“Lift your eyes and look up, to your power within.
Look up and see the richness of heaven.
What do you see?”

I come before the divine today with my prayer intact:  Having a mind imbued with the spirit of life is merely a milestone point along that journey.  The mind seems to be a crutch and a cruel master for many people in the world.  Living in the moment, living with love, means in part not reacting out of the conditioned mind.

Reactivity is evidence of dreaming, drama-based consciousness.  Drama is an energetic that is highly addictive.  Drama gets our heart rates pumping, it gets adrenaline gushing into our bloodstreams – these are very addictive substances.  It is very addictive to be in such a state for those who are not sufficiently saturated with the spirit of life.

The tree of life is centered in our spine and crown, and is our connection to all of creation. When one is sufficiently full of life, the forbidden fruit of such dramatic and reactive energies feels like death.  What we all need is life and to have it more abundantly.

As a man it used to be the two aspects of my being I was most ashamed of was the function of thought and the function of desire.  So afraid of my thoughts because I couldn’t control them and I was so ashamed of my desires and cravings.  Thus my words and my actions, which can only ride upon these two inner elements, were things that I regretted very often in my life.  My words and my actions, as a result, often became the source and the cause of drama, and the reactivity within other peoples’ drama.  If any of you have ever been a recipient of my sleeping state of consciousness, either in words or in writing, I apologize for my behavior.

Our ability to think consciously and to desire consciously are two fundamental rights that we have as divine beings.  These two functions only come into their right order when we are sufficiently full of the power of life.  The winds of life should be strong within our inner being.  These winds can be thought of as spiritual pressure.  It could be thought of as energy.  It could be thought of as love.  It could be thought of as enthusiasm – but in any case all of these words point to the same spirit of life within.  When we have life and we have it abundantly, it fills our thoughts; it fills our desires and elevates them into a state that they can fulfill their true function.

I’ll give an example:

There is a woman who I spoke to recently:  She expressed out loud the desire to “kill the voice of the victim.”  Voice is a metaphor for thought.  Her desire was to kill her thoughts that are victim-natured, in essence.  Yet our thoughts are an extension of ourselves, they are like our children.  How is our relationship with these inner children, our thoughts and our desires?  Do we want to kill them?  Do we allow them to cause havoc in the world and drag us around?  Do we repress them with firmness and judgment?  None of these!  We can energize them!

I asked permission of this woman to share my response to her desire and it was granted.  What I had to say to her was that the voice of the victim and the voice of soul – our true thought vs. our victim-natured thought are the same with only one difference!  That difference is the power of life that is inside of them.  Holy thinking is full of life, like a grape recently plucked from the vine.  It is firm and juicy, filled with the life essence of the plant and its desires to nourish humanity.  The thoughts that are victim-natured are simply lacking in life.  Compared to a grape it is like a raisin, withered, delicate and weak.

At this stage of my life, when I encounter negativity or negative thoughts, I simply energize it when it comes in to my inner sanctum.  It cannot penetrate and remain in the same state.  When any thought-forms penetrate into this being, they are energized and as such arise and ascend into true consciousness like a golden canvas within, waiting for the artistry of a master to paint whatever he likes.

The golden canvas of your true mind can only be accessed when the spirit of life is sufficiently operating within.  The awakened heart expresses through words filled with power of life, based on thoughts that are energized and golden.  When the mind is sufficiently activated by this life energy, the ability to express in writing really comes online.

When one handwrites a prayer or a longing of desire and hangs it in a place where people can see it, it becomes a living testament of that soul.  Like the prayer flags in the mountains of the Himalayas and in the temples of Nepal, our ability to express in writing accurately and powerfully is captured in our own handwriting, in our own calligraphies, in our own stroke of the brush – not necessarily by what is generated through a keyboard.

I had the recent experience of writing down a sincere prayer one morning, a sincere desire, and posting it in my office.  I left for the day forgetting about it then suddenly realizing in the evening that my prayer was coming true!  When I went back to my prayer, I realized that it was in a location that was directly in front of the work space that an assistant setup shop: my prayer, whether he agreed with it or not, was witnessed.

