Peace in Mind

Minds at home in metaphors
of fire and brimstone making war
with cultural canons are ill prepared
to enter the peace seen in civilizations
guided and governed by the law of love.

Composure

The children of God cannot be reduced to any one line of inquiry nor constrained by 'religious' beliefs. Their intellectual acumen and spiritual poise is shown in the calm demeanor manifest amidst a 'dialogue' where ignorance attempts to overthrow reason, fear mounts an 'attack' on faith, and hate is seen there to resist its absorption by love .

Planetary Birth

Our world is being reborn. We are witnessing around us much of the mess that attends any birth, and those who have borne children, who have witnessed the apparent peril of such a passage, know that joy eclipses fear upon seeing the face of the beloved child. In this child that we are birthing together, we are making love present here as it is throughout our cosmic home.
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Dialogue

Oftentimes, we think of dialogue perhaps as a better conversation, but there is much more to it. Genuine dialogue is a conversation with a center, not sides. It is a way of taking the energy or our differences and channeling it toward something that has never been created before. It lifts us out of polarization and into a greater common sense, and is thereby a means for accessing the intelligence and coordinated power of groups of people.
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Singularity of Experience

Any lesson about divine love can be seen as divergent, but the experience of such love is singular and yields a grace representative of its unlimited and open Source seen in the lives of our siblings. The Source of this love encourages us to remain focused on expanding this light rather than battling our perceptions of darkness knowing the former is eternal while the latter is passing away in the course of ascension that finds us knowing more deeply it is in teaching we learn, in giving we receive, and in sharing we secure our lasting treasure.
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Morning Song

As we awaken, grumbling perhaps a bit here and there, coughing maybe while clearing our throats, rubbing our sleepy eyes as we adjust to morning's light, let us listen to the soft and subtle tenderness of this moment and join all creation awakening with us.

And when we hear voices teaching one thing or another, let us ask ourselves, do they offer a simple peace or confusing distractions? Are we offered complex meditations and prayers and 'things' to do, or are we simply reminded of the truth we are and invited to rest in it? Are we told of a need to go on exotic pilgrimages, or do we hear the reminder that as we make our cup of morning tea, all of Heaven is present if we but remember our Source who is making us even as we make our daily rounds.

Focus! For in this moment there is coming forth a multitude of those who would be teachers of 'enlightenment', who will guide us into all knowledge. Let's look carefully to see; do they demand that we follow them? Do they demand that we give up our own discernment, or do they encourage us to look deep within?

Let's use time constructively. We can heal our hearts, we can practice forgiveness, we can awaken. We need to because the planet is doing the same, and if we don't awaken with her, we won't be able to handle her light, and we'll need to move to a different neighborhood. That's all. No judgment, no fear, no being struck dead by God, only a simple offering. We can awaken now, or we can awaken somewhere else, later.

We are seeing on the planet a polarization that is occurring as every soul is being confronted by the decision to heal and to forgive or to hold onto the idols of woundedness and judgement. The more souls that choose to awaken and to heal, the less need for shocking circumstances to gain our attention and easier will be the transition for the planet.

As we awaken, let us greet each other with love।
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Mythic Origin

Reliance on myths of 'origin' clouds
the vision of our one source in spirit.
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Literature

All written work may function as 'literature' between a minimum and maximum range of aesthetic value according to the degree its illusions composed of literal symbols point to a deeper cosmic reality। Indeed, while a great deal of 'universe romancing' may not be fact, nevertheless, much more is true.
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Ideas & Ideals

Ideas about God are transmitted well by textual extensions whereas the ideal of God incarnate is only demonstrated in person. Ideologic fragmentation results from the former whereas spiritual communion arises from the latter.
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Media of Mind

Any media features but the thought of its participants; alas, the quality of thought functions reliably as the degree of spiritualization achieved not by external controls but the internal focus of those 'paying' attention।

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Sphere of Culture

Each and all of us play a game of living art in every encounter with our fellows. The field is endless and the rules are simple, no one wins alone; the prize awaits the moment when we all have won together. The sphere with which we play is glorious, but ever changing, and with each pass it advances or retreats in splendor, depending on how it is thrown. Some think it should be thrown 'at' another, but of course, it is 'to' them we toss it in advancing levels of artful exchange for it is in this sphere we see in vivid color the reflection of our evolving and collective soul.
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Igloos & Open Skies

How well we know the pernicious effects of the culture of abuse born in isolation that would have us make intimacy with God a place apart from others insulated against any perceived attacks upon its foundations! One of the greatest challenges we face going forward is learning how to share the warmth of this precious place that is our home in the heart of God as we experience him dwelling at the greatest depth of our own hearts, scarred and shattered though they may be. Can we trust fully that the invincibility we desire is found only in the undefended heart dedicated at any cost to the task of sharing our experience in doing the will of God i.e. sharing the inner life with him from which flows all love and mercy? And when we suffer setbacks, disappointments, 'attacks', real or imagined, do we have the courage to relinquish our established traditions which measure value relative to our investments in defense rather than recognizing the limitless value we are invited to discover flows instead inversely proportionate to our concern with these defenses? Throughout our world we see the effects of our fractured focus of courage through this lens of our willingness to defend at any cost these presumed places of refuge; but are these not in truth merely the fatal attractions of a refuge woven in the lair of Lucifer whose bequest would be an everlasting cell of isolation in which to mark the motions of time as if such scribblings could stand forever defying eternity?

