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Enlightenment

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What is enlightenment?  It is when you recognize the world for what it is: an illusion.  Everything in this so called universe is an illusion, a dream.  It truly does not exist.  All that exists is God, or consciousness, or whatever it is you wish to call it.  What you are is a divine being, a part of God or consciousness, having a dream of separation, when there is no such thing as separation.  Your ego is a part of this dream.  It is a very persistent dream and there is little room for spectacle.  We think that it is real, just as if we are dreaming while sleeping and feel that the dream is real, but when we wake up, we realize just how absurd the dream was and how it is in no way real, but a projection of the mind or consciousness.  The key to enlightenment is that you become lucid in this dream that we call reality and realize that true reality is Source or God and nothing else.  It is often referred to as Heaven.

For those people who have become enlightened, such as the Buddha and Jesus Christ, they lived in such a way that inspired others to write about them.  Once you become enlightened, there is no more need for additional reincarnations.  It may take many lifetimes to get where it is you need to be to reach enlightenment, but realizing that this reality is indeed a dream, an illusion, is the first step to getting there.  We all are one in reality, but in the dream, we have the illusion of separation, due to the ego’s influence on our consciousness.  The ego is very defensive, and will do almost anything to ensure its survival.  If you ever try to transcend your ego, you will notice that it will fight you to the bitter end.  It will try and trick you.  But what most people don’t realize is that the ego, along with what we think of as the real world, is an illusion and the only true reality is of Source.  The universe was created by the ego, but only in a dream form.  But we don’t realize that until after we die as a physical being or become enlightened in our last incarnation on this planet.

If we were to all “wake up” instantaneously, it would be very traumatic emotionally.  This is why most people don’t truly wake up until they have achieved enlightenment.  It is a noble goal, and could take many lifetimes to achieve.  But you can accelerate the process by becoming a student of A Course in Miracles, or other texts that are designed to get you to the point where you can forgive unconditionally.  Forgiveness is the key to salvation.  And since what you are forgiving isn’t even truly real, but a dream, it’s not so hard to do.  That is, once you get the big picture about the true nature of reality.  I find this to be a fascinating belief system, which comes partially from Jesus Christ’s real teachings, not the stuff you’ll find in the Bible, but the stuff that Jesus and other enlightened beings actually said or did.  Not what people wrote about him centuries later in an attempt to control the masses through guilt and shame.  Christ never advocated such nonsense.  He loved everyone equally, and never judged anyone.  A true humanitarian.

I have to say, reading The Disappearance of the Universe has truly opened my eyes to what many of those enlightened beings were trying to convey.  All of it makes perfect sense from a subjective viewpoint, because they realized that the world is indeed subjective, not objective, and that objectivity was simply an illusion that people regarded as true, simply because that is how they had been conditioned.  The religions we have today have barely any resemblance to what these prophets actually taught, and it has become more about money and converting people to your way of thinking than anything else.  But when you look at what these people actually said, you realize that it has no denomination, as it is the simple truth and nothing else.  The universe is an illusion and the true reality is God consciousness.  Total and complete oneness.

I figure this stuff may be way out there for some people, but it makes sense intuitively to me and many others who have heard of such ideas as subjective reality and God consciousness.  To become enlightened is to truly know who you really are, not your ego, and not your mind, but pure God consciousness.  You are the same as God, as he created you in his image.  Not your physical body, but your spirit or soul.  And when your physical body dies off, you will return home to whence you came, and then come back to the illusion until you reach the peak of enlightenment.  At that point, you will no longer have any need to go back into the illusion, other than to help other illusory bodies pass over to the enlightenment side.  It’s a journey to say the least, and getting there will not be easy.  Most people need help from some spiritual source, but it will happen for everyone eventually, as there is no time limit, as the time in this illusory reality is also illusory.  So, no need to worry if you’re not there yet.  You will be, your path is already pre-determined, but you can always choose to accelerate or delay the process of returning Home.  The choice is up to you.  I definitely recommend reading The Disappearance of the Universe, and then A Course in Miracles.  I haven’t read the latter yet, but the former has tons of references from that book, so it has a similar structure.

Good luck on your path towards ultimate bliss and enlightenment.  It may take lifetimes, but it will be well worth it in the end.

