Now and Zen: To Whom It May Concern

August 27, 2016March 7, 2017 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

A Dime a Dozen:

I find it fascinating how people instinctually respond to events that don’t even happen to them. We as human beings have a tendency to overreact to the choices, actions and lifestyles of others, while we underreact to those of our own. We do so because of our lack of communication, experience and understanding about the circumstances of others. Our interpretations are based upon inaccurate and incomplete perceptions. We are quicker to criticize, judge, shame and dispose of people in our lives than we are to make a difference. Some do this to take opportunity from the downfall and disgraces of others, while most subscribe to this sociopathic behavior to conceal their dependency, disappointment, embarrassment, hurt and pain.

Spiritual Elitism:

Yes, we all have it. Get over it. My friend Elva just recently wrote an article entitled, “The Writing on the Wall,” in which she acknowledges the awakening of the human race, then poses the question “what are we awakening to?” This is a much greater concept to ponder in light of the accelerated era of decline in which we currently find ourselves. We who have committed and practice a path of spirituality may not understand that with the expansion of our consciousness, so does our ego grow in equal or greater measure. When we chase after the light we are not present to the darkness we overlook in ourselves. Spirituality has become the new religion. As a culture we fail to observe the pompous influence of our judgement and self-righteousness.

Experience teacheth Wisdom?

Each of us have our own experiences. Though, we are more often preoccupied with those of others than our own. We are swift to pounce upon the downfallen in society to bolster our own image and status in the world. We manufacture false power through the negativity of demeaning, demonizing and disgracing others. We present ourselves as aggressive, arrogant, cynical, disempowering and sanctimonious much to our oblivion even when we express ourselves with the greatest of intentions. Our experiences teach us ways to break the patterns of society’s conditioning that ultimately transmutes humanity into a monstrosity. We sacrifice the wisdom we may kindle in life to achieve, acquire, compete, dominate and exceed.

Where is the Love?

We all embody ourselves as being civilized, creative, educated, intelligent, kind, spiritual and transcendent. Yet, when we find ourselves in challenging and overwhelming circumstances, we turn on ourselves and each other as fast as the speed of light. Our greatest friends become our bitterest enemies. What we believed, felt and thought yesterday is quickly discarded when we are confronted with conflicting beliefs or opinions distinct from our own. We not only disagree, we respond with outright anger, disdain, frustration and vitriol. Gradually we degrade and destroy all which we do not or are not willing to accept, consider or understand. The love we once had for everyone evaporates. Even our love for ourselves.

Idyllic Life:

None of us, no matter how clever, creative, smart or spiritual we believe we are, are the ideal human being. Each of us has downfalls, flaws, negativity and weaknesses. This is the nature of humanity. It isn’t the people that present themselves with authenticity and integrity with who we have to be critical and suspicious. It is all who chose to present themselves as the ideal expression of existence we should be wary. These are the people who are manipulating reality to gain advantage, advancement, position and the conversion of the world to their own image, lifestyle and vision. The more we fashion ourselves in the shadow of others, the more personal power we sacrifice upon the altar of self-importance.

Mirror Image:

Everyone and everything in our lives serves as an all-encompassing mirror. How we respond to these elements of our experience determines how we think, feel, act and are. The attention and energy we give them ultimately produces the events that will occur to us in our present and future. How and who we choose to be in our everyday life defines who we become and who and what we attract into it. We do not get how powerful we are as human beings. If we did, we most certainly would not be jumping on the comment sections of website articles to take out our angst, drama, failures, fears, insecurities and disappointments about how our lives turned out due to our own lack of investment, involvement and fulfillment.

Ready, Aim…Fire!

Our proverbial guns are locked and loaded for bear in any circumstance we may find ourselves. We are tinderboxes bouncing off of each other, who at any moment can spark, ignite and explode. More often than not we do so with the gravest of consequences. When our environment, experience and perception is challenged and/or compromised, we instantaneously react with a fervor that even shocks and terrifies us. By the time we are present to the impacts of our thoughts, words and actions, the damage has already been done. The scariest revelation is that we are not even conscious of the harm we willingly inflict upon others, when we believe we have been betrayed, deceived, manipulated and lead astray.

