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Lately, as an integrated-wholistic Being, I completed my studies and involvements in and within what I've seen as a centuries-long Experiment amidst the basics of the Earth system, for the purposes of expanding our human and other species options and opportunities in terms of freewill choices.

One of those previous large-scale emphases of mine was the land of my birth, the United States of America. I was asking what were the factors that made it unique and different from other global areas, both past and present? That focus began to be actively set forth one afternoon during the summer of 1975, when I lay on a Tobago beach and tearfully told Jim I had to go back. At the time, we were in the Caribbean exploring the idea of leaving the U.S.—finding a place to live with an easier, simpler life-style. 

That day in Tobago decades ago, I was homesick. Yes I missed America, and I was also sick about what was happening there. I told myself and Jim that the U.S. was The Land of My Birth— that I Loved it and its people … yes there were many problems … and I had to return, to play my part as best I could, which I now think I've done. During the past decades I've traced original U.S. designs back to primarily English fore-bearers who settled colonies on the East coast of what is now the United States of America, while also seeing the results of other European powers of that era—especially Spain and France— playing out their designs too on the North American continent.

My conclusion today is that each area of the world is unique and different in its own ways, with its own past. Yes, at the time of early North American colonialization there were opportunities here—in what was called The New World—that weren't available elsewhere, but by not using an evaluator of superiority, they were unique, period.

Currently here in the U.S. the diminishment of the middle class and their life-styles that has been taking place for decades—is increasingly evident. The picture I see is one where the U.S. middle class emerged after World War II, amidst a global context where U.S. businesses and production facilities were able to  convert to peace-time activities while other industrialized nations were rebuilding their war-torn countries. Also, over time in a competitive sense, the wages paid to many workers in other counties were lower than most workers were making at the time here in the U.S. In addition, after WWII the American middle class was built by industrious veterans who used the government's G.I. Bill to help them go to school, buy homes, and start businesses. I think it was a unique era in the U.S. past—one that will not be repeated again.

This last July 4th weekend, via television I watched the celebrations from both Washington D.C. and New York City. I was especially impacted with seeing U.S. veterans from recent Middle East conflicts—in Iraq and Afghanistan—sitting in wheelchairs in D.C., while also experiencing a sight and sound technological extravaganza from New York City that was costing millions of dollars, polluting the air and water—while the money could have been used in other ways. Was I being a spoiler, being practical, or both?

I've also been seeing some of the significant patterns of our U.S. past from the Southeastern areas of the United States that led to the Civil War—regarding the economy of their region, their relationships with other humans who were seen as basically inferior blacks, etc.—playing out within current-day national and state political emphases.

Here in the United States, as we females have played out our culturally designated gender roles relationships have been one of our central focuses, activities, and topic of conversations with other females. In my Life my daughter Kim and partner Jim have been central relationships. Earlier this month I sent a book and accompanying letter to Kim, that brought my relationship with her to the present. These are major portions with a few small edits, from what I wrote:

Dear Kim, July 2014

Recently I've been in a process of completing my decades-long focuses of seeking basic personal power for myself, while also playing a part of encouraging others too in those ways, such as was one of my core intents in early 1999 when I began writing God's River of Love. 

In your and my relationship from the start of your physical Life as Kim, I did what I could within the context of the time, place, and era, to provide an environment for you that was as close as I knew at the time to the basics of the Earth system—a place to celebrate the sun, the seasons, night/day, and all the wonders of the natural world, which I believed we humans were of course part of. In addition, I purposely didn't program you with many of the more debilitating and erroneous-based cultural designs (as I saw them), while energizing my own designs that there were more fundamentally realistic ways of thinking that could and would be discovered.

Then through the years I set forth the clearest communications I could as I moved along my self-chosen trajectory of getting as close as I could to the basics of divinity, the basics of the Earth system—their inter-relationship—and “how it all works really in this realm of Being.”  Throughout my explorations I delved into many perspectives, worldviews, and large-scale belief structures in the past and present, from a combined coupling of both my basic intellect and experiences within various structures. 

