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		<title>Conscious Light Alive As You</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by robert cinque No one knows what consciousness is because consciousness exists prior to knowledge. We can describe it with]]></description>
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<p>by robert cinque</p>



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<p>No one knows what consciousness is because consciousness exists prior to knowledge. We can describe it with words like awareness and intelligence, but what it is altogether is prior to concepts, ideas and models. This means that consciousness is free from all the constraints of the mind, which could be described as a pair of glasses through which consciousness looks. Consciousness does not originate in the brain or mind, in fact consciousness doesn&#8217;t originate at all, it exists in and of itself, the only Self there is. It is a blistering mystery, an unfathomable paradox. It is the Condition of all conditions.</p>



<p>If this is true, then it follows that the best place for our attention is on attention itself. Instead of being endlessly fascinated with the objects of attention, paying attention to attention itself opens up vast new possibilities.</p>



<p>The reason for this is because of the nature of consciousness itself: boundless openness, infinite peace and happiness, unlimited creativity, energy and inspiration.</p>



<p>Recognizing and Noticing what already exists is easier than falling off a log. It takes zero energy to be attracted to that which is beautiful. Sincere ,serious, spiritual aspirants are wasting their time looking for truth because it is the truth that is doing the looking already.  When this is understood, the search ends and spiritually illuminated cosmic sex between the whole and the part begins.</p>



<p>Authentic spiritual practice is Recognizing what exists and living in alignment with it, not imposing our ideas, religious concepts or scientific theories upon it, Far better to be open and receptive in the same way a woman is open and receptive to her lover, penetrated by his passion.</p>



<p>Life is Love and Passion. If this is not your direct experience, then it probably means that concepts, ideas, beliefs, assumptions, theories, hearsay, rumor and personal bias are clogging up the process of understanding. All that is needed to clear out the junk and gunk is to investigate the Looker, the One who is Conscious of these words and the room that you are in. That room is a Realm of Consciousness and it appears spontaneously out of nowhere. Your personal awareness of it is also a Realm, which has no boundaries or edges. The space in which your thoughts appear is the same space in which the universe appears. Understanding this relieves the individual of his baggage, his identification with and as a body/mind/self. The body/mind/self doesn&#8217;t disappear, the Identity shifts from it to Consciousness. </p>



<p>This is not a trick you perform on yourself. Its not a spiritual technique anymore than a kiss is a technique. Love needs no techniques. Love needs only to be unmolested by the imposition of our narrow, puny concepts. Life is not a concept and it causes great suffering when we reduce it to that level. Life is the Presence of Love and there will be no peace on Earth until we come to terms with this and remove the obstacles and monuments and institutions that we have erected in our vanity and arrogance. </p>



<p>Jesus Christ called this repentance, the necessary pre-requisite for spiritual and emotional illumination.  Repentance is a 180 degree turn. It is a refusal to believe lies or to impose the profane upon the Sacred. </p>



<p>Simple, sincere, open hearted devotion to the Truth of Life and Love is the only possibility for personal and world peace. The absence of such devotion is precisely why the world is in such terrible shape. Our leaders lie to us and we believe them. It&#8217;s not the liars who are the problem.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s the believers. </p>



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		<title>Confessions of an Egoholic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;by Robert Cinque &#160; From the shock of my birth and the fear of my death, I doubt and collapse]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong><strong><em>by Robert Cinque</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></p>
<p>From the shock of my birth and the fear of my death, I doubt and collapse from Love, my True Condition, and dramatize betrayal, abandonment, and worthlessness</p>
<p>I collapse from love and create suffering through self pity and blame</p>
<p>I blame others and transfer ownership of myself to them.</p>
<p>I create scapegoats and false gods in my rage.</p>
<p>I destroy Love and betray it and accuse others of betraying me</p>
<p>I create doubt and fear.&nbsp; When I fear I want security.&nbsp; When I want security, I empower false gods, tyrants, experts, strategies, and substances to save me.</p>
<p>I am a fundamentalist, a fascist, and a tyrant in an ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I enslave others in my hellish condition of dread</p>
<p>I abuse others with my self pity</p>
<p>I dramatize abandonment and rejection and self pity and fuel all my other lesser addictions with it.</p>
<p>I harm myself and others with my addiction to a false self, an idea, a victim/robot who imagines itself to be separate from Love</p>
<p>I am a cultic worshipper in my exclusive ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I imprison others by my withdrawal from Love</p>
<p>I condemn others to the dungeons of my lovelessness</p>
<p>I betray Life by my withdrawal from Love.</p>
<p>My collapse and withdrawal from Love is sickening and starves all my relations.</p>
<p>I use these conditions to justify my accusations of betrayal.</p>
<p>I use other’s failure to love me to justify my own failure.</p>
<p>I betray Love and blame others for it</p>
<p>I reject love, then dramatize betrayal.</p>
<p>I make others wrong</p>
<p>I impose my agenda</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict because I notice the obvious Beauty and Love at the Heart of Existence <em><u>and the way in which I obstruct it.</u></em></p>
<p>I am not separate from Life and Love</p>
<p>I am free to be in alignment with Life and Love or not.</p>
<p>I am responsible for the consequences of my alignment or non alignment with Life and Love.</p>
<p>I use my non alignment with Life and Love as an excuse and reason for self pity</p>
<p>I am inherently, already unified with what is always already the Case: seamless unity between consciousness and matter, God and self, whole and part.</p>
<p>I am recovering from self pity and the willingness to tolerate lovelessness in myself</p>
<p>I am a whirlpool in a River of Light</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict.</p>
<p>I am responsible For and To Love.</p>
<p>I maintain Heartfelt Intimacy with the Truth of Love, the Core of Reality.</p>
<p>I do not withdraw from my Actual Condition as a Whirlpool in this River.</p>
<p>I trust the White-Hot Core of Existence.</p>
<p>I trust Life’s Brilliance.</p>
<p>I am thrilled by the Intensity and Freedom and Love of Life</p>
<p>Life flows from Love, the Condition of all things</p>
<p>I am Always Already one with Life</p>
<p>Life is Love, I am That</p>
<p>Life is Love</p>
<p>Love is Truth</p>
<p>Truth is God</p>
<p>God is Reality</p>
<p>Reality is Light</p>
<p>Light is Love</p>
<p>I Love Life</p>
<p>I am responsible for Love</p>
<p>I am responsible to Love</p>
<p>My revulsion at my failure to love is the beginning of awakening</p>
<p>My responsibility for Love is authentic spiritual practice.</p>
<p>I am responsible for my choice of contexts, concepts, and conclusions, including their effects, outcomes and consequences.</p>
<p>I am free to love and to be what I already am, or not</p>
<p>I am responsible for everything I think, say, and do and their effect, implication, and consequence are my responsibility</p>
<p>I am responsible for the suffering I create.</p>
<p>I am intrinsically intimate with all beings.</p>
<h3><strong>I am a recovering ego addict</strong></h3>
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		<title>The Itch</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 20:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Itch By Robert Cinque The contexts that I use to interpret the data of my experience are my responsibility.]]></description>
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<p>The Itch</p>



