The Past, History & Ego

"The Past" is just a way of looking at things.... because in "reality", there is no "past".... all is present, all is now, all is YOU. History is not ego. The way you perceive history can be ego! A "thing" can never be ego, only the way in which "a thing" is perceived.

The past is not a place. History is not just a story. 

History is the elements and details of all that you are in this lifetime... It's more of a journal than a story. It should not be forgotten, it should be realized. If history is taken out of proper perspective then it indeed becomes ego... just a story you use to support unhealthy patterns and create excuses that keep you from being the whole you, that keep you from full realization as a being.

But the same is true for all aspects of life, not just "your history".
Perspective. Choice. 

You can indeed rewrite your history, your past, by how you perceive it.
It's all in your head!

The Reckoning

In order to get to where you wanna go, you've gotta get there from where you ARE!
No short cuts from YOURSELF.
No one is gonna come and rescue you from YOU.
Not Jesus, not Mohammed, not the Mothership.... NO ONE!
And in this moment of realization you might go look in the mirror and recognize your divinity.
You are the master of your own life.
When the world around you won't bend, you have to bend.
It's your choice, your decision.
You create your own heaven and you create your own hell.
It's no one else's fault or responsibility.


Where ever you are, no matter where that is, there is where your journey begins.
Getting from there to where you wanna be is what makes you who you are....
You will never escape from you.


The Reckoning

Accountability

Accountability.
Reckoning.
Its time to take an assertive stand and speak the truth, and no longer tolerate illegitimacy. Call those in your path into account.
Not vengeance. Not anger or emotional reaction. But calm, firm truth.
Face the music.

Degrees and certifications have completely lost their value!!!
How do we know who is good? Who to trust? Who is worth our time and valued patronage?
Results.
Reputation.
Intuition. Your true inner sense never lies.... The question is, can you recognize it?

Its time to be self responsible.
You will get what you want... If you want genuine help, you will find it.
If you don't want the truth, if all you wanna do is whine, if you're not willing to be responsible for yourself, then you will be fed whatever you want to hear, you'll pay for it, and you'll continue to whine and complain that nothing works.

Value comes from within.  It manifests in your world.

Live who you are. If you're a healer then give healing.... it will be returned to you!
If you're a farmer then give farming... it will be returned to you!
If you're an artist then give art... it will be returned to you!

This is the new economy. 

 Authenticity. 

 HERE is prosperity. HERE is true professionalism.
What are your qualifications??  RESULTS!

Live who you are...!
Be genuine.
Be authentic.
Be real.
Be you. All day, every day.

"Perfect" is a fabricated illusion. It has nothing to do with truth and authenticity. Don't try to be perfect - Just be real.

Eradicate Capitalism

One solution would be to eradicate capitalism.  Pull it up by its roots like a weed.  What would replace it?  What could replace it?


Freedom.
People talk about civic responsibility but really have no idea what that is.  We've been conditioned to believe that it means pay taxes and vote.  And that's it.  That is not responsibility.


Freedom requires the ultimate responsibility.  Personal responsibility to do what only you should be doing.


What stands in the way of ultimate freedom?  Make a list....
Oddly enough, one of the first things on the list of things that prevent freedom may be "responsibilities".
What are these particular responsibilities?  #1 answer - paying bills.  Rent or mortgage, insurance, electricity, water, gas, car payment, food, taxes, higher education, health, etc, etc...
Realize how these are not luxuries, they are civilized necessities or demands.   Hmmmm....
Someone is making money off of our basic human needs.  Without these things, we fall out of favor with society.  This is not freedom, this is not patriotic, this is not responsibility.  This is slavery.  "Pay me or I will not give you what you need to live a civilized life!"  This is being held captive, against your will.  This is in diametrical opposition to the concept of living in the "land of the free".


Should everything just be given to us?  And if so, why isn't it?
Should there be no economy at all?  What is an economy?
     the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., especially with a view to its productivity.
     the disposition or regulation of the parts or functions of any organic whole; an organized system or method.


The one factor that changes the game is the human ego.  Fear, greed, power, control, pride - insecurity.  If not for these things, we could indeed all freely use all the resources of the earth, all the products we make, all the artistic endeavors we create....  
Consider the Amish.  Yes, they trade with surrounding, non-Amish communities... But they don't have to.  They don't need money, or insurance, or any of the other things that we non-Amish believe we must have.
Do any of you want to live the Amish lifestyle?
Why not?
Because its too restrictive and strictly religious.  Why are the Amish that way?  To control their human ego.... so that they don't self destruct.  And it's worked for hundreds of years.  Now do you wanna be Amish?
Me neither.  I don't want anyone telling me what I can and cannot do!  I want freedom.  
What if I just do what I know I should be doing without having to be told...?  If I choose to do that, then I don't need harsh rules or religion to keep me in line.  I am eager to help my neighbor rebuild his barn that burned down.  I'm eager to take my turn in the fields to make sure me, my family and my community have plenty of good food.  Four years of voluntary farm service sounds much better than four years of military service!


What about cars, and cell phones and the internet...?  What about TV and movies....?  Well, if everyone took their turn in the fields - even actors - then everyone would have time to make cars and enjoy driving them!  Or making clothes, or electronics, or movies...!  If everyone made a contribution of....
Money???
No.  If everyone made a responsible contribution of themselves!