Do you ever wonder why the verb “to bear” is used in conjunction with “to witness?”  To bear witness has almost the same spiritual function as to bear a child.  To bear witness is to allow the birth of whatever it is that we see.  This man, although not necessarily connected with our ministry, and not necessarily in agreement with anything I had written was working in a place where I displayed my prayer.  Even if he glanced at it for a moment and it entered into his being, whether he agreed with it or not, he bore witness to my prayer in my own writing.  As he bore witness this prayer was sealed in light, began to elevate and call out to the universe and the energy of transformation that I sought was added unto me – just through the power of writing a prayer that was witnessed by another.

In this time of a new year approaching, it is natural for our desires to come fully online.  What is it that we really want in the new year?  I would encourage you, I would challenge you to write them down:  pen them, paint them, brush them, calligraphize them.  Whatever your greatest desires are for the coming year, let them resonate with every part of you and write them in detail as succinctly as possible then hang them up.  Like the prayer flags of the Himalayas, hang them up in a place that is conspicuous – perhaps in your home, maybe in your office – and let passerbys bear witness to your prayer.

Thus, our thoughts and our desires can fully resonate with the energy of who we are, be fully empowered by the spirit of life and be born witness, that they may be sealed in the book of life and come to pass.

The greatest religious advice I ever received as a child was:

Whatever you got, give it to God.

It doesn’t matter if it’s love, if its anger, if its sadness, if its even that you don’t believe in God.  Whatever you got, give it to God.

As I’m moving through my day, I’m contemplating faith.  What does it really mean to have faith in the divine?  What does it really mean to be healed by one’s faith?  What does it really mean when one’s faith is great?  Or whether it is small?

The way I’m thinking of faith in this moment is as a conduit of energy.

There are great bonds that unite friends and family.  There are great bonds that unite us to this earth – to all the creatures and all the forces of this earth.  And there are great bonds that unite us in spirit with the great divine.

Each of these bonds are conduits of energy.

A bond must be established between two people for love and friendship to exist, then we have faith, and trust in the goodwill of the other.  We believe and we magnify the greatness of each other by being together.

A bond must be established in order for any energy to move from the divine through a person into the world.

Bonds of trust and goodwill are institutionalized in our society:  Doctors are certified and licensed, professionals are certified so that a person of reasonable intellect may trust that what they have to offer is sound and they have faith in that person to perform a function in their lives and thus be open, yielded, vulnerable and welcoming of that one.

Along with our certifications comes our reputation.  Our name precedes us in the world.  A person can have faith in even just the name of someone, and receive a quote or an idea for instance, simply because of the name of the person who spoke it.

Faith is a conduit of energy, and where a bond is created, energy can move.

In order to truly find my place in this world, I must have a bond of energy to the Divine-

LOOK UP!

Look up, to the Divine!

And be fully yielded to the power that exists within,

Look up!  Look up!

Lift your eyes up to Heaven,

Create a bond with that which is greater than us,

Direct our attention upward,

Look up!

See?

What is in the Heaven for you?

Look up!

In the light of the Sun,

In the blue of the sky,

In the billowing of clouds,

In the movement of air,

Look up!

Be resonant with that which is high, in you.

Be resonant, be yielded with the Divine.  Allow the energy to come in as we look up.

We are creating great bonds of energy with the divine, and whether we believe in the presence of God or not, whether we are sad, whether we are angry, whether we are fearful, we can offer it up on the altar of the divine within – and receive something in the act of communion.

In the act of looking up, when we connect with the divine, we receive something, but it is not simply for ourselves.  It is for the purpose of moving into our world the energy of divine,  holy vibration.  It is received because God so loves the world, so loves the united body of humanity, and in order for that holy vibration to move into the heart of another there has to be deep bonds of faith: Bonds of friendship, bonds of love, bonds of trust, bonds of goodwill between us and the people in our world.

