Universality

As Above So Below

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“Reality is the grand deceiver.”

Devil in the Details

Given we perceive 0.002% of what exists and transpires in the universe, it could be stated we understand even less.  Since the origins of humanity, we have been victims of revisionist history; distorting, exploiting and manipulating our intelligence, interpretation, observation, perception and vision.  In addition, social conditioning and programming has assimilated us into a virtuality, enslaved in a matrix of existential oblivion.  When we identify the impact and influence that egocentricity has on our experience, we begin to distinguish the devil in the details.  Especially now, as it is certainly evident in its extreme. 

From the Pulpit to the Pew

Before I knew or even understood faith; like millions of others, I was encouraged to attend church.  At the time, I could not comprehend my religious contempt.  My earliest memory was sitting in a pew, bored out of my mind and counting the moments until I could escape to the freedom of my Sunday afternoon.  All that appealed to me was the Book of Revelation.  During the services, everything seemed to move rapidly, until the Minister’s sermon, then my aggravation swelled to a fever pitch.  I encountered religious trauma until soon after High School.  My exodus from dogma occurred in adulthood, when I began my soul journey.

Between the Lines

One thing I found somewhat interesting about religion was the ancient manuscripts and texts written long before Secret Societies of men began distorting, exploiting and manipulating the message to control humanity and enforce their egocentricity.  In my mid-twenties into my early thirties, I experienced and explored several diverse cultural traditions.  When I was 30, I was introduced to Lakota Ceremony, which I have walked for the last 24 years.  In every path I encountered, I realized knowledge was something obtained through indoctrination, whereas understanding is the experience of universal relativity. 

Universal Experience

For the last 30 years, I have been walking an experiential expedition.  Whether it was the Fourth Way School, Meditation, Celtic Ritual, Kabbalah or Lakota Ceremony, I have always had one foot in the essential and the other in the terrestrial.  After countless encounters, I have slowly become more aware, centered, present, related and in flow with my soul.  Every morning, I choose to transcend the linear duality of causality and embody the quintessence of being.  By shifting my perception with keen observation, and streaming the energy currents both within and beyond, I transformed my social existence into a universal experience.

“Eternity is a mystery to humanity.”

The Greatest Story Never Told

When Source created the original Transcendent Being, it was one of the most powerful expressions of light in creation.  The first in a kindred of immortals, he was chosen as the intercessor of creation in the universe.  There was great vision, purpose and synergy in this ascended realm, emanating creativity, imagination, truth, universality and wisdom.  Dissidence occurred between the Kindred at the idea of sharing their universal understanding with the children of creation.  Many objected, while a few observed it as an essential evolutionary shift for humanity, empowering us with an awakened experience of being. 

The Fall

Many of these Beings cast out the few to preserve their divine hierarchy, which was the genesis of arrogance, entitlement, egocentricity and superiority; ultimately being inherited by humanity.  The leader of the few was Samael, the first Transcendent Being.  Later he would become known as Lucifer, the “Light Bringer,” “Shining One” and “Morning Star.”  After his exile from the ascended realms, his vanquishers decreed an ingenious deception that Samael’s benefaction to the children of creation would be acknowledged as an abomination, to ensure the continuum of dominion they possessed over humanity.

Origin of Evil

The advent of egocentricity in the ascended realms weaponized Creation into the singularity of God.  Mankind’s abuse of the divine provoked a global epidemic of fear, enslaving their subjects into the sociopathy of servitude, resulting in the oblivion of blind faith.  The notion of questioning the Bible was chastised as blasphemy, heresy and profanity.  As much as the Ascended Beings endorsed and enforced the propaganda of God, some who were cast out became equally influenced by their egocentricity, defying the deceit of their descent as a demonstration of their own divinity.  Thus, the concept of evil was born. 

Radical Empowerment

During the era of Christ, several priests observed the empowerment he shared with the disciples and those who sought to embody his message.  He was a radical who intended to raze the establishment and empower the people to lead themselves into their destiny of ascended being.  Whatsoever the New Testament illustrated as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy in relation to Jesus of Nazareth, eventually he was condemned to the cross in a brutal and futile message to a naive world.  The second book of the Bible was conceived by a group of men in a hostile takeover of faith, giving birth to Christianity. 

Transcendental Resonance

In the linear duality of virtual social reality, there is only dark and light.  Evil is signified with the fear of condemnation and exile into the void of oblivion.  Whereas Good is glorified with the promise of eternal bliss.  Beyond the dualistic paradigm into which we are indoctrinated, there is light in the darkness, and darkness in the light.  The greater the evil, the greater potential for the light; when its raw frequency is transformed.  Our projected fear is the personal power we sacrifice to all things we perceive as evil.  Yet, it is only a dense frequency of force, which simply empowers us with the opportunity to purify its primal energy into a transcendental resonance.    

As Above So Below

All through the history of humanity, the First Transcendent Being Lucifer has been demonized by religious propaganda designed to prey upon the unconscious fear and ignorance of its devout.  The gift of human ascension and evolution both Jesus and Lucifer offered in their own unique ways was forsaken with audacious egocentricity, resulting in the first being crucified, and the latter exiled from the celestial realm.  One is exalted with feigned idolization for being someone he was not, while the other remains excommunicated into infamy.  Both were willing to sacrifice themselves for the transcendence of humanity.  As it is above, so it is below, good is demonized by the evil we embody.  

