Losing Your Religion When L’Etat C’est Moi
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some…
Awareness of Death
Sentient beings are aware of their mortality. The awareness of death is what gives life focus and purpose: its limitations. The “Best 3 Months” practice taught at the Conscious Dying Institute asks you to envision yourself with 3 months to live: What would your deathbed self require? This provides a tight focus on priorities, getting all affairs…
The Individual Is Important
“You will realize that you are not merely experiencing communication. You will realize you are communication. Your Being is communication. There is nothing else.”Secrets of Heaven:Secret 27 The importance of individual self-reliance for herd immunity to nonsense The internet is full of persuasions; doubtless some given to test our credulity. What saved these two friends…
Create Your Own Reality? How Does That Work? (or Not)
People say, ‘”You create your own reality,” but what does that mean? According to one source it means “You create your reality by your thoughts” “You create your experiences … and become conscious creators” “Every situation you experience … is by your own design” “If you think something, it is.” “Understand that you create your reality and…
Stop Obsessing About Your Purpose
If you have the great fortune of being able to consider the question, “What is my purpose in life,” then you are in the top 0.1% of people in the world. Most people struggle daily to provide for themselves and their family the basics of life: food, water, housing, clothing, education and a little comfort.…
There Are No Small Lives, Only Small Minds
“You are in the world for a purpose now, not your purpose, but a purpose that was given to you before you came, a purpose that is related to these times and to the Great Waves of change that are coming to the world.” — Marshall Vian Summers, The Origin This was shocking when I read…
No One Has Come Here by Accident
“No one has come here by accident. Everyone has been sent for a purpose. This purpose remains undiscovered within you, but you must find it, for that is the great pursuit in life.” — Marshall Vian Summers, How God Speaks to Humanity I used to think that life in general, and my life in particular, was random;…
Ideas Are No Substitute for Experience
Everyone has ideas, and opinions, but ideas are no substitute for experience. Anyone can talk all day long from a street corner about God and higher purpose. Anyone can pontificate about how many angels exist on the head of a pin. However, they will never be any closer to their life purpose. Ideas are no substitute for…