Over the past month I’ve received many inquiries via posts, telephone and email requesting my input regarding the latest horror stories in national and world events—pick one to focus on and feel yourSelves get whirled around and sucked into the craziness.  It’s one fucking programmed thing after another.  Problem-Reaction-Solution.  We are constantly faced with moment to moment split second decisions when we interact with the world and one another, and it’s for our own good.  The 9/11 incident still reigns its campaign of fear.  To this day, at the airports, we each get to decide if we’d rather be molested or exposed to radiation. We are herded like cattle, and controlled for our protection from terrorists….ooooh… the “t” word.

Enter the Now from Here.

I am well known for being media and politically absent, and more focused on co-creating well-being among earthlings and the countless other beings bound to Gaia.  I’ll say this over and over again and again:  THE WORLD IS NOT THE PLANET!

With this in mind you can either read on or drop me like a bad habit.

“Presence”, that is, being present to life as it is, is very tricky.  And without a clear understanding of the true nature of reality, how your mind works, and how your emotions work, “presence” will just be another concept to strive for.  The word strive is more running away from what is, right now.  The whole point of “presence” is to allow what is.

I urge one and all to seriously consider unplugging from mainstream media, rather than get all caught up in the hell of incessant broadcasting of news, whether in print, on television, radio, or the web.

Most people are on auto-pilot when it comes to the media cartel and get all caught up in their hoopla.  They do not question their droning out to the constant need of the constant stimulation the mass media provides, not to mention the rush of subliminal energetic potions received.  Most folks actually believe this is the whole of reality, when it’s merely just one timeline possibility, among and infinite number of possibilities. But we are addicted to our media addictions as avoidance tactics.  Yup, that includes your addictions to your beloved iPhones, browsing the web because there’s nothing else to do, playing online games, watching movies, and talking non-stop or instant messaging, darlings. This need for distraction is escaping life as it is.  Have a good look.  All in the name of entertainment…and who doesn’t want to be entertained??  I love zombie moviesJ!

How many of us can actually receive and allow a moment’s peace without “shoulding” and “stressing out” about what to do next???  How many of us can actually meet someone new without comparing them to someone else?  How many of us can enjoy a walk in nature without mentally or verbally labeling and naming the trees, the birds, the butterflies, the flowers, the rock formations, the current phase of the moon, or experience something fresh for the very first time, even if you’ve done it or been there many times before?

Did you know you’re actually doing whatever you’re doing right now for the very first time, Now…?  It’s new, Now, fresh.  Get it???

If you’re not present, where are you– in the past?? In the future?? Spacing out in some parallel universe???  Living life by default habitually?  Or just going through the motions until it’s all over with??

Hello??  You’re here on planet Earth!

You will raise the vibration of the planet significantly by being present to your life.  By focusing on your life and managing your life force, which by the way, is your creativity, you will assist in engendering peace for humanity, the animal and nature beings and serving this beautiful planet– In doing so the Universe and the Law of Attraction will support you in rich and amazing ways.

Unless you are presently having a direct experience with an act of violence that’s being reported through the media, please realise that you are actually being manipulated by the media cartel, to use your imagination to dip into that reality, in order to serve their agenda to get you to generate more terror and fear and despair and horror and anger and rage and hate and violence for all the world to feed off of, and thus creating more terror and fear and despair and horror and anger and rage and hate and violence.

Have a good look at this and see for yourself.

Many of you are familiar with the Global Elite, and be well aware that the “geh”, as I prefer to call them (it’s cute, yeh?), want nothing more than to control and terrify us with horrifying images and headlines; they want nothing more than to polarize us and get us to blame and hate each other enough for us to kill each other without batting an eyelash. This has been going on and on and on and on for millennia.

It’s called divide and conquer, and its success requires our complicity, so pull your head out of the sand and get off your knees.  Follow the money, and you’ll see who’s in charge.

It will take much more than being awake to end this madness.  Waking up is one thing, then, there is dealing with reality as it is.

If you want to truly do something concrete and real about the world and end all of the suffering and violence, please check yourself and work out and dissolve the suffering and violence in you!

Self-blame, self-criticism, self-hatred, self-importance, self-judgment and self-punishment– are among some of the acts of violence towards the Self on a personalized level, and do nothing but promote endless self-inflicted suffering.  It doesn’t take long for this suffering to spew out onto others.  From within, goes without. Your outer reality reflects your inner landscape.

Can you see how this contributes to the state of the world?

You are the world, just as I am the world.  Don’t put the state of the world on God, Goddess, All that is.  We are the world.  We are the suffering of the world.  We are the violence of the world…and…We can transform the world.

