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      "body": "Immune Function, Stress, Trauma - Being Calm During the Storm\n\n\nStress and distress diminish immune function via the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis. (search: stress & HPA axis - LINK ) to allow more of our energy to flow toward survival. When we believe our life is threatened, survival is a higher priority than immune function. When we are stressed and distressed, we also tend to lose higher brain functions such as verbal communication, cognition – including memory, speech, language, perception, orientation, attention judgement, planning and decision making, as blood flows out of the higher centers in our brain. When it seems survival is at stake, blood flows away from the skin and digestion and into the heart and lungs and the muscles of the arms and legs to prepare us to flee or, fight if necessary; if this highly activated state is prolonged the organism spontaneously collapses into a freeze – anything from pulling back through depression to catatonia. Traumas of any kind, including witnessing trauma – even, sometimes, watching a graphic video – further compromises our organism including our capacity for immune response. Add in a few Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs, LINK ) and we’ve got a person/organism who has been rather seriously impaired in their potential to fully be the one they most naturally would be. \n\nThis scenario gets darker as we recognize how our families transmit trauma and relational wounding down through the generations, unconsciously. (well documented in Family Systems & Sociology research). Later, we parents often wish we’d been smarter and wiser.\n\nThe capacity to self-regulate, interact and function as a human being is compromised in all of us to some degree because, at this point, pretty much all of us have more stress than we can comfortably tolerate. In fact, I don’t think there is a single lineage of culture, sect, community or peoples that has not suffered trauma, which affects the descendants’ for generations until someone has the wisdom and skill to clear it from their nervous system and restore their organism to its natural, optimal functioning. That’d be few among us at this point, I’d wager.\n\nMost essentially, truly optimal functioning of each one of us has been compromised by the simple reason that we have all adopted a persona composed of a cluster of personalities which, more or less, fit within this world of separation and reification that we each entered when we arrived here. We each adapted to this world which is grounded in a false idea and so, even though the sea of awareness has been willing to animate the projections of our mis-understanding for us to experience and learn from, our experience of ourself and our world has never been true and real.\n\nThis mistaken mind-world/dream-body of separation, dualization, polarization and reification we have been living within has been named in the wisdom traditions of our species - The Tower of Babble, Mammon, our Human Karmic Vision of Samsara. Our shared, mind-made, realm of experience and participation is inherently dissatisfying because it is not fully aligned with the resonances of the One which is All-That-Is. Our, often misplaced, reactive dissatisfaction is the result of this dissonance.\n\nAwakening together involves both noticing and releasing ourselves out of this mind-made distortion, which our consciousness has been living within and also recognizing the open, inclusive presence of awareness/being which underlies and animates every moment of our incessant mind-stream. This clear, alert sense of being is available and accessible any and every time we turn our attention toward it. The more we do this individually, the more we quicken it for others. The more we do this with others, the more we recognize the are no others; there is only us - you are my other-self. In this manner we release ourselves and each other from within our representation of 3-d separation and reification. \n\nThe key to getting the most out of each short moment is to give our whole attention to what is here once we’ve interrupted thought for a moment. The experience is not conceptual, and neither is it verbal. Rather, it is a direct, immediate felt-sense of just being this alert presence in this moment; there is a sense of wholeness, a singularity about it.\n\nAs the underlying experience of being reveals itself into our consciousness through the moment-to-moment sensations within and around our body, often labels and descriptions of its stillness, silence, the sense of boundlessness, the clarity, our sense of compassion, wonder and awe, etc. will arise as conceptual mirroring of what is being experienced. These insights can either be a distraction and an on ramp to being engaged with our narrative or they can remind us to appreciate our natural intelligence and return our attention to the non-verbal, non-conceptual felt-sense of our moment. Practice makes permanent.\n\nFinally, as we are learning to consciously re-focus our attention in this way, we begin to notice the discomforts in our relationships and our lives, differently. We are beginning to learn to redirect out focus toward experiencing the living sensations in our body, underlying our habitual narrative rather than only being aware of our incessant story. In this way we become lucid in the dream/body of our conditioned mind/world. Each moment this occurs, it is a big deal!\n\nThese sensations may be rather uncomfortable but, as we allow them space to be just as they are and we relax and stay present with them, they morph and change and dissipate; often revealing and redeeming a part of ourselves we had somehow lost track of some time ago.\n\nIn my experience and according to the practice traditions handed down through the lineages, this is the fastest way to digest these things, but it is certainly not always easy. Again, this kind of process can benefit greatly from safe, skilled support from someone who has done their own work; this is especially true, if what we are working on involves relational wounding. Relational wounds are best and most quickly healed in the context of a safe relationship with a skilled person.\n\nSpeaking now from my own early experience, if we have been traumatized; if we have been chronically, or even acutely, stressed; if we have been pushed to become somebody else’s version of who we are supposed to be, rather than supported to discover and express who we naturally are; our nervous system/organism may be so deeply dysregulated that it is virtually impossible to quiet the mind for more than the briefest moment in order to notice the alert presence that is always here. It can seem to take forever – an incalculable number of such brief, short moments - for us to begin immersing ourselves in the peace, ease, well-being and wisdom that are the spontaneous effluence of our natural state. It is wise to get support for processing through these old, conditioned distortions.\n\nWhile stress, trauma, ACEs have all been shown to affect our minds, our emotions, our health, our relationships, energy and mood, our ability to focus and follow through, etc., all of these aspects of our aliveness are the “surface features” of the complex and interactive processes of our brain and nervous system which underlies their various, temporarily stabilized, forms.\n\nBecause our mind, emotions, focus, relating, energy, etc., each express the current patterns of the nervous system within our organisms, each such avenue can be skillfully utilized to help the brain/nervous system/organism re-organize aspects of itself at a higher level of functionality, satisfaction and well-being.\n\nThese avenues of repatterning our consciousness usually involve different forms of skillful support. Various practices, therapies, body work, energy work, etc. can be very helpful along the way. I am also aware of a patented technology which, rather quickly, allows the underlying nervous system to repattern itself into a more harmonious, balanced and enjoyable adaptation to our lives. \n\nIf you are like me in this process, you may benefit from any number of practices, practitioners, techniques and technologies which support our organism releasing its mis-attunements and re-tuning itself, re-tuning us to our natural state. With the internet everything seems to be available in a few clicks. If you’d like support in sorting through the possibilities, if I can help you find help for your process, call or text, 510 301 8578. I am one of us; I am John.",
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      "body": "04.06.2020\n\nInformation, Knowledge and Wisdom\n\nAs I currently see it, each of us lives within a particular bubble of information/knowledge. To the extent our individual i/k bubbles overlap, the other person feels like our kind of people. Our i/k bubbles form through learned sub-cultural patterns of identification such as family ties, cultural context, community affiliation, nationality, etc., and they are developed through the particular fields of information/knowledge we find engaging. If another’s field of information/knowledge bears little resemblance to ours, their ways of being themselves in this world appear different, strange and even incomprehensible from the point of view we have within our unique bubble of information/knowledge. From within the mind/world of our familiar representation of reality, those folks don’t fit very well. We feel alarmed and threatened.\n\nAnd yet, they are here, along with the rest of us. At some point, we’ve recognized that any description or narrative like the one we’ve got running in our head pretty much all day every day, is always limited and fragmentary; it can only live within our personal information/knowledge bubble. Our bubble is always a very small sub-set/sub-process of the totality of our shared, human information/knowledge field. Obviously, everyone else’s information/knowledge bubble is likewise limited.\n\nNone of us has the whole picture unless our view is free of all points of view. \n\nWe each live within our own mind-made representation of reality and we have believed that that is the way Life is. A bit of reflection reveals to us that our personal bubble of information/knowledge overlaps to some degree with the i/k bubbles of some people much less than they do with others among us. None of us have the whole field within our personal consciousness.\n\nBut it is possible to embrace the whole field of our human species of consciousness through the skillful methods of realization and wisdom that have passed through innumerable generations of the practice lineages are being shared among those of us who have some interest in these streams of information/knowledge. Simultaneously, seemingly new practice paths have been emerging among us which are also helping us to recognize and to awaken our conscious awareness. This is the underlying opportunity within the dynamic energies of the very messy structural dissipations our human species of consciousness is navigating at this time.\n\nI believe, like it or not, we’ve all been sucked into a transformative vortex from which there is no escape. This isn’t Kansas, anymore. The tower of babble we’ve been living within has been created by our own minds on a mistaken foundation of separation and reification and its inevitable consequence is evident in all the polarization, superficial labeling and divisiveness destroying civility and preventing any real discourse. As a result nearly everyone is identified with the sound bites of a particular media-made world-view and at the throats of others who happen to be immersed in a different stream of identity and perspective with in this distorted sea of reified dualities.\n\nThe field of representation which constructs our sense of identity and its co-arising perception of context is breaking down as the light/energy/information/knowledge of the One that is All-That-Is has been emerging within our shared consciousness. As our world is changing, who we’ve taken ourselves to be becomes less and less tenable. If we haven’t yet begun noticing the peaceful expanse that is emerging beneath and behind our habitual mind-world/dream-body, losing our identity(ies) and their co-arising, apparent world we have been living, can be terrifying because these ideas and the attendant feelings are what we have come to believe we are.\n\nMany if not most of us who’ve glimpsed, recognized and begun to stably live as this emerging state of conscious presence - our natural state - at least for moments, find our organisms responding with fear and aversion to surrendering our imaginary control of our lives to this silent presence that is revealed when we stop thinking for a moment to attentively notice what’s always here; whether we’ve ever noticed it, or not. And yet, the recognition of our shared oneness has gradually been becoming inescapable.\n\nAs an example, consider our current global pandemic - this is a planet-wide event in which virtually everyone on the planet is involved. To me it seems pretty obvious that we are all in this together and, virtually, no one among us is immune; in this sense for once, we are all equals. \n\nIn my perception, we are in the process of exchanging our brain’s old operating system which has been running the current, mistaken mind-world/dream-body of separation, reification and lack. The new operating system that is being revealed among us is resonant with a more wide-open, shared m-w/d-b of oneness; the experience is one of clarity, openness and the wisdom of innocence in the face of the apparent insanity of our world.\n\nSo far, I am sure you’ll agree, it has been a pretty bumpy ride. There is some integration of oneness emerging; it is revealing Itself within our consciousness as the recognitions that, if we are to live here, we are inseparable from the dynamic flows of this ecosystem, that the nourishing aspects of what we put into our minds and bodies impacts how well our minds and bodies can function, that the multi-generational transmission of misunderstandings and trauma impairs our cultures’ capacities to embrace and integrate with what is emerging for us all. As the revelation of our fundamental, shared oneness break through the surface, into our conscious awareness, the old structures which have contained and sustained our day-to-day consciousness have begun breaking down and dissipating.\n\nAs species of consciousness on this planet we seem to be arriving at a fundamental choice point. I cannot yet tell how it is going to go due to the limitations of my personal bubble of information/knowledge. I just know my preference and the fact that inevitably, eventually the light reveals both itself and the darkness and ultimately, the light wins. This is because even the apparent darkness is made of the light of the original Singularity that expressed Itself as all this.\n\nI am wondering, are we, am I, so afraid of the new that I/we’re compelled to try recreating our old world of separation and dissatisfaction, even as it has begun to self-destruct? Be it ever so horrible, there is no place like home? Or, are we, am I, willing to interrupt the flow of thoughts through our/my distorting field of representation long enough to notice what this is that is always, already here? Are we willing to consciously shift the focus of our attention to the direct experience of the ongoing presence of awareness-being which is who and what we already, always are and always will be; are we willing to turn toward the living light of being, regardless of how long our vivid, dark enchantment with this misguided out-picturing of separation and reification has been running through our awareness?\n\nSpeaking for myself, I can say that in the moments when I choose to turn away from experiencing the seemingly incessant mind stream in which I find myself in my current version of this world, when I can interrupt the flow of thought for a moment and give my attention to the living sensations that are the non-verbal, non-conceptual experiencing of being here, just now; something wonderful reveals itself. It is a direct experience of our natural, silent, intelligent presence. This alert sense of just being here is wide-open in an undifferentiated and all-inclusive way, while it pervades everything that happens to be appearing within it at the moment. The actual experience is inexpressible.\n\nThese short moments last as long as they do before I am distracted by thought or engaged in labeling and describing my experience to myself; this is usually my next on-ramp to the narrative freeway.\n\nShort moments of re-recognition of our natural state, repeated many times, leads to relaxed presence of our innate, alert intelligence in all situations and circumstances because the repetition retrains our nervous system both into our natural state and out of neural habits which constitute our experience of being the character in our mind’s representation of our conditioned world of separation and reification. Our whole organism is getting attuned to the underlying and always present resonances of the Always True reality of our being.\n\nWe are awakening out of our dream of separation and into the re-recognition that we are and always have been an immortal spirit emanating into a biological entity and, most essentially, we are all the same one immortal spirit. This is because there is only One. The One that is All-That-Is is, necessarily, always, all of Itself. This is what Jesus was saying, when he noted, “I and the Father are One.” This singularity obviously includes our human species of consciousness currently embodying itself as this world of separation and reification.\n\nThere-in lies the koan of our lives, as humans together here, at this time. How do we shift from seeing ourselves living within this mind-made misrepresentation of reality? How do we begin living the natural dynamic harmony of being the ones we actually are – each one of us a unique expression of this One, in, of and by whom we live and move and have our beings. What a mystery! What a miracle! What a challenge!",
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It pervades all of Itself; all the diversity, levels and orders of It’s Being are inherently subsumed and intrinsically interconnected. This One can be described as consisting of innumerable, temporarily stabilized, systems/processes within systems/processes within systems/processes, etc.; all of which is contained within the singular, pervasive field of light/energy/information of All-That-Is. Each of these subsystems/sub-processes can be described as ingesting, metabolizing and expressing some of the light/energy/information of the One.\n\nThis One is the source and substance of our aliveness and our consciousness of being alive. The spectra of living energies informing our actual experiential moment spring from the effulgence of this One. The interdependent self-world of our experience always and only occurs within our conscious awareness of the actual now moment.\nOn this planet, the One which is All-That-Is experiences and expresses itself as our human species of consciousness among all the other forms of being here. For whatever reasons, there is an awakening moving through our species at this time. In brief, as we are awakening out of our mind-mediated experience of reality; we are noticing our natural state of directly experiencing reality and re-cognizing our intrinsic, shared oneness.\n\nEssentially, this awakening of our human species of consciousness involves two processes: noticing, attending to, experientially exploring and getting used to our natural state and deconstructing our conditioned frames of reference through which we have been experiencing and perceiving ourselves, others and our world as separate, reified and polarized and which appear to obscure our natural state.\n\nOur field of experience is a set of patterns of the living energy of the actual present moment. We have been living within our mind-made representational field of our interpretations of these energies. This disconnected, mind-made realm of experience and participation is what is referred to by the Eastern traditions, as “our human, karmic vision of samsara.” Based upon a fundamental premise of disconnectedness and resulting in our polarized experiences and perceptions of ourselves, others and the world represented as “things” in relationship with one another. I have come to call this falsely premised representation of reality, our conditioned mind-world/dream-body. It is constructed by our minds and  it is the world of our experiential lives.\n\nNevertheless, despite the reified deadness of our mind’s conditioned interpretations, there is, innate within us, something living, which makes now now and not the past nor the future. Our actual, living moment can be described as having two sides to it. They are awareness and experience. They are not separate; they are mutually pervasive but they are distinct. We can, and often do, notice, focus on and give preference to one – usually experience - pretty much to the exclusion of the other.\n\nMost of us have rarely, if ever, noticed that we are the living awareness of now; we have been too focused on our experience and our interpretations and stories about it. However, it is possible for us to stop thinking for a moment and notice what our experience is like without our mind-made distinctions, labels descriptions and stories. As we do this, we can begin to notice the calm, clear and open space of awareness in which our field of experience is occurring. Within the highest teachings of Himalayan wisdom we are urged to stop thinking as often as possible and notice what is already and always here. “Short moments of re-recognition, repeated many times, become continuous and obvious in all situations and circumstances,” we are told.\n\nIn my experience over the years, the promise of this statement has been proving true. Over time my “short moments” have been becoming longer, deeper and more frequent. Gradually, I have become increasingly able to rest in open presence as conditioned patterns of mind, body and emotion roll through and self-release without me getting all caught up in old, habitual points of view.\n\nReferring to these old, habitual points of view brings us back to the other side of the awakening process – the deconstruction of our samsaric mind-world/dream-body. Essentially this involves becoming conscious of the moments when I am creating a separate self in relation to a separate other and recognizing that both constructs and the believed relationship between them are my experience, they all exist within my mind’s field of representation,\n\nAs I release my consciousness from my commitment to my story of “how it is” and allow myself to recognize that my “self” and my “other” are both facets of my way of seeing through my conditioned filters, something different can begin to happen. If I can relax back, into the living awareness which holds both sides of the polarity as well as all the emotional charge I had invested into my current, self-justified story, the dynamic energies between the complementary duality begin to move and morph. At some point, I have found, they resolve and I find myself released into some quality of our natural state. It may be peace, or stillness, or silence, or clarity or any of the other qualities, which characterize us when we are resting as our innate presence.\n\nThe description of this process sounds simple but I have found that it is not always easy and sometimes, it is not possible. Sometimes the emotional momentum of my samsaric perception is so great; I so strongly believe I am right and he, she or they are wrong that I need to wait for a calmer moment and a cooler head before I can even reflect on what happened. At other times, repeated short moments are sufficient to allow me to interrupt the rush of thoughts, images and emotions associated with my interpretations and return my consciousness to sanity.\n\nThrough the course of the years of my awakening process I have found a number of clear and helpful teachers and techniques. I want to share these, now, but it will have to wait for another moment.",
