Archive for January, 2009

January 31, 2009: 3:45 pm: StuartMy Word

Many of us may remember from our studies in the sciences that the only true constant is “change.”  In the human experience, we have related in times past to this truth like a living (actually, just ‘existing’) oxymoron in motion.  The ways of human nature, heretofore, have continually yielded a state of contradiction.  But Life cannot be approached on any other terms except for Life’s terms.  You cannot just jump onto a moving train from a stand still position.  You need to move with the train and then perhaps leap onto it in a fashion that matches its momentum.  Any other type of attempt could prove to be painful.
 

The world that we live in is moving constantly.  Even rocks have movement at the molecular level – however, normal human vision has not detected it.  From movement at a molecular level, energetic and gravitational fields are created.  Through this outworking, Life’s Source and its expression are energetically based. There is also an electromagnetic relationship that is created between all of the masses that constitute forms.  Subsequently, the outworking of attraction and repelling, which foster relationship and manifestation, are constant.
 

So change (movement) is constant everywhere in Life and we are infinitely connected energetically at the electromagnetic level as we move toward certain things and people and away from others throughout the Life process.  Life is rather miraculous, in this regard.  Continuous birthing and transformations are occurring.  Upon such a magnanimous realization, One may sense that there is indeed a design to Life itself which is expressed through Life’s natural expression and subsequent outworking.
 

Mankind has, as his past reflects, held himself and life in question, i.e., why am I here, etc.?  Is there something purposeful and profound that directs and supports all of Life’s expression and outworking?
 

The human mind, heretofore, has invented many things, dreamed up belief systems, etc. to fill some experiential gap.  As One looks out at Life’s extremely diversified expressions, trying to create a summary to answer purposeful and profound questions can seem to be an obscure possibility.  However, there are key factors of simplicity that characterize the most foundational factors of Life.  The truth of Life’s generation with the outset of Life’s evolution calls to one major factor – the good (the evolution) of the Whole.  I AM grateful to live on the edge of Life itself – to allow a perfect empty space in ME to be present so that discovery is continuously imminent!

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.

January 25, 2009: 8:57 pm: StuartMy Word

In this Life, I have been fortunate to have the door within my heart opened in the most real ways possible.  The door of my heart did not open because of just one occurrence of some kind.  There have been myriad occurrences, opportunities and incidences that have constructed my creative process.  I AM most grateful that through my Life, choices have been made that have allowed ME to care completely about people’s unique and beautiful Spirits!

A few decades back when I was teenager, I was privileged to be an exchange student in Europe.  I found it to be quite different there.  People were a lot more intimate and engaging.  You could observe heterosexual men walking while holding hands in friendship.  There was a strong interest in intimate relating.  It wasn’t necessarily about sex – it was about connecting.  The thought of what was happening in their private chambers wasn’t a big deal – just a part of Life’s engaging expression.  There is a beautiful and refreshing atmosphere which is generated by such freedom and its outworking…

Here in America  we have often been looked at (heretofore) as a prudish culture by much of the world.  In the past, Americans have placed great attention and concern on sexual orientations.  These areas of Life, heretofore, have been cruelly and destructively judged.  But that’s all that judgment can do anyway.  My Life’s journey has been a very engaging one.  Some say that I have taken many risks, at many levels.  That’s probably true, but once One has tasted the truth of Love and Life, the awareness that comes from it penetrates One’s very “Being.”  Through such awareness and the real Life process, from an experiential standpoint, the gamut is rather complete and lives well! 

In America there has been a lot of curiosity surrounding, “Who’s doing whom?”  Yes, that’s right.  There is, unfortunately, a vicarious aspect to this stance that becomes more voyeuristic than anything else.  There is little or no engaging for a person who withdraws merely into their curiosity and then forms judgments born from fear.