Please have a look at this.  It’s true, isn’t it????

If you really want to contribute to peace on this planet, please allow peace within YOU and live it. If you are not at peace, please face that reality, and accept it without trying to change it or get away from it.  Accept and be present with your non-peace.  Transformation occurs naturally, spontaneously.  Like yourself, love yourself, warts and all.

My friend and mentor, Fredric Lehrman, shares this brilliant affirmation with many:

“The more I like myself the way I am, the more I am the way I want to be.”

The Universe is all powerful. The power of the Universe resides within each and every one of us.  Know it and live it. We all come from the same source, yup even those others:-o…the “geh”…oh not not THEM…yes, THEM.

Remember, you are Infinite Loving Awareness and Consciousness having a human experience.

Love & Blissings,

Marja West

Copyright © 2006-2013 Marja West/Absolute Balanced Mastery. All rights reserved.  Find us on Facebook  www.WakingGodsAndGoddesses.com

Love, Forgotten

I have made love

my business

and where has it

gotten me?

—Dorothy Walters, NIGHT AFTER NIGHT

Love is now.  It’s not yesterday.  It’s not tomorrow.  Love is now.  Love has no past.  Love has no future.  Love just is.

Love can only exist here, now; this very moment.  Love can only be given and received now.  Love can only be experienced now.  Even feelings and memories of love way-back-when can only be remembered now.  Yet, when it comes to our love relationships, most of us are completely unaware of this fact.  We go off into our minds, tripping into past time or future time—we’re “twittering,” or downloading the latest cool apps onto our awesome iPhones, or we’re “somewhere else,” making a mental note to take out the garbage later or clean the cat box.  In other words, we’re neglecting our love and our partners; we’re forgetting love, now.

Humanity has access to thousands of “quick-fix” relationship books that detail “how to” hook up with your life partner while keeping everyone else happy, and “how to” achieve explosive multiple orgasms, make your own sex toys, and twist your physical body into a double pretzel to drive your lover wild with unending pleasure.

There are books on the various slants and types of relationships.  Women want to understand men.  Men want to understand women.  We all want to communicate to each other more effectively and speak the same language—or at least use the same alphabet.

Men want women who are part bitch, part whore, and should also want children.  Men want women who will be good mothers, gourmet cooks, and look juicy-hot while doing it.  They need to keep a clean and tidy house, while simultaneously bringing home a six to seven figure income.

Women want men with a well-developed, sensitive inner-feminine and a warrior, sex-God masculine who can throw them against the bedroom wall, sex them up good, and deliver multiple proper orgasms that induce female ejaculation every time.  Women want men who can kick some ass, and also have his financial shit together.   And some of us (man or woman) just want a Sugar Daddy or Cougar Mama, no questions asked.

Other books regard love as the oldest game in all history, with a clearly defined set of rules, some of which are clearly unspoken, yet universally understood.  The rules and rigmarole of our modern-day dating rituals are elaborate, and apparently, there are lots of them: rules for calling, emailing and texting; dressing, eating and drinking; kissing, sex etiquette, and the morning after.  (I, for instance, certainly am not the kind of woman who eats a meal just before a dinner date so that I’ll appear to be more interested in my date than in my dinner.)  Rules.  Rules.  Rules.

We’re also inundated with scientific rules and expertise that prove once again we’re just slaves to our biochemical and neuro-chemical responses once we’re sexually aroused.  Oh the battles of oxytocin and testosterone, and blaming our hormones for our troubles.

We’ve all read these books or at least are aware of them.  Thank God/Goddess/All-That-Is for their convenient, accessible wisdom, providing bits and pieces of insight to this mysterious puzzle called Love.  These books have contributed significantly to our collective concepts and notions of love and relationships.  But despite savvy marketing, well-promoted and highly attended live and online workshops, and TV infomercials, nothing has really changed for those of us who feel love still eludes.  Either that perfect someone has really lost his/her way to our proverbial doorsteps, or the person next to us—our supposed Beloved—is anything but that.

Collective concepts and notions of love are just that—concepts and notions.  They are not the real deal, and completely mind-made.  They certainly don’t invite our hearts to relax and open to love, let alone our bodies.

The truth is, despite the fact that we have developed our intellectual minds and created an expanded world in terms of technology and incredible wealth (albeit exclusive to a minority of humanity), when it comes to matters of the heart our relationships leave much to be desired.  For most of us, relationships have left our hearts broken, crushed, frozen, tortured and tattered, numb, armored and defended—or just completely shut down; refusing love.  Period.