<p>By Robert Cinque</p>



<p>The contexts that I use to interpret the data of my experience are my responsibility. &nbsp;</p>



<p>Adopting any and every context is extremely serious business because context determines outcome.</p>



<p>Humans have been conditioned to use extremely limited and, in most cases, completely useless contexts that are also very harmful, ugly and destructive.</p>



<p>People who use small contexts are easy to control. The threat of danger is all it takes. Combine this with the promise of rescue and you have the perfect bait and trap.</p>



<p>This trap is made in the human mind. Aldous Huxley pointed out that this is the best trap of all, far better than cages and police. The people control themselves through the worship of their enslavement. And, they snitch on each other for personal gain (Think George Soros telling the Nazis where the Jews kept their gold and jewels).</p>



<p>Therefore, the ONLY solution to suffering as a prisoner is to UNDERSTAND the nature of the prison. Even prior to that, the individual must cognize that there even IS a prison. This is a huge task for many people who have been institutionalized by the prison system. There are many cases of prisoners who were released, threw rocks through jewelry store windows, then sat down and waited for the police to take them back to prison because they were so conditioned.</p>



<p>It’s completely understandable. If you can’t see the prison, then freedom wouldn’t even occur to you.</p>



<p>It gets worse. &nbsp;Prisoners who accept their condition, condemn their liberators.</p>



<p>Morpheus tells Neo “You can’t wake these people up from the Matrix. You can show them the door. They have to walk through it”.</p>



<p><strong>The Red Pill</strong></p>



<p>The Red Pill is the Door, the Medicine and the Surgical Procedure for removing the Splinter, which Morpheus addresses &nbsp;in Neo. &nbsp;“You know there’s something wrong, but you just can’t put your finger on it”.</p>



<p>&nbsp;You scratch, but it still itches.</p>



<p>The Red Pill is the brave decision to jump off the cliff of everything you think you know and fall through free space.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It requires the kind of trust it takes to jump out of an airplane with a parachute. The jumper has placed his life on the integrity of his parachute and the dynamics of atmosphere and gravity .</p>



<p>The Red Pill is the courageous act of Openness to Reality and the Unknown. &nbsp;Cour is heart, in French.</p>



<p>It is a Cause, and it has an Effect.</p>



<p>When one ingests an entheogenic compound, for example, like Amanita Muscaria, the effect is that conventional boundaries between the space/time bound body/mind/self and the Cosmic Infinity of Existence disappear.</p>



<p>Instead of identifying exclusively with my personal sense of an individuated self, I suddenly find myself existing as Everything. &nbsp;It’s quite a shock and many people have a very hard time with it, which is why shamans and authentic &nbsp;guides are willing to assist their brave colleagues in their Ordeal of Understanding.</p>



<p>Morpheus uses the effect of the Red Pill and acupuncture and tender loving care to help Neo make the journey to the Real World and get him safely back again to the underground bunkers where the Resistance to the Matrix is carried out.</p>



<p>Neo’s choice to take the Red Pill is what initiated the Process.</p>



<p>He was not shopping at the Metaphysical Market for shiny trinkets and merry-go-rounds.</p>



<p>He jumped off the cliff because he itched so badly, he couldn’t stand it. He knew something was not right and he absolutely HAD to find out what.</p>



<p>People who are fascinated by the beads and necklaces the prison guards sell them are blind to their Situation.</p>



<p>When we dream at night, we don’t know we’re dreaming. The dreamer is experiencing his dream exactly as we experience the waking state. When we get up in the morning, we remember the experience as a dream, one that is viewed from another reality entirely, &nbsp;the waking state.</p>



<p>We don’t have a problem making a distinction between the two states because we’re firmly planted in the one that includes them both.</p>



<p>One does not have to eat psychedelic plants, or take a Red Pill to Choose to become an Adult.</p>



<p>One only has to be unable to tolerate the Itch.</p>



<p><strong>The Splinter</strong></p>



<p>Who or what planted the Splinter in Neo’s mind?</p>



<p>The Splinter is caused by contexts that are too narrow, or lies that are too big. The chick outgrows the egg. The child becomes the adult.</p>



<p>The sub-human “people” &nbsp;who herd humanity into economic, pharmaceutical, political, religious, scientific, national, sexual, racial and cultural prisons understand the value of tiny contexts.</p>



<p>That’s why it is true that the Oppressor’s greatest weapon is the mind of the oppressed.</p>



<p><strong>The Adult</strong></p>



<p>The Adult state and the Waking state are identical.</p>



<p>Children become adults through the destruction of their childish contexts. When they CHOOSE to abandon their childhood. Adulthood doesn’t happen automatically at puberty or physical maturity.</p>



<p>Adulthood is a Choice.&nbsp; One becomes an adult only by walking through the Door and Falling through the Floor into Appropriate Context. Once over the threshold, an extraordinary Realm appears, never before imagined.</p>



<p>In this Realm the Adult Recognizes that s/he is, as a personal body/mind/self, &nbsp;a literal fractal of Existence.</p>



