Archive for October, 2008

October 28, 2008: 2:09 pm: StuartMy Word

I discovered something that is liberating, but almost frightening, as I ponder how large and absolute a field it affects.  There are facts or realities that we cannot change.  There is only the present moment in which to be creative.  Everything else is an illusion.  In the present moment there are only two possibilities, one is creative and the other is re-creative.  To be “Creative” One must completely release every tie that One has with everything known or realized in the earthly, conscious capacity.  There are very specific telltales of this outworking, as indicated by our words, revealing that with which each of us, as an individual, are identified.  When a person speaks in the past tense but tries to mix it with the present tense, they (we) are in big trouble.  We have been robotically (like auto-function) making statements about something of past experience, thereby saying that this is how it IS now!  An example of this could be saying,  “I’m very klutzy.”  Well guess what – the magician just waved his or her magic wand to re-create “klutzy.”  OK, so let’s improve it.  How about, “In the past I have been klutzy?”  A slight improvement?  Not really.  Or how about this one? ” Her pattern in the past has revealed __________.”  This statement seems almost passable.  But guess what?  Whatever you acknowledge expands, no matter how clever you think you are.  These are all just re-creative mechanisms.  “But human nature is despicable.  I need to remind myself and others of that.”  This type of thinking, declaration and rationalization is simply the trap of re-creation.
 

We have also deluded ourselves as we refer to the “Garden state” – or Shangri-La!  By referring to anything that “was” only re-creates in the present moment something of an aberration.  The projection of a past memory is not “creative.”  Projection of memory is re-creative.  Heaven is never re-created.  The re-creative mechanism has been the most inescapable prison of all in human consciousness.  False identification is simply a prison of delusion.  However, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand.”  We can’t use a blue print from a state of illusion to re-create Heaven.  I AM the expression of the Kingdom of Heaven.  We each may say that and have it be true.  All Divine Blue Prints lead One back to Self…
 

It may seem tricky to communicate with our worlds, having been so accustomed to talking about everything through words of descriptive definition.  Most of our conversation has been re-creative and thus we kept manifesting an outworking that complimented nothing.  I have witnessed so many instances where what I or someone else articulated were simply re-creative words. The habit was so ingrained that, upon my dawning realization of this, I was completely stunned.  I AM grateful to NOW realize and begin to understand the wisdom and absolute necessity of Being present NOW as the Creator.  The re-creative vehicles are passing away.  Our rhetoric may continually give birth to that which is “Creative” and beautifully rich in Spirit!
 

Oh, one more point which may require a stretch to grasp: this blog post could be considered both creative and re-creative because any acknowledgment at all of that which is evolving is part of the re-creative mechanism.  On the road to Being “Creative,” the junkies of re-creation will slowly get weaned off of using re-creative mechanisms, as the “Phoenix” rises from its ashes…!

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

 

October 24, 2008: 3:54 pm: StuartMy Word

I was driving home from an appointment yesterday and I happen to be privileged to live right on the water.  It was around sunset and the seas were very calm and one could see a very full reflection of the sky’s coloration.  There have been many times that I have just rushed right past it all, not really noticing or perhaps just not caring that much about it.  The pace that I and many others have co-created in our lives has been a product of being addicted to forms and that tends to make us numb.  As a result, one doesn’t notice or care enough to really appreciate and acknowledge when a particular form manifests great beauty.

These days, for the most part, have been different for me as I am clearly developing what I call an ‘open focus.’  I can see and appreciate so much more when I look at all things in an easy and “open” way.  In the human experience we tend to have to loose a few things or forms to feel the void that is present as one looses something that held strong interest.  When any form becomes our identification, we also develop a false identity.  If someone asks you who you are and you respond to their question by telling them your name, that is not really a complete answer, because you are not just your name.  You just are…  If you answered by saying, “I AM,”  it coul sound a bit ethereal, but in fact it calls to the foundation of our true Identity.  You might say, “My name is such and such.”  But, clearly, we are more than just our names.  Knowing one’s true Identity, or not, always shows up in the way that we process Life – the way that we live.  It affects all of our capabilities and everything that we express and experience.