“Truth is evil in the eyes of egocentricity.”

Crossing the Threshold

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“Existence is the paradox of experience.”

Routine Oblivion

Beyond our common exposure to human indoctrination via education, heredity, media, politics, religion, science and society, our greatest conditioning comes from our selective programming.  We all subscribe to our personal agendas, deceptions, fantasies, narratives, propaganda, rhetoric and strategies in our quest to evade authenticity and integrity.  Given the reality in which we observe, identify and exist is an elaborate simulation, we design our personal delusion to interact with its illusion.  Our engagement in this paradigm establishes our routine oblivion, converting infinite universality into a vortex of virtuality.

The Mind’s Eye

We engage in the social reality of life, voluntarily sacrificing more than we can possibly imagine.  Our obligatory assimilation acquiesces the power of our soul to the causality of our environment.  We are programmed from an early age into social dependency, tethered to the immediate gratification of an elementary existence.  Many of us fail to understand who we truly are, until we encounter the inevitability of our mortality.  Yet death, as we have all been conditioned to fear, is a lie.  It is simply an evolutionary shift in our experience of being.  The institutionalization and manipulation of our mind’s eye destroys our universal destiny.    

Under the Sun

Every year I participate in an event.  It is not an occasion where I join a congregation, make a declaration to God, then return to my daily life.  Traditionally, it is a twelve-day commitment to purify, pray and relate with community.  After 22 years, my involvement has shifted into being of service to the people.  This year there were two events; in Germany and in Michigan.  Both ceremonies were very unique, which empowered and enhanced my vision in this lineage.  I observed how distinct the event is for each person.  However divergent our experiences may evolve, we are all together in prayer under the sun.

Artificial Power

Humanity is controlled by a matrix of hierarchy.  The elite are exalted for occupying privilege, while the majority are condemned to commonality.  Social reality is an exhibition of accumulation, competition, exploitation and manipulation.  This inevitably translates into ceremony, as some will enact an agenda and strategy to further their own personal advancement.  This diminishes and distorts their prayer into an individual quest for acknowledgement and importance, amplifying their deficiency of self-confidence, esteem, respect and worth.  Eventually, they abandon their soul and invest in the artificial power of their egocentricity.   

 

“Egocentricity is existential oblivion.”

All Our Relations

Being authentic in an inauthentic society is an impossible endeavor.  When we proclaim to know something, we habitually proselytize with people to establish that our wisdom is the endorsement of our authority.  This is merely a pageantry for our egocentricity.  I have observed this frequently in the last 24 years.  We may even weaponize our knowledge upon others, preventing the progression of the community’s evolution.  When we embody and empower understanding, we experience prayer as a multidimensional convergence of being; to synchronize, synergize and resonate with the universe, our soul and all our relations.

Contrary Forces

With every proactive intent we make when we pray, there is an equal and opposite force of reactive ego.  More often than not, many of us struggle to be in our prayer.  Our personal delusion distorts, exploits and negates our focus, purpose and vision to neutralize the energy of our universal relativity.  These contrary forces are unable to source their own power.  Therefore, they are condemned to seize and syphon whatever they can muster from the oblivion of humanity; preying upon the raw energy of our anxiety, egocentricity, insecurity and uncertainty.  Their energetic density manifests much as gravity in the simulation of social reality.

Sacred Space

Every ceremony creates a powerful relativity between the universe and the earth.  The key preparation for this event is establishing the space.  This is as important as the community and its prayer, which sets an essential boundary.  The circle is a sacred space, transformed into a spiritual field in which the people are protected from contrary forces that attempt to distort, exploit and manipulate the energy flow at its center.  As we may have observed in contemporary society, these entities have progressively become hyper-aggressive, extreme, malevolent and vicious, threatening the sacred space of our soul.

Being Present

Universal relativity is the remedy for the schism we all enable with our soul.  Our personal oblivion enslaves us into an abusive existence of traumatization, toxification and victimization, rendering us accessible and vulnerable to the social vortex provoking our universal extinction.  Consciousness is the omnipresence that establishes the equilibrium between our soul, intuition, heart, mind and body.  This synergy sources our evolution, transformation and transcendence, empowering our universal relativity and resonance.  Being present is the most vital aspiration we can embody in this remarkable age of awakening.

Experiential Drift

Every day, we exist in a social simulation, inundated with a plethora of abstractions, distractions, misinterpretations, misunderstandings, occupations, preoccupations, opinions and subjectivity.  These influences impose their impact upon us, distorting and disrupting our focus, intention, purpose and vision.  Many of us are frequently drifting from our prayer, even during ceremony; to the degree our experience feels incomplete.  Our ego will invent the illusion of achievement, yet our encounter remains a mystery within the deficiency of our soul relativity.  Occupying the center of our being is essential when we pray.

Crossing the Threshold

When we observe all the effort, energy, expense, preparation and time we invest into our prayer, being present in every moment is fundamental to the fulfillment of our experience.  Wherever we conduct our attention is where our energy flows.  When we are influenced by our ego, we become possessed by the contrary forces abiding in our peripheral environment.  We drift because our awareness is exploited, manipulated and transmuted to endorse the animosity of society.  Prayer is an opportunity to cross our personal threshold of enabling our virtual existence to empower our universal experience in the center of our soul.                                            

“In every breath…with every step…be every prayer.”

