Sir Lancelot fought with fairness and integrity and would also have beaten King Arthur in their one-on-one battle, but King Arthur cheated and used the power of Excalibur to defeat Sir Lancelot. And through inflicting almost a deadly blow against Sir Lancelot, King Arthur broke Excalibur, “The Sword That Could Not Be Broken.” The wizard named Merlin, who was usually nearby King Arthur, witnessed this outworking and was shocked and rather distraught and said to King Arthur, “You have broken that which could not be broken, you have broken the hope for mankind for all time.” King Arthur then realized what he had done and owned up to it, as he tossed the broken sword into the lake! King Arthur admitted that he had failed and said, “I am nothing, this great Knight fought with bravery and integrity. It was my rage that broke the sword. I have failed. I am nothing.” And as he hung his head low, we see, rising up from the waters, the ”The Lady of the Lake”. Pointing it straight to the sky, we see her holding the now, magically mended, Excalibur. Merlin then instructed King Arthur to take the mended sword back from the Lady of the Lake and so he did.

I feel that this particular engagement between King Arthur and Sir Lancelot is one that depicts where mankind’s mind has been. It also reflects what is possible through true and honest realization. What prevents a person from admitting failure? A few things might come to mind such as fear, insecurity, etc., which are all parts of the framework of ego. How many leaders do you know that have manipulated their way to the top? Or perhaps they just worked truly hard. But then self-righteousness took over as they deluded themselves into thinking that one could deservedly arrive at some place to be more than just a “Being” in service to another.

While honor and healthy competition can serve the growth of the whole, like salmon swimming upstream to spawn, one must never loose sight of their integrity. Breakthroughs are more than a mere possibility, such as King Arthur revealed. It starts with realization and then owning it, while admitting one’s shortcomings to themselves and to others when appropriate. Hey, our lives can seem full of shortcomings, of ours and others, at times. The real breakthrough comes through as one begins to stop fearing their own personal truth. True humility is not wish-washy. When error has been discovered, rejoice, for that’s when the breakthrough becomes a possibility. And then life seems to begin to accommodate that possibility, as its authenticity is present, through its fullest expression.

By the same token, one doesn’t need to beat themselves up, or each other. Realization and breakthrough is a real personal outworking. It can also be one of the most sacred things in a person’s experience. We do well to accommodate the truth of this sacredness by providing a safe place for each blade of grass to grow.

For those of you who never saw Schindler’s List, it is a story that centers around prison life.  Toward the end of the movie, there are a few very special moments when Oscar Schindler’s adopted Jewish family at large shows him their deepest gratitude by giving him a gold ring. The ring was enscribed in Hebrew saying, in essence, that Schindler had given them the gift of saving their lives! On the contrary, Oscar Schindler felt that he had actually not done enough. “I could have sold my car,” he said.  Moments later, after finding a gold pen in his jacket pocket he began to cry. He realized he could have paid for the life and freedom of one more person. Oscar Schindler had discovered the true core value of life!

I remember the first time I watched this movie and how moved to tears I was.  I remember how much it’s theme meant to me! In fact I found myself crying a times throughout the movie, but particularly at the end. I could not help but think of the many times I lived wastefully with the Lord’s substance. However, the lessons from life have been great and I Am now clearly and newly prepared to work well with the Lord’s substance with even more respect, care and grace. As I sit with such true realization, I know that Spirit lives well, wherever I Am.

It can seem a little complicated, as one sits back and looks out into a world undergoing great transition. I envision that blade of grass of which I so often speak. A new variety of grass that is being “spiritualized” at a level unprecedented. The new growth is piercing the mightiest boulder, the one of the heart.

Our individual substance is becoming more refined because that’s what spiritualized means! It means that I cannot take myself off the hook anymore. And this is what each person can say of themselves.  There is a well defined spiritual pathway of realization. The Biblical quote John 15:16 says it well. “You did not choose me. I chose you and sent you out to produce my fruit, the kind of fruit that will last. Then my Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name.” This is what happended to Oscar Schindler. He was transformed by Life, through Spirit.

