I recall the scents, sights and sounds of a mid-1970’s Christmastime. A real pine tree decorated with generational ornaments, multi-colored bulb-lights and tinsel streaming from its limbs. Youthful excitement for mysterious gifts wrapped in festive fanfare, scattered on a traditional tree apron. The fantasy of a man with a beard donning a red and white suit, dashing from home to home on the eve of the 24th. Yet, the fulfillment of the anticipation wanes when the jubilation of the occasion ends. I experienced this holiday anomaly when I collected my gifts and retreated to my bedroom. My delight faded into the doldrums of a Christmas past.
The Thrill is Gone
There is magic this time of year that is both genuine and omnipresent, kindled by the collective belief, euphoria, fantasia, joy, love, music, ritual and tradition in the spirit of the season. When I was spending time with family during Thanksgiving, the Macy’s parade was on television. The progression of pomp and circumstance marched down Sixth Avenue, pumping out holiday, pop music and hocking their wares in a festive exhibition of mass consumerism. Christmas propaganda was broadcast with clever precision by famous faces, invoking the enduring narrative and annual glitterati amidst the eager revelry of an oblivient society.
Holiday Highjack
The origins of Yuletide predate what is now celebrated as Christmas. The Celtic, Norse and Roman cultures, among others, observed the Winter Solstice; a four-day shift of intention, renewal and transformation, occurring from December 19th through the 22nd. The Church highjacked the holiday to control, exploit and repress faith by enacting December 25th, mostly out of convenience for their religious narratives. The collective belief in the Christian propaganda caused a lie to become truth for billions of disciples. It was one of the first mass manipulations of humanity. Social indoctrination is now a standard in every institution.
Glad Tithings
During the span of every year, my wife and I gather funds to send to our relatives who are less fortunate. A healthy portion of our lives are dedicated in service to community. The true spirit of tithing is to give for the sake of giving, without the attachment of receiving. We have not had a vacation longer than a few days in over 16 years. To me, it does not feel right to gratify myself at great expense for a fleeting reprieve from life. What we experience through our commitments to community is beyond existence, knowledge, lifestyle, recognition and reward. We are simply empowered by the opportunity to make a difference.
“The Winter Solstice is an energetic convergence of being.”
The Nexus
In the Star Trek movie “Generations,” while attempting to prevent the destruction of a planet, Captain Picard finds himself in The Nexus. A place where all who enter find themselves in a blissful, personalized nirvana, beyond imagination. It is during the holidays, and he is in a beautiful home with a wife and children, all which he has never had. The ornaments on the Christmas trees are reoccurring, exploding stars. In that moment, he realizes something is amiss and remembers the annihilation of the planet. He states, “This isn’t right, this can’t be real.” The familiar voice of Guinan responds, “It’s as real as you want it to be.”
Festive Fantasy
Our holidays are often reenactments of fond, youthful memories, when we believed in the magic. We design celebratory events with the desire to reproduce the same spirit we once felt. Whether it is with family, in a familiar environment, observing traditional festivities, playing games or singing songs. In essence, things we would not normally do any other day of the year. Akin to the social reality in which we exist, our celebrations are not real. They are a fleeting exodus from the gravity of our everyday grind. When the holiday moments pass, we return to the vicious cycles of our personal and social simulations.
The Entitlement of Expectation
For many of us, our expectancy and privilege is born during the most wonderful time of the year. We inherit the entitlement of receiving well before we experience the empowerment of giving. We are indoctrinated into an egocentric lifestyle as a social standard of self-gratification, exhibited in our appetite, consumption, obsession and pleasure. Yet, privilege occurs long before our hereditary and environmental exposure to family and society. Its origins are in the generational prerogative we adopt and emulate from our ancestors of a bygone era. We exchange our empowerment and understanding for entitlement and expectation.
Free to Be
When I was 25, I spent the holidays alone. On that Christmas morning, I woke up early and went to the coffee shop where I worked at the time. I played their grand piano for a few hours, then headed to the woods for a hike. It was a powerful transformation, to abandon the familiar, festive routine and embrace the extraordinary experience of an exponentially unique revelation. When the day ended, I felt personal fulfillment in the solitude of tranquility. I still remember that holiday as a shift in my understanding, and the importance of creating and exploring the opportunity to embody the freedom of experiential being.
Universal Experience
The holiday season is evidence that we all can create the experience of joy, love, peace and relativity. For many, this only happens once a year, namely induced by social influence, obligation, status quo and tradition. Much as a person who goes to church for an hour a week, then cuts off their fellow patron in traffic as they rush home, so is our seasonal noel. Every day is our opportunity to transcend and transform our existence into a universal experience. The greatest gift we will ever receive is to empower our lives in relativity with our soul. Fulfillment is when we express “good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.” – Linus
Tis the Season
Once the four-day Winter Solstice Shift concludes, the holiday experience is complete. The calendar propaganda of Christmas and New Year’s Days are virtual eventualities of time, a manipulation of social engineering to control and exploit human existence and perception with consumerism. We often buy gifts in an exchange to receive, instead of giving in the spirit of generosity. It is our universal expression to give all we are to all we can, with absolute abundance. Before we were born, we made a covenant to empower, inspire, relate, transform and transcend. Tis the season for all our relations to receive the only gift we can give; ourselves.
“Oh, that we, could always see, such spirit through the year…”
I have been publishing articles for two decades. During that time, they have endured through societal absurdity, hostility, insanity and polarity. Though they have not received mass exposure on websites around the world, they have generated engagement and inspired a modest shift in paradigm. However, my literary voice is a whisper amidst the aggressive, compulsive and dysfunctional ferocity of alternative, mainstream and individually propagandized media. In a society rife with distortion, manipulation, toxification and transmutation; fact is fiction, illusion is reality, truth is a lie, good is evil and intelligence is egocentricity.
Social Psychosis
Given our educational, hereditary, political, religious and scientific indoctrination, our selective propaganda becomes our perception. An interpretive filter we devise to engage, interact and personify beliefs, ideologies, positions and rhetoric. Oblivion to our egocentricity impels us to impose our viewpoints upon others with arrogance, coercion, entitlement, expectation and self-righteousness. Our self-subscribed narratives forge our personal delusion and align with a societal illusion in the simulation of reality. Social psychosis is viral, infecting our collective observation, relativity, vision and understanding.