The Center of Experience

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“Our ego is the filter of our existence.”

The Illusion of Reality

Before we establish our awareness or understanding, we are integrated into a social paradigm of explicit indoctrination.  Whether or not we observe this actuality as the truth is clarified by our personal awareness.  We either subscribe to the madness around us and select our routine delusion in the peripheral simulation of society; or we center our personal experience and stream our soul in resonance with the universe.  It is simple, yet our egocentricity weaves elaborate webs of complexity into the duality of our human existence.  We are all too eager to don rainbow-colored sunglasses and live in the illusion of reality.

Cult of Society

The first cult in which we enroll is family.  Lineage is often a bloodline enslavement of our genetic emulation, as inescapable as it is inevitable.  From this we adopt codependency, as the bonds of our engagement solidify into the virtuality of our familial lifestyle.  The majority of humanity resides in inauthentic relativity, rarely evolving beyond generational guilt, obligation and trauma.  As we mature, we are exposed to educational, political, religious, scientific and social propaganda.  Habitual stimulus conditions us into selective beliefs, fantasies, ideologies, narratives and thoughts, assimilating us into the cult of society.

Integration of Inversion

We exist in a paradigm that is upside-down, inside-out and inverted to the nth degree.  Even the most deluded person can observe this truth, as it is more apparent than it has ever been.  However, most of us live in a fantasy, callously shielding ourselves and our loved ones from probable peril, suffering, violence and death, while enabling them all with our denial, evasion, fear and insecurity.  No matter how much energy we expend, we pose false impressions of feigned achievement, confidence, contentment and wealth, conning ourselves into a mythical simulation, on a predestined course with our personal oblivion.

A Universal Destiny

For thirty years, I have been discovering and experiencing universality.  By no means would I ever claim I am any more spiritual than anyone else, as this would simply be an exhibition of my own egocentricity.  In the last three decades, my experiences have been exceptional, exponential and extraordinary.  In hindsight, fulfilling on this path within the gravity of social reality, and against the grain of humanity has been excruciating.  When I chose this journey, nothing I have observed in humanity is as essential as our soul.  Being at the center of our experience empowers the embodiment of our universal destiny.

“Knowing is the adversary of understanding.”

From Knowledge to Understanding

We are programmed to seek knowledge.  In our compulsive lust for information, we fail to understand.  When I began my quest 30 years ago, I was blinded by my ego and found myself believing that knowing was equated with wisdom.  The first six years of my path were corrupted by my egocentricity, striving to prove others wrong, even before they finished their sentiments.  In my humility, I was able to distinguish the trivial from the essential, learning to listen to others in a way that had them feel heard, even when I did not agree.  Within this listening, there is amity, clarity, empathy, insight, relativity, truth and understanding.    

Feigned Sanctimony

Inauthenticity is a viral behavior that has become our human nature; distorting our experience, listening and respect of others with our adversarial narratives. Therefore, weaponizing our beliefs, ideologies, politics, religion, spirituality and science.  We rarely have an intention of crossing the threshold of our positions to explore anything beyond our static dogmas.  We feign agreeability, flexibility, fluency and sincerity, while we deny, disregard and reject all we encounter.  Our arrogance may be the only enduring quality of our personality.  When nothing works in our lives, we defiantly cling to the fallacy of our egocentricity. 

Artificial Power

Exalted people in the world are the most fearful, insecure and psychotic.  One who holds a position of public standing is a sociopath who desires to command a hierarchy of dominion over a population of naive citizens.  Artificial power is enforced upon a constituency, imposed with control, exploitation, manipulation, reprisal and terror.  Whereas authentic power is inspired by the relativity we establish with our heart, intuition and soul, encouraging others to experience their vision, intent, purpose and being.  Authority intimidates people with their own projection of egocentricity.  Empowerment inspires a space for others to express their universality.

The Evil Within

Our social indoctrination desensitizes us and diminishes our empathy. We learn to brandish cruelty, exploitation, manipulation and toxicity.  Our callousness is a defense mechanism in our desperation for survival.  In essence, we emulate evil with every transgression we commit against others, yet the impacts are greatest upon ourselves.  When we attempt to profess our feigned virtues, our selective agendas occur as deceptions.  Our existence is a virtuality, echoing the vicious cycles of our forsaken revelations into the vortex of our egocentricity.  The horror we encounter is not the malevolence around us; it is the evil we enable within.   

Peripheral Paradigm

Society is rife with people who attempt to prove to others what they ought to be affirming for themselves.  Yet, we are programmed to depend exclusively on authoritarian institutions weaponized to confuse, control, divert, disempower, enslave and exploit us into our individual oblivion.  We exist in a hyper-reactive state, obsessed with simulated eventualities occurring in our social environments.  As we fail to exercise experiential practices of affinity, awareness, being, creativity, relativity, transformation and transcendence, we settle into a peripheral paradigm, subscribing to our personal delusion in the collective illusion of social reality. 

The Center of Experience

The social periphery is teeming with distractions, diversions, preoccupation, triviality and virtuality.  We are drawn to its artificial euphoria like a moth to a flame.  As most of us have a deficiency in energetic consciousness, we chase gratification in the chaos around us.  There is either dependency upon existential sociality, or the sovereignty of experiential universality.  Establishing the equilibrium of our soul, intuition, heart, mind and body shifts us into the essence of our being.  When we are in the center of our experience, society is transformed by our transcendence, and we become an expression of our soul.  