We have to have a safe place well-established in the hearts of others in order to have any effect.  Then as the fruits of the divine are born, good works are made, lives are touched – thanksgiving is received back from our world.  Praise can be received, but it is not for us.  When love and thanksgiving returns from my world to me, it is not for me.  When fame, reputation, all the goodness that comes with being well-loved in the world are received they are welcome, but not for me – I offer that back to the divine.

In some cultures, this truly open and clear way of thinking about faith, thinking about energy being given and received is fully embedded into their language.  In particular, the Ethiopian language and the Ilokano language come to mind.  Egzer Ystelen, is an Ethiopian expression, “I thank the divine for the gifts I have received from you.”  Abo Ystelen is an expression that “In the divine is the source of all blessings.”

These phrases are used as thank you and you’re welcome, and yet they thoroughly put proper place that the divine holds in our lives.

We are conduits of energy connecting the divine to the people in our world, and we need to love one another very well in order for the divine to move into this world.

I come before the divine this morning surrounded by the artistry of nature, the artistry of life.  Been thinking deeply about the relationship between honesty, acceptance and consequences.

These are 3 very profound virtues and all 3 of them have a distinct relationship in that, all 3 are equally threatening to the human ego.

To be honest, one must be able to relinquish the false identity that shrouds children in the garden.  To be fully honest is in many ways to remove the mask worn by the shroud of idealism, worn by the fear of rejection.  To be honest is the greatest courage.

Equally so, to truly view with an open, unclouded and non-judgmental heart the world around us, to truly perceive circumstances and people and accept them just as they are is a threat to the human ego; which, seeks to control people and control this world for selfish ends, not seeing the big picture, but worst of all, not loving the people in their world.

The human ego does not love.  Its protective shell is not capable of love, and there is no benefit to its presence in the healing of another person, just as there is no benefit to the presence of a human ego in the solution to any problem.

The acceptance of circumstance is crucial to living successfully in this life.

Father in Heaven resides within his children, speaks through their voices and works through their hands and feet.  Father in Heaven is the light of all universes, gradually dimming in nature to the point where the physical world can be seen and tolerated as physical expression.

The light of the outer camp of the divine kingdom, the physical world, is a very feminine principle.  The divine mother rests, great mother earth, the mother is the womb of life all around us.  Shekhinah has the cloud of glory about her, and she is present in this moment.  I welcome you divine mother, I welcome you, holy queen, to this place.

The acceptance of all circumstance is crucial.

The present moment and all the factors that are in the present moment are in fact the divine response, reflecting the divine opinion towards the present condition, towards all Past (with a capital “P”, means not limited to this current human experience) human words, attitudes, actions and creations.  This present moment is the voice of the divine mother in all of its circumstances in each and every detail, including those that do not serve the human ego.

There are factors that need to be accepted in this moment…

Factors need to be accepted in this moment that absolutely go against the false identity that humans have of themselves.  They need to be accepted.

The work, the great waters of the divine mother, wear down on the human ego, slowly eroding its edifices, slowly eroding all of the cracks and crannies, all of the hypocrisies, all of the injustice, all of the cruelty perpetrated by the human ego.

No matter how much effort we exert to maintain our false identity, it is a losing battle.

Accept the love of the divine mother, be honest, accept people as they are, accept circumstance as it is, and choose with love.

Music and creativity are flowing. It has been about 6 weeks since my awakening. I have entered into uncharted waters, into territory unknown. I am so thankful for this precious experience.

And thankful for the people in my life who are responding to the presence of spirit, the presence of divine energy moving, moving fully with the current of Love, Wisdom, Blessing and power that comes with being in the presence of a true child of God.

I had a wonderful connection with a good friend last night. A spiritual brother, a man of deep resonance with thy holy vibration, a man of deep and abiding integrity – living in his ideals so much so that he has given away his power to some degree, so that he can measure up to his mental constructions of what is good.