 
When it comes to relating sexually, intercourse is considered the completed aspect of expression. For those of you who have had the experience of sexual intercourse, you may have realized how much of YOU had to be put forth while engaging your mate. It requires all of YOU to realize completion, in this regard! While the mind in America, heretofore, has tended to separate intimacy into compartments or categories, such an outworking has produced a divorce from “Being.” The Spiritual intercourse has largely been sacrificed. To the contrary, however, to actually be a living expression that is ever ready to share intercourse Spiritually speaking, a man needs to have a Spiritual erection and a woman needs to be ready in her “Being,” such that she is spiritually hot and wet. What I am describing has little or nothing to do, necessarily, with One’s physical genitalia. It has to do with “Being” loving to the extent that it allows complete Spiritual penetration. This is true “Intimacy.” This is truely “Being” in Love…

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.      

January 22, 2009: 1:36 am: StuartMy Word

On this day that has now passed well into the night and into the wee hours of the next morning, a new President has taken the American Helm!  It is clear to me that his job can be as challenging as man has made it in the past or as easy as One lets it be through engaging Life, while staying in integrity with Spirit!  As the true “Servant” of God emerges through the acts of Leadership of the One, the much needed healing for our worlds takes its strongest rooting.  Life and its healing nature is always a process.
 

I hope that our new President keeps true to the fortitude of knowing that he and our nation are Blessed through the radiant leadership that comes from the One who truly knows, and that, “Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Name Of The Lord.”
 

May the Lord Bless this new beginning for President Obama, his family and his administration.  Let us also not forget to Bless our Lord through showing our Love for each other.  There is no One that is not one of our Brethren–the children of God, the Brethren of the Buddha, the Christ and all of those who live and breathe into this Life on Earth that we are privileged to live together.  Let each of us live in a way that carries the essence of these words.  Let the healing begin for all through our Love of the Holy One!  Erase all that has deluded any of us into thinking that we were separate.  We are all part of the “One.”  And we may know of our Oneness as we stop, take notice and give thanks for the opportunity of caring, giving and sharing.
 

Some are stronger at times.  But as the lion learned, the little ones that may be considered mice, deliver that which no else could have delivered, which ultimately saved the life of the lion.  We each are the lion and the mouse at different moments of our lives.  I AM grateful to know myself in Oneness with all of our precious creatures.

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. 

January 21, 2009: 6:42 pm: StuartMy Word

There is a phrase that man has made up that calls to the whole of importance.  That coined phrase is, “The bottom line!”  It usually refers to an absolute dollar amount, in the world of man.  But nothing in the world of form could be further from the truth of what the bottom line truly is.  Our God is not only our “Bottom line” but actually, our only line.
 

Through the experience of connecting in relationships there has been the realization that if serving God is not held as the vision point for any relationship that the relationship proves to be weak and ultimately falters.  A triangle is often used to illustrate how a healthy relationship works.  However, from my experience, I would have to say that the distance between all of the points of the triangle draw closer together (the lines become shorter) as the truth of Oneness is the actual experience.  We begin to move as One with our Creator.
 

Eventually the points of all triangles disappear into the sole eternity of “Being,” of the single Dot!  A name for such outworking could be Nirvana, “the completion,” as Identity is returned to the Whole or to the “One.”  The ease of Life is completely subject to the reality of this state of “Being” in concert with Creation.
 

We don’t need to measure anything to know what holds true value.  The knowing is the truth of our “Being.”  The scales that we used to measure everything became the very scales of man’s justice, which has been more than corrupted heretofore by virtue of its interest in serving something other than God!  We either serve the One or, in the end, we serve no one!  Let every heart that beats turn its attention to serving without measure.  As the wash woman turned her head to the Apostle and said, “Lord, I gave so little.  How could this act be celebrated as if it were something significant?  The Apostle replied, “You gave all that you had.  What more could any person have given?”  If there is any valuable lesson to learn in life, it is certainly this one.  Can there be any real and complete joy without this level of true experience and understanding, to know what the true gift of Life actually is?  Praise the Lord for the opportunities at Hand to be the gift…

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. 