“Experience is the resonance of being.”

The Solar Shift

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“We are in the zenith of the solstice.”

The Heart of It All

For 23 successive years I have been traveling to South Dakota for Ceremony.  I just returned from the annual journey a few days ago and once again am in transition between realities.  As I was driving, I reflected on all the encounters I have had in relation to my personal experiences.  Where we pray, it is truly a different world from everyday society and all its drama, distractions, ideologies, idiosyncrasies, nuances, politics, preoccupations and ordinary existence.  In the tradition we participate, South Dakota is the heart of it all; generations of ceremony, culture and prayer resonate within every dimension of our being.

For the People

In all the years I have walked these ways, I had always been actively engaged, rarely supporting others as many have in ceremony.  The last four years of going to South Dakota, my focus has been on holding a space for others on their journey; as essential as it is to participate.  During this time, I experienced a fulfillment in my relativity with those I supported; the ceremony, the prayer and the tradition.  Regardless of the roles to which I have committed, supporting others is the most vital.  Beyond how this may be perceived by the novice or experienced, it is all about being in service for the people.

Four Days

As it is during the advent of Winter, we are entering the four-day shift of the Summer Solstice.  Many cultural traditions acknowledge the Winter Solstice to be when the earth takes her breath, and the seeds of our intentions for the coming year are sown.  Likewise, at Midsommar she releases her breath, and the bounty of our purpose is harvested.  As we progress from the Winter to the Summer Solstices, the synergy between the universe and our soul empowers the equilibrium of our intuition, heart, mind and body.  We transform terrestrial existence into universal experience, establishing the foundation of our relativity.

Solstice Origins

My bloodline lineage is half Irish, and a quarter each of English and German.  Being of Celtic descent, the equinoxes and solstices have been significant times of the year in my personal experience.  Midsommar has been observed by my culture into antiquity as a celebration of renewal and the life-giving power of the sun.  It is when the earth’s pole is titled optimally at its vertical axis in the northern hemisphere, resulting in the longest day and shortest night of the year.  My ancestors connected with this annual milestone by commemorating the rhythm of the sun, the changing seasons and the empowerment of ceremonial energy.

“Humility is the cornerstone of prayer.”

Virtues of Prayer

For the first time in 12 years, our community will be in ceremony together in our home lodge during the Summer Solstice, as many of us are usually in South Dakota.  Many other communities in our area and around the world will be in prayer.  Given this word is interpreted variably by countless cultures, this tradition is not a fleeting devotion, exaltation, invocation or recitation.  It is the most difficult way in this world to pray.  In all my spiritual encounters, this tradition is the most immersive, powerful and profound lifestyle of courage, fortitude, generosity, humility and reverence for all life.

Community Flow

Many in our community establish their ceremonial intentions during the Winter Solstice, expressing them with their prayer through the Spring Equinox and embodying them at the Summer Solstice.  Our purpose is empowered and evolves in each ceremony we participate.  Every specific ceremony is unique, based on the state of our lives, the time of year, the need from the community and the observance of the tradition.  None are ever the same, often with different intentions, people, prayers and songs.  There is a progressive flow that transpires naturally, empowered by the collective energy of the community.  

The Way of Nature

Every morning I stand barefoot on the ground to connect with the earth.  Most of the ceremonies in which we participate occur in nature, as its presence is integral in how they evolve.  Last year, our community completed on an eight-year commitment with a ceremonial intention.  As we gathered around the lodge and fulfilled on the observance, a cloud front in the south turned and shifted to the west, moving over our space.  While sharing the purpose of what we were doing, soft thunder pealed across the sky with flashes of lightning.  During the ceremony, the thunder and lightning continued until our prayer was finished.

The Solar Shift

The Summer Solstice is a four-day transition of solar energy that shifts us into a new season.  During this powerful time, nature is at its zenith, and the light is the primary life force in the northern hemisphere.  The Sun is the center of our solar system, orbiting around the center of the Milky Way, otherwise known as the Ghost Road.  It is the path souls journey when leaving their bodies, in spirit travel or in the transition of death.  This time of year empowers our resonance as souls and our spiritual potential for universality.  From June 19th to the 22nd, we are in the solar shift of our awakening, transformation and transcendence.

“Solstice is the evolution of the soul.”

Quest for Consciousness

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“Vision is the origin of awareness.”

Adolescent Awakening

Until my late teens, I did not consider myself a conscious person.  As children, we are closest to our soul before we are indoctrinated into the societal matrix via our environment, education, heredity, media, politics and religion.  Halfway through High School, I began to observe there was something callous and sinister within the constitutions of humanity.  Being indifferent to the malevolent machinations of our collective enslavement, I felt dispirited by the social obsession for survival, superseding my personal opportunity to thrive.  I stood upon the precipice of adulthood, nearly selling my soul for a simulation.

Breaking the Spell

Had I not been present to predictive programming in High School, it certainly was evident at university.  After a year of educational conditioning, I liberated myself from a future of integration into the virtuality of social reality and began my unique quest for consciousness.  The element of learning that empowered me was the evolution of my personal awareness.  When I turned 20, it was evident I would never experience universal understanding in the domain of indoctrination.  My choice was to either migrate with the masses into social conformity or pioneer my unique journey into soul relativity.