In this precious conversation, what I extended to him was a provocative promise, that if we stand together, that we may come into a time of raising our vibration together. I directed him away from his mental constructions, and towards a place where joy and power, love can be found.

Living in our ideals is not enough.
Many of our ideals need to be unlearned,

They are dead,
They have no life.

Our ideals cannot feed us,
Our ideals cannot save us,
And neither can pressing them on anyone else save them,

Father, save us from our ideals!

The true presence of the divine,
The true preciousness of Life, of Love, of Truth,
Is so vast,

That one who is bound in ideals of higher and lower,
Without a deep grasping of the vibrational nature of life,
Is no more than a man who is tied up,

Bound in one or more of his appendages,
And expected to fully function.

The experience of life,
and the experience of choices,
are so bound in idealism.

Also yesterday I was allowed to have a conversation with somebody who I deeply respect. Somebody who has a deep expectation from life, a very ambitious expectation from life that she be equals in the power relationships with the people of authority around her, and that each new experience of life should be moving upwards in terms of responsibility and income – a very common view of life.

And upwards means that one’s rank and one’s power would grow over others and the more that one would gain personally from the situation that they’ve been appointed, and also the more removed in a sense that they would be from the day to day mundane movement of what happens on the ground.

Such is the ambitious view of humanity in a general sense. And as it was described to me through this person, I realized that although there was a time in my life that I was held to such an ideal, living with ambition, at least to some degree it does not apply to me anymore.

I follow, as Joseph Campbell says, “Bliss.” The bliss of life, the bliss of living in the highest and finest vibration possible. The bliss of fulfillment in knowing that my words and my deeds are the two things that God does not have.

All in this world is thine, Father: the sun, the earth, everything in between, everything beyond and within is yours. The only thing you need is a voice, and a pair of hands and feet to do thy work. I live in the fulfillment of knowing that I am here for the one I serve, allowing the expression of life, the expression of love, wisdom, blessing to move into the earth, move into the hearts and minds of your children. That is all the fulfillment I need.

I have a deep craving for financial abundance, and the desires of experiences in life all end to some degree with the common obstacle of lack of finances. Then in thinking out loud, it occurs to me that, especially in this digital age, with the federal reserve frontage for central banks – God does not create money. The larger calling of life is built around opportunities and is built around the wealth and abundance of life. It is not found in money. The experiences in life that are to be had will be had through divine grace.

And so I stand in a provocative promise to you, my child. Stand with me in a place of holy vibration, that we may raise up the frequency in which we exist. Raise up our ability to express love, resurrect a true life of divinity, offer blessing and wisdom to our world.

And I thoroughly believe that if we were to do this together, that we could raise our vibration to a flash-point together, to the point where miracles are common and to the point where the true power of children of God can be demonstrated in everyday living.

In divine love, resonating with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my strength.

Shema, Israel: Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Ehad. V’havta: Adonai Elocheicha, v’col v’levcha, v’col v’nufshecha, v’col modecha.

Here I am praying so deeply with the great commandment.  Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God.  Thou shalt love the lord thy God.  In the midst of his kingdom, in the midst of all of his creation including myself, including my body.  Thou shalt love the lord thy God…with all of thy heart, with all of thy soul.

Thou Shalt love the Lord Thy God with All of Thy Soul

What precious words. The Father created that soul in his image. The soul, that is in reality an extension of himself, a piece of his divinity in light, in love, in truth. He has made me a living soul. My father has made me a living soul, and placed me in the midst of his creation. I love my Father with all my heart, with my soul, with all my might.

Thou Shalt love the Lord Thy God with All of Thy Might

Whose might? Not the might of this body. Not the might of my mind. The might of my soul. I am a living soul here in the midst of His Garden, appreciating every wonder of his creation. Every wonder: from the tip of every leaf to the dancing grasshoppers. God sees this through me. God experiences his creation through his children as only his children can. For the pleasure of the Father, he places children in the garden to experience his creation – as himself – and as only his children can, with absolute free will, absolute free will.

