by Susan Boskey

July 2023

The notion that we human beings are ordinary is one of the biggest fallacies ever perpetuated on mankind.

The human realm is entirely unique in its scope, different from realms of plant, animal and mineral. “Only human” is a long-standing excuse for our collective forgetfulness as the supreme element of creation.

In the human realm, I believe we are each blessed with an inherent opportunity of which only a few currently take advantage:the opportunity to align our internal operating system/ego with, and in service to, a higher power. Like all opportunities, this one, also. is optional and voluntary.

I recently saw Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Commencement Address and was blown away by its relevance.

“We cannot avoid reassessing the fundamental definitions of human life and human society. Is  true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him? Is it right that man’s life and society’s activities should be ruled by material expansion above all? Is it permissible to promote such expansion to the detriment of our integral spiritual life?

“If the world has not approached its end, it has reached a major watershed in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will demand from us a spiritual blaze; we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life, where our physical nature will not be cursed, as in the Middle Ages, but even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon, as in the Modern Era.

“This ascension is similar to climbing onto the next anthropological stage. No one on earth has any other way left but—upward.”  A World Split Apart. Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address, Harvard University, June 8, 1978. (1)

After 45 years his vision of the challenges facing humanity now manifests in real time. Not only is material expansion all that seems to matter in the 21st century, but also we have the good news of how millions of humans are, in fact, “climbing onto the next anthropological stage”. I see the “spiritual blaze” he mentions igniting all around the earth.

As people realize that who they are is not their story, love, truth, courage and compassion grow effortlessly within whole beings connected to a “Superior Spirit”.

These qualities eventually overtake lower-level desires of greed, jealousy, arrogance and interpersonal cruelty.

Power as Control

Human beings are effortless vessels of the power of love. Yet most squander this exalted impersonal quality in exchange for a limited personal power based on generational beliefs derived from family and culture. We tend to follow along the same path…until something makes us question what we assumed as true.

The word “power” has several definitions but for first-world cultures it often means the “ability to control people or events”. (2) In fact, having control OVER people and events appears as the unspoken, assured path to societal success.

 However, in the final analysis, control is all about the critical importance of maintaining the optics of a winning self-image above all else: with greater concern about what others think than striving to be authentic or having integrity.

The question becomes: Is this sort of power leading us to a better, more beautiful world?

I don’t think so.

Like a fish in the water, how often do any of us swim up to the surface and pop our heads out to see the fishbowl in which our lives are confined? If we ever do get some contextual overview, I believe many would clearly see that the aggrandizement of personal power is our greatest downfall as the human race.  

Blame Politics?

Try as we might, personal power as the lever to gain control over life so often erupts with egoic rages and demands; satisfaction is short-term at best. Given the same misguided approach, most people look to politicians for solutions to the more global issues confronting their community, state/province, or nation. All eyes turn to political action for answers.  

The only problem is that politicians may just be of a ‘higher order’ when it comes to their thirst for personal power, validation and control.

They are the exact type of people that rise to the top of the heap: having a sense of superiority, willing to do most anything just to win, and generally not good listeners. This means our leaders reflect simply a more polished version of the common dysfunctions/dark side of the human ego, and that no one escapes whether admitted or not.

Today’s collective context, i.e. the public mindset of fear, hate, mistrust, violence and division, is the same ground out of which politicians are grown and harvested.

We are one and the same and unwittingly create each other. But the funny part is that due to our blindness to this irony of not having popped our heads out to see the destructive belief systems of the ‘fishbowl’ we’re all swimming in, we will blame the politicians. Instead of realizing that by our worldview and behavior not only do we add to or subtract from the quality of the overall collective cultural context, but we also forget that our politicians come from the same context.

The accepted path of least resistance for centuries has been to project our lack of cleaning up our own inner messes onto a myriad of official others. So where does that leave us?

The way I see it is that politics is a subset of the human being and not the other way around!

The Contextual Shift to a Peaceful, More Beautiful World

Humans (like fish), along with the gazillion things humans create and build, from rockets to dish soap, are the content making up the collective cultural context (fishbowl).

To my way of seeing, the current context of material expansion at all costs to nature and humanity no longer serves.

I suppose it seemed like a good idea at the time.

