17. April 2009 by admin.

This is the time we have all been waiting for…all old paradigm systems are crashing in preparation for the new foundation that we came here to create together….indeed we are at the gateway to the Golden Age. In this process it seems that we are all experiencing a breaking apart of whatever we held strong attachment to..this is good since values/attachments are all based on perspective and projection (what we have created and held on to as our reality to ensure the safety of our ’self’ identity). Our sense of individuation has been based on perspectives which are creations of our conditioning. These generate exclusivity and separation.

I have been finding that the fear and anxiety levels exuding from the collective consciousness these days are almost palpable…as familiar structures and beliefs fall away uncertainty and confusion arise. Even amidst this uncertainty and what seems to be a steady stream of ever-quickening changes, you can… when you are silent for a few moments sense your Eternal Nature… As we are losing our self-identity, as each & every area of our lives is being shaken at the roots, we are ever so steadily emerging in our True Self Identity. It is best to allow yourself as much fluidity as possible, to let go of each attachment to your ‘old’ way of doing things, attachments to the ‘you’ that you used to know…all of it! As you may be experiencing already just the willingness to release whatever resistance comes up serves to gracefully move you into more of a peace state…a ‘knowingness’ that everything is perfect and perfectly directed begins to flower in your heart, in your soul.

It seems to me the way to go is to continue surrendering any struggles and fears over to the Divine and to continuously go within to your heart center, connect with Truth and in this bring new creative ideas to surface. I feel that finding ways to be more ‘inclusive’ through cultivating mainstream community awareness flows naturally with this new paradigm of emerging Oneness. It seems as though those who have been waking up and cultivating their skills for quite awhile now are in place to support larger numbers of people who need assistance in shifting perspective from fear- based to love and Self-empowerment founded.

Our time is at hand and what a beautiful orchestration of Golden Awakening we are all part of!

Erina Carey Cowan

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17. April 2009 by admin.

This is the kind of question a five year old might ask when they think you must be smart enough to know the answer because you’re a grownup. So just in case I ever get caught in this tight spot, I thought I better be prepared. So I thought about it.

What is a thought? Well, I pretty much have discounted the materialist assumption that it’s somehow the result of biological processes, impulses or chemical events. I’ve accepted that the body is an effect, not a cause. So do thoughts originate in the mind, as opposed to the brain? This feels closer to the truth…but which ‘mind’ do we refer to…the individual mind or the collective? Again, I’m at the point where I have accepted there is no ‘individual mind’ in the true sense, as on the quantum level ‘all minds are joined’. This is in the sense that the mind exists in a dimension beyond the physical, is subject to quantum principles, like non-locality, and is not dependent on a body to function or to ‘be’. Just ask anyone who has died and come back.

If we are talking about the mind as a non-local intelligent field, we find a much better fit with the view that the brain is more a transceiver of energy and information than a generator of such. Neurobiologists are beginning to accept this. Neurons in particular are highly sensitive to subtle quantum fluctuations via specific structures such as microtubules and clustered water structures. So we have this pre-existing field of intelligence broadcasting constantly in all bandwidths…that is, every possible conceivable thought from the most sublime to the most depraved is ‘on’ all the time. It’s like all radio stations are available all the time. We simply choose the one that most resonates with us in the moment. And what dictates that choice? Our beliefs, I suppose, of who we are, what is ‘good’, and what feels good. We entertain thoughts that confirm our beliefs about ourselves. You could say ordinary thought is a stream of self-fulfilling prophesies.

It seems we have come with ‘pre-set’ station preferences. These are the thought stations we were programmed with by family, cultural and social conditioning influences. This is why we can say most of our thoughts are simply repeating past conditioning, and as such, are mostly meaningless beyond this. This would account for what we call ‘boredom’. The mind-projector has a limited library of pre-set thoughts it will accept. As ‘projection makes perception’ (a Course in Miracles) we see a world that never seems to change. So we look for escape in mindlessness. “If I can’t get a new station, then may as well just turn the damn thing off”, we reason.