Keyboard Assassins:

It is so easy, too easy, to sit down in front of a computer and open fire on what we perceive to be attacks upon our intelligence, faith, lifestyle, morals and well-being. The inadequacies and insecurities of our lives are on full display when we feverishly tap out our anger, disappointment, frustration and upset on our keyboards with a passion that is evidently lacking in our lives. No matter how much we engage in virtual confrontations upon the comment streams of someone else’s article will never change what is happening around us. We can only transform that which is occurring within us depending upon how we respond. The difference we make in our lives and the lives of others begins with our ability to accept all for who they are and who they are not.

Zen and Bear It:

I have known Zen Gardner for a few years. We email back and forth occasionally, share articles on www.zengardner.com and have similar interests. Most of us on the site do, contributors and readers alike. I read his article, “The Missing Years,” and was surprised at the vitriolic response it received. As I was reading, I became present to a part of his life that was both difficult and revelationary, written with sincere authenticity. We never know what we are into completely until we see “The Writing on the Wall.” Zen made a choice to make a difference and attempt to transform injustices he became aware of about something in which he once believed. When he realized he could not, he left it and moved on with his life. The question we all must ask ourselves every day is, “do we choose to make an opinion or a difference?”

http://www.zengardner.com/now-zen-may-concern/

Eye of the Beholder

June 1, 2016 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

“The way we see the world is not how it is.
Who we choose to be in the world is what it becomes.”

Shades of Perception:

The bell is tolling in the broken down, forgotten cathedral of truth. Its ring echoes down the streets and corridors through the cities, suburbs, projects and underbellies of the world. We have become disinterested, desensitized and dismissive to its crucial, earnest and awakening call. Once there was a time in the not so distant past when its chime would gather together all who were in earshot of its sincere signal. Now, its beckon has droned off into the white noise of our insatiable desires for amusement, competition, intelligence, profit, vanity, self-righteousness and inauthentic security.

Our society has invented a disposable marketplace of compliance, censure, conquest, distraction, disassociation, disease, hatred and fear. This has engineered such a distortion of reality and its perception that confusion, collusion and illusion reign. Education, religion, politics, media sources and entertainment manipulate perspective into opinion further deluding common understanding. The eyes and minds of the world are blinded by agenda, arrogance, belief, pride and judgment. All that we have conceded to be our contemporary experience of life is simply a dream within a dream, within a dream…

What we have been led to believe is true are all lies. Common and popular points of view have gradually alienated us from the truth. The imposition of an artificial reality shapes, influences, overwhelms and ultimately annihilates any possibility of divergence. Our perceptions are altered and distorted in our everyday lives. Yet, they are even more so in our minds. We are besieged by the onslaught of visual and audible stimulus and the energetic impacts of lethal, electromagnetic emissions. As many thoughts we have are as many instances our perceptions of life are hijacked.

A Slight of View:

We surrender the potential and power of our perception as easily and frequently as we give our life force over to people, things and circumstances that are of little to no benefit. We are shadows of the human beings we were born, inspired and empowered to be. Instead of creating our lives as the expression of our truth, we predominantly emulate fantasies that prevent us from achieving our intentions. We adopt layers upon layers of perceptual filters that inevitably obstruct our ability to see the world as it is, let alone ourselves as we truly could become.

We do not establish our own true perception. We accept, adapt and adopt our point of view based on our external attractions, influences, relations and situations. Creating our own perspective requires us to claim the power of our choice, purpose, life and destiny. Our society does not support this lifestyle. It discourages, punishes and condemns creativity and diversity. It is counterproductive to the network of control the few enforce upon the many. We all choose, or rather don’t choose to claim our true vision. We resign ourselves to be enslaved by our own fear.

Our lives unfurl beneath a vast umbrella of human deception. The world enables this grand swindle with its apprehension, attention, energy and unconscious consumerism. Eventually, we all become vital components in this insatiable and insidious machine. Our apathy, cynicism, indifference and resignation are the building blocks of our simulated perspectives. Our perception doesn’t produce or influence reality. Reality invents our perception. It enforces an interpretive barrier in our observation of and interaction with how we understand reality and ultimately how we create our truth.

“We cannot see nor do we choose to perceive the world as it is because we deny our active role in its current dilemma.”

