“FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASSED AGAINST US” IS THE STATE OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

When you become Enlightened you have removed enough obstructions to the Universal Mind that We all share and you actually know and see Our Universal Mind in everyone. You realize that you are not separate from others. We are all One. When I say that We have the same Self that is just in different bodies, I am talking about Our Universal Mind. Language is limited in its guidance. Language leads Us to the higher mind where We use what I call Super Intuition. Super Intuition is much broader and deeper than common intuition.

Cardionosis is the mystical ability to read the hearts of others. When you have removed enough obstructions, or illusions, through character development efforts, to know and see Our Universal Mind you will have gained Cardionostic Awareness. Cardionostic Awareness sees and knows how others are obstructed. Cardionosis is used to lead others on their paths. Some people say they only see the good in others. Cardionosis sees and knows everything. Cardionosis is extremely clear awareness. People who have higher mystical consciousness usually live somewhat removed from everyday life but as We advance as a race this will change.

Widespread speaking and teaching about what David R. Hawkins defines as Enlightenment, and the theoretical framework for the Map of Consciousness that embodies the state of Unconditional Love, found in his book POWER VS. FORCE The Hidden Determinants Of Human Behavior will theoretically greatly help to create what Rupert Sheldrake terms a morphogenetic field or M-field, for higher Love States. An equally important source of the same type of information explained in a comparative way what Hawkins propounds are the teachings of Nicholas Black Elk. The book THE SACRED PIPE Black Elk’s Account Of The Seven Rites Of The Oglala Souix, recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, explains the same type of character development needed to Awaken the higher levels of Love Awareness found in Hawkins’ many books. Sheldrake’s notion of an M-field, in this case, is an energy template, so to speak, for higher levels of embodied awareness for love and/or universal love sharing which is awareness in action. Intuitive understanding is needed to grasp the concept of this M-field. The concept of this M-field appears as an energetic reality to this researcher. The ongoing explanation of my major vision, along with ongoing explanations from content of the perceptions of others that stem from their knowledge and mystical experiences and overall character development will create the M-field that humanity will further sense and become. We want to be more loving and we will achieve a generally higher state when much more people truly understand that We are energetically connected as a world tribe. We affect each others energy. If We can create this M-field in Our lifetime We will become generally much more healthy as a world tribe and generations to come will have much less disease in general. I have the ability to explain the daily ever expanding knowledge of my great vision in an energetic and animated way. I have had to endure a great amount of abuse for my attempts at getting out this extremely important information concerning the subject of Enlightenment.

The reader will get an understanding of the state of Enlightenment by reading, studying and contemplating the aforementioned books and others. In the past, We have been advised not to talk too much about the state of Enlightenment. I am not going to get into an explanation why in this short paper. I know it is time to speak openly about the subject right now. What myself and others have said and what We continue to introduce will contribute to the M-field that is already in progress of formation for creating higher states of Love for Our World Tribe. Read the Feature Article, WORDS ARE TRAPS, at my blog (words-are-traps.blog), to understand how I was Enlightened. I am never lost for words and enthusiasm on the subject and I explain the subject differently depending on what comes to me when I am speaking in an impromptu fashion.

My great vision in 1983 is comparable in content and ever expanding scope to the great near death vision of Black Elk in the 1860’s. Love is Awareness. When a person achieves higher states of awareness explained by mystics like Hawkins and Black Elk you receive the capacity for day to day ever-expanding knowledge and awareness. You naturally realize the gift that you have been granted and you want to share the knowledge and awareness with others with the intention of helping humanity. The knowledge helps people reach higher levels of peace.

I was at a low point in my life and because of my upbringing I simply and sincerely asked God for more strength. I was doing a full surrender when I supplicated myself to my idea of God, or The Great Spirit, but I did not realize that I was doing a heart-felt surrender to my reality. I accepted myself without delusions or fantasies about myself. I centered myself. I was actually surrendering my ego, or what is called the small self. I realized later that a true surrender like I did is Humility. I accepted myself and my conditions and pleaded, or cried, for help from God as I understood God. I tried to do everything that I was taught that Jesus told Us to do. What is called the True Self finally broke completely through in my awareness. You have to become strong enough to face your Self while realizing that you can be wrong. You have to be able to admit to your Self that you may have done things that are referred to as evil. You cannot help it. This to me, because of my upbringing, was the Holy Spirit in action. See below.

One day the great vision described in my article, WORDS ARE TRAPS, instantly flashed on. I saw a cloud and in the cloud were heads of people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. I heard a voice (a locution). I heard my Psychology of Consciousness professor say the koan from Zen that he gave Us in class “WORDS ARE TRAPS.” I had golden light all around me. My entire body broke out in goose bumps as I realized that everybody on earth is just like me and are controlled by language and concepts that are not necessarily true. I was in ecstasy. I realized that I was not separate from everybody else. I realized that I could not have helped the wrong things that I had done to people in the past because I was not conscious of myself among others. I forgave myself. I realized everybody has a Self just like me that is in Our different bodies, that is, Our Universal Consciousness. I realized that everybody is going through the same Self-discovery process as me. I realized that others can not help what they do wrong because they are not conscious enough either. I forgave myself and then I was able to forgive others. I became centered and mindful in myself. I became conscious of myself and others (US). I realized that we are all One World Tribe. I realized that we are all energetically connected and that Our energy affects Us. I had reached Our Higher Mind or what I have termed “Super Intuition.” I had achieved myself. I now had the ability to, what I call, “see through other people’s egos.” I later realized that this ability is called Cardionosis in the field of Mystical Theology. Cardionosis is the ability to read hearts. What I call seeing through egos is reading hearts. This whole experience is called Enlightenment. I realized that this Universal Understanding is what I have to tell the world. Because I was raised Christian, I realized that Jesus was transmitting Universal Consciousness. I speculate that the highest level on the Map of Consciousness, which is 1000, is what is known as Christ Consciousness. Jesus was a model for Us to see and know how high we can go as human beings. “FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASSED AGAINST US” is the state of Unconditional Love. Unconditional Love is 540 on the Map of Consciousness.