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      "body": "Who’s Got Your Back?\n\nAfter a lifetime of reflective inner work and spiritual practices, I now know that anytime that I am feel I am contracting, pulling or collapsing into myself or feeling threatened and aggressive, this is not who and what I actually am. My consciousness is just focusing through a set of, well conditioned, thoughts, which are out of harmony with the luminous and expansive nature of awareness/being. As I continue awakening, I increasingly realize that this clear, open, awake presence is what I really am.\n\nWhen I am living from within these mental filters of the conditioned, 3-d character in my movie of separation and reification, it is all so real. Within those lived moments it seems to be the only reality that there is. I imagine it is this way for all of us.\n\nAnd yet, throughout this process, somehow these glimpses of an awakening into another way of us being ourselves with one another and together continue to open the doors of my perception and let a clear, natural light in. For that moment at least, this consciousness releases its grip. At some point I began to choose it for myself by deliberately interrupting the stream of thought, which had captured attention, and notice what’s already and always here: the living, alert presence of our being. But that seems to be slower than I’d hoped.\n\nIf we can get some sense of the understanding that the one that is All-That-Is is necessarily all of Itself including all of us and our consciousness on this planet; then, That, whatever we are accustomed to calling It, is what has got our back!\n\nNot only has this One got our back, Its got our back, front, sides, above, below and within – It is the One and only of the whole display; there is nothing else, except in our distorted imaginations of separation and disconnectedness.  The next question is, “Is this recognition our ongoing experience or are we living an entirely different experience of our life?” Following up on that, “How would we like it to be?” And, what can we do if we really want something different from our day-to-day?\n\nSome of us have begun noticing that our deepest felt-sense of “I am,” our non-verbal, non-conceptual, direct experience of our being aligns with this paradigm/vision version of ourselves in the world. The more we attend to it, the more we experience the sensations of it. The more we turn away from our familiar mind of duality, turning toward the immediacy of non-verbal, non-conceptual experiencing, the more this way of being moves into the center of our life.\n\nTo foster this, we have been leaning toward complete, resonant alignment with the One that Is. When we happen to notice we’ve been caught in the mind-stream, and the moment’s felt-sense is less than optimal, we are learning to choose to hold an intention in conscious awareness to experience any of the wonderful, light, expansive qualities that are inherent within our natural state: peace, love, harmony, compassion, kindness, appreciation, gratitude, contentment, being supportive, etc., for example. Then, attending to the non-verbal, non-conceptual dimensions of experience, the sensations of our chosen quality gradually emerge into our conscious awareness within and around our body\n\nOur capacity to sustain conscious awareness in the present moment grows with practice. Inevitably, we choose this practice when our capacity is limited in the ways it is at that moment. We all start where we are and we deepen into the presence from there.\n\nIt makes sense that what makes the new state become more resilient and last longer – less of an occasional state more of an ongoing trait - is how steadily we can focus and learn to hold our conscious awareness on the beingness of our quality du jour, and the experiential qualities of being as they emerge within and around our body. In today’s world where most of us are lucky to have a 15 second span of attention, sustaining conscious awareness in the emerging, present moment is a quality we might decide to cultivate. Within the neurological substrate of our experience and expression in this world, practice transforms momentary states into lasting traits. We can change our experience/our neurology by repeatedly turning away from our conditioned, habitual perspective and giving our attention (and its underlying neurology) to what is emerging from within us (also correlated with its underlying neurology.)\n\nThe way I see it, our awakening involves the dissipation of the neural networks that both underlie and constitute our experiencing and expressing ourselves as separate ones in this mind-world of polarized dualities; where every sub-system of the One is regarded as another “thing” that we’ve labeled, described and then, imagine we actually know what it is.\n\nSimultaneously, as our old adaptations and interpretations are being outgrown, our awakening involves the neural connections and the resonant dynamics within our nervous systems becoming restructured in harmonic alignment with our dawning acknowledgement and recognition of conscious awareness of being, its open intelligence and its resultant spontaneous benevolence. What’s not to like?\n\nThis unraveling of our sense of identity(ies) and our co-arising sense and description of others and the world is not always welcomed or easy; although once we have navigated these tumultuous waters, we are so grateful for the results of the process. As we increasingly experience this ascension into conscious awareness of our natural state, it is often our beacon of hope, evincing our deepest aspirations. Even when we imagine this Oneness is nowhere to be found, once we have touched it, something in us knows it is the truth.\n\nWe can begin with an intellectual understanding that - whatever we choose or have been raised to call the one that is All-That-Is - this One is the source and substance of all of Itself. It is everything we experience and observe, including all of us. In the beginning, this one shared itself as the underlying quantum, zero-point field and then this ever-expanding Universe and all that is in it. Since It is all that is, we are in, of and by this same One. Our bodies are It’s light, energy and information in dynamic process and exchange with others and our environment. Our consciousness is It’s consciousness. That-Which-Is are Us.\n\nWhen we are experiencing ourselves as separate, we are misperceiving based on a set of false premises we were raised to believe. The indoctrination occurred before narrative began accompanying our memories and they became explicit and linear. The earlier implicit and procedural memories are recorded somatically and in the unconscious premises that we later built our declarative, autobiographical memories upon.\n\nOn this mistaken basis our mind’s have created a filter that only reveals our 3-d world of separation, polarization and reified dualities; through which we thereafter see and experience ourselves and our lives. This is how we’ve been “seeing through a glass darkly.” In the East, our living within this mind-made delusion is called, “our human, karmic vision of samsara.” In both depictions, this is distinguished from the moment when our vision is restored, we see clearly and re-claim our inheritance as one of the One. After all, This already and always is the way It is! (Regardless of how we may have been mistakenly perceiving it.)\n\nIn short, Now is The Time! Wake Up!\n\nI am here to help.",
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      "body": "The Wisdom of Innocence\n\nUsually when we consider innocence, we think of little children and how naive and trusting they are because they’ve not yet learned of the darkness and cruelty of our world. Most of us, when we witness innocence, our heart is touched in a beautiful place and our being resonates with one of the many, expansive qualities of love; we are moved and we feel protective; as if we have witnessed something unspoiled, something sacred. And indeed, perhaps we have.\n\nInnocence is often associated with ignorance; ignorance of the world, ignorance of need and lack and ignorance of those who would harm us and take what we have. These little ones are foolish and they must be trained to recognize danger, evil and the potentially threatening other. And so, they are trained as we have been trained; raised as we have been raised. They must be trained to perceive separation, to recognize the dangers and to live as we have lived: taking everyone and everything to be as we have perceived it to be – all divided and reified as predator, ally or prey.\n\nOur minds have been raised to experience and perceive separation, reification, polarized dualities and threat. It is all we have known, it seems real to us. And so, of course, it is what we have taught our young ones; we love them and want them to survive, we want to give them everything we believe they’ll need to navigate through their own lives. Many of us endeavor to instill values, qualities of character such as integrity, honesty, ethics and compassion in our children. That only goes so far. At some point we realize that has to be their choice, for themselves.\n\nFor most of us, our lives are so filled with the contents of our day-to-day that we rarely have a moment to reflect on what’s at the root of the crazy, busy, stressed out patterns our lives have taken on. Few of us seem to have the time or inclination to consider what has brought our human species of consciousness to give vast portions of our shared wealth to killing one another and destroying cultures and traditions which had sustained groups of us for centuries. We don’t have to scratch too deeply to recognize the wasteful insanity of how we are being together. How has this come about? What makes us imagine this is just “the way it is.”\n\nI’d like to propose a fundamental change of perspective which is not only grounded in the latest, scientific understandings of our day but it is also pointed to and described by the most respected sages within all our religions.\n\nNothing is separate from anything; ever. Not only is everything interconnected and interrelated, but no thing is actually a “thing.” In truth everything our language reifies as a “thing,” is, in fact, a whole –in and of itself – and it is interdependent with every”thing” else, with which it co-arises. Further, all wholes or “holons” are both composed of discrete sub-systems or holons and they collectively compose larger holons of a higher order of integration and complexity.\n\nExamples of holons collaborating within holons: nervous system, skeletal-muscular system, digestive system, cardio-respiratory system, immune system, etc. collaboratively create our embodied human being. We depend upon the environment for the air, the water, the food, which provides the energy and information for our organisms to be sustained; without the enveloping and infusing dynamics of this planet none of us would be alive. Without the radiant infusion from the Sun, the galaxy and the Universe there could be no life on Earth. All these biological systems mentioned above could not exist without their composing, specialized cells, which are composed of collaborations of molecules which are patterns of atoms which are clusters of sub-atomic particles which are energetic expressions of the singular zero-point field.\n\nRecognizing this allow us to begin acknowledging the One that is All-That-Is, both in its transcendent inclusiveness and its underlying, energetic singularity. We can acknowledge It; we can sense It and recognize “It” as the source and substance of our being, of all being. But we cannot comprehend “It.” This is of a higher order than any idea or image our mind might formulate.\n\nAs we begin to consider that this One is and includes all of itself, including us, we can begin noticing a ground of being that precedes and supersedes all of our conditioned assumptions and beliefs. We can begin noticing that there is something here that is more fundamentally who and what we are than anything and everything we have come to take ourselves to be. It is profoundly useful to give this our attention.\n\nSo, how do we do that?\n\nIn order to notice this and to begin becoming familiar with it, we have to stop giving our attention to the conditioned mind-world that has been the streaming contents of our moments. In other words, for at least a moment, we have to stop thinking and experientially notice what is already here. When we choose to stop thinking for a moment and give our attention to the non-verbal, non-conceptual felt-sense of whatever we can notice, what we notice is an open, alert presence.\n\nUsually, within seconds, we have given it a label or labels, developed descriptions and pretty quickly we’ve begun constructing a narrative about it or else we’ve just distracted into whatever has come foreground in our awareness. This is why, in the practice traditions, it is often said, “Short moments of re-recognition, repeated many times, is the fastest way to enlightenment.”\n\nLet’s break this down a bit. The images, ideas and perceptions of our conditioned minds can only reveal the dualistic, reified world of separation that they have been entrained to perceive/create/experience. When we stop this habitual re-creation of the same old, same old, our conscious awareness is freed up for a moment and we can notice the underlying, actuality of our living, awake, being. It is incalculably useful to give our full attention to the, perhaps seemingly subtle, experience that emerges for us in these moments. What is revealed is unconditioned; it is unfabricated. Indeed, it is a direct experience of our natural state.\n\nSo. What’s the significance of that? As we, ever so briefly, release our conscious awareness from its conditioned mind-world/dream-body of separation, reification and polarized dualities, it is released into what has always, already been here as the living, actuality of our being. Each instant of realignment within the resonances of reality, retunes our nervous system a bit more; gradually, for most of us, the default settings of our nervous system become the open intelligence of our natural state and we recognize that this expansive, clear presence is innately everyone’s nature; we know our shared oneness.\n\nHowever, each time we choose to stop thinking and merely notice what is already here, we must be willing to step beyond what we have believed we know and allow ourselves to be in the wide-open awareness of not-knowing in order for the non-verbal, non-conceptual reality underlying our mind-made realm to be revealed.\n\nThis openness, this humble willingness is what I am referring to as the wisdom of innocence.",
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      "body": "Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Found: It's Time to Vote\n\nI’m seeing something. I have begun to call it “The ‘What does it mean to be human?’ paradigm shift.” I am currently seeing two distinct understandings of what it means to be humans together on this planet; in one sense they run on two distinct operating systems. I believe we will soon see which paradigm gets the majority vote from our human species of consciousness.\n\nFrom what I can see, it appears that the paradigm that had been going on when I arrived here has begun breaking down and spinning apart as it comes to the end of its multi-millennial long run as the dominant understanding. This paradigm is responsible the insane disparity and suffering and stress most people in our world have to deal with. It is continuously conditioned by the corporate and alternative media, which skillfully incite distractive divisiveness and opposition among us. We could call this one, “The Disconnected, Separation and Reification Paradigm.”\n\nThe second understanding I am seeing has been emerging within and among us for quite some time and, it is becoming increasingly visible if you know how to look. However, even though this second paradigm initiates a higher order of harmony and integrated complexity, it has not yet gotten much press within the corporate and, so called, alternative media. This more integrative paradigm is grounded in the following facts: the one that is All-That-Is is, in fact, all of Itself; everything is interconnected; we are all in this together; and, we can begin choosing to create a much more enjoyable world as we understood how our consciousness works to manifest the life we are experiencing and we then began exploring the ways we could collaborate for the benefit of all of us. We could call this one, “The Recognizing The Underlying Reality, Deconstructing Our Conditioned Misunderstanding and Learning to Live Together from The Always, Already Present Ground of Our Natural State Paradigm.”\n\nOk; I recognize that name might be a little long. Perhaps we could shorten it by understanding that clusters of us within our human species of consciousness has begun on the path of redeeming and resolving all of our mind-made, divisive polarizations; we are beginning to sense and attune to the experience of our shared oneness with each other and with All-That-Is. This focus is spreading among us. Then, we could just call this emerging paradigm, “The Unified Awakening Paradigm”\n\nIn brief, within the confines of The Disconnected, Separation and Reification Paradigm, the operating system for our shared mind-world/dream-body, or representational field, has been designed around the fundamentally mistaken notion of disconnectedness and separation. With that as a basis we inevitably end up creating an abstract, mind-made world. All the interconnected systems and processes that combine and collaborate to co-create this complex, dynamically alive world, including all out human embodiments of consciousness – all these interrelated information/energy metabolizing and exchanging systems and processes have been represented as, rather static, separate “things” in this mind-world. This mistaken separation and reification is reflected in the languages with which we communicate and think. This constitutes the underlying operating system of The Disconnected, Separation and Reification Paradigm that we’ve been conditioned into for many centuries. The rest is history.\n\nWe have all, pretty much, been raised to regard ourselves, others, and the world as things and collections of things. We have been reducing complex, interconnected living systems to labels and reifying descriptions; then we take our mental narrative about these “things” to be the reality of who we are, who they are and what is real. So, we have lived in a world where pretty much everything and everyone is divided from and perceived to be in antagonistic opposition against everything and everyone else. The Disconnected, Separation and Reification Paradigm produces a mind-made world of lack and fear. As mentioned above, in my opinion, this mind-world is no longer viable and many of our human-designed systems built upon this fundamental misunderstanding are breaking down and flying apart. That’s why it has begun to loose our vote.\n\nAs we have begun to awaken together, the emerging acknowledgment of the inherent interconnectedness of everything can take many forms including: an intellectual acknowledgement that the quantum, zero-point field is the singular, underlying energetic ground out of which everything emerges; an emotional recognition of and sense of being embedded within the interdependent and mutually sustaining dynamics of all the physical, inter- and intra-species systems of the ecosystem of this amazing planet; a direct recognition of the living awareness which both transcends and subsumes everything occurring within it in each now moment; as well as realizing that All-That-Is is all of itself and we are, each and all, wholly in, of and by this One. Gradually, for most of us, this emerging recognition of our shared oneness becomes the felt-sense of our experience of ourselves and our lives.\n\nIn a sense, “waking-up” simply means, we’ve begun understanding reality differently; we come to understand the nature of our consciousness and how it creates our experience, differently. This cuts across all domains of our experience and participation in life. We discover the fundamental, underlying operating system for the consciousness that we are. It is like we’re finally getting the Operator’s Manual for how to optimize these organisms and be humans together on this planet. In short, we recognize that what we give our attention to becomes our experience and we start making wiser choices about what we are choosing to focus on. Our interests shift from the old paradigm to the emerging paradigm.\n\nAs we are learning about the mechanism of conscious creation, it begins dawning on us that there are two kinds of thoughts and intentions, which have nearly antithetical effects on our subsequent experience. There are thoughts and intentions that are derived from the old paradigm and they both recreate and they perpetuate the disconnected and inevitably dissatisfying experiences of the old paradigm for both ourselves and those around us.