Phoenix is Risen

The number one trick of your mind: Perceivable reality is simply a state of consciousness. It is the field of thought or thought field in which we become entranced. Each moment of reality is being reflected from the field of energy radiating from thought.

Ultimately, we exist in our minds. MIND can be defined as the space in which the thinking process occurs. It is the space in which thought is born within the private mind space of the individual.

We exist in an individual mind space while sharing an overall collective space of mind. It is the collective space of mind that holds this holographic/ virtual reality in its present existence.

All that we taste, smell, see, hear and touch is holographic. It is the solidity of thought, the finality of thought that maintains the holographic projections.

It is the conclusiveness of thought that solidifies believability as the thought is then held in the space of indefinite contemplation/ focus.

The texture of all preceding thoughts is determined by the architecture and the composition of energy of the original thought. Each thought however, begins its own divine expansion.

There are three levels of mind:

1. The mind of the physical body
2. The mind of the Christ-al body
3. Central/ Primordial mind.

The mind of the physical body is that which holds us bound to the emotional realm, third density.

The Christ-al mind is the divine offspring/ messenger of Primordial mind.

The Primordial or Central Mind is ULTIMATE THOUGHT/ THE SPOKEN WORD, from which all life springs forth. We exist in the Primordial Mind as simply dream, manifested probabilities of itself.

Central Mind has been dreaming the dream of separateness through the illusions of the multiplicity of minds. In other words we are PRIMORDIAL MIND. When we stand in the central mind space, there is no time, space or distance.

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by Dylan Harper

Okay, so more and more people are speaking of the importance of aligning with the natural flow in life — to find greater harmony, fulfillment and at-one-ment with the divine. But there’s an added complexity happening in the quantum field which I felt to bring attention to.

Because if you’re embarked on the spiritual path, it’s sure to be affecting you. It’s the realization that at least two main — sometimes contrasting — flows are influencing your consciousness. Understanding and integrating these is going to be important to peace of mind. Because the interplay of the two, will likely affect every choice that you make…

Consensus Realities for Collective Learning

‘The Flow’ descends down from the source through the dimensions inside you. It speaks first through higher mind, landing as a spontaneous knowing – “this is the way to go now”. Or else you’ll have visions of future-landing-now, and get knowings of the educational purpose for how the moment is configuring. The moment is always there to teach you something about yourself and those around you (for this all to be functioning correctly, higher mind needs to be activated).

So far so good.

But as the flow descends through the dimensions, souls are drawn together for a mutual learning experience which invokes and involves collective karma. Karma draws the threads of the quantum soup together, so as to create a reality which souls can engage in, in order to confront and process this karma.

This is where the complexity happens.

The consensus reality (‘consensus’ at a soul level, which is frequently unconscious) creates a reality with form, encompassing judgments, which are intrinsic to the karma. Like for example, you may consume animals without consideration. Or likewise exploit the resources of mother earth without feeling the need to be compassionate for her.

Or else people configure the environment to suit purely human needs. Such unconscious judgments arise from collective karma, and create a reality with all manner of rules, regulations and ‘normal acceptability’ (but often without conscious accountability).

Consider for example how ‘alternative medicine’ is being marginalised by the system because of the judgments society makes. Consider how the powers-that-be manipulate the climate or encourage genetic modification of prime foods, without labeling, and with stark consideration for the wider impact on the environment.

Becoming a Bridge between Worlds

All of these judgments, and countless more, shape first in the 4D field, which contains the karmic footprint humanity is working within. And this karmic footprint has a flow all of it’s own. It’s a harmonizing flow that works to ‘connect the dots’ so to speak — to connect up the fragments of light wanting to emerge from this density. The light progressively emerges and reality realigns with the source, the higher flow, inviting all those within it, to join the movement.

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by Brian Thompson.

As long as you believe that you are free “from” something, then you are not truly free at all. True freedom is absolute, not relative. It is not conditioned by anything.

There is only one solution for total liberation and that is to dissolve any idea of a “me” who thinks that it isn’t already free to begin with.

The only thing standing between you and happiness is a thought, and that thought is the concept of a “me” who believes it is somehow lacking, incomplete, unhappy, or unworthy. It is bound only by itself.

The troublesome me-thought is perpetuated only through its relentless search for relevance, purpose, pleasure and significance. Ironically, when it is emptied of its searching, all meaning is found.

Unqualified freedom can only be realized when you no longer self-identify with the “me” who enslaves itself through its endless grasping. As long as “you” remain relative, your sense of well-being will continue to be conditioned by the subjective concepts you believe in.

When the identity of the conceptual mind’s false “me” is no longer sustained through its endless story-telling, the imagined self will be exposed to be the very prison in which it was confined.