The twentieth century on Earth was the bloodiest, and most violent, unconscious era in humanity.  We have yet to come to terms with it.  The technological marvels our minds and creative natures brought into reality in the past century allowed us to coldly kill millions of people at the push of a button without batting an eyelash, and destroy bits and pieces of our precious planet through techno-disasters.

Throughout history, humanity has wielded so much amazing power and affluence, yet even to this day we can’t seem to ensure that every man, woman, and child is cared for, clothed, fed, and housed.  As an evolving, conscious woman, abiding deeply in empathy and the real, I ache to my core with sadness that this phenomenon continues to be a harsh reality—a reality on the verge of going viral and hitting closer to home.  I am definitely one of “those” people asking “What the fuck is going on? How can I help?”

In my corner of the planet, I am inspired to contribute to the alleviation of suffering through gifting energy healings in distressed areas of the inner city.  Graciously, these brothers and sisters on the fringe of society whole-heartedly open and receive.  It is curious, however, that among my more business-minded brothers and sisters, these free healings and offerings are perceived as dysfunctional and co-dependent, rather than loving service for the sake of loving service; a reflection of me as a bad business woman who devalues her work and wastes precious time and energy serving the likes of undeserving junkies, criminals, prostitutes, drifters, ne’er-do-wells, and the unemployed.  These judgmental rants and false assumptions from well-educated entrepreneurs simply enrage me.  It’s this type of heartless, programmed, dismissive bullshit that separates us not only from a “certain” social echelon of people, but from each other at all levels.  It is one of the key reasons for humanity to wake up, NOW!  Our collective lack of empathy toward our mutual human fragility and vulnerability is utterly disturbing (and frankly, inexcusable).

Most folks believe that charity, or government programs and handouts, are the answer.  It seems to me, however, since we are all Infinite Loving Awareness and Conscious, and made of stardust that every human being simply ought to be able to easily access a super-charged dose of Divine Inspiration combined with the unfailing and unconditional support of a deeply awakened global community of conscious women and men, ready to truly step up and foster the collective flowering of Divine human greatness through inspired deprogramming, mentoring, and action.  Here is where those BIG FAT LIES kick in again: having hijacked most of humanity’s creative powers through humanity’s blind collective belief in these lies—humanity has forgotten their true Divine nature.

We are grand creators, aren’t we?   We are all eternal beings; ever evolving, ever becoming, always.  Yet, most of us are blinded and stymied by the programmed lies of our longstanding shared history that goes back thousands of years, and believe that the disempowerment of our collective power is final.  This too is a lie.  We are easily manipulated, even bamboozled by clever marketing ploys from multi-national corporations or government entities that utilize spiritual language and claim to “be in service to the greater good of humanity” to further an agenda that’s actually based in incessant greed and nurturing the coffers of a few rather than the collective.

We unknowingly become accomplices in such covert tactics—an integral part of the herd herding the herd and unwittingly assist in furthering agendas that most certainly are NOT in our best interests.  We witness this process in everyday things, such as advertisements for brand-named sodas filled with harmful chemicals that adversely affect our brain chemistry and function.  Such ads seductively target specific markets, and reward participants in their promotional campaigns by promising to contribute a small percentage of profits to cancer research or some other worthy cause.  Buyer: beware.  And be aware.  As consumers and conscious decision-makers, we are required to be diligent and proactive on so many levels.

We ignore, and yet simultaneously focus on, the reality of violence that we humans still inflict upon each other.  Many of us refuse to acknowledge, let alone see, our own behavior in the self-perpetuated violence of self-abuse, self-blame, self-criticism, self-hate, self-judgment, and self-punishment.  Plagued by fear, anger, despair, shame, and guilt, we walk through life unaware that the frequencies of fear, anger, despair, shame, and guilt not only feed the powers-that-be—but keep us on our knees energetically—begging for punishment in some form, shape or fashion.   Then we wonder why things never seem to change for the better.

The Divine, however, works in mysterious ways.  All around the world, old paradigm systems and structures are collapsing, making room for the new.  The unconscious, masculine-creative model of competition and one-upsmanship, prevalent in men and women mainly concerned with their bottom-line profits at all costs, slowly is being replaced and balanced by a more conscious, heart-based, and inclusive feminine model of creation; a global evolution toward co-creation, collaboration, community, connection, and sharing of all resources.

It is impossible to walk the talk of “Love Thy Neighbor” when we don’t know the first thing about love, or who and what we truly are.  We’ve not yet mastered “Love ThySelf.”  How can we actively love, while refusing to understand and accept the nature of suffering—suffering we inflict upon ourSelves, as well as others?  For some people, watching others suffer is ironically a form of entertainment.