I achieved myself by greatly enforcing my will. I led a simple life. I gave up non essential things and activities. I became non-attached to many common things. I really was on a four year retreat. I enforced a one pointed effort to achieve my goal of being a professional stand-up comedian. I devoted everything to my goal. I became fully honest with myself in this process. I used what is called Self-Inquiry Meditation which is really an ongoing state of Contemplation. You get a hold of your Self. What you are really getting a hold of is Universal Consciousness. I realized later that I had unknowingly undertook the right steps to reach the state of 700 on the Map of Consciousness which is what Hawkins terms Enlightenment. Hawkins tells, on page 282, of POWER VS FORCE, which came out in 1995, that at that time, there were only 12 people on the planet who calibrated at 700. What happens when a person has a great transforming experience like I had is that you are opened to the capacity for ever expanding awareness. All one has to do is read Hawkins and one knows how advanced in awareness the man was.

Hawkins explains what happened to me on pages 93-94 of POWER VS. FORCE when I permanently popped into the 700 awareness level. He says that “there is no longer an experience of a personal self separate from others…there is an identification of Self with Consciousness and Divinity…The self merges back into the Self. This is the level of nonduality, or complete Oneness.” What Hawkins is talking about is that the small self (ego) merges, or melds in union, with the True Self and then the personality is predominated by the True Self. The True Self is the good voice inside of Us. The True Self takes over more and more inside of Us the more We uncover it by removing false notions, or illusions, that We live by. This is done through various methods of character development using consistent honesty. The True Self is the Image and Likeness taught about in Christianity. The True Self has also been referred to as The Divine Indwelling. Hinduism calls the True Self the Atman. The True Self is the Universal Mind.

Remember WORDS ARE TRAPS. Just having heard this Koan can work wonders for you later. The koan WORDS ARE TRAPS teaches Us about more than language. A koan is designed to provoke Enlightenment. Once you “crack a koan”, it will continue teaching you through your intuition for the rest of your life. A vision expands your awareness and will continue teaching and expanding you for the rest of your life also. I had a vision followed by a locution. It is important that you practice character development. We need to engage in activities that make Us feel good about Ourselves. This raises Our Self Esteem. We need to truly love Our Self.

Moreover, This uncovering of the True Self is described in YOGA as seeing and knowing The Universal Mind. The Self becomes liberated and achieves union with the Supreme Spirit or Universal Soul or Universal Mind or Universal Consciousness. This is the ultimate goal of Yoga and all traditions, philosophies and religions. The heads that I saw in my cloud vision was me uncovering Our Universal Consciousness. This, again, is the same Self that I talk about that is in Our different bodies. This same type of Self that is in Us all is your/Our true Identity. It is Our “inner goodness” and this is what takes over and runs Our personalities once the illusions blocking the True Self are gotten rid of. The gift of Cardionosis is the ability to see, or tell, how and why the True Self in still blocked in others. The Universal Mind is Universal Consciousness. Universal Consciousness has Universal patterns. When a person is at least at 700 on the Map of Consciousness, the person is tuned into seeing and knowing the Universal Patterns. This ability is beyond description and one has to achieve it to understand what I am trying to describe. The higher mind is beyond language. Because one has removed enough obstructions covering the True Self one also receives the ability to perceive everything as a hologram (Super Intuition) or perceive the “Big Picture.” The Universal Patterns are in the Big Picture. This is a clear “right brain” sensing ability. There is nothing psychic about this ability, it is clear knowing but enough obstructions have to be cleared. I explain holographic knowing differently depending on what comes to me at the time of impromptu description. Part of clear holographic knowing is the understanding of how interacting egos communicate but, again, it is much deeper than limited language lets Us describe. It is a higher mind activity of Super Intuition.

I had actually unknowingly Purified myself which is the Third Rite in The Sacred Pipe. I resorted to total honesty. I had quit smoking and drinking. I took up running, hatha yoga and became a juggler. I was always into sports. You sweat much when you run so that was like I was in a sweat lodge often. Running is a form of motion meditation and is Zen like as are many other contemplative motion activities. I studied nutrition and changed my diet. I studied in general. I surrendered to God as I understood God. I used Jesus as my model and teacher. I was transforming myself. I did not realize that transforming myself was what I was doing. It was fun for me.

When I surrendered to God asking for strength, I was unknowingly aligning myself with the Fourth Rite in The Sacred Pipe, that is, I was Crying For A Vision. Black Elk and Brown tell on page 44 of The Sacred Pipe: “Every man can cry for a vision or “lament”; and in the old days we all -men and women- “lamented” all the time. What is received through the ‘lamenting” is determined in part by the character of the person who does this, for it is only those people who are very qualified who receive the great visions, which are interpreted by our holy man, and give strength and health to our nation.” I was fortunate because I was a speech and psychology student and close to libraries. I was counseled by books as to what had happened to me and I could talk to some of my professors.

