Of all of these, devotion is the most important.  In fact, were I in an assembly of humanity I would motion that devotion be established as all of ours’ vocation.  Who would second?

If I were the way-shower that I can feel I deem to destined be I would not show you any creed nor method nor technique nor anything written down in any Deity’s hand or under any Deity’s express presumed direct direction.  (Especially no penis-wielding Deity.  I can assure you that emphatically under no pretense of wishy-washy or mild uncertainty at all!).

NO!  (And you are invited freely to hear that previously represented NO! as a resounding barbaric yawp if you wish – if I must or may sing that song of myself, me)

What I as a leader would show would be an unseen and unseeable change in perspective/attitude; an open reception to an abundant divine energy.  Not a burden at all.  Not an obligation.  Very lightness itself!  More than this I cannot reveal.  Nor can it be articulated/said.  Nor reduced to writing.

As I was working today, doing a monthly physical copy and file job that is tedious and unforgiving in its demand for keen and acute attention, I had a revelation! It was a big revelation! It was a true epiphany!!!!!

It goes in context with a conversation I had with a particularly close-minded close relative this past weekend. We were talking — (about the space between us all, etc,. etc.) (or demonstrating and manifesting the space between us all, more like it) — about work and retirement and such-like that people getting on our age begin to talk about at these major life-marking rituals. Anyway, I was asked when I would retire. I answered that “it would behoove me to work another ten years”. This was met with disdainful incredulity. I was follow-up asked “do you *have* to?”. And I quickly said “NO. I didn’t say I *have* to. I don’t *have* to! I could quit tomorrow if I wanted to. I said that it would *behoove* me to work another ten years.

I was ruminiscing [sic] on that very conversation as I worked. I was so reminiscing and ruminating in such manner deliberately in lieu of whistling, I suppose. Then it occurred to me: the happiest people are the ones who learn to love their work. And this prompted me to think more deeply about what I had just said/thought to myself. Yes, love. And, thinking more about it, I realized that I am indeed “in love” with work. That is I do look forward to my day each morning and I enjoy my day and I’m good at what I do and I m happy doing it. And realizing this, I realized that it’s up to me: I can truly cultivate myself into being “in love” with work.

This is something that can really be done and I am very close to this. With a little more concentrated awareness, intention and focused consciousness and conscious intent I can truly be in love with work in a very stable and rewarding way.

This is true too with actual love between a being and another intimate being. This kind of “in love” can be real. One can truly appreciate and enjoy being around another, seeing another, going through things with another and sharing with another. Some people get otherwise notions of what “love” is to them. And the looking forward to and the attractions of and the joy froms in such “love” do have a much more intense (and almost despairingly desperate) element to them. The intensity of “love” to some people indicates and matches in proportion to “real”. But I haven’t really seen this all as stable in my experience, and though I am a quite different human being to every other human being there is I don’t think I’m absolutely that unique.

I like being in love with work and I like being in love where I’m in love. I can see and appreciate this. And this is real for me. Don’t tell me I’m in denial. Learn to be open and not closed. For the real key to love and spiritual bliss is simply receptivity. Learn to cultivate it. Change attitudes and change the world.Or at least that’s what I say. You don’t have to do a thing the way I do it. You don’t have to see a thing the way I see it.

Peace out.

We are spiritual beings. All around, within and without us, is vibration of the Kingdom of Heaven.

WE can serve the Kingdom of Heaven

AS part of the Kingdom of Heaven

USING vibrations of the Kingdom of Heaven!

Those of us who are grateful and humble to know this need — and need know — absolutely nothing else.

It’s as simple as that!

Yet for the rest of us, there is a catch. There is always a catch.

This material life in our physical bodies is a soul dream. It is just as much a dream as the dreams we have, all our lives, been taught and learned and ‘experienced’ to constitute a dream. That’s right. Even our very physical bodies are a dream. No amount of hard rock “realism” can change this. Of course you can bang your head on a rock and experience a concussion. Of course you can stick an extremity into a meat grinder and “lose it” and experience a goodly and liberal amount of pain. I’m not trying to deny this. Yet, still, our bodies, our possessions, our very hearth and earth and home and abode are a dream, just as intractable and surreal as the “reality” of night-time dreaming (or day-dreaming for that matter) (for you day dream believers out there).

Just because you take it for granite doesn’t make it rock-hard reality or set it in stone. This reality, I mean. We’ve been trained and conditioned to take it for hard and fast reality. In reality it is not even real. It is not reality.

It is a dream made of the real vibrational wave and particle essence of Creation.

There is no need to imagine a butterfly from a dream dreaming us. It is. It just is. That’s the way.

Now, my having said that doesn’t mean that you should give up on the joy of life. It does not mean that I am being negative. I am not being a killjoy. Even when I point out the obvious: that religion itself is based upon all these faulty assumptions of reality as well and is very ill-suited to serve us anywhere else other than in the material world, which is most undoubtedly not even real!
I’m being quite the opposite, in fact! In think in all my opinion capacity that we should all ramp up being “tuned-in” to the joy of living and to the delightfully overwhelming gift that is the joy of life! You may think I’m being cute here. Or paradoxical. Paradoxical yes. Cute, well, I always have been acutely cute. But not that literal kind! And I’m not being a word-wise sophist wise-ass, just because I have joy in using (and amusingly misusing) words. And, no, your “opinion” doesn’t always count! (Opinion is decidedly not a separate but equal thing!) (Especially in this matter!) Paradox, anyway, is a key to enlightenment! And God Realization is a manifestation of enlightenment! This is JOY! Moreover, paradox is everything the cosmic Christ used the physical and material dream-reality mouth of Jesus to say. Look it up!

