So I’ve been on the road about 5 weeks now, driven over 4600 miles, and have been living life in experimentation mode by applying various principles I’ve come to know and seeing how well they really work in this whole “real life” thing. I’ve made amazing friends partying at Mardi Gras, photographed a cheer and dance competition in Texas, skied in New Mexico, camped along the Rio Grande, hiked down into the Grand Canyon, had an ostrich bite my camera, been homeless in Colorado, discovered how every state has is very own distinct vibe, experienced the most ridiculous and consistent degrees of synchronicity, met amazing friends all over the country, had the universe repeatedly bring me all that I want including exactly the type of weather I want when I want it, been given free food and lodging all over the country… Quite honestly this is the most exciting and simultaneously the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done.

I’m learning SO much. There’s lots of things I’m learning that I didn’t know before and many things that I’m finally actually GETTING. To use an analogy, let’s say you’ve done martial arts for a while and your instructor keeps telling you, “Hands up! Keep your hands up!” and so you know that your hands need to be up but when you’re practicing, your hands subconsciously keep coming down. It isn’t until you actually spar against an opponent and get clocked in the head that you finally GET IT that your hands need to be UP!  This is a lot like that. As is often said, life is our greatest teacher… There’s a lot of things that I “knew” didn’t work, and if you were to ask me before, I’d tell you that no, such-and-such doesn’t work. If you asked me now, I’d be like “nah dude, really, that shit DOES NOT WORK!!” It’s that transition from mental understanding to gut-level understanding.

This has also been a very emotional experience in that it’s forcing me to really look at myself. I’m basically free to go where I want and do what I want (within reason… a 4 wheel drive or all wheel drive vehicle would be super handy for going up into the snowy mountain peaks and camping in the backcountry, for example, buy I digress…). One thing I wanted from this trip was to really shed light onto the remaining unconscious portions of myself. See, I remember Adyashanti talking about when his awakenings first started, and they also began in the nonabiding form as I am experiencing, when he was going through his process he’d sit down in a coffee shop for hours writing and writing about his beliefs and exploring any area within him that would still go into division. This has been a big part of my journey here. It’s really taking what I’ve learned and applying it all. Jump in with both feet and apply the law of attraction, for example. Apply the ability to surrender and let go when your ego gets bruised and you face your inner darkness head on. Do all the stuff you need to do because now it really matters. It’s crunch time and the pressure’s on.

Freedom of Experience

To what degree do I want to experience freedom? I’ve thrown up a tent and camped in state parks and enjoyed being out in nature. I’ve slept in my car and enjoyed waking up in new places and not having to tear down a tent in the cold mornings. I’ve stayed in hotels and loved the big comfy bed and the little kitchenettes that allow me to cook. I’ve stayed on friends’ futons and enjoyed the free lodging and social life. What is the most harmonious expression of freedom that I’d like to experience? Let’s go out and try a lot of different things and see what they’re like!

Now I’m looking for a more permanent home to throw down some roots. It seems that this country really caters to those with a home and address. Where do I want to live? I can live in Denver, a big city with lots of different regions all over. I can live in Boulder which is a smaller town with a great spiritual vibe and amazing outdoorsy people. I can live up in a small mountain town like Nederland which gets a lot more snow and has more unplowed roads. Heck, I can even go live in a tipi on a sustainable farm! So many options! What do I want? What does my heart say?

Go dive into the unknown and follow that intuition… Let’s see where it takes me.

Spontaneity vs. Planning

What degree of structure do I want in my life? What works best? What feels best? What is most enjoyable? You can try going out somewhere in the world where you literally have NOTHING that you need to do. No plans. No nothing. Just show up and here you are. Where does your intuition lead you next? Completely and utterly spontaneous, allowing synchronicity to be everything.

Do you want a full schedule with lots of things to do and times to be at certain places?

Do you want to be generally open with only a few things scheduled to give your life some sense of  structure and direction while simultaneously being open to change direction on a dime?

I’m finding the last option to be most enjoyable for me. Complete and utter no plans doesn’t feel so good. I like having a next step to head towards in life and a few things on my to-do list. I like having an overall purpose for my life within which I allow the flow to occur. What do you like?

This is something that has been really valuable, to really let go and actually try out lots of different ways of being in the world and find what feels and works best for YOU. This is probably something that each person needs to find out for themselves…

Intuition

Intuition is SO bang on. It’s been my go-to option whenever it comes down to make a decision. Virtually every decision now is simply a matter of asking my intuition. What does this feel like? How does that option feel? Eventually you really start to develop the ability to discern between the feelings of expansiveness, openness, joy, excitement, and subtleness that usually comes with the intuition’s yes versus the sense of closure, downness, no, stopping, almost shut down that comes with the intuition’s no. Honestly one of the main challenges is getting the mind to align with the intuition. That’s really where the main challenge seems to lie, in getting the mind with all its logic and reasoning to surrender to a simple feeling that doesn’t explain itself.

Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction really works. I mean it REALLY works. I experience so consistently whatever it is that I most strongly think and believe deep down. It’s SO clear…

You are the light, mind is the prism, the world is your rainbow.
-Ash Ruiz

One thing I found amusing was to over and over hear people say “but this never happens!” It’s like everywhere I’d go, restaurants would hand me free food and beer, the weather would be perfect and just as I’d asked, things would just work out for me, and I’d just smile knowing that this has all been created within me and is being experienced due to my own inner alignment. At the same time, I only experience it to the degree that the alignment with inner being is maintained. It’s like a direct 1:1 relationship. Alignment with inner being, loving what is, non-resistance to the present moment, being in the vortex, being in a state of allowing, flowing the energy of Source through you, whatever you wanna call it… this one singular thing is what leads to the unfoldment of all that I desire in ways that are more amazing that I could have ever imagined had I been trying to micromanage or control any of this. It’s like having full creative power of choosing my vibrational state of being and simultaneously having no control over the physical world. The more I surrender control of the world and focus on inner alignment, the more the apparently outer world shows up in ways that reflect my inner alignment. This is really what the LoA is all about.

Happiness

This has been a pretty hard-hitting one for me. I really thought on some level that going out and jumping in to what I perceived to be a life of freedom and travel would bring happiness. It was subtle, but it was definitely here. This has been one false notion that’s been crashing down the past few days, and it’s been a tough pill to swallow. How many times have I thought that going out and “living the life of my dreams” would be what I was looking for? Wasn’t that what life was supposed to be about? It’s the idea that a certain lifestyle = happiness. Nope. Being out here in Colorado doesn’t make me happy. Heck, even manifesting all the stuff that I want doesn’t make me happy. Experiencing synchronicity and being in the flow itself doesn’t make me happy. It really doesn’t. I’m finding I keep placing conditions on my happiness and joy, as if something in life needs to be a certain way so that I can experience happiness and so I go about trying to structure my life a certain way. I keep placing these conditions on myself and finding that they keep come crashing down. They don’t work.

What I keep coming to find is that happiness DOES NOT lie outside of myself, as cliche as that may be. Happiness isn’t found in being loved. It isn’t found in living a certain lifestyle. It isn’t found in finally getting something you’ve always wanted. It doesn’t lie in mastery of a certain skill or achievement in a particular ability, including manifesting everything you want. Not at all…

The way it seems that it works is that happiness is found within, as if we ARE it. Literally. We find that we ARE it when we quit looking to FIND it. This inner being that is along for the journey every step of the way, this awareness that is ALWAYS present no matter how epic or traumatic the experience of life is, this presence that is always always always here, it’s so easy to get distracted from that and get lost in thought or lost in the world or lost in experiences, and yet this beingness is always here. When there’s a turning within, Love is found here. Joy is found here. Happiness is found here. Peace is found here.  Well-being is found here. It doesn’t matter where in the world I am or what is happening around me. It’s like this ground of being is becoming my home, silence is becoming my home, even if I don’t have a physical place to call home.