My vision of the “heads in the cloud” tuned me into Our Universal Consciousness or what Brother Wayne Teasdale coined as the term “interspirituality.” I am here to make people sensitive to the fact that as a world Tribe We are interconnected by Universal energy and we need to take care of each other. We need to honor one another. We are our Sisters and Brothers Keepers. You are not separate. One person does not cause anything. Holographic understanding realizes how egos at different levels of awareness interact. The Map of Consciousness shows Us that what is true, or right, at one level of consciousness is not necessarily true, or right, at a higher level. Lower levels of consciousness can perceive benign higher level humor as threatening and attacking. Casual friendly salutations can even be taken as rude and insulting. Misunderstanding can trigger cruel attacks. WORDS ARE TRAPS. The higher We move up in Awareness the better Our intuition works. Higher Awareness is higher love. The person who at least has a good grasp on what the state of Unconditional Love is will not hold perceived personal offenses against others because We realize that offenders can not help what they are doing. Unconditional Love embodies Unconditional Forgiving. We have to love Our Self. Love is understanding. The more We understand Our Self the more We will understand other Selves. Someone just like you is in other people. Other people just have different bodies and are living under different conditions. This is empathy and compassion. This is Central Information to the emerging Unconditional Love M-field.

So in my vision the “heads in the cloud” is Our Universal Human Conscious Connection. We are One. We are Universal Mind. Black Elk’s great vision placed him atop Black Elk peak where he saw all people coming together as One. This is The World Tribe. This union is happening with Us in the world right now as Our hearts unite in higher vibrations of Love. We are Purging. We are Illuminating. We are becoming Enlightened. We are witnessing divisions of hatred going away. The M-field of Sheldrake is being created as I write this essay.

I have taken much abuse for my attempts at getting people to understand Centering Prayer which is really a form of meditation. I have taken much abuse for my attempts at getting people to read a Lenten article that I wrote entitled WE HURT OURSELVES WHEN WE WRONG OTHERS. The intention of the Lenten article was to give people insights about forgiving each other during Lent which is a major time when Christians examine their consciences. Lent prepares all people for Easter. The Lenten article explained what is in this essay concerning Unconditional Forgiveness which falls under the umbrella of Unconditional Love. I have taken much abuse for disclosing that I had a spontaneous kundalini arousal. Some of the many examples of abuses I have endured are, I have had my dwelling burglarized. Precious pictures of my loved ones were stolen as were personal communications and I want them back. Loved ones, friends and acquaintances have been contacted and given spin about me. I have been stalked. I have been harassed in churches and cemeteries. I have had clusters of accidents that may be investigated. Things can be so great and easy if We all work together. As Rodney King said, “Can’t we all just get along?” I try to live the Lords Prayer. I have a lot of work to do in getting out this information in order to help people and I invite professionals who know me, and those who do not know me, to work with me for the betterment of humanity.

Below is the Map Of consciousness, by mystic David R. Hawkins, from his book POWER VS. FORCE The Hidden Determinants of Human behavior, Pages 68-69.

Hawkins tells on Page 238 : On our scale of consciousness, there are two critical points that allow for major advancement. The first is at 200, the initial level of empowerment: Here, the willingness to stop blaming, and accept responsibility for one’s own actions, feelings, and beliefs arises -as long as cause and responsibility are projected outside of oneself, one will remain in the powerless mode of victimhood. The second is at the 500 level, which is reached by accepting love and nonjudgmental forgiveness as a lifestyle, exercising unconditional kindness to all persons, things, and events without exception. (In 12-step recovery groups, it’s said that there are no justified resentments – even if somebody “did you wrong,” you’re still free to choose your response and let resentment go.) Once one makes this commitment, he begins to experience a different, more benign world as his perceptions evolve.

God-view Life-view Level Log Emotion Process

Self Is Enlightenment 700-1000 Ineffable Pure Consciousness

All-Being Perfect Peace 600 Bliss Illumination

One Complete Joy 540 Serenity Transfiguration

Loving Benign Love 500 Reverence Revelation

Wise Meaningful Reason 400 Understanding Abstraction

Merciful Harmonious Acceptance 350 Forgiveness Transcendence

Inspiring Hopeful Willingness 310 Optimism Intention

Enabling Satisfactory Neutrality 250 Trust Release

Permitting Feasible Courage 200 Affirmation Empowerment

Indifferent Demanding Pride 175 Scorn Inflation

Vengeful Antagonistic Anger 150 Hate Aggression

Denying Disappointing Desire 125 Craving Enslavement

Punitive Frightening Fear 100 Anxiety Withdrawal

Disdainful Tragic Grief 75 Regret Despondency

Condemning Hopeless Apathy 50 Despair Abdication

Vindictive Evil Guilt 30 Blame Destruction

Despising Miserable Shame 20 Humiliation Elimination

This essay is an expansion of a reply that I left to a person who commented on my facebook page. The reply was to a comment that was under the Richard Rohr Daily Meditation post: Going on the Full Journey.

We Are All One. We Are All The Same Inside Of Ourselves. You Are Not Separate From Others. You Have An Energetic Connection with Everyone. We Share Universal Spirit. Some Call This The Christ Spirit. Jesus Was, And Is, Trying To Get You To Realize This Fact. Jesus Is A Main Spokesperson For Self Realization.