\n\nWhen we think these thoughts and find ourselves holding these intentions, we experience some kind of collapse or constriction or a compensatory, comparative and inflated self-sense. We begin recognizing that the discomforts and dissatisfactions of our lives are mind-made and we perpetuate them by repeating our narratives about them to ourselves and others. This is the endlessly repetitive nature of life when we have been running the operating system of The Disconnected, Separation and Reification Paradigm. We always seem to recycle the same old, same old.\n\nAlthough our old paradigm was fundamentally misguided, it did make use of the innate capacity of consciousness to manifest what it is focused upon into our experience. Our awakening involves recognizing and then applying this function of consciousness to repattern our nervous system/psyche/relational field in resonant alignment with our natural state.\n\nWe all, always, have the built-in ability and the inalienable right to focus our attention where we choose. We may not initially be vey skilled at holding our attention where we choose; but we can always choose to direct our attention. And, when we notice our mind has gotten distracted, we can choose again and refocus where we want to. In this manner we develop our ability to hold our conscious attention steady and we repeatedly immerse our organisms in the expansive, harmonious resonances of the underlying truth - our natural state.\n\nIf we don’t yet have clear recognition of our natural state, we can attune ourselves to it by choosing thoughts and intentions represent and evoke the qualities that are natural expressions of our natural state. As we turn toward and hold our attention on the thoughts and intentions that are both aligned and harmonious with the resonances our actual being, we start to notice sensations and feelings start to emerge in our conscious awareness. These sensations and feelings are the emerging, experiential evidence of our more aligned thoughts and intentions beginning to manifest. In other words, as we focus attentively toward our actual being, our experience of the present moment begins revealing the feelings and qualities of our natural state. When we do this, we are deciding to close a feedback loop within our consciousness.\n\nAnd so, rather than recycle our conditioned patterns of focusing on fear and doubt and lack, of thinking about what’s wrong, what’s lacking and how they should be different; we are beginning to deliberately create the world we want to live in by training ourselves to focus differently.\n\nWe can, for example choose to intend to experience peace. We can readily do this as a contemplative experiment to begin collecting evidence that this principle actually works. With enough repetition, we compile the evidence; we develop conviction, confidence and a commitment.\n\nTry this for a few moments. Recognize your can choose to offer your attention to whatever you want to. Hold and intention to experience peace in your conscious awareness and then, attend openly to the living field of sensations within and around the physical body. Choose to continue noticing the felt-sense¬ of this field of sensations while continuing to hold the intention to experience peace. Bit-by-bit patterns of sensation emerge which coalesce into recognizable aspects of peace emerging within awareness. As we continue to hold our open focus, the experiential nuances of peace continue to slowly be revealed to us. After a little while, we notice that we feel peace. Then, after attending openly a bit more, we are peace.\n\nThe most important thing to notice about this little exercise is that within a few moments intending to experience peace and staying openly attentive to our felt-sense, we began experiencing peace. We can do this again and again in a thousand different ways and as we do, we will transform the experience of our life and our expression within it.\n\nImagine for a moment what would happen if this method of exploring the qualities of our natural state really appealed to you, and you began to consistently choose attuning your nervous system/psyche/organism in alignment with our natural state. Again and again holding the intention to experience and then attending to the emergent experience with words like: kindness toward self and others, caring, ease, contentment, courage, compassion, equanimity, joy, oneness, expansiveness, silence, presence, harmony, flow, confidence, safety, trust, forgiveness, unconditional love. The list is endless.\n\nWhat different world might you come to live in?\n\n\nThe Emerging Paradigm of Awakening\n\nAwakening involves noticing and becoming interested in the very same awareness that is aware of reading this sentence. This is the very same awareness that has always been right here in every moment of our lives. It’s worth noticing that awareness of being is always present throughout our lives. The continuous presence of awareness is what makes now, now! Even the abstract memories of the past and anticipations of the future are always experienced as part of the flow of experience through the living awareness of now. How is it possible we have not noticed this?\n\nIt seems our attention has been totally absorbed in the conditioned narratives in our minds. We have been living within that mind-made representation of ourselves and others. And because of this, we’ve managed to always overlook the presence of awareness. With the rarest of exceptions, awareness has never been pointed out to us. We weren’t taught to notice the living awareness of now and we never learned how to focus our conscious awareness on its qualities and characteristics to create alignment with and reliance upon the silent intelligence of our natural state.\n\nIf, by chance, we have noticed awareness, most of us discounted it’s having any significance for our lives. This is called, “being asleep,” in spiritual literature. While we’ve been living under the influence of The Disconnected, Separation and Reification Paradigm our species of consciousness has been co-creating our shared life on Earth as what’s been called our ‘human karmic vision of samara’ in the East and ‘Mammon’ or the ‘Tower of Babel’ in the religions of the Book.\n\nAwakening involves realizing we have been asleep. We come to understand the manifesting mechanism of our consciousness by which we have co-created and perpetuated the reality that emerges from living within the confines of our mistaken Disconnected, Separation and Reification Paradigm. Taking back the authority to focus where we choose, we begin to turn our attention more and more toward the qualities of our shared, awakened state. As we increasingly do so, these expansive, peaceful and beneficent qualities emerge more and more within our lives. This harmonic alignment resonates behind the scenes and influences the people and events around us.\n\nAs we release our conscious awareness into deeper silence and presence, the narratives we’ve been telling ourselves about our separate self-with-other and our separate self-in-the-world are being recognized for what they are and they are being seen through. We release our conscious awareness from the habit of these old, patterns more and more deeply, more and more frequently into the silent intelligence of our awakened presence. As they get digested, their energetic imbalances get redeemed and their hidden qualities get revealed.\n\nPerceptions of the world, sensations in the body and thoughts and images in the mind will continue to perpetually appear as experience within awareness only to be replaced by whatever emerges next. More and more frequently, we notice and come into the resonances of the ever-present, peaceful conscious awareness, through which this stream of experience flows. From this unreifying, open presence our expression is spontaneous, appropriate and beneficial.\n\nRejoice! Be grateful! We are beginning to understand how to use our intention to shape the experience that emerges for us. We are beginning to discover how to align more and more with the ever-expanding openness of our natural state; how to create and co-create our lives and our world for the benefit of all of us.\n\nI imagine you can tell which paradigm has my vote. And, you?",
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      "body": "Thank you for your post Euginiso; every thing you say makes sense to me based upon years of meditative practice and extensive study - both acacdemic and introspective. In quantum physics as well as in my own, direct, experience consciousness or conscious awareness is fundamental, primary and generally overlooked. We all tend to prioritize the contents of the moment over the enveloping and infusing awareness of the moment. This may be both because awareness is paradoxically absolutely nothing in itself and because we have been well conditioned to perceive the contents of our moment as compelling and to avert our attention from the living awareness in which our moment is occurring. Does this make sense to you, Eugenio?",
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      "body": "Notes from the Heart of Awareness\n\nAs we have begun awakening together, many of us have begun both noticing the awareness of being and distinguishing those moments of open clarity from when we have been operating within our conditioned sense of self-and-world. Awareness is an unconstructed openness that is the living essence of the now. Our conditioned persona is the current version of our initial, constructed adaptation to the people and environment that we found when we arrived in this world. What I mean by “this world” is our experiential, three-dimensional world of polarized dualisms and separation. We not only adjusted to being here but we lost track of our natural state. Thus, our impulse to awaken.\n\nUpon arriving here, we found ourselves embodied as and raised by others human beings - a sentient species of consciousness on this planet. Being an innately intelligent expression of All-That-Is, we each applied ourselves to the task of how to be here, with these others, how to survive and, somehow, how to be who we came here to be. This world did not make sense to the wisdom of our innocence and yet, we gradually adjusted and adapted and, finally, we adopted a relatively stable sense of identity-in-context within our shared, human mind-world/dream-body of separation and reification. At this point our native intelligence became mostly constricted to expressing itself through our falsely premised, conditioned version of ourselves as a separate individual.\n\nTo tease this out a bit, our experiential sense of self-in-context is processed through a mental field of representation, which constitutes the narrative in our head of ourselves, others and the world - our experienced description of life itself. It is a mind-made filter through which we experience ourselves and our world and through which we express ourselves into our world. Getting raised here, we learned to build, within our own minds, emotionally charged, conceptualized images of ourselves, specific others and various groupings of others as well as the world around us. For the most part, we have been living within and through this conceptual filter. We believe that we, others and the world are what our reifying, separative thoughts\n say in our head.\n\nThe problem with this is that our whole world is based upon a false premise. We mistakenly believe that we are somehow separate from the living expression of the One that is All-That-Is -- this One in, with and by Whom we all live and move and have our being.  Because it is based on a false premise, this world of our conditioned minds’ is a false knowledge; the world we experience through our conditioned mind's filter is inevitably frustrating because it is neither aligned with the actual nature of reality nor the actual nature of our awareness/intelligence-being. As we awaken together, we recognize that we have believed and perceived ourselves as separate from one another, from the earth, from the Divine source and substance of all being and from our own essence. This is not and can never be true; but because we do indeed believe it is so, we experience and perceive as if it were true. As with the underlying quantum reality, we experience what we expect to experience – reality conforms to our beliefs.\n\nWe were born within a species entranced by a false understanding of reality; we were born into a dream-world mixture of reality and illusion on this planet. Our task, if we recognize it and are willing to take it on, is to retrain our attention, a subsystem of our nervous system, to avert from our conditioned mind’s descriptions and interpretations and increasingly focus into and as the peaceful, silent awareness of being which we always notice, each time we stop thinking for a moment. Thereby, we shift the default neurological settings of our organisms into atunement with the resonances of reality.\n\nIt’s useful for us to recognize that we were each born into a specific, localized version of this shared, human mental-representation of separation and reification at a particular moment’s zeitgheist in the midst of a process our species of sentience has been moving along for centuries, if not millennia. This process within our species of consciousness finds us now releasing ourselves from the illusory matrix of separation, lack, and reification and restoring our consciousness to being a conscious species of oneness. At this point it appears that this process proceeds in fits and starts and it appears to take time. And yet, it appears we may emerge from this process, as a species of consciousness whose members recognize themselves and all others as holographic fractals of this One which animates, illumines and expresses Itself as All-That-Is.\n\nDiscovering, turning toward - again and again - and immersing ourselves - soaking every cell and neuronal fiber in the actuality of our being - as we interrupt our current train of thought and turn our silent attention toward what we can experientially notice here - this is the most essential practice. As my dear wife, Lynn Marie Lumiere, stresses in her recent book, Awakened Relating, living an awakened life requires recognizing and exploring awareness and distinguishing it from the myriad thoughts, states and experiences that move through us in each successive now moment. Recognizing and then re-recognizing again and again; giving this attention so we notice the impact of exploring the silent stillness of being awake on our organism, our nervous system and our lives is the next phase; we clarify ourselves and our understanding as we go along. Once we have done this for a while, we find ourselves coming to rest as this awareness of being more deeply, more frequently and for longer moments in our lives.\n\nSooner or later, we come to rely on this ever-available openness at the core of our intelligence; it becomes our “go to.” As we come to rely on awareness, we cannot help but notice that the ways we respond to life from our openness are spontaneously clearer, kinder, wiser and naturally, mutually beneficial. Enough extended moments of being this silent, still awareness/being and we notice that it is experienced as both being the living essence of ourselves as well as pervading the field of experience. We realize our oneness with All-That-Is and with each other; its all us. In short, Recognize, Re-recognize, Rest, Rely and Realize constitute the overlapping stages of this most essential practice.\n\nSo at some point, it makes sense for us begin this practice of turning away from the stream of mental noise and noticing our natural experience of alert presence - discovering what it is like, here – non-verbally and non-conceptually - in the actual now of our life. Pretty soon we also discover what it is that keeps distracting us and taking us out of the living now. We all eventually realize that it is the labels, descriptions and stories generated within our reifying and dualizing, conditioned mind that pull our attention away; despite the sincerity of our intention to re-recognize and rest as the open and inclusive awareness of now. This is because these conditioned patterns have well-established groves flowing through our neural real estate.\n\nTherefore, I see the deconstruction of our conditioned identifications of self-in-context as a process of de-tuning our nervous systems from their current, well-worn habits of self-with-other and self-in-world. Simultaneously, we are re-attuning our nervous systems, re-aligning our whole being to the resonances of our natural state. Having a general understanding of how we manage to construct the world that we have been living within helps us to have a sense of what’s going on as it is unraveling and/or, as we deliberately deconstruct it.",
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In this moment, I am considering turning attention from these habits and their premises and toward the undifferentiated openness at the core of being. As I consider these prospective futures, the intelligence of being says, “Go with the living now, as it is and let go into the space between thoughts.” And, the body screams, “Danger!,” and the gut’s mind feels fear. The lure of an abandoned free-fall turns quickly toward triage for the terror. And everything grinds to a halt.\n\nSo, how to regard this from within the openness and stay present? It seems so formidable.\n\nI can only do what I know to do: I turn to short moments and I stop all thinking and notice what’s already here; I re-recognize the un-divided awareness of being. As they say in the Dzogchen lineages of the Nyingma, short moments of re-recognition of the clear, open inclusiveness of our actual being until the recognition becomes continuous and obvious in all situations and circumstances is the fastest path to fully awakened consciousness. This is my practice: short moments, many times – as often as I remember - until continuous and pervasive.\n\nBut I have digressed from my process: The energies that were roiling beneath the surface of conscious experience, broke through into noticed and interpreted felt-sense; as fear quickened an explanatory digression which, once again, diverted attention in to a dualistic concept of relationship in which my current version of “me” explaining to my rather undifferentiated version of “you’, who happens to be reading this, what I mean by a “short moment.” An important communication perhaps, but, in this moment, for me, it is an avoidant sleigh of attention, a step away from this moment on the edge the cliff. The conditioned organism balks at it’s painful interpretation of what it would mean to take that last step\n\nAgain, how do I stay attentively present with both the discomfort and apprehension and the yearning and the vision? How do I remain patient in and with the organism’s frightened interpretation of the world of my perception/experience while conscious as the inclusive and peaceful awareness/presence of being? Am I even capable in this moment of digesting this discomfort? Yes, no or maybe?\n\nPerhaps I can take a moment, just to openly wonder, what would it be like to just be here? What would happen if I, just for this brief, now moment let go of all of my constructed world-views and identifications, all the things I perceive and believe are real in me and in this world – completely let go of all of that mind-made world and attentively notice what is always here, whether I have ever really noticed it in just this way before or not. Truly, what is this like when we have let go of thoughts and images for a moment, releasing into the non-verbal, un-conceived alert presence?\n\nWide-open, alert presence of the undifferentiated inclusiveness and aware of the particulars as they arise and pass for some moments. And then, focusing down into a self-other, or self-world reification and living, experiencing/perceiving from within the frame of an identity in duality. Then, more often than not, I am off and running.\n\nAnother explanatory diversion. My nervous system - my triune brain, visceral, somatic/relational, interpretive nervous system is like an enormous orchestra continuously tuning and playing innumerable riffs out of ear-shot. Hundreds of billions of instrument-neurons, with trillions of mutually resonant connections mostly practicing rehearsed neuronal collaborations which, when they breach the surface between conscious and unconscious, have formed into dualistic, conditioned interpretations of self, other and world; more of the same old same old. Neuronal-ly encoded habits of body, habits of relationship, habits of perception and interpretation – these neural networks of resonances harmonically entrain other neural nets until this composition breaches the surface of awareness, commanding attention as it takes center stage for a while and I have, once again, collapsed into living within a dualistic, reified field of representation and taken conceptual leave of the enveloping and infusing, living field of Is. This identification as a separate one living in duality lasts for as long as it lasts.\n\nThen either, another self-similar representational field will replace it or it may be replaced by my developing neuronal habit of taking a short moment - releasing myself out of whatever construct I happen to have found myself in, releasing myself into the open, the clear boundless awareness of the present moment. In this latter case, the neuronal energies repattern themselves into a resonant harmonic of the awareness of being, just now, right here. This temporary stabilization of attention lasts as long as it lasts. At some point it is permanent and stops seeming to go away when the neuronal substrate of our attention finds something else engaging",
