When we meet in the spirit worlds, we know everything about each other. We read each other's energies and very little is hidden. We can read another's intentions as they approach us, and no games need to be played in order to reveal those intentions. Each person we meet in our travels outside the body is showing us something about ourselves, just like in physical life, although it is blatantly obvious in spirit. This is a natural way of living that some day will extend beyond the spiritual into the physical. Can you see how different life would be?

Imagine walking down the street and connecting to every human you see in a way that you know them upon meeting them. And everyone knows all about you upon seeing you. If everyone we meet has something to show us, then isn't meeting anyone a grand opportunity? Would we walk down the street eagerly looking in everyone's eyes?

So if say we want to awaken the christ consciousness in ourselves, we would need to be seeing the christ in everyone we meet. When we can see the christ consciousness in others, that is a reflection of the christ consciousness in ourselves. So what we see in others is important. If we wanted to awaken the god consciousness within us, then we'd better start seeing the god consciousness in others. And if we want to become ONE with the universe, we need to be able to see the universe in all things.

By seeing the universe in all things, we merge the "seeing" and "knowing" of the spirit realms with the physical. When we see the universe in someone, then we can immediately connect with them, "knowing them upon seeing them." Through the universe, all things are connected, and this connection can be called one-ness.

There are many, many universes. At every level of physicality there is a door into another universe. There is an entire universe within each subatomic particle. There is an entire universe within each human. And the universe we see looking up at the night sky--as big as it is--is not the largest universe. There are universes within universes within universes. There are universes within our thoughts. As many universes as there are, there is one thing they all have in common, and that is one-ness. One-ness is like an all-encompassing universe that, not only includes all other universes, but is part of all universes. One-ness is the expression of All That Is. Through one-ness we can experience everything and we can travel anywhere.

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The universe is very obliging. It will help you create your own reality any way you want. It reinforces and energizes your thoughts. When you say to the universe, "I am happy, healthy, and abundant, and I can find joy in all things," then the universe obliges your declaration by materializing it. The universe also obliges your declaration when you say, "I want a new car. I want a lot of money. I want the perfect soul mate. I want the perfect job. I want...." The universe sees all the wants and translates thusly, "If you want something, then you don't have it. You are in lack. Since it is a lack you are declaring, I will now reinforce that lack."

So there is a fine line between wanting and having. In order to have something, you must already have it in your thoughts before it materializes. But you can't want it in your thoughts, because that signals lack, and lack you shall have.

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Always, it is the toughest part of the journey near the end. One is tired from the long trip and is sapped of energy. And that is when all remaining obstacles seem to pop up all at once. The thought of completion draws us onward, though. The desired rest comes only after the exhilaration of completion is finished.

As we look into each other's eyes, what do we see? What is this mirror telling us? Is it showing us apprehension, fear, exhaustion? Do we see ourselves going through that last tough part of the journey? Or do we see ourselves just starting out a journey? How much hope and excitement do we see in each other's eyes? That is exactly how much hope and excitement we hold within ourselves.

When we mess with the ordinary routines of life, we initiate ripples or waves of energy. These waves will continue flowing out and around the world until they come back to us. If these waves run counter to the waves created by the rutted routines of mass consciousness, then they act as a diminishing agent against the deeply entrenched energy patterns of mass routine. Since most rutted energy routines contain little passion, it takes huge numbers of individuals to produce a strong mass energy pattern. One individual, however, that is creating a new energy pattern, and doing so with a great deal of passion, can cancel out the energy of hundreds of individuals working off routine rutted energy patterns that they are barely conscious of.

So when you look into someone's eyes and you don't see passion, know that the passion is there, but that it is blocked from expression. It is quite likely this someone is showing you what kind of blockages you have. If we can dissolve our own blockages, the blockages in that someone will also begin to dissolve. They have to. It is our nature as mirrors.