The Shift
A universal, energetic shift occurred during the Winter Solstice in 2012. Since then, our existence in society has exponentially accelerated and intensified beyond the boundaries of our conditioned comprehension. This quickening has made it unbearable for us to flow with the frequencies of the universe. Excessive dependence and engagement in social reality have compromised any relativity we may experience with our soul. Yet, the shift continues, regardless of our awareness and resonance. This new era is an evolutionary progression of transcendence, empowering us to embody universal being.
The Matrix Maze
We are all programmed into a static, instinctual/intellectual existence, primarily as two-dimensional avatars engaging in a three-dimensional virtuality. Our daily lives are executed in a simulation of stimulus and reactivity. In essence, we are akin to laboratory rats, racing through a maze and searching for escape. Occasionally, when we free ourselves from the labyrinth of reality, we eventually regress into the illusions of comfort, convenience, familiarity and safety the social matrix provides. We are unwilling to be authentic, accountable and real enough to identify ourselves as the advocates of our personal enslavement.
“Humanity is egocentricity.”
Forums of Egocentricity
Humanity’s greatest deficiency is its egocentricity. Self-righteousness is an artificial power, which supplies deceptive, dysfunctional and solitary gratifications. When one person yearns to be right, their expectation is that everyone else is wrong. Their entitlement imposes a mandate of agreement with their narrative(s), or else they condemn their opposition to incompetence, ignorance and inanity. Modern society is built upon a fractured foundation of self-righteousness. There are unlimited forums of egocentricity; baiting conflict, division and fear to weaponize debate and provoke anarchy, brutality, polarity, supremacy and vanity.
The Looking Glass
All who are deceived by social reality dismiss universality as a fantasy. The extreme conditioning of institutional indoctrination has established this paradigm, segregating us from our relativity with the universe. It is our greatest crime against humanity. No matter what social influence we encounter, we are the criminals in our severance with our soul. Our egocentricity distorts and diminishes our universality, concealing the atrocities we commit against ourselves. It coerces us into our reactivity to defend our belief, delusion, duplicity, fear, insecurity and uncertainty. We engage in virtuality to attain social authority, credibility and validity.
Natural Progression
Within each conscious and present moment, our vision, transcendence and transformation is our empowerment, sourced by the equilibrium between our soul, intuition, heart, mind and body. From birth to death, our metamorphosis is the unique, energetic signature of our universality. Our natural progression of being is to embody our soul. Yet, our egocentricity disrupts our balance to deceive, enslave and manipulate us into engaging and investing in a holographic simulation we perceive as reality. No matter what obstacle, setback or trauma we may encounter, the synthesis of our being is the foundation upon which we evolve.
The Art of Embodiment
Universality is sourced by our soul. When we establish balance in our being, we transcend existence in social reality and shift into universal experience. As we align our awareness with the universe, our soul empowers us into our unique flow. However, it is beyond calming our body, silencing our mind and expressing our heart. It is listening to our intuition, being empowered by our soul and synergizing with universality. Embodying our soul in this simulation yields failure more often than fulfillment. Holding the space for our awareness is virtually impossible. Yet, the art of soul embodiment is universal being.
All Good Things in All Good Time
One day after a ceremony, a friend of mine asked me what I experienced. I responded, “I will let you know when the moment happens.” Our experiences are as omnidimensional as we are. Clarity, insight, purpose, transformation and understanding do not occur in linear time; they transpire in universal synchrony. Often, it takes days, weeks, months or years for our visions to become realized. When they progress in the present moment, experiential awareness is essential. Their fulfillment is empowered by our alignment with universal flow, sourcing our evolution in the embodiment of our soul.
A New Era
When we desire to be right in the world, we are wrong with the universe. Proselytizing our self-righteousness upon others is a projection of our fear, insecurity, oblivion, vanity and uncertainty. We weaponize the mimicry of our selective ideologies, narratives and propaganda to justify our egocentricity, thus concealing our universal deficiency. Most of what transpires in sociality is a distortion, diversion and exorcism of our soul’s expression. Social reality is a simulation, programming us to secure our individual gratification instead of empowering our universal fulfillment. In this new era, our relativity with universality is all that is true.
Over sixty percent of our bodies contain water. Our software comprises more, while our hardware less. Beyond our necessity for hydrogen and oxygen, there is an essential functionality often overlooked and undervalued. Water is a conductor. Not just of electricity, yet also energy. Employing its own water table, our body rejuvenates and resonates with our soul and the universe. When we run dry, our energy is diminished and our conductivity decreases, thus our relativity with our soul. Our body becomes dense, and our equilibrium and flexibility are compromised. Our consciousness eventually wanes to oblivion.
Pathways of Light
There are hundreds of billions of neurons creating hundreds of trillions of neural pathways in our mind, communicating and processing an infinite amount of information. Our neural activity is empowered by our soul. It sources our brain to transpose universal energy into an applicable and functional expression. The pineal gland receives and transmits universality. As with the water in our bodies, neurons are conductors of electricity and energy. It is not mere data streams being relayed through our brains. It is the signature of our soul, resonating through our mind and body with the frequency of universality.
Torus of the Heart
Our heart center is an omnidimensional sphere, renewing and revolving universal energy empowered by our soul. Its resonance emanates six feet and beyond our being. At its core, our heart is a solar torus, evolving as a hypergiant star. It is the center of our human being, emanating and transforming universality into relative energy. The synergy of our soul and the universe empowers our emotionality, intelligence and instinct. When we are aligned, centered and related with our heart torus, we resonate with our soul. Being conscious and present to how, where and why we express universality is essential in our transcendence.
The Seed of the Soul
Our soul sources us with universality. It synergizes with our heart, mind and body, conducting its resonance through our intuition and into our energy centers. Omnidimensional frequencies flow in infinite currents, conveying our universal signature. Our soul inspires our creativity, expression, relativity and understanding, empowering our enlightened emotionality, conscious intelligence and proactive movement. Our universal synthesis is established by the enlightenment of our heart, mind and body, synchronizing our soul with our being to empower our transformation, transcendence and universality.
“Evil abides in the vortex of oblivion.”
Live Evil
The antithesis of consciousness is oblivion. Whatever the measure of its existence in our lives, our deficiency of awareness leads to our enmity. As our light is empowered by our soul, our darkness is provoked by society. While our soul emanates through our intuition and into our heart, mind and body, our evil thrives in the gravity of our density. It corrupts our feelings, thoughts and actions with its viral iniquity. Our positivity is empowered from within by our universality, whereas our negativity is implanted via our engagement in the environmental toxicity of social reality. As we primarily live outside of ourselves, we are influenced, traumatized and victimized by societal immorality.