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By Carolanne Wright | Contributing writer for Wake Up World

“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care that can be inflicted on sick or well.” ~ Florence Nightingale

In this day and age, we’d be hard-pressed to find a few moments without the cacophony of modern life swirling around us. With 24/7 access to television, streaming video, radio and all sorts of digital music, we might not give a second thought to the constant audio bombardment. Nor do we typically notice the day-to-day chatter from our coworkers, friends and families. Then there’s the constant buzz of lawnmowers, highways, trains, planes and automobiles. But science is finding that “noise pollution” may very well dumb us down, compromise health and dramatically increase stress and the accompanying hormones — unfortunately, this last bit can lead to weight-gain and heart disease. Even low levels of noise can trigger a cascade of undesirable effects. It’s enough to drive one mad — literally.

In a world where noise is a given and rarely a choice, silence sells because it’s so uncommon. Finland has built a tourist industry around it by marketing silence as a resource, with catchy country branding like “Silence, Please” and “No talking, but action.” Finnish watch maker Rönkkö has also taken up the torch by proclaiming their products are “Handmade in Finnish silence.” In the quest for ever elusive quiet, people will shell out hundreds of dollars for noise-canceling headphones or pay into the thousands for silent meditation retreats. Beyond simply being a rare commodity, scientists are proving what we already know on an intuitive level — periods of silence are good for the body, mind and soul. But it’s only recently been discovered how crucial peace and quiet really is for our well-being.

A clamorous world is an unhealthy one

The translation for the Latin root “noise” is nausea or pain — which is exactly what happens when we are exposed to loud environments, especially if we are sensitive to sound to begin with. When noise becomes a chronic problem, our health ultimately suffers.

Writes Daniel A. Gross in This Is Your Brain on Silence:

“Studies of human physiology help explain how an invisible phenomenon can have such a pronounced physical effect. Sound waves vibrate the bones of the ear, which transmit movement to the snail-shaped cochlea. The cochlea converts physical vibrations into electrical signals that the brain receives. The body reacts immediately and powerfully to these signals, even in the middle of deep sleep. Neurophysiological research suggests that noises first activate the amygdalae, clusters of neurons located in the temporal lobes of the brain, associated with memory formation and emotion. The activation prompts an immediate release of stress hormones like cortisol. People who live in consistently loud environments often experience chronically elevated levels of stress hormones.”

These stress hormones have a real impact on health by encouraging high blood pressure, insomnia, heart disease and obesity. Our escalating noise levels have become such a problem that the World Health Organization reported in 2011 that western Europe (population 340 million) annually lost the equivalent of a million years worth of healthy life because of noise. The WHO also noted that 3,000 deaths due to heart disease were linked with exposure to excessive noise.

Further research published in the journal Psychological Science investigated how the relocation of Munich’s airport affected children’s health and learning. Gary W. Evans of Cornell University found that the children developed a stress response which helped them to ignore the noise, but they also ignored other stimuli as well — such as speech. The children tended to block out a majority of stimuli when exposed to loud noise, even areas where they should have been paying attention.

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by Frank M Wanderer

The ultimate goal of our spiritual growth is enlightenment, that is what we all wish to achieve. But why do we seek enlightenment? Perhaps because at present we feel that we are not yet what we should rightfully be, we are not yet enlightened.

What can be the reason why we are under that impression? In the first years of our life it never occurred to us that we needed to change, we needed to become somebody else, that is, we were in need of enlightenment. Then, some time during our life, that urge arose in us. It is imperative that we examine the circumstances and reasons why that emotion appeared in us, since it is that very emotion that prevents us from becoming enlightened.

Enlightenment is not a remote state of Consciousness that we need to achieve some time in the future, but it is the very heart of our nature.  Our spiritual quest, however, diverts our attention to that imaginary, future state of Consciousness that we believe to be enlightenment. In this way, the spiritual quest detaches and diverts us from our true nature, enlightenment. We are therefore unable to ever reach enlightenment through the process of spiritual quest.

Enlightenment is, as we can now see, our true inner nature. But what is in our true, inner nature? Unfortunately, during our spiritual search, most of us have been alienated from it; so much so, that we have even forgotten about it. It is, however, permanently present in our life, but we simply disregard it. Our attention is always engaged by something, something that we need to deal with, so we very rarely take the trouble of looking into ourself. Still, if we were able to concentrate our attention on ourselves, that brief moment of alert Consciousness would be enough for us to recognize that the alert Consciousness, free of emotions and thoughts is our true inner nature. We are now enlightened, we have never been anything else.