The power of the living soul to choose what his contribution to the kingdom is, to choose his words, to choose his deeds – we are free. And yes, there are levels of freedom. You cannot choose among flavors of ice cream that do not exist, be you can create them. In the image of our Father we are placed in the garden with the power to create. I can plant a seed.

We have One Great Commandment: To Love God, To Love our Father, To Love the Divine

For it is only in loving the Divine, that we resonate with our potential as living souls in the garden, living souls in our life, living souls in the creation of the Father. Love the Divine with of thy soul and all of thy might – and then you are free. You are free, once you have that love, once you are vibrating like a living soul – radiating like a Sun in his Garden. I am radiant.

In the fullness of radiance, you are free to do whatever you want.

Whatever you say, whatever you do – in THAT place – is LOVE. In THAT place, is repairing the world.

Whatever you say, whatever you do – in THAT place – is healing his children.

It doesn’t matter what your choices are. It does not matter.

As long as you are a living soul, it does not matter what your choices are.

Fall in LOVE with the world around you

I am taken by the amazing artistry in a young sapling of pine, so beautiful are the works of the kingdom.

So beautiful is Heaven, and God’s creation.

So beautiful are all of your creatures, and even more so are the treasures that you have placed in the garden – your children – that you may experience it through their eyes.

God is seeking life experiences

By loving the Divine with all, we are free. We have nothing to fear, nothing. We are commanded to love the divine as a Father, and to fear the Divine as a king. What a great sense of humor God has! How can you love that which you fear?

Yet there is a great secret, a great secret:

If we fear ONLY God, that which we love BEYOND MEASURE,

If we are free as God’s children,

We will fear nothing in this world.

There is nothing outside of me in this world that I fear – nothing,

Not loss, not death – nothing,

Not even Hell.

I fear nothing outside, in this world – nothing.

A person who is said to be a God-fearing Man doesn’t cower in fear at the presence of his Father

It means that we fear ONLY GOD,

We fear nothing of this world!

We are free!

WE ARE FREE!!!!!

We are living souls in the garden of creation.

A mind cannot overcome fear,

The mind is the origin of fear.

A fearless man transcends the mind,

A fearless man is a living soul in the garden of his Father.

Living in realms of light,

Realms of Love,

Realms of radiance beyond measure.

We are free,

We are free, in the great commandment, to be living souls.

We are free, thank you Father.

Thank you Father.

I go down in the river to pray, learning about that good old way, I say… Oh Lord show me the way

 

I’m at peace, living in peace with all that is around me. Fully harmonious, able to laugh at my shortcomings, and I find joy in truly seeing the people around me as well.

How I long for the presence of the Divine, the earth shaking rumbles in my spine, in my crown. The energy of the tree of life fully functional, my spine is golden, my eye is single. Both sides of my brain don’t feel divided anymore. My eye is single!

My mind does not compete with my soul for control of my life, because my eye is single. I am a living soul, and my whole body is full of light. I was drawn to the Sun of Beingness, like a moth to a flame, and now the moth is no more. What remains is so much more, and a place of so much freedom, full of light.

I sought shelter in the Divine from what I thought was a cold world. Now I know! This world is not cold!!! It is the mind that is cold!!! I have transcended the mind. I no longer serve two masters. The mind is not my master. I am in complete control of my experience of life. I am in a state of complete freedom and complete responsibility, complete ownership of my experience of beingness. I am.

Every day my body is getting more pure, more able to handle this earth shaking in my spine and my crown. Every day I long for more.

Exercise your Power to Choose

Through Divine mercy, divine grace and divine law, you have been given free will to experience life in your own choosing and your own way.

I once prayed every day for 6 months, “show me the way, show me the way that I should go in my life.” 6 months, every day I prayed, “Father, show me the way! Show the way that I should go! Show me what I should do with my life!” And there was no answer!