Along the way I shared with you some books (and other materials) I thought were valuable for you to be aware of …

And Now I/We, as-an-integrated-wholistic Being, are sending you the most concise and basically realistic worldview I/We are aware of—Seth's The Magical Approach  … dictated through Jane Roberts in 1980. In The Magical Approach, I think Seth is directly saying, “This is it folks. This is how it really works in actual/factual ways‚ that are basically safe, sane, easy and effortless .… if you decide to use them as an overall framework, and are effective in implementing them.”

Jim and I recently read The Magical Approach aloud together, including conversations between us. I was pleased with what I've already achieved during my “journey of 1,000 miles,” as I/We Now implement the whole worldview Seth is proposing, as I/We translate and apply it. 

 As an integrated, composite Being, We have gone beyond previous focuses of basic personal power because We've concluded that by not using disabling designs from The Experiment, Our basic human nature is already naturally self-empowered.

And I want to add My/Our sincere Appreciation for so many of your emphases over the years, including how often you held me in the imaginative light of divinity with highest good wishes, and the lovely, Loving gifts you sent to both Me and Jim. Thank You.

Whether you choose to read any of Seth's book in the present, or in the future, or not at all, is totally up to you as far as I'm concerned. My primary intent is to get my part right, both as your mother and a fellow Earth traveler, without any expectations about your free will choices and freedom to choose.

And so I'll close with Love and Best Wishes,  J

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In addition to the book Jim and I published, my manuscript that is on our J & J website, and blogs I've posted since 2009, I think there's a lot more happening at each moment within an inner communication dimension of our Beings. Awhile ago Jim wrote an essay he titled “The Internet and the Innernet.” The following are excerpts from his writings:

“The Internet is a mechanical-electronic network of and from communication by humans for the use of humans. It is limited by the existence and access to the machinery that creates it and the system that distributes it. It is also limited to receipt by those who have access. In comparison the Innernet is unlimited. It requires no machinery and equipment, and no distribution system. The Innernet is fueled by the thoughts and emotions of consciousnesses of all kinds and is open to receipt and use by humans and all beings in the whole of being. It is truly egalitarian and open. There are no secrets, so direct communication is the way it works.” In the same essay, he added, “So even though we have the wonder of the Internet manifested in our lives we also have an Innernet built right in our Being. I am intending to explore it much more extensively while I still have access to this physical body and see what we can do.” 

One of the awarenesses I have now is that as the human species we have severely cut ourselves off from what I've experienced as The Basic Creative Process—that is, designing everything at the get-go—including who/what one is as the essence of oneself, who/what one is as an individual and as a spirit-being, what our bodies are and aren't, what our relationships are with other humans and other species members, the purposes we set forth and the patterns we originate to actualize them, the connections we make, the results of it all in terms of experiences—and then the evaluators we each use. Instead, as a species I think we have been primarily focused upon the result phase of it all.

A central basic I've become increasingly aware of is that nothing is really rigid and static … everything is always in a transformation process—just look at the natural world without distortive lenses! 

I have also concluded that each person needs to get wholly in the processes of her or his own Life in order to Understand their own originations, opportunities, and responsibilities. During my explorations I discovered that we humans had used and were using many Experiment basic assumptions as our operating patterns and evaluators—such as survival-of-the-fittest in competitive ways— becoming clearer about the ones I still energized and then effectively dissolving them. Moreover, I Realized that the fundamental basics of the Earth system itself and also Basic Divinity have been and are ever-present as the foundation framework for all our lives and Life choices.—as many people have been aware of over the ages.

In transformative value-fulfillment terms—which is how I choose to think it really works—in the present I've been aware of many emphases I made in the past commingling with each other now in potential value-fulfillment ways. One of them are heart-wrenching stories I was hearing in the later 1970s-early 1980s about Vietnam veterans who had returned to a tumultuous America where there were protests regarding the Vietnam War, racial civil rights, along with the other  American cultural eruptions taking place. Many of them felt scorned when they returned to their home-land. And some of those vets went off into the forests of Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, providing for themselves an easier environment from their perspectives. But as I heard some of their stories, they still had terrible flashbacks and nightmares about their experiences in Vietnam.

