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June 2006

Dream or Reality?

What’s the difference between dreams that give us fear, orgasmic passion, or joyful delight and reality when we are awake? Maybe the answer to the greatest questions about how we came to be can be most simply explained with a simple song. “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.”

What is reality? Perhaps the grand massiveness of our universe is intertwined into what makes us alive and that the illusions we perceive as reality and dream are one in the same. One is merely longer, persistent and familiar.

This hypothesis causes us great concern if we are but merely dreaming while we think we are awake. If that is true, one day we will awaken. We might even wake up in another dream. If we awaken from what we have for so long perceived as reality and find that a perpetual state of misconception was our individual inference, will we be alive in a different dimension?

Where will that state of awareness be? What will “reality” look like? Maybe we’ll be trees in a park with children climbing us. Maybe we’ll fly through the sky as birds with dinosaur below. Maybe we’ll be ten years old again. Maybe twelve. Maybe we’ll be an arousal before conception in someone’s mind.

Each individual’s perception of existence may not be what everyone sees. Perhaps life is a dream to some and reality to others. For whatever the purpose or design of this fantastic imagery, there is something in being said of each fanciful inhale of air and the sound we make when we exhale.

The experience of the dreams we have at night and the realities we believe we live in the day make us a part of a universe larger than anything we have yet measured. Somehow we fit into this divine structure, if only a molecule in relative size to only a diminutive portion of the universe.

Each individual being’s reality has a reason for that perception at that particular moment in whatever time relevant to the needs of the universe. For simplification, God. The titled that cannot be titled.

The purpose of this note for life’s thoughts is to stimulate a conscious reverence for being alive. Make this dream of reality good.

In dream, life or death, make good choices and awaken to Heaven.

 Today's thought:

               “Earth’s crammed with heaven,

                             And every common bush afire with God.”

                                                          Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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July 2006

Beyond the Box

The box is what enslaves the minds of living human beings. The box is what defines the boundaries of a person’s capacity to expand. The Box is what alienates ignorance, truth and wisdom. An example of this would be when man thought that Earth was flat and the center of the universe. He was certain to no degree that if he walked too closely to the edge, he would fall off the end and die.

Since then, man has had a long list of other hysterical ideas inside his box. He has seen each other shackled and enslaved, murdered, raped, robbed and ruled with injustice. He has even seen the most ridiculous of all oxymoron’s: Holy Wars. Since the beginning of recorded time, man has held onto some type of functioning idea that made him appear as what we now call outdated or antiquated. It is no cliché that each generation’s philosophy is the next generation’s common sense.

Fortunately inside this box, as in most generations, there are minds thinking beyond the box and aiding life towards the advancement of civilization. After what man did inside his box on September 11th, where the world is headed is questionable. True civilization appears as a vision into the future. Hopefully this generation, as in those of past, is blessed with enough minds thinking beyond the box to save ourselves from ourselves. The time is now for this generation of non-puppet thinkers to open the lid of this box so that future generations will see divine sunrises.

It’s funny how life is, one minute you think you’re on the right plane and then boom, the flight schedule of life prevails. We are yet a step, perhaps a generation, away from true civilization. A good starting point on the journey towards global harmony is with each individual. Understand who you are, what contributions to good you have as a being on this planet. Don’t let other people or media define who you are. Following the trap of external defining perpetuates a closed box to our universe.

Human beings will emerge from boxes without killing himself. This column is written to stimulate minds thinking beyond the box so that we might collectively do something to raise the roof of this container. 

Today’s thought:

            " Whether you think that you can, or that you can't,

                                          you are usually right "

                                                                      Henry Ford

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August 2006

What Is Holy War?

Isn’t the statement “Holy War” too much of an oxymoron to make sense? How does man kill in the name of God, even in dissimilar worlds? The world keeps turning. We soar through the universe at tremendous speeds and man does not feel a moment of movement. Unless overpowering, he does not notice the wind. Michel de Montaigne said, "Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen."

Is the brilliance of man’s ignorance going to make him kill himself? Not even seeing where he is, he fights over religious land. “The Promised Land” is the whole planet of the same composition. Is man so caught up on one tree that we will die before he explores the forest?

As a lifted generation of thinkers, there is urgent need for children to be taught proper priority. We must reach to our youth with emphasis that developing the human brain far exceeds anything else for the sake of man’s survival. Science and math must be of high regard. Reading is Fundamental is not cliché. Children really are human future. The world must speak to our future face to face and guide their direction into a higher level of existence than any generation before us.

Holy War must be a thing found only their history books of a young civilization. Holy Wars have been going on long before we were born. Like the world has grown from thinking the earth was flat or that it was ok to enslave each other or thinking that we would never fly like the birds, we will overcome the idiocy of Holy war.