When it comes to love and the Beloved, the World can be so distracting with its endless lists of “things to do” that we have to engage imagination to connect with the concepts and notions of love, and perceive the imaginings as real, rather than experiencing what love really is.

Thanks to our fast-paced, technology-driven world, we’ve had to create “date nights” just to schedule time with significant others.  Sometimes we even do so begrudgingly, as if taking precious time away from the world to nurture ourselves, our relationships, and precious Beloveds will turn us into hideous dried out pumpkins.  While setting aside a window of time to spend with your Beloved is a useful practice, I hear a lot of complaints about the actual scheduling.  That, in itself, is just another thing to do on the endless list of things-to-do.

The tension created by feeling obligated is blatant, and so is the pressure to show up.  Most of us live in avoidance.  We just want have a drink, pop a pill, or take a hit off our inhalers to make the tension disappear—or at least allow us to go through the motions without tripping out too much.  Science has created and designed drugs, legal and otherwise—that turn us on, or numb us from the pain—which is always about the past.  Once detached, we pretend that we can and will stay “up” energetically and sexually, all night long.  At least that’s the promise—the tease—of “date night.”  Usually, however, we just drink too many cocktails before, during and after dinner, hoping to pass out so that nothing has to happen at all.  And when there’s no possibility for real love or sexual connection, there’s always the old stand-by—the sex-obsessed, disconnected eye-candy-comfort of porn.  While I am not at all condemning porn, and acknowledge that it has its own Divine purpose in exploring and discovering our erotic natures—it is the ultimate visual substitution for real love that distracts us from the love we truly desire.

None of this artificial stuff works for very long.   We get sucked into and caught up in what I call the ya-ya-ga-ga-za-za of the world—the entrapped, endless cycle of seeking and despair.  And if any of the substitutions do happen to help temporarily, we’re ultimately unable to live up to the nonsense long-term.  We slowly kill ourSelves inside, pretending the lack of love in our lives is all right: “just hand me my prescription meds, a stiff drink, a lit joint, some porn, and a healthy bank account balance, and let me sit in front of my favorite television shows, comatose, while I also surf the net, play online games, eat crappy food, work my ass off, shop until I drop, and fuck away the pain.”

In some way, most of us know this path with its various trails and offshoots.  Whether we medicate with drugs, sex, food, work, shopping, television, online entertainment, or self-help books, some of us continue distracting ourselves for the whole of our lives.  Some of us give up on relationships altogether, sinking into more work or other distraction-of-choice to escape.  Some of us have nervous breakdowns.  Some of us live our lives lonely, isolated and depressed.

The good news is more and more of us are waking up and discovering the true nature of this illusory reality, and unplugging from it all, and reconnecting with the innate goodness and generosity of the Universe in which we live as Infinite Loving Awareness and Consciousness having a human experience!

excerpt from Marja West’s upcoming book  F’d WIDE OPEN–Love, Now: Untying the Knot—The Heart-Based New Humanity Awakens Copyright ©2010-2013 Marja West. All rights reserved.  Find us on Facebook. www.HeartBasedNewHumanity.com

All problems arise from running away from “what is”.  Everyone (even a “New Ager”) is trying to escape from “what is”.

Rather than resting in the knowledge that we are Infinite Loving Awareness and Consciousness having a human experience on this physical plane, and therefore gifted with the capacity to be and do anything we can imagine that brings us joy by focusing our attention on those images and pictures of what and how we want our lives to unfold, and focusing on joy and feeling amazing—we’re always striving to become someone or something else, instead of being who and what we are right now, because we don’t like who and what we are right now. We’re always engaging some technique to change life as it is right now, to get away from this moment and that moment, to get to something bigger, better, faster, skinnier, sweeter, stronger, and on and on and on and on…

While we are hardwired to create—FORMLESS into FORM through our desires/intentions—we’re so distracted by this and that—that we don’t even know what it is we want to create.

Because we are creative energy beings, we are naturally expansive. So there is nothing wrong with expansion and wanting to grow beyond what we have already created, yet for many of us it doesn’t happen because we’re still doubting and hating ourselves, ignoring or ignorant about the mastery available in paying attention to how we feel.  Feelings are ignored, they become emotions—storylines, loaded down with our suppressed creative energy, our disappointments, all the stuff we’re not supposed to feel… because we’re programmed that we are supposed to feel good from one moment to another, and any other feeling is bad—anger, rage, frustration, resentment, sadness, grief, despair, etc…or it’s bad to feel good and feel pleasure—so we have to limit our capacity for pleasure—or else suffer the guilt and shame because we are enjoying ourselves too much. We have been programmed to focus on what we don’t have and how bad we feel, and from this lower vibration, from a place of self-criticism our future reality is created with more things manifesting that match this vibration of lack and denial of our Divinity.