The forms of things in life are changing and the changes (these days) are happening rapidly.  However, the beauty of the sunset remains through it all.  How fortunate we are to be able to bask in such radiant beauty.  There is more to do than just bask.  I AM present to Bless the beauty of creation through my appreciation and acknowledgment of it.  Did you ever thank the sun and water and earth and the sky for being present?  I find that it feels good to do that.  It may sound a bit strange, but I really think that Life can actually can hear and feel gratitude when it’s expressed, and it responds accordingly.  The Indians actually recognized a spirit associated with each of those Life elements or forces.  In any case, it’s good to allow my capacities to be fully present and to be able to notice the beauty that exists all around us.

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

 

October 22, 2008: 12:17 pm: StuartMy Word

Many years ago, I did some work for the actor named George Hamilton.  I remember walking into the foyer of his home in Beverly Hills, California, and seeing this huge portrait of Mr. Hamilton. It seemed almost as tall as the wall it hung on.  My initial thought was, “Wow, this guy must feel he is very special.”  My perception and interpretation was coming from an aspect of myself that was still discovering who I was.  The thought of hanging a portrait like that of myself just didn’t feel at all right.  Until I had a few conversations with Mr. Hamilton, I pegged him as an ego maniac.  But I learned that he was nothing of the sort.  He was merely celebrating his gift of life!  He loved being him.  Wow, imagine that – YOU loving being YOU and ME loving being ME!  There hasn’t been a lot of that going on in the world, has there?  There has been a struggle in the human consciousness whereby many or most (seemingly) have not been in touch with the spender of their spirit being alive through their capacities.  There has been a tendency for people to look at themselves as martyrs who feel it’s inappropriate to celebrate their Being.  I owned that pathetically insecure way of thinking and being for a good portion of my life.  Though it’s still a factor that I work with occasionally, I know that I have come a long way.  I have grown to realize that it is spiritually and evolutionarily imperative for One to realize the beauty of their perfection.
 

You don’t need to stock your ego to do this.  In fact, egos are based in an illusion.  We’re not perfect because of something, some particular outworking–we’re simply a perfect expression of Life right NOW!  This is the invitation of Life and our constant, living potential of Being.
 

I don’t know if I’ll ever put up a huge mural of myself in my foyer.  However, I say to Mr. George Hamilton, “Thank you for allowing me to see something beyond the illusions and stereotypes that human nature has created in consciousness, while being subject to false perceptions of different forms.”

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

October 21, 2008: 4:52 am: StuartMy Word

Christianity got locked into a human nature prison long ago and we’re only beginning to parole ourselves.  The prison walls have been present from two conscious and unconscious/subconscious aspects which are guilt and judgment.  We came up with names for such attitudinal outworkings which are “sin” and “human nature.”  There is a deep part of our human histories that reflects having done unspeakable things.  Among these things was the crucifixion of our Master, Jeshuah – the Christ.  The horror of such an outworking has been beyond our forgiveness because we have not yet accepted who we actually are. Any act is merely a step in the evolution of Being.  A child, who was amazed and attracted to fire, set fires for fun in his or her youth, but at some point grows out of that stage of activity.  Human nature wants to label that child “an arsonist.”  We give the behavior a name and that tends to give it permission to be alive!  Whatever we acknowledge is going to expand – there is no way around such outworking.  However, if I ignore something and pretend that it’s not there, I’m just kidding myself and making believe that it doesn’t exist in my consciousness.  You can’t win the wrestling match.  Evol must complete its evolution.  That which is disappearing will disappear and I don’t really have to do anything about that.  My focus is to be on one thing and one thing only – Letting the Light shine through the loving acknowledgment that perfection is born NOW, in every NOW!  Let the beauty of the wings of the butterfly develop.  Let our consciousness allow the cocoons, which have hidden the growth of our butterflies, be fully appreciated.  For without them, we would not have our magnificent butterflies.
 