The Vanity of Humanity
The polarity of light and darkness is our delusion of an illusion, our indoctrination into ideological and perceptual duality. In whatever dogma we subscribe, neither exists beyond the boundaries of our artificial comfortability, familiarity and security within our personal narrative. It is simply a bedtime story, with which we deceive ourselves to evade the existential suffering we endure. In essence, our egocentricity is exhibited in our control, defensiveness, fear, insecurity, psychosis and resistance, enabling our victimization. We cling to our delusion, as we cannot acknowledge or accept the truth. We sacrifice our relativity with our soul to engage in the vanity of social reality.
Weight of the World
When we exist in oblivion, we allow our social environment to alter, influence and manipulate our feelings, thoughts and actions. Our indoctrination disrupts and distorts our intuition, thus our relativity with our soul and the universe. We become peripheral beings, seeking authority, credibility and validity. As we engage in social reality, our energy frequency descends into density, expanding the schism between our soul and our human self. The weight of the world we bear estranges us from ourselves, others, our soul and the universe. When faced with our mortality, we wield the fear we weaponize with our oblivion.
Human Stigmata
Egocentricity is the density of society. We have collapsed our selfishness with our subscription for survival. We resist acknowledging our egotism, as this would be a paradox of our existential reality. We would rather die than claim and embody accountability. Our personal delusion endorses and enables our truest evil. We have no regard for anyone but ourselves, which is an exhibition of our oblivion with our soul. We preserve our illusion of fulfillment with an excess of simulated achievements and eventualities. We are social vortices, consuming toxicity as a supplement to gratify the emptiness in our being.
Shifting with Universality
Being is our relativity with the universe. The equilibrium of our intuition, heart, mind and body shifts us into an expression of our soul. The omnidimensional energy of universality streams through our intuition as a helix of metamorphosis, empowering the torus of our heart center to inspire transcendental vision in our mind and evolutionary momentum in our body. The universal flow is forever transforming. Balancing the dimensional elements of our being is our opportunity to resonate with our unique flow. Shifting with universality empowers our transcendence, reuniting us with our soul and the universe.
Evolution of Transcendence
Since the Winter Solstice in 2012, we have been in flow with a universal energetic shift humanity has yet to experience. The last thirteen years have been our evolution of transcendence. Not just to relate with our soul and the universe, yet also with ourselves and others. The new era has nothing to do with business, media, politics, religion, science, technology or virtuality. It is becoming a vessel for our soul to occupy our being and express universality, thus transforming artificiality. Shifting with universality is transforming ourselves from an emulation of social toxicity to embodying the universal resonance of our soul.
“If voting counted, we would never be granted the liberty.”
Civil War
The United States political map is checkered with red and blue. Rural regions are predominantly conservative, while urban areas are primarily liberal. Most of us are hereditarily and socially influenced from an early age to pledge our allegiance. Long before the American Civil War, authoritarian entities and organizations have strategized ideological, political, religious and social division amongst their constituencies. We eagerly participate in an electoral con, hook, line and sinker. Of course, we would not identify as a victim of partisanship, then we would be acknowledging the naivety of our self-inflicted exploitation. When we engage in two-party politics, we enable our enslavement in a combative duality, preserving eras of civil war.
Time Immoral
Every four years, the political model is the same. Alternative, mainstream and social media spin selective narratives of controversy and indoctrination for populus consumption to ensure our engagement. Journalism has been distorted and engineered into editorially-radicalized propaganda and rhetoric. Instead of investing our own personal research for equitable information, we devour fabricated opinion as fact, projecting our partisan programming upon the opposition. With all the bluster only egocentricity can convey, each side attempts to sway the other to their narrative. Our arrogance and insolence feign our stand for superficial causes. All the while, political parties endorse anger, fear, hatred, hostility, insecurity and toxicity.
Party Lines
Whether we are conservative or liberal does not matter. In a sports game, two teams don their colors with distinctive strategies. One team is on offense, the other on defense. They both jockey for position, making plays to achieve the advantage. One team wins and the other loses. It is the classic paradigm of duality. The same can be observed in politics. Yet, in the electoral arena, the stakes are higher as the contest is real (or so it may seem.) When we pick a side, we subscribe to a “singularity” of ideology. We debate and reject everything about the opponent. We even deny their very existence, condemning them to irrelevance, irrationality and oblivion. Where party lines begin, acceptance, listening and understanding ends.
The Powers that Be
Elite bloodlines rule the world. They control banks, corporations, the entertainment industry, financial institutions, media outlets, the medical industry, military forces, scientific communities and universities. They invest in lobbyists to influence politicians to protect their investments. They are sociopaths who oppress and suppress society to manipulate the global population. If we do not see this by now, we simply are not paying attention. When we discover alternative media, it often triggers our reactivity, compelling us to claim, “conspiracy theory!” This allows us to defend our cognitive dissonance, denial, fear and uncertainty when we encounter contrary information that conflicts with our beliefs. When we reject diverse ideologies, it does not mean they are not true.
“Voting is the acquiescence of our personal power.”
Conspiracy Theorist/Smearist
“Conspiracy theory” is a term authoritarian entities and organizations invented to discredit and demonize those who question and/or resist their totalitarian agendas to exploit the global population for profit and power. In the last decade, social interest in alternative media has gone “viral.” Theories that were once dismissed as sacrilege are progressively being accepted for their truth. A recent distinction I observed from current events is the term, “conspiracy smeary.” This is when a proven “conspiracy theory” is distorted and propagandized to spread false narratives for ideological, political, religious and/or social influence, manipulation and weaponization. This has further condemned conspiracy theory into a mere deception of perception.
A Lost Cause
During the seminal establishment of the United States, the vision of democracy was sound. As with many ideologies, what has manifested from the necessity for freedom is the blasphemy of sovereignty. Politicians have rarely, if ever, served the people they were sworn to empower, protect and represent. With all the loyal dependency we can muster, we sacrifice our personal power for a savior to free us from the very oppression we enable with our engagement. Whether the slogan is “We are not going back!” or “Make America great again!” our reliance upon the rhetoric of politicians only leads to our enslavement. Democracy is a lost cause, simply because it does not exist, nor has it ever endured totalitarian egocentricity.
A Crime against Humanity
Social movements model their demonstrations with occupation. Imagine if we stood for and inhabited ourselves with the same passion! Protests are reactive events, caused by the extreme inequities of authoritarian organizations. Rallies are a social simulation to provoke negative responses. In essence, it is a social science experiment to preoccupy “radical” movements with their own reactivity. This is the strategy the political system employs. Stimulate an electoral environment into a fever pitch of negativity with ambiguity, conflict, debate, deception, fanaticism, fear, manipulation and prejudice. Then kindle the flames of contention until both sides defeat each other with their opposing indifference. Politics are a crime against humanity.