The question now arise, where that enlightenment, that alert consciousness has disappeared from our life? As children, playing free of problems, we live in the present moment, in the state of alert Consciousness (so if we wish to meet an enlightened human being, all we need to do is go out to the nearest playground).

Then, carefree playing was replaced by more serious things in our life. From our parents we learned who we are and what our mission in life is. We were told that we are young human beings, still in the process of developing and shaping, and becoming an adult is a hard work.

Carefree playing was gradually replaced by purpose-oriented work in our life. Our teachers and parents therefore taught as how to set up objectives, how to make plans, and we soon learned that future is more important for us than present. We then concentrated out attention from the vividness of the present moment onto the image our parents and teachers created in us, onto the image we need to become one day. Simultaneously with that process, the impression that we are not what we are supposed to be emerged gradually in our mind.

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by Phillip Schneider, Staff | Waking Times

We are living in truly extraordinary times. The veil of secrecy is being lifted like never before in history. In this time of awakening, humankind is drawing back the mask and emerging as a truly special species.

In a very small amount of time, but particularly in the past few years, more people than ever have broken free from the matrix-paradigm of religion and dogma into a new one based on free-thought and unity.

Interest in alternative medicine, media and expanded worldview has completely exploded since the 2012/2013 period of the end of the Mayan calendar and the beginning of the Snowden revelations. Both of these events and more have served as spiritual and intellectual alarm clocks for many people on the planet.

The emergence of more intriguing and intrusive technologies has also served to spark the big questions for people. Who are we? Why are we here? What is reality anyway, and why is it that about 8 billion of us have been placed here on this planet at this time?

The answer to that question varies depending on your particular belief system, but one thing is certain: we’re here to make things right for the future.

However, certain power interests have a different idea.

The Bamboozle

It’s hard for the average, good-willed person to imagine how someone might behave when given such power and privilege over the rest of the population. They say that power corrupts, and in the eyes of the global elite the goal is power and power alone.

If you take a look at the history of ‘power-men’ and women, you will find an alarming amount of well-documented information that paints a much more sinister picture than the one created by the mainstream media and education system.

One example would be Operation Northwoods, and an early 1960’s Department of Defense (DoD) document outlines the plan for provoking a war with Cuba by implementing terrorist attacks in the form of bombings and false flag attacks on American soil. This tactic of bait-and-switch been used for centuries to coerce the public into supporting wars they wouldn’t otherwise support.

Also note the Gulf of Tonkin incident, of which Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later admitted never occurred, and the summer of 2013 when Obama tried coercing the public into bombing Syria based on scant information about a chemical weapons attack that later ended up committed by U.S. funded rebels.

It is important to understand that the elite use many methods to keep world events moving in their favor, and for that reason, here are four of the most insidious ways in which ‘the system’ is keeping us from awakening to the truth.

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If you still don’t believe in psychic ability, you have to watch this video.

For many of us, it’s no secret that we all hold the abilities that some would consider “paranormal” or psychic, when it is really just an innate form of understanding we are all born with. These children are all part of a small alternative school in Essex. They are taught mainly with blindfolds which teaches them how to activate their third eye and see through their blindfolds.

These children are able to do pretty much anything while completely blind folded. They can read books, play games, draw identical pictures beside ones the interviewer drew, and it even gets more phenomenal than that.

This one girl they interviewed in that video named Lucy seems to possess a stronger sense of psychic ability than some of the others. While the interviewer is drawing different pictures for her while she’s blindfolded, she is able to tell exactly what he is drawing even before he turns the paper to face her.

She is literally able to see through her blindfold, and through the paper itself with her third eye. This right here is proof of the incredible potential of humans.

The problem is that many people will jump to an array of reasons to discredit this, and many similar videos and studies. Many people will claim that they can see through the blindfold, even though a suspicious crew member filming the interview tried it on themselves to verify that it was indeed not see-through. 

Many people will probably assume that the entire interview was set up and these are all actors. But what is the point of that, especially when this is been proven countless times before?

As the veil keeps thinning and we can collectively understand that there is much more to reality than we think there is, these types of phenomena will become commonplace. The woman who runs the program says the best time to teach kids these abilities is between 6 and 12 years old.

This is because the children are still existing through their emotional body; logic and critical thinking are not the prevailing methods of perceiving reality yet. They are very much in tune with themselves and haven’t been programmed by society to conform to “normality” yet.

They go to describe that is it is possible for anyone to learn this, but the ages between 6 and 12 are the easiest times to learn. If someone has been heavily programmed to believe psychic ability is a hoax, they will probably never unlock the powers of their third eye.

