Core

What I see at the core of Judaism, at the core of Christianity, at the core of Islam, at the core of Buddhism is a vision of the ongoing pulsing power and light of the Eternal, of the Mystery that brings all, that brings us all into being. Connection with this core, this Mystery which births us, which is closer than the imagination which imagines, than the deep intuition which intuits, is at the heart and the practices of all four. No need to bang heads with one another when our hearts are at the same place. Each has a channel leading to Love. Love is where Its at and Love is What It Is. Blessings on all paths with Love at their core.

I see

Yes, I see. When I walk Flagstaff, sights leap into my camera. When I move to inner vision, which seems to me meta-external, I see behind me the beginning of space-time, the birthing of the comet of the Cosmos out of the Great Mystery that Meister Eckhart called the Godhead. I see the streaming of Now with its comet tail behind firing up out of the Origin. I see Now, the head of the comet of existence, blazing forward into infinity, opening into newness unknown yet fine, Mighty Fine.

Coherent Convergence

Much of the political structure of the world today appears to be run on the fuel of Incoherent Divergence, confused division. Each group, and I refer to not just America's political parties but to all such bastions of ideology in the world, has planted a flag in its turf and argues that its flag should be adopted by the entire world.

I am a fan of Coherent Convergence, clear unity. I believe, a la Teilhard de Chardin, that life forces are moving in that direction. Individuals and small groups can pout, fuss, stomp their feet, manipulate, coerce, rant all they wish but their efforts are like a person clinging to a toothpick as a life preserver in the midst of a slow-mo tsunami called Life Flow, Living Energy, the onrush from the Source, the Wellspring.

Life Flow is moving. We can see its direction. In all our disparities and hastily erected defenses against each other, we are being thrown together more and more. As has been said, the world is shrinking. Everyone is our neighbor. Flag turfers are strongly resisting the implications of this by wanting their flag to cover all turf or, equally as divisive, to build a fence around their turf and allow no "outsiders" in. The Great Wall of China is a tourist object and so will Incoherent Divergence be regarded in the unstoppably emerging future.

Coherent Convergence is where we are heading. Many of us are practicing it now. It is a way of delight, of arriving home. It is the path of Love.

The Special of the Day

The realm beyond the three dimensional world of the physical cannot be grasped by the mind. Why? Because the mind is a subset of It All. The It All is where and when (space and time) all barriers break down, dissolve. The barriers are created by human thought, by the desire of the human to be a force unto himself/herself. It is fine to be a force, but the force exists within a field, a force field. This field is the It All.

Some of us crank ourselves up to be the It All. Others of us go the opposite route, separate ourselves and look to work a deal with the It All. Many go on their way ignoring the existence of anything more than the three dimensional world, casting a blind eye to the It All.

When we go out of our little minds, all bounds dissolve. They are self-created anyway. Beyond ego and beyond world-sway, we open to unfathomable Reality. “Deep calls unto deep.” The It All dwells within us and we dwell within the It All. The heart is happy. The mind is sharp. Boundlessness is the Special of the Day.

Reifying the Construct

3d consciousness is a dream. In 3d consciousness, we reify the construct. Reify means to make real. A construct is each formative and forming body of energy that both thrusts itself upon us and that we create out of this ongoing flow.

Some of us value certain constructs, certain sets of constructs. Others of us value other constructs, other sets of constructs. Some constructs we may die for; others we may abandon easily. We continuously weave these constructs into a story: a story of who we are, where we are, and what is going on. We dare not let go of these. 3d consciousness fears it will fall into insanity. We dare not release our grasp. 

We view ourselves viewing the 3rd dimension. We try to snug back in, to re-become 3dimensional awareness, immersed in the realm of the physical senses. Yet we cannot stay. Once the baby is out of the bath, it wants new clothes. Or no clothes at all.

Once “saved,” always saved. 4d consciousness is now our home, our clothing, our nakedness. If we reflect upon it, we are caught once again in a hall of mirrors.

The trick is to live within this 3d realm without getting caught in it. To be “in the world, but not of the world.” We switch our identity, our loyalty. We align with the breath breathing us. We become diaphanous, transparent. We are Awareness awaring.