A Shift of Empowerment
In the previous article, I shared about the essential shift we all can experience in our transition from engagement to empowerment. The spirit of sovereignty is not with who and what we engage, yet in how we empower ourselves. There is a fine line between democracy and dictatorship, which history has proven with countless illustrations. Democracy inspires mutual acceptance, contribution, relativity and understanding. Whereas dictatorship imposes control, fear, hatred, indoctrination and intolerance. Our shift into empowerment begins when we align with, express and embody our soul. It is not an easy endeavor to manifest transcendence within the linear parameters of social reality. Freedom is found in our empowerment to transform.
Transformation and Transcendence
The ideology to which we subscribe often becomes our fixed way of being. Whether it is political, religious, social or otherwise, our belief, expression, identity, status and worth cannot be quantified by the declaration of our personal partisanship. Yet, we tend to emulate our social indoctrination as who we are. We opt to endorse candidates who will inevitably deceive and exploit us. This provides us the ideal excuse for the comfort and ease of our personal evasion. Every experience we encounter is an opportunity for us to shift from exalting others to empowering ourselves. Transformation and transcendence are both sourced by the universe. Our essential choice is our soul.
The Transcendent Party
Recently, I was making observations with a friend about politics. Neither of us resonated with either party. I half-jokingly declared, “I belong to the Transcendent Party.” In my experience, pledging to any organization without personal discernment is not only social conformity, but also the definition of a “cult.” No matter how much faith, hope and trust we bestow upon ambitious, charismatic, confident and passionate candidates, it will never equal the empowerment we experience when we discover and embody these qualities within. Our universal shift begins when we select ourselves as the representative with whom we are inspired. Beyond the pandemonium of the political divide, transcendence is the freedom only our soul can provide.
We are enslaved in a three-dimensional existence, programmed to project reality (illusion) instead of embody universality (being). For the institutionalized mind, this statement evokes conspiracy theory, fantasy, lunacy, volatility and uncertainty. What is present for those of us who cast disdain, judgement and ridicule at diversity is our fear and insecurity. Instead of observing our opportunity to be an expression of our soul, we cling to our delusion within the illusion of “reality.” Our egocentricity imposes our agenda for self-relevance, righteousness and vanity. Fear is a force that influences us all. Yet, it is our choice for consciousness we all trivialize.
Defending the Indefensible
Reality is the most powerful force in society. It is even greater than “God.” The absolute totality of our belief, engagement, investment and interaction certainly proves this bold statement. It supersedes all social nuances, simply because it is human nature to exist within its mainframe; illustrated by our oblivion to the sheer scale of its assimilation, indoctrination and manipulation. When we encounter diverse concepts, ideologies, observations and perceptions that challenge our reality, we fervently defend it with reckless abandon. We are simply too terrified to admit we were deceived, mistaken, naïve and victimized. Our egocentricity enables our enslavement.
The Con of Egocentricity
None of us want to be told what to do. Yet, every day we depend on authoritarian entities and organizations for leadership. It is an enigmatic and oxymoronic paradox to which we all subscribe. In essence, a personal delusion we condition ourselves to emulate as a defense mechanism against ourselves. Our self-centered oblivion enables our susceptibility to our ego, as does our emotional immaturity. We allow our egocentricity to control us with our own arrogance, cognitive dissonance, doubt, fear, insecurity, oblivion and self-righteousness. We are conned by our own egos, simply because we live in the triviality of our vanity.
The Vortex of Reality
Reality is a control matrix, designed and enforced to segregate us from our soul and the universe. Our engagement in its virtual domain establishes our integration into its social operating system. Our dependence upon its artificiality sustains our existential slavery. When we invest ourselves into its matrix, we acquiesce our energy, thus our soul. Reality is a black hole, ever distorting and devouring our life force. It diminishes universality into a lower frequency, energy resonance, provoking negativity via an onslaught of virtual stimulation. We enable our enslavement with our dependence, engagement, oblivion and reactivity.
“We are energetic vortices in the matrix of social reality.”
Within the Lines
We engage in personal and social conformity for ideology, intelligence, security, stability and wealth. Without these standards of existence, the fragility of our artificiality inevitably spirals into chaos, destruction and even death. Though we have a fundamental conception and knowledge of our enslavement, we forfeit our choice to be free. Much like a computer, we are programmed with our every encounter in sociality. The biological virtuality in which we are integrated is not a program, it is a virus, encoding the neural pathways of our mind. We are enslaved into an existentially linear paradigm. Our lives are simply simulations running within its lines.
Empowerment Assured
I have a great deal of compassion for people who are victimized by their conditioned oblivion; proliferated by extreme authoritarianism in social reality. That is until I observe them pulling the wool over their own eyes, in an evasion of their truth, with the brazen arrogance of their egocentricity. For years, I have written articles with the purpose of expressing clarity, distinction, insight and understanding. However, I am aware, empathic and present enough to sense the biased, inhibited and selective comprehension of an indoctrinated populus. In a dynamic as complex, distorted, manipulated and toxic, empowerment is essential.
Universal Origins
The Sun is the center of our galaxy. The solar flare activity we have recently been observing in the temperature shifts of the Earth and the presence of the Aurora Borealis is not “climate change,” at least in the ways it has been scientifically reported. Beyond the intellectual interpretations, hypothesized to impose and project reason onto universal mystery, the truth abides. Our relativity with the universal energetic shift of the new era is empowered by the Sun. Hence, it is the source of our transformational shift into transcendental being. Our soul and the universe are one, synergized in an expression of universality.
Transcendental Shift
We have been in the era of transcendence since the Winter Solstice 2012. It is essential we sever the infinite tethers we enact with our engagement in social reality, to fulfill our universal evolution. We first need to acknowledge the slavery of our soul, enabled by our dependence on and obsession with artificiality. When we are present to our soul, we can observe the cost of feigning our life with egocentricity. In the face of universal opportunity, it is an evasion of our authenticity, integrity and universality. The vital expressions of our evolution are empowering and embodying our transcendental shift.
From Engagement to Empowerment
For the last 12 years, I have practiced daily exercises to be aligned, centered, focused, grounded and related with my soul and the universe. In transforming my behaviors, I experienced an extraordinary, transitional shift. Its progression empowered my transcendence from artificiality. Not with egocentricity, yet with universality. Our universal evolution begins when we withdraw our engagement from social reality and embody the empowerment of our soul. Each of us express a unique, energetic resonance. Our soul sources our transcendence. It shifts us from existence to experience, transforming our artificial engagement into universal empowerment.
