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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

- Harry Shearer

One of the reasons folks have a hard time committing to the idea of a Power Greater Than Their Own, is the belief that absolute power corrupts.
Always.

But we have, in our minds, the memory of wholeness, Of a loving God, and that is where our real home is.
Thinking that something all powerful must be corrupt is a classic example of dualistic thinking, of victim mentality.

ex: If I trust anything completely it will lead to my weakness and vulnerability, and nothing is perfect and whole - I will be hurt in time.
That’s why we are afraid of God. He made this world and everything in it, right? So he must be corrupt because there is pain here. I mean, someone must be to blame for all this sorrow and suffering, right?

I say MY God is not responsible for the pain of this world. MY God is purely loving, whole, perfect.
If your God isn’t these things, I want nothing to do with him. You can have him.

It is difficult for an earth dweller to think in terms of wholeness.This is in spite of the fact that, every experience we have ever really trusted is whole in its nature..
When your mama looked into your eyes with that pure love, you weren’t comparing her to another.
When you were in that symphony hall listening to your favorite Beethoven movement…. say, why is it your favorite? Because it moves you to a place of non-duality - to a space of wholeness.

….looking into a newborn’s eyes…..standing out on a starry night, feeling connected….YOU know what I’m talking about.

If it seems a bit lofty to think of yourself as a whole part of the universe and beyond, as joined to all other consciousness’ minds, and joined in God, the Great Unifying Force Field of Which we are all a Whole Part….then keep doing the lessons of the Workbook of A Course In Miracles. They will lead you to an experience of yourself as purely subjective. And THAT feels more real than this body.

It is a time of great joy in the cosmos!!! We are being applauded by our Celestial Neighbors.
In cosmic terms, we have graduated to at LEAST the first grade….!

….or you wouldn’t be reading this far.

Keep moving, always ask for more, never believe anything in this world can satisfy.

Just keep moving.

…it’s just up ahead…..you are so close…..

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“This snow’ll break some trees. Take that broom, child, and knock it off the bushes outside the house.”
Dad.
He called me child.
And sometimes he would go out with me. We were freedom riders, bashing away at snowy chains…..their captives’ limbs bobbing and waving their gratitude.

I stand at the window and watch the huge snowflakes. big as dimes and quarters.
mesmerized
remembering
Only happy memories remain. All the rest has been cleansed and purified.

Now I can see what has been there all along. Al the love just behind appearances. It seems so simple .

It occurs to me that I am, without noticing too much, starting to get a lot more mystical. I am starting to remember past lives, starting to know what people are thinking. I am actually starting to stop myself before I blurt out my thoughts and questions…I think…”is it helpful?”
And I wait for the answer.

All I can say is I am a student of A Course In Miracles. For 17 years I lived close by an enlightened consciousness, a fully realized being, who cared more about my awakening than he cared whether I liked him or not.
For this I loved him, with a love like no other.
No other in the world.
Because he helped me in my endeavor to leave the world, the life/death cycle, the time/space continuum…however you want to say that. And with no other agenda.

I want Self Realization and if I can speed things up, DANG!   Bring it on! I find this world uninteresting in what it offers. I have used it all up here.

In the utilization of this amazing map out of 3rd dimension consciousness into my subjective Real Self awareness, I am being undone.

This is tough on my very strong ego, who likes to think anything she can add is useful — she needs to feel needed. Such a girl, this idea I have about myself.

But no - my deal is allowing all the crap she came up with in the first place to be undone. She had some ideas, oh yeah. And some plans and projects.

And….as I am undone I am remembering … “re” “member-ing” I am being reinstated to full consciousness. I am reaching past linear time and limited space…it’s extremely cool…. Starting to remember past lives, feel karmic relationships, now I can observe the psychic patterning that called them all into being for me. All my little taskmasters, showing me the facets of my psychology, so I can look in horror, step back, bring in the love, and watch the whole theatre set disassemble and reformulate.

I am interfering less and less.

And you !  I see you now. I see the love even when you don’t. And I no longer need for you to see it, I can see it for us both. We are all so extraordinary, even the least of us. I feel the heart of the Creator in each one of us.

We are joined. Our minds are joined. I know you. I know what you are thinking.

TRINITY
Hello, Neo.

NEO
How did you know that –

TRINITY
I know a lot about you.  I’ve been
wanting to meet you for some time.

NEO
Who are you?