We stand and look at our world and see the potential of a butterfly.  However, we cannot try to change anything in ourselves or anyone else.  It doesn’t work that way.  However, I can rejoice in Being!  Perfection is born on the basis of rejoicing and giving thanks for all things.  Yes, I was responsible for every unclear and destructive outworking and perhaps I created conditions that kept the butterflies hidden for longer than they needed to be.  But, more importantly, I AM responsible to live gracefully and thankfully NOW!  To glorify God, I can do nothing else except to fully Love and appreciate the glorious opportunity to live and express the beauty of Spirit in the present moment…  

Last night during our Connecticut Emissary of Divine Light Service, a friend of mine spoke some important words.  He said, “It all about looking upward.”  That is where the true focus is.  Yes, I agree with that wisdom.  And I also find that looking upward begins to take on the reality of looking inward.  To point One’s capacities towards a relationship with God (upward), it must be known inward.  This does not negate my rightful stance in Life which is well depicted by the beautiful humility of a bow.  Holding One’s head high, as One expresses the truth of Being is the beginning of all things.  But then, through ‘creative relationship,’ what follows requires that in my reverence for God and in service to His Creation, my head, and actually every part of my Being (my attitude), most naturally bows as Creation’s true Servant.  Thank YOU for your gentle, passionate and loving nature.  Being is present – Being bows – and Being knows through Love all that needs to Be!

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

October 20, 2008: 7:36 am: StuartMy Word

This title, “All Alone Or Alone With All,” sounds a little like, “To Be or Not To Be”…  But think about what you feel in your heart when you say to yourself the words, “All Alone.”  In many cases, a person might feel a sadness associated with some form of loneliness.  However, I suppose that if one lived in a scenario where they constantly had people  around them, smothering them, the words, “All Alone,” might carry a feeling of relief.  Now, take the words, “Alone With All.”  These words can really make you think about what they could mean.  Do we each share an experience that could be described as “Alone?”  When one is “Alone,” can one feel others that share that same feeling?  For me, the answer to that question is yes.  More and more often, I can sense connection between myself and others.
 

I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about the experience of connectedness and how it happens more and more in these days.  Telepathic communication?… yes, I believe that there is real communicative outworking that can be transmitted and received through consciousness.  As I find myself staying present and open, thoughts that pertain to others come into my consciousness.  Did you ever get a strong feeling that it was time to call someone on the phone and when they answered they said something like, “I was just thinking of you and you called?” or perhaps they were in the process of picking up the phone to call you when you were calling them.  In my life, these scenarios are happening more and more often…  Our hearts (our feeling realm) connect us.  Or, perhaps, we can call it our spirits…
 

It’s interesting that when we get past our old habit of getting absorbed by forms – the forms of things-we find ourselves in a place that is connected to a very creative opening which operates through connectedness.  It’s the conduit of “Being.”  This conscious state called “Being” allows One a glance at Life’s river flowing.  But it’s more of a participatory, flowing observation or One cannot really know the truth of the flow.  We cannot separate from “Being” and measure the flow.  If there is a thought that entertains measurement, the river of Life becomes obscure to the consciousness.  ‘Believing’ immediately rules out ‘knowing.’  If I measure something, I have to remove myself from the flow.  True knowing is always in concert with the flow…
 

I suppose that there may be some more measuring to do until all of our defunct man-made barometers become totally obsolete.  Actually, they are already obsolete, as far as the river of Life is concerned.  However, only as that which man created as a substitution falls completely apart will we stop trying to measure our worlds.  That day looks like it may be coming fairly soon!

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

October 19, 2008: 8:34 pm: StuartMy Word

A comically real image comes into consciousness of a woman in the traditional ‘giving-birth’ position, as major contractions come with pain that is “off the charts.”   With her mate standing next to her, trying to be of aid by consoling her, she speaks the words that are the greatest reflection of human nature: “You did this to me – it’s all your fault.”  Of course, this woman, or any woman who has had this level of experience, may not be grinning at such a recollection at first.  But this is how human nature processes “Life” – the good and bad…  When we’re greatly moved by something, we try to identify the cause so that we can avoid it or try to recreate it!
 