I wanted to write a book about the Law of Attraction, put together a workshop, collect videos that were especially helpful and so on, and yet what I’m starting to find is that mastery of manifesting DOES NOT BRING HAPPINESS. If I ever do come out with a product on the LoA, manifesting is going to be seen as sooooo secondary to being joyous, to being joy itself.

Byron Katie

The other day I was listening to Byron Katie and she said a number of things that completely blew me away…

Her whole thing is about questioning your thoughts and no longer believing in thought whatsoever, thereby ending your suffering. Her process to help us accomplish this she calls The Work and it’s repeatedly proving itself to be so effective and powerful…

She says that all suffering is a result of believing in thought. Period.  She mentioned that one thing she loves about life is that when someone else experiences pain, she doesn’t. When she experiences pain, the other doesn’t. We *think* that we suffer because of what another says or does, but the reality is we suffer because we believe thoughts that arise within us about what another said or did. If we didn’t believe any of our thoughts, experiences would simply happen and we wouldn’t suffer as a result of them. When you no longer believe in your thoughts, you are in heaven. When asked if she still feels like she’s in heaven even when bad things happen to her, she said she no longer perceives them as bad because she’s done the inquiry and doesn’t believe the thoughts that arise that suggest something is bad. She then went so far as to suggest that what if you went to heaven and took all your current thoughts with you. Would you then even experience heaven at all? The thing is you wouldn’t, and this is the condition most people are in. We all are in heaven right now, and yet we don’t experience it because we believe in our thoughts.

This is something that Adya has mentioned before as well, that he has literally lost the ability to believe in his own thoughts… I’ve wondered how this plays out in terms of the LoA which says that what you believe you experience… The two perspectives kinda seem at odds and this is a paradox that I have still only partially resolved for myself.

In any event, questioning my own thoughts repeatedly is bringing SO much valuable insight to me, so much clarity, and so much understanding. It’s a very useful technique…

So What Now?

There is SO much I don’t know. Everytime I think I know something, life gently and lovingly shows me how completely utterly wrong I am. There’s just so much more surrender to experience, a continual opening up to even deeper love (especially the scarier places), finding more areas of darkness and bringing the light into them, being happy and joyous for its own sake without any reason necessary, letting go of those fears and resistances and doubts and worries, and really just BEING. Being, loving, enjoying, surrendering…

Really I don’t know anything. Geez…

All I know is that here I am, sitting in a coffee shop, reflecting on the past few weeks of… good god… I don’t know how to describe it…

Whew… So yeah… If you’ve made it this far along and enjoyed what was shared, If you wanna read more from a wandering guy who has no idea what he’s doing half the time  :lol  feel free to donate some cash and help me pay for food and gas. It’s certainly appreciated!

Until next time, happy living!!

-Ariel

Heaven’s Gates by Marc Adamus

When you realize it’s a dream, you can afford to play. The same thing happens when you realize that ordinary life is just a dream, just a movie, just a play. You don’t become more cautious, more timid, more reserved. You start jumping up and down and doing flips, precisely because it’s all a dream, it’s all pure Emptiness. You don’t feel less, you feel more—because you can afford to. You are no longer afraid of dying, and therefore you are not afraid of living. You become radical and wild, intense and vivid, shocking and silly. You let it all come pouring through, because it’s all your dream. Life then assumes its true intensity, its vivid luminosity, its radical effervescence. Pain is more painful and happiness is happier; joy is more joyous and sorrow is even sadder. It all comes radiantly alive to the mirror-mind, the mind that doesn’t grasp or avoid, but simply witnesses the play, and therefore can afford to play, even as it watches.

-Ken Wilber

When I graduated from college, I deliberated decided not to get a job and do the whole career thing and instead devote myself fully to my spirituality, to really getting this whole enlightenment thing down.

Now, 3 years later, I have come to several conclusions.

1. I got into this wanting to know the Truth. Now I know that I really know nothing to know and this freedom and simplicity cracks me up. Somehow there is joy in this emptiness of not knowing *and* being totally at peace with it, in this not knowing and not trying to figure something else out. Instead there’s just the ecstasy of being who you really are.
2. When you surrender trying to get somewhere as if there’s some pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, you find that there is now a natural supportive unfoldment of life in this moment and that you are an inseparable part of it. When you let go and simply allow the joy of being to shine forth, call it shining your light or whatever, this is truly an amazing experience and seems to be how we were really *meant* to live before we got all caught up in egoland and attachmentville.
3. The desire of ego is essentially to obtain, acquire, and all that jazz… basically ways to achieve security, approval, control, and all the other things it feels it lacks. The desire of Spirit is to be itself, know itself, and experience itself in its absolute pristine glory, to experience the extraordinary in the ordinary, to experience what it already is now. It takes care of the well-being of the mind and body when we allow the energy of our Light/Spirit/Soul/Heart/Source to be what life is all about.

Enjoying Life

The basis of life is absolute freedom. The objective of life is absolute joy.

-Abraham-Hicks

It’s not about seeking Truth, but being Truth. It’s not about seeking Joy, but being Joy. It’s not about seeking Love, but being Love. You don’t go out into the world seeking Truth any more than you go to a movie theater to find the Truth. That’d be silly. Just because the movie is “an illusion” doesn’t mean you need to stop going to the movies. Similarly, that doesn’t mean you stop living your life. Instead, you go to the movies for the thrill of the experience. That’s it. The same with this world. Truth is found within and once it wakes up within you, there is a unique way that it’ll want to express itself out through you.

It is in the nature of being to see adventure in becoming, as it is in the very nature of becoming to seek peace in being.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

and so, in the name of Pure Joy I am moving to Boulder, CO. My inner guidance and outer confirmations are all pointing towards this move. My intuition and excitement are all giving me the green light. Finally!! Full speed ahead! I’ve been wanting to do something for ages! I even tried to give it a go a few months ago but couldn’t fully commit to it since I couldn’t feel that inner okay. Now that it’s here, it’s been such a joy to watch as everything necessary for this trip thus far miracoulsly and synchronistically unfold when needed. I’ll admit there’s also a lot of sadness in letting go of my old home here in Roswell and saying goodbye to my friends and family. At the same time, there’s this deep joy of experiencing this moment AND experiencing the anticipation of what is yet to unfold.

Where am I gonna live? I’ll figure that out when I get there!

What am I gonna do when I get there? Let’s go find out!

What am I gonna do for money? Figuring out those details is the universe’s job! My job is simply to be happy!

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

-Joseph Campbell

It’s such a blast to actually follow my dreams and watch as the doors open. It’s not that you’ll know everything ahead of time. It’s that just start moving and continue taking the next step and watch as the doors open up, often times after you’ve already started heading in that direction. Seeing the Law of Attraction really work for you and actually getting a handle on creating your life experience, that’s a lot of fun!!