In our current-day world in the U.S. there are many stories about veterans from recent Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, where we now have a volunteer fighting force as contrasted to the draft during the Vietnam era. And most Americans today think our U.S. veterans deserve medical treatments, including an array of drugs for their pains that include mental/emotional sufferings. The other day on NPR I heard some first-person stories from vets who are voluntarily choosing to stop taking many or all of their medications … and I wondered how they were coping with what I hear are horrific nightmares. And so it is, from that overall context I'm offering the following perspective/suggestion:

In his essay about the Internet and Innernet, Jim discussed the use of dreams, which he and I have both done for decades, each in our own ways on a nightly basis. My suggestion to those who are suffering mentally/emotionally is to use a very different framework within which to view their identity and lives. Seth says the dream state is actually a realm wherein each of us have opportunities to explore various probabilities and options, helping us decide which one or ones we then want to manifest in what he calls Framework 1. (He calls the inner dimension Framework 2.) Throughout his books, Seth has interwoven exercises and activities to help acquaint an individual with their own basic processes and procedures, saying that each event and experience is actually a fluid story, that there are other stories an individual can originate … that nothing is basically static and rigid. Jim and I have individually used those exercises many times in past decades.

At the end of the dyadic biography of my manuscript, Within the River of Love, Translations and Applications, that is on our website withinlovesriver.com—wherein I wrote about Jim and I—there is a photograph Jim took of a swam taking off. At the time I wholistically and intuitively chose it as a symbol for each of us as a participating individual while The Experiment played out, as it is obviously doing at this “time ” … where each of us Now can Be Unfettered and Liberated, beyond gender, relationships, and other collaborative cultural design  entrapments. Real Freedom can Now ring and sing in right-sized ways without grandiosity or impotence!

What Now? Part Four

What Now? Part Four

One morning a few weeks ago, when I was transitioning from the dream state to wakefulness, I inwardly saw a revolving stage for this current era, where previous eras and actors were relevant, while now in the background.

On that current-day stage was Me as a main character, playing my part in my new script, with both Jim and daughter Kim as central characters too. I've thought a lot about what parts I'm writing for them. Then, using unfettered love,  unfettered freedom, liberated options, and personal power, I concluded that Jim and Kim can fill out their own parts … where if their energy originations naturally connect with mine, they will do so. 

This in no way hampers my options with either one of them because I believe there is a whole inner dimension to each of us. Therefore I have the option of sending information and responses I thoughtfully and purposely craft, into this invisible communication and connective dimension, without being limited to only physical interactions.

While our body organism is a central character in this new script that we-as-a-holistic-integrated-being are writing, as this composite being we are sitting in the audience as the script-writer, where our body is writing the part it wants to play now. And, the part our body is writing for itself is to find out what it can be and do without cultural limitations. Its major focus is upon full health—spiritually, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, physically, and beyond—living an easy, enjoyable life.

More unfettered clarity. Both Jim and I have computers with printers. We send and receive emails. We both frequently do Google researches. We use land mail via the post office, and receive packages at times that we order online from catalogues and Amazon, via USPS, Fed-Ex, and UPS deliveries. We also have one cell phone and two in-house landline telephones. We drive a 12-year-old Audi car with over 80,000 miles, that uses gasoline. And our home is powered from natural gas and electricity. We recycle newspapers, magazines, glass, plastics, and electronic equipment—and we have a curbside pick-up every two weeks for other discards. That is, I think we Americans are all in this together, in one way or another. One difference is that neither of us have iPhones or tablets; nor are we connected to social media.

 Yes, I'm now writing A New Script for my whole stage, including an exploration of—what is Now? And Jim is designing A Whole New World for himself, with new operating patterns. So how will all this translate into the ongoing current-day expansion of technological developments? What events and experiences will emerge in our lives in the future that I can then write “stories” about? Obviously, I'll find out as this new experiment and adventure unfolds.