The forty days that Jesus spent in the desert were spent in contemplation and fasting. Contemplation was, and is, the foundation for you to realize your Self. Jesus is a main model for Self Realization. Contemplation takes Us on the journey of Purging , Illumination and Union described in Mystical theology. If We adopt contemplation as a lifestyle, We are continually purging, illuminating and achieving greater union with “SPIRIT.” When Jesus started the vocal Our Mother/Father prayer, Jesus intended that We contemplate on the words of the prayer, which, of course, We should do with the words of all vocal prayers.

The forty days that Jesus spent in the desert were spent in examining his Conscience. Some call this type of honesty Self Inquiry Meditation. Jesus spent the entire forty days in silence out in nature. Jesus had accepted himself and was accepting his mission. Jesus surrendered to his reality. Jesus is a model for Us to be honest with Ourselves. Jesus is a model for Us to realize and surrender to Our particular realities.

Fasting should be looked into and practiced. Learning about Our diets helps Us love Our bodies and minds. Fasting purges negativity from Our cell tissue and nervous systems. Sweat lodges, steam baths and activities that make Us sweat will cleanse Our organisms. Buried trauma that is lodged in Our bodies that We may keep unconscious can pop into awareness during these cleansing activities. We are becoming strong enough to deal with, and get rid of, this buried trauma that has kept Us less than whole. We are putting Ourselves together through contemplative activities. We no longer have to block painful memories from Our awareness. Our will power strengthens through contemplative activities. We become stronger. We gain more courage. We start really loving and understanding Our Self and through this Self Love process we truly begin to understand and love other Selves. We love humanity. We think about how Our behavior affects others. We become sensitive to others. We do not want to hurt others.

The Purging – Illumination – Union goes on constantly when we become mindful to adopt Self Inquiry Meditation as a lifestyle. Purging – Illumination – Union is really one process. Nature intends for Us to be contemplatives. When we purge We are sorry for what We did that may not have been good for all involved. We hurt Our Self when We wrong others because We realize that We are all interconnected. We realize that Our aberrant behavior hurts the whole of humanity via the domino effect. The realization of how Our Self hurts humanity via the domino effect illuminates Us to the responsibility We have to be nice to each other. This realization keeps Us healthier. We truly love each other. This is Our ongoing realization of Our Oneness as human beings. As We continually purge and illuminate, We continually achieve greater union with the Divine Spirit that is in Us as the same True Self that We all share. The same model of inner Self is in Our various bodies. We see this Same Self clearer and clearer as We continually Purge – Illuminate and achieve greater and greater Union with Our True Self inside Us. When We adopt this mindful lifestyle, this is my definition of Praying Without Ceasing.

Moreover, when We realize the interconnected reality that We all share, We realize that Our healthy behavior makes others healthier. We are realizing Our Self among others. We realize that others are just like Us and are only in different bodies. We are all at different levels of awareness in realizing this fact. This is what Self Realization is all about. We realize that when we wronged others in the past that We could not help what We did because We were not conscious of Our Self among others but now We are. We realize how Our bad behavior hurts Our Self and others at the same time. We are hurt by Our own behavior because We finally realize what We are doing. We are sorry that We have hurt someone else who is just like Us inside of their Self. We now are able to forgive others like Jesus told Us to in The Our Mother/Father prayer. We realize that others can not help what they do wrong either because they are not conscious of what they are doing like We were before We realized it. We realize Our Self among others and are now able “to love Our neighbor as Our Self.” We have achieved empathy and compassion for Our Self and others at the same time. We realize Our Self among others. I know that I am not separate from others. WOW! I love everybody. When I love God, I love the Great Spirit because We are the Great Spirit or God which is everything.

Poke – The more that you employ dishonesty in your interactions with others the less you love your Self. We all share a piece of the same Soul, or the same Spirit, that runs through Our individual personalities. This Spirit is Us. When you accept and love your mind and body, you will accept and love the minds and bodies of others. When you begin to really accept and love your mind and body is when you really begin to see, feel, sense and know Our Shared Universal Consciousness. This is the pivotal point in your life where you say something like, “Oh my God! my life seemed like a mere dream before this, now I am awake. Everybody is like this. Everybody is going through this process. I feel for everybody. WOW!!!

There is no need for you to have to manipulate others. If you are honest with your Self and other Selves affairs will work out naturally for you. Naturally means according to nature. Manipulation can be dishonest behavior. Nature is an ordered flow of everything happening simultaneously. When you manipulate out of fear, doubt, insecurity or hatred you go against this natural flow. You employ force to get your desired outcome. You disrupt nature. You need to think about this when you are tempted to manipulate. When you employ manipulative force out of fear, doubt, insecurity or hatred you very likely will create fear doubt and insecurity in others. Neurotics (means suffering) pass on their suffering. You most likely will transfer your fear, doubt and insecurity to others because others will notice that something is not right with the natural flow. Others will notice or sense turbulence in the energy flow of life in some way. When you disrupt the natural flow you can make others sick and this includes animals.

Just think how it is for those close to you if you employ this type of dishonest manipulative force in your interpersonal affairs much of the time. You continually put family, friends and others off balance. Whether you realize it or not you are taking away their natural right for them to experience the peaceful flow of nature. Mental illness is caused to others by your repeated forceful actions. A person who is conscious of being a loving being is aware that they should be honest.

I am not saying that all manipulation is bad. Jesus would tell parables so as not to directly hurt the feelings of others. Jesus lovingly intended for listeners to understand their Selves through the characters in the parables and correct their behavior. Jesus certainly did not cloak hidden meanness in his communication.