Annually, I participate in a week-long event. For most, it may be just a week out of the year. For some, preparations for the next year begin when the current one ends. In my experience, one observation I have discovered is how much deprogramming from reality we must fulfill to be present to each other, nature and our prayer. Every day, we expose ourselves to endless social influence, imposition and impact, tethering us to a carnal, hostile and toxic social reality. Most of us adapt to this cooperative violence, patting ourselves on the back as we survive. While some of us distinguish ourselves from this vicious cycle in our quest to thrive.
Decrypting the Script
Whether it is an event, retreat, seminar or vacation, freeing ourselves from the daily routines of social reality empowers us to become present to how much bearing it has on our experience. We may encounter withdrawals from our personal dependencies on alternative, mainstream and social media, our devices, our lifestyles and our habitual and hereditary patterns of behavior. Beyond the comfort, convenience, familiarity and safety of our individual and social artificiality, we can observe, experience and transcend the commonalities of our fear, insecurity and oblivion. Decrypting our conditioning from this paradigm is essential for our transcendence.
Inherent Oblivion
All of us enable, engender and embody our share of oblivion. This is not to declare everyone is “oblivious.” The vital distinction of being is consciousness. Living devoid of awareness is oblivion. This statement is not new age, metaphysics or spirituality. It is an expression and understanding of universality. The accumulation of an unconscious existence, our enslavement in linear time and our personal and social exploitation has engineered humanity into egocentric automatons. When we refuse to acknowledge and accept that we are victims of cognitive fear manipulation, we can never hold ourselves accountable for our voluntary engagement in a cooperative, sociopathic existence.
The TranscenDance
Being present to and experiencing the extraordinary requires us to observe, transform and transcend our institutionalized programming, thus enslaving us into a fixed, perceptual filter of existing as ordinary. There is nothing of value in being human, and everything of essence in human being. Being human is to acquiesce our universality for the egocentricity of artificiality: heredity, ideology, media, politics, religion, science, self-righteousness, vanity and wealth. Human being is our opportunity to shift from egocentricity into universality with charity, community, empowerment, experience, relativity, transformation, transcendence and understanding.
“Our social enslavement is our failure to be an expression of our soul.”
Environmental Empowerment
Once we have withdrawn from the routines of social reality, we begin to become present to the resonance of universality. This transition can be inspiring, intimidating and terrifying. In my recent experience, I observed that being in community, having a focus of intent and performing physical labor shifted me into an essential awareness, balance and relativity to express, embody and resonate with my soul. I also observed this within the community, occurring uniquely with each person. Environmental empowerment collectively evolved as our week together progressed. Each year, we all establish a synchronicity of relativity. That is until our event ends.
Returning to Reality
As there are over seven billion unique truths, there are as many or more exclusive realities. Most misinterpret reality as their truth, yet the two are significantly distinct. Reality is a simulation, based on our personal and social engagement. It is a perceptual defense narrative we invent to endure and survive the chaos, cruelty, inequality, injustice and violence of society. Our truth is the expression of our soul’s resonance. In essence, universality. It manifests as our unique, energetic frequency when we transcend reality. Truth can never be discovered or established in a social paradigm. It thrives in our personal intimacy and relativity with our soul and the universe.
Source of Experience
Existence is our commonality of living in oblivion. It is a vortex that consumes our universality. Experience is our unique expression of being. In social reality, experience exists primarily in a vacuum of artificiality. In other words, it is an enigma many associate with belief, ideology, religion or spirituality. When we are in flow with the resonance of our soul, our perception of and interaction with social reality collapses, simply because our experience transforms our existence. During the week of our annual event, this paradox ceases to exist, as our collective focus and purpose transcends our individual fear and insecurity. Universality sources our experience.
Bittersweet Medicine
The personal reality we invent tethers us to the social reality in which we engage. It is all an illusion. Our relativity with this simulation is our individual delusion. Whenever we happen to transcend this matrix, we eventually return to its enslavement. Our dependency upon its artificiality is beyond addiction. In the vicious cycles of sociality, there is a personal payoff we receive, justifying our obedient and oblivious engagement. We can preoccupy ourselves with the diversions of reality to evade our soul. Yet, when our personal and social “busy-ness” settles, our common truth remains. We are a universal, energetic being. Our soul purpose is to observe, empower, express, relate, transform and transcend.
Transcendental Shift
When we experience transcendence from social reality, we discover and explore the energetic flow of universality. It is our true expression of being. Everything that existed as “real” vanishes within the vortex of the social matrix. When we shift into this experience, we release who we were and become present to who we are. Our vision, energy, heart, intuition and relativity evolve exponentially beyond the boundaries of our creativity, imagination, sensibility and understanding. We are sourced by our soul, empowered by the momentum of universality. This is the energetic flow of our transcendental shift. Once we cross this threshold, there is no return.
From Reality to Universality
Shifting from social reality to universality is the essential progression of the new era. Where we focus our attention (awareness) and engagement (experience) is where our energy flows (expression). Being human is to sacrifice our personal power (empowerment), inverting universality (soul) into density (egocentricity); to impose, influence and impact our environment (artificiality) for authority (supremacy). Our engagement in social reality is our enslavement. Our relativity with our soul is our empowerment. We are now in the era of transcendence. Human being is our opportunity to transform, transcend and shift with the energy of universality.
“Freedom from reality is becoming an expression of universality.”
When we protest with aggression, it gives authoritarian entities and organizations the necessary justification to respond with violence. Once we succumb to our hostile inclinations, we play into a totalitarian game we will never win. Even peaceful demonstrations can be interpreted as violent by the opposition. The spark in this fragile, social dynamic is our emotionality. Our negative reaction to the existence of inequality and injustice is when we abandon our personal power. It is difficult to observe this in ourselves, as our egocentricity is also activated in these circumstances. When our biased entitlement distorts our intention, our cause is lost.
To Feign in Vain
Most of us fail to live or die by our convictions. We may be moved enough to raise the torch of truth for fleeting moments, yet our lack of commitment makes our stand futile in the face of contemporary regimes. Personal routines, societal diversions and everyday survival preoccupy us from manifesting the vision sparking the movement. As we mature, our demonstrations for or against social platforms is a feigned quest to present ourselves as “woke,” in a society that has wagered its identity for amusement, consumerism, desire, intellectualism, politics, religion and science. Ultimately, we feign our protest as an illustration of egocentricity.
“Cause blood still flows in the gutter.”
