The “Unity” of Community

October 7, 2023 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

“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.”

Under the Sun “Ceremonial Awareness”

September 12, 2023September 13, 2023 / Iam Saums / 4 Comments

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.

“One mind. One heart. One prayer.”

– A Wise Man

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.”