Finally, 6 months later, I rose from prayer, and the engine in my spine rose temporarily, AND A GREAT STRONG THOUGHT OCCURRED: “YOU MUST CHOOSE.”

Exercise your power to choose. You must choose! It took me 6 months to awaken from relying on the Divine to make my choice for me!

Does God Tell Us What to Do?

This is a huge question. Before sharing my experience and my opinion and understanding of Divine Law, I invite anyone who thinks God is telling them what to do to share their own experience.

I have known people who had a very very deep relationship with the Divine, to the extent that I believed them and was inspired by stories of their experiences. One such friend is no longer on the earth. Just before she got sick with cancer, she was completely healthy and received one such communication along the lines of, “MAY I USE YOUR SICKNESS TO HEAL MANY PEOPLE?” She wasn’t sick at the time, and she obliged the divine urge graciously. I was with her through the whole process and observed how people were touched by her experience and attitude throughout. 6 months later she was gone, off on a new adventure and I was with her through that transition as well.

So even in this very rare case, my friend was given a choice. So here is my big fat opinion:

Who ever says that God is telling them what to do, is simply operating in their mind, listening for the faint calls of the soul: “Hello down there!!!”

The question of identity is a very powerful opportunity for transformation. What are you? Are you a mind? or are you a soul? What is your identity wrapped around: being good? being successful? These are simply constructs of mental conditioning.

My identity is based on beingness. Human beingness inevitably draws its origin in divine beingness, which is overflowing with all aspects of virtue. All we need to do is shift the nexus point of our identity and let it shine.

Many are Called, but few are Chosen: A question of Identity

A human being is Soul with a mind and body in tow. These ones who have chosen to live this way, in true identity, are the ones I call “true children of God.” This may seem judgmental, but it is really a question of choice. The ones who are radiating light, and seem to be truly alive inside have most likely made a choice at some point in their lives that allowed this to shine.

I practically worship these kinds of people. I can sense them from afar, and they come in all shapes and colors, all races, all classes, all genders. Some bear the scars from the battle of life and exist in the lowest classes of society, facing moral decisions that are far south of the moral compass of society. I am seeking people like this, regardless of outer form or social station, seeking to connect and seeking to support them.

The opposite of the radiant “true” child of God; the opposite of knowing and identifying with beingness, is identifying with the mind, heart or body. This kind of person might say or perhaps think things like: “I know I have a soul, but it is out there somewhere. I don’t know what it is doing.”

God does not tell us what to do. When we awaken as children of God we awaken as soul! A living soul!! We are free to choose!!!

Wisdom, Blessing and Power as God’s Representatives on Earth

For those who have awakened to the magic of true Beingness, every word that comes from our mouth are words of wisdom, and the melodic song of the Father pours from the mouth. Every time I speak I hear the voice of my Father. It is so precious!! Every word, every deed is so precious! I am an inspiration to myself. Does this sound arrogant? For one who is identified with mental conditioning, the natural love and sincere respect of oneself is very foreign.

WHERE ON THIS EARTH CAN GOD HAVE A VOICE?? WHERE? GOD PLACED HIS CHILDREN IN HIS IMAGE, WITH FEET AND WITH HANDS AND WITH A VOICE UPON THIS EARTH. The voice of God on earth is the voice of God’s true children. The voice of those who awaken as a soul, a living soul, and whose eye is single.

God’s true children are the ones who know they are a living soul. And thus the last shall be first and the first shall be last, for many are called, but few are chosen. God’s children are all equal. No one can stand superior to a true child of God. No one.

We all have our roles to play, but we can be the voice of God from any social station. We have the choice of which school to learn or which company to work or which business to start with varying authority figures whom we need to align with to be a part of successfully. However, Divine equality is entirely independent of social station.

The magnetic quality of heavenly radiance

Divine equality is a law of being, yet any living soul, will point in the direction of the greatest light.