TRINITY
My name is Trinity.

NEO
Trinity?  The Trinity?  The
Trinity that cracked the I.R.S.
Kansas City D-Base?

TRINITY
That was a long time ago.

NEO
Gee-zus.

TRINITY
What?
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Now my mind wanders away from all the complexity….naturally tending toward wholeness. And Gratitude.

Occasionally I ask, “How did I ever manage to get through all that pain?” and I have compassion for the still sleeping and the dead unconscious.

Compassion and Gratitude. It’s all I feel….watching the snow softly falling.

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Recently it has been made clear to me (again) that just being yourself is quite threatening to most folks.

IF you are just being yourself, you are not trying to change yourself to fit into the situation. You are present and responding honestly to what is in front of you. Not manipulating, just responding.

I noticed when I started teaching A Course In Miracles that immediately I had thoughts of changing myself and the message so that I could get butts in seats to make me feel I was succeeding.
I love this message that is offered in the Course, and I know it is not for the faint of heart, but I wanted to please and cajole.

Ha!

If you reduce the message to be attractive to the masses, you are only offering a DISservice…to yourself and anyone who happens to stumble upon your fear based version of the Course. I had to take myself to task on this issue.

But the interesting thing about the “Spiritual Community” as such, is that no one really questions anyone who puts themselves out as a teacher. It is just weird. Different folks will claim they are enlightened based upon wildly conflicting ideas, and no one brings them to bear on these things.
It’s not spiritually correct.

!

The ones that really get me are the ones that are happy all the time and have no variation in tone. Like, you can’t allow your humanity to be displayed, because it will damage your spirituality.

Rubbish. The two worlds do not meet. The reason the so-called “spiritually correct” are loathe to show their corruption, or their honest take on things, is they are afraid of being wrong, or they are afraid of being judged. And they are certainly NOT interested in healing. The spiritually correct want to keep things copa-steady. No conflict, please. Jesus had no confllict in his life. Right.

How can you be wrong about your experience? And as all your projections are called forth to be a mirror of your own mind, who’s judging whom? …..Bingo! You are judging yourself.  WTF?

See? It is all pretty self explanatory if you just look at it and are reasonable about it. But we aren’t reasonable about our spiritual lives. We have a ton of ideas about how it should be, and we hate being challanged, even when we have turned our lives and our will over to God. What? Did we enjoy the surrender so much that we took it all back, just so we could turn it all over again! That’s a joke! We do take it back, but because we forget how pathetic our plans really are, and that when we Get Over Ourselves and accept the help that is offered, we are much the better for it.

But it takes Honesty. And Great Courage. And Humor….because you will be laughing at yourself over and over and over again. hopefully.

The amazing thing about the Course is, it lays out in a very reasonable fashion that if you want to be happy, you are going to have to allow, nay, encourage self examination and personal undoing.

This is almost always associated with fear - it tells you that, and yet we rankle at the task.

It also teaches in a very reasonable manner that all things that come at you are coming at your own authorship, and your own request. This means if a friend (and only a friend will risk anything) tells you something you Strongly Reject…..you can bet you are being given a golden opportunity to let yourself be wrong (I know - embarrassing) and to be thankful that your time has come to deal with this particular layer of persona that has kept you from the full realization of your Self in God.

Isn’t that what we are all doing here? At different rates of speed and in all different manners, of course, but we are all of us looking. Searching.
Marketing takes great advantage of this underlying current of desire for satisfaction. And nothing offered on TV brings any lasting value. And yet we keep trying.

If you are still here in the world, and if you are reading this post you definitely are, then you have some clean up work to do. Purification, whatever you want to call it.

And, I can assure you, the sooner you get onto yourself and recognize that pride, indignation, rejection, reaction, namely Any strong emotion that is not love, is a RED FLAG to your next assignment.

That word starts with ass.

Get over yourself. Or Under or Through your self. Whatever it takes. Because what is right behind your “self” is your SELF….and that is where all the fun is. All the juice, the Love, the feeling of Home, contentedness that you have been searching for.

Read the Course, Do the Presence Process for the fundamentals, then go back to the Course, do whatever it takes. But do the work. Or suffer…..heh, heh. Your choice, and you do have free choice, if only in this matter.