To live in a world based on nonviolence, goodwill and collaboration, we would need to shift from a mission of increasing quantity to one of recognizing and expanding quality. In other words, like apples and oranges, such re-prioritization requires a deliberate shift in context.

Rearranging the world’s content into new and different configurations via presidents, financial products, social expectations, etc., we simply rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Good luck with that.

The mindset of any collective is made up of what each of us brings to it, for better or worse, consciously or unconsciously.

A contextual shift needs to unfold within each human.

As our heads (and hearts) break the surface of our fishbowl an ‘aha’ moment is revealed; we see that there is an outside – an entirely new dimension – a journey connected to the mind of God.

As the saying goes, you can’t get there from here.  

The Paradox of Hidden Treasure

“The ego mind is a wonderful servant but a tyrant master.” ~ unknown

Personal experience informs me that to move into a God mindset means to first become both curious and aware of the current state of my internal conversations, as mean-spirited, sad or confused they may actually be.

This ‘grist for the mill’ is the stuff of personal transformation.

From there the great unraveling begins: finding ways to deconstruct the negative familial and cultural beliefs we unconsciously developed just by being part of a family and a culture.

We DO have the power to process negative thought forms previously thought to be other people’s problems, not our own.

The context of our life shifts from assumed narrative to found reality to reveal the hidden treasure. The problem is always one’s identity.

As we peel back the layers of who we thought we were by stopping to identify who we are as the body or a particular character in our mind, something extraordinary happens.

We can:

see how we’ve been living in the past or feeling anxious about the future.

learn to let go of control, comparing and competing.

release expectations.

regain a sense of being beyond thoughts and concepts.

start living spontaneously in the present tense.

realize that being present is the safest place to be.

find common ground with others.

utilize both left AND right hemispheres of our brain, and

move more gracefully through difficult situations by seeing our part in it.

It is the God Dimension that transforms us from the inside-out when we make the effort to move our life in this direction.

No one has to, that’s for sure. Yet it’s not hard to imagine that each of us human beings, without exception, possesses an untapped power within just waiting for us to connect with the guidance of a power higher than our personalities. The experience of an inner peace that surpasses understanding is one of the best kept secrets ever in an uncertain world.

Only human? I don’t think so.

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ~ Gospel of Thomas 45:30-33

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(1) https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/a-world-split-apart

(2) Cambridge Dictionary  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/power

Image: https://pixabay.com/photos/acualung-poor-poverty-people-men-4074462/

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Susan Boskey, Certified Cannabis Educator and graduate of Holistic Cannabis Academy, 2017, works with clients to help remedy chronic ills, anxiety, depression, recovery from cancer and autoimmune issues, etc. Her knowledge base includes recommendations of specific cannabis formulations to effectively address specific health concerns. For many years Susan owned and operated a private health practice devoted to the detoxification and restoration of gut health. Susan has over 50 years of personal and professional involvement with wellness modalities she brings as a bonus to her clients. https://lifestylewellness rx.com  

Susan Boskey

May 2023

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/women-sad-desperate-sea-ocean-6949086/  Ralf Seeman

As a species we are going through a lot. All I have to do is hear about yet another public explosion of violent rage to further confirm my suspicion of just how crazy things have become. Horrific physical crimes are visited upon unsuspecting people while the emotional abuse of deceit, denial and domination is so common that it has practically become the norm.

One of my personal top priorities is to increase skill in navigating, and hopefully positively impacting difficult situations as they arise. For me life is all about relationship: relationship with myself, others, Earth, animals and plants. As the dark side of things seems to keep escalating, I am tasked with looking inward to assess my own part in the problem.

Though many point to the mounting dark side ‘out there’, I have come to realize fewer will point the finger back to themselves to own their part. As a seemingly self-contradictory factoid, I believe that all human beings have blind spots that manifest uniquely as shortcomings while, at the same time, each human being is also blessed with at least one amazing natural gift. We have both.

The Problem with Identity

Today’s politics of identity add to the craziness. Who am I is the gender question of the day. For many, “Wokism” and its list of pronouns has elevated emotional and physical violence as judgments fly in every direction. As a result awareness of one’s blind spots and shortcomings are more taboo than ever.

In any culture I believe that children generally become conditioned to behave according to the beliefs (spoken and unspoken) assumed by their family. Whenever a perceived threat to one’s self-image is sensed the ego can puff up, defend itself and lie if necessary. At all cost we must hide, bury and/or deny our shortcomings because shortcomings=bad/wrong – right? No blame. I include myself.

