Our bodies, minds, and emotions are the tools of our perception - the primary instruments of our individuated Spirits. But, Spirit we are … above all. Our Higher Self or Soul is, in a sense, an individuated fragment of the Universal Spirit we term Prime Creator, the One Source of All, Intelligent Infinity.

Practice seeing the overarching consciousness of all things unified. Practice seeing the "Body of the Collective God."

We are akin to an arrow that has been launched into the night. We have come to feel ourselves distanced from our source, imminently bound for arrival at a destination that yet eludes us. But we are certain, somehow, that there is a purpose in our flight, an intention set in motion in our very being … a mysterious intention that sustains our flight and powers our every glimpse of consciousness. There is an awe to the sheer force manifest in our movement. And we are assured that the vision which launched us into being extends far beyond the limits of our five senses … taking in all that we are … to send us speeding toward a luminous outcome.

In our flight, we become accustomed to measuring our existence by our emotional perceptions. But these are fleeting and transient. The greatest danger is to become mesmerized by a moment, an instant in time, missing or forgetting the larger flight or purpose to which we are committed.

Our Souls or Higher Selves draw us back to our awareness of the "larger mission" when we become trapped in the illusions of space and time. Our body-minds were "designed" to protect us from emotional overwhelm on our journey - initially freezing certain perceptions to protect us. We have an innate ability to pause our space-time perceptions as needed to provide protection and to prevent overwhelm. However, these "slow-downs" in the flow of consciousness must eventually reemerge for reintegration. They usually do so as pain or disease.

It is important that we learn to value our "healing crises" rather than seek to medicate or eradicate them. Conventional medicine has, by its materialistic view of the person, largely missed the "enlightenment" that is offered through the experience of human pain. It has, likewise, greatly overlooked the "mental resistance" which converts pain into suffering. It has been said that suffering is our pain times our resistance (P x R = S). Resistance to movement is the by-product of memory/trauma, taught to us by a "life-threatening" experience.

Such experiences are, in a sense, delusions of perception: giving us the impression that we will cease to be if the emotional pain increases further. They are, furthermore, moments when we encoded perceptions about powerlessness. We have not been trained to deal with overwhelming emotional experience - to know how to convert somatic/emotional cues into positive learning experiences rather than to freeze them and "stuff" them to be dealt with later.

We are now coming to learn management of our states of consciousness: to recognize how often in a day we alter our states of awareness, and of how we are altered by the states which are triggered for us subconsciously. The hallmark of the coming shift in consciousness is in the acquired mastery of our states of consciousness. And as the Mind rules the Body, we will learn mastery of our bodily responses and crises. We will learn to consciously manifest our bodies.

Begin by practicing awareness of your many shifts in consciousness. Take a few minutes and notice how many times you alter your state(s) of consciousness. The "distractions" that arise in meditation are memory cues worthy of note/journaling/attention. We will learn to release them rather than to simply dismiss or ignore them.

One of the goals of the process is to teach us to focus: to focus a thought, intention until it manifests. In our current multidimensionality, we manifest continuously in a "subconsciously driven" manner. The data that we could not consciously handle at a given moment, and stored to protect ourselves, now serves to influence our good intentions. We manifest other than we consciously intend because of our conflicting stored intentions. And since the "long-distance carrier" of our intentionality is the subconscious mind, we find our pure (conscious) intentions thwarted by our own stored conflicts.

To discipline the mind to focus is an important task; all forms of meditation foster this discipline. But the purification of the faculties of focus is essential for enlightenment. Regular practice of disciplines will cause the blockages to surface for healing, but they must be attended for movement to continue. Resistance will precipitate crisis if left unaddressed.

In the stilling of the mind, the screams of any enslaved awareness will emerge.

We hide our "inner cries" behind the clatter of five-sensory experience.

We are rapidly becoming the noisiest culture that has lived. This bodes poorly for the temple we claim to be creating.

It is important that we learn to be present to the moment. The great difficulty with our evolutionary pattern thus far is that we are so multi-faceted in consciousness that we are rarely 100% present to the life-experience around us.  