Isn't it time to consider where this is going?  


There are other ways of doing things...!  We don't have to truly sacrifice anything but our ego.... fear, pride, greed, power..... control.
It's a choice ya know.....

Purpose - The Meaning of Life (on this planet)

We are here to forge an identity.

Our quest thru (at least this part of) manifested reality is to evolve, ascend, grow, transform into "god-hood". To develop a specific personality - an identity!
This idea frequently gets thrown out with the ego-bath water... That is a mistake.

Integration.... That is the key to god-hood.
Without integration there is no mastery. To wholly embrace everything, every experience - this defines god, this defines your place in god-hood, as god. The counter to integration is escapism. Avoidance. Being so great and mighty and powerful as to "get out of" things is not "god". By definition, god is omnipotent, omniscient, & omnipresent... How can anything "escape" that!? To be aligned with, in accord with, attuned with, in agreement with "god" is to know no limits... In any direction! In every direction. God is ALL, and for us to "be gods" we must know this, feel this, "believe" this... and experience this. And the choices we make in these experiences expand our god-hood and define us as parts of god.

Ego is the "personality" that results from thinking, from logic and reason. This is a mechanical product and not the real you. In that sense, ego is of little ultimate value to personal evolution. What gets lost in the ego concept is the fact that the very same tools that create ego - the mind, the brain - are essential to living in a manifested reality.
When the mind is driven by the soul - the individual awareness of a person - it becomes the vehicle of experience. Thought is still happening, but it is not happening independent of the soul, the conscious life force that is our identity. A life being driven by the soul is conscious, awake, aware, feeling, creative, intuitive. An awakened soul is aware of its universal connection to spirit - the source of life, the energy of existence. This energy is the source of all things - of god, of earth, of people and all the accessories that we call "the world" and "the universe".


By experiencing "the world" we are given the opportunity to make choices. These choices begin to define us. In order to separate ego from soul, we are challenged. Not as punishment or a basis for reward, but rather as a proving.
As a society, we can condemn a crew of professional bridge builders when a bridge collapses and upon investigation it becomes evident that the builders did not use the correct methods or materials to create a sound, long lasting bridge. Even tho the builders finished the bridge, even tho it looked like a bridge, even tho a few vehicles successfully crossed the bridge - which is its purpose - ultimately the bridge was NOT what it appeared to be. It was "proven" to be false by use, by experience. It was false because of the choices made by those who built the bridge, therefore indicating falsehood in individual personality. THAT is who those people have become. That is their current identity, based on their choices. Choice defines our identity.
In the same bridge building scenario, if the builders had made all the right choices, the bridge would not have failed. It would have served its intended purpose and stood the test of time. These builders would be regarded as "good", "skilled", "worthy".
All of this is defined by personal choice.
But wait.... Are those builders really good, skilled and worthy?? Maybe there's one more scenario... What if the builders made all the right choices, used all the correct methods and materials, and the bridge functioned very well. For a short time. But then this "right" bridge also failed. What now? Challenge.
True identity is forged with yet one more often overlooked component - intuition. In the course of building the bridge, one person gets a really bad feeling about a certain load of materials. On paper, everything is correct, checked, and double checked. Still one person feels that something is wrong, for apparently no reason. NO REASON. (No thinking. No logic.)
Stop here: If this person allows the building to proceed, we end up with the "right" bridge that mysteriously fails. But if this person persists in following their intuition, their curiosity leads them to investigate the materials in question. This may require some work, and may irritate the other workers! Because this person is not looking for the obvious! Else everyone would have noticed a problem. No, this person is going beyond manifested reality. Manifested reality shows that there is no problem. And those that do not operate on intuition but instead on ego, do not understand or accept those that "break the rules", "get outta the box", "question authority".... so on and so on....
If this one builder continues to be true to themselves and follows this intuition to the end, going against the tide, eventually they discover cracks or decay, or size imperfections, or materials that appear correct but are not made of the right substances for this purpose due to someone else's choices...

This is god-hood. Confident, integritous, genuine, skilled, lasting, without conflict, with nothing to hide. There is no fault. This is the bridge that will stand the test of use, of experience.
In this last scenario we see that we are indeed connected to the universal source of all energy. Intuition. Awareness. Consciousness of who one really is. The soul, not the mind, recognized and acknowledged this intuitive, universal information. The soul made a choice, and the mind followed.
This builder now has even greater definition from this experience and the choices they made in it. The spirit and the flesh became integrated. There were no angels doing miracles in this scenario. There was a human being, feeling their divinity, listening to the one universal spirit, and choosing what actions to take. The existence of angels or spirit guides does not excuse anyone from making choices and expanding into god-hood.

What of those who are unwilling to make choices? Are they "wrong" or "bad"? Absolutely not. They just further themselves from god-hood, from enlightenment, from evolving... they further themselves from peace, satisfaction, love... and that is their choice to allow this to happen. "Not choosing" is a choice just as well as actively choosing is.
Will these "non-choosers" be punished? Absolutely not. But what will they feel and experience when challenges come...? They may indeed feel punished! But its only the way they choose to perceive things that will define their lives. Its all in their head. 

And they are just as free to choose as everyone else... No matter the circumstances, great or small. There's always an opportunity, there's always a choice to make.
And it's always your own.