Feelings do have purpose but certainly, not through this approach.  The determining factor has to do with which impetus depicts one’s foundation, ‘getting or offering.’  If we’re fixated on “getting” from our worlds, we’re only going to be available as a component of such outworking. That is a very limited position, as it makes one subject to the positivity or negativity of a given result.
 

I was talking with a dear friend very recently, as it was dawning in my consciousness that the Light of Love, or the “Christ Consciousness,” often shows up in a different place than expected.  The religions of “Christianity” were supposedly based in the Christ Spirit.  However, the truest signature of that Love is accompanied by a stark understanding echoing, “Let him who is without sin among you throw the first stone.”  And hmmm…who might that actually be?  This is not a call to try and figure out who is the best person in our midst so that they can be picked to inflict punishment – kind of like when our government awards its “Judgeships.”  Now, isn’t that an interesting vision, as the woman wails out “You did this to me!”  When our perspective is always trying to determine ‘who did what to whom’, we remain creatively dead.
 

There is another way to process Life and it has to do with accepting everything that is NOW present – not just this “NOW” but every NOW…  As I accept things, I AM automatically a creative component in the “Creative Process.”  There has never been, nor could there ever be, a creative victim.  That which we labeled ‘a problem’ magically transforms into an opportunity with infinite potential of resolution through the creative process.

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

October 14, 2008: 4:26 pm: StuartMy Word

I have a great analogy for You that well illustrates how One best creates through the creative process of Life…  You, like Me, are a musician playing an instrument and there are two major aspects in the orchestra arrangement.  There is one “Conductor” and there is the collective sound. The tricky part of being able to play well, insofar as the arrangement is concerned, has to do with two factors: One; how I interpret that signals through the “Conductor’s” expression; and Two, my ability to blend my expression well with the collective generation being resounded.  Creating the best sound (collectively) is not as simple as just responding the “Conductor” (singularly) as best I can.  We all perceive things differently (even if so ever slightly) and that is a huge human factor.
 

You might be one, or at least think of yourself as one, who really knows how to follow the “Conductor’s” lead and You might be correct.  But that doesn’t necessarily matter as much as what is being resounded collectively from the standpoint of the “Orchestra.”  Perhaps You can play perfectly as a soloist. But perfection is a harmonious Tone.  We probably can agree on that and also that harmony is something that is only achieved through the blending of two or more expressions.
 

There is a lot happening in the world and what is happening is perceived through different perspectives. However, when we harmonize, there is an unmistakable Tone of beauty and perfection that is perceived in the deepest place of Our Being. This is the human/Angelic goal - to perceive the direction of the “Conductor” (Spirit) through Our own spirit and then to participate in resounding a clear Tone, which is in sync with the rest of the Orchestra, While also in harmony with Life’s resonation.

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

October 12, 2008: 9:50 pm: StuartMy Word

Most can probably relate to the experience of stepping out of a hot and steamy shower.  Initially, as you leave the tub or shower stall area, you step into a slightly cooler area where there is still a bit of a mist from the hot water used during your shower. The bathroom mirror is all fogged up and you can’t yet use it effectively to view your image.  However, as the minutes pass, the mist in the air begins to clear and so does the surface of the mirror, which gradually allows a reflected image of you to appear.  Now, you can see the earthly image of you (perhaps) quite clearly.  This, experientially speaking, becomes a transitionally dramatic change from being in the shower.  In the shower, you had no earthly connection to something of an identity and now you are looking at a reflected image of your physical, earthly capacities.  For a moment, you reflect on how it felt to be bathed by comfortably hot steamy waters, relaxing, like being back in your mother’s womb, with nothing to tie your experience to anything else, just being held in warm cozy comfort that seems to soothe the entirety of your Being…  But, you do end up leaving that space of warm and cozy comfort to look into a mirror that offers a reflected image of your body.  Now everything that led up to this moment of your life dawns again, through glimpsing the image before you.  The joys and/or sorrows accumulated from your life’s journey start grazing your consciousness.  Today, that usually means more than it ever did before, as life is reflecting back exactly what we’ve co-created inclusively.
 