Check it out for yourself, and be honest, really honest.

Can we be still? Behold Silence? Be open to “just be” for now? Can we allow what is and be total with all of it?  Can we allow the truth of how we feel to guide us, even if it’s less than stellar and allow an amazing memory that made us feel incredibly blessed to serve us to bring us into a better feeling place?

Beauty and peace surrounds you.  Have a look around you. See your surroundings for the very first time with fresh new eyes.

From here you can shift and honour your Divinity.

You are the Divine-in-the-Flesh!

Believe it!

Love, now—Marja West

Copyright©2007-2013 Marja West  All rights reserved.  www.WakingGodsAndGoddesses.com

All of us know people who are hell bent on being right about everything big and small to the extent of creating an ick-filled repulsion field around them.

These people are continually bitching and moaning and complaining.  They’re always blaming and/or criticising someone or something, blaming God and the Angels, refusing to take any responsibility for the reality they create, and justify their behaviour as just stating their opinion.  They covet their self-righteousness and victimhood and kvetching as if they were jewels in their crowns of glory (or is it thorns?).  It’s very unpleasant to be around people like this, it’s a “yuck fest” as my friend and colleague, Maria, would say.

Yeah, it is.

Moreover, people who are addicted to complaining and being right continue to draw to themselves more experiences to complain and be right about. I have observed these folks “jones-ing” to complain about something and when they didn’t have anything to complain about, actually began complaining about life going way too smoothly—waiting with baited breath for the other shoe to drop…and then it does, of course, and they’re right once again, and alone.

Why do we draw these folks and experiences to us? Perhaps we are practicing acceptance and compassion, or mastering the art of creating and maintaining boundaries or the art of saying “NO.”  Maybe we are practicing forgiveness and patience, or taking the opportunity to dissolve a pattern of dysfunction and realign our energy system to magnetise more pleasant experiences, particularly if we find ourselves surrounded and systematically drained by nasty complainers and whiners.

What to do?

Two things to consider:

1) You Spot it—You Got it.  This includes anything and everything (the good, the bad, the ugly), and please be honest, much of the complaining we do about other people is merely our own outward projection of the shit we have going on within that we’re in denial of, and therefore have to put it all on someone else…right??

2) Simply observe such folks (like yourself, maybe?) with compassion, without judgment, without endeavouring to get away from them, or push them away, or fix them.  If there are aspects you enjoy about these folks, focus on those aspects, they may or may not transform, just be open to the possibility.

Easier said than done… just do it, already.  Clarity arrives soon enough.

Pushing these kinds of folks and experiences away from you only draws even more of these folks and experiences to you.

By focusing on what you like and enjoy about them, you draw only the best from them. It actually worksJ  Somehow The Law of Attraction will make it so the Universe will keep these folks out of your reality when they are expressing the qualities out of sync with your own expression.  Your energy fields just won’t be compatible.

Look around you and take stock of your circle of friends and colleagues, people in your immediate sphere—they are energetic matches to you. Do they make you smile, bring you joy and laughter, is it easy to be with them, or do they bring you down with their constant craving for attention by complaining and controlling everything and being right about whatever?  Do they reek of resentment and self righteousness by making everyone and everything, including you and the dogs and cats and the furniture and the weather and the traffic and the neighbourhood smells and the cost of petrol and lines at the supermarket and the terrible restaurant with their stupid waiter and their over-priced bad chardonnay and the fashion statement of the girl-next-door and so on and so on and so on…. wrong?

Relax, proceed, live your life focused on beauty and your great fortune of Being.  In any case, the only thing that’s ever right is the Universe, life itSelf. Let the Universe and existence handle the details and say “YES!” to attracting and magnetising abundance and positive experiences, filled with loving, joyous and delightful people, and watch your magical life unfold and balance out the challenges and chaos.  It works like a charm, and even if you attract sucky people and experiences, it won’t suck for long, and you won’t take it personally.

Abundant Blessings and Love to All,

Marja West

Copyright © 2006-2013 Marja West/Absolute Balanced Mastery All rights reserved. Find us on Facebook.  www.WakingGodsAndGoddesses.com

All of us know people who are hell bent on being right about everything big and small to the extent of creating an ick-filled repulsion field around them.