We need to understand the fundamental concept of seeing is not believing, believing allows you to see. Believing is something children do not have trouble with, as they mostly live in their imaginations and that is why it is easy for them to tap into these hidden abilities that we all have.

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by Christina Sarich, Staff | Waking Times

There are countless descriptions of the powers of the pineal to transport us into other realms, but perhaps no other explanation is as clear and concise as that offered by Jaggi Vasudev, commonly known as Sadhguru, the Indian yogi, and mystic.

This wise teacher tells us that the mysteries of the pineal are found beyond its physical location in the body. He explains that we can believe in peace, but true ecstatic union with the Divine can only happen through the pathless path – that is a transcendence of the physical reality which we currently are experiencing.

“This is a dialectical culture. You don’t take these things literally, logically. You need to always read behind it…. The third eye is not a physical thing. It is just that if your energies reach a certain peak within you, you have a new clarity of vision of  life. You see everything from a completely different dimension.” – Sadhguru

Sadhguru discriminates between the myth of the God, Shiva, who will open his third eye, and see the entire Universe, clearly for what it is, or destroy it by burning it all up with an awakened power, and the actual reality which this story represents to any seeker of an opened third eye. He describes the ‘dialectic culture’ from which this story originates, and says that it has been confused by a literal translation.

When we remove the distortion of the story, it is similar to eradicating the distortion of our experience which is also so badly slanted towards egoic, physical fixation, such that we cannot see ourselves, and our world as other, more enlightened individuals may from ‘other realms’ of consciousness.

As Sadhguru has said meditation cleans the flashlight so that our third eye can function as it should:

“Intelligence is like a flashlight. If you flash it, it’ll just show you what’s in front. Knowledge is like a projector; if you switch it on, it projects its own story. Now, if you came with a flashlight and you flash it on these paintings here, you will see the paintings just the way they are. If you came with the projector, which also has light in it, and you turned it on; you don’t see the paintings. You will see something else, maybe Jackie Chan fighting. That’s the difference between knowledge and intelligence.”

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by Frank M Wanderer

Truth is an objective fact, whereas a lie is always something that has to be fabricated. A masterfully created lie is, however, very similar to the truth, so such a lie can be extremely dangerous.

Lies, taken as truth, will lull us into a false sense of security, into a dream. Once we have believed that we know the truth, we no longer look for it, and we will not long for it any more. The masters of fabricating lies exploit that very psychological reaction. Let us see who they are and why they kmeep producing their misleading lies relentlessly.

Day by day, we hear from the media, what a lot of lies there are in the world. Politicians lie to us, bankers, business people and our acquaintances do the same. Even we lie to others, when we find it necessary. Where and what are the roots of all those lies?

A thorough and detailed analysis will yield a surprising result: we will find that all those different lies have only one single root, and that is found in ourself. That is nothing but the separate little self, the Ego. The Ego is responsible for all the lies in the world, the Ego is the greatest master of fabricating lies.

The Ego itself is the product of a masterfully constructed lie, as it is in fact a non-existent thing, which is given a pseudo-existence under certain circumstances. The circumstances exert their influence on us through our parents and other people important for us. They are the people who created the Ego in us, when they told us in our childhood who we were and what are names were.

The lies, naturally, did not begin there, since we needed an Ego to survive and collect experience in the world. The lies began when our parents made us believe that we were identical with that Ego, we were nothing but a restricted, separate existence. That was the first lie, and the others were nicely added like new and new layers over the years. With the effective help of other people we fabricated a lie about the world, and another one about our own mission in it. Naturally, we were not aware that these were lies, as we took them as truth, and we honestly believed in them.

By believing in, and identifying with, our lies, we have invested so much energy into these lies over the years that even when someone attempts to question their truth, we are scared to death. We believe that we know what the world is like around us and how it works. We can clearly see that it does not work perfectly, and we believe that if we try really hard, we are able to change it, to improve it. With such thoughts we want to create a comfortable dream for us all. The dream is supposed to give us peace of mind, to convince us that we are appreciated by other people, and what we do is correct and desirable.

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Finding Nirvana — It’s clear the mainstream of humanity is becoming increasingly dissatisfied, and dis-eased as the seeming relentless struggle to control life and the planet’s dwindling resources rolls on.

Fortunately, a growing group of people are turning away from this mechanized madness by finding love, peace and fulfillment within.

It’s all about recognizing oneself as part of the greater whole and flowing with that, inside yourself.

Understanding how the microcosym of your life fits within the greater macrocosym leads to a sublime way of being. You find the mystical ‘nirvana’, inside yourself. Here’s how…

Infinite Creative Potential Exists Inside You

I put it to you, that the universe exploded into being and unleashed flows of consciousness, like ripples on a pond (which people call the ‘big-bang).

