Forever Expanding Awareness In Liberation

Council on Spiritual Practices

This is an interesting website that I found through a reference made to it in a book called “Cleansing the doors of perception” by Huston Smith.

The above link goes to the Ethnogen section of the CSP website. Be sure to check out the other sections.

Blessings,

Your Divinity lies within.
Your brain is a bio-metaphysical reality creation mechanism.
It is a somewhat like a film projector.
Your mind feeds in the film,
The Light that is God and your SELF,
S%¢Ñåé¯rough that film,
And voilà !!
You perceive reality as you know it.

Your mind uses what you call your brain and your nervous system to construct the perceptual experience of a tangible reality.
Your mind and brain are much like the software and hardware of a very impressive Holodeck — like that seen on Star Trek.

Your heart is a tuning fork that picks up and atones with the frequency of the reality you are creating with your mind.
It is through the heart that a tangible experience of Love (your true nature) is made manifest in the reality you are creating.
Look after it and use it wisely and openly.

Your Divinity lies within.
There is no point in looking out toward ANYTHING at all for your Divinity.
Do not look to “God” — for That is also within.
Do not look to a Guru — unless you find a Guru that is willing to return you 100 % back to that which is within.
Do not look to religion. You might like to get a handle on what various religions have in common. Fine.
But to join a religion is to go without.
Better to be religious, to cultivate a state of religiousness, then to join a religion.
Do not seek a Teacher. If you’re going to be served by a teacher than that Teacher will come. Until then, it’s just a waste of energy.
Go within.

You are an exquisite Being.
You are magnificent.
Trust that.
Love that.
Be that.

Anger is a powerful force. I used to claim that I didn’t tend to ever feel angry. Then later down the track I discovered that this force would arise within my world more often than I’d allowed myself to admit — or, more accurately, to FEEL. I discovered that what I sometime felt as depression and melencoly was in fact the introversion of anger. So I started to expore this force. What is it? Where does it come from? What message does it tell me? Why does it arise?

There is something about the human ego-mind that detests chaos and change on level at which most people relate to their lives. The paradox is that it’s the human ego-mind that consistently creates perceived outer chaos in the world — be that your personal world or the collective world.

In today’s society we have a vast array of mechanisms in place to try and avoid chaos. Everything from keys and locks, insurance, prisons, pharmaceutical drugs, much of our medical system, television, much of the rubbish in the media, billions of laws worldwide, armies and police forces… oh really… the list would in fact be almost endless. The key here is that most people recoil from what they perceive to be chaos, forever clinging to a safe version of reality that they think will best enable them to survive. The problem — if I can call it that — is that we are not here to survive. Ego-survival means nothing to the Soul and for all intents and purposes is more akin to being dead.

I have, however, found that a person’s capacity and willingness to embrace apparent chaos is a major deciding factor in how fully they experience the flow of life and the infinite support that Life extends into their world — were they simply willing to experience and accept it. Chaos brings with it the unknown. The ego-mind gets rather fixated on the “known”. Once it has locked onto something that appears to be “permanent” it then creates wondrous, elaborate, and entirely fictional stories about this object of its attention. These stories serve one purpose only. The purpose is to perpetuate the illusion of separation. Really the ego itself has not other purpose but this. There is, of course, no separation. Therefore this entire dance of madness takes place in the mind — the mind of He or She who perceives there to be separation and true purpose is the insanity of the ego.

Religion is also an attempt at avoiding apparent chaos. Religion organises the unknown and the ineffable into something structure, definitive, and relatively safe for the ego. Religion is man’s attempt at defining and making known that which is essentially undefinable and unknowable. Don’t get me wrong — just because something is unknowable does not mean that is can not be experienced, embraced, and ultimately embodied.

“Living on the edge” is about living on that fine line between the known and the unknown — between chaos and order. Another paradox is that living on the edge is not about living on the periphery. Rather it is about residing in the core or the centre. For this is where our connection to the Void or Vacuity resides, and it is from here that the known (and order) extends out from the unknown (and chaos).