Keeping Up with Ariel’s Adventure

Since I’ll be on the road by the time this post goes live, I probably won’t be updating this blog as regularly. However you can follow my travels on my photoblog which I will be updating from the road. I want to document what it’s like to live life from a place of Oneness and Joy, as fully aligned with Source energy as possible.

My tentative plan involves going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, stopping in Dallas to shoot a cheer competition, exploring the scenic desert landscapes in the southwest, hiking down from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and camping down on the floor, visiting several national parks in Utah including Canyonlands and Arches to hike, camp, and shoot photos, and finally making my way east across the Rockies into Colorado to settle in and find a new place to call home for however long, stopping to meet friends all along the way.

So stay tuned for more fun and games on the photoblog. See you guys around!

-Ariel

Have you ever heard of the term “monkey mind?” It’s basically when your mind is running amok and your thoughts are going crazy. When that happens, what to do? What to do?

Well there’s two schools of thought (no pun intended) that we can discuss:

1) Quiet your mind

2) Direct your mind deliberately towards better feeling thoughts

Both techniques are designed to help you release resistance, experience your true self, and express your natural radiance as you live your life from moment to moment.

That said, there are some key differences such as the nature of free will, as we will explore some of these differences below:

Quieting the Mind

In this camp you’ve got teachers like Ramana (who I’ve quoted below), Mooji, and Gangaji who all come from the same lineage in Advaita. (Ramana taught Papaji who taught both Mooji and Gangaji.) The “goal” in this tradition is realization of the Self and the discovery of freedom in the recognition of your true nature as nonconceptual awareness that always is. Awareness and the Self are emphasized over thought.

He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one’s self up to God means remaining constantly in the Self without giving room for the rise of any thoughts other than that of the Self. Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them. Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

-Ramana Maharshi

This is basically the ultimate “Let go and let God” outlook and even the surrendering of one’s free will with the understanding that Creation is its own independent entity which we are to surrender to. In this tradition, it is taught that free will is actually an illusion. “What to do and how to live your life” is not directly taught in specifics. Instead you are given suggestions and pointers to look within and out of that you’ll find that decisions and actions will arise naturally and spontaneously, as if you are being lived rather than deliberately choosing what to do. “It is not I but the Father with me who does these works.”

Reaching for Better Feeling Thoughts

In this camp you’ve got your self-improvement people and your Law of Attraction people. To summarize this perspective, I’d like to share with you the following wonderful video by Abraham-Hicks.

Questioner: I want to stop the monkey mind. Help me stop my monkey mind.

Abe: We don’t want to stop your monkey mind. We just want to help you train your monkey mind because thoughts that are going with the flow are ultimately more satisfying than no thought.

But think about what meditation is. Meditation is a releasing of thought and in the releasing of that resistance there’s this natural turning and going with the flow. That’s the advantage.

What we always say about the subject of meditation is we would rather see you in appreciation because in appreciation your mind is active and aligned and that’s a fuller use of the creative you than having a quieted mind which is offering no resistance, but we would encourage if your mind is scattered and it is taking you in opposition then of course you’d want to quiet it, but if your mind is active and it is moving you in the direction of the call of Source then of course you’re wanting to encourage that.

“I’m going to direct my mind and if I can’t direct it the way I want to, if I can’t easily direct my mind into a really good feeling place, then I’ll quiet it instead.” That’s the way we would use meditation.

Those who would say, “I’m going to meditate for many hours in a day. I’m gonna withdraw,” are those who have decided not to direct their mind, really. You’re a creator. You didn’t come forth to be on pause. You are a creator, but pause is better than moving upstream… so how ’bout this? “I’m moving upstream, I pause, turn my boat, and then I focus on things I want.” That would be a good application of meditation.

The main focus here is to focus your attention solely upon things that you want, things that feel good. Rather than deliberately focusing within back towards awareness, awareness is deliberated focused out into the world and inner being is deliberately allowed to actively flow into the world. Basically you go out and live your life in joy.

Emotions are not a mysterious problem that simply need to be surrendered to, but with the conscious understanding of one’s emotional guidance system and that emotions are simply an indicator telling you how in alignment with Source energy (or the truth of your being) your thoughts are, you can deliberately align your thoughts with Source and thus create a better life for yourself.

Rather than recognizing that all stories are untrue, made-up, and thus dismissing them as illusion, one decides to actively use the mind as a tool by telling better stories and better stories and better stories, evolving and strengthening this character running around on the planet. For example, personal development blogger Steve Pavlina recently posted an article on How to Build a Stronger Ego which (for people who are taught that the ideal state is egolessness) contains a number of surprisingly excellent points.

But remember, when it comes to manifestation, living the life of your dreams, and choosing better feeling thoughts, it’s not about “getting there” that is the point. The manifestation itself is not actually the point. It’s about enjoying the process itself NOW by aligning yourself to the energy of Source that is You through the deliberate focusing upon what you want and the resultant flowing of Source energy through you. THAT is the real point, to experience that feeling of creative flow, that enthusiasm and joy and zest for life. The manifestational goal is just the bait to get you moving. As is often said, life is about the journey, not the destination. The energy of the Absolute is allowed to flow into the world of the relative and the two operate in harmony together.

Relationship with Desire

You can’t permanently quench your ego’s continuous hunger for more. Every time you get what you want, you’ll find you’ve now arrived at a new place which creates a new asking and a new desire for yet even more.

In the “quiet your mind” camp, this is generally seen as a problem to overcome and part of the cause of suffering and therefore the spiritual path involves finding the eternal presence within that’s innately satisfied by its very nature for it already IS everything, infinitely everything, and thus doesn’t require that you obtain more in order to feel good, including any particular experience or state of being. When you don’t believe your thoughts at all in the first place, what then when it comes to choosing better feeling thoughts?

In the “reach for better feeling thoughts” camp, that hunger for more is seen as a good thing for it is what continues the eternal drive for creative expansion. It is how we actively and deliberately take advantage of our innate creative powers. There is no end to infinity and given that we are infinite beings, this desire calls us to experience more and more and more of ourselves.

Both perspectives acknowledge that it’s not about the getting of the thing that leads to happiness. Both stress the utmost importance of inner being. It seems the main difference is one’s relationship to desire and how desire is seen… as a beneficial thing to pursue or not.

What Do You Choose

Happiness via silent awareness or happiness via aligned thought?

I’m not here to set it up as an either/or thing by any means as I’ve found tremendous value in both. In fact, it even seems that there can be a happy marriage between the two.

What’s your take on the matter from your own life experience? What have you found thus far to be the most effective way for you of living your life in this world?

So the usual definition of enlightenment would include something along the lines of seeing reality as it actually is in its undivided state, seeing the One in the All, returning to one’s natural state of unity rather than separation, recognizing your true nature to be present moment awareness, or quite simply being who you really are.

To add another perspective to the mix, let’s look at Abraham-Hicks’ definition of enlightenment, which is basically being a blended being and being in the vortex by aligning to the energy of Source energy, but not necessarily in every moment of every day. This is somewhat different than the Advaita, Zen, and Buddhist perspectives of enlightenment.

There’s this idea that once you’re enlightened, you will no longer experience any negative emotion and you will be in a place of permanent happiness, and yet what I have from my own experience (which was very confusing at first), from those I have talked to, and even from well-known teachers like Adyashanti, Papaji, Mooji, Nisargadatta, and numerous other enlightened teachers, it’s not about a lasting experience of happiness or peace, but recognizing the well-being that is present from the eternal Self that you are, regardless of any emotional state.