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      "body": "I Am The One I Am\n\nI Am The One I Am. Each of us can say this and we all know it is true. It is self-evident and tautological. As we awaken together each one of us comes to recognize that we are one of The One that is All-That-Is. The One that is this whole Universe is the source and substance of our being, individually and as a species. It is this One in, of, as, and by whom we live and move and have our being. Once we recognize this for ourselves, we know it is true for every last one of us; we can’t help but notice that, despite our obvious uniqueness, in this fundamental way, we are all the same and we are all in this world together. Our common unity dawns as our experiential awareness and, simultaneously, we gradually and suddenly release out of all the socially entangled, conditioned patterns of the adopted person we adapted for ourselves in concert with those around us.\n\nAs we awaken together, we learn that we can stop the mind-stream for a moment and give our attention to what is already, always here. Thus, we experience and notice a still, silent, open, knowing presence. This awareness knows both its open knowingness as well as whatever happens to be appearing within it as the actual experience of this moment.\n\nWhen I began taking these brief moments of release, I, nearly immediately, found myself labeling and describing the experience to my self, evaluating or comparing “it” to other experiences I’d had or heard about. Then I’d be experiencing my mind’s interpretation more than the actual openness I had just noticed. Once I notice that it is time for another brief moment.\n\nIn this and other ways, little by little we are relaxing out the positions and reifications of our conditioned mind and paying more attention to the awake openness, which palpably permeates the indivisible whole of our actual moment. \n\nThe Multi-Ordinal Unity of The One I Am\n\nAll-That-Is is One. Infinite, all-pervasive and singular. The One-That-Is includes all of Itself. There is nothing that can ever be out side of or other than a subsystem of All-That-Is. All-That-Is expresses itself as all that is. All-That-Is is conscious because we are conscious and we are this very One experiencing and expressing itself as a conscious subsystem of the One I Am. No one of us here at this moment can deny that we are aware of ourselves and our experience at this moment. Each one of us is a unique, living, conscious subsystem of this enveloping, infusing One that is All-That-Is.\n\nAll of us together constitute our shared human species of consciousness. Because of the way we have been living within the Tower of Babble, our conditioned mind-made world of imagined separation and disconnectedness has had us seeing only division and opposition and “them.” Meanwhile our human species of consciousness has been gradually coming into the recognition that we are all here together. As this recognition dawns experientially, our hearts open and we realize we’d prefer to cooperate and collaborate, co-creating ways of making this whole thing work for all of us.\n\nAs our focus changes from the reified dualities that we’ve been conditioned to believe in and attention relaxes into the ever-present openness of the actual now moment, we sense our being, our natural state which is naturally connected with other; just as our awareness always includes whatever we may conceive as “self” and “other.” It is merely the reifications of our mind that divide the experiential singularity of every now moment into a million different pieces. All the “pieces” are mind-made; our awareness and this One that is All-That-Is is us and all the pieces, however we may be regarding it all.\n\nJust as our every breath is an inhaling of some portion of everything that has been exhaled by everything else on the planet, our being lives at large in the totality of the field of this moment. This is always true for every single one of us, although we have, as a species of consciousness, thus far, rarely noticed it. Our individual being exists in dynamic responsiveness to the time, place and circumstance we find ourselves in. The universe expresses itself to itself as both our world and ourselves, inseparably. As we continue to awaken and we come to live as the silent core of our being, we increasingly experience the whole field of our present moment as a singularity.",
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      "body": "We Are All in This Together\n\n1 – Awakening Together, Our Shared Oneness\n\nOur experience of being humans together has become increasingly polarized and destructive as the corporate media strategically inflames the sparks of division and hatred, while fostering an “us against them” mentality. While we are responsible for our interpretations and reactions to things, it’s human nature to try and avoid this responsibility by making excuses and seeking scapegoats to blame for our troubles. \n\nThe polarization and divisions catalyzed by those in power prevent us from recognizing the simple truth that we’re all in this together, and encourages a dangerous collective irresponsibility. More than ever before, our problems are global and interlinked environmentally, economically, politically, socially and militarily. Real solutions require an all-inclusive frame of reference that includes and transcends the distinctions that define our differences and foster our divisions. We must resolve our differences and work out our solutions together. Spinning through space, his orbiting sphere we call Earth is home for all of us. None of us can leave just because we don’t like our neighbors.\n\nFor ages humans have lived through a misapprehension of reality, believing ourselves to be separate from each other, from the earth, and from All-That-Is. This mind-made misperception of reality, of separate and competing entities, is a destructive, falacious premise. Most of us manage to get through life suppressing and enduring the underlying angst and frustration our mis-attunement to Reality creates, never realizing that this is the source of most of our personal and collective problems.\n\nHumans are just one species of consciousness living in an interdependent web of life with 50 to 100 million other species. Nothing actually exists as a separate “thing,” in isolation from everything else. \n\nWe tend to regard everything we can name, including ourselves, as a separate “thing;” as if we, and all “things,” were not inextricably embedded within the enveloping and infusing resonant field of energy and information, which includes everything and everyone else. This results from the fallacious premise at the base of our believed, conditioned representation of self-and-other, self-and-world as discrete, rather than interdependent, co-arising entities. We have tended to own the one and project out the other; failing to notice that both sides of our split-off interpretation, along with their accompanying feelings and emotions are co-arising as complementary, dynamic energies and thought patterns within a larger, singular system of our awareness of being.\n\nThrough recognition of this we can begin to notice that each time we create a self-other split in our mind, we are failing to notice the living awareness, which is always the singular wholeness of our actual now moment and, in which both our construct of self and our construct of “other” exist. The self we have been experiencing and have been living through is a composite of images, thoughts, feelings and sensations distinguished from our current “other” or “world.” It only exists within our mind’s abstracted representation of reality. The other we have been experiencing is equally a set of images, thoughts, feelings and sensations within our awareness of now; it has not yet been teased apart and, inquired into so that we discover whether such a “self-other” representation exits in reality or just in our mind. And if “it” cannot be found, what’s actually here where we imagined “it” was?\n\nAgain, We are all in this together. We were all raised to see through our conditioned frame of reification and separation; we each gradually adapted to the field of energies and beings around us, developing relational patterns we came to adopt as we began to live through our personality.\n\nThis has been the consensus reality of our human species of consciousness for a long time. It is what we have all been born into and it has been determining how we have all been living within this mind-made, mis-representational field. Fortunately or unfortunately, this cannot go on forever.\n\nChanges within the consciousness of our species and/or changes, within the field of energies within which we live and move and have our being, are causing fluctuations in the resonances of energy we are experiencing. These fluctuations have begun to exceed our individual and collective representation of reality. Both our internal structures and our shared social, political and structures we’ve created have begun fluctuating beyond these structures’ capacity to contain them. Scratch the surface and just about everybody on this planet at this time knows things are changing dramatically on many levels and they don’t really know how things are going to turn out.\n\nWhereas formerly it seemed we could to some extent swim where we wanted in this river of life, at this moment, both as individual beings and as a singular species of consciousness, we’ve entered the rapids and She is sweeping us all into a vortex which is, it seems to me, destined to transform us from imagining we’re separate to recognizing our shared Unity and our common destiny.\n\nConsider this: one of the fruits of our millennial misunderstanding is expressed as the United States of America spending over 50% of its wealth on military and defense – more than the total of the 12 next most wasteful nations on this planet. This is because we have been living within a representation we’ve created and believed where we seem to be separate from and threatened by each other. And so rather than collaborate, the biggest bully gets to control, dominate and exploit the rest of us, here. And spend half our wealth doing it.\n\nIf we imagine the possibility of our human species of consciousness recognizing the actual fact that we are all in this together, all of that wealth could be invested into ensuring opportunity and well-being for all of us. I am seeing a rather different world where each individual among us is encouraged to discover and develop their unique strengths, gifts and talents and then, is supported to discover the best ways to express them for the benefit of all of us. In this envisioned world, we thrive together as a species of consciousness. But as Einstein is credited with saying, we can’t get there using the kind of thinking that has gotten us into this conundrum.\n\nThe kind of thinking that has gotten us to be oppositional and preemptively aggressive is binary, reifying and based upon an assumption of separation. For the most part, we have come to regard ourselves and others as things which we label, judge and describe within our mind-made story about “us,” “them” and “the world.”\n\nIn both developmental psychology and my personal observations of how my own children developed, it is understood that our distinct persona configures by the time we are 3 or 4 years old. Because of the environment which conditioned us, our mind is grounded in a premise of separation and the reification of both self and other. Everything that develops after that is built upon our premised foundation of assumed separation. All the edifices of physics, philosophy, psychology, international and interpersonal relations are built on this mistaken foundation of separation and reification. For generations, we have been living within all these complex, abstract ideas about who we and others are and what the world is, without recognizing they all have been derived from the understanding of our 4-year old minds’ adaptation to the distortions of the world into which we were born.\n\nWhat I am describing here constitutes what’s called our human karmic vision of samsara in the East and it is probably what “seeing through a glass, darkly,” and “a house built on sand,” in the Christian Bible originally meant. Our ideas of this polarized duality are internally experienced and expressed in language and images. These distinctions, descriptions, interpretations and stories constitute the world in which we live. As a species of consciousness, this mind-world we have been living within is what philosophy refers to as a representational field of conceptual notions. We introject these labels and descriptions onto ourselves and “us” and project them onto others, “them,” and the world.\n\nThese are the stories of our lives we tell ourselves and each other and, we have taken this mind-world to be reality. Because our mis-representational field is based in our fallacious notions of separation and reification, that is, because we have taken the experience of our living moment and conceptually made separate “things” out of ourselves, others and our world; this shared mind of samsara ultimately CANNOT truly provide satisfaction and well being for any of us, much less all of us. Perhaps we can distract and benumb ourselves, even for a lifetime, but the underlying and inherent dissatisfaction of trying to live a fundamentally flawed understanding of reality can only be resolved by restructuring our minds and attuning our organisms to the natural clarity and resonant frequencies of the actual, underlying reality of our being.\n\n\nIn recent decades human beings in unprecedented numbers have begun awakening to our natural state of shared oneness in which we recognize both our own and every other’s unique individuality and we simultaneously recognize our mutual unity. In 2000, when Lynn Marie Lumiere and I published our book, The Awakening West – Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment, we were excited to have discovered about twenty western individuals who seemed to have awakened and we were delighted to have had the opportunity to converse with fifteen of them. The evidence of a spreading enlightenment has gotten a lot stronger. Today, a cursory examination of websites such as Buddha at the Gas Pump, http://www.batgap.com, shows that we’d need well over a dozen such volumes to cover those among us who’ve awakened and are teaching. Add to that the unknown numbers of individuals who have attended these peoples’ talks, retreats and webinars are now awakening or have awakened. We are all living in an epoch of shared awakening; whether we have been aware of the fact, or not.\n\nI am one of us. I am one among an exponentially growing portion of our human species of consciousness; we seem to be awakening together. As we awaken together, it is as if we learning a new language. It is apparent, inevitable and understandable that most of us will be mispronouncing the language for a while yet, as we are still outgrowing our conditioned mind/world, as the shared ground of our natural state more clearly reveals itself, within, between and among us.\n\nAnother way of regarding what is emerging among us is to consider each of us is a fragment of the singular holographic plate, which is all of us. As more and more of us come into the resonances of being which are aligned with our natural state, the hologram of all of us here, together, becomes clearer for each of us. Thus, we move toward fluency in our co-created language of shared oneness. I imagine that as the strength of these frequencies become strong enough among us, as enough of us have resolved a sufficient amount of our personal/shared mis-representation, we will all snap into a higher order of organization and understanding and we will together be restored to our natural and, mutually supportive, synergy.\n\n\n2 - Awakening Together -- the Light and the Shadow\n\nTo catalyze our collective shift, enough of us have to be attentive to experientially recognizing our innate awakened presence in the immediacy of our life and, we need to have sufficiently deconstructed our conditioned, dualistic self-other, self-world identifications. Together these constitute the two components of embodied awakening required for each of us; they are mutually reinforcing and inescapably intertwined. And, they are distinct components of embodied awakening.\n\nDiscovering and experientially recognizing the living, primordially pure and spontaneously present actuality of our being, even if only the briefest glimpse, is often spoken of as the beginning of our awakening. Becoming accustomed to re-recognizing our open and inclusive awareness in the midst of our lives constitutes our pathless “path.” Coming to spontaneously live from this awareness 24-7 might be a good description of fully awakened consciousness or enlightenment. When we all share in the acknowledgement of this innate reality, I’d call that the ascension of our particular, human species of consciousness into a co-creative shared memory complex.\n\nFor our lives to bear this fruit, we each must repeatedly choose to give our attention to the recognition of the openness in the core of our being again and again for short, uncontrived moments as often as we think of it during our walk through each day.\n\nWe are repeatedly remembering to choose to stop giving attention to our mind stream for a moment and deliberately notice the actual experiencing of being present. As we do so, there are at least two significant neurological processes which prove essential for us to fully embody our awakening. Our ability to deliberately, to consciously shape our own neural patterns is famously encapsulated in the sentence by Canadian psychologist, Donald O. Hebb, “…neurons that fire together, wire together. [ Donald Hebb in his 1949 book The Organization of Behavior, NY, Wiley & Sons ] So, firstly, the neural circuitry of focused attention, one set of neurons, is firing with as well as connecting to a different set of neurons, which subtend our actual experience of being present and awake for the duration of the moment.\n\nWhen we do this, it is as if we are communicating among several levels of our being. In effect, we are saying, “I am appreciating this moment of conscious awareness; it is important to me. Thank you; give me more!” to the interconnected, multidimensional singularity of our nervous system, our whole organism, the universe and, God/Goddess/All-That-Is. Secondly, as we accumulate more and more short moments of re-recognition, we are literally retuning our nervous system (read: our neuro-psychology, our neuro-physiology and the neural substrate of our interpersonal field) to the resonances of our actual and shared being. Since this is our natural state, it is harmonious with and reinforced by the resonances of the natural state of the Universe itself! This practice is the most skillful and rapid way of transforming our adaptive, samsaric consciousness into our natural state.\n\nSo, this half of the awakening experience, which I have been describing, initially involves recognizing this awareness enveloping and pervading the field of our moment-to-moment experience; it is still, silent, open and cognizant of both itself and its contents. As we develop the habit of stopping the thinking and re-recognizing the immediacy of our awareness of being in the actual now moment, we learn to rest as the living awareness. Increasingly, by our own choice, we come to rest as the presence of the moment through which the river of life’s sensations, emotions, thoughts and images is flowing; we learn to rest as this living awareness suffused with whatever happens to be present.\n\nLittle by little (at least in my case) we come to increasingly rely on this open intelligence at the core of our being. It becomes the ground from which we live and resolve challenges. We come to spend more and more time resting as presence and, thus, we find ourselves spontaneously responding from this openness to life as it presents itself. For most of us, coming to rest for longer and longer moments takes a while of dedicated practice. The sustaining motivation comes both from our increasing contentment, deepening peace and well-being as well as our heartfelt impulse to both free ourselves and to help others - to truly be of benefit to all of us. Our life is getting better and better.\n\nThat is, life does keep getting better and better, if we are dealing with what comes up within us as we are awakening. Specifically, “dealing,” means deconstructing our various habitual dualistic and reified constructions of self-other, self-world which are brought into the foreground of consciousness by the people, events and circumstances of our lives.\n\nAs we learn to deal with our “stuff”, by resting in the peaceful and inclusive awareness of being while we are perceiving/conceiving our reified selves in relation to reified others; we start recognizing that both these elements of our experience, are constructions made by and held within our mind and, together, they constitute our personal mis-representational field which is appearing in awareness at the moment. This recognition offers us the opportunity to renegotiate a particular piece of our unique adaptation to the disconnected, samsaric mind of polarized dualities we became immersed in when we arrived here. Whether we have the strength, and will and capacities required to “deal” in a particular moment or not, these experiences eventually need to be metabolized by our being to enable us to redeem our shadow and live from our fullness.\n\nThese moments are an experiential and often, uncomfortable, process of reclaiming our disowned and projected personal and collective shadow This can be either internally processing the evil we see in our negative shadow which has been projected onto “them,” or, it can involve reclaiming our positive shadow, as when we have projected all goodness onto a lover, teacher, guru or our image of Deity.\n\nIn my process, “dealing,” or reclaiming my shadow, begins in earnest as I acknowledge that both the felt-sense of the one that I am experiencing “here” as me, and the felt-sense of the one that I am experiencing “there” as the other, them or the world, etc.—the felt-sense of both is occurring here, within the singularity of my awareness just now. I have come to realize that when I am seeing duality which is not grounded in the inclusive felt-sense of the singularity of awareness, I am mis-perceiving; and, if I truly want to awaken in this moment, I would do well to reconsider this way of regarding and responding to what I am perceiving as my life.\n\nWhen I have had the presence of mind and, whatever other energy or capacity is required in the moment, to choose to do this, I attend to the felt-sense both of the apparent “self” and the apparent “other” currently appearing within the space of awareness. I drop, to the best of my current ability, the labels, descriptions and story and feel the resonances of each and the tensions between the two. Without thoughts or images superimposed on the living experience, these sensations can be described as a dynamic pattern of energies within the awareness of now or, more poetically, as clouds of energies within the sky of awareness. I rest as this open space, this sky; these clouds of energies inevitably morph and resolve or dissipate. In my experience, as this happens, there is usually been some kind of revelation.