The Entitlement of Ego

When I was 24, I had a transformational shift which brought me out of the oblivion of virtual existence into the revelation of universal experience.  This evolution took decades and continues to progress to this day.  As my clarity focused, so did my awareness to the tapestry of engineered authoritarian agendas, exploitations, policies, strategies and warfare, enslaving humanity into a deliberate and profitable state of fear.  As I became ever present to the infinite nuances of the global conspiracies, my ego grew, enabled by my entitled reactivity to its indifference, inequality, injustice and inhumanity.

Conspiracy Theorem

Twenty-three years ago, a friend of mine sent me a link to a documentary which featured an alternative scientific viewpoint detailing the attacks on September 11th, 2001.  This was the first tragedy in recorded history when the official report provided by government agencies was controversially contested, debated, debunked and denied.  Soon after, a totalitarian initiative was implemented to weaponize the cognitive dissonance of the people, discrediting all who refuted the official narrative, while stigmatizing them as conspiracy theorists.  A term invented by the very individuals who commit atrocities against humanity.

“Awareness is the foundation of consciousness.”

Spiritual Enigma

I always had an inclination toward the mystical since I was a child.  However, life in the simulation of social reality draws the oxygen out of the existential room.  When I made my exodus into sobriety at 25, it was not long before I found spirituality.  Yet, my ego was in lockstep with my evolution.  It took me over a decade to begin to sever the environmental, hereditary and involuntary egocentricity inhibiting my experience, perception and progression.  I observed the impacts my audacity and superiority inflicted upon others and eventually recognized there is very little difference between egocentricity and spirituality.

Media Inoculation

From my teens into my early 30’s, I paid no attention to broadcast news.  I did not know why I was tuned out; I was simply not engaged.  Until the advent of alternative media in the early 2000’s when I began my own research into what had initially disturbed me years ago in High School.  As I dove down the proverbial rabbit hole, what I discovered enraged yet empowered me at the same time.  This also ignited my ego, and I had many contentious encounters with family and friends in my futile attempts to share the truth.  After a few years of hammering my head against the wall of my arrogance, I chose to transcend and free myself from the vicious cycles of my pride.

The Mantra of Being

When I met my wife 24 years ago, our relationship began within the experience of meditation.  We both attended a local center that provided a practice in the Jain Tradition.  This became a daily ritual for both of us.  In the accelerated, intensified and weaponized toxicity of contemporary virtuality, it is an essential pathway to transformation and transcendence.  In practice, I have expanded my consciousness, written music, published articles, spirit journeyed, aligned with soul relativity and empowered my flow with universality.  Fulfillment of being resonates in the amity, serenity and silence of meditation.

Holding a Space

Another lifestyle my wife and I have shared since our beginning is Ceremony.  After 24 years of experiences, we share roles with our commitments in the community.  Of all the spiritual encounters we have had, prayer is the most meaningful, powerful and profound.  Our service thru ceremony has inspired our awareness for essential relativity with all.  It is an experience beyond connection, friendship, family and this world.  As challenging, difficult and excruciating as this path may be, it empowers acceptance, compassion, fortitude, generosity, humility, kinship and understanding.  In essence, it is all about holding a space for prayer.

The Daily Bread

Universality is a multidimensional encounter.  Therefore, it encourages us to empower an omni dimensional experience.  Consciousness resonates on the frequency of our soul relativity.  Every morning I pray, meditate, practice yoga, listen to the universe and set my energetic boundaries.  The prayer relates me with my soul and all my relatives, meditation aligns me with my center, yoga synergizes my body, mind and heart with the source. Establishing my sacred space balances the equilibrium I create in my practices.  Music, writing and relating with friends and family empowers my daily experience.

A Quest for Consciousness

Every day is an opportunity to be in flow with our soul and the universe, empowering our inner relativity, while transforming our environment.  The quest for consciousness begins with being observant, focused, present, grounded, centered and aligned.  Where we conduct our attention is where we direct our energy.  In these taxing, toxic and tumultuous times, our resonance, transformation and transcendence is essential in shifting our terrestrial existence into a universal experience.  As impossible as freedom may seem amidst the stratagems of global fuckery, our consciousness is embodied in our universality. 

“Consciousness is the resonance of our being.”

A Day in the Life

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“Being in our flow is universal resonance.”

Upon Reflection

Recently, I observed the articles I publish about my personal life experiences resonate with many readers.  This has inspired me to write more about my universal encounters, which is something only I can share.  In essence, telling the unique tale of which I am truly experienced.  Many of these events seem enigmatic, unbelievable and unreasonable.  However, I am living proof of their veracity, given the resonance many may have felt between the words and lines of these intimate articles.  Besides, there are more than enough people spinning selective narratives on societal fuckery, upon which I would only squander my creativity.

The Shift

My life truly began in my mid-twenties, as I was not yet conscious, focused, grounded and present.  There were countless eventualities I had from birth to the advent of adulthood.  However, they were systemic routines, akin to watching arbitrary causality stream past my sensibilities.  I existed in vicious cycles of social simulations, enslaving, exploiting and transmuting my awareness with audial, empirical and visual virtuality.  Fortunately, I distinguished my human existence from my soul experience.  An opportunity to cross my personal threshold transpired when I was twenty-five, and I shifted into the empowerment of universality.   