In the video above, Abraham points out that while the well-being of Source is eternal and unchanging, the experience of that and the manifestation of that here in this time/space reality is not how any of us are designed to live our lives in physical form. We’re designed to experience the contrast as a way to continue the unfoldment of creating. By seeing what we don’t want, that helps us know what we do want and thus can be used as a positive way, even if the focusing on what we don’t want takes us out of the vortex momentarily. To experience the negative emotions that result from that is very much okay. It’s by design. It’s not a sign of failure or not being spiritual or enlightened enough. It’s just a sign that thoughts are arising within us in the moment that are out of alignment with Source energy/Love/Truth. That’s ALL.

Living It

It’s easy to get into a discussion about nonduality, consciousness, awareness, oneness, and all these topics which to me honestly feel kinda heavy at this point to talk about. Very seri0us almost.

And yet what I’m coming to find is the more I surrender, let go, reach for thoughts that feel better, perform self-inquiry, do some releasing work like The Sedona Method or The Work, or allow things to be as they are, which are all basically ways to release the ego’s resistance to what is which is the foundation for the separate self that for so long has been a part of the human experience, the more I both expand my awareness of All That Is (the light and the dark) as well as discover this eternal bliss that is always present, and the more I live life as an expression of and celebration of joy and love. Heck, I find myself just not really caring about “enlightenment” anymore and instead enjoy living this life experience in this moment, here and now, fully as I AM.

What is being discovered is that, as so many masters have said, YOU are the point, YOU are the Divine, and the Kingdom of God is within YOU. YOU are the gift. YOU are what you have been looking for. The I AM is IT!! Just to BE what you ARE is already a tremendous blessing, and to be that in living expression by having this life experience which allows us to both know and EXPERIENCE who we really are… MAN that’s so good… That’s grounding the spiritual energy into the physical, uniting the up here with down here, and bringing heaven down to earth as is often said. And so the point is just to enjoy the love that is you, the joy that is you, the well-being that is you, here and now. EnJOY it! In Joy.

“If you really want enlightenment, just lighten up!”

True Enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire.

Enlightenment is allowing my connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined in my time/space reality. That’s as good as it gets, you see.

-Abraham

We can talk about going with the flow, and from a place of Oneness, there is only the flow of life. There are no separate parts, just this one harmonious flow of many apparent individuals. To paraphrase the Sufi poet Rumi, you are the entire ocean, and the entire ocean is contained in each drop, expressing itself as each drop. We can allow everything to be as it is and find that there’s this natural intuitive movement within us to flow this way or that, as if we have an inner sense of what the next step is and how to respond spontaneously in any moment. No rules. Just natural flow. Simple. Light. Ease.

For the first time since starting this blog, I feel a sense of completion in terms of writing about spirituality, consciousness, nonduality, and the nature of the egoic mind. The recent post Want to Wake Up? Focus Upon the “I Am” sealed the deal. There are so many fun things to explore in the spiritual arena including chakras, past lives, the law of attraction, and all that jazz, but when it comes to waking up from the dream of separation, that post goes right to the heart of enlightenment. It is what I had heard many times while passionately seeking and yet continually overlooked and what what shines clearly today as the seeking energy is seen through. The sheer simplicity of the I AM, the I AM that’s ALWAYS here.

How then shall I live?

Something that Adyashanti once said has really left an impression upon me. He said that the first and primary question of the spiritual journey is Who Am I? Once that is discovered, the next question is How then shall I live? It is this second question that takes an internal realization and expresses it as an external manifestation. It is this second question which helps our internal transformation permeate all aspects of our being. It is this second question that allows you to come back and be in this world, but not of it. It is this second question that shifts us from simply knowing and being the Truth to LIVING the Truth, from realizing to experiencing, and to letting go of all that is not in harmony with the infinite being that we have realized ourselves to be. This is what this physical experience, from my perspective, is all about: experiencing more and more of who you really are. Since you are All That Is, what else is there to experience?

Adyashanti has a book titled Emptiness Dancing. While I haven’t actually read the book, I’ve heard him explain the phrase before elsewhere and it’s so apropos to this stage of the journey. It’s about the transition from simply being emptiness to coming back down off the mountaintop and being the emptiness dancing in the world. The world of form is not separate from the world of formlessness. They go hand in hand in one inseparable dance.

Doctors, lawyers, politicians and professors Modern science, the oppressed and the oppressors Religious leaders, the gurus and the shamans Everybody has one thing in common: We are nothing pretending to be something We are nothing pretending to be something -Here II Here, Plankton

So… how then shall I live?

Fully Experiencing Life in this Moment

The other day I was working on some childhood issues with a friend and found myself starting to leave my body again. It was basically a way of me trying to avoid life and not experience the unhealed trauma within and so I was guided to come back into my body and really feel what was arising within and leading to much of my unconscious behavior. It’s amazing how often I live in avoidance to life. For example, when there’s negative emotions (whether in myself or in others), rather than feel the energetic flow and fully allow the emotional energy to be here as part of the richness of life, there’s the (very understandable) movement to fix the situation and create a better feeling experience or somehow get rid of the negative stuff, but this only seems to invalidate the unpleasurable stuff, not release it and heal it.

“You have the right to think and believe whatever you want. I am simply here to love you as you are.” -Matt Kahn

We hear about people going off into a cave and that seems to be a great way of avoiding life, of trying to cut out the external world (including thoughts) so that you can experience the inner world. After all, the kingdom of God is within you and nothing outside of you makes you happy anyways, so spend time going within because that’s where the real treasure lies. So it makes sense that focusing on the internal world is the next step for those of us who had been completely and totally focused upon the external world of form. At this stage the journey involves swinging to the other end of the pendulum, from the world of form outside of us to the world of formlessness within, to the world of spirit. Eventually there is a natural rebalancing of the pendulum as the external world of form and the internal world of formlessness can be experienced together, until we discover that they can play together nicely.

“The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world. The practice of non-meditation is ceasing to be the see-er, hearer or speaker while eyes, ears and mouths are fulfilling their function in daily life.” -Wei Wu Wei

Eckhart Tolle calls it being present. Byron Katie calls it loving what is. Today I’d like to call it fully experiencing life as it is in this moment, being intimately one with whatever is arising. No more turning away, distracting yourself from, or protecting yourself from, but a total and complete openness to and embrace of what is. Nisargadatta refers to this as affectionate awareness. These are all beautiful pointers to deeply experiencing this moment.

Creating the Life of your Dreams

A few weeks back a TON of insights came through me on the topics of living the life of your dreams, living an unlimited life that is not held back by doubt or fear, going beyond your unhealed energy, living a life guided by your heart and soul, living life from a place of authenticity and alignment with universal law, and so on. It’s not about self-improvement, as if the point was to make a better/richer/happier/more successful mask, but to be that which is beyond all masks and express the unique essence of what you REALLY are in every moment, however your energy chooses to expresses itself. Instead of transitioning from who you believe yourself to be to something even better (self-improvement.. notice the implied sense of judgement from worse to better and the word ‘improvement’), it’s about expanding the degree to which you experience what you really are (being yourself).

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness. -Eckhart Tolle

What was seen next was that before I could teach this to anyone else, I had to first live it and master it myself in my own life. Thus my life will become a teaching and a sharing, even though I don’t fully understand yet what all this will entail. As is often said, the best way to convey or teach a message is to live it. This is a gift I give not only to the world, but (perhaps first and foremost) to myself.