The problem of blind spots showing up as shortcomings is not that they exist but rather the denial of them. I see how denial plays out as dark dramas from the accusative personal argument to world wars. The question becomes: how does someone make a dent in such a ginormous collective blind spot that now has the power to bite us in the collective butt?

I believe that when a multiplier of deceit, denial and domination runs rampant and is accepted cultural M.O. (Modus Operandi), it is because as a species we continue to fail to make truth more important than a shiny public image of ourselves, a commercial venture or of our country. Why do so many just go along with this approach to life?

If world peace were to unfold as a collective reality, politics will not be the reason why. Politics is a human subset and not the other way around. Our inner-most understanding of who we are as human beings, our thoughts, behaviors, integrity or lack thereof, is what shapes politics. The darkness we see out there is the darkness I believe that remains unaddressed within. To uproot the proliferation of hate and violence begins within.

I would also argue that historical, religious and cultural expectations of human perfection cause unintended social consequences;  it is difficult for people to be honest with themselves and others if they feel ashamed. Is the propensity to hide  certain parts of ourselves natural or learned? At any rate I think that such behavior is costly to society.

The Lie of Perfection Exposed

I don’t know about you, but I’ve yet to cross paths with a perfect human being. I would say we are perfectly imperfect. So where do we go from here? For myself I acknowledge: 1) how cultural conditioning can work against the vitality and success of a human being, and 2) how important it is to recognize the conditioning, accept it and find new, healthier ways of being.

Commercial interests gladly capitalize on the perfection ideology. My theory is that the innate need of survival in society directs people to buy-into whatever they believe might provide it for them. Has perfection in physical form become a blind obsession?

 Repurposed People

Repurposed people are those who recognize their truest identity as being of a spiritual nature. They are present inwardly, remembering who they are, while navigating life’s challenging circumstances in new and healthier ways. Repurposed people share the same purpose: to be and stay connected with their higher power and to be a quiet actor sharing unconditional love. They do what they can to be of service whenever they can, in big and small ways and according to their culture. Repurposed people seek to make a positive impact in the lives of others.

The task for restoring sanity to nature and humanity as I see it is to commit to being “in the world but not of it”. In other words it is to practice the Golden Rule, which is known throughout cultures in most every language. Millions of repurposed people already exist given the various ways to tap into the eternally loving frequency of God. For them the precepts of the spiritual realm have become energetically accessible as ‘downloadable’, understandable and integratable in daily life.

Recovery from Adversity

A strategy to recover from adversity (which includes trauma) is called adaptive resilience. It can also help to develop skills of emotional intelligence, something I believe to be very important nowadays. For my entire life I have sought answers to the question of how can we humans just get along, only to discover it must begin within me.

Recovery from adversity invites the use of strategies and tools to facilitate access to one’s inner reality. Inner work is a kind of practice to refresh our outlook on life and increase interpersonal skill. My own focus on emotional intelligence has helped me become more aware of when I act contrary to my true feeling or thought in any given moment – my own insincerity – if you will. I ask myself why do I do that?

I suggest that emotional intelligence, a valuable human asset, can also serve as a portal to spiritual reconnection, and that which follows it: new awareness, more wellbeing. less self-doubt and self- judgment. As I become aware of the truth of what I am thinking or feeling, I also drop into acceptance. Acceptance helps me to not beat myself up over what I had not wanted to know about myself. Letting go of what no longer serves me happens in its own time.

Letting go expands the receptivity of my body and mind to receive the energetic input of my higher power. Since nature abhors a vacuum, unconditional love fills newly released inner dysfunctions. What I’m describing is difficult to put into words because it is experiential.

It is my contention that virtually anyone can recover from adversity (if they really want to) by seeking their higher power. The opening that happens by our own effort of inner awareness and acceptance allows genuine letting go. The higher Self gradually and naturally replaces  inner confusion and darkness with the light of love that has always been there as our birthright.

Below is my idea of a roadmap and never-ending cycle that only gets better if applied.

Breaking Through 

Awareness

The secret is that awareness is not woo-woo. Awareness is the private inner telling of the truth to myself at any-given moment. The truth of what I am thinking and/or feeling in my body and heart is my natural integrity. Feelings and thoughts move through me; I am not stuck with that which I’d rather not know about myself. With awareness what is to happen next naturally unravels by grace.