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Well, I gotta say this Michael Phelps is from another planet. ALL of the Olympic swimmers look like fish, or frogs. But he delivers just the way we love. He is superhuman in his swimming ability, and he is open and fresh when he is interviewed. Somehow he seem transparent enough that we just might crawl inside his skin and have his experience for ourselves.
But the real reason we feel that connection is because minds are joined. And because he seems like such a nice guy (always looking to his mother in the stands) we want to accept him….as ours.
He’s a great athlete, a great guy.

If you missed the opening ceremonies, you can still see the video here @ NBCOlympics.com

You’ll have to look around a bit - they are changing it every day, all day londscroll down to NBC Encores and look for “Opening Ceremony…”
And look at all the videos of the events you always missed before!

Movie director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Hero) spent 3 years preparing for the Opening Ceremony, imagining ways to show the world 5,00 years of Chinese history.
I just can’t say enough about how spectacular it was. (more…)

HobbesYouAreSoCool

1. Do make the most of the early moments of the day. During the night you have been out traveling in the cosmos and beyond, so when you come back in, don’t miss the chance to program your day while you are still reconnecting. Once you are back in and all the synapses that make up “you” are reconnected the moment has passed. So program in something like, “I will experience just how extraordinary everyone is today.” or, “Today I will feel enhanced healing capabilities in ways I can easily recognize.” Say it out loud and say it three times.

2. Do not be late for your first appointment. Make it something you would like to do or someone you would like to see. Do what you must to start the day. The more you feel rushed, the more mass density you will impale yourself upon. When you stay loose, you can stay in control and never work yourself up into a vicious velocity.

3. Remember - it’s an open head we are going for here, so train yourself to take frequent flower-smelling breaks. It can be in the middle of a conversation with a client. Just go within, say, “Remember” and let it shift a little. Remember what? Oh, how about Remember-this guy needs love more than most, or Remember-there’s a whole other world of light just behind the fearful one we can see so easily.

4.Do push yourself to become more productive, more focused during your work time. We are calling it work for a reason, yes? Not only does it make work time shorter or juicier, but it keeps your brain alive and young to keep the challenge up.

5.Do learn to notice when your energy turns inward. You are dense, worried, planning, chewing, chewing, ChewingMind in this state. Bad dog! The instant you notice, however, you are back in the present, your energy is turning outward again. Having trouble with getting it re-directed? Try doing something for someone. And do it right away. Call that elderly relative, brush your cat, rub your friend’s shoulders - just get outside of your head.

6. When you notice you are irritated, disgusted, repulsed, angry for ANY reason….stop and love yourself for being irritated, etc. The absolute quickest way to go from thick head to open head is raise your vibe with love. Love yourself first, then it radiates out….And You have a nice, loose Space head! WHOOOHOOOOO!!

7. Definitely do, at least once an hour, stop to refresh. Put down your cellphone, let go of your mouse, your whatever and just stop. Let in God, the Universe, the Whoosh of life as you know it, and just hook in. Don’t let go until you feel, experience, a shift - away from density toward space awareness.

I hope this helps you.

When I watched this Alexander Artemev on pommel Horse I was absolutely thrilled! When he dismounted both my fists were in the air and I was making some war cry like I was one of the 300 of Sparta!
YAAAAAAAARRRRGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
Yeah! I love the Olympics!

Spectacular!
This year I had mixed feelings about the setting of the Summer Olympics. I may not understand cultural differences, and I still feel the pain of the Tibetans in their oppression by the Chinese.
But I do love the Olympics.
The opening ceremonies were visually so very dramatic and sweeping that I was absolutely taken in.
Yes, They Got Me!

The next day my mixed feelings were expressed by a group of friends around the lunch table. At first we rankled about the American newscasters and how, during the processional of all the countries’ athletes, they brought up every negative political event.
But - after all - they are newscasters, and they did have to fill the time. I have found that much of human behavior can be brought down to simple things such as filling the broadcast time with something other than silence. The emphasis seems to be on quantity, and not so much on quality. And so we wished the primary Olympic ideals had been the only focus - the presentation of the highest ideals known to man here on earth - the desire for excellence, fueled by passion, tempered by self discipline and measured by competition with others of the same mind, the same devotion.

Soon, however, I noticed my friends and I started drifting toward the same issues, somehow unable to deny the pain we know and somehow feel. When the Sudanese athletic team, we had all been reminded of Darfur and the situation there. If the Wikipedia explanation as to the source of this conflict is correct : “The combination of decades of drought, desertification, and overpopulation are among the causes of the Darfur conflict.”, then we have a lot to look forward to in the global warming effects.