The Tao of Now:

Whosoever controls perception controls the world. Much of society is ruled by opinion. The facts, realities and truth of humanity are most often abandoned in the global, sacrificial ceremony we call “life.” Perception is exploited into a vortex of greed, vanity and status. This distortion of perspective separates us from each other and ourselves. It inspires us to doubt our relatives, condemn the accused, hate our opponents and fear all who are distinct from the contrived norm. It is this common fear that has become the superficial belonging we all cling to for importance, worth, orientation and relativity.

We are multi-dimensional beings with a four-dimensional consciousness existing in a three-dimensional reality having a predominantly two-dimensional experience. This is our true nature when we are born into this world. As we “grow up,” we are programmed by and conditioned to the three-dimensional reality and imprisoned in the two-dimensional experience. We eventually surrender the eclecticism of our essence. The piranha of contemporary culture maniacally and methodically takes it from us. Yet, it is not simply a conditioning of the mind. It is a manipulation of perception.

Linear time is the greatest weapon used in three-dimensional reality. Our perception is consistently and relentlessly attuned to an ominous, possible future, yet most often focused on an incomplete and regrettable past. Our lives are restricted by the uncertainty of what may be and the discontent of what was. This is the mirage of common reality. The only experience that is true in our lives is this moment. Everything else is an illusion. Even the future is a fantasy in relation to the now. Who we are being in the present is the only practice that will transform our life.

Eye of the Observer:

All of us are enamored within our personal hypnosis. We invent fantasies to present our lives to others as being of great value, meaning and purpose. We become so attached to what happens around us that we are not present to the extraordinary within. Most of us live from our peripheral. We rely upon external sources for direction, influence and motivation to make our choices, accomplish our routine tasks and endure. This is the three-dimensional perception of our two-dimensional experience. Yet, we rarely identify, consult and apply our own clarity, leadership, strength and wisdom.

The most overlooked and undervalued facet of our being is our “observing eye.” This is our “third eye.” It sources our epiphanies, insights, consciousness, transformation, creativity and enlightenment. With this unique perception we are able to live from our intuition. Our inner observer is not a locality within us. It is an essential expression of our being. This is our true personality. It was who we were as children and who we are destined to be. Our commitment to stand in and experience ourselves with the eye of the observer grants us the freedom to transform ourselves and ultimately reality.

We are not our perceptions. No matter how much power we may give to them, they are merely echoes of our intellect. We are almost entirely run by our positions due to our lack of commitment to consciousness. Awareness for most is merely optional. The less we create for ourselves, the more likely we become victims of our perceptions. It may seem extremely daunting to reclaim our power from the imposition of this virtual reality. Yet, our choice to transcend the tides of social influence and obligation is the distinction between simply surviving reality and truly thriving in our truth.

“The true power of experience is not in how it is seen, it is in how it is felt.”

http://www.zengardner.com/eye-of-the-beholder-2/

Trump This and Bern That!

May 31, 2016 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

Elective Bargaining:

It is a presidential election year and the masses are emerging from their political slumber. Every four years the nation becomes encumbered and ensnared within the duality that is the American voting process. Like a college sports rivalry, politics divides couples, families, friends, business associates and communities. As always, the powers that be are ratcheting up the politico machine to amuse, deceive, distract, enrage, hypnotize, intrigue and stupefy society. The establishment plays us all like a maestro their instrument. Every time, we take the bait, note for dissonant note.

Elusive Leadership:

We are all born leaders, yet we are not educated, empowered, encouraged, raised or supported in our leadership. For most of us, this lifestyle is not an option. Not because we don’t choose this path or aren’t adept in its practice. It is mostly because we are discouraged, distracted and suppressed by the arrogant and bold sociopathic few that were born into the right family. We are bewildered, enchanted, envious and ultimately subservient to politicians because of their charisma, celebrity and popularity. We acquiesce to their inauthentic guidance and importance for fear or lack of our own.

Slight of View:

Education, media, religion and parental influence prepare us for our inevitable servitude. Numerous distractions are invented everyday by political authorities, news networks, social media, editorial commentary, advertising, sports events and entertainment outlets. We are bombarded by a plethora of drama that triggers our contempt, outrage, upset and eventually our resignation. While we are preoccupied by the multitude of diversions, our freedoms and rights are gradually and systematically distorted and taken away from us. The spell is cast, the trick is set and the illusion is performed.