When you really accept your mind and body with love you realize that everyone else is also going through the process of Self Acceptance. Self Realization is Self Acceptance. When you get to this point of Self Realized reality orientation you can tell if others are not there yet. You actually become sad and have empathy for those you see who have not accepted their Selves yet. Some people never accept their Self. Why would you want to be dishonest, manipulative and mean to someone who is going through the same process of Self Realization as you are? But you have to wake up to realize this really simple aspect of Our human nature. You are the same as they are.

Moreover, when you employ force for your selfish hidden agenda you are disrupting the natural flow of nature. When you disrupt the natural flow of nature you are disrupting the natural flow for Us to realize Our Shared Universal Consciousness. Buddha said, “do not put another head above your own.” This Self Realized quote by Buddha means come to your own conclusions. If you sense something that is happening is out of wack it probably is. Self Realized reality orientation is about listening to your Self (Our Universal True Self) through the clear decoded messages that come from the mind and body that you have learned to love. The more you lovingly take care of your mind and body the clearer will be your understanding. When you work at this for a time you will slowly begin to enter Our Universal Consciousness and it just might come in a Big Pop Realization Of Self that graces you to see Our Universal True Self.

The Sermon On The Mount is an attempt by Jesus to lead Us to the mystic condition of Terminal Lucidity at any time in Our lives. Terminal Lucidity is being honest with your Self because you realize that you are sick and are going to die soon. Terminal Lucidity takes Us to the state of purity that is beyond illusion. It is death bed truth. We become truly conscious. You break through the illusions of the material world. The truth comes from Our common Spirit within; this is Our shared True Self or the One Mind Of All. What I call the false self/ego, or small self, dies and the unconditional love and presence of Our True Self shines. Love replaces fear. We then realize Our interconnected Universal reality. You achieve the peace that passes all understanding. You realize that Heaven is within you. The beatitudes from The Sermon On The Mount are the master keys to take Us to Our ultimate condition. We can achieve the state of Terminal Lucidity long before We die if We contemplate the beatitudes with intense Will Power. All religions and philosophies attempt to direct Us to Our ultimate condition.

The Beatitudes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit; for Heaven is theirs.” (Matt. V: 3.)

Those who renounced the vain glory of the world are on the way to realizing the True Self or Our Universal Spirit. The desires of the small part of the individual Self are contemplated as folly. Periods of patient retreat and non-attachment (the longer the better) aid in the realization of worldly folly. Some people because of their circumstances realize this truism sooner than others.

“Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.” (Matt. V: 4.)

Those who know the pain that comes through losing the false part of the Self shall know the “peace that passes all understanding” and enter the realization of Heaven within Us. You bravely and truly accept your Self with your individual circumstances and realize that everyone is going through the same process of Self Realization. In realizing the presence of your Self you concomitantly realize the presence of all other Selves. Here We awaken to the awareness of Our Universal presence.

“Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matt. V: 5.)

Those who are in touch with the power of Our Spirit within will become Masters of the earthly realm. Jesus intended that We should be keepers of the earth by reason of entering the state of Heaven within Us. Jesus is speaking in terms of a sense of “calmness of Spirit” and submission to its guidance. The use of the word meek is a poor translation. He in no way intended that We should be sniveling cowards. He intended for Us to stick up for Ourselves if necessary. Here We achieve the hardest virtue of them all to achieve – HUMILITY. In the state of humility We do not have the fear of vulnerability.

“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled.” (Matt. v. 6.)

The promise that those who diligently seek the state of Heaven within shall find it. The Right Way. It is the only way possible that Our spiritual hunger and thirst can be satisfied. This means a coming to the balance of the peace within after We have arrested the false self/ego or the small part of Our Selves. Our Universal Spirit then shines through our individual personalities.

“Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.” (Matt. v. 7.)

The reward that comes as a natural consequence from forbearance, kindness, tolerance and the absence of bigotry.

“Blessed are the pure of heart; for they shall see God.” (Matt. v. 8.)

The purity of one’s own heart through Self Honesty knows the God within, that is, knows Our Universal Spirit. The honesty process leads to a perception of God within everyone and/or everything. Our Universal Spirit becomes clearer and clearer as We purge the illusions of Our psychological/worldly conditioning. We become conscious of Our individual Self among others. We realize that we could not help everything that We may have done wrong in the past because We were not fully conscious of what We were doing. Because We realize that We could not help wrongs that We committed in the past We are able to forgive Our Self. We are then able to forgive others because We realize that they are also going through the consciousness raising process. We understand that We are not separate. We realize our energetic connection with everyone and everything.

“Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be sons/daughters of God.” (Matt. v. 9.)

Peacemakers are those who by understanding remedy the strife that arises from differing conceptions of Deity and Truth among people. Peacemakers point out the truth underlying all religions and philosophies. They are peacemakers who show that under all creeds, dogmas, titles and ceremonies there is but one “God” to which We surrender.

“Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the state of heaven.” (Matt. v. 10-12.)

Blessed are the good people who have been persecuted for proclaiming the truth of Our Universal Spirit. Great is the eternal reward for those who have carried the lamp for the clarity of the truth within Us.

The beatitudes are the master keys behind all religions and philosophies to lead us to peace. We can say that when the false self/ego or small self dies that We have reached the state of Terminal Lucidity. We become honest with Our Self and with all other Selves. We realize that the same Universal Spirit is in each of Us. This Universal Spirit is in Our different bodies. The same Spirit that is in you is in me. We are One. This is called Self Realization. For Us to realize Ourselves was the intention of Jesus.