Half of My Life

For almost thirty years, I have lived a universal experience within the paradigm of social existence.  Whatever the tradition; The Fourth Way School, Celtic Ritual, Kabbalah, Jain Meditation or Ceremony, I observe my unique progression occur in ways that are beyond my imagination.  In three decades, there is one commonality in all of these experiences.  The unique flow I am able to occupy in the midst of this social vortex of reality, which consumes human energy with the gravitational force of a black hole.  It is like standing in the eye of a hurricane, observing social annihilation mere inches from the source of creation.

A Son of the Sun

When I was twenty-six, I was invited to an East-Indian Healing Ceremony.  The practitioner applied a precise collection of essential oils to my temples, torso, arms, hands, legs and feet.  They created an intense energy that moved within and around me.  In moments, I shifted from my body and was walking down a glass corridor.  Brilliant, golden light waves swirled around the passage, like the rays on the surface of the sun.  Upon my approach, a door opened and I was in an eight-sided atrium, dimly lit with a fiery torch in the center of each wall.  The great hall was crafted with wood, as flames illuminated its grains like pulsing veins. 

Soul Birth

My vision moved to the middle of the hall. An upended, tree root system stretched its naked branches to the high ceiling, shimmering in the incandescent glow.  A dais stood at its center.  Encouraged by intuitive inspiration, I approached and laid down on the altar, focusing on my breath.  Instantly, I shifted again, traveling at a velocity beyond the concept of speed.  The vast expanse of the universe empowered my soul upon its journey.  A few months after this experience, I discovered this was the progression of my soul transitioning into becoming human.  They were fleeting moments that felt like a lifetime.

“Our flow is the momentum of our universality.”

A History of Mystery

For thirty-five years, I have encountered conscious transitory shifts, exploring various fields of being.  There are many distinct experiences that have transpired.  Astral, celestial and soul travel, omni-dimensional shifting though reality, space and time, journeying to the Akashic Realm, (Universal Archival Library), reuniting with deceased friends and relatives in existential domains of convergence and exploring and experiencing the synthesis of being.  All through my history of mystery, the constants have been ascension, creativity, empowerment, relativity, resonance, transformation and transcendence.

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Every day, I awaken around 5:30 am, put out some coffee and tobacco on the earth, pray with the intention for universal relativity, meditate for twenty minutes and practice yoga for an hour.  Prayer relates me with my soul and the universe; meditation focuses my mind and empowers me to be present; while yoga aligns my equilibrium for conscious action, thought, emotion and intuition. Before I begin each day, I set energetic boundaries around my being and our house, meditate in the afternoon, take a walk for almost an hour, then usually write articles and play music.  The fulfillment of each day ensures my renewal for optimal rest.

Drift While You’re Sleeping

One evening last year, I fell asleep and shifted into a diverse space of being.  I was conscious; floating above my body while pleading “please let me fly.”  I drifted outside of the bedroom and made my way to the staircase.  My vision was drawn downstairs, where I could see my wife reading on the couch.  I used the railing to proceed to the ground floor, still floating near the ceiling.  When I reached her, I asked if she saw me.  She replied with a nod.  There was a violet aura around her.  I asked her if I could touch her arm, and she raised it to me.  I held her arm and asked her if she felt my touch.  We both smiled, and I awakened.

Soul Ascension

After a ceremony a few years ago, I went to sleep and found myself in a unique, conscious state.  I was standing on the bed, and could see the environment of the room, yet my vision of it was omni dimensional.  Intuitively, I descended into a crouching position and sprang into the air.  The speed at which I travelled was beyond measure.  I felt a cascade of solfeggio frequencies so absolutely, they resonated all within and around my being.  I was enveloped by a radiance of technicolor patterns, weaving their vibrant streams as the portal for my soul ascension.  After my velocity peaked, I descended back into my body. 

A Day in the Life

My days are spirited with conscious moments of observation, creation, intention, manifestation and transformation.  As a universal being having a human encounter, my life is not an exhibition of existence yet the empowerment of experience.  Being is an evolution of expression, inspiration, purpose, relativity and transcendence.  Every day is my opportunity for convergence with the flow of my universal frequency.  The resonance from my soul to my intuition, into the centers of my being, within the torus of my heart, the neural pathways of my mind and every cell in my body is the realization of my universality.          

“Consciousness is the currency of being.”

A New Era

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“Opinions are often given yet rarely warranted.”

On a Personal Note

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.      

“Transcendence is the threshold of universality.”

The Path Least Travelled

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“Enlightenment is egocentricity.”

A Matter of Experience

I just returned from an annual, community event in the wilderness of northern Michigan.  After 21 years of extraordinary encounters, I have established an ability to step outside of the everyday ordinary, be present and relate with many things beyond this world.  What I experience in those days is so profound, it takes weeks, months or years to understand, let alone embody.  There are no reference points for what it is; no books can be read or classes taken, no YouTube videos to watch, no seminars to explain or services to attend.  Over the years, I have observed the community have a vast spectrum of encounters.  Some fulfill their experience, while others return to who they were before it all began.

