“Transcendence is being in flow with our soul.”
“The Solstice Shift is an exodus from our enslavement in virtuality. It reunites us with our soul to empower our universality. This is the embodiment of our transcendence.”
Tis The Season
“We are not living until we are giving.”
Garland and Tinsel
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…”
-Lee Mendelson
The Resonance of Relativity
“We are an emulation of social influence.”
Authoritarian Encroachment
Totalitarian tiptoe is an unconventional term that illustrates the measured momentum of an agenda, eventuality or strategy so slight in its passage, it fails to register in the average attention span. A methodical tactic committed by authoritarian organizations for the purpose of control, profit and power; to execute and establish nefarious constitutional, educational, financial, media, political, religious and scientific policies. The aggressive encroachment of social conditioning, along with our cognitive dissonance, denial, indifference, oblivion, polarity and uncertainty, enslaves us into the simulation of reality.
Social Toxicity
There has been an accelerated and intensified outbreak of propagandized, popularized and publicized toxicity, corrupting and manipulating our personal and social environments. Akin to a virus, it assaults our senses, afflicts our instincts, distorts our intellect, perverts our emotionality and severs our relativity with our intuition, soul and the universe. When we engage in virtuality, we enact egocentricity as our defense mechanism, inciting us to flex peripheral power with our self-righteousness. A feigned endeavor to supplement our deficiencies, insecurities and uncertainties by weaponizing our personal toxicity, all while proliferating a social epidemic of perceptual duplicity.
Entitled Malice
Evil does not exist in nature, reality or society. These are merely existential paradigms in which we occupy. Our malevolence stems from our oblivion to our egocentricity. We justify our exodus from our humanity via our victimization; personalizing, propagandizing and projecting our tragedy and trauma upon others to evade our universal accountability. When we desensitize ourselves from the toxicity of our tantrums, we regress into our instincts for survival and exchange our sensibility for reactivity. We become entitled to our malice, expecting others to suffer our pain as an expression of their empathy. Eventually, we abandon our universality for egocentricity.
The Privilege of Expectation
Entitlement is the badge of ego we flash to gratify our expectation. Our self-righteousness is indicative of how apathetic, insecure and uncertain we are when professing our selective ideologies. A convenient faux pas we personify as a social standard, to manipulate ourselves, others and our conditions in a futile attempt to appease our unreasonable expectations. World be damned! when our personal rackets fail to succeed (or in the way we so desire). We absolve ourselves with feigned carelessness, helplessness and hopelessness, abandoning and condemning others for neglecting to enable, endorse and pacify our drama, narratives and pain, all in defense of our sanity and vanity.
“Our egocentricity is the simulation of our oblivion.”
Cult of Society
A group of people having beliefs or practices that are regarded by others as strange or sinister, or as imposing excessive control over its members is the definition of a cult. Our exposure to and exploitation by fascistic establishments, people and stratagem begins well before we establish our personal awareness, divergence, experience and sovereignty. Our institutional indoctrination via our amusement, belief, heredity, partisanship, schooling and sociality conditions us to be susceptible to publicly weaponized propaganda. Any organization operating in the domains of business, education, finance, media, politics, religion, science and technology is a cult. Society is the greatest sect ever invented.
Smart Rat Rising
We all have been personally and socially assimilated; conditioned, indoctrinated, manipulated and programmed into a collective psychosis. As it is for those in recovery, the first step is to admit we have a problem. We are automatons in the illusory dominion of social reality, accepting our environmental toxicity with reckless oblivion. If we are arrogant enough to be smart rats, we strive to evade and escape our universal deficiencies; willing our adolescence, weaponizing our intellect and wielding our self-righteousness to conceal our inherent anxiety, cruelty, insecurity and uncertainty. Everything we believe we know is the selective psychosis for all we fail to understand.