It was done without intention — or else who had the intention and where did the ‘creator’ come from? It just happened. And that creative potential still exists inside of you. It is who you are.

When you let go of the need to control life, the release steadily unwinds you, taking you on a Journey of Enlightenment where ultimately you become the One, inside of yourself; you lose attachment to identity, it feels like no one is here.

The divine paradox is, that in touching this void of nothingness, you simultaneously realize the infinite potential of the One — the unlimited creative possibility that caused the bigbang. Your soul then writes a story — a flow — which is uniquely yours.

Finding Nirvana — The Journey of Enlightenment

This ‘Enlightenment‘ is not the end of the story. It is only the beginning of the authentic one. You then begin to recognize sense of purpose, unveiled as divine service to the whole.

It is only when you let go the life you thought you were creating, the real work and the real service comes gloriously into view.

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by Zen Gardner

Very new times are upon us. The shift continues to shift in new and amazing ways, challenging even new found paradigms almost as quickly as we arrive at considering them.

If things aren’t morphing that quickly for you perhaps you’re not paying attention. Because there’s a good chance they are and you’re just not noticing.

Little things and big things are taking on new shapes and forms. It may appear subtle at first until you tune in, but timeline splits and glitches in the matrix are real, as is this powerful background of vibrational change. We’re beginning to notice things we either were too preoccupied to take note of, took for granted, or were too naive to pay attention to.

But now they are increasingly hard to miss.

What to Look Out For

One of the biggest manifestations I’m currently experiencing is meeting new people and seeing an openness I’ve never seen before, almost as if people have awakened out of a dream or some sort of suspended animation but didn’t know they were “on hold” for an indefinite period of time.

This has been profoundly so in my recent and current travels, and has been corroborated by trusted awake and active colleagues of mine.

It’s quite thrilling. The awakening we’ve sensed for so long is manifesting so rapidly now anyone can see it – – if they’re looking. Just as profound if not more so is personal experiences I and others I’m in close touch with are experiencing. I’ve written on these types of phenomena for years but they’re not just accelerating in frequency now, but taking on new, intriguing nuances.

That to me is the most confirming aspect of these types of new experiences. They’re out of my old interpretation and experiential paradigm, as awake and aware as I thought I may have been. It’s totally new. It my seem similar in many respects but it’s as if I’ve never noticed these types of things before. It’s very similar to the Mandela Effect and other slippages, be they timeline and parallel world phenomena or aspects of perception.

To me these attributes validate what I’m experiencing as potential “Doors of Perception“, as Aldous Huxley wrote about, however misleading or covert his intentions may have eventually been.

It’s simply a great metaphor.

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by Thad McKraken

(Part II, Part III)

Over the years I’ve gotten continual requests for magick instruction from readers, which puts me in an odd position. First of all, I think the concept of magick in general is ridiculous. From what I’ve experienced, the only reason we think of this sort of thing as magick has to do with a profound and fundamental ignorance in regards to all things altered states of consciousness. If we knew more about this sort of shit or gasp, studied it, we wouldn’t think of it as magick anymore. We’d call it something else, something less mysterious and vague. And that’d be the other thing, I don’t honestly think you can learn this stuff in books or classes really. At least this has been my experience. You have to learn it by means of direct contact with the spirit world, which typically happens in some sort of altered state. That all being said, it has recently occurred to me I have in fact downloaded a ton of psychic intel into my being over the last 10 years of practice that could in fact be potentially helpful to an aspiring mage. I recently released my first largely channeled book (only a $5 download, it’ll totally re-write your cultural imprinting), but that’s almost an art book as much as it is a magick book, albeit a living art book mind you.

Mainly, when someone asks me about whether or not a particular book or class is a good one, I’ll take a quick look and go, ummm, well, that’s not remotely what I’d recommend, but ultimately I have no clue. In general it strikes me that a lot of say chaos magick is more influenced by atheism than anything else. It’s sort of taking the spirituality out of the equation and from what I’ve been shown, this stuff operates on a deep spiritual level that I personally don’t remotely comprehend. So I think you’re missing probably the most important aspect of the practice if you go that route. In fact, the most continual message that’s come through hypnagogic ether over the years in my microverse is that thought does not arise from matter, but rather matter is comprised from thought. I keep waking up in an alternate realm and having this explained to me over and over again. Look, your world is made of imagination at its core. Then I pull back into the tedium of my waking existence and am like, I get it on one level, but on another I don’t, which is why I imagine why they keep beating it into me. When you take this most fundamental of lessons out of your underlying philosophy, I’m not really certain magick is going to do a whole hell of a lot. In fact, the popular history of the Occult sort of leads one to believe that magick in general doesn’t work at all. More to the point, I’ve been sort of forced to confront the fact that because of organized religion’s calculated slandering of the craft, it currently attracts people who are going to use it to self-destruct quite spectacularly.