I believe that unfettered personal power is a natural resource we humans use all the time, that we channel within energy forms, that each of us tells stories about. So, I am now imagining each of us humans as potential script-writers and story-tellers, as each individual takes back her or his life.

For the past thousands of years, I think we humans have been telling ourselves and each other religious, scientific, metaphoric, and “how it all works” stories that are primarily from within the context of The Experiment. Moreover, I am convinced that each of us is such a complex individual, the variables are vast in terms of what emerges as potential future results.

If, as I suspect, this current-day reality of a poisoned Earth with large amounts of human suffering, is only one possible reality out of many—a result of our collective human energizations—while there are also other stories and realities that can replace this one … and if we humans are effective with the use of our individual and basic personal powers, then in right-sized terms, I think there are wondrous opportunities available today and tomorrow.

What Now? Part Three

What Now? Part Three

At this time, one aspect of “how I think it all works” is that each of we humans, using abilities that naturally come with our participation in this basic Earth system, energize thoughts and emotions that connect with those of other humans to bring about physical events and experiences. Then each of us interprets events and experiences into “stories“ we tell ourselves and others, most of which come forth from frameworks within The Experiment.

One day in the recent past, when I didn't know how to think about a situation that I had previously given a lot of attention to, inner guidance advised me to literally plunge deeper for a more “realistic” story and picture—which I did. Well, it has played out marvelously. And during the process, in a natural way, any lingering fettered Experiment energies of opposition, hierarchies, and either/or thinking have been disappearing. Within that deeper, more realistic dimension I've been seeing, hearing, and understanding various points of view and perspectives as valid from within that individual's context and personal life. 

Hence, I've been watching and reading about internal U.S. conflicts and recent global conflicts between the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, European countries, and others from that more expanded position of understanding, as best I can—what are the goals, objectives, worldviews, and strategies of the various players? I think basic, unfettered personal power is very different than how power is used by we humans within the context of still-existing cultural Experiment frameworks.

At the same time, I've been deeply and compassionately affected by multiple tragedies taking place globally, as I listen to people's stories from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Africa, and elsewhere … and many here in the United States are obviously suffering as they alleviate their pain with increased use of heroin and other pain-killers. 

Discernment has been and is a continual emphasis by both Jim and I. Living as we do amidst our current-day American human environment of increasing available information, speed, more and more sensationalism, and all the potential conversations one can have via technology with other people … in our own lives, Jim and I have both felt the need for putting even more significance upon how we use our time and attention. This focus also includes from whom and where we get our news and information. My choices continue to be primarily from PBS and NPR options.

Currently, I am watching the roll-out of the television series, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” an update of Carl Sagan's 1980 “Cosmos” series on PBS. This contemporary version is being aired on both Fox and National Geographic channels, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. I've been seeing it as both a modern-day scientific story, and also a metaphoric story. I think the metaphor is that the series is vividly showing we humans, as a species and individuals, that we are an interwoven and natural part of the Cosmos, of the Whole of Being—it's our basic home! 

During my ongoing process of standing in the present, reverse engineering, and welcoming all emotions and thoughts … I used a design that every thing, including what we humans have energized, has its own reality and desires. By some, this has been called value fulfillment, where in fundamental ways every thing is in a transformation process of its own healthy enhancement, that also potentially enhances others, too. It's been a joy to think this way!

Another development in recent months is that in addition to the four interacting time frames I've used for years—natural world time, cultural time, spacious time, and my time—a fifth one has emerged: wholistic time, where all the pieces have appropriately come together, in a harmonious convergence. How do I know that? … there's an inner sense that feels wholistically right. 

Looking back from today, it seems these last two years in my life have been a major transition time, where I had crafted A Completely Different Reality to Be amidst, within which I had many wondrous, shimmering experiences. Nonetheless, within that framework I was using contrasts I had available from all my experiences and studies about The Experiment. Then one day I realized that within wholistic time, it was time to go beyond those cultural contrasts and connections … all the various pieces had now come together.               