Selective Psychosis
Reality is a holographic operating system, projecting a perceptual illusion. Our engagement within the societal matrix establishes our individual delusion, which enables our dependence upon its virtuality. When we invest our belief, energy, instinct and thought into social reality, we adopt a selective psychosis of existential singularity as an avatar for our human emulation. We are oblivious to the elaborate and enigmatic dynamics of our self-deception, well before our extreme exposure to social engineering. Our selective psychosis is the filter we enact to endure, occupy and perceive the illusion in which we exist.
From Perception to Deception
What influences us the most is our perception. As much as our cognizance is encoded with indoctrination, our interpretation is exploited by an existential simulation. One of the most influential constants in society is the agenda authoritarian entities and organizations enforce to control everyone and everything. Making this declaration a decade ago may have provoked a reactive response of conspiracy theory! Now, the secrecy of totalitarianism has been replaced with audacious transparency. Alternative media is as popular as the mainstream. Yet it is all perception deception, for it serves the few at the complicity of the many. All the answers we seek without can only be found within.
The Enslavement of Egocentricity
We pride ourselves on what we think we know. We expose ourselves to an infinite array of information and propaganda; accepting it as truth, void of any exploration because it aligns with our selective cause, ideology, narrative, politic, religion or science. When we discover alternative insights, we often discredit their veracity with our egotism. We believe only we know what is best for us, and there is nothing anyone can share that will be beneficial, even if it minimizes our affliction and suffering. We validate our vicious cycles of arrogance, ignorance, oblivion and self-righteousness, enabling our enslavement into egocentricity.
The Resonance of Relativity
Many may debate, dispute or disregard this article due to its sheer authenticity. While reading, some may observe their own egocentricity based upon their honesty, integrity and understanding. It is excruciating to simply be with the truth of ourselves, beyond our personal delusion, and our existence in a social illusion. There is an abundance of weapons in our personal arsenals to defend us against, well, ultimately ourselves. The fear, insecurity, oblivion and uncertainty we enable with our egocentricity pales in comparison to the consciousness, empowerment, expression and fulfillment of our universality. Our relativity with our soul resonance is all that is relevant. Everything else is illusion.
“Relativity is the essence of soul.”
Ghost Story
Originally published on 5/18/2016. Revision published on 10/31/2025
“We are the ghost in the machine.”
Something Wicked This Way Comes…
Society is a dark world in which billions of human beings fall prey to their own shadows. Our collective fear has become so encompassing, we have anesthetized ourselves with our anxiety, conditions, drama, indoctrination, oblivion and uncertainty. Our interpretation of reality is so confronting, intense and threatening, we enact a self-induced slumber, within which we simply survive. In our illusory lives, we are haunted with the nightmare of what is and the dream of what may have been. It is excruciating for us to accept, identify or even be with the insidiously wicked nature of the virtuality in which we engage.
The Nightmare of a Dream
Our nightmares are filled with the horrors of our broken commitments, destiny, potential and purpose. These are the virtues that allow us to create a thriving life for ourselves and our families. Our experiences are littered with the shards of our unfulfilled dreams to manifest a better tomorrow for ourselves and future generations. Our actions, intentions and visions have been thwarted by a globalized and propagandized vortex of social media. A matrix proliferated for the sole intention of enabling our assimilation, deception, dependence, disempowerment, enslavement and oppression.
The Darkness Without
It lurks within the shadows, just beyond our hyperactive sensibilities, taunting us with the mere possibility of its arrival and impact. The impending doom of its presence and the suspense of its approach preys upon our nerves as an archaic violin down a darkened alley. The gravity of its dread imposes a trepidation, provoking us to run for our lives. Our hearts race, as the intensity of our fear heightens to a fever pitch. It renders us paralyzed within the agonizing buzz of our endorphins, to supplement our waning confidence, courage, reason and strength.
The Darkness Within
Evil is not what, or how it is so commonly interpreted in our contemporary era. It is not an ancient and malevolent entity that defiles, haunts, hunts or stalks us. It is not a presence that eternally defies and opposes our every endeavor and intention. Evil is a subjective figment of our darkest conjuring. We give our power over to our own shadows when we allow our perceptions to become more powerful than our vision. The nature of our personal observation most often is erroneous and does not serve our optimal benefit. We favor our selective narrative, much as we may cling to our dying breath.
