate we all have male, female and transcendental elements of our being, regardless of our physical manifestation. Whether or not society chooses to accept the recent revelations of gender diversity, we are in the evolutionary progression of the Age of Aquarius. The era of universal balance.
Archaic Existence
Patriarchal men need not fear that women will rule the world. Yet, this is probably a good idea, given the destruction mankind manifests in its quest for egocentricity, supremacy and worth. Primarily, men are aggressive, brutal, competitive, primeval and obtuse. These masculine qualities have oppressed women into amity, empathy, nativity and passivity. Toxic masculinity and femininity are instinctual, intellectual and emotional epidemics, condemning men and women into a one-dimensional existence within the social paradigm of duality. We sever our relativity with our soul when we sentence ourselves to the singularity of gender identity.
Unfulfilled Intimacy
Our relativity is not only expressed in how we connect with others, but in how we relate with ourselves. Engaging in personal and social intimacy is often a material and peripheral encounter. When we consider all the physical, mental and emotional conditions we bring to our relationships, rarely is it ever a fulfilling experience. Given the lackadaisical awareness many express in their relations, it is not surprising that contemporary sexuality results in toxicity. When we attempt to fill our personal void vicariously through another, we become a vortex. The loneliness we feel with our significant other is often far worse than the one we endure alone.
“Embodying our soul empowers our relations.”
The Toxicity of Gender
Many tend to camouflage themselves with the social shield of their physical gender. As we mature, we till our personal roots deeper into man or womanhood, accepting a life sentence of one-dimensionality. Our oblivion to the universal nature of our complimentary sexualities becomes suppressed, further complicating the fulfillment of our being and our relations. An unbalanced male may project the aggression of anger, competition, judgement, machismo and strategy, while an imbalanced female may retreat into the passivity of drama, helplessness, hopelessness, oversensitivity and resignation. Embodying a singular gender identification is a suppression of transcendental being.
Over the Rainbow
Gender diversity has exploded throughout society. Many may feign acceptance, empathy and understanding with alternative communities to be “socially correct.” For others, declaring sexual diversity is an evolutionary expression of being. Though these discoveries are ringing in a global revolution of sexuality, our destiny is to establish our unique balance, and transcend the boundaries of gender to become a universal being. Both men and women have masculinity, femininity and divinity. Equilibrium within creates the foundation upon which our relativity with the universe is experienced through our heart and intuition. We are not one delineation, we are all.
A Balanced Being
When men accept their femininity and women embrace their masculinity, universal balance is established in our heart center. This allows us to be present to our intuition and soul. Without this symmetry, we cannot become an expression of universality. The energy of the universe is ever transforming, empowering us to evolve, expand and progress. We are universal beings having human experiences. The universe empowers us to embody our omnidimensionality. When we are related with our soul, in flow with our intuition and centered in our heart, we are a balanced being of universality.
A Personal Shift
For the last few years, I have become more intimated with universality. This relativity is very distinct from gender identification. The experience transcends masculinity, femininity and sexuality. The balance of all creates a being within to express universal energy. As a man, I observe my anger, bias, negativity, reactivity and violence. When my expression is universal being, I experience calm, clarity, positivity, proactivity and tranquility. By no means is this a profession of perfection. For me, it is a personal shift of balancing all elements of my being to create relativity with my soul and be in the energetic flow of universality. This transcends the boundaries of gender identity.
Any Color You Like
Human perception is steeped in black and white. In the wake of this duality, our perceptions often turn gray. The patriarchy vilifies the rainbow as a representation of deviant sexuality. In the eyes of society, transcendent expressions of being are exiled beneath the gravity of social transgression. The toxicity of gender one-dimensionality projects fear and insecurity, condemning us to the enslavement of identity singularity. This new era is our opportunity to release our personal and social programming to express our totality. A balanced being is not about identifying as a singular gender. It is the empowerment and embodiment of our soul.
I had the idea to revisit the articles I published in 2023. Perhaps for the purpose of completing on the year of compositional expression. As I was putting this together, I observed unique and noteworthy progressions and trends of illumination. I highlighted excerpts I felt were most expressive of this extraordinary new era.
To all who made the time to read the articles over the course of this last year, thank you!
I appreciate and am grateful for the comments, dialogue and insights!