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What Now? Part Two

What Now? Part Two 

One afternoon a few months ago, during meditation I inwardly heard divine guidance advise watching our DVD copy of the film, Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing, a very significant movie for me in previous years. I also saw and heard an inner picture of a fireworks-type explosion, where doing so would really open things up … and it did! That event led to my explorations of what I called The Unfettereds. The first one was unfettered Love, meaning basic Love without restrictions. So that was the lens I used through which I looked at my past, present, and future.

I have also been able to use experiences from the past 15 years, starting in early 1999 when I began writing God's River of Love. At that time I purposely started out from the position of being an individualized part of divinity overall, of divine Oneness, while also continuing to function appropriately culturally. I was primarily identifying with the essence of my Being. Another way to think about Oneness is—it's synonymous with fundamental Love.

In retrospect I have seen that a major restriction I had placed on basic love had been making Jim and Kim overly large, whereas in right-sizing terms basic love now flows from and to me freely, where I am creating a love that includes everyone and everything … and also, I am now focusing on more fundamentally loving myself (more right-sizing).

I think unfettered freedom is closely connected with basic unfettered love …  while I also think that the designs each of us sets forth naturally make  connections with others. From this perspective, there is more conscious responsibility and additional options to change the game and results in one's life. From my point of view, I am fully responsible for everything I energize to start with … and am also responsible for all my responses to others. But I'm not responsible for what another person does with what I set forth.

After all that, I explored unfettered compassion, and then unfettered clarity that I continue to be amidst.

What has become increasingly clear is that gender roles were and are everywhere, in all cultures. I see cultural gender roles as usually being central to one's Identity. Fortunately, from the beginning of our relationship Jim has energized many beliefs about gender equality and fairness, while at the same time he was using mixes of cultural male patterns he learned amidst a very competitive environment. And I too had used mixes of patterns I learned to use to be a cultural female … while for decades, Jim and I have both been playing around in going-beyond-cultural-gender definitions.

Over the years there have been many dynamics between us in terms of our cultural gender programs. On dozens of occasions, Jim and I have had  conversations about our role expectations as we were growing up—me as a cultural female in southern California, and he as a cultural male in the Midwest. Then last October 2nd, on his 80th birthday, Jim played a round of golf, and stated later that he had satisfactorily completed his decades-long golf focuses, that in the future he'd probably play a round occasionally. It seems that music and as yet unknown other interests are more front and center in his life now. He has said he is creating A Whole New World, with fresh designs for himself, and new operating patterns.

Currently, in our individual ways we are both choosing to go beyond cultural gender roles and their limitations, while also continuing to function appropriately in exchanges with others.

to be continued

What Now?

What Now?

It's been more than two years since I last posted a blog. During that time I've been exploring my own version of the Tree of Life—the natural basics of the Earth system and overall divinity—while also adding more clarity to what I've called The Experiment I believe we humans have been amidst for thousands of years. And as I am aware of current-day developments, both globally and nationally, I am even more convinced that The Experiment is energetically over—its designs have been played out and its purpose has been achieved.

What has been The Experiment's purpose? I think it has been to increase our human abilities to pause and evaluate at each moment, to stand back and reflect, asking oneself—“How did we and I get here, and what now?” And I think our major method during The Experiment has been to extensively separate ourselves as humans from other Earth species members, from some fellow humans, and even from our own direct natural divinity. In other words, we humans have purposely chosen to not be aligned with the natural basics of ourselves, the Earth system, and overall divinity.

As I stand back and reflect ~~ throughout my Life I had been searching for what I called “the more,” the rest of the story that we didn't hear culturally. I explored and experimented with many designs within various worldviews in a process of personal expansions. And then recently I've heard inner guidance advise me that it's time to more actively choose what I am setting forth as my part of it all. Certainly, I had previously been actively energizing my own worldview, but it had been within a framework of my quest to know what all my choices were, and to get as close as I could to “how it all works.” This is different: It was time to make more active and direct choices.

