Thinking about the Possibilities of Choice When Selecting Four-Dimensional Earth-Based Hosts

I've been thinking. Since that last episode, "Giants, Elongated Heads, Subterranean Cities, and Other Human Life Forms," my mind has been processing the patterns that we Spiritual Beings have used for Earth-based four-dimensional hominid forms as vehicles for our experiential adventures. From that ruminating that I've been doing I have devised a little bit of a theory. In fact, I have two theories that I'd like to share with you. Ready? Here we go. I hope that you are able to follow me on this.
     It has been revealed to me that many, many forms have been created for us to use as vehicles for experiential learning. Four-dimensional forms are but one set of possibilities for our use and amusement. Earth-based forms are but another sub-set of the four-dimensional set of possible choices. I've noticed that Journeyman Paul has allowed me awareness of and connection to a number of Earth-based forms that he has used for his own growth process. Among this group I've found a way of ordering the humanoid vehicles according to a pattern--a kind of hierarchical pattern that has suddenly become 'obvious' to me.
     Each experimental form of Earth-based human host that Journeyman Paul has used has provided his Spirit Being--his Monad--with vehicles for immersions into increasingly denser levels of devolution. There seems to be a pattern in which each "successive" host bodymind has an increasingly limited capacity for and use of Spiritual energy. This pattern seems to manifest itself in life experiences in which Spiritual knowledge, Spiritual wisdom and Spiritual powers are less able to come through and are, therefore, less present in day-to-day thoughts and actions. It would appear that the deeper the descent into a existence imbued with ignorance, fear, emotional chaos, physical cloudiness, the deeper the sense of isolation and insecurity we are challenged with. These are the resultant effects of successful use of the Illusion of Separation. That is, the more we are able to feel separated from our loved ones, from the comfort and freedoms of our Spirit World, from the unlimited possibilities given to us by our Divine Source, the more we are able to challenge and test our abilities to bring Spirit into these dense forms. The deepest depths of devolution, that is, of perceived separation from our Divine Nature, the more difficult our test--the more difficult it is to remember and re-access use of our Spiritual powers. Thus, the greater the sense of accomplishment when we are able to regain awareness and use of our True Nature and our True Self.
     The way I see it (today) the order or sequence of four-dimensional Earth-based host possibilities can be ordered as such:

1. Angels, guides, devas and daemons. The angelic kingdom is able to accomplish amazing things but they are limited in their freedom as they are confined to performing in service of the Higher Will. They do not possess free will.

2. Gods and goddesses. Memorialized in our species' legends and mythologies, so-called gods and goddesses can perform acts and services of amazing creativity as they possess, for the first time, free will. They are also the first kingdom to feel the confines of Duality--which include the laws of Dharma (cosmic law and order), Karma, Yin and Yang, Harmony and Balance. The gods get to know intimately both the nature of cause and effect and consequence.

3. Giants and other variants. The races of giants and other experiments with variations in physical size and form have usually been quite limited in emotional and physical range and ability. The severity of the test of finding one's True Self and then being able to use those informations, wisdoms, and powers has been negligible.

4. First "civilizations." Atlantis, Nazca, the first Nile Valley creator class, were able to create astounding monuments of functional and educational art like pyramids and crystal-powered tools but still lacked emotional experience--as well as the burden of the full weight of deep emotional capacity.

5. The Neandertal strain of human hominid that inhabited Earth before and concurrent with Homo sapiens sapiens may have been an experiment in heavier, denser, less materialistic, less creative, less intellectual human. They were emotional and fear-based but ultimately less prone to sublimate their fear, anxiety and insecurity into thoughts or actions of anger and violence. Whether or not the results of use of the Neandertal form provided successful evolution (or devolution) for our kind is debatable but ultimately moot:  as hosts they undoubtedly provided us with experiences and information.

6. The "current" Earth-based human form that we have been fondly using during the approximately 60,000 year span in which it has served as a viable host and superlative test for our Spiritual energy, Homo sapiens sapiens, is a very devolved species in that it uses self-centered, fear-based, warring attitudes to provide its experiential information sources. At their most spiritual, as in the Australian culture known as "Aborigines," we can walk with a light footprint using great Joy and Love, ever conscious and compassionate of the Great Circle of Life from which we come--of which we are a part. At its most "separated" and un-Self-conscious we can find ourselves ignorant and blind to all spiritual knowledge, wisdom and power, thinking and acting instead according to externally-reinforced programs that induce herd mentality and conformity to patterns and heightened states of anxiety, anger, paranoia, and self-destructive behaviors.

     To my mind, the human culture in which I currently find myself--what we call "21st Century Western civilization"-- certainly presents what feels like the most difficult of circumstances to try to climb out of much less rise above. There may be more complicated, more deeply ensnaring forms than this one--I'm sure there are--but I have no knowledge of them. Yet.  

The second hypothesis I came up with regarding other Earth-based host options for our Spirit-based 'species' to use was created to better demonstrate or explain--through one possible scenario--how to visualize each and every form that the Spirit World's Architects of Imagination and Separation have devised for our experiential choosing. But, first, I have to make you aware of the existence of a place or event in the Spirit World that is called "The Ring." The Ring is the place that we individual Monads are asked to meet with our team of "actors," guides and councillors in order to choose our 'next' incarnation. We show up at The Ring for the expressed purpose of viewing the possible choices we can make for our next four-dimensional incarnation.
     If one can comprehend a Spirit World that exists "outside" of our space-time continuum, one might evasion The Ring as a train station on which the platform you 'stand' offers an infinite number of space and time lines all emanating from it in an infinite number of directions. Standing there you could choose to jump into any one of the infinite number of "cars" available to you on an infinite number of directional paths. You might choose a line that takes you to a life on any of a number of planets. You might choose to use a host from a huge selection of many host forms, with many time periods to choose from that might include many event scenarios of varying possibilities, as well as many variations of mental, emotional, and/or physical complexities. The choices are boggling and often overwhelming.
     For example, you might choose to jump into a timeline of a "12th Century" medicine man in a tribe on the island of Java--a tribe that happened to practice cannibalism. You might choose to jump into the lifeline of the wife of a "19th Century" British shipping magnate to see what that feels like. You might choose to jump into the bodymind of a person that becomes an Atlantean bio-architect. Or you might choose to invest your energy as a Spirit Guide that works within the Earth's animal kingdom. You might even make the choice to experience the experience of being a Neandertal--perhaps someone who dies of infection at a very young age. Or your curiosity might get the better of you and you might choose to use the bodymind of a serial killer or a wife beater or a blood-thirsty soldier among Genghis Kahn's rape, pillage, and plundering Mongal horde. The possibilities are, as I've said, infinite, unlimited.
     Using this second "Platform to Infinite Choice" theory, it may makes sense to you that once a class of human form has finished--has died out or been exterminated--it is still available for use. Once this timeline has played out for Homo sapiens sapiens, the species' timeline will still be available for use by our Spiritual species. One can simply "jump in" at any point on the time continuum of that species' or kingdom's "life span." Journeyman Paul could, for example, choose to spice things up by jumping into the "car" (body) of a prostitute in the Golden Age of Athens or a nun in 20th Century Albania. Just because a body has been used once it does not mean that your own investiture in that same body would not create a totally new timeline and, with it, a totally new version of life for that human host: including new body chemistry, new psychological profile, a new name, all resulting in new family dynamics, and even new ripple effects upon the village, culture, world and universe within which that Soul is now traveling. The differences may be subtle, but each difference, each shift in direction is cumulative and compounds upon itself to cause ever increases divergences from the other version(s) of that body mind's use(s).
     There are always many, many other forms and other timelines to choose from for use for those who wish to continue exploring the deepest depths of devolution, the greatest "distances" of "separation" from God and our Divine Source. From that fictional train platform you have freedom to choose any body (vehicle) from any time and any place. The only rule is that once you have committed to bringing that being into the realm of Creation with your Spiritual Force driving you must stay with it until it is no longer able to accommodate and sustain your life-force.  

While I've called these two theories "theories"--which connotes that they have little or no supporting facts or corroboration--I know for fact that they are both true and accurate. If only for me, the creative act of forming and articulating these theories has in fact rendered them manifest. That is, they exist, now, because I created them. I am, after all, just as much a co-creative part of the Divine Oneness of all things as you or Sol or Buddha or the Higgs-Boson particle.
    And, so, this information is, once again, yours to take or leave, to use as you see fit. Maybe you'll modify or expand it. That would be awesome! Let me know what part in this creative process you choose. I am curious. I am ever so curious . . . .

Synchronicity, 19, and Art.

