THE EARTH IS A SCHOOL

The earth is a school for everyone who lives on it.  We are all here to learn.  This is deep down  learning that touches the core of our being.  This is learning on the level of human consciousness.  It is happening all of the time.  If we are here, we are learning whether we are aware of it or not.  We have no choice in this.  It’s built into the situation of being alive.

The earth is a teaching machine.  Life on earth is perfect for promoting our learning.  It provides a level playing field that is ruled by a few consistent, unvarying principles.

They are: Every thought or action has consequences.  They spread like the ripples in a still pond expanding from the splash point of a stone.   We get our own consequences.

                  Everything is conscious. There are no animate and inanimate objects. All of “reality” is a sea of consciousness involved in a constant rolling boil of vibration.  The sea is self aware.

     

                  Everything is connected to everything else.  Separateness is a myth.  There is only the sea of consciousness that is made up of patterns within patterns of what we call “energy”.

Thoughts attract similar thoughts.  What I give out comes back.  What goes around comes around.  Think “boomerang”.

                  There are no “accidents”.  I have attracted everything that happens to me in my life with my thoughts, conscious or unconscious.

Only I can create in my experience.  No one can do anything to me without my involvement.  Nor can I create in the experience of anyone else.  There are no victims. I am safe.  We are all safe.

The “reality” that I know is perceptual and personal.  What I see as reality is a compelling total immersion visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, kinesthetic illusion. It is what my brain assembles from the vibratory inputs from my senses as they are filtered through my beliefs. If I change my thoughts (beliefs), I change my world.

The circumstances of my life are a constant printout of my dominant thoughts.  I can know what I believe by looking at what I am getting.  This is my report card.

My emotions are my guidance system.  I can tell instantly if a thought or action is in my best interest by whether it feels good or feels bad.  This is my compass.

And that’s it!  Class is in session.  Take your seat. 

                  

How To Get What You Want

This post is a distillation of my earlier one. I wrote it to serve as the introductory text for a workshop that I conduct called "Manifesting 101". It is a short outline, simplified for easy digestion, but it captures the gist of what I believe to be true about human reality. It is the quick start section of an operator's manual for human life.

We live in a vibratory universe. Everything is vibration or patterns of moving energy, even us. Physics tells us that matter is mostly empty space. What we call “reality” is the interpretation of vibrations that our senses detect. The “solid” reality that we perceive is an illusion much like a dream.

Thoughts are patterns of vibration that we emit. These patterns attract other similar patterns of energy. As more and more like thoughts clump together their power grows until they begin to appear in the experience, the physical world of the thinker. This is called manifestation.

Everything that we experience in our world began as thought. Manifestation is congealed or solidified thought that has been held in the mind of the thinker long enough.

What has been created by thought can be changed by thought.

You have the power to choose, change and direct your thoughts.

You can cause, attract or allow the manifestation of whatever you wish.

We, as beings, are patterns of energy. We are pure non-physical energy that has chosen to become physical on Earth for the purpose of having new experiences, making new choices and experiencing joy.

Our purpose on Earth as well as in non-physical realms is to conceive desires, manifest them and experience the joy of their creation. This is our only job.

No matter what we do, we cannot get it wrong.

Every experience causes us to learn, or expand, and to find desires for improvement. We are desire creators. Our “work” will never be done.

We are eternal beings. We cannot “die”. The part of us that has chosen to be physical simply drops out of this manifestation when we have had enough of it. We don’t go anywhere. There is nowhere else to go.

Time and space are human constructs. There is only one place which we can call “here” or “is”. The time is always “now”. We have no choice other than to be here now. The only choice we have is whether we will focus our attention and realize and inhabit the immediacy of the moment or not

You are a powerful creator. You are creating your reality from moment to moment and you always have been.

Where you are is perfect, exactly as it is.

Your dreams and desires are perfect. You can bring them into manifestation by focusing your thoughts. What you pay attention to is what you get. If you keep your attention pointed in the direction of your desires, they will show up in your life.

There are simple tools and techniques to help you to do just that.

I can teach you those tools.

How Can Thoughts Have Power?

How can something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought have the power to affect the seemingly solid physical world?

The answer lies in the word “seemingly”. Both the apparent fleeting evanescence of thought and the apparent substantiality of physical reality are just that, apparent. When we look more closely, thoughts and stones are more alike than they are different.

When we delve into physics, we find that the atom that we once visualized as a miniature solar system of tiny discrete BBs whizzing about in concentric orbits in empty space has been reconceptualized. It is now seen as arrangements of packets of energy called quanta. The subatomic particle has morphed into a probability wave. We can’t pin it down. We can know its mass or its location but not both. As our instruments become more powerful and precise, the subject appears fuzzier and more complex. It threatens to disappear entirely into a fog of noise rather than a clear picture of anything. Our subject/object mentality is dissolving before our eyes. We find energetic patterns in constant flux and nothing else.

The universe is vibrational in nature. It consists entirely of patterns of energy. There is nothing “solid” about the physical world that we perceive. Solidity exists only in our perceptions. Unbelievable as it may seem, we are making it all up, moment by moment by interpreting the vibrations that impinge on our senses and declaring these interpretations to be “reality”.