January 19, 2009: 5:15 am: StuartMy Word

I feel like I have gone down so many roads in my lifetime.  There have been obstacles from time to time that had to be worked with.  Sometimes there was a victory and sometimes not.  But now I find myself applying the word ‘victory’ to my life experience in a new way.  There is a victory that I sense can be present that I have not yet achieved.  It’s the victory of “Being.”  In my lifetime, I have met a small handful of wise Ones who were just “Present.”  There wasn’t a whole lot that they were doing.  They seemed to be complete without having to do anything at all.  A person might say that there are plenty of people who are doing nothing in this world – and that is not a good thing.  Yes, there are many people who have just been hanging out and not doing a whole lot.  These same ones have seemed kind of oblivious to things that were happening right where they were.  This is not the expression of “Being” that I am seeking nor to which I am referring.
 

How many people have to be doing something to fill a gap in their experience?  Others may have  an attitude because they don’t feel that they have the means to do what they would really like to do…  But how many people do you know who are just fine doing nothing…or doing just about anything?  How many things do people do because they’re just trying to fill space with something – the need for stimuli…?  Who has to be doing something because they feel that they’re supposed to do something?
 

The thought processes and activity to which One has been able to bear witness have, for most people, revealed a state of deafness and blindness…  Personally speaking, I’m a little disappointed that I haven’t found more people who are just “Present.”  This might sound a little funny, but I’m looking forward to walking into another person’s space someday and having us look at one another and just be so connected that all we seem to do is warmly glance at each other and maybe just nod – and that’s it – just Being Present together and realizing it.  This may all sound really strange, but I’m just tired of the world we have co-created and the way that it has been.  We can’t hear or see whatever is truly important to hear and see while we’re caught up doing so many things.  What do we teach our children?  What do we hear from their mouths?
 

We have the religions of the world that our Creator has supposedly influenced.  But I’m not too sure about that.  Did a group of wise Ones become so still that God spoke to them and they started writing words down to direct their brethren?  Well, quite frankly, I don’t buy it.  The few who really know something don’t seem to have the need to get up on a podium.  In fact, most of them seem to be much happier staying behind the scenes.
 

I think that many of us have avoided letting ourselves “Be” present.  One reason is that we’d actually start seeing the world that we’ve co-created.  When we closed our eyes and ears, we stopped taking care of each other, and we started holding things back for ourselves.  There has always been plenty of whatever people need – but there has been greed present in the human experience and thus many have struggled.  Imagine if you were in a room with a group of strangers and all of a sudden something came over everyone at the same time and everyone started really seeing and sensing everyone else.  Imagine that you were in the room and you realized that someone else was very hungry and you could help them eat.  Another person’s clothes were very worn out and you knew that you had clothes that would fit them.  What if you saw another person with tears in their eyes and you could comfort them?  Do we notice these things or are we just too busy to notice much of anything?
 

If you find yourself, as I am finding myself, ready to step away from the things that we have previously let hold our attention captive, we can begin to know what it means to “Be” together!

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. 

January 15, 2009: 3:04 pm: StuartMy Word

The phrase, ” to be in the world but not of it,” has been directed to the self- righteous interests of the human mind that has still been in a state of separation.  This may be difficult to grasp for many – but Love in motion doesn’t attach itself to forms or results of any sort.  There may be an understanding or sensing of what One needs to provide in any given moment through Life’s various circumstances.  However, to separate Oneself from other aspects of the world in a way that allows some form of self-righteousness to emerge in consciousness, creates a wall which disallows true Love to be present and in expression.  What is learned from Life while judging any aspects of it?  What could be incorporated from anything or anyone after it has been abused in some way through the aisles of judgment?  Once judged, does the scared child feel comfortable enough to let him or her be who they are?
 

So…we are “The Lord’s Body on Earth? …Yehova??  Hmmm, perhaps.  But what does that actually look like?  What does God show each One of us, through the Life experience, time and time again?  Is it not Love that allows the One (the beauty of our spirit) to show through?  The blade of grass does not think about piercing the hard rock.  It merely seeks the light and air (Love and Spirit) as its living spirit prevails!  We don’t need to cut up our worlds to suit the true growth of Life – because there ‘ain’t no stoppin’ that blade of grass!
 

