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ON FREEDOM

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To evolve my understanding of the world and people, I regularly attend a meeting of twenty or so who gather at a community center two or three times per month. It’s called Socrates Cafe where we select and discuss a topic of common interest. 

I’m often reminded that Socrates proclaimed his total ignorance, saying that the only thing he was aware of was his ignorance, implying that the recognition of one’s ignorance is the first step in philosophizing and wisdom gathering. Socrates, was convinced that he knew nothing. He also concluded that no one else knew anything and that he only appeared wiser than others because he recognized his own ignorance. 

During this last session, I sat purposely silent (a rarity) listening carefully during the hour plus long discussion about the meaning and practice of ‘Freedom.’ Silence allows me to stretch and refine my listening capabilities, to observe, to honor and connect with each speaker. 

On this day, I observed other attendees emphatically proclaiming their views and beliefs as well as their eagerness to defend the rightness of their views on the subject of ‘Freedom.’ Our discussion initially focused on the idea that: ’Freedom’ is the authority of governments and institutions to be handed down to citizenry because humans intrinsically require external authorities to enforce a collective civility. A thought occurred to me immediately: This concept assumes that humans are incapable of behaving in any way other than self-interest. Therefore humans require external authorities to impose limits on and/or govern personal ‘Freedom’ to provide for the common welfare.  My life path has taught and shown me otherwise.

I was not critical of my fellow attendees, but I was aware of the ‘Socratic irony’ in their emphatic proclamations of knowledge and truth. I wondered: Were they wiser than Socrates? Did they really know more or were their proclamations made from their sense of separation from each other, I/ME fear-based idiosyncrasies? I witnessed bantering and jockeying for superiority of rightness. It left me squirming in my seat. But I held my silence to advance my listening. Maybe I’d hear something different?

I’ve been very fortunate to have been broken (for the most part) of the learned habit of focusing on I/ME through a cultivated relationship with my wise Soul, advocate for my expansion. Once broken, I was gently encouraged to find a balance between focusing my thoughts, feelings and actions on I/ME with the collective interest of ‘WE/US.’ Interestingly, with this transformation in focus, my own need for externally imposed civility was replaced by the strong inner guidance system of my Soul’s loving ESSENCE, tenderness and compassion. With practice, my fear of expressing these ESSENCE qualities towards all life diminished accordingly and a personal civility enveloped me.    

Further, many years ago, I was exposed to the Taoist wisdom: In our dualistic world, the opposite is also true. By observation in my life’s travels, I can testify that two fundamental concepts (up and down, this/that, right or wrong…) appear to be a common theme among the people of Earth. But why? I wondered and would Socrates consider this question worthy of investigation? Yes, perhaps he would. 

Back to the discussion, the energies of competition for rightness were palpable on this day. To me, this indicated that only minds (home to contentiousness) were engaged. This discussion left me feeling empty and longing for the heart’s acceptance and honoring of all views. I was reminded that attempting to convince another of the rightness of my views is at best a fool’s errand. This practice results in stresses I prefer not to have in my body.

After this discussion, I reflected further. I had learned long ago from Socrates: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” I was fortunate to have made this a central theme for my life’s journey for nearly four decades. Along this road less traveled I learned and applied many universal principles, one of which is that the external world is a reflection of my inner world of thoughts, feelings and actions. Then Pablo Neruda taught me that: “Changing the world is an inside job.”  Thus, if there is something in my external world I’d like to alter, changing my thoughts, feelings and actions about it will yield a more preferable reflections.  

Following this protocol, I learned a few things about the mysteries of human existence on Earth. Paramount among these learnings are: 

  • Humans are made in the image and likeness of the all-loving Creator of all that is. 
  • Our Creator has endowed us with the free will to think, feel, and act as we choose in each moment.
  • We are ‘Free’ to separate ourselves from one another, which often creates mayhem in our wake.
  • We also have the option to apply our thoughts, feelings and actions to cultivate and express our loving ESSENCE, our inherently loving nature to live honoring both the I/ME and the WE/US to remember our unity. 