Synchronicity can be defined as an event that occurs that is so personally charged, so meaningful and personally relevant to one's current learning, that one cannot help but think of it as "more than a coincidence." A synchronous event occurs because an attraction created by the individual's Soul Plan is being realized--and has been recognized.
     If you will remember, The Soul Plan is that map or matrix of potentialities, possibilities, and probabilities that have been given energy by the Monad and its team of 'actors,' guides, and counsellors for the expressed purpose of inciting growth experiences in particular pre-ordained themes and issues. The desired goal in the creation of the Soul Plan is for growth in Self-discovery, Self-awareness and Self-realization.
     The Soul (or "Causal Body" as I sometimes call it) is a temporary template of information which tries to give light and power to certain "test items" that the Monad and its team have put into "the program" for this incarnation. The synchronous event occurs when certain information and experiences appear that seem too appropriate to be coincidental because they seem to be exactly what that particular individual requires (or would most desire) in order to make its next leap in expanded awareness and growth.
     My impetus for the creation of this blog entry came from a particular synchronous event that just occurred in my own life. It is an event that has proved quite provocative for my personal growth as it has helped me to assess and learn about my progress on several issues that I had been working with for a long time. It is my belief that the appearance of this provocative information occurred precisely as a result of the energy coming from The Plan that Journeyman Paul and his Team put in place before he decided to invest his Spiritual energy into the Drew Fisher experience.
     For a few months now I've been aware of and attracted to a film by Josh Radnor entitled Liberal Arts. Described as "a coming of age story involving an unlikely romance," it is about "a ... 35-year-old [named] Jesse [who returns to] his college alma mater [to honor a retiring professor who was once his mentor], where he's blindsided by nostalgia and a plucky sophomore named Zibby." I was initially attracted to this film by two main themes which had recurred in my own life: that of romantic feelings for people years younger than me and the other of the nostalgia of "the good old days at college." I have dealt with both themes quite thoroughly through my writing (Forbidden Love and Chartres blues, respectively) and had, I thought, quite adequately expunged my soul and psyche of these themes. Yet, I was curious to see how someone else had chosen to deal with these same themes in their own life, in their own way. 
    When I finally watched the film this week, I was fascinated to see how much of the film's themes, scenery, and emotional content felt familiar. And I am grateful for the synchronous gems of some other themes that I encountered which I had not expected. One of these unexpected gems, in particular, revolves around an ongoing discussion I've had with peers and age mates with regards to the all-too common feeling that in our minds we still think of ourselves as young. For me I've constantly felt, mentally, that I am still 20 years old. 20 was the "magical" age at which the world of possibilities was so large and exciting: so many people to meet, career choices to choose from, courses to take, books to read, concerts and other events to attend, places to travel to. And, of course, at age 20 it seems that every person out there is among the billions in the running for serious (and frivolous) romantic relationship. At 20 you possess youthful vigor, elasticity, and a sense of invincibility. It is truly the 'prime' of human life. 
    In Liberal Arts the protagonist's mentor professor, now in his 60s, confesses that he has passed his entire life thinking that he is still 19 years old--that everything, and everyone was a possibility. The jewel of wisdom he adds is that he has had the mental maturity and discipline to keep it his youthful alter ego in check. That reaffirms a feeling that I've come up with:  that it is the wisdom and control coming from Higher Mind that keeps us from doing things that the Ego/Personality would have us do--and that this is only made possible by becoming open to the Inner Voice of Wisdom and from pursuing a relationship with and dedication to that Voice.
     Relationship is a tool we co-created. It is a cornerstone of duality and, therefore, of Cosmic Creation. Relationship is based on the Illusion of Separation. In order to best use relationship as an experiential and growth tool we must buy into a belief system in which all things appear Separate from their Divine Source and, therefore, must be separate from one another. We created relationship with "other people" and "other things" that are supposedly outside ourselves in order to be able to find and see our selves from an outside perspective! These "things" that are supposedly "outside" of our Selves are really just reflective tools--mirrors. They are meant to be used for us to see our selves from another, a different, perspective. They can also serve to help remind us that these bodies and senses that we're using are temporary, they're just vehicles, and that these infinite numbers of "outside" perspectives could serve us just as well. Journeyman Paul could just as easily be using that body or that person or that nationality or that point in time for my vehicle, as my base for conscious learning. Journeyman Paul just happened to choose--and continues to choose--this "Drew Fisher" point of view as his experiential gathering point.
     Some of us are better at using the relationship tool than others. Relationships with film, books and other art forms help nourish and feed our internal dialogues, but they are still "outside" triggers for awareness and reflection. Some of us have very active and healthy relationships with or "within" our selves--and with our imaginations. In our own creative acts we can observe still more. But it is through interpersonal relationships that we humans seem to place a lot of emphasis and import--which is natural, as interpersonal relationships provoke tremendous emotional responses and confront us with many of our most demanding mental challenges. The fun in interpersonal relationships lies in the sparring match that occurs between two individuated Sparks of the Divine, each of whom has invested their energies and attentions into the Game of Illusions within the context of the human experience.
     But, let me remind you:  Every time we think we are falling in love with another person we are really just finding comfort, solace, and affirmation of the value and viability of a part of our selves--often a part that we thought was weird or different or unlikable or unworthy of being accepted or loved. That is why the initial phases of relationship--of "falling in love"--are blissful and high: you are enjoying the validation of your own self. It is when the relating begins to reveal parts of your self that you are not so pleased with--usually because they are undeveloped and/or have remained hidden or you have been in denial of them--that is when a relationship starts to "go sour." 
     The key is to approach any and every relationship--whether it be with a book, a movie, a work of art, a house, a job, or a person--as if that thing is the same kind of receptacle and vehicle of all that is possible of life's infinite possibilities that you are. Every single thing is equally a reflection and source of infinite Beauty (and its opposite, if you so choose to see these), of infinite Truth (and its opposite, if you so choose to empower and label it as such), of infinite Joy (and its opposite if you are so disposed to see it that way), and of infinite Love.
     Though I often go about my day unconsciously thinking and feeling that I am 20 years old--which is a wonderful, liberating place to come from--I am now wise enough to realize that the vehicle I occupy is offering me new and wonderful lessons through its limitations, through its deterioration. The lenses of opportunity are just as wide and open if one choose to change the focus and/or direction a little. The human body is also a vehicle for deep relationship with ones self and ones Self. There are myriad tools in the Earth School experience to use for gaining greater awareness of one's true self, one's Divine Nature, one's connection to everything within the Oneness of all things. There are also wonderfully entertaining occasions which allow us insights into the Illusions that we are using while in the Creation duality. Learning to use the Illusions in the ways we want to use them instead of letting it seem as if we are being used by them can be quite enjoyable--as well as empowering. 
    The other theme from Liberal Arts that is of particular interest to me deals with my struggle to comprehend why "high art"--or, rather, the art we often extoll the most in our Western society--seems to come from those blessed with both leisure and privilege. Is art really only available from affluence and ease? I've heard praised the merits of art that comes from oppressed societies or from "tortured souls" and yet where do these people find the time and resources to create their art? Music, painting, sculpture, writing, film-making, fashion, even architecture, home decoration and landscaping seem to all be directly related to class and privilege. 
     In Liberal Arts, a professor of classic literature whom the protagonist quite reveres serves as the mouthpiece for a theory that these rich white men (the British Romantics) had the fortune of privilege--of having the time and luxury of materials to use to write down their thoughts at or just after particularly high moments of transcendent experience. This theory implies, of course, that all humans experience the occasion of these moments of "transcendence"--which will here posit are encounters with their own Voices from the Spirit World--which then means that were we all to be so blessed with materials and time, we could all be creating such "high art." I also posit that we all are in fact creating "art" and "artistic" works in our own personal, "artful" ways at every moment of every day--whether it be in movement (like dance and/or athletics), language (like speech and writing), food prep, song , appearance (fashion), caring (charity), or whatever work you pursue. Because any act is a creative act--is an act of bringing something into the world where "it" did not before exist--we are all creators and, therefore, all artists. "High art" is merely the preserved form of an expression of creativity to which we can all identify and see our selves. Most of our personal creativity is, unfortunately, not able to be preserved in an art form because it is utilitarian and serves the perceived needs of our selves, our families, or our communities.
     Creativity and creation are as natural, effortless--and unavoidable--to us as is breathing or thinking. We do it because of who we are, of where we come from, of where we derive our energy and force. Synchronicity is the creative way that our Higher Self plants stimuli into the four dimensional playing field for our Ego/Personality to notice--for the Ego to be humbled by reminders of its true origin, its Divine Source.  
     It is a wondrous thing to be aware of the occasion of the appearance of synchronous events. I now see almost every event, every thing, every encounter for what it is: my Soul's attraction or co-creation of a piece of information that will help me with the continued reminder of and rejoinder to my own inner Beauty, Truth, Joy, and Love, of my own Inner Divine. I hope that you, too, are feeling the Joy and liberating effect of a return to awareness of your Creative Power, your Divine Wisdom, your Higher Understanding.