\n\nWhat gets revealed has been unpredictable. Sometimes, an imprinted moment from childhood has been revealed; as when I reacted to my interpretation of my life and I formed a polarized and oppositional sense of self and other. One of the many crystalizing moments, which together coalesced into my sense of a reified, separate identity. As I have experienced these moments so far, they always seems to have involved the darkness of my shadow introjected in as a flawed or deficient “me” or projected out as a bad or evil “them.”\n\nSometimes, what has been revealed is one of what I have come to call the ninety-nine namable names of God, which was somehow lost during that earlier event. It may be a quality of peace, or an uncharacteristic sense of clarity, or unconditional love, or inclusiveness, or empowered presence, etc. Sometimes what is revealed is an exquisite, indescribable, un-nameable quality of being. Each time, however, some kind of wholeness is restored to my view and my experience of the “other” is transformed.\n\nSuffice it to say, facing and feeling our shadow material can become challenging and it may at times be wise to seek support from a spiritually &/or psychologically experienced friend or clinician who has some understanding of spiritual emergence and the challenges of awakening in this world. It is much better to be seen and accepted as we are learning this new language, than to be judged, shamed and made to feel that we must be going crazy.\n\n3 – How Complex Systems Create New Structures\n\n(At first encounter the following description may seem complicated and abstract, but this model is very helpful for contextualizing and understanding what is emerging in our human consciousness as well as providing a way of using language which helps us to regard the world as a diverse, interconnected living being which animates and includes us rather than a collection of “things” including whatever we have believed ourselves to be.)\n\nWhat is a “complex system?” Our individual specimens and collective human species of consciousness can be described as a complex systems nested within the enveloping, complex system of the eco-/biosphere; which is created on this fecund planet we call “Earth” through Her dynamic interactions with the Sun, the solar system and the enveloping, infusing Universe – each and all, also, complex systems.\n\nComplex systems are temporarily stable, self-organizing patterns/sub-systems which process light, energy and information. Complex systems contain many dynamically interacting sub-systems, each composed of nested sub-systems and sub-sub-systems, etc. living beings incorporate as bodies composed of organ systems, composed of organs, composed of cells, composed of molecules, composed of atoms, composed of sub-atomic patterns, composed of the zero-point field… Complex systems are naturally open to their environments and engaged in ongoing exchanges of energy and information therewith. As an example, we all live within and, none of us could long survive without our living environment.\n\nThe stability of the structures within any complex system, of their unique patterns of organization, is dynamically sustained by the interdependent relationships among positive and negative feedback loops within its subsystems. A positive feedback mechanism exists when a change within the system stimulates other events, which cause the first change to recur more frequently and/or more strongly. As an example, we can consider the growing tendency for rabbits to create increasingly more rabbits in an environment with an abundance of food and an absence of competitors or predators.\n\nA negative feedback mechanism exists when a change within as system dampens the tendency of the fluctuations within positive feedback cycles to just keep getting larger. Let’s say a family of wolves move into our imagined rabbit haven, which would then flourish and grow by culling the bunnies. As there came to be fewer rabbits around, some of the wolves might move on to another territory, giving the rabbit population a renewed opportunity to bounce back. Within complex systems the various negative feedback cycles check the, potentially exponential, growth of the positive feedback cycles.\n\nStable patterns of complex systems’ and their sub-structures’ processing of light, energy and information are sustained both by the positive and negative feedback dynamics just mentioned as well as by the continuity of a relatively stable environment provided by the particular system’s enveloping and infusing super-system; in which it is nested and which provides its “raw materials.”\n\nIt has been recognized that periodically, complex systems evolve new patterns of organization through a process which has been well mapped and for which its discoverer earned a Nobel Prize in 1987. The understanding is called Dissipative Structures and it was discovered and revealed by Illya Prigogine.\n\nBasically, a system can initiate self-organization at a higher level of integration when a set of positive feedback loops begins to run away, fluctuations unchecked, within their patterns of processes; such an unchecked positive feedback loop occurs because of a change in inputs from the system’s environmental system or because of a change within the system itself. As the patterns of process within the existing sub-structures of the system continue to fluctuate more and more wildly, they approach the limits of the system’s old structures’ to contain the oscillations and remain stable. This moment in the process is called the “instability threshold.”\n\nAs the system crosses its instability threshold, many of the previously stable patterns of processes break down as the, formerly stable, old structures dissipate. The flows of energies and information within the system can appear chaotic at this point. Think of the transitional chrysalis process when the creature is no longer a caterpillar and not yet a butterfly.\n\nAt some point after crossing the instability threshold, the energies and information circulating within the complex system begin to coalesce around sub-systems and sub-sub-systems, etc., which had existed previously within the complex system but which were held in check by the formerly stable overall organization of the system. These potential seeds of new organizations of the system, act as attractors for the energies and information and they offer themselves, so to speak, as available niches within the ecosystem of the whole system. Eventually the system settles down and self-organizes into a new patterning of processes, which contains the formerly overwhelming energies/information within its new organization of processes. That is, the system spontaneously integrates what had been exceeding its structures’ capacity to contain into new structures, which are a more complex, more integrative, higher-order version of itself. Again, caterpillar becomes butterfly; a group of musically talented young people learns to play effectively as an ensemble.\n\nThe following five concrete examples of this process will bring it more into our day-to-day lives and elucidate why this understanding of Dissipative Structures is poignantly meaningful as we awaken together. \n\nOne: Within the womb of a woman an egg receives a sperm and a runaway process ensues which changes the nature of the woman’s experience, her mate’s, their relationship and which, in 9 months, changes said relationship from a dyad to a family.\n\nTwo: At a particular point in the maturation of each human being a few drops of an endocrine secretion precipitates the dramatic changes of puberty. A person’s physical appearance, social relations and self-concept dissipates and reforms; the being self-organizes itself anew, for better or worse, into a teenager.\n\nThree: As a result of a complex set of interconnected, interdependent factors, the climate of the planet goes into wilder and wilder fluctuations, exhibiting hotter hots, colder colds, wetter wets, and dryer drys, etc. Briefly, the poles get hotter, ice melts and the changing water temperatures change the oceans’ currents; the gulf stream stops, north east North America and west Europe go into an ice age. Chaos ensues replete with enormous challenges and overwhelming suffering; social, political, economic structures are dissipated; and millions of people are displaced; the populations receiving the influx are destabilized and must themselves come to a new integration of the developing situation. This has happened more than once in the past. And the Pentagon, in  , made plans for just such a scenario, just in case. [FN]\n\nFour: It is worth noting that a similar disruption and re-organization of stably established, complex systems of families, communities and cultures ensues when a country or region gets invaded for the sake of profit, control and “regime change.” \n\nLastly: For the last several millennia the consciousness of our species has been patterned through the filter built from\n our premise of separation and consequent dualistic reification. Because we have been living within the mind-made constructs of the polarized duality of our mis-representational field, we have acted as though we were actually disconnected from the Earth, disconnected from each other, disconnected from our own being and disconnected from All-That-Is. This mistaken notion within our consciousness has been long-lived and we have all pretty much taken it for granted. Nevertheless, it has never been true.\n\nFor whatever reasons, at this time, the complex system of our human species of consciousness appears to be rapidly approaching an instability threshold. Fluctuations within and among the various subsystems in our personal consciousness and collective consciousness of our world are increasing and they are becoming wilder than our old structures of consciousness and social organization can contain. Today, no one need look very far to see the old structures beginning to break down and dissipate.\n\nAs far as I can see there are at least two morphic seeds around which our consciousness is coalescing as possible forms of integration into a global society; one of which I prefer.\n\nThe first is inextricably embedded in a polarized, dualistic mind-set. It involves the fostering opposition and conflict among divisive and fundamentalist ideologies and elevating psychopathic and sociopathic people into positions of power and influence within hierarchical structures industry, media, governments, etc. where they can dominate, control and exploit those below them in the pecking order. To envision the end result of this, picture the social, political and relational style exhibited on Darth Vader’s Death Star. It is a kind of globally unified society of the controllers and the controlled.\n\nI’d say that much of our corporate media is both giving us evidence of and programming us for the emergence of this meme as dominant. Recently (2011), it has been shown that the same 147 corporations which have been shown to control most of the corporations on the planet. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” [https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/].\n\nIt appears worth noticing that the bulk of the media is controlled by 6 international corporations with interests in fostering the first “seed.” As a result this awakening has been largely ignored therein and the vast majority of us have no idea that there is an awakening spreading among us.  From news like this, it seems “they” have things locked up.\n\nOn the other hand, as mentioned above, I am bearing witness to the seed of a global awakening to our shared oneness and its spreading contagion among us. We are now consciously becoming an intricately interconnected web of awakening consciousness exchanging energies and information about our experience, the process and the skillful methods we have found useful.  Because this has gotten very scant press, we have no idea how many people may be involved in this spreading awakening. \n\nNevertheless, at this point, globally, there may well be millions of us complex, human systems (by my, admittedly fallible, intuitive sense), who are, usually gradually, jettisoning our conditioned, adaptive identification within our collective samsaric world and, again gradually, getting used to resting as and living flexibly and spontaneously from the silent presence of our natural state. This involves the dissipation/deconstruction of our dualistic mis-representational field of reified self-other, self-world and, as mentioned above, re-patterning our neuro-physiology, our neuro-psychology and our neuro-relational field into the harmonious resonances of the natural state of our beings, together. This is occurring within the complex system of the context of our living world. We are awakening both within and as a holographic, fractal wholeness of this One, which is All-That-Is.\n\n4 – Dealing with the emerging potentials\n\nFirstly, we each need to discern whether our natural inclination is predominantly service-to-self or service-to-all. If you recognize that you tend toward service-to-self and you are content with that momentum in your life, I doubt whether I can be of very much help to you. I am sure that you will find your own mentors along your way. If you find yourself drawn toward service-to-all, both opening into your natural state and deconstructing your conditioned patterns and processes are essential and they become increasingly simultaneous. If you are pulled toward service-to-all, I, and many others who have found ourselves moving along this path toward recognizing and coming to live as our natural state, are interested in assisting, collaborating and co-creating. Most simply: I am one of us. If you sense that I may be of service during some part of your path, feel free to contact me.\n\nAwakening begins we recognize the natural state. The universal aspect of our awakening, both individually and together, involves overlapping phases, which Lynn Marie Lumiere has labeled recognizing, resting and relying. (FN, Undivided Love – A Guide to Awakened Relating, 2019, New Harbinger, Oakland, California). We each need to recognize our awareness of being and, the way it always both contains and pervades the river of experience, which continuously, unpredictably and endlessly flows through our living, cognizant openness. Awareness and experience are inseparable and mutually pervasive and yet, they are distinct. Experience changes constantly; awareness is constant.\n\nAwareness is the ever-present knowing of whatever is occurring in our now moment; in itself it is an inclusive openness or a kind of space in which our life takes place. Although we cannot, not be aware; we can certainly ignore the presence of being aware while engaged with the contents of our awareness. Awareness, in itself, is always right here, just now. It is empty, clear, open, still, silent. Awareness is not a locatable “thing;” it is nothing in itself, and yet, it is cognizant. Awareness is both aware of itself and aware of everything appearing within it. This empty, knowing space is the essence of our being. In fact, IMO, the words “awareness,” “being,” “presence,” “now,” all refer to the same indescribability.\n\nExperience, on the other hand, continuously appears as the changing content of awareness moment-by-moment. I like Rupert Spira’s division of experience into the three categories of perceptions of the world through the five senses, sensations and feelings in the body, and thoughts and images in the mind. These three categories, individually or combined, comprise everything we, as human beings, experience. As mentioned, the flow of experience is unpredictable, endless and continuous. We can neither control nor stop it; but we can respond to it from a living experience of its still, peaceful and subsuming context. This is what happens in the moments we are consciously aware and awake.\n\nIt is useful to realize that we have never had an experience separate from awareness; nor does awareness ever occur without the experience of the moment. In my understanding, this inseparability is what is meant by the sentences in the Heart Sutra, which says, “Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form.” \n\nOnce we have recognized of the primordially pure awareness of now replete with its spontaneously present contents, we return to this simple recognition as often as possible, as often as we remember to do so. This re-recognition of our natural state is the discipline of our meditation practice and it is our moment-to-moment practice in the midst of our daily lives; whenever we happen to remember to stop thinking for a moment and notice the immediacy of the awareness of now. This is how we retune our organism/nervous system to our natural state and learn to rest in the nature of being more and more deeply for longer and longer periods. \n\nSooner or later, we notice, as we are recognizing and resting, that what usually keeps pulling us out of our moments of resting in awareness, is our conditioned mind and all our reactions to the self-other and self-world that we’ve fabricated into our current field of mis-representation. Again, the other half of awakening entails unraveling our unique, individual path of adaptations to this world as we came to interpret it, after we arrived here. We unravel polarized, dualistic constructs, which constitute our current samsaric, mind-world/dream-body. We each have a unique set of wounds, traumas and relational imprints, which created the experiential and conceptual foundation for who we have become, for who and what we take ourselves to be. These constitute the representation, which we regard as the relational world of self and “others” in which we find ourselves today.\n\nRenegotiating this material seems to involve re-experiencing both the emotions and the interpretations in which they are based, which caused us to split the living reality of the singularity of awareness/experience into separate reified constructs of “self” and “other.” Typically, these formative emotions/interpretations do not involve the sadness, apprehension and irritability of an adult’s socialized emotional repertoire. Rather these involve the raw emotions of an infant. An infant’s feelings are unmasked and tend more toward the intensities of profound despair, abject terror and homicidal rage. These were the emotional aspect of our reactions to the events, which imprinted us with the lessons of separation and duality. Most of this intensity has been repressed from our conscious mind and projected out onto our current version of the “wrong” or “evil” “other.” At least some of the time, reclaiming our shadow requires our willingness to feel the raw emotions/sensations, which accompany our interpretations and underlie our adaptive personality.\n\nAgain, being seen and accepted and supported during these phases of this process is invaluable. This is especially so when our wounding occurred because of mis-attunement and not being seen. Relational wounds can heal in a relationally supportive context. They heal faster and easier when we’re being held within a mutually acknowledged field of shared oneness while renegotiating this sort of material. This greatly facilitates the release and resolution required for freedom.\n\nAnd so, this is one of the most essential areas of our lives where learning to rely on our recognition is most crucial. This is because our experiential recognition reveals the domain of our being which was never touched or impacted by the stresses, wounding and traumas of our process of adapting to our conditioning. When we can relax into the sky-like awareness of our being, while these difficult feelings and thoughts about ourselves, others and the world are arising, we can fully experience them, see them clearly and allow them to pass through or morph in their own, organic way as they resolve. I can’t say that this experiential recognition of our natural state makes it easy, but it certainly does make it a lot easier.\n\n5 - Integration, Activation and Collaboration\n\nAt a certain point our internal process has proceeded sufficiently that we feel compelled to engage actively in the world we find around us. For many of us, myself included, this precedes what could be considered “full enlightenment.” However, with this impulse, it might be wise to err on the side of caution because a righteous and evangelical expression of our understanding of “the absolute truth” is worse than useless because our suboptimal imbalance and disharmony may temporarily deter others from exploring further.\n\nThat said, because we recognize that the recognition and familiarization with our natural state is the solution for the problems we face individually and as a species of consciousness, our impulse to share this may be inevitable and it may be quite strong. How can we ensure that what we are offering is actually beneficial to our audience?\n\nIn my opinion, which is based in both my own experience and my observations, we must, to the best of our current ability, rely upon the open intelligence we discover at the core of our being when we drop all our conceptual interpretations of our current situation or circumstance. This means (to me) that, in spite of what my education and conditioning within samsara are telling me is true about what I am facing, I will be effective to the degree that I can recognize and relax into the openness of not-knowing what is ultimately best in this situation or with this person or group. As we learn to rest into the true openness of our being, as we learn to more deeply release our conditioned mind’s interpretations, we connect with and bring through our innate and all-inclusive intelligence. This spontaneous responsiveness of being is always appropriate and timely because the “being” that is responding through us naturally includes both self and other-self.\n\nAs we begin to establish ourselves in the inclusive openness of our natural state, we each discover our unique expression of the oneness we share. We may know of a variety of people out in public explicitly teaching or writing who appear as models of how we should express the truth of being.  We may be aware of other beings, which are more behind the scenes, such as parents or gardeners or artists or managers or entrepreneurs or activists who seem to be living genuinely, fully from their being. And, one of these roles may, in fact, be ours. Or not. In truth, IMO, we each have both a unique path of awakening through the shadowy mine fields of our unique conditioned identity and thus, we have a unique path of expressing that awakening into the life we share. It helps to remain quiet and open and willing to help in whatever situation appears in awareness as we walk our walk through life.\n\nKnow this: we naturally and spontaneously express the degree of our clarity and understanding in exactly the same way our parents or caretakers expressed the degree of their clarity and understanding or mis-understanding while raising us. This is an inevitable law. When we are clear and present and open, our attitude is inclusive and our expression is mutually beneficial regardless of how our behavior might be described as a “role.”\n\nSomewhere along this process of awakening and embodiment, we begin to increasingly recognize that every single moment is our opportunity to show up as the open, clear presence we actually are. Our choice to be inclusive, present and available by surrendering attention out of our mind’s current construction of what is so and noticing our open presence, becomes more constant. We increasingly recognize viscerally in each encounter with other-self that we are all in this together, now. We share this moment with this particular other-self and with all of us. What I, what we happen to bring to this moment is my/our contribution to our shared reality, just now.\n\nAt this stage, we are increasingly compelled to release out of our conditioned mind’s interpretations and recognize our shared oneness. As mentioned above, this may involve a renegotiation of the material, which precipitated our individual splitting of the singularity of our being into “self” and “other,” or “us” and “them.” But our 100% commitment compels us to face and feel and integrate our shadow because we realize nothing less will free us, all of us. And, for those of us who know we are on this path, freeing all of us is why we are here.",