The matter of earth, ruled by principles of diffusion such as gas, move outward from a high-pressure canister into the world. However, the light of Heaven follows instead principles of magnetism, which moves from low concentrations to high concentrations. The greater the expression of my soul, the more magnetic I become, and the more I seek those, my teachers, my masters, my uncle – whose expression of light and the radiance of their tree of life is greater than mine – and the more I seek and am able to connect with and support the true soul of humanity.

I seek true children of God: THAT THE LIGHT THAT WE MAGNIFY AND WE RADIATE TOGETHER IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS! Radiating light, activating the children of heaven, THIS IS THE WORK OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD!

WE CAN TURN ON THE TREE OF LIFE WITHIN!!

HEAR THE CALL!! AND CHOOSE!!! CHOOSE!!!

FEW, SO FEW ARE CHOSEN!!! SO CHOOSE!!!

CHOOSE TO BE A LIVING SOUL!!

Be responsible: Find freedom by fully owning your choices

The power and sovereignty you hold as a living soul gets diluted when one disregards true responsibility. Using phrases such as “This makes me feel…” “I’m hurt” “I’m resentful” all disregard the choices, perhaps unconscious that were made prior to expressing such an accusatory thought.

Even in the shadow of such minor disavows of responsibility, to me there is no greater misdeed than proclaiming divine authority over others by saying that God commanded them to do something. This person can be the megalomatic pastor cowing his sheep into submission, or it can even be a person of criminal intent justifying inner wounds by giving them a voice. Please don’t be a person like that.

You have all the power in the universe. As children of the Divine, the most natural, effortless way of being is overflowing with wisdom, blessing, power and virtue.

At the very least, we can own our power and be responsible, even held accountable in an honorable way for the consequences of our actions.

DON’T EXCUSE ANY WORDS OR CHOICES AS GOD TELLING YOU TO DO THIS OR THAT!!!

THE DIVINE ONE PLACED YOU IN THE GARDEN OF YOUR LIFE WITH THE POWER TO CHOOSE!!! CHOOSE!!

In the days of the Master, there was a time when the disciples came to him, saying,

“Who then is the greatest of heaven?”

“And he called to him a little child, and set the child in the midst of his disciples, and said, Verily I say unto you, except ye turn and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

“Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven; and whoso shall receive such a little child in my name receiveth me.” (Matthew 18:1–5, American Standard Version)

Who is that little child? Who is the child? I am. The child is obviously a symbol. Jesus himself was not saying, “I am a child.” It’s a symbol for something. And when we turn and become as little children, we don’t shrink. It’s a symbol for something. What is it? There’s something truly open in this moment to the spirit of pure being.

I have memories from my childhood. When I was in first grade I was very enthusiastic about learning how to read, and I got to the point where I was reading to my class. Then something changed in my mind. I remember a day when the whole way that I would think changed, and suddenly, from whatever the way my mind worked before, my mind would start to think in words after I learned how to read.  Every time I had a thought, the words would just kind of scroll across my forehead like a banner. And over time, as we grow, all of these words, all of these learnings that inflate and bind our minds grow like vines, sucking the life out of something that’s truly present.

The more inflated and the more bound our minds become, it’s like we’re living in a dream, always—we’re mad about something, or adamant about something. We’re afraid to lose something of ourselves, something of our identity. But it doesn’t exist, it’s not real. It’s a dream. When does the dream end? When? When will the children of the Father wake up? The little child is the awakened son.

There’s been a huge transformation in the being that’s standing before you. I’m awake. And the process of awakening came in the form of a dream that I wrote down, entitled “Three Tests to Spiritual Wholeness,” and I also call it “The Dream To End All Dreams.” If you want to read all those details, you’re welcome to, but I’ll just share with you very simply what the three tests were. I live them, in this moment.

The three tests were, first, destruction of form, destruction of the ego. The second test was complete honesty:  I was asked, “What did you do to cause the problem?” And I was able to be fully honest, because I had lost the forms that I was holding on to—completely melted away. I was able to say, “This is what I had done that caused the problem.” As I passed that test, the advice that was given to me was, “Such honesty is accountability to heaven, not man.”