Fever Pitch
I am not a “conservative” or “liberal” person. I do not subscribe to dualistic, social paradigms that strategically manipulate us against each other and ourselves. My expression is empowered by transcendence. Yet, as we race toward another controversial and simulated election season, tragedy, trauma and triviality rears its viral insanity upon all who fall victim to its vicious cycle. All who intend to hold political positions of artificial power are as devious as the elitists who animate their puppet strings. The media is a social weapon, waged to trigger the volatility of our emotional response, enslaving and infecting us with its madness.
Rallying Cry
Recently, we have witnessed millions gathering in the streets to personify their positions. The 1960’s ushered in a new era of protest, exhibiting demonstrations as a method for enacting social change. However, the initial intention was never achieved, simply because it lacked the clarity, focus, longevity and purpose necessary to fulfill its vision. This antiquated strategy echoes in our feigned and frivolous uproar, dying like a fleeting trend instead of living as an enduring movement. As the ebbs and flows of our protests rally our feigned and futile cries, the intended change is never fulfilled. The louder our proclamations, the greater our egocentricity.
“Movements come and movements go.”
Antiquated Paradigm
Whether motivated by inequality, injustice, politics, religion or otherwise, protests are engaged with obsolescence. Taking to the streets and chanting, howling and yelling with aggression, destruction or violence is a futile strategy to enact a societal shift. Authoritarian entities and organizations have efficaciously enhanced their methods to prevent social demonstrations. However, protests have not evolved. Therefore, no matter how much news, noise and unrest are made with the current trend, nothing ever changes. Most give up. Not to the agencies they fight, yet to their own apathy, indifference and ideology.
System of a Down
Institutional authoritarian regimes, i.e. corporations, elitists, governments, media, religions and private agencies employ elaborate agendas and strategies to proliferate inequality and injustice, all for the purpose of acquiring profit and power. Their security system against populus uprising is equally sophisticated to protect their investment in the viral deception. Their actions and behaviors breed the reaction of our protest. These administrations rely upon the emotionality of our response to debase and destroy the credibility of our common stand for equality, justice and peace. Their strategy is provoking and turning our anger, fear and insecurity against us to achieve their endgame of control.
“Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end.”
Vortex of Causality
A protest is a reaction that occurs when social inequity intensifies beyond tolerable standards. When observed, people congregate and motivate around a popular controversy. Yet, the sheer nature of protesting is contrarian, thus counterproductive. The focus of the movement is abandoned when its emotionality, ideology, inspiration and vision is wagered for the instant gratification of an egocentric orgasm. Even when a demonstration is intended as peaceful, it is distorted and propagandized as violence by the authoritarian institutions imposing the sociopathic agendas that cause the protest. It is a social vortex of cause and effect.
The Price of Egocentricity
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. In my honest observation, society is the epitome of lunacy. Our personal interpretations exist as individual delusions in the illusion of reality. We do not establish perceptions, we adopt psychoses. Then, we attempt to impose these neuroses on others to conceal and defend our fear, indifference and insecurity, while we shame and condemn all who share diverse viewpoints. We conflict with others because we are at war with ourselves. We sentence our souls to our selective oblivion. Our being, consciousness, evolution, relativity and truth are the price we pay for our egocentricity.
“You better beware, the retribution with mind war.”
Evolution of Rebellion
Protesting is an external, social engagement; one we exhibit which segregates us from ourselves. Everything we encounter in social reality is a catalyst to seize our attention, consciousness, empowerment and energy. Our reactivity to environmental stimuli is how we acquiesce these elements of our personal power. When we fail to be balanced, centered and present within, we misguide our awareness to where we direct our attention. This is the vicious cycle of humanity. The evolution of rebellion is shifting social uprising into personal inrising, transforming our existence from egocentricity to universality.
An Act of Inrising
For more than a decade, we have been in the flow of a universal, energetic shift. When the world shut down over a virus, it was our opportunity to discover and create relativity with our soul. We are in the Era of Transcendence, an extraordinary age when we may explore, experience and embody our universality in ways the authoritarian regimes of social reality have desperately attempted to oppress and eradicate. Protesting is a demonstration of diversion, which syphons our awareness via our reactive emotionality. The act of inrising is shifting our focus within to empower our consciousness, establish our equilibrium and transcend duality to become the expression of our soul.
“Wake up!”
(All quotes taken from the song “Wake Up” by Rage Against the Machine.)
Songwriters: Tom Morello, Timothy Commerford, Zack M De La Rocha, Brad J Wilk.
I had the idea to revisit the articles I published in 2023. Perhaps for the purpose of completing on the year of compositional expression. As I was putting this together, I observed unique and noteworthy progressions and trends of illumination. I highlighted excerpts I felt were most expressive of this extraordinary new era.
To all who made the time to read the articles over the course of this last year, thank you!
I appreciate and am grateful for the comments, dialogue and insights!
All the best for the coming year! -Iam
The Experiential Awareness of Being (Published: 2/10/2023)
We instinctually and intellectually adopt and enact perceptual filters to insulate our solitary lifestyles. Our desire to be right supersedes our need to express our truth. Through our exposure and interaction with social reality, we eventually devolve into a vortex of egotism. All who succumb to the selfishness of their desire are the vacuum of a black hole. Social reality constantly distorts our focus of awareness from establishing an equilibrium between our instincts, thoughts and feelings.
Our bodies and minds are cluttered with artificial sensation and thought, enslaving us with virtual reactivity to social reality’s engineered exploitation. The contemporary standard of living is to be born, deceived, enslaved, manipulated, programmed and inevitably die. No matter how we may elect to perceive these human conditions, they are the result of the social reality we cling to for credence, meaning, reference and relevance.
Experiencing relativity in our environment and society begins with understanding ourselves. Self-awareness is transcending our environment, transforming our relations and empowering our being with our intuition and soul. Once we establish and sustain our awareness of self, we can apply and express consciousness in our social engagement. The most important practice in all our relations is to listen. The greatest gift we can give to another is the experience of being heard; appreciated, recognized and validated.
Shifting our paradigm of perception from surviving to thriving may be the best way to embody existentialism. Our intuition conveys our soul’s empowerment through our heart center, into our mind, body and environment. Living life in the simulation of social reality may seem like a gratifying encounter for some. Experiencing being in the eternity of universality creates awareness for all.
“Being present in the present is experiential awareness.”