When we see the love and joy and passion in someone--when we see the christ and the god and the universe in them--we reflect that to them, and they are either blinded by it, or they begin to see those things in themselves. Not only are others mirrors for us, but we are a mirror for everyone else, and this is a big responsibility. We can either mirror back love, joy, passion, christ, god, and the universe to them, or we can mirror back all the images they hold about themselves and all the judgments they've made about themselves, along with any judgments we might make about them. We can uplift them, or we can uplift their rutted energy patterns. When we can see the perfection of the universe in the eyes of everyone we meet, guess what? Not only will we be able to realize the perfection of the universe within ourselves, but we'd be living in a reality that mirrors that perfection. Of course our current reality does in fact mirror this already. We just haven't seen it yet. Seeing, you see, is both active and passive. Passive seeing is what our eyeballs do. Active seeing is what our heart does.

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Motion. Flow. This is the natural order of the universe. Nothing in the universe stands still. To stand still is to cease existence. Everything is moving in a ceaseless phantasmagoria of light and energy and waves. Everything is flowing.

What happens to water when it sits and does not flow? It becomes stagnant. What happens to air when it is not moving? It becomes polluted. What happens to fire when it is not moving? It goes out. What happens to earth when it does not move? Stress is created with all the surrounding earth that does naturally move and there is the potential for disaster. What happens when a human stands still and does not move? Since humans are made up of and are characteristic of the four elements, then the same things happen to humans.

It is a common human tendency to want to make things stand still. Why is that? Why do humans need to hold onto things and not let them go with the flow? Where does the human inclination for a fixed spot called home come from? Why do humans want to make achievements and events stand still by trying to preserve them with shrines and books and museums and photo albums and stories? What is this fear of movement? What is the relationship between this fear and the time viral that humankind has been infected with lo these many years? Is the NOW something to hold onto, or is it something that merely flows through us, and, like the wind, we are unable to hold onto it? Do we lose our resonation with the NOW when we try to hold onto it? Anything we hold onto of the NOW is merely an artifact; a trinket, a souvenir. It is never the real thing; just a symbol of it. Is our life a collection of symbols of past NOWS, or are we actually living in the NOW?

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Does it sound like you can't be rich with a lot of grand things if you're in the NOW? It shouldn't. Abundance is the natural result of being in the NOW. It is when we try to hold on to those symbols of abundance and make them stand still that we lose our abundance. Remember, everything is moving, and that includes wealth and abundance. The secret of wealth and abundance is to allow it to flow through you unimpeded. The second you try to grab it and hold on to it, you kill it. Wealth and abundance are the result of unconditional love flowing through us unimpeded and being directioned towards others.

When we possess something, it possesses us. Possessing something is making it stand still. If we see all the things we "own" as things that are merely passing (flowing) through our lives, and if we can have things without fully possessing them, then our own movement is not hindered. That new couch is nice but you don't want to be chained to it.

One needn't be poor nor live an ascetic life nor be a Gandhi to live in the NOW. If we take possession out of the equation and just allow those things we want to flow through our lives, they will.

And the same could be said of people.

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What does abundance mean regarding people? Are you abundant if you have a lot of friends? Are you abundant if you're popular? Is abundance how big your family is? Is abundance how many people you've mated with? Is abundance how many people know who you are? Is it how many people remember you after you die? Can you be abundant with people, yet remain completely anonymous? Can you be abundant only if you're extroverted? What is it that keeps you from enjoying every single person you meet? What happens in the first two seconds of meeting someone? Does abundance with others have anything to do with unconditionality? Does abundance have anything to do with how much unconditional love we direction towards others?

Every single person who ever comes into our lives is a mirror, and our abundance with people is what is reflected back to us from those mirrors, and that, of course, is what we direction towards them.

People are like little pieces of mirrors walking around. The universe is like one humongous mirror. The people mirrors are like pieces of the humongous universal mirror. Everything that can be seen in the big mirror can be seen in the little mirrors. There is no difference because everything seen in the big mirror is the same thing seen in the little. The size of the mirror does not change what it is reflecting.

It is you!