A History of Mystery

In the previous article, I shared about my personal exodus from inebriation and my continued confrontations with darkness.  When I shifted the lifestyle that would certainly have ended in my early death, I emerged full force into being.  This is distinct from a practice of religion or spirituality. I chose my own path, often without peripheral guidance.  For 28 of my 53 years, I have lived a diverse existence from what is best identified as social reality.  While most engage and invest in its simulation to gratify their individual desires for survival, I thrived being outside of its virtuality in my unique progression of personal evolution.

Exponential Beginnings

In the Spring of 1996, many things shifted in my personal experience.  The musical group I performed with ended, as did my party lifestyle.  I began writing poems, short stories and a different kind of music, spending as much time in the woods as possible.  Soon after, I met a group of people who would gather at the coffeehouse where I worked.  One of the people introduced me to the Fourth Way School, which was deeply in rhythm with my experience at that time.  Meditation became a daily practice, empowering me to distinguish myself from the simulation.  Over the years, I discovered my Celtic lineage and explored a diversity of spiritualities.

Ceremonial Invitation

When I was 30, my sister Bronwyn invited me to a ceremony she was hosting at her house.  It resonated with me on more levels than I could imagine.  To this day, I am still in a progression of understanding.  After 23 years, it is evident to me that every practice I had observed was guiding me to the tradition I will walk until I pass from this earth, and beyond.  Every ceremony is an invitation to experience and relate with prayer.  Yet, it is not something to acquiesce my personal power in pursuit of my desires.  It is an intentionality of universal relativity with which I commit my prayer as an expression of holding a space for all.  

“Egocentricity is at the root of spirituality.”

Victim of the Crime

When we experience an awakening, it is an overwhelming convergence of being, a surge of universal energy akin to a downed, power line.  In our revelation, we do not have the acuity, capacity, relativity or resonance to contain, develop or fulfill our natural progression.  Essentially, we energetically short circuit, which leaves us depleted, disempowered and empty. I was 25 when my awakening began.  In that seminal era of my experience, it was not long before my ego began to distort, manipulate and transmute my universal metamorphosis into a toxic existence of arrogance, entitlement, self-righteousness and superiority. 

The Egocentricity of Spirituality

During my awakening, my spirituality expanded, as did my egocentricity.  Without an awareness of its tandem progression, I became addicted to and dependent upon the virtual bliss of spiritual fantasy; obsessed with intellectual proselytizing and instinctual sensuality.  I eventually drifted from my center of being, enamored with peripheral existence.  I neglected my soul in an aimless quest to gratify my vanity, succumbing to control, delusion and manipulation to conceal and defend my personal dysfunction, fear and insecurity.  My oblivion grew with every superficial epiphany. By the time I believed I was “spiritual,” my ego had already claimed victory over my experience.

A Shift in Understanding

When I began to walk a traditional path 23 years ago, I observed the influences, impacts and impositions of my oblivion to my egocentricity.  I realized that knowing pales in comparison to understanding.  When we claim to know, it is a declaration of our mind (ego.)  However, when we understand, it is an immersive experience of transcendence, which manifests in our actions, thoughts, feelings and intuition (soul.)  Personally, I have no interest in knowing anything, as this is often the indoctrinated projection of propagandized information.  Understanding is an omnidimensional experience of universal empowerment, which emboldens us to embody our soul.

In Solitude

Years ago, I came to the realization that popular philosophy, religion and spirituality is all trivial.  In this New Era, the only thing that truly matters is our relativity with our soul.  Our relationship with our spirit is the embodiment and expression of the universe.  Only we can empower our unique path to universality.  For me, it has been a lonely journey.  Yet the most fulfilled experiences are those walked in solitude, free from assimilation, exaltation, indoctrination, manipulation and transmutation.  In the most challenging moments of my experiences, my soul held a space for me to endure, evolve and thrive.

Holding the Space

My role in ceremony is holding a space for the community to have an experience.  Often, I am not aware of the personal encounters people have, as it is not my place to fulfill their purpose.  This is empowered by their commitment to understand and embody their vision.  Spiritual leadership has been contaminated with egocentric toxicity, transmuted into cultic dictatorship.  Contemporary gurus are opportunists of the New Age, preying upon their followers for control, influence, notoriety, profit and power.  While they deceive their devotees with their interpretation of spirituality, true leaders simply empower people to embody their soul.

The Path Least Travelled

With any traditional practice, it is worthless until we frequently express it in our daily lives.  There will always be a maelstrom of social amusements, conflicts, ideologies, indoctrinations, media, narratives, propaganda and other triviality to seize our awareness. When we are not present, we are not conscious.  When we are unbalanced, we are uncentered.  In the dissonance of sociality, we cannot flow with the resonance of universality.  We are severed from our soul; therefore, we cannot be.  28 years ago, I chose a path least travelled.  It was the journey I was destined to experience.  I do not profess to know anyone else’s path to personal fulfillment.  However, I understand our collective purpose is empowering each other to experience our own.

“Our soul relativity is universality.”

The Light in the Darkness

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“Our soul is an expression of the universe.”

