Where there is life, there is change. Any attempt to keep things static leads to death which is just stuck energy being redistributed according to the law of love. The universe is a sea of energy with infinite currents and waves and flows. By opening and developing our abilities to receive and act upon inspirations and intuitions, we can continue to grow and develop as individuals and as a group. The only thing that creates stuck energy is fear, and fears are only energetic patterns that disconnect us from Love. Love is life. Love leads to change because love is the Power of Life. Our challenge is to constantly increase our connection to Love so that we do not allow fear to hold us back from fulfilling our destinies as cells of love in the body cosmic.

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Today is All Saints’ Day, and it feels appropriate to share a bit of my perspective with you on this day.

I’m not going to relate my perspective to the historical developments related to this day or to any particular theological or religious traditions. I’m just going to share a few thoughts that are occurring to me today.

To me, All Saints’ Day can help us to remember those people that have touched our lives in ways that have helped us to connect to more of who we really are as Children of God. These could people we know directly or that we are aware of their influence more indirectly. We may not even be aware of their influence or existence at all!

These people could still be incarnate, or may have moved onto another phase of existence. Actually, many of these people we may have never known in the flesh, only knowing that spirit beings have been assisting us as we have been working through the challenges of our lives.

To me a saint is someone who in their own unique way helps us to connect to the Power of Love which makes life worth living. Some saints are hard and crusty and not a whole lot of fun.Some are serious. Others are soft and fuzzy and warm and cuddly. Others make us laugh, while others are good at making us think. Each of these souls are helping us to experience and discover the power of love in their own unique ways.

All Saints’ Day (for me) is a special time to remember who we really are to each other despite the trappings and illusions that might help us to forget what is real and meaningful.

People are people with their bodies and without them. Saints come in a wonderful variety of forms. Not that I tend to think of things in this way, but who is to say that animals, plants and minerals may not also be manifestations of love that also help us to experience more of the truth as well?

Every moment of our lives is a fresh opportunity to experience greater love and therefore express even greater gratitude for those who have helped us expand our perspective.

I am very aware that there have been a multitude of souls seeking to help and support me on my trek. For a long time I thought many of them were crazy, foolish, or even non-existent. I have actually come to recognize that I would not be where I am today if it were not for the love, faith, and prayers of a great multitude of souls in the flesh and beyond the flesh who chose to support me despite my great and many shortcomings and limitations.

I’m so grateful for the many people who believed in me when I could not believe in myself. I would not be alive today if it were not for their love and faith. Of this I am certain.

During this All Saints’ Day may we take a moment to express our gratitude in joyful ways for those who have helped, supported, guided, and loved is us in our journeys. There is not a single one of us who does anything worthwhile by ourselves. We are supported in visible and invisible ways with the thoughts, prayers, love, and faith of many, many others, whether we are consciously aware of it or not.

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Everybody has skeletons in their closets. We tend to think that there are some people with skeletons in their closets and other people who don’t have any.

Everyone has them. Actually, most of our life closets are so full of skeletons that if we open the door, we will be buried in an avalanche of bones. If you are consciously aware of many of your skeletons, you’re ahead of the game! Congratulations! If you’re not aware of your skeletons, here are a few hints on how to become more conscious of our skeletons this Halloween season.

If there are any circumstances in our lives that we don’t feel good about, every single one counts as a skeleton. If it is something that haunts us from the past, that’s a skeleton. If something is happening right now that has us troubled, that’s an indicator that there are skeletons in our closets that we have been afraid to face. If we fear anything in the future that we do not want, these are all unconscious projections of skeletons that are still stinking up our inner life closets.

Here are a few thoughts that might inspire us to clear up some of our skeletons. (It’s not pretty, but it’s the truth from my perspective!)

We only have skeletons in our closets because we took a corpse of a past experience that we interpreted from a fear-based point of view. To locked the dead body of our fears in a small dark place “out of sight.” And yet, it is not out of mind. It is there, putting this stench in our inner houses. We now have storage spaces that are not available for anything (except maybe storing more corpses). Plus we will either never let other people in our homes (hearts and lives). And if we do we will have to burn all kinds of incense and lock the closet door to keep our guests from discovering the truth. If we do allow people into the home of our lives, we will live in fear that people will discover our skeletons. We won’t be able to enjoy our guests. We will be on our guard, wondering who is going to discover our deep, dark secrets.