These people are continually bitching and moaning and complaining.  They’re always blaming and/or criticising someone or something, blaming God and the Angels, refusing to take any responsibility for the reality they create, and justify their behaviour as just stating their opinion.  They covet their self-righteousness and victim hood and kvetching as if they were jewels in their crowns of glory (or is it thorns?).  It’s very unpleasant to be around people like this, it’s a “yuck fest” as my friend and colleague, Maria, would say.

Yeah, it is.

Moreover, people who are addicted to complaining and being right continue to draw to themselves more experiences to complain and be right about.  I have observed these folks “jones-ing” to complain about something and when they didn’t have anything to complain about, actually began complaining about life going way too smoothly—waiting with baited breath for the other shoe to drop…and then it does, of course, and they’re right once again, and alone.

There is an attractor pattern that draws these folks to us—perhaps as an exercise in acceptance and compassion, or forgiveness and patience, or an opportunity to dissolve a pattern of dysfunction and realign our energy system to magnetise more pleasant experiences, particularly if we find ourselves surrounded and systematically drained by nasty complainers and whiners.

What to do?

Simply observe such folks (like yourself, maybe?) with compassion, without judgment, without endeavouring to get away from them, or push them away, or fix them.  If there are aspects you enjoy about these folks, focus on those aspects, they may or may not transform, just be open to the possibility.

Easier said than done… just do it, already.  Clarity arrives soon enough.

Pushing these kinds of folks and experiences away from you only draws even more of these folks and experiences to you.

The Law of Attraction will make it so the Universe will keep these folks out of your reality.  Your energy fields just won’t be compatible.

Look around you and take stock of your circle of friends and colleagues, people in your immediate sphere—they are energetic matches to you.  Do they make you smile, bring you joy and laughter, is it easy to be with them, or do they bring you down with their constant cravings for attention by complaining and controlling everything and being right about whatever?  Do they reek of resentment and self righteousness by making everyone and everything, including you and the dogs and cats and the furniture and the weather and the traffic and the neighbourhood smells and the cost of petrol and lines at the supermarket and the terrible restaurant with their stupid waiter and their over-priced bad chardonnay and the fashion statement of the girl-next-door and so on and so on and so on…. wrong?

Relax, proceed, live your life focused on beauty and your great fortune of Being.  In any case, the only thing that’s ever right is the Universe, life itself.  Let the Universe handle the details and say “YES”! to attracting and magnetising abundance and positive experiences, filled with loving, joyous and delightful people, and watch your magical life unfold.  It works like a charm.

Abundant Blessings and Love to All,

Marja West

Copyright © 2008-2013 Marja West/Absolute Balanced Mastery.  All rights reserved.  Find us on Facebook. www.WakingGodsAndGoddesses.com

Waking Up To Your Real Life, Part One

You are Infinite Loving Awareness and Consciousness having a human experience.

Truly waking up to your real life can be a rude and sobering realisation especially when you expected heaven on earth to welcome you with a huge parade, drummers drumming, trumpets blaring, baton twirlers twirling, and angels singing, “Welcome home, Love!”

There is this bizarre misconception about being “spiritually awake” or “enlightened”—that once you’ve reached that “level” (isn’t this in itself a mistaken notion that enlightenment, or the recognising and embodying your true nature is something to strive for when YOU ARE ALREADY THAT?)—your life will miraculously become perfect—and you will never be in pain again, or be disturbed, you will never have any worries, your issues will disappear, you will never feel sadness or grief, you will never ever experience the burn of anger, rage, frustration or betrayal again, you will be perpetually happy, you will become a gazillionaire without any effort whatsoever, you will travel the world and be welcomed by all cultures and fed exotic yummy food, you will finally have the perfect body—yes, those extra thirty pounds—forget it—gone, along with the cellulite and flab—you will have those hard abs and those perky boobs you were thinking of maxxing out your credit cards to buy that perfect pair so that FOR SURE you will have the perfect relationship with THE ONE, experience with THE ONE the best sex ever, equipped with wet n’ wild orgasms that last for days, and the world will be begging for your attention, kissing your perfect BOOTAY, you’ll be twittered about endlessly, have millions of Facebook “Friends,” become a celebrity so big you will bring about world peace, and that’s just the beginning…

I get inquiries all the time about what the hell it means to be spiritually awake, enlightened, self-realised, etc…  I also get asked to answer the question without all the cosmic-new-agey-love-and-light-mumbo-jumbo bullshit.

Mostly people just come out and ask: “Okay, I’m spiritually awake, now what?” “Give me the practical version, please. Don’t talk down to me; give it to me straight.”