A Knife to the Throat
We grow accustomed to the insanity around us, attempting to deceive ourselves into denying that what occurs in social reality is not a part of us, or even beneath us. We conform, desensitize and integrate ourselves into the virtual role the societal matrix provides. We adopt a conviction that success and survival will be found in competing with others to become something we were never destined. Eventually, we succumb to authority, institutionalization and propaganda. We are pushed and pulled from one circumstance to another, until we are assimilated into the persona we have always feared.
Shadow of a Demon
As smart rats, we are so clever with our existence. We devise personal rackets, to which we are unaware and by which we are ruled. We invent our own demons to avoid our soul expressions of our authenticity, integrity, purpose and transcendence. This justifies and sanctions our cruelty, destruction, errancy and inhumanity. We desperately seek to distance ourselves from the monsters we become in our selfish quest to advance and survive in an artificial and violent society. The greatest darkness we will ever encounter is not the one that shadows us from without. It is the evil we enable within.
“All left unseen and untended is what enslaves us with our very own fear.”
Creature Feature
We indoctrinate ourselves with instinct and intellect for conformity into society. This pales in comparison to the cunning prowess of our egocentricity and its insatiable desire for dominance over our soul. Conflict rages within us all, a timeless battle between the transcendent expressions of our heart and soul and the terrestrial professions of our mind and body. We are conditioned into creatures of habit, existing in vicious cycles of emulation. Our predatory ancestry enslaves us within a virtual duality, diminishing our instincts, thoughts, emotions, intuition and relativity.
The Walking Dead
We view our existence through selectively interpretive filters, fabricating our lives and performing our fantasies within the superficiality of our social reality. We enact our apathy, fear, indifference and unwillingness to evade our destiny. We believe we cannot survive under the gravity of our accountability, authenticity and integrity to embody our possibility, purpose and power. We allow ourselves to become a projection of the social norm, bred for accumulation, amusement, diversion, narrative and oblivion. We become the antithesis of life, condemned to exist en masse with the walking dead.
Ghosts of our Lives
We rarely live as cause in our lives. We settle on surviving the outcomes of our seemingly random circumstances via our reactivity to ordinary occurrence. As we become habituated to a coincidental lifestyle, we engage deeper into a dualistic existence within the three-dimensional hologram-projection we interpret as reality. With every unconscious breath, we acquiesce our personal power. Our obedience to authoritarian entities and organizations is our evasion, excusing us from the choices we all must make. We sever our relativity with our heart and soul, as we become ghosts of our lives.
Egocentric Evil
The perceptions we adopt and impose in our desperation to be accepted and adopted into a virtual simulation segregates us from relativity with our soul. We are driven to seek our worth in others, instead of establishing our own through our being, expression, and universality. We have existed outside of ourselves for so long, we mistake our delusion, ideology, narrative and propaganda as truth. We are mere shadows of our younger selves, who once inspired and empowered us. We are seduced by the egocentric evils of our desire, entitlement, fear, intelligence, self-righteousness and vanity.
Ghost Story
We are all ghosts of our lives. We haunt the empty halls of our oblivion in a futile attempt to find a forbidden treasure that has always been within us. We live a ghost story when we conduct our consciousness away from being an expression of our soul. It is our universal destiny to transform, transcend, express and embody universality. We are an expression of empowerment, relativity, transformation and transcendence. It is our collective destiny to be an extraordinary difference in our life, for others and the world. The universal expression of our being is the embodiment of our soul.
“Our unfulfilled destiny is our ghost story.”
Universal Vision
“Perception is deception.”