Giants, Elongated Heads, Subterranean Cities, and Other Human Forms on Earth

Rumors abound. Sensationalist YouTube videos are abundant. And, yes, there is evidence--though the evidence is shoddy and fragmented--and scientists are often unwilling to make room for anomalous artifacts in their neat and tidy theoretical models because they do not fit, they disturb the comforting order of their little universes. Still, the fact is, many, many oral traditions have passed down claims that there have been other intelligent human life forms on planet Earth before (or even at the same time as) our own.
     Most of these stories recall encounters with other (often "highly advanced") societies or races. Humanoid. Like our own. These encounters obviously left impressions--probably because of their startling (or disrupting) differences (which were usually evolutionary or technological in nature though sometimes physical).
     We all know of the now-extinct Neandertal strain (which, it turns out, were both interbred into Homo sapiens sapiens and starved out by their faster, fleeter, omnivorous, ground-dwelling cousins) as there is ample physical evidence of their existence, including skeletal remains, graves, dwelling places, and their art. We question the existence of intelligent humanoid species before our own because of the lack of a continuous trail of recorded history or a lack of physical evidence when in fact it is probably due more to our anthropocentric and Judeo-Christian and/or species-centric conceit. They're not here now. They failed. It is our turn now. So, why should we care? Right?
     It is scientific fact that the Earth has been its own physical entity or "planet" for about 4.54 billion years. (Our Universe is 13.8 billion years old.) It is scientific fact that the Earth has been hospitable to anaerobic life for about 3.5 billion years and to aerobic or oxygen-based biological life for about 3 billion years (between 3.2 and 2.4 billion years). It is also scientific fact that our current species has been organizing itself into agricultural-based "civilizations" for about 12,000 years--which is but a blip in the lifespan of our Host Mother. One quarter of a ten millionth of a percentage point of the Earth's lifespan. A blip. A blink. A burp.
     You have probably heard of the Earth's "tectonic plates." Tectonic plates are the kind of continental plates or 'islands' that move over the surface of the planet, floating on the molten magma that lies miles beneath the Earth's surface. Swirling pockets of cooling and heating currents of magma are responsible for the movements of the massive plates over them. Over centuries and millennia the plates move, drifting apart and then back into each other according to temperature variations deep within the planet's core which then create currents in the magma just beneath the cooler surface plates. Think of it like the film that forms over the top of a pot of soup that is cooking over the stove. Yes, they are that malleable, that moveable.
     Scientists have physical evidence for the patterns of movement of the Earth's tectonic plates over the past 750 million years. During this time there have been several versions of supercontinents breaking up and drifting apart into fragments or "continents" only to reconverge and then break up again. Most recently (around 200 million years ago) our seven continents came from the supercontinent Pangaea, which came about from the convergence of many variations of two previous supercontinents,  Gwondana and Laurasia. Previous to that, one supercontinent called Pannotia existed from about 600 to 540 million years ago. The first supercontinent for which we have physical evidence, which scientists call Rodinia, started breaking up about 700 million years ago.
     My point is, over even the mere 750 million years in which the planet's surface has been stable enough to support land based life--which is but 17 per cent of Earth's age--the 12,000 years our species has displayed elevated, "civilized" behavior is still barely over one one thousandth of a percentage point of this time. That's still a lot of time for many other species and civilizations to have had their time in the sun.
     I am sure that Journeyman Paul has had experiences on Earth using life forms other than our current version of humans. I know, personally, of one of Journeyman Paul's incarnations on Earth in which he participated in a race of "giants" that populated high, dry places on the planet and who left the planet mostly by their own choice. They had very rich mental lives, very strong connections to extra-terrestrial life and the Spirit World but lacked development in language and emotional depth and diversity. This is the only pre-Homo sapiens sapiens experience for which I have direct knowledge--though the Atlantean world of which I wrote may have been that of another race or species. I have read of many others.
     Like the race of "giants" and the "lost civilization of Atlantis," many of the other experiments with sentient four-dimensional Earth-based life in which we Spirits participated before the current 12,000 year blink of an eye were variations on the dual theme of varied mental facility with the expanded, though often murky and debilitating experiment with the emotional side of things.
     I believe that the reason that Homo sapiens sapiens has been given such little evidence of other human forms is for the opportunity of diving to the deepest depths of Creation's Illusions of Duality. With this sense of uniqueness, can come deeper use of the Illusions of Separation, Isolation, Aloneness, Abandonment, and Lack. By convincing ourselves that we are alone, that we have been abandoned, we have been able to create a mindset of assertive self-protection--the attitude that everything on the planet is ours to use, that we have the right to take and use anything and everything we find because there is no one else that is going to do it (if we don't). As I mentioned recently, many masters have revealed information suggesting that the current human experience that we have created on the Earth School is one of the most challenging, difficult, versions for individuated experiential learning that we have ever created--that it immerses one far deeper into the veils of the Illusions than perhaps any other version yet devised. The previous experiments in four-dimensional emotion-based experiential learning have not been as deep, have been far less emotional. The emotional tar pits we have devised in Homo sapiens sapiens have been the most ensnaring, stickiest muck yet devised. It's genius! It's a master work!
     I also believe that the reason that we humans have been "given" some (though only fragmentary) oral and physical evidence of the existence/presence of alternate humanoid versions on planet Earth is so that we have a small but subtle reminder that there is much more "out there" that we can and probably will never know while traveling in these human bodies. We have become trapped in a myopic vision of life and of our role on our host planet and our place among her "children." Because of the challenges of the tests of immersion into the deepest depths of the Illusions of physical/material "reality," we have been given hints and reminders that this is just a game, that the human experience is but brief and fleeting, and that there are limitless variations and possibilities out there. Also, the smatterings of evidence of other life forms similar to our own serves as a gentle nudge to remind us that these bodies are merely experimental hosts, that they are fragile. Also, these archeological finds and mythic oral traditions are made available to us in order to test our beliefs, our concepts of place and time, our place in the relevance to all things Cosmic. Even the smallest hint of a possibility that there have been other human life forms--other civilizations that have come and gone, had somehow thrived and then failed, (self-destructed like ours?)--is also meant to help keep us humble in the knowledge that others before us--perhaps even "better" or (heaven forbid!) "more advanced" than us--had been here and had failed despite their intelligence or other skills and positive evolutionary traits.
     This last concept is important here. Among the many experiments the Spirit World has put forth to be used as experiential vehicles none has been flawless, none has been superior to any others. Some have been created with greater mental or telepathic capacity, others with greater physical strength, others with different numbers of appendages or more variety in their means for movement, travel and/or mobility, still others with greater and lesser degrees and ranges of emotional capacity. Our current form, Homo sapiens sapiens, is very much anchored within a perceptual filter that is heavily skewed toward physical and emotional information. The mind is as nimble and agile as other forms, but the increased capacity for physical and emotional skill development has quite naturally created a diversion of some attention and energies to those "newly" enhanced or developed skill areas. Mental skills that we might be capable of (remember: we use only five to ten per cent of our brain) like telepathy, telekinesis, levitation, and mental manipulation of physical matter are (as yet) undeveloped. We haven't given them the time and attention necessary to develop and master them like we have our bodies and emotions. And, as we all know, having a brain/filter that is so aware and attuned to so-called "physical" and "emotional" information can be quite distracting from the spiritual information and energy that is equally available but to which we are not so primarily aligned and attuned. Homo sapiens sapiens is an experiment in learning how to master a balance or dexterity among use of matter, emotional, mental and spiritual.
     At present time we are working hard on the emotional and physical aspects of our perceptual reality. But, again, these are very murky, very dense realms to be working in. It seems that this experiment in four-dimensional emotion-based experience may be throwing us a final test in the form of the challenges facing us due to human-created climate change. If we can figure out how to survive the Earth's fever, we may have a chance to further explore the potential for balance and mastery of dexterity within the complete context of physical/material and emotional within the mental and spiritual. Are we up for it? I think some of us are. And many of us will willingly try again in "future" times. Or not. The 21st Century Earth School experience is a tough one. Many monads will probably choose easier, less complex, "safer" venues and forms for their experiential adventuring. And I for one won't blame them. Will you?