Observation

With each passing day I can more easily witness how I think, feel and behave in the world.

Courage

The courage to see my own layers of deceit, denial and domination expand in proportion to the love I feel in my body.

Acceptance

Acceptance grows along with my awareness of any given new truth I realize within myself, especially of an uncomfortable truth. I own it and don’t judge or condemn myself.

Letting Go

Letting go is the natural response to my willingness to accept a part of myself I previously hid from awareness.

Gratitude

The more I am willing to see the layers of my dark side, the more they peel off and the more love I feel in my body. Fear falls away and I am sincerely grateful.

Transmission

When I am present knowing  that who I am is connected directly to a divine power, thoughts and emotions lose control over me. My ability to respond to myself and others with empathy increases. One-by-one a more beautiful world I know in my heart, comes into existence.

Just about anyone can make the choice to unearth and recognize the unencumbered human of unconditional love within. The dark side of the world transforms and dissolves in proportion to the number of people who consciously choose to fill their body and mind with the light and love of God/Source Energy. The peeling away of layers of hidden-from-ourselves-darkness is a process capable of catalyzing the return to a life of grace personally and collectively.

I renew my dedication to being the best version of myself possible because pure love is meant to be shared. People want to be seen and heard. Finally, it occurs to me to ask, what is our individual responsibility for knowing and spreading love and goodwill?

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Susan has chosen a path less traveled. Her curiosity about life, and health in particular, fueled her determination to learn everything she could about natural health for body, mind and soul. She intervenes in the noise of modern life to offer freedom from stress, anxiety, depression and chronic pain to a welcomed, felt-sense of wellbeing. Her online course, the CannaWisdom Process~wellbeing in a troubled world, provides step-by-step, careful self-care instructions for the medicinal use of cannabis. A healthy, new perspective on life without the use of pharmaceuticals is possible. Visit lifestylewellnessrx.com

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April 2023

vision

Even the most wounded human beings recognize their innate value; they tune in to the universal capacity to connect with something larger than personality. As real as one’s lower self is (the personality/ego-mind), so also is one’s higher Self (God/source), available to the extent one surrenders the personal will of the personality/ego-mind. (Hereafter just the ego-mind.) When the God Self becomes a collective experience safety, opportunity and prosperity prevail.

purpose

1. To illuminate the man-made inevitability of trauma, death and destruction given the elevation of the default human operating system of ego-mind,
2. to discern what is the higher Self and reunite with it, and
3. to offer an empowered path to the ego-mind that naturally invites one’s higher Self into active, expanded engagement.

 premise: identity from the inside-out

During a timeframe in the world of being able to assume any number of possible identities, all external identities ultimately fail to satisfy living in harmony with others and with Earth.

Everything is energy both visible and invisible and corresponds with a spectrum of frequencies from the most visible, dense desk to the invisible ethereal vibration. We are body, mind and soul. The identification as the body and mind, alone, has become most common. As such, the exclusion of the soul level of identify limits the range of how we consider ourselves and behave (treat each other) socially when left to only the ego-mind.

One’s personal consciousness exists as an invisible lens through which we see and respond. The default program of the ego-mind has collectively plunged to new self-defeating lows of greed, addiction, control, arrogance, deception and violent rage. In turn, the world as jungle is an accurate depiction.

That being said a return to affirming life is possible personally and collectively. However, to be able to achieve more than an appearance of success in this regard, the essential starting point is going ‘internal’. Self-observation and inquiry is an inside job; a safe way to see and shed the domination of a culturally conditioned eg0-mind of accumulated toxic beliefs and behaviors.

Anyone who chooses to be the best version of themselves can refresh even their darkest perceptions by being fully honest (at least) with themselves. There need not be shame or guilt for the dark side of the human condition. Conditioned ego-mind loses its power as the only reality with the honest recognitions of one’s thought process. These recognitions then become openings for our individual higher Self to renew us going forward.

The all-important foundation and starting point for the creation of a more beautiful world is to determine to make a personal fresh start. Facing traumas and toxic thoughts allows cellular openings of light/God to stream in. To regain the quality we want in the world collective we need first to become committed vessels of that quality within. Such quality is available to virtually all, and yet only happens deliberately: when someone consciously acknowledges the existence of an higher power beyond their own controlling ego-mind.