Virtual Reality
Reality does not exist. It is a projected simulation, a holographic computer program. Our collective interpretation of actuality is often erroneous. Given that our critical mass, human awareness is consigned to instinct and intellect, we fail to comprehend everything beyond our conditioning, programming and proselytization. Our ignorance may diminish our universal vision, but our collective/selective oblivion blinds our perception. Institutionalized indoctrination assimilates us into a human vortex of consumption. We wager our proficiency for consciousness with our voluntary engagement in virtuality.
Impression of Idealism
Social reality is the collective paradigm in which we are all enslaved. Many may refute this claim, simply because they cannot admit or accept that they were duped into linear existence. Egocentricity is the most influential force in society, deceiving us with our own delusion. We defend ourselves and offend others with our selective ideologies to compensate for our failure, fear, fraud, insecurity and self-righteousness. We con ourselves with solitary gratification, concealing our misery, while feigning an impression of idealism. All the while, we emulate our social environment to evade our accountability, integrity and originality.
Perception Deception
The distortion, manipulation and transmutation of how we interpret reality is being executed in the extreme by an onslaught of fabricated narratives. Education, entertainment, politics, religion and science proliferate undefined, unfounded and unproven propaganda via a vast array of medium. They exploit convenient and controversial opinion into consumable fiction. We adopt our personal delusion to interact with their social illusion. This is our perception deception, which is the adaptation of our ideologies. We would rather die for our feigned convictions to preserve our egos than live for our destiny to embody our souls.
All in a Narrative
“Narrative is a story or tale, an account of a series of related events or experiences.” There are rare occurrences of realism in society. Yet, the line between fact and fiction is altered, blurred and convoluted into weaponized deception, inducing a dependency upon provocative and violent propaganda. When we descend into social anarchy, we raise our voices, beat our chests and exchange our empathy for vanity to coerce the opposition with our viewpoint. We are not simply endeavoring to convert our adversaries to our ideology. We demand social agreement and credence, all for the validation of our selective narratives.
“Our narrative is the declaration of our egocentricity.”
Artificial Power
We are a soul expressing the resonance of universality into social reality. Our collective destiny is to transform and transcend our simulated existence. However, when we encounter universality, we react from our institutional programming with hostile resistance, which is the self-defense response of our social mimicry. Society is teeming with an excess of individuals and organizations who discredit, distort, manipulate and seize each other’s power. Most are deficient in energy awareness and expression. In essence, they lack the ability to inflict real harm upon others, as the authority they wage, weaponize and wield is artificial.
A Violent Dynamic
Our life is a simulation. Primary, secondary and auxiliary routines tandemly operate virtual cycles of causality, eventuality and potentiality. All programs run in a sequence of ones and zeros, thus the paradigm in which we exist is a duality. This defines our identity as a male or female, conservative or liberal, atheist or religious, intelligent or ignorant, gay or straight and authentic or artificial. Authoritarian entities employ administrations to stimulate our sensibilities with explicit, malicious and violent propaganda to provoke our reactivity. Once we engage in social combat, we abandon our soul for our egocentricity.
The Con is On
Whether in our sleep state or our daily delusion, much of our life is spent dreaming. The same can be claimed for our encounters in social reality. Though we are anesthetized, traumatized and victimized by our lives, we fail to truly live them. The simulation in which we occupy is an interactive virtuality. When we direct our awareness, engagement and focus into this hologram, we profile, but we do not exist. The identity we assume and present to society is an avatar of superficiality. The collective con we run on ourselves is to transmute our personal power into social compliance, all while concealing our deficiencies with our vanity.
The Art of Extraction
Before we can escape the social matrix, we must acknowledge we are enslaved. The greatest obstacle we encounter when cultivating, establishing and embodying our consciousness is navigating our egocentricity. Egotism is a neurological-programming psychosis, integrating us into a three-dimensional simulation and isolating us within an insular delusion of duality. This paradigm enables our solitary oblivion, which is the personification of our enslavement. Our exodus begins when we withdraw our attention, energy and engagement from virtuality and shift our consciousness into convergence with universality.