I’ve experienced many instances to express my ESSENCE. During my travels, I’ve also experienced ESSENCE to be alive and well in many a human heart. I suspect it’s inherent to all but its expression is often blocked by our life’s experiences in the illusions of separation. When we remember it and express our ESSENCE fearlessly, we are able to live (more easily) in this dualistic world but not of it. Then, we have rediscovered authentic ’Freedom,’ where there is no doubt of the human capacity to remember our union and honor our place in the sacred origin with all things. When we consistently hold this ’Freedom,’ we give birth to the experience of Heaven on Earth within ourselves. Then, it can be reflected in the external world.

The aphorism ‘Silence Is Golden’ was made tangible within me as our discussion ended. I paid tribute to Socrates by looking within to examine my thoughts, feelings, and actions. I honored my wholeness by listening to both my mind and my heart. I honored each speaker. My self-knowing expanded. I gained wisdom because I now understand myself on deeper levels. I found a light within me that I can trust to guide me along my life’s path. I grabbed a fist full of courage; I took time-out from the daily motion of modern life to strip away the thoughts, feelings, and actions that inhibit me from reaching the clarity in my Soul’s loving ESSENCE and its full expression. An authentic ‘Freedom’ rang out from within my very Soul to take root in my body. It said:                

  • Practice honoring all things.  Refrain from comment,  judgement, or interference.
  • Own my ESSENCE, practice tenderness and compassion.                                                        
  • Love more. Forgive more. Embrace more, Live calmly with intensity.                         
  • Ask: Where do I force self-serving outcomes in my life?                                               
  • Surrender to the divine plan for my life.                                                                          
  • Trust that the universe is on my side and has my back.                                                          
  • Leave the rest in the hands of the All-Loving Creator.

Upon reflection on that day’s discussion, I remembered my interconnectedness with all and that I am playing a role in a much bigger picture (a divine comedy) than I’m able to see. I gained authentic ‘Freedom’ from ego’s traps: fear, guilt, self-righteousness and self-doubt. All these gains occurred by virtue of my newly expanded understanding that all my perceptions are limited if they are dictated by the illusion of my separateness from anything. Undertaking the advice of ‘self examination’ from Socrates ensures my alignment with the purpose of the Universe – To Expand.

Thank you Socrates! 

Introduction to the BlueSpace

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Have you ever said something amazing? Then someone who heard you asked “Where did that come from?”

And you responded, “I don’t know, it just came to me out of the blue.”

Many of us have had this happen.

I’ve mused about this Blue place for some time, asking: 

What’s actually in this BlueSpace? What if I could, and how might I, access this BlueSpace at will?

Join me as we take a “Magical Mystery Tour” looking at early uses of this phrase, “out of the blue,” delve into some ideas about this BlueSpace, and consider the implications for our individual lives and the human collective when we remember who we really are as creators. 

“Out of The Blue” refers to something occurring unexpectedly and without warning, such as thunder clapping when the skies are clear blue.

The earliest known use of this idiom appeared in The Republican Compiler of Gettysburg, PA on June 28, 1836: “The late veto by President Jackson of a bill before Congress to fix a day for the yearly adjournment of Congress, was like a clap of thunder out of the clear (blue) sky. It took both the friends and enemies of the administration by surprise.” (wikipedia)

Another early use of “out of the blue” is found in an article entitled “The Times on the Standing Army of India” in the Speculator (London) from February 22nd 1879: “Murder now rises up before us, gaunt and unmitigated, in a circle where all seemed lovely, virtuous, and peaceful. This is verily ‘a bolt out of the blue’—the lightning flash in a sunny sky.” (U.S. Dictionary)                                        

Hold that background data aside as we expand our investigation into this BlueSpace. I will disclose that I’m not a believer in coincidences or random sudden unexplainable occurrences. I trust that everyone and everything in the universe interacts based upon a set of governing universal principles to constantly perform the alchemy of human experience.                                                                        

Albert Einstein said: “Everything is vibration.” He suggests that humans, animals, plants, water, rocks, clouds, and even the ethers all vibrate.  Supporting Einstein’s idea is the Third Principle of The Kybalion, Hermetic Philosophy in which The Principle of Vibration states: “everything is in motion.” Further, this principle reasons that the differences between every aspect of creation results from varying rates of Vibration. The Third Principle, once mastered in the human mind, then embodied in the cellular structure of humans, advances one’s Self-Awareness. This is a state of being where we are acutely aware that we have both internal and external existence that are interconnected. Thus, the greater one’s Self-Awareness of interconnectedness, the higher is one’s vibration. Conversely, if one’s Self-awareness is entrenched in perceptions of our separateness from others, the lower our vibration.