Let us undertake to rebuild the charred remains of the many bridges once linking us all, and know that as we do we will nevertheless encounter lingering tendencies to retreat instead to cells warmed only by virtue of their familiarity, but we know having felt the warmth of our extended family embrace, that though our personal igloos we once lovingly carved in frigid zones of isolation, their burden will melt from our backs as we proceed to the tropics of Paradise।
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Synchronous Stars

While the tools of mathematics replete with increasingly powerful modeling capabilities afford us opportunities for mastery of an ever larger number of endeavors whether the mere actuarials of cost, patterns of weather, demographic trends, or the simulation of actual experience in war and the pursuits of peace via educational training, such tools cannot prove or disprove any theories of personality. It is apparent that the study of personality is outside the domain of material science even if the former would do well to incorporate insights from the latter, but it is to such an informed mind sensitive to the immeasurable value of 'personhood' who nonetheless sets out to more meaningfully understand the wondrous nature of personality that is to be commended if not explicitly encouraged.

Toward this end, it is incumbent upon anyone undertaking the exploration of knowledge let alone the pursuit of wisdom, to recognize with gratitude the efforts of our fellows who preceded us in this same capacity. It is always from their terminus that we take up our point of departure. The history of science surely would be far from adequate if we were to overlook the discipline required to study stellar signatures and planetary motion sufficient to gain an understanding appreciation of the patterns of the night sky by those mortals first intrigued by the very possibility of their meaning. And while we would all be ill advised to rely upon the methods of our more 'primitive' forbears for gauging successful space probes, their related fascination with personality continues to this day albeit along different lines of inquiry. Indeed, the ancient typologies of personality first developed by these early star students are no less valuable to our long term appreciation of the evolutionary composition of knowledge than their cosmologies which when compared with our own today, show how inexorable is the imperative for us as a species to paint a mask of the universe made meaningful to our own milieu by virtue of the tools we use to render this picture, tools which by necessity must be contemporaneous with our culture.

I would venture that contemporary interest in astrology is less a lingering superstition than an indication of the limitations of existing 'national science foundation' priorities which show a disproportionate interest in military, industrial, and economic power more than insight into the meaning and value of personality relationships। This would account for the fact that the studies of the Greeks which led to the Enneagram and the modern studies of Carl Jung from which developed such tools as Myers-Briggs Assessment Scales are but a few of the limited vocabularies which augment an otherwise more ancient picture that is the mask of personality afforded by Astrology. Perhaps if our civilization would allow itself the liberty to take up the study of spirit with the same zeal with which it now probes the mystery of matter, we might develop more adequate vocabularies to describe and understand personality, even one which would do justice to a society not simply enamored with an indexed aggregation of factual information sponsored by 'corporate citizens', but alive with the personal pursuit of knowledge which freely embraces the wisdom of divine love.
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Our Family of Worlds

As we are released as a planet from the conditions of cosmic isolation, many normal functions such as interplanetary communication will be reinstated, and even now the work is underway to establish these ties। Because of this world's isolation and the subsequent absence of a truly holistic spiritual teaching, that which is physical has been separated from that which is spiritual. Often the world is seen as a place to remove oneself from and the divine as a place to go to. In a normal arrangement of planetary events this is not the case. Visitors from other worlds and entities from higher dimensions are as much a part of the totality of the planetary experience of any creature. Efforts are being made to establish these conditions; not 'reestablish', for the functions of the spirit administration on this world fell apart before the initial establishment was set as far as the human beings on this world are concerned. We have not lost the 'good old days'; only now is this planet coming into these good days.
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Legacy of Alienation

As we ponder our current spate of national self assertion that follows closely upon the recent ascent of physical fitness in our culture to a state of high fashion sometimes parading with a panache of spirituality that popularizers of yoga have packaged, well tailored to American appetites for the visible and outward life, we might recall that in the late 19th century leaders of a new and seemingly robust version of Christianity abandoned the sentimentality and 'feminine' forms of Victorian religion for a new model that stressed action rather than reflection and aggression rather than gentility. Advocates of this more practical and 'muscular' Christianity promoted organized sports and outdoor activities building bodies to ostensibly evangelize and effect social reform.