Being Unconditionally Supported

In a recent post featuring an interview with Lester Levenson, a story is shared how he travels around the country without the money or wherewithal to make the trip, and yet everything he needs is effortlessly and miraculously provided. I LOVE that!! He makes a point that once you master the ability to create what you need at will, no longer do you need to hoard lots of things as a buffer “just in case” you’ll need it in the future. For example, let’s say you were so incredibly supported by the universe that you had the ability to create for yourself whatever experience you so desired. In this case, how necessary would it be to save up or earn all the money first before heading out to go do what you wish to do? For many of us, we have the belief that we need to have the money available before we can do certain things. I’m not saying this is good or bad, right or wrong, but I am pointing out that it is a belief we have adopted and thus live by while there are other ways of being supported by the universe. Here’s a wonderful Bashar video where he helps someone open up to really living this way in his own life: So yeah, wrapping all this up, it seems that the transition for me now, personally, is away from trying to “get enlightened” (haha) and instead simply living life in this world NOW as openly, authentically, lovingly, joyously, and freely as possible, experiencing more and more of the light of Self. Life free. Be yourself. What a life!

So you know the whole classic “Go meditate on a mountain and give up everything and if you can find inner peace and well-being without all the worldly stuff, then you can have true happiness” idea? That’s all well and good, but I don’t think that’s necessarily everyone’s path. Plus it can be a convenient cop-out from actually living life and being the truth and love that you’ve realized yourself to be.

When we get inner inspiration in whatever form, we can think of our physical vessels as a sort of container or pipe. In order for the inspiration to continue to flow into us, we must ground that energy into this world by manifesting and creating whatever it is that we are inspired to create. This way Source has a reason to give us more ideas. Why give us more if we’re not already using what we’ve already received? We’re given natural gifts and talents for a reason here… Yes we can try and stop or ignore that flow, but that resistance is quite painful to experience. It feels to be very much out of harmony with the natural flow. In a nutshell, it sucks.

Who does it serve if we play small? Imagine if Edison didn’t bother inventing, if Beethoven ignored his impulses to compose, if MLK Jr. decided he’d be better off keeping his ideas to himself. It’s a great disservice to All That Is if we choose to hold back and not share out gifts to the world.

The opportunity here, in these times of blossoming self-awareness, is to recognize the unlimited potential in who and what you are, and to gift yourself with permission to express that knowingness as you choose to.

-Rasha

Surrender isn’t actually about not-doing, tossing in your cards, and giving up on life, but about playing the game in full alignment with one’s inner guidance, intuitive wisdom, connection with Source, or whatever phrase you wanna use.

Being silent certainly has its place, but not when it’s used as a way to resist the flow of life, as if being silent is somehow more spiritual or whatever. When we’re called to be silent, we’ll be silent. When we’re called to speak, we speak. Being silent is not necessarily something that we need to do in every moment. The same applies with speaking. Silence is the home of Source, yes, our true home, yes, but manifest physical reality is not separate from that or in any way inferior to that.

“I had an urge to express certain things and now I have and the urge is gone. That’s really the whole story.”

-Jed McKenna

This creative process is quite natural. Flow of the river.

Now the ego may try to control this process, invest itself in a particular outcome, need something in particular to happen, want to do things right, and so on, but this is far more simple than any of that. Inspiration arises, action is taken, and then the next thing comes… unless it doesn’t. Whatever happens, and I mean whatever happens, our experience of life becomes a progressively increasing degree of acceptance and surrender to what is. You basically go with the flow. This was discussed previously in the post about the second half of allowing everything to be as it is.

We all have creative inspiration. It’s normal. It’s natural. And in fact that’s the way life should be. How do we know? Because that’s what is.

When we try to box our creative endeavors into a particular form, whether it’s painting, speaking, writing, or whatever else… when we try to fit this flow of energy into a particular box, we actually prevent it from taking its natural form.

Creative energies can take any and every form, and no form is better than any other. I’m writing this simply for myself, but since myself includes you, this makes things that much easier.

Anyways, it’s totally okay to allow your path in life to meander whichever way it goes. Our actions don’t always have to take a particular form in order for us to be living in alignment with this creative flow. It’s about being who we are, regardless of what outer expression it takes.

It’s yet another let go of control, of being this as opposed to that, and of trying to do it right. Just flow with it, whatever form it takes. Just flow…

Today I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with spiritual teacher and intuitive healer, Matt Kahn. The two of us have been checking out each others’ work on facebook and occasionally speaking online, but it wasn’t until today that we got together and really talked. He’s been getting these intuitive nudges to speak with me, (Thank you, Julie!!) and our discussion was nothing short of AMAZING. We spoke over the phone for about an hour (Edit: Not  2 1/2 hours. I was wrong… time really flies!) while he compassionately guided me beyond my current sticking points, showed me exactly what I was unable to see, and intuitively brought up ideas and insights that were exactly what I needed to hear when I needed to hear them. It was quite literally as if each topic, each sentence, and each WORD was custom tailored to my particular regarding awakening, much deeper than the generic “Who’s the one who’s asking the question? Just surrender. Be still. Observe it.” You know, the typical stuff that we Advaita-heads like to say.

For example, I’ve been pretty into the whole non-dual, no self, awareness is aware… thing. He came in out of left field and recontextualized all of that. It’s not that he invalidated it by any means, but rather I’d been so focused upon that that I couldn’t see my way out. It had become so much my spiritual dogma (not exactly, but I can’t think of a better word) that it was actually becoming a hindrance to moving on. Everything that we pick up we must eventually let go of. If you ARE a guy, do you need to run around telling everyone that you’re a guy? No, of course not. It’s clear. You just live it. Plain and simple. Similarly, the Truth is ultimately what you ARE, not what you say.

“You are not the one who speaks the truth, you are the truth that speaks.”

-Matt Kahn

See, even when we experience something directly, it’s easy for the mind to subtly turn that into a teaching or a belief system and say, “Ah, THIS is the Truth! Look at all these quotes by enlightened gurus talking about this and that! They know what’s up too! This MUST be the correct perception of Reality!” Is that really so different than evangelical Bible thumpers who claim their words are “the right” words? Rather than allowing the teachings to simply be a confirmation of the Truth of what you ARE, they become a substitute for it and what we cling to. It’s the classic case of, “The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon,” example #346.

I would love to share with you what we talked about as well as my experience in the discussion. We discussed a TON, and not in an overwhelming sense, but in an abundant and full and complete way.  However, when I started writing this stuff out, I quickly realized that it’d be like 18 million pages long, soooo I’d rather not…

Instead, lemme give you guys a taste of some of the amazing topics we discussed:

Topics Discussed with Matt

• Letting go of the student role, the reading of books, the memorizing of quotes, the intellectual understanding of spirituality, and so on
• Going beyond accumulated knowledge
• “Spiritual retirement” and the end of all practices (yay!!)
• How to instantly see the Truth and free myself of these practically bipolar emotional swings like confusion/clarity
• How even these new things he shared with me I would one day be letting go of
• The more subtle inner workings of my/the ego
• How the ego doesn’t care what form it takes. It just wants to be right. How to use this to your advantage
• The 3 different forms perception takes and how to quickly discern the difference between perception and Truth
• How when we let go of teaching others what we’ve learned and instead simply be ourselves, our unique gifts and purpose in the world can finally awaken and manifest
• The spiritual ego creating a “no separate self” self
• How we don’t have to pull people out of the illusion and bang them over the head with Truth. Instead we simply allow them to play with their toys, for the longer they play with them, the closer they get to the toy breaking down on their won. Let them play. Let them be asleep if they so choose to be. Love them anyways.
• Experiencing things like emotions or going to the movies and totally experiencing them as they are, without the need to invalidate them or not experience them just because “they’re an illusion.”
• My unseen need to “earn” enlightenment via doing it right and accomplishing something. When you stop trying to earn something, you receive everything
• The unseen reason for my resistance to completely finishing things, for that would mean there’s nothing left to do, which would mean no purpose to live, which means I might as well roll over and die for life would then be pointless
• How having nothing to do and being obligated to do nothing actually gives you the freedom to choose anything
• Relating to, validating, and loving others, even when they disagree with you… in a fantastically open-hearted way that totally disarms their ability to continue pushing against you
• Ego-less manifestation and how to be okay with desiring and attracting things like lots of money or beautiful women from a state of pure appreciation, without the ego running the show

Ego-less Law of Attraction

The last one was particularly entertaining. After we finished talking about the whole enlightenment thing, he intuitively somehow picked up on my desire to harmonize enlightenment with the Law of Attraction and how to get what you want without having it be a total ego thing.

I really enjoyed his total down-to-earth real-life perspective on living the awakened life as a regular person. For example, he was like, “What do you want? You want a girl with big tits. You’re a guy! You can be honest about your desires. And you want a lot of money so that you don’t have to work and can enjoy yourself.” This totally caught me off guard and had me cracking up. It’s SO my style and so bang on with respect to  my personality! Wonderfully irreverent, so not conforming to any limiting box called “proper, polite, spiritual person” or any of that silliness… Just REAL.

Now here’s the cool part: I shared with him what I wanted and he asked me to visualize that and feel what it felt like. I said it felt “expansive, open-hearted, and liberated.” He asked me how that energy felt and I responded that it felt “amazing.” He caught that word as it was a special word to me, not just loving or good, but *amazing.*

Whatever you want, give that to the world. So if deep down I want to feel amazing, and the money and the girlfriend would be ways for me to feel that, my job would thus be to give the world *amazing* energy. See others as amazing. See the world as amazing. Be the energy of amazing. Really be that and radiate it into the world. It is by being that energy that I would attract all of that which, to me, would feel amazing. So simple!! That is one of my unique gifts. That is what I’m here to share with the world. By looking at my desires (what I want) in this way, I can discover what I would love to give to this world. This really is the deeper purpose to the law of attraction.

Sessions with Matt

The discussion with Matt was beyond excellent. He has an amazing ability to zero in on exactly what you need to hear, as if he was quite literally your best friend. It’s amazing to listen to him speak and then remember that many of the things he says, there’s no logical way for him to know. It’s his intuition in action, and it’s laser targeted.

I also enjoyed feeling his energy in the transmission. The energy and presence is perhaps even more powerful than the words themselves, as great as the words are. It is SO helpful to have someone who has been where you’ve been and can see what you aren’t seeing to help you along the way. In my opinion, it is perhaps one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. He’s so real in his teachings, not lost in space with esoteric spiritual teachings or anything, but very down to earth.

If you’re interested in having some guidance with your own awakening, I HIGHLY(!!) recommend scheduling a session with Matt. Information about his sessions are available here.

About Matt

Matt Kahn, is a spiritual teacher and intuitive healer who invites seekers of all faiths, to discover their true divine nature.

Since an out-of-body experience at the age of 8, and profound awakenings at the ages of 18 and 28, Matt began waking up from the dream of reality to realize true divine nature. Now as a spiritual teacher, Matt delivers peaceful, loving teachings to all who are eager to expand and uplift their state of consciousness.

Matt is an awakened master with an uncanny ability to offer direct, and accurate messages that speak directly to the soul. The energies realign your awareness with the dimension of the soul. Through this work, you are able to easy live in direct connection with the soul, dissolving any barriers in mind and body, and eradicating the patterns of human suffering in your life. The intention of this work is to fully allow the soul to blossom into expression, through your unique personal experience — transforming the world around you into a reality of divine grace, infinite abundance, and joyful harmony.

Many spiritual seekers have experienced profound healings, and have awakened to their true nature through his timeless insights and peaceful presence. His teachings are often compared to a unique blend of Eckhart Tolle, the great Indian sage Papaji, and the Buddha.

His teachings, whether verbal or written, are delivered through a transmission of presence that serves to rebalance both hemispheres of the brain, while expanding and uplifting one’s consciousness.

Matt’s unique, compassionate approach blends timeless wisdom and the gifts of expanded awareness, with a style that deeply resonates in the modern world. He has been an advisor to celebrities, corporate executives, as well as an inspirational teacher to other psychics and healers worldwide.

In addition to providing individual healing sessions when his schedule allows, personal retreat programs, and his “Road to Realization” program, Matt travels around the world with his partner, imagery guide, and sound healer Julie Dittmar. Together, they lead presentations and retreats that invite human consciousness into the joy of peaceful existence.

For session bookings, media inquiries for interviews, or event bookings, please call the Seattle office at (253) 639-0770.

You can check out his YouTube videos online, follow him on Twitter at @TrueNature, and visit his website at www.TrueDivineNature.com.

Thank you Matt! So much appreciation!!

Okay, so I feel like I’m going a little crazy now.

Some of what I’m gonna write about here I’ve written posts about but didn’t feel like publishing them, so I’m gonna make one big mish mash of a post.

Let’s hit the highlights.

My body quite literally feels like this image, and around it is nothing. Pure void.

The past week and a half or so, my third eye has been opening about 8-10 times per day, minimum. I’ve been seeing how to bring heaven down to earth, among other things. Many projects and people have been drawing into my life.

Right now as I write this I feel the back of my third eye opening. This is new.

Various chakras light up throughout the day. Usually the heart. Sometimes the solar plexus. Sometimes sacral, root, crown. A lot of heart and a lot of third eye. Not so much throat.

At times it feels like this body is being breathed with energy, particularly when I go into intense surrender. The energy pulses in and out in waves, releasing repressed sadness as tears.

It’s 9/9/9. I’m watching the movie “The Nines” after Jonas’ recommendation on facebook. Perfect recommendation. Thank you Jonas. My life is a lot like this in many ways.

I literally feel like I’m in a dream world. Everything I see is no more real than my night dreams, visualizations, or day dreams. For real…

One of my first youtube videos was about the collapse of space and recognizing that everything is here. Space is something I haven’t experienced for months now. I got how everything was Here, but I couldn’t quite grasp how everything is Now. I see this now and have lost my experience of time altogether. 5 minutes feels identical to 5 hours. Identical. For the past 4-5 days or so, I’ve discovered that I no longer experience time. It’s very natural actually, as if time is just another layer of illusion on top of Reality. It doesn’t feel like anything important is lacking, any more than how you’d feel something important (the experience of time) is lacking when you’re doing something you love and time flies. In awareness, there is no time. This is something I’d like to go into more depth on later.

Things I think about keep manifesting. It’s getting pretty ridiculous. Not only has synchronicity been cranked way up lately, but manifestations are much more vivid and powerful. Manifestation literally doesn’t take time. As time collapses, manifestation happens much more quickly.

It feels like I’m being given much more power in this dream world. Before I could tell myself that maybe I wasn’t actually creating everything in my reality. Now it’s practically impossible to buy that thought. The buffer or delay between thought energy arising and resultant manifestation is obvious.