Let your joy replace the efforts of the laboring fool who has tried to build the house heretofore.  Laboring in vain?… does that ring a bell somewhere?  Let your active Blessing of the world through joy unlock all that is needed to let Life blossom.  Be the Light that each and every blade of grass needs to grow well.  Air is the open aspect of our worlds.  Allow your world the air–the perfect space, through Spirit–to be nurtured and to flourish.  It’s all about lovin’,  baby!
 

There may be times when choices need to be made that appear less loving than what One had envisioned.  But sometimes an absolute change in direction is necessary.  Whenever WE tack our sailboats to redirect our voyage as Life directs, let OUR perfect unconditional Love enfold such transition.  The Greeks created a special word for the meaning of “unconditional Love” – it’s Agape!  Remember, nothing is personal, when it comes to really loving the One.  Love is the expression of who I AM!

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. 

January 11, 2009: 5:05 pm: StuartMy Word

I believe that I may be expressing the essence of this theme (letting OUR words be creative) for a long time – for as long as it takes to let a more collective awareness be present - resounding Life’s true Tone…!
 

Today, I had the opportunity of participating in an Archangelic Body teleconference, for which the speaker was Volker Brendel.  I appreciate what was shared during the hour with Mr. Brendel. Yet, as I was participating, it dawned on me in a very strong way that almost everyone that I have heard speaking over the years has had the tendency of doing something that I can only describe as being’ re-creative.’  This is not a critique of Mr. Brendel.  I Love his spirit and acknowledge the intrinsic value of his expression!
 

In a comment made by another participant, Richard Kuse, there is actually a very good example of the re-creative verbiage to which I am referring.  Mr. Kuse, who I feel is very enlightened – rather brilliant, actually, (I Love the guy) - articulated what I refer to as a re-creative declaration which I will quote.  Mr. Kuse referenced forgery and a statement to the effect that, “We are forgers.”  I would agree that much of human nature has been about forgery, existing through substitution of all sorts.

I have realized something extremely important and it has to do with how we describe what has been or what has occurred “heretofore”.  It is much more creative to acknowledge the past in the “past tense,” i.e “We have been forgers.”  Because, as we declare something that we have noticed (and noticed always keynotes past tense) as “being present NOW,” we automatically set a tone of re-creation and repetition that is neither creative nor of the Now.  Whatever we acknowledge expands.  It may sound like a small issue, but it’s really not small at all – it’s a huge part of the foundation of what manifests in our world!  The Word is one of the most powerful instruments that we have used and re-creating has been a huge factor in the human experience.
 

I myself have been finding it challenging to consciously make this change.  In fact, when I have heard myself (daily) speak in the re-creative tense, I have stopped and corrected myself.  One of my dearest friends and I signal one another if we slip with our tenses!  There has been a huge re-creative human habit.  But we’re handling it through Spirit.  Our Spirit knows and the message from Spirit is: as we “let” the past be the past, we can be most creative in the NOW!  My suggestion to YOU – whoever you are – is to take notice of this pattern which has often been cleverly hidden.  We have been so used to taking patterns of the past and re-creating them, simply by virtue of how we have chosen to describe that which had existed.  However, the creative invitation is offered through the acknowledgment of perfection. 

Human nature has had a fearful take on the latter because it really wants the “truth” to be acknowledged.  And within that scope there has been a desire for some form of justice – this has been because the Angel within has felt pain from what has been perceived heretofore as an unjust world.  But I invite you to rise up with me beyond any feelings that have caused us to seek any form of justice.  Just “Let Love radiate without concern for results” and witness a new world created by Spirit Now.

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. 

January 10, 2009: 12:47 pm: StuartMy Word

Several years ago, I wrote a poem entitled, “Out of the Mouth of Babes.”
 

Out of the Mouth of Babes!
 

As the words of Nostradamus have come to bear,

inner and outer politics of a nation, starting to tear.
 