Bait and Switch:

Every time it begins with a new collection of president-elects who roll out of their respective parties like a cluster of clowns from a compact car in the traveling circus. They talk the talk, show up at appearances, kiss babies and invent new rhetoric to be noticed more than the next person in line. At first, the public isn’t interested, nor is it prepared for the measure of their eventual exaltation or fanaticism of the candidate-elects. A sequence of events, statements, propaganda or posturing occurs that whips their voter base’s adrenalin and ire into a fever pitch. Game on.

Feel the Fear:

Politics is a sport of fear. It has nothing to do with leadership. If it truly did, politicians would be inspiring the people to lead themselves. Instead, they find new and clever ways to discourage the voting populous by preying upon their anxieties, distress and ignorance with the implication of defeat, veiled threats and dire consequences. The worst is not in what we know about what is going on, it is in what we don’t know and don’t witness. Everything that is repressed from the populous is used against it for the purpose of furthering a concealed agenda that most often is to the detriment of the general public.

Contest of Conquest:

One of the greatest spectacles of political theater during an election year is personified in the debate. It is the age-old practice of attempting to prove to the constituency the validity of one’s candidacy. It begins with the initial intention of commitment, goodwill, honesty, information and the declaration of oaths. Yet, it usually devolves into an exchange that can be seen on any elementary playground during recess. The aim is no longer a presentation of the candidate’s character, experience and purpose. It becomes an opportunity to debunk, discredit and defrock the opponent.

Ways and Means:

Politics is an elite club from which the people are excluded. Their only participation is how much money they can donate to their candidate, how much tax they pay and the casting of their vote. There is no other requirement of the public. It is a systemic convenience that has cost us our economy, freedom, rights, future and citizenry. There is an implied expectation of entitlement from candidates and incumbents that the people simply hand over their personal power. A pledge millions in this country are more than willing to give for the sake of an artificial belonging, security, happiness and peace.

Heads or Tails:

We believe that we have a choice as to who is elected. We don’t. Since the dawn of democracy, the people never had a choice and perhaps never will. Our “choice” is based upon the decision of a few influential individuals whom select the candidates they believe will best further their agenda. When these candidate-elects are chosen, they are then funded, initiated, lobbied, promoted and programmed by political officials on what to say, how to act and react and motivate their voter base to the polls. If given the choice, most if not all of us would choose a candidate not listed on the ballot.

Pyramid Scheme:

Our world is run by a small collection of elite wealthy families perpetuating a bloodline that has existed since before history was recorded. They thrive in the shadows of our apathy, compliance, cynicism, ignorance and fear. Their network maintains and manipulates a system of international central banks that fund national central banks. These national banking institutions in turn administrate commercial banks that finance corporations. This “Corporatocracy” exploits, lobbies and utilizes governments to draft legislation and pass laws to protect their investments, profits, power and status.

Return on Investment:

Millions of dollars are spent by corporations, donors, lobbyists and financial institutions to ensure the election outcome that benefits their interests most. Yet, billions of dollars are generated, secured and disseminated through covert legislation, corporate tax cuts, no-bid contracts, “defense” spending and subjective scientific research. In other words, the value we believe our vote has is merely a raindrop in an ocean of financial and corporate exploitation. As has been stated before, if our vote really made a difference, the banks and corporations would never grant us this liberty.

Seasonal Selection:

As an electorate, we often tend to engage in the political process once every four years, cast our vote and then return to the “reality” of our standard and subliminal servitude. Our vote is merely an inauthentic expression of artificial power. By no means do I intend to discourage anyone from fulfilling upon their civic rights. True freedoms in this world must be claimed and exercised. We as citizens need be present to where our attention, energy and money flow. These are the essentials of our lives that determine the prevalence of our liberty or the degree of our captivity.

Power to the People:

We are at the bottom of the pyramid. We are no longer identified as citizens. The elite perceives us as consumers. We enable our enslavement by unconsciously purchasing their products and services and denying and refuting their existence. We the many significantly outnumber the influential few. We the people can transform the maniacal network of centralized banks and trans-national corporations. We can choose to become aware of where our money is going by simply exploring where it leads. All it requires of us is our dedicated focus, inquiry, practice, purpose and willingness.