 The challenge we face in our lives on earth is to enter consciously into relationship with All That Is in its constancy and totality around us. 

All that we behold … all that we perceive is faceted light, crystallized consciousness. Matter is nothing other than a “slowed” perception of infinity. 

Our invitation is to join in the great return to singular consciousness. This occurs simultaneously and equally intrapersonally and socially. As we integrate self we are more in tune with others; as we learn to love others more authentically, we learn to love self. That is because we are facets of the same being.  

 The great price of trauma is the fragmentation of our intentionality and consciousness. Instead of intending only one outcome, the consciousness shaped by trauma superimposes its own intentions and leaves us with dual and oft opposed intents.  

Our greatest “self-sabotage” is simply a reflection of the tension between a “survival consciousness” that wants to “freeze” space and time to protect, and a “spiritual exigency” that says we are ever the masters of space and time perception. 

The experiences we manifest are reflections of the interactions of our Quantum states of consciousness. The question remains: Are we creating more subconsciously as programmed, or consciously as masters of our states of consciousness?

Traumatic experiences divide our focus. What was singular becomes dual. If left unresolved, we begin to accept duality as the “status quo.”  We have done so for over 750,000 years on this planet. Are we prepared to release our duality and the familiarity that it has bred?

The capacity to freeze our states of consciousness has been the “school” in which we have been evolving. The invitation is to explore and master our ability to consciously manifest reality. We have learned of our ability to master our states of consciousness through observation of our inherent skill at storing and encoding traumatic or overwhelming experiences. Now we learn to release ourselves from our own protective restraints. 

 In fear and defensiveness we have evolved. As we come to know ourselves as eternal beings, new options present themselves to us: for as we recognize the divinity within, we recognize death and finitude as illusions.

If Quantum physics is correct, and reality is a matter of perception, perhaps we never even left “Eden”!  

Attend to the “focal points” of your consciousness in a given day. How do you manifest your unlimited ability to create your day? Have you become routinely trapped within your own magnetic lattices of perception?  

We simply attract that which we bear. This truth is a wonderful diagnostician. 

There is no “harm” that can come to us once we are “safe” and “anchored” in eternity.  

The whole idea of “incarnation” by God was the notion that heaven has come home to US.  

Spiritual co-dependency remains as long as we are outwardly focused for the Source of our love.  

Let us examine different aspects of spiritual traumatization this month. The real opposition to spiritual advancement comes from “shame,” not “guilt.” “Guilt” refers to errant behaviors, while “shame” suggests an essential defectiveness within self: a matter of identity.  

“Shame” is another word for the arrest of consciousness. It is a cue that our eternal flow is paused. Such “pauses” are rightly disconcerting. The problem arises when we assume that the internal pain is a statement of defectiveness rather than a distortion arising to be addressed from a place of power.  

There is no judgment to be made about the fact that our parents, teachers, and ministers did not know how to teach us mastery over our states of consciousness. If we look carefully within them, we will see the wounded children and states of consciousness that were induced through their own traumas. Forgiveness is more easily achieved when we understand that pain simply arises from the multi-dimensionality or fragmentation of consciousness.  

Most of our effort to “forgive” arises out of our educated, conscious mind (7%); but the encoding of the traumas that leave us “stuck” with the negative feelings (when we think of these persons or events) arises from the subconscious (93%). The proof of “forgiveness” is established when we are no longer attached by a negative emotion to the person or event. Only then is forgiveness or “healing” truly achieved. 

Emotions, therefore, are the indicators of our attachments to space and time. These “bridges” connect us to places, persons, and experiences that can either assist or constrain us. Holding onto our anger, for instance, can give us a sense of power, but it also leaves us bound to the other person in a low-frequency state, usually originating in a past moment of pain. How often do we react to others from the trauma-induced perceptions that are not our truth?  

The denial, repression, and moral judgment of human emotion are all aspects of the same spiritual trauma that we are facing in our effort to rise in consciousness. 

The true effect of the “interventions” of the Divine Mind have been masked and reduced by our preoccupation with right and wrong: moral reductionism. 