When we have an opportunity to move into a gorgeous mansion that has been gifted to us, we turn down the opportunity to live the life of our dreams. Why? We don’t want to disturb those skeletons in our closets. If we leave our old house behind, someone may discover what we don’t want them to know about our past. (By the way each and every moment is pregnant with these kinds of opportunities!)

And so this is how most of us live our lives. Afraid to accept the gift, the mansion, the inheritance, the money, the job, the relationship, et cetera, et cetera. And we wonder why things don’t get much better for us over time. It’s because we would rather clinging to moldy old bones out of fear. We are fully capable of letting go of the corpses to embrace more and more love and life.

And remember, we all have skeletons. No one in this world can stand in judgment of us without condemning themselves. This goes for us as well as for others. So if someone actually does condemn you for your skeletons, know that they will only do so because they are afraid of people discovering their own bone collections.

And in case anyone is wondering, The Divine Source has no interest in judging or condemning us for our skeletons. The Source’s main desire is that we accept enough Love to let our skeletons go so that we can be free to live and love without limit.

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Lately, I’ve gotten a little stuck. Honestly, I don’t like admitting this. I still would like to be this perfect example for people, and yet that is still an ego-based, fear-based program running on statements and feelings like, “I’m not good enough.” “If people know the truth, they won’t like me, or accept me, or hire me, or respect me.” On and on. It’s all B.S. (Being Silly). 

So, as I’m in the process of letting more of this stuff go, here are some of my thoughts on being real as I continue to work toward being more and more real with myself and with other people.

As  I think about it, if people can’t accept me as I am, with all of my wonderful imperfections, that’s really their problem. The truth is the only people who won’t accept us as we are are people who do not accept themselves as they are. The judgement they heap upon us is nothing compared to the self-hatred, self-disgust, self-loathing, self-judgement they are currently buried under. We need to seek other people’s approval and acceptance much less than we need to give our own to those people who are especially challenging for us to love. They are in our lives to help us learn to love those aspects of ourselves that we have not allowed ourselves to fall in love with yet.

And, really, without the challenges that I am currently attracting, how can I expect myself to learn and grow? If I had no challenges, it would be a state of death. There would be nothing to work on, to grow, to develop, to expand, to clarify. I might as well not exist at that point! Our challenges, no matter how challenging, are great gifts that give us the opportunity (when we choose to see them this way) to change the way we are playing.

Being in the kinda stuck place I am right now has also caused me to ask very different questions than I was asking before. Before this little phase, my  questions were of a tweaking nature, making small adjustments in my approach to improve results. Now I am beginning to ask paradigm-shifting questions that are going much more to the root issues that I need to deal with. For example, “how could I approach something from a completely different point of view? How can I give more? How can I trust more? What is right in front of my face that I’m not seeing? How much am I trusting myself, the universe, God? What deeper fears is it now time for me to become conscious of and release?

I don’t know if this post will be of any value to you, but it’s been incredibly helpful for me!

Thanks for taking the journey with me! You honor me with your attention! May your awareness continue to expand and your journey continue to deepen in love and it’s many blessings!

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Here’s part of a talk I gave recently on how we accumulate teh fear-based programming that unconsciously rules our lives. I also talk about the cure for this kind of programming as well! Enjoy!

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Perceptions and Patterns

 Related to Fear:

Contraction

Protection

Defensiveness

Separation

Lack

Relying upon rules and programs

Conflict

Hardness

Coldness

Deadness

Doubt

Stupidity

Ignorance

Anger for self and at self

Self-hatred and hatred of others

Anxiety

Pride and Arrogance

Perceptions and Patterns Related to Love:

Expansion

Growth

Acceptance

Relying upon Spiritual Power and Guidance

Knowing in one’s heart

Unity

Warmth

Cooperation

Wisdom

Generosity

Anger for others

Self-love and love for others

Peace

Humility

These lists are not meant to be inclusive in any way. These are just some quick markers to consider as you are either reacting fearfullyto your experience of life or responding lovingly to it. The truth is, since our true nature is love, we already know, deep within our core whether we are living from fear or love. Fear is only the symptom of a temporary disconnection from our true nature. Let’s become more conscious of those moments when we are choosing to react out of fear instead of responding out of love. In this way we become ever-more able to transform our unconscious, fear-based, programmed reacting into conscious, love-based, spontaneous responding.