In life, we often head in a certain direction until Spirit points us where we are to go. It happens when we begin to Let it happen. Again, we are chosen, we don’t need to choose. The choice, through the Truth of Love, is made for us.

The pattern comes to focus through the tendency of people searching for supposed answers and directions and then, upon receiving them very specifically, not following them. The Biblical quote, “Seek and ye shall find” suggests that God’s Word or direction is very simply received. However, the truest reception of such Divine Truth or wisdom is predicated upon one’s willingness and readiness to follow through in accordance with the directions. Again, the acronym KISS could not be more real, through its application.

My partner has suggested that it is more palatable to change the verbatim definition for KISS to (keep it simple sweetheart). However, there is nothing sweet about mankind’s tendency to not follow, or not to be obedient to, Divine direction. So let’s proceed through with the acronym KISS (keep it simple stupid). Who would I be calling stupid? Well, the first person that one needs to deal with before anyone else is “self”! So, to the extent to which I have not followed Divine direction, thinking and acting through disobedience, calling such outworking “stupid” seems rather fitting!

In this regard, every person, through honesty and humility, has the opportunity of looking in the mirror. As some point, while departing the voyage on the river of denial one has the incredible opportunity of realizing the truth. But then, and most importantly, doing something about it!

The mind loves to play tricks on us. The big name for the trick is rationalization. We’ve been doing this for a very long time. Whether it’s global warming or not doing our home work, as the teacher dictated, it all comes down to a pattern of thinking where our minds have been in denial.

Whether we have our garbage overflowing in our wastebaskets or in our minds - it’s all from the same pattern. “Oh gosh, the house is a mess and I don’t know where to start.” And what does human nature do? Often, something stupid like nothing at all or maybe consider just going to a movie or perhaps de-focus from our own responsibilities while trying to coach someone else on the “Art of living.” That, my friend, is human nature at its worst. Human nature is known for having a big mouth, while incessantly jabbering away, making so much noise, acting very confused - why?…because it is. Human nature is more than anything, a spoiled brat.

Well, life seems to be arming itself with what might be considered one of the final lessons. While the mommy’s and daddy’s of the world might take out a paddle and swat the fanny of a disobedient child, the paddle that life uses is (shall we say) slightly larger? And so, we might find ourselves at an unprecedented juncture on the road of reality.

I don’t know about you, but I Am clearly not interested in disobeying God or disturbing Life’s true Tone. I think way more than enough of that has taken place already.

Can you sense the enormous possibilities associated with observing and resounding the integrity of the Tone of Life? It’s really a rather simple and glorious thing to participate in. Let us resonate in this harmonious place together. Whether it’s time to take out the trash or change our way of thinking, acting and living, let’s share in the practical, harmonious, creative and constructive opportunities that are present!

“You travel the world. Now you must journey inwards.  What you really fear is inside you. There is no turning back….If you make yourself more than just a man; if you “devote” yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. Are you ready to begin?”

I happen to be a big Batman fan. It may be kid stuff, but the essence of the words I quote, through their inference, carry, for me, a much larger truth. It’s all about “Identity” and devoting oneself to the limitless reaches of the “Ideal”. We know what that equals in “Super Hero Land”, but what about the real land of Divine Being?

With respect to what is possible, insofar as Divine Being is concerned, the journey within may have more to do with un-learning than actually learning. The world, at times, seems nothing too short of a frontal lobotomy to make way for the changes that seem necessary! We have come to an obvious extreme point in our human culture’s evolution.

The key word, “devote,” holds the real key to transformation. Devote, devotion, commitment and committed describe the state whereby extraordinary transformation may take place. They equal the “something else entirely” as referenced above. This is beyond what limited human minds have previously comprehended as more than a mere possibility.