And yet you also have the ancient pyramids and all of these megalithic architectural sites which point to a star obsessed spirit science beyond what we’re currently capable of with all our flashy electronic technology. You also have new research into psychedelic drugs which is quite quickly demonstrating that you can create more profound spiritual experiences by calculatedly manipulating brain chemistry than you ever could by singing hymns in a church or reading the Bible obsessively. Another way to put that would be, culturally we think shamanism is a bunch of superstitious bullshit, but science has now formally proven that it’s not. Sorry about the genocide y’all. Our bad on all that. You also have meditation, which has now been repeatedly demonstrated to have all kinds of mental and physical benefits. And on the far end of the spectrum you have remote viewing, which again, has been demonstrated to work over and over again (albeit not nearly as effectively as military interests would have liked), but gets completely ignored by mainstream science and society because we can’t deal with the implications. And the implications are fucking weird to say the least.

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“We understand nothing! If you understand this, you understand everything.” ~ Paul Mic

The title of this piece (minus the subtitle) is the last sentence in a book I’m writing, entitled Self-inflicted Philosophy. Why is it the last sentence, you might ask? Because I’m aware that everything I wrote could somehow be false.

More than likely a great percentage of what I wrote reeks of ill-logic, false correlations, tautological reasoning, and maybe even some inadvertent solipsism. In some places it may even be downright wrong. Then again, maybe not. But “maybe not” still doesn’t get me off the hook of hypocrisy. Nor does it get any of us off the hook. Indeed, our very existence is the hook.

Socrates realized that no one was wiser than he because no one understood their ignorance as well as he did. Similarly, no one is wiser than the one who understands his/her own hypocrisy. If we open our minds, realizing that we might be wrong or mistaken, then we may be ready to learn. No matter how much we think we know, there is nearly an infinite amount of information that we don’t know. We are all hypocrites just as we are all ignorant of things, but the intelligent thing is to become aware of this fact. Ironically, you’re more likely to be right by admitting that you’re more than likely wrong than if you were to declare that you’re more than likely right. Huh?!

As Robert Kurzban wrote in Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite, “The modular design of the human mind guarantees hypocrisy. What remains to be explained is why you think this doesn’t apply to you.” As such, the modular brain has become the modular mind. Our multifaceted nature makes us conflicted and inconsistent. Even hypocritical. But it also makes us flexible and fluid in the face of change. And when it comes down to it, change is really all we have to hang our hat on. It’s the only impermanent permanent, even if it is just an illusion mixed in with the equally powerful illusion of Time.

In a very real way we are all completely delusional. We’re each surfing on precarious waves of illusion that we claim to be reality. And really, we can’t help it. It’s inherent within the human condition. Hypocrisy is our core. How could it not be? Think about it. We are mortal animals in an ancient universe, torn between spirit and flesh.

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by Brian Thompson.

The universe’s centre is everywhere, with its circumference nowhere.

It is infinite, as are we. We have no centre, despite our ego’s inference that we are limited to the body and confined by the mind.

What this means is that all things are the centre of the universe, which alternatively means that there is no centre at all, but rather just a continuously changing and interdependent co-arising of temporary manifestations. All things affecting all things. In truth, All things ARE All things. None is greater than or more important than any other, nor is any apparent thing less significant.

There is only Absolute Unity, with no division whatsoever. This is the non-duality of All that Is.

Just as the universe is beginning-less and end-less, so too are we, for our apparent consciousness is birth-less. It was not born, it arose. It appeared, no different than a ripple arising on the surface of the sea.

Consciousness awoke and we opened our eyes, revealing a world that was already there—just as our apparent body was, awaiting us to perceive all of its sensory sensations.

The truth of our reality is beyond the scope of human perception, it is timeless and eternal. It is deathless—and so too are we. I do not speak of the body, nor the mind. I speak of the true Self that is presently aware of these words; the consciousness that is cognizing the seeing that punctuates your present presence of beingness.

Just as the eye cannot see itself and how the tongue cannot taste itself, the finite human mind can never truly comprehend that which is infinite.

Nevertheless, we are the infinite and eternal presence of aware knowingness. We are a verb, not a noun. We are the knowing, but not anything we appear to know.

Every moment is spontaneous, raw and new, never again to be repeated. It is unplanned, unrepeated and unscheduled. Every particle is part of the whole, with no division between any of its apparent parts, with every apparent element and every apparent thing forever transitioning and transforming, continuously dissolving and re-creating into something new.