The choice then becomes to dedicate the ego-mind in service to expanding a universal source energy of love/God within. When we allow and practice receiving the frequency of universal love, it naturally grows inside and spreads outwardly. Inspired individuals and groups tip the scales towards what R. Buckminster Fuller called “a world that works for everyone.”

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The Upgrading Human is a natural, cyclical phenomena of spontaneous steps towards the personal remembrance of our true identity and the commitment to shine for the sake of others.

Upgrade 1.

The first step is becoming aware that I have the power to step outside of whatever insanity is in my life at the moment and instead live in a state of grace. It is not about changing anything externally: gender, looks, a relationship, a job, a living situation or the food I eat, etc. It is about committing to become my best version.

I question and see how my primary family ties and culture have shaped the way I think and behave. I learned how some emotions were acceptable in family and society, and how some were not. I did my best to suppress those that were not. But now I see through these agreement I blindly accepted. Sometimes it can be scary to be on the outside looking in, questioning that which once I believed and lived by.

Upgrade 2.

Fear, perhaps even more than anger, has been a driving force when I review how I have made important decisions. Fear of the future has plagued me.

Upgrade 3.  

I have made many mistakes, hurt people and been hurt. I have suffered but am not alone. Most everyone is going through something, somewhere in the world. Suppression, negative emotions and violence are everywhere as the dark side of the human condition.

Upgrade 4.

The unconscious nature of the human condition does not have to stay that way. It is possible to see it for what it is. Additionally, I need to recognize my own personal contribution to the darkness of that condition; it’s a choice. No one said it was going to be easy.

Upgrade 5.

I realize that human beings were designed to experience the universal quality of love. This helps me to acknowledge dark thoughts and mean spirits within and changes everything. I am safe to see and feel what has been going on inside me as I lift the suppression button. No blame. Darkness, once admitted, is pierced by light, losing power until it totally dissolves.

Upgrade 6.

It occurs to me that I am is not the darkest parts of myself, nor am I my best parts: I am none of my thoughts or my feelings. Who I am is an eternal being connected with the eternal source of life. I was not born and I cannot die. I choose surrender of my ego-mind.

Upgrade 7.

I am open to and receive resonant frequencies of love from my higher Self during moments of inspired presence. I am humbled by new light being born within.

Upgrade 8.

I admit how I get triggered out of presence and into old behaviors. As the observer I notice that I am not able to stop myself sometimes from doing so. Yet because I am willing to see my own behaviors, honestly, I can also decide to do it differently next time. No blame.

Upgrade 9.

The more I lift the suppression button to know and feel what’s actually true for me, I gain courage to deconstruct the lies and fantasies that have crippled me. I feel compassion for myself and others. The more I drink-in the blessings of a state of grace, the more I accept my human condition. The more I accept my human condition, the easier it is to make corrections towards the best version of an ego-mind, one guided by my higher Self. I dedicate my life to being a transmitter of the deepest quality of universal love.

Susan has chosen a path less traveled. Her curiosity about life, and health in particular, fueled her determination to learn everything she could about natural health for body, mind and soul. She intervenes in the noise of modern life to offer freedom from stress, anxiety, depression and chronic pain to a welcomed, felt-sense of wellbeing. Her online course, the CannaWisdom Process~wellbeing in a troubled world, provides step-by-step, careful self-care instructions for the medicinal use of cannabis. A healthy, new perspective on life without the use of pharmaceuticals is possible. Visit lifestylewellnessrx.com

by Susan Boskey

LifestyleWellnessRX.com

March 2023

I state the obvious when I say that we live in a materialistic world. It is not just greed and the insatiable thirst for more, but also how the predominance of a scientific ideological paradigm influences and limits reality to the five senses. Does that mean that if something cannot be seen, heard, touched, measured, smelled or tasted, then it’s not real?

The invisible world of Spirit defies measurement so does that mean it is in-credible?

To my primitive understanding, quantum physics, as related to consciousness, offers an entirely different view from conventional science: Absolutely everything is energy vibrating at different rates of speed while emanating from one same and single source. Energy is in constant motion, and so is also always changing, meaning that only change is permanent.