Evening the Odds:

We have an extraordinary opportunity to make a difference in our lives and in the world. It begins everyday with our choice of who we want to be, how and why we want to live and what we want to manifest. Our destiny does not live and die when we cast our vote. It is declared in our intention and action to be an expression and stand for all that enlightens and inspires us. We need to vote first for ourselves and claim our leadership then encourage others to do the same. Only then will we truly be the consciousness, love, possibility and transformation we yearn to see in the world.

http://www.zengardner.com/trump-this-bern-that/

Awaken

May 20, 2016 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

“Don’t you get tired? Aren’t you fed up? Pushing the agenda for the higher ups.

Could you be wise? Won’t you be free? Living an illusion for this fantasy…”

The Viral Man:

Since the first footprint left by the earliest civilizations, mankind has always sought, fought, built and destroyed to leave its signature. Its very existence has become an antithesis of nature. Its mind has made it such that the natural world is something to be conquered to measure its success, progress and worth. Generation after generation has sparred with everything it has perceived to be a threat and challenge to its survival. Monuments have been crafted to represent the artificial power, might and wisdom mankind has stolen from nature and manipulated with its timeless arrogant desires.

The natural world and all of its mysteries, wonders, majesty and life is simply not enough in its true, raw and rugged expression to satisfy mankind’s desires. It had to remove, dissect, deconstruct, diminish and destroy nature in order to examine and exploit it. Nature’s resources were extracted, altered, manipulated, boiled, burned and exhausted at an astronomical rate. Whole ecosystems were sacrificed upon the altar of mankind’s progress, convenience, industry and wealth. It gradually placed itself in the center of the cycle of life as it imprisoned the world with its greed, selfishness and insatiable hunger.

There is one term that best symbolizes what mankind’s reality has done to the Earth, “virus.” It is interesting how viruses seem to originate and localize around human life. It is vital to acknowledge and accept that viruses are a product and expression of the human race. The very nature of a virus correlates so perfectly with mankind that the two have become synonymous with each other in life and in death. Our toxicity as a species has reached a degree to which we have become a contagion. This infection has wiped out civilizations, ecosystems and environments with war, disease, famine and human refuse.

“Cast your chaos to the rising tide. Time to be present to the fear inside.

Kingdoms will rise. Kingdoms will fall. Truth is eternal when we heed the call…”

Society of Illusions:

There is nothing more devastating to a culture than the greed that corrupts it. We can see it everywhere in our daily lives when we choose. Advertisements, television programs, celebrities, professional athletes, politicians and even religious and spiritual organizations fall prey to it. The mentality of excess has woven its way into the very roots of our society. It has polluted our compassion, good will and need with vanity, self-righteousness and want. It is much more than just a chosen way of life for those with the means. It has become an entitlement that costs many the quality of life for the benefit of the few.

We were all born into a life of illusion. Even before we breached the birth canal of our mothers, the wool was pulled over our eyes. Our development through educational, religious and social institutions further indoctrinated and assimilated us into a reality of lies. We were harnessed at an early age with a burdened inheritance of mere survival in a society designed to continually oppose us at every turn. The machinery of reality persistently strips us of our free thought, emotion and creative expression, as we are bombarded with the many facets of conformity. Ultimately, the harsh conditions of living in the contemporary world condition us into a lifestyle of apathy, denial, disinterest, cynicism and acquiescence.

“Will we pretend? Are we asleep? Hiding in the shadows from the fears we keep.

Will we arise? Can we amend? All that has fallen at the hand’s of men…”

Turning the Tide:

As diabolical as mankind’s global agenda may be, it is fragile and vulnerable to downfall. Each one of us enables the chains of our daily slavery to society and its reality. It is a vampire that takes everything we bring to it and provides little to nothing in return. Yet we continue to feed this monster. We crawl through the wreckage of our broken dreams, shattered imaginations and forgotten possibilities to prove our worth to a careless and clueless society. As we weather the storms of our lives, we retreat to the false comfort and security of our abodes seeking fulfillment from entertainment and amusement.