No thing is static, no thing is still. We are the wave that is waving, the breeze that is blowing—the dream that is dreaming.

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On the ordinary days of our life, you work, educate your children, have some fun, build and sustain connections with others, that is, you live an ordinary life. The question is, whether you are mindful during all these things, or you just perform these activities mechanically, automatically. What is the evidence for me that you are not mindful?

First, that you are not present. To be present means that you are fully alert, attentive, and conscious in the present moment. Whatever you do, you do that fully consciously, you focus your entire attention on that particular activity. Or, do you feel free to declare that you are present in every moment of your life? You are careless most of the time, as a large segment of your attention is bound by dealing with events of your thoughts, events of past and plans for future and your own self. Psychological time therefore displaces the moment of the present, or subordinates it to past or future.

You therefore perform the overwhelming majority of your daily activities mechanically. Your attention only becomes more intensive when you meet someone or deal with something who or that you find interesting, or useful in some way. Or the opposite: the person or thing may do harm to you in some way. If you are mindful, only the Here and Now exist for you. This state of Consciousness is characterized by deep silence and tranquility.

You could ask, how could you access this state of Consciousness?

I would answer you, that in your life you have already lived through this mind state, more than once.

On the grey veil of ordinary consciousness, there are gaps every now and then, and the bright light of the Consciousness shines through the gaps. The gaps are too small for you to get through, but have a glimpse to the reality behind the wall. Such moments are rare in the life of a man, but they are still there for all those who pay attention and want to see them. The toys of your daily life, however, occupy all your attention so much that you do not even notice the opportunity that opens up for you, your attention slips away from the Miracle.

When you submerge in your ordinary consciousness, your attention keeps wandering from past to future. The moments of insight are, however, only available in the Present, only if you leave behind the psychological time, the memories of the past and the expectations of the future all vanish, and you are able to focus your attention to the Miracle that unfolds in front of your eyes in the Present

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by Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff | Waking Times

“Greetings. We are not of this planet. We do not understand your strange customs. Your planet’s ecosystem is failing. Your leaders deny this. Explain. Why do your leaders lie to you? Why do so many of you believe these lies? Explain your strange customs. Why believe these lies? Save the planet. Kill yourself. Save the planet! Kill yourself!” ~The Church of Euthanasia

Or, maybe instead of killing yourself, you can figure out a way to live in healthy accord with the greater cosmos. Maybe instead of suicide, just don’t attempt ecocide. Maybe instead of giving into entropy, it would behoove you to understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy. Maybe unfucking the world (making the world healthier) means unfucking yourself first (making yourself healthier). Sure, you could take the easy way out (death), or you could challenge yourself to become a healthier more robust version of yourself (life) that lives in flexible balance with the environment.

But suicide is always an option. Nobody can stop you. As Albert Camus intuited, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.” This existential conundrum, above all others, must be reconciled before there can be any sort of clarity. Otherwise, we are left drowning in the absurdity of it all. Indeed, but the solution to absurdity isn’t suicide; it’s rebellion.

Here then are seven ways to unfuck yourself as an alternative to killing yourself.

1. Embrace Your Cognitive Dissonance

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” ~Daniel Goleman

“Cognitive dissonance” is fast becoming as cliché a concept as “thinking outside the box.” Both of which the majority of us imagine we have a handle on, when really we don’t. It’s classic Illusory Superiority: Psychology 101. Yet still, most of us take it for granted that our perceptions are fallible and our ideas (especially our ideals) are flawed. And so we hypocritically go along with the status quo, disingenuously engrossed, cow-eyed, mackerel-eyed, and caught up in the ignorant whimsy of a fundamentally unhealthy and unsustainable system.

You want to be worthy of that air you’re breathing? You want to become a reason for not committing suicide? You want to unfuck yourself? Then embrace your cognitive dissonance first and foremost. Wrestle it into submission. Humiliate it. Kick its ass with malicious modesty and honorable humility. Then teach it how to dance properly in accordance with the greater cosmic orchestra that’s been playing its Song of Truth despite your petty faiths and myopic musings since time immemorial.

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As a hypnotherapist at Aloha Healing Women for twenty four years there have been many occasions when it has been helpful for a person to review a past life to help them heal their present life.

You may not “believe” in past lives and this is not about convincing you one way or the other. One person I regressed experienced a life as a high priestess in Egypt who was literally stabbed in the back by a fellow priest in order to eliminate her influence with the royalty.

This person asked how her past life could have felt so real, and if there was any way to know if it had actually happened. The timeframe of that revisited life was approximately a few thousand years ago and, as in so many past life sessions, there is no “proof” to offer that it actually happened.

