Many Awakenings...

To me enlightenment occurs as a process. Sure, voila, you can be enlightened. However, there is a process of sustaining the energy level or "vibration" level. And, I know for some that sounds wu-wu, but I just don't know at this point how else to reference it. Hmmm... and the opposite is? I do know how to reference it. Okay, okay... give me a second to let that settle. New moment!! So, it is a vibration, just like tuning a radio. You tune to what you want to hear on the radio and similarly to what you want to experience in life. So, to me, enlightenment happens in steps. The best analogy I can give is grab two wires with 50 volts. Ouch. now try it again, and again. Now let's try 100 volts! Ouch. etc. Pretty soon you can train your self to handle that. By the way, I'm talking lower current here!! Still, you get the idea. As we live, if we are "paying attention", and you know that's a sensitive spot with me because as humans we don't "pay attention" hmmm... we miss many times what is going on and there's the rub, there's the inhibitor to enlightenment. In fact, we say things and when asked, "What did you say?" we can't even repeat it. We get, "Well, I said something to effect of..." No...no... what EXACTLY did you say? EVERYTHING is there for a reason. The quantum space operates ALL the time 24/7. Look, I'm not trying to make you paranoid... not...hmmm... I want to show you what is happening. See how I'm watching my words. THAT's what it takes to communicate clearly. THAT's how you show respect to people. THAT's how you show respect to yourself. You communicate from, my life is so worth it and your life is so worth it that I want you to get me perfectly and I want to get YOU perfectly!! Watching my words is showing the greatest respect I can give you. Okay, now that you know I totally respect you, many awakenings. See, this ties into what I was saying about paying attention. There are many things in life that are awakening us, but we are not letting ourselves be aware of them... not... hmmm... we miss awakening moments. And, BY THE WAY, THAT is fine. Nothing is happening by accident... hmmm... everythying is happening for a purpose. You are not ready to sustain it... hmmm... sustaining it is difficult for you. BUT, I know you see glimpses. Just like I do and did. You see through it for a spilt second. Golden moments. That's when your core engages and you are totally intuitive. In that space you know all you need to know. Pretty cool stuff. Suddenly, the thought flashes... "I don't know what I just said." (don't is okay here because you "do not know" - you could also say "my attention was somewhere else")... and you go back and retrieve it. THAT my friends is a mini-awakening... a step to enlightment. Living this human life we so many times over look the obvious. I once saw a sign, "God created the simple things to confound the wise!!" Loved it!! And, yes sometimes the awakening is huge! At least its affect on you! That's how you gage it, if you want to judge it. A person could say one simple sentence and your whole life profoundly changes for the better. But, remember this, that one sentence did not get there by accident... was there for a purpose. YOU invited it in. YOU were ready to "hear" it in a profound way!!

If I Were a Rich Man... yah..da..da.. dah!

Since the last post was l'chaim, and since "Fiddler On The Roof" is one of my favorite Broadway shows, let's talk about if we were rich men!! Well? Many think if I were rich then yahda, duhda, da... not to be confused with the song yah..da..da..dah!! So,there's this string of logic that the mind follows. Well, here's the deal... YOU still MUST deal with YOU!! How you see life. What your satisfactions are. That's where you need to be looking for salvation. Remember a few posts back I talked about awakening and Tony Robbins was one of the examples I mentioned. He just woke up one day and "saw" it all differently. I'm sure initially it looked like any other day... then suddenly there was this thought that came up. Instead of brushing it aside as not within his realm, given his current conditions, he said wait a minute...yes. This IS NOT working... remember also in another post I talked about rock bottom. THAT is a motivator. One thing you can do is look at all the "reasons" you are not rich, assuming richness really gets you anything. What opportunities did you let go that could have been the "gateway drug" to you!! For me, it could be useful to notice those, but certainly not dwell on them because that then reinforces where you are at. When you look at them, this allows you to accept your life, right now, as it is. That's important. Remember, there is nothing wrong here... just YOU don't like where you are at. That's perfectly fine... another acknowledgement of where you are at. There could be some heavy duty emotion attached to that. That's fine as well. If that does come up for you, you need to deal with it. Part of the issue is that emotional stuff is in the way. Do you feel worthy? Did someone hurt you and you're not gonna do THAT again? You know those kinds of things. That happend to me in my life but about a different issue. Still, it pissed me off!! Here's what I'll say... some people just continually "generate" from the quantum space. They don't need to be "rich" in THAT sense. They are. Hey, they're attached in a profound way to the quantum space. Yet, others ARE rich because they are attached to the quantum space. Doesn't matter how you get there. The common space is the quantum space. So, I would say ponder how you relate to YOU. That is much more profound than "If I were a rich man.." In fact, if you do ponder that you will have access to all that you need.