The more that We commit to Self Honesty, the more We stockpile its benefits. When you are honest about everything you have nothing to worry about. Sir Walter Scott said, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!” Being fully honest with your Self and others is the ultimate survival strategy.

The foundation for my writings is the koan from the contemplative discipline of Zen WORDS ARE TRAPS. If there are things that We do not want to face about anything, We are cheating Our Self by not dealing with what We do not want to face. When We face what We do not want to look at, or notice, about Our Self, and think Our way through the uncomfortable thoughts to a Self-Resolution, We gain personal power from the resolution. It took energy to repress, or suppress, or hide what We did not want to face. The energy that you use to keep things hidden from your Self can cause you to have psychosomatic illnesses. The repressing, suppressing or hiding of your thoughts from your Self can also make people around you sick and this includes pets. We are energetically interconnected.

When We do not want to face something about Our Self, the hiding of the problem inside Us can come with Us making up some kind of personal fable to Our Self so We can live with Our Self. The personal fable that We make up to Our Self in order to live with Our Self is a word trap. We are making up a self esteem maintenance strategy to Our Self in order to keep Our pseudo self esteem. We lie to Our Self. We are a phony to Our Self. Many times to keep Our lies going We may take aggressive or passive aggressive action against others because we are laboring under the delusion that We will be embarrassed in some way if We don’t. We really subconsciously know that We are a phony but We would rather be a phony then resolve the problem.

Our personal fables stem from fear and can cause Us to spread defensive lies to others and this is the tangled web that Sir Walter Scott talked about. If We are spreading many lies, those lies contain a lot of energy. If We do not want to ever resolve the lies, it means that We do not want to get caught in Our lies to others; this is a great amount of false energy to have to manage. A person like this is separate from others. A person like this has not risen to a love vibration where they realize what word trapping does to their Self and others. Other people should not be part of a false reality or nastiness.

COVID-19 is causing Us to be honest with Our Selves and each other – the ultimate survival strategy. Being honest with Our Selves makes Us love Ourselves. We are a world tribe. It is taking Us back to Our Sacred Roots. Our Sacred roots embody the GOLDEN RULE which is to treat others as you want to be treated or to love Our neighbor as Our Self.

Be honest with your Self when you exercise. I have a Total Gym that I work out on a few times a week. You know the Total Gym from the infomercials with Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley. Usually, I intersperse yoga postures between the Total Gym exercises and I get a beautiful full-body workout as I work with my mind, body and air that I breathe. I get a muscle workout from the Total Gym and a muscle and stretch workout from the yoga. The combined workout that I have mixed together has given me slight muscle tone and good flexibility. I have also transitioned to a plant-based diet. Because of the life I have had I got into exercising regularly and this has gone on for over forty years. I have extensive experience at running, walking, hiking, biking and swimming. I am also a juggler. I tell you this to establish credibility with you on the subject of exercise. Do not listen to anything but your own mind, body and breath while exercising – listening to a device distorts the mind/body connection. Only listen to an exercise partner. In order to understand your Self the best, you should exercise by your Self at least half of the time.

With the COVID-19 epidemic many-many people have taken up different forms of exercise. We see people out doing different types of exercises all over. I have found that if you commit to being honest with your Self while you exercise that you will habituate to total Self Honesty when you are not exercising. Self Honesty combined with exercise strengthens your will power while giving you greater courage. When you concentrate on your breath, you come to your Self. You just have to make the commitment to doing it and make sure you keep it up. Don’t quit. When We become more conscious of our mind, body and breath we become much healthier. Self Honesty during exercise is motion meditation, or motion contemplation, and is body prayer. Self Honesty purges negativity out of Us and causes Us to understand how We have been conditioned by the world. Self Honesty causes Us to Realize Our True Self. Exercise becomes a form of prayer when Self Honesty is employed. This is when exercise becomes highly spiritual and leads Us to Our higher mind, or True Self. The True Self is where Our Super Intuition and/or the divine in-dwelling in Us lurks. Life is about bringing the True Self out. When you commit to being honest with your Self while you exercise you are surrendering to your True Self and this is Our True Self. When you truly make this surrender, the divine in-dwelling in you will be much stronger and will positively urge you on through your thoughts and feelings. The divine in-dwelling will tell you what to do. This is Our Universal Spirit or Our Universal True Self.

Since ancient times the goal of physical education has been to form all-around healthy individuals. The ancient Greeks who held the first Olympics stated that when a person perfects their body that the “gods will enter the person.” The “gods entering the person” was the Greeks way of saying that the person will become illuminated and/or enlightened by combining disciplines. I use the word “enlightened” because Self Honesty turns on the light. The Greeks discovered that the discipline of employing Self Honesty, while truly facing the Self, through exercise has great spiritual results. True spirituality is discipline and I do not just mean exercise. Some people are geared for exercise types of discipline and other people are geared for other types.

The foundation for this blog is the koan from the discipline of Zen – WORDS ARE TRAPS. Keeping this koan in the back of your head can have profound Super Intuitive results. You’ll see. The koan aids Us in not only breaking through to understandings that pierce the veils of illusion that have to do with language but also nonverbal illusions, that is, all illusions. I am talking about how We can stop being tricked. We become centered. We become balanced. The discipline of Zen seeks enlightenment through introspection and intuition. Zen and other contemplative disciplines lead Us to Our True Self.

