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.

The ability to discern

The ego is a collimator, a focusser and a director but it is not a separator.It passes any and all luminosity without regard for provenance or quality. (This explains a lot about the various and sundry personality types that we see in life...)

It is clear that in a creative exchange, we are obliged to receive openly and to return to the best of our ability. Otherwise we are engaged in a limited exchange that allows for various concerns, fears and prejudices to alter the nature of the vibration. This means that all kinds of distortions and distributions are incident on our psychic centers.

In the lower or inframental regions, we must endure and allow the passage of such items but not once our vibratory rate has reached the supramental. One of the principle aspects of this part of our psyches is the access that it has to the duality present in all energetic forms. In this area, the polarization of incident or transient or even resident phenomena is exposed and available for adjustment. Kind of like having a windmill in a deep valley or placing it on the top of a hill. Easier and better access to the force of the wind so a much better efficiency in handling the establishment of the energy potential that provides a gradient to allow for electrical generation (creative expression).

How do we get the whole situation in gear? It depends on the "lightness" of the internal processes. This is a function of the personal evolution of your consciousness and the degree to which you have and are transforming your subtle aspects through experience and adjustment. We all have crosses to bear but those that use them to better themselves are the ones that end up transforming their "weight" into a presence that both serves and enables them to continue in a more beneficial manner.

Hope_less(,) (K)no(w) more?

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What if there was no real hope and never had been any?
How could it be that hoping so, could have deceived so many?
What might it be, the mystery of why we hope at all,
If hoping doesn’t fill a need then why do we hear its call?

A hope is just anticipation of what we need to know
Of those things that will affect us, as we change and grow.
So knowledge is the root of hope and hope is like a flower.
That fades once it has blossomed to be replaced by another.

So better that we take care of the root so it won’t die,
Knowledge being like the seed that keeps that hope alive.
Fed by the water of our source and the sunlight of our spirit
Our souls provide the soil for that knowledge to grow from it.

No need to hope for better days as they're already here,
Our knowledge is a part of us and that is crystal clear.
So finally, it all comes down to what we say and do
Being a part of that greater whole , it’s just us, me and you.

The death of death

The fear of death has motivated humanity since it's inception:

As I have come to appreciate them:

The spirit is the potential of all of the energy that provides our consciousness.

The soul is the form of organization of the different types of energies that are involved so as to provide us with a means of (e)motive force as well as information storage.

The self (mind) is the presentation of these energies as transmitted by and through the egoic structures in the material manifestation.

The person is the amalgam and the totality of these different aspects of our beings. How it demonstrates it's presence through the various internal and external factors and structures results in what we perceive as the personality.

Intelligence is the organization (in degree and kind) of these energies and their movement in the ethereal or material plane.

That being the case, death is the state in which:

the spirit remains unchanged, except for those adjustments to its potential that is the result of continued existence.

the soul is placed in "stasis" and contains the record of all events that have occured during "materiality" frozen in time.

the self (mind) no longer being a functional part of the remaining mechanism, ceases to exist.

the person returns to its state of attenuation commiserate with the potential of the energies contained by the spirit, therefore "consciousness" is retained.

the intelligence being the organization of these energies, is altered to accomodate the (re)new(ed) conditions so it is maintained at the ethereal level of existence.

It is the "disconnection" of the soul that acts as a buffer between our infinitely high vibratory rate of existence as spirit and our incredibly dense state of being in the material plane. This buffer interferes with the connection between self and spirit and is the cause for our present memory only being consistent with currently accumulated experiences.

So death is just a transformation and a necessary step in the evolution of our consciously intelligent spirit being.

Incidence of transparence

Feelings and thoughts (as opposed to emotions and communications) are just reflections and attenuations of our psychic energy.As the energy descends, it is subject to all our structural faults and imperfections. The spirit rode us hard and left a lot of crap for us to clean out but wth its a job and someone has got to do it...

On the downside, we believe these "false" signals to be the real ones and take them to the bank. This tends to result in our being quite bankrupt...lol. Fortunately, all of these imperfect transmissions leave a lot about themselves in the impression that they convey. In this way, we are able to track the signal back to the cause of the problem and eventually light it up and clean it out. Once that is done, things are back to the way the must be and we can carry on.

The incidence of transparency in the subtle bodies is a necessary part of the process. Ideally, as we experience the events in our life plan, we suffer through them as best we can until finally we master their effects and incorporate them into our fundamental nature. This process of realization is the necessary precursor to the eventual integration of our principles and the ultimate raising of our vibratory rate to the next level.

The self, or person, which is our essential nature and is our eventual existential reality, is simply the representation of our accumulation of energy potential. The coincident memorial forms that have and will be incorporated are all a function of what and where we are in our natural progression.As this self was in need of rest and repair before continuing its existence, it was encumbered with all of the instructions and indications needed to effect these adjustments. That list is the plan that we carry with us and that we execute and endure during this period of our evolution. As we accumulate the relevent experiences, many of them are "mal-adjusted" and remain in "stasis" while we continue to refine and attune them. These experience forms take up space in our astral body and influence and affect all aspects of our comportment. As we proceed, their re-adjustment is needed to allow us to fully realize the experiences that we are undertaking.

The will is our potential (creative and motive) and as such is subject to the direction of whatever impetus provokes its action. The ego is a poor task master due to the clouding of its function by the presence of the memorial residues. Our level of intelligence is not only a representation of our current state, it is also an indication of our reality and the nature of the process that we are undertaking.

The end is achievable and the work to be done must be carried out to the best of our abilities. Will this occur within this lifetime so that the necessary transformation can take place as I leave this plane? That is a question that I will only be able to appreciate and elucidate from elsewhere. Certainly my understanding of the process is that balance and transparency within the system is paramount and from my observation to date, that balance is presently available. Without sufficient success in the attainment of transparency, however, I will certainly continue my efforts throughout another cycle and perhaps many more. These are all parts of our being which are unknown to us in detail, at present, but that are clearly established through our contact with the source.