<p>S/he is not disturbed or distracted by last night’s Dream of Childhood.</p>



<p>One is awake within an infinitely larger Context. &nbsp;It is easy to observe all the smaller contexts from this “perspective”. &nbsp;It’s not really a perspective at all; it is the Living Radiant Condition that includes all perspectives. &nbsp;It’s not an “It” either. &nbsp;Awareness, consciousness, the waking state is not an object, an “it”. We don’t know what “it” is.</p>



<p>We are simply aware of the Radiant Glory of Existence. &nbsp;That’s our Stake in the Ground, the Sanctuary of our Precious Personal Life and Cosmic Identity.</p>



<p>Identifying <strong><em>as</em></strong> awareness is the beginning of the possibility of Adulthood. &nbsp;From that Stake in the Ground comes an appreciation for freedom, something we didn’t know we didn’t have.</p>



<p>And for the sacred responsibility to protect that freedom.</p>



<p>Adults recognize the value of freedom and are willing to defend it.</p>



<p>Only those who can plainly see the prison bars and which side we are on, can actually comprehend the Situation. Until then, we are only blind men describing an elephant as being like a tree, or a rope.</p>



<p>Morpheus could not tell Neo about the Matrix because it’s impossible. One has to experience it directly and can only do so as an act of will, of free Choice.</p>



<p>At that Point, a crack in the Egg of the Child allows torrents of Light to Illuminate the core strands of &nbsp;DNA and the Caterpillar Child becomes the Butterfly Adult.</p>



<p>There are markers along the way and trees that bear fruit.&nbsp; That’s because Adults create Value and protect Life, from their heart, from Caring.</p>



<p>The Adult manages Heart, Mind and Body.</p>



<p>With Care.</p>



<p>Without Caring about what is True, what is Valuable and Taking Action for it, no Adulthood is possible.When one becomes an Adult and can competently manage Freedom and Responsibility, the Infinite Power of Cosmic Existence becomes fully available to the extent of the person’s ability to Conduct it.</p>



<p>Adulthood is the Urgent Responsibility and Obligation to Care enough to be fully what we are, not just a caterpillar.</p>



<p>It requires exhaustive self- ownership, &nbsp;fierce devotion to what is real and a radical willingness to sacrifice everything that is not true in order to &nbsp;even to begin to meet that Obligation.</p>



<p>It’s easy for the Kuntrollerz to stunt our growth, because we prefer the safety of our childhood over Jumping off a Cliff.</p>



<p>It may be painful, but not nearly as much as not Jumping.</p>



<p>Do we stay in the Womb of Childhood, or do we take responsibility for our Adulthood?</p>



<p>Neo took the Red Pill and initiated a Process that he could not have imagined. The stakes became so high, he had no choice but to rise to the occasion and become the Awakened One, the True Adult, by realizing his always existing, already inherent continuity between Part and Whole.</p>