Helios and His Pleaidean Dance Partner

Helios is the name revealed by many masters, in many writings, that is given to the "logos" or conscious being that ensouls our sun, whom we call Sol. Yes, everything--every single thing--born, shaped, formed, thought, or imagined has an animus--is imbued, filled, or occupied by a 'soul,' by a spark of The Divine. We could, if we wanted, take the time (eternity) to find the names of every little thing. But, let's not.
    Helios is the name of the soul animating our sun. Like humans and many other conscious beings playing within the Cosmic Game of Taoist duality, Helios has a twin, another complementary Monad, with whom 'he' awakened during his birth into the Illusions of Creation. This is event is what we call the First Individuation. Helios and his "twin flame" have each chosen stars for their current incarnate forms. Helios' twin, called Vesta, ensouls one of the seven stars of the Pleaidean star cluster.
     Like Monads that choose the human experience for their educational adventures, the star twins are using their forms, their illusory senses of "separation," and their "independent" travels for the gathering of information, the gathering of experiences, the testing of their varying levels of Self-awareness, Self-understanding and Self-realization. As stars, they are in a perpetual dance that involves circling away from one another, feeling the difference distance can make in their Self-concept and Self-confidence. Helios and Vesta are dancing the same cosmic dance that all Twin Flames dance when they have chosen to enlist and participate in Cosmic Creation. Thus, the dance of Sol, the body or vehicle of the Monad called Helios, is also a reflection of, a metaphor for, the same dance that two souls do when choosing the Earth School human experience for their incarnate adventures.
     Sol and Vesta are dancing a dance that comes full circle, only to start again, every 23,000 to 27,000  years. (The actual time period of the "Solar Precession" is unknown due to the unaccounted for effects on speed due to gravitational effects of other celestial entities--and for the assumed slower speed at apoasis as compared to the assumed faster speeds as the sun is closer to Vesta. An average of 24,000 years is accepted though some "experts" will throw 25,772 Julian years at you or the 25,920 year "Great Year," while some will even go as low as 23,000.)
     Toril and Paul's dance has brought them together for several Earth-based lifetimes during this cycle of Sol's movement away from his twin. 13,500 years ago, Helios/Sol left the comfort and strength of Vesta's side. 13,500 years ago human civilizations had been experiencing a high point in the form of Egyptian, Atlantean, Nazcan, Australian Aboriginal societies (and more). Since that time, we have seen a gradual and insidious descent in human consciousness and human capability, all due to the sun's movement away from its place of greatest Truth, Joy, Beauty, and Love, that is, at the side of its Twin.
     As humans we will also experience diminished spiritual flow when feeling separated or ignorant of the existence of our twins. To have one's twin in one's life is incredibly powerful for the constant beam of Love bashing away unconsciously, trying to diminish the Ego-built cloud of ignorance, constantly sending a reminder to the unconscious, to the soul, to the Higher Self, of the presence and power of Spirit, of true Love, Higher Joy, Higher Truth, and Higher Beauty.
     During the next 10,500 to 12,420 years (depending on which source you want to listen to), as Earth travels within the entourage of Helios/Sol back towards reunion with Vesta, Earth and its occupants will experience the effects of a stronger more insistent radiance of higher consciousness, of Higher Joy, Truth, Beauty and Love, because of the Higher Joy, Truth, Beauty and Love Helios will be exuding as he closes in on his one True Love. At the same time, Helios and Vesta still have "issues" to deal with; they still have growth and learning to accomplish. They still have work to do on their respective roads to Self-realization. They may not even be any more evolved than you or I, only differently evolved. I've heard it told to me many times that the choice to incarnate into the Earth School for one's growth and learning is one of the most difficult because the emotion-based four-dimensional human experience is one of the murkiest "distances" that we co-creators of Cosmic Creation have come up with while using the Illusions of Duality and particularity the Illusion of Separation. The tests that the earth-based human experience offer--the degree of ignorance, the degree of "separation" from our Divine Source that one might experience--is quite challenging to overcome and rise above.
     So, pat yourself on the back: By choosing the Earth School for your adventures, you have been brave enough (or cocky enough) to have chosen to really test your mettle. As said before, the mire of the emotional tar pits can be debilitating and frightening. To figure out how to extricate yourself from the tremendously confining and limiting baggage of emotion-based life may take a lot of work. But, the rewards, Spiritually, are tremendous. The contributions our travails make to Cosmic Consciousness and to the realization of the potentialities of Divine Experience are far, far beyond our comprehension. Suffice it to say, God couldn't do it without us! (Ha! ha!)
     Many people currently on Earth are despairing the place to which materialism and ignorance have brought human civilization. Mother Earth is doing what she needs to do in order to correct the imbalance, in order to return to health, which is to have a fever. If her fever is successful biological life at the planet's surface will be diminished extraordinarily. Some microbial and insect-like species may survive, but anything bigger than a cockroach is likely to be expurged--burned from the face of the planet. The human race will certainly find it difficult to survive, even in small numbers. But, Gaia will eventually return to her more normal temperature and weather ranges. In thousands of years (which will seem like hours to Her) the planet may be ripe for another turn at supporting the kind of life forms that we and our Spiritual Masters have found useful for adventure and experience. Or perhaps the Spiritual Architects will create other life forms that can use Earth even during her recovery period. Or perhaps Heaven's Gate's Marshall Applewhite (or "Doe" as he called himself) was right when he announced in 1996 that the Earth is being readied to be recycled. Or maybe Douglas Adams' story in which the Earth was being demolished to make way for an Intergalactic Highway will prove true. Again, in the Spirit World there is no limitation to or dependence on Time--and no lack of imagination. In any case, rest assured that the many life-forms contrived for four-dimensional experience on planet Earth, both "past" and "future," are finding usefulness within the Spirit World as I speak. And imagination--human and otherwise--are all equally viable means for creating the next and "future" possibilities for Earth and our Spiritual Selves.
     Helios, too, will continue to gather information and experience from the physical, emotional, and mental changes that his incarnate star vehicle will incur due to the passage of time, from gravitational (and other types of) interactions with other celestial beings (and otherwise), as well as, of course, from the many circuitous trips he makes while dancing with Vesta, his Pleaidean Twin. As he travels let's wish him all the best in his efforts to see and realize his grandest versions of Truth, Beauty, Joy, and Love.

Toril's Kidney Donation

My wife recently made the choice to donate her kidney. To her Earthly, biological mother, Marcia. Marcia is 69 years old and has suffered an insidious degradation of her quality of life due to 14 years of kidney disease. Despite years of trying to deflect attention from herself and of denying herself any other possibility other than pain, suffering, and inevitable demise, she finally acquiesced to outside pressures to make the choice of trying to improve her health and to prolong her life. A recent "close encounter" with death, coupled with the impending move into a "dream home" of her own design, gave Marcia the motivation to choose to place her name on the kidney transplant list. Both Toril and Marcia's adoring husband of 49 years, Toril's father, John, jumped at the opportunity to become Marcia's donor. Only Toril made it through the screening process.
     On October 22, 2014, Toril "went under the knife." Though the kidney was removed laparoscopically through a "single port" (her belly-button!), the recovery has been challenging. "Ten times worse than child birth," she says. Marcia's recovery was much quicker--and the effect of the new kidney was immediate: Within a few hours after her surgery her copius urine was showing no signs of the toxins that had been breaking her bodily systems down for years. The morning after surgery she was attending post-operative education classes and her test numbers were indicating that her kidney function was better than those of a normal human being! Released from hospital only five days after receiving her new kidney, she came home saying, "Other than the pain at the surgical scar and some old arthritis, I am no longer sick." All 22 of the 24 symptoms of kidney failure that she had exhibited only five days before had disappeared. They were gone. No more nausea, poor sleep patterns, joint swelling, skin psoriasis, lack of energy, poor appetite, high blood pressure, and many other nagging and/or debilitating symptoms, gone!
     Did you know that 64% of people on organ transplant lists die before they ever get a chance to receive their organ transplant? Apparently, this is not only due to the reluctance and delay that potential donors have for allowing their names to be placed on the list but more it is due to the extreme hardship the commitment places upon the donor. A living donor will miss four to six weeks of work. Becoming a living donor makes life and health insurance companies drop you or turn you away. A living donor's family is automatically and sometimes catastrophically (if one loses income or a job) absorbed into the recovery period as someone must look after the donor for the four to six weeks it takes to heal and get strength back. In the case of a kidney donation, the living donor is almost guaranteed to fall into the Stage One Kidney Disease category. It usually takes around six months for the donor to fully regain strength and energy.
     With all of this in light, I want to open a discussion around the subject of the karmic or spiritual significances of becoming an organ donor. The human body is a vessel, a vehicle, that We use for Self-discovery and Self-realization. Like any vehicle, what's wrong with giving away a part or piece so long as it doesn't have any detrimental affect to the desired functioning of the host vehicle? If the body or vehicle is dead, then this really is a non-issue. But if I'm a healthy, living human, why not give you one of my spark plugs or one of my dual carburetors or my catalytic converter if it will help prolong the life span of your vehicle? So long as the intentions and desires of the recipient are to use the life extension and improved quality for continued gathering of adventures, experiences, learning and growth, right?
     But--and this is a very big, seemingly cruel "but"--what about 'forcing' the diseased person to accept responsibility for and learning from the choices he or she made which brought them to the point of disease and demise? There is no right or wrong, no better or worse, no sooner or later. There is always a chance to learn our lessons. But, that "always" also includes the learning we can (and will) do after we have left our human vessel. Won't the impact of that death and dying experience be greater for the pain and suffering that our self-inflicted disease and corporeal destruction incurred?
     Perhaps. And perhaps not. Learning can be done through suffering but it can also be done through joy. Again, neither choice is right or wrong, better or worse. One comes to acquire preferences. Partly out of familiarity and pattern, but even out of curiosity and courage (to conquer fear, to go some "place" you haven't gone before). With an extended life due to receiving an organ donation one might choose either, and both, suffering or joy as one's learning medium. It is more likely that the demise and death due to disease would involve pain and suffering--though even here some people find the mental and spiritual strength and detachment to choose to learn through Joy despite their physical pain and suffering.
     Could you do it? Could you donate an organ? To loved one or a stranger? Would you? What would be your reasons and motivations? What would be your hesitations or fears? What might your lessons be through this process?
     Fresh off the publication of Episode 41: Tough Love, I have to ask whether or not your saying "no" to organ donation causes you guilt or shame--and where do you think those feelings of guilt or shame comes from? Are you less brave, more selfish, less of a "humanitarian," more cruel and heartless if you choose not to consider donating an organ? What are the elements of codependency active in the process of donating an organ? I mean, the possibility of transplanting human, animal, or artificial organs is as amazing as creating machines with replaceable and interchangeable parts. Human ingenuity and the technological advances of the scientific approach are extraordinary for their advances. But, to what end? What is the purpose of healing or saving life, limb or property? Are we not just extending the inevitable? And in this day and age of capitalist greed, is the motivation of our "health care" and "insurance" industries truly altruistic? I mean, fame, power, self-gratification, wealth, and greed seem more the dominant motivators in our cultural paradigm at this time. Using others and their suffering from illness, accident and disease for personal gain seems a bit shady, doesn't it? But then, we are in the Dark Ages of our Sun's journey.
     Though it seems only natural that one question the motivations behind one's organ donation, I must again remind you that there is no right or wrong. Every choice that you make sets in motion myriad waves of effects, offers myriad opportunities for learning, and myriad opportunities for more choices. Choices made in Ego consciousness have different effects from those made in Spiritual awareness. The more aware we are of our Spiritual origins, of our Divine Nature, the more able are we to think and act from higher forms of Love. Unconditional love is a place from which we think we would like to act, however, unconditional love is not achieved through the mere throwing down of the phrase. The "unconditional" part indicates a full knowledge and willingness to Love without expectation, without condition, with total detachment from any desire or outcome. I fear that the occasions of human love that transpire unconditionally (while consciously) are rare. I know that their occurrence will only increase as we learn to recognize more fully our Spiritual Nature, as we are able to reign Ego in and bring it under the full submission of Spirit.
     With unconditional love something like a kidney donation is as easy and effortless as giving a stranger our last stick of gum. Aware of the Illusions of Duality in Creation, detachment from our own needs and desires becomes easy. And detaching from the choices that the recipient makes with regard to his or her use of that kidney (or stick of gum) is just as easy. As I've said all along, it's all a matter of perspective. Are you viewing the situation from a position of fear, need, and separation, or are you viewing the situation from a position of Love and detachment.
     Tough Love is given that name for a reason:  it's tough to master, tough to sustain, tough to break old habits--especially when they're conditioned in you by societal patterns. But, in all honesty, unconditional love is the true toughest form of love--at least for humans--because it entails letting go of any and all conditions, attachments, desires, expectations, and wishes for outcomes, returns, or effects. It entails a surety that your thought or deed is enacted in the full intention that it be according to the Highest Good of all Creation, and that it's effects will be equally perfect and Good. Actually, unconditional love requires a full and constant confidence that any thought or act is in fact always and in all ways exactly the most perfect and highest good for all of Creation. Being an act of creation which, as we know, is only possible because every act of creation comes from our Divine Nature, from the Creative Source from which we all come, from which we derive all of our power and strength and intelligence, every thought or action is always an act of our most recent version of our greatest definition of our Highest Understanding of our Highest Truth, Highest Beauty, Highest Love, and Highest Joy. Armed with this perspective, unconditional love is omnipotent and unfailing; armed with unconditional love all other forms of love merely fall into place. Then something as big as a kidney donation becomes as small as a wave lapping up onto a beach or an exploding supernova or a Big Bang or a leap of a lepton from one side of the Universe to the other or the life of a puny little human being on the puny little blue planet that revolves around this average little star in this average size galaxy we call the Milky Way. Big and little, important and inconsequential, right and wrong, better and worse. It's all just a matter of perspective.