Our world is amidst cataclysmic change,
as media and soldiers try to stay out of missile range.

The results of our choices are coming full face.

This time, will it be the whole human race?

We view our world as it cries once again;
the heart of mankind does have to mend.

I remember, years ago, in a media telecast—
the winds were ferocious and moving quite fast—

a little girl was asked of her thoughts that day,
as the world around her was starting to pray.

She spoke words aloud, of a mysterious truth
as out of the mouth of babes, here was the proof.

She said as sad as the destruction has been,
the hearts of our people have come together again. 

The essence of that poem came to mind when a young lady, who is like a daughter to me, wrote some words with the “wisdom stamp” all over them into a new Blog that she had created.  Her name is Elisabeth and she wrote about that thing that mankind made up called “time.”  She referenced the importance of people (family) taking “time” to be with each other – to be together…  Today, those words of hers were given a bit of Life’s punctuation as the “Daily Verse and Comment” from the “Berean” referenced Matthew 18:20: “(20) For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I AM there in the midst of them.”  To me, that kind of underscores the truth and importance of who the real family is comprised of and the purpose of “Being” together.
 

Our worlds are rapidly changing and how we choose to spend our time is paramount.  To have the Holy One in our midst, we are to gather in His Name.  This truth is larger than any measurement of “time.”  One might refer to its truth as a living axiom that is timeless in its invaluable nature and application.
 

I love to share time with those who care so much about just “Being” together as “family”…  Gratitude that is expressed through prayer, “Grace” and thanksgiving, let each of us stay provocatively open with Spirit.  So if we’re gonna really “Be” together, let US remember to pause for time periods, long and short, throughout all of the things that we find ourselves engaged in, to let the real and most important “Engagement” take please.  As we find ourselves creating such a Loving space together, the truth of “Being” a family is known well!  Praise the Lord!

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.  

January 6, 2009: 3:15 pm: StuartMy Word

In the human experience of life there have already been enough walls set up.  We don’t need additional ones.  What we do need are bridges – bridging the gaps in the human experience of the “Whole Being,”  spirit, mind and heart.  The easiest bridge of all is our actual capacity for “Being”…  Simply just “Being” with others can allow something fresh and new to take place.  Well, how do you do that?  Instead of having your interaction be based on some sort of agenda, what you do professionally or what someone else does, let yourself just “Be” with the person.  As we allow stillness to be present, we can connect in a much more personal way.  Maybe it just starts with a warm look, or perhaps even a smile.  But let the truth of your Identity foster the envelope of interaction, allowing intercourse between two present “Beings.”  I can almost guarantee that such a beginning will have an effect that enriches not only your own experience, but also the collective one, and that initiates a most creative Tone or atmosphere.
 

What I call the psuedo- identities – like mother, father, artist, doctor, ditch digger, lawyer, student, Caucasian, Afro-American, etc.- describe things that we do, hats that we wear, aspects of our human facilities.  These outer characteristics create opportunities for OUR expression, but in themselves are not who WE actually are.
 

As we allow ourselves to be still and centered through our “Being,” everything else that we do - every interaction - is given the opportunity of rising up, of improving the quality of its expression.  This is the Way that WE may allow the experience of, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand!”

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.  
 

January 1, 2009: 2:19 am: StuartMy Word

Honesty, hmmm, what an interesting subject.  Recently, I was watching an episode of Crash on my PC and there was a police officer giving his confession to a Priest, and I thought to myself – wow, that confession process looked so out of place.  I remember growing up a child in a Catholic family and going to confession and Church, etc.  I had a lot of thoughts about it all.  Though I was very interested (in the general sense) to religions and spirituality, I felt that Catholicism was spiritually incongruent.  It seemed like an incubator for hypocrisy.  However, I AM not here to express a critique on Catholicism or anyone or anything else.  Actually, I was thinking about the history of confession and from what I was told it was once given in a more public configuration – instead of a private confessional.  However, a few wealthy ones influenced the change.  I guess they wanted to keep their mores secret.
 