Soul Relativity
During our conception, we all endure a schism from our soul. In the womb, we are intimately related with our mother, in body, mind, heart and intuition. We share behaviors, instincts, thoughts and feelings, which encodes our false personality. Institutionalization programs us into a virtual existence, whereas our transcendence inspires our universal experience. Universality is an omnidimensional energy, empowered by the synergy between our soul and the universe. The equilibrium between our instincts, intellect, emotions and intuition establishes the foundation for our soul relativity to source our universal vision.
Universal Vision
The revolving kaleidoscope of interpretive narrative, propagandized perception, selective realism and social indoctrination corrupts, distorts and exploits our consciousness, expression and vision. Interference and manipulation in the algorithm of virtuality enslaves us into vicious cycles of anxiety, conflict, egocentricity, fear, insecurity and uncertainty. Being human condemns us into a linear singularity, existing as a silhouette of our soul. We are an eternal and infinite expression of universality. Transforming our delusion and transcending the illusion empowers our shift from egocentric perception into universal vision.
“Existence is a simulation of perception.”
“Experience is a transcendence of vision.”
A New Era
“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
“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
“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.”
Universal Ancestry
“Lineage is not inherited in our blood; it is empowered by our soul.”
Kaleidoscope of Virtuality
In this new era, the conceptual, ideological and perceptual filters of collusion, illusion, judgement, narrative and prejudice are the social gravities we inherently and unconsciously bear. It is evident in the viral toxicity within and around us. Institutional, personal and social indoctrination, propagandized and weaponized in education, entertainment, media, politics, religion and science, distort, manipulate, program and transmute our sensibilities. We selectively observe and engage with people from our interpretive delusion; instead of experiencing their reality, let alone understanding our truth. Human existence is a kaleidoscope of virtuality.
Hereditary Stigmata
Our primary social conditioning is to imitate an ignorant, isolative and insular lifestyle. Perhaps we first adopted this from our family when we were too immature to comprehend their antiquated guidance as a crime against our personal experience. From infancy to adolescence, we are brainwashed by our parents, teachers, peers, religious leaders and other authority figures. We invent our personality to interact with the simulation of social reality. By the time we enter adulthood, we abandon our being for an illusion of existence, deceiving ourselves with feigned contentment, meaning and purpose; oblivious to the sacrilege we have committed against our soul.
Viral Egocentricity
After we have been excessively and intensively indoctrinated and integrated for the initial two decades of our lives, our adolescent personality gravitates toward the primal instincts of our reptilian brain. Our neural activity is driven by anxiety, ego, fear, guilt and survival. In essence, the carnal region of our mind encoded to feed, fight, flee and fuck. This is the domain in which most of humanity is enslaved by its own unconscious instincts. We compensate our emotional, intuitive and spiritual deficiencies with our egocentricity, entitlement, superiority and self-righteousness. Intellectualism is a virus of reason, assimilating us into an existential vortex.
Social Vortices
The paradox of human existence is that we are always evading ourselves yet enslaved within. When our personal awareness is fixated on our environmental circumstances, we surrender our senses to the peripheral in our vain quest for gratification. We are conditioned into dependency long before we observe and identify its dysfunctionality. Cynicism, fear, insecurity and uncertainty compels us to construct our self-defense, condemning us to our primitive mind. We are caught in the crosshairs of our ego and society, stigmatized into a constant stasis of obsessive compulsion. The simulation of social reality is a black hole, consuming our consciousness, energy and soul.
“Our bloodline is the trademark of our oblivion.”
Familial Dependence
As infants, toddlers, children and teens, we are reliant upon our parents. During adolescence, we enter a process of individuation on our personal journey into adulthood. For many, this essential progression is seldom fulfilled. Whether it is emotional, intellectual and/or instinctual, the tethers to which we cling as offspring are never entirely severed. Memories, nostalgia and trauma preserve our unhealthy attachments for most of our lives. Our relativity with our family becomes our dependency, enabling us to evade our evolution with hereditary liability and obligation. We surrender our personal power to appease the historical sensitivities of our relatives.