People talk about how what you think about you bring about or how the world is your mirror. This is all so obvious. It’s all ONE. Of COURSE this happens! Your energy manifests in the world because there is nothing BUT your energy. Thus there is no other possibility!

It’s literally impossible for anything to go wrong. There are no mistakes. There are no accidents. Everything is divinely guided, beautifully orchestrated. Seeing that nothing can go wrong, guilt and shame drop away, as does the need to apologize. All of those presume that something can go wrong. This is not true. From the perspective of ego, sure. From the perspective of This, not at all. Whether or not what happens happens in the highest good, ahhh, now that’s another question. Everything is intentional, but not necessarily intended in alignment with the highest good.

What is Here is not just a living manifestation of the Divine. What is Here is also God Unmanifest. Some call this Source. Both are Here as One, yet what you see in the domain of the physical, not just “me” but throughout the totality of the Universe is what I AM in living manifestation.

Deeper and deeper, it’s like more surrender, sitting back as awareness and allowing what is to be.

It’s not all comfortable, really. It’s not superbliss or ecstasy or anything. It feels more like a continual purging of toxicity, as if this body and nervous system are being stepped up to a higher level.

There are breaks, pauses. This all happens in waves. In sections. Bit by bit. It’s somewhat cyclical. Sometimes I feel nothing. Something it’s very intense. Even during the intense moments it cycles in intensity.

There’s really nothing to do but sit back as awareness and allow this energy to do what it may, to be, to allow, to witness this change from the vantagepoint of the unchanging.

Ohmmm…

So one of the big buzzwords floating around in the Law of Attraction community these days is the idea of being the creator of your reality.

I see a number of people claim to be awake once they learn about this, but really all that’s being done is the transformation from a traditional egoic identity to another more spiritual identity. This is not truly waking up beyond the dream.

“I” am the Creator of “MY” reality. So you’re suggesting there is supposedly both a creator and a reality that this creator is creating? This is a classic case of Subject/Object duality. From the perspective of awakening, it’s utter nonsense. It’s part of the illusion, not what’s actually happening.

False Identification

What are you?

Are you your job? “I am an investment banker.”

Do your actions define you? “I am a basketball player.”

If you were to stop doing those things and start doing something else, would you cease to exist? Of course not. So your current job is not literally what you are. Neither are the actions you take. You are here regardless of what job you have or what actions you take. Identifying with your job, or any activity for that matter, is yet another case of false identity.

So to identify with what you do is a case of mistaken identity. Classic ego.

The same applies to the activity of creation.

A Creator Implies Duality

For there to be a creator, there must also be a reality that the creator creates. The two go hand in hand. As soon as we create for ourselves the idea of a creator and a created reality, BAM! Instant duality.

The reality of the matter is that there is simply creation happening. (The recognition that everything already exists here and now beyond time and space and that truthfully there’s nothing new ever being created.. this is another matter, but that’s slightly beyond the scope of this article.)

In your own direct experience, rather than some spiritual theory, what’s actually happening here in this moment? Awareness is aware. Thoughts are being thought. Actions are being taken. A world is manifesting around you. Where is this “creator” thing people talk about? Can you find one? Or is it simply just some abstract thought? Where is the “me” that is this “creator”?

Who is the doer? There isn’t one!

Yes thoughts are an integral part of the creative process. Yes there is the ability to deliberately choose thoughts. Yes what you think about you bring about. Yes thought is the energy that creates worlds. All the stuff the LoA teaches you is true, but this is all part of the illusion.

Co-creation Implies Duality

If we settle for the idea of “I am the creator of my reality” and adopt that as our new sense of self, now the mind may mistakenly say, “Ah, now I know who I REALLY am,” a feeble attempt for the mind to recognize the Self. But that’s okay. This is all the innocent mind can really do. This is certainly a step in the right direction. It’s closer to the truth than “I am the victim of a power beyond my control.”

Seeing that “I” am the Creator of “my” reality and “you” are the creator of “your” reality and the two of us are, together, creating a shared reality, we are “co-creators.” Since there is more than one of us here creating, it’s duality and thus part of the dream.

This isn’t to say that the idea of being the creator of your reality is somehow wrong or invalid. No no. This is definitely the case in the world of the relative, but this is simply just another part of the dream state. What you truly are lies beyond the dream.

Non-dual Creation

What’s actually here is simply the unfoldment and flow of creation. To think that you are a single droplet in control is like trying to flail about and control the flow of the entire river. You actually are the totality of the river. When we stop struggling with life, we find that going with the flow or “turning downstream” as Abraham puts it is quite natural. Life becomes an experience of effortless creation.

Instead of “me” trying to control “my reality,” there’s a total letting go. In my experience, here’s the recipe for quick/instantaneous manifestation:

• A thought or desire arises from a state of pure joy and appreciation: “I would LOVE to do/have that!”
• The thought is experienced for just a moment.
• The thought fades away just like the breath after your previous exhale.
• You move right along with your life, completely forgetting about the desire.
• It just shows up on its own because you have allowed it to and offered it no desire.

Really the universe does all the hard work. All that’s done “on our part” is to enjoy/appreciate/focus up and then let go. That’s it. We’re not doing the heavy lifting. The universe is what does all the heavy lifting and figures out the “how.”

There is no creator and created. There is simply thought arising, a dreamworld happening, and awareness silently aware of it all. When they are all seen to be one, OF COURSE manifestation syncs up with thought. It must for there is nothing else out there!

Without the duality of a creator and a created, there is simply the unfoldment of creation of which everything is an integral and inseparable part.

Where is God in all this?

Saying that there is no Creator does NOT mean that there is no God. This is not what’s being said here.

Many people believe “God” is the creator and you and I are the created, separate from the Creator. The Creator is somewhere “out there” and the “created” is right over here.

But what is discovered is that there is no Creator or Created, independent of each other. There is simply the unfoldment of Creation. There is the flow of Life. There is the One, being. This unfoldment, this process, this being… this is God. This Life that you are, is God. You and God are One.

The attempt to split up “God” and “me” or the “human” and the “divine” or “heaven” and “earth” or the “Creator” and the “created” are all functions of the mind. They are illusory. The are based in duality.

You are God.

The human is divine.

Heaven and earth are one.

The creator and the created are the same exact thing.

This unity is experienced directly when we allow it to be, when we stop buying into our thoughts that suggest otherwise. Thoughts of separation may arise, and that’s not a problem. It’s buying into those thoughts as if they were the Truth that creates within us the experience of separation.

Enlightenment and the Law of Attraction Complement Each Other

With the Law of Attraction we have this mysterious non-physical Source *somewhere* through which we can feel our connection via our emotional guidance system.

Waking up and getting enlightened, we discover directly the presence of God Unmanifest, the emptiness, the nothingness, the unnameable, the Source of All That Is, prior to manifestation. We become that Source, or more accurately, we realize that we actually ARE that and have always been that. The recognition of what we truly are expands. The manifest physicalized presence here “on the leading edge” consciously unites with the unmanifest nonphysical presence of Source. In awakening, the unification of you and You, as Abraham puts it, becomes much more real as the apparent separation that previously seemed to be here vanishes. This happens because we see that the manifest and the unmanifest are one. The physical and the non-physical are one.

Awakening is about waking up out of the dream, but that doesn’t mean the dream necessarily ends. Mastering the Law of Attraction is about learning how to play with the dream in alignment with natural laws. The two go hand in hand and are both complementary pieces of the puzzles.