<p>The Child is not lost in the Adult, it remains as a fond memory, a Cocoon that birthed a Butterfly through a willingness to Scratch the Itch, to Open Up, to Trust Life, and to Jump off a Cliff because you care about what&#8217;s True.</p>
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		<title>Emotional Collapse, Spiritual Childishness, and the Ordeal of Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Emotional Collapse, Spiritual Childishness, and the Ordeal of Growth by Robert Cinque The problem is that, as individuals we collapse]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Emotional Collapse, Spiritual Childishness, and the Ordeal of Growth</p>
<p>by Robert Cinque</p>
<p>The problem is that, as individuals we collapse in the face of Life. We withdraw and we condemn.</p>
<p>1 Multiply that activity by 7.6 billion people and</p>
<p>2 add it to a predatory ruling elite who enable, support, and foment our emotional contraction who then</p>
<p>3 use it as a weapon against us.</p>
<p>The situation in our world is being created by beliefs about ourselves. False belief, false world. Garbage In, Garbage Out.</p>
<p>Reality is not having a problem, It always moves toward balance and integrity. The problem is the projection of our self idea onto Reality. Beautiful, Innocent, Radiant Reality, the Source and very essence of Life, Love, and Light.</p>
<p>We molest it. We rape It. We blame It. We imagine ourselves to be children and say “God is in charge”. If God is in charge, He should be fired and prosecuted and put in prison. The idea that God is in control of everything is completely false. Yet, we worship these childish ideas, our idols, our false gods.</p>
<p>Why settle for an imitation when you can have the Real Thing? Words and ideas and beliefs are not Reality, they only try to describe it. Reality is Alive. Conscious Living Intelligent Life. That’s Reality. Look for yourself, in any direction for proof.</p>
<p>My point is this: Naïve, gullible children can be easily manipulated by their beliefs and desires. One has only to look briefly at the world to see how true this is. Beliefs are a carrot on a stick and the believer is the donkey. It’s not the belief that’s at fault. Beliefs are completely legitimate and understandable. Everyone has beliefs. The problem is that we confuse them with Reality. A belief is supposed to get you somewhere on the path of Understanding, not put you in a straightjacket or a prison cell.</p>
<p>A belief is a conceptual framework for comprehending something, a model, a way of visualizing and imagining. It’s playful, back and forth, fluid, not actual, only imitative. Beliefs mimic Reality, the key word being<strong><em> mimic.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em> </em></strong>A mimic is like a knife or a gun. It can be used to kill or to protect, depending on the intention. How and why I use a knife or a gun determines if I have committed a crime or not. If I’m cutting my tomatoes and slip and stab someone to death, it’s not a crime because I didn’t intend to do it. It’s tragic, but it’s not a crime. It has consequences, I’ll go to jail for manslaughter, but the point is, a crime is committed when I intentionally violate someone or something. A person who slips on the floor and hurts or kills someone can be forgiven for being foolish or careless or whatever. But a person who intends to kill someone?</p>
<p>This is where the mind kontrol battle is waged: in the belief systems, the software that drives the hardware.</p>
<p>As a young boy, I was fascinated by the stories in the Bible and wondered if they were true. How could I know? What measurement could I take that would conclusively prove that they were true?</p>
<p>I found out that the more I looked, the more questions arose. Every why created thousands of more why?s. Curiosity compelled me down many roads. I decided why was not the right question because who knows why? Why Not?</p>
<p>I realized that every belief I made came <strong><em>after</em></strong> the event of Existence. Every belief, no matter how grandiose and beautiful, was only a subset of the Whole, a mental construct, a small part of the entire Realm of Existence, yes, but part of It nonetheless, indeed, <strong><em>brought about by It</em></strong>. I realized that my beliefs were a part of the Process of Reality and that they were a lot like clouds and ideas that float through the sky of my awareness.c</p>
<p>I realized that I could believe but that I couldn’t believe my beliefs! My own beliefs! I could create beliefs, yes, but how could I take them seriously, how could I believe them when I was the one creating them!</p>
<p>This is called Falling through the Floor, and Rotting to the Core. Everything suddenly evaporates and one feels as if he is falling through Space, which he indeed, is.</p>
<p>That Smiling Cheshire Cat Grinning at you in that freefall, is your Own Nature, the One Who is Aware of the belief, the believer, the world he believes in, and everything else.</p>
<p>You realize that you are the awareness of the belief, and that you created the belief from that awareness. You see that Existence is Theatre, Language, the Communication of Meaning through Belief.</p>
<p>The trap for human beings is that we believe, then stick ourselves, and everyone else, in it. Instead, we should use our imagination and belief systems as tools of exploration, not just hammers and bulldozers and bombs.</p>
<p>The bombs killing people all over the world right now were made from beliefs that were taken far too seriously, used as weapons, prisons, psychological warfare, and the goons of mass surveillance whose world is built on doubt, suspicion, and mistrust.</p>
<p>Getting humanity to doubt Life and Love was and is the greatest Coux of the human mind.</p>
<p>It is the great success of the Gloomanatti to have convinced the rest of us how terrible and dangerous and worthless Life is. This is the narrative they preach: You’re fucked, We can save you. Trust us. It’s for your own good.</p>
<p>Personally, I stand with Jesus who told the purveyors of this garbage that they were liars and parasites who fed on the blood of humanity.</p>
<p>The human race is caught in the trap of belief. Instead of really getting to the bottom of things, we choose to believe what the experts tell us. Instead of really relying on our own powers of discrimination, we pass the job on to others. Others who may or may not have your best interests at heart.</p>
<p>My mother died of a stroke that I think was caused by her 20 year long use of the artificial sweetener, Equal. All her life she believed authorities, the church, the state, the doctors, the priests. When she found out that the doctors were wrong about Equal, she roared back to life. Her submissive and accommodating personality disappeared and she powered up in a righteous indignation at liars and people like herself who believed them.</p>
<p>She looked at all the ways throughout her life where she had given away her power, out of a sincere humility that nonetheless, was extremely costly to her personally. I watched her heart break through the pavement like a blade of grass, full of compassion and sympathy for her own and everyone’s suffering.</p>
<p>Our beliefs are like pavement and concrete. This is because we have allowed them to become prisons instead of telescopes. Beliefs are tools of exploration, not deities in a Pantheon. The reason the world is in such a terrible mess is because we don’t manage our beliefs. We use them as weapons of domination. And, worse, we allow our governments to do the same. The entire world is armed to the teeth, and all against a toothless monster.</p>