As I have been keeping fairly quiet and to myself, of late, I have realized that while quiet and solo time is extremely valuable, we as Angelic/humans were meant to be with other Angelic/humans.  We were given our capacities of spirit, mind, emotion and body to Love with.  We’re here to share Love with others – many others – all others.
 

Man had built himself a suedo-loving kind of existence somewhere along the line.  The human mind built itself a suedo-life that has been keeping itself very busy and very separated from other people.  Think about it.  We created excuses to be together with others.  Doing the “something” has been precursor for just “Being” together.  How many people are in touch with the truth of themselves (which is Love) to say to another human being – “Hey there friend – I want to hang out with YOU.  I don’t really care what we do – I just want to be connected with YOU?”  Think about it.  It’s almost scary, isn’t it?  But how much real Love do we get to… (hmmm, get to?) how about just letting Love rip – giving it full expression… actually sharing it “Whole” with another person?  Do we always have to set the mood for “Being” together?  And as far as honesty goes, we’ve been too busy doing all kinds of stuff to even be in touch with ourselves – let alone to actually Be present with another human Being.
 

The conversation goes – we did this – he said this – she said that.  Heretofore, the mind has been very busy covering (trying to encompass) the completely unimportant, superficial and often superfluous details for a very long time.  If you take a look out into world, it kinda looks at times like Spirit is hiding somewhere.  But Spirit’s not hiding – we just pilled truck loads of morass over it.  Thank God Spirit has the fortitude to rise up through anything!
 

The topic of this blog is “Honesty.”  Where does that fit in?  How many levels of honesty are there?  I don’t know the answer to that question – because I keep discovering another level.  All of the morass (truck loads baby) have held our attention as the mind (almost like a machine gun) has kept creating another agenda to work with of the morass.  And what actually is the morass?  It’s anything and everything that comes between YOU and the experience of “Being!”  No One can really be honest while they are not in touch with the truth of their “Being.”  And that may sound like a bunch of psychological and/or philosophical mumbo jumbo, but if the human mind focuses on that which is connected to a result or form (no matter what result or form) it is disconnected to that which is real – the experience of “Being.”  The platforms of result and form are illusionary and they have been, heretofore, received as substitutes for the true essences of “Being.”  However, there are no real similarities.  From “Being” Love is expressed and received while using all forms as temporary stations for “Being’s” purpose (the expression of Love).
 

Heretofore, focusing on forms has had us selling-out the integrity of “Being.”  We may not have looked at the subtleties or that which we have chosen to communicate with our worlds as lying.  However, it has been as much of a lie as any declaration without substance has ever been.  It has been rare heretofore, in the world of man, to see an individual be honest.  Now, a person that considers themselves to be honest might actually take offense to that statement.  But true and complete honesty requires simple ground.  How simple are the grounds where YOU grow your life?  To the extent that there is simplicity, there can be an honest approach.
 

I have stopped and looked at what I created/co-created to have as my grounds.  Simple would not have been an accurate word to describe what I observed.  And so, how honest could any approach be while “trying” to work with such components of illusion?  Spirit, insofar as adorning and co-creating with it is concerned, must be given complete autonomy with respect to One’s living expression.  How many things will, or will not get done, while moving forth in this Way? (The Way, The Truth and The Life…).  Oh no, that sounds a bit religious.  Nope, we’re not looking to slide in a belief system here.  That is not the “Way!”  One just needs to let Life be acknowledged (always first).  It doesn’t need to happen orally (necessarily).  But it does need to be the “Alpha and Omega” of the Creative Process.  I guarantee that all things will be done somewhat differently as Life is given the opportunity to foster our “Stewardships.”
 

When anyone has to try and explain the reasons how things are – the reason for this, that or something else – they undoubtedly are perceived as an individual that is not in their integrity – because that is all that human nature can do.  Whenever our lives are complicated, we have divorced ourselves from the integrity of Spirit.  The truest Tone of Life is sounded from the simplest chambers.

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.