Both are valid. Both are functional. Both are just fine.

Going Beyond Identifying With a Creator

If you want to play the game of being the creator of your reality, by all means go for it! Have fun! Enjoy yourself! Play!

Just recognize that what you truly are is far deeper than any conceptual identity such as “a creator.”

What you truly are is totally independent of what you do. You just are.

What you truly are can’t be named. You just are.

What you truly are can’t be conceptualized. You just are.

It’s almost too simple for the mind to accept, and so the mind continues to run around under the delusion that “I can’t just be! I must be someone! Someone must be doing all this! I must be a someone, such as a spiritual/creative/enlightened someone!”

No mind, doesn’t work that way… What you really are is not a someone. It is not a something.

You are no thing arising as every thing. You are not anything as opposed to anything else. You are not a creator as opposed to a non-creator. You just are. You are a non-dual being.

Creation is gonna happen whether you mentally identify with being a creator or not. You don’t have to mentally identify with what you are to be what you are. Every specific mental identity is an extra layer on top of pure being. It can be stripped away. You remain.

Who would you be without adamantly clinging to the notion that you are “the creator of your reality?”

Without that added layer of mental abstraction, who would you be if you were to just be?

I feel like I can literally extend my consciousness into a higher dimension.. consciously and deliberately. It’s a cool feeling, like stepping into more of myself without really going anywhere.

Moving in a Higher Dimension

Imagine you were a 2-dimensional flat person for a moment, spending your whole life moving forwards and backwards and side to side in a totally flat world. Suddenly one day you discovered this ability to turn your arm “upwards” and reach up and out into the third dimension. Reaching up into the 3rd dimension would feel very much like reaching into one of the 2 dimensions you’re familiar with, wouldn’t it? It’s not really a wildly new technique to develop, just a new direction to reach into.

An interesting point to note is that you don’t have to move in 2D space at all when reaching farther out into 3D space. You could be bouncing up and down in the 3rd dimension and as long as you didn’t move front to back or side to side, you’d look perfectly still in the 2nd dimension. Movement in each dimension is independent, though not separate.

Reaching out into 4D is a lot like this. This 3D physical being doesn’t actually move when accessing the 4th dimension. It is consciousness itself that accesses higher dimensions, not the physicalized being.

Bollocks?

Is the 4th dimension real or am I totally making all this up? Well what I can tell you is that, with respect to imagination, the 4th dimension is just as real or unreal as the basic 3 dimensions.

Is the 3D world of form an illusion? Yes? No? Well so is this just as much.

Is the 3D world of form a valid experience within consciousness? Well so is this.

It’s like there’s this depth, this presence, that’s literally all right here. It doesn’t exist anywhere in time and space. I can’t explain this, but it feels just like reaching out with a non-physical hand, for lack of a better word, the hand of consciousness.

Simultaneously Physical and Non-physical

It’s actually a lot like living in two worlds at once. You can consciously experience yourself simultaneously playing with the 3D world of form, as well as resting in the 4D world of formlessness. Which one is more real? I have no idea. The intensity of presence in either world fluctuates, but they both feel equally real. You can experience yourself somewhere or nowhere, or both, or everywhere. It’s all just a shift in consciousness, not unlike how awareness can concentrate on one object or expand to encompass many objects.. all without actually going anywhere at all.

This opens up an entirely new depth to infinity. In 3D, you know how space extends in an infinite direction up and down, left to right, and front to back? Well there’s also a 4th dimension of infinity that can be accessed that is literally just as real as the 3 physical dimensions.

The 4th dimension doesn’t exist in time and space. It exists entirely within consciousness.

…So What?

What practical value does this have? Though I’ve previous touched on how to take advantage of higher dimensions, I honestly am not entirely sure yet the full extent to which this shift makes.

That said, there do seem to be some notable differences that now arise.

All Is Well

First of all, there is a sense of deep safety in this.

You know how if a bullet is flying straight towards you, you could simply step to the side and dodge it? Effectively what you’re doing here is moving from one parallel universe to another. One “universe” contains you standing directly in the path of the bullet. There is another “universe” basically standing “right next to you.” You can step to the side, moving from one experiential universe to another, and seemingly “dodge” the bullet. Being able to move in this direction gives you a greater degree of safety, you see?

Well being able to move in the 4th dimension is a LOT like this. You can totally alter what arises in the world of 3D by simply “stepping to the side” in 4D. In this way it allows you an increased degree of safety. No matter what danger you seem to find yourself in in 3D, you can always just “step to the side” and experience a “parallel universe” where you are safe. The wonderful thing is that that parallel universe is right here.

Am I claiming to be Neo with the ability to stop bullets? No, not at all. What I am saying is that it feels like the possibility to do such a thing is starting to arise in consciousness. Exactly HOW to implement this I do not yet fully understand.

This ability is still very new to me and I’m very much still getting my bearings straight. You can liken this ability to “step into a parallel world” with the Law of Attraction, which in this case is basically the same idea.

Of course the true Self that you really are can never experience danger in the first place (really!) and so your true safety is not determinant upon whether or not you move out of the way of the bullet or not, but from the perspective of choosing what reality you wish to experience, there is a deeper sense of understanding of how to move between worlds.

But because consciousness can experience itself in this way, seeing why the Law of Attraction works the way it does suddenly becomes that much more intuitive, natural, and, well, downright obvious! It makes this all so much more grounded, real, and tangible.

Shifting Worlds

Ooh, just thought of a better analogy.. and I sure love my analogies!

Imagine a 20 story building where each floor was a totally unique world. Each floor had basically the same floorplan so it was structurally the same, but what was taking place content-wise on each floor was very different. Only one thing can happen per floor. In order to experience something else, you have to go to a new floor.

Now say that you were constantly switching from one floor to another, but you had no idea this was happening and so you’d say “My, all this stuff is happening in my world!” …as if there was a single thing called “my world” to experience. No no, there’s a bunch of individual worlds you keep jumping between, silly!

Only one thing is happening in the world you’re currently experiencing at a time. To experience something else, you have to go to another world entirely, another floor altogether.

When this recognition came, suddenly you’d find yourself without fear or worry about what’s happening “in the world,” aka. “on this floor.” If you don’t like what’s happening on this floor, you can simply go up or down a floor! Changing your physical reality is literally that simple! Reality doesn’t change. Your “location” changes, giving you the perception of a single changing world.

Moving in the 4th dimension is a lot like this. There’s an infinite number of 3D worlds, but you keep shifting in the 4th dimension, effectively changing what world is arising in the moment. This is us changing floors in every moment of Now.

There’s a real beauty in this dance. A great simplicity.

Being More of the Infinite

Another thing that I notice is that the human part of me feels expanded, fuller, and more complete, as if it’s coming more and more into alignment with the true Self that is already Infinite. As Abraham says, it’s the alignment between you and You, the physicalized leading edge of Source and Source itself.. which are actually One anyways.

You know that familiar battle between your mind and your heart/intuition? That battle seems like it continues to fall away.

It’s like I’m feeling more whole, as if I were returning to a seemingly long lost home that’s paradoxically been right here. There was previously the experience of being lost, an experience that arose when you couldn’t clearly see where you were.

We’ve been home this whole time. Call it Heaven or whatever, but it’s always been right here. We just couldn’t see it for what it really was.

Yeah, this is cool stuff.