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