The Cosmological Answer to Everything

42.

42 is, of course, the number Douglas Adams gave us through his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
as the answer to "The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, of Everything."

42.

42 is a number. In the Hitchhiker's Guide series, a mega-supercomputer took 7.5 million years to come up with this answer. A single number.

Wouldn't it be every scientist's wet dream if the answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe, of Everything came out to be a number--or, better yet, a mathematical equation. The Grand Unified Theory, too. Unfortunately, it might just take our real life human scientists about 7.5 million years to come up with a singular, unifying answer to everything.

The deeply mystifying and often nearly incomprehensible findings of science over the past century have hinted at something that writers and artists have been theorizing for a while now:  The intangible abstracts of our world must be incorporated into the theories and formulae of science in order for science to have any chance at completing their grasp of Life, The Universe(s), of Everything. The fact that almost every scientist, even Einstein, eventually comes to admit that there is just "something more" or "something bigger" out there that has to be "pulling the strings"--that is responsible for at least setting all This in motion, if not orchestrating It, is reason enough to open one's mind to the consideration of a truly all-encompassing, Truly Grand, theory of Everything.

As I myself have alluded to from the beginning of this podcast series, abstracts like thought, emotion, faith and Love are glaringly missing from the mathematical language of science. On the obvious level, this is due to the inability of science and mathematics to quantify abstracts. We're not even sure we can observe them much less quantify them. Thought and love, faith and emotion, have no boundaries. They are not confined to brain, neurons, touch or even words. They are not confined to time or space. We can only observe the effects of them, not their essences. Were scientists able to use their minds to incorporate these abstracts into their theories--non-mathematical though they are--I think they would be able to leap into realms of understanding far beyond their limited theories. Shamans and yogis routinely do this. Writers and artists, too. They use the mind to travel beyond their corporeal material, empirical worlds. They use imagination to explore the infinite pathways of cosmic possibilities.
     The question is:  How does one measure, or quantify, thought, emotion, faith and Love? If they could, science would try (and may!) But until that time--until abstracts and unfixed, variable phenomena are included in science's scope of imagination, we are stuck being ... stuck. A Grand Unified Theory could not be so grand nor unified if it didn't account for thought and emotion, faith and love, could it?
     What is needed is a bridge between the empirical and the abstract, the physical and the metaphysical, the subjective and the objective, the implicate and the explicate, here and there, this and that, church and state. One thing, one concept, to bridge--or unify--them all.

In the recently released science fiction film Interstellar, Christopher Nolan has his protagonists bring this subject into their conversations. The film begs for scientists to expand their thinking to incorporate abstracts--and especially love. Never before have I seen or heard presented so clearly how necessary it might be for the advancement and survival of Life and, perhaps, humankind, to rectify the gulf, to merge the dimensional thinking of science with the non-dimensional imagining of heart-based creative arts. Unfortunately, such a merger, such an event, is highly unlikely to come from humans coming out of our schools and school systems.
     If you look at the science taught to our young in schools and textbooks, the information being disseminated there is still stuck in much out-dated Newtonian principles. Texts and curricula have not yet begun to include much less embrace the Quantum Era. And yet, quantum theory was born over a hundred years ago! It's hard, observable, empirical facts all the way. Black holes and The Big Bang (theory) may be taught. Atomic and subatomic news and theories are only be mentioned in relation to nuclear weapons and atomic energy. Relativity might be mentioned--and maybe Schrodinger's cat--but the real significance and applications that quantum findings have to our lives, to our society, to paradigms dependent on cause and effect (like consumerism, and history)--to thought and behavior--are absent from school and media borne information--and they are very much absent from curriculum-initiated classroom discussion. It's as if the powers-that-be don't think we, the masses, can handle the information, or, worse, that they can't trust us with it.

     What introductory and general science books and classes are more likely to do are to share the most significant figures of science in storybook form--perhaps as historical characters--accompanying their contributions to science with 'interesting' factoids while glossing over or ignoring the impact and significance these contributions should have to our perception and our interaction with the world.
     Unfortunately, I believe that these facts-only, storybook versions of science's heroes and their accomplishments have been delivered in this meaningless, edited, trivial fashion on purpose. Teaching people that power is in the hands of the observer, the individual, would undermine the capitalist agenda of breeding mindless, perpetually dependent consumers. Therefore, any perceptual adjustments humankind should or could be making to an expanded understanding of Life, The Universe, and Everything--which might come as a result of the findings and insights revealed in the quantum era of science--have been purposely watered down or, more likely, just plain omitted. It is the same with anything that can be contrived as "spiritual:" it has been minimized, trivialized, or ignored. Instead, busyness, fear, helplessness, automation, entertainment, distraction, escape and addiction have been promoted, nurtured in our fast-paced, information-overload, rampant consumer society. Why? A confident, self-assured, self-reliant individual is not only difficult to control--difficult to 'herd'--but he usually makes a bad consumer. The current powers-that-be--our capitalist "Captains of Industry"--need easily manipulated consumers to sustain their power and wealth. 