Like the little child who is obsessed with doing the right thing to gain love, we have become over-focused on the morality of our behaviors, missing the loving relationship with a Creator who finds no need to judge the children s/he loves.   

When the identity has no grounding in love, behaviors become the measure of worth. We become “human doings” unaware of our human “being.” 

It never feels OK for us to just “be” when our existence has never been validated as precious in and of itself. 

After 750,000 years of storing traumatic encoding in the subconscious, we need to focus on a “healing” model, rather than a “moral failure” model. 

Most religious systems have utilized the minimalistic “moral failure” model, becoming preoccupied with the “moral development” stage of humankind, rather than moving us toward a more integrated transpersonal healing model.   

Under this new model, moral development is a stage that directs us toward the need and capacity to learn to master our states of consciousness. Morality provides a structure until we are mature enough to move to the level in which we examine the sources of our intentionality. 

In examining our deeper “intentionality,” we discover that our greatest blockages have most to do with intergenerational trauma patterns, and little to do with morality.

It is abusive to give people the impression that they are wholly, morally responsible for patterns that were traumatically induced.  There is a higher responsibility and a more loving way to address these forces within us. 

Be careful when you tell people that they “create” their realities. That is, in fact, what we do, but we do so both consciously and subconsciously.  To tell another that they can change their reality without teaching them the tools to address the subconsciously placed blockage is an exercise of your own ego and an abuse of a core metaphysical principle.  

To tell yourself that you should be doing something differently without examining the underlying source of the blockage is abusive to yourself. All “obstacles” to clear intentionality are opportunities for healing. These blockages all reside in memory.  

Learn to “backtrack” to the source of your defeated good intentions.  

If “salvation” from mere “moral failure” was not the highest intention of the Divine Mind, what higher goal might have been its “intention”?  

Perhaps we need to re-read the message of the Christ-consciousness from a frame of reference directed less toward the reparation of a moral breach, and directed more toward the intended goal: the “reunification” of human consciousness. 

As we judge ourselves, we judge others.

All of our sins, mistakes, traumas, and pain are invitations to intimacy with the Divine.  

The confrontations with our compulsions and obsessive thoughts are moments where we are bound up with realities other than our own. 

All of our traumas are opportunities for refining that which is so precious within. 

We must learn to think differently if we are to approach our life experiences without judgment and with openness to healing.  

The fundamental integrity, the fundamental divinity of the spirit of man has been masked by static states of consciousness – traumas acquired over these past 750,000 years. This “fall from integrated consciousness” has clouded our self-perception.  

Calling Christ the “New Adam” was a correct metaphor for announcing the coming of the healing paradigm that would return us to “Eden.”  

The conspicuous absence of an attitude of “moral judgmentalism” in Christ’s presentation declares the arrival of the new paradigm

The fact that Jesus went out of his way to associate with “sinners” and outcasts speaks loudly of his ministry to the traumatized. Moral judgment did not shape the unconditionality of his love. 

Look to the non-judgmental attitudes and examples of the great teachers of our times: Mother Teresa, Ghandi, the Dalai Lama … they mirror to us the compassion of the Divine Mind.  

In our judgments of others we merely announce our own constraints.  

I once asked a friend of mine, a Catholic Bishop rather renowned for his traditionalism, what the Catholic Church taught about reincarnation. His response was: “Well, actually we just don’t know; but, historically, we’ve felt obligated to make sure that people make the most out of this lifetime – that they take this lifetime seriously.” I appreciated his honesty. 

If evolution of the human bodymind were now admissible, would it not be inconsistent to deny the possibility of the soul’s evolution through lifetimes? 

To the Divine Mind that transcends space and time, the question of one lifetime or many becomes rather insignificant. It’s strictly a matter of human perception.  

Among the greatest dangers we are exposed to as human is the tendency to become addicted to our own beliefs. We then hold onto them even as they diverge from that larger Truth from which they were born. Religious addiction can prove a particularly challenging phenomenon. 

Emotions transcend space and time. This is an accurate statement with respect to all emotions. Excessive anger, for instance, is usually an indication that we are still trapped in an unresolved moment in space and time with another person or situation. Love, as well, can connect us to another person beyond the limitations of our five senses.  