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      "body": "Self-Evident Truths And Awakening\n\nI find some thoughts to be self-evident; almost tautological in their simplicity and obvious truth. I am wondering whether the rest of us would experience these ideas similarly. I’d like to mention a few before I elaborate.\n \nFor example, it seems patently obvious that the One that is All-That-Is is all of Itself – including our human species of consciousness as well as everything that we experience and regard as other than this human species of consciousness on this planet near this star. Simple and obvious, huh?\n\nWe, each one of us, as well the whole set of us human beings, are in, of, and by this One that is All-That-Is. To me that is indisputable. We could say that our human species of consciousness is one of the innumerable ways that this One is experiencing and expressing Itself at this particular location of Itself at this particular moment of Its ongoing revelation of Itself to Itself. All of these statements appear self-evident to me. Are they to you?\n \nI’ll proceed from these ideas whether you take them as self-evident or reasonable premises.\n \nGiven our inherent immersion in this One and our evident emergence from the quantum/zero-point field as well as our innate embedded-ness in this One’s multi-dimensional interconnectedness, I believe we humans, as a species of consciousness, can begin to understand our human situation on this planet differently than we have been regarding it.\n\n As this particular species of consciousness we have, pretty much all of us, been living through a mind-made filter that both shapes and limits our experience and expression of ourselves and our relationships with each other in ways that are fundamentally out of harmony with the multi-ordinal, mutually sustaining, self-organizing and self-evolving nature of this One in and of whom we live and move and have our being. This is made evident by the fact that we are, pretty much all of us, at each other’s throat and willing to spend the greatest portion of our global wealth to destroy each other and disrupt and destroy each others’ cultures over a rather small set of mind-made ideological constructs and pre-emptive perceptions of threat which have often been fostered by a seemingly endless stream of false-flag events in our history.\n \nTo date, very few of us realize what we actually are individually or as a whole species. We’ve never been taught about and rarely even looked for our actual being. This is largely because we’ve been so caught up in our personal version of our species-wide illusion of separation, reification and polarized dualities that we’ve never actually considered the possibility that there may be something else going on here beneath the surface of our alienation and our adversities. This misguided misunderstanding is the root of both our failure as a species of consciousness to thrive together as well as our inability, to date, to co-create a world of growing, mutual benefit and mutual support.\n \nAnyone who’s ever lived in a functioning community knows that the only way the community thrives is for everybody to do their part in making it work for all of us. It is exactly the same for any species of consciousness living on a planet, together – like us; this is the only way by which we shift into what is called a “shared memory complex.” My dear, co-existent human beings, isn’t it obvious that we are all in this world together. It only makes sense for us to realize we have been living an insane dream, to wake-up and begin to discover what it means to live in support of each other’s well-being.\n \nHere’s a relevant parable I have heard. A spiritually dedicated practitioner earned a boon; she asked to be shown the difference between Heaven and Hell. In a mind’s-eye instant, she was shown a room with a large, round dining table with a large steaming pot of what looked to be a delicious soup. All available seats around the table were filled with, apparently, rather hungry people. But these all had unusual right arms. Their right fore-arms had the shape of three-foot long handles and at the end was a soup spoon. Each one was able to dip their spoon into the pot in the middle of the table and get some of that delicious smelling food. But they couldn’t get the spoon to their mouths. People were trying to throw the food and catch it in their mouths. No one was really eating and all the food was spattering on everyone around the table; tempers were flaring. In the peaceful silence of her mind as she contemplated this scene, she heard, “That’s Hell.”\n\nThen, instantly she was transported to a similar but very different scene. Same table, same steaming tureen of soup, same gathering of people with their silly, long soup-spoon arms; but here, they’d each dip their spoon in that appealing soup and feed one another. Meanwhile, they shared a warm and wonderful conversation. Everyone was happy and well-fed. “Heaven.”\n \nBut, just knowing we are all in this together and wanting to collaborate is not enough to free us; ask most of us who lived the heart of the ‘60s. Recognizing we have been asleep in a dream of separation and disconnectedness is not the same as waking-up. We need to both attune our organisms (read “nervous systems”), to the underlying, but seriously overlooked, reality of our being and, simultaneously, deconstruct the habitual, conditioned neuro-somatic, neuro-relational and neuro-mental patterns that constitute our mind-world/dream-body of duality, separation and reification.\n \nThese two processes are mutually supportive and both are required. Fully attuning to the inclusive, spacious presence of our natural state requires the deconstruction of the conditioned self-other, self-world identifications in which we have been living. It is equally true that the dissolution of our reifying, polarizing mind-states goes smoother, faster and, it cannot be completed without the active presence of our silent awareness pervading the process.\n \nFirst and most essentially, we to notice our natural state and then, get more and more familiar with it in the midst of our life. For most of us, we gradually come to live from and as our innate, clear, open presence and we come to see this self-same ground of being in everyone and everything.\n \nTo start right now, we decide to stop thinking for a moment and notice what is here in the absence of thought. If you choose to stop a moment and attend, you will notice a silent (read: “absence of thought”), alert, presence. This may not seem like much; in fact, if you are attentive, it seems like nothing whatsoever – and yet, there is an awareness of the present moment. Nothing, and yet cognizant of whatever happens to be appearing as this particular moment. Interesting, huh? In Tibet, this is referred to as the empty cognizance of our natural state.\n \nIf you’ve recognized this much, you’ve had a glimpse of recognition. Congratulations! This is the first step on the path of awakening to our true nature and out of our unique, individual set of conditioned identities. Although this truly is the key to freedom, if it doesn’t seem like much of any significance to you at this point, you are not alone. Many of us fail to recognize the significance of the silent presence of awareness during our first, brief glimpses. If your initial short moments are anything like mine, you’ve just begun to sense the aroma of the natural state; you are nowhere near enjoying the feast with all your beloved brothers and sisters, yet.\n \nWhat typically happens, once we’ve hit the pause button on our thinking and begun attending to what is naturally, already and always here, is we immediately notice some quality or characteristic of what we’ve touched and we lose contact with the immediacy of the actual experience; because we’re so attentive to our intelligence’s capacities of discernment, labeling and description. Ether that or we get distracted from our presence by any current focus that presses in upon us.\n \nIn other words, one or another of our habitual neuro-logical complexes moves into the foreground of our consciousness and the deeper qualities of our being are no longer being noticed. The full depth and richness of our consciously aware being cannot be revealed in a short glimpse any more than a trailer can communicate the full-on experiential ride of a really good movie. In order to more fully appreciate the remarkable qualities of our innate awareness of being, we have to cultivate the ability to rest back into and as the spacious, inclusive, living awareness of our every now moment; this usually takes a while. If we’re getting pulled out of our natural state after a second or two, we can say we’ve recognized it, but we cannot yet say we really know it.\n \nWithin the practice communities among us, which have over centuries produced embodied and realized human beings, at a certain point in a practitioner’s development, a simple practice is given. However, the masters of these lineages have said that now is the time for this to be more widely disseminated. The injunction is, “Brief moments of thought-free re-recognition, repeated many times, become continuous and obvious in all experiences and situations.” This is how we can shift our default neurological complexes out of our conditioned identifications in separation; restoring our neural substrate to resting in and as the silent expanse of our presence and, usually gradually, coming to live from that.\n\nAs a species of consciousness, humanity as a whole has been living within a mind/world-dream/body in which “reality” is conceived and perceived as a collection of separate three-dimensional “things” including our conceptions of ourselves and “others.” Generally, within our shared, abstract representation of ourselves and our world, we regard ourselves as the body and/or the representations in our mind of who and what we think we are.\n\nThe problem with this situation lies in the fact that the fundamental assumption upon which our shared mind-world/dream-body rests is false. This mind-made world is called our “dream” body because we are having a lived experience and perception of separation and reification. Nothing is ever actually separate from anything or everything and, nothing is actually a “thing,” ever!\n\nFor example, we all know what the word, “tree” refers to. As the word is mentioned we each have an image in our mind and perhaps a description as well. However, may I ask you, what is a tree with out the soil? Without water? Without the sunshine? Without air? Without the forest it came from? Etc. Etc.\n\nWe have all been raised to adapt to this shared but mistaken, 3-d mind-world/dream-body that was going on before we arrived on the scene.  Through a series of personally impactful moments the innate intelligence of our being constructed, and we gradually identified with an adopted set of relatively stable identities in relation to those around us, and our environment; this usually happens around three years of age.\nWithin our own mind we became a particular separate one, within a three dimensional world in which everything and everyone is a separate “thing;” when, in reality, nothing is a “thing.” Any “thing” we care to name is multi-dimensionally entangled with every other “thing” in the cosmos and “it” is both made of and embedded within the ground energy of the zero point field and the living awareness in which all of these “things” are appearing, existing and passing.\n\nWhat we call “things” are better named “holons.” Holon, a term coined by Arthur Koestler, mean something which is simultaneously a whole and a part of a larger whole.\n\nWhat I am calling our mistaken mind-world/dream-body emerges in consciousness from a complex set of habitual neurological programs which underlie the conditioned cycles of our moods, the ways we sense and perceive our bodies, ourselves in this world and ourselves among others as well as all the labels, descriptions and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening. Extracting our consciousness from experiencing and perceiving through the filter of our deluded, mind-made field of representation is actually simple, if not easy:\n\n1. We recognize we this is not our authentic, original nature and we realize want to re-discover who and what we primordially are.\n2. We deliberately interrupt the seemingly incessant flow of thought and, in that momentary thought-free state, we deliberately notice and attend to what is already here.\n3. We repeat step 2 as often as we can remember, discovering more and more about our natural state as our short moments of re-recognition become longer, deeper and more frequent.\n4. We start noticing what sensations, emotions and thoughts pull us out of recognition and we begin deconstructing these neuro-physical, neuro-psychological and neuro-relational complexes.\n\nThe deconstruction of our conditioned identities-in-context can be facilitated by any number of skillful practices and technologies. 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      "body": "Our Brain, Our Life, Awakening, Our Lives Together\n\nEverything we ever experience, express and learn is a function of our nervous system. To open that statement up a little, our nervous system is the substrate that pervades our every moment of perceiving the world, including all others, through our senses; every moment moving, sensing and feeling our bodies; as well as the appearance of every image, distinction, label, thought, description, story, concept, insight and intuition we have ever lived through and, are living through, now. Our nervous system manages all the interconnected functions and of all the interrelated subsystems of our organism as human beings, relating in dynamic exchange with our environment and other human beings in this world.\n\nIn short, our individual nervous systems underlie our subjective experiences of being alive here. From the beginning, our nervous system subsumes all the processes we each go through adapting to and living on this Earth. Here, in this world where our subjective lives are inseparable from the inter-subjective field of others’ lives here, around us. Our nervous system is the substrate of the experience of our lives; our lives, which are inextricable from the enveloping ecosystem and its myriad subsystems. We can recognize these as the external side of our living organism’s metabolism.\n\nOur experience and perception of ourselves, others, this world and all of us being together in this world as our human species of consciousness is determined by the conditioned patterns within the neurological substrate of our organism – our underlying beliefs determine our understanding of our interpretations and our consequent perception. These conditioned, neural patterns of thinking in our minds, of experiencing in our bodies and ways of being with others in the world are habits in our nervous system; they show up as repeating sequences of firings in our neural networks, as particular cycles among our neuro-chemical shifts; as well as limited, repetitive sets of oscillations within the wide-spectrum of our brainwaves which can be said to be playing familiar pieces of music throughout our lives. Sometimes runaway feedback cycles within our neural systems spins us through energetic vortices into further reaches of discomfort, dissatisfaction and discouragement; or into frantic activity.\n\nWhether we were raised in what is now called, “a dysfunctional family” or just anywhere within our rather dysfunctional species of consciousness, by the age of three or four, we were virtually all conditioned to adopt the fundamental premise of separation, which had been assumed by everyone around us and everybody around them, and back generations for millennia. As we adapted to what we found here, we each divided Reality into “us” as separate from “not-us.” We adopted reified constructs of “self-in-world,” “self-with-other,” and “me & us-vs-them.” These became the basis for our identifications as a separate one in this world.\n\nOf course, all this is mistaken. With a little reflection it becomes obvious that every so-called “thing” is both a whole in itself as well as a part/participant in a larger system; nothing is ever really separate from everything else. Nevertheless, even once we’ve conceptually understood this, we all tend to see and experience ourselves as separate and disconnected from our context, each other, this Earth and the Divine Source and Substance of all being – in both its transcendent and its immanent infinities. Perhaps, it cannot be stated too often that this fundamental misunderstanding is the essential root of all our problems – both personal and shared – as this human species of consciousness.\n\nThis mis-apprehension of separation is the unstable foundation of our representation of life to ourselves. For the most part we live our lives from within this mind-made field of representation, which informs us of who and what we are in relation to things, others and the world. Unfortunately, this is true, even if we know of and have had experiential glimpses of our shared oneness and our interconnectedness with All-That-Is because our nervous system keeps reverting back to the latest version of our earliest adaptation to the inter-subjective world of separation, within which we were raised.\n\nWhether we have a vague intuitive sense or a burning heart’s desire to come to ongoing-ly live as the experiencing expression of our shared oneness consciously engaging with our neuro-plasticity with our vision in mind with all nuances of its self-organized complexity and depth of experience, an open-minded experiential exploration of the felt-sensing of our instinctive vision of our whole species living together, sustainably in peace is the direction we’re wanting to go toward. This vision involves us living together in creative collaboration for the benefit of all of us.\n\nGradually, we are moving past the separate identities which create all these polarizing categories and descriptions we have all habitually been living because we have been taking our mistaken representational field to be an accurate map or model for who and what we are as individual beings. We are beginning to notice, we beginning to experience the dynamic and multilayered patterning of our nervous system; we are beginning to notice ourselves recreating and experiencing of duality letting go of who and what we think  and have believed we are, in relation to the same mind’s version of what constitutes “you” or “them,” or “this world.” These are merely our conditioned minds’ interpretations of what this or that is and means.\n\nWe turn our attention away from the familiar, conditioned “known” and, noticing the knower that is always here; we deliberately stop the stream of thoughts and, for a moment, just notice what is always, already and naturally, here. This awake, cognizance is always here, just beneath and behind our story of ourself in the throes of duality and separation. When we finally say to ourselves, in our own way of speaking, “WhiskyTangoFoxtrot, this is my life passing through the filters of my mind; I can take a moment out of my mind-made, self-world, my experienced interpretation, and begin noticing the experiential actuality of my being. I have an innate right to focus my attention where I prefer. It is simple to stop thinking and simply notice, to the best of my current ability, the beneath behind and beyond any and all conceived and assumed interpretations and interpreted meanings.”\n\nIt is important to realize that repatterning the energetic field of our mistaken representation of reality as polarized, reified dualities involves what can be broadly described as two simultaneous and mutually synergistic processes. Both involve developing the muscle of our conscious attention but in different ways. The heart-essence of the path of awakening is to drop all thought, including all assumptions, to the best of our current ability. We attune to the actuality of our being here, noticing what is already here. As we begin to take such experiential short moments, we are attuning our minds, our bodies and our perception of the field of life around us; to the actuality of being the one we have always been regardless of who or what we thought, believed and perceived ourselves to have been.