Okay, I’ll give it a go—to be awake or enlightened is to realise that you are a physical expression of the Love Divine-God-Goddess-All-That-Is, expressing as a man or woman, and completely present to Life as Life is happening right now, being in your body, not in your head or mind, and accessing and expressing the full range of human emotion and experience from a place of pure BEING (your true Divine nature as Love, not from your past hurts and programming) through engaging and utilising all seven of your senses on the physical plane—yup all SEVEN OF THEM:

1. 1. Sight
2. 2. Smell
3. 3. Sound
4. 4. Taste
5. 5. Touch
6. 6. Intuition
7. 7. Receiving-Feminine Principle and Giving/Gifting-Masculine Principle

The truth is living life awake and engaging all of your senses in the Sensual world is ultimately your ticket out of personalised hell on earth—the transition is often like a hard-core roller coaster ride—you can strap yourself in, hang on for dear life, close your eyes tight and pray it’ll all be over soon, or you can raise your hands up in the air and be directed by existence and the moment, flow with life’s ups and downs and twists and turns—screaming all the while, laughing as you experience the immense pleasure from the thrills, and feeling the scary stuff as it occurs, breathing through the upset when you bump up against “wanting off the fucking ride, now” and everything in between.

Enlightenment is the unraveling of everything you’ve ever blindly believed in, and being at peace with life as it unfolds isn’t so easy and elegant, it can be downright messy—all our darkness and triggers and emotional limitations come flying out in all directions to be dissolved by the light and love that you are.  That sounds a bit woo-woo, but it really isn’t.  It’s like airing out a closed room filled with shit, piss and garbage—you can clean out the shit, piss and garbage, but the stench of decay and dying will take some time to dissolve and dissipate.

I love this quote from Spiritual Teacher, Adyashanti:

“Make no mistake about it—enlightenment is a destructive process.  It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.  Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.  It’s seeing through the façade of pretense.  It’s the complete eradication of everything we’ve imagined to be true.”

Yozwer!

We are so trained to be insane by keeping our emotion-mental-mind-body selves “together” and in check, and by identifying with these experiences as proof of our worth or lack thereof. We are so threatened by our feelings in the moment, and by our emotions—all filled with stories of past and future, and by folks disagreeing with us, not giving us what we want—not that we were able to ask directly, right? We pretend we’re not at the effect of our stuff and others, but the truth of discomfort always comes through.  We get triggered by each other’s stuff all the time, even the good stuff.  I once had a friend tell me he couldn’t stand me smiling all the time.  Wtf??

Our bodies down to its cells are like electrical-energetic circuits—and unexpressed or suppressed emotions and traumas carry charge, much like any piece of electronic equipment, even if it’s not plugged in to a power source.  There is capacitance, or stored energy, and you can get shocked and immobilised by its discharge just by “touching” or tuning into it.  It’s easy to stay stuck and in avoidance—by pushing up against something you don’t like, or by identifying with it and being victimised by it.

Once upon a time I taught a beginning electricity-magnetism physics lab and was setting up some exercises for my students.   I always instructed them to approach their units and “touch” the equipment with the backs of their hands, so that if there was a “charge” their body’s reaction would be to pull the hand away from the unit.  Invariably, some of my students were distracted and didn’t hear or get my instructions, and end up getting the “shock” of their lives—pushing up against the unit, rather than pulling away from it.

Facing our deepest, buried emotional-mental stuff is kind of like this.  You can try and avoid feeling, but at what cost to your aliveness.  Feelings in the moment only last a short time, but by avoiding them or suppressing them—feelings become emotional traumas—dramatic stories we repeat again and again.  We are not automatons, although conventional reality does support and encourage a world filled with sleepwalking zombies, so check yourSelves.  Wake up, beloveds.  The world didn’t end; we just needed to turn the page to a new calendar.  Remember who you are! We’re meant to live passionate juicy lives, right? Right!  Bring it…all of it!

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Based in Sydney, Australia Aliky facilitates customized techniques and empowering tools that enable overall efficient energy management, personal evolution and generation of personal power.  The tools and techniques vary from breath work, optimized meditation techniques, yoga asana practice or to facilitating divine union and transformation on an energetic and subconscious level.  No physical touch is required to facilitate this body of work. Sublime Energy Services and tools enables us to address the key CAUSE or causes in the physical body, mind and/or spirit body of various ailments, energy inefficiencies or stress. This body of work also facilitates cleansing of environments for optimum personal and collective power and potential to be realized including homes, vehicles (car and airplane), buildings, individuals’, on a physical, energetic and emotional level in addition to working with limiting beliefs to transform your actions, reactions, and habits to greater reflect the Divine Nature within all of us.