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The universe and one-ness are pretty much the same thing. One-ness is the universe in expression. Since each of us are the universe, when we express, we have the entire universe behind us. It is the universe expressing through us that either comes through unimpeded as one-ness, or is impeded with energetic conditions. Opening back up to this one-ness, we can radically alter our lives, freeing ourselves from the shackles of the conditions we have placed on what amounts to the life energy that animates us.

How full of energy are you? All pieces of the universe have access to the unlimited energy (and knowledge) of the universe. UNLIMITED! The only limits are those we have created. It may seem we are limited by the body vehicles we find ourselves in, but it is we who created these body vehicles, and we created them to eventually hold a fully-fledged god capable of expressing the universe through it. We're still figuring out how to do that, though. These body vehicles are evolving, allowing more and more unlimited-ness into the body. Putting up resistance to this unlimitedness only delays things. The more unlimitedness/one-ness we take into our hearts, the more our resistances dissipate.

The universe is already within us, and it is already outside of us. Our hearts are the door through which expression and interaction happens between the universe within and the universe without. It is essential to open up that door to get some circulation going.

That door is a door of awareness. The universe permeates our entire existence, yet it is possible to be completely unaware of it. How aware of it we are is indicative of how far we've moved into the new paradigm. In the new paradigm, this awareness will bring forth a new abundant way of living.

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Many people will go through an entire day without having their divinity mirrored back to them. Sure, people will mirror judgments, guilts, depression, pessimism, and a host of other issues, but not the abundance and joy and love that is everyone's birthright and natural way of life. There is a god in everyone, but that god is never mirrored back to the person, so the person forgets they are a god.

When you're not aware of your divinity, you're not projecting it, and therefore it won't be reflected back to you. Unless, of course, you happen to run into someone who sees the divinity in you despite the fact that you're not projecting it. Let's say you've gone a year and eight months without your divinity being reflected back to you. For all that time, all that's been reflected to you is judgment and fear and lack and other mind games. Then, one day, you run into someone who floods you with unconditional love and treats you as though you were a god.

How does this make you feel?

And how does it feel to be the one projecting the unconditional love?

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Okay, you're in a huge circular room with no windows. The only light comes from a strobe light that is slowly flashing on and off. One minute, you're in pitch blackness, and the next minute the room is fully lit up. This room is your world, your reality. You can only see your reality when the strobe light is on, illuminating the room.

It's your room, so you want to see and know it all. Slowly, you start turning around to view your entire room (which is quite large). Each flashing of the strobe light is one moment of NOW, and each moment of complete darkness is a moment of void-ness. So you slowly turn around seeing your room through this strobe light effect. Every moment the strobe light is on, you're seeing the room from a different angle since you're slowly turning in order to see it all (You are always in motion), so therefore every moment of NOW is different. So your reality, as seen by you, is an amalgam of endless moments of NOW.

Each and every one of these moments of NOW have the potential of being a moment of intense clarity, but what determines the level of clarity is our level of focus on that particular moment of NOW. If we are trying to reconstruct in our heads what past moments of NOW were like, or if our thoughts are on future moments of NOW, then our focus on the current moment of NOW is not there and the clarity of that moment can't be seen nor felt.

Of course the strobe light effect works a lot faster than that, in fact it works so fast you can't even see it. But the principles are still the same. The only place to find clarity is in the NOW, the current pattern of strobe light moments. But we can't hold on to those moments, analyzing them or even trying to understand them. Understanding comes after we've turned completely around having seen the entire room in a composite of a gazillion NOWs. Understanding won't come though unless you've seen enough of the room with clarity.

Let's say you're turning and in one moment of light you see one end of a couch on the periphery of the part of the room you're seeing. Then after a moment of void, the light comes back on, but you're not paying attention because in your mind you're still in that last moment and you're trying to understand what the room will be like with a couch in it. You're curious about what the rest of the couch looks like and how it fits into the part of the room you haven't seen yet, so you're trying to create an understanding of how the couch fits into your life, but while you're busy trying to understand the last strobe lighting, the one you're in just passed and you never noticed the full couch which you would have been able to see in that moment.