\n\nWhich brings us to the second process of becoming conscious of the ways our mind had been creating and re-creating the representational field of our inevitable discomfort and dissatisfaction with ourselves, others & life. As we practice taking short moments, we begin to come to rest as the actuality of our awareness/being, the one we actually and always are beneath, behind and beyond any story of duality we may have been telling ourselves, others and the world. We notice the inherently open presence of being which subtends all mind-filtered experiences which pull us out of our living rest, is the compelling stories of polarized dualities and separation that we tell ourselves. We become re-engaged with one of our mind’s habitual versions of ourselves either by life happening around us and turning attention to it or by another integration of neural networks that correlates with one of our identities in relation with the perceived/conceived context of self/other/world. \n\nThe way I see it, as we awaken together, we are taking back our intrinsic connectedness and our primordial identity as awareness/field-beings experiencing and expressing through these organisms both with and within the interconnected field of all being. In truth it is utterly simple; we merely remember to turn our attention from whichever of our separate-identity-creating self-other, self-world dualities happens to have been running on automatic; we simply re-turn our attention and we re-tune our resonance to the underlying presence of our natural state.\n\nInevitably this will throw our habitual positive and/or negative points of view of me & you, or him or her or them into the foreground of our awareness. So what do we do? First we recognize this is one of the conditioned self-in-context identities we have been living through. It involves a set of feelings, descriptions, interpretations and meanings, which constitute the experiential fabric of our identity as a separate one in relation to the experiential fabric of however it happens we have been regarding our world. We come to take responsibility for the ways we have been interpreting and being in relation to life including ourselves, others and all the interconnected holons of All-That-Is. We begin to recognize ourselves as the author, director and star of our own movie. We begin seeing that we have been continuously living within and believing in the interpretations generated by our mistaken mind’s premise of separation and duality. \n\nIn brief, we simply stop thinking for a moment and just notice whatever we can notice about the felt-sensing of just being here. We recognize that the binary pattern of our identification exists within the all-inclusive space of our awareness. We sustain the experiential recognition of awareness while allowing the habitual “me-you,” “me-them,” or “me-world” field of representation, with all its charged emotional nuances, to be here within it, for the time being. If we can take off the labels and allow the polarized energies to be as they are, then, as it is regarded within the open space of awareness, the polarized duality of “me-you,” “me-them,” or “me-world,” naturally morphs and resolves back into the unified field of the awareness of now. This may occur with a recognition/revelation of an early, seminal moment of being imprinted, disconnecting and creating one of our original identifications within samsara. Sometimes, I have found, as these current versions of “me” separate from “whatever” resolve, some quality of essence is revealed within me – some peace, or presence, or quality of integrity or wholeness.\n\nUsing words as primers and pointers toward the immediate and direct non-verbal experience of being can be very helpful if we remember release our focus from the word(s) toward the immediacy of the already present, non-verbal felt-sensing of our being. Language can point our attention toward the living experiential domain of our shared oneness. Or we can get caught up in a seemingly endless sequence of verbal and nominal associations.\n\nAs a contemplation, you might find it useful to feel into the possibilities of meaning in words and phrases like interconnectedness; wide-open; each-and-all-included; empty, open cognizance; nothing preferenced; opening into a non-verbal knowing of the vast unknown beneath, behind and beyond whatever confusing and painful ways we have been conceiving, perceiving and living. In these ways we can begin noticing the felt-sensing of the openness of our being and we will gradually become more and more able to rest as the awareness of being. After some time of this, (for most of us, so far), we come to rely on this silent, open presence to express through us throughout our life.\n\nLike I said, our awakening is not usually a one time turning of attention from the discursive, thinking mind and toward the awareness which underlies every moment of our being.\n\nAs we look at our world and recognize what is at stake for our species if we all continue to live through the mistaken lens of separation; when we start to see how deeply we care about how we humans on this Earth are being with each other; as we find ourselves feeling the overwhelming amount of trauma and pain and destructiveness we create for ourselves and other sentient species; when we begin to recognize how we humans have semiconsciously degraded the living environment of space, light, air, fire, water and earth in natural synergy with our mistaken, human-mind made contaminants to the extent that we are now distorting the natural electromagnetic field of the earth-sun-galaxy-universe-etc. system; we find a compelling reason to refocus our attention and re-attune our consciousness. I mean, we have been tinkering with the electromagnetic field that subtends our every living moment in these bodies and the enveloping sphere of our lived moment. What could possibly go wrong?\n\n When we see the dualistic world around us and how much so many of us are suffering by the hands of our own species of consciousness, we begin chose to consciously relax our hold on our current interpretations, identifications and world-views. We become willing to stop thinking and attend, noticing everything we can about the experience of our open cognizance.\n\nAgain, this will inevitably stimulate the accretion of interpretive neural networks until they take center stage, capturing our attention and we label and describe what we’ve been noticing. Eventually this happens within the conscious awareness of the whole field of being; but often it seems that, as soon as the mind train chugs out of the station, we are already on board and down the tracks. We may find ourselves riding the mind’s steaming and streaming along for a long time before we remember to remember. Then, we, once again, chose to turn attention away from believed thinking and notice what being here, just now feels like. Thereby, we re-tune our nervous system/ psyche to our shared, natural state.",
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      "body": "Attention Is the Fastest Way to World Peace\n\nThe two most precious resources each of us have in this life are our time and our attention. No matter how life may seem to drag on in some moments, every one of us knows our time here is limited; at some point in time these bodies of our stop and drop; and, then we are no longer among these people in these places on this planet. None of us, young or old, knows how many moments we have left here. What ever absorbs our attention moment-by-moment, constitutes the lived, experiential flow of our life.\n\nEndowed with these precious resources of a finite amount of time and the capacity to focus our attention where we choose, it is wise for us to realize we are each sovereign in our own consciousness. Although we may not be able to hold it steady for long, we can choose where we place our attention.\n\nOur attention is the living presence of our innate intelligence engaged with our world. When it is said that what we give our attention to, grows; this means wherever attention happens to be focused, the mental, emotional and somatic experience of what we are attending to is occupying the largest share of our neural real estate. Whatever is most salient to us in any given moment, however we happen to be focused, is our living experience during that moment.\n\nFortunately, with the choice we have available to us, we can choose to turn our attention from one object or point of view to another. We can in fact choose to direct our attention away from the dualistic narrative that’s usually running in our head, and toward what we are intuitively beginning to sense may be a much more important focus. How long will attention stay before it strays? That, we don’t seem to have much control over. But we can always take another short moment to focus on what we intuit or know is most essential, as soon as we remember to do so.\n\nI’ll use myself as an example but this could be any one of us. I look around me and I can’t help but notice that this world is insane, groups of us are incredibly belligerent with each other and, all of that is so costly in every sense of the word that most of us are either destitute or scrambling frantically to not become destitute. Truth be told, I want a sane, peaceful and prosperous world; I want a world of creative collaboration with a widely-shared desire to create benefit for all of us.\n\nI have noticed that in the moments when I am resting as and living from the silent ground of being, I am peace and the world of my experience is peaceful. The quality of still, silent presence pervades the experience of my private, internal world as well as the experience of my public external world – regardless of what may be happening out there at the moment. In these, sometimes brief, moments, I am offering this set of resonances of consciousness as my contribution to the field of our shared consciousness. I tend to experience these moments as a positive influence. From my personal point of view, of course, I cannot know what effect this has on our shared field although I may witness what seems to be an effect on someone around me at the moment.\n\nLikewise, once my attention has again become ensnared in one of my current, conditioned identifications in our habituated, 3-dimensional mind-world of polarized and conceptually separated reifications, I am contributing that set of resonances to the moment of our human consciousness field. This is inevitable for me at this stage of our shared process of awakening. I and, I believe, most of us are not yet established strongly enough in the clear openness and inclusiveness of our natural state to remain stably when the old patterns arise. The neurological habits of our mind, our body, our emotions and our relational field are, as yet, too compelling for us to resist when they resurface into our conscious awareness.\n\nAs we awaken out of our conditioned belief, perception and experience; as we awaken out of imagining this ongoing narrative that we are who & what we have come to think we are, we are awakening into the silent, experiential immediacy of the awareness of being which we always and already are. It is like we are learning a new language that is based in the silent, peaceful openness that is our actual nature and we are, gradually, leaving behind the old language of our conditioned, adopted identities and their co-arising worlds.\n\nAs we learn this new language of being who we are in our lives, in this world, it is inevitable that we’ll conflate the two languages for a while, thinking or imagining we are perfectly clear; it is inevitable that we’ll mispronounce. This cannot be avoided and, it serves us by providing catalyst for the further refinement of our understanding. When it appears to me that you are spiritually bypassing your responsibility for your own shadow, when I perceive you egotistically taking credit for “your” awakening, I have an opportunity. I can bypass responsibility for my shadow, I can egotistically criticize you for being arrogant; or, I can recognize another expression of the same One I am, mispronouncing the language we are both still learning.\n\nIt is not an easy task to continuously focus attention on the underlying reality and extract it from the polarized reifications we have all come to take for reality. And yet, as we realize what’s at stake – for ourselves individually and for us all as a species, nothing matters more.\nAttention Is the Fastest Way to World Peace\n\nThe two most precious resources each of us have in this life are our time and our attention. No matter how life may seem to drag on in some moments, every one of us knows our time here is limited; at some point in time these bodies of our stop and drop; and, then we are no longer among these people in these places on this planet. None of us, young or old, knows how many moments we have left here. What ever absorbs our attention moment-by-moment, constitutes the lived, experiential flow of our life.\n\nEndowed with these precious resources of a finite amount of time and the capacity to focus our attention where we choose, it is wise for us to realize we are each sovereign in our own consciousness. Although we may not be able to hold it steady for long, we can choose where we place our attention.\n\nOur attention is the living presence of our innate intelligence engaged with our world. When it is said that what we give our attention to, grows; this means wherever attention happens to be focused, the mental, emotional and somatic experience of what we are attending to is occupying the largest share of our neural real estate. Whatever is most salient to us in any given moment, however we happen to be focused, is our living experience during that moment.\n\nFortunately, with the choice we have available to us, we can choose to turn our attention from one object or point of view to another. We can in fact choose to direct our attention away from the dualistic narrative that’s usually running in our head, and toward what we are intuitively beginning to sense may be a much more important focus. How long will attention stay before it strays? That, we don’t seem to have much control over. But we can always take another short moment to focus on what we intuit or know is most essential, as soon as we remember to do so.\n\nI’ll use myself as an example but this could be any one of us. I look around me and I can’t help but notice that this world is insane, groups of us are incredibly belligerent with each other and, all of that is so costly in every sense of the word that most of us are either destitute or scrambling frantically to not become destitute. Truth be told, I want a sane, peaceful and prosperous world; I want a world of creative collaboration with a widely-shared desire to create benefit for all of us.\n\nI have noticed that in the moments when I am resting as and living from the silent ground of being, I am peace and the world of my experience is peaceful. The quality of still, silent presence pervades the experience of my private, internal world as well as the experience of my public external world – regardless of what may be happening out there at the moment. In these, sometimes brief, moments, I am offering this set of resonances of consciousness as my contribution to the field of our shared consciousness. I tend to experience these moments as a positive influence. From my personal point of view, of course, I cannot know what effect this has on our shared field although I may witness what seems to be an effect on someone around me at the moment.\n\nLikewise, once my attention has again become ensnared in one of my current, conditioned identifications in our habituated, 3-dimensional mind-world of polarized and conceptually separated reifications, I am contributing that set of resonances to the moment of our human consciousness field. This is inevitable for me at this stage of our shared process of awakening. I and, I believe, most of us are not yet established strongly enough in the clear openness and inclusiveness of our natural state to remain stably when the old patterns arise. The neurological habits of our mind, our body, our emotions and our relational field are, as yet, too compelling for us to resist when they resurface into our conscious awareness.\n\nAs we awaken out of our conditioned belief, perception and experience; as we awaken out of imagining this ongoing narrative that we are who & what we have come to think we are, we are awakening into the silent, experiential immediacy of the awareness of being which we always and already are. It is like we are learning a new language that is based in the silent, peaceful openness that is our actual nature and we are, gradually, leaving behind the old language of our conditioned, adopted identities and their co-arising worlds.\n\nAs we learn this new language of being who we are in our lives, in this world, it is inevitable that we’ll conflate the two languages for a while, thinking or imagining we are perfectly clear; it is inevitable that we’ll mispronounce. This cannot be avoided and, it serves us by providing catalyst for the further refinement of our understanding. When it appears to me that you are spiritually bypassing your responsibility for your own shadow, when I perceive you egotistically taking credit for “your” awakening, I have an opportunity. I can bypass responsibility for my shadow, I can egotistically criticize you for being arrogant; or, I can recognize another expression of the same One I am, mispronouncing the language we are both still learning.\n\nIt is not an easy task to continuously focus attention on the underlying reality and extract it from the polarized reifications we have all come to take for reality. And yet, as we realize what’s at stake – for ourselves individually and for us all as a species, nothing matters more.",
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      "body": "A Bigger Frame\n\nMost of us are so focused on the day-to-day struggles of our lives we rarely, if ever, pause to consider how our human species of consciousness got to be living the ways we all are at this time on this planet. Generally, we don’t have to look far or long to see so many of us humans are angry and hateful and polarized. How did we all become so angry and hateful and polarized? We practically never even listen to each other.\n\nHow can such a productive and creative species of consciousness have huge numbers of us dying of starvation and man-made diseases and most of the rest of us intolerant of one another and trying to blow each other up? How did it come to be that our species spends the vast majority of the wealth we have all created on weaponry, warfare and destroying one another’s cultures and homelands - all the while profoundly traumatizing one another’s people?\n\nThough this way of us being together has been greatly profiting a very small, interconnected clique scattered around the globe – the 1% of the 1%, it is creating stress, suffering and starvation for the vast majority of us human beings. Every human concern and issue appears to be divided into two and it seems as though most of us end up strongly polarized in one camp and demonizing those among us, who’ve found themselves in the other camp.\n\nMeanwhile, something else is going on that is way bigger and, in my opinion, more sinister.\n\nNot only is our food chain contaminated and degraded – breathing fog in SF gives folks a toxic load of mercury, aluminum and other heavy metals;  carcinogenic glycosphate is found in nearly all foods, including children’s cereals and even newborns” vaccines, now; not only are our children been drugged by the “authorities” and induced to eat “food like substances” producing obesity and diseases; not only are we spending $14 million per hour on war already; not only are we currently living within a synthetic sea of electromagnetic frequencies a million times greater than anything our grandparents experienced; not only are big governments/big media/big telecom are gearing up to implement 5G. 5G is the fifth generation – “bigger, faster, better” - of electromagnetics roll out and it is being rolled out simultaneously around the world. But, before they began rolling it out, they made laws which give them immunity from any responsibility for damage to people’s health and the environment and the cities, counties and municipalities cannot say, “We don’t want it.” (Telecommunications Act 1996)\n\n[A short note about 5G. This technology has previously only been used by the militaries of this world as a, so-called, non-lethal weapon which cooks the skin of anyone that is within range and makes them run like hell to get away; it is also useful for surveillance. Which is probably why they plan to put 5g towers ever 300 to 500 feet and they are launching 20,000 satellites to manage, control and focus the system. Although it hasn’t gotten much press, there have been literally thousands of peer-reviewed studies proving the detrimental health effects of our existing radiation from wi-fi, cell phone and cell towers. Formerly a telecommunications lobbyist, Tom Wheeler, the former head of the FCC, has admitted they have no studies showing 5G is not harmful to human health and consciousness or the flora and fauna in the environment. But they are going ahead with it. Who cares about people and the biosphere anyway?]\n\nBut, I’ve digressed. In the first paragraph I mentioned, \n“our human species of consciousness” and I now believe that is a mistaken label for us. It appears to me that our human species of consciousness is actually a blend of more than one species’ or types of consciousness. At this point I am now seeing three types or species of sentience here; there may be more. Some of us are more naturally inclined toward connectedness and cooperation in order to make the world a better, more livable place for all of us. Others among us are much more inclined toward self-serving behavior regardless of how it effects others. Among these folks, there is no genuine sense of connectedness although it can be feigned if it serves them in the moment. Lastly, many among us have not yet resolved to which camp they are most drawn\n\n From the point of view of what’s currently considered normal human brain development, I would say that from the perspective of the One that is All-That-Is, this second group of people who are very focused through a lens of service-to-self have been limbic-ly impaired or disconnected. They don’t seem to have a living, empathetic heart; or, if they do, they can some how manage to turn it on and off much more easily than most of us. Perhaps, they are just more practiced in being deceptive, ruthless and self-serving.\n\nIn any case, IMO, it is useful to recognize that we are all in this together. To me it appears that we need to awaken from our delusory slumber, imagining that we are disconnected and separate and others are the fixed and reified conceptions we have of them. This, of course, is never the underlying reality in which everything and everyone is interconnected and inter-related. It’s that old, John Donne, thing of, “No man[, no woman] is an island…” Nothing, ever, exists separate from everything else that exists.\n\nInstead of reifying everything with our minds and imagining that construct accurately portrays reality, it is far wiser to notice that every “thing” that our languages are constructed to name and our minds are in the habit of reifying, everything is rather a complex and temporarily stabilized whole consisting of and in dynamic exchange of light/energy/information with the rest of All-That-Is.\n\nIndeed, each of us is a complex dynamic system/field of innumerable relatively stable sub-systems/fields of light/energy/information. Our sub-systems/fields are continuously both, internally processing and exchanging light/energy/information with others like ourselves as well as with the myriad patterns and processes of the enveloping field of light/energy/information.\n\nIt appears to me that our species of consciousness is in a process of awakening out of our conditioned perceptions of separation, reification and disconnectedness. We have begun awakening into the fundamental recognition of our shared oneness, our innate embededness and oneness with the One that is All-That-Is – this One, in, of and by Whom, we live and move and have our being. We are awakening into a shared recognition of the All-Creating Source as the fundamental nature of each of us, and all of us. In the emerging WEast consciousness, we are awakening out of our multi-millennial samsaric misunderstanding and we are reclaiming our Universal birthright.\n\nIt is as though we are learning a new language. This new language is not based in our conditioned languages of polarized reifications but rather it is grounded in the silent intelligence which we directly experience each time we interrupt the run-on narrative of our conditioned mind. No doubt we have been so well conditioned into believing and perceiving the mistaken world we were raised within; as we learn this new language of our shared, silent presence, we will inevitably mis-pronounce.\n\nExpect it. Expect it from yourself as well as from others. If we have the openness in the moment, we may be able to receive and benefit from another’s example or sharing. If not, we may need to smack our head against the wall a few more times. Eventually, each one  of us disappears into the openness and we all become fluent, “human” expressions of this One.",