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Questioning Reality

Since I was a girl

Questioning reality

Seemed the way to God

—Shriimate

Whenever I feel a slight bit of discomfort, whether mental, physical, emotional, or energetic, I always ask myself, “Is this real?” or “Is it true?”   It’s a kind of reality snap that leads me to pay close attention to what is unfolding in the moment.   These two questions are an extension of my endless childhood querying of “Why?”  There’s nothing like questioning every thought and every belief that arises in your reality.  It drove my mother nuts, but drove me to the truth of my core.

We are programmed by our past to think and believe that each of us literally “thinks” the thoughts that pass through our minds.  Then the programming further directs us to actually believe what we “think” we thought!

This erroneous ego-based loop is at the root of all suffering in the world.

We are not “thinking” these thoughts that we “choose” to believe.  Nor are we attached to them.  We can choose to release any thought that no longer serves us in our quest for love and truth.

Thoughts are things.  They have a vibration and an energy signature that is measurable and unique.  As energetic beings on this physical plane of Earth’s landscape, we are constantly surrounded and bombarded by a wide array of energies and frequencies.  With nearly seven billion people inhabiting the planet, imagine the astronomical number of thoughts whirling around each one of us—and most of us believe we’re actually generating them.

What’s actually created is a thought-collective of every human being worldwide.  Over many, many millennia it has evolved into our collective programming which affects all of us in some form, shape, or fashion every day as our generations live on. The thoughts we focus on, believe, and attach to emotionally are the thoughts that respectively create each of our worlds and realities, today.

Science asserts that humans use less than 5% of our intellectual capability, which means that the remaining 95% of our brain potential recycles the same known, useless, disempowering thoughts over and over and over, never creating new thoughts deliberately. This “autopilot thinking” is different than applied thinking or deliberately offering thoughts on purpose.

So if we’re all thinking the same recycled thoughts and attaching questions about our self-worth to them, is it any wonder that we’re running so many of the same competitive, comparing, acerbic inner dialogues?  “Am I good enough?  Am I smart enough?  Am I better than them?  Am I prettier and thinner than her?  Am I doing it right?  Oh no, I am bad.  My family hates me.  I am such an idiot.  I am so stupid.  I am so fat.  I am ugly and unlovable.  I am so pathetic.  I am worthless, no one wants me.  The world is filled with evil people.  Men are after only one thing.  Women are victims.”  The list goes on and on and on and we all buy into it because…well, it’s just what we “know” to do.

Most of these incessantly negative thoughts regurgitated by humanity go unquestioned. The lives of boys and girls who later become adult men and women are founded on such thoughts, and lifetimes are lived by them. These precepts for living become right or wrong depending on which side of the track you are on.

Tribal and societal systems create customs, mandates, religions, and traditions: then races, nations, and countries encode these beliefs into laws.  A collective consciousness is created for every group adhering to a particular belief system when enough members are present to generate energy.  We not only sleepwalk through relationships because of unquestioned collective thoughts and beliefs, but we also go to war because of them.  Over time, the unquestioned collective manifests in belief systems about ourselves, other individuals, and communal groups with regard to race, religion, gender, politics, economy, and culture.

We can begin aligning with the Divine to question and transform collective thoughts and beliefs by paying attention to our emotions.  When we make a conscious emotional connection with thoughts and beliefs that don’t feel right or good in our bodies, we become aware that we are buying into the collective, and therefore out of alignment with the Divine.  Stay out of your head and get beyond thought. That doesn’t mean escape from “thinking” by numbing your brain with alcohol, pharmaceuticals, or other drugs designed to disengage you from the discomfort of your truth.  Alcohol and drugs suck the juiciness right out of life by getting you to go below thought.

The following is a list of excellent resources with the highest integrity of content and purpose to assist you in learning more about how to detach from unquestioned collective thinking,, dissolve past conditioning, heal trauma, and move into deeper self-awareness as love.

• Absolute Balanced Mastery, www.AbsoluteBalancedMastery.com
• Marja West, www.WakingGodAndGoddesses.com and www.HeartBasedNewHumanity.com
• Byron Katie, www.thework.org
• Krishnananda Trobe, M.D. and Amana Trobe,  www.LearningLoveInstitute.com
• Rebirthing-Breathwork, www.Rebirthing-Breathwork.com
• Scott Catamas, Compassionate Communication Coach, www.LoveCoachScott.com
• Totality Therapy, www.TotalityTherapy.org

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