For me, I have had a very sobering realization that came into my consciousness in a most powerful way last night.  It had to do with abortion.  I thought about the miracle of Life that is born through the birth of a new Life.  There is so much that comes together from Divinity’s perspective, through birthing a new Life, that just cannot continue to be ignored as it has been hitherto.  Through my Life experience, I have been a part of three different abortions.  In other words, I made Love with three different women when I was in my early 20’s, creating three different pregnancies over a period of about 4-5 years that resulted in abortions.  There have been, perhaps, no lower moments in my life than these outworkings.  Even today, so many years (decades) later, my breath and my heart shudder at this recollection.  And yet, this dreadful outworking has been repeated in our world thousands of times over the course of decades.  The fact that this happens with the saddest of regularity reveals how low we have sunk as a people.  The error isn’t so much in the outworking of a young couple getting pregnant together.  No, not in  the way that we think of it, as a ‘mistake.’  The real tragedy is in the lack of human, family consciousness.  We create orphans all around us.  As far as your next door neighbors are concerned, they may as well be orphans in your consciousness.  They are orphans, as far as you are concerned.  There are only, perhaps, a hundred or several hundred yards (give or take) that physically separate you from them physically and yet they may as well live on the planet Mars, because we have orphaned ourselves from each other.  Our gorgeous homes that cost us more than we think, we created to be nothing more than prisons.  They are prisons that keep us all disconnected from each other.  Well, knowing this truth, what is our response?  We can justify not bringing another baby into this world and kill the Life before it has the chance to  live.  Spirit gives us an answer that would invariably require changing the way that we’re living, but we say ‘NO’ and kill this new and very Divine messenger.
 

There are bands of people that protest abortion.  That hasn’t been very effective because the real problem is that we’ve still been in an ‘orphan-creating’ state of consciousness.  Even though the answer is always new, even a new Life perhaps, we haven’t seen it.  All that we have seen is the world (like a prison) that we have co-created, as our selfish fears embark the deadliest course of action.
 

Lord, I must apologize to YOU and to all of my brethren for ever looking at anyone as if they were separate from me.  I have been guilty of creating a living, walking prison whose barriers were much greater, thicker and stronger than any brick or concrete wall ever built - not actually strong, just ignorant and stubborn!  Knowing this, from deep down inside, what shall YOU and I do?  How do I (how do we) remove our walls?  A demolition job is never very pretty or comfortable.  We’re gonna get dirty.  We will have dust and dirt going everywhere – in our mouths, between our toes – you name it!  The sterility of our homes needs to change.  We need to get dirty so that Life can be born and live.  Our “shit” (everyone’s shit) needs to be looked at in a new way.  It’s “honey pot” time.  For those of you who may not be aware of what a “honey pot” is, it refers to these big containers that hold human feces.  In some parts of the world, the feces are collected and put into these containers (honey pots) and carried around on people’s backs.  These human remains are most valuable for fertilizer to grow new crops.
 

We need to stop putting people off because we think that they are dirty or less than us.  Whose shit is dirtier?  Shit is just plain old shit and we better start using it to let Life grow well.  We throw out everything that we thought didn’t serve our purpose.  In truth, nothing can be thrown out and everything must be put into use.  Disease grows from stagnation.  Nothing and no One should be just left alone without your Love and without the opportunity to express Life.
 

We had set an unloving stage for each other where competition enslaved and hurt our delicate hearts.  For fear of being hurt more, we had hidden ourselves in prisons.  Could a beautiful home, a Jaguar and gold Rolex be  prisons?  They are if they keeps distance between YOU and others.  Life knows this and Life is going to continue giving us a way out of our prisons.  We still have the opportunity to walk out of them.  If we don’t walk out, we will still have to leave our prisons, but we may need to crawl out of them!
 

Use your home and your Divine Temple (your capacities) to start fostering Love and Life with everyone.  You are a father or a mother, a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, to everyone at any given moment in time.  Let the moments in Life, in this regard, be lovingly complete.  Let no one ever be orphaned in your life ever again.  And for God’s and Our own sakes, don’t kill our babies – don’t kill Life’s answer to Life!