At the recent Spring Equinox on March 20th I started a new natural world year, with the major emphasis being “Writing A New Script” in this New Era that the Mayans and others had forecasted. Since I think The Experiment has now played itself out, I imaginatively see each of us human species members having liberated opportunities at this time to choose what, where, how, and when we apply what we have learned from it.

During the past two years I've extensively used a process and procedure of reverse engineering—going from collaborative experiences and results, back to my personal energizations of goals, desires, beliefs. emotions, and other emphases. It always worked, although sometimes I had to go back and look further. 

While Being in the present, with appreciation I also have been welcoming all emotions and thoughts into my conscious awarenesses. One conclusion I've come to is that emotions are very important helpers in terms of personal power … and are connected to ideas, desires, goals, beliefs, and a complex of individual patterns and designs. Then I stand back from my awareness, while finding out what I originated in the first place … and when I have learned enough, the emotional awareness experiences move on—along with my letting them go.

Since this is a personal integrating process, it frees me from directly expressing any or all of this to others. That is, I can choose what, if anything, I want to do and not do. Obviously, this is some of my application of The Experiment's goal—giving we humans more reflective time and more opportunities for choices. Moreover, because I believe there is a whole invisible dimension of communications and connections we are all part of, I carefully and purposely replace no-longer-appropriate energizations with up-to-date ones.

Also included in this personal potency and power process are emphases upon personal responsibility and “right-sizing.” Ah yes, right-sizing. For me it means to evaluate in terms of what I am now crafting—that is, appropriate ways to think, including who/what I choose to design myself to Be. It's a time and place  now, to use the pause and reflect opportunities and lessons from The Experiment to full advantage!

to be continued

Empowered Spirit-Being People

The clearest picture I have thus far for one aspect of “how it all works,” is that spirit-being humans can become so connected and identified with their own pattern originations, when there is a spirit-being parting from their physical body organisms, they are still enmeshed and encoded with those same patterns. So by not successfully extracting the essence of themselves, the spirit-bring quite possibly lives other lives within similar design matrixes. I also think there are spirit-beings who have consciously wanted to keep having similar experiences in other lives and locales.

In the later 1970s, while living in the Sierra Nevada mountain foothills in northern California, when I was in a crisis about my father‘s forthcoming passing on, I played a lot with different ways of thinking—and their results. On many occasions I would temporarily set aside my own identity and thought processes, and purposely energize another set of patterns with which to see and experience my environment. Then I would extract the essence of myself from my body organism, placing “Me” in back of my body, identifying with myself as the essence of Me that was the energy pattern originator. After that I would take a walk in the surrounding woods, seeing and experiencing the world through that different lens. When I came back home I would rejoin with my body, assume my usual identity and thought patterns, afterwards writing about the specific designs I had instigated and what had happened

From today‘s perspective, it was a great way to begin to really Liberate and untangle the various components of Me-as-a-wholistic-Being … and to experientially Understand the processes I naturally use to energize designs of all kinds.

Then in the early 1980s when Jim and I were taking a tour through history, Jim was convinced he had lived other lives in other times. From my point of view, I thought I certainly made natural energy connections with others in the past and present, from my emphases as Jacquie, but it didn‘t feel right for me to go beyond that. A few weeks ago a speculation arose to my conscious awareness: Does how some people in today‘s world think about living other historical lives, primarily apply to the experiment?

Over the years, my Understandings about how one‘s gender role as a cultural female or male can be a large entrapment in terms of one‘s identity and identifications as a spirit-veing human, has increased considerably. This includes the emotional tones that have become familiar experiences in one‘s Life. Also, I‘ve been increasingly aware that our official cultural agreements about the significance of objective/scientific reality, a type of logos that doesn‘t include a person‘s inner subjective aspects, can become a major entrapment.