For Batman it was to become a kick butt hero to fight the bad guys. But what about the qualities of a Divine Being? What does, or would, that look like? And how would one devote themselves to such an end or actually to such a beginning - an ideal? What’s the process?

It’s obvious, many of the dogmatic religions of the world have mostly failed themselves throughout this process. What has not failed? Perhaps the spiritual path or journey? In this regard, it may be a little different for each person. However, most learned ones agree that there is only one Truth. And, that being so - who is resounding it?

Truth is a funny word in human consciousness because “humans” have wanted to be able to control truth and make it work for them. But that is not how “Truth” operates. It is said that the truth will set one free. That sounds good - but many have felt burdened by their subjective experience of truth and with futility and they may utter to themselves, “how can that be?”. It has been, perhaps, a mystery to most because the mind has separated truth from love. You cannot do that, insofar as life is concerned. Because unconquerable life prevailing has to do with the outworking of the Truth of Love.

You cannot serve in truth or love separately and have them work through life’s divine design.

We are naturally loving and compassionate Beings, as we live the truth through the expression of love. It not only sets us free - it sets our worlds free too.

This is the place that is often perceived as a gentle, but magical, mist of invisibility. I believe that we could call it the true glue that connects all of life; that which creates the canvas where our living artistry is continually co-authored!

Those who are awakened from within the Source of their Being realize the importance of what spiritual agreement and alliance provide. But no matter how “awake” one feels that they are, do you sense as I do, that we are now of a new heaven, as our individual and collective earth transforms/transmutates to accommodate this reality?

I am reminded again that, as my dear friend Alan Hammond underscored, the changes that are coming are so inclusive that our virtual laws of physics and earthly perceptions are likely about to completely change. It is a time for each of us to really strengthen our internal Sovereignty, as my dear friend David Karchere has also underscored.

As we do our internal work, allowing our capacities to be purified and At-One with Shekinah, the Fire of Love, our relationship with the earth, with all forms, becomes natural through the living relationship of radiation and response. But bringing this down to brass tacks, practical language and directional order, we have come to a time, patiently awaited by Life, where we are of the true realization that peace, harmony and creative purpose must be present where I Am through self expression. And, to the extent that this is a reality for each One, it becomes a reality for all, for the whole, in true Service to the One.

The truest collective evolution comes from our individual and collective interest of integration. From an individual standpoint, I have found that as I pause and step back with the intention of honoring life’s true expression of the Tone, I can allow others to blend with me and I with them. When honor is kept as the true focal point, there is a natural result, even effortlessly, of harmony, of blending and of integration.

We hear reports of a very high divorce rate and that it is actually on the increase. There seem to be many factors. One of them may be, subconsciously or even unconsciously, a gender issue of power or dare we say control hunger. The truth of a natural balance of masculinity and femininity has been MIA for a while now. While life can seem full of “control points” for each one, there needs to be only One (God). There is one God and He is Our Father who art in Heaven. We have been blessed with Father God and Mother Earth. These Divine Ones are Our true parents. We are to Love our Father God with all Our might while Being true caretakers of Mother Earth. However, we have clearly not done so well at this task. And consciously, subconsciously and unconsciously we are aware of what has been our shortcomings or ineptness, in this regard. But, instead of softening our hearts while becoming re-oriented with Spirit, there has been struggle by the genders to try to take control and that never works!

There used to be a widely used ugly term or name calling which was identified through the words “male chauvinist pig”. It would seem that the sociological pendulum has swung to the other side now. One might be thinking that now there is also a “female chauvinist pig” condition present. There is no need to use either ugly term but either end of this chauvinist extreme is not where we need to be. As we all surrender to God the Father, while Being true caretakers of Mother Earth, there is perfect honor, love and respect shown for all appropriately.

Do you remember a time when…
We were not stuck on trying to determine each other’s sin?