Understanding is a passive thing. Like the Taoists liked to say, "To understand is simply to stand under." Most of us try to understand, though, by grabbing onto a strobe light moment and trying to make it stand still. It won't. Everything is in a constant state of motion. The NOW is a constant state of motion. When we go with the flow of this motion we are in the NOW. We cannot gain clarity and understanding by trying to stop this motion. We can only do it by standing under this universal motion and allowing it to flow through us, and by in turn flowing with it.

In other words, we won't see and understand the entire couch unless we stay in the NOW to see it from all the different perspectives of each new turn in the circle we're making to see the whole room.

Embrace each moment of intense clarity for each of these moments you experience are moments when you are fully in the NOW. With each embracement you are pulled more permanently into the NOW, and your understanding becomes more complete. But by embracing I mean a quick hug; a total unconditional experiencing of that moment, then immediately letting it go, dying to it completely in order to move into the next moment of NOW.

Embrace/release. Embrace/release. Embrace/release.

Failure to release is a failure to stand under this natural order of reality, and it prevents us from seeing with clarity.

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Now let's pretend that YOU are the strobe light. If the universe is strobing on and off, then surely you are, too. Each on-strobing of your light is a filtering, by you, of the universal light coming through you. You filter the light with your perceptions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes, and all the conditions you place on your existence. Each on-strobing lights up that part of the room (your life) you are in and how it is seen and experienced is colored by all the conditions placed upon it.

Now let's freeze-frame one of those on-strobings:

The light is on. You can see one side of your room. Remember, it's pretty big. There's a ton of furniture in there, even a car or two. The car's not a Rolls-Royce, though, because you don't feel you deserve one, and your light will reflect what you feel. It's just a dented-up old Mazda, but there it is in your room. You can see in one corner there's a big mess. There are a couple piles of dirty laundry and the cat box really needs to be changed. On one wall, though, you see many framed photographs of loved ones, and this makes you feel good, but then you realize that they are just encapsulated images of past NOWs, and by framing and displaying them we are holding those loved ones in past NOWs, not allowing them to move into new NOWs.

That's when you realize there's a whole bunch of people in your room. There is family and friends and work associates and convenience store clerks and every lover you've ever had and even some celebrities. The guy you got pissed off at in traffic last Thursday is also there. Every one of these people is a mirror we've created to reflect our light, our on-strobing, back to us so that we can see it. Every condition we place upon the unconditional universal energy flowing (strobing) through us is reflected back to us by that which is in the room when the strobe goes off. If we color that universal energy with fear, everything in our room, when the strobe light comes on, will be tinted with fear. Even the people will reflect fear back to you. Even the people in the photos on the wall will reflect fear back to you.

In an effort to open up completely to the unconditional energy flowing through us, we need to release everything (all conditions). This allows the universal energy to remain unconditional as it flows through you and out into the room. Then, everything in the room will have no choice but to start reflecting abundant unconditionality.

In this way, not only do we uplift ourselves and our reality, but we uplift (and release) all those people in the room. Being lit up by the unconditional love coming through you, they will be unable to reflect back to you anything but that love. If they can't handle it they'll leave the room. If there is anyone left in your room who is not reflecting unconditional love back to you it is because you are still holding on to a condition.

So how do we open up to this universal unconditional energy? How do we change our rooms? (Create our realities?) How do we stay in the NOW?

By understanding the other half of the equation: The Void

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What is the difference between wind and sucking? Is sucking backwards wind, or is wind backwards sucking? Think about that a moment....

The point of difference is obviously direction. But when you take direction out of the equation, what do you have left?

Motion. That's all wind is, is motion. Air in motion. So what is thought in motion? The answer is reality. What is joy? Unconditional love in motion. And finally, what is motion? Motion is life. If something isn't moving, it has no life.

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But what about rocks? They do not move.

Ah, but they do. They just move at such a slow speed that it would take several of our lifetimes to witness it. Inanimate objects move; they are alive. But their movement is at the very slowest end of the movement spectrum. Humans are at the opposite end of the spectrum. That is why it is so difficult for humans to "see" the life in rocks. (And, by the way, that is also why it is so difficult for rocks to "see" the life in humans.)