Concurrent with this was the birth of eugenics as a tool of social reform which swept the best minds of leading countries in this world with enthusiasm over the prospects of a promised procession toward the progressive realization of an ideal society growing steadily upon our planet. This rising optimism coupled with a renewed vision of Christian spirituality led one highly trained philologist, writer, and acclaimed speaker to recognize in the Sermon on the Mount the simplest and greatest message ever given to mankind, especially Jesus' citation that 'blessed are they who suffer for the sake of justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven'.

He eventually wrote a book entitled Michael: A Novel which was so successful as to warrant seventeen editions from 1932 through 1945. In the book can be seen his idealistic view of Jesus' religion suffering under ecclesiastical domination and ossification, in desperate need of renewal and revitalization, liberated from the shop worn institutional shackles saying that "The various churches have failed. Completely. They are no longer in the front lines, they have long since retreated to the rear guard. From that position, their resentment terrorizes any formation of a new religious will. Millions of people are waiting for this new formation, and their yearnings remain unfulfilled." Such sentiments were expressed as an attempt to restore the living reality of religion and certainly not an attack upon it saying further that "today's youth is not against God only against his cowardly religious menials, who try to commercialize Him as they do everything else".

He was recognized as an eminently courageous and brilliant journalist, a successful orator who became eventually Minister of Propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, and on May 1, 1945 was the only one of the original Nazi leaders to remain with Hitler in the besieged bunker in Berlin. His name was (Paul) Joseph Goebbels.

As we proceed into the uncertainty of a new era characterized by emerging alliances in the labor of peace and justice, and perhaps find ourselves enthused with anything other than love and mercy as tools of liberation, let us pause and remember the well trodden path of so many seemingly inspired intentions on this planet which precede us as if to remind us always of the dangers of hubris which still echo from the legacy of alienation।
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Representation

While it is evident that in an evolving civilization force may be required to compel compliance with the demands of justice, it is also clear that when police define what is justice rather than impartial courts entrusted to interpret these demands on behalf of all, then we have not a civilization, but a state of terror in which war is but a symptom। As a cosmic citizen, I condemn any government that would cancel deliberation by its elected officials, issue edicts of war to a representative forum of global citizens, presume then upon economic assistance from this forum to repair damages it would inflict, launch the charge of a 'crime against humanity' while refusing recognition of the only court capable of adjudicating the charge, then proceed to impose these benighted notions of freedom upon any who would rightly hold them in contempt. This constitutes the abuse of economic privilege which prostitutes liberty while indulging in license, and further makes use of the derivative products of power to attack its source that is the virtue of representative government.
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Soul Music

In truth each of us are as Aeolian harps yet fully sentient and peripatetic, whose living strings in need of regular attunement are secured firmly between our mind and spirit yielding then a unique song whose title is our name on high and plays only as we expose ourselves to the winds of this evolving mortal experience, crossing in and through us often in perplexing patterns; these organic strands, sustaining sometimes discordant force, result in symmetries of sound summoned from within us, always beautiful even if dissonant, for whether in dissonance or harmony, we are composed by the Master of music, even the Father of souls guiding us to our destiny where Supremacy's song will be sought in distant realms of outer space but found only in us, the graduates of time we are becoming.
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Now playing: Herbert Von Karajan: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314
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Mysticism

Mysticism is the last stand of ideologic inflexibility whereas revelation is the ever expanding boundary of progressive circles in cosmic socialization.
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Race & Religion

Racism worships the skin we inhabit by chance,
religion the spirit we embrace by choice.
The former is slavery which cries for freedom,
the latter a liberty which delights in limits.

One makes claim of the body as who we are,
the other speaks of the soul we are becoming.
Eternal light breaks itself into the colors of time
only to become rebound as artistry sublime.
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Divine Guidance

When sharing ourselves, our thoughts, impressions, opinions, and sincere questions, we give one another the treasures of trust with which our Father works offering in exchange his own divine response that always exceeds our hopes and stretches the bounds of our imagination in which we discover ourselves pregnant with the possibilities of his eternal conception.

Divine guidance, while uniform, is infinitely adaptable and therefore applicable to whom it is directed even if in potential this could include all, but due to varying circumstances of evolution, stages of ascension, and local conventions, any 'message' is always subject to the conditions which qualify its reception. Therefore we discern our Father's wisdom in supplying many to work with widely differing forms of expression, each speaking within their constituency of identification. Hence, sometimes what is anathema to some is inspiration to others, but this is true only when observing the form rather than the substance communicated, for this content which is his love always transcends the language or form of its expression whether through the sounds of pentecostal Christianity or the silence of Zen Buddhism, or any other variations of the historic forms operating on our planet. There are however, forms emerging that embody our future more than suffusing memories of the past.

This relationship between our progress and past is balanced in relative perfection by the Master Seraphim assigned to this function। Regardless, the objective is to nurture trust in the guidance of our Father within recognizing that it is from his hand that the lines of our lives are written in our hearts leading us to perfect-ing service in the evolving stages of Deity expansion.
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