The greatest of blessings come to us through madness, when it is sent as a gift of the gods. Heaven-sent madness is superior to man-made sanity. — Plato, in the Phaedrus

For a person who wishes to to wake up from the Dream and reconcile with the Dreamer it is vital that she start to embrace and even seek out change and chaos. I am not suggesting you do this in a foolish and fickle way, and abandon all sense of order in your life. No, that may have some interesting consequences, yet also likely are consequences that your current dream configuration is not set up to handle in a way that is conducive to balanced and useful progress. So rather than encouraging complete and free abandon of the structures that hold your world in place, I am simply bringing to your attention that chaos and change should not be automatically and mindlessly avoided when they natural arise and impinge upon your perception.

Chaos, in small but consistent doses, is like medicine to a mind that has become hypnotised by mass consciousness (mass-consensus) to the point of paralysis, as is so common in the world today. Chaos in a large dose can be like an overdose of medicine, resulting in damage to the organism that is made to endure it. Moderation and consistency. Being open to change is the main thing to keep in mind. Realise that if you currently live in a limited reality that is based primarily (or even totally) on the misconceptions of the ego-mind, and you wish to wake up to That which is beyond this limited reality, then a lot of change is going to have to take place. That change will ultimately be shaped, guided and instigated by God or Infinity through Grace and through the movement of Intent through your mind — therefore you don’t have to worry about “how to change”. The key is to be forever open and ready to change, despite what your ego-mind might have to say about such changes as the first indications of their manifestation in your world start to appear.

That is all for now.

With love…

For a

en·theo·gen [god within; god- or spirit-facilitating] a psychoactive sacramental; a plant or chemical substance taken to occasion primary religious experience.

I listened to an excellent BBC documentary some time ago (last year perhaps). It was a 6-part radio series on the use of plants for various purposes, both by humans and other animals. One of the comments made was that present day society is the first society we know of in the known history of humanity to NOT use entheogenic plants as a normal part of their social and spiritual functioning. Not only do we not include the use of these plants in our social system, we go so far as to ban them and make it a crime to use or possess many of these plants — plants that have been used since the beginning of time (in human terms).

I’ve had an interest in the nature of reality and consciousness since before I was in my teens. That interest led me into many forms of self-exploration and discovery. The exploration of psychoactive substances and ethnogenic plants was part of that journey — a very significant and important part. I would be a liar to deny that. I would also be a liar if I did not let people know that this sort of ethnogenic exploration played an important part of my ongoing path to awakening. It’s not, however, something I’ve tended to draw much attention to or talk about with people. I think that is perhaps because it is a rather controversial subject thanks to the rather contracted view that our society has on all matters falsely swept under the umbrella of “drugs”. The so called “war on drugs” is not a war on drugs at all. First and foremost it is a business decision, or “business policy” that allows those who deal in drugs to make vast amounts of money for very little (the global drug trade is one of the biggest industries in the world), and secondly it is a war against human freedom — the freedom alter your consciousness in a safe way as and when you wish to, except in ways determined by “society” to be okay (like tobacco, coffee, cocoa, alcohol, etc., [all big money makers too]). Keep in mind that many of the most successful companies in the world have some degree of association or indirect affiliation with the drug industry. There is also a great deal (as in a HUGE AMOUNT) of evidence that indicates the American government and a number of its agencies also make a great deal of money out of the global drug industry.

I am not implying that many of the “drugs” people have access to these days are not potentially dangerous to the individual who users them, and to the society and other people associated with these individuals. What I am suggesting, however, is that Man has create this problem and continues to perpetuate it. It is our collective and deep set denial of ethnogenic plants and our ancient relationship to such plants that has brought about the what in today’s terms we call “drugs”. For a traditional user of Ayahuasca (one of many ethnogenic sacraments predating recorded history) this drink was not a “drug” as we think of “drugs”. It was consider a “food” that provided a level of sustenance and intelligence that ordinary day-to-day foods did not impart. It was also considered and referred to as a “medicine”. This was medicine for the spirit, and it’s efficiency at healing on this level also made it a medicine for the body — recognising the all physical ailments have the point of origin in the mind and ones relationship to Self as spirit.