Movement, like everything else in this dualistic dimension, is polarized. Everything that comes into this dimension gets polarized. Since movement is life, it is life that becomes polarized in this dimension. So life either sucks, or it blows. It is direction that polarizes, but, of course, direction itself is also polarized. There is horizontal direction and there is vertical direction (leading to a gazillion combinations thereof). This is symbolized by a cross within a circle.

So life comes into this dimension and becomes polarized into both horizontal and vertical movement. Let's talk about vertical movement first.

Vertical movement is in the form of the strobing effect mentioned earlier. There is the above (The Void), and there is the below (The Light). Life moves back and forth in a strobing pattern between the above and the below. As life moves into this dimension, it first enters The Void and then moves down into The Light. Midway between them, life shoots out horizontally. Horizontal movement is in the form of waves, not strobing. So when the life energy comes down from the void and hits the center point, it keeps going towards The Light, but it also shoots out horizontally in waves. These waves are our reality and The Light is what illuminates our reality.

All this happens so fast, though, that it seems simultaneous. If we could slow it all down umpteen gazillion times, life would seem like a strobing light show. One nanosecond everything is illuminated, the next nanosecond there is nothing, then the next everything is illuminated again, and so forth. The life energy comes into The Void then spreads out horizontally in gorgeous colorful waves, then it goes into The Light where all those gorgeous colorful waves can be seen.

So it is a combination of vertical and horizontal movement that creates our reality. Can the importance of The Void be seen in this scenario?

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To properly navigate this dimension, one uses both directions of movement; vertical and horizontal. The universal energy coming down into the void, and then through the center of the cross, and then into the light, is the energy that gives us life. It is both the energy of our entity and of the universe. We would cease living without it.

What has happened with humankind is that the vertical movement of the universal energy has been almost cut off, and humans live mostly in a horizontal energy dynamic, allowing only enough universal vertical energy to come in to barely keep them alive. Humans have gotten stuck in horizontal energy patterns and feel separated from their vertical energy source.

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With all the noise gone, when there is silence; then we can touch the void and find the balance needed to keep life vibrant. In the space where there are no thoughts attached to things, everything is just experienced without any judgment or emotions. When all the conditions we place upon our lives are released, then life flows through us like a wind and our only chore is in navigating that wind. When this wind moves through us, we experience it as an intense feeling. It is our feeling center that is our navigational equipment. Touching the void is what helps us to access that equipment, for it is through the void that the life energy enters us. Any denial of the void or refusal to go there results in a significant portion of that life energy to be blocked from coming in. So by the time the life energy has gone through the void and enters our center, there may be only about 10% of it left. This 10% then gives life to all the conditions we place upon our lives, and these conditions then spread out horizontally in waves, creating our reality. So this life energy then moves down from our center into the light, but by this time, there is not enough left for us to become enlightened.

When we can become so completely open to the feeling energy flowing vertically down through us, and we don't put up any resistance to this energy, then it can flow right down through us without being diminished at all. When this happens, the horizontal waves flowing out from us become a grand and glorious reflection of that vibrant life energy. When we hamper the flow of that life energy with conditions (judgments, guilts, fears, egos, etc.), then the horizontal waves flowing out from us reflect those conditions instead (in direct proportion to how much energy we give those conditions).

The center of the cross within the circle is our point of balance. If the vertical energy can flow through the center unimpeded, then the horizontal energy will be just as strong. Any imbalance keeping us from the center point of balance diminishes the energy flowing through us and it will feel like we are not even close to living our potential. The circle, by the way, represents one-ness, but there is another point of one-ness, and that is the very center point of the cross--that point of balance. The cross represents our attempt at living in a dimension of duality, and bringing one-ness from the outside circle, through the cross, into the center point, thus bringing one-ness into this dimension. Furthermore, with this model, we can also use one-ness to go beyond this dimension. (one-ness being the key.)