We Are One

A video for you to watch to consider the authors' thoughts.....

I will add here before you watch that I think that this is a very good video. Its so on the mark. Truly. The one quibble I have has to do with this "nothingness" which is discussed and which many others, including Watts, talks about, as being nothing. Now bear with me. I am perfectly fine with the perception of its being nothing. I once perceived that, too, but at some point something inside of me asked surely there must be more to this Awakening business (and in perfect timing I was shown that there is). I have been feeling this "nothingness" that many speak of and I think we have it all wrong. Its not nothingness. With an increasingly refined sense of sensing which only comes from doing the "hard work" of what an awakening brings, which is removing lifetimes of trauma and hurt, will result in a sensing so strong and clear its as if someone lifted muffs from your ears. We are quite literally insulated by our past unresolved hurt and trauma that we cannot feel into this sacred space which many are calling nothing! The trick, then, becomes going way beyond what you think an Awakening is about in order to tap its true potential. I think we are just now beginning to grapple with what an awakening truly is. Surely I am not the only one here who is having to say the Emperor has no clothes, right? Come with me, walk with me and consider what I am saying to you and the implications it has for consciousness on the planet....

If you can expand your consciousness within this boundless nothing you will begin to feel a sense of boundless scale.....but we are used to how the mind works in us and because this feels so different to us, we see it as nothing. But its not nothing. Its nothing like the ocean feels the same all over. Maybe I need to set myself up as some kind of august authority, maybe let my hair grow gray or something.....but that is not what you need....nor do I need that either. We just need the truth which lives in us and to which we are constantly waking up to.

Its nothing like how a cell feels nothing inside a body trillions of times larger than itself. Here we are, existing inside this world which itself is contained in a solar system unbelievably large, contained yet again inside a galaxy that is so huge its measured in light years. Want to guess how big our little galaxy is? Its one hundred thousand light years in diameter, give or take ten thousand light years.

Now take this and extrapolate to your own awareness within the Collective All. It feels like nothing because it is this boundless sea, but if Alan Watts and everyone else could see what little old me has felt into with the heart of my infinite self you might get to glimpse something that my book addresses which I don't know anyone else is talking about in this time and which is critical in our maturation as a species and it is this- what is the purpose of this vast seeming "nothingness" which is a much much larger infinite being? And how do we relate to that being? And how do we, in this age begin to utilize this vast storehouse of something (which isn't nothing---it just feels so vast as to seem nothing). If I am to give you nothing else its the awareness that we are more than this seeming nothing (its that we become aware of what this seeming nothingness is with a renewed sense of sensing that is more feeling than anything else for its this feeling which comprises the core of this "nothing" which I call a great incredible SOMETHING!).Now don't get the wrong idea..... Its not that in my little me ego that I want the world to not let slip the bonds of the egoic self. Lord have mercy, this is something that we have to do at the beginning of any awakening, putting the ego in the place where it is best utilized (but not running the show). By learning to rearrange the self in the right way, we can find a divine way of being that will reveal a great deal to us. And we can go on in our search not in a blind way, not in a nothing way but in a something way.

We are here to make something. We are here to first realize who we are (love) and what the universe is (love). These things are not nothing. They are something. And The great challenge I give to you my fellow selves is that you discover this great and magnificent mystery!

Now did you get that? Do you really think its just nothing?......

Still, given that, the video is still one of my all time favorites. Now go watch. And let me know if you get any glimmers about this so-called "nothing." I can't be the only one.

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Zeitgeist

I have a secret.

Its a big juicy one.

Its been turning in humanity since day one
and its here.
Now.

So here it goes.....

This world is duality, pure and simple.
Sages and gurus all say this is illusion
and yet, if it were illusion, then it would not need to be.

Its needing to be is what makes it real.
No games on that one.
Simple and straight.
Told like it is.

So there is a greater reality,
a place where everything emanates
and everything is a projection of.
Kaleidoscopic.

Gurus and Sages all say
the world is illusion
but it is not illusion.
It is a creation
and we are free to create something new.
Its the learning to bring in the infinite
into the moment
and hold it there
learning its juicy secret of love
unconditional
that can change hearts and minds
and resolve the world back
to the pearl
the diamond
that it has always been.

Awakenings reveal our connectedness
the diamond in all things
but the problem is, it does not remove
duality in this plane.
Some say duality is illusion
but duality was a gift from the Creator
it is not forgotten or wiped clean away.
Its bell cannot be unrung
or conveniently pushed under the cosmic
Kardashian rug.

So All is real;
for all is created
Each of us is the All....
One.
No quibbling
just simply that; One.
But we are also divided out
individual.
Its our great gift from our Creator,
the way back to the promised land.

The big secret is how the two are now coming to know themselves
how these two ends of the uroboros will become one....but first....

To explain how important this individuality was
and is
The Creator would have been driven mad had it not released
all of its countless creations
to the Great uncertainty of individuation.

Within the great heart of the All
the first great wave, what would become the foundation of Creation
were the "first" to know freedom from Creator
moved and knew itself as itself
but not apart from the Creator
and that Creator was slowly going mad;
and there was only one answer.
Surrender.

The answer was echoed by a pulsating blast hard to describe.
Imagine an orgasm
that contains within it
ALL of the potentiality
bound up within it
not fully realizing
until the grand shudder began to ripple through its furthest corners
that grand orgasm had some surprises in store for Creator.
It was a hell of a lot bigger than it bargained for
for what that shudder contained was not just that which it sought
to release
but countless infinite releases of everything that that first wave would
become
imagine infinity tied up neatly
and released
not so neatly
and such suprises which emerged from that which was not known
by Creator.
In that amzing moment worlds unfolded
amazing worlds which I cannot begin to even describe
one which was this world
but countless worlds
infinities of them
were in that moment released
as they began to evolve and radiate outward
itself creating more of itself
as Consciousness has a want to do....