The Zeitgeist of Our present time is Our kundalini energy (spiritual energy) rising and making Us more conscious of Our personal True Self and Our collective True Self/Selves or each other, that is, our interconnection. I recommend researching the subject of kundalini. We are getting more in touch with Who We Are. We share Universal Consciousness. It is one thing to intellectually understand the subject of Universal Consciousness and it is quite another to actually see it and know it.

It is said that “through pain comes wisdom.” The pain We are experiencing because of the changes that COVID-19 has Us going through are for many getting Us in touch with the truth that sets Us free. The truth is inside Us. We need to have the guts to face Our Self to do this and it appears that We are doing this on the Collective or Universal level. When We get more in touch with Our Self – We get more in touch with other Selves. We realize that We are eternal beings. It does not matter how old you are when you surrender to Your Self. The eternal life has no age. You are really surrendering to the Universe or God. Since the dawn of time all the holy people of the earth have tried to explain to Us through the limited vehicles of language and the arts that We share Universal Consciousness. The more you work at the discipline of Self Honesty, which is also called Self Inquiry Meditation, the more you will see Our Shared Universal Consciousness. The same Self in you is in me. You have to bring the True Self out. The more your True Self takes over your false self/ego the more you are awake and actually see other Selves going through the same process. You AWAKEN to being conscious of your Self among others. You realize that you are not separate from others. When We get to this point, We breathe and function for the betterment of everyone. Joseph Campbell said, “We are the consciousness of the earth.” The purer, or cleaner, or clearer that We get inside of Our Self the more We see that the Campbell quote is true.

People are intuitively turning to exercise because it is Our primal instinct to tune into Our mind, body, breathing and movement. Many of Us are becoming Body Prayer. Exercise combined with Self Honesty gets Us in touch with dormant parts of our minds and bodies. Exercise releases old unconscious pain from Our bodies and We are able to heal Our hurts. We catch Our mental and emotional blocks and deal with them, and get rid of them; this is truly facing our Selves. We Purify Our Hearts. We build new neuronal pathways and connections within Our Selves and we become healthy human beings with no inhibitions. We are not afraid to look people in the eye and stand up for Our Selves. We understand each other better as we understand Our Selves and We see and understand all people as a world tribe. We go back to Our roots and become psychically primitive. We are honest with Ourselves and see and understand Our Universal Consciousness.

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The words I, We, Us, and Our are capitalized in this essay because We are all One and the Same Spirit.

Negative people are killers of joy. Negative people produce negative results. Negative people will hold you down and back. Negative people are negative about you behind your back. You have to drop negative people.

We do not want to go around killing the hopes and dreams of others. Tearing down others is selfish. It is unfortunate that many of those around Us are negatively focused. Negative people are insecure. Negative people are in a negative cage as this pathological condition is called now-a-days. Some are more negative than others. Positive people are loving. A positive person helps others by building up their realistic hopes and dreams. Positive people share. Positive people produce positive results. Positive people spread joy. People en-joy associating and working with positive people. Notice who is not joyful around you. Notice who has a habit of talking badly about others. Are you a positive person associating with negative people? Is your boss a negative person? Notice who always goes against your hopes and dreams. This is the person who always gives you reasons why things will not work out for you and other people. This person may never give you a compliment. Give this person a few chances. Try to make the person conscious of their attitude. This is how a positive person attempts to help a negative person; this is love. If they do not change – drop them. A person who has developed Self-Respect will also get out of a negative work environment. If you are a positive person who is in a negative work environment, or you have a negative boss, you will be picked on in different ways. A negative boss will attempt to make you feel inadequate. It is the love that you have for your Self that tells you to get rid of the negative person. The bad vibrations emanating from the negative person are coming from a level of hatred that they have for their self. They are projecting their level of self hatred onto you. People lie to each other, and about each other, at this level. They are usually unconsciously attempting to keep you at their level. They feel low, alienated and lonely and they want you there too. Like the saying goes, “misery loves company.”

Negative people have the tendency to compete with you. Your negative boss will compete with you. They are in competition with you as opposed to cooperation. If they think that you are better than they are in something, they will cheat to make themselves look better than you. They will cheat in most anything. If a negative person cannot keep you at their level of suffering they will tear you down behind your back. This is because you threaten them. Your positive nature and talent makes them aware of their negative short comings. They will spread actual lies about you. They will commit what are called “sins of omission” by telling half truths about you. They will twist the truth. Bearing False Witness is their lifestyle. You may notice that you get dirty looks and negative comments from people who you have met in the presence of a negative person. You may notice a number of persons giving you dirty looks and making negative comments to you who you have met through a particular negative person. The dirty looks and negative comments is the negative person holding you back. They have back-stabbed you. Remember this blog has as its foundation the koan WORDS ARE TRAPS. Some people will take this type of abuse for years and never realize what is happening to them. Many people finally realize what went on in their association with a negative person when they get older. The elderly get sad when they realize this and it is a sadness that they need to come out of.