There is a “breakthrough” point that occurs from either being enraged or inspired. Many that are moved by anger tend to lash out in protest and become ensnared in the trappings of our totalitarian society. When we express ourselves negatively, we will always attract an equivalent outcome. Authoritarian figures rely upon rebellion so that they may deal with dissidents with force, inequality and injustice. It is used as a weapon to amend and enact laws and implement social regulations and restrictions to restrain and bury human creativity, consciousness and enlightenment. Revolutions that were once loud, chaotic and unpredictable must now be silent, gradual and focused.

Contemporary society primarily continues to do the same thing in the same way over and over again expecting a different result. The human life experience in many ways is a lifestyle of lunacy. Our tendency as a society is to exist in a myriad of vicious cycles that keeps us in a perpetual state of drama, confusion, indifference, irresponsibility and duplicity. When we blindly and defiantly defend our positions, we further entrench ourselves into our social captivity. The human prison may be engineered and maintained by a select and secret few, yet it is we who allow ourselves to be enslaved daily with our participation and our choices or lack thereof.

“Cast your darkness to the rising sun. Time to awaken for we are the ones

Nations will rise. Nations will fall. Life is eternal when we live for all.”

– Iam (lyrics from my original song “Awaken.”)

Awaken:

The human race as a whole has been asleep for a good portion of its existence. The elements of our slumber have been our perceptions, opinions, intelligence, denial, self-righteousness and selfishness. These are the bars of our personal imprisonment. The accumulation and development of these qualities that “mature” our personalities are the very things that prevent us from becoming who we are truly meant to be. In our attempt to belong to the society in which we exist, we automatically and willingly surrender our personal truth, power, purpose, consciousness and amity. We turn our backs on ourselves.

Every day is an opportunity for us to choose to live a conscious life. The more we create this possibility, the more we establish this reality, the more human beings will contribute to the communal awareness. This is happening now. We need to come together to be our fullest expression of being as a global family. This is how it is in spirit. No one else can create, establish or contribute our expression in this universal destiny. When we choose to live our truth, creativity, imagination, ahimsa (non-violence) and kindness, we will transform ourselves and ultimately the world.

http://www.zengardner.com/awaken-4/

Ghost Story

May 18, 2016October 31, 2025 / Iam Saums / Leave a comment

“We are the ghost in the machine.”

Something Wicked This Way Comes…

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

The Nightmare of a Dream

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

The Darkness Without

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

The Darkness Within

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

A Knife to the Throat

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

Shadow of a Demon

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

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

Creature Feature

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

The Walking Dead

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

Ghosts of our Lives

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

Egocentric Evil

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

Ghost Story

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

“Our unfulfilled destiny is our ghost story.”

By Design

May 17, 2016May 18, 2016 / Iam Saums / 2 Comments

“Nothing is ever as it seems.”

Soul Sacrifice:

Life as we live it is an elaborate illusion devised by the few for the devout acquiescence of the many. Most, if not all of us, don’t want to truly live. We just act like we do. We exist in a vacuum of being, conditioned to fear life as much or more than death. The synthetic comfort of the common median separates us from the power of our choice, focus, purpose and destiny. We allow “life” to tear our heart out of our chest while our spirit languishes in the purgatory of our reluctance and the custody of our self-righteousness. We wager our present moments for the promise of our future to escape the torment of our past.

Smoke and Mirrors:

Nothing we experience in the three dimensional domain is real. The authoritarian imposition of reality we are programed to accept and adopt or our staunch belief in it does not make it genuine. It is a contemporary fairy tale controlled and manipulated to amuse, bewilder, distract, distort, entertain, and ultimately imprison us. It is a colossal, elegant complex network of stimuli strategically timed and articulated to evoke emotional, mental and instinctual reactions. We measure our lives not by our actions, creations or intentions, yet by our responses to totalitarian motivations in the global laboratory of society.

On Purpose:

There never were, are or ever will be accidents in reality. Only circumstances and occurrences that string us along enough to ensure our engagement, investment and participation. Where once we sustained social pandemonium with our attention, intelligence and money, now we intravenously enable it with our emotion, energy and soul. We are desperately and hopelessly addicted to the casual rush of our inherently unique drama, lifestyle, opinion, perception and significance. This is the formula that keeps us attached, engrossed and obsessed with the perpetual illusion of ordinary life.