<p>Nothing will change on planet Earth unless we personally and collectively become responsible for our emotional collapse, childish beliefs, and the ordeal of growth into spiritual adulthood.</p>
<p>At the moment, the human race is autistic, brain damaged through false beliefs, DNA manipulation through genetically engineered food and vaccines, nano AI, and constant war and impoverishment, mainly through the criminal syndicate banking cartel, the Rothschild/London/Israel/US death machine.</p>
<p>We tolerate this shit because we believe that it’s God’s will and He’s in charge. He brought the Hebrews out of Egypt and He is using them to save humanity. Anyone who opposes Israel opposes God. And Armageddon has to happen so that the Messiah can return. President Trump believes this, Ivanka and Jared are members of the Lubavich Cult in Israel. This is how dangerous false beliefs can be.</p>
<p>There is no test, no experiment I can perform to determine if God is saving humanity through the Jews and blood sacrifice and Armageddon. It is entirely conceptual. Conceptual is not actual. Actual is Reality. Reality is not an idea, a belief. The only authentic religion in the world is one in which Reality is central, not my bonehead ideas about it.</p>
<p>Reality radiates. It breathes in and out. It pulsates. It beats. It ebbs and flows. It circulates.</p>
<p>Its Conscious, Alive. It feels. It thinks. It invents. It has no need for beliefs because it already IS truth. That’s what we are, not ideas, not selves, not things, not prisoners, not believers.</p>
<p>Understanding that you are the awareness of the belief changes everything and enables love and creativity far beyond the clutches of this or that belief.</p>
<h3>You are the creator, the author of all your beliefs.</h3>
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		<title>Openness, not Belief, is the Foundation of True Spiritual Practice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2017 18:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beliefs come and go, the Truth of Reality remains. Openness accesses it. The Truth is so huge, so vast, no one &#8220;knows&#8221; what it &#8220;is.&#8221; No one has a monopoly on it, although many try. It was here before we got here, it will remain when we&#8217;re gone. It&#8217;s beyond any model of it. It makes mincemeat out of models on a regular basis. No one &#8220;knows&#8221; the Truth because it Exists both beyond and before human cognition and perspective.</p>
<p>In order to be the Truth, it must be Real, the <em><strong>most real.</strong></em> It produces evidence, artifacts of its Presence. It must be true under all conditions, in all space and time, forever.</p>
<p>It must be completely obvious to every single entity, it must be universally verifiable no matter what.</p>
<p>What terminology of language is there to describe this?</p>
<p>Existence</p>
<p>Aliveness, Awareness</p>
<p>Life Exists. Right? Yes?</p>
<p>Will all you atheists out there admit that Life and Consciousness exist?</p>
<p>Will you be intentionally Open to them no matter what your beliefs and opinions are?</p>
<p>If so, then Hearfelt Emotional Openness to Life and Consciousness, highly recommended by all the Spirit Realizers of our human family, Adi Da, Jesus, Rumi, will show itself as, literally, <em><strong>the most practical, realistic and sensible Way to Live.</strong></em></p>
<p>Openness, curiosity, enjoyment, participation in That which both Births and Deaths you makes extremely good sense. Screw your beliefs, and mine. The Territory is much better. The menu is not the Meal.</p>
<p>The point I am making is this: You are always either open or closed. You operate that switch. When closed, That Which is Alive As All Things, the Radiant Current of Existence/Aliveness is not allowed to flow, so it backs up and floods your world until you uncork it again. These floods are known as calamities, shortfalls, bad luck, stupid people, and fate. They fertilize the poor me/fuck you syndrome to such an extent that now we have a world run by malignant psychotics and androids, institutional machines of the victim narrative, who concoct events like 911 to make sure we are all believing in the Cult of this world.</p>
<p>Judaism, Zionism, the War on Terror and the Christian Salvationist theology which capitulated to them, put blood sacrifice on steroids. The message?</p>
<p>You&#8217;re fucked. We&#8217;ve got the cure.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re separate from God (Love, Life) but we have the answer.</p>
<p>The Cult, driven by our personal, emotional recoil from Existence and the loveless robot it becomes, is operated by the bigger robots of false narratives, the Dogmas of Original Sin and Salvation through blood sacrifice of the Lamb of God.</p>
<p>When open, the Aliveness enters the face and collects like a lake in your belly. Your open, grateful, loving heart then heats the water and sends it all over your body, and cooks the brain to a perfect tenderness.</p>
<p>Jesus taught moment-to-moment love/communion with That Which Is Alive As All Things.</p>
<p>Emotional Intimacy with Life</p>
<p>The Kingdom of Heaven</p>
<p>Love as the Condition of Existence.</p>
<p>Do you think this is a theory or a belief? It is not. Look outside your window, or in any direction at any time, for proof.</p>
<p>When Jesuit&nbsp;missionaries in 1642 went to Japan to convert the heathen, they were slaughtered and annihilated by the Emperor and his Inquisition. Their version of Christianity could not take root in medieval Japan because the people were so deeply rooted in Nature. They said to the Jesuits: &#8220;Your son rose on the third day. Our sun comes up every day.&#8221; They were coming from a unitive, non-separate assumption about themselves. They could not fathom separation from God because our parents ate an apple and therefore needed salvation. Where&#8217;s the love in that? What kind of god would kick his children out of the house anyway? The Gnostics said that God did no such thing, that God kicked Adam and Eve out of their <em><strong>childhood.</strong></em> God made an impossible demand, to suppress curiosity, because God knew that they would be forced to break through the domination of an outside, authoritarian command in order to satisfy their curiosity. This is a good thing, not to be punished by eviction. Adults make their own choices and rules, they don&#8217;t accept arbitrary commands from others. That&#8217;s what makes them adults, they think for themselves and use the criteria that they deem important to make their decisions. They obey laws that are just and fair. &nbsp;This is what all loving parents want for their children. That&#8217;s why mother birds kick their babies out of the nest, who then have to learn to fly before they hit the ground. God kicked his babies out of the nest for our sake, for our growth and development and wellbeing. It was not punishment, not condemnation, not withdrawal.</p>
<p>People who believe this tall tale end up feeling like shit about themselves, being so sinful and all, and secretly hate God because He&#8217;s such an asshole and a party pooper. &nbsp;The Gnostics, like the Japanese, could not believe that Christians actually believed in such a God. It took a few more centuries of brainwashing before Japan finally lost its mind and started tolerating Christianity.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hard on Christianity because it inverts the truth, the obvious, glaring, spectacular truth that life is love <em>already,</em> eternal life <em>already</em>, happiness, freedom, enjoyment <em>already,</em> &nbsp;not when I&#8217;m saved, not when I go to heaven, not when I get enlightened,&nbsp;<em><strong>now. &nbsp;</strong></em></p>
