Isness Present Perfect

I don’t know if it’s an age thing, but at some point in life even the greatest denial artist will admit that we live in a vicious cycle of re-runs. And that we don’t really want to see the movie again and again. Especially when it becomes plain boring, a farce, or worse still, a horror movie. So I hereby invite you to seriously consider the Meaning of Life as defined by Robert Scheinfeld. He calls it The Human Game, I call it The Greatest Game on Earth. And it goes something like this:

Call it what you will, there has to be some sort of a Creator over all of this. Because with all of its flaws, the tiny bit we are able to observe of this universe is too amazingly beautiful to be just a passing fancy, an accident of evolution. Now God, by definition, is eternal (Time only exists in the 3rd dimension, the one we insist on being stuck in), omnipotent, and has to be ever-joyous. But if you think about it, all of that can be rather boring. So God invents a game, something like our board or computer games. And in it he challenges himself with the only challenge he can – that he is anything but omnipotent, eternal, and ever joyous. And he creates these little “men” – us – to arrive as helpless babies with erased memories, wander around the playing field looking for clues, and spend their “lives” finding their way home – to what we really are! Scheinfeld calls this illusion phase one, and the dimension of Truth phase two. Between them you can imagine a cover of cloud, hiding the light from phase one players. But this does not mean that the sun is not shining on the other side. It is, it’s all good, and it’s eternal.

Robert Scheinfeld put together a “process” to awaken our awareness to our true power. This actually reconnects us to phase 2, poking holes in the cloud cover until it becomes our natural place again. Generally it goes like this: you acknowledge that what you are experiencing is only an illusion – a hologram, a movie. It is a hologram YOU are creating, it’s your movie. Because it takes tons of power to create such a fantastic movie, you simply reclaim the power, followed by appreciation of both the creation and yourself as the creator. I mean, how great are you to write, direct, special effect, and costume this scene! And the more difficult and intense the situation, the more power went to create it – and the more power available to reclaim!!

Next time I will give you the version of the process that was gifted to me. It is easy, manageable, and it works. However, before doing so it is imperative to do away with an obstacle. That obstacle is our ego. You no doubt have already either rationalized away what I have written, filing it away on your tidy shelves, or your ego will do so very shortly. This is because that’s what the ego does – it introduces drama and conflict. It thrives on it, and the more it gets the stronger you’re stuck in phase one. So we need to neutralize this, and we do this with the following affirmation:

I am the power and presence of an infinite being

My subconscious mind is creating self-sabotage in my life

I choose to reclaim the power back  from this creation, now.

That’s it. Repeat 13 to 20 times, as often as you wish/can. You will notice that it becomes automatic, and that your mind is wandering while your mouth speaks – this is your ego interfering. It does not want you to do this. Persist, do the repetitions in full presence. Within a very short time, some say 24 hours, “punishments” will stop introducing themselves into your life. You will be ready to do a similar exercise on actually adding power to creations you do want, and reclaiming power from those you don’t.

Notice that I have used the word “infinite being” and not God, subconscious mind, and not ego. This is to make things as bland as possible, so that no preconceptions get awakened, interfering with the process. You will be amazed at how much “thinking” will try and take place, to explain, negate, or even to thrill about all this. It is all nonsense, just a cover! Teach yourself to be above it. It’s just noise.

Our heads are full of noise. In fact there are two voices constantly competing in there. The loud one is our ego, screaming for attention, creating drama, conflict, and so-called “interest”. Actually, it’s all illusion. The other voice, soft and gentle as a summer breeze, is that of our heart.

Which one do you choose to listen to?

Thank you David for putting this in motion for me.

for more info on Robert Scheinfeld and theProcess: www.robertscheinfeld.com

I am sitting in my little house perched on a mountainside, in the midst of a storm. Surrounded by cloud, it feels like being inside a ping pong ball. Glimpses of the valley and sea far below are the only allusions to a reality beyond the room. Northerly gales send sheets of rain, which then come slowly sliding down the full height glass, like those green figures of code in the Matrix movies. A glimpse into the software of illusion, a ride on that ever-spiraling wave of creation the Maya call Zuvuya.

Today I shall have no visitors, no one will venture into the weather, nor walk down the steep wet path from driveway to house to interrupt my writing; Unless I write them into my script. The loudspeakers blare with 70’s schmaltz, an uncontrollable reaction to my being transported by FaceBook to those times, through a synchronic symphony of new old contacts. Apparently haphazard, yet so perfectly timed, so strangely intertwined in my mind alone, that it all seems as delirious as the unpredicted weather outside.