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Raise Your Consciousness Today

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The best way to raise your consciousness is to do things that stimulate and open your mind. We live most of our lives in a box, hardly ever going out of it. It’s the box that our belief system fits in. We’ll easily discount anything that lies outside the box and blindly accept anything that’s inside this box. If I were to ask you how you can prove that something exists independent of your awareness, maybe you’d say yes and maybe you’d say no. It has nothing to do with proof because saying yes is an unprovable assumption. Saying no is also an unprovable assumption. How do you know this world doesn’t work like a dream? Where only what you experience is real? I challenge you to prove that something exists independent of your awareness. When you are away from your family members, can you prove they don’t exist if you’re not currently aware of them?

Our reality is up for question all the time. Most people deny things that don’t fit. If they see a psychic on television, it has to be scripted. If they hear about a haunted house, those people have schizophrenia. It doesn’t matter the perspective. Most people will spend their entire lives in a box filled with unprovable assumptions. Why? I guess because it’s too much work to question what is around you and think for yourself. It’s easier to just accept what other people tell you. Let them do the thinking for you. That way you can relax and watch an episode of your favorite TV show, where all the characters share the same perspective as you.

If you think about most major religions, much of their teachings were good, but the reality they lived in was so very different than the one we live in today. I’m not going to condemn them for thinking the Earth was the center of the universe and that it was flat. And if you did dare question that “fact,” you were thrown in jail. Imagine what “facts” we’ll know tomorrow. The fact of the matter is that the only thing you can be completely sure of existing is your own awareness. You know you have a consciousness. You don’t know anything for sure except what your consciousness feeds to you. Everything else is a big question mark.

Just open your mind to this perspective and see where it takes you. That you’re basically living in a dream world where the only thing that exists is what you are consciously perceiving at this moment. See where it takes you. I guess you could call it the most basic belief system and the most sound. Everything in it is provable. Your experience of it proves it. If there is anything out there other than your awareness, you can’t say it is there or not because you are not currently experiencing it. You can choose to believe what you want about the rest, but know that you could be wrong. But you really don’t know that because in order to prove something exists, you must become aware of it. I’ll say that I challenge you to prove that I exist independent of your awareness. You can’t do it. Even if you came down to Myrtle Beach and saw me, you would then be aware of me and therefore could prove I exist.

It’s hard to break out of your box. It’s hard to say to yourself that many of your beliefs unrprovable. When you start opening this box, it makes things very complicated. You’ll be more unsure than you’ve ever been in your entire life. But then you’ll start to notice things that actually happen through first-hand experience that will add to your belief system. I say don’t believe something unless you’ve experienced it yourself. Otherwise, you could be buying a lie. Firsthand knowledge of your reality will make you confident in your belief system. Unless you’ve experienced talking to dead relatives or other spirits, how can you possibly believe in life after death? Because some authority figure told you so? But you are free to choose your own beliefs.

I’m just saying it is stupid to take someone else’s word on the nature of reality. Think about it. Those people could be completely full of shit. You’re the only one who knows what you’ve experienced. So choose based on your experiences. You can use the morals from other belief systems if you feel intuitively that they’re right, but never take any religious text literally. How do you know Jesus walked on water? How do you know he didn’t? You don’t.

I think our beliefs do shape our reality, so it makes sense to keep beliefs that empower you. It does not make sense to keep beliefs that make you powerless. If you choose to believe something, make sure it is congruent with the reality you currently experience. Otherwise, it will be nothing but delusion. If you believe you’re a multi-millionaire, but have $200 in the bank, wouldn’t people consider you to be crazy? They would bring you back to reality by saying, “You’re broke!” You can intend for your money to increase, but saying you are a millionaire is just deluding yourself. You have to look at your beliefs and see if they accurately match the reality you experience. Otherwise, why do you believe what you believe? Because of some old book?

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Promoting This Blog

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I want more traffic on this blog.  I feel like people stopped reading.  I feel like I’m talking to myself here.  I need ways to promote this blog.  The problem is that my blog doesn’t fit into any particular category.  I can’t sell myself on one aspect of myself.  I don’t want to put myself in a box where I cover only one topic and brand myself as such.  I have a lot to share with the world and it covers many subjects.  I want to be able to be completely myself and nothing else.  That’s why my website is my name.  I have various things I like to write about now and I’m sure there will be more new things for me to cover in the future.  I think it’s a complete prison to limit myself to one, two, or even fifty topics.  But how do you sell that?  How do you get people to read if from day to day they don’t know what they’re going to be reading?  The same way I write every day with no idea in advance what I’m going to write about.