Humans have an inherent and unavoidable need to experience states of consciousness that differ from the ordinary reality that most people live in all their lives. As already mentioned, we live in the first known human society that does not embrace (and in fact bans) the use of mind-altering substances. Hence people can not fulfil this basic need in a safe and open way. So this need is pushed into a place of shadow and that which goes into shadow by default becomes life-taking in nature. I don’t think I need to spell it out any more than that.

The other reason I have perhaps said little about the use of ethnogenic substances is that even within the “spiritual” circles, groups, religions, New Age followings, etc., there is a great deal of confusion about and disdain toward the use of ethnogenic substances as a valid spiritual experience. Again, this is not without reason, yet that doesn’t not imply that this attitude is healthy or entirely valid (or valid at all). I won’t bother going into these “reasons” as I perceive them as I am feeling too lazy to do so just now. Perhaps another time.

I am going to complete this entry here. I see it as a very brief and partial introduction to this topic. I will be adding an Entheogenic Plants section to my blog for the purpose of further discussing and exploring this topic. More articles on Entheogens will follow from time to time.

With love and blessings,

FEAL

Caught between two worlds,
The world I see with my eyes,
And the world I know with my mind,
… the world I feel within my Being.

Caught between two worlds,
The world that knows who and what I am,
And the world that knows only what it believes,
… the world with which I’ve always felt at odds.

Caught between two worlds,
The tick-tock “reality” that believes all this to be true.
The non-ordinary reality,
In which I dance and reside,
Yet for which the people I see might think me “mad”
Or unapproachable, or something worse.

Such is life between two worlds,
In both worlds.
Day by day, these worlds merge,
The apparent “two” moving into One.

Here I am.
In this apparent world.
Yet here I Am…
Eternal, Immortal, Universal….
Now.
Everywhere. No-thing.

The “human RACE” is WON only in the NOW.
For here and NOW the race is over,
Complete.
Never was.
Just a figment of the imagination,
Hallucination on the grandest scale,
Projected from the mind of the One Self that I Am.

Here is a something I received from a dear friend when I lived in Switzerland for a while. His name was “The Count of Montecristo” although many just called him Soami (so-am-i). I may never see him again in this world for he is more elussive than the a swift breeze on a dark stary night — yet the impact he quietly had on my world, and the love I now feel for him each time I recall his presence, will always remain with me…

As the Count would say, “Either you’ve got it… or you haven’t”

“The one with the consequence is the one with the responsibility. The one with the responsibility is the one with the authority.”

Shared by Lono Ho`ala… see his website at www.hunawisdom.com

“You can count on people to make decisions based on what they consider to be in their best interest. These decisions are based on their perceptions. And these perceptions are based on their perspective.”

Shared by Lono Ho`ala… see his site at www.hunawisdom.com

“You can’t be connected to that which you are attached”

This, for me, is similar to the understanding that “You can’t love that which you care about”

The later one is perhaps a little challenging for someone identified with the ego-mind to comprehend, yet I suspect that anyone who deeply contemplates this statement will discover there is a truth within it.

Aloha,

When a person starts to discover new ways of being, new awareness around food, nutrition, the nature of the world dream, the nature of reality, the nature of Self, etcetera, it is easy for the ego to again play out its madness. Yet we are now dealing with “spiritual ego” — an ego-identification which things it has now transcended the lower madness of the normal human ego. Yet ego is ego which ever way we look at it. Let me remind you that ego is simply the false sense of self that arises through misidentification. So long as my way of being and responding to the world has even a hint of separation and duality playing out then I am to some degree still coming from a place of ego.

The way I have seen this play out in me at various times along the way, is that I would use my awareness and knowledge to separate me from the world and from the people around me. This could be very subtle — almost imperceptible. This could lead to the ego projecting “what is right for me” onto the world and thus trying believe that it knows “what is right for everyone else”. In projecting out “what is right for the world” (the people I meet etc) I am in fact judging people as wrong in their ways. The ego is constantly trying to attack the world, and hence is engages in a constant attack on my Self. I am seeing these people through the eyes of separation — the eyes of the ego.