We lived as if we were a gentle breeze,
Without a plan to covet and trying to cease

Let the softness of Love live, once again, right now
As I greet creation, it seems appropriate to bow

Rejoice through letting a gentle message shine through
This may begin tying a spiritual knot between me and you

Each beginning like this proves that we can trust one another, once again
This is ultimately where we are to go, as the truth of our hearts begin to mend

The avoidance of seeing the truth of oneself has become like a raging beast who’s eyes have been gouged from its face. With tear ducts all but missing or dried up, communications have become as sharpened daggers that desperately seek targets of judgment and of blame.

It is said that the truth shall set you free! People seem almost afraid of being truly free, because that means being naked and unashamed. Oh, what a dream for most that has become. We seemed to have created a sociological scene where people run about frantically while concerned about image….how do I look to that important person over there, etc.? Has a superficial stature replaced true values? Who can know true peace in spirit, mind/heart, on such a basis?

At one time, people seemed more interested in dignity; the truth of the value of spirit, mind/heart. But now their stake, in this regard, has been replaced by a fear of loosing the images that hold them in prison through false identity with its masks of ego. The social ladders through false agreement have offered people the illusion of strength, as the truth of their inner structures remain broken, while adhering to artificial molds and forms that seem to occupy their attention.

What does a person do when they are actually alone with themselves? Who is present to try to impress now? The divine potato peeler is at work, folks, as it scrapes away the layers of illusion. I say to my dearest friend quite frequently “Be still and know.” It’s a good think to say when the brain is avoiding the truth through chatter. The mind tends to focus hard on challenging things; so as to make that which is challenging even more so. The truest qualities of life can only be known through the seven steps of Patience, Tranquility, Realization, Assurance, Radiation, Wisdom and Love. People have been setting forth to get their rewards right away through trying to have their cake and eat it too! But there must be an active participation and penetration with each individual step of the seven steps before arriving to the next one. The truth of the intention of each person continues to show up, as “Out of the mouth speaketh the heart.”

We are at a time in life that has brought forth a quickening of the truth of our Being! We’re shedding our skins of illusion as each one’s naked truth is being revealed.

I have discovered many grades of truth through human experiential and subjective reality. It’s a wonderful ride on the sailboat of life, sometimes! But there are also times where the wonder is wondering while feeling less full. Subjectivity is an experiential form of reality but it’s not ‘Reality’. Individual truth rightly may give birth through whole integration/blended orchestration. This discovery of Truth allows for the stability of axiom through a complete resonation, as a living axiom is denoted.

I look at Truth as a White perfect Light that passes through the prism of manifestation. Prisms refract the Light into a rainbow of Living color. The colors have distinct hues. The land of hues is vast. But, as I am discovering, it is very specific through its presence and creative application. We’re actually describing here the realization and radiant expression of true personal Identity. This is discovered through the realization of holistic purpose.

There tends to have been, on the human journey, frequent identity crisis because the focus has often been in the earth or in the realm of effect. However, the cause of Life is the true and creative focal point, through the expression of the White or “Divine” Light. And so, insofar as individual discovery is concerned, it is letting One’s hue or personal expression of Divine Light illuminate wherever One is present.

I have found that there is a natural journey, like a sailboat trip which usually involves tacting and/or jibing. You have a few variables such as point of destination, wind and water direction and visual aids which allow navigation. Let’s say that the wind is coming directly from your point of destination. So you cannot just sail directly into it. You must tact back and forth across the point which characterizes the direction of the wind. So, inadvertently, you travel in a direction pointing as close to your destination as possible while allowing your sails to fill completely. Your sails are pulled in tight enough, just beyond the point where they were luffing. But now the sailboat is not heading directly toward your destination. One needs to travel a bit, while the sails are full, permitting travel and then going far enough (but not too far) in that direction, before turning the boat (tacking). Now having turned the boat, one is traveling the same amount of degrees past the point of destination. It’s like a living geometry in motion. This is what we do in life also, in order to have our journeys be intelligently, constructively, harmoniously productive, indeed, divine geometry in motion.