But back to the ideals.

I say the Olympics will do a lot to pull China into the World Culture in a big way. In a fast way. They are, to me, a big and fat, ancient baby with a new and expensive toy (money) that is potentially dangerous.

The best ways to develop a human rights consciousness is to become more visible to the world. I know for myself that when I am more visible, I am more involved, I feel called upon to be more conscientious.
And, I feel more deep satisfaction in that connection.

So let’s party! The Olympics are Fabulous!

How do you tell when one moment has ended and another begun?
Have I finished eating the Valencia orange I was eating a few minutes ago? How can I really tell? If I try, I can experience it as though it is now. And if I do the same with other “older” thoughts, I can be there, too. Neurological test have shown that when a distance runner “thinks” the run with clarity, the nerves fire Just As Though Running The Actual Track! So your body can’t differentiate.

Mind is a powerful thing. It has the ability to stretch time out into a linear thing, but when you look closely…..it is reasonable that all time is going on at the same time. The thing that changes is you…your chosen point of observation.

Now, think about the times when you had a psychic experience. When the phone rang, you knew who it was calling, and there was no reason for it. Someone at the office has been away for a time and you didn’t even notice until one day….and that’s the day they returned. Or maybe you just pulled some factoid “out of the ethers” that you didn’t know you knew.

Everyone has these experienced. Some folks don’t pay attention, or call it coincidence.
But that evidence points to the fact that we are all sharing one mind. There is no distinct edge between you and the next guy. Not really.

The point here is this: You are the determiner of your experience. You choose what perspective, what time you want to be in. And you are the one who decides how aware you want to be of your intrinsic connection to …..well…..everything.

So the obvious next question is: What will you choose? Where do you want to be? Who do you want to see?
Do you insist upon seeing your brother as a limited, flawed human, that unconnected to you and opposing you? Or how about the reality that this same brother is Perfect. Another Whole Part of God, just as you, and in this moment in time is only a reflection of your idea of Whatever You Choose!
Can you see how taking complete responsibility is the only reasonable choice? It’s the only way out of the typically held and very human idea that you are a victim to all that surrounds you?

Hey! What are you thinking? This is a question I ask myself, oh, say, 100 times a day.

I am always fucking it up - going off course and then correcting. Then going off course again and asking for help to get back in the flow. That’s OK. It’s part of the deal. (Listen, if you are going to get all tangled up in doing it perfectly, you will never begin to live. That’s called writer’s block.)

It took years of applied effort to begin to be able to even tell when I was out of the flow, but that’s another talk! Ha!

So, today, ask yourself these two things, and do it a lot:
What am I thinking?
What is it for?

If it is for love, inclusion, forgiveness, release, then Cool!

If it is for separation, being right, holding a position (fear) and opposition, then Let It Go.

Learn to move easily out of that crap! You owe it to yourself and the entire racemind!

I still vote for Love.

I still vote for You!

Lately I have been thinking a lot and surfing a lot on the subject of Personal Development.

Check out this link: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/

I love any guy who is a great left brain thinker, AND who has a wife who is very right brain, very different, and he puts her link right there on his front page.
Inclusive is good! As Mario says, “Good, Good, Good!”
I love any guy who can see that the effect of coffee is … (I’m paraphrasing here) Yeah, I have a real forward thrust from the caffeine, but no greater productivity because I’m all over the place in my mind.”
It’s TRUE!!! I never saw that before!

Then check out this one:
http://www.quantcast.com/stevepavlina.com
and look at the “Audience also likes” column on the right. Keep in mind this is a good sized audience!

In his blog today, Habit Change Is Like Chess, I can see that he is really teaching Don’t let your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Is Doing. In other words, keep your left brain occupied with analytics and such so that your right brain can just be about having the experience.

But then I realize that God never did address the issue of having a better life on earth. The Hebrews, of course, thought God did. When they prayed to God to destroy their enemy, and then they went out and destroyed them, of course God did it for them! (Anything to keep personal responsibility for all that carnage at bay.) And in our modern days, I’m sure that most of the people of the world actually believe that it was God who helped us defeat the Germans in two wars, and the Japanese. And the young Muslim boys that think God will reward them with a harem of virgins for being a suicide bomber is ridiculous.
(On second thought, maybe 72 virgins would be all the hell you would need to ask for a true solution!) (more…)