     It wasn't always this way--and it won't be for much longer. According to my current and, yes, limited comprehension, Earth is in a place most distant from the embrace and power of Love and Light. This does not mean that Love and Light are absent from our time. Within the dualistic game that our sun is playing within Cosmic Creation--and, particularly, with its twin in the Pleiades star cluster--the effects of Love and Light are diminished by the "distance" our sun has traveled on its circuitous journey ("precession") around a Galactic Clock--a clock that the sun and its Pleiadean twin co-created for the express purpose of periodically testing themselves against the wide range of effects that can occur while "separated" from one's loving twin.
     Of a journey that is approximately 24,000 Earth years long (on average), it has been 13,500 years since Sol was last "with" its twin. The effect on humankind while Sol travels away from its twin is a steady diminishment of spiritual understanding. At its furthest distance (which occurred, on Sol's current journey, in the so-called "Dark Ages," around the year 500 A.D.), the human mind is most fixated with everything material and materialistic, is least aware of its spiritual nature and purpose. It is, therefore, quite a testament to the power of Spirit that there is any Love and Light on the planet right now!
     In my still limited comprehension of Life, The Universe, and Everything, Thought is an instrument of Creation. Perhaps it is the instrument of creation. It moves faster than light, faster than time. As a matter of fact, Thought has absolutely no allegiance to space, time, or dimensionality. It uses them, but it is not bound to their laws. And yet, Thought is a Creative force.
     Love also exists beyond any space-time continuum. To my understanding, Love is the Glue that Binds, the matrix of "water" in the "ocean" of Cosmic Creation. Love is ever present and never not present. Love is the constant presence of Divinity. It is the reminder of the Sacred Unity binding us all together--the constant reminder of the Oneness from which we all came, the nourishment we took with us when we created the Illusion of Separation, the 'directional beacon' reminding us of the Home we think we left and to which we are always welcome (even though we have, in fact, never left it).
     Now here comes the big leap: I posit before you that both Thought and Love are one in the same. That waves arising from the Heart and Mind are of the same origin as well as of the same substance. They are both creative forces. One, Love, is the power of Life, the power of Creation, the power to create; Thought is the conversion and direct focus of that power, of that potential energy, into Creation and creativity, into action.
     Now the reader may react to this by asking, But what about hateful, hurtful thoughts? In this view where Thought and Love are one and the same--or at least one arises from the infinite source pool of the other, how could "bad" or "evil" things happen? In my view, the "world" beyond space and time, beyond duality, there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, no better or worse, which means that, ultimately, there can be no "hateful" or hurtful thoughts (or even actions--or events!) for every thought or action is an act of creation, which is an act of love in that it is joyfully making something where nothing was before, and an act of creation can only be an act of Divine Joy, Truth, Love, and Beauty. An act of creation offers something new and unique to the Cosmos. An act of creation is only possible because of the Divinity of all things and is always performed for the Divine expression of infinite possibilities and growth experiences to the other entities of consciousness who are using the Illusions of Duality to convince themselves that they are separate and individuated. The experiences and lessons available to "others" through thoughts or acts of "hate" or "hurt" are brought into Creation as gifts for others to use (or not) for their evolutionary adventures in self-definition, self-actualization, and Self-realization. It's okay:  It's all good.
     Going back to the stimulus of Christopher Nolan's provocative film, Interstellar, I can't help but question whether or not Thought and Love may also be one and the same with Gravity. Think about it: Gravity is the undeniable and irresistible mutual attraction of two (or more) things. To my understanding it is constant and invariable. Since all of the Cosmos' Creations arise from the same Source, doesn't it make sense that they all should be attracted to each other--that they all want to stay together, to joyfully acknowledge and revel in their Divine Source, their Ultimate Oneness--that Gravity should be an extension of the unifying Divine Consciousness of all Creation?
     I believe that no formula is going to pin down or incapsulate the essence and power of Love, Thought, Faith, intention, imagination, or even gravity. Science is limited by its attachment to an underlying belief in the physicality of all things. Until this belief is suspended, is let go of, scientists will only be able to understand the Universe in physical terms.
     I see a day in the not too distant future--a day in which Light and Love are permeating the fog of ignorance and materialism--a day in which scientists become mystics, a day in which mystics agree to play with observable, empirical data. The two camps will get together. They will hash things out for a long time, and they will, eventually, merge into one camp, into one group. It is then that they will finally come up with a unifying system that will satisfy our understanding of Life, The Universe, and Everything. The only problem with this is that once again, it will be just a system, just a box, just a temporary and limited expression of our most expanded understanding of our selves and our place in the Cosmos. There will always be more. There will always seem to be inadequacy. The Divine discontent. So long as we continue to choose to play within the dualistic Illusions of Creation, we will always feel this twinge of discontent, this feeling that something isn't quite right, that maybe this isn't really real. And we will be right.

Tough Love

Years ago I received a powerful lesson from a book written by the enlightened Swiss master, Elisabeth Haich. In her autobiographical book, Initiation, Elisabeth describes her evolutionary path through recollections of two parallel Earth incarnations. Her journey through discovery and mastery of the "seven forms of Love" is amazing, but it is within that journey that one particular section has remained emblazoned on the scrolls of my mind:  her personal struggle through the 'final' and most difficult form of Love, which is, Tough Love.
     Tough Love is that form of love in which one must be able to find the strength to detach from the trials and tribulations of another person's journey, a loved one, and to then allow them the chance to suffer the consequences of their choices . . . on their own. In most cases, this challenging learning experience comes from within a relationship with a dear, beloved friend or relation--someone with whom we've fallen into patterns (usually unconscious and automatic) of helping a little too much--what psychologists today call "co-dependency." To fully evolve through the complete stages of love and loving, we must learn to recognize the fact that codependent behavior does little, truly, to help the growth and advancement of another soul. In fact, codependent behavior impedes personal progress because it allows the other person outside you to avoid struggle--and struggle is, after all, one of the main reasons we created and come to the Earth School. We grow through dealing with obstacles and adversity (which are, in fact, not real but exist as an illusory tool for self-reflection, self-awareness and Self-realization).
     Once we are able to recognize the disservice that our codependent, "enabling" behaviors provide to our loved ones, we must then learn to be able to catch these behaviors before they come out. Then, of course, comes the most difficult challenge of all: disabling our codependent behaviors--learning to let go, to detach, to hold back from our usual tendencies of stepping in with advice or assistance we need to learn to stop stepping into "other people's business." And then comes the most difficult part of all:  learning to keep a distance as we watch the inevitable "pain" and "failures" and struggles that our loved ones may attract. The reward comes in seeing their progress. Without our intercession they will be forced to take on responsibility. As they find successes--and build upon them--you will see your loved one grow in confidence, independence, self-reliance, and creativity. With self-assurance comes self-discovery. With self-discovery comes self-realization. With self-realization comes the eschewing of tools such as fear, pain and suffering as they are replaced by Joy and Love for the self-realizing human is recognizing his or her own power with its Infinite dimensions, he or she is opening to his or her innate curiosity and creativity and is, naturally, attracting information and experiences which promote expanding awareness, expanded understanding, and expanded Love.
     By helping others avoid their pain, suffering, and struggles, we are also helping them to avoid learning the valuable lessons that they may need--that They may have prescribed for themselves--in order to experience their own growth and development. Again, the Earth School is a place that was created expressly for the difficult emotion-based experiences--experiences that can provide very powerful opportunities for significant spiritual growth (which means "re-recognition of ever-expanding versions of our True Self, our Divine Essence"). Every time we step in to "rescue" someone else--whether out of love or pity--we may think that we're doing a good thing, but that good deed is really just a stroke for our Ego selves; that act of kindness or generosity or pity does far more to boost our own esteem than to help the other person. Our intercessions may, in fact, serve to attract more harm to the other person because they are taking away opportunities for them to achieve their own success, to build confidence; our intercessions may only serve to contribute to their low self-esteem and lack of motivation to try--as well as to reinforcing the dependent behaviors they've already formed. (Often dependents come to believe that they cannot in fact do anything for themselves. They will form increasing dependencies on others constructing patterns of always looking to others to help or rescue them, of avoiding responsibility altogether.)

     We live in a society--in an era--that has championed selfishness and Ego-centricity. The "Me generation" has evolved into the "borderline" "Yo-yo" society in which addiction and codependency have seized the day. We are just as likely to hear--in the same flow--"Come here and help me. I need you!" followed by, "Leave me alone. I hate you." And this will loop over and over. And it comes from so-called "loved ones!"
     Our cultural paradigms have become specialists in reinforcing patterns in which individuals have given their power away to other "experts" and "authorities" who are, naturally, "better," "smarter" and "stronger" than we individuals. Consequently, our society has given Tough Love a reputation of coldness and cruelty, and, ironically, of selfishness. But there is a strength in Tough Love that is very difficult to comprehend because it requires abdication of any attachment to all that Western "civilization" has come to value, e.g. material possessions, power, anthropocentricity, fashion and technology, unlimited extraction and exploitation, bigger, better, newer, etc.
     "The meek shall inherit the Earth" was not said as a claim that poor, depressed, weak, "sub-humans" were going to be given possession and control of the planet. Nor was it meant to mean that the meek will be the last ones standing after the rest of humankind has finished killing each other (though metaphorically and perhaps even literally this may not be far from the reality of events as they transpire in the near future). No, the meek are ones who are doing their work, who are recognizing the limiting human behaviors of attachment to material and physical things, who are learning that there are no spiritual rewards in greed, violence, and avarice. The so-called "meek" are those who are learning to detach from the "rules" of the "game" that human society was created for. Though the "game" was created by us, for our use, it was created as a test. We created the four-dimensional human condition in order to give our Selves the opportunity to try to figure out, over time, just how to  recognize the impermanent and illusory nature inherent in the Earth Plane's "physical" and "material" confines--and then to learn how to detach from these Illusions.
     As in the case of Elisabeth Haich, parenting often offers the ideal opportunities to learn and practice Tough Love. Modern "civilization" has done a wonderful job of miring the human species in the muck of emotional baggage. We are actually conditioned to learn to acquire addictions and codependencies. This occurrence is one of many natural consequences of the Earth's passing through the darker "hours" of its circuitous journey around the Galactic Clock. As we are currently about as far as we could be from the nurturing Light of Sol's Pleiadean twin, this is a time in which the murky forces of "maya"--of ignorance and Ego attachment--have ascended and the Radiant Light of Spiritual knowledge and Spiritual awareness is most distant from us. Addictive and codependent behaviors are outcomes of Ego dominance.
     Those of us who have chosen to incarnate on Earth during the current era of human experience are immersed in the Shadow of Ignorance and Fear. But this condition offers opportunities for tremendous growth. To succeed in conquering Ignorance and Fear, in opening to Light and Love despite the presence of Ignorance and Fear, shows tremendous strength and fortitude. Would that we all could succeed in these attempts, but, again, there is no right or wrong, no sooner or later, no better or worse. We will ALL eventually re-member our Divine Source, our Unified Oneness.
     So, whatever you are doing, wherever you find yourself, just remember that it is in perfect accord with the process of evolution--with the process of Being and Becoming. You are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing. All of the learning opportunities--all of the information 'necessary' for growth and Self-realization, are around you and within you. At each and every moment! Always! It is always up to you to choose what to give your power and attention to. And it is always up to you and you alone to decide what to use for the continued development of your latest version of your greatest vision of Who You Want To Be (which you already are, you're just taking your time realizing it).
     So, whenever you're ready! We're all waiting!
    "Let the Sunshine in!"