The first step in this revolution of change from sophomoric thought to higher understanding is to understanding that everything on our planet is of the same stardust. However the universe came into being, looking at history we see growth in ourselves from barbaric caveman to penthouse people with planes who travel back and forth to outer space. Knowing that we are capable of growing, we must start immediately teaching children something much larger than religion.

We must release the shackles of religion from their necks, souls and legs and let them grow into the universe beyond what casers, kings, presidents and emperors have commanded since men led man. We must tap into the energy without name. For simplification, God. The universe. Existence. Being Alive. However you want to define what makes reality what it is for each of us, a primarily perceived realism is that we exist. Unless life is a dream, our experience is reality. We cannot be removed or separate from that which made us. If we do exist in the physical, we must transcend our limitations as earthly beings and see ourselves as cosmic divinity.

Individual religion is not necessary when the whole of what we are is of the same source. We create the differences that make us kill each other in the name of an idolized God. We have become like a head trauma patient. Stumbling around in the dark looking for something that isn’t there, we fall and bash our heads again. We need to stand up straight and walk in the light of life, not kill each other because of what we have been taught to divide us.

Using only a centrally located part of our brain is not taking us high enough through the path of which we are capable. Find a way to expand the activity of our unutilized brainwaves and we will grow. Young genius minds and those with above average thought, look for ways to utilize more of our brain while coexisting on the same planet.

  Today’s thought:

                "Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea

                           of God."

                                            Cicero

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Right Now

September 2006

Since I started Existence, people have asked why I talk so much about the ethereal rather than what’s happening right here and now. They ask why I don’t address life-affecting decisions being made in powerful offices of world government. What are we to do about ill-fated life?

Thank all of you for your positive feedback with belief that the human race on this planet will grow.

If God gave man everything, why is man fighting over anything? Man’s blindness does not make sense to me. For what is he fighting? Money? Surely, not that. That would be too barbaric. Why was he taught to hate so much that he would give his life to kill each other because of religion? Life has become a Saturday morning cartoon.

Life is clear. Planet Earth is already floating in the heavens. Man makes hell. Without the existence of this unexplainable universe, man would not exist. There is a power grander than man seems to comprehend. Religion has taught men from dissimilar worlds things that make them hate, fight and kill each other in holy wars of ignorance.

They read books written and published by those who have ruled since only royalty was allowed to read, keeping the masses in control. When the kingdom was allowed to read and write, people have throughout the centuries forgotten the beginning.

Men teaching man various contacts to god in contradicting messiahs, and those who still await a savior, he has not yet learned to coexist on the same planet.  As man, as tree, as water, mountain, mouse, or stream, all things are intertwined from the same source. Man must live the God inside himself. Man is of God. No middleman is needed.

When thinking of those who have asked me to say something more immediate about life right now in Existence, I say make a radical adjustment to religion on the verge of combination and elimination. Drop the division of opinion and live as earthlings before dying of man made nuclear destruction. Not to mention the temperament of Mother Nature.

Teach children that human beings are a race of a rainbow of colors, faces and languages. Teach them that human beings are on a planet floating in the heavens of a vast universe and encourage their young minds to learn and explore from cells within cells on earth and water to the farthest distances of expansive space.

What to do with religion that man has practiced and transcended for thousands of generations?

Man must teach children to grow into a spiritual oneness with what make this universe exist. If human beings combined the power of their spiritual strength into positive energy, life would regenerate this planet to the capacity of man’s potential.

There are millions of religions. Most contradict each other enough for people to fight and die because of different opinion. Even “civilized” churches fight with words and anger during board meetings. This seems ridiculously silly. What is the world, eleven years old!?

People sometimes treat religious idols better than they treat each other. An example of this is when I was asked to do a photography shoot for a devout Baptist. I am not a professional photographer; the camera has been a hobby of mine since childhood. My services were free. When we were ready to shoot, the camera did not work. Batteries were new from the store. The model became so upset that she cursed the devil.

As a last resort, I called a professional photo shop to see if they could look at the camera and repair the problem. They said it would take at least a week for a diagnosis. They had to send it out of shop. The Baptist became furious that the shoot might not happen. We’ll call the photo shop man “David.” After talking with me for a minute, he told me to use a good eraser and clean the battery connection heads.

I tried it and it worked. The Baptist jumped up and down in full dress, hair and make-up thanking Jesus for saving the day. I picked up the phone and called David and thanked him for saving the day.

The model looked at me with a peculiar look when I told her that I thanked the man who took the time to do what he did. I’m not sure to this day if she saw my point or not. I hope she saw logic in connecting with the living being more important than praising idol gods. What those idols represent is alive in every fiber of everything in existence beyond religious boundaries.