So

The biggest risk
and biggest payback
as EVERYTHING
sprang forth
and moved "outward"
from that point of awareness that was
Is
Creator.
Created.
And we in turn do the same thing; creators.

In that moment
Creator felt something so sublime
a joy
and relief
oh my
I did not die
I am no longer mad
but I am driven
as if mad
and look at this shimmering realm
moving "outward"
as what was released
grew in geometric fashion
as more things were created
all which existed as if some seed
within the first seed
as potential
not fully realized
but existant within the whole somehow
as consciousness then sought to create more of itself
and from this grand grand lineage
you and I were born
quite literally
from the loins of those greater than you and I
yet yearning to see us grow into our own versions
of the Creator.

This love is what echoes down through the ages
and its nothing short of the best tidal-wave of passion
that will leave you breathless....
realizing that this is not about dual and nondual
but about BOTH
and what that presents itself to us in this age
this place
just now.

We are godlings.
See, speaking such heresy was never so easy; nor more true.
We each, masculine and feminine
swirling with our own special brand
concoction of the mix
transform ourselves
and find those parts of us
which existed
born of that potentiality
now knowing itself
One
Separate (Creator was alone once....)
sacred equivalents
coming back in this time
as it will visit us in other windows down through time
as we climb that spiral staircase.

So individual
yes
One
most assuredly
but the claim
for the age
the Zeitgeist
will be
the two folded over into each other.
Verily I say to you
Christ
Buddha
and a thousand guru saints
all dance upon this one certainty
now no longer secret.

Come;
let us weave singularity
and unity
into a new tapestry
lets knit back all of this horrible sadness
into a new joy
these thoudands of years
swimming across oceans of tears
lets lift ourselves up
Awakened
ready for the grandness
that lies within us
for all of the hurt we have carried
and created
must have been for something.

Come, the shuttle moves across the warp
as the threads of our smaller being
are consumed by the threads of something larger
as Individuality
and Unity
Forge a new alliance,
a new folding over
here
now.

Duality To Unity

It is time
The End of the world is coming near.

It is.

But remember what we said in the beginning
that there is no real end.

Here in this world
the world pulses with a life
which is cyclical in nature.
Atoms pulse

their electrons moving in and out of our world.
Our bodies-
if you could see-
are a pulsing realm of light
with lives and deaths coming and going every nano second

at a cellular level

we ride this wave

and this wave is part of another wave of your local humanity

and flora and fauna

and those join together in still larger invisible constructions

of consciousness and biological knowing

as every single thing

knows itself

as part of a giant webwork

so amazing and fascinating

for the fact that not a single thing

or particle falls through its net

but is held

lovingly and assuredly

in the always of being

and themselves rise up through still larger constructions

of being
and all of this and more rises up
through to the biggest of the big.
Galaxies pulse in the same way
turning like tops through space
and time.

Even they, in their seeming mute natures

brim with a knowing and life

which we scarcely understand

see

or know

and yet

our sachems

sages

brothers

sisters

have sensed into this truth

this Life

and brought back

like hauling water back to us

told of what they felt and saw at that deep wellspring......

So it is no surprise
that there is an end to the ages on earth
and that these ages correspond to the ages of lives
reincarnational cycles
longer scaled cycles
tied to earth, moon, planets
and the galaxy.
Our ancient astronomers knew and understood these so well
they mapped them
and they were passed down
just as our indigenous brothers and sisters
saw into it.
As tipis rocked gently in the night
as the endlessness swirled above
it was understood
a giant interconnectivity reigned
and our lives were tied to this.
This just now is the end of an age
a new world is seeking to be born
and this conception is not subject to any of our control
but to our acquiescence.

It is time to our true divinity

which has never been subject to what our priests or priestesses have said is divine

but what we each know is true beyond illusion

the very core of our being

which is utterly unspeakably beautiful

in all of its passionate yearning

which is the life pulse of the All

the leaning into this uncertain wind

willing to go where no road take them

willing to see beyond what has been prepared before

to break with tradition

only because it no longer makes sense to do so

or never did

as we move out of the old understandings

and into a new conception,

The truth is

moment by moment

the All unfolds

pulses

and recreates itself

beyond all imagining

and so centuries old traditions

serve only as a recording of a pathway

but not the way forward.

We can honor the past

by understanding it

realizing that the faces

of Quetzalcoatle

Isis

Osiris

and a host of others

return in this age

to those who can hear them

and learn

that an unbroken thread can move through

and unite

different times

traditions

as we let go the notion

that heresy is created by our being willing to consider

that our divinity is within us

like a sovereign right

not subject to someone else's judgement.

You do not need someone to tell you how to go.

Question your traditions

but stay planted in what god-dess gave you

the divinity that is your core being.

Toss out your notions of what is good or bad;

our world is not divided out

the sheep from the goats

the left from the right

but resolves into a unity

and understanding this

we are more ready to grapple with our shadow selves

and bring them into the light of our greater becoming.

-If you have the choice always choose the good-

and forgive yourself and others for any shortcomings

for in the end

they were a means to an end

to learn that your divine nature is within you

always has been.

So this world without end

is ending

so another may begin

so that we may move from duality

to unity

to fold back what we have learned

taking it all with us

discarding nothing

but renewing ourselves

ready to feel the bliss

of our divine nature

beyond petty punishments

beyond limit

and into the Heart

to bring the divine feminine forward

in all of us

a resolving unity

in the midst of great mystery

as wind

and water

and earth

fire

and the fifth element

winds upward into heaven.

As all things pass

and end

all things are renewed.

There is no end

save for beginnings.