Antiquated Environment
Family dynamics often transition us into a regressive environment of the past. When in their presence, we abandon who we are for an archaic character we once portrayed at a specific age in our lives. The roots of our identity emerge from a forgiven, forgotten and forsaken era. Our family relates with this dated facet of our personality, perceiving us as we were, not as who we have become. They may not know who we are, let alone understand us. This obsolescence of relativity compromises the authenticity, integrity and expression of our contemporary being. When we return to our daily routine, we often encounter traumatic side effects from our familial exposure.
The Vicious Cycle of Virtual Existence
Being born and dying are solitary, yet unique passages. Even our experience in the womb is distinct from all others. Our transition from soul to body is nine months of creation, evolution and transformation. It is also when we endure our schism from the universe, one from which many never reunite until their physical death. Our reactivity to peripheral circumstance, happenstance and incidence expands the divide between ourselves and our soul. Our personality is an avatar we portray in a futile attempt to establish our credibility within this transhuman virtuality. The vicious cycle of our virtual existence is the simulation of our enslavement.
The Art of Transcendence
Regardless of what is occurring in the world to distort, exploit, manipulate and transmute our universal vision into intellectual delusion, we are a universal being, experiencing infinite potentiality beyond our programmed existence. Since the Winter Solstice in 2012, we have been energetically shifting in an exponential progression of relativity with our soul. Whether or not we are aware of this monumental eventuality, it is happening! The synthesis of our evolving being is established with the equilibrium between our soul, intuition, heart, mind and body. The art of transcendence is our exodus from social reality, and our embodiment of universality.
The Universality of Relativity
We are rarely content in our relations with our bloodline lineage. Dependency, entitlement, expectation, familiarity, history and obligation inhibits our kinship with our family well before our assimilation into cultural, political, religious and social ideologies. Yet, the initial and influential element in this fragile dynamic is our schism with our soul. Our interpretation of relatedness is socially peripheral. However, it is not the knowledge of our self that empowers our relations, it is the embodiment of our soul. The balance between our soul, intuition, heart, mind and body is essential in expressing and experiencing universality in our relativity.
Universal Ancestry
We are eternal, evolutionary, infinite and transformational beings of energy. Our human lineage has diminished our universality into primeval instincts, egocentric intellectualism and reactionary emotionality. Our heredity may define the history of our bloodline, yet it is not the ancestry of our soul. We may identify our immediate family as the sole genealogy we inherit, enabling an antiquated codependency of obligatory belonging in a simulation of familial virtuality. Omnipresent affinity is empowered by our soul. When we relate and resonate with the omnidimensional tapestry of universality, this synergy of relativity is the source of our universal ancestry.
“We are all related in our legacy of being.”
Rare Earth
“Nature is the closest we are to the universe.”
In the Roots
The scientific community is just beginning to understand our evolutionary and transformational relativity with the natural world. In the last decade, they have discovered, hypothesized and established that trees communicate with each other through their root systems. Therefore, any herb, flower, plant and weed fulfills the identical synergy. It can be observed that the relatedness in nature is more advanced than our own. It can also be proven that the efficacy, longevity and resiliency of nature supersedes that of humanity. Simply being in it is a transcendental shift of relativity with our soul.
The Forest for the Trees
In previous articles, I have written about the schism between our soul and our human self. Given this occurs before we cultivate our personal consciousness, most of us remain oblivious to the universal consequences of existing as a fragmented being. In this ambiguity of ourselves, we fail to observe, experience, evolve, transform and transcend. The personality with which we have conditioned ourselves to identify is in extreme contrast to the universality of our soul. We adopt an inherent fear of nature, living as estranged from it as possible. In essence, we cannot see the forest for the trees, as we are senselessly engaged in the trivialities of our personal and social realities.