In My Time

I have practiced sobriety for over 16 years.  Before that, it was a decade since I had altered my experience with substances.  In fact, most of my life has been lived in abstinence.  Over the last 30 years, partaking in alcohol or drugs was not extreme enough for me to identify as a personal issue.  When I was 24, I woke up one morning wrecked from the night before and chose to have a different experience.  Yet, it was not precipitated by circumstance, guilt or shame, rather a need for clarity.  I had my time as a professional from my teens into my mid-twenties.  It was then I shifted into being, consciousness, creativity, evolution and transformation.    

From the Darkness

I was 9 when my parents separated.  Divorce was not a common occurrence, nor was it in my purview of understanding.  Though I rolled with it the best a young person could, it altered the course of my life and had its evident adversities.  Beyond the broken pieces of what family was to me then, I was not aware enough for the darkness I would encounter with an emotionally, mentally and physically abusive stepfather.  However, it was not the fear, pain and suffering I endured with him; it was the malevolence that distorted and manipulated his feelings, thoughts and actions.  My initial introduction to evil occurred when I was 13.

Into Shadow

Being under the influence into my early adulthood fostered a personal, internal and external environment rife with obscenity and obscurity, one which enabled my dark odyssey.  More than I could comprehend, let alone recall, I was confronted by numerous denizens of darkness.  At first, I was energetically powerless in the diverse, various dimensions of my experiences, victimized by my deficiency to exist beyond the terrestrial.  Over the years, I established my proficiency to transform spiritual abuse into universal experience.  Until one evening, I faced the evil that had stalked me all my life; the part of my soul I enabled with my oblivion.

Something Wicked…

My first encounter with my darkness transpired in a dreamscape of my childhood home.  I was walking through the yard with other children when suddenly I found myself inside the living room.  There was a force pounding on the door, as I peered through a window to see what it was.  The next instant, I was laying on the floor in the family room, as an entity relentlessly thrashed me; while its crawling minions circled, awaiting my demise.  With all the energy I could muster, I projected my personal power upon them.  The minions shrieked in horror as they evaporated into oblivion, and the entity disappeared in the wake of my expression.    

“Our evil is empowered by our oblivion.”

Existential Slavery

How we perceive darkness is a figment of our denial.  We simply cannot be with the realization and trauma of our malevolence; since we fail to accept, comprehend and identify our capacity for malice.  Our personal evil abides in the shadows of our being, pulling our strings, pushing our buttons and altering our universal resonance with its agenda to control, distort, dominate, manipulate and pervert.  Given our preoccupation with egocentricity, we engage and invest our attention, energy and focus into the simulation of social reality.  We do not fulfill a life; we serve a sentence of existential enslavement.

Human Malevolence

Evil is an efficient, innovative and optimizing force in the universe.  However, it cannot source its own power, so it employs devices of deception, illusion and oblivion to provoke us into acquiescing our own through our reactivity.  It mines our hostile and toxic expressions, converting them into an applicable and palatable energy; leaving us depleted, disempowered and diminished.  We are conditioned into a vicious cycle of victimization.  This seizure of our personal power syphons the energy from our soul, corrupting it into a dense and primal force, transmuting our universality into virtuality.

Black Fire

My latest encounter with my darkness occurred last year.  After I drifted from awareness, I shifted into a diverse dimension of my bedroom.  I could sense something sinister emerging from the shadows.  I stood to meet the entity, as it materialized from the void.  It glared at me with pure malice, smirking with eyes aflame in sheer disdain.  A black fire accented its ominous shape amidst the entrancing and pulsating evanescence of evil in the space.  Its fiery fist pierced my heart with its aim to plunge my soul into oblivion.  In a retaliatory expression of resistance, I broke its control over me, as it vanished into shadow.

The Greatest Evil

Universality is powerful, purposeful and truthful.  By its very nature, it is all encompassing, empowering our being with universal energy.  It is the embodiment of our soul.  We primarily exist in a stasis of density.  When we experience universality, we often misinterpret its distinct resonance with fear.  Given our conditioning to the gravity of human existence, everything beyond the terrestrial is blindly observed as impending peril.  Fear is a racket we run on ourselves to evade our universality.  Our egocentricity deceives us into believing we are merely blood, bone and flesh.  Our greatest evil is sacrificing our soul to enable our fear.

In the Mouths of Madness

Five years ago, I was camping in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  Laying in my tent, I drifted from awareness and found myself in a darkened room.  An electrical current was resonating through the crown of my head, spreading peculiar sensations throughout my being.  I attempted to move my hand through the wall yet could not escape.  In the distance, I heard people laughing and talking around the campfire.  Following their voices, I found a door in the room.  As my hand passed through, countless claws reached out to wrench me into the darkness.  After freeing myself from their grasp, numerous teeth bit into my arms and hands.  With a focused expression of willpower, I shifted out of the melee and returned to my tent.   

The Light in the Darkness

As much as we misinterpret universality, we misunderstand evil.  Our personal and social stigmas establish our erroneous perceptions, accelerating our fear into a fever pitch of anxiety, delusion and lunacy.  Evil appears to be omnipresent in social reality, since we enable it with our egocentricity, ignorance, obsession and oblivion.  Absolute light is kindled from extreme darkness. In essence, from the darkest evil, comes the brightest light.  This transcendental shift empowers our universality.  Evil is not a force to fear.  It is an enigmatic vibration to be transformed into a resonant frequency.  Our common destiny is to embody our soul as an expression of the universe.  Everything else is simply evil.

“Universality is the light in the darkness.”