A History of Mystery Continued…. (Published: 2/23/2023)
I found myself in a vast domain, standing before a massive wall of energy resembling the illumination and movement of fire. In my understanding, when we cross this threshold, everything we encounter of this world remains in a vortex of what we perceive as “reality.” I found myself in a domain of utter darkness. I was in a deep pit, and I sensed the disturbing presence of entities all around me. I pulled myself out of this wicked realm, gasping with terror, as the residual dark energy surged through my body.
A dark spirit held me down on the ground and proceeded to lash me with its fists. Three entities circled me (the same ones from the pit). I found my willpower, and for the first time, released a powerful, vocal roar, stunning the entities into fear and annihilating them for good. What I experience is frightening to my core. The duality of social reality programs us to believe in the black and white of dark and light. Yet, there is so much more…
I looked up to see the dark spirit that had been attacking me in my previous encounter, standing over my bed with a wicked grin of malicious intent. I could feel its darkness pulsing through my being, viciously and violently seizing my energy. My personal experiences with consciousness have been extraordinary, insightful and powerful, as well as arduous, horrific and perilous. There is a darkness we all must face, our own. It is the cost of our consciousness. I feel to the roots of my soul we all have these experiences.
“When we release the illusion of reality, we experience the truth of being.”
Ghosting the Soul: The Virtuality of Life (Published 3/17/2023)
“Many of us know how we exist, few of us understand who we are.”
We assume the role of a qualified, respectable and responsible member of society. All the while, our soul, intuition and heart were dissected, oppressed and abandoned, sacrificed for namesake, status and wealth. Our arrogance and ignorance defensively flex in a feigned attempt to appease our pursuits for an artificial sense of security. With all social reality’s narratives, manipulation, prejudice, propaganda and rhetoric, it is nearly impossible to distinguish one’s unique, personal truth from society’s chaotic symphony of lunacy.
Whether or not we choose to observe that entities, governments and organizations impose a virtual matrix to enslave humanity is irrelevant. If we do not see it now, then we simply are not paying attention. The exploitation of amusement, education, media, politics and religion corners us into delusion, diversion, indifference and uncertainty, as we spiral out of consciousness into the vortex of existence. Social programming desensitizes us to the influence and impacts of our oblivious proliferation of greed.
We are an idiom of reactivity, yielding our power to everyone and everything, beneath the veiled, social threat of being held accountable, authentic and benevolent. It does not matter how educated we are, our ideology, politics, religion or status. We cannot transcend our enslavement without being free from the simulation. Every moment is an opportunity to transform our being. Choosing to shift our experience is the key to our freedom.
“Virtuality is how we exist. Universality is who we are.”
“Our soul expresses the energetic flow of empowerment.”
Whether or not we are conscious in this exciting new era, we have crossed the threshold of a universal, energetic shift humanity has yet to experience. Identifying as “woke” in relation to being “awakened” is the distinction between those armed with ego and all expressing their soul. Social existence is the greatest distraction to human experience. In society, we do not have genuine belonging, only superficial relativity.
Every organization in society is a cult, seizing our personal power, as they enslave us with social reality. We are spectators of its virtuality and consumers of our own enslavement. All who choose to pursue their destined path are labeled fanatics, ever confronted by the simulated orthodoxy of an engineered society.
The universe is an energetic field of infinite opportunity and possibility. It is our soul’s relativity with our intuition and heart which empowers us to express it into our experience. The energy of universality is a multidimensional force of being, consciousness, creativity, empowerment, expression, fulfillment, illumination, inspiration and transformation. Becoming one with and expressing the universe’s empowerment is our greatest opportunity for all lifetimes. Flowing with the energetic shift is the event horizon of our universality.
“Discovery is releasing all we know to experience all we are.”
The universe is in a constant state of transformation. Its energetic movements on our day of birth source the unique roots of our being. Eventually, we yield our universality, initiating a schism
with our soul, while condemning ourselves to ordinary existence. Maturity conditions us to devolve from creation to emulation, shifting our experience from awareness to obedience. Within the toxicity of social reality, our bodies decay, our minds encode and our hearts contract, resulting in the distortion, decline and destruction of our intuition.
When we differentiate the external influences from our inner being, transforming our conditioning into consciousness is exponential. Our choice is to either draw the instinctual gasp of oblivion, or the conscious breath of the universe. Conscious breath empowers our energetic flow with universality. Silence is the language of the universe. Silence is a transcendental experience which empowers our relativity with our soul.
Our universality streams creation through our intuition, empowers our heart, enlightens our mind and inspires our body to express our unique vision. When we are aligned with universality to create our experience, the equilibrium of our being resonates with the energetic frequency of our soul. This is our flow with the universe. It is this omni-dimensional energy which empowers our flow and expression with the infinite stream of the universe.
“Our destiny in the New Era is being universality.”
In March 2020, we were given a remarkable opportunity to shift the paradigm of human being, expression and existence. A manmade virus infected us with widespread fear, driving us deeper into social and political anxiety, division, enslavement, judgement and isolation. When the chaotic fervor of the pandemic settled, we regressed and acquiesced to the virtuality of social reality. The webs of a new matrix were woven, enabling the dependency of its subscribers. We wielded our fear and insecurity like a weapon against the opportunity of a lifetime.
We all convince ourselves we are kind, loving and peaceful, though our thoughts and actions often exhibit our personal malevolence. We believe we are a part of community, yet how can we exist as such when we cannot even be with ourselves? Our oblivion to the projection of our anxieties, fears, hatred, insecurities and judgement is what deceives us away from our soul and into the self-centric snare of our ego. We are programmed to interpret it as an expression of intelligence.
Community is a gathering of people empowering and inspiring each other with support and sustenance. The origin of authentic relatedness is our relativity with our soul. Our universal being enlightens and enhances our earthly experience. Transcending the neuroses of the mind and the habituation of the body empowers us to center our being into our heart and experience universality. Our soul sources consciousness to express the flow of the universe.
“Empowering our truth is our soul’s expression.”
Under the Sun: Ceremonial Awareness (Published 9/12/2023)
“For some, it is a way to pray. For others, it is a way to prey.”
Contemporary prayer has become something often motivated by our external wants rather than empowered by our internal needs. When we are honest, our prayers are often self-centered. We spend much of our lives constructing artificial securities, defense mechanisms, financial wealth, professional positions, selective realities and social vanities with little to no regard for those beyond our individual peripheral of existence. We either intentionally or obliviously bring the vanity and violence of society into ceremony.
In many communities, there are some who observe others receiving admiration, distinction and leadership. Their egos are attracted to this, which causes their exodus from prayer. All who truly need to read these words will likely succumb to their cognitive dissonance, ego, pride and vanity. They will claim it is not “them,” as they accuse, discredit and vilify the authenticity of others. We exist in an egocentric society. Our personal survival, success, health and wealth supersedes that of community. Many carry this social conditioning into ceremony and prayer. In this tradition, many of the ceremonies are a community prayer experienced in a circle.