I know my blog isn’t all gold and silver, but there are many gems in the nearly 250 posts I’ve done so far.  I’m not skilled with HTML or other computer programming languages.  But I have a certain writer’s wit and a good sense of myself most of the time.  When I write an article, I know where it’s going usually, unless I go off on a rant, but those rants are fueled with passion and understanding.  I’m not a self-help guru or a nihilistic jackass.  I’m just me expressing myself explicitly.  Uncensored.  The way the world is meant to be.  Raw.  I’m not going to sugar coat what I feel and this is what’s driving me to write more.  I’m no longer worried about offending people on this blog.  I used to be.  I figure the more polarizing this blog is, the more people will come and read it and more importantly, enjoy it.

We’re told that to fit into society we have to project an image of who we are.  We have to define ourselves as something, not someone.  That, I believe, is the fundamental problem.  People hide behind certain aspects of themselves to keep other parts of them hidden.  A doctor hides behind his high status to keep from relating to people as equals.  Not all doctors, but from what I’ve experienced, most of them do.  Other people use power and authority to control people while hiding the sinister aspect of themselves.  We’re told this over and over again that we can never be fully ourselves, but need to project a persona, a mask if you will.  For example, look at the Bush-Cheney gang.  When Bush gave his speeches, he projected himself as a Christian man, a loving and caring person.  But when you look at the actions carried out under his administration, you see a completely different picture.  My question is why couldn’t he have just said, “We’re going into Iraq for the oil.  We don’t have much left in America.  We need it because people live so far away from their jobs, grocery stores, and malls that they cannot live without automobiles.  This, and this alone, justifies the slaughter of thousands of innocent Iraqi people.”?

I’m sure if he said it like that, people would support him.  They know it’s true what he’s saying.  He’s going to do it anyway, so why not just come out and say it.  You don’t have to bullshit us and say you’re “liberating” the Iraqis from Saddam Houssein.  But that’s beside the point.  I feel like Obama is one of the most authentic presidents we’ve had in awhile.  He’s not afraid to say the things the American people don’t want to hear.  The more we are in denial, the harder we’ll fall.  He isn’t going to fix everything overnight and he’s been given a bad hand to start with.  But at least he’s moving in the right direction.  His visions are grand and inspiring.  That’s why I voted for him.  He doesn’t provide false hope, but hope that’s grounded in reality.  But enough about politics.

My point is that there are a lot of blogs out there spitting out self-help “masturbation” that might make you feel good for awhile, the same way a crack pipe gets you high.  They tell you things like, “You can manifest all your dreams in the next 30 days if you follow my instructions.”  Then you delve into the author’s personal life and reallize they’re completely full of shit.  Not all of them.  But the ones that tell you the truth about creating the life you want aren’t the ones who tell you what you want to hear.  They tell you the truth.  They challenge you to think and act.  They don’t talk about enlightenment, something that I’ve seriously thought was a bunch of feel good tactics to attract self-help junkies.  What is enlightenment anyway?  You walk around, never offending anyone, going along with whatever happens to you, and never rock the boat?  Sounds like the activities of a zombie slave to me.

We’re always told that we are progressing to a higher state of being.  I would prefer to call it a different state.  If civlization is better than foraging and hunting, why does civilzation cause more destruction?  I think we are starting to realize that certain aspects of our daily lives are completely destructive and we are starting to move towards enriching our environment.  It’s starting, but it needs assistance.  We need to work together to make things right, not by saying that we can sustain our current way of living indefinitely.   If that’s not denial, I don’t know what is.  We need to start working towards a future we can sustain and then just stay there.  We can still develop our minds, but we can keep the Earth in good condition and live in harmony with the rest of the Earth.

I just want to get the message out.  We need to do something fast.  I’m not here to judge you, but to open doorways for you.  Imagine how great we could live if we changed a few things.  And then think about changing a few more things.  The possibilities are endless.  Just stay with me…

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My Site is Worth $817

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I went on this website:  here and it told me that my website is worth approximately $817.  That pales in comparison to Googke, which is worth nearly $3 billion.  What I need to figure out is how to get closer to that figure, or at least make it to the top 100,000.  I guess writing on a more consistent basis would help.