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Even wondered why people (including ourselves) wander from addiction to addiction? People will move from a smoking addiction to a food addiction to a video game addiction to an exercise addiction to being addicted to behavior patterns in their romantic relationships in an endless progression. Many times these people, while deeply in the middle of the next addiction, will triumphantly proclaim that they beat the previous addiction.

If you haven’t figured it out already, specific types of addictions are just manifestations of a single underlying root cause that is unconscious for most people. Addictions are maladaptive strategies for handling the issues coming from the one root.

Okay, so what’s the one root? It’s FEAR. Yep. Once again, fear is at the root. And what is the remedy for fear? How do we overcome fear? Since fear is the experience of disconnection from the Love which is the Gound of Being or the Creative Source of All Being, allowing this Love into our lives is the cure.

Just as in the human world right now, fear or disconnection from love is as readily available as the air, so too is the Love of which I write. This Love is an energetic frequency that is like the zero-point energy photons that permeate every single nook and cranny of space-time. All we have to do is ask and receive it. For the adepts, it is more like simply allowing it to permeate one’s being. It’s that abundant and available. And as we allow this love to flood our beings, we are ever-more empowered to let go of the maladaptive patterns of addiction that keep us stuck in ruts and endless cycles of control, suffering, abuse, neglect, and imprisonment.

Allow the Love that is flooding the universe to flood your entire being, and you will eventually see the end of addiction and end of recovery and the beginning of a new life of freedom, peace, and bliss. Enjoy!

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So why are we here? Why do we exist? What is the point of it all?

For as long as I can remember I have struggled with questions such as these. For the longest time, I did not think I knew the purpose of my life. I wondered about it as if it wasn’t already permanently imprinted upon the very core of my being.

Even now I occasionally choose not to remember why I’m really here. I’m guessing that most of the people reading this are choosing to forget the simple fundamental truth that forms the foundation of every life on this planet. Even I succumb to the seductions of lies like: “Making money is the most important thing.” Or “Creating things is the most important thing.” “ Or “Controlling perceptions is the most important thing.” The world is as screwed up as it is, not because people don’t know the truth, but because we persistently choose to ignore what we know to be true in the depths of our being.

We exist to make manifest the fullness of love in our receiving of all of the love we can possibly receive and in the giving of our love to the fullest possible extent.

This may sound soft, shallow, naïve, or foolish to some of you reading this. I don’t care. I have struggled through my own bullsh*t for way too long to uncover this truth in my own life to try to dress up something simple, good, beautiful, and true so that others will be impressed by it.

And in case anyone thinks that living a life of reckless unconditional love is too soft a target, I know instantly that those people haven’t actually given it a shot. There is no more challenging goal in this world-apparently and temporarily ruled by fear and its many ugly stepchildren.

Love isn’t about being nice. Love isn’t about being a doormat for bullies. Love isn’t about looking the other way when fearful people do their business all over each other.

Love is about speaking the truth, even when it isn’t what people want to hear. Love is about standing up for others and for what is good and true and beautiful, especially when it is not popular. Love is about staring bullies down and taking their blows, even to the point of death if that is what it takes to help people wake up from their walking comas. Love is about helping people who are acting out of fear to see what seeds they are planting and what crops they will be harvesting if they do not change their habitual patterns. We’ve seen, heard about, and read examples of people doing these very things. We are being called to do the same in the name of True Love-Love that never, ever gives up.

To love with reckless abandon is to risk losing everything while hoping and trusting that all will end up winning in the end. And the winning in the end is not a some kind of hollow victory over others. It is not the raising of a shiny trophy. The victories that matter are the daily triumphs over our fears. We are to seek victory over living lives of commiseration and mediocrity. Greatness is available to each and everyone one of us, not necessarily in the ways that  most people would recognize, and yet those of us who are now waking up to the repercussions of choosing to focus on our fears instead of our loves need to start playing a much bigger game in the cosmic arena if we are to help ourselves and others to risk everything they think they have in order to experience everything worth living for.