The Human Schism:

Our learned fanaticism with all people and things shiny and bright has become a common psychosis of devotion and vicarious existence. We are mere shadows of the human beings we were destined to be. Before we have the opportunity to identify, develop and experience our personal power and purpose, it is slowly siphoned away from us by a myriad of energetic, social, institutional and professional entities. Our lives were taken from us long before they even began, replaced with the American Dream of “someday, some one, someplace, somehow…” It is a fantasy that isolates us from everything from the universe to ourselves.

Spinning Wheel:

All that we sense in the three dimensional reality is an inversion of perception. Common sense, reason, belief, history, intelligence and meaning in society has been exploited and transposed into a deception of experience. Reality has been spun and projected millions of times and ways over the course of human existence. It is as mutable as public opinion, yet always intended for one sole purpose. To blind the human race from its oblivious enablement and involvement in a relentlessly secret and insidious agenda. For multi-national corporate, executive and financial organizations to accomplish a silent global takeover in the name of elitist conquest.

All the World’s a….

Our involvement in society is a performance. When we are young, we are graded by a system of standardized examinations. It is not to determine our potential from our intelligence and proficiency, but to prepare us for a lifetime of servitude. We are institutionalized to be left-brain dominant drones to best serve the mental matrix. (Please see my article “The Heart of It All.”) As we mature, our grading system is measured in monetary and status criteria as well as our rate of conformity. We are a puppet upon the stage of reality. We perform our part on the bottom of the pyramid never realizing if we walked away, the system of enslavement would fall.

The Grand Illusion:

Reality is not life and life is not reality. These are two very distinct experiences. Yet, they have been collapsed into one for the purpose of generating a more convenient and lucrative mainframe of human existence for the handful of organizations by whom it is controlled. Everything in our experience of reality is altered and manipulated to further the agenda of the few at the cost of the many. The world we see and accept as real is the dark side of the proverbial mirror of life. It is not the truth that has become the greatest threat to humanity, it is reality.

Business as Usual:

Reality is a 24-hour business. It is always open and selling illusion at a tantalizing price most can’t afford. Reality is not bought and sold by us. We become indebted to it with our apathy, compliance, indifference and resignation. We willingly hand over our creativity, intention, love, passion, personal power and trust multiple times a day every day of our lives. This is our true currency we exchange for artificial belonging, comfort, meaning and security. Human reality is enabled with the investment of our attention, energy, fear and obedience. The business of reality is to charm us with an illusion of life to restrict us from our truth.

Remote Control:

Every aspect of reality is controlled and manipulated. Our air, water and food are riddled with chemicals to contaminate us and suppress our consciousness. News networks use fear as a weapon to modify public perception. Social media and the sports and entertainment industries are designed to distract us from and desensitize us to the atrocities, inequalities and tragedies their sponsors commit every day in their quest for profit. Weather patterns are engineered to produce massive storms with an alarming frequency of devastation. Scientists are now discovering that reality is a holographic projection from a distant, unknown origin in the universe.

The Architects:

There has always been a veiled network of elitist individuals whom have held sovereignty over the world for centuries. They have hindered the progression of the automotive, energy, health, medical and technological industries all for the sake of reaping high yields from low investments for global domination. They invented and manipulate the financial marketplace to ensnare their consumers into the slavery of debt. Yet their most devious practice is preying upon human emotion and thought with fear using the media, politics, sports, religion and war to enslave the human race into two-dimensional reality.

Hacking the Ego:

Human control begins and ends in the complexity of the ego. Our programming in this world is inevitable. It is only a question of the degree of our indoctrination. All of us have lived through years of imposed, intense conditioning. As human doings we are defined by the boundaries, circumstances, environments, ethics, laws and standards set by the authoritarian organizations our egos enable. Our false personality receives and sends distorted energetic frequencies to disrupt our intuitive and emotional potential. We are first slaves to our own design well before we become victims to the villains of the world.

Courting Consciousness:

The acceptance and application of our consciousness is critical to the transformation of our present experience. There is no place for apathy, cynicism, deception, fear, greed and self-righteousness in our enlightenment. We either allow ourselves to be crippled by the iniquities of our human design or we choose to transcend them and express our true power. It is up to each and every one of us to become the manifestation of our truth, love, purpose and destiny. We are the emanation of all creation. We are the personification of all possibility. Each one of us is the only solution we will ever need.

“I never knew who I could become until I freed myself from who I am.”

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