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.

I just came to the realization that what I’ve been attempting in my spiritual quest is that I become anal amnemonic about my life here on earth.

I am quite a ways down the journey and I am quite an adept (but not in a braggadocio manner – that would be spiritually self-defeating).

In retrospect I can certainly recognize that once I learned to do it freely out and about in the world — (in the provided sanctuary spaces and not literally in the agorá, of course) — I had turned a corner to recovery and was a balanced entity entirely opposite and different (in an extremely good way!) to the person I was before,

In fact it is literally a pleasure now and I so look in all positive anticipation for each moment of now that constitutes a so-called ‘future’!

I had some thoughts this afternoon that crisply gave answer to something spiritual. I thought to post it. However, like all I share, I felt it would be misunderstood.

Hence, my crisp, poignant thoughts take the essay form and certain ones who could benefit might well not follow.

This is a story-line of my life and I don’t necessarily feel bad about it. Therefore I will post as I feel needed and let chips fall and bygones be bygone far away. My original thoughts will bury themselves somewhere in the body of this “essay” which leads and follows and I can only give clues for you to identify them ahead of time: it is based on a common stupid question and the typical stock answer. You who have intelligence can figure this out for yourself.

I did think on this crisp idea more at the time and after the time, right away, and, of course, I mentally created some more needed additions. Then, I was stricken with the compulsive need to explain myself, which is what will follow this and precede that. Time elapsed too, and time changed even the course of the explanation itself.

You see, I have this reputation as a cynic – a sarcastic cynic if you will. There are people who seem troubled by my supposed cynicism, especially as it pertains to matters of faith. I would like this record corrected, if possible.

For I am the opposite of cynical. I am of a very high vibrational cosmic spiritual level and I am always taking measures to transcend the common material human essence some call “existence”, however feelings-based and chemically-constituted and chemically-reacted that physical/material “real world” may be. Spirituality and spiritual development are very, very important to me. This is no cynical ploy. Helping others is also a key part of my nature. To put it short: I care. To put it lengthier shorter: I am what I am.

So, some would say – and maybe not say – but I can hear the silence say – that if I’m so spiritually “evolved” and high-vibrational (whatever that means) why do I feel and act so superior? Why am I so dismissive? Why am I so preachy? Why am I so sarcastic? Why am I so cynical? Why am I so mean? (Especially to nice people)?

And yes, I understand that this “dialogue” is largely in my imagination. I am aware how highly sensitive I am. But, I tell you verily, I am very adept at picking up the unsaid things. Occasionally these things come back as sharp “helpful” criticism from “nice” people. Occasionally you can actually see the “advice” that underlies the unsaid. I was raised in a very “helpful” and “nice” community environment, you see. It’s in my training, my very ‘heritage’, to pick up on the unsaid – for my own “wellbeing” and for my own “good”. Believe it or not. Or else don’t believe me.So I can only say in response or in imagined response that I am open. I am spiritual. I like openness. I like spirituality.

I’m not out to create minions. I don’t want to tell anyone what to think. I’m not out to “save” you. I do want people to cast off the narrow-minded physical-world littleness of binding heaven by binding so tightly things on earth. I do want general (and spiritual) openness to a looser freer cosmic earnestness to prevail. I am keen on the cosmic Realm of Wisdom/Kingdom of Heaven! I believe it’s the eventual destiny – over the very long unfathomable term – of creation. I could just have this all for myself and keep it all to myself and think “screw everyone”, but this will be cynical. I’d rather just be myself, share myself, and promote open spirituality and point out the narrow-minded hurtful stuff when and where I see it. If that’s too political for you to take then I’m very sorry for your aching head but like you heard me said I’m not guilty. (That last 16-word bit being a direct George Harrison song reference).

This brings me [unexpectedly, for I was free-lancing again!] to what I originally wanted to say.

I need people to understand my views on religion because I think they are grossly misunderstood (I was thinking just before the launch hour).

It’s simple to understand. It goes like this:
To me religion is one stupid question asked over and over again. It is one stock answer that is even stupider than the stupid question ever was.

I’m seen how this has been institutionalized. I recognize the dark power involved. You are free to see the opposite.

The question: “Why is there evil?”The answer: “Free will.”

This gets you nowhere spiritual. This makes you dependent. This keeps you down. That’s how I understand it. And the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again (for thousands of years, in this case) and expecting a different result.

That’s what I think about religion.

And then topping this off and adding further unfathomability is to explain the spiritual in human material form so that “people” can “understand”. Institutions formed by committee explain the freely given (good news!) as a “bargain” a materialistic exchange in very existential human terms “explained” for “understanding” purposes like some sort of Sicilian exchange. (Bad news for most. Good news for the ‘insiders’ only). And people buy this hook, line, and sinkhole. That only makes it worse. What’s the point, then, of transcending the material? Why would Jesus ever, then, say something like “do not love the world or anything in the world”? These explanations are so much “of the world and in the world.” These explanations should not be loved much less bought into. But this is what ended up being loved by hurtful people who wrest the mantle of “good” from earnest spiritual ones. Hoodwink, bamboozle and sinker. Religion is a Catch-22. Religion is cynical. Religion is hurtful. Religion excludes. Religion creates “heretics” (i.e. the earnestly spiritual). Many mystics have been killed as heretics. I’m a mystic too. You don’t have to believe me and if you plead the 2nd on me and kill me it won’t mean a thing and it won’t help advance spirituality by an iota.

P.S. Love is the answer and you know that for sure.

Everybody wants something. I have always wanted to want independently, free and clear of others’ unreasonable expectations and judgmental perceptions. On top of this I have wished for certain wants to be reciprocated unconditionally. But none of that is possible. Hence I have been happiest with patiently developed experience in the theory and practice of transcending wants. I am not in want of happiness! That is riches in itself, in case I ever wanted to be rich.

To do that which we are all on the path (of no escape) to doing that which we must and will do – no matter what resistance is put forth or expended – is as simple as it it inevitable.

There is no one way. The ways are varied and beyond our ability to label or to track. There is a way that is different and unique for each individual as there is unique experiential “reality” that belongs to each.

More importantly, there is only this one way.

Given that, the instructions are simple. It is a two-step plan:

1. Seek
2. Ask