However, my response was: “Did it feel real to you? Did it answer questions about your beliefs or feelings that you have long wondered about? Did it explain something to you at a base level that makes sense to your present life?” If so, then that is all that matters; you don’t have to prove anything except that you learned something that helped you understand yourself better.

Feelings From The Past

One of the safeguards I use is to always ask if the source of any issue you are exploring is rooted in your present or past life. This prepares you for what you may be about to experience. When I first began my hypnotherapy career, a woman wanted to find out why she always felt like she was being dragged down.

She was adamant she knew that this was because when she was a young girl in a chorus, a boy had undone her jumper in the back and wound her straps around the row of interlocked chairs while she was talking to a friend. When the group was asked to stand up and sing, she was jerked back down with the force from being tied to a whole row of stationary chairs.

As with any hypnotherapy session you always want to go back to clear and heal the situation that you are still carrying with you so you can learn from it, release it, and be free. In this session I asked her to go back to the source of her feeling of being held back or dragged down. Lo and behold, she finds herself freezing in the Atlantic ocean being dragged down by her heavy traveling clothes as her vessel is sinking.

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“When we begin to see through the illusion we once took to be “me”, there is a simultaneous emergence of our true nature from the background, where it has been waiting patiently for us to sober up from the intoxication of seeking. What was never lost need not be sought. When we realize directly that we have been like a wave searching for the ocean, the momentum of the search is undermined, and we can finally exhale... In doing so, we begin to feel the Mystery at the heart, rather than relying solely on the thought energy which constitutes the mind. Moreover, in seeing through and discarding any lingering struggle and recoil, it at last becomes obvious that this Mystery, this Life, is who we are, have always been, and will always be..” ~Bob O’Hearn

The following are excerpts from The Conscious Process, a collection of essays by Bob O’Hearn, a modern mystic living in Northern California. Bob studied Zen formally for a number of years during the 1960s and 1970s, with Shunryu Suzuki & Joshu Sasaki. His teachings are aligned with the non-dual view presented by Advaita & Dzogchen teachers. Links to the full essays on his blog follow each excerpt. 

Consciousness & Awareness

“The Buddha made an eminently astute observation when he noted that what we are is the result of our thinking: “As ye think, so shall you be.” Indeed, it is consciousness — the power of thought-energy – which creates everything we take to be reality… Consequently, taking responsibility for our thoughts is a necessary step in our being able to function effectively in this realm.

One perennial obstacle in the consideration of consciousness, however, is that the terms “consciousness” and “awareness” are often used interchangeably, resulting in a lot of ensuing confusion and misunderstanding… Essentially, consciousness can be regarded as mind with objects, whereas awareness refers to mind without objects.

In this perspective, consciousness might be considered the relative nature of mind, since it is transitory and dependent on conditions, whereas awareness would be regarded as a reflection of the absolute nature of mind, since it is the unchanging background..

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Confucius said: “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.”

We hear and speak words everyday for the reason that we heavily rely on them to communicate. Because of this, words play a very important role for shaping our beliefs and perception of reality. It is estimated that the average person speaks more than 7,000 words per day. Even though we hear and speak words everyday, most of us have no clue as to how powerful words are.

What most people do not know about words is that they have magic properties and are very effective for deceiving the mind. However, words can also be used to empower the mind. In this article, I will show you how words are used to trick you to give up your natural rights and spiritual powers to the state. Every time you give up your spiritual powers and natural rights to a government agency, you are committing sin against the Prime Creator.

The process of using words to trick you to commit sin is what I like to refer to as word magic. Be aware that word magic can be used for good or evil purposes. If you are new to word magic, I recommend reading my empowering article titled Magic and the Power of Words. My article shows you evidence of why words have magic power.

One of the first things the state does to trick you to give up your natural rights, so they can make you play their vampiric game called the debt-based commerce system is by convincing you to sign commercial contracts with their government. Your first commercial contract with the state is the birth certificate. I am not going to go into details about the birth certificate, because this article is about educating you to become aware of the magic power of words and why words rule the world. If you want to learn more about the birth certificate, watch the short and informative video below.

The Magic Power of Words

Before we explore the magic power of words, I need to explain to you what magic is so you can see the relation between magic and the power of words. The term magic is derived from Old French magique, Latin magicus, and Greek magikos. One of the earliest definitions of magic is the “art of influencing events and producing marvels using hidden natural forces”.

The Universe has many natural forces. Some of these forces are the “engines” that control the behavior of sound, light, vibration, and frequency. When you learn to use these forces to control energy, you can control how energy manifest itself into physical things to a significant degree. This is the art of magic or magick.

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