Existential Mirage
We have been assimilated and indoctrinated into egocentricity. Through our impulsive, irrational and intensive expressions of reactivity, we sacrifice our relativity with nature. Our engagement in virtuality ensnares us into an elaborate deception of triviality, distorting and diminishing our attention, awareness, focus and purpose. Our instincts are overwhelmed with propagandized narratives and perceptions. Our intellect is hacked, encoded and manipulated into our individual and collective psychoses. Civilization has never been about creative, educational, philosophical, religious or scientific revelation. It is the authoritarian enforcement and execution of our terrestrial colonization.
Stigma of Colonization
Since before recorded history, our enslavement has been disguised as civilization in the wake of critical mass colonization. It is the proverbial wool that has been pulled over our delicate sensibilities. Social reality is a matrix of deception. A spell of illusion, which we in turn establish as our personal delusion. We con ourselves into believing that the theoretical parameters of popular existence is the absolute truth. We even defend, endorse and impose our colonization upon others to validate our authority, credibility, safety, security, and vanity. We commit these social atrocities upon ourselves and others, simply to conceal and evade our failure to embody universality.
“Our affinity with nature is our relativity with our soul.”
The Mystery of Nature
In nature, every element of life is connected in an exquisite synthesis of evolution, which cultivates the equilibrium of terrestrial being. Its existence fulfills our every need, from the air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat and the empowerment it bestows upon us to transform our experience. Environmental immersion calms the body, clears the mind, balances the heart, inspires the intuition and encourages us to relate with our soul. The elemental mystery of nature is its essence, which nurtures universal life within the human paradigm of destruction, disease, dysfunction and death.
Medicinal Minerals
Affliction, disorder, infection, malaise and even death occur when we have a deficiency of essential minerals. The duplicity of our virtual lifestyles engenders the declination of our health, becoming our human nature. In addition, the widespread application of artificial chemicals, dyes, preservatives and toxins in our air, food, water and environment contaminates our instincts, thoughts and emotions. This distorts and disrupts our relativity with our intuition and soul. The earth’s medicinal minerals transform our heart, mind and body, empowering the optimal equilibrium for our wellbeing to thrive.
Northern Exposure
For most of my life, I have lived in a rural environment. In my exposure to nature, I observed, experienced, listened and learned to relate with its naturality. All the energy, scents, sounds and visuals inspired me to transcend the threshold of my conditioned personality, discovering, exploring and expressing my heart, intuition and soul. I do not profess to know what it is, how it functions or why it exists. In my experience, I have grown to understand that it is the closest we are to our soul and the universe. When we enter the forest, we shift from simulated virtuality into infinite universality.
Terrestrial Flow
The earth is evolving on an energetic frequency beyond our conception, knowledge and understanding. Nature itself is empowered by the sun, nurtured by the rain and cultivated by its soil. The earth’s inner core is solid, while its outer core is liquid. The momentum of the outer core generates a geodynamic field. When we relate with nature, we resonate with the earth’s energy. Our relativity with it is our terrestrial flow. Its electromagnetism is symbiotic with the water in our bodies, the neural activity in our minds, the resonance of our heart center, the frequency of our intuition and the signature of our soul.
Elemental Essence
Artificiality distorts and diminishes our perception, thus our experience with nature. When our attention, energy and focus is engaged in the virtuality of reality, we inhibit ourselves from fulfilling our relativity with the earth. We settle into the simulation of our socially conditioned personality, enslaved by the primality of an egocentric existence. Naturality is a distinct dimensionality of experience, empowering us to transform and synthesize with the elemental essence of nature. When we ground with the earth, we are not simply connecting, we are embodying our relativity with our soul and the universe.
Rare Earth
Human beings are conductors of elemental energy. Our soul sources our being with universality; through our intuition, into our heart center, mind and body. Likewise, the earth empowers us with its geodynamic momentum. Our relativity with the earth is a synthesis of our naturality, spirituality and universality. When we establish our personal equilibrium, we align, center and ground our being. We are an expression of the universe, our soul and the earth. The omnidimensional synergy of our naturality, spirituality and universality is the essential convergence empowering our transcendence.
“Being in nature is a reunion with our soul.”
Iam Saums 