Let us play all-out at life. Let us play for lasting victory over our lesser selves. It is these kinds victories that bring true and lasting rewards-our true and permanent ownership of absolute and infinite worth.

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People talk all of the time about how people are dealt various hands in life. In the past I might have resisted that analogy because it tends to reinforce a random view of the cosmos.

Today I’m going to embrace the metaphor and take it to the next level. I’m going to leave how we get the cards we get out of this equation and start this story at the hand that is in front of our faces.

Whatever cards you are holding, however you feel about them right now, they are not the determining factor of your life. What determines your life is the Love you choose to accept and the love you choose to share. Maybe you have interpreted that you have a really crappy hand. Maybe you have that hand so your partner can “go alone.” Maybe you have the hand so that other people can have the perceptions that they need to have to discover the truth for themselves. Maybe you have that hand so that you can discover that Love Trumps Everything. It is the ultimate power in the game of life. It is that which puts all things in their proper perspective.

It is that which has the power to transform the appearance of a crappy hand into a gift for everyone sitting around the table.

Play! Have fun! Enjoy the ride! How can we do these things? Because we can trust that Love is running the show, despite all of the appearances to the contrary? Love makes us all winners, all teammates, all players, all lovers, all members of the same club.

Let’s enjoy each other!

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How often have we said, “What a nice person!”? How much have we wanted that affirmation for ourselves? There have been times in my life that I wanted other people to think I was “nice,” regardless of whether I actually was nice or not.

I don’t feel this way anymore. Honestly, I would love to see the word “nice” disappear from use by all people for all time. It’s time for us to let this word go forever.

Nice is not who we are called be. We are called to be who we really are, and I guarantee that nice is not one of those things.

Here’s how I see nice people. If you either see yourself as a nice person or want others to see you as a nice person, you may not like what follows. So in case you are wondering, I’m definitely not going to be nice to nice people and those who like nice people here!

1. Nice people are pushovers.
2. Nice people are doormats.
3. Nice people do not ask for what they want.
4. Nice people do not negotiate for what they want.
5. Nice people do not tell the truth out of a fear.
6. Nice people care way too much about what others think of them.
7. Nice people have way too much patience with the status quo.
8. Nice people sacrifice themselves and their own truth upon the altar of social conformity with the creed of “I’m not good enough” playing like a looped recording in their brains.
9. Nice people don’t rock the boat.
10. Nice people don’t do interventions.
11. Nice people let bullies knock people down grind them into the dust.
12. Nice people would rather allow themselves to be ground into the dust than stand up for what is good, right, and true.
13. Nice people are afraid of their own power.
14. Nice people avoid the necessary conflict that occurs between compassion and injustice.

You may think I’m not being nice in being so tough on niceness and nice people. That’s very perceptive of you. Having suffered from an addiction to niceness for way too long, I’m a little passionate about setting people free from this particular prison.

So if you are a parent, stop telling your kids to be nice! Encourage them to be who they really are and do what they really want to do! Give them the freedom to say “No!” even as you continue to be the boss. Teach your kids to negotiate by negotiating for what you want!  

Stop playing the tape in your brain that says certain things are not nice. The world doesn’t need nice right now. The world needs the truth expressed with as much love and compassion as possible. And the truth cannot be expressed from a place of niceness. It can only be expressed from a solid foundation of spiritual empowerment.

We have the problems we are currently having as a species for two fundamental reasons:

1. Most people are afraid to tell the truth.

2. Most people are afraid to hear the truth.

This is why it is so critical that we banish niceness from the face of the earth as soon as possible. We need to be bold in speaking the truth from our perspective. We need to be desirous of listening to the truth from all of the sources of truth in our lives. When we have released these fears around speaking and listening to the truth, we will have the world that the prophets and sages have spoken of for millennia.

Go forth and release your fear! Speak your truth with bold compassion, and listen for the truth in everyone and everything you encounter!

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