<p>The reason we don&#8217;t notice this is because we have our hands so tight around our throat and our heads so far up our ass, that we can&#8217;t see anything but pain, madness, and despair.</p>
<p>Repentance, according to Jesus, is the removal of one&#8217;s hands and the extraction of one&#8217;s head.</p>
<p>Then, we will see clearly, as he did. Then, we will be practicing the religion OF Jesus, not making an idolatrous Cult ABOUT Jesus.</p>
<p>Jesus captivated the imagination and fed the spiritual hunger of the people of the Holy Land 2000 years ago by proclaiming the Gospel of Always Existing Prior Unity with God, not some lame tale about scapegoats and blood sacrifice to an angry god.</p>
<p>That came later, in the 3rd century at the Council of Nicea, which bundled up those schools and sects of the early Christians which promoted the Judaic and Roman narrative. They called it the New Testament. &nbsp;Actually, it was the Old Testament remanufactured, with Jesus starring as the sacrificial Lamb in God&#8217;s historical plan of redemption of a fallen human race.</p>
<p>Maybe so, maybe not.</p>
<p>Maybe we show up here as an expression and emanation of Life Itself, Love Itself, Truth Itself. Maybe Truth becomes unrecognizeable because we&#8217;re so busy cramming it into our nasty little ideas and infantile fantasies, while condemning others who do the same.</p>
<p>Maybe It&#8217;s bigger than the both of us and we ought to Sit Down and Shut the Fuck Up as real spiritual disciples so that we can Open our Mind, Heart and Face to the glorious Message of Jesus who was willing to be tortured and murdered for the sake of the Living Truth.</p>
<p>His Sacrifice was far greater than merely being some cheesey meat offering to a tinhorn god. His Sacrifice demonstrated how valuable and life-giving the Truth is, even under the most grueling of conditions. His freedom to love was uninterrupted by the criminals and monsters who crucified him. His love was undiminished, not withheld, even from the ones who drove the spikes.</p>
<p>His compassion for human suffering was lavishly displayed in his refusal to capitulate to the lie of separation.</p>
<p>He was Open to the Love That Flows Through All Things. He conducted the Infinite Current at such an intense level that he became luminescent, radiant, transcendant.</p>
<p>The Resurrection of Jesus in Jerusalem, the transcendence and outshining of human suffering through intimacy with the Infinite Current of Life and Love, is the possibility and destiny of every human being.</p>
<p>Jesus overcame the lie of this world and he invites and expects us to do the same.</p>
<p>Overcome the lie of separation from Love and Life, stand with the Risen Christ, and fulfill the Possibilty and Promise of Easter:</p>
<p>Light and Love are our Actual Identity.</p>
<p><strong>Now.</strong></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What does Jesus, Zionism, and 911 have to do with you? In this essay, I intend to show the connection]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does Jesus, Zionism, and 911 have to do with you? In this essay, I intend to show the connection and how it has directly led to the (engineered) crisis in the Middle East and now, the world.</p>
<p>One of the favorite tricks that Zionists and other tyrannical systems use is to commit the crime and then blame the enemy for it. The mass public cannot imagine such treachery, so it goes unnoticed. Call it Good Cop/Bad Cop trauma based conditioning. The bad cop creates the fear and stress, the good cop rushes in to *rescue&#8221; the victim and program him with lies they want him to believe. I mention this technique because it is so effective and so widespread, it has literally taken over the planet, in religion, politics, science, and the economy.</p>
<p>I will explain how to prevent this, but first, I want to describe the trick itself.</p>
<p>The power of your attention is, by far, the greatest power you possess. This is because attention creates energy. Every single thought, word, and deed that you enact requires the energy of attention. This is why the first rule of advertising is to get the customer&#8217;s attention. Women wear lipstick for the same reason. Beauty, color, fragrance are attractive. Flowers, birds, insects, humans all use attractors to gain attention and energy.</p>
<p>The magician is successful to the extent that he can direct the attention of his audience.</p>
<p>The same is true for dictators.</p>
<p>On 911, for example, the very first act of the government, through its media mouthpiece, was to announce who did it and why. Before the dust had even settled,  all 3 major networks broadcasted the news that this was the work of Islamic terrorists. The problem with this hasty asserion is that the &#8220;terrorists&#8221; had neither the capacity nor the ability to do any such thing.</p>
<p>110 story skyscrapers, 1.2 MILLION TONS of steel and concrete, don&#8217;t turn to dust and hit the ground in 10 seconds, at free fall speed, from airplane impacts and office fires. At least, not in this universe, where the laws of physics still apply.  And, knuckeheads with boxcutters don&#8217;t overtake a 60 billion dollar security apparatus, the most sophisticated defense systems on earth and hijack planes without lots and lots of help from the dictator and his minions. Osama Bin Laden is the new Lee Harvey Oswald;  neither of them had anything whatsoever to do with the crime they were so famously blamed for.</p>
<p>Good Cop/Bad Cop shocks the victim, then rescues him. That&#8217;s why 9/11 was chosen as the date to destroy the Towers. We call 911 in an emergency.</p>
<p>911 was the second greatest psy-op in history, designed to inflame the public&#8217;s righteous indignation and ride it all the way to world conquest by way of the police state. Create the Problem/ Offer the Solution. Traumatize/Rescue.</p>
<p>The first and greatest psy-op in human history is Original Sin and the preposterous idea that humanity has been cast out of the Garden of Eden.</p>
<p>To imagine that I am separate from God, cast out of the Garden of Paradise, creates terror. This is the Shock. The Rescue is the Scapegoat, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. The problem with this narrative is the same one with the government&#8217;s official story about patsies with korans who take down skyscrapers: it&#8217;s IMPOSSIBLE.  Nothing, and I do mean <em><strong>nothing,</strong></em> is<em><strong> </strong></em>separate from its Originator. How could it be? Is your hand separate from your arm? Is your head separate from your body? No, they are distinct, unique parts of a whole.</p>
<p>Just like you and God.</p>
<p>Jesus hated blood sacrifice and the ridiculous idea of vicarious sacrifice and spoke publicly against it. He called the Doctors of the Law whores and parasites. liars, traitors, and tyrants. He loudly proclaimed the always existing, Prior Unity with God. This was the Original Gospel, the Kingdom of Love, the Treasure the man finds &#8220;buried in his field&#8221;.</p>
<p>For this, he was tortured, murdered, and silenced. He was also <em><strong>programmed to be the poster boy for blood sacrifice.</strong></em></p>
<p>This is how Jesus and 911 are related; they are both victims of a scripted narrative that uses Shock and Rescue dynamics.</p>
<p>There is a way to prevent this:  stop giving yourself away,  stop betraying who you are and where you come from,  stop believing lies.</p>