You could think of the thought field in vibrational or dimensional terms as making up the 4th or Astral Plane of existence. This is the realm of non-physical thought projections that account for the various ‘angels and demons’ of traditional lore. These are images we have conjured up in our imagination, but then project them ‘out’ in our perception in order to deny their source in our minds.

If there truly is One Mind having a dream of separation, as the Course in Miracle offers, then all these thoughts belong to all of us. That means we have equal access and full rights to any level of thought we desire. Being Dualistic, the 4th Dimension is still subject to the illusory vagaries of ‘opposites’. Opposites cannot exist in Oneness. As such they don’t really exist, except in imagination. The 4th Dimension currently reflects this imagination. So we have ‘low frequency’ thoughts that reinforce the dream of separation, or ego. These are thoughts based on fear, lack, greed, envy, hatred, dominance, competitiveness and murder. It is easy to see how these thoughts perpetuate themselves in a cycle of projection, perception and reaction. But because this sense of separation and the ego don’t really exist outside of our imagination, we can truly say these thoughts go nowhere, which is where they come from. From nothing they arise, accomplish nothing, and return to nothingness. This is why the Course Lesson can state simply ‘My thoughts don’t mean anything’ and ‘My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.’

If this One Mind is dreaming a meaningless separation nightmare, what of the Dreamer?

The Dreamer is also the One Mind, but in its sanity and perfection as Spirit. The Dreamer never left Oneness and is still safe at home. This ‘awakened’ aspect in each of us is the Spark of Light that the dream has not extinguished. It remains as a faint reminder of who we are outside the dream. It shows up in the form of the Will…the desire to stop suffering and seek a better way. Even a thought of this quality, “God, I wish there was a better way…” resonates at a higher frequency than the ego’s thoughts. As this new thought resonates with the Truth of Oneness (we are One, there is only One of us here, and it’s you and it’s me) it goes out into the 4th Dimension and strengthens that specific frequency in every seemingly separated mind at once. The higher frequency thoughts aligned with truth by the Will that desires something better both draws you closer to Truth while drawing more Truth to you. The benefits of ‘truth thinking’ are peace, joy, and inclusion (Love). These feelings are self reinforcing; we want more, and so attract more of these thoughts. We want to share them, because we see the automatic response as the ‘other’ mind recognizes Truth and returns it to us as Light. The more we accept and share ‘truth thoughts’ the brighter grows the Flame of Love in our hearts and Minds…and we begin to experience ourselves as that One Mind…forever healed, forever loved and forever One.

So it appears that low frequency thoughts go where they came from, which is nowhere and high frequency thoughts go where they came from, which is everywhere, every time and back to everyone at once. I think that answer should satisfy any five year old.

Dave Cowan

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3. April 2009 by admin.

As willful participants in this conscious transformation that we are now fully engaged in our greatest call of service is to become aware of and release in ourselves all that has kept us separate.  In a nutshell, this means to mindfully observe our thoughts and feelings.  Any time we are sad, angry or uncomfortable in any way we first need to recognize that we are the creators of all that we experience .  Nothing happens to us.  Each uncomfortable moment is an opportunity to recognize our desire for something different…it is a recognition of our deep longing for connection, for coming home to Oneness.  
When we ‘feel’ connected, experience even a hint of peace and allow ourselves to be fully aware in the present moment, we are getting a glimpse of our eternal nature, a state of Oneness.  Nothing that we experience is ‘outside’ ourselves.  We are the projectors and the world is our movie.We hear that this world is an illusion; that fear, suffering and isolation are projections of our creation…and yet, we are indeed experiencing all of these as quite real.  What is this all about then?  It all comes down to our perspectives, which are attributes of what we call ‘ego’ or our past- based, conditioned sense of self.  Since perspectives are subjective and changeable, they cannot be part of our Divine Nature which is eternal and changeless.  Consider for a moment what you would have preferred as a vacation when you were a child…now think about what an ideal vacation looks like to you right now. Most likely your choice or perspective on holidays has changed.  On the other hand, wouldn’t you agree that there’s an aspect of yourself that seems as though you have never aged, never changed.  That is what we could call ‘awareness’ or the observer aspect of yourself.  This is not your thoughts or beliefs, rather it is the ‘feeling’ part of you.  
Each one of us experiences the world and life in a unique way based on our past conditioning.  The world as we see it is a reflection of our perspective…we are the creators of our entire experience and all ‘others’ are simply mirrors to our inner world.  It is our conditioning that has perpetuated the sense of separate self and a world apart from ourselves.  Repetitive thoughts  become beliefs which, when coupled with emotional charges are held as energetic patterns carried in our consciousness.  We all carry unconscious beliefs which spring from ancestral patterns, karma, traumas from this and other lifetimes, as well as vows, contracts and agreements that were made by us and are no longer appropriate.  As Beings with Free Will we are allowed to continue experiencing ourselves as ‘separate identities’ in time and space as long as we wish.    It is our choice…we are the creators of all that we experience.  At any given moment we are either Creating through the extension and total inclusion of God’s Love, or we are mis-creating through projection of images separating us from the ‘others’ and the ‘world out there’.  Awaken your creative potential through conscious imagining. Try this exercise with your eyes closed after you have read through it.
 