One of the greatest proofs of the fluidity and power of the human mind is the fact that we, as a society, can convince ourselves to kill others and justify this action in the name of God. 

The very idea that we have taken upon ourselves the termination of the lives of others (capital punishment) … and done so before we have tried every means at our disposal to heal the breach in consciousness is unacceptable. I can understand how, when we knew of no other options for healing, we sought to “eliminate” the problem; but we have new options now.  Practice seeing the “wounded child” lurking behind the aberrant behaviors of others.  

Isaiah spoke of “setting the captives free.” Let us begin with the captivity manifested by our own subconscious patterns.  

There is a “superconscious mind” which connects all aspects of self.  

The invitation of life on earth is the challenge of mastering our states of consciousness. All of life’s crises are invitations to heal the self.  

The “self” is the nexus of all relationality. What happens to the self affects all relationality. 

The limitations of the five senses afford us the illusion of individuality and aloneness: a precious backdrop against which we may contrast our connectedness to All That Is. Through the contrast we deepen our appreciation of unity. 

As we free ourselves from attachments, we follow our inherent exigency to return home to the Oneness that embraces all. 

We are at play within the illusions of our own minds. We are moving from dreaming to waking … from subconscious to conscious manifestation. 

The first stage of all addiction/attachment is psychological.  The predisposition to medicate is fostered by the pain encoded from trauma/deficiency.  When we begin to accumulate such pain/deficiency as children/adolescents/adults, we become more susceptible to the effects of those drugs/experiences, which alleviate such pain.  Herein lies our earliest attachment to “medicating” experiences.

When we resolve the memories that left us feeling inadequate, incomplete … when we place within our systems authenticating messages about our true nature: our goodness, gentleness, lovable essence – then we hold no room for, no attraction to that which is “less than."  We are magnetic to that which we carry within. This is true of consciousness. 

The fact that we are magnetic to the patterns we carry,  mandates daily attention to the pains, patterns, and relationships we manifest.  Let us learn from our experience this day.

JUNE 18:

"Intelligent Infinity" can be encountered in even the most irrational of experiences.  There is nothing "created" that has escaped the Divine Mind.  It is a matter of our attending to experience in such a way that we recognize the "blessings" of our "encounters."

JUNE 19:

We were not born with self-esteem.  It was mirrored by our "first gods."  Sometimes, our first gods bore tremendous subconscious burdens which, unbeknownest even to themselves, they passed on to us - if only through our innocent imitations of them. Sometimes we need to release these old "parental tapes" which constrict us.

JUNE 20:

Within each of us there is a "still point" which remains despite all "external" adversity.  The key to happiness is in learning to more readily reach and maintain this higher awareness amidst the challenges of daily life.

JUNE 21:

Meditation is nothing more than looking into the void and becoming the truth.

JUNE 22:

Within the Infinite Mind, nothing is really new: all is remembrance.

JUNE 23:

Levity:  we are light.  Perhaps we take things too seriously.

JUNE 24:

Healing prayer is the ability to merge with the One Light and to move fluidly within the whole: to any place and time: to share that light wherever it is needed, reminding that estranged part of  its divine nature.

JUNE 25:

Picture in your mind, someone who needs your love and support.  Ask yourself what "color" they need at this moment.  The color you see in your mind - visualize yourself moving it through his/her body and surrounding him/her.  If makes a difference.

JUNE 26:

The colors of the sunset actually are images created in the beauty of your own mind.  How have you internalized beauty this day?

JUNE 27:

If the above is true, how do you bring beauty into the lives of others?  How do you see yourself?  Who sculpted you?

JUNE 28:

Creativity is our nature, our birthright.  If you feel stifled, look to the feeling and track back to the experience that imprinted you with a message that you were less than the Creator of your reality.

JUNE 29:

The purpose is the evolution of consciousness: of becoming a conscious creator.

JUNE 30:

Cycles of life:  spring time, rebirth.  Honor the natural cycles of your life and see in them the integrity of the Divine Mind and your proper place within it.