The thing about the alcohol, the wine, the ‘spirit’, is the selfishness. Alcohol is the amplifier, the highlighter. Its work is limited to what’s there. Its function is to draw it out. It is too often mistaken for a creator. It is not. Relinquish emotional attachments/selfish desires. When the selfishness has been relinquished, the alcohol behaves differently and, perhaps, much desire for alcohol in the first place might also go away. Become spiritual. Live in the real Realm of Wisdom. Cease to create earthly realities, even nebulous scapegoats like ‘spirits’ which are created selfishly to participate in an earthly cause/effect spiral of blame. Clean the inside of the cup and earthly struggle dissipates. For hasn’t it been said that nothing from outside can go into a man to make him unclean?

• Bring your obsessions to offer as a sacrifice in the crucible
• Bring your desires to offer as a sacrifice in the crucible
• Bring your distractions to offer as a sacrifice in the crucible

Dear “Christians” who seem obsessed with criticism and feel persecuted about even enjoying the basic (to you) ability to publicly profess your faith:

I write this missive with love and in love and by love. I write it to give you hope.

For the sake of flattery let’s assume there are some out there whom we can presume are genuinely evil people. For the sake of it let’s assume there are some who would like to extinguish God.

But that’s ridiculous! No! There are truly few, if any, such. And they have no such power or ability. They pose no such threat! I was only giving your fears credence to flatter you. And I shouldn’t! Give up that obsession. There is no darkness that can overcome light. Forget your insane obsession with barbs of criticism. (Slings and arrows and barbs, oh my). They have no such power. Yes. I said true. You are under no existential threat. But you are created in God’s image and thus have the power to create and to grant power. Why do you obsessively create and align such conspiratorial powers against you?

Now, there are truly things that reasonable, spiritual or non-spiritual people, folks, and/or citizens can’t and shouldn’t abide. Specifically we all shouldn’t abide the arrogance, the cruelty, the selfishness, the fear that prompts addictive affinity with a dominant religion. That’s right. You heard right. When your ‘religion’ gets political and adversely affects the lives of others by blanket assumptions, supporting and enacting crazy cruel laws that apply to all, and excludes and/or harms others, decent society shouldn’t abide it.

Don’t confuse this responsible application of civic responsibility with a conspiracy to wipe you out.

If the statements above offend you, don’t worry. It is only directed at the selfish and cruel who use religion as a selfish deceptive (and self-deceptive) vehicle to lash out at the threatening world which weak imagination exaggerates to frighten to obsession. Your spirituality is not under threat by criticism. And true spirituality can’t and couldn’t. If the shoe doesn’t fit, you have nothing to get angry or defensive about.

Don’t feel put upon. You’ve not been asked (or assumed) to wear the shoe.

However, if you draw your religion as some sort of imaginary circling of wagons and you use it to give strength to you and yours and to “preserve” “your” “heritage” or “way of life” (a true lifestyle choice), you are misusing it. If you classify in some convenient blanket manner “outsiders” as evil persecutors — (such as heathens, butt-fornicating gays, cultural minorities, practitioners of other monotheistic religions, practitioners of polytheistic beliefs, atheists, democrats, feminists, lesbians, practitioners of yoga, vegans, vegetarians, non-conformist proud blacks, black lives matter kneelers, offensive haberdashers, cultural elitists, Soros, etc.) — in a zero-sum game, you are professing mendacity. Mendacity is a refined form of hate. Like a wheel inside a wheel it turns on you. Don’t abuse religion that way! Be spiritual!

Simply put: if you condone or profess oppressive politically-charged religion to protect your interests you are being hateful (and too much of this world) and then you should rightly be resisted, for this oppression carries consequences, intended and unintended. These consequences affect other’s lives. To presume to better yours in a selfishly created zero-sum environment is the height of arrogance. This is a “lifestyle” of being mean and hateful well above and beyond any pretense otherwise. Don’t do it!

And it’s mendacious and mean seven times seven over if you join up with that most ridiculous and absurd of conspiracy mongering. You can’t turn history on its head and presume to be persecuted. You can’t completely obliterate and ignore 1,900+ years of state-sponsored institutionalized persecution and genuine genocide and imperialist colonialism and ‘law and order’ preservation of slavery and legacy heritage of slavery in favor of a golden black and blue age of the first hundred years of truly persecuted hardscrabble cultist reality and project that willy-nilly into imagined reality of the present. It’s truly absurd! And all too selfishly convenient.