<p>As long as you and I are ready, willing, and able to ingest lies, to give unimpeded access to liars, and to desecrate the obvious, glorious, glaring, radiant divine beauty from one end of the universe to the other, human sufering on earth will continue and will get worse and worse.</p>
<p>Where you place your attention matters. All the great spiritual realizers of mankind strongly recommended that we focus our attention on the Root of attention itself because that is the Source of Life. All living organisms have an attention span. We are aware, we are Alive. We appear in the Great Ocean of Being. We are not orphans born in sin. We are not refugees marooned on an island of flesh. We are emanations of a Great Heart that pumps its Blood through our veins and Shines Its Light through our eyes.</p>
<p>The greatest sin, the very one Jesus condemned, is the refusal to allow God to be what God is, to refuse to see the inherent, dynamic unity between Matter and Spirit, Self and God, Part and Whole. He insisted that we repent from the false self which imagines itself to be separate from its Source, and fearlessly participate fully in the great cycle of birth and death in God.</p>
<p>Overcoming the spiritual and cultural conditioning we all inherited is the most urgent and important task of every individual and nation because it breaks the spell of the bonehead ideas plastered all over the sacredness of reality.</p>
<p>Enlightenment is the destruction of these false, impossible ideas. It allows the Free Circulation of the Living Curent, unobstructed by clever psy-ops designed to limit and ensnare the unsuspecting individual. Life sends us false ideas to see if we will take the bait.</p>
<p>Are you really willing to settle for less than who you are? Although we are all free to do so, there is absolutely no reason for it. Claim what is yours. be what you are.  Throw away the psy-ops of religious psychosis, scientific materialism, and political/economic enslavement.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a man thinketh, so is he.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>The Spontaneous Outshining of Egoity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From shock and fear, I dramatize betrayal, abandonment, and worthlessness I collapse from love and create suffering with self pity]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From shock and fear, I dramatize betrayal, abandonment, and worthlessness</p>
<p>I collapse from love and create suffering with self pity and blame</p>
<p>I blame others and transfer ownership of myself to them.</p>
<p>I create scapegoats and false gods in my rage.</p>
<p>I destroy Love and betray it and accuse others of betraying me</p>
<p>I create doubt and fear. When I fear I want security. When I want security, I empower false gods, tyrants, experts, strategies, and substances to save me.</p>
<p>I am a fundamentalist, a fascist, and a tyrant in an ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I enslave others in my hellish condition of dread</p>
<p>I abuse others with my self pity</p>
<p>I dramatize self pity and fuel all other addictions with it.</p>
<p>I harm others with my addiction to a false self that imagines itself to be separate from Love</p>
<p>I am a cultic worshipper in my exclusive ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I imprison others by my withdrawal from Love</p>
<p>I condemn others to the dungeons of my lovelessness</p>
<p>I betray Life by my withdrawal from Love.</p>
<p>My collapse and withdrawal from Love starves all my relations.</p>
<p>I use these conditions to justify my accusations of betrayal.</p>
<p>I use other’s failure to Love to justify my own failure.</p>
<p>I betray Love and blame others for it</p>
<p>I reject love, then dramatize betrayal.</p>
<p>I make others wrong</p>
<p>I impose my agenda</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict.<br />
I notice the Obvious Beauty and Love at the Heart of Existence and the way in which I obstruct it.</p>
<p>I am not separate from Life and Love</p>
<p>I am free to be in alignment with Life and Love or not.</p>
<p>I am responsible for the consequences of my alignment or non alignment with Life and Love.</p>
<p>I use my non alignment with Life and Love as an excuse and reason for self pity</p>
<p>I am inherently, already one with what is always already the Case: seamless unity between consciousness and matter, God and self, whole and part..</p>
<p>I am recovering from self pity and the willingness to tolerate lovelessness in myself</p>
<p>I am a whirlpool in the River</p>
<h5>I am a recovering ego addict.</h5>
<p>I am responsible For and To Love, I maintain Heartfelt Intimacy with the Truth of Love, the Core of Reality. I do not withdraw from my Actual Condition as a Whirlpool in this River. I trust the White-Hot Core of Existence. I remain vulnerable, I trust Life’s Brilliance. I feel the Intensity and Freedom and Love of Life</p>
<p>Life flows from Love, the Condition of all things</p>
<p>I am Always Already one with Life</p>
<p>Life is Love, I am That</p>
<p>Love is God</p>
<p>God is Reality</p>
<p>Reality is Truth</p>
<p>Only God Exists</p>
<p>I am in Love with Life</p>
<p>I am responsible for Love</p>
<p>I am responsible to Love</p>
<p>My revulsion at my failure to love is the beginning of awakening</p>
<p>My responsibility for Love is authentic spiritual practice.</p>
<p>I am responsible for my choice of contexts, concepts, and conclusions, including their effects, outcomes and consequences.</p>
<p>I am free to love and to be what I already am</p>
<p>I am responsible for everything I think, say, and do and their effect, implication, and consequence are my responsibility</p>
<p>I am responsible for the suffering I create.</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict.</p>
<p>I am intrinsically Intimate with all beings. My family of Humankind upholds the truth of our deepest natures and our Inherent Coherence with all of Life. We Create Temples of the Heart and Establish Love and Freedom at the Center of Human Culture.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who am I to criticize Life?&#160; By what standard could I possible measure or evaluate the universe, that tiny speck]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who am I to criticize Life?&nbsp; By what standard could I possible measure or evaluate the universe, that tiny speck of infinite existence?</p>
<p>By what criteria do I criticize Life?&nbsp; This seems like a ridiculous question, given that I am always critical and act as if I know best, of course I would criticize Life, it’s what got me into this messy world of pain and suffering in the first place, right?&nbsp; I have a right to be critical, don’t I?</p>
<p>Yes, but its far better to open up and face a much more important question:&nbsp; What is my relationship to Life?&nbsp; How do I feel about being here?&nbsp; Do I trust it, or am I suspicious, bitter, and withdrawn?</p>
<p>In my casual ego mind, I am emotionally withdrawn, absent, shut down, bewildered, and confused.&nbsp; I endlessly complain about my plight in this world and am ungrateful.&nbsp; The ugly truth is that I routinely default on myself and others and on Life itself.&nbsp; Life doesn’t betray me, I betray it.&nbsp; I entertain thoughts dripping in self pity and abandonment, I rape Life with these thoughts, then blame the bitch.&nbsp; Life gets raped <em>and </em>blamed for it.&nbsp; Now, I am choking to death, but by my own hand.&nbsp; This is good news because if it’s my hand, then&nbsp; I can remove it myself, don’t need anything or anyone else to do it for me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That is the first Office of Authentic Spiritual Practice.</p>