Focus on Life! To life, l'chaim!

Focus on living. We spend too much time focused on the limitation of death. We live part of life because... well there is death at the "end". There is much more to life! I find it amazing listening to people. I've heard people say that death is a part of life. I don't get that. How does death in anyway even relate to life? Why is life even in the same sentence with death. Death is death. It has nothing to do with THIS life or the life I am living. In fact, I'm not even sure it really is the "end" of this life. What I know is that I have seen people die. That is part of their "life". It's like death is an end result. There are all these aphorisms around death. That it is the final part of life. If that IS true, why do you even call it death? It is the "normal" "termination" of a life, right? Why? Because "everybody" knows that. Well, what if I didn't "know" that? Then what? And, you have to remember several things that I know about. Remember in my last post I talked about taking one step and going about a mile and making a trip in less time then everybody "knows" it would take. Not to mention the things that happened to me in India and what happens with Givens and the healing lecture I attended. So, for me, I don't quite agree with what everybody knows. There are more possibilities in my world! I've even heard someone say... I can sleep all I want when I'm dead. Well, sleeping is a part of life. In a way, it is how we regain our life force. We reset our mental processes. We literally are born anew each day by how effectively we sleep. In part, I learned that in the laboratory experiments. So, I say... l'chaim!, To Life!

It's All Gonna Be Different!

So, I was talking about owning yourself, awakening and it's all gonna be different. The awakening - that's the thing that can start the process of you evolving in a very tangible way. What happens is that something happens that is completely different than you expect. Sometimes something very simple. The most extreme I ever heard was these two guys were walking to their motel that was say about a mile away. Took one step together and were at the motel!! True story. Another time these two other guys were driving home and saw a sign on the highway flicker. Didn't think much of it. Then found out they had just made a four and half hour trip in less than four hours!! It was after midnight and they NEVER went over the speed limit. Taking the route they took there was no way that it would happen in four hours. True story. In the second case, the theory was that there were "frames" missing from the continuum. That sign flicker was actually the first sign of it for them. So, awakening can happen in many ways. Certainly you HAVE to be open to it and you need to be paying attention to your life. Once you can accept that, then it WILL all be different. Profound changes like that that wake you up. And, it doesn't have to be that dramatic either. Sometimes it's very subtle. You wake up one day and just know through all of you that your life has changed. Anthony Robbins is an example of that. One day he woke up in his 700 square foot apartment, overweight, no money and just "saw" that it all needed to be different. This can also happen when there is a "dramatic" event in your life, but it doesn't have to. See, that's what I mean about the mystery of life. Actually it "really" isn't a mystery, but the local mind just can't wrap itself around it. Like one step to a motel that is one mile away or a missing half hour. So, it's easy to say... life is mysterious. And, for the local mind, that's fine. I'm just saying don't stop there. Keep going. Go into the mystery deeper. I had to and it was worth it! Otherwise, as I've said before, "You're navigating the quantum space without a license!!"

Owning yourself...