In addition, there is a principle that states: Like Vibration attracts Like Vibration, a concept familiar in both scientific and metaphysical contexts. And when the idea “like attracts like” is practiced to the point of cellular embodiment, the vibration of one’s desire can be consciously broadcast into the BlueSpace to magnetically attract its likenesses for our physical experience.  

Now, let’s take a deep dive into how energies and vibrations interact to shape our experiences.

Currently, a majority of human Self-awareness embraces the idea “Seeing is believing.” Through our eyes we observe, then we interpret based on past experience held in our mind, that we are separate and disconnected from other humans and everything else. We tend to believe to be real, only that which our eyes/minds show us. However, this perceptual belief inhibits or denies our capacity to embrace the believability in or possibility that things unseen can be just as “real”, such as vibrations, even this BlueSpace.

Humans also tend to believe that hard work or use of our will power is required to control our life’s circumstances. It may sound crazy to let go of such control mechanisms, but the ancient masters knew that everything is vibration and a calm, peaceful mind and open cellular system establishes a vibration within the human cells that allows us to be in perfect harmony with and to draw from the BlueSpace all our desired experiences.

To achieve a personal shift into the calmness of advanced Self-Awareness, a “new system” free from the limitations of “Seeing is believing” to trusting in unseen realities, requires extracting entrenched limiting beliefs. Here, a quote from Buckminster Fuller, a creative genius of the 20th century,  seems in order:  “Don’t waste your energy fighting (against) an outmoded system, create a new system making the old one obsolete.” Eliminating our entrenched energies behind limiting thoughts, feelings, and actions from the human psyche results also in the removal of same from the cellular structure of human physical systems. These transformations can occur instantaneously when induced by tragedy of some kind that rattles one’s beliefs to the core or gently with guidance from experts in energy work. 

Absent limiting beliefs, human cells can open to embodying the truth of the interconnectedness of everything. Then, our thoughts, feelings and actions are free to align with the advanced Self-Awareness of interconnectedness. Since “energy follows thought,” thought energies of interconnectedness fill every cell in the human physical systems. Once this embodiment occurs, the human body is free to perform as a vibrational transmitter as well as a receiver to attract experiences of “Like Vibration” directly from the BlueSpace. 

Now, consider this BlueSpace to be an etheric (non-physical) dimension beyond normal human sensory perceptions. In it, everything possible already exists. 

Genesis 2:1, “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,” – already exists in the BlueSpace…” supports the hypothesis above.

Metaphorically, this BlueSpace might be likened to the contemporary game, BOGGLE, consisting of a 5”x5”x5” blue plastic base and lid. In the base are 25 square holes where 25 six-sided dice can be situated. Each side of the dice has a letter of the alphabet printed on it. To play BOGGLE, shake the box, with the lid on, scrambling the dice inside so each dice occupies one of the square holes. The object of BOGGLE is to identify as many words of at least four letters as possible.

The BOGGLE box holds an infinite number of possible words. Similarly, the BlueSpace is an etheric container where the infinite possibilities of Creation already exists, “Finished, completed,” ready for our experiencing in form by virtue of our becoming a vibrational match to it.  Thus, if one is willing to shake up their beliefs in separateness, then develop heart-centered imagineering skills, one is able to consciously modulate their vibration to match that of their fondest desires to withdraw their desired experience from the BlueSpace.

So, what might your life and world be like if you exchanged your mind’s beliefs in separation for your heart’s knowing of the connectedness of all things?  

John’s Revelation 21:1-27 speaks prophetically to the implications when humans learn to live in the BlueSpace:  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” …     

Fuller’s promise is fulfilled without any violence, when humans choose to transcend the illusion of our separateness to live in the BlueSpace, where lack of any kind is obsolete.  And, who knows, we might all become like Prometheus, rebelliously creative and innovative when we remember that while we live in the world, we are not of it.   Living in the BlueSpace is the universal equalizer where everything belongs to everyone.                  

Albert Moore holds a vision in his heart for the fruition of John’s Revelation 21:1-27. He writes about his own journey along roads less traveled to share that everyone is capable of remembering how to live in the BlueSpace.