Journeyman Paul and His Messianic Heroes

I, Drew Fisher, have been inexplicably and irresistibly attracted to messianic characters my entire life. For those of you who may not be used to hearing the term "messianic" I will tell you that it has the root word "messiah" within it, which comes from ancient references within the Judaic religion. From Hebrew, messiah, literally, means "the anointed." It has come to be seen as a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the Abrahamic religions. Jesus of Nazareth is called "The Messiah" throughout Christian literature, but the term has since been absorbed into languages to refer to any larger-than-life, selflessly heroic figure--in both history, folklore and literature.
     As a child this attraction was served by contact with cartoon and comic book superheroes. Superman, Batman, The Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Iron Man, Aquaman, etc., etc. Before puberty I found great awe and inspiration in the religious heroes of my parents' Roman Catholic lore. Jesus of Nazareth, Saint Francis, and many of the angels, martyrs and saints. As a teen my worship was transferred to historical heroes. Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha), Mohandas Gandhi, Martin L. King, Jr., Anwar Sadat (and, later, to Vinoba Bhave, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ralph Nader, and even sports heroes like Sandy Koufax, Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Roger Federer and Derek Jeter). In my twenties my inspiration came from characters I encountered in film and literature, for example, Chauncy Gardiner from the film Being There, Michael Valentine Smith from Robert Heinlein's A Stranger in A Strange Land, Paul Atreides from Frank Herbert's Dune series, Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, Prince Myshkin from Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, Donald Shimoda from Richard Bach's Illusions, and many others. And still later, as a fledgling writer, the protagonists of my own writing seemed to always reflect these same altruistic ambitions and aspirations. Humans making choices to do or think extraordinary, one might say, "heroic" things, in mostly natural, self-less and unegotistical ways.

I believe that there are people doing heroic things every day in every country, town or village around the globe. There are many, many people who stand fast to high-minded, altruistic, one might call, "spiritual" principles. Admirable, life-affecting deeds are accomplished, words are spoken and written, and prayers and benevolent thoughts are forged every day. The planet is not short on heroes. But I think at some level I really wanted to be a saint. Like Thomas à Kempis, I really thought it possible. I feel that past life patterns--the work Journeyman Paul has done and the goals he and his team have set forth--have all served to create a natural yearning within me, Drew Fisher, to aspire to saint-like, or messianic-type life choices. And yet I have made many un-saintly life choices.
     My journey into marriage and parenthood was truly prompted by the continually nagging voice within that kept telling me that the solitary, monastic, or lone-wolf life style to which I gravitated and within which I felt so comfortable was due to familiarity and comfort--because I had done it so many times before. Though I had often chosen this path from a place of sincere selflessness and sacrifice, more often it was out of self-pity, self-doubt, lack of confidence and low self-esteem. Journeyman Paul had made choices that led to lives lived on the fringes--cooped up safely in monasteries, or living the nomadic, anchoritic life in the wilds, or as the self-imposed outcast--because I had thought that was all I was worthy of, that I was unworthy of human love and companionship.
     As Drew Fisher I have often found myself filled with convicted thoughts and impulsive desires to run way, to choose solitary life scenarios. In art I am always drawn into similar fantasy worlds, into the strongly self-sufficient characters. But a far deeper voice--a far more constant and sensible voice--has always counseled me, almost confidingly, that the reason I feel so drawn to those choices, those impulses, those fantasies, is because they are easy, they are comfortable, they are familiar. But, I am counseled, those are not the choices that will bring me the greatest opportunities for growth; it is in the choices that seem difficult and fearful that I will find the greatest opportunities for self-improvement and growth--and this is, after all, the kind of growth I had designed for my Self when planning this foray into the Earth School emotion-based human experience.
     Every choice yields a learning opportunity. Every choice reveals some aspect of yourself that could be reflected upon, learned from, improved upon, expanded. The events of having to make choices while interacting with other humans are the most potent. Interactions with other humans are less predictable, less controllable, and, therefore, more risk-inducing than those with less animated consciousness.

     And my model for participation within human society, my hero, has been the benevolent angel, the self-sacrificing saint, the brave, selfless hero, the Christ-like messiah.

Lahiri Mahasaiya was a renowned Indian saint who lived and worked his spiritual work from within the structures and confines of social constructs. He held a desk job in a railway company by day, went home to a wife and children by night, all the while pursuing an extraordinary practice of meditation and teaching. One of his students, Sri Yukteswar, was the teacher of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of A Yogi and founder of the Self Realization Fellowship.
     Lahiri Mahasaiya has been an inspiration for me. His example gave me the final impetus for me to feel committed to my life choices within family, within society, within this time of peak materialism. His example made me feel confident that it was indeed possible to lead a saintly life, to offer spiritual example to others, while living within the mainstream of modern society.
     The characters, legends, and personas that humans have created, shaped and preserved into elevated, revered heroes have always felt to me as very real examples of true human potential. To my mind, heroes are models that we can and should emulate and aspire to. Joseph Campbell spoke of the "hero within" or the "hero with a thousand faces." That's what I'm talking about. These heroes come from stories that feed or serve the hero archetypes that are within all of us. Campbell and psychologist Carl Jung believed that these stories are actually necessary to us--that it is through these stories, through our dreams, that we awaken these archetypes, that we awaken the hero within. What they're saying is that each of us is attracted to heroic figures precisely because we believe, at a very deep level, that we can be--that we are--these heroes. The potential to be a hero--to do heroic things--rests within each of us. Stories and examples 'outside' of us merely stir this 'knowing'--remind us of another one of our infinite potentials. I believe that awakening or acquiring a spiritual perspective is another way of unleashing our "hero within." The recognition and heart-felt understanding that we are Spirits merely using these human bodies and our Earth-based physical surroundings is tremendously liberating in terms of being able to detach from the basic fears that usually prevent us from taking the risks that one associates with heroes and messiahs. When we can remember that we come from The Divine, that we are animated by a spark of The Divine, that we are, in fact, co-creators of our universe since we are truthfully a part of God, then we can do godly things.
     A problem that modern humankind is faced with is that we need more examples of cultures and societies that have raised consciousness to a level from which life could be and is lived out of love and enthusiasm rather than fear and trepidation. As Paul Atreides was taught to say, "Fear is the mind killer." This is exactly what I see in every day life in the majority of people around me: the fear of all of the threats and implied threats that are bombarding humans each and every day is killing the "mind," distracting us from hearing the voice of Spirit--the voices of Truth, Beauty, Joy, and Love--which is constantly being whispered to us--which is, in truth, animating us, giving us Life itself.
     Where did all these fear-based thought, motivation, behavior patterns com from--and why? How and Why have we bought into them? Why have we accepted and allowed these paradigms to take hold? Is it because our shadow side has been so repressed, so denied, that we have succumbed to a disease of guilt and shame--to a pattern of numb somnambulance? What is the meaning and significance of the fact that fear-based behavior patterns have been so convincingly proselytized and that the masses have listened and succumbed? What will it take for the loving, spirit-minded side of human nature to reawaken and reassert itself? When will fear have been served?
    The hero-savior or "messiah" figure is the personified metaphor for the rise and ascendance of Light, Love, Truth, Beauty, Courage, Wisdom, and Sacrifice. It is also the projection of those very powers and purifications that reside within each one of us. The best we can do in the present place in human history is to learn and practice (and, hopefully, master) detachment. Detachment from all things attached to the "physical" "material" world. Detachment from expectations--from expectations of any and all outcomes. It is a tough battle, though in fact it requires merely the flip of a psychic switch. No more expectations, no more disappointments. Detachment.
     Messianic figures are usually very good practitioners of detachment. They are even fairly masterful at detaching from the ultimate fear:  death. Most heroes know full well that they are risking bodily harm and even death in making the choices they make. Many of them have learned to not fear death, to not only accept it as inevitable, but to have "risen above" its hold on them--which is to say, many heroes or messianic figures have found a spiritual, metaphysical, or aphysical perspective which allows them to even detach from their bodies, their surroundings, the so-called 'physical' element of this Earth life. With the strength of this perspective they are able to confidently go into any dangerous situation, detached from all outcomes--even death!
    With that in mind, I hope you are all able to awaken and realize the messianic hero within you. I wish you all the heroic powers that detachment can avail to you. Potentially, we are all Christs, Buddhas, Mohammeds, Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Michael Valentine Smiths. In order to become such we must use Love and Spirit while learning to detach from Fear and Ego. Good luck! We're all counting on you!