Smells, sounds, songs; what memory triggers! An instant pull to the very origin of an illusion, building blocks of our self-created reality. Do they detain us in the past, in expired nostalgia way past its use-by date? Or do they indeed mark the points whence we came, the vector indicating our future direction? My guess is there are no superfluous elements in the script, and that there must be a perfect balance there as well. Perhaps an opportunity for a Zen-like referring to these buoying memories and associations, for a flooding of emotion so that we may cleanse it and continue on our journey.

“Are you sure about this?” reads the clever label on the teabag I have just used. “You may never drink ordinary tea again”, it continues on the other side.

Sure about it? The entire script is melting in front of my eyes, like the one drop of milk merging into oneness with the extraordinary tea in front of me, and I need to be sure of something?! Even intellectually any memory will self-annul when confronted with the absurd differences in perception, between now and then. All that remains to do is to leave the memories and their associated perceptions behind. Goodbye and thank you, thank you so very much.

Now my tea is cold and gone is my train of thought.  Outside, a tree I have planted and grown is being pushed to the ground by the wind. Will it come back? Why plant when our own script is unknown?

There can be but one answer: that it is not the perceived “us” creating this. Most certainly some higher version of ourselves creating, and most probably having lots and lots of fun. So it’s all good! Might as well enjoy it for the well done movie that it is.

A presentation on crop circles appears in my email box. Apart from containing powerful albeit undecipherable information, their message is clear: look what you can do, with no machines, just your psycho-telepathic powers. It’s easy! Look ma, no hands. This is a cry to us, by us.

I write this in real-time, jumping from shot to shot as in a movie. It is easy to see the script-ness of it all that way. Even easier when perched on a mountain, in solitude and relative peace, a fool on the hill. Yet nurturing this awareness under any circumstances may well be the only way to maintain sanity, to survive these wild days of change. Yes, change; haven’t you noticed? The financial world as we know it will soon be history, as will the politics. It is already a cliché, like many others this too is attributed to Albert Einstein, that “the world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation”. No matter how much money they throw at it, the global economy has expired, maxed itself out. And the Copenhagen summit on saving the planet, our home, has shown unequivocally that we cannot continue to manage this show with 185 bosses, all agreeing on the issues but refusing to change their individual games.

How alternatives to these most basic systems of our being will evolve no one seems to know. My guess is we have not yet received the “download”, and the critical mass of awareness and desire has not been reached. There is, on the other hand, a growing awareness of the limitations of our current mindset’s potential: that the “we can do anything” mentality from the mechanistic viewpoint is not viable, not affordable, and most probably not true.

What remains is to wait, wait and see. Ride the big one with a positive attitude and no fear. Our predecessors have survived worse turmoil, greater suffering. Get real!

…and you can’t stop something that’s in you.

Believe it or not, that’s a quote from a movie. Pleasantville, by Gary Ross. Not from a self-proclaimed spiritual leader, not from any esoteric dogma, simply from our everyday language. And the beauty of it is, it’s absolutely true.

We are so lucky! There are no more secrets. The entire script of our existence, call it the Meaning of Life, is being projected in plain everyday language, in the people, places and events we surround ourselves with.

I am a firm believer that it is all within, it is all positive, and that is our natural way of being. We create our own realities, we write our own scripts. We direct and cast them, design the costumes, and create the most unexpected special effects. And that includes that “thing” we identify as us, the puppet that is our body, our space suit.

Now the thing with scripts, or levels of awareness, is that one cannot go backwards. Once we have accomplished the human level, we cannot go back and be a blade of grass. No more falling from grace, banishment from the Garden of Eden. That was in our old script. We’re beyond that.

In fact we already realize that we are not merely third dimensional beings. We have a glimpse of the fact that we actually exist in Time, the fourth dimension (check out www.lawoftime.org). In the grand matrix of creation we are energy in-form, in formation.

Now time is accelerating, spiraling in all directions, tapping in to more and more dimensions. It is a fantastic and fun-tastic ride on a wild wave! Which leads me to my own priority, what I see as my contribution: we must overcome fear. Many say fear is the opposite of love, that these two forces are the essence of our polarized duality mindset. That sounds good, but how does one implement it into everyday life?

The answer, well my answer, has two parts, and both are easy. No New-Age lingo, just simple Now-Age pragmatism. The first is make a checklist, either pre-written or ad-hoc, of things you fear. Realize that the fear or discomfort is a creation of your own ego (let’s call it your subconscious mind, so as not to get caught up in preconceptions). And do it! Do it now! Anything you’re afraid of, do it, and it will go away for ever. Afraid of heights? Climb up the highest building, or learn to fly. Raw fish? Go to the best sushi bar and dive in. Start collecting things you are no longer afraid of, ticking them off the list.

The second is a simplified version of Robert Scheinfeld’s “process” (www.robertscheinfeld.com). I will share that with you in my next post.