Spiritual leadership is not a dictatorial endeavor. It is holding the space for others to make and experience their prayer in ceremony. When our ego influences and impacts our prayer, we experience only a fraction of the ceremony. Every prayer is an intention to experience the natural progression of the ceremony. Our commitment to pray must transcend our desire for personal convenience. This empowers us with the ceremonial awareness to transform our experience and hold a space for others to do the same.
“Communication in unity is the heart of community.”
Society is not a community. It is an engineered system designed to produce human reactivity, employing multiple control mechanisms to extract our personal power. Social reality is a complex matrix of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical traumatization. When we conform to society, we sacrifice our relativity with our soul and the universe, repress our emotionality and fully integrate ourselves into the mind and body.
We do not express universal awareness to the social impacts of our egocentric lifestyles. We justify it with a necessity for survival, and “patriotize” it is an essential strategy to provide a better life for our children. Our encounters with sense-based reality activate our mental endorphins to habituate us with dependency upon simulated, external gratification.
Community is not about the quantity of people, but rather the quality of its relations. All who stand to profit financially are the furthest from the spirit of communion. Community originates from our soul’s relativity with the universe. The more we experience ourselves, the best we experience others. Our soul is empowered by the universe. Its energy resonates with a unique vibrational frequency, transmitting universality through our intuition, into the centers of our being and empowering our heart.
There is a vital distinction between the ideology and reality of “unity.” Social interaction is primarily a peripheral encounter. Community is empowered by the relation between our soul and the universe. In a circle, there are no leaders. Simply, unique beings who share their universality to the best of their ability. The shift is each person embodying their unique energetic flow, collectively.
“Communion with the universe is the soul of community.”
“Interpretation is perception without observation.”
Beyond our institutional and social conditioning, we have our own personal programming. Whether it is our defense mechanisms, individuation, societal integration or self-righteousness, our selective conditions inhibit our interpretation and perception. When we decide not to practice awareness of our thoughts, they wander into obscure oblivion, composing assumption, criticism, judgement and interpretation. When relationships become personalized and uncomfortable, we tend to talk with everyone but the person with whom we are in dispute. Not all diversities of interpretation are “conflict.” Most are merely differences in perception.
One of the greatest crimes against humanity occurs when we give our listening (power) to erroneous narratives about others; approving with our engagement, even though we disagree. Many go the extra mile, and later feign empathy with the targeted individuals in a plea for clemency and conscience. We do not observe social reality for what it is, we see it for what we desire. Our perceptions are distorted; influenced and manipulated by all to whom we acquiesce our personal power. Living in a three-dimensional paradigm is a paradox of being. It confines us within the duality of thought and instinct. In essence, society is the antithesis of universal being.
Authentic relatedness does not exist in social reality. Before it exists in society, it must thrive within us all. This is the human schism between what we perceive and who we choose to be. In this age of social media and artificiality, we opt for a multitude of virtual communication. The personal conditioning we enact with our self-righteousness and vanity simulates our artificial contentment and security. In social reality, our conscious behavior empowers us, and ultimately others, to fulfill our universal purpose. Being an expression of our soul in every moment empowers us to embody universality; so that others may empower their own.
“Truth is a foreign language, spoken by few and dismissed by many.”
Ample evidence exists in the alternative, mainstream and social mediums to reflect the cruelty, deception, manipulation, prejudice, supremacy and violence within contemporary society. Oblivion has become our pastime. We embody obscurity to desensitize ourselves from our traumatic encounters in society. Every morning we awaken to the possibility of a new experience. Yet, we tend to hop on the human treadmill headed for oblivion. The information we consume is like a virus, infecting our instincts, thoughts, perspectives and emotions. It is our weapon to defend our fear, insecurity, obsession and vanity.
We invest only in what supplements our selective agendas, comforts, narratives and realities. Amidst the numerous horrors and tragedies occurring in society, we engage in the “busy-ness” of our lives, as if nothing is happening. Reality, as we experience it, is a holographic projection. Its primary purpose is to discourage, disempower and distract us from the truth. We engage in a societal simulation. Everything in our daily encounters is an illusion, engineered to enslave us into a matrix of social psychoses.
We may stoke the fires of our feelings and thoughts on social media to project our fleeting disdain with a variety of global inequities. The stand we feign is diminished and distorted by our personal agenda, ego and vanity. With the influences of our social conditioning and selective perceptions, our unconscious engagement in the paradigm of reality establishes the vicious cycles of our individualized matrix. We are an expression of universal energy. Yet, our relativity with our soul is wagered for social conformity. The watermark of our madness is the exhibition of our entitlement. The choice is to remain enslaved by our artificiality or create freedom by empowering our universality. The former ends in finality, while the latter begins in eternity.
“Choosing not to choose is a choice to live in oblivion.”
“We succumb to our fear because we fail to relate with our soul.”
Comments, likes and shares dictate what is heard, read and seen. Popular culture destroys creativity, consciousness, transcendence and transformation. Truth is a foreign language we dismiss due to its incompatibility with social reality. We deny it out of existence with our selective beliefs, information, narratives and perceptions. The superficial security blanket of social reality imprisons us into virtuality. Our anxieties, fears and insecurities are embellished and internalized until they become our psychosis.
We seek God in the direst of times. For most of us, it takes an accident, deficit, harm, loss, scarcity or death to become present to experiences that transcend the triviality of social reality. We are instinctually and intellectually tethered in duality to a three-dimensional paradigm. Creating freedom from societal devices requires us to sever our engagement with the vicious cycles of virtuality. In the simulation of society, we exist in a waking slumber, stumbling in the darkness of our selective oblivion; ever deluded, devalued, fearful, insecure and traumatized.
Our body and mind are simply applications our soul sources through our intuition and heart to navigate our way through the chaos, madness, narratives and psychoses of social reality. The less we engage in social reality, the more we experience the universe and become an expression of our soul. In this new era, we are either an emulation in the simulation or in relativity with universality. Our universal path does not unfurl before us, it resonates within. The path of the soul is empowering our human being with universality.
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.
The Article Collection of Iam Saums has been active for six years with over a hundred articles published. As a token of my appreciation for your readership, below is a quote from every article on the website. Please click on the article title below each quote to read the article.
Thank you!
Iam
2016
“I never knew who I could become until I freed myself from who I am.”
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