We can imagine ourselves to be anything, projecting it into this world of reflection. Such grand creativity is accessible at any given moment. Yet my experience has proven to me that regardless how fantastic our imaginings, it pales in comparison to truth. We needn’t project images of ourselves. Allowing our true nature to emerge is so amazingly superior to anything we can possibly conjure up for ourselves.

The same life that breathes the tree, breathes you and me. The life of nature is also our life. The nature of life is also our nature. As there is one life breathing all life, when we live from our fullness there is no ‘part’ of life which is not already involved and aligned with all we do. If we live gratitude for life in all we do, we are living an expression of gratitude for all the supposed ‘parts.’

In gratitude for you,
Marc

Thank you for visiting and commenting. There is never reason nor need for apologies where I am concerned.

What lovely questions! I smile as I read your posts; for you to ask such pertinent questions, signifies you already know the answers. This is as it should be.

“…my head seems fixed in a state of fear that ‘letting go’ is going to mean having to see the beauty in things that are challenging to translate.”

We experience a sunset. We may feel a need or desire to articulate it with words as a poem. Or express the experience visually as a painting. Or we may hear the experience musically and wish to express it as such. We may wish or feel need to explain the sunset scientifically.

All are well and good. Yet, may we not also simply experience the beauty and blessing of the sunet without need to define or explain it?

As we open unto, and experience the more expansive consciousness that we are, there will be instances the mind will simply not grasp it, much less translate it. It is a challenge only to the mind. If or when we may have need to express it, the means to do so will happen of its own.

Even so, it may perhaps still seem we have not done so completely or accurately. We need not concern ourselves with such. There need be no challenge. We may simply enjoy the sweetness and expansiveness of this experience of life without concern of defining it.

“…do you ever falter in your surrender to life? Do you ever revisit human/brain perceptions of the world and in the face of the “mind chatter” have to intentionally surrender to it or are you always ALWAYS in a state of blissful observation?”

Perceptions are relative. What is deemed lacking spirituality to one, may be spiritual bliss to another.

My Cheyenne brother ‘hawk’ visited me for the past few days. In nature, the hawk and owl hunt the same turf; one by day, the other by night. They each feed upon the preditors of the other one’s prey, thus assisting each with survival. My bother is predominantly left-handed, I am predominantly right handed; we balance-out rather well.

He came to help me build a retaining wall. We sat and surveyed the natural flow of life and land, and determined where and how the retaining wall would best serve its function, yet be aligned with the existing environment. We did not force anything.

We worked hard, mixing and pouring forty-six, 60 lb bags of cement. We sweated all day for two days. Perhaps some may not consider this as spiritual, much less blissful. Yet, I will say at no time does anyone put their spirit aside when they work. All life is spirit; no matter what we are doing we are still spirit. The treat is that we may access more expansive awareness and bring our fuller beingness into whatever it is we are doing.

And, what miraculous bodies we have to do such things. What a blessing it is to have a brother of heart volunteer to help do such hard work. We had a good time, laughing along with our straining muscles, attuning with the area and trees I wished to protect.

Let me ask a question. If we become aware of ourselves revisiting so-called ‘normal, every-day’ perceptions, and we catch ourselves to return to a broader observation point, is there really such a thing as to “falter?”

As we begin awakening, we often catch ourselves ’sleep-walking’ again and again. Yet, each time we catch ourselves as such, we may bring ourselves back to a more expanded awareness. As we do this, each time we remain more fully aware for longer periods of time, thus ‘falling asleep’ less and less frequently. I do not view this as faltering, but as awakening. Awakening may happen to some as a finite moment, yet my own experience has been more of an ever-more continual expansiveness.

“There seems to be alot of ‘protocol’ when it comes to communicating with higher spirits…opening/closing sessions/order of spirits to communicate with/coning etc. I struggle with this. Is it ok to find your own way to open to God or do we really have to follow ‘guidelines’ channeled from higher beings to us through mediums?”

I once made a drum. I cleaned the hair from the hide, soaked and tanned it, stretched it around the rim and drew it tight with leather I had trimmed for this purpose. I made the drum stick from a small branch which had fallen from a ’special-to-me’ tree on the property I onced lived.

This drum is rather large, with a deep tone which resonates with my body. I would often sit and drum at dusk. As I would lose myself within the deep tonality, my body beginning to vibrate, a higher pitched resonance could be heard and I would drift away into a more expansive consciousness.

The energy of life flowed through me into this drum as I made it. I concentrated and made it with care. The drum is a tool, yet this drum is sacred to me.

Suppose I gifted you this drum. You may appeciate it and respect it out of respect for me. You may honor it as a sacred tool. Yet it is not truly sacred to you.

Suppose one day you take the drum to a small stream. On your way perhaps a bird ally gifts you a feather to let you know it is with you. You carefully attached the feather to the drum with reverence and gratitude. As you sit by the stream you begin to drum. The resonance of the drum allows you to slip from the daily concerns of man’s world into a greater expanse of your beingness. The drum is still a tool, yet, you have now put your “juices” into it; life-force has flowed through you into the drum, the energy of your bird ally is part of it, and it has assisted you in a sacred journey. Now this drum is sacred to you.

When my sister of heart and spirit would share certain things with me, she would always preface it with this; “Brother, I will share with you the way it was taught to me, that you may know how it has been handed-down through many generations without corruption. Yet, I will share this with you only if you will agree to change it as it works best for you.”

To many this may seem inappropriate or disrespectful. There are many traditions in this world. Some of these traditions are followed with no knowledge of why they are followed as they are. It has been handed-down and respected as such. Yet, each of us must adapt to how it works best for us individually. Some will say this is wrong to do. I would ask exactly who knows better what works best for me?

Consciousness is life. Life as we see it (for example, as you and a tree), is consciousness individualized. Thus, in a manner of speaking, we experience the one consciousness of life, as multiple individualized units of consciousness. Yet, of all the individualizations, there is no higher being than your own true self, for the truth of you is the same oneness that is life Itself.

The guideliness you follow are your heart. The heart is the doorway and the guide. No one outside you knows your heart better than you. Perhaps it is better we devote more to becomng fully acquainted with our heart, than to spend so much time following advice from other beings.

If individualized units of consciousness offer us guidance, we must always utilize discernment. Simply because a being may not be incarnate, does not mean they are any more spiritually advanced. The truly advanced will always and only guide you back unto yourself.

The guise of manipulation, coercion and untruths, are always found mixed within partial truths. That is how deception works… sprinkled partial truths are used to disguise the deception of ulterior motives.

Follow your heart. Open unto the expanse of your true self. No outside source knows your higher good better, for in truth there is no ‘outside’ source. As we grow in trust of our heart, the outer world experiences grow in reflection of confirmation and validation; these are the guarantees which the mind seeks in advance…. yet, to follow truth precedes them, rather than subsequent to them.

Blessings and love to you dearheart,
Marc

It is very good you put this exercise into practice. It is so easy to overlook that which on the surface seems too simple to be important. While I offered this exercise for a week, I’ve personally returned to it repeatedly for nearly 20-years, and can attest to its profound implications.

I wish not to ‘give-away’ the many treasures which may be harvested, yet I will say that we can only speak aloud that which we are first mindful of. In other words, we must first align our minds to look for the life-affirming gift in every event, circumstance and interaction, before we can verbalize life-affirmingly.

Other aspects of this have been hinted at in previous posts, all of which lay a foundation for things to come. What we garner is proportionate to our application, and what you share of your experience thus far attests to this. Ahhh… to feel love emanate within our interactions is truly worthy of celebration, is it not?

Blessings and Love to you,
Marc