Positive people want you to succeed – don’t they?. Like Attracts LIKE. Moreover, positive people spread joy. Joy is infectious. Positive people sense other positive types. Positive loving people see the potential in others. Positive people are at the level where Self-Love lies. This is the level of honesty and integrity. A person of integrity tells the truth. A person of integrity is not threatened by other people because they have discovered their Self-Worth. A person of integrity has examined their Self. You can work on being more positive by thinking about and noticing positive and the negative in your Self and other Selves. You become more conscious of the positive and the negative, that is, you become more Self-Aware. It is the courage to examine your Self that brings out the Universal Love of the True Self; the authentic Self. The Realized Self is the True Self that emerges enough to want the True Self in others to emerge. It is the recognized, emerged and actualized True Self presence in you that catches you if you are going to be negative with someone. This is because the True Self in you is developing, or has developed enough, and is protecting you. The emerged True Self in you also protects you by recognizing the negativity of others. People who have not developed their True Spirit Self which is the Same Self Spirit of Humanity do not recognize all of the negativity coming from others. They have not Awakened enough yet. We awaken more around positive people.

When We come to the courage to have an ongoing conscious truthful dialog inside of Our Self We naturally become more joyful because We are setting Our Self free. When We get to this point We want others to set their Selves free too. We love Our Self and at this level We naturally want other Selves to join the party. We want others to realize their True Self like We did. We feel sorry for others if they do not achieve the Realization of the True Self. We feel empathy with them. We feel compassion for them. We have ascended to a high enough vibration of love to understand the struggle of others. We love humanity. We radiate joy. We Love Our Neighbor As Our Self

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Lent is the period of forty weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter, observed variously in Christian churches by fasting and penitence to commemorate Jesus fasting in the wilderness. Jesus is our model to lose the ego. Lent is a time to tell people that we are sorry for wrongs committed. We apologize and forgive to release negative disease producing energy lodged in our cell tissue and nervous systems that causes us conscious and unconscious distress.

penitence – the state of being penitent; repentance SYN. – penitence implies sorrow over having sinned or done wrong; repentance implies full realization of one’s sins or wrongs and a will to change one’s ways; contrition implies a deep crushing sorrow for one’s sins, with a true purpose of amendment; compunction implies a pricking of the conscience and therefore suggests a sharp but passing feeling of uneasiness about wrong doing; remorse implies a deep and torturing sense of guilt; regret may refer to sorrow over any unfortunate occurrence as well as a fault or act of one’s own. Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, 1980.

Implementing protracted Universal Education of the Heart in curriculum’s around the world will take away the feeling of individual separation (the ego). We will understand that we are connected energetically. This will make us conscious of the need to apologize to each other and forgive each other. We will realize that we affect the whole of humanity with our behavior. Teachings of the great spiritual masters should be made known by restatement after restatement through all the years of youth education.

One such spiritual master who has much to tell us is the Oglala Lakota Nicholas Black Elk. Black Elk is being considered for sainthood by the Vatican. Note 6 on page 13 of the book, The Sacred Pipe, that is about Black Elk, tells “Wakan-Tanka as Grandfather is the Great Spirit independent of manifestation, unqualified, unlimited, identical to the Christian Godhead, or to the Hindu Brahma-Nirguna. Wakan-Tanka as Father is the Great Spirit considered in relation to His manifestation, either as Creator, Preserver, or Destroyer, identical to the Christian God or to the Hindu Brahma-Saguna,”

My vision (with the heads of spiritual masters) that is described in the feature article WORDS ARE TRAPS on words-are-traps.blog and Black Elk’s vision on Black Peak (where all people are coming together) both are telling that all people no matter what nationality they are or where they come from all share the same Great Spirit or Divine Indwelling and that The Great Spirit pervades all life.. This means that we are all ONE and that we are all related. We are not separate individuals. We are a collective WHOLE. We are confused by the illusion that we are separate. We will actually be able to see and understand our energetic connection by restatement after restatement of our connection all through the school years. The restatements will be presented in different ways i.e., various teaching methods.

Being honest with our selves and each other will collectively connect our minds to our hearts. The need to apologize and forgive will be known (see The OUR MOTHER/FATHER). We will be conscious of the fact that if we do not apologize and forgive that this causes unresolved feelings (energy) to be lodged in our cell tissue. Unresolved energy is unhealthy and can cause health problems on both sides of the issue as medical intuition explains.

There were no police officers in the native cultures of yesteryear. If natives had an issue with each other they would admonish one another and attempt to talk the problem out. If talking it out did not resolve the problem, or if a party would not talk the problem out, it was then taken to tribal counsel for adjudication. If the party or parties did not obey the judgement they were then banned from the tribe. This type of procedure makes everyone conscious and keeps harmony in the WHOLE. It is a known fact that evil operates in the shadows. This type of resolution is and was done in other traditions including Christianity. It keeps US honest and healthy with our minds connected to our hearts.

The ego with it’s feeling of separation needs to be brought out all through school years. Note 9 on page 21 of The Sacred Pipe conveys the shared understanding that a person “…ceases to be a part, a fragment, and becomes whole or holy; he shatters the illusion of separateness.” This is a heart-felt understanding of each other. We become ONE. Native Americans chant and pray : Make us ONE.

Humility is the most difficult of the spiritual virtues to achieve. The ego wants to be right and uses denial as its defense. Restatement after restatement of the need to apologize and forgive will calm the individual and collective ego down and strengthen our hearts by making US realize our ONENESS. Page 13 of the Sacred Pipe explains that seeds planted in this manner “will in time grow in our hearts…children will have strong hearts.”

God is in US all. Great Spirit is struggling to break through the ego. Page 19 tells “…whenever he receives illumination or wisdom from Wakan-Tanka, so that his ignorance dies, and he then lives continually in the Spirit.” In other words, we become walking prayers. Isn’t this the way that it should be – our minds connected to our hearts with no filters in between?