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.

October 10, 2008: 8:04 pm: StuartMy Word

I AM defined– it’s the moment of truth, when I completely bring myself to the Lord through thought, words and prayer.  But, through the living process, how is this accomplished?  It’s all about loosing something to have it or to actually know and to experience the truth.  The “having to loose to have” experience is one of the paramount aspects of the living or creative process.  In my experience, I can see myself tacking through each day, but never knowing exactly where I AM until I’m lost once again.  When I realize that my course is in a disoriented state, there is only one thing that I can do to reorient myself.  I take my attention to the only true place where direction is absolute and all things are perfectly defined.  The ever-present Being of Perfection awaits His herd of sheep.  Seeking guidance in the Way, The Truth and The Life does not always need to start because of a dramatic loss, because once One realizes the importance of Being found, One longs for the comfort of “Being in Place” through prayer and meditation.  One doesn’t need to get too far off the mark before finding oneself reorienting accordingly.  There are two great experiences that I have found to be experientially life-defining: one is when I have been lost and then I AM found, and the other is when I have assisted another person to find their way to the One.
 

Do YOU let your world live its Life or do You feel that it must be lived a certain way?  How can anyone be found until they realize that they’re actually lost?  A tone of humility is always the signature of a lost soul.  However, we must allow ourselves the privilege of getting lost over and over again.  In truth, we are always traveling a path never traveled before – so how can we expect not to get lost in the process?  It may seem like you’re going around in circles, but life is a spiral – it’s not a circle and  appearances are (perhaps) similar, but ’similar’ is not exactly the same at all and appearances are illusive.  Forget where you think that YOU are.  You’re lost, and once YOU admit that – ONLY THEN can you be found.  I AM present to walk with Him - with His Perfection - Together.  To truly see the path, I must seek sight through His eyes.  Though I may never completely see, I AM offered the privilege of taking another step in His Way on the spiral path …
 

There is a perfect place and we’ve really never departed that place – because its perfection is the nature of Life itself.  Orient your compass setting to the Place of all Places and YOU know exactly where that Place is!  Love ya!

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October 9, 2008: 6:00 pm: StuartMy Word

How are your eyes and ears doing, or whatever senses that allow you to perceive Life?  Do you sense your world while awaiting something from it?  I’ve got good and bad news for you.  If you’re waiting for something from your world, you’re probably not going to receive it.  That is the good and the bad news.  It’s only bad news from the standpoint of thinking that you actually have a real need.  It is an illusion to think that your true Being has a real need.  Desires are not needs.  But we’ve tended to get very serious minded when we’ve thought about getting what we think that we’re supposed to get.  We sometimes call these things entitlements; that which we believe are entitled to receive and getting or not getting these things, we have judged our worlds; every aspect of them – including God!  Do we judge God?  How can a person judge any aspect of Life and not actually be judging its Creator?
 

To justify what we think we are owed, we’ve stacked up this whole huge list of exceptions that we use to falsely validate our state of mind – my mate did this and didn’t do that – the Democrats are this and the Republicans are that – I’m not getting what I want from this list of people or life scenarios – and these lists go on and on…  On this basis, we have a whole bunch of what we classify as good reasons to judge Life.  Of course, after we realize that our premise for judgment was completely devoid of truth, we start feeling guilty and have to start forgiving everyone – just for the sake of interaction.  This whole picture illustrates the illusion of illusions.  We made the whole thing up in our minds and NONE of it is real!  Well, the good news is that our belief of having needs that are not being met is, in fact, the biggest illusion of all.  Having a true Identity (complete) is the key to not being controlled by such illusion.  As I stand in the place of “completeness” through knowing my true Identity, there is nothing to forgive; my world owes me nothing and therefore I AM not in a void.  I AM not present as a Being of neediness and neither are YOU!  We express Life through the pouring process.  That is what I AM present to do.  So let’s replace forgiveness with Thanksgiving and lots of pouring!  May all of our cups runneth over because we just keep on pouring…

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