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      "body": "Each of us has been living within a finite information/knowledge bubble. The information/knowledge within our bubble is changing over time but at any moment of our lives our opinions, attitudes and relationships are all informed by the sphere of information/knowledge to which we have currently subscribed. No one of us has all the information about anything or anyone and, each of us knows only what we currently take to be true. That’s changed over time for all of us. But the fact remains, we experience ourselves and our world and we participate in life on the basis of our current interpretations about who we are, what’s going on and how we want it to be. How could it be otherwise?\n\nThis collection of believed ideas and evaluations constitutes a mind-made field of representation within which we experience our selves and our lives. The patterns and processes of our lives are both shaped and circumscribed by these interpretations of our lived moment. We are living the current version of our original construction of a separate identity in this dualistic world of others and things. Essentially, I am saying we have been living in our minds.\n\nBut I am getting ahead of myself. Our individual information/knowledge bubbles are a field of energies and information, which we currently take to be real, important and relevant to our lives. Everybody’s personal field of information is distinctly their mind/world mapping of their lives and their experience. When our spheres overlap, we experience connection with one another; the more they overlap the more connected we feel. Conversely, the less our current bubbles coincide, the less naturally connected we feel toward each other.\n\nOur individual information/knowledge bubble is made of what we currently believe is real, true and the way people and things are. Because we see through this lens, this self-world construct is what we experience as reality, currently. The lens shapes our experience and how we react and respond to life and, it also filters and shapes our interpretations of how life is reacting and responding to us. This dynamic mind-made, subsystem of consciousness is self–limiting and self-perpetuating. If we’ve been raised by folks who saw through a filter of duality, reification and separation, that imprint is pretty much how we see everything, including ourselves.\n\nIt is conceivable that a newborn within a species of consciousness such as ours could be raised to regard it self as what is called a “holon” – a unique whole being, among other such whole beings, living within the enveloping and infusing, holonic systems of the encompassing Holon that is All-That-Is. The field of representation built on that premise would not construct an experience of reality, which was dualistic, reified and disconnected. Rather, the newborns in this fortunate species of consciousness would each be raised into deeply understanding and directly experiencing shared oneness with one another, with all of life and with all the multi-dimensional diversity comprising this One that is All-That-Is. Naturally, with such a shared field of representation, all would thrive and prosper, together.\n\nThere is a way of knowing that happens naturally when anything becomes self-evident to us; it happens immediately and it comes directly out of the silent openness that is the essence of our innate intelligence. An example of self-evidence for me would be: All-That-Is is every sub-system/process of itself. However we might decide to divide This up with our minds, this One-That-Is obviously, is all of Itself. We, each of us individuations of our human species of consciousness and all of us together, are in, of and by This One. Our living and moving and having our being, individually and as our whole human species of consciousness, is a patterned sub-system of This One that is All, living and moving and having His/Her/Its being. Or, as one of my teachers once said, “You are the Universe, experiencing and expressing Itself at a single point!”\n\nEach of us is aware of this world, our mind and our body. Very few of us are aware of this awareness. And yet, no experience, not a single moment of our life ever occurred outside the living sphere of the awareness of now. However, most of us are so engaged with the narrative of our life streaming through our now moment that we’ve never even considered the idea that we can notice, come to rest as and live our lives from being this clear, open, silent presence. It is ¬¬only the presence of awareness that makes our “now,” the living moment of now.\n\nPerhaps, the easiest way to get a glimpse of our awareness of being is to simply interrupt the stream of thought for a moment and just notice what’s already here. This initial brief moment may not last very long because our stream of thoughts has been flowing for quite a while; it has gathered a lot of neural-habitual momentum, it has cut a deep channel in our consciousness.\n\nBut, for a moment, we can all choose to interrupt our stream of thought and notice the non-verbal, non-conceptual experience that is already, always here, if we care to notice it. What can be noticed is a quiet, alert presence. If our initial moments last more than an instant we can begin sensing deeper - into the still, peaceful, easy sense of being. Each time we touch into silent, openness of the nature of being, the underlying actuality of our being reveals itself; we can learn a lot by just paying attention.\n\nAfter our initial glimpse of our non-verbal, non-conceptual awareness of being, the path is to simply repeat the process of turning attention from the mind’s current story to whatever this is that is revealed, each time we stop for a moment in our lives and, we give our attention what is already here. It is said that re-recognition, repeated many times, is the fastest path to freedom and embodiment.\n\nThe reason we find we have to return to our natural state many, many times is because we have long been running the neurological subsystems of consciousness which underlie and animate our conditioned ways of being in this world and, by now, they pretty much run on automatic. As we start to wake up, we realize these mind/world enactments have been running us. If we really want to live from the peace and well-being we discover when we stop thinking for a moment, these habits create a dilemma. How do we slow them; thin them; deconstruct and dissolve them?\n\nInitially, we have to become conscious of them. If I am reacting to you; you may have triggered me, but it’s my “stuff” that got triggered. If I ever hope to be free, I have got to unravel my stuff. Therapy, breath work, body work, trauma processing work like TRE, Tapping, EMDR & its new Flash Technique, Cereset, meditation, group prayer/intention and many other approaches are all helpful along the way.\n\nThe fastest way I know of, and this one enhances all of the above techniques, relies upon us having at least a little stability resting as being’s awareness of now while allowing the energies of a reaction/interpretation to be as they are in the body. Experientially allowing our separate-identity-and-its-perceived-world construct within our open, alert space of awareness lets it transform and, so to speak, get metablolized. This can be deeply assisted with the energetic support and presence of someone who’s familiar with this process.\n\nIf this is not yet possible there are other skillful means. First and foremost is a short moment of non-thought and attentive exploration of the depth and range of the mystery of our being which we find here as often as we can manage to remember to stop and notice. This practice alone strengthens a new set of neurological patterns underlying our natural state. As our natural state becomes, so to speak, more natural for us, we can remain present for the unraveling of our deeper conditioning.\n\nMuch of our conditioned identity is psychological/relational baggage from the ways our organism has gotten stuck in its reactions and responses to our life’s stresses and traumas. Therapists and counselors who are also awakening and who have done due diligence with their own baggage, stresses and traumas can be really helpful. Groups of people who are on an awakening path can also be very helpful. (Its always important to retain your own authority and it may be important to set boundaries and opt out of some situations.) Needless to say, wholesome food, reasonable exercise and caring, understanding friends are very supportive.\n\nHere is a brief list of resources with which I am familiar and which you can check out to see whether you find them as useful as I have. Somatic Experiencing (TraumaHealing.com) is a skillful way of releasing trauma from the nervous system. EMDR is a technique renegotiating traumatic events utilizing bilateral stimulation; and it’s often helpful – especially its rather recent development, The Flash Technique (https://flashtechnique.com/). The Emotional Freedom Technique utilizes a particular structure for statements concerning the issue and a sequence of tapping on specific acupuncture points; many people find it helpful (i.e. https://www.emofree.com/videos ). Lastly, Cereset (https://cereset.com/) uses a patented BrainEcho™ technology to reflect back to the brain what it just did, assisting the brain to relax out of its stuck patterns, restoring natural functions.\n\nAs we begin to get clearer and we become more able to rest as the awareness pervading whatever is arising as our moment, we not only develop more resilience but we also develop more capacity and skill to resolve our past challenges and rest more deeply in and as our natural state. From my experience I’d recommend that we be patient with ourselves even while we are committed and diligent in our practice. We have all, already been though a lot and we deserve kindness even while we push on.",
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      "body": "Human Beings Awakening\n\nOur lives are lived through these human organisms on this planet. These organisms function through complex, inter-active and mutually sustaining sub-systems of neuro-electro-chemical-somatic (n-e-c-s) fields, which are relatively stabilized by innumerable feed-forward and feedback loops. While these n-e-c-s sub-systems/fields of our organism are relatively discrete from one another, they also inter-penetrate, influence and participate in one another.\n\nWe can consider a few of the n-e-c-s fields of our aliveness to include our innate intelligence and the mind-of-this-world through which we have been experiencing it; the vegetative functions from breathing through digestion that combine to sustain our aliveness; the somatic and proprioceptive sense of being in this body, in this world, at this time; the whole energetic and emotional field of our relating with others (which is both private and shared between and among us); etc., etc.\n\nThese relatively distinct sub-systems are in continuous exchanges and processing of light/energy/information; these dynamics are what sustain the organisms. All together these sub-system synergistically combine to reveal our moment-to-moment experience and expression of our selves with and in this world; as we currently understand both ourselves and this world.\n\nOf course, our current understanding of ourselves and this world has been shaped by our experiences and the ways we have come to interpret them. Most essentially our current mind/world-dream/body is founded on the earliest interpretations and assumed premises of our innate intelligence as our innocent openness encountered the people and the circumstances that had been going on, on this planet, for a long time before we arrived in this oceanic soup of human consciousness. Thereby, we came to live in a world of separation, polarized dualities and reification of everything. Because we are all interconnected via our neuro-electro-chemical fields’ interpenetration, we are not only both shaped by our past as well as by the world we describe to ourselves; we are continuously shaping our context via the resonances of our interpretations. (Consider Dr. Fred Alan Wolf’s interpretations of quantum physics)\n\nSince we are living within a mind-made field of representation, which, in its shared form in our human species of consciousness, appears to be rapidly careening off any number of cliffs, examining our mis-understanding and the premises underpinning it has seemed wise to me. Equally as relevant is recognizing the “you get what you expect” mechanism of quantum mechanics in our lives. Completing the triumvirate of our shared awakening is recognizing, exploring and coming to live from the clear, open presence of our natural state.\n\nLet’s look at our misunderstanding first. For untold millennia, our human species of sentience has been living within a kind of three-dimensional mind/world-dream-body in which we believe we are separate and that everything is actually the way we think it is. For example, we all know what a tree is. But, what’s a tree without soil, and water and air and sunshine and everything else that always co-arises with this tree? In short, nothing is a separate “thing;” every “thing” is interconnected. In fact, every “thing” is a relatively discrete, complex, whole system being among other such “things” within the dynamics of higher orders of complex, whole systems/beings. This corresponds with the complex, whole systems of our organism/being since it is composed of relatively discrete, interconnected, interpenetrating neuro-electro-chemical fields/sub-systems; as mentioned earlier. This understanding of relatively distinct, complex systems, or wholes, within successively larger, enveloping complex systems/wholes is represented by the term, “holon,” coined by Arthur Koestler.\n\nOur conditioned reification of every thing is encoded into the languages we have all been raised to speak - the words with which we describe ourselves, others and the world to ourselves. These interpretations of ourselves and our life are the filters that give us the experience of ourselves in this world; they give us the experiences of separation, reification and dissatisfaction. Our minds, full of our descriptions and interpretations of ourselves and our world, constitutes the filter which shapes the mind/world-dream/body of our misunderstanding, our samsaric creation of a lived world which is out of phase with the underlying and always present, and always available reality of this One which is All-That-Is.\n\nShifting our consciousness toward the recognition of us being unique expressions of the One which is All-That-Is involves refocusing onto what we experience as we stop thinking (read: stop the incessant narrative of our conditioned mind) and attend to what is here in the absence of our conditioned thought stream. By interrupting the ongoing flow of our conditioned, polarized and reifying mind/world-dream/body, we can begin experiencing and exploring the always and already present, clear, open awareness of being. \n\nThis presence of awakeness is not fabricated by the mind; it is most readily revealed in the absence of the commentary and interpretations of our conditioned mind. The direct experience revealed may shape subsequent words and concepts but, in itself, it is neither verbal nor conceptual. As we relax into the actual now awareness, we discover an open and cognizant intelligence. Although it may not seem so at first glimpse, as we relax and open into this still, silent core of our being, we find that we are naturally opening into Universal intelligence, inclusiveness and interconnectedness. What’s revealed here is that our being is already, always one with the all-inclusive One. How cool is that?\n\nTypically, immediately after we resolve to stop thinking for a moment and refocus our attention into the non-verbal, non-conceptual, still, silent awareness of being, the resonances of the sub-systems of the organism via which we create our experience/perception of our separate identities in our particular, conditioned mind/world-dream/body will come foreground. And then, our attention is once again captivated and we live some moments as if we really were the separated one we have been taking ourselves to be in this world as we have been seeing it.\n\nThe solution is simple but the process may not be easy; I pray that it is easier for you than it has been for those of us who’ve been at this for a while now. Repeatedly and, more and more deeply, we re-recognize the open awareness that is always here and we explore the non-verbal, non-conceptual dimension of our being. As we practice immersing ourselves in the resonances of our actual being, the neuro-electro-chemical-somatic subsystems/fields of our organism are gradually brought into alignment with this which is All-That-Is and harmony with Its Universal resonances. For all the folks I know of who’ve been committed to awakening out of our ill-conceived, conditioned identities and releasing our consciousness into the inconceivable fullness of being which we’ve begun to access and experience, the conscious and deliberate deconstruction and dissolution of our identifications within our version of 3-d separation has been a major part of the process of awakening, individually and, together.\n\nThere seems to be a required re-negotiation of, at least some of those seminal imprints which resulted in our adaptation to the 3-d world and reified people we found around us and our gradual adoption of a set of separate and reified identities in the world in which we found ourselves.\n\nThe deconstruction of our dualized, separate identifications and the projected world that corresponds to each of them, can be approached on many levels of our being. There are many practice, techniques and technologies which, used skillfully, can release us from the various sorts of tentacles which have kept us distracted and asleep. These methods can be energetic, somatic, techno-neurological, contemplative as well as verbal; they can be used to “thin the veil” between our conditioned mind/world-dream/body and the emerging revelation of our natural state.\n\nIt will be useful to develop some kind of readily available reference or catalogue of a number of effective techniques, both traditional and more recently revealed, which foster the release of our consciousness, both individually and in committed, collaborative groups of us, out of our conditioned mis-identifications and into the living recognition of our original, multi-dimensional identities and our shared oneness. I imagine that as new and formerly hidden traditional techniques for the transformation of our human consciousness are revealed, this “catalogue” of skillful means will evolve.\n\nI can and will share what I happen to be aware of that I know to be effective and skillful ways of shifting us into the globally shared memory complex that seems to be emerging. \n\nIn love of and service to the One Infinite Creator of All-That-Is,\nI.M. Oneofus AKA John Lumiere-Wins",
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      "body": "INTRODUCING MYSELF\n\nMy actual name is John Lumiere-Wins. I have written my whole life and published very little to date. I have, perhaps foolishly, been waiting until I was sufficiently clear that I knew  what I put out could be helpful and would not be damaging. Whether I am clear enough at this point will be judged by you.\n\nThe manifest forms of insanity distorting our world compel me to offer some things I have written in the hopes that they will assist you in increasing your own clarity and empowerment.\n\nI am only interested in one thing; however, since that one thing is the awakening of our human species of consciousness out of our deluded state of reification and separation and into the shared, silent ground of our shared oneness, it is a large topic.\n\nIn essence it is simply a shift in identity out of our conditioned mind-frame and into our natural state. However, thus far, it hasn't been easy of quick for those among us who've found ourselves choosing this path. It does become easier as more of us come into alignment. May it be much easier for you!",
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