Recently, during “Our” explorations of The Tree of Life, our body organism is very clear that in its natural state, the escalating emotional intensities in today‘s world are usually too much for it! When in their presence at televised sports events and many other entertainment venues, it tenses up to protect itself. And I have Realized that in the past, as a spirit-being human within a cultural context, I too thought I needed to set forth a lot of energy in order to be safe-enough and to even have a desirable place amidst it. Again, this is being said with great Appreciation for the experiential contrasts I have had as a participant in the cultural processes.

Today … the story that wholistically makes the most sense to Me is one where I imaginatively See a big spirit-being gathering of those who were choosing to collaborate and participate, in preparation for the experiment in separations from the basics—that would unfold for thousands of years. At the preliminary spirit-being meeting, various forthcoming participants were choosing various parts. During the process, I said I wanted to come into the whole experiment just once, near the end. I wanted to play a part where I showed how one could become culturally programmed, and then successfully disentangle oneself from one‘s patterns and body organism—returning home as a portion of unfettered divine Love and Oneness, while still amidst the natural world as a spirit-being human. (I especially enjoy this picture because it gives each of us spirit-being humans a more original horizontal playing field.)

A major Realization that has been becoming even clearer recently, is that as a spirit-being person, I‘ve been exploring divine Love all my Life, including how it has been culturally translated during the experiment. In the present, it‘s like I‘m back home as a portion of unfettered divine Love and Oneness, with all the digested experiences, Understandings, and their applications so far … along with a wonderful companion and fellow-traveler for the past 41-years—Jim.

I‘m also very clear that experiences from using current-day cultural individuality positions and perspectives are very different from experiences amidst the dimension of basic unfettered divine Love and Oneness, as an individualized portion of it all.

To repeat, as I See what‘s happening in our world-of-today, I think we‘re all close to the experiment‘s conclusion, where we each can directly apply what we‘ve learned in our Lives … now. And so, as a wholistic composite Being that includes our Body Organism, our choice is to continue applying what “we” have already learned, along with our further explorations and adventures in 2012 … amidst The Tree of Life.

With Best Wishes for the Highest Good, J

Money

During the past few months, while following the developments of cultural events, I have accumulated a fat file about “Money.“ This is a folder I didn‘t take to the basement recently from studies of the past, because it is so actively current—and globally volatile! Overall, I think the money picture is very entwined and complex!

Translating what I‘ve learned about the complementary nature of logos and mythos to money, I think in logical terms money is a factual medium for transactions: I give you so much money for what you are selling—goods and/or services—money that you can use as you choose. Then symbolically/mythologically-speaking, in addition to direct buying power, money can give a person potential prestige and esteem in other people‘s eyes.

Moreover, there is the very practical reality here in the United States and in other places around the world—that it is necessary to have enough money to support oneself as an individual and as a family. In the U.S. and elsewhere, people are saying, “We need and want jobs!” (hopefully jobs that pay enough). But again, I See all this within the context of a disintegrating spirit-being experiment—of separations from Oneness, from unfettered Love—and from the natural world itself, which has resulted in large-scale environmental problems.

Personally-speaking, in addition to our own endeavors, as only children Jim and I both inherited enough money when our parents passed on, to be able to live comfortable and modest lives, debt-free. But we too are part of the demise of “the experiment.” Even though Jim has a lot if experiential background in the area of finance, we have never been invested in the stock market. Instead, we have been putting our money into bank CDs, primarily because we wanted it to be as safe as possible, and for many years we both wanted to use the majority of our time and attention amongst other Life choices. Also, neither one of us wanted to put forth the efforts to achieve the life-style and the potential symbolic prestige that money can give one culturally.

For decades, we both have been mindful of who and what our money supports. In the present, our checking account and bank CDs are “all in” a regional bank, that wasn‘t involved with federal TARP funds. But, in many ways Jim and I are like other Americans today, people who live primarily on our social security checks for our monthly expenses.

How does all this relate with my integrated Being‘s explorations with The Tree of Life in 2012? That will be part of our forthcoming discoveries and adventures.......