All the best for the coming year! -Iam
The Experiential Awareness of Being (Published: 2/10/2023)
We instinctually and intellectually adopt and enact perceptual filters to insulate our solitary lifestyles. Our desire to be right supersedes our need to express our truth. Through our exposure and interaction with social reality, we eventually devolve into a vortex of egotism. All who succumb to the selfishness of their desire are the vacuum of a black hole. Social reality constantly distorts our focus of awareness from establishing an equilibrium between our instincts, thoughts and feelings.
Our bodies and minds are cluttered with artificial sensation and thought, enslaving us with virtual reactivity to social reality’s engineered exploitation. The contemporary standard of living is to be born, deceived, enslaved, manipulated, programmed and inevitably die. No matter how we may elect to perceive these human conditions, they are the result of the social reality we cling to for credence, meaning, reference and relevance.
Experiencing relativity in our environment and society begins with understanding ourselves. Self-awareness is transcending our environment, transforming our relations and empowering our being with our intuition and soul. Once we establish and sustain our awareness of self, we can apply and express consciousness in our social engagement. The most important practice in all our relations is to listen. The greatest gift we can give to another is the experience of being heard; appreciated, recognized and validated.
Shifting our paradigm of perception from surviving to thriving may be the best way to embody existentialism. Our intuition conveys our soul’s empowerment through our heart center, into our mind, body and environment. Living life in the simulation of social reality may seem like a gratifying encounter for some. Experiencing being in the eternity of universality creates awareness for all.
“Being present in the present is experiential awareness.”
A History of Mystery Continued…. (Published: 2/23/2023)
I found myself in a vast domain, standing before a massive wall of energy resembling the illumination and movement of fire. In my understanding, when we cross this threshold, everything we encounter of this world remains in a vortex of what we perceive as “reality.” I found myself in a domain of utter darkness. I was in a deep pit, and I sensed the disturbing presence of entities all around me. I pulled myself out of this wicked realm, gasping with terror, as the residual dark energy surged through my body.
A dark spirit held me down on the ground and proceeded to lash me with its fists. Three entities circled me (the same ones from the pit). I found my willpower, and for the first time, released a powerful, vocal roar, stunning the entities into fear and annihilating them for good. What I experience is frightening to my core. The duality of social reality programs us to believe in the black and white of dark and light. Yet, there is so much more…
I looked up to see the dark spirit that had been attacking me in my previous encounter, standing over my bed with a wicked grin of malicious intent. I could feel its darkness pulsing through my being, viciously and violently seizing my energy. My personal experiences with consciousness have been extraordinary, insightful and powerful, as well as arduous, horrific and perilous. There is a darkness we all must face, our own. It is the cost of our consciousness. I feel to the roots of my soul we all have these experiences.
“When we release the illusion of reality, we experience the truth of being.”
Ghosting the Soul: The Virtuality of Life (Published 3/17/2023)
“Many of us know how we exist, few of us understand who we are.”
We assume the role of a qualified, respectable and responsible member of society. All the while, our soul, intuition and heart were dissected, oppressed and abandoned, sacrificed for namesake, status and wealth. Our arrogance and ignorance defensively flex in a feigned attempt to appease our pursuits for an artificial sense of security. With all social reality’s narratives, manipulation, prejudice, propaganda and rhetoric, it is nearly impossible to distinguish one’s unique, personal truth from society’s chaotic symphony of lunacy.
Whether or not we choose to observe that entities, governments and organizations impose a virtual matrix to enslave humanity is irrelevant. If we do not see it now, then we simply are not paying attention. The exploitation of amusement, education, media, politics and religion corners us into delusion, diversion, indifference and uncertainty, as we spiral out of consciousness into the vortex of existence. Social programming desensitizes us to the influence and impacts of our oblivious proliferation of greed.
We are an idiom of reactivity, yielding our power to everyone and everything, beneath the veiled, social threat of being held accountable, authentic and benevolent. It does not matter how educated we are, our ideology, politics, religion or status. We cannot transcend our enslavement without being free from the simulation. Every moment is an opportunity to transform our being. Choosing to shift our experience is the key to our freedom.
“Virtuality is how we exist. Universality is who we are.”
“Our soul expresses the energetic flow of empowerment.”
Whether or not we are conscious in this exciting new era, we have crossed the threshold of a universal, energetic shift humanity has yet to experience. Identifying as “woke” in relation to being “awakened” is the distinction between those armed with ego and all expressing their soul. Social existence is the greatest distraction to human experience. In society, we do not have genuine belonging, only superficial relativity.