So, please,
and remember I write this missive out of love and in love and by love and for love,
drop the convenient complex. Get simple in spirituality. Shine your light and not your mouth. Grow a better beatitude. Actualize even a mustard seed’s worth of true God realization and be the peace you seek. You will no longer feel compelled to be publicly defensive.

Go in peace.

Be free of all bitterness and anxiety (even to the point of no longer feeling compelled to accuse the likes of me as bitter).

Go in peace to love and serve your neighbors.

P.S. When your “war-on” looms so conspicuously large in your trousers it is a degenerative offense to decency. (And it is very un-Levitical — by prescribed penalty — for a woman both to wear trousers and to sport an ostentatious ‘war-on’)

P.S.S. Happy Holidays!

[And when comes to be the 25th, and the twelve days of Christmas that follow then, by all means, Merry Christmas!} {God bless us, everyone!]

Take three slow, deliberate breaths . . . 

Breathe in the energy of Christ – breathe out any thoughts you might want to have (or entertain)

Breathe in the energy of Christ – breathe out any worries you might want to have

Breathe in the energy of Christ – breathe out everything


[You are good to begin]

The space between us is a scale approximation of the space within us

We’re better, when we behave like spirits; when we remember to recognize space . . .

. . . when the ever present past is an overwhelming presence future present imperfect and tense a continuous recurrence of a haunting of the familiar signals a feedback loop of the background noise so amplified a haunting repetitive ubiquity background becomes foreground background comes to the fore foreground becomes reality a given pressure cooked and stoked of obstruction a familiar assumed sort of diet of mystical sorrows figurative empty processed carbs and sugars to a bewildered soul a fattened lump of hungry soul festering hungrier dissatisfied and hungry gnawing in soul deficiency of deficit malnourished fear of loss the cacophony taken for reality taken granted for granite the struggle is real don’t feel slighted by gifted troubles don’t let reality of the struggle is real define the real cause without effect the fire you fear the curse the eternal torment of what was of what is to be avoided at all costs yet a gift subtle eternal is always singing imperceptive music underneath in the quiet of the solitude of the center there is crucible there is pulse true and beautiful faint and slight to feel the divine! Seek divine! The strewn abandoned positives are hidden deeply in the origin! The precious gifts of positives are hidden deeply in the destination! Silly beggar in the goldmine, all treasures are a living gift inherent integral to the in the now let go of that which you seek to conquer to possess like one possessed riches that make you poor including life itself the ultimate delusion you fear to lose. Love is not lost! Spare the divining rod and spoil the innocent child within. Edit the origin! Change the destination! See what really is really is hidden in rejected obscure moot regrets. Live the repast nourishing of love forgiveness of self and all around you! Tolerate not with resignation not with duty but with the care and love of Assissi! Forgive the generally accepted imposition! Clear the memory banks! The borders! Arbitrary as they are be free like the butterfly of music! Live for a day! Be attitude of positive! Or else believe it or not continue as in the image you are given free will choice to choose the wallow negative delude yourself negative go on be afraid negative to lose what you don’t have negative the caravan of fear eternal fire to fear to doubt to discontent hell is takers everywhere it comes for you as real as any terrorist gangster horde of democrat free love lice and std pc of your willful conjurance

You can only lose that which you think you had (but which you never really did have).  You cannot lose love!  Love is given to you from the creator of all creation and it no sooner leaves you than it has some miraculous transformative effect somewhere else.  You have no sooner ‘suffered’ the illusion that it has left you before it swirls around from somewhere elsewhere otherwise unexpected, working its magic transformation on you.  So no!  Don’t despair a love long lost or short lost.  It is never lost.  It is given.  We are conduits as it swirls on through.  Every moment is a joy of love!  Every moment!  Always!

What I am is a matter of semantics

Inspired by the joy inherent photo of a love long gone I decided to search, then and there, for the joy within. I look nowhere, within nothing. It is now. It is always now.  It is now, when I seek the solace of nothing silent within. Vast nothing knowing no nothing no bounds. I flow clean breath into out of the space that is the space in the space of the space. I weave through emptiness in the delusional body remembers pain, suffering, limitation until there is nothing I remember.  Alas there is no thing I, but woven stringy energy happy bliss. Nothing at all! Everything! The space is vast within! It’s a subtle thing, to feel the nothing, now, and to hear the music of nothing, ever now. It’s a subtle skill, unpracticed, that comes in the vast nothing silence melody chord. I weave a pattern in a corpus through nothing and hear the spheres sing of nothing. Loud and clear in nothing silence vast space of now. Nothing now joy nothing now joy nothing joy. And the joy reverberates for a long time with no face to smile.