It doesn’t matter if people judge you for being completely honest and completely true. It does not matter if people judge you for being completely self-effacing about what you have done. People who judge would find a reason to judge you later anyway. Such honesty is accountability to heaven, not man.

The third test was in a place where there was a man there that I regarded as the Father. He didn’t see me, he didn’t acknowledge me. And that test was simply to wait—to be in a place where the Father could see me, but not demand his acknowledgment. Just wait.

To let myself be destroyed, to let myself be completely honest, and to let myself be patient in the presence of the Father—these were the three tests for spiritual wholeness.

That was on the third of August, and since then, as all my dreams do, every symbol has manifested in my life, culminating last week with an explosion of energy in my being. The amount of energy in my spine, the amount of energy that is moving through me, completely exploded into this presence. And it was as though this seed, this golden seed in my navel opened up, and a golden man rose from a fetal position in my navel, and didn’t stop at my body, it just kept going and going and going. My true self is here. It took a lot of time to get used to using my body again, because it’s truly me that’s here now. The awakened son is here.

My priorities are very different now. One of the things that’s so different about me is that I went around thinking that I had completely lost my mind. But literally, it’s like there’s no difference between what’s sincere and true to me and what comes out of my mouth and what comes out of my words and what comes out of my deeds. The inner has completely manifested in form in my outer world. There’s no mind, there’s no silent place that I can hold something that’s true of myself and withhold it from the world. It’s impossible now—it’s impossible. I’ve lost the ability to withhold the truth.

And as for my body… I don’t have time to say everything I’d like to say, but I will say this: This moment is the Garden of Eden. Everything around you is the kingdom.  To the degree that you could be open and see the kingdom in this moment, be in the garden in this moment. The reason the mind judges things as good or bad or creates drama, or anything else that the mind is doing, is because it is starving for energy. It’s starving—it’s like a man clutching, eternally dying for water in the desert. The mind is starving for energy. And when the awakened son comes, that energy is present and the mind can be at peace.

Know this:  My mind is like a calculator.  I use it when I need it, I take it out of my pocket, and I put it back in my pocket when I’m done with it. Because I am awake, I am here.

I’d like to finish with the “Prayer of Being,” written by Martin Exeter. And as I say them, these are my words too, because I live them, and they are true for me.

I am in heaven. The revelation of myself is holy.

My kingdom comes because I am here. My will is done in earth because my will is done in heaven.

I give the bread of life in each moment of my living on earth.

I forgive, and that forgiveness is received by those who share the spirit of forgiveness.

I lead no one into tribulation, but deliver all evil into the creative cycle.

For mine is the kingdom, present on earth, because I am present on earth. Mine is the creative power of the Word. And mine is the glory which results, shining round about, to be reflected by the world which I create.

So I end with a note of patience. This new cycle, every first step on a new cycle, starts with the spirit of patience. I am patient with the Father, that he will acknowledge and use my voice as he sees fit, not me. And I am patient with his children. I don’t demand recognition, I don’t demand respect from anyone. But if you are awake, whenever it’s right for you, come look me in the eyes and tell me, “I am awake. Let us serve the Father, for the kingdom of heaven, together.”

I see all these baby naming sites with name meanings and annual trends.  And the tendency is for parents to base their children’s names on their own preferences or their family’s, etc.

The function of a name is simply to embody, in both the sound energy and the meaning energy, the energy that will assist the soul purpose of the child best in this life.  Through my work with dreaming and just paying attention on subtle levels, I have found that my children both chose their own names while in-utero.

Taking the emphasis away from the parents and more towards the child is no small shift.  Without the proper tools, how can soul communication exist in-utero?  The answer is just sincerity.  Have a sincere desire to have the child’s true name revealed, and in whatever form works best, it will be shown to you.

Blessed are the children whose parents can hear their true names.