Living a good life and being kind is ultimately what most religions sermonize. Rather than live by words on a page that have been edited and translated and published by various companies for thousands of years, live with exuberant experience of being alive in heaven. Perhaps the first step towards making this world a better place is for people to treat each other the way they treat the various religions they preach. Man is growing in universal energy as he did moments before he discovered and digested that the earth was not flat.

Today’s thought:

“The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty

            to one's own tradition with reverence for different

                            traditions.”

                                           Abraham Joshua Heschel

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October 2008

Moment

When the sun flies, so does the moon. When doves cry, so do the swans in May. In the end, there is no hero, only demise. Upon the eyes of death there is a swallow. The swallow of air makes lungs survive in an oxygen supplied world. The inner being of who we all are makes us alive in humor, dream, and the choices we make. Holy beings understand how the sparrow sings. Those in the world who do not see the sparrow do not understand their place in existence. They live in a world only seen through their eyes. For those who see through the eyes of the sparrow see how life is ordained and sentenced as a place in the mind of the living. Only the dreamers perceive. Once in a while there are mad poets who write mad thoughts that question man’s belief in existence.

I’m middle aged now. Life is not the same as when I was a child. The future is yet to be seen. If seen alive, old age will be the vision. Before we die, with all hope, prayer, bond with the universe, the ending at this level, at whichever age, there is something more to the reality we have experienced. There is continuance. Something beyond what we have seen so far will resolve our point so far.

Today's Thought:

"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. "

                                              Baba Ram Dass

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January 9, 2010

Life and New Beings

              Happy New Year!! 

       This year has begun and so has a new month, a new day, a new hour, a new minute, a new breath. Every time we inhale a breath, we subtract as we exhale from the time we have left on planet earth. As morbid as this sounds, nobody gets out alive. Everybody dies. No amount of wealth or fame can afford life in this physical form forever. What happens when we die? Do we vanish into the void of nothingness? Are the existentialists correct? Are the other extreme right? Is there nothing after this experience? Is there an afterlife?  Is life an illusion? Anticipation is the living reality. We live in anticipation of death, whether we consciously understand or not. 

The wise man is he who knows that he truly knows nothing. Even after dying twice during brain surgery and going to the other side, I can not speak of death and what the experience will be like once there permanently. After life, perhaps every person has a different experience? Maybe death is a lot like life. there are varying degrees of positive and negative?

People say I fascinate too much about death. I don't think so. I think the antithesis is true. my obsession with death is really a voice applauding life. No matter what happens after we inhale our last breath and never exhale, what we do with our living moments while alive count the most in this dimension.

Starting the new year with such a ring to it  ~ "TWENTY TEN," makes me want to celebrate life even more so. Whether we live to be 3 or 303, we have a relatively brief time to live here. We live according to how we've been told we should live or we think outside the box. Until man understands and accepts that he is a human being first, he will continue fighting like foolish children. With time being the nemesis of the blind, our stand to wake up this land in time may be difficult. All which is started has purpose in grander scheme of the universe.

Ultimately, unless man magically wakes up smart one day, something global will wake up the entire planet and require nations to cooperate as a people in order for humans to grow up and stop acting like adolescents. If we have to wait until we die to get answers about why we were put here, then so be it. We may not even get answers then. the time we have is all that we perceive as reality. In this reality, maybe the answers have been here all along. Most of us have been too blind to see because of what we've been told since we were born.

There is no doubt that we will grow to another level of understanding in our generation. Most generations before ours have shown prominent growth. Doing nothing, waiting for death is not  the kind of life that will guides our nature. There is no need for faith or belief, the evidence is too strong for there to be challenge. We exist.

One of the first things we need to do is realize that we don't have much time before we die. Relatively speaking. Another of first things is that we need to combine global resources and prepare for what is going to be the biggest adventure man has yet experienced on Earth. Seemingly, a wake up call of this magnitude is what is required to shake up man and awaken his inner connection to each other as fellow humans.

As my words are appearing on the screen before my eyes, we will meet neighboring beings from our world. No longer will man fight over futile things. He shall instead bond and identify himself as earthlings and focus on the new beings. When this meeting happens, man will be frightened at first. As man learned and excepted the earth was not flat, he will learn and except the new beings as a continuation of growth for our experience with reality. Maybe we'll die and wake up from a long dream we've had of our experience here and we'll be the ones visiting another planet.

What comes after life? Who knows? What comes to be our waking reality, we shall see before the end of our book. Count the days and as the old people once said, "Mark my words." 

            today's thought:

                                        "Mission control, 
                                    we have a UFO pacing our position, 
                                                          request instructions."

                                             Astronaut Cady Coleman
                                                             NASA Transmission - 
                                                                          Shuttle Mission STS-73

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