Everything Is You

Everything is you. Isn't it obvious? I mean, how could anything other than this be true. Everything we perceive--both consciously and unconsciously--is received and processed through our human neural network. Ingested and digested. Just like food. We sense it and it becomes ours to use. (Or not).
     Everything "outside" of our sensory perception is "there" for our information and use. And yet, by noticing it, by bringing it into our awareness, we are bringing it into our own being, into our consciousness. Even our body will involuntarily react, adjust itself, in accordance to how it thinks we need to ready ourselves for action and/or interaction. Likewise, everything "within"--every thought, feeling, impression, intuition, memory, dream, image or inspiration that seems to come from somewhere "inside" us--is equally present--is drawn to us (one might say, "co-created" by us) for our information and use. With all of this in mind, how could anything (here tying into the word "everything") not be for us, a part of us, and, therefore, us?
 
A common phrase that is often heard from ancient religious texts is, "I AM THAT." I believe this phrase is saying basically the same thing as "everything is you." I am that. Everything is you. The two statements differ only in perspective. "I am that" comes from a center that is our singularly, seemingly independent, personal viewing point, allowing the beam of our "flashlight of attention" to fall lovingly and inclusively onto anything and everything that it might "illuminate." "Everything is you" begins with every single possibility within Creation (past, present or future; here, there and everywhere) and bundles them up into a package that is singular:  that is, "you."
     To test my assertion, let's try an exercise. Think of anything--any thought, any memory, any fleeting image or idea, any sensory or emotional feeling--and observe:  Your attention to that "thing" brings it into the total package that makes up what we call "you." By noticing that thing, you have ingested it--you have "swallowed" it into your neural network, into your human computer for storage, comparison, processing, categorization, and recall. The information that you noticed is now yours and, therefore, a part of "you."
     Hypnosis and psychology have proven that even the things that we do not think that we notice, that we do not think that we have control over, that we take for granted because they seem automatic or because they seem to be in the background and periphery and, therefore, unimportant, these things too have been ingested, have been categorized, and can be recalled and manipulated. The world that the human 'supercomputer'--that we helped choose and design--comes in contact with--external and internal--is a tool for our Soul's information gathering. Or, rather, the human bodymind that we chose to drive for a while is our Soul's learning tool. The Soul is using the human vehicle as a collector and filter of information and experiences. The Soul then uses this information to test itself against its goals along an evolutionary path that eventually leads back to its full re-realization of our Divine Origins--that is, to its full reacquaintance with the fact that We are all everything and that we are all One. Everything is you!
     I can't help but look at a thing, feel a sensation in my body, taste a taste in my mouth, remember a memory from a near or distant past, think up an idea for a sentence or a word to share in conversation, without remembering that that thing, that sensation, that thing I'm tasting, that image in my mind, that word I'm thinking of using, that person I'm in conversation with, are all a part of me--are all present and available to me for my use, for my growth, for my lessons, for my choices, for my participation in the Illusions of Creation, for my play in the Cosmic Game of Cause and Effect. It is such a liberating, joyous realization when these reminding rememberings occur. Such a help in the process of learning detachment from outcomes and expectations.

Many of us have become entranced with the belief that you are your body and its senses, that you are your emotions and feelings, that you are your thoughts and beliefs. We identify with these features as if this is the absolute truth, an unassailable reality. And yet what is it, do you think, that animates--that give energy, awareness, and consciousness--to these bodies, these emotions, your thoughts? Is it electricity? Chemistry? Higgs bosons? I profess to you that none of these would or could exist without a Higher Consciousness, without spiritual backing, without your soul.
     A soul? What, then, would you say is a soul? What is 'spirit?'
     Spirit is the animating force of humans, animals, plants, and, some might argue, all matter. You have an individuated spiritual being who has invested energy or 'ensouled' your human body mind. This spiritual being chose your particular bodymind in this particular time and within this particular culture for very specific reasons: that these conditions offer the best opportunity for certain lesson-bearing experiences to unfold. The experiences you planned to attract to your human vehicle during this journey through the Earth School are most likely to occur through the particular vehicle (human body) and matrix (four-dimensional emotion-based) in which you find yourself.
     Your spiritual body has ensouled the bodymind you currently occupy with very defined goals in mind. You have also come onto the planet with 'contracts' between you and other souls with whom you planned to interact in order to serve one another's learning desires. The human form you chose comes with certain conditions and rules as does the Earth Plane on which it travels.
     As the spirit ensouls the human form it finds itself 'veiled' from certain spiritual information as a condition to help one remain committed to the often overwhelming and certainly challenging rules and limitation that come with the human Earth experience. Were we to arrive in the human host with full spiritual awareness we might find ourselves unwittingly using our Higher Creativity to perform acts that don't really conform to or honor and respect the conditions we've all co-created for the precise kinds of experiential learning that we desire.
     The freshly humanified soul is, as you might imagine, quite unused to and frustrated by the extremely confining and limited capabilities of its new human form. This is why there is the rather polarized infancy and childhood stage of human development, to allow the soul time to get used to the confines and limitations of the human body and Earth Plane.

   You have a body, you have emotions and you have a brain but you are more than your senses, feelings, and thoughts.

Another exercise that is often useful in helping people begin to glimpse the fact that their body is but a tool--that it is a vehicle that we are using but not forever attached to--involves a concept called "bilocation." Bilocation describes the phenomenon of being in one place while the mind is in a totally different place. That "other" place could be memory, dream, projection, or even that object or idea "outside" you that is attracting all of your conscious attention. "Losing yourself" in a book or a film or watching a child on the playground are other examples of bilocality. It is when our attention is so focused "outside" of your own body that you could, in fact, "forget" that you have a body, you could be so totally disconnected from your body that, if you think about it, you could, in fact, be using any body, any viewing point other than your own body.
     Think of driving a car. You drive an hour or two to a certain destination and somewhere along the way we get so focused on our thoughts or on a story we're listening to or the memories that are conjured up by a particular song that we are hearing that when we "wake up" to our immediate surroundings--to the task of driving our car--we are mystified by the fact that we have gotten "here"--to point B--with no memory of the miles we have just driven. We all have done this. This is bilocality:  mentally being in a place different from that of our body yet all at the same time.
     Bilocality is a phenomenon that scientists have recognized for some time. Albert Einstein on his death bed even admitted that he had no scientific explanation for this phenomenon. And yet it was a phenomenon that he fully acknowledged and accepted. By closing your eyes and giving any thought, memory, goal or plan your fullest attention you are in fact bilocating--you are proving that the mind is not confined to--is, in fact, bigger than--the body that supposedly houses it. To me, this phenomenon is proof that the body is not really a house or container for the mind, it is just a vehicle for it; the Mind is using the body of its human host for its view. It is using your body and its senses as a specific viewing point, just as you might use a car or a computer, for the filtration and gathering of information.

Larry Dossey, M.D., has spent the better part of his medical career championing the concept that mind is something beyond the body, that the mind plays a major part in health and healing. In the 1980s Dr. Dossey came up with the term "nonlocal mind" to describe his belief that mind is unconfined to the brain and body, that mind is spread infinitely throughout space and time. He has dedicated his time since then to finding and leading scientific research to support his theories and beliefs as well as expanding upon and explaining better the "nonlocal mind" concept.
     The nonlocal mind is not confined to nor is it defined by the body that it is using. It may be tethered to that body but the string of its tether is infinite in its elasticity and is very easily broken--which merely sets mind free to find another host, another viewing point, another anchoring point. Or not. Set free among the unified field of the One Mind, the nonlocal mind is like the water that once made up the wave--it is exhilarated by its contact with and view of alternate information coming from this other viewpoint of its wave crest--but then, after a brief time, it descends back into the ocean where it is comfortably re-merged within the unified wholeness of its foundational substance, the water.
     The minds of all creatures on this planet, including humans, do not have borders, they are neither discrete nor private. Instead, we are all fundamentally united. This statement supports my original premise: everything is you. My mind is using this Drew Fisher body and neural network for information and experience gathering but it could just as easily use any other body or reference point for said task. As explained in podcast Episode 38, in the Akashic Library it does exactly this. The Self-identifying Spiritual Entity I call the Monad uses the "records" in the Akashic Library to access an infinite variety of reference points from which to observe, gather, react, act or interact as it wills.
     If you substitute the word "soul" or "Monad" for the word "mind" in the above paragraphs you get the full gist of my meaning--the reason for my doing these podcasts/blogposts. We souls/Monads/ "minds" are using these human bodies with their wonderful senses, the rich emotional field with its immense variety of feelings and conundra, these wonderfully elastic brains, all for the purpose of experience. And we do! We experience so many things at so many levels. But remember:  The human vehicle is a bridge for the two-way flow of information. Information--Beauty, Truth, Joy and Love--can be found and gathered by the Monadic oversoul through the human vehicle, but it can also be given. As the Monad decides to participate in the Earth School experience it is not its intention to only take from its experiences, it hopes to figure out how to give something in return for its use. Therefore, think of yourselves as a bearer, a deliverer, of Truth, Beauty, Joy and Love. In your infinite wisdom, in your natural state, from within the matrix of your Original Substance--which is the Great Ocean of Cosmic Consciousness, you are Truth, Beauty, Joy and Love. So, express yourself!--by expressing your Self! Express your Truth, your Beauty, your Joy, and your Love!