Thoughts are subtle patterns of energy. They are vibrations of certain frequencies. Humans, as beings or centers of consciousness are creators and emitters of thoughts. These thought vibrations attract other thoughts of a similar frequency of vibration. As like attracts like, a growing mass of vibratory energy builds up. Greater and greater power accumulates until the mass of concentrated thought congeals into what we call “matter”. This is called “manifestation”. Thought energy has crossed the threshold of “reality”. Now we have our stone. It all started with a thought.

The same thing is true of the universe. It all started with a thought.

The Mistake

The source of most, if not all, all human problems is based on a misunderstanding. Normally, we perceive the world as consisting of discrete entities. There is you. There is me. There is a dog. There is a rock. There is an oak tree, and so on ad infinitum. We have learned to perceive a world of separateness.

This is a mistake.

Reality, if I may be so bold as to use that word, consists of consciousness or spirit. There is only one of these. It is inclusive of all entities as well as all time and all space. It exists in the eternal now, the only time that is or can be.

I am this. You are this. my cat is this. The planet is this. The universe is this. There is no alternative because this is all there is. No alternative is possible.

The ramifications of this realization are immense. There is no distinction between animate and inanimate if there is nothing but consciousness / spirit. All humans are not merely brothers and sisters but, in fact, the same self. If I hurt you, I hurt me. To quote the Beatles song, "I am you and you are me and we are all together". Now, expand the scope of this idea and realize that it encompasses all that is! This is the basis of a true ethics.

The challenge with attaining this realization is that, being essentially spiritual, it can be accessed primarily through feelings, emotions, intuitions - what we humans call "heart". The intellect can process details, after the fact, but it cannot grasp the global reality of this core truth. That means that language, as a tool of communication and a child off the intellect, is relatively useless in any attempt to share this insight. It must be found, discovered, known in the silence of one's own self.

This realization of oneness provides the way out the horror show of history to a new maturity in human consciousness. Eventually, all humans will attain this realization and a new epoch will begin.

The Propogation of Joy

Any activity that is infused with feeling contributes to the consciousness of the entire universe. When emotion drives a cherished thought, the core consciousness of the universe ripples. Tangibles manifest. The world is changed.

I am thinking about art making. This is an inherently pleasurable activity that engages intense involvement with the manifest world and with human creativity. It is a non self-conscious, more or less ego free, activity that allows the artist to become a conduit for deep levels of knowing. It is grounded in the moment and taps the full range of human abilities from the physical to the philosophical. Its background flavor is joy. The loving energy wave that it emits ripples across the universe.

Someone once told me that the world is beautiful only because there are yogis constantly meditating on the beauty of the world in caves in the Himalayas. An artist making art is, in spirit, one of those yogis. And, the world is beautiful.

Incidentally, every human is an artist. Everything that I have said about art making could just as easily apply to lovemaking or to any number of human activities. Whenever emotion drives a deeply held belief, the underlying consciousness of the universe is shifted. It's automatic, and constant.

I have chosen to emphasize the loving side of the emotional spectrum but the tremendous force of fear coupled with hateful, destructive beliefs shifts the consciousness of the universe as well. And. in that case, the world is hideously ugly.

We humans have the ability to choose our thoughts and observe and tune our emotions. With some effort, we get to choose the ripples we contribute to the whole. Why not choose those life sustaining activities that feel good? The feeling good is our tip off. That is how we can tell what kind of vibes we are giving off. It is a win win situation. We have fun and the universe gets nudged in the direction of loving kindness.

Why not choose life?

Reality Is An Artifact Of Perception

As the title reads: reality is an artifact of perception. The reality that I am speaking of here is the reality perceived through or by the human senses. If one were able to adopt an absolute view, that seemingly solid reality inhabited by humans would be "seen" as a constantly shifting field of interrelated vibratory patterns. This field is holographic in nature. It is conscious. It exists now and only now.

Consciousness did not arise from life. Rather it is the other way around. "Life" is a feature of consciousness along with time, space and matter. It is an effect of human perception. We humans do not live in the universe. The universe lives in us. It is our creation. It is malleable by thought.

The universe is our sandbox. We play with ideas here and reap their consequences. The sandbox is the laboratory of being. We constantly refine our consciousness by shoving eternal concepts around in the sand and inventing new combinations of them. In this way, consciousness evolves toward greater sensitivity and more refined articulation of its essential nature which is loving kindness. Humans are the self-conscious tendrils of all of consciousness. Our job is to allow consciousness to know itself. This is all done for the joy of it and has no purpose beyond experiencing bliss.

Two Quotes By Physicists

I encountered a quote today that triggered my memory of another, similar one. Both statements were made by twentieth century physicists.

Konrad Finagle said: "Space is what keeps everything from happening in the same place."

Richard Feynman said: "Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once."

Einstein referred to these as "spacetime", a single continuum.

I am not going anywhere with this. I'm in pondering and study mode. I just thought that I'd pass it on.