Mmmm.... Owning yourself... well, perhaps accepting yourself is a better term. There sometimes is so much about us that we are resisting about ourselves. Me... phew... a lot that I have resisted. Much of that was caused by what "I thought" the expectations of others were. Those expectations masked me. In fact, as I thought about it... the way I was operating... just about all of it masked me. What ICE expected of me. What my dad expected of me. What my mom expected of me. Actually, mom was easier to deal with! I just totally resisted all that I "thought" she stood for. Easy, right? Whatever the issue is, nope that's not right. It needs to be this way. The trap there is - the "stereotype" of being. No freedom in that, right? Really. After awhile, it was so confining. Took quite awhile in my life to see that. That's where Givens comes in. He was inspiring for me. It came as a slow realization. Of course, India brought it all together. You could call that an awakening. However, I will say... an awakening may never look like what you "think" it will look like... that is why it is an awakening... the very name says it all. "Something" happens... I call that the mystery of life... and you know it is all gonna be different... the mystery of life.

Awesome...

The universe is awesome! Life is awesome! I'm so geeked I want to say it is f'ing awesome!! By this point, I bet you want to say that maybe Monty is a bit...mmmm... challenged. A little off the hook. Well, in a way, I'm alot off the hook. And, that is a good thing, I tell you! Think of all the people that you know that are "on the hook", exactly... boooring. It's okay to be a little, how shall I say, "different". I see the world like a mesh of gears. You know how perfectly gears fit together? And then they rotate completely in sync. There's a long explanation about involuted surfaces, but we don't need to go there. Oh, wait, we already did!! Well, okay, forget I said that! So, everything fits together... perfectly. Like I said in a previous post. When we practice gratitude, we are acknowledging the perfection of the universe. That is one of the most important reasons for gratitude. We are saying, Universe, you're perfection is amazing. It is gratifying. I am so blessed to be part of it. So blessed to participate. Even if I hate this moment because of my judgments of it! This too is bringing me home... home to peace... home to love... that turmoil I feel settles down to a wholeness I can experience, if I let myself. With gratitude, you can start to trust the universe. Trust even the decisions that may have made issues in your life for you! The gratitude allows you to let it all go. You don't have to hold on to this stuff. Really, you can let it go. And, then too, there is the matter of your "attention". Did you ever hear the phrase, "pay attention". It means - please direct your life-force here. Literally. So, your attention directs your life-force, the stream of who you are. And, we can actually use our mind and ideas that can entrap us to free us. Sounds like smoke and mirrors doesn't it?!! I can tell you for sure it is not. Again, remember I said we are navigating the quantum space without a license. Well, of course when we were born we came in with a handbook, right? Oh, you mean you didn't get yours? Wtf? Sorry, couldn't help that... So, yeah, there was no handbook and that is perfect too. How could you ever get to be who you choose to be with one? Still, you need to know the rules. Gratitude is one of the rules. That's it. Everything that happens to you is there for a reason. And, by the way, not one your local mind can always understand, and that is perfect too. Wow. I sound like I'm talking in parables. I'm not really. Just off the hook a little, shall I say... don't you just love it!! I do and so does the universe!!

Life is Fascinating

Yes! It is! I have always found life fascinating. Of course in my youth I didn't see it as clearly as I do now. But, then my background was unique too. Still, between all the hard work I've done, Givens and even my family - yes my family even, I am in a place of self ownership. Well, I know for awhile I was at odds with my family. I couldn't keep doing what they saw as my life. That's all. That unexpected trip to India changed my life. Parts of that trip were, to say the least, eye opening! Of course that's what friends are for, too. I need to tell you about my BFF, Alex Tarnoff. I really mean that. Alex has this amazing ability to see right through things. Me certainly. I'd bring my confusion to her and guess what? She'd help me see how it was all me. And, the funny thing is, she was able to do it and I never got upset. I'd be like duh... okay. Even though she and I were buds, she had that detached objective way of being. She would just listen to me. Do you have someone in your life like that, that just listens? You know Dr. Lissa Rankin says that friends and social things extend your life because it invites the relaxation response that is vital to physical renewal. You should check her out she's on Facebook. Well, I can tell you that Alex is a vital friend for me. She always seems to calm me down. Well, Mike says I've been rambling too much. I'm like, hey, this ain't rambling this is my life, dude! You know, life is promises and requests. You make a request, you get a promise. Real simple... as long as you make good on the promise. And, if you can't make good on it... that's okay... just notify the other person. So, my point IS I'm going to honor Mike's request.