This only perpetuates and in fact reflects the separation that I continue to maintain within my perception of my self. In fact to even “perceive” myself is an error — for the Truth of That which I AM can only be directly experienced and even then the experience is fleeting so long as my attention is primarily fixated on the dream (which for most people living here in the world that goes without saying). It is fleeting in the sense that once a person directly experiences something it really only has definition in contrast to something else. Thus directly experiencing That which I AM is only tangible in contrast to the state I was in when previously NOT experiencing That which I AM, but rather in a state of perceiving myself through the ego-mind. Once that experience is had then the contrast is forever lost. If I truly experience That which I AM then in that moment That is integrated into my entire sense of Self. I simply become That. Yet in truly becoming or Being THAT I will now see That is everything around me… particularly in the people around me. The world (which is a projection of the one mind That I AM) is now transformed into a mirror of the True nature of That which I AM.

I have diverged off topic here, so let us return to the point of this article.
To try to make the world conform to what is “right” for me is in fact to attack the world with the projection and judgement that the world (and the people around me) are wrong. To judge an-other as wrong is to judge that this being is somehow cut off from Source. That this being is somehow less than the perfection of Consciousness Unfolding… life blossoming… God expanding. To judge this person as wrong is to hold them imprisoned in my mind. Again, this only reflects the degree to which I hold myself imprisoned in judgement.

It is a mistake to identify myself with this world and this body. It is therefore also a mistake to identify my Brother with his/her body and the world in which he appears to live. The Vision of God sees none of this. The Vision of That which Created the “I” in each of us, knows nothing of our mad perceptions. Just as my earthly mother and father might watch over me whilst I sleep in bed… they know nothing of what I am dreaming. All they see in that moment is their perfect Son who they love absolutely. All manner of madness may be playing out in my dreams, yet they know nought of it. Such is the relationship between That which I AM and That which Created That.

So, establish through inspiration that which is most life giving for you in your world. Take on information to whatever degree is necessary to give you the necessary “tool box” of intelligent knowing, then hand this information over to spirit and go with Inspiration. Inspiration will use the information you have on hand, in order to always move you into the most life-giving way of life and living. To simply work with the information alone is bound to lead to fanaticism and imprisonment within a mind full of stories and beliefs, and identification with those stories and beliefs.

Yet, from moment to moment, where you have established your dynamic sense of what is “right” for you, be mindful not to now start seeing the world through eyes that evaluate others based on what is “right” for you. I am not implying that people should be protected from experiencing the painful consequences of life-taking actions and choices they may be making. That’s another matter. All I am suggesting is that to see “wrong” in that person is to see them through the attacking eyes of the ego, which negates (in your world) the Vision of Infinity, of the Creator / Truth / Love.

Ultimately I see this world without thought. They say that “Love is blindness” and I am sure you are familiar with the experience of being in love with a person, whereby everything they do and say becomes okay and acceptable, even adorable. The reasoning ego-mind will conclude that this is folly, and perhaps even dangerous. Yet, in my experience once I start to love the world in true accord with the Love That I AM and in accord with the way Creation Loves me, then I am again faced with a form of blindness. Yet this is not a blindness that equates to loss of sight. No, far from it. It is a form of blindness that simply means I cease to perceive the world through the humans eyes and the ego-mind. Rather I now start to directly experience the world and True holistic Vision unfolds. The world around me ceases to have any story with it. This is akin to looking at a movie at the cinema and I cease to see the images. Rather I now only see that extraordinary bright light that is projected onto the screen and forming these images. Someone might ask me, “What do you see on the screen” or they might point out, “Look at that XYZ happening there”, yet I will be blind to what they are seeing. This person might think I’ve gone quite mad or blind at least. When in fact I am seeing the most incredible display of light and colour dancing there before me.

It is this sort of vision that the Law of Forgiveness depends on. Without this Vision True Forgiveness remains just a concept.

I shall say no more. That is enough.

With love,

FEAL