You may consider your hurt feelings to be real here. You may take offense at my offensive sacrilege. You may consider all the “feelings” associated with your physical being and your nervous system to be reality. You have that prerogative. You can even play the “common sense” card if you wish to. But I’m being the opposite of negative! Mind that, please. Use your unreal physical mind to grasp some of this concept! See just how ‘zen’ everything is!

I’m being the ultimate positive! And the ultimate joyful in waking up to awareness of the reality above and beyond the “reality” of our experiential material world training. Don’t be bamboozled by your religious training and/or your sensitive feelings.

Knowing the awareness of spiritual reality does not preclude the living of life. It gives us all the more reason to enjoy the great cosmic gift of our being in a body within a physical world! It gives us all the more impetus to enjoy to the fullest the physical sensations of this dream-scape [sic] all the while being liberally free of that common human sickness: that desire to protect and to save and to hoard and to “earn” and to “keep” all this material stuff, all this status, all this achievement. Furthermore, we owe it to our Creator to not get all caught up in the physical world “reality” of totalitarian depravity from which we need a Sicilian “bargain” or real-world barter exchange to be “saved” from. That doctrine is a dream too. A bad dream. A nightmare in essence.

The point of creation is joy. There is joy for us to enjoy without the addictiveness [sic] of desire. There is joy for us to appreciate without the often violent paranoia of “property” “ownership”. (And speaking of violent paranoia of property ownership, just keep in mind what chattel has been considered — by people of the past who are pointedly just like us people of today — to be property to be thus owned: both with regards to skin tone and with regards to gender). Our real-world take on society is sick in many ways. This is history as well as critical race theory! Understand that please. There is a way to be joyful! Don’t get caught up.

We are spiritual light-filled energy-driven beings occupying a dream-space in physicality in a world in which everything is a dream, nothing is real, and nothing (or no one) truly belongs to us.

Cosmic consciousness is such a joy!

Feel the joy!

(or disbelieve it and be ‘les’ miserable and endure all the pain and suffering material existence can bring when it is taken for reality) (you are made in the ‘image’ of the Creator. By all means you have the authority and the ability to create hell). (and you may well live there too). (Don’t hate those who live in joy). (I, for one, will never stop trying to think of ways to invite you in!)

There is near ecstatic delight & joy in the simple being of living that is very easy to miss. One must learn to discern the very subtlest signals of imperceptible wave and particle, a tuned-in cat in diametrically opposed [seemingly!] states to not miss this. Experience joy!

Once you start to get it you begin to know you always knew it.

Speaking of the acquisition of good things (in the opaque way that I delightfully did before!) I would like expound particularly on one of them: serenity.

What is serenity? you might ask. I’ll answer that prayer with an example.

Serenity is being able to extend unconditional love to the religious. This serenity comes through realization that you can’t change them. This serenity comes through acceptance of said unchangeability. You can’t change them because they earnestly believe — (or have convinced themselves to believe be it through *authority* of pedantic others or through the powerful drug of group-think and inherently assumed ‘strength in numbers’ phenomenon) — that they are doing right and best regardless of the intense harm they may cause themselves and others. Having acquired the serenity of accepting a fundamental thing you can’t change, you experience the liberally liberating freedom of not feeling compelled (or responsible) to correct them. You can love them as they are!

It is quite possible to acquire serenity I say! In all serenity, one can take delight that the willfully ignorant can somehow seem to have flourished. [For the things of this world are all about seeming]. Through acquisition of serenity one can love and one is able accept what one can’t change!

And I will carry on with my serenity. Thank you very much. I, myself, am very thankful, thank you.

You go on and do you.

1. Ask
2. Be thankful
   

*For best results one must find a way to train one’s mind into sustained and concentrated stillness and quiet within a context of unfathomable emptiness

“It all comes down to what you wish to believe”

Indeed. Someone pretty intelligent must have once said that.

However, all that taken as a given yet, still, despite what all wish there is something truly real underneath.

There is the unchangeable ever-now cosmic Radiant Reality that plays out as destiny of creation. Nothing we all think can change that reality.

That said, though, it is real i.e. “reality” that the greatest committee of all, human-kind, has been endowed with creative powers [in the image of the creator, if you will] to create all manner of “reality” that we all must live with and in in the meantime. This “reality” constantly puts our endurance ability to the test in a very hard way.

But with this tremendous creative ability we’ve created some wondrous things and some truly negative doozies haven’t we? We’ve created some impossibly formidable institutionalized cruelties and – despite all our imagined ‘sacrifices’ — we continue at it and get more and more adept at it. Why are people so self-defeating and negative? This is a question some of the masters of literature were keen and perceptive at asking. (Check Faulkner for some of the best). But we’ve never gotten a sufficient answer – and that is the nature of things.

Anyway, keep in mind our awesome tremendous ability to create “reality”. Learn to use your power of assumption for the good. Throw away all this negative rote-filled narrative continuation and all this persistent individually-sliced negative expectation. Become positive, even if it feels fake. For despite what you wish to believe – absolutely no amount of negativity and darkness can change the Radiant Reality of the Light!

Be positive! Change all our meantimes for the better!!!
That’s what I have to say about that.