Now, take a few really deep breaths all the way down to your belly, then expand the air throughout your chest….Hold for a few moments… and now fully breathe out all the stress, all the tension, all the old beliefs that no longer serve you…

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3. April 2009 by admin.

My view of the world has become very simple. It is an illusion…a mish mash of individual movies with a collective theme running through it; a projection of a split mind. The complexity we perceive and the endless dramas and conflicts exist nowhere else but on the level of mind. Because the mind is split between reality and fantasy, we project a picture of Duality. Only one view is true. The other sets itself up as an ‘opposite’. Thus, our dualistic movie is constantly at odds with itself. Like looking through binoculars when the focus is off…you see two sides to everything in constant competition with each other, and nothing is clear. It’s easy to think the ‘problem is out there’ because that’s how it appears from ‘in here’. But when I take total responsibility for the part I play in the ‘grand confusion’ as the maker of the picture instead of the observer my perceptions become opportunities to heal the source of conflict in myself. The peace I come to around a perception within myself is then picked up on the level of the collective mind, and becomes part of our slow turning back to Oneness and the end of time itself.
 
Today I was telling God that I am really sick and tired of waking up feeling the weight of oppression and uncertainty on my being…facing impossible problems day after day gets wearing. I was led to read something that helped me appreciate for the first time how this feeling is a gift to myself from myself…it goes like this. All I can ever experience is myself. Once in a while though, it appears overwhelmingly that something is being done TO me and not BY me. It’s just obvious! Not being able to deal with the problems myself, I gave the yucky feelings today to God. I just said, ‘Here, you take it…I’m done with it’. I was shown a little later in an amazing book I’ve recently discovered how I set up this feeling as a ‘beacon of discontent’ to goad me into surrendering my perceptions and feelings and recognize they come from me; more specifically, my own unconscious guilt. I read ‘The quiet discontent placed there by you in conjunction with God will not go away until you return home’ but ‘you cannot bear to look within and realize that your discontent is your own choice’. Ultimately, I blame God for all of this…and become my ego. When I remember the Holy Spirit’s purpose is to get me out of here, I remember ‘there must be within me that which leads me home’ and ‘this cloud of guilt which seems to hang over  existence here is really the whisper of Love’. I have set everything up because I am the invulnerable Son of God created to create, as are you. This is how much God loves me…I have perfect freedom to f*** up entirely, and decide for myself who I want to be. Yowza!
It seems we are given opportunities to gently allow the Light of Peace and understanding land in our minds whenever we feel out of sorts, or not in our Joy. I was reminded of a dream where my soul mate handed me a Golden Key, and I was able to unlock the back door to my old childhood home. But to my surprise, inside was this magnificent mansion looking like Louis the IV’s Palace at Versailles. Today, it felt like I found a room in there that was not yet discovered. I opened the door and found the windows shut, the air stale and dank with a layer of ancient dust obscuring everything. I was able to go the window and fling it open filling the room with light and fresh air at last. I have the feeling there may be more rooms like this hidden in the mansion of my mind. Places where I have been able to keep hidden from the light of day. Rooms I have built and forgotten. I think I’ll wander down the halls and see what I can find…

Dave Cowan

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