There is the aspect of basic, creative linear movement. But such movement is also perceived through the art of such movement. We have called the greater movement, the art of living!

There is a Living pulse which allows all things to manifest through divine holistic perfection. Life is a process whereby we discover the perfection of our living truth through the expression of it. We then are able to PAUSE, opening up our vision through ‘open focus’ while letting our individual hue (our personal truth) be integrated into and through the whole! It can, perhaps, be described like this - hues coming together as a divine poly-radiant collage. As individuals, we bring forth an expression of frequency characterized through Tone, a combination of the parts creating atmosphere characterized by the Light of the energetic expression of sound, color and vibratory quality. But it’s hard to describe the intrinsic characteristics of such because so much is contained through ones’ expression, especially as whole blended harmony is its creative impetus.

I have found great value in stepping back from the living equation or ones’ expression of it, so as to open my perception, realizing the greater perspective which must govern ones’ flexibility. Through such divine processing there is a discovery of whole and true completeness, as true integration is known. This reveals the relationship of creative building through its blended expression, now giving truth its birth as a true and radiant spoke on the wheel of Truth.

The greatest experience is realized as the expression of personal truth is demonstated as a complete harmonious aspect of the larger expression of Life, or the whole of Truth! The beauty of each ones’ personal truth is discovered as the truth of it resonates well through the true holistic quality of expression of the wholeness of Truth!

You see, it’s like this…everyone really knows at some level what they really need to do and the truth of that is increasing the heat in each person’s experience until a person has all of their fingers pointing back at themselves. This is a time when the real truth (the one we locked up in our closets) has gotten so large that the closet door is breaking away from its hinges. There has been avoidance and escape. I know! I have done both.

Every time that I’ve found fault with another it’s always an indication of the same thing - avoiding the truth of myself. The question is - can I allow these capacities to have the temperature raised within? And what does that mean? It means when someone in my life is complaining about me can I allow myself to validate their position without reacting? That’s a great question for the ego. Can I trust that Spirit is just bringing me a gift by which to surrender and transform? A person might respond to this by saying - but I feel abused through this! Well, there are abusive people out there, granted. However, we picked them to be in our lives for a reason. That’s the sobering reality. My old friend Gary Schineller often has reminded me that everything and everyone works efor you - not against you! We can pause in any moment and ask ourselves what is life saying to us?…because it’s always saying something.

Who has secrets? Who lives a life that is actually a collage of little secrets? I finally figured it out - if I have one lie then everything else becomes affected by that lie and the lie just grows until everything is tainted by untruth.

I have had to do plenty of work on myself for many years to peel away that which was a covering, masking Reality. The family that I came from only lied when they breathed. And that would almost be funny if it were not true. They were famous for lies and half truths. So I had to make that condition evolve into the ‘almost true!’ That’s the thing when you’re working on making something true and that, my friend, is very hard work. We are clearly in gray-ville right now because there is a reality to casting a result from the invisible to visibly manifest. But the truth of this is very Tone sensitive. You really need to absolutely know that something exists invisibly, vibrationally, before its declaration. These days, that is often considered a lie as much as any other form of stretching the truth. I think that one might need to tread very carefully through this consideration. Intention of holistic value certainly plays a role. But think of how often rationalization has taken place as intentions have gotten clouded up.

What’s the cure? Keeping things simple and operating without expectations. Upon having an expectation, of virtually anything, one’s perception is clouded by turning into a seeking expression of manipulation.

I have literally found myself grieving as the old self in denial has been meeting its end. It gets really quiet inside as one gets real when reality had been a scarcity. The words sobering humility come to mind. Personally, I’m slowly easing out of a time of mourning, as simplicity and gratitude begin to rise up within.