There is a price to pay by limiting oneself to the physical dimension. Qualities freely available, such as unconditional love, wellbeing and creativity are meant to be at the core of our daily existence. Yet exclusive focus on materialism has had the effect of pushing these freebies to the fringe;  the proposition that such God-given qualities can be gained via people, places and things turns out to be a counterfeit.

We are born captive to a materialistic world within which our parents, family and community were already a part. We learn, mostly in an unspoken matter, about the expectations of those in our environment. I call this an agreement field, if you will, passed down to us like the air we breathe. For myself, by the time I was 20 years old I was no longer comfortable in the world I was born into. However, neither did I have a clue as to what that meant or how to proceed beyond rebelling against what I could no longer agree to nor accept.

Agreement Fields and Their Fluidity

I would argue that once someone sees through to the fluidity of familial and cultural agreement fields they then stand at a Y in the road. The choice becomes clear: to either go forward accepting one’s original family/social frame of reference with all its beliefs, benefits, problems and solutions, or dare to risk it all by adventuring outside one’s known reality for truth and love.

Neither the choice of staying with or leaving one’s original agreement field is right or wrong. They both remain in the physical world but have their own unique set of plusses and minuses. Since I chose to risk it all and go my own way, I learned by trial and error what it meant to be on my own while living with a sense of being deeply misunderstood. I eventually did my best to sort things out and find ways to reestablish family connections. Naturally I wasn’t always successful, and took it upon myself to learn the ways I was part of the problem.

As YouTuber Lorie Ladd says, and I also believe: each of us is designed to live in the body from our highest version. And, to me, that highest version is being in alignment with my Higher Power. But until I saw the system of beliefs I was born into, and bought into, the idea of having a choice made no sense at all.

At one time or another in our lives many of us have been willing to abide by the (often hard to recognize) expectations of another or a system, for the purpose of being loved and accepted. Given that I view the human ego as the unconscious, default operating system, I would also say that its default behaviors and actions are generally assumed as normal. As such, expectations of how we (could) treat ourselves and each other never seem to get out of the basement.

To become my best version I answered the call to have God at my core. As a result and over time, my personal agreement field/lens on life keeps shifting from my little “I-me-mine” to  being absorbed into the larger, who I really am. This shift has required a clear and independent intent on my part since I have found little encouragement from society to seek it.

Humility is Key

As far as I can tell, who we each are is the essence of infinite love pulsating within the invisible, energetic space inhabited by the body; a gift that must be directly discovered by the inhabiting human. No other human has the power to give it. Oddly it seems that sometimes a crazy breakdown or a broken heart can effortlessly release one’s soul to the wonderful, and sometimes overwhelming, inner experience of unconditional, infinite love.

Humility, however realized, can open awareness to a new state of being due to something larger acting on our behalf as deep personal peace. I am safe in God’s love for me and it’s not a fantasy. I let go and trust. When I am stuck in a certain dark cobwebs of my own psyche, and then do see it, letting go happens simply as I am honest with myself.

Light streams in to fill my once, now revealed, unconscious piece of darkness. The more I recognize and own my limiting beliefs the more my Higher Power infuses my state of being. I renew my  identity with the eternal universe and the love that moves the sun and the stars.

World Peace?

It occurs to me that each and every human can choose to become the vessel of, and vehicle for, loving kindness. Infinite love is the contagion. Unlike other contagions this is the one everyone  wants, and that spreads exponentially like wildfire. Nonetheless, similar to how being caught in materialism comes at a price of spiritual connection, infinite love comes at a price of no longer running from the mind’s darkest recesses.

I have had people tell me that this – one love-filled human at a time – approach to world peace is too slow. Don’t believe it. War and winning wars has never been the solution for enduring peace and freedom. Governments have become dependent on war as their economic engine.

I am secure in knowing that the ever-evolving personal state of being is that which ultimately creates unwavering personal and world peace. Considering concentric circles, we can choose to go from the outer ring (suffering and loss) to the innermost one of receiving our true nature ( love and kindness). This precious choice is free and available to all.

Radical self-responsibility is born of realizing the transformative power in NOT resisting what is. When we stop running from the human condition of suffering, we can decipher the content of our limiting beliefs. One love-filled human at a time not only eventually reverses the darkness within to new states of being but also opens new possibilities that affect our friends, family, the collective and the planet. Love is the contagion we’ve all been waiting for.