Only prisoners can serve time.

So, where is this prison? What is it that keeps us from our intelligence?

Memorial residues are maintained on the astral plane. One curious (well more like obvious) aspect of the astral plane is that time has no flow there. Memories are "stuck" there which is one of the reasons why you can always recall a memory, exactly as it happened. That we choose to embellish on some of our thought-provoking memories is just more of the same poison that keeps us from living in the moment.

The will is the power that resides within us and that allows us to give rein and to permit the transformation of the vibration into concrete realizations. The power of the will is visceral in nature and it is intimately linked with our emotional centres. Those emotional centres generate the majority of our feelings and those feelings colour and impregnate our experience. The force contained within these impulses is the heart of our essence. It is that essence that provides the motive force behind our will.

It is this will that evades us when we allow it to stray too far from our center. We "astralize" our creative potential by constantly forcing it to refer to our past memories. Only the ego and it's continuous referencing of the rational intellect to find it's "place" in a given sequence of events, is to blame. Without this pernicious and insidious interference, we would be able to immediately access all aspects of our person and therefore respond adequately and precisely to the situation at hand.

Getting stuck or being unable to respond or to act appropriately at any time is just that. We have given over our control of time (the present) and have placed our will in thrall to the memorial residues that contaminate our existence. These are the bars and the locks that prevent us from having access to each and every aspect of our beings.

When the root becomes a carrot in front of the....

The adage that “The love of money is the root of all evil.” has been well established during the course of humanity’s rise to planetary pre-eminence. When you consider this from universal principles, the allure and the effect of money becomes less of a problem and more of an opportunity.

Money is the ultimate medium of exchange. Portable, universal (in the sense of being in common use) and easily available under most circumstances, the transactional representation of money fits every bill. The exchange is the basic nature of the inter-relationships between people. We learn and strive to balance our natures and relationships to afford us the peace of mind and body that allows us to survive and evolve. Energetically, balance is an example of equilibrium. Equilibrium is achieved when the energy field is at its lowest potential, that is to say where polarities are at a minimum.

Thus, the purpose of the exchange is to produce and provide an equilibrium in our existence that affords us the peace that we seek and deserve. Work hard to earn money so that you can afford a nice life (except potentially for the work required to get the money…). It is this potential that must be reduced by revaluing the extremes between acquiring and expending money. When it has the value that it deserves and is not a source of envy or some other emotional states that introduce doubt and bias into our relationships, money will serve us and not require our (debt) service.

Evil is also a polarity. Money can do as much good as it can have evil done by those seeking it. Fear (of loss) and greed (the desire to acquire) contribute to the emotional content of money as a means of exchange. Refinement is the universal principle that governs how money affect us. The more we determine our real needs (as opposed to our illusory wants and desires) the easier dealing with money becomes. Once you have what you need, generosity (the spiritualized form of the universal principle of balance) kicks in to ensure that we “share and share alike”. Once you no longer want for your requirements, sharing becomes a part of caring and that is a step that we have to take so money can play a role in our continuing evolution.

See what "I" means?

The first person singular perspective. Your point of view. Who and what you are as expressed repeatedly by the unholy trinity....me, myself and I.

The thought process takes advantage of the inability of the egoic mechanism, (like a shock-absorber or better yet a "skim" operation in any financial enterprise....) to short-circuit the flow of energy and rather than allow your real self from expressing your real intent, it bleeds away the incipient energy and leaves you with only a pale aftertaste of your real essence.

As "normal" (read typical) as this function may be, it is not NATURAL. The nature of man is to induce and transmit his essence into this reality so that he can interact with the material plane. The thought process is a method whereby the circuitry of the mind is insulated from the full force of our energy until such time as we become able to transmit the vibratory quality of this force without unbalancing our very beings.

Not so much a straight-jacket as a life-jacket, thoughts are meant to be discarded as soon as you are out of the sea of doubt and able to continue your journey. Once you are aware of them, you can remove the encumbrances and gain the freedom that you need to succeed.

Venerable or vulnerable?

The veneration of the form is one aspect of spirituality that is as pejorative as it is wasteful. The more that we are exposed to our inner nature, the more we become able to discern and to evaluate the various aspects of our conditioning, our experience and our potential. Along the way there is one caveat (concerning the transformation of energy into the form) and that is to realize that the form is a support and a vehicle for the energy that comprises it. It is not the energy nor does it have any substance without the energy.

Once we free ourselves from this conceptualization of our experience, we become much more able to take advantage of the various ethereal currents that run through our psyches because they are not encumbered by the formulaic nor the formulary. Relying on the form to provide us with the support and the sustenance for our well-being is a call to the memorial reserves of the soul and this is not the source of our energy, it is a repository of all forms that have ceased to serve a useful purpose but whose memory is maintained until such time as they can be discarded.

Like those old shoes in the upstairs closet, you will never wear them again so why keep them? Sentiment? Nostalgia? Reminiscence? That they served you well was sufficient reward. Keeping them around just takes up valuable space that could be used for making room for the next pair. Our creativity is only limited by our ability to realize our potential. What was can only serve again if it is transformed. Recycling means forgiving the past effects and forgetting the previous use. Knowing that what you did once cannot be re-created because situations are never static (except within the memory where they reside, emprisoned in a involutionary dead-end) frees you to realize that a creative being not only creates, he seeks to create as that is his purpose.

Time to get up and go

As far as the ego is concerned, its not only what it is but also how it is that matters. The ego is the manifestation of our ethereal presence in the material plane. It projects our transcendence through its partially obturated substance and we perceive that projection by the way we feel and the outlook that we have as well as the altered nature (subjectivity) of our perception.

It is not that we need to rid ourselves of the ego's influence as we need to have an ego that is limited to its preternatural function and that it is in top shape to perform it's normal (not typical) duties. How do we "cleanse" this aspect of our substance? There is no miracle cure.

The level of suffering (detergent) that we must endure is specific to the degree of impurity that exists within the occlusions. How long it takes is also a function of our approach, our timing and our degree of tolerance as well as our ability to endure. You have to be fed up in order to get up.

You are not alone

Since everything is "known", we are more concerned that the exploration should require and incite evaluation and exploitation of the vibe.

Everything is for a reason and that means that everyone plays a part in the eventual and inevitable course of events. How we "get along" is always a question of adjustment and time. More resistance and less adaptation increases the time factor required to accomplish the task.

An important aspect of the process is the creation of alliances. While executing the events along our path, others on their own paths can cross and even overlap our path for specific periods of time. While familiarity may breed contempt and absence make the heart grow fonder, centricity and sharing allow for the synergy of the exchange.

Even though awareness is a precept for interaction, that awareness is not limited to physical proximity. Entanglement, on the psychic scale, allows for any activity in a "connected field or frame of reference", to have an immediate and intentional effect upon our subtle centers. Allowing for your "feel" of the vibe is how we disconnect the ego and its rational component from limiting our perspective and this allows our supramental reality to manifest itself.

Knowing is all about being and being is all about doing.