<p>The second Office is when I sit down and shut the fuck up in the Face of the Cosmic Enormity of Life, and recognize Its’ Innocent, Fierce, Infinite, egoless Nature, my truest self.&nbsp; I stop disassociating emotionally into my fantasies of separateness from this Great Lover and vomit out all the repression, the avoidance, the trauma of imagined disease and get into Bed.</p>
<p>The Brilliant, Unbroken, seamless Presence of Life circulating through all creation, the Current that oscillates between the cycles of birth and death, through infinite stretches of fathomless space, that one, that Very One, is the Only Existing Reality and I am completely, always, already inherently one with It, just like a whirpool in a River. It could not possibly be any other way.&nbsp; There is only One Life living all things and I’m it.&nbsp; You, too.&nbsp; When we meet on that level, big things happen, because ego, the dramatization of betrayal and abandonment has been made obsolete by Noticing and Being Intimate with the Great Wonder.</p>
<p>When the whirlpool sees the River and its place in it, it swoons and falls intoxicated into bed like a lover, ready, willing, able, open, fully engaged, deeply pleasurized, intensely passionate.</p>
<p>&nbsp;He and She become Me and back again. What?</p>
<p>To contemplate That for 1/1000 of a second is enough to completely blow your mind forever.&nbsp; You and toast suddenly have a lot in common.&nbsp; You are overwhelmed with brilliant Light.&nbsp; Your ideas about yourself start to shimmer and evaporate and you can’t remember who you used to be.&nbsp; Or why.&nbsp; Your humor and freedom are restored, you realize that you are not just breathing, you are being breathed by a great Power, big difference. You offend others with truly funny jokes about really painful subjects.&nbsp; You realize that you don’t know jack shit after all and its all very amusing, what’s for lunch?</p>
<p>Now, you are aware of the Elephant on your foot.&nbsp; It hurts.&nbsp; God becomes man, even you and me. The infinite Life consents to be you and me and everything else, fully surrendered to us all, and I miss it.&nbsp; The Word becomes flesh.&nbsp; The infinity of Life fractalizes into mortal human beings who are all going to die.&nbsp; Everything you ever loved is going to disappear.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Still, the Current of Life and Matter are lovers.&nbsp; Consciousness adores Matter.&nbsp; Matter swoons in the Presence of Life, is organized into complex forms which struggle to keep up with the Rampant Imagination of Free Intelligence, the Ocean in which we swim.</p>
<p>Its impossible to be infinite and mortal at the same time, but here you are anyway.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Its impossible for anything to exist, too.&nbsp; Existence either had to either always be here or it had to come into existence from nowhere, both complete impossibilities.&nbsp; But here we are anyway.</p>
<p>Knee buckling, jaw dropping, staggering Awe constantly stares us in the face, in fact, it<em> is</em> our face. It’s so Obvious, we miss it, and create hell on earth.&nbsp; Now, since hell is well established and we are no longer in charge of ourselves, we need saviours and tyrants to rescue us.&nbsp; We empower them by our default on ourselves.&nbsp; We volunteer for suffering by worshipping our maps, condemning other’s maps, and ignoring the Territory</p>
<p>Authentic spiritual practice begins with this:&nbsp; Recognizing my emotional recoil from the Incandescent Event of Existence and overcoming it by being responsible for it.&nbsp; Spiritual practice has exactly nothing to do with beliefs, it has everything to do with the moral obligation to face the truth, to face Reality, to tell the truth about my lies, to own my own refusal to be that which I so obviously am:&nbsp; the full bodied, red blooded incarnation of Infinite Life.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is an ordeal, coming to terms with the simultaneity of my infinite and mortal nature.&nbsp; It’s an impossible, contradictory situation, but here I am anyway.&nbsp; When I make friends with it and stop making it into a problem, my eyesight clears up, the Obvious is now Noticed, this is simply the Way God Is.&nbsp; Coming to terms means staring into the Paradox long enough for the light and heat to burn through the rational and metaphysical assumptions I constantly plaster onto Life, ideas like “consciousness comes from random neurons firing in the brain” (scientific materialism) and “the stain of Original Sin separates Man from God”.&nbsp; These completely unfounded and theoretical assumptions&nbsp; reduce life to the level of a concentration camp.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We are not isolated individuals, we share a dynamic unity with literally everything.&nbsp; Scientism, the religion of science, as well as religious fundamentalism are maps masquerading as Territory.&nbsp; It doesn’t matter if the whole world worships at their feet, all maps are only the menu, not the Meal..&nbsp;</p>
<p>My ideas about life are not equivalents to Life Itself. &nbsp;No map ever could be equal to the territory it describes.&nbsp; In addition, the maps I make are almost entirely based on the finite perspective of the whirlpool, and not the River Itself.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The “perspective” of the River is intuitively felt in the whirlpool’s center as the Radiant Core of Existence, the Infinitely Intense Current of the Heart, to which every sub-atomic particle, every galactic infinity, is intimately connected.&nbsp; This is not figuratively true, but literally.&nbsp; There are no separate islands in all the universes, not one.</p>
<p>When human culture is based on the Recognition and Appreciation and Exploration of this Wonder, this Impossible Treasure, when we as individuals and nations overcome our recoil, our lack of confidence in Life, in Actual God, we will return to the disposition of the Radiant Core and humanity will become&nbsp; the birthplace of Real Life,&nbsp; not materialistic, industrialized consumerism and disaster capitalism, not fundamentalism and fascism.&nbsp; Tyrants will be laughed off the planet, having no exploitable hosts to dominate. Priests will go broke for lack of work.&nbsp; The searing Obviousness of Utter Unity with all Life will overwhelm the petty differences within the human family and profound gratitude for and empathy with all others will be the dominant social meme planet wide.&nbsp; This will come about when Reality is met on it’s own terms and is no longer held hostage in the dungeons of ego mind.&nbsp;&nbsp; That will be accomplished when we have had quite enough of self strangulation, capitulation to lies, collusion with sabateurs, empowerment of tyrants, belief in false gods and completely wake up to the liberating Facts of Life:&nbsp; we share the nature of That which originated us, which isFree, Self Existing, and Radiant, Intelligent Light. We are not orphans born in sin.&nbsp; We are inherently blissful incarnations of love and truth (Reality) radiant fractals of eternal Light, now as always. Go figure.</p>
<p>This cause for great celebration.&nbsp; The recognition of this Fact by all of humanity will unleash the most powerful forces ever seen on planet Earth.&nbsp; This is the only revolution that works, identifying what is fundamentally True and living in alignment with It.&nbsp; I’m not talking about my version of the truth, or yours, but Truth Itself, the Living Reality of Conscious Light.&nbsp; When I am clear about That and my actual relationship with It, everything else falls into place.</p>
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