Every organization in society is a cult, seizing our personal power, as they enslave us with social reality. We are spectators of its virtuality and consumers of our own enslavement. All who choose to pursue their destined path are labeled fanatics, ever confronted by the simulated orthodoxy of an engineered society.
The universe is an energetic field of infinite opportunity and possibility. It is our soul’s relativity with our intuition and heart which empowers us to express it into our experience. The energy of universality is a multidimensional force of being, consciousness, creativity, empowerment, expression, fulfillment, illumination, inspiration and transformation. Becoming one with and expressing the universe’s empowerment is our greatest opportunity for all lifetimes. Flowing with the energetic shift is the event horizon of our universality.
“Discovery is releasing all we know to experience all we are.”
The universe is in a constant state of transformation. Its energetic movements on our day of birth source the unique roots of our being. Eventually, we yield our universality, initiating a schism
with our soul, while condemning ourselves to ordinary existence. Maturity conditions us to devolve from creation to emulation, shifting our experience from awareness to obedience. Within the toxicity of social reality, our bodies decay, our minds encode and our hearts contract, resulting in the distortion, decline and destruction of our intuition.
When we differentiate the external influences from our inner being, transforming our conditioning into consciousness is exponential. Our choice is to either draw the instinctual gasp of oblivion, or the conscious breath of the universe. Conscious breath empowers our energetic flow with universality. Silence is the language of the universe. Silence is a transcendental experience which empowers our relativity with our soul.
Our universality streams creation through our intuition, empowers our heart, enlightens our mind and inspires our body to express our unique vision. When we are aligned with universality to create our experience, the equilibrium of our being resonates with the energetic frequency of our soul. This is our flow with the universe. It is this omni-dimensional energy which empowers our flow and expression with the infinite stream of the universe.
“Our destiny in the New Era is being universality.”
In March 2020, we were given a remarkable opportunity to shift the paradigm of human being, expression and existence. A manmade virus infected us with widespread fear, driving us deeper into social and political anxiety, division, enslavement, judgement and isolation. When the chaotic fervor of the pandemic settled, we regressed and acquiesced to the virtuality of social reality. The webs of a new matrix were woven, enabling the dependency of its subscribers. We wielded our fear and insecurity like a weapon against the opportunity of a lifetime.
We all convince ourselves we are kind, loving and peaceful, though our thoughts and actions often exhibit our personal malevolence. We believe we are a part of community, yet how can we exist as such when we cannot even be with ourselves? Our oblivion to the projection of our anxieties, fears, hatred, insecurities and judgement is what deceives us away from our soul and into the self-centric snare of our ego. We are programmed to interpret it as an expression of intelligence.
Community is a gathering of people empowering and inspiring each other with support and sustenance. The origin of authentic relatedness is our relativity with our soul. Our universal being enlightens and enhances our earthly experience. Transcending the neuroses of the mind and the habituation of the body empowers us to center our being into our heart and experience universality. Our soul sources consciousness to express the flow of the universe.
“Empowering our truth is our soul’s expression.”
Under the Sun: Ceremonial Awareness (Published 9/12/2023)
“For some, it is a way to pray. For others, it is a way to prey.”
Contemporary prayer has become something often motivated by our external wants rather than empowered by our internal needs. When we are honest, our prayers are often self-centered. We spend much of our lives constructing artificial securities, defense mechanisms, financial wealth, professional positions, selective realities and social vanities with little to no regard for those beyond our individual peripheral of existence. We either intentionally or obliviously bring the vanity and violence of society into ceremony.
In many communities, there are some who observe others receiving admiration, distinction and leadership. Their egos are attracted to this, which causes their exodus from prayer. All who truly need to read these words will likely succumb to their cognitive dissonance, ego, pride and vanity. They will claim it is not “them,” as they accuse, discredit and vilify the authenticity of others. We exist in an egocentric society. Our personal survival, success, health and wealth supersedes that of community. Many carry this social conditioning into ceremony and prayer. In this tradition, many of the ceremonies are a community prayer experienced in a circle.
Spiritual leadership is not a dictatorial endeavor. It is holding the space for others to make and experience their prayer in ceremony. When our ego influences and impacts our prayer, we experience only a fraction of the ceremony. Every prayer is an intention to experience the natural progression of the ceremony. Our commitment to pray must transcend our desire for personal convenience. This empowers us with the ceremonial awareness to transform our experience and hold a space for others to do the same.