3d and 4d Consciousness States

The consciousness state that is producing species suicide (including our own) is three-dimensional consciousness. 3d consciousness is the consciousness state of “doing business” -- moving stuff from here to there, converting stuff to money, “making” as much money as possible. 3d consciousness is the consciousness state of the past, stuck in a universe where parallel lines never meet and power OVER is the dominant mode of relationship.

Many of us continue to be in 3d consciousness. Those who see it for what it is know how to operate within the three dimensional but, through the very act of seeing it for what it is, inhabit the four dimensional realm. I say inhabit rather than operate because the 4d realm of consciousness is worn like a suit of clothes so form fitting that any distinction between the form and the fit vanishes. 

Four-dimensional consciousness “contains” an awareness of the interrelationship of all things. Parallel lines meet all the time. Power WITH is the natural order and is the only form of power that truly works.

Our species is in a transition phase on earth today. 3d consciousness is looking to hold its ground, hell bent on its suicidal mission. 4d consciousness continues to open and at an ever increasing rate. Our nation states continue to be governed by 3d consciousness. Pockets of 4d consciousness continue to pop up here and there amongst local governing bodies.

Evolutionary energies are being expressed, are unfolding as 4d consciousness. 3d consciousness is a dinosaur whose rule has proved unsustainable.

Jesus, Buddha, and Lao Tzu

My life focus is and has been on the consciousness structure of humans. In particular, I have been captivated by the consciousness structures of Jesus, of Buddha, and of Lao Tzu. Each of them broke out of the prevailing consciousness structure of their time into wider realms. Their compulsion and their willingness to go beyond the formative consciousness states of their peers, indeed the necessity for them to do so, calls to us today.

“Many are called but few are chosen.” What does this mean? It means that the Origin which calls us all into existence continues to evolve, to unfold but only does so only within the consciousness structure of those with the capacity, the capaciousness, the room for further understanding. And not only the room, but the drive and the desire. Jesus, Buddha, and Lao Tzu met all the requirements.

The consciousness structure that began opening through them and is opening today is integrity, integral consciousness. Those standing in their little foxy holes of belief, taking pot shots at each other, and even actively killing anyone in other foxy holes are evolutionary rejects, are the walking dead and do not know it.

Formative consciousness is the small vehicle developed by each human to putter through the existent societal world with the least harm to self as possible and hopefully the gaining of rewards. The existent societal world of today is based on three-dimensional consciousness long outmoded through the Einsteinian (and others) understanding of and opening to four-dimensional awareness.

Jesus, Buddha, and Lao Tzu had already moved there, the realm of integrity, of transparency. They jettisoned their three-dimensional formative vehicles, leaving them behind like dry husks, and opened to the living reality of a four- dimensional world. Spiritual Marines, they were ahead of their time, landed on the further shore and declared its existence here now. Such is our challenge. Such is our hope.

Isolated Protoplasmic Blobs

In this time of great change and potential evolutionary catastrophe, the way we see ourselves is of prime importance: the way we see ourselves as individuals, the way we see ourselves in our relation to all others on this planet, the way we see ourselves in relation to the Cosmos. The three of these together form our self-concept. Our self-concept, our formed belief as to who we are, affects our daily life as individuals and as planetary citizens.

One form of self concept is as an Isolated Protoplasmic Blob, an IPB, who has to look out for self above all, who constantly positions self as superior, inferior, or equal to other IPBs. Seeing oneself as an IPB requires a continuous judgmental stance, the judging of oneself and the judging of others. Judging is an arrogant and fearful process based upon a deep feeling of separation. In other words, a lack of love, of love for oneself and of love for others.

One element of love is compassion. When in our IPB mode, we have little or no compassion for ourselves (self-pity perhaps) and certainly not for all that we see as outside us. As Isolated Protoplasmic Blobs, we are out of love, self-exiled, stranglers in a strangled land. We have no power WITH, so we rush to get power OVER.

As IPBs, we seek salvation. We wish to save our sorry sorrowful selves. We do not know that this salvation is within us. We think it is OUT THERE somewhere. And it is, but it doesn’t reveal itself until we find it IN HERE and the in here and the out there become as one.