The only agreement we make on the awareness path is to remain aware of one’s self. On my path, I’m going through an interesting phase. In the first place, I find myself preferring to do everything slowly. Walking, shopping, cooking and everything else I seem to be doing almost in slow motion. It’s very calming. […]
Last Few Moments
These may be the last few “sane” moments before incessant busy-ness sets in. I find myself drawn again into the stillness. I find I’m walking more and more slowly these days. If it’s raining outside, I walk in my apartment, Zen kin hin style. (1) Or in the rain. When I become aware of each […]
I Choose to Remain Aware – Part 2/2
(Concluded from above.) Awareness is like a searchlight in a black night. Only, the minute something unseen comes into the light of awareness, something inexplicable happens. I think it was Archangel Michael who said that, if we transitioned before our assignments were done, we’d have a sudden explosion of awareness on the other side that […]
A World That Works? How? Through Love
Archangel Michael said on An Hour with an Angel: “Destructive adults, they need the help. “And that is where your global work comes into play of holding peace, of holding the vision of a world that works for everyone. Of holding a vision where there is not a separation between human beings – that some […]
Archangel Michael on the Heart
I was discussing self-confidence with Archangel Michael in a reading I had with him on April 19, 2017 through Linda Dillon. He surprised me with a new discussion of the functions of the physical heart. I imagine the topic has special interest because we’ll be ascending with the body, with the physical form. I’d always […]
Note in a Bottle: Steve, Keep Focusing on the Heart
I hypothesize that: When tension goes up, awareness goes down. Moreover, our awareness that our awareness has gone down also diminishes. I ask us to keep these two notions in mind. Long ago I was in a situation that so triggered me that I couldn’t see or hear a man shouting at me from a […]
Werner Erhard: Butterflies Can Explain How Caterpillars Came to Fly
In the course of a conversation with a reader, I became aware of the fact that Werner Erhard (1) had posted online one of the most stimulating books for humanitarian philanthropists I’ve ever read. Werner was … is … an enlightened humanitarian philosopher. He might call himself an ontologist, a student of being. I’d add […]
To Be With and Observe
Reposted from 2011. Written with the prospect of Ascension being Dec. 21, 2012 and a whole world yet to awaken. To my way of thinking, we may be out of time to “do” something about our unfinished business. We may have no time left for Zen retreats, enlightenment intensives, or human-development trainings. We may have […]
The New Sacred. The Everyday Sacred
The subject of the “sacred” has been pressing itself upon my consciousness.. We tend to think of the sacred as being associated with people dressed in miters and robes, swinging censors full of incense or people singing bhajans (hymns), playing the tabla (drum) and harmonium. For me, there’s nothing inherently sacred about these practices. It […]
Celestial Consciousness Raising
I’ve been fortunate in my readings with Archangel Michael in that he’s been engaging in consciousness raising with me. Each reading he raises one of my qualities or attributes to my awareness and that sets a process in motion. It’s commonly said of a centipede that, once it becomes aware of its 100 legs and […]
Constant Expansion
I’m in a process of constant expansion. One minute I’m deliriously happy – for no reason. (1) The next minute I’m totally complete. I have lived. I have loved. I am done. I’ve accomplished all I set out to do in life. There’s nothing out there before me that represents my agenda. I have no […]
… And Later
It must be five hours after I went above the line between unconscious and conscious awareness at Starbucks. Today is Wednesday. I had to stagger home, I was so drunk with consciousness. I rode my bike down the least traveled routes and even then I felt I had to ask the archangels and everyone else […]
Standing Forth as the Self
As you know, there are many ways of becoming realized. (1) I could sit down on a cushion and meditate. I could serve the Lord. I could sing Her Praises. These are all well-known paths. But I think you know that mine is the awareness path and the result of following that path is emergence. […]
Passive Awareness is an Irreplaceable Tool in Our Toolbox
I awoke this morning with the thought that what I had earlier said Adyashanti called “seeing,” which is identical with what I have called “being with and observing,” was also in fact identical with what Krishnamurti had famously called “passive awareness” or “choiceless awareness.” I’m actually convinced that Krishnamurti’s term “passive awareness” was his codename […]
Deconstructing “Me,” Removing the Masks
(Steve is a former refugee adjudicator. The day prior to writing this article, he wrote one on refugees.) What do a refugee and an ascender share? Both have chosen to leave home to seek something better. Why has a refugee left home? To flee persecution. Home is a place in a country that the refugee […]
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