I’m planning to write more about things.  I just picked up a really good book on personal development by Steve Pavlina.  The link is as follows:  Personal Development for Smart People.

What I want to do is build traffic on this website so I can increase my value and the value I give to others.  This website was pretty popular at one time.  I would like to regain that and more.  I want this to become a breeding ground for people to come and experience growth and change for the best.  I need to post at least once or twice weekly with dense material.  I need to put in my best effort and I feel that the more I post, the more chances I’ll have to get more traffic, which will in turn provide more value, which will also in turn eventually allow me to earn some sort of income from this website.  If I can accomplish that, I just need to keep going on the right track, posting more inspiring and thought-provoking articles and I’ll see abundance.  I’m setting this intention now to see what I can truly be capable of and if I strike gold with my new material, so be it.  If not, I still enjoy posting here and will continue to do it more.  Those who read this website are encouraged to refer others to this website and first go through the archives and then come to my new posts.

I’ll start posting again tomorrow!  I’ll think of a topic by then.

Life as a Dream

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I’ve read in multiple places that viewing life as a dream is probably the best way to feel centered in it. It also puts things in their proper perspective. If you think about it, it is not that far off. I’ve had a dream within a dream before and experienced what they call a “false awakening,” where I wake up from the dream within a dream and I’m still dreaming, but now back to the frist level of dreaming. So, to me, it is not that far-fetched that life is nothing but a dream. But if it is a dream, it is one of the most creative and imaginative dreams I have ever seen. It’s hard to really describe the feeling you get from adopting this sort of belief system because you have to try it for yourself. It is like having a lucid dream in real life. I’ve had a few lucid dreams in the past and I think becoming lucid in reality could make life that much easier and joyful to live.

When you dream and become lucid, you do not only identify with your physical body in that dream. You identify with the whole dream. It is something that is happening inside your consciousness. It is all unfolding there and anything is possible. You are open to multiple possibilities because you know it is a dream. Let’s just say, for a second, that you one day decide to view reality as a dream. So, with this belief system, anything becomes possible, with respect to your belief system. You start to identify with all of reality, and not just your physical body, and therefore, you can start influencing the universe to get things in alignment with your purpose. Every thought you have is now an intention to either swing reality in your favor or against it. And no matter where you are now, you get this inner sense of joy that drives you to take joyful actions.

You accept everything as it is and you can now choose if you want to change anything. You start to lose identification with your ego and you now realize that you are everything. I am not talking about the physical body you, but the you above it all, the you that encompasses everything. All your fear disappears and so do most other limiting beliefs, to the degree you can hold this belief system. Whenever I get into really, truly believing this belief system, I feel terrific. It is just an inner sense of knowing that this is the way reality really works. It gives you a sense of unconditional security. You are not so worried about your physical body anymore. Even if it dies, you still have the rest of you. Your body is but a small part of your whole self.

But it brings on a new responsibility. Anything that happens out there is essentially your fault. The good, the bad, the ugly. So, when something terrible happens, like a terrorist attack or a tsunami, you have to take credit for being the cause of it. I just wouldn’t go to the cops and confess just yet. It is a renowned perspective that encompasses all boundaries. You start to realize that the only limitations in the universe are your own mind. So I start to debug my mental software to only include empowering beliefs. It is a process that takes years, maybe even a whole lifetime. But it is something that increases your joy the farther you get down this path. And it is certainly better than holding all these negative beliefs. I am getting better at this every day and there are many times when I surprise myself. Things I did not think were possible are now not only possible, but a common occurrence. Beliefs shape reality. Thoughts create beliefs. Using locial reasoning, it is safe to say that thoughts shape reality. There’s a lesson in deductive reasoning.

Now I need to start monitoring my thoughts on a daily basis. Whenever a limiting thought comes into my head, I replace it with an empowering one. If I am ever thinking, “I can’t do this,” I immediately replace it with, “I can do this and I will.” It is a form of mental conditioning that works to your advantage. You need to start by accepting the truth and then moving on from there. You need to look at the dream you are living in with truthful eyes and then accept what it is you have. Then, if you feel so inclined, you can move to improve different parts of it as you move along this plane of existence. It is, by far, the most empowering way to live I have come across so far, and I encourage you to give it a shot. Good luck.

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