“Communication in unity is the heart of community.”
Society is not a community. It is an engineered system designed to produce human reactivity, employing multiple control mechanisms to extract our personal power. Social reality is a complex matrix of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical traumatization. When we conform to society, we sacrifice our relativity with our soul and the universe, repress our emotionality and fully integrate ourselves into the mind and body.
We do not express universal awareness to the social impacts of our egocentric lifestyles. We justify it with a necessity for survival, and “patriotize” it is an essential strategy to provide a better life for our children. Our encounters with sense-based reality activate our mental endorphins to habituate us with dependency upon simulated, external gratification.
Community is not about the quantity of people, but rather the quality of its relations. All who stand to profit financially are the furthest from the spirit of communion. Community originates from our soul’s relativity with the universe. The more we experience ourselves, the best we experience others. Our soul is empowered by the universe. Its energy resonates with a unique vibrational frequency, transmitting universality through our intuition, into the centers of our being and empowering our heart.
There is a vital distinction between the ideology and reality of “unity.” Social interaction is primarily a peripheral encounter. Community is empowered by the relation between our soul and the universe. In a circle, there are no leaders. Simply, unique beings who share their universality to the best of their ability. The shift is each person embodying their unique energetic flow, collectively.
“Communion with the universe is the soul of community.”
“Interpretation is perception without observation.”
Beyond our institutional and social conditioning, we have our own personal programming. Whether it is our defense mechanisms, individuation, societal integration or self-righteousness, our selective conditions inhibit our interpretation and perception. When we decide not to practice awareness of our thoughts, they wander into obscure oblivion, composing assumption, criticism, judgement and interpretation. When relationships become personalized and uncomfortable, we tend to talk with everyone but the person with whom we are in dispute. Not all diversities of interpretation are “conflict.” Most are merely differences in perception.
One of the greatest crimes against humanity occurs when we give our listening (power) to erroneous narratives about others; approving with our engagement, even though we disagree. Many go the extra mile, and later feign empathy with the targeted individuals in a plea for clemency and conscience. We do not observe social reality for what it is, we see it for what we desire. Our perceptions are distorted; influenced and manipulated by all to whom we acquiesce our personal power. Living in a three-dimensional paradigm is a paradox of being. It confines us within the duality of thought and instinct. In essence, society is the antithesis of universal being.
Authentic relatedness does not exist in social reality. Before it exists in society, it must thrive within us all. This is the human schism between what we perceive and who we choose to be. In this age of social media and artificiality, we opt for a multitude of virtual communication. The personal conditioning we enact with our self-righteousness and vanity simulates our artificial contentment and security. In social reality, our conscious behavior empowers us, and ultimately others, to fulfill our universal purpose. Being an expression of our soul in every moment empowers us to embody universality; so that others may empower their own.
“Truth is a foreign language, spoken by few and dismissed by many.”
Ample evidence exists in the alternative, mainstream and social mediums to reflect the cruelty, deception, manipulation, prejudice, supremacy and violence within contemporary society. Oblivion has become our pastime. We embody obscurity to desensitize ourselves from our traumatic encounters in society. Every morning we awaken to the possibility of a new experience. Yet, we tend to hop on the human treadmill headed for oblivion. The information we consume is like a virus, infecting our instincts, thoughts, perspectives and emotions. It is our weapon to defend our fear, insecurity, obsession and vanity.
We invest only in what supplements our selective agendas, comforts, narratives and realities. Amidst the numerous horrors and tragedies occurring in society, we engage in the “busy-ness” of our lives, as if nothing is happening. Reality, as we experience it, is a holographic projection. Its primary purpose is to discourage, disempower and distract us from the truth. We engage in a societal simulation. Everything in our daily encounters is an illusion, engineered to enslave us into a matrix of social psychoses.
We may stoke the fires of our feelings and thoughts on social media to project our fleeting disdain with a variety of global inequities. The stand we feign is diminished and distorted by our personal agenda, ego and vanity. With the influences of our social conditioning and selective perceptions, our unconscious engagement in the paradigm of reality establishes the vicious cycles of our individualized matrix. We are an expression of universal energy. Yet, our relativity with our soul is wagered for social conformity. The watermark of our madness is the exhibition of our entitlement. The choice is to remain enslaved by our artificiality or create freedom by empowering our universality. The former ends in finality, while the latter begins in eternity.
“Choosing not to choose is a choice to live in oblivion.”
“We succumb to our fear because we fail to relate with our soul.”
Comments, likes and shares dictate what is heard, read and seen. Popular culture destroys creativity, consciousness, transcendence and transformation. Truth is a foreign language we dismiss due to its incompatibility with social reality. We deny it out of existence with our selective beliefs, information, narratives and perceptions. The superficial security blanket of social reality imprisons us into virtuality. Our anxieties, fears and insecurities are embellished and internalized until they become our psychosis.
We seek God in the direst of times. For most of us, it takes an accident, deficit, harm, loss, scarcity or death to become present to experiences that transcend the triviality of social reality. We are instinctually and intellectually tethered in duality to a three-dimensional paradigm. Creating freedom from societal devices requires us to sever our engagement with the vicious cycles of virtuality. In the simulation of society, we exist in a waking slumber, stumbling in the darkness of our selective oblivion; ever deluded, devalued, fearful, insecure and traumatized.
Our body and mind are simply applications our soul sources through our intuition and heart to navigate our way through the chaos, madness, narratives and psychoses of social reality. The less we engage in social reality, the more we experience the universe and become an expression of our soul. In this new era, we are either an emulation in the simulation or in relativity with universality. Our universal path does not unfurl before us, it resonates within. The path of the soul is empowering our human being with universality.
Beyond our institutional and social conditioning, we have our own personal programming. Whether it is our defense mechanisms, individuation, societal integration or self-righteousness, our selective conditions inhibit our interpretation and perception. The common element in these human behaviors is ego. The mind is a complex organism with conscious, intuitive and subliminal activity. It is a dense forest within which we often lose ourselves. Yet, it is not the thoughts we conjure, it is the point of perception we adopt and apply to navigate our way through the nuances of social reality.
Mirages of Interpretation
When we decide not to practice awareness of our thoughts, they wander into obscure oblivion, composing assumption, criticism, judgement and interpretation. Whether it is of ourselves or others, the absence of our communication results in our perceptual dissonance. Eventually, this spirals out of control, and we lose our compass of understanding. Social reality is rife with collusion, delusion and illusion, fabricating a plethora of personal narratives which induce infinite mirages of interpretation. Our egos proliferate the stories we invent of ourselves and others, distorting and inhibiting our experience and relativity.
Peripheral Contact
When relationships become personalized and uncomfortable, we tend to talk with everyone but the person with whom we are in dispute. Not all diversities of interpretation are “conflict.” Most are merely differences in perception. It is evident that all who were not present in our exchange(s) will be unable to provide accuracy, empathy and neutrality. Yet, we race to the first available sounding board who will quench our desire for consensus and conspiracy, regardless of our errant objectives. Our impulse is to blame and shame our opposition. In a quest to relieve ourselves of our anger, hurt and upset, we invest in malevolent actions, thoughts and feelings. Our personal toxicity becomes viral, as our venom metabolizes into our disease.
Once Upon a Time…
Our universal nature is to be creative, energetic and kind. As we “mature,” this natural expression devolves into adopting and inventing narratives and storylines of ourselves and others to occupy lapses in our communication. This becomes a justifiable practice, particularly when we lose touch with our relations and vice versa. We harbor pre-conceived delusions, believing them into existence as truth. One of the greatest crimes against humanity occurs when we give our listening (power) to erroneous narratives about others; approving with our engagement, even though we disagree. Many go the extra mile, and later feign empathy with the targeted individuals in a plea for clemency and conscience.
“Interpretation is perception without observation.”
Perceptual Reality
How we perceive our experiences is not how they occur. Before we establish our consciousness, institutionalization imposes intolerant filters of interpretation. We do not observe social reality for what it is, we see it for what we desire. The driving force of our interaction is based on our personal fears, guilt, insecurities and self-invalidation. Most of us don’t even exist, let alone evolve and thrive. Our engagement is often reactionary to the nuances of our environment. Therefore, our perceptions are distorted; influenced and manipulated by all to whom we acquiesce our personal power. Social perception is an energetic vortex, seizing every ounce of our attention, inspiration and motivation. It is the hostile takeover of our being, destroying our relativity with universality.
The Virtuality of Society
Reality, as we are conditioned to interpret, is contrary to our heart, intuition, soul and the universe. Living in a three-dimensional paradigm is a paradox of being. It confines us within the duality of thought and instinct. We have fleeting moments of epiphany, insight and transformation. However, the watermark of our extraordinary experiences vanishes, much as the impression of an ebbing wave on a beach. We may even opt to chase them, or place ourselves in environments of spirituality, though the dynamics of social reality annihilate our universality with its very existence. In essence, society is the antithesis of universal being.
The Relativity of Universality
Authentic relatedness does not exist in social reality. Our current, collective awareness simply lacks the acumen to comprehend the omnidimensionality of universal being. Universality is present in our every experience, available to all who synergize with its resonance. However, society stigmatizes the adoption, expression and embodiment of universality. Who we are being establishes what we manifest. Relativity is about being empowering and supportive of ourselves and others. Before it exists in society, it must thrive within us all. This is the human schism between what we perceive and who we choose to be.
Incommunicado
In this age of social media and artificiality, we opt for a multitude of virtual communication. Perhaps it is our amusement, indolence, obsessions, pre-occupation and routines which sentence us to the self-imposed isolation we now exhibit as contemporary, human nature. The personal conditioning we enact with our self-righteousness and vanity simulates our artificial contentment and security. It is an evasion of our opportunity to authentically relate with ourselves and others. Yet, it is our relationship with our heart, soul and the universe which empowers the experience we equate with belonging, and its eventuality as community.
The Embodiment of Soul
The deeper we spiral down the vortices of misinterpretation, misrepresentation and misunderstanding, the further we are from ourselves, others and the universe. The energetic shift now available is to observe, understand and transform the feelings, thoughts, words and actions we express as a universal way of being. In social reality, our conscious behavior empowers us, and ultimately others, to fulfill our universal purpose. It is who we are and why we exist in this paradigm. Being an expression of our soul in every moment empowers us to embody universality; so that others may empower their own.
Universal Relativity
Relatedness with each other is essential. The source of our social interaction is the unique relativity we experience with the universe. When we observe, understand and express our universality, we shift from the endless nuances of contemporary artificiality into the infinite possibility of universality. Releasing the social deficiencies of interpretive filters, judgements, opinions and prejudice empowers us to accept and embrace each other as we are, and as we are not. Our opportunity for community is in our listening. This transforms social reality. Being universality collectively is how we experience universal relativity.
“Community is present when we are in relation with our soul.”
Conditioned to Artificiality
Society is not a community. It is an engineered system designed to produce human reactivity, employing multiple control mechanisms to extract our personal power. Our personal power is universality. It is sourced from the relativity between our soul and the universe. This is why institutional entities and organizations do not encourage or empower guidance or practices in universality. Under the guises of civilization, industry and technology, our social environment is being converted into a virtual reality. As are we. In this new era, the greatest threat to the evolution of our collective consciousness is artificiality.
Sacrificial Existence
Social reality is a complex matrix of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical traumatization. It happens to us every day in many ways, more than we can comprehend. When we conform to society, we sacrifice our relativity with our soul and the universe, repress our emotionality and fully integrate ourselves into the mind and body. The extent of our conformity yields the degree of our “success.” As we endeavor to climb the social ladder of prominence, we sever our connection with our heart, intuition and soul. Every day, we casually commit acts of treason upon our being. With each personal transgression against our soul, we drift closer to enslavement and further from freedom.
Socialization of Egocentricity
We all have an ego. Therefore, we are all egotistical. This is inevitable. Our initial interests and priorities are for ourselves and our immediate family. Beyond these domains, we show little to no regard. We do not express the universal awareness to the social impacts of our egocentric lifestyles. We justify it with a necessity for survival, and “patriotize” it is an essential strategy to provide a better life for our children. But are we? Or is it that we simply sacrifice our universal purpose, as we concede to social conformity? Socialization is a badge of honor we wield to defend our egocentricity at the cost of our universality.
Instinctual Imprisonment
Once we have allowed social conditioning to segregate us from our heart, soul and the universe, our mind highjacks our universal energy to govern our body. Our encounters with sense-based reality activate our mental endorphins to habituate us with dependency upon simulated, external gratification. We are initiated into reactivity, tethered to an engineered illusion. Over time, our egocentric observations and perspectives transmute this fantasy into delusion. Millions of social stimuli program our senses to receive synthetic intelligence, imprisoning us into instinctual existence. We establish our enslavement in artificiality with our selective encounters in social reality.
“Communication in unity is the heart of community.”
The Commune Paradox
Whether a community is local, global, religious, or spiritual, there is always codependency, control, conflict, dysfunction, manipulation, politics and powerplays. When a group of people assemble who exhibit egocentricity, it is only a matter of time until there is a breakdown in relatedness. Some even attempt to recycle the “commune” paradigm to foster community; offering a patchwork of activities, events, rituals and traditions to attract the greatest number of followers. Community is not about the quantity of people, rather the quality of its relations. All who stand to profit financially are the furthest from the spirit of communion.
Soul Reunion
Society separates us from our soul. Reuniting with our essence is experienced in the resonance of conscious emotionality. The heart is the center of our being. It aligns us with our intuition and soul. Community originates from our soul’s relativity with the universe. Being related with universality is essential in communal experiences. The fullest we experience ourselves, the best we experience others. When we embody this omnidimensionality, we accept, appreciate and understand the unique expression each person brings with their contribution.
The Art of Transcendance
Our soul is empowered by the universe. Its energy resonates with a unique vibrational frequency; transmitting universality through our intuition, into the centers of our being and empowering our heart. Our heart center is an omnidimensional sphere of energy expressing our universality. This energetic torus evolves and expands six feet and beyond our being. Its expression is defined by the nature of our focus and intention. Our mind is merely an instrument, translating universality into human expression for the purposes of embodiment, relativity and understanding. Its momentum empowers our physicality.
Embodying Unity
Unity is to become one. There is a vital distinction between the ideology and reality of “unity.” Social interaction is primarily a peripheral encounter, reliant upon what transpires around us instead of who we are within. Community is empowered by the relation between our soul and the universe. Our universal nature is to synergize with our soul. The purpose of community is to embody the unity between our soul and the universe as an expression of being. In our being, we convey the resonance of universal relativity. When we center ourselves in the flow of universality, we express the energy of unity empowering community.
The “Unity” of Community
Equilibrium is essential when empowering community. There is a unique, energetic flow expressed with every contribution from each member. Society’s hierarchical paradigm is contrary to the universal empowerment of community. In a circle, there are no leaders. Simply, unique beings who share their universality to the best of their ability. Our purpose is to transcend the social reality designed to enslave us into physicality. The energetic shift is giving us the opportunity to experience relativity in its universal expression. The shift is each person embodying their unique energetic flow, collectively.
“Communion with the universe is the soul of community.”
Disclaimer: These are my personal observations and perspectives and do not necessarily represent the community to which I belong.
“Prayer is a way of life.”
A Calling
I have participated in ceremonies for 20 years. For the purpose of this article, knowing which tradition is not essential. I recall my first experience like it was yesterday; being in a room with a group of people I had not met, the specifics of the ceremony I attended and singing along with songs I had never heard. The facilitator of the ceremony asked me where I had learned the songs. I told him I didn’t know them, and he immediately invited me to another ceremony. In all my traditional experiences, I could have never imagined how these last 20 years would transpire, in all their extraordinary ways.
A Way to Pray
I have been told ceremony is all about prayer. This is truer than can be “known.” In my experience, the intention within the prayer is not expressed for what we may receive, yet in how we may give. Contemporary prayer has become something often motivated by our external wants rather than empowered by our internal needs. When we are honest, our prayers are often self-centered. Perhaps this is why our practice of prayer can be ineffective, given our fixation on ourselves and our desires. However, when we are empowered from within to pray, it is a universal calling. An intention expressed for health, healing and support, for all who are in need.
Comfort Zone
We spend much of our lives constructing artificial securities, defense mechanisms, financial wealth, professional positions, selective realities and social vanities with little to no regard for those beyond our individual peripheral of existence. We tell ourselves we will be, give, listen and understand others more, as soon as we have established our private comfort zones. All the while, we allow our egos to diminish and eventually destroy our spirituality, distorting our perceptions of the very people in need of prayer. This malaise we enable, with our personal oblivion, disrupts and severs the flow of empowerment, energy and epiphany we receive from the universe as we pray.
The Nature of Prayer
We have a tendency to habituate our prayer as a selfish endeavor. The conditioned egocentricity of our social environment influences us to demean, manipulate and harm others in community. This is done in compensation for our veiled inadequacies, insecurities and tribulation. We either intentionally or obliviously bring the vanity and violence of society into ceremony. This inhibits and ultimately destroys our prayer. We may even be so bold as to wield our prayer in condemnation of others. We all have the potential for creation or destruction. The nature of our prayer, be it shared with conscious empowerment or deliberate demoralization, manifests the nature of our experience.
“For some, it is a way to pray. For others, it is a way to prey.”
Broken Circle
In many communities, there are some who observe others receiving admiration, distinction and leadership. Their egos are attracted to this, which causes their exodus from prayer. With entitlement and expectation, they desire this acknowledgement, and strive to control and manipulate others to gain a similar role for themselves. When this strategy fails, they attempt to sabotage and/or destroy the existing community so they may influence events in a way to present themselves as the savior of the very destruction they caused. When others observe and address their behavior, they project narcissism to deflect and avoid responsibility for their thoughts, words and actions. In retaliation, they defend their toxicity by pointing fingers of blame and shame upon those who stand to hold them accountable.
Ceremonial Mirrors
All who truly need to read these words will likely succumb to their cognitive dissonance, ego, pride and vanity. They will claim it is not “them,” as they accuse, discredit and vilify the authenticity of others. They cannot observe let alone understand their toxic patterns, driven by their fears, insecurities, trauma and woundedness. Their personal rackets are steeped in mirroring the experiences, prayers, practices and visions of others, in a vain attempt to gain power. They separate themselves from the source and mimic the genuine prayers spoken by those who have earnestly served the community. They “ghost” prayer with agendas of arrogance, domination, influence and manipulation. They know who they are. Most importantly, so do we!
The Personal Encounter
We exist in an egocentric society. Our personal survival, success, health and wealth supersedes that of community. Many carry this social conditioning into ceremony and prayer. They desire to acquire their individual wants, often at the expense of the community’s experience. Their ego blinds them to the influence and impacts their personal agendas have upon themselves and others. While engaged in vain strategies, they will never fulfill an authentic prayer. They are preoccupied with what is favorable for them, and oblivious to the needs of the community. Therefore, they cannot observe, understand or transform the behavior inhibiting their experience.
The Community Experience
In this tradition, many of the ceremonies are a community prayer experienced in a circle. One person(s) is no more or less important than another. There is a listening and regard from the community empowering, encouraging and sustaining the prayer. Personal experiences occur within the circle. However, the focus is on the health, vitality and wellbeing of all. In the community experience, acceptance, belonging and healing thrives, manifesting in empathy, kindness, love, purpose, transformation and understanding. This creates a sacred space of relativity and safety for the community to express the essential vulnerability to empower and support their prayer.
Spiritual Leadership
It is inevitable that people who participate in spirituality will desire leadership. This is pure ego. Some attempt to push their way ahead of others and promote themselves in pursuit of this role. Some will even compromise or threaten the existence, health and wellbeing of the community to achieve this personal agenda. Traditionally, one does not pursue leadership for themselves, it is a role one accepts when one is called into it by the community they serve. Spiritual leadership is not a dictatorial endeavor. It is holding the space for others to make and experience their prayer in ceremony. True leaders are those who would not choose it, when given the opportunity.
Consciousness, Empowerment and Transformation
Our eyes see only an infinitesimal range of the visible light spectrum. Relative to this, when our ego influences and impacts our prayer, we experience only a fraction of the ceremony. Shifting our experience requires us to express our prayer with conscious purpose. Our prayer is a call to the universe; not for what we want, yet all we need. The force that responds to our call is universal empowerment. Within the sacred space of our prayer, we can observe and shift our behavior, thus transforming our experience. Every prayer is an intention to experience the natural progression of the ceremony.
Ceremonial Awareness
Prayer creates a space of community, empathy, humility, service and understanding. It is not a spiritual event to attend, it is a way of life. Prayer frees us from the egocentricity of society, so we may be present to and fulfill the purpose of the ceremony. If one makes their prayer and returns as the same person to the same life, it may be best if they had never participated. Our commitment to pray must transcend our desire for personal convenience. Our prayer is a covenant we make with the universe. This empowers us with the ceremonial awareness to transform our experience and hold a space for others to do the same.
“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.”
Communication is key to everything in life, I would say. Especially the communications we have with ourselves. It does one no good to lie to themselves about anything for any reason. Unless or course your intent is to live in delusion, in which case, by all means, you should continue to exist in a fug of lies. Going within, though, to discover what Freedom means for you would be essential to finding your ‘Life’